A Mere Servant
By: Angelwarrior1
Chapter 10: The Unleashing
Kagome struggled against the guards that dragged her down the hall but it was to no avail. Their grip was as strong as ever and Kagome became more nervous by the second. She hated men, all men, except Inuyasha. The closer she came to the door that was sure to hold the wolf prince behind it, the more she began to struggle. Soon the guards had a hard time containing the young miko, but they weren't worried in the least as they stopped in front of the prince's room. They knocked and the door opened immediately. Kagome didn't bother looking up into the ruthless prince's face. She knew he was smirking down at her. It was then that she wished she was more powerful. Powerful enough to defend herself instead of cowering in the corner before these men as she always had. Of course she always tried her best not to show her fear in front of others, but at times she knew she couldn't. She wasn't strong, not like Inuyasha was. A strong shove jerked her from her thoughts as she stumbled into the room. The door closed behind her and she was now trapped with the prince of wolves. She steeled herself and looked up into the face that held victory in it. He knew he had won. She knew it as well. There was nowhere to go now, Inuyasha was in a prison cell across the palace. Hope was lost now.
"Well, looks like I finally have you now my little miko." He advanced upon her slowly and walked around her.
Kagome didn't move an inch, she would not give into cowering like some scared woman. Holding her head high, her eyes watched the wolf prince stalk her. He wanted to smell her fear and while it was true that she was frightened to death, she would never let him know that.
"Hpmh! So you are not as weak as you appear. You know, when I first saw you, I wanted you. You are very beautiful. It's easy to see that, but my curiosity grew when that half-breed became so protective of you. Then it grew even more when the king became so angry with his son and sent you away. Even Lord Naraku wanted you. So tell me my little miko, what is it about you that makes you so special? Hm? Well, I'm waiting." He smirked at the woman that held her ground.
Kagome said nothing, just remained still. Her mind deep in thought and suddenly she thought of something.
"Tell me Koga, were your wolves the ones that attacked my grandmother? They looked like they belonged to you."
Koga's smirk was quickly wiped off of his face. This was not the answer he was looking for. He had never had anyone disobey him, so why? Why was this servant resisting him still? No one had ever went against him, except maybe dog turd, but that was different. That was because he was his rival for the woman. Even now, he had the woman within his grasp, but she was still his rival's. The half-breed prince still held this woman's heart. Anger flooded throughout his entire body. He wanted her. Wanted to make her submit to him, not some half-breed! He turned to the miko and forced her up against the wall.
"You will answer my questions! I care not of what my wolves did to your weak little grandmother!
Kagome's eyes widened at his sudden confession, but suddenly narrowed in anger.
"Scum! My grandmother almost died because of your wolves!" She spat.
He smirked at her anger.
"Good, one less miko to worry about."
Kagome gaped at his words. Was this man serious? Yes, he was and she hated him for that. This man was evil. How
could someone not care about what happened to others because of their actions? Anger surged through her, but she refused to do anything. She was too angry to say anything.
"Nothing to say to that? Good. You need to learn your place and by the time I'm done with you will have learned it well."
Koga smiled a soul chilling smile of evil.
He pressed himself against her and breathed in her scent. Kagome's eyes widened in shock. Was she going to be raped
again? Kagome's nervousness returned. Her eyes shifted around in her frantic haste to find a way out. She couldn't let this
happen, not again. No, no! Everything was closing in on her. What could she do? Something, something had to be done
now! She closed her eyes, but that didn't help. It only made things worst as she pictured Naraku hurting her. Doing the
same thing that this bastard was about to do. They just didn't see her did they? They just didn't see her as a person, but as
an object. The anger inside of her continued to boil. Koga then started to pull her shirt off and something snapped. The
something that snapped however was not something one could hear, it was something inside of the young woman. Anger
flowed to the surface and all she could see from that moment on was white. Koga was pushed off of Kagome the instant
her vision turned white and the reason for this was simple. Kagome's hidden powers were unleashed by her overwhelming anger. Koga recovered after a few seconds of being knocked against the wall. He looked on with wide eyes as Kagome
levitated off of the floor, her body surrounded in a white aura as her power fully emerged. She screamed as the massive
amount of power came forth all at once. Kagome couldn't think, the power was too strong. She felt as if her body was being
torn apart. Death crossed her mind for a moment and the infinite possibility that she could die from this power, but quickly left when a soothing voice flowed into her mind for a moment.
