Okie Dokie……sorry, I realize my spacing didn't work so hot last time S sorry all, I'm going to try something different to a.) Make it more dramatic and b.) Make it less confusing. Also for the person 'yourfan'that was the name right…o.o? a miko is a priestess….like Kagome in the unaltered REAL series -
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Now on with the story.
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Disclaimer: I am not Rumiko Takahashi; therefore I do not own the ORIGINAL story or the ORIGINAL stories contents, however the fiction I have created here is purely my imagination and WILL NOT BE COPIED.
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LAST TIME:
Kagome stared off at him as he retreated, calling out softly as he left.
"Taisho Sesshoumaru – dono, my brother is going to murder you."
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Kagome sighed and quietly banged her head on the iron bars.
Two days.
For two days she had been locked up, or rather down here. But still she had faith. Her brother wouldn't let this stand, in fact he may even be grateful to her; she had given him reason to attack Sesshoumaru.
Would he be grateful enough to let me go free?
Kagome sighed and paced aimlessly in circles, she had her little track memorized now, by the left wall that was left bare, dodge the bed and dip back by the wall until she hit the curtained chamber pot and swerved beside it before she was back at the bars. Her feet had carried her through this path many times…it was a very dull life as a prisoner.
But at least it's safe behind these bars. I dread for those who are opposite of them.
The nasty wiggling little thoughts were worming there way into her head again. Dejectedly Kagome stopped her under-worked feet and slumped onto the bed, her head in her hands as she went through her options.
I should tell them…save them…
That was the right thing to do…give herself up to her brother and let these people live.
No, I should be the one to live, let them die and let me live my own life, away from him
Kagome moaned lightly as she rolled her neck around, getting the kinks out of her neck.
I am so selfish…
I deserve to live in freedom!
These poor people…
They captured me, they deserve to die!
You wanted to be captured; you let yourself be caught by those two younglings
"Shut up!" Kagome screamed, closing her eyes in a pained grimace and willing the voices to go away.
Why her?
Why did she have to fight this battle? It wasn't fair…to be given hell's spawn for a brother, and to still love him as a brother. It wasn't fair that she had to possess miko and youki and contain them in her body.
Life isn't fair…
Kagome growled, her extended incisors glinting in the pale sunlight that filtered through the barred window.
"I thought I told you to shut up." Her inner most thoughts had a strange way of traveling through her vocal cords to float meaningless into the air.
You're just a waste of oxygen…
Kagome smirked when the voice of another floated through her tortured mind.
"I do not recall speaking." Silver hair glinted and swirled, black boots stopped at the foot of her door…Sesshoumaru.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked as she raised her head from her hands, straightening her posture and glaring at her captor from atop her bed.
"I recall you telling me that you had the notion that you had told me to shut up, when I had not yet spoken."
"My God it speaks too…" Kagome muttered, perching her chin on her knee and looking away with a sour expression.
Sesshoumaru deemed this as a moment to stay silent, shifting his weight from one foot to another. His white silk hakama's rustling with the slight movement.
"Oh all right what do you want?" Kagome asked, leaping up and off her bed to face her subjugator in one swift motion.
Sesshoumaru merely raised an eyebrow, questioning what little intelligence he believed her to possess.
"Look, I told you where my brother is. Either leave me to die or at least stop bothering me." Kagome fumed, venting her pent up frustration to a person who couldn't reach her through the bars.
"That is not what I wish to know." was the slow reply.
Curious chartreuse eyes met somber gold as Kagome stared on, looking dumbly at the taiyoukai.
When the curious girl in front of him did not reply to his statement, Sesshoumaru took an intake of air; he would just have to continue, whether or not her brain was fully engaged. If it could ever be.
"What is your relation to the hanyou Naraku?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Kagome raised her own eyebrow to Sesshoumaru.
"As you are fully aware, he is my half brother dimwit." and thank Kami for barred prisons right now. This is kinda fun…come on kids! Lets play taunt the furious taiyoukai!
