Sesshomaru's POV
It has now been a week since Kagura has left the castle. I have been pondering in the garden ever since she left.
I left Rin with Jaken and they went to a human village so Rin could buy a new doll. They have been gone for about an hour already. I wonder what's taking so long.
I stayed strolling through the garden. That's when I heard the sound of a little girl
"Hurry up, Jaken!" Rin giggled while making the little toad follow her. I sometimes felt bad for leaving Jaken alone with Rin. She seems to try and get on his nerves. And she's good at it.
" Rin! I can't…keep…up…with…you! Rin!" Jaken yelled out of breath. Rin ran up to me and presented a doll.
" Look Sesshomaru-sama. I bought a doll. Isn't she pretty?" She stroked the doll's hair. I don't know why human girls want stuff like that but she was happy and that's all that mattered. " I also have a new friend. He's a demon." My face frowned at that last remark. It would be dangerous to have a demon for a friend especially since she was human.
" Where is he, Rin?" I asked stoically. The little girl pointed to the bushes.
At first I thought that she imagined a friend before, she shouted towards the bushes " Tanuki! You can come out now!" I looked to the bushes and saw a little squirrel demon come out of the bushes.
" Hello, Sesshomaru-sama. I am Tanuki of the squirrel demon tribe." He slowly said and then he bowed. I took it that Rin had explained who I was to him. He can't be that bad. I mean he has good manners at least.
Rin spoke again, " May Tanuki stay wit us for dinner, Sesshomaru-sama?" I nodded. As long as Rin was not with the demon alone, it was all right for him to stay for a while.
I led them into the castle as soon as Jaken caught up.
Kagura's POV
I sat in the corner of my dark, cold room. I grabbed a piece of paper and pen and began to write:
FreedomFreedom is something that I have never been able to find.
A life with love and caring for me is something I must leave behind.
Al I want is to fly away,
And live my life freely every single day.
If freedom is so important to me, I once heard someone say,
Then why don't I kill the one holding me back and end his evil way.
The answer is simple really, yet no one can understand,
I am weak and unable to take a stand.
That is why I need you to destroy the one holding me,
And set me free and become my star.
For only through freedom,
Can we show who we truly are.
Writing had become a hobby since I was usually locked up in my room anyways. Poetry had become a favorite.
I heard the door unlock and quickly hid the paper I wrote on in my closet. Naraku stepped in my room with that sinister look upon his face and said, " Hello, my dear."
" Naraku, what do you want?" I snapped at him. He came closer to me and I flinched. My eyes showed fear and that apparently made him happy.
" I have a job for you," He said. I stood quiet and he continued." The job I have for you does not require much. I just want you to follow me. Do you think you can handle that?"
He walked to the door. He made me so angry, but the day he dies I will have the last laugh. But for now, I must learn to accept my fate as a puppet and so I followed him.
We walked to the basement floor in the dungeon. He led me to a door where all the most fearful experiences happened, the torture chamber.
My eyes widened, in a state of shock. " N-Naraku, why are we here?" I slowly tried to back away. Naraku, unfortunately, caught me and grabbed my arm and pulled me through the door. He threw me against the wall and chained me with my back facing him. I looked behind me and saw Naraku come up behind me with one of the newly sharpened knives. I screamed, " Naraku, please! Stop! Please don't do this to me!" Before I knew it I had tears dropping down my face. Naraku just smiled and slightly tore my kimono.
He whispered, " I'm going to teach you a lesson, the hard way." Then he tore the top part of my kimono off completely. I felt him put the cold knife to my skin. I began gasping for air. He finally slid the knife down my back and once I lost a lot of blood, I blacked out.
Sesshomaru's POV
We all sat around the table and waited for Jaken to come with our food. Tanuki and Rin talked about sports and what they liked to do in their spare time. It seemed so friendly and innocent, but for some reason I felt that something wasn't right. The squirrel demon seemed to have something strange about him, like if he was up to something. Maybe it was just me or maybe the heat was getting to my head. At that point I decided to go for a walk. " Sesshomaru-sama, where are you going?" Rin asked.
" I'm going for a walk. I'll be back soon." I answered and walked outside.
After walking for about five minutes, I began to pick up the scent of blood. It smelled familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I decided to walk to the area where it was coming from.
My curiosity led me to a lake with a woman's body lying in it. She was covered in blood and the top of her kimono completely off. I walked over to the lake and stepped in to see if she was still alive. To my surprise, when I flipped the woman's body over, it was Kagura.
I pulled her body out of the water and flipped her back onto her stomach. I saw the blood drip from new wounds on her back. Fresh blood. Naraku must have just done this to her. Probably to torture her.
