Chapter 14- "Prisoner"

Inuyasha looked at Hiro and coldly spat, "No, I'm not the monster here. You are. You preach of peace and love and all that bullshit, but in the end, you're going to be responsible for the death of your own people, all because you refuse to listen to anyone but yourself." Hiro grabbed Inuyasha's hair and called out to the crowed, "I promise you that this demon will be dead before the first bullet is shot in this war. I promise you all!" They cheered for their God while Kagome watched in horror as the guards took him away in chains. "No! Stop it! Let him go!" she screamed to the guards. But they paid no attention to her.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha said, "I'm ok...I'll get out of here...be strong, and don't do anything stupid. I love you." He was about to say more, but he was out of the room now, so there was no way she would have heard him. Kagome stood on the brink of tears, staring coldly at her father. He was so angry with her. "Let him go, Dad! Don't hurt him! He never did anything wrong!"

"You disobeyed me. Kagome, I thought I made it clear that you would never see him again! What did I tell you?! He's a demon!"

"So what if he's a demon? I don't care!" "He is the enemy, Kagome! What is wrong with you? What do I have to do for you to listen to me? Huh?" She glared at him, hatred shining in her eyes along with the unshed tears. "Answer me, Kagome!" "I never should have let Inuyasha talk me into coming back here. I would have been so much happier. I hope you die in this war you caused!" Hiro's heart nearly shattered at this cruel words uttered by his only daughter. "Kagome..." he lifted her chin up to look into her eyes, but she pushed him away.

"Get away from me!" The crowed of onlookers gasped at this disrespect of their most powerful God. "How could you, Kagome?" She wiped away tears and stormed out of the room and away from the nobles staring at her as her heart broke. She looked over her shoulder and cried out, hatred shining in her eyes, "No, Hiro...how could you?" Hiro stared in shock. "Why...why did you call me Hiro?" "Because I'm too ashamed of you to call you my father." With those last words, she left the room, leaving the guests to have a feild day with this bit of gossip.

Inuyasha slumped on the cold floor in the dank prison cell. He looked to his right and found a skeleton still chained to the wall. "Well, thats reassuring." He sighed and searched his pockets. The nightguard aimed his gun towards him and he raised his hands in mock surrender. "Just getting a ciggarette. Want one?" The guard lowered the gun and nodded. "I shouldn't accept things from you, you know." Inuyasha nodded and handed him the ciggarette. "I know...but I'm not a bad guy." The guard grinned. "Really now? So what are you in for? Littering?" Inuyasha leaned back and took a long drag.

"No...I'm in here because I fell in love with the wrong girl." The guard laughed. "Oh man, I hear ya, buddy." Inuyasha studied him carefully. He was young, probably not much older than himself. "Whats your name?" "Sean." "Well, Sean, tell me your story."

"Well, the moment I set eyes on Amanda, I knew she was The One. But her old man...whew! Talk about protective! Didn''t like me from the start! When I asked her to marry me...he just about pitched a fit!"

"So, what did you do?" "Oh, I tried and she tried and her mother tried, but he was stubborn, let me tell you! Said he'd pay for the whole wedding if she married anyone but me!" He shook his head and laughed at the memory. "But after a while, I think he saw how much Amanda ment to me, and how much I ment to her. Eventually he lightened up and were getting married in June, but I think I still have scars from the time he threw his chair at me and it broke the living room window!"

Inuyasha chuckled at the mental image of Kagome's father throwing a chair at him. "So, he calmed down after a while, huh?" "Yea...so what about you? Who's the lucky lady?" Inuyasha took another long drag.

"Kagome." "Kagome Hiro?!" "Yea..." Suddenly the guard looked at him funny. "So...you're the infamous Inuyasha that started a war between Heaven and Hell!" "I didn't start anything. We fell in love, and her father thought I raped her. Refused to hear me out. Threw me in jail because I wanted to see her. This is his war, not mine."

Sean stared in disbeleif at Inuyasha for a while, then laughed. "Well...Inuyasha...lets just say I believe you." Inuyasha looked suprised. "Really now?" "Yea...Hiro is a good guy, but I know from first hand experience how horrible future father-in-laws can be." The two shared a good laugh about that. "Well," Sean said, finishing his ciggarette, "I don't think your a bad guy after all."

Suddenly Inuyasha heared footsteps. Someone was comming. Sean raised his gun towards the shadow aproaching them.

"Who-who's there?" A figure in a long black cloak and black gown creeped over to them. Inuyasha caught her scent. "Kagome?" Sean instantly lowered his gun and bowed low. "My-my Lady! What are you doing here?" Kagome lowered the hood of the cloak and looked at him.

