Disclaimer: this story is based on the Silver wolf by Alice Borchardt, so it isn't mine neither are the Inu yasha characters. So don't go suing me there is nothing here to get anyway.;))
Ps: long time no see.
(()) scene change
:::: time change
"" speak
'' thought
SILVER WOLF
BY PANTHERA1984
CHAPTER 6
Kagome could feel dawn approaching on swift wings, ready to wash over her and return her human form. If this was to happen she would be a young woman naked in the streets of Rome there would be nothing she could do to stop her being raped and quite possible killed.
With that in the back of her mind Kagome ran her paws outstretching eating up the miles between her self and her uncle's apartment it was the closest shelter. She felt that she didn't have a choice but to go there, it was either Naraku or death. She wasn't ready for death, not yet anyway.
Running through the streets not taking in the feeling of cold wet cobble stones under her paws Kagome ran like the devil was on her tail. It was just when the first lights of dawn began to break through that she reached the apartment. Exhausted she leaped up the stairs making it inside just in time.
Coming inside she saw Naraku and Onigumo sitting at the table consuming breakfast. Onigumo looked death terrified and finally fainted at the sight of Kagome the wolf, But the one that mattered Naraku was smiling.
His smile sending shivers down her spine not to be confused with the shivers that were now traveling over her once again human body. Seeing his niece in her most weakened state Naraku's smile grew al the more devilish, he had her right where he wanted her to be. Kagome was utterly trapped.
::::: Kagome woke slowly trying to keep from moving her battered and bruised body to much. She had never seen the first blow coming and she wasn't able to avoid the second or the third and fourth. Naraku had spent a great deal of the morning beating her into a bloody pulp.
Her screams and shouting had awoken the owner of the house and when he had complained Naraku had just given him some gold and the owner had gone on his way again, leaving Kagome with his inhuman sadistic nature that was Naraku.
After a while her voice had broken and she wasn't even able to scream anymore all that came out were silent tears of pain and humiliation she was sure she would be dead before noon. That was where he had surprised her.
Just as suddenly the beatings had begun he stopped. Giving her one last kick in the ribs and spitting on her bloodied form before walking back to the richly covered table. Naraku had started talking and all Kagome could do was open her pupils in horror as he told her his plans for her.
She was to be stomped to this state everyday so she wouldn't have the fight or energy left to run away. After her beating he would also chain her in her room. She would stay like this until her fiancée had come to town and married her. The she would be god and obedient and help her Uncle and poor nephew to come back to her husbands place. If she didn't comply he would expose her secret.
Once in her husbands place she would discover where he kept his wealth, then she would tell this to Naraku and help them steal it. If she didn't comply he would tell everyone about her secret.
Again and again he used what she was against her. If she didn't do this or that, comply or be obedient he would give her out and in the worst possible way she was sure.
Looking around her Kagome felt like she had lost the battle already her she was chained to a wall with no farther reach than a few meters. Her own bodily waste penetrated the air and almost made her throw up, only the thought at the stank that would come with it gave her the will to swallow the bile back down.
The cuffs around her wrists and neck irritated her skin and already she could feel and see blood welling up from the broken and abused skin. It would be a long while before night would come and with that the wolf to take away her injuries but until then she would have to suffer them like any normal human would.
Huddling down as far away from her own waste Kagome tried to ignore the pain and to forget about her uncle. In her mind the wolf appeared a silvery white apparition that promised a way out of pain out of the live she was leading.
Kagome and the wolf stood facing each other, looking each the in the eye. The wolf turned and walked away to a forest that appeared out of nowhere. Kagome followed knowing that she entered old memories of the wolf, memories of long ago when they were still free to roam where they wanted.
In her half lucid state she didn't here the steer of voices in the main room. She didn't even notice when the door to her room was forcefully opened. She didn't see Kikyo coming in or hear her gasp at the sight that was Kagome. She didn't pay attention to the orders Kikyo ushered to get warm water clean cloths and food.
The thing that brought Kagome back to was a soft cloth gently dept over her face, Blinking Kagome left the warm bitter sweet memory for the real world scared for what she would find there. Her relieve couldn't have been bigger when she saw Kikyo drenching a cloth in a bowel of warm water attempting to clean her up.
When she tried to speak Kikyo paced a finger on her lips and shook her head. Kagome just closed her eyes and let the older woman do her work in taking away the worst stains. It wasn't until she helped Kagome up and sit down on the bed that she started talking. (The chains had been taken car of by one of the guards that always surrounded Kikyo; she had stood over Kagome all the while to make sure he couldn't see her.)
