TASTING AN ETERNITY

Fhb

BxK

Chap 7- - - -Fading Elixir…

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My strength is made perfect in weakness…

---II Corinthians. XII. 9

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"Lord Battousai…please I beg of you, stop" Misao intercepted trying to pull at his muscular arm that was clutched tightly around Kaoru's neck. Misao swore she saw as Kaoru's face turned an effete and pallid way. The pale blue was already threatening throughout her face and yet she still wore a face of die-hard features.

Battousai slammed Misao back as he let Kaoru go. Misao groaned as she slid against the wall in sear pain. The tremendous surge of hurtful emotions raced throughout her back immobilizing her for the moment. Kaoru on the other hand was weak and consumed in a lethargic hex. She held her throat tiredly, rubbing it from the pain and pressure he had applied on it. Growling she stood to her heels, a look of aggrandizing hate embellishing the shade of green in her eyes. There was nothing but hate that flowed for him, only hate that receded through her veins and her very logic for that matter. Scowling at the beast he wanted to be, she walked pass him.

Battousai watched as the green-eyed woman lanced pass him, his eyes threatening a silent potency of hate. He himself also hated the foul creature she was. So to say if burning her wasn't against the Demon laws, she'd be burnt to death already.

"Get out…now" he hissed in a low cold voice…

"Want to make me?" Kaoru lashed back. She couldn't quite understand it, but all her life she grew up with the best teachers and instructors, the most caring women of her time and yet here she was lashing out at him verbally contended.

He snarled, who in bloody name does she feel she's talking to?

Though Battousai could spit at her grave and chant a mantra he hated her, he confessed she had a lot of valor and wit for that matter. But that wasn't a accent of the consecrated virgin. According to legend she was a silent beauty with marvelous blue eyes, but he didn't know how much of that legacy was true, for all he knew she could be right under his very nose, again he didn't know.

Kaoru helped the somewhat injured Misao to her feet leering them out the dormitory of the famed red-head lord. Kaoru looked over her shoulder one last time, she tried to remember what made her heart hurt so bad when she saw his face. He could sense she was looking at him, why stare at me woman when we live on parallel worlds?

'Soon Battousai, I swear that this slave-trade will be broken and you shall become part of the nothingness'

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"Ouchhhh!!" Kaoru screamed as they placed a hot key on her hand stating she was branded and part of the slave trade. Kaoru cried her little eyes out but she still kept her chin up. Misao on the other hand wasn't too affected by the burn that would never go away. She sat next to Kaoru as the both girls just sat looking at the different groups of females. Kaoru saw blue-eye girls in one area, whilst others with green eyes in another section. The entire courtyard was sectioned off and yet here she was in no specific group.

"You two…" called a voice sternly…

"Us?" Misao and Kaoru pointed at themselves,

"Yes you two…get to your correct lines now…" the beast stubbornly shouted.

Misao and Kaoru nodded laughing at the fact that he didn't need to choke on his spit. Though they were two different girls, brought up with different culture and lifestyles, Kaoru found it intriguing when she least expected to find a friend by someone completely opposite of her. Misao and Kaoru entered the group of green-eye girls watching as they scowled at the two young girls.

"They must be the oldees" whispered Misao

Kaoru giggled under her breath. The girls caught the signature touch and couldn't help but take it the wrong way.

"So we have little girls with the big girls…" one addressed looking at Misao and Kaoru grotesquely

"It depends on what's bigger and badder (not a word) between us, then perhaps it's your breath" Misao held her nose already contributing to her brusque sarcasm.

"What did you just say you little weasel…?" the girl shot hotly…

"You must have short-term memory…oh well can't help you there" she smiled nicely yet it was sardonically done.

"Listen weasel" the girl grabbed Misao's arm wrenching it in a lock, "don't be getting big all of sudden with me…I happen not to like that" the girl addressed angrily

"Get—your hands off of me" Misao spoke lowly…as if in a hiss and warn

"Oh…and what if I don't?" she paused, "going to do something?" she laughed proudly…

"As a matter of fact" Misao spoke silvery, her fists finding the girls jaw in a sudden blow, "yes" she hissed pushing the larger girl to the floor…

The girl seem lifeless on the floor which called for a huge commotion. Misao on the other hand just barely rubbed her knuckles muttering, there's a whole lot where that came from…

Kaoru as innocent as this was to her, she besought they should leave the girls.

"No Kaoru, let me show her what its means to taste the wrath of the Ninjitsu rose" she posed in a front-stance…

"Misao that's all nice and stuff, but don't you think you've already caused enough trouble?" Kaoru asked…

"Yeah you're right---I should just bash her head out whilst she's unconscious" Misao took into a run but Kaoru got to her first. Holding her by the collar, Kaoru sighed tiredly whilst pulling the hyperactive girl from the battle.

