Hey, i'm truly sorry! I had to upload this chapter twice because I left out the reply for my reviewers! Sorry if this annoys you...
A/N: Hey, I'm so sorry! It's been nearly two weeks since the last update! So sorry! I've been kind of busy with my summer vacation!
I re-edited chapters 1, 2 and 3....there's nothing really important, though in chapter two, I added whose Kagome's journal used to belong to. So if you want it to make more sense, read it!! Well, only the flashback when she found the stuff.
Yeah! I can't believe I already have 15 reviews (anonymous and signed). Thank you reviewers and readers!!! My characters are a little OOC, but you can't do anything about it! Bwahahaha it's my story!! cough, cough I'm alright =).
If a 'Multi' shows up in my spacers, it means there will be a couple of point of views in there!
Again I'm sorry about the delay for this chapter! But to make up for it, here's a really long chapter (my longest yet)! Enjoy
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, do you think I would be writing fanfictions? I didn't think so ....Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. On yeah, I don't own the song called 'We All' either. Aphasia owns it.
Previous Chapter:
"If you can't break the barrier that means you can't get out." Kagome answered.
"And?" asked Inuyasha, getting very impatient; it showed on his face.
"That means....you have to do slave work!" said Kagome proudly with a huge smile on her face.
Both Inuyasha and Miroku gasped at that while Sango laughed.
'Oh, shit!' They both thought.
We All
We All are fighting so hard to make you see
That we all want more than your superficial dreams
We are most mysterious creatures to kill for what we believe
We all want more
So wrap your arms around me tight
I know its hard for you to hear
But failure is a just part of life - is harder than it seems
Cause if we were meant to fly, why are wings so hard to come by
So
Close the door
We all want more
Left behind, life is so unkind
---By Aphasia
In the Shadows
Chapter 4: The Plans
Full summary: Kagome is a slave. Inuyasha is a prince, but he is kept captive in Naraku's castle. They think they hate each other, and they need each others' help to defeat Naraku in the war. But like most stories, they fall in love...how is a slave supposed to marry a prince? [Inuyasha/Kagome] [Miroku/Sango]
King Takahashi paced back and forth across the room. It had been four days since Inuyasha left. The journey to Naraku's castle took a day, and coming back took another day. Even if Inuyasha had some trouble along the way, he shouldn't be two days late!
It was all Sesshoumaru could do to not snap at his father. It was really annoying, and his mind kept saying, 'He should have sent me instead of Inuyasha!'
Queen Takahashi sat in her throne with a worried face. She was really worried about her son, Inuyasha, although he was grown up, he could act really immature sometimes, and it often got him in trouble.
"I'm going out to find him, I'll be back soon," said King Takahashi as he started walking out of the room.
Suddenly, smoke appeared in the centre of the room, and it spread across the room.
Queen Takahashi coughed and quickly covered her mouth with her hand. King Takahashi was by her side in a second and asked her if she was alright.
She nodded her head.
King Takahashi turned his attention to Naraku, and asked, "Why are you here Naraku?"
There are three kingdoms in Japan. The west and part of the south belonged to the Inu Youkai Kingdom, while the east and the other part of the south belonged to the Higurashi Kingdom. And the last part, the north, belonged to Naraku.
These kingdoms were not at peace, because Naraku is always trying to take over the Inu Youkai Kingdom and the Higurashi Kingdom, but he failed every time since the humans and youkai helped each other during the war.
As you can see, Naraku was not very welcome here.
The smoke cleared, and a man about 30 with long, wavy hair stood in the middle. He had this evil smile on, and answered, "Why, of course, I'm here to tell you where Inuyasha is."
Both King Takahashi and Queen Takahashi had a hard expression on, except for Sesshoumaru, who still is ever-so expressionless.
"I'm taking it that you had something to do with it?" asked King Takahashi looking at Naraku.
Naraku's evil smile was still on his face, "Why, I only caught him sneaking around my property, so I took him in my castle, and he is there doing slave work right now as a punishment, King Takahashi," he replied almost mockingly.