Sesshoumaru growled at her.
"Oh fine," Kagome huffed, drawing out the full explanation "Naraku is my half brother through my mother, Tsuyosa. My father is still alive, but my mother cheated on him, and went to live with my adoptive human father. Tsuyosa and my human surrogate father were parents to Naraku."
"Hn." Sesshoumaru replied, suddenly realizing how very alike their childhoods were…only it was his father who had committed adultery and left his mother for another human…thus the bane of his existence was created.
"Anything else before you go?" Kagome wondered aloud.
"Hn. I wish to know how a youkai can maintain both youki and holy miko powers."
Kagome sighed…Should have seen this one coming, damn.
"That would be my father's gift to me." Kagome paused before continuing, choosing her words carefully "When I was very young my father stole something from a nearby temple, something very precious to them. The Shikon no Tama."
Sesshoumaru arched his eyebrow; the Jewel of Four Souls was not a trinket merely for someone's daughter.
"Now usually he would have tainted it with his touch, but he took a slaughtered human and used its hands to carry it to me. Untainted, the Jewel was placed right here," Kagome paused and looked down to where she was pointing, the area just above her right breast and right below her collarbone "but it didn't kill me, don't know why. I think my father knew but…its holy powers combined with mine. And voila, you have a youkai with spiritual powers."
"Hn."
Kagome sighed and rolled her eyes suggestively. Stupid Inu and there emotionless status. Maybe he was a void demon in disguise.
"And how is it that you are a kitsune when your half brother is a gumo."
"You don't ask questions do you?" Kagome questioned suddenly, narrowing her eyes into a glare directed at Sesshoumaru. "You just give orders. Ass." Kagome mumbled the last bit incoherently under her breath.
A threatening growl prodded her into action, action meaning to pace around the room whilst giving her monotone explanation.
"My mother was a fox demon, you already know about my father, and obviously the human doesn't really count."
Sesshoumaru noticed how she had never given her surrogate father a name in this conversation, merely called him the human. Much like what he had done with Izayoi.
At this time Sesshoumaru also noticed that she had stopped talking. He glared at her and growled once more. Damn bars, if they hadn't been here he would have dispatched her long ago, albeit he was getting a lot more information this way.
"Well that's all there is to say!" Kagome yelled from her track around her room.
Left foot…right foot…left foot…just keep on walking and everything will go away.
Kagome grumbled, responding in her head stupid thoughts…
"Fujin, answer my question, how can you and Naraku be of different races."
Kagome stopped her pacing, her left foot flopping back to the floor mid step in her exaggerated march, looking at Sesshoumaru incredulously. Eyes widening with realization she shook her head and resigned herself to answer.
"That would be your problem there; Naraku is a kitsune as well."
Sesshoumaru's eyes widened by a hair for a millisecond before going back to the bored glazed over emotionless form.
"He masks his scent with another." Sesshoumaru replied, though it was not a question.
"Another talent of ours, a gift from my mother's womb I suppose." Kagome pondered, looking up to the ceiling and tapping her forefinger on her chin.
Abruptly Sesshoumaru turned on his heels and walked away from Kagome.
Kagome just watched him go, walking to her door and pressing her face to the cold bars.
"Don't you want to know why he is going to murder you?" she asked.
"Not especially." was the echoing reply.
"Prisoner! Awake!" two voices sounded in unison, something metal was being rattled against the bars.
Kagome opened her eyes a crack from her position on the bed. She was slouched against the wall, her head on her shoulder and her right leg up with her arm draped over it.
"Why should I? All I get to do is sleep in here and your not even letting me do that."
The twins that had captured her were at her door, a metal spoon still held up against the bar.
"I-its time for your m-morning m-meal." The one with his long hair braided stuttered, the shorter one with a wild fray of locks held out a tray as if to amplify his brothers words.
"All right, come in then." Kagome said, stifling a yawn and sitting up properly.
