Chapter 3. Naraku and the Castle Inside .
When they entered through the barrier surrounding the sacred mountain Kagome could immediately sense the demonic aura that came from inside the mountain aswell as the tainted jewel in Naraku's possession and her body tensed and she bit on her lower lip. She had hoped during their way to the mountain that maybe Inu Yasha had been nearby or maybe Kouga. Heck even Sesshomaru might have been a chance for her rescue but it didn't seem like the Gods had heard her and now she was soon in the grasp of the most evil half demon in the history. She forced her tears away and she looked forward and saw a cave entrance up ahead and when they got close enough Ginkotsu stopped and Bankotsu jumped of him and took his Banryuu before he dragged Kagome down so she landed over his shoulder and he placed Banryuu over his other shoulder and looked at his brothers.
"Okay, Ginkotsu I want you to stay here so that we can leave as soon as we hand the wench over. Renkotsu, Suikotsu, Jakotsu you are comming with me." Bankotsu said while Kagome tried to get of Bankotsu but she stopped shortly since she couldn't do much in this situation. Bankotsu didn't pay the squirming girl no mind and started to walk through the cave with his brothers following behind while Ginkotsu stayed behind.
They had been walking in no more than twenty minutes when they cave broadened and a castle could be seen, Kagome however could only see some of it since she was hanging over Bankotsu's shoulder with her back towards the castle and she immediately started to get scared. 'I need to get the hell away from here!' Her mind screamed but before she could start struggling she could hear someone speak
"Naraku is waiting for you in the usual room, Bankotsu-sama." Kohaku's emotionless voice said and Kagome's heart sank when she heard her best friends brother. He was obviously under Naraku's control right now probably to make sure the boy wouldn't try to fight the control that evil half demon had over him. Kagome had seen Kohaku fight against it before after all. Bankotsu looked into the empty eyes of Kohaku when he passed the boy and entered the castle before he spoke.
"I know." Was all he said before he walked away with his brother close behind him and he walked down a hallway until they reached two big doors and he felt the girl suddenly shudder and wondered briefly if she was getting sick before he pushed the thoughts aside and pushed the doors open with ease and walked in and the doors closed behind him once his brothers had walked in to the room. Kagome felt his aura before they even opened the door. She knew he was already inside. That thought made her shudder in fear and she swallowed hard when she saw the doors they walked through closing behind them. She looked around the room looked to be a training room of some sort and the fact that she could feel Naraku's presence and his cold stare on her back made the hair in her neck to stand. Naraku stood in the other end of the room with an evil smile on his face. He could finally use Inu Yasha's wench to find the rest of the jewel shards. He looked at Bankotsu and didn't even acknowledge the other three men instead his eyes fell of the girl over Bankotsu's shoulder.
"You can put the girl down now Bankotsu. I have an offer for her. But you and your brothers will stay until I say otherwise." Naraku said and Bankotsu just nodded and walked to the middle of the room and just dropped her onto the floor without any care and then he walked back to his brothers to watch whatever what was about to happened. Jakotsu, Suikotsu and Renkotsu just looked at Naraku, they had been allowed to meet him the first time 2 years ago, neither of them trusted him, of course Bankotsu didn't trust him either but the half demon had their lives in his hand so they had to obey his order. Renkotsu however started to wonder what in the world Naraku was planning to offer the girl and his eyes fell on the young girl. She would probably just start crying and say she would do anything Naraku wanted. Renkotsu knew that the girl, which had crawled up so that she sat up and was glaring at Bankotsu, was strong but all females was weak as soon as their lives were at risk.
When Bankotsu dropped Kagome on the floor she let out a low whimpering sound and slowly sat and send Bankotsu an angry glare and she really wanted to yell at him but when she heard the rustling of clothes from behind her and felt Naraku getting closer she turned her head and looked up at the man, the half demon she hated so much for hurting her friends and she swallowed her fear, she couldn't, no wouldn't let this bastard intimidate her to do whatever it was he wanted from her. She already had a good idea of what it was but she couldn't be certain of it. Naraku was someone she had learn never to underestimate. Her chocolate brown eyes flashed in anger and hatred.