"Where did you go last night Kagome one moment you're right there the next chaos irrupts and later my servants tell me all they could find was the cloths you wore that night." Kikyo's voice sounded like that of an old woman.
Kagome started to open her mouth but Kikyo placed her finger against her lips again. "No I don't want you to answer me, not unless you will tell me the truth and I feel you can't, not just now anyway." There was a momentarily hurt in her eyes but Kagome chose to look away feeling ashamed.
How would she ever be able to tell what she was even she didn't know and the wolf didn't know are cared. How was so to explain this and more important how long would she have to live after she told.
Just then the old woman that cleaned the apartments walked in carrying soft silk bundles into the room laying them on the bed next to Kagome before rushing out again, talking in her roman gutter language that Kagome could fully grasp. Kikyo didn't seem to have that problem.
The older woman laughed and watched the old bird disappear before turning o Kagome again. "she says that it was time you were dressed to your station. And right she is. Now Kagome put on those cloths and prepare to leave we're going back to my villa again and I'll have a long talk with Sesshô maru. It is time for him to know of what and how your uncle is."
Not paying the fullest of attention Kagome slit on the canary yellow undergarment and then the grass green top tunic. Finishing with the last few ties she rose from the bed and she and Kikyo left the room, Kagome especially glad to be out of the place that made her feel so ashamed and dirty.
Kikyo ushered her into a waiting carriage handing her a plate of food once both of them were seated. "Here eat this, you'll need it for I don't think that uncle of your thought even one second about feeding you didn't he?"
Kagome who just bit down a huge chunk of bread nodded while working hard on getting rid of the piece so she would be able to speak again. "Thank you Kikyo but if I may ask, how did you find me?" it was one thing that she had wondered about since she had started to feel more human again.
Kikyo arched a thinly plucked brow in an arrogant manner, one that showed her like an aristocratic woman despite her profession. "It wasn't hard really all I asked myself was where would you go if al means run out and voila here I was." She pointed in the direction the now fastly disappearing apartment was in.
Kagome satisfied with her answer took her attention of Kikyo and back to the food again. In the semi dark carriage and with fresh food she could feel her other self regenerate the worsted wounds. The others would have to wait until tonight and thinking of that her thought brought her back to Inu yasha she would have to help him.
It was a bumpy right back to Kikyo's village and once they got there servant swooped down on Kagome carting her of to a bedroom she hadn't seen before and undressing her. The strong smell of disinfectants penetrated her nose and Kagome winced when she fell cotton drenched in it brush softly over her skin.
No matter how soft it still stung like hell and just to forget about it Kagome accepted a glass of wine and drank it down in one long motion. It was a few seconds later that she started to feel dizzy and sleeping.
Her sight turned fuzzy and the room seemed to be spinning her senses were leaving her and the last thing she noticed was Kikyo coming into the room raising an arm and saying something. She didn't hear it though it seemed that someone had cut of her ability to her. This should have panicked her but instead she just felt so very tired, so very tired and Kagome gave in.
::::: this time Kagome did awake from voices, angry arguing voices. Something inside her told her not to sit up just yet but to listen.
"So you're saying she is just fine." Kikyo's voice asked icily. "How can she be just fine when just hours ago she had no skin left on her back explain that to me doctor!" this was said with triumph.
Kagome's senses were now all working and it must have been evening for the wolf was close making all her senses sharper. She could smell the man Kikyo had called doctor stand near the door of the bedroom she had awoken in and he was uncomfortable under Kikyo assault.
"I cannot say what has caused this but the girl is just in prime condition, nothing wrong with her at all. Lady." He respectfully answered her meanwhile inching for the door ready to break out in a run to get away from Kikyo.
Kikyo sniffed. "You just go you're no help at all." And with that she shoved him out the door closing it hard behind his back almost catching his fingers between the frame and the door itself. She turned to Kagome and walked to stand beside the bed.
"You can stop pretending now, I know you're awake. You have a lot to explain and your healing abilities are the least of them." Kikyo sat down on the bed while Kagome rose to sit pulling the blankets up with her.
Kikyo shot her a weary glance before looking past her again and for a second Kagome was afraid she knew. Pushing the thought away she paid sharp attention to Kikyo readying her self to flea at the first sing of condemnation.
