'You,' said Sesshomaru and quickly turned around. Maru almost didn't hear him, she had actually nearly fallen asleep by just standing there for hours. She almost envied Kagome and Sango who had cleaning duty. At least they could talk to each other, she wasn't even allowed to move. She had tried to listen to their conversation to entertain herself a little, but found that she had a hard time not to giggle so she stopped. Now her head quickly turned towards Sesshomaru. She didn't think it was "her place" to answer him so she just looked at him to show she had heard what he said.
'Come with me,' he said and left command without looking at her. Kagome just shrugged and followed him as no one else seemed to mind. She found it was hard to keep up with him but figured he probably wanted her to walk behind him anyway. On the way through the corridors they met Sango and Kagome who was still cleaning the walls and floor. When they saw Sesshomaru they stopped talking to each other and concentrated on their task. When Kagome passed them they glanced at her questionly through the Seka, and she shrugged towards them. She had no idea what was going on. When they had turned around a corner, Kagome looked at Sango.
'Where do you think they were going?' she asked. Sango shrugged.
'Probably somewhere so she could wash his clothes or lick his feet clean or something,' she said with her voice filled with sarcasm.
'Well, it's hardly anything dangerous,' said Kagome but her voice didn't sound completely sure. There was a few quiet moments when they were only cleaning, Sango hard and irritated and Kagome more thoughtfully and quiet. Finally, Sango threw her rag on the floor.
'It's just no use!' she exclaimed. 'This is going to take a million years! I'm just too big to be cleaned like this, with rags! And if we really should clean the whole ship with rags, we'd need to be at least.' she thought for a moment. 'A few thousand people!' She looked to Kagome to get support but the blue girl didn't seem to be listening.
'Yeah. Sango, I'm a bit worried. Could you locate them, I'd feel much better if I knew where she was.'
'Kagome, why do you worry? He's just going to get her to clean or something.' Kagome shook her head.
'Well, I can't explain it, I just feel bad about it. Please, can't you just check?' Sango rolled her eyes, but closed them and when she opened them again, she had a frown on her face (Well, Kagome couldn't see that of course) and her eyes looked confused.
'In Sesshomaru's quarters.' She shook her head. 'Well, that room is bound to get as dirty as the rest of the ship.' She was quiet for a moment.
'Although I suppose I could send my AI to check what's going on.' Kagome looked happy, but it faded when Sango shook her head.
'No I can't. They seem to have done something with her. I can't access her. I suppose we can fix that when everything's back to normal.' Kagome nodded and tried to tell her brain that everything would be okay. Nothing bad was going to happen to Maru.
'There is only one chance to 93 that what happens to Maru would be something really bad.' She swallowed. But what about those feelings she had?
Maru slowly walked into Sesshomaru's quarters. She had been here before, when he had offered her dinner and then bluntly stated that he could never have a relationship with a human woman. The statement had saddened her more than she had shown him. She shook her head slightly and focused on the Sesshomaru in front of her now. He circled her and stood on the other side of her, so that he was closer to the door. She frowned, not really sure what it was he wanted her to do. He took a step closer to her and for a moment, she thought he looked like the normal Sesshomaru again.
'Take off the Seka, he said.' Maru's eyes grew wide with joy and disbelief. She threw the Seka off.
'Sesshomaru, you're back to normal! How long do you think it will take for the others?' Her happiness was quickly cut off when he slapped her face hard.
'Be quiet,' he yelled.
'Okay,' Maru thought. 'He's not back to normal.' Sesshomaru was watching her closely from her silver hair, down to her lightning eyes, the full lips, breasts, her slender waist all the way down to the black military boots. She wouldn't mind him just looking at her, he had done that many times before when he though she wasn't watching, but she didn't like the way his eyes looked when he did it. She didn't dare to say something though as he apparently was still in his drugged state.
'Okay,' he said after a little while. 'Take off the rest.' Her eyes widened and she took a step back, slowly shaking her head.'
'No,' she half-whispered. 'This isn't happening.' Sesshomaru looked angry.
