Death of a Heart

The Trance

Desire paced back and forth between the walls of the room, Aylin had been in her 'trance' as Desire had started to call it for a couple days now. Aylin was beginning to worry her, and even Takumi. He didn't know what she was doing either.

Why is she doing this now! Why why why! What does she do in this state? Why does she do it? How does sh-?

"Desire." Aylin said as she stood. Desire stopped pacing and looked at Aylin. Aylin's eyes were wide awake and she was dead serious. "Where can we go in this castle?" Aylin asked.

"Anywhere, as long as we don't leave the grounds." Desire answered.

"I was thinking, this castle somehow has almost the same layout as Sesshoumaru's. Don't ask me how I know but I know. If we can get to a certain point then I can get us out, but we've got to get our clothes back, these kimonos will give us away like a ghost in the picth black with no moon." Aylin explained.

"I know how to get us our clothes, how long do you think this can wait though?" Desire asked.

"It depends on how bad we want to get back to Sesshomaru and Kouga." Aylin answered.

"A few days then, at the most. This should work out perfectly, when we get served dinner save some beef, the servants think it's a great dish since they never are given it. Save it and when the servants come to prepare us for bed give it to the woman who undresses you and ask for your clothes, they'll do anything for beef." Desire explained. "That's how I got these back." Desire said holding up her and Aylin's weapons.

"Very nice." Aylin said with a smile.

"It seems that you're awake." Takumi said as he rounded the corner, Desire quickly hid the weapons and stared at him blankly.

Aylin pointed at him.

"I will give you one more chance. Take. Me. Back." Aylin ordered.

"I told you before, we can't." Takumi said. "Once you bare me a child then you will be free to go, but not before."

Aylin's eyes were clam and she was looking him straight in the eye.

"It's a grave mistake that you are making, and it might just cost you your life. The longer that I'm refused my leave, the more pissed off I am going to get." Aylin explained. "Since you have refused to taking me back then you are the first person I'm going to kill when I take my leave of you, weather you like it or not." Aylin turned around and walked to the other side of the room.

"Heh, don't mind her, she's just cranky." Desire said with a light laugh. "You know, keeping someone against their will or without their consent DOES that to a person!" Desire added in a growl.

"That is no way to treat someone who is in control of your lives." Daiki said. Desire and Aylin looked at him with hard, cold eyes that held the hate they had for these two demons in them.

"What do you mean. Explain yourself." Aylin ordered in a cold tone.

"My sword had a venom in it, if I give you the right food it'll react with the venom and kill you. Since you don't know what the venom is then you've no idea what food will set it off." Daiki explained to Aylin and Desire.

"So that's why while I was fighting that they were so keen on getting as many cuts on me as possible!" Desire said as she realized what was really going on. This was all set up so that they couldn't leave. "You want us to bare your children and yet you threaten us with our lives. That is really smart." Desire said sarcasticaly.

"It will take more than that to make us get in bed with you." Aylin growled in a low deep voice, her eyes had turned red with anger and hate. "Leave. Now." she ordered.

"As you wish, but remember that this is our castle and we will be back." Takumi said, Daiki and Takumi turned on their heels and left without another word.

"You have a plan." Desire said, she knew her friend well enough that her brain was always calculating escape routes from various different points.

"Of course I do! Do I go any where without one?" Aylin asked with a smirk.

"Actually you do, but not as often as I thought." Desire answered. Aylin smiled. "So what's the plan?"

"First of all we've got to idenify the venom that we have in our veins. Give me your arm." Desire held out her arm and Aylin used a claw to cut into Desire's wrist just enough to draw blood. Then Aylin sniffed it. "The sly bastards, its scentless! Ok, looks like we're not going to be able to eat, they're sure to put the food that we can't eat out today." Aylin explained.

"Well, good thing I've been saving fruits. That way we wont go hungry." Desire said.

"Well, since we're free to go around the castle let's. We've got nothing else to do, do we?" Aylin asked. "We might even find a libary that we can use to find out what this venom is."

"I've asked if they had a libary, they said we're not allowed in it."

"Well, does it look like I'm in the mood to take no for an answer?" Aylin asked.

"No, but still, we shouldn't cause trouble."

"Listen to yourself! We're being held against our will and you're saying we shouldn't cause trouble! If I didn't know better I'd say you liked this!" Aylin growled, then her eyes widened. "You do like this, being waited on hand and foot and not having to do anything."

"I've been here longer, I've gotten used to it. I can't remember what it's like to not live like this." Desire explained. Aylin blinked.

"You are no longer the Desire I know." Aylin said, she walked over to the door and left, since it was the same layout as Sesshomaru's castle she knew right where the libary was.

"Miss, you are not supposed to be here. Please let me get someone to escort you back to your room." a guard said, Aylin looked at him.

"I was told that I could go any where in the castle as long as I didn't leave the grounds. I want to go in there and I'm in a foul mood, just because I have this kimono on doesn't mean that I wont kill you. Now open the doors or I'll open it with your craked open head." Aylin growled as she flexed her claws.

"Open the doors." The doors swung open on their hinges and Aylin walked in, pushing the doors closed behind her she looked around her. This wasn't a libary!

"This is anything but a libary..." Aylin muttered to herself.

"You have gone one step over the line, for this you will be punished." Takumi growled in her ear. Aylin whirled around to face him, Daiki was there as well.