King Takahashi started opening his mouth to say something when Naraku cut him off.
"And, I'll let him go, if you give me Tetsusaiga, and if you don't...oh, I don't know what I might do to him," Naraku said, with no traces of a 'smile' that was on his face a couple seconds ago.
King Takahashi growled, while Queen Takahashi gasped. Sesshoumaru's face showed nothing, except that his eyes were boring into Naraku's head.
"Well, I guess I'll let you ponder that for a couple of days, then I will be back for you answer," Naraku said with a serious tone and face.
He left it at that with another blast of smoke.
Queen Takahashi held on to King Takahashi's arm. King Takahashi looked and her, and his eyes soften, knowing that she was tired, he said, "Izayoi, do you want to go and rest in your room?"
She nodded and gave a weak smile before King Takahashi motioned for a maid to help her back to her room.
After the queen left, King Takahashi looked at Sesshoumaru and sighed. Sesshoumaru's expression was back to normal now. After a moment, King Takahashi spoke,
"I refuse to give up Tetsusaiga or Inuyasha. Although I hate to do this, but it is the only choice that is left for me." He sighed again, "War. Oh and the wedding with Kikyou, I guess it'll have to be postponed. Sesshoumaru, send a message to the Higurashi saying that we're so sorry, but we have to postpone the wedding and of course, make it longer and nicer." He gave Sesshoumaru a small smile.
Sesshoumaru nodded and left the room.
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A woman in her early 40s sits in a chair in her room. The room is elegant; it looks like it belongs to someone who is royal.
The woman looks deep in thought.
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A younger looking version of the woman in the room is lying on a bed. She has just given birth to a baby girl who is in her arms. She weakly puts a locket with a rose in the middle around the baby's neck.
She looks at the baby and smiles. "That locket was from when I was little. What should I name--"
She never got to ask that question to the baby because she fell asleep with the baby in her arms.
Little did she know that day that, until the day she dies, she'll always regret falling asleep that moment because, that was the last time she has seen her baby girl...
The next morning...
The same woman woke up the next morning to find that her baby wasn't in her arms. She got up and walked out of the room although she was tired. She saw a maid in the hallway and asked her if she'd seen her baby girl.
The maid that she was sorry, but she didn't know where the baby was, and she said that she thought the baby was with her.
The woman's expression turned from worried to shock. The maid noticing this, was about to say something when the woman in front of her suddenly shouted, "Send men around the castle to find her!"
The maid nodded, curtsied and said, "Right away, Lady Higurashi."
Days went on and still the baby wasn't found.
After that day, Lady Higurashi was always depressed, but one day everything changed.
Lady Higurashi was taking a walk around the garden when she saw a tree with a baby on one of its lower branches outside the gate. She quickly went over to the gate and ordered the guards there to open the gate for her. They quickly did as she asked.
She rushed out with her maids behind her and picked up the baby from the branch, thankfully the tree wasn't too tall.
Lady Higurashi looked at the baby. It did look like her baby, although it didn't have the locket and the eyes of the baby looked colder. She brought the baby back into the castle and pretended that it was her baby.
Lord Higurashi didn't want the baby, but his wife looked so happy with it, so he gave in and let her keep it. He told his messenger to spread the news across his kingdom, since it was happy news.
Lady Higurashi thanked her husband. She looked at the baby and thought of the name for it. She thought for a couple of minutes until one name came to her mind.
"Kikyou," she whispered.
Lord Higurashi looks at his wife, and she repeated, "Her name is Kikyou."
Lord Higurashi nods with a slight smile. Lady Higurashi looks into Lord Higurashi's eyes and they both smiled.
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Lady Higurashi sighed, still sitting in her chair as she remembered those days. She knew her husband never did really like Kikyou that much, because of the coldness in her eyes. She had always wished for her own daughter too, but she knew that was too much to ask for since she had already received Kikyou.