'Didn't you hear what I said? Remove your clothing!' She stepped away from him, all the time shaking her head. Tears were forming in her eyes and running down her cheek. She was very afraid of what was to come. Enraged, Sesshomaru took some quick steps up to her and despite her attempts to get away, he hit her face hard so she fell down on the floor. Blood was trickling from her lip and she tried to get up, but he was too quick. He grabbed her hair and dragged her up. Her eyes, shining with fear stared right into his brown eyes that clearly showed he wasn't Sesshomaru. That sight of her eyes staring into his like that was something he'd never forget in his whole life, despite his futile attempts. He let go of her hair and gave her another blow in the face that sent her backwards, causing her head to hit a table hard and a heap of books fell down on her. She desperatly tried to use her fighting skills, but he had already got an upper hand.
'Please Sesshomaru,' she whispered. 'You're going to regret this. Please don't.' But that only seemed to make him even more enraged.
'You're not going to tell me what to do!' he screamed and pulled her up from the floor. He pushed her so she went right into a wall and hit it hard. She heard a cracking sound and felt an intense pain shooting up in her left arm. She sank down on the floor, not able to try and fight him anymore.
'Good lord,' she whimpered. 'Help me, please.' Sesshomaru went over to her and pulled her up, surprisingly enough more gently this time.
'There,' he said. 'I think you've learned your lesson. Now, you've lost the priviliege of taking off the clothes on your own, so I'll do it for you.' He was quick and soon her clothes lay in a heap on the floor and Maru's shivering body was completely naked. Sesshomaru pressed his lips against her's in a hard kiss and forced in his tounge, nearly choking her. When he took it out, she decided for one last try.
'Help!' she screamed the loudest she could even though she knew no one would come.
'Help!' Kagome and Sango heard the call and were immediately at their feet.
'That was Maru,' Kagome stated, her voice shivering. Sango, we've got to do something.
'Yes,' Sango agreed. 'Come on!' They ran together all the way to Sesshomaru's quarters where they stopped outside. The doors didn't open.
'I'll see if I can open them manually,' said Sango and started her attempts to override the codes. Kagome tried to pull the doors open, desperatly.
Maru stopped breathing. Sango and Kagome were outside! Maybe they could help her.
'Sango! Kag-' a large hand over her mouth prevented her from saying anything else.
'You stay here,' said Sesshomaru. 'If you even move, I'm going to beat you up so hard you wish you were never born, is that clear?' Maru only dared to nod. Sesshomaru turned towards the door.
When they heard the hiss of doors opening, both Sango and Kagome's hearts took a leap, but they sank again when they saw the large man in the opening. The doors were so slightly opened, he covered it all up, so they couldn't see Maru in there.
'You two are to return to cleaning, or I'll give you a worse treatment than she had, is that clear?' He didn't wait for them to answer. 'I'd do it anyway really, but I just have more important business to tend to.' The doors closed and Sango and Kagome looked at each other.
'Something really bad is going to happen,' Kagome said in a small voice, 'and there's nothing we can do.'
Maru had heard Sesshomaru's "conversation" with her friends and now he was walking back to her.
'Silly girl,' he said and took her hand in a gesture of false gentleness. She winced in pain, it was the hand she had hurt and by the look in his face, he was fully aware of that.
'What did you think would happen,' he continued. I have a forcelance in my belt, you could never take me down. And even if you could, Inuyasha would know and you would be gravely punished. Don't you understand it's better to co- operate with me now?' Maru didn't answer, she just looked at him, her eyes still shining with fear but now also acceptance. She knew what was going to happen to her, and she also knew there was nothing she could do about it. Sesshomaru took a step away and started to undress. Maru looked in another direction, not wanting to see, it would be easier to pretend that it wasn't really happening if she didn't look.
'Please, this would be a very good time to wake up,' she thought, clenching her eyes shut. But right then, Sesshomaru scooped her up in his arms and started to carry her toward the bed. That had happened to her before with other guys, but they had looked down at her lovingly or at least passionatly. Not like Sesshomaru who was just looking straight forward as if he was carrying an unconscious person or something. He flung her down on the bed, not caring about taking away the covers. Then he got up himself, and she felt his erection touch her leg. She didn't try to get away or something, she just lay there, staring at the ceiling, accepting her fate. She didn't see him, so it came as a shock when he rammed into her completely dry entrance, and she screamed out loud. When the first jolt of pain had faded, he started to move inside of her. She whimpered quietly and turned her head to the side, looking anywhere but on him.
