Chapter 2. The prisoner.
It had been a little over 2 hours since Bankotsu and Renkotsu had reached their hideout, it was an big mansion protected by a barrier that Naraku had created in order to make sure his enemies wouldn't be able to find the Band of Seven's now five remaining members. Outside the barrier the mansion could not be seen and if anyone tried to enter without their approval the intruder would just zap through the barrier without even knowing and would just think they walked through a clearing in the forest were the mansion stood. Inside the barrier though the mansion was luxurious with three levels and many rooms furnished with expensive furnitures and paintings. The one who had lived here when they had found the mansion was an old man, he had tried to protest in them taking over his home but Suikotsu had with ease killed the man and they had thrown his body out in the woods.
When Bankotsu and Renkotsu first had arrived back from the hot spring with Inu Yasha's wench Jakotsu had thrown an angry tantrum that he did not want a woman there but Bankotsu had looked at his brother and best friend with an ice cold glare and with an even more ice cold voice told him to accept the fact that the wench were there to stay until Naraku had given them orders otherwise. Since then Jakotsu had been laying on the couch in the big living room pouting while the other members ignored him. Thanks to Renkotsu's remodeling the front entrance and all doorways inside on the first floor even Ginkotsu could stay inside though he couldn't go up to the second or third floor he didn't care much as long as he could be inside with his brothers. As soon as Bankotsu had locked up the girl inside one of the rooms on the third floor and made sure the windows couldn't be opened he had left their sleeping prisoner alone and had thrown in her wierd traveling bag after he had made sure her bow and quiver with arrows were disposed of and that she didn't have any other weapons hidden inside the bag before locking the door behind him. Now he sat with his brothers and drank some sake while he was in deep thought.
He had after locking up the wench called forth the saimyosho, Naraku's poisonous insects that was Naraku's eyes and ears while he himself stayed hidden inside the insects had informed Bankotsu that they were to hand the girl over to Naraku the very next morning. He had informed is brothers of it and now they were just waiting for the morning to come.
Kagome slowly opened her eyes, she was laying on a bed in a room she didn't recognized. She looked up at the ceiling trying to remeber what had happend to her and where she was when her eyes widened in shock and fear when she remembered what had happened to her in the hot spring, the Band of Seven had kidnapped her. She bolted up from her position and let out a small noice of pain and slowly put her hand on her forehead, whatever the drug Bankotsu had made her inhale it had given her a headache. She looked around the room and saw a window which was clearly bolted shut from the inside and on the outside she could see planks of wood and steel bars covering the window she saw a small desk with a chair and a big old antique looking cupboard beside the door, she slowly crawled out of the bed that was much bigger than she had realised and saw her backpack and walked slowly to it and opened it and looked through it and find with a sigh of relief the bottle with painkillers and her bottle with water and she took two pills out of the medicine bottle and put them into her mouth and opened the bottle and swallowed the pills together with the water and then after have closed both bottles she put them back into her bag when she realised her shirt was grasing against her naked breasts and she let a emberrassed and low scream leave her lips and she put one of her arm over her chest and started to look after her bra inside her bag praying that those mercenaries hadn't taken it or thrown it away, when she found it a heavy sigh left her lips and she looked cautiously back at the door and then took of her shirt and put her bra back on her as fast as she could and put her shirt back on when she heard footsteps coming from the other side of the doors and she backed away as far as she could from the door and waited.
Bankotsu and the others suddenly heard an faint scream from upstairs and a mischievous smile played on his lips.
"Seems like our 'guest' finally is awake, Suikotsu go up and get her, but don't kill her." he said as he looked to his brother Suikotsu that have been cleaning his metal claws. Suikotsu nodded as an answer and put is claws back onto his hands and then left the living room and went upstairs to the third floor. When he unlocked the door and opened it he saw the girl stand against the wall beside the window, he grinned menacing
"Come here, Bankotsu wants you downstairs." Suikotsu looked at the girl and saw that in her eyes that she were scared yet she also had defiance in them. Kagome looked Suikotsu in his eyes and wanted to refuse to go with him but she had seen what he was capable of in battles and decided that it would be for the best to do as he said and slowly started walk towards him. When she was in an arms lenght from him he grabbed her in the arm and dragged her with him down all the stairs and walked in with her into the living room were the rest of her captors sat or in Jakotsu's case laying down on couches or armchairs. Ginkotsu stood in a corner of the room looking at Kagome and Suikotsu when they appeard. Renkotsu looked up from the scrolls he was reading and gave a faint yet menacing smile towards Kagome and then looked down to the scrolls again continuing to read. Jakotsu glared towards Kagome and then rolled so that his back was against them while Bankotsu just looked at Kagome and sipped on his cup of sake before saying anything.