"I need to speak to him. Alone" "But-but Lady Kagome!" "Now." Kagome never used her rank to get what she wanted, but she really didn't care now. "I think I made myself clear. Leave us!" Sean looked at Inuyasha and said low enough for him to hear, "Woah, she's a fiery one. Good luck there, buddy." To Kagome he bowed respectfully and said. "Of course, my Lady. I'll be down the hall if you need me." As soon as he was gone, she rushed over to the bars keeping him in like a dog in its cage.

"Inuyasha! Oh, are you ok?" She reached her arm out to him thru the bars. "Kagome...how did you get here?"

"I snuck out. Lord, is this whole thing made of iron? Uh, it was probably made for a demon. My father is such a monster!" She looked down at Inuyasha's wrists. Burned.

"Inuyasha...what are those?" He looked down. "Oh...from the chains...I guess their made of iron too." "And the bullet that shot you in the leg?" He sighed. "Iron too." She felt tears threaten to fall, but she had to be strong for Inuyasha. She came to help him.

"Inuyasha...we have to get you out of here!" She looked desperatly for the keyes to open his cell. At last she found a ring of keys. "Yes!" She tried one, but it didn't work. She tried another. Still no match. Another. Nothing. She kept going, but none of the keys fit into the lock on Inuyasha's cell. "Damn it!!" she screamed and threw the keys against the wall. They hit the floor with a loud bang.

"How am I going to get you out of here?" She pulled violently at the bars keeping him in. "Kagome, don't worry about it. I'll think of something. Don't get yourself into any more trouble. The guard is leaving you alone for now, but he has to come back soon." "No...Inuyasha I can't stand to see you in this cage! You'll hurt yourself with all this iron! Inuyasha...why did you come tonight? You knew this would happen!!Your so...stupid!" Tears spilled down her cheeks and she pressed herself against the bars. She reached out for him again, and he took her hand in his own and kissed it.

"I'll be ok...they can't kill me, I'm Death, remember? I kill things, I can take this. Don't worry." "Yea, ok. 'Don't worry'. Are you crazy? I'm gunna worry. You know that." "Hey, I came to see you. You were right, I knew something like this could happen. I missed you."

"Inuyasha...I missed you too, and I'm gunna find a way to end this! You're not going to die. I'll...I'll kill him. I'll kill the sun of a bitch!" "Kagome...Kagome don't be like me. Don't kill him. He's your father-" She scoffed and looked away. "He is not my father!" "Yes he is! Kagome, look at me!" She returned her gaze to meet his fiery eyes. "I told you not to do anything stupid. Killing him is definatly something stupid. I'll be ok. I promise." He kissed her hand. "I love you, Kagome." She stroked his beautiful face with her thumb. "I love you too, Inuyasha."

There. Footsteps. Did you hear that?" "Here what?" There it was again. Someone was comming. "Kagome, go!" "What? Why?" But she heard it too.

"Inuyasha...I hate leaving you like this!" "Kagome, if I'm not in your room tomorrow at one in the morning, come here, ok? Go!!" She let go of his hand and ran out of the room.

Inuyasha...I'll get you out of here! I promise!

Inuyasha could sense that another figure was there, but he couldn't see who it was, it was in the shadows.

"Hello, Inuyasha." Inuyasha's eyes grew wide in shock as a familliar scent filled his nose. "Se-Sesshomaru?!"

What? Sesshomaru?!? What would he want? DUN DUN DUUN!!!

A few things before we go on to chapter 15:

1.) Thank you guys for all the nice reviews! I have told a few people I replied back to but I might as well say it now: I know Kagome seems like a weakling, Hiro's a jerkoff and Inuyasha lost the fight, but there will be a plot twist that I guarentee will make your jaw hit the keyboard, but you'll have to read to find out!

2.) I was bored of Japanese names so the guard Sean and his girlfriend Amanda had American names. I don't know anyone by those names, they were the first names that came to mind as I was typing.

3.) In case people were confused in this chapter, I subtly hinted the iron thing because I hate when people go on and on eplaining things and inturrupt the story, so I will explain now. If you ever read Holly Black's book "Tithe: A modern Faerie Tale", you know what's going on. Basically, iron hurts demons. If they touch it, their skin burns. That's why Inuyasha's all burned and why he was taken down by one little bullet, even though we all know he could take so much more. The iron was in his blood and that hurt him. There will be a weakness to the Heaven folk too, but I have to think of it.

Thanks for all the reveiws! Keep them comming, people!

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