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Snapdragon: (mumbles more) Idon'townit

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Snapdragon: FINE! I DON'T OWN IT! I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM INUYASHA! Even though I want to... But I DO own this story and any characters who AREN'T in Inuyasha...INCLUDING KIRA! YOU CAN'T HAVE HER! Unless you ask me first and I'm allowed to read the story you put her in. smiles sweetly ignore my wild outbursts, they're a common occurrence. (sweatdrop)

A/N: ok ppls...you have to be nice when reviewing, this is my first fanfic...ok maybe not my first, but my first posted fanfic. I'm not sure I'm going to post the other 1 yet, but if I get good reviews from this 1, I might seriously consider it. Have a nice read!

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Kira's knees throbbed dully as she kneeled in the quiet spaces of the room. She watched as angry black droplets of blood oozed from her wounds, stained her skin and collected in a puddle under her legs. She refused to allow herself to cry. Showing weakness would get her no where but deeper into the hellhole she now lived in.

She understood the way what she now called 'the dungeon' worked. The one who had told her to call him 'master' had made sure of that. Kira refused to say anything of the sort and instead called him 'Danshka', the word for underdog, or lowest breed, in the ancient language of her family. She had only ever called him that once out loud before. Though he knew he had no way of knowing what it meant, he had still figured it was an insult and had her properly punished for it.

When she misbehaved, she was sent to a dark room she called 'the void'. There was no light in this room, silence was required, and if you went against this rule, someone was sent in to 'take care of you'. In the darkness of the void, anything could happen, and no one seemed to care what occurred in that room unless someone didn't come out alive.

That was another rule in the dungeon, punishments were allowed to go on for any amount of time, at any degree of pain or humiliation so long as the offender survived. Kira had been lucky the first time she went in there. She had shouted so many obscenities through the door leading into the void, that Danshka had permitted Jex in to give her 'what she deserved'.

The void was a fairly good-sized room, but when you realize how very dark 'pitch black' is, it seems more like the size of an extremely small cell.

Trying to avoid the blows of your 'teacher' could put you in more harm than the blows themselves, Kira had learned that very quickly. She had made it from that first taste of life in the dungeon with only flesh wounds, escaping without any broken bones or internal bleeding. She later learned from Danshka that Jex was well known to take advantage of the captives in the void, telling his laughing companions it was part of their punishment.

Danshka had also told her, during his last visit to her room, that he was her favorite of his prizes and that she was to become his once she graduated. Kira remained silent when he told her this and simply glared at him and spat in his face.

After another visit to the void, he mentioned briefly that was the reason she was his favorite, her angry spirit, in his words, intrigued him and he said he would allow her to graduate earlier than the others so she might be able to retain some of that anger. Kira had ignored him all through his second visit, and the only movement she had made in his presence was to wipe the blood from her nose. She had lived in the dungeon for almost a month and hadn't spoken a word since her first trip to the void.

She had gotten used to the endless routine of this new life and went over it in her head as she kneeled stiffly on her floor. Rest was permitted for five hours a night, after that a guard visited each room in turn to take the captives to the restroom. When she was returned to her chamber, a bowl of a sort of pasty oatmeal and a small glass of milk could be found. The milk was always foul tasting and chalky from the vitamins that were added to keep from malnutrition, and the guard was made to watch you to make sure you finished all of it or to force you if you didn't. Once you finished your 'breakfast' the dishes were taken away and the waiting began. During this time, Kira sat silently in her room, kneeling on the floor and thought. Sleeping wasn't permitted during this time, so she had nothing else to do in the bare stone room.

Kira thought about what might be happening outside the enchanted walls of Danshka's hellhole. Kira knew from her forced conversations with him, that there were two other girls in his captivity.

One was a 297-year-old rabbit youkai who had only been in the dungeon for two and a half weeks before losing her mind. Kira had calculated in her mind and found that the rabbit youkai was nearly twenty in human years, and from her knowledge of usual life lengths, she had barely begun to live.

The other captive was a gazelle youkai who hadn't even reached her 120th birthday, making her younger than eight in human years. Danshka said he was keeping her for his studies. He hadn't told her any more than that.

Kira had heard the little girl's screams for her mother at night, even through her soundproof walls, and Danshka had her removed from the dungeon shortly after she started. Kira doubted the little gazelle was still alive.

Kira herself was a dog youkai, Doberman to be exact. She had already reached her 267th birthday, so she was a little over 17 in human years. Danshka had noted she was in her 'prime' years when compared to human lifetimes, and he wanted to see what made these particular years so great compared to all the rest. That being the reason he had captured her specifically.

Kira smirked at the low ranking Danshka was positioned at in the youkai food chain. He was a half-breed lion youkai, and not a very strong one at that. His human limitations made his youkai strength look like a joke, and though she hated to think she had been captured by a cat, Kira saw his attack on her as cheating.

To catch Kira for his 'studies', Danshka had injected her freshly killed meal with sleeping herbs while she went to get a drink from a nearby river. When she finished eating she had passed out, and that's when he stole her.

During this whole time, Kira had been in her demon form and when she came to, she found a sort of spiked collar around her neck that kept her in her humanoid form and prevented her from reverting to her youkai form.

Kira growled lightly at the thought of all that Danshka had put her through and dug her claws into the flesh of her thighs angrily.

Though Kira was in her forced human form, she still maintained some canine features such as her claws and the sharp fangs in her mouth. In addition to these features, she also had pointed elf-like ears, a long, thin, black tail, two curved black stripes along the top of each eyebrow and on each of her shoulders as well as purple eyelids that covered eyes of the same color, but with specks of gold and black. Similar to that of her canine form, Kira was remarkably slender in build and had long limbs.