"Well, wench. Welcome to our home and now that you are awake we can hand you over to Naraku." he said while smiling yet his eyes had a dangerous shine in them. Suikotsu let go of Kagome's arm and went to sit down onto the comfortable chair he sat on before and looked at the girl. Kagome did not move from where Suikotsu had left her and she glared at Bankotsu 'the girl got guts I'll give her that' Suikotsu thought and picked up his cup and refilled it with sake and drank slowly enjoying the taste as the liquor ran past his mouth and down his throat.
"What do Naraku want with me? If it Inu Yasha he is after Naraku would just waste his time right now, Inu Yasha won't move for a while." Kagome said and ignored the fact that he had called her wench. Bankotsu's smile grew even wider and he looked at the girl and said
"Yeah, both me and Renkotsu kinda figured that after seeing whatever you did to him." Kagome blushed faintly and started to regret that she had been so meticulous with all her sit commands towards Inu Yasha, she glanced towards the window and saw the sun shine it was already morning and she glared at Bankotsu again 'It will probably take Inu Yasha at least until tomorrow before he will able to move and probably a couple of days extra for him to sulk before going through the well to her time and realise she never got home. And what do Naraku want with me? He has tried to kill me so many times why change his tactics now?' she thought and sighed and looked again on Bankotsu but the one that broke the silence was Jakotsu who had bolted up from the couch after hearing Kagome's comment about Inu Yasha and he glared furious at Kagome as he slowly walked towards her.
"what did you do to my Inu Yasha to make him unable to move, wench?! What did you force him to go through?!" Jakotsu yelled angry. Kagome looked at Jakotsu with a surprised look as the rest of the Band of Seven sighed and looked at Jakotsu's outburst. Kagome then realised what Jakotsu thought her comment on Inu Yasha not being able to move was for and looked at him with an angry glare.
"Get your head out of your ass and listen very, very careful, Jakotsu." Kagome's voice was dripping with anger and pure hatred over what Jakotsu actually had thought that she had done with Inu Yasha as she continued she saw that the other members had now started starring at her aswell as Jakotsu
"Inu Yasha made me mad so I just made him go through the ground a couple of hundred times so his back gave out, and unless you don't believe me, why not ask, Bankotsu or Renkotsu that claim to have seen what happend you annoying cross dresser!" Kagome yelled in front of Jakotsu with her chocolate brown eyes flashing with anger. Jakotsu looked back at Bankotsu and Renkotsu waiting for them to tell him the girl was telling the truth or not. Bankotsu looked at Kagome and grinned and then he looked at Jakotsu
"She's telling the truth so stop emberrass yourself, Jakotsu" Bankotsu said and Jakotsu relaxed and then glared at Kagome and with a snorting he walked back to the couch and sat down. Kagome ignored Jakotsu and glared towards Bankotsu who was just sitting in his chair looking at her with an amused smile and Kagome clenched her hands as she watched him
"What the hell are you looking at, Bankotsu?!" she asked and this time Bankotsu stood up and started walking towards her. Kagome forced herself not to back away and looked up into Bankotsu's clear blue eyes when he stopped right in front of her.
Bankotsu smirked when he saw that the girl actually wanted to back away from him but forced herself to stay and he looked down on her meeting her eyes.