"It's your own fault, you said that I could go any where in the castle as long as I didn't leave the grounds. I know the layout of this castle, it's the same one as Sesshomaru's and-." Aylin was slapped across the face by Takumi. Her cheek turned bright red and Aylin's eyes were wide in shock.

"You will NOT mention that name in this castle." Takumi growled again, when angered he looked nothing like he had before. Aylin recovered from the shock and looked at the two demons standing in front of her.

"I will mention his name if I want to. You may have Desire tranced so she likes it here, but I was never a girl who liked this." Aylin growled at them. "I wasn't raised this way."

"Well Daiki the jig is up. Shall we?" Takumi asked turning to his friend.

"Yes, I think we shall. This little wench deserved what ever she gets." Daiki answered. Daiki hit a button and then a cage door opened.

THUMP THUMP THUMP!

Aylin had no idea what was coming, all she knew was that it was bad, very bad. While Aylin was distracted Daiki and Takumi left the 'libary' and Daiki went to get Desire.

"What ever that is...It's not good..." Aylin said, taking her dagger from the spot where she had hidden it when no one was looking she cut her kimono and then dashed to the doors of the 'libary'. Just as she was about to run out the doors they closed in her face. "Damn!"

THUMP THUMP THUMP!

"Oh shit." Aylin said as her eyes widened and she saw Daiki and Takumi's ace. This would be a big challenge, even for Desire, Kouga, Sesshomaru, and herself.

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Sesshomaru was at the head of his troops and his 4 generals at his sides. Gikyoku abd Byron at his right, and Leela, and Temptest were at his left. Behind them were hundreds of thousands troops that were loyal to Sesshomaru and the lands. They were just as angered by the kidnapping of Desire and Aylin. InuYasha was in with the swordsmen, Kagome with with the archers,and Miroku was with Sango in the calvery and air assult.

Kouga was in the East with his own troops. His four generals were all at the head of their troops and Kouga was standing behind his troops, from there he'd tell them what to do and who exactly to attack. That way he didn't have to woory about himself being killed and leaving his children alone. Everyone understood this, so no one made a complaint about it. He was in no mood to take the crap from people. But he was in the mood to kick Daiki's ass.

The North was also prepared in the same way as the East. It was just their custom and no one bothered to change it.

The South had no royal family. It was just a place of poisonous gases and volcanos. Not a good place for any demon to live. It was also so hot that it was rumored to dehydrate you within a few hours if you weren't properly prepared.

Sesshomaru was waiting for the troops of the enemy to show themselves, he had made sure that the troops were spread far enough apart so that if the enemy just appeared out of no where then it would be easy to pick them apart from his own troops.

"Lord Sessomaru, are we sure that it's wise to wage war against an unknown foe?" Byron asked, Sesshomaru didn't answer, but instead just stared out into the 'no-mans land'. "Ok, do they even know we're wagigng war against them?" Byron asked in an annoyed manner.

"They knew this was going to happen the moment that they took Aylin and Desire, this is what they want. They're probably going to try to hide themselves in our troops so that they can destroy us from the inside out." Sesshomaru explanied. "It's not going to happen." Sesshomaru added.

"How do you know?" Leela asked.

"It's just the way this enemy works. Haven't you seen how they just apear inside of your castles, and other places?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Yes, but what's that got to do with anything?" Leela asked, that was mistake.

"Everything. They're more like assassins than anything else, using stealth to sneak in and then at the oportune moment, striking at the heart."

"How do they do it?" Gikyoku asked.

"With a machine that teleports them to their destination, they think that they'll have the upper hand but knowing Aylin she'll have destroyed it, or done something to it so it doesn't work."

"What if they have another one?" Temptest asked.

"They wont, it takes many many years to build one, and to build two together, it takes twice as long."

"Lord Sesshomaru, we've recived word that nothing is happening, its getting dark so we should set up camp." Jaken said.

"Give the order." Sesshomaru ordered his generals.

"As you wish." they all said and went to where they were told to report with orders from Sesshomaru. Soon enough the tents were up, the fires were going, and an unhappy mood was settled in over the soilders.

"This will be one long hard battle." Sesshomaru said to himself as he stared out at the no-mans land. He could sence that something was going to happen, but when was the question, and where.

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Notes- ((None))

Disclaimer- I don't own InuYasha.

Aki- Well, there's chapter 8, I'm glad I got 2 reviews! Thank you! Yes, I just had to end the chapter and leave you hanging with what happens to Aylin. Yes, I know, you wanna kill me for it, but you can't because if you do then you'll never find out what happens. Anyways! On with the Chapter Summary!

Next Chapter-

Aylin is up against something that she hasn't even read about, but she's heard about it, something that is even more hard to kill than a cockroach. Sesshomaru and the other lands are all in a state of waiting, and it's making people antsy. Then Sesshomaru is told that something is stirring in the South, but they don't know what it is, until they get word of what it is from a messenger that was sent there. They're not happy about what it is, much less which side it is on.

Aki- Just wait until you see what it is! It's a twist! Oh you're gonna love it! Well, at least I hope you're gonna love it, I know I love it! Then again this is my story so of course I'm gonna love it! I'm ranting aren't I? Anyways I'll shut up now so you can go! Bye bye and PLEASE come and read it again! PLEASE!