Yeah, I started another one! Lol: ) This one is more for Sesshoumaru lovers and Naraku haters, 'cause you know, he's evil and Sesshoumaru is just plan old AWESOME: ) : ) Lol. I'm really hyper right now because I had some vanilla coke. Hehehe!
A Price to be Paid
The Escape
My name is Tsuto. I'm fourteen years old and have long black hair down to at least my hips. I usually have it tied in a braid. I wear a baggy sleeved shirt that's tight around the shoulders and baggy near the bottom. The shirt is navy blue. My pants are baggy as well, only they are black. As a child I was captured by a man named Naraku. I was only young when it happened so I didn't really understand it. Naraku has long black hair and has like a raspberry colour on his eye lids. His eyes are a blood red and have no care in them what so ever. The demon kept me in his castle for nine years and I had grown used to living with him until I turned eleven. I sat in my room that I was usually kept in and he came in wearing an evil smirk that I had only seen one other time in my life. It was natural for him to be like that, but still it frightened me when he took me into his bedroom chamber. Naraku had forced himself onto me and I had no choice but to do what was wished of me. I had tried to refuse but he had tripped me onto the floor where there was no way out. When that night was over I thought that it would never happen again…. But, a few days later he came back and did the same thing. Again I had no choice but to go along with it. I hated Naraku for what he had done. He didn't just do it once, but twice and for that I couldn't forgive him. I tried to run away not too long after the second attack. Naraku had known about it and caught up with me. It didn't matter how fast I ran, he was still right at my side. When Naraku had finally decided to capture me, he brought me back to the castle and beat me continually until blood was all over the floor. As the next years passed still Naraku had frequently come into my room and dragged me to his chambers. Every now and then I would try and escape again. Every time I tried I was beaten and I thought that every time I was beaten, the wounds and pain only made me stronger. Now I sit in my room, in the dark, and listening to all the noise around me.
I sat in my room patiently and in thought. 'I'll try again tonight! Kagura and Kanna don't seem to try to escape, but I suppose that Naraku doesn't go after them!' I thought with disgust and hatred.
"He catches me every time! I have to find a way to get away from it, a way to get around him hearing every move that I make!" I whispered to myself.
The darkness of night filled the room almost completely. 'I hate how Naraku only comes after me! I never hear anything from other women in this place except for Kagura and Kanna. Kanna doesn't even talk to me! She barely talks to Kagura and she's her sister!' I put my head on my knees and stared at the ground.
"I couldn't find them Naraku! It wasn't my fault!" Kagura shouted as they both came down the hallway.
'Huh? What's going on?' I wondered as I got up and tiptoed to the door. It was already opened a crack which made it easy to hear.
"I don't care Kagura! Inuyasha should have been around there," Naraku barked as he walked down the hall angrily.
"He just wasn't there Naraku! There wasn't any sign of Inuyasha or any of his group!" Kagura said following him.
'Inuyasha! I wonder who that is! Naraku obviously doesn't like him very much. Otherwise he wouldn't be so damn angry for no reason!' I smiled and backed away to the wall. 'I'll try to find this Inuyasha when I escape from here tonight! Hopefully I will have my freedom!' I sat back down and put my head back on my knees. Closing my eyes, I fell into a shallow sleep.
A few hours passed and I woke up again. I looked around the room to see what had woken me up. 'What was that sound?' I asked myself as I stood up. I walked out of my room and into the hallway. Kanna walked past me.
"Kanna what's going on?" I asked her.
She looked at me and lifted her mirror. A man with long silver hair was fighting Naraku. He had golden eyes and wore a white and red hoari with a blue and yellow sash tied around his waist. At his left side were two swords, one in a sheath and one with an open blade. 'Who is this man?' I turned away from Kanna and continued running down the hallway. 'Maybe while Naraku is fighting that silver haired man, I can escape from here and finally have back my freedom.' Darkness was everywhere in the castle. It didn't matter if you went outside or not, the sky was always covered by a purple miasma. I ran as fast as I could down the hall towards the exit of the castle.
"Have you come to become one with my body, lord Sesshoumaru?" Naraku asked mockingly.
"Ha! I wouldn't come here to do such a thing! You know what I came for Naraku," the silver haired man replied before he drew the sword without a sheath.
'His name is Sesshoumaru? Does he also hate Naraku?' I thought to myself as I tried to sneak past the battle. Sesshoumaru's eyes caught sight of me running.