I tore a piece of my sleeve of and soaked it in the lake. Then I wiped her back and cleared as much blood of as I could. As I wiped the blood, I noticed a letter engraved on her back. It read:
To the Lord of the Western Lands,
Apparently, Kagura has a lot of faith that you can destroy me. Well how about we make things a little interesting. Let's see how much you care about the worthless Wind witch. I'll give you two weeks to find my castle and try and destroy me. Every time you find me but don't kill me. I'll give her an extra day to live. If you do kill me then everything that I have done will be fixed. Remember we are playing with her life.
Sincerely,
Naraku
Kagura's life? Does he honestly think that I am interested in her? I turned her over and placed her arm to cover her chest. Then again I have been thinking about her ever since she left. But why do I have these feeling towards her?
I gently stroked her hair and waited for her to wake up. Finally, she stirred a little bit. She turned on her side and I looked at her back. The note that was engraved there had vanished. The only thing left there was a spider shaped burn mark. " Huh?" I heard her whisper. She quickly sat up and looked at me. " Sesshomaru? What am I doing here?"
" That is the question I was going to ask you."
" I don't know. The last that I remember was being chained to the wall and Naraku cutting something into my skin." She wrapped her arms around her.
" Are you alright, Kagura?" I asked. She shook her head.
" It's so c-cold" She said and brought her knees to her chest.
I felt bad for her, but helping her would be showing a sign of weakness and that was something I could not show. I watched her shake in the cold lake and she tried to keep herself warm anyway she could. I eventually gave up watching her and picked her up in a bridal position. She looked at me like if I had two heads. Then she asked, " Sesshomaru, what are-"
" Hush." I said. I didn't want her to question my actions for I had know idea myself why I was doing what I was doing.
Kagura's POV
I didn't know why he was doing this, but I let him hold me. It kept me nice and warm and I liked feeling his hand on my back. It was comforting. Almost like I was free and that Sesshomaru and me were the only two people existing in the world. And that was a great feeling. " Sesshomaru, have you considered helping me yet?" He looked at me with emotionless eyes.
Then he answered, " Kagura, you should learn to do things on your own."
" What! Did you not see the note on my back, Sesshomaru? Naraku is going to kill me in two weeks time and your not going to help me!" He stared blankly at me and did not answer. " Answer me, Sesshomaru!" He still did not reply.
That was it I couldn't take it anymore. I finally exploded with anger, " Sesshomaru, I said answer me! And don't pretend you don't care about me because if you didn't care you wouldn't have let me spend the night at your castle that one time and you wouldn't have saved me from drowning. You also would have just let me stay freezing in that lake. So answer me, are you going to help me or not?"
" Kagura…what makes you think I care anything about your pathetic life." He answered.
After he said that I took all my rage out on him and slapped him hard across the face. " Fine then. Let me die. After all I've done for you, you're going to let my life end like this. What's wrong with you? I thought that maybe you were finally changing. Finally letting some compassion come inside you, but I guess I was the fool in believing that someone as cold and cruel as you could change." I plucked one of the feathers from my hair and turned it bigger. I rode of just like that.
I can't believe he said that to me. The least he could have done was tell me that he didn't care about me, that way I wouldn't make an idiot of myself. I flew off to Naraku's castle and wondered if Sesshomaru would change his mind. I doubted it after I slapped him. He will probably never want to speak to me again.
I landed outside of Naraku's castle and walked inside. There I found Naraku and Tanuki waiting for my reply. " Well Kagura. What was his answer?" Naraku asked.
I answered, " H-he doesn't care about me. He says do what ever you please."
Naraku smirked and replied, " I'll still give him two weeks to change his mind, but if he doesn't change his mind, that human girl of his will have to join our game as well. Once your dead, I'll use her instead. Now Kagura go to your room and rest. You did good by deciding to give my message to Sesshomaru."
It wasn't as if I had a choice but to give Sesshomaru the message. I fainted and had no idea what was happening. I went to my room as Naraku told me to. I sat in my corner and began to write and cry.
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Author's Note:
Well sorry this took so long. I kinda had no idea what to write. Here's another wonderful chapter. I do not own any characters used in this story except Tanuki. He is my character. Here is the preview of the next chapter.
Next time in Destiny meets Death:
Sesshomaru begins regretting what he said to Kagura. But when he see's her limping towards his castle covered in new blood, what will his reaction be. Also , a new enemy arises and why is he trying to kidnap Rin. Find out in the next chapter: Tanuki shows his true colors.
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