Why do you fight against your power? Such anger, let it all go. The anger will only blind you of your pure intentions if you
let it remain. It's only purpose was in helping you unleash your power, but now this anger will no longer help you if you let it linger. I made sure that when I died that one of my predecessors would inherit my power and that is you my dear Kagome. Now it is time for you to use it to set everything that has gone so terribly astray right again. Please fix the corruptions of these kingdoms that I could not. Goodbye my sweet Kagome, I wish you happiness in all that you do...
The voice was gone. Drifting from her mind as the anger left just as quickly. With her anger no longer blinding her, Kagome
could now think clearly. She turned her eyes to Koga, who was cowering against the wall. A look of horror was on his face as he look at her with wide trembling eyes.
"W-what are you!" He asked in pure horror.
"I am what you made me, my dear wolf prince." Kagome's face remained stoic, but her voice was laced in amusement.
She suddenly laughed. It was a laugh painted in malice.
"What's the matter Koga? Are you suddenly feeling as if your life has left you? Are you afraid now? You should be, because I not letting leave this room alive." Smirking as she said this, she sped over to Koga with an unfathomable speed.
Koga tried to scream out but Kagome quickly snatched Koga's face into her hand, covering his mouth. She lifted him off
the ground, crushing his face slowly. His screams came out muffled against her hand and she relished every moment of it.
Before he could die though, she threw him to the floor a few feet behind her and slowly turned to look at him. Her face gave away nothing as she started to approach him. Koga stood quickly and ran for the door, but Kagome was faster and just as he opened it her hand flew out and returned it to it's closed state with a wall shaking slam.
"You will not leave here alive, or have you forgotten my words already?" She backhanded Koga in the face powerfully and sent him into the wall across the room.
She phased out for a moment and phased in before Koga. He didn't get a chance to react when she stopped suddenly in midair and blasted him with a small, yet power blast of her power. The room flashed in the white power that she blasted at him. When the blast dispersed no trace of Koga remained. Kagome stood still looking down to the spot Koga once sat in. Her attention was brought to the door when guards started to pound on it, demanding that someone open the door and explain what happened. Kagome walked calmly to the door and opened it. The guards stared at her for a moment before demanding to know what happened. Kagome raised her hands in front of her and spread them out quickly as a powerful wind emerged from her hands and the guards were tossed away from her. Her feet lifted off the ground as she began to fly through the palace. Guards ran towards her but never got close enough to do any harm as she tossed them away from her with bursts of wind from her hands. No one could stop her from her destination. One would think the display almost beautiful when seeing the sight of guards flying through midair, but the beauty of the scene quickly shattered once the guards hit the walls with deafening thuds. The peaceful looking miko continued flying until she came upon her desired location. She touched down to the floor and lightly took the door handle in her hand, then violently ripped the door from the
wall. Her facial expression never changed as she casually tossed the door behind her. Walking into the dark room, she spotted her beloved hanyou immediately. Ever careful to let her emotions rise upon her face at seeing such a powerful man looking so utterly defeated on the floor, she approached very slowly. He didn't appear to be conscious as she knelt down before him. Taking his battered face into her hands, she let a lone tear trickle down her face.
"Inuyasha..." She struggled to contain the emotion within her voice.
So this is what became of her love and all because of her. She felt such guilt at his state, for she felt that this was truly her own fault. Her hand trembled slightly as her thumb traced over his sullen lips. His face held such sorrow and it pained her to see him in such a state of distress. She quickly snapped out of her reverie. This was no time for observations, for she knew Lord Tama would be approaching very soon. She slapped Inuyasha's faced lightly in an attempt to wake him, but to no avail.
"Inuyasha. Inuyasha! Wake up!" She shook him hard and actually began to feel panic rise in her when he wouldn't wake.
Soon she breathed a sigh of relief when he began to stir. His eyes opened slowly and Kagome had to restrain herself from smothering him in kisses and hugging him with all her might. Instead she just watched him, drinking his every movement with her eyes. Suddenly he became aware of her presence and looked up into her eyes. His eyes widened in shock when he took in her drastically altered appearance. Her hair had streaks of white running down to the tips and her eyes were white. Even the tattered old rags she wore had turned white. She was...ethereal in all aspects of the word. Their reunion was cut short however, when an angry Lord Tama stormed into the cell.
"What is this! What has happened to Prince Koga!" His eyes looked as though they would pop out of their sockets the moments his eyes rested upon Kagome.
Kagome stood calmly, grabbed Inuyasha's restraints and began pulling. Her teeth gritted under the pressure, her arms muscles tensed and what seemed like minutes of pulling, had actually been only seconds. The metal began to creak and moan and with a snapping sound they finally gave way. Lord Tama and Inuyasha looked too stunned to even move and soon a heavy silence filled the room. Kagome turned away from Inuyasha and faced Lord Tama.
