Bane Throughout Time

BY: EVL5011

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. By: Marcus T. Cicero

Chapter 5: Pain

A single hand appeared, it grabbed on to the wooden step, and buried its sharp claws, with blood dripping heavily from his body. Inuyasha climbed up the stairs, he grabbed his most severe wound and forced himself to continue. He held tetsusaiga in his hand, and used it as a crutch, the wounded hanyou turned around and looked back down. He could barely see the men lying motionless on the ground. He dropped down on his knees and felt the tears running down his face.

"How could I let that sick son of a bitch take Kagome?" he shouted. Inuyasha made a tight fist and punched the floor. He stood back up and wiped the tears from his face, "I have to find her, before it's to late, but where do I even begin to look?" he thought silently. Inuyasha applied pressure on one of the many bullet wounds on his torso, and looked for another exit, there could be more officers out front. He could feel the faint vibrations on the ground, there were definitely some officers left, probably waiting for the others to respond. He had to escape, and fast, it would be a matter of minutes until they go in looking for the others.

A short distance away, in some undiscovered catacombs…Kagome focused her sight, she had blacked out. The demons strange power had severely impaired her senses. She rubbed her eyes and examined her new surroundings, still feeling dizzy. She placed her hand on the dirt wall, to keep from falling.

"Where am I?" she asked herself, "Inuyasha?" she looked around and was only able to see a few light bulbs dangling from the ceiling, which were lighting the large room. Kagome rubbed her face and saw a strange figure walking towards her.

"You're awake…" Kagome tried desperately to focus her blurred sight as the figure stopped in front of her, "…I sometimes forget that humans are so frail, they don't posses the high tolerance as I do."

"You sound familiar…" replied Kagome.

"Don't worry, the effects are temporary, you'll soon remember, but you'll wish you didn't." laughed the person.

Kagome rubbed her eyes as hard as she could and kneeled down. She felt so dizzy and confused, what just happened, she wondered. It took her a few minutes regain her senses. She stood back up, and gazed in both shock and awe. The large room was filled with countless treasures, gold coins were scattered on the ground, diamonds were piled on a small pedestal, and large bars of platinum were stacked in a corner. She had never once in her life seen so many riches, and not once was she in a room filled with so much wealth. Kagome picked up a handful of diamonds, they glimmered under the candlelight, and she placed them back where they were.

Suddenly, a large metal door emitted a loud wail, the demon entered. His face showed no emotion as he stared at her, his yellow eyes remained fixed on her. Kagome had never taken a good look at him, not even when he first made his presence known. His face was flawless, if not for his sharp teeth and eyes, one wouldn't know that he was a demon. His short brown hair was combed back. The demon had a physical build that would impress any women.

"How are you feeling?" he asked.

Kagome looked over the demon and fixed her sight on the door, "I-I'm okay" she nervously replied.

"That's good, I'm so glad that I've finally found you. You don't know how many nights your name has haunted me. It remained burned in my mind, I clinged on to my remaining sanity, but now that you're here. I can finally be free of my torment" He walked closer to Kagome and stopped when she nearly tripped. With his inhuman reflexes he grabbed her wrist and kept her from falling on the dirt floor.

"Thanks…I think" Kagome pulled her wrist away and found herself cornered against the wall. "Where's Inuyasha?" she blurted.

The demon raised his hand and rubbed his temple, "Most likely dead, I highly doubt that the pathetic boy survived." He smirked.

Kagome began thinking, trying to remember what happened, she knew it was a short while ago, but her head was still throbbing, she could remember a few things. The faint images of Inuyasha holding a bloody girl flashed in her mind, it then all came back to her. Inuyasha was left holding a dying girl, then a group of men entered. When the demon grabbed her, they both passed through the wall, she could still see Inuyasha's face as the men surrounded him.

In an outburst of rage, Kagome closed her fist and struck the demon across the face, "You bastard!" she yelled out, her anger filled her heart, because she had never reacted that way before. "You knew! How could you do that? You're nothing more than a coward!"

The demon placed his hand on his cheek, it was lightly bruised, and he grabbed Kagome by the throat and pushed her against the wall. "You bitch! I should rip your face off that pretty little head of yours" He squeezed his grip, slowly choking her. Kagome grabbed his wrist with both her hands and tried desperately to free herself. He brought his face closer to hers and grabbed both her hands and raised her into the air. The demons large hand easily held her, and he released her throat.

He groaned and looked her in the eyes, "No, I won't kill you yet…I'm going to keep you alive for a few days. After all, I have been waiting a long time. I'm going to have my way with you, then, when I tire of you…" smiled the demon. He placed his hand on Kagome breast and squeezed it gently.

Kagome whimpered as the demon did unthinkable things with his free hand, his hand wandered all over the curves of her body. She was helpless to fight him, he was stronger and faster than her, and she had no weapons to defend herself. After a few minutes, the demon grew tired of his activity and threw her at another wall. She crawled towards a corner and curled up, she felt raped, and began to cry. The demon stared at her with his cold eyes and appeared almost regretful for what he did.

He looked at her from across the room and ran his fingers madly through his hair. He began to breath deeply and paced back and forth, before finally stopping. He lowered his head, his eyes gleamed under the light, and he spoke calmly to Kagome, "Have I told you my name?"

Kagome quietly responded, "No, you haven't…" her voice trembled as the few words left her mouth.

"The man who created me…he named me Bane. He hated me so, he said that out of all his creations, I was a failure." The demons cheeks twitched, he smiled, it was almost as if he was happy to tell someone his name.

Kagome didn't know why, but she felt a great deal of sadness around Bane, "Y-You say someone created you?" she asked. "What was that persons name?"

Bane grimaced, his teeth could be heard gritting against each other as he replied, with great hatred he said, "His name was Naraku."

It suddenly became clear, the items in the room, the pot filled with that foul smelling liquid, the shard of glass, and the fan. They all pointed at Naraku, she now knew the connection, "So you're one of his reincarnations."

Sounding hesitant he said, "Yes, and since you're going to be here for a while, I see no harm it telling you how I ended up here…"

Meanwhile…Inuyasha was barely clinging to life, he was growing tired of running and leaping across buildings. He would constantly stop and make sure that no one was following him. He finally found himself behind Kagome's home. The bloody hanyou took one last leap into the air and landed near her open window. The hanyou pulled himself with his remaining strength and crawled inside her room. His body dropped on the carpeted floor and he fell into a deep sleep, his body had taken massive punishment. The doorknob to Kagome's room turned and two figures looked down at the battle torn hanyou.

AN: That concludes this chapter. I'll have the next one finished pretty soon, be patient.