Chapter 9
A demon's past and betrayal
(A/N THIS IS THE REAL CHAPTER NINE! GO BACK TO EIGHT THE FULL CHAPTER IS UP NOW. So, are you happy now? Sorry I couldn't write I had school stuff to do. Well, here you go.)
SOUNDS/sounds
Thoughts
Telepathy
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Kagome started to slowly wake up, her head ached, and her back burned. The air was cold and damp. It smelt stale and dusty. Kagome looked up from her spot on the ground into the darkness with very little light to see by. The room was cluttered with items. Items one would find in a basement. Boxes, baskets, old clothes, decorations, and so on. From her spot on the floor she could not see much. She tried to move but found her arms tied to a post.
Where am I, Kagome wondered as she looked into the dim light. I remember being followed and attacked but… I don't know how I got here.
Kagome sat there dazed and hurting for what felt like forever. She tried to get loose but could not find the strength to do so. She was tired and hurting. All she could do was wait for whoever had kidnapped her to come down the stairs that were barely visible. She waited and waited. Her stomach grumbled. She had not eaten since lunch and she did not know how long she was there or how long she was out.
It only got colder as time went on in her dark prison. She shivered slightly as the cold air settled on her tided, bare, scrapped up legs. How long was she going to be down there? Was she just going to be left down there for no reason? Time to her seem to slow down with a little bit more with each passing minute.
Finally Kagome heard some movement above her head on the floor above. She slowly watched as more light came into the dark room from an unseen door. She watched as something started down the stares it walked on fours. It was followed by two other figures, two men. She watched as the first figure came towards her. Her eyes narrowed at the thing before
"Inuyasha," she whispered, glare at the beast before her.
"How you doin', baby doll," The dog growled out from his throat. "Surprise, surprise."
Kagome gasped. She pulled herself closer to the post that held her as the dog took another step towards her shivering body. All this time Inuyasha was the demon. That explained quite few things. Inuyasha stopped right in front of her and sat down. His amber eyes stared at her unmoving.
"Awe, what's the matter," he cooed at her. "At a loss for words? No, witty comebacks for me? Doesn't matter anyway I was going to wait a little long to get what I wanted but since you saw it fit to attack me in my physical form I just decided to be done with it. You were planning on killing me if you could get the chance to do so, weren't you?"
"Go to hell," Kagome spat her voice laced with venom.
"Hm, hm, hm. You never change," he stood back up and brought his face right into Kagome's. "You have a strong will. Most would have crumbled by now. Weeping like little babies or have gone mad like a loony toon. Oh, but not you. You, baby doll, are so much stronger then anyone else on this stinking planet."
"Bastard! I hate you," Kagome yelled, spiting in his face.
Inuyasha merely rubbed it off his muzzle with his paw. Another low chucked built up his throat.
"All bark and no bite," He hummed as he brought his muzzled up to the side of her face and ran his tongue along her cold skin. "How sweet you are. I can smell and taste your fear under that tough front you're putting up."
"Damn you," Kagome yelled. "Don't you ever touch me!"
"I can hear your heart racing. It is such a wonderful sound," Inuyasha said, putting his ear to her chest.
"Why? Is it because you don't have one," Kagome snapped, twisting a bit to knock his head off her chest. "Just a black whither thing with no pity."
"Funny. You want to know a secret, baby doll," Inuyasha brought his muzzled up to her ear. "When I get what I want from you I will make you my mate.
"As if I will never be yours," Kagome shouted. "Not now, not ever!"
"Here's the thing though… You are mine already. Just not my mate," He then turned back around to the other forms standing in the dark. "You see hundreds of years ago I was not like this. I had a body like you have. Not this four-legged, fur ball thing I have now. I made the mistake of falling in love with a miko. She looked like you but did not have your personality or your warmth. She was cold and heartless. I made the mistake of coming up to her never knowing she was planning against me. You see, in my original form I was half human and half dog-demon.
"My human half yearned to be loved by another. I wanted to live like a human and not hide in the shadows because of demon blood. That day when I confronted her to tell her about how I felt about her she turned on me. She struck me with an arrow and pinned to me to a tree. By doing so she took away my strength and means of escape. She then pulled out the thing I wanted most. It was a large, round jewel. The Shikon no Tama.