Suddenly Lady Higurashi looks up and sees a young woman about 17 with long straight hair, and a pale face with dark, azure eyes walk in the room with some tea.
She sets down the tray and picks up two cups and puts it on the table in front of Lady Higurashi. She then picks up the tea pot and fills the cups up. She offers one to Lady Higurashi, who gladly takes it and thanks her. Kikyou smiles--which she barely does; causing Lady Higurashi to smile slightly too.
Kikyou asks, "Thinking about the old days again?"
"Yes," answered Lady Higurashi, her smile never fading. . Sometimes she would think that telling Kikyou that the truth was the wrong choice, but then she would think; the truth is always best.
They sat in a comfortable silence, until someone knocked on the door, and said, "Urgent message from Lord Higurashi; orders Lady Higurashi in the throne room.
"Coming," said Lady Higurashi. She sends Kikyou an apologetic look and says, "I'll come find you in your room after this."
Kikyou stands up and simply nods as Lady Higurashi leaves the room.
Suddenly smoke appears around the room, similar to the one at the Inu Youkai's Castle. Kikyou sits back down.
She gestures her hand towards a chair beside her. There is laughing right after she does that, but as the smoke clears, Naraku is sitting on the chair.
Kikyou ignores the laughter and asks, "Why are you here?"
"There has been a change of plans; you are not going to marry Inuyasha, yet."
Kikyou glares at Naraku, "Why?"
Naraku answers simply, "Because, I have him in my castle right now."
Kikyou scrunches her face up, "But, he's so cute! Why did you change the plans? Are those plans better?"
"Yes, they are better than you getting married to Inuyasha and putting poison in their food, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're never going to marry him. It's just a plan for now to get Tetsusaiga, and then you can marry him and kill them. And, if the Tetsusaiga plan fails, which I'm sure it will because of Takahashi's personality, we'll start a war. I'm sure we will win the war this time if the Takahashis think we're are not prepared, which we will be.
Naraku laughs again, but this time there was a slimy tone to it, that gave you goose bumps, even for Kikyou.
"Are you going to kill the Higurashi's family? Ugh, I hate Lady Higurashi, she's just using me as a replacement for her daughter," said Kikyou.
"No, at least not yet, once we kill the Takahashis, the humans will be weak and alone, it'll be easy to defeat them," Naraku states.
"I'm going to stay at a village, then after a couple of days I'm going back to the Takahashis' for their answer."
Smoke appears everywhere and Naraku disappears. When the smoke clears, we see Kikyou still sitting in her chair.
She sighs and she thinks, 'All my life I've been controlled by Naraku. He might think I know nothing of my past, but I've done some research on my own. I can guess that he killed my parents and took me because he sensed miko powers from me. He had taken the Higurashi's daughter because he thought she would be useful in the future to threaten the Higurashis'. Then he put me up on the tree for the Higurashi's family to take me in. He told me he had put a curse on me. If I fled from this castle, the curse would kill me right away. I'm stuck acting as if I really do want to help him, and I have to do all his dirty work. That bastard.'
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"It's postponed!?" Lady Higurashi said, raising her voice slightly.
"Yes, apparently Inuyasha has been captured by Naraku and Naraku wants to trade with Tetsusaiga. The Inu Youkai Kingdom will sneak an attack on Naraku when he least expects it. They do not wish for anyone to know that Inuyasha has been captured, only that the wedding is postponed."
Lady Higurashi had a worried expression, and nodded, knowingly, "That's horrible," she said truly.
'Naraku has always been trouble,' thought Lady Higurashi, 'I just somehow think that he was the one behind my true daughter's disappearance.'
She sighed, "I'll go tell Kikyou the news."
Lord Higurashi nodded, and Lady Higurashi left the room.
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"Oh, that's horrible; poor Inuyasha!" Kikyou said, pretending to be surprised at the news.
Lady Higurashi and friend kept going on and on about the wedding plans and how Inuyasha must be doing.