"You know you talk allot when you're drugged, one thing in particular caught my attention. You know where Inu yasha is. You talked of how you got him away but you wouldn't reveal where or how." She looked back at Kagome who felt relief flood her.
"Is this true?" the older woman asked and when Kagome confirmed it seemed like Kikyo gained a thousand years. Never before had she looked this old. It was saddening Kagome thought but she kept from showing any sign of feeling sorry for Kikyo the older woman wouldn't want that can't of attention, not in this state anyway.
"There is something you need to do for me... she began and Kagome could feel all the hairs on her body raise. "You know Inu yasha is sick and you know as I know he will die sooner or later. But now there has been a riot stirring."
Kikyo rose from the bed and started passing her face thoughtful while she tried to voice her request as careful as possible. "Bassilius the one who's responsible wants his own man on the seat of the pope and Inu yasha is his means of getting it. If he can prove Sesshô maru's little brother is contagious Sesshô maru will be set aside and we all will end up in a war. Therefore we must make it impossible for him to use Inu yasha."
Kikyo turned to face Kagome her whole stature telling Kagome she was dead serious about this. "We cannot let anything happen to the frail peace that is here now. If Bassilius is to win thousand of innocents will die." She reached inside a pocket and produced a glace vial. "I want you to bring this to Inu yasha; he will know what to do." Kikyo handed Kagome the small glace flask.
It was a beautiful piece made from a rare kind of bleu with a deep purple gleam in it like fire banked in ice. The moment Kagome touched the glace she knew what it held. Kagome looked up into Kikyo's face her own barred of any kind of emotion. "You want me to bring him poison." Kagome couldn't help that her voice sounded assaulted.
Kikyo's smooth face hardened until the surface seemed to be made of marble rather than real human flesh. "It must be done, there is now other way. I love Inu yasha dearly but I will not let him get between what Sesshô maru and I have worked on so long to achieve." She broke down when Rin stormed into the room a wide smile on her face and her eyes blazing with inner passion."
It was in that moment that Kagome understood most of it. "This isn't just about the popes throne is it Kikyo. Tell me when Inu yasha is revealed will al of his blood die with him. Like Rin Sesshô maru's daughter." Kagome slipped from the bed and went to the chair where her cloths had been laid out the glass bottle still in her fist. "I didn't notice it before but she has some of his looks. Her eyes for instance that is all Sesshô maru with one difference they have your color. There are more things but these are the most notable."
Kikyo picked Rin up securing the little girl firmly against her chest and for the first time Kagome felt she was looking at the real Kikyo. "Just bring him that vial that is all I ask. Please?" she was a millimeter away from begging.
Kagome raised the deadly bottle and eyed it for a few seconds, then she dropped it, watching it fall to pieces with some morbid fascination, Kikyo gasped. "You stupid girl... but before she could continue Kagome cut her of.
"You have my word that I will do anything in my power to help you I'll be back by morning." With that promise Kagome walked outside naked letting the shadows swallow her from until she was certain Kikyo couldn't see her anymore also glad the woman didn't came after her.
When she felt she was far enough she let the change swoop over her and where had stood a human girl now a huge silver wolf walked on. Supply jumping over the wall protecting Kikyo's villa. She would need to journey swiftly her wolf side telling her she needed to hurry and find Inu yasha a saver place to stay and then, then she would search for a way to cure him.
::::A/n: well yet another chapter finished, hope it was enjoyed and until next time. And don't forget to leave me a review. ;)
response to reviewers:
Silverkitsunekagome: no problem and I always finish what I start even if it may take me a while, so no worries about me continuing the story. :D
Lyn: I sure will keep on writing.
Witchyinuyashagirl1: well the hunt was explained a bit in this chapter and the ghost was just filler and there are no demons in this story just humans and werewolf's. I hope this mate it all a bit clearer.
Dayonna: Thank you so much for the compliment and I would love to update more often but I have lots of things that ask my attention and with that my time. I'll do my best do.
TwiLiteVixen: by all means you may do anything you like to Naraku; he really is bad news in this story.
Ahanchan: well here it was and I hope you enjoyed it.
Voice: I'm speechless that you are keeping track of my other stories as well. And you don't need to ask me if you can read the book silly. Just enjoy it. Btw isn't internet the best; getting books and stuff.
Demoness of cosmos: well there you go and I hope it was enjoyed, until next time.
KougaLuvR15: I most surely will and thank you for your lovely review I enjoyed it very much.