"Who is that?" he whispered low enough that Naraku barely heard.
Naraku had still heard part of what Sesshoumaru had said and looked over towards the castle.
"Damn that stupid wench!" he shouted as he started to come after me.
I looked back and saw him coming after me. 'I actually thought that I was gunna make it this time!' I made it to the forest which was farther than I usually got. A boy wearing a green and black outfit was standing in the road with a weapon that looked like a claw.
"Get her Kohaku!" Naraku demanded.
Kohaku threw his weapon at me. I quickly dodged it and went on running. Sesshoumaru was following behind Naraku. Even though he was triple his speed.
'I won't make it this time either! I'm too tired from running down the hall!' I panted heavily as I tried to run even faster.
"Stop running Tsuto! You know that you won't get far!" Naraku shouted.
"I don't care!" I said under my breath.
It wasn't very long before I could barely breathe. I didn't notice that Naraku had sent his insects ahead of all of us. 'What's that sound?' The poisonous insects came into sight and I had to stop.
"Damn sanyosho!" I cursed before turning to Naraku.
'He's gunna catch me again! I know that I'll be beaten again for trying to escape, but I had to try. I won't stop trying until I have my freedom! Even if it kills me!' I waited for Naraku to come through the trees.
"Stupid girl! How dare you interfere with my battle!" Naraku shouted angrily at me.
I avoided his gaze and waited for a strike of some sort to hit my body. Naraku came up to me and punched me in the side of the face. 'And he wonders why I try to escape from him!' I laughed to myself with a small smile on my face. Naraku gave me a glare.
"What is it that you find funny about this?" he asked as he punched me in the ribs.
I didn't reply, just as usual. Sesshoumaru watched from a small distance away.
"Naraku, why don't you stop worrying about that girl and continue fighting me?" Sesshoumaru asked as he ran towards Naraku.
I fell backwards and hit a tree. Naraku grabbed the front of my shirt and a cloud of miasma appeared.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, I will return to finish this fight another day! Right at this very time and moment I have more important things to attend to!" Naraku said as the cloud floated towards the castle.
Sesshoumaru watched the purple cloud vanish behind the trees and then turned away to head back to where he was staying.
"I will return Naraku! Don't you worry about that!" he growled.
Naraku carried me into the castle and to my room.
"Tsuto, you're so stupid! Next time don't interrupt my battle! I will be back later to punish you for trying to escape again!" Naraku growled.
He threw me into the room, causing me to hit my back against the wall, knocking me unconscious. When I woke up later on, it was almost morning. 'Naraku is gunna come to punish me soon! He always waits until the morning!' I yawned loudly and stretched out across the ground.
"Shouldn't be long now! He will come soon, I know he will!" I whispered.
Footsteps were heard from down the hall. 'That could be him.' I thought solemnly.
"Tsuto!" Naraku said when he peered into the room.
I looked away and my body became tense.
"I know you hardly talk anymore Tsuto, but don't be afraid to let out a cry of pain while the punishment is placed upon you!" he said mockingly with a smile of pleasure on his face.
I waited for his fist to hit me anywhere. 'I don't care what happens to me right now! One of these days I will get away from here! Away from Naraku and everything that happened in my past!' Naraku's fist hit my side and his other hit my face right after. I hit my back on the wall and I fell forward, causing me to land on my stomach. Naraku kicked my back over and over again as I lay there motionless. He grabbed the back of my shirt and picked me up.
"Why don't you ever speak to me anymore Tsuto? Was it something I did?" he laughed.
I glared at him with hatred. 'He has no clue on how much I hate him for everything he did!' I felt another punch to the stomach and Naraku threw me against the wall once again.
"Be grateful that I went easy on you this time Tsuto! If you try to escape again, I might not be as forgiving!"
Naraku left the room, leaving me wounded on the floor. Blood trickled from my cheeks and ribs.
"Damn that Naraku! Knowing him he's gunna come after me again tonight!" I whispered while wincing at the pain of my wounds.
I stared at the ground and tried to remember my mother, father and sister who were still in the village. 'I wonder if they're looking for me. Do they miss me? Or have they forgotten that I'm not there anymore?' I always thought these things. I just couldn't help but wonder.
"I'm so stupid! It's been so long since I've seen them, they probably think I'm dead," I whispered to myself.
The day went on and I didn't go outside or out of my room. It was the afternoon now and the sun was slowly setting, even though you could never see it. 'I'm hungry but I don't want to leave my room! I don't want to see him at all! That stupid jerk.'
