This is chapter 2. I haven't updated for days! Anyway, even though I only got 1 review, I like this story, so I'll continue. Here goes.
The door to the dungeon slowly creaked open. Kiara and Sesshomaru both woke up to the sound. They knew that either they did something and that it was their father coming down to beat them or it was Inuyasha coming down to give them food and water or something.
"Who is it?" Kiara asked.
"It's me, don't worry," Inuyasha replied. He shut the door behind him and slowly and carefully walked down the stairs. "I have food, water and a candle. It's cold out, so you'll need some extra heat and light. I also have a few blankets."
Inuyasha lit the candle once he got to the bottom of the stairs. He placed the candle close enough to them that they'd have some light, but far enough away that none of Kiara and Sesshomaru's few belongings would catch on fire. The candle provided enough light that Kiara and Sesshomaru could see a little bit in the blackness of the dungeon. Inuyasha came closer to his beaten siblings. He placed two full plates of food in front of them. Then he put the three blankets that he brought them to the side.
"Is that good? Do you want anything more?" Inuyasha asked.
"No, that's okay," Sesshomaru replied.
"We're just happy that we're not dead yet," Kiara added. "That we're not murdered yet."
Inuyasha began unfolding the blankets. "Father is so cruel to you. Why?"
Kiara and Sesshomaru both said that they didn't know. Then, the two of them began to eat the food that their younger brother brought to them. They were starving, so they wanted to eat fast. However, this amount of food was very rare for them to be given, so they wanted to savor it. Usually Inuyasha couldn't even sneak more than half of a plate down to the dungeon. Inutaisho monitored the food on most days. He obviously wasn't that day, though.
"Thank you," they both said once they were done eating.
"It's no problem," Inuyasha said. "You don't need to thank me." He gathered up the two plates and began to head up the stairs. "Good night," And with that, he left Kiara and Sesshomaru's chamber.
Kiara and Sesshomaru took some time to set up an area for them to sleep. They used one of the blankets for them to lie down on and used the other two and the one that Inuyasha gave them days earlier to cover themselves with. Kiara and Sesshomaru were happy for the first time since their mother died, just because they were comfortable for once in years. They looked at each other and smiled.
"I'm so comfortable," Kiara said.
"Me, too," Sesshomaru told her. He cuddled up to his twin sister. "We'll be warmer this way."
Kiara and Sesshomaru cuddled together under the blankets. They were so warm that they even blew the candle out. But most of all, the two of them were so comfortable that they couldn't feel the cobblestone floor beneath them. It didn't take that long for the two of them to fall into deep sleeps. And this time, they fell asleep from pure comfort and relaxation, not by crying.
Unfortunately, Kiara and Sesshomaru didn't wake up the same way that they fell asleep. They woke up to the painful feeling of being whipped with a leather belt. Kiara and Sesshomaru started crying. The pain shot up through their bodies. It hurt so much that they thought that Inutaisho might kill them this time.
"I COME DOWN HERE TO CHECK UP ON THE TWO OF YOU HELLHOLES AND WHAT DO I SEE! COMFORT! AND THE TWO OF YOU HAPPY AND RELAXED! THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE! AND I KNOW THAT I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THOSE DELACACIES! I WOULD NEVER GIVE THE TWO OF YOU WHAT YOU WILL NEVER DESERVE! I KNOW THAT IT WAS INUYASHA! HE'S IN FOR IT NOW AFTER I'M DONE WITH THE TWO OF YOU!" Inutaisho barked as he whipped the twins with the leather belt, using as much arm power that he could. Inutaisho enjoyed seeing Kiara and Sesshomaru shed tears from pain. He enjoyed the sight of seeing them suffer, of seeing them as miserable as ever. Inutaisho laughed as he continued to beat his children. He laughed as if he was watching a funny TV show. If you didn't know what Inutaisho was doing, you would have thought that he was seeing the most hilarious thing that he ever saw.
After Inutaisho was done after minutes of whipping Kiara and Sesshomaru he moved upstairs to do the same to Inuyasha. Inutaisho planned to whip Inuyasha as bad as he did to the other two, then throw him down into the dungeon and have him live the same lives that the other two lived. A life of slavery. A life of misery. A life that Inutaisho himself could laugh about. Inutaisho loved it all. He loved seeing them in pain. He loved seeing the blood and tears that they shed. Inutaisho basically loved the violence that he could provide to his children. He loved how he was able to embed scars into their hearts and into their souls.
When Inutaisho reached Inuyasha's bedroom, he broke down the door.
"W-w-what are you doing?" Inuyasha stuttered.
"GIVING YOU WHAT YOU DESERVE! YOU CROSSED THE LINE! YOU SHOWED KINDNESS TOWARDS THOSE USELESS TWO! NOW YOU ARE GOING TO JOIN THEM IN THEIR MISERABLE LIVES! YOU ARE GOING TO JOIN THEM FOREVER!" Inutaisho hollered. He cornered Inuyasha into the side of the room, raised the belt and whipped his youngest child as hard as he could. Inutaisho continued the whips just like he did with Kiara and Sesshomaru. When he was finally done, Inuyasha was barely conscious. Inutaisho laughed harder and harder, for he knew that he would bring the last one of his children into a life of misery. Now he would be able to embed scars into three hearts instead of two, three souls instead of two. Inutaisho carried Inuyasha to the dungeon. He violently swung open the door and threw Inuyasha down into the dungeon.
Kiara and Sesshomaru saw Inuyasha begin to fall. They were both weak and injured, but they gathered up the strength to get up and catch Inuyasha, saving their younger brother's life from a horrible death. They saw that Inuyasha was unconscious. Kiara and Sesshomaru looked at each other, fear spreading throughout their bodies and minds. They knew that their father almost killed one of his own children. They knew that he probably planned to kill Inuyasha. Kiara and Sesshomaru gently lay their younger brother down onto the cobblestone floor. They wished that they could have provided more comfort, but Inutaisho had taken away every single blanket and he took away the candle. They knew that Inuyasha would wake up, but they also knew that now he would lead the same life that the two of them had been leading for years.
Kiara and Sesshomaru sobbed. The pain from the whippings was still strong, and it hurt, but that wasn't why they were crying. They were crying for Inuyasha. Because they knew what Inuyasha's life would be like. Kiara and Sesshomaru both thought that this might be one of their final days being alive. They had observed that Inutaisho was getting more and more violent by the day. That day, he almost murdered one of them. Almost murdered one of his very own children. Kiara and Sesshomaru shivered in fear. How many days would they have left to live? How many days would they have left to escape?
The sad truth was that even though Kiara and Sesshomaru would prefer to escape, they would prefer to die than to be in these miserable lives. They were just afraid of the pain that they would have to deal with before their final breaths. Kiara and Sesshomaru wanted to die. Even if they did escape somehow, would they be able to live? Or would the scars embedded within their hearts make them much more vulnerable to living in the first place.
That's my second chapter. It's so sad, I was practically crying as I wrote this. Review if you want me to continue.