Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kidnapped

Thinking/memories/dreams

!WARNING! SENSITIVE MATERIAL AHEAD!

PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EASILY TRIGGERED BY SEXUAL HARRASSMENT/ABUSE!

THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS SENSITIVE MATERIALS AND IMPLIED RAPE!

THIS STORY IS RATED M FOR MATURE FOR THIS EXACT REASON!

THIS IS NOT A LEMON

I REPEAT

NOT A LEMON!

THIS CHAPTER DOES NOT INCLUDE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL!

"Humans… Plenty of them marry for love. Many of them marry because of love." Kasumi watched Sesshomaru's eyes narrow, catching the confused gleam in the gold depths before he blinked and turned away from her.

"Love is an unnecessary emotion," Sesshomaru provided, keeping his gaze straight ahead.

Kasumi felt her heart sink, weighed down by boulders of truth, cut deep by the cold reality of his words.

Love is an unnecessary emotion

A sad smile crept into her cheeks and she looked down at her feet. "Maybe to you… but for me… for us humans love is something desired." She chuckled quietly to herself, the sound without humor, dry and unfriendly even to her own ears. "It's something that I can never have…" She swallowed down the heavy emotion in her throat, squeezing her hands into tiny fists.

"No one will ever love a wench like you," A familiar, venomous voice whispered into her ears.

She jerked her head up, looking all around her as the scenery changed, Sesshomaru fading into the background like a dark shadow. She was surrounded by walls and trees, felt cold bony fingers crawling up her legs.

She screeched, only for a hand to clamp around her mouth and face came into view, as if emerging from the shadows.

Lord Takami's lips stretched into a wide, snake-like grin, his hand on her thigh, pulling aside red and white kimono's and baring her skin to the black cold air.

"You're just a stupid girl that no one will love. You'll be my wife and I'll take you every night, even if it means I have to force you." He said, his grin spreading wider the harder she struggled.

She felt her robes ripped off her, heard them shred to pieces, the unfeeling air caressing the curves of her body as she sank deep into a dark pit behind her.

Hard earth met her tail bone, but no pain came to her. Something was tossed onto her, a blue robe. Piercing white moonlight blinded her, clouding the image of a beautiful demon with white-blond hair and sharp green eyes.

"Cover yourself up, no one wants to see you." His voice was cold, without emotion. Tentacle like foxtails slithered around him, surrounding Kasumi and consuming her. "I never truly loved your mother, so why would I possibly want her whelp?" The fox demons grin slithered out, sharp canines gleaming in the white light. "After all, I have my own wife and children to love. Why would I love or want you?"

Laughter filled her head and she tried to curl into a ball, pulling her arms over her head as if it would stop the noises around her.

Rough fingers pried her from her ball, pinned her down on sharp gravel.

"All I want from you is your body. Once I'm done with you, my men can do whatever they want to you." The grave voice of Kaneshi reached her this time and she opened one eye to see him over top of her, pinning her arms beside her head, dull jagged fingernails dug into her skin, bruising her. She could hear the chortle of laughter around them as the bandits watched Kaneshi rip her blue robes off her body, her screams only furthering the humor of the bandits.

Kaneshi was violently ripped away from her body and white flowing locks filled Kasumi's teary-eyed vision.

"S-Sesshomaru," she cried, reaching out for him but he only looked at her plainly.

Love is an unnecessary emotion.

"You are a means to an end. Once I am through with you, I will get rid of you. You are nothing." His voice was monotone, as it always was. "I would never mate with a silly little halfbreed."

"N-no! L-Lord Sesshomaru!" She cried for him again unable to reach out to him, to move as her body weighed heavily onto her, keeping her pinned in place as he faded into darkness.

Darkness.

The cold feeling of it was familiar to her, reminding her of her time trapped in a demon's gourd. There was no sound.

No color.

No light.

Only Kasumi holding herself in the darkness, clawed fingers digging into her bony arm.

Apparitions appeared around her, ethereal, of Lord Ishikawa beating her, a woman in white with straight, jet back hair standing behind him giggling.

"I never wanted a bastard demon child!" Lord Ishikawa shouted at her. "You killed my Yuriko!"