"Why do you think he got caught, Kikyou?" Lady Higurashi's friend asked.
Kikyou mentally sighed, 'This was never going to end.'
"I think that he maybe..."
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Inuyasha sighed, and he threw down his mop. "What did I do to deserve this?" he said.
"Nothing, just because Naraku simply wanted you to become a slave," Kagome said.
He exhaled loudly.
Suddenly Kagome had an idea, "If I do your share of your work, you have do buy me something when we do escape."
Inuyasha smirked; his golden eyes were shining with an evil glint. He started to say something, but Kagome cut him off.
Kagome looked into his eyes, and saw the glint, but she didn't really care if he broke the promise. She actually felt sorry for him doing slave work. All her life, she had, had a thing to help people. She knew she was foolish, because she was usually the one who sacrificed something for others' happiness, but she was happy that she could make someone else happy.
She grinned; this was going to be fun torturing him.
"Pinkie promise?" said still grinning.
Inuyasha's eyes widened in surprise. When Kagome saw this, her grin turned bigger, almost to a smile.
"No," he said.
"Please?" She asked, giving him her best puppy look, though a slight grin was still on her face.
Inuyasha took one look at her, and got lost in her dark chocolate eyes. 'They were so pretty...wait, what the heck was he thinking?'
"Fine," he said, feeling his control back, and he lifted his pinkie finger up. Kagome did the same.
Their fingers touched, and they both felt a jolt go through their body. It was hard to explain the feeling; it was neither good nor bad. They shock their fingers and let go.
Inuyasha just stood leaning against the wall, while Kagome did his and her share of work. It didn't really matter; working was actually something Kagome loved. She loved getting lost because she was too busy doing something to worry about life. About reality.
She hated knowing the world. She hated knowing the truth out there. She envied most children because they knew nothing of the truth. She wanted her child's life back. The simple life, not the evilness in the world. Though she knew there was no truth. Lies wrap around the truth, selfishness wrap around the lies, secrets weave them together, keeping the truth hidden.
Inuyasha stood there watching as emotions went across Kagome's face. First he saw happiness, and then it faded into peacefulness, which soon turned into despair. He was about to ask what was wrong when Sango came.
When Kagome saw Sango, her expression quickly turned in a happy one. Too quick. That's when Inuyasha knew; knew that Kagome kept all her feelings inside her.
He saw Sango frown slightly when she saw her friend's expression turn from despair to happiness, but the frown soon disappeared. 'She probably knows that Kagome wants to be left alone.'
Sango came up to them and said, "Hey do you know where Miroku went? He's supposed to be cleaning the rooms with me."
"I haven't seen him since this morning, have you Inuyasha?" Kagome said.
"Nope," Inuyasha stated simply.
Sango sighs, "Guess, I have to go find--"
Suddenly, loud girly giggles erupted from around a corner. They all started running, and turned the corner just in time to see Miroku hold a young slave woman's hand and ask, "Will you bear my child?"
They all sweat-dropped. "Well, Sango, I guess you found--" Kagome started and spun around, just to find Sango run towards Miroku and slapped him across the face.
"You pervert! I knew something was up when you suddenly disappeared. Stop scaring the young slaves!"
"Sango dear, that hurt," said Miroku, pretending to be hurt while holding his red cheek.
Sango sighs, "Get to work Miroku."
Miroku salutes and says, "Yes, Mama!"
Sango sends him a threatening glare. "Don't call me that," said Sango.
Miroku glups, "Yes, Ma- er, I mean Sango dear."
She shoots him a glare.
"Sorry," Miroku said with a nervous laugh.
Sango sends him a withering glare and she walks away. Miroku starts to follow.
During the whole scene, Inuyasha and Kagome were watching from not too far away. They were whispering things like, 'they fight like, old married couples' or 'they're so funny to watch!'
What a fun day it was!
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"Don't you just love it when Naraku is away?" asked Sando, gazing up into the start filled sky.