"She let in hang on its chain in front of my face. Taunting me with it. I had wanted to use it to make myself human so I could be with her but instead she used it to place a curse on me. She tore my soul in two," Inuyasha nodded his head as the two forms came forward. "Kagome, I would like you to meet my human half. I'm sure you know each other."
Out of the shadows came the two forms. The first was the white haired man that had followed her but after him came the one person she did not expect. It was Hotaka. His hands were tided behind his back and his mouth was gagged as the white haired man led him out.
"But I don't understand," Kagome asked, looking back at Inuyasha. "From the way you acted about him you did not want me near him."
"I did not," Inuyasha said, turning back towards her. "My human half is capable of feelings that I have a hard time understanding. Such as love. Although we are not connected physically we still feel each other's emotions and each other's pain. You see I had no intention of falling in love with you but when my human half met you he was taken in by your warmth. I wanted you to drive him away so it would never happen. But you didn't heed my words or threats. He's love for you in turn caused me to have a wanting for you as well. Love is too strong of an emotion.
"But you know the only thing that can rival love is anger. Anger can be just a strong if not stronger at times. And that's what put you where you are now. You see when you cut my nose and paw earlier today I wanted to hurt you more than anything else. My anger in turn made Hotaka angry at you as well. We even share the same wounds. When I get hurt he gets hurt and vise versa.
"Here's something else. My human half is always born ten years before me. When I'm born I have no power I have to wait five years to get it back. That's when my other half has reached the right age of when we were dived. I was only 15 years old when I was cursed. And now that the jewel as resurfaced I can go back to being a half demon. But you see why I wanted to wait was because the jewel is inside you growing in power. The very jewel that created the curse."
"What do you mean it's inside me," Kagome asked in surprised.
"It's what it sounds like. You were unknowingly harboring the Shikon no Tama with in your body. It won't show up in an x-ray or anything like that. But it's there in your right side," Inuyasha said, walking up to her and placed a paw on her side. "I mean to remove from you. I wanted to wait so it would regain its power. I found that pain and fear made it mature faster. I was going to wait a little bit longer but after today I think I've waited long enough for it. Sesshoumaru, my brother, this is where you step in."
"So, now I come into the picture," Sesshoumaru huffed. "Very well. But you better keep your word, little brother, or I will have no choice but to brake our deal."
"Don't worry I will not brake the deal we have made," Inuyasha said, coolly. "We shall each reap from the power of the jewel. Now bring Hotaka next to me."
Sesshoumaru pulled Hotaka next to Inuyasha and made him sit down. Kagome flinched as Sesshoumaru knelt down beside her. His eyes were cold and the same color as Inuyasha's. He looked down at Kagome's side where Inuyasha had placed his paw. He lifted up Kagome's shirt and tucked up under her bra to hold it in place and out the way. Now there was only the bare skin of her pale middle.
"You're sick all of you," Kagome spat, glaring at all the men in the room.
"Quiet," Sesshoumaru said coldly as he placed his clawed hand on her side.
The area under his hand started to glow dull at first then it started to grow brighter. He pulled his hand away as it started to glow even brighter.
"There it is," Inuyasha said quietly as Hotaka turned his head down at the ground. "Sesshoumaru, now is the time take it out of her."
"I was planning to," Sesshoumaru said, looking at the glowing flesh of the girl.
Kagome squirmed on her post. The jewel in her side burned like fire. She wanted it to stop. Tears started to run out of her dark brown eyes that were closed tightly shut from the pain.
"M-make it stop," Kagome choked out as tears pour down her reddening cheeks. "It burns! STOP IT! PLEASE!"
"KOVOVE," Hotaka yelled through his gag trying to get up as Inuyasha knocked him back down on his back this time. "UFF!"
"Stay put," Inuyasha growled.
Sesshoumaru closed his hand up and reopened it once more as bolt of energy hit Kagome's side. Kagome let out a piecing scream of agony. Tears were flowing down her cheeks by now as Sesshoumaru held his hand over her middle as the energy from his hand started to draw out the stone. The pain was so intense she could barely breathe.