The Lords seeing that commotion occurred ordered their soldiers to inspect the mess.

"Milords, a young female is unconscious…" the soldier spoke holding the woman in his arms…

"How has this happened?" Battousai addressed coldly…

Everyone pointed at Misao. Misao stooped feeling so ashamed all of sudden.

"Come here…" Battousai addressed coldly…

Poor Misao…she couldn't help herself…she was just trying to---wait, what was she trying to do?

Misao was stuck to the ground. She was immobilized by fear and all she could do was tremble…

I see in your eyes a fear…delicious… thought the cold Battousai.

"COME HERE!!" Battousai shouted again in a commanding voice…

"It was not her…" intercepted a soft voice.

Everyone turned to the voice, the voice that was owned by no other than,

"Kaoru?" whispered a woman, "is that Kaoru?" she asked to the woman on the side of her. The woman looked up, stressing her eyes to see in the far distance, "yes…that is her…what in God's name is she doing here?" the woman asked in horror…

"So let me guess…you lashed the woman?" Battousai firmly asked…

"Yes…I did…" she answered curtly looking him in the eyes…

"Why---why hurt the other girls when they do you nothing?" Battousai reckoned

"Because…" she smirked, "I felt to…" was her only answer…

Battousai hissed, spiffy are we? Very very spiffy you are little beast…

"You felt to…do you not know that the punishment is certain when you do such acts?" Battousai snarled…

"I didn't hit you now, so why punish me for something I didn't cause to you…?" she growled…

"You will show respect to your Lords…" the soldier slammed his stick on her back…

She fell to the floor, her hands clutching the Earth. The dead Earth.

And this is all I see around me, faces that are stranded here, left to die if a savior does not come…the shadows are playing with our hearts and one by one we will fall and become part of the nothing. Yet these Lords of the Devil himself shall still live on, and this trade still…unbroken. I can not allow them to succeed…by no means…

Within Kaoru's mouth, she could taste a coppery-flavour. Blood---she hissed. Touching her lips she examined the fascinating read liquid, the elixir of life, she thought. Rising from her fall she growled deeply, "I will show nothing----nothing at all to the Demon clan. Nothing you hear me---NOTHING!!"

With that she was bombarded by guards who repeatedly stroked in her hard lashes and blows. Her screams traveled the entire grounds, the skies becoming grey and dark. Battousai saw the lightning flash that ripped the sky, how odd it is to see this…

Her screams rattled every hollow hall, every void tree, every soul that lay supplanted on the Earth. The wail and cry seem just enough to make the Earth quake.

"STOP IT" A woman from the brown eye section shouted and soon her friends ran to help the young woman who was tiredly being beaten. Even Misao who was quivered in fear, could not stand to see her friend be beaten especially if she was taking it for her. The revolt of the females caused the Lords to step back in shock. Never had the females attacked and this was all too hard to swallow. The guards that were beating Kaoru were beaten by some hundred females for various reasons. The swirl of confusion only made Yusuke and Sesshoumaru look at each other in confusion. Battousai on the other hand growled at the sight, it's all because of her…this rotten little mortal…the fool of a filth she is…

"ENOUGHH!!" Battousai shouted, the grounding almost shaking with the echo of his voice.

The females stopped, looking at their lord. "Stop this nonsense or I shall make each of you suffer in the Netherworld…"

"And so you wish to punish me…hahahah" there her voice was again, in the crowd and all he could hear was her laughter. The same sardonic laughter.

He held his head feeling her coming on to him so strong. She was so close, so alive, so fresh. Yet where was she in this masquerading crowd of females. The situation became worst when he started to lose her voice location in the crowd.

No…no…I want her…

All he could do was yearn for her, but never receive her…

"I want all the females who revolted to be punished in Trance-star…" Battousai's punishment was lethal…

Kaoru could feel her body failing, that the disguise she kept was breaking, tearing apart and so she with it. The world slowly was collapsing and all she do was call for strength. It didn't come…and she realized, it wouldn't especially in a place like this. A world only filled with shadow and grief.

Fainting in the arms of friends, she smiled, how I wish I could save them…so badly…

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Kaoru awoke on a soft bed with nothing but smooth silk wrapped around her body.

A certain fear erupted in her whilst she turned to see she was not accompanied alone in this bed.

On her bed was a white head lord. He was sleeping very quietly. Kaoru gasped---this was madness. All she could remember was being drained and fainting and now she's---here, in his---bed, doing heaven knows what. Kaoru scuttled to the right trying to get off the bed, but a hand snapped over hers bringing her back into the warmth near the lord. In a quick motion he came over her, his amber eyes rudely piercing into hers.