"Yeah," Kagome answered, gazing at the bright stars. She had always loved watching stars, no matter how much the stars looked the same. It was amazing.
It was night time and Naraku still wasn't back. Sango and Kagome usually spent their free nights without Naraku on stars and chattering. Naraku didn't have guards aroung the place because he thinks that humans are weak and that they would never be able to have the courage to wander around.
'How wrong you are, Naraku,' Kagome thought.
Kagome turned her attention back to the sky and started up a conversation with Sango.
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Inuyasha was wandering around some gardens. 'I can't sleep,' he thought, sighing. 'I need to make my escape soon, I can't stay here. Also, those girls. I don't know if I should trust them, although something tells me I should and that they're not loyal to Naraku. I'll go with them now, but if I catch them doing something fishy, I won't hesitate to kill them.
Suddenly, he hears laughter. He looks up and sees Kagome and Sango on the porches.
Inuyasha can't help but feel guilty as it stabs him, 'They could be innocent though...'
Inuyasha walks up some stairs close to his left and starts towards Kagome and Sango when suddenly out of nowhere; Miroku pops out in front of Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, where have you been? I was so worried when I woke up and I didn't see you! I thought they had taken my best buddy!" said Miroku teasingly.
Inuyasha just rolled his eyes.
Then Miroku said semi-seriously with an unfamiliar tone, "Really! What would happen to me if something bad happens to you and the King finds out!? It would be my fault!"
Inuyasha grinned, knowing the true meaning behind it. It meant, "Really! I would miss you if something bad happened to you!"
Miroku saw Inuyasha grin and knew Inuyasha understood what he meant. Miroku smiled slightly.
Inuyasha started walking towards the girls again with Miroku behind him.
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Kagome turned her gaze from the sky to the voice she heard. The voice belonged to Miroku. What was he doing here so late? She hoped it wasn't something perverted.
But when her eyes adjusted to the dark, she saw Inuyasha walking towards her with Miroku behind him. She saw that the corners of Inuyasha's mouth were tugging slightly. 'God, he looks so cute with a grin. I wonder what he looks like when he smiles.'
She couldn't deny it; he was cute. Maybe even more than that, but when he opens his mouth, the thought of him being cute just flies out of her mind.
Kagome was dragged out of her thoughts by Inuyasha's voice saying, "Alright, let's settle this."
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"Huh?" Sango asked, confusion written on her face, "Settle what?"
"When and how we get out," Inuyasha said, "This will be the perfect time to escape since Naraku still isn't back."
"I agree with Inuyasha," said Miroku.
"Yeah, me too," both Kagome and Sango said in perfect unison. They burst into giggles after that. It wasn't really that funny, it was just that fact that they might be escaping made them nervous.
Inuyasha just gave them weird looks while Miroku smiled slightly.
Once they got their control back, Kagome exclaimed, "I think we should leave the night after tomorrow!"
Inuyasha's expression turned to annoyance and he said, "No wench, we're leaving tomorrow night!"
"We can't do that! We have to find out how to break the barrier first, but in order to do that we have to get into Naraku's library! None of us have any work near there," said Kagome in a clam tone although she was ready to rip off the poor hanyou's head. 'He never thinks about the other peoples' problems!' Kagome thought.
Inuyasha started to walk away and he said in an angry tone, "We are leaving tomorrow, and that is that!"
Kagome's anger flared higher. That arrogant bastard!
He was already ahead and walking down the stairs when Kagome ran after him with Miroku and Sango following not too far behind.
Kagome caught up to Inuyasha and they walked side by side around the barrier.
"We are leaving the night after tomorrow!" Kagome said with a soft, deadly tone which usually meant that she was trying to hold her anger.
'Whoa, scary!" Inuyasha said sarcastically while mentally rolling his eyes although he had to admit; the girl's tone was sort of freaking him out.
He didn't answer, he just kept walking. He was pointedly ignoring her.
