Running From Desire

By Crazed Miko

Chapter 5: Knowing Your Place Part 1

Author's Note: Just so you know there's going to be a lot of made up characters in this fic but I DON'T own any of the original Inuyasha characters. So far I only own Suyou and Shirko. I hope you like them as much as you like the actual story.

Recap: "Kagome doesn't know that you betrayed her…" Inuyasha winced when Kikyo said betrayed. He didn't want to think of it that way, even though he knew that he did very much betray her. But he refused to let Kagome die. He knew that he had to play along with Kikyo's plan until the time was right. "So she'll still want to come back with you," Kikyo informed him.

"So whats your point?" Inuyasha asked.

"Is that will be easy to take Kagome back, and then that's when we make our move," Kikyo said with a smirk on her face. Inuyasha gave her an uneasy gaze.

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Sesshomaru led Kagome across the dark room and up A LOT of stairs. As they were walking up the steps Kagome thought that she was gonna die. She looked in front of her at Sesshomaru. How can someone go up these stairs with such ease? She thought to herself.

"Wrench," he called blankly. She looked up giving him her full attention. "The room that we just exited from was the prison hold. If you dare as much as disobey me or other high class demons I can assure you you'll be spending a lot of time in there." Kagome gulped just thinking about it. "Do you understand?" he said in a strict manner. She gentle nodded. You two FINALLY reached to the top of the huge staircase. There was a sliver door in front of them.

To Inuyasha and Kikyo

"Inuyasha, we have to go to the Western Territory and kidnap Kagome from your brother. She'll come with ease if she sees you." Kikyo said with a unhumanly smile granted on her lips. Inuyasha could have swore that at that moment he saw the same evilness in Kikyo as he saw in Naraku. It slightly scared him. He wasn't too sure that he liked Kikyo the same way that he use to, but he did make a promise to her and he won't break it. "Inuyasha…" she said in a slightly surprisingly soft tone. Inuyasha was torn from his thoughts as he looked up at Kikyo. "I know this is hard for you, but you must remember that this is the only way." Inuyasha nodded still feeling a great amount of uneasiness between his shoulders.

"I need to go back to the others." Inuyasha said as he was about to walk in the direction the gang was.

"Inuyasha," Kikyo called. He stopped and looked back.

"We'll meet again, two nights from now, when the sun is set." Inuyasha looked like he was thinking for a moment before nodding and continued walking.

To Miroku, Sango, and Shippo

"We have to get Kagome back at all cost!" Shippo said jumping with anger.

"Miroku, don't you think it's strange that Sesshomaru just suddenly kidnap Kagome? What would he possibly want with her?" Sango asked.

"Hm…" Miroku said thinking. "It is possible that he's trying to get to Inuyasha and merely using Kagome as bait."

"That doesn't sound so much like Sesshomaru. He wouldn't sink that low…would he?" Sango resorted.

"Don't you think his story was alittle…suspicious?" he asked her still looking as if he was deep in thought.

"What do you mean, Miroku?"

"I think Sesshomaru would know better than to come at us while we were all around, and wouldn't we be able to hear him taking Kagome?"

"Yeah, and why wouldn't Inuyasha wake us when we knew that it was Sesshomaru. And wouldn't Kagome scream?" Sango asked beginning to strongly agree with Miroku.

"Hm…" was all he could say.

"Well what ever the reason is we have to go and save her." Shippo said slightly annoyed by Kagome absents. They all heard footsteps. They looked to see that it was just Inuyasha. He walked towards them.

"Inuyasha, did you find any sign of them?" Shippo asked hopefully. Inuyasha shook his head.

"I think we may be in the Western Lands."

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go."

"Shippo, we can't just head out on a long journey like this unprepared. We need supplies. We'll set out in three days." Inuyasha stated. Miroku and Sango were very confused at Inuyasha's behavior. They looked at each and exchanged puzzled looks. Shippo didn't notice but they did. Why wasn't Inuyasha mad and out of control like usual? He seemed so…calm.

"Inuyasha, are you feeling okay?" Sango asked.

"Of course I'm feelin okay? What of it?"

"Well, because you're…never mind." Sango gave up. She knew that she wouldn't get a straight answer out of him.

Sesshomaru and Kagome

Sesshomaru slowly opened the sliver door to reveal a very beautiful yet rather large room. Kagome's eyes widened as she scanned the room. People were dashing up and down the stairs and going in and out different doors. It was filled with several doors and yet ANOTHER huge staircase. All the trimming were a lovely blood red color. The staircase was gold. Sesshomaru let her get use to her surrounds a few moments before walking ahead. Kagome soon followed not wanting to get lost in a huge place like this. As they walked, they pasted numerous of people, Kagome guessed this were Sesshomaru's servants. One man stopped in front of them and greeted Sesshomaru with a bow, showing great respect. Sesshomaru nodded in response.

