Behind These Hazel Eyes
Chapter Seven
Kohaku blearily opened his eyes and shivered. The air around him was musty and cold. He had no idea where he was, and it felt like he had slept a restless sleep for days. He had been sleeping for days, to tell the truth. When he was deported to Buchenwald, Kohaku would not wake up after the blow to the head he received from an S.S. Officer. They were going to kill him after he had been asleep for three days, but someone saved him. It was an S.S. Officer with black hair in a high ponytail and piercing red eyes. Her name was Kagura, and she was one of Naraku's top Nazis. She would have killed him herself ordinarily, but her fiancée, Sesshoumaru, told her to spare the kid for another day. And wonders of all wonders, the very next day, Kohaku woke up!
Now he was sitting up, shivering. The last thing he remembered wasa woman with chocolate brown eyes, and black brown hair screaming his name, and then everything had gone black. But what was her name and who was she? Kohaku looked around fearfully. He was all alone, and he had no idea where he was. Suddenly, he was pushed up and shoved out the door by a large man. When he got to the outside, he saw many other people standing in three different lines. All the people in one line were hauled into a long car parked in the large camp. Kohaku was in the second line. He feared he would be killed, but luckily the people in his line were to be put to labor. He winced as he heard gun shots and agonized screams from the third line. He couldn't remember anything about where he was, or what he was doing there, but he could figure out that there, it was either work hard, or be killed.
Farther away in Terezin, the children's concentration camp, Souta was with the other boys his age, writing poems. Souta was writing one about the cat he used to have at home; Buyo. Souta sighed. There was a lot more freedom and entertainment in Terezin, but it was still empty. No matter how you looked at it, he was a prisoner, and without family. He missed his mom, his grandpa, and most of all, his older sister, Kagome. She was always there for him, but she was gone now. One day a few weeks ago, he had been walking home from school with his friends, when a Nazi came up to them. He took one look at the Yellow Star of David on their shirts, and took them away. He never saw anyone he knew after that. Just a few days earlier, the Nazis had showed Terezin to the Red Cross. The ignorant fools thought it to be an innocent place for the Jews to stay until they found a new home. Stupid Nazis, Souta thought as he wrote so hard, it tore a hole in the paper.
"W-what!" Ayame sputtered. "We can't take you to Naraku!" Sango clenched her fists. "And why not?" Ayame placed her hands on her hips. "Well, for one thing, we don't even know where Naraku is. Secondly, Naraku would kill you if you ever found him. And you know what else? You'd get killed before even setting foot outside of Auschwitz!" Sango dropped back down onto her bed. "You're a heap of encouragement." Ayame sighed and placed her hands on Sango's shoulders. "I'm sorry; I'm doing it to protect you. Even if we can't kill Naraku directly, we'll find something we can do to set everyone free." Sango nodded.
Inuyasha looked up at the sky as the moon began to rise in it. "Okay, it's time." Inuyasha helped Kagome get Kikyo onto his back, and they were on their way. Maneuvering their way back to the apartment this time was harder, because there were a lot more guards around. From one shadow to the next, Inuyasha's pace grew faster. He suddenly ground to a halt when he was faced with a mass of S.S. Officers.
"Shit! Run!" he exclaimed. Kagome and Inuyasha turned around, and began to run to a deserted shop on the other side. Inuyasha slammed the door of the shop and pushed against it as much furniture as he could find. Kagome began to crawl around the floor, looking for a door of some kind. She gasped when she stumbled over something on the floor. She smiled when she saw it was a metal handle. "Inuyasha! I found the cellar." Kagome led Kikyo carefully down the cellar, and Inuyasha jumped in after them, slamming the door behind him.
Once inside, Kagome took a deep breath. "Inuyasha, I can't see anything."
"I'm on it." Inuyasha flicked a lighter he had in his pocket, and the cellar was suddenly aglow with orange light. Inuyasha and Kagome resisted shouting with all the power in their lungs when the light revealed they were practically nose to nose with each other. Kagome breathed with a raspy tone. "Never do that again!" Inuyasha snorted. "You're tellin' me?" Kagome sighed and curled up in a corner, and Inuyasha sat in the opposite corner. Kikyo was lying in between them. She pushed herself up and scolded them. "This is childish! You shouldn't be fighting, you have to work together! If we have any chance of making it out of here alive, you two will have to be friends! And I mean now! Start bonding!" Kagome and Inuyasha glared at each other from afar, and then Kagome spoke.
"Um, well, I had a cat…" Inuyasha looked away from her. "I hate cats." Kagome scratched her chin. "Well, not everyone likes them, I guess. Let's see, I'm, uh, fifteen years old, and I like cute, fuzzy things." Inuyasha commented sarcastically, "Like my ears?" Kagome giggled. "Yes." Inuyasha, Kagome, and Kikyo smiled. Now they were getting somewhere.