"Maybe I should just go outside. I'll have to face Naraku sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner!" I stood up and walked to the door.
'Wait a second! Naraku probably wants me to come out.so he can take me sooner!' I shivered at the thought of Naraku just bursting into the room. It was too quiet in the castle, a lot quieter than usual. 'Maybe he's doing something else tonight. Maybe Naraku left the castle for the night and isn't coming back for a few nights like he sometimes does!' The thought was hopeful.
"He has to be out of the castle! Otherwise it wouldn't be this quiet!" I said as I opened the door.
Peering into the hallway, I looked from side to side to see if anyone or anything was there. 'Nothing, not a sound!' I smiled and crept into the dark ways. I was glad that I could leave my room without being seen by Naraku. My heart started to pound at the sound of nothingness. 'It has to be too good to be true!' Slowly I walked towards the cellar where the food was. Before anything besides the walls was visible, a hand was placed on my left shoulder and it turned me around. 'I knew it!' I thought as I became tense again.
Naraku's blood red eyes stared into my deep violet ones.
"You weren't planning to run away again, were you?" he asked with an evil grin on his face.
I shook my head as I watched him intently.
"Very good! Then you're coming with me!" Naraku whispered as he grabbed my wrist.
'No! Not again. I don't want to go with you!' I screamed in my mind. I had no choice but to go with him to his chambers once again. He threw me onto the floor as he normally did. Naraku looked at me with his horrid smirk and put himself on top of me after getting undressed. 'Why does it have to be me? Why couldn't it have happened to one of the other girls in the village? How was I different from them? They were prettier than me, smarter than me, weaker than me. All those girls were everything I'm not! Would they let this happen to them almost every other week?' I wondered and I felt Naraku kiss at my neck. Naraku was too strong to just push him off. He wasn't like those mortal men at the village. He could kill a person with just a finger. The memory of the day when Naraku took me away from my life came into my mind.
"Mother, don't let him do this!" my sister cried as she pulled at her kimono.
I kicked my legs frantically to get away.
"Stupid girl!" Naraku whispered.
"Let me go you demon! You half breed!" I screamed.
Naraku froze at the words I had shouted, so did all the people who were watching.
"What did you just call me?" he asked angrily.
I elbowed him in the ribs and tried to get away. 'Demons hate to be called half breeds! That's really gunna get me into a lot of trouble if he takes me away from here!' I thought with worry.
"Don't you dare hurt her Naraku! If you do I swear that there won't be a pleasant future for you if we ever cross paths again!" my father shouted with a threat.
"You don't have to worry about me hurting her. I need her, remember? Tsuto will remain with me for the rest of her life until the day comes when she dies!" Naraku replied with a grin on his face.
'I wonder what he meant by that!' I thought as Naraku still kissed at my neck. Everything around me was completely ignored, as if it really wasn't there.
'They just let him take me away from them! My father only told Naraku not to hurt me! Mother just sat there and watched with no expression.' The thought made me feel empty. Naraku stopped kissing and started the whole thing. The feeling was weird. It was gross and still it made you feel satisfied. The world had come back to me. 'I hate this feeling! The way he does it makes me feel uncomfortable!' There was no strength in my body. I wanted to just push Naraku off of me but I couldn't. 'I hate him so much!' I tried to lift my arms to my chest so I could get him off of me. Naraku stopped and looked at me with a look of pleasure.
"What's the matter Tsuto? Can't you take in the enjoyment?" he asked mockingly.
'He obviously likes to do this. Naraku enjoys doing this to me all the time!' I cried in my mind and tried to push him off.
"Why don't you just tell me?" he asked.
'I have to yell it or it will drive me crazy!' I stared at Naraku with hatred.
"Get the hell off of me!" I screamed at him.
He was surprised that I had actually spoken. For three years he hadn't heard a word from me.
"So you know how to speak," he whispered.
My violet eyes were filled with anger as still I tried to get him off of me.
"I'm not going to let you go Tsuto. You can't have your freedom until you die!" he whispered into my ear.
He was so close that it sent a chill down my spine.
Naraku continued and I had given up on getting him off of me. 'I feel so weak compared to him! A human is no match for a demon like himself!' I thought with no self esteem. When Naraku finally let me leave, I was so grateful to be away from him again. 'Finally, I'm away from him. I don't have to see his blood red eyes staring at me. Should I just come out and ask him about what he wants from me? Or should I just leave and never find out why he took me away?' I thought as I slowly walked back to my own room. Kagura was walking the hallways as well and went by me.