"Naraku wanted you to be captured alive if possible and now that we have you we will move out to hand you over. Too bad we can't have a taste of you though since I am curious of what is so special about you since the dog seems so over protective of you. Is it good to spread your legs for him, wench?" He said and gave Kagome a cocky smile. Renkotsu and Suikotsu smirked at what their leader said while Jakotsu put out his tongue in disgust. Kagome stared at Bankotsu and her cheeks slowly turned red as she blushed and her eyes flashed with furious flames of anger and hatred and before anyone was able to react the high sound of Kagomes hand giving a hard slap over Bankotsu's cheek. Suikotsu, Renkotsu, Jakotsu and Ginkotsu starred at Kagome and Bankotsu with their jaws dropped, they had never seen their leader getting slapped before and they knew that Kagome just might have signed her own death sentence.
A red handprint slowly took form on Bankotsu's cheek and he looked down on the wench that just had slapped her with both surprise and anger and was just about to say something when Kagome started talking, her voice shaking with anger, she looked Bankotsu in his eyes, her fear gone.
"NOW LISTEN HERE YOU BASTARD! MY NAME IS KAGOME, NOT WENCH! AND WHY THE HELL WOULD I LET INU YASHA BE MY FIRST IN ANYTHING WHEN HE CAN'T EVEN GET HARD UNLESS THE GIRL IS DEAD AND MADE OUT OF CLAY?! YOU PERVERT!" Kagome yelled and glared at Bankotsu. Bankotsu looked at Kagome while he listened to what she just had said and an mischievous smile formed on his lips and he cought her wrist with his hand.
"So you're still a virgin then?" His smile grew even wider when Kagome looked up to him and her eyes widened and she started to blush when she realised what she had just said and immediately tried to get loose but Bankotsu's grip on her wrist just got tighter.
"L-let go of me!" Kagome demanded while she looked up on the man and could see his amused and evil smile on his face and her whole body suddenly filled up with fear. Bankotsu looked down at the girl, amused by the fear she now felt and he then walked towards Ginkotsu dragging Kagome with him while she kept struggling to get free. When Bankotsu let go of hand she immediately backed away from him only to bump into someone behind her and she looked back over her shoulder to a familliar scene of having Renkotsu behind her and he quickly grabbed her hands and held them together in front of her. Kagome immediately started to struggle again and glared at the fire breather with both fear and anger. Bankotsu just smirked and took a rope from a sack that was on Ginkotsu and walked to them and bound Kagome's hands tightly together. He then grabbed her arm and as soon as Renkotsu let go of the girl he dragged her to Ginkotsu and threw her up on his metal body and before the girl was able to react he jumped up and bound her legs aswell.
Everyone else in the living room had moved around to get ready to leave and as soon everyone was sitting on Ginkotsu he started to move towards the hall and the entrance.
Kagome sat beside Bankotsu and tried to get loose but when Ginkotsu had started to move she knew there was no use and she glared at her captors but she choose to keep quiet but when they had left the mansion and started to move towards she started to get scared. She and her friends had not known for a long time where Naraku kept himself hidden but they did know that it should be in this area. 'But he couldn't possibly hide in the sacred mountain, right? He would get purified. Or is the barrier just a way to keep us to think that? Does that mean someone with reiki is helping him?' Kagome's thought were interupted when Jakotsu spoke.
"What the hell does Naraku want with the wench anyway?" Kagome clenched her jaw and forced herself to be quiet she had to find a way to escape but with her hands and legs bound she couldn't do much.
"Don't know and don't really care, Jakotsu. He did say he wanted to kill her in front of Inu Yasha so maybe that is it?" Bankotsu said. It would take them about three to four hours to reach the mountain and Naraku's hidden castle in there and whatever Naraku had planned for the girl it was not any of their concern. He looked down at the girl and couldn't help but be a little curious himself. They had been fighting her and her group for three years now and the years had definitely done wonders on her. The girl had matured and her curves had filled out to be more of a young woman, than that of a woman-child she had been when they first had seen her. Bankotsu closed his eyes and forced his thoughts to retreat. He did not need to start to think that the wench was attractive, even if she was that. She would probably be killed as soon as they handed her over so letting his fantasies wander on her now would just be useless. Suikotsu and Renkotsu had both seen the look that had passed Bankotsu's eyes for a few seconds and they both knew that the girl was Bankotsu's type, maybe a little bit too feisty but her looks was definitely his type but neither said anything. They knew their leader and if he had wanted to he could have taken her before they left and since he didn't it was all the signs they needed to know that he just wanted to get this job done and go back to the mansion.