"I have killed Prince Koga. As for what this is, it should be obvious. I'm breaking Inuyasha out of this prison cell. No one should punished for loving another." She held her head high as she stared into the lord's eyes.
He sputtered in rage and grabbed Kagome by the neck. Kagome simply stared into his eyes, as if to challenge him. He stared right back and just as he began to squeeze, she pushed her arms up and broke the strangle hold he had on her. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as his hands release her neck and she pushed one hand into his chest releasing a burst of wind. His eyes widened in disbelief as he flew out of the prison cell and kept going until his back finally met a wall. His body went limp immediately and Kagome simply watched as she slowly walked out of the small prison cell. Inuyasha followed, grabbed Kagome by the shoulders and spun her around to face him.
"Kagome...What happened to you? Did that bastard Koga hurt you?" His voice was laced in panic as he looked her over in search of any injuries.
Kagome looked into Inuyasha's panic stricken eyes and finally felt the hard wall around her emotions crumble. A tear ran down her face as she let a small smile grace her lips. She looked down and shook her head.
"No Inuyasha, Koga didn't get a chance to hurt me. Midoriko's powers...it was inside me all along. That is why my mother never has a chance of defeating Lord Tama like I did, because while she is very powerful, she never inherited Midoriko's powers. I am sorry Inuyasha, for all the pain I have caused you." Her voice broke as she apologized and she quickly ensnared Inuyasha into a heartbreaking hug.
Inuyasha's head dropped down into Kagome's hair as his emotions overcame him. He let three tear drift down the angled contours of his face.
"No Kagome...I should be the one apologizing to you. I let you down. I let my bastard of a father take you away from and I let Naraku t-take you...I let Koga try and take you too...I am the one that is sorry. I am so sorry Kagome." His voice wavered thick with grief.
They stood there in that position for several minutes. Letting their pent up emotions flow from their bodies until they could no longer cry. Kagome reluctantly broke the hug and looked into Inuyasha's sorrowful eyes.
"We must leave now. It is not safe here any longer. My actions have started a war. And Lord Tama is not dead." She looked over at the slumped over man, then quickly brought her eyes back to Inuyasha.
"What do you mean you started a war?"
"When word spreads of what has happened here today, the other Lord's from their kingdoms will wage war against the mikos and try to finish us off as they tried so long ago. I must go and warn the others and try to help them prepare for battle. Will you fight with me or against me?" Her eyes grew serious as she stared into Inuyasha's eyes.
"You should know where my allegiance lies after all this time Kagome. I have been betrayed by my own kind, do you honestly think I would help them now?" His eyes turned just as serious as he stared back into her eyes.
"Then come with me." She turned quickly and ran to the servants huts that lay outside of the palace.
Bursting into her family's hut, she ran to her mother. Kikyo and Kaede looked up with startled eyes at Kagome.
"Kagome! You are back! Oh how I have missed you my daughter!" Kikyo ran to her daughter and hugged her.
Kaede also went to Kagome and hugged her. Kagome smiled softly at her mother and grandmother.
"Mother...it has happened..Midoriko's powers, they were in me and I unleashed them by accident today when Prince Koga tried to..force himself upon me..I am afraid that I have started a war." Kagome's eyes saddened.
"I knew this would happen one day." Kikyo sighed.
"You did? But how?" Kagome's eyes widened in disbelief.
"I knew because back when you were only nine, something happened one day that revealed your hidden powers, if only for a brief moment, to me. We were outside, working in the fields when one of the mikos fell to the ground from exhaustion. We stood at the corner of the field and when you witnessed the guards beat the poor soul, you became enraged and for one second your power flashed. Your eyes turned white and you hair grew streaks as they have now. Then, just like that the power left and you fainted. You were lucky the guards didn't see, or you would have been killed by Lord Tama. He's always feared the powers you now possess." Kikyo looked out of a window as she explained.
"So what do we do now? We can't stay here, the guards are gonna be swarming all over this place in search of Kagome. If you're gonna gather up mikos to train, I suggest you do it now before it's too late." Inuyasha stepped up beside Kagome.
"Inuyasha's right. We'll have to retreat into the woods for the time being. So, mother you gather mikos on the west side of the palace. Kaede, you head to the east wing. Inuyasha and I'll handle this side since the guards will be sure to head this way in search of us." Kagome looked at Kikyo and Kaede as she spoke their missions.
Kikyo and Kaede nodded their consent and ran in their ordered directions. Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other for a moment.
"You ready?" Inuyasha smirked.
"Oh yeah." Kagome smirked back.
They each took a deep breath and ran from the small hut in search of mikos.
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