She had thought continuously in the waiting time after breakfast that maybe her appearance was what had caught the attention of Danshka, causing him to feel the need to keep her as his whether she agreed or not. But every time she even considered this, she felt sick in the stomach and tried to think about something else.

Kira tortured her mind into staying angry while fighting the need for sleep during the long waiting time. Anger helped Kira keep her sanity in the empty room while at the same time, entertain her with thoughts of different ways to kill Danshka. When the guard came bringing her lunch some hours later, Kira could usually be found smiling evilly from her thoughts of Danshka's downfall.

Lunch usually switched between some very bitter bean soup to a type of meat that Kira couldn't identify. Both were disgusting to the taste, but if you didn't eat it by choice, you would eat it by force. After lunch was finished, the guard would escort you to a type of indoor garden that had no roof. A scratchy blanket lay in one corner of the lawn for sitting on the grass, but other than that, there was nothing to do but lay in the sun. And lying in the sun was exactly what Danshka wanted you to do.

At least fifteen minutes of sunlight a day is necessary when you're trying to hold a creature captive, otherwise lack of the natural warmth and vitamins could deprive something to the whatever of the thingy. Or at least that's what Danshka had told her. Needless to say, Kira didn't really care about anything Danshka told her and rarely listened to anything coming from his mouth. She kept her mind fixed on keeping her mouth shut and avoiding another visit to the void.

Napping was allowed during outside time, so Kira would usually curl up in a sunny patch of grass for twenty minutes before the guard kicked her roughly to wake her up. Both her nap and the sunlight gave Kira new energy, making her feel like she could run on and on for hours without getting tired. But of course, she couldn't act on these feelings without Danshka thinking it was a grand idea to run her until she passed out so she could 'build her strength'. So Kira kept quiet and sedated as she followed her guard through the hallways and down the stairs to her dark, empty, little room. Her jail cell, where she would sit for the next two hours to wait for Danshka to show up and attempt to make a forced conversation with her for what seemed like an eternity.

Though he usually meant to stay with her until night fell, Kira's inability to cooperate with him in his boring dialog had Danshka out after an hour at the most. Once master left, the guard would appear once again at your side to take you to another room, which acted as a sort of bathing area. Hot water could be requested for your shower, but Kira always wanted it cold. The frigid temperatures she asked for the water to be at made all of the guards' wonder if she still had her sanity, but they allowed it just the same.

Kira never took too long when bathing, as she didn't have much hair to wash anyway. In her human form, Kira had short black hair that, no matter what was done to it, always stayed in the same unruly spiked style.

After cleaning herself, Kira was allowed ten minutes to roam master's estate, as long as she remained inside the stone walls surrounding the building and she didn't draw any attention to herself, no one bothered themselves by her presence. Kira would have enjoyed her time out, if the guard hadn't been designated to follow her wherever she went, making exploring the grounds almost like a punishment.

All too soon, you were escorted back to your cell to wait another few hours for a dinner of more unidentifiable meat and some water before you were allowed to sleep for five hours in preparation for starting the whole routine over again.

Right now Kira was waiting for her dinner to arrive so she could eat and go to bed, if you could call the cold stone floor a bed.

She cracked her knuckles absentmindedly as she imagined what it would be like to be free again. It had only been a few weeks since her capture, but her visions of the forest she used to live in and the taste of freedom were quickly dwindling, being overtaken by the darkness that surrounded her now. Kira sighed lightly and stood up, stretching her aching legs.

Leaning against a wall with her arms crossed over her chest, she could see how that rabbit youkai had gone insane so quickly. The statement 'bored out of your mind' summed it up pretty well. Kira sighed again and brought a clawed hand through her spiky hair.

In an attempt to busy herself, she tried to picture Danshka without his head. This image alone brought a smile to her face, but as she pictured his decapitated self scrambling around and crawling on the floor in search of his missing head while Kira held it out of reach, she couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Outside her locked door, Kira's designated guard heard her laughter and wondered if she had finally cracked. The guard had taken a liking to the dog demon and pondered if he had overestimated her mental strength. As he mulled over this thought, he failed to notice all had gone quiet in the cell he guarded.

Kira stood stock still in the center of her room, eyes wide in something close to fright, and listened with all her might to what was going on in the house overhead. With her demonic sense of hearing she thought she had heard a muffled scream followed by something heavy falling.

With how quiet Danshka usually kept his household, Kira knew something was happening and found her nerves sending jolts of slight panic through her body.

Something was terribly wrong in master's estate and she didn't want to stick around to find out what it was.

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And there's the first chapter! Yes, I know, I know, there's no Inuyasha character's in it yet...but they're coming I promise! Don't kill me! If I get enough reviews from all you readers out there, I'll post the second chapter. It's already written and waiting for you to ask for it. If you have any questions or suggestions about the story feel free to ask! I'm willing to listen! And yes, I'm a girl, someone asked me that and I don't want any confusion...even though my pen name is Snapdragon…You can't use that against me!

Snapdragon: (Glances over shoulder and sighs) I'm busy writing to my beloved fans...can't this wait?

Kira: (Standing over snapdragon, reading 1st chappie over shoulder) no, this can't wait. I need to find out when I ki-

(Snapdragon slaps hand over Kira's mouth to shut her up)

Snapdragon: (Sweatdrop) Hehe, weeeell we can move on now (Kira struggle to free her mouth to talk)

Kira: mmmfpafftshmmftehmm!

Snapdragon: Hush! You'll ruin it! Anyway...sorry 'bout the cliffy! But you have to give me reviews to read more! If I get enough I'll post it by the 10th! Luv to my readers!

Kira: (Mouth still covered) lLumf tfoo dna reedners! Reefeww!