"AAAAAAAAGH!" Kagome screamed as the jewel started to become visible from out her flesh. "STOOOOOP IIIIIIIIIIT! UGH! AAAAAAAAGH!"
"Just a little more," Sesshoumaru deadpanned, looking down at the half revealed jewel. "It's almost out. Now stop that awful wailing of yours."
A moment later Kagome heard something hit he ground it sounded like glass. The worst of the pain had stopped but there was some great soreness that lingered on. She huffed heavily trying to regain her breath. She opened her eyes slightly as tears still ran out of them. She looked down at the ground there rested the large, round, pink jewel. It was smoking slightly as it rested on the ground.
"Give it to me," Inuyasha said, looking at Sesshoumaru. "Give it to me so I can regain my original form."
"Why should I," Sesshoumaru smirked, picking it up and looked at it. "I'm the one who drew it from her body. I think I should keep it."
"But we had a deal," Inuyasha barked. "I would have it first and make my body whole once more and then you could have it to do as you wished! Now give it to me!"
"I don't think so, little brother," Sesshoumaru said, standing up and turned to look at Inuyasha and Hotaka. "You forget that even in your original form you are merely a hanyou why I am a full blooded youkai. I will be able to use the jewel to it's full potential. Basically, Inuyasha, I used you like I've always used you to get what I want through you."
"Bastard, you lied to me," Inuyasha growled, charging at his brother with his open ready to bite down. "I'll tear you to shreds!"
"What a fool," Sesshoumaru said, run his claws along Inuyasha's chest sending his through the air. "Still as gullible as always even in your dog demon form you are still too weak."
Inuyasha let out a yelp as he landed hard up against some boxes. Hotaka let out a muffled scream as his back arched up from the pain. Sesshoumaru only smirked as he walked over to the bound Hotaka and picked him up by his ropes and looked down at the blood that seeped through his school uniform.
"Let go of him," Inuyasha choked out, struggling to stand up. "Let him go right now!"
"How that's right," Sesshoumaru said, bringing a sharp claw up to Hotaka's throat. "What binds you in pain and emotions also binds you in death. If one dies so does the other."
"Don't," Inuyasha yelled, starting to charge at his elder brother.
"Eh-eh, I wouldn't do that," Sesshoumaru cooed, drawing a little blood from Hotaka's neck. "You know your life span is short to begin with. It's lucky for your human counterpart to reach the age of 21 seeing on how larger dogs don't have long life spans to begin with."
"Damn you," Inuyasha growled, baring his fangs at his elder brother. "I trusted you! I thought—"
"You thought what," Sesshoumaru chuckled lightly. "You thought that I would finally take you in as family as my little brother? Ha, what a fool. I have no intentions of being brotherly to you. Our father favored you over me. I was the first born and I was of pure blood but then he met your human mother and had you. He favored you over me. He gave you the only thing I ever wanted from him and that was his love. I was never good enough in his eyes. He would rather couple with a human to create something like you. An abomination and favor you most of all. You'll never beloved by any one human or demon get use it!"
"Stop it," Inuyasha howled, taking a weak step forward. "Stop it right now!"
"Hit a nerve did I," Sesshoumaru smirked. "You look a little woozy there the both of you. You're loosing too much blood, aren't you, Inuyasha? Seems I struck a little too deep. Nether of you have long to live, that I am sure of. Now I will take my leave."
Sesshoumaru dropped Hotaka to the floor and calmly walked up the stairs and out door. There was an audible click as he locked it. Inuyasha growled lowly as he glared at the door. He then looked over at Kagome her face was covered by her thick black bangs. He and Hotaka may not be able to make it out of there alive but at least he could get Kagome out.
He wobbled over to her slowly trying not to make the pain any worse. He slowly walked around the post and started to bite at the rope around her wrist. Soon the binds gave way. Kagome pulled her hands in front of her to rub them as Inuyasha started to work at her foot binds and soon they give way. Kagome stood up and pulled her shirt back out of her bra.
Inuyasha then wobbled over to his human counterpart and pulled the gag out his mouth. He started to work at Hotaka's binds but his legs started to buckle and he fell to the ground with a thump. He tried to work at them a little more as he laid there but was slowly running out of energy.