"Tsuto, do you want help?" she asked.
I shook my head tiredly. Kagura looked at me with concern. She had seen me like this a lot. Almost every time Naraku had taken me to his chamber I was always like this. 'I will get away from this! I swear that I will!'
"Kagura, do you know why he does this?" I asked.
She nodded her head, "He wants a child, one that he can raise to be a horrible creature like himself."
"But why me? Why not any other girl from the village?"
"I don't know that, but I know that it had to do with a promise by your parents!" she said before she continued to walk down the hallway.
'A promise? My parents made a promise to him! A promise!' I growled and punched the wall when I reached my room. 'He's probably tired too! I'll try again tonight. If I don't get away, then I'll try again every night until I do!'
I waited a little while so night completely covered everything. 'He has to be asleep by now! If he's not, then I'm gunna be in so much trouble!' I crept out of my room and walked down the hall to the doors. Everything was dark and you couldn't really see anything.
'That guy, Sesshoumaru, if I find him maybe he can help me kill Naraku!' I thought as I went outside. The sky was still covered with purple miasma.
"I just hope Naraku doesn't find me escaping!" I whispered while sneaking to the forest.
'I don't remember the sight of the sun and I don't think that I've ever seen the moon or stars!' I thought when I reached the forest. The trees covered my every move that I had made. 'I think I'm actually gunna make it this time! He can't just appear from nowhere and catch me!' I thought as I almost tripped over a stick. Footsteps could be heard through the forest. 'No! It can't be him! There's no way that he could catch up to me when I'm this far away from him!' I thought running faster through the forest.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, are you sure that you saw someone run into the forest?" an annoying voice asked.
"Are you questioning me Jaken?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"No! No, no, no, my lord! I just wanted to know if you were sure!" Jaken stammered.
I couldn't hear what they had said. I didn't know that it was Sesshoumaru.
'Damn it! I'm so tired right now! I won't be able to run away for much longer. Naraku might catch up with me and take me back to the castle!' The thought scared me. I couldn't go back there. Especially when I had gotten this far .
"I won't let him take me back!" I said to myself as I felt tears coming.
I started to cry as I thought about the pain I had felt. I stopped running and sat against the nearest tree. I closed my eyes and started to fall asleep. Sesshoumaru ran through the forest after me, not knowing who it was. He sniffed the air.
"That scent! I've smelt it before!" he whispered.
"Is it Naraku my lord?" Jaken asked.
"No Jaken. It's the scent of a girl, mixed with blood!" Sesshoumaru replied.
The dog demon ran on ahead of Jaken.
"A girl?" Jaken whispered to himself.
Sesshoumaru had found me sitting against the tree.
"This girl…" he said to himself.
He picked me up with his right arm and put me over his shoulder.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, did you catch who we were chasing?" the toad imp cried as he breathed heavily.
Sesshoumaru's face remained emotionless.
"Come Jaken! Naraku can wait for a while. We have to go get Rin!" he said as he kept on walking through the forest, away from Naraku's castle.
Jaken yawned as they walked.
"Where is that blasted Rin? I told her we would come back!" he grumbled.
The night sky was now above us. The moon was almost full and the stars twinkled in their places.
"Rin, you can come out now!" Sesshoumaru said before putting me on the ground.
I winced in my sleep as I dreamt about the night Naraku took me away.
"Yes lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin said as she came out from behind some bushes.
The two headed dragon Ah-Un was right behind her. Rin had fallen asleep on Ah-Un's back later on in the night. Jaken was right beside the dragon and Sesshoumaru watched over everyone. When morning came I woke up to the feeling of heat on my face. 'What is that?' I wondered as I opened my eyes.
Naraku sat in his main room with pure hatred and anger in his mind.
"Tsuto got away from me!" he growled at himself.
His red eyes stared at the floor for a few minutes and then they moved to the window beside him.
"She could have gotten anywhere last night! She could have even found Inuyasha over night, knowing how fast she can run if she has to!"
End of Chapter 1
There's the end of Chappie one! It's sort of a cliffhanger, I think : ) : ) Anyway I hope you all like this chapter even with the Naraku and Tsuto parts! I apologize to all the people who didn't find that comfortable. To be honest I didn't feel right writing it , but I promise that it won't happen anymore…… MAYBE! Any who, please R&R and be patient for the next chapter. Lol : ) : )