"We don't need a daughter like her, right dear?" The woman behind Lord Ishikawa slithered her arms around him, the face of the woman missing.

"My Yuriko…" Lord Ishikawa's voice faded slowly as he grasped onto the woman he called Yuriko. With his voice, the apparition dissipated, only once again to reveal Sesshomaru, standing over top of her, staring down at her with cold, uncaring eyes.

Love is an unnecessary emotion.

The sweet shrieking of the fox girl's voice brought a warm smile to Naraku's face. She was chained to a wall, her wrists high above her head, stretching her body out till her toes could barely graze the floor below her. Hordes of Naraku's demon were around her feet, covering the floor in a pool of demons. Dark, slimy tentacles trace Kasumi's bare figure, feeling the writhing, squirming figure of the girl against its grasp made the hanyo's smile grow.

Such an easy girl to figure out. She was afraid of being abandoned, unloved.

Her mind was too weak and simple, easy to manipulate her dreams with each of her anxieties.

"It's almost too easy," Naraku mused as another fearful shriek of Kasumi's filled the air. "It won't take long at all to turn her against Sesshomaru who is too blinded by his demon pride to realize how much he deeply cares for this girl." He chuckled, reaching his fingers out to tuck stray strands of Kasumi's hair behind her cheek. "Come quick, Lord Sesshomaru or I may just make this little kit my new pet."

AUTHOR NOTE:

It wasn't really all that bad, but I wanted to put a proper warning for people out there that like to report people's stories for the stupidest shit.

There's a reason I picked Mature for my rating of this story. It has been very mild-mannered throughout the story progression, and this is probably going to be the ONLY chapter like this, but I may or may not change that.

Also,

Totally sorry this isn't an ACTUAL chapter with the continuation of Sesshomaru rescuing his little kit, but like all good inspiration, it comes to me in the middle of the night after three nights of no sleep, and it only comes to me in short bursts.

I haven't decided how I want to reintroduce Sesshomaru into the whole rescue plan, so the story progression is still on a temporary pause.

I think I might make the next chapter a Yuriko related one, but I don't know yet.

***AUTHOR SIDE NOTE***

You don't have to read this if you don't want to, but I wanted to give a shout out to everyone out there that follows and favorites my story even after months of no update. I truly appreciate that and it means a lot.

I've kind of had a lot of shit going on in life. My fiancee of five years and I split up just last year, shortly after I posted my latest chapter, and he pretty much just ghosted me (prick), so ya know...

That fucking stings. On top of that one of my dogs had to get put down which happened about a month before my ex and I broke up. Precious Corgi that I miss every day with her little short-legged hops.

There was shit going on with my grandma, her daughter (my step aunt not really my aunt anymore but that's a whole other can of worms) started actin dumb, gmom in and out of hospital, having to take care of her, couldn't finish college cause I have no money to do it anymore (financial aid wouldn't do shit for me either for stupid tax reasons cause of my stupid ex step dad which is more can of worms).

But started dating someone else who I love (todays our one year anniversary actually), and fuck all guess what comes around?

We had to put my other dog, who I had for 11, maybe 12 years had to get put down because he was going into diabetic shock and it was awful and I'm still upset about that. Happened the beginning of November so that's fresh and painful. Fuckin bawl my eyes out if i think about it too long. Especially since like my crogi I WAS FUCKING OUT OF TOWN WHEN HE GOT PUT DOWN AND I COULDN"T GIVE MY DOODLE BUG ONE MORE HUG AND HEAD KISSES!

Salty about that.

big hurt.

And on top of ALL of that,

I'm having my own medical issues now too. I've had to get an ultrasound on my bladder and my kidneys and its big-time scary not knowing wtf is going to come out of those tests.

So it's not that I've forgotten about all of you loyal people out there or even you newcomers. It's just I've had a LOT of hard shit come my way the past year and its hard enough even motivating myself to get out of bed, let alone complete a story I started writing Almost two years ago.

I am so close to the finish line with this story. I know it seems like it isn't ever going to get there but I promise ya'll it will happen. Please just be patient with me.

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