Her anger flared up more and her face was a little red. She quickly walked pass Inuyasha and stop right in front of him. He abruptly stopped walking.
She poked him in the chest and said, still using that tone of hers, "You are going to do as I say."
Inuyasha had to admit it. The girl has some nerves to even touch him.
He was going to poke her back in the chest when he thought better of it. So he poked her in the collar bone instead. A little too hard though.
He said, "We aren't going--," he never got to finish because Kagome gasped as she lost her balance and started falling. Falling down on the barrier, she was going to get burnt because she wasn't a hanyou. 'Oh no, this is not happening!' she thought.
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Miroku and Sango were following Kagome and Inuyasha when Sango stopped walking.
"Why don't we just decide when we leave, when we find out how to break the barrier?"
"Okay! That's a brilliant idea coming from a beautiful lady!" Miroku said, grinning.
Sango just sent him a quick death glare before she started fast-walking. She was too excited to worry about the pervert. Although if it were the daytime, they would have both seen the light blush on Sango's face.
They both rounded a corner just in time to see Kagome poke Inuyasha; Inuyasha who pokes Kagome back a little too hard causing her to lose her balance and start to fall backwards.
They hear Kagome gasp as she waves her arms around, trying to find something to hang on to.
Sango gasp and both Miroku and Sango run towards Kagome at the same time.
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'Oh no, this is not happening!' Kagome thought as she waved her arms around trying to find something to hang on to.
Suddenly, Kagome's hand hits the barrier and she feels a strong jolt go through her body.
Inuyasha finally comes to his senses and he grabs Kagome's hand and pulls her back, just in time before she hits the ground.
Miroku and Sango stop right beside them, and were about to ask if she was all right, when a light crackle is heard.
Inuyasha holds Kagome in his right arm as everyone; Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha, and Kagome, watch as the barrier wavers and fades away into the darkness. Sango, Miroku, and Kagome all gasp, while Inuyasha's eyes were widened in shock.
Sango reaches out to touch the barrier to make sure what she saw was true. Her hands touch nothing but air. Sango whips around and exclaims to Kagome, "How did you do that?!"
Though the answer was obvious; just by the look on Kagome's face. Her eyes were filled with confusion and her mouth was agape.
"I-I d-don't know," Kagome stuttered out.
A long moment of silence came after that, and Kagome was the first to recover. She laughs nervously and says, "I guess we'll have to get out now, won't we?"
They all nod, as they start to regain their senses back. Sango was the next who spoke first, "Don't let anyone know about this, they're a couple slaves here who are loyal to Naraku.
Kagome nodded her head approvingly.
"Alright," both Inuyasha and Miroku said.
As they walk back to their slave rooms, they all have one question in mind, 'How did she do that?'
Except Kagome's was different, it was similar, 'How did I do that?' The question ran in her mind, repeating over and over, as she silently packed, but excitement about the escape soon took over.
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A/N: When I say, 'porches' I mean the floors that stick out. You know the episode in sailor moon when they show her as a princess and she's on one of the 'porches' and Darien is on the bottom. (Whatever they're called!) Well, Sango and Kagome are on those 'porches' and Inuyasha is where Darien is.
Well, that was a long chapter! 13 pages! I was going to connect this with chapter 5, but then it would've been too long, and it would've left chapter 5 with like...4 pages. The next chapter is interesting and I think it'll be fun to write!
Kikyou plays a semi-evil character though it turns out way better in the end of this fic, so stick with me please!
remix-69er and to all Inuyasha fans--- Inuyasha is ending on September 13th! It ends on episode 166 and 167, by the titles of "The bond between the two--Use the shikon shard." Sounds exciting huh? I almost cried when they said it was ending... I'm glad yet sad about it. Go to (add the slashes after http since won't let it show) !!!! http: inuyasha-info.virtue.nu !!!! for more info! Remove the spaces and exclaimation marks!
Until the next time, cya!
purity=starz
Posted---August 11, 04