"Stop i-it," Hotaka said lowly as little blood ran out the corner of his mouth. "You're o-only make it w-worse."
"You're right," Inuyasha sighed, resting his head on Hotaka stomach, coughing up some blood. "There is—a key under the—bottom third step cough. Use it to, ugh, get out of here. Go on."
Kagome just stood there looking down at the ground. She did not move or make a sound. She just stood there stiff like a statue.
"D-do as he s-says," Hotaka said, looking at Kagome's shadowed form in the dark room. "Kagome, j-just leave us. G-go back to th-the shrine. Go b-back home. Please l-leave us here a-alone."
"I won't," Kagome bitterly, looking up at them both, her eyes looked fierce but they were full of tears. "I won't leave you here!"
"You have to," Inuyasha groaned, looking up at her. "We won't live long anyways. There's no point in trying to save us now LEAVE! Besides—why would you want—to have anything to do with us? cough We tricked you, hurt you, scared you, and betrayed you. Why do want to have anything to do with us? Now just go—hack"
"NO," Kagome shouted, stomping her foot. "I have to do something!"
"Yeah. WELL LEAVE IF YOU MUST DO SOMETHING," Inuyasha growled loudly "Or I will—make you leave! cough"
Inuyasha grounded at her baring his fangs as things in the room started to move around on there own accord. Kagome took in a deep breath. She grabbed Inuyasha by the scruff of the neck and Hotaka by his ropes. She was going to pull them out there if she had to. But the two them were too heavy and she was not getting to the steps anytime soon at this rate.
"St-stop it," Hotaka shouted. "Just grab the d-damn key and g-go!"
"I won't leave you here like this," Kagome cried. "You both have to hold on!"
"Idiot," Inuyasha barked, snapping at her hand. "Just let go of us. What will it take to make you listen? Now stop it!"
"No, you stop it," Kagome yelled, glared at Inuyasha. "I never gave up trying to be your friend when I was younger. No matter how much you barked, chanced, or bit me! And I'm not going to leave any of you to die down here in this dump!"
"But you don't—have the strength—to pull us up any steps," Inuyasha huffed quietly. "So there is no point—cough—in saving us, you dolt!"
"Then I'll stay here with you," Kagome shouted as tears ran down her cheeks.
"D-don't be st-stupid," Hotaka said weakly, looking up at her. "You're t-too hard headed. I know w-we're not going t-to win so stay i-if you must."
Kagome did not say a word she only sat back down on the cold ground. She cut off the rest of Hotaka's bindings with a piece of a broken mirror. She lifted up Hotaka's head as sat it down on her lap and gave Inuyasha some old blankets to rest his head on. Hotaka was the first to nod off she looked back down over at Inuyasha he was barely awake and he was try to.
I'm sorry, he said to her mentally, looking at her through half open eyes. I just wanted to be whole again. I miss doing things that you do every day. Down to the littlest thing, like picking things up with my hands and not my mouth or being able to show emotions on my face. I miss that and every time I saw my other half being able to do those things the more I wanted to be able to do them again. I was jealous of my other side. And when saw the opportunity I took it.
I guess you a had a right to be, Kagome said, looking back at Hotaka. Not having a body that you could do more things with.
But still—ugh! Inuyasha let out a whimper. I had no—right to do that to you. Rgh… Damn this pain. I did it for my own self-interest. Never caring what happens to those around me. Ugh! I really am sorry, Kagome, but I don't except you to forgive me.
But I do forgive you, Kagome cried mentally, closing her eyes. I know you did it for your own benefit but having to live like this forever… I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Thank you—Kagome…
His voice faded away in her head. She looked over to the large white dog laying beside her. His eyes were closed fully now and she felt Hotaka's body go limp in her lap. She placed a hand over his heart and felt no pulse. She pulled him close to her and held him tight. She started to cry more heavily. It's not fair she cried in her head over and over again. Then a thought struck her.
If the Shikon thingamajig had so much power maybe she could bring them back. But that idea faded. It was in Sesshoumaru's hands, how was she going to get it? How could she? If Inuyasha could do so much to her no tell what Sesshoumaru alone could. But she had to do something.
(A/N please don't kill me. I know it took me forever to update it but it is up! So be happy. And remember to review like always!)
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