"Lord Sesshomaru, it's a pleasure to be in your presence." The man said. Wow, Sesshomaru has these people wrapped around his finger… she thought to herself in a bit of awe.

"Shirko, do you have anything important to report?" Sesshomaru asked in his emotionless tone. The one called Shirko nodded. Kagome took this time to examine this guy. He had tan skin, pale green eyes, dark red hair in a ponytail down to his shoulder blade, spiky bangs that covers his forehead, he had an okay body, but not one to die for, he is wearing a black and blue kimono.

"Sir, the Eastern and Northern Lords want to know it they can visit for a Land meeting and the Southern Lord wants to know if he can settle an alliance with you." Shirko told him. Sesshomaru nodded in approval.

"Is that all?" he asked coldly.

"Yes my lord." Shirko said with a bow. He gazed at Kagome. First he seemed a bit surprised but then he smiled and showed his teeth. Kagome realized that he was a demon, looking at his fang. Kagome gently smiled back at him. Sesshomaru noticed this and didn't want to waste anymore time.

"Shirko isn't there work that you need to be doing?" Shirko set his full attention back to his lord.

"Of course, sir." He gave Sesshomaru a short bow before he dashed off in another direction. Sesshomaru turned to Kagome.

"Follow me and do not speak to anyone," he ordered. Kagome really wanted to insult him but knew that she would be going to that prison hold if she did. "Do you understand me?" Kagome nodded. Sesshomaru then turned her back on her once again and headed up for the stairs. Kagome let out a slight sigh. More stairs? She thought to herself. She followed him up the stairs. He turned to a gray colored door. Kagome rasied an eyebrow at him. Sesshomaru opened it. It wasn't really all that nice of a room. But it wasn't that bad either. It had a decent sized bed, a plain wooden wardrobe, a body sized mirror and behind it was a wooden dresser to match the wooden wardrobe and the wooden floor. The wall was a pale gray color. "This will be you're chamber." My…chamber? How long does he think I intend to stay? She thought to herself. "There's a bath chamber right down the hall for your using." He told her. He walked out the room as Kagome followed. He closed the door behind him. Kagome was so confused, what was she doing her? What exactly does he want from her? He started it walk down the hallway and of course Kagome followed. She wondered where could they be going now. She continued to see demons dash past them, many of them oddly looking at her, as if they've never seen a human before. It was very strange. But Sesshomaru seemed to pay them no mind. They reached to blood red doors; they entered to see a rather large room. It didn't even look like a room; it looked more like a kitchen. At least 30 demons were inside working their asses off. They reached a short demon, a toad demon. It remind Kagome A LOT of Jaken. Only this was a female toad demon. She turned around to face them after yelling at one of the chiefs to get a move on. She bowed to Sesshomaru.

"Good evening, M'Lord." She said to him. Then she faced Kagome and was startled. Then had a look of disgust in her eyes.

"Suyou, teach this human about the kitchen. She's going to be working here." Sesshomaru said in an emotionless tone. Both Kagome and Suyou looked at him with a surprised look. Work? Who said anything about me having to do work? Kagome thought angrily to herself. Who does he think he is? I'm not just some slave! Kagome was very tempted to snap at him but then remembered what would happen if she did so she gave him a hard cold glare instead, hoping that he saw it.

"Y-Yes M'Lord…" Suyou said hesitantly. Sesshomaru nodded and then looked over at Kagome.

"I'll be back shortly, wrench." Sesshomaru said harshly as he walked out the door. Kagome was in an angry daze, she felt like going back out there and giving Sesshomaru a piece of her mind. Was that all he wants me for? Is it just to work? Or is it something more… Kagome's thoughts were rudely interrupted as she felt something poke her stomach. She looked down to see Suyou poking her hard with a wooden spoon. (Suyou is about to Kagome's waist…)

"Listen up girl and listen good. I don't like you, not one bit." Suyou's words were cold as steel. "I don't even know why The Lord would even bring you here, you'll be eaten alive!" Suyou took a closer look at Kagome. Examining her. " You're a dinky looking girl. You don't have any meat on you. Not to mention you look strange with those weird clothes. Why would the Lord bring in such a worthless, wrench.\?" Kagome raised an eyebrow at the old demon. What did I ever do to her? "I will not repeat myself, do you hear me wrench? I am Suyou. I'm in charge of this kitchen and I don't intend on changing that anytime soon. You will work under me and do whatever I say. That means when I say jump, you say how high, you got that? I won't allow any screw-ups, especially for you, human. If you screw up or disobey me then I will immediately report to Lord Sesshomaru and he won't be happy. And if it's a screw up that is not worth the Lord's time then I shall take care of you personally. Do you understand?" she said rudely to Kagome as if she wasn't worth 10 cents. Kagome felt anger enter her body again. She usually respected her elders but she was going to make an exception for this old demon. "Do you hear me wrench? I asked you did you understand because I'm not going to repeat myself for the lights of a dumb dinky mortal like yourself." Suyou said. Kagome knew that this old hag was going to push her to say something that she didn't want to say. "Are you death or something? Answer me you filthy mortal," she ordered. Kagome wanted to go off on her. She wanted to smack that smile right off Suyou's old ugly face. But instead she sucked up her pride and did as she was told. She took a deep breath and answered.