'This must be the worst thing that's ever happened to me,' she thought. 'This has absolutely no likeness to sex at all. I can't believe I actually used to enjoy this.' Maru felt a large hand squeezing painfully hard at one of her breasts and she gave a small cry. Then she felt his mouth placing kisses all the way up her neck and she could help the tingling feeling in her belly, despite the unbearable pain in her lower parts. She had to admit, she had wanted this. Or, not this exactly, but she had wanted Sesshomaru.
'Sesshomaru,' she thought, 'this isn't Sesshomaru. If he remembers this, he's going to have a really hard time getting over it, even if it isn't his fault.' She turned her head up, failing to hide the pain in her face.
'Sesshomaru,' she stuttered and took a deep breath. 'I know this isn't you,' she stuttered through he jolts of pain in her vagina, 'and I want you to know that even in this moment I don't blame you.'
'Shut up,' he answered and kissed her hard on the lips again. This time she willingly let his tounge in, hoping he'd be more gentle if she did. Finally, she could feel him building up to an orgasm and with a scream, he climaxed inside of her. He pulled out his cock right after and rolled over next to her. They were both panting heavily. And now, when it was all over, Maru fainted.
Sango and Kagome could hardly clean anymore, they were too worried about their friend. Suddenly, they saw her stumbling towards them. She was wearing the Seka, so they couldn't see her all that well, but Kagome rushed up to her and embraced her. Maru fell to her knees and Kagome followed. She was clearly weeping and she flinched when Kagome touched her arm.
'Come on,' said Kagome softly. 'Let's go to the med bay.' Maru and Sango followed her to her working place. Well there, Kagome told Maru to take off her Seka and so did she and Sango. When Maru's was off, Kagome gasped when she saw her friend's face. It was covered in bruises and where her lip was split, blood was still trickling down.
'Does it hurt really much?' Kagome said with sympathy.
'Well,' Maru answered in a weak voice they didn't recognise, 'I had a blow on the head, but my arm's defenitly the worst.'
'Yes,' Kagome stated as she examined it, 'it's broken.' She went over to a table and fetched some white bandage that she carefully wrapped around Maru's arm and then around her neck in a mitella.
'There,' she said. 'It'll have to do for now, we are a bit short of time.' Maru nodded, but her gaze was still turned down and tears shone in her eyes.
'Maru,' said Kagome, 'what happened there was worse than it looks, wasn't it?' Maru could barely nod, if she spoke she was afraid she'd cry again.
'Come on,' said Sango, 'let's go back and pretend we're cleaning and you can tell us there.' They followed her back.
'What happened?' asked Kagome, 'what did he do to you?'
'Well first,' she started, 'he beat me up.'
'Why?' Sango asked.
'Because,' she seemed to have a hard time saying it, 'because I.didn't, because I didn't take my clothes off.' Kagome and Sango gasped in unison.
'And.d-did you?' Kagome had also started to stutter.
'No,' Maru said and she gave a sigh of relief. 'He did.' Kagome's heart fell again.
'And that's when you came,' she continued. Both Kagome and Sango was on edge now, as when you see a really scary movie and know what's about to happen but you want to change it, you want to turn off and yet you have to see it.
'And when we had left?' Sango asked, her voice shivering. Maru's tears were falling freely now.
'He.raped.me,' she managed to say through the tears. TKagome, who was also crying embraced her hard, being careful with her arm though and rocked her back and forth as if she was a child. Sango also joined in on the hug and they just stood there for a while, clinging on to each other as if there was nothing else in the world.
'This has to end,' Sango thought. 'It's gone to far, and I'm going to kill the people who did this.' She looked at Maru and Kagome, whom she had become very good friends with over the past years. She was a warship, she should've been able to protect them. But she hadn't. She had failed.