"What the hell do you want Naraku?!" Kagome spat out as she glared up at the man. Naraku looked down at the young miko and his evil smile grew wider.
"That is simple, miko. You are going to join me and help me find the last of the shards, I have waited very long for you to be brought to me." Naraku said as he looked down on the girl that had her hands and legs bound as she sat on the floor before him. Kagome gave Naraku an hateful glare and snorted in disgust.
"No freaking way in hell that I will help you Naraku!" Kagome spat and every word dripped of venom. Naraku's eyes narrowed and he grabbed Kagome and lifted her up by her hair until she stood up.
"Listen here little miko. You don't have a choice in the matter help me or you and your friends dies." He said as he glared down at the human girl in his grasp. Kagome let out a painful groan when Naraku forced her up to stand and she looked up in his eyes.
"I would never betray my friends for you, YOU BASTARD!" Kagome yelled as loud as he could so that Naraku's sensitive ears would hurt and hurt they did, Naraku nearly cringed at the sound of the human girl screaming at him and he looked at her with eyes pure of anger and a promise of pure pain. He let go of Kagome's hair but before she could react he slapped her across her face hard enough to make her fall back a few feet and land on her back but not hard enough to injure her neck.
Once the girl hit the floor she slowly sat up, and put her bound hands slowly to her cheek and cringed by the pain and wetness and she looked at her hands and could see a little blood on them, Naraku had hit her hard enough for his claws to scratch her, it wasen't to deep but it was bleeding and she glared up at him with tears in her eyes, it hurt but there was no way she was gonna give in. 'I need to hold on. Naraku is crazy if he thinks I'm gonna betray the ones I love!' Kagome thought while Naraku walked up to her and kicked her hard in her stomach. He was mindful of not giving her any internal injuries or broken bones. 'I need the damn bitch alive after all.' He thought while he looked down at the girl that was now laying on the wooden floor with her eyes closed, holding her bound hands over her stomach while she gasped in pain and tried to regain her breath. Kagome slowly opened her eyes and glared up at Naraku while he let out an angry growl and grabbed her hair again and lifted her up in a sitting position while he looked into her eyes.
"Just give up and do what I say and I will stop hurting you, miko." He said, his opinion on women where the same as many other males, women where weak and was easily subdued. Kagome glared at him she could feel tears in her eyes over the pain she still felt from the kick in her stomach but she refused to let them fall and she gritted her teeth.
"Go to hell, Naraku. I will not do anything for you! And your threat on my friends won't get you anywhere because I know you will kill them even if I would agree to work for you. You are a dishonset bastard! I don't trust anything you say!" Kagome said through her teeth, every word trembling in anger and the pain she felt.
Naraku wasen't happy with her answer at all and he let go of her hair and grabbed her throat and lifted her up in the air and squeezed her throat making it hard for her to breath. 'Why the hell is this girl not giving up?!' He thought and she looked at her as her bound hands tried to claw at his wrist in an attempt to make him release her and she looked at him. He could see that she was afriad but she still wouldn't give up. He smirked evilly, he would change her mind, no matter how strong this girl was she was just that. A girl. He then threw her across the room so she slammed her back into the wall beside the mercenaries. When Kagome's back slammed into the wall she let out a loud and painful yelp and fell down to the floor and she could feel her tears slowly fall down her cheeks but she willed them to stop and looked up at the half demon walking towards her and she glared through her tearfilled eyes. 'What should I do?! I can't fight when I'm bound like this and I haven't been able to perfect how to put up barriers yet. I have to find a way to fight back!' her thought where interupted when she felt a sharp pain over one of her legs and cried out, she then saw that Naraku had hit her with one of his tentacles using it like a whip. The whip then grabbed her and lifted her up and threw her to the middle of the room again and she landed hard on her side and she gasped in pain and tried to sit up only to feel the tentacle whip her again this time over her back and she cried out again.
After almost an hour of beating the girl with his tentacle Naraku stopped and walked to Kagome, who was laying on the floor, her body full of bruises and small cuts that his tentacle had inflicted, he could smell her tears now and he smirked. He once again grabbed her hair and brought her up so he could see her face.
"Are you ready to do what I say now, miko?" He asked, Kagome had tears in her eyes but she still glared at her, her throat hurt from all the screaming and she didn't know if she could talk without it hurting like hell so instead she looked into his eyes hand spit in his face when he asked her if she would give up. She knew she was probably gonna die for it but right know she wasen't scared of it and while he was too shocked by her action she took it as her only chance to retaliate and focused her reiki into her hands and shot it at Naraku's chest making him cry out in pain and let go of her hair and jump away from her.
She had gotten a lot better at controlling her reiki over the last three years, she couldn't do much but she could produce small balls of reiki for close range attacks but she also knew that the power she had just used was all she could do right now, she had used as much as she could without draining herself to much, her reiki was trying to heal her injuries, it was a very slow process since she hadn't quite mastered her healing abilitys yet either. She looked at Naraku and clenched her jaw when she realised that he had been able to get away faster than she had thought, his haori and juban was burned and he had burnt flesh but it was already trying to heal. Naraku growled both in rage and shock, he had not thought the girl would be this strong and since it was now obvious she wouldn't give up he made his decision 'If she is not gonna work for me I will just taint her and leave her for dead so Inu Yasha can find her body.' And with that thought he let his tentacle stab Kagome in her stomach, not hard enough to pierce through her body though and he then injected a large amount of his miasma inside her body.
Kagome let out a pained cry when Naraku's tentacle stabbed her stomach and then she felt his miasma enter her body and she fell down to the floor whimpering in pain as she felt new tears form in her eyes and her body slowly became unable to move. Naraku let his tentacle move out of the wound it had created as he walked to the girl and grabbed her bound hands and held them over her head and made her lie down on her back, he looked down at her with an evil grin on his lips and he then grabbed her shirt and ripped it to shreds with little efforts and he then did the same with her skirt. Kagome gasped and tried to squirm free but when she moved a burning pain ran through her body and she let out a painfilled whimper. The miasma slowly spread inside her body making it nearly impossible to move without her feeling an strong burning pain. Naraku looked down at her with an evil smirk and then he looked at her strange undergarments and easily used his claws to slice through the fabric that covered her breasts and then he immedatly did the same on the small fabric covering her most intimate part.
Once she was naked Naraku removed his hakama while making sure one of his hands held Kagome's hands in place over her head. Then he used his claws to slice through the ropes that bound Kagome's feet and started to spread her legs. Kagome tried to keep her legs closed but her body didn't respond and she could feel tears stream down her cheeks. There was nothing she could do, Naraku's miasma had made her body unable to move and that had made her reiki act on instinct and was trying to keep the miasma from spreading while at the same time trying to purify it, she couldn't do anything whenever she moved pain filled her body and when Naraku started to spread her legs she let out more whimpering filled with pain.
"If you just had done what I told you, you wouldn't be in so much pain, little miko. But I will enjoy the look in your friends face when they see your dead body." Naraku let out a dark chuckle when he said that and he then he placed himself between her legs while placing his hard member at Kagome's entrance and without any warning thrust into her. Kagome jerked as she felt the intrusion and let out a cry of pain when her virgin barrier broke. She clenched her teeth hard and squeezed her eyes shut and tried once more to get her hand loose or at least force her reiki into her hands anew but all she got was jolts of pain from her body as the miasma continue to spread inside her as Naraku started to thrust inside her in a hard and fast pace. The pain never left her and after a few moments she opened her eyes and glared at the half demon above her while he continued to move, their eyes met and her eyes where filled with such strong hatred and pain but also the hazy dizziness of losing consciousness that it made Naraku grin evilly and soon after he slowly leaned down over her and as he came inside her, she could hear his whisper before the darkness claimed her.
"That look of hatred suits you. Maybe once your precious friends are dead I'll bring you back so we can do this again, little miko." Naraku then pulled out of her and put his clothes back on and walked towards the door on the opposite side of the room from where Bankotsu and his brothers stood and once he was at the door he opened it and looked back at them without even spearing Kagome's still form a glance.
"Take her off the mountain and dump her somewhere where Inu Yasha and is friends can find her dead corpse. She will not survive the night." With those words he left the room and closed the door behind him and was gone before anyone of the mercenaries could respond.
Bankotsu and his brothers was slightly shocked that the girl had refused to do what Naraku wanted and she hadn't once begged for her life once Naraku had poisoned her with his miasma not even during her rape and what effected Bankotsu the most was the scene in front of him now, memories he thought was dead and gone resurfaced with such a force that it made him almost believe that he was back to that very moment in his childhood where he lost the one he had actually cared for strong enough to be willing to die for. When Suikotsu made a move to walk towards the still girl in the middle of the room he was stopped when Bankotsu raised his hand in an silent order for him to stay put and when Suikotsu looked back at his leader he saw him put his banryuu against the wall next to the door before he walked past Suikotsu letting his bangs hide his face. Bankotsu walked up to Kagome's limp form, he could hear her shallow breath and he slowly lifted her naked form and held her against his chest and turned and walked back to his brothers and he then changed his grip on the girl so that he held her in only one arm as he took banryuu in his free hand and put it back on his shoulder and walked out of the room and with fast steps walk out of the castle towards the tunnel that would lead him and his brothers out of the mountain and back to where Ginkotsu was waiting.
His brothers was following him close behind and Renkotsu and Jakotsu both looked at each other. They both knew what went through their leaders head right now and all they could do was wait for him to say something. Suikotsu followed them aswell and wondered what was going on. It was obvious that something had upset Bankotsu but he knew better than to question him. When they stepped out of the cave and was about to jump on to Ginkotsu's body to prepare to head of the mountain Bankotsu freezed in his step to jump up and his brothers looked down at him and they all took a deep breath in surprise. Bankotsu looked down with slightly wide eyes down on the girl in his arm. Her body had started to glow pink and her breath had become a little steadier. Bankotsu just looked at his brothers and jumped up on Ginkotsu's metal body and motioned him to start moving, he also looked at his brothers in an silent order not to say anything and in silence they slowly left the mountain and the barrier behind. Bankotsu looked down at the glowing girl. 'She hasen't given up yet, she still is trying to live. She is actually using her reiki in order to heal herself and purify the miasma, I have never heard of a miko or monk that could survive such strong miasma as the one Naraku possess.' He thought and he then scanned the area they were traveling to make sure Naraku's minions or insects was not following them and he looked at his brothers who was staring at him waiting for him to say something.
"We are going back to the hideout. Suikotsu, I want you to mix up something that might get the miasma inside the girl to weaken so that she can purify it easier." Bankotsu said and he could see the confusion in Suikotsu's eyes aswell as in Jakotsu's and Renkotsu's eyes though their eyes was calmer since they probably knew very well why he had decided this.
"But Bankotsu, Naraku told us to dump her somewhere outside so that her group could find her, why take her back, she won't survive the night if we are to believe what Naraku said." Suikotsu said and he frowned in confusion over why their leader would risk helping the girl. Bankotsu glared at Suikotsu before he spoke.
"Idiot, think about it. Right now this wench is trying to stay alive and are trying even when she is not even conscious to purify the miasma he injected in her body, the girl have not given up and if she is strong enough to survive we might have use of her power to get our lives back for good." He said, it wasen't a total lie there was another reason for him to want to help the girl even if she was an enemy, his memory that had resurfaced earlier wouldn't leave him and he didn't plan on telling his brothers about that instead he used the fact that if the girl is strong enough to survive that they could use her power of a miko to free themselves from Naraku's claws. Though he knew that Jakotsu and Renkotsu knew of that reason and that was why neither of them said anything to object. Suikotsu looked at Bankotsu and had a suspicion that there were more to what he was saying but he didn't say anything instead he just nodded and then he took of his haori and looked into Bankotsu's eyes while he threw it over the naked girl in his arms, he had been ordered to help the girl. The last thing he needed was for her to get sick while they traveled back to the mansion.
"Fine, I'll do what I can but then it's up to the wench. I will not be held responsible if she does not survive." Suikotsu grumbled while he sat down and looked into space infront of him. Bankotsu only nodded and put Suikotsu's haori around the still glowing girl's body and the rest of the way back to the hideout was quiet. All of them deep in their own thoughts while the sun slowly set behind them.