Kaoru's fear kicked in and before her very knowing, his lips were sent across hers, the world fluttered in unregistered patterns and feelings. Her lips burned from his contact, his hands smoothening her arms, the touch brusque yet possessive. Melting in his hold, she felt as her heart thumped faster and faster, almost as if warning her. Then again, before her unknowing he was blasted off of her.

There in front of her were three angels. Their faces serious and combed with little understanding to such dirty-actions. Kaoru innocently looked at the three angels. One of the angels turned to her.

"You must never allow yourself to fall into their liars" she paused, her voice as that of a harp.

"I—I didn't wish to come here" Kaoru answered truthfully.

"I know…but be careful my sacred lady" she bowed.

Kaoru nodded cutely.

"Where do you think you're going?" the lord asked deeply.

The door shut when he commanded it to.

"What do you want of me?" she turned to him, her brows furrowing.

"You…" the answer was simple…

"I am not something you can buy, nor something you can just have…"

"Do you know whom you speak to?" he barked…

"I could care less…" she deciphered a smug grin on her face

"I am Lord Sesshoumaru and I don't take no for an answer"

She swallowed the lump leaning backward seeing him approaching, "why are you afraid little one…?"

"I am not… I am just wondering how many women must have died in your arms, and to your unknowing, they loved you…" her eyes intent.

He stopped, "what does it matter to you?" he growled…

"Nothing, but it's something to them…" she said sadly…

He suddenly didn't like how tense the room was becoming, "leave…leave at once" he faltered not.

A small smile played against her features, "thank you" she said kindly…

He arched a brow, there was something he didn't understand about the little termagant, she was so hostile and yet there was a part of her that was as clear as a diamond. He frowned remembering what she had said, you can never understand the situation little one…

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Kaoru entered the Trance-star room, the room where all her friends were kept, including hot mouthed Misao.

"Kaoru…" a woman spoke seeing her enter…

"Hello…" her voice was hoarse. She walked toward the woman and before everyone's eyes she collapsed.

"Milady…what has happened?" asked the woman who held onto her lady with her dear life

"I don't know" Kaoru whispered…

"Did they hurt you?" two more of the ladies asked attending to Kaoru…

"No… it's this place. I can't keep withstanding my disguise…it's going to burst…" she whispered tiredly…

"Milady…what disguise…?"

"My eyes… they're not blue…they're green…" she paused, "this is what keeps me from being" she paused seeing Misao, "being you know what"

"Yes…we understand…" the woman spoke…

"Ishizu, please…I need rest…" Kaoru begged…

"I wish we could give you the rest you ask for milady, but you're chosen as one of the girls for the Trance-star…"

"What's that?" Kaoru asked…

"It's when females don't listen to their lords and are usually given to the highest lords so they could be reprimanded…" Misao answered. It was the first of her voice Kaoru had heard.

"Reprimanded---how?" Kaoru asked…

"By dance" a hurt on her face.

Kaoru gasped…

And so…the virgin as sacred as I have become, will be no more…

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Ten young women, exhibited in devilish make-up presented themselves before the top lords. The seven young lords sat on chairs watching as the ten young women portrayed themselves by just merely dancing. Kaoru was becoming weaker, her eyes bit by bit became dazed, this place was draining her goodness. Weak from the mere kiss by Sesshoumaru, she felt the auras that radiated off these seven lords. There was nothing like this she had ever felt, they all contributed to this mindless awareness. Greed for the satin in female lusts, and the yearn for the heat in a woman's heart. Corrupted they all were, only meant to sip and take advantage of each of the woman-line.

Kaoru didn't know what to do. Her friends told her just to follow their movement, yet when she inclined to make a movement as putrid as theirs, three powerful angels stood in her way, protecting her from marring her aura. Kaoru stood in the center watching as Misao danced, whilst Ishizu and the rest of friends did likewise, she was the only one who stood like a complete idiot at stand-still.

"You…" called a voice…

She looked up when she saw a handsome lord looking at her.

"Come here…come to lord Unix…" the now arrived lord said…

The young lords looked at their demon leader…

Battousai growled, who the hell invited him?

Kaoru approached noting this would be the last stroll of the consecrated virgin.

And so the beginning of the end comes right at me…

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An: Another chapter up and running just for you. All I need to do now is get my other fanfictions running up again. Playing with the devil will run soon, I am just planning to write hired heart and Defying the rules of love first. After these updates, chose the fanfiction you want to finish the quickest and I'll update it all month. Your count says which fic could finish this month. Much love lovely people. ROCK ON AND SAY WHAT THE HELL YOU WANT BECAUSE NOBODY CAN FORCE YOU!!

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