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Enjoy chapter 9!

Chapter 9: A promise of death

"Wait!" Inuyasha yelled at the now closed door. "Where are you taking her!"

Sesshomaru growled at the Hanyou before him.

"How DARE you touch the Princess. You will pay for this sin with your life, boy."

Inuyasha glared at him, and kept his strong, insistent tone.

"Tell me where she is or so help you you'll be the one who's life will be taken!"

Sesshomaru smiled sinisterly. "Well, I have to hand it to you, you're obviously not afraid of dying. Threatening me, your soon-to-be King, and touching my princess? Hah! And being only a filthy Hanyou... a half-breed." He circled Inuyasha, inspecting him like an eagle. Inuyasha stared ahead, not responding. His best bet of finding Kagome was to stay calm until he could figure out a way to go to her.

"Well, well, well. I never thought I'd say this, but I knew my Princess was a little tramp from the start." Inuyasha's eye twitched with anger, but he stayed calm.

"She isn't a tramp." he said though gritted teeth.

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. "Oh, she's not? From the moment I first laid eyes on her, I knew she was an empty-headed child with no promising future. I felt generous though, this kingdom isn't too shabby, so I took pity on it and accepted the Kings offer." He stood in front of Inuyasha, smiling.

"Are you..in love with her?" He asked the angered hanyou, who hesitated.

"Answer me, half-breed!" Sesshomaru raised his voice. "Do you love her!"

"With every fibre of my being." Inuyasha replied, looking deep into his eyes, knowing he hit the wrong buttons with the aggravated prince.

"Well.." Sesshomaru turned and slowly begun to pace away from Inuyasha. "Then I'll have some satisfaction in making her mine-or!" He turned to face the hanyou again "Is that a problem with you?"

Inuyasha panted loudly, his demon side taking the reins.

"I'm sure she'd make a wonderful mate, Too bad I'll get to her first. She'll bear me a couple of heirs, Then you can have what's left of her." He smiled, sensing the fuming anger and vengeance coming from the Hanyou.

"Don't talk about her as if she were an object!" Inuyasha yelled, his eyes flashing crimson. "She's too good for you.." The crimson color faded, slightly. 'Too good for me.' he thought, remorse striking his thoughts. "However, I will not allow you to talk about her in such a way."

Inuyasha flexed his claws. Sesshomaru burst out laughing.

"You're actually serious?" he laughed even louder. "Don't make me laugh, Hanyou. Haven't you realized by now that she's using you?"

Inuyasha's eyes stopped glowing and he stood up straight, tilting his head.

"What do you mean by that?" He asked, staring at the prince.

"I mean, She's using you as a way out of this crappy Palace, She wants to get out of these palace walls, so she's using you. In fact, I told her to find some stupid block-head to fool into helping her escape."

Inuyasha didn't know what to say.

"Think I'm lying? I didn't want to marry anyone, I wanted to rule alone. I don't want a weak human princess to be my Queen! So I got her to 'run away' and find someone to take her away from here." Sesshomaru turned to leave. "You don't have to believe me, But did she seem 'too good to be true'? Did she think everything you had was so wonderful and grand when she had all of this to come back to?"

Inuyasha looked away.

"Please, I expected she'd find someone exactly like you. She's a good actress, no?" He laughed again. "I'll let you let yourself out. I'm sure you want to get the hell out of here." Sesshomaru opened the door and left, leaving Inuyasha standing there, dumbfounded.

"No." He shook his head. "Kagome would never..she wouldn't...I'm such a fool." He jumped off the balcony and bounded off into the village.

Later that night

Kagome softly cried into a pillow, in the room in which she was held captive.

'Inuyasha...Come and get me. Please. Help me before I'm married to Sesshomaru!'

The King entered the room.

"Get up." He ordered, Kagome looked up at him. "Get up, I said!"

"Father.. Why are you being so cruel to me?" She asked, more tears streaming down her face when her father said nothing.

"Answer me this, Father, please. What became of the Hanyou, Inuyasha?" She pleaded.

"I do not know." He replied. "Lord Sesshomaru took care of him."

Kagome screeched and returned to her pillow, she knew her love was dead.

"Look. You're marrying Lord Sesshomaru weather you like it or not. So chin up, and turn that frown upside down before I get the executioner to do it for you!" He yelled.

"I wont marry him, Father." She protested.

"Then you shall die. It's your choice!" With that, The King left the room.

Kagome shook with anger, she started to glow a bright pinkish color. She slowly looked up from her pillow, looking to the door in which her father left, eyes glowing purple.

"If I die...Then you shall die with me..."