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Chapter Five

In the Castle

Artemis cut through a group of demons. She killed them rapidly. When the last one was dead, she yelled, "Who's next f-ers?" ((She's getting mad...)) She began to hack the closest one until she was covered in blood and there was nothing left of the demon. ((...and bloody...))

Miroku put his hand on her shoulder. She whipped around, her dagger placed at his neck. "I think you got them, Lady Artemis."

She begun to breathe heavily. "Yet he's still alive!" she yelled. "So get out of my way, monk!"

Kagura appeared in the hallway. "I will not allow you to pass! Dance of Blades!"

Artemis dodged and charged. "I beg to differ bitch!"

Kagura stepped to the side and caught Artemis behind her. Her fan was placed at Artemis' neck. "You are a strong one," Kagura whispered to Artemis. "I have a favor to ask. Kill Naraku for me."

"I won't let you beat me!" Artemis yelled. She twisted out of Kagura's grasp and stood a ways away from Kagura, Kagura's fan in her hand. Artemis flicked it open. "You're weaponless. Now get out of my way."

Kagura disappeared.

Flicking the fan closed again, Artemis stuck it in her obi.

"Enough with this bs, let's go." Artemis ran down the hall.

The door at the end was open.

"So you've found me." Radaus sat on a modern chair inside, Lorelei hanging on him. "You're as beautiful as ever."

Artemis gave him a death glare that held the intensity of a thousand white-hot suns.

"And you still despise me as much as ever. Come closer."

"Do you think me fool enough not to notice the aura of a fire shield?"

"I had hoped you would notice."

"Stop testing me already and come and fight!"

"I think I'll stay here. I'm quite comfortable."

Artemis made the kudai. "Kokodura!" The fire shield dissolved. "I'm going to destroy you!"

Lorelei inclined her head and a group of demons shot out of the shadows. "I'm sorry, honey, but I can't let you destroy Lord Radaus."

The demons pressed Artemis against the wall and Lorelei smiled evilly, walking over to her and placing a hand against her neck. "May I Lord Radaus?"

Radaus smirked. "Why not my dear? Have a bite or two."

Lorelei clapped happily. "Thank you Lord Radaus." Lorelei turned back to Artemis and pushed a couple of the demons away, to take her around the neck again and pulled her down. "You're going to taste delicious," Lorelei murmured against her ear.

Artemis shoved a dagger into her stomach as her fangs touched her neck. "And you're not going to taste," she murmured back, growling slightly.

Lorelei stumbled back and looked at the dagger with shock in her eyes. "You..." She ripped the dagger out angrily and threw it to the ground. "Take her other one," she commanded the demons.

Radaus stood up and walked over, hugging Lorelei to him, his arms around her shoulders. "Lorelei, my sweet, you're forgetting that she is an Honoured Fighter. She has more than just two daggers on her and that katana." He pressed his lips against her neck and then looked back up at Artemis. "If you want to do this properly, you'll have to strip her."

Lorelei twisted around in his grasp and raised her hands between them, leaning them on his chest. "Lord Radaus, you are a mastermind." She took a hungry kiss from him and then turned to Artemis again. "You heard him demons, take it all off."

The demons grinned evilly and raised their hand to rip off her clothing.

"You bastards!" Artemis yelled and started kicking. "Let go of me! If you think for one second that I'm just gonna let you do this-"

She stopped as Radaus had her chin in a hand and had his own lips pressed up against hers. He broke the kiss shortly and smiled with charm at her. "I am going to enjoy having you around. I can't wait to see how you perform."

Artemis slammed her heel into his crotch. "Don't you dare touch me!" she hissed.

Radaus quickly recovered and put his hands on her arms, throwing her to the ground. "No one is going to help you," he said, holding her on the ground. "Your friends are busy fighting with demons, and Tomoko is a well away." His hand grasped around the Fire Stone and pulled it off, breaking the chord. "Alejandra isn't going to save you either."

Artemis knew that he had her there. She couldn't get any of her weapons, and no one was there to save her. No one at all. Radaus was also stronger than she was physically. Although she could of used her magic, she was helpless without the Fire Stone. She couldn't do anything at all. Rage built up in her and she glared at him.

"Ah, if only looks could kill, those would surely kill anyone, my precious sweet." He stole another kiss from her, much to her disgust. "But I'm afraid that they can't. Now let's see what the princess of Kundura has for me." He pulled down one side of her kimono to see she had her chest wrapped with bleached cloth. "Like I had thought..."

"Get off of me! You weigh a ton!" Artemis yelled, trying to wiggle out.

Radaus merely laughed and held her down harder. "You know that I'm stronger than you are, little princess."

Artemis looked past him to see that Lorelei didn't look so happy at the attention that Artemis was getting. It clicked in her head. Lorelei was in love with Radaus. She wondered briefly where he had gotten her. His latest toy. She would be gone in a while once Radaus found a new one. Something told her that Artemis was to be his latest. She would not let that happen.

She screamed as his cold hand touched the clothes, trying to find a way past them. Was he so stupid to not remember how the clothes on Honoured Fighters were wrapped? She kicked him in the stomach with a glare on his face. "You bastard! Your hands are freezing!"

He glared back at her. "You will regret that."

Something threw him off of Artemis and she watched as he crashed through a lot of paper walls before falling to the ground with a satisfying crash. She looked back at her savoir and saw Sessho-maru leaning over her.

She blinked. "Lord Sesshy-sama."

Lorelei glared at the duo and then ran after Radaus. The demons were strewn about, Sessho-maru having already killed them.

Artemis sat up. "Lord Sesshy-sama, when did you arrive?" she asked.

He looked at her kimono falling on the left side and she blinked at it and pulled it up quickly.