"Yes,"

"Yes what?" she asked poking Kagome with her wooden spoon once more. Kagome growled slightly under her breath knowing that Suyou was enjoying every minute of this.

"Yes ma'am." She answered regretfully.

"Good." She said as she turned to a huge sink piled with dirty dishes. Does she think I'm a maid or something? She thought to herself coldly. "You will wash all of those dishes until each and every one of them are spotless." She said with a wide grin on her face. "Do you understand?" Suyou confirmed. Kagome slightly sighed out of anger.

"Yes ma'am, I understand just fine." She said as harshfully as her voice could get. She had only known this old hag for 10 minutes and she's already hates her almost as much as Naraku.

"When you are finished you will come and tell me before doing anything else, I'll probably have more work for you." She said as she walked away from a angry Kagome. She slightly growled under her breath as she walked to the dirty dish pile and started scrubbing with an old sponge that she picked up. She started to wonder how long was she going to stay. Is Inuyasha looking for her right now? If so, how long will it take for him to find her? And what does Sesshomaru wanted with her? And WHAT THE HELL IS THAT OLD DEMON'S PROBLEM? Kagome still had so many questions, and they were all still left unanswered. She continued to scrub on dish after another, leaving them each gleaming. She wondered what Inuyasha and her friends were doing right now.

Inuyasha And The Others

"It isn't the same!" Shippo whined as he refused to eat any of his grilled fish.

"She's only been gone for one day and you're already complaining," Inuyasha said in annoyance. Sango gave Inuyasha a very puzzled look.

"Usually you're the one whose complaining whenever Kagome's away." She pointed out. Inuyasha looked at her, his eyes slightly widened as his facial features tighten. Shippo looked at up at Inuyasha. Miroku's eyebrow was raised at Inuyasha.

"Yes Inuyasha, Sango is right. You have been acting surprisingly…calm." Miroku agreed. Inuyasha looked away from the three of them not wanting to look them in the eyes.

"I don't know what you guys are talking about," Inuyasha insisted quickly. All three of them noticed this and exchanged looks.

"You always are more violent when she's not around and you're always so uptight. You usual can't even relax when she's not around, especially whenever you're not sure she's safe. And if she's with Sesshomaru who knows what he'll do with her…or already done." Sango said.

"Feh…" he said as he got up from his spot and turned away from them. "I told you we'll go look for her in three days didn't I? So just get off my back about it okay?" Inuyasha's voice rose more then he intended it to. They were all a little shocked.

"I…I was just being concerned." Sango said hurt. Inuyasha didn't even bother to look over his shoulder.

"Well save it for yourself," I'm going for a walk." He said as he left the three in awe and confusion.

Back to Kagome and The Dirty Dishes

Kagome was still cursing herself while scrubbing the last of the dishes. She sighed in relief that she was finally finished. She must have been there for at least two hours. She looked around wondering where the old hag went now. She started walking around the huge kitchen. She saw demons working left and right. She wondered why would they work for Sesshomaru. What did they get out of it? But then again now that she thought about it, it was probably forced upon them to work for him. Just like it was forced upon her. She saw the old hag yelling at someone for not putting enough salt in this 'pig demon soup'. Kagome gagged at the thought of it. Suyou noticed Kagome and walked over to her with the same hateful look on her face, which Kagome gladly returned the same hateful glance right back.

"You're done already?" Suyou asked unbelievably. "I must have given you at least two hundred dishes to wash."

"Yeah, I'm done." She said bitterly. Suyou's face darkened.

"What did I tell you about answering me…" she said in a deadly voice. Kagome thought that she could strike the old demon right there, but then she knew that she would have to face Sesshomaru. She growled under her throat.

"Yes…ma'am." She said hating this. Suyou raised an eyebrow at the younger girl.

"Yes ma'am, what?" she asked, with a slight cockiness in her voice.

"Yes ma'am I'm done," she told her with hate.

"Good," she said satisfied. "It's about time you know your place, mortal." Kagome gritted her teeth in anger. "Oh yes, I have no more work for you today, Lord Sesshomaru says that he wishes to see you." Suyou said as she walked away and tasted the Pig demon Soup. "Urgh! How many times do I have to tell you? This is too much salt! Throw it away and start over!" Kagome walked out of the kichen, thanking the Kami's that she was finally away from Suyou. But now she has to face the cold demon lord again. What could he possibly want this time? Kagome thought to herself.

Well, that's the end of chapter 5! Hope you liked it, and please review!