The gangly one fiddled with the keys in the lock, a satisfied exclamation with the victorious 'click' that announced he had found the right key. The joy was short-lived as the other taka brother quickly clotted the key holder on the head.
Kagome giggled at the younglings antics.
Cautiously the door opened, the brothers stepping in cautiously, walking as if they had glass in their silky black boots.
The tray rattled as the neared Kagome, apprehension clearly gripping them as strongly they gripped the tray.
Kagome smiled at them cheerfully, hoping to ease there fear. Instead it seemed to make it worse.
Kagome sighed as they put the food on the ground by her bed, eyes wary. They scampered away as she leaned down to get her food, locking the door behind them and standing at either side of the prison door.
The meals here weren't bad either, fresh bread and hot oatmeal for breakfast, bread and meat for dinner and supper. She'd had worse prison meals anyway.
Quietly she munched, staring at the two brothers who were now sharing a thermos of something outside her door.
"You don't have to stay you know. I'm quite capable of eating this food by myself."
Like rubber bands they snapped up to attention, ears quivering in her direction.
"We have been ordered to guard your door so as you do not escape from Lord Sesshoumaru." They replied.
"Guards? I didn't think Sesshoumaru-dono cared so much about me; you'll have to thank him for me when you give your report." Kagome said; her voice light even though she now had a horrible feeling in her gut. These two would be killed when Naraku came for her.
"Hn." The one with braided hair replied, a good mockery of Sesshoumaru's distant reply.
Kagome giggled at them again as they turned to look at her.
After a few minutes of silence Kagome got bored and decided that she should get to know her two 'companions'.
"Come here." Kagome said gently, though it still made the taka at her door quake. Shuffling, they acquiesced. There feet dragged as they came closer to her, fear shown like a spark of light in their eyes.
"I'm not going to eat you, you know." Said Kagome "I'm a prisoner; I am supposed to be afraid of you." Kagome sighed as the two merely stood on guard, a strange twinkle entering her eyes when she decided that flattery would win them over to her side.
"But of course who wouldn't be afraid of two muscular young men such as you?" the taka stopped quivering and looked at her with a mix of distrust and agreement.
"I'm sure you're quite the terrors when it comes to a good battle."
They shook there head sadly before replying.
"We're too young to go to battle." replied the one.
"But when we do fight we will be terrors!" replied the other.
Kagome smiled kindly, "I'm sure you will be. But I'm sure at least that your quite friendly with the ladies…two strapping lads such as yourself must have a whole pack of lovely ladies just dogging your every step."
That sentence began a most wonderful friendship.
Later that evening, Sesshoumaru requested her presence in his dojo.
Shirou and Ryoku as Kagome had learned were very faithful to their Lord. She wouldn't be able to use her guiles against them as she had done several times before when caught in this position.
So, a poisonous barrier around her, directed by the twins, she started on the long winding path down to the dojo.
Not that this barrier would do much to me…
Knocking on the door, the twins stepped behind Kagome.
"Kagome-san…we were wondering…well we were listening when you spoke to the Lord this morning…and…"
Kagome sighed, frustration and anxiousness playing on her already frayed nerves.
"Just spit it out please?" Kagome asked as kindly as she could.
"Why is Naraku going to try and murder Sesshoumaru - sama?" they asked hurriedly.
Kagome turned around in her barrier to look at them.
"Because Naraku does not like fear. And Naraku is afraid of Sesshoumaru - dono's power and strength. Actually Sesshoumaru is the only one Naraku is afraid of, other than me that is."
Kagome turned away as the door opened behind her and faced a brown haired girl wearing a slayers outfit with a smile.
Slowly she shuffled forward into the door, the last thing that Shirou and Ryoku saw was her hand has it strayed behind her out of the barrier as she slid through the double oak doors.
And the doors slammed shut.
Shirou and Ryoku looked at each other incredulously as they sat down to wait for their charge to come back out.
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