"Sorry 'bout that," she said, pulling her eri closer together.

Sessho-maru knelt down next to something and picked it up. He turned back to Artemis and opened his fist, showing her the Fire Stone in his hand. "Princess?"

Artemis glanced at his face to see he was waiting for an answer. She took the stone from him gently and tied the cord around her neck again, the clasp having broke off. She sighed. "How long were you here?"

He didn't answer, but looked at her expectantly.

She stared back at him, not really wanting to tell him everything she had been trying to keep away from everybody, all her friends here.

"Did he hurt you?" he finally said.

"Nothing more than a bruised back," she said. Her arms were starting to bruise where he had grabbed them as well. She knew they were going to turn a sickly purple-blue. Sessho-maru noticed her glancing at her arms.

He slid a sleeve up so that they both saw that it was already turning blue. "Who was that?" he asked plainly.

"That... That was Radaus. The man I am sworn to kill," Artemis said with hard eyes.

Sessho-maru let go of her sleeve and stood up. Artemis stood up too and gathered her daggers. As she turned back to him, he caught her chin. She blinked.

"Lord Sesshy?"

"Your lips are swelling," he told her.

She shook her head gently. "It's nothing more than bruises and swellings. I'm not hurt that bad." She touched her lips to find that they were indeed somewhat sore. She hadn't noticed until then that they were. Now that she thought about it, she felt sore in a lot of other places.

Sessho-maru took his hand off of her chin and his eyes narrowed, looking down at where her kimono was still not completely covering her wrappings. He pulled the eri away and his eyes narrowed more.

Artemis blushed a little. Unlike Radaus, his hand were quite warm, thank you! She looked down at what he was looking at to see a large bruise, bigger than the other ones. She gasped. "How did that happen? All he did was touch me!" It was already turning black and a sharp pain started going through her. "Ow," she gasped, holding her chest.

"Artemis," Sessho-maru said.

His voice was fading though, and now all she could see was his mouth moving. A blackness started gathering at the corners of her vision and she watched as Sessho-maru's face faded from her vision as it started looking toward the ground.

Sessho-maru grabbed her with his arm. What a wonderful time to only have one arm.

The rest of the Inu-yasha group ran in behind them at that time to see Sessho-maru with Artemis in his arm, leaning her against his chest.

"What the hell did you do to her?" Inu-yasha yelled.

"She fainted," he said.

Kagome ran up to Artemis. "What are with all these bruises?"

Shippo crouched by the broken paper screens. "What happened to the walls?"

Sango looked at Artemis. "What's with her necklace? It's glowing."

Miroku had no comment to add as he was staring at the eri that was showing more than enough of her wrappings.

Inu-yasha glared at him. "What the hell'd you do to her?" he repeated.

A fuzzy sound came from Artemis' obi and everyone looked at it. Kagome cautiously took out the earphone that Artemis had in there and put it on her ear.

"Hello?" she said.

"Artemis?" a voice said. The connection was still pretty fuzzy and she could barely make out the word.

"No. I'm Kagome."

"Where's Artemis?"

"She's...uh...fainted..."

"Suheute. This is Tomoko. Take her through the well please."

Kagome looked up. "Um...I don't think that's possible," she said, knowing how possessive Sessho-maru would probably be about her now.

"IT'S SO I CAN HEAL HER!"

Kagome winced as it tore through her eardrum. She looked up at Sessho-maru. "We...need to take her to my time."

Sessho-maru looked at her with no emotion. Then he looked down at the sleeping girl in his arms...er...arm... There was a dull throbbing in his other arm though, and he couldn't understand that.

He straighten her up and Kagome took her, feeling how light she was.

Inu-yasha took the earphone and held it up to his own. "Yo. What do you want with Artemis?"

"I'm her friend you konoida."

He didn't know the language, but from years of experience, he knew when people were calling him an idiot. He growled lightly. "Well what the hell do you want with her? How the hell do I know you're not that stupid Radooaus guy?"
There was a irritated sigh on the other end, made weird by the static, but finally he said, "If I was Radaus, I'd be hurt, because this stupid phone has been on since the battle started, something Artemis and I have done since this whole fiasco started, so I know that she was fighting Radaus, and I know something, someone she called 'Lord Sesshy-sama', saved her. If Radaus is the coward I know, then he would of already left because he was wounded. Now let me see her!"

"How come she's never mentioned a Tomoko before?"

"BECAUSE A COUPLE OF IDIOT BANSUTE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW HER SUHEUTE PAST!"

"Wow," Kagome commented. "He's very angry."

"More annoyed than angry," came Tomoko's reply.

"Well, should we take her to him?" Kagome asked.

Inu-yasha growled and then feh'd. "Nothing more we can."

Kagome sighed. "Well, here we go."

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candysweet: Hi ya'll! There was a lot of Kundurain in this chapter, and mostly cuss words...

pokepoo: That's because you're a konoida yourself.

candysweet::glares at him: ANYWOO! Konoida means idiot, imbecile, basically the equivalent of baka. Suheute means damn. Bansute means bitch. Like in Japanese, there are no plural nouns! Because that'd be hard...

pokepoo: Basically, she made this language up herself and doesn't know anything about it but konoida and doka.

candysweet::hugs pokepoo to her: popo-kun, you're my doka!

pokepoo::pushes her off: PLEASE tell me you were kidding! ((Although I bet he wishes she wasn't::pokepoo smacks her upside the head:))

candysweet: Duh! I promise dobby-chan she'd always be my doka! You're my doka-konoida!

pokepoo: Oh that so much better::crosses arms:

candysweet::shrugs: I still love ya popo-kun!

pokepoo: \/# Stop calling me that::tackles her: