Here is chapter 8! I hope you enjoy it more action will happen in chapter 9 I think. I'm not sure but something will happen in the next chapter, not gonna tell you all what though :) This chapter became a little rushed because I'm going on a trip over the weekend. Any way, I am so happy that you all are following my story, thank you all! :)
Chapter 8.
Bankotsu and his brothers sat in the living room and everyone except Jakotsu was annoyed that Inu Yasha and his group was in the area. Bankotsu looked at Suikotsu and tried to come up with a plan, they didn't have to show themselves but if Naraku had the saimyosho tell them to fight the Inutachi they couldn't refuse since that would make the evil half demon suspicious. He let out a heavy sigh and looked at Renkotsu.
"Renkotsu, I think we shouldn't do anything unless Naraku says something, knowing him he probably knows that Inu Yasha is in this area but should we tell the girl?" Bankotsu looked at Renkotsu and even though he didn't like how sneaky the man could be sometimes he was still the smartest of them and that was why he was their strategist. Renkotsu thought for a moment before he shook his head and sighed.
"I think we should tell her but I doubt she wants to see them right now. Having them see her now and then knowing what has happened to her will make them fuss over her and make them want to sheild her from everything. I have almost finished making the basement into a training hall and the girl needs to get some sort of outlet for what has happened other than crying in her sleep like Jakotsu tells me she does. I really think that training her to fight will help her get over it a little faster." Renkotsu looked at their leader while he spoke and Bankotsu nodded and slowly rose from his chair.
"Okay then, Jakotsu, you and I will go up and talk to her, bring her some breakfast aswell" Bankotsu said as he walked out of the living room and up the stairs. Jakotsu looked after him and sighed a little before going to the kitchen and took a tray and put a bowl with the stew that was their breakfast and took a cup and filled it with water and then walked out of the kitchen and followed Bankotsu upstairs.
Bankotsu waited in the hallway outside Kagome's room until Jakotsu came up the stairs, once his best friend was beside him he knocked on the door and waited, when he heard a sleepy voice allowing them to enter he opened the door and let Jakotsu walk in first and he then stepped inside the room himself and closed the door behind him. He looked to the bed and saw that the girl was still in it, she had wierd sleeping clothes on her but they cover her completely and he watched as Jakotsu walked to her and placed the tray beside her.
Kagome had been laying in her bed reading a book that she had taken from her backpack when she had heard the door knock and though she was awake she couldn't stifle the tiredness from her voice and she then saw Jakotsu walk in with a tray of food and she gave him a grateful but weak smile. She still couldn't bring herself to leave the room and she still felt slightly afraid of being near any of the mercenaries but Jakotsu made her feel a little more safe around him since she knew he would never touch her in any intimate manner.
She then saw Bankotsu step inside the room and close the door behind her and she became slightly tense but still took the bowl of stew and the spoon in her hands and waited. She had only seen the man that one time when he had come to her after she had woken up and he had offered to train her and join her and her friends to fight Naraku. If Bankotsu was here now it probably meant he wanted to tell or ask her something. Bankotsu walked to the bed and sat down at the chair since Jakotsu sat on the bed and he looked into the girls brown eyes.
"Inu Yasha and the rest of your friends are in the area. We don't know if Naraku wants us to do anything about it but do you want us to take them here to you?" He asked and he saw how Kagome's eyes widened in shock but also in fear.
Kagome looked at Bankotsu with wide eyes filled of shock and fear before she shook her head. No, she did not want her friends to see her like this not until she could hold her own again. She took a deep breath and looked into Bankotsu's cerulean eyes.
"Please, don't take them here… I… I'm not ready to face them." Kagome's voice was shaking as she spoke, just the thought of what her friends might say or do scared her. She knew deep down that they would never blame or hate her for what happened to her but she still couldn't shake the fear she had of them blaming her for it. Bankotsu looked at Kagome and nodded slowly and stood up.
"Okay then, good I am not sure they would come here willingly without making a fuss, if Naraku order us to fight them we will hold back. You don't have to worry, as I said, we will be your allies." Bankotsu said as he walked to the door and opened it but before he left he looked at Kagome once more.
"Renkotsu is soon done with making the basement to a training hall so you can start your training." Bankotsu said and he then left the room closing the door after him.
Once the door was closed Kagome relaxed slightly and looked at Jakotsu before her attention went to the food and she slowly started to eat the stew. Jakotsu looked at Kagome and he noticed how, as soon as Bankotsu left the room she relaxed and he sighed and sat down in the chair instead and looked at her.
"Um… Kagome, I know this probably will take time but you have to trust me, none of my brothers will ever do anything like that to you. They don't have to force themselves on women." Jakotsu said and Kagome met his eyes with her own and for a few minutes she didn't say anything and just continue to eat her food, once the bowl was empty she put it back on the tray and placed the spoon beside it and she sighed.
"I'm sorry, Jakotsu. I just don't feel comfortable around them. I don't know what to do. I want to get over this but as soon as any of your brothers come near me something inside me screams at me to run, to hide. I'm don't feel completely safe with you either even though I know you would never touch me since you are only attracted to men." Kagome broke eye contact with Jakotsu and looked down at her hands with tears in her eyes as she bit her bottom lip to stop herself from breaking into tears and sobs.
"W-what if I can't bear to be near Inu Yasha or Miroku? What if I freak out when S-Shippo tries to hug me?" Kagome looked up at Jakotsu as her tears slowly started to fall down her cheeks and she continued.
"What if I can never hug my little brother or my grandfather?" Kagome slowly started to cry as those words left her lips and she hid her face in her hands as she let her tears fall and let her heart cry out all of her pain and fears. Jakotsu looked ad Kagome in slight shock and he didn't know what to do. He hated when girls was crying it always made him angry and irritated but over the few days he had gotten to know Kagome and she had really accepted him for who he was without looking at him like she was sick or disgusting made him not feel those emotions instead he wanted to somehow make her smile. He wanted to help her to come back to the girl she was before Naraku raped her.
Jakotsu slowly stood up from the chair and took the tray and put it on the cupboard beside the bed and sat down right beside Kagome and he slowly put his arms on her shoulders and gave her a small hug but made sure not to let his hand be anywhere else but on her shoulder.
"Kagome, you are strong, you fought Naraku with all you might and you continued to fight him the moment you started to purify his miasma inside you. What he did to you was horrible but it can make you stronger. Don't let that bastard win now. I don't know what exactly to say or do for you to feel better and more safe but I do know that you would never freak out over that little runt you seem to be a mother to. And that about your younger brother and grandfather… I think that if you really search inside of yourself you should already know that you would never be afraid of them, right?" Jakotsu looked down at Kagome. When he first had put his arm around her shoulders and given her the hug her whole body had become stiff but she had slowly relaxed against him and he couldn't help but smile down at her as she looked at him with shock in her teary wide chocolate brown eyes.
Kagome saw how Jakotsu sat down in her bed beside her but it didn't scare her as much when he did that, but her body stiffened the moment he put his arm around her shoulders and pulled her in for a hug and she felt how she started to panic but as soon as he started to talk she slowly couldn't help but relax and look up at him and once he finished she couldn't do anything more than just stare up at him. Once his words sunk in and she started to think about them she couldn't do anything more than agree and a small but warm smile pulled on her lips and she hugged Jakotsu carefully.
"Thank you Jakotsu. You are right, Shippo is just a child and I helped raise my brother and my grandfather would never harm me. But I don't think I would be able to be near Inu Yasha or Miroku… I'm just so scared. What if they blame me for this? What if Sango blames me aswell?" Kagome looked up at Jakotsu as she started to tremble in fear of that thought. And Jakotsu sighed and hugged Kagome carefully.
"I don't think they would do that and I know you already knows it aswell and if the really do blame you for something like this then they are much worse than Naraku. Jakotsu said and he felt how Kagome slowly nodded her head and he sighed and leaned his back against the bed's headboard and they just sat in silence as he let Kagome calm down.
Once Kagome had calmed down Jakotsu and her had moved from her bed and sat on the floor in the middle of the room and were just talking with each other as Kagome looked through her bag for some clean clothes and as soon as she had gotten a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt. Kagome then looked at Jakotsu who immediately turned around so that he had his back to her and Kagome let her lips tug into a small smile as she mumbled a 'thank you' to him and she then undressed her pajamas and put on her jeans and T-shirt.
"I'm done, Jakotsu." She said and Jakotsu just turned back to her and looked a little at her clothes.
"Hey, Kags. Where do you get all those wierd clothes of yours?" Jakotsu asked and Kagome tensed slightly and looked at him for a moment.
"I… I get them from my home, where I come from this is the kind of clothes you wear." Kagome said, she didn't know if she could really trust the Band of Seven just yet and she hoped that Jakotsu wouldn't ask more and to her relief he just nodded in acceptance and slowly stood up.
"Okay, I have just never seen your type of clothes before but never mind that. Kagome what do you say to come with me downstairs?" Jakotsu looked at Kagome and sighed when she trembled slightly, the girl was still terrified and he knew she didn't feel safe around his brothers.
"Listen, Kagome. You don't have to sit with my brothers, you can sit with me if you want but you need to get out of this room before we start training you. I know that you are scared and I know that it was just a few days ago since Naraku raped you but if you stay here until your training start you will be even more scared, I promise that none of my brothers will touch you." Jakotsu looked into Kagome's scared eyes and waited for her to give him an answer. Kagome looked at Jakotsu for several minutes with wide and scared eyes as she thought about what he just had said and let her shoulders slump slightly and nodded slowly, she didn't want to leave her room but she couldn't deny that it would be better for her to get used to be downstairs before she started to train and she looked at Jakotsu with uncertain eyes.
"Okay, but only if you promise me the others won't get too close…" Kagome saw how Jakotsu nodded and stood up and walked to the door and opened it and waited for her to walk out of the room first.
"I promise, Kagome. They won't do anything." Jakotsu smiled at Kagome as she walked out of her room and he followed after her and closed the door and they both started to walk down the stairs.