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Captive
Flatter me, and I may not believe you
Kagome was sitting on Ginkotsu in dead silence. Renkotsu stood behind her, Bankotsu was leaning against the side of the tank just in front of her. It would just be foolish to attempt escape. She knew her powers had increased, but not to the point where she could take on the Shichinintai, especially not with the leader and the second in command beside her.
Renkotsu stared at the girl in front of him. Hell she was hot, but also, she looked quite powerful. Able to purify practically anything, and not to mention sense jewel shards. She would be more useful than all the other woman anyways who can do practically nothing and were only good for them to lay with. But back to that girl,...Able to purify anything huh? A thought suddenly came to his head. If she could purify anything, than maybe, just maybe...she could purify the demonic Banryuu?
Bankotsu sighed and opened one eye to look down upon the girl he had been thinking about so often. That girl. The one that keeps popping up in his mind's eye.
Unfourtunatly for the young leader, Jakotsu noticed him looking at the miko. His usually cheerful face turned into a frown. Stupid wench taking over their leader. "Hey Bankotsu no o aniki?"
The teenaged leader snapped out of it. "Huh- what?"
"Why do you keep opening your eye to stare at the wench and then sighing? Do you find her attractive?"
Bankotsu and Kagome's faces both turned red, though her face wasn't as bright.
"He noticed? Its that obvious?"
"What? He's staring at me? Why?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" she screamed, thus talking for the first time since they left the Inu-Tachi.
"Well...what if i do?" the young leader said looking straight down at her. She felt her face heat up.
"W-what?..." she said faintly. Those eyes were making her feel nervous for some reason and start to squrim inside.
"Attractive? Gah. If it were up to me, then you would have stayed dead, you filthy wench." muttered Jakostu.
But unfourtunatly for the slasher, Kagome heard him and broke her eye connection with Bankostu as she shouted. "It's Kagome and if it were up to me then you would have stayed dead as well!"
"How dare you speak to me with such little respect!" the undead gay guy shouted back at the undead miko.
"Wow. I just did!"
"Wench!"
"Gay cross dresser!"
"Bitch! Come here right now! I'm gonna-"
"Shut up and look both of you. A village." said Suikotsu inturrupting the two's argument while pointing a finger off into the distance. Kagome and Jakotsu looked up and true to the doctor's word, saw a village, shillouetted against the sunset.
"Alright! Let's have some fun! Bankotsu no o aniki?" the 'gay cross dresser' said looking happy and excited all of a sudden, a contrast to his mad face from before, his hand making its way to his precious Jakotsutou.
"Define have some fun?..." Kagome asked quietly to no one in particular.
Renkotsu heard her and laughed. "Have some fun in Jakostu's words, otherwise known as attack the village to put it simply."
"A-attack the village? But-but why?"
"Iunno. 'Cause its fun?"
Kagome had nothing to say that, except gape at the bald flame user with wide eyes and an opened mouth. Just great. Her first life had been bad enough already. How much worse could her second life get, now that she was stuck with a bunch of dead men?
Not that she wasn't dead herself.
Criticize me, and I may not like you
Nothing. Nothing that she had seen and done with the Inu-Tachi could've prepared her for this. When they had arrived at the edge of the village, she had been swept up by Bankotsu and brought with him, Jakotsu and Suikotsu to attack the village ahead of the others.The pain of the people. Their pleading cries as the Shichinintai members slashed, cut, slaughtered them was unbearable. She just wanted to run from there and hide from the reality of it all. The reality of what they truly did to people.
So many innocent lives were lost. Blood stained the once brown soil, turning it into a dark shade of red.
Every time a flash of metal cut through the air, and life's red blood poured out, it was a sign that another life had been taken.
It was worst, when it was over and she saw the bodies of the once living lying around, waiting to be burnt into ashes and incinerated.
She felt tears falling down her cheeks, and nausea rising within her stomach at the sight of what became of a once happy village because they had wanted to have some entertainment.
At one point, she thought she heard a voice call out to her, asking if she was alright and if there were any shards in the village.
She found she couldn't answer and with a last look at the deformed corspes and the pools of blood, taking in a last smell of the scent of decay, she fainted. Darkness surrounded her mind, as strong warm arms surrounded her body.
Ignore me and I may not forgive you
Kagome slowly opened her eyes. A fuzzy image of a man greeted her. Blinking once, blinking twice, she saw it was Suikotsu in his good doctor form, leaning over her holding a bowl of something that smelled really good. It reminded her of spring flowers and mint."Kagome-san, are you feeling better?" said the doctor with a smile, offering his hand to help her up.
She gratefully took his hand and pulled herself up into a sitting position. She saw that they were in a cave of some sort and other than Suikotsu, only Jakotsu was there. The others were nowhere to be seen. She also noticed that she had been dressed back in her modern clothes by the shichinintai and was actually very amazed they managed to get it on her right.
"What happened?" she asked quietly.
"What happened? Well let me tell you. You fainted and Bankotsu no o aniki caught you and said we had to keep a stupid wench like you. Not to mention care for as well." growled Jakotsu. " Should've just left you there with all the other dead people. Not like it would have mattered to any of us anyways."
"Jakotsu, that's enough and Kagome, drink this medicine and then get some rest. It would've mattered to me if you died. And everyone else as well." said Suikotsu inturrupting a Kagome who had her mouth slightly opened for a retort. She shut it and nodded, but not without sticking her tongue out at the slasher first.
"Oi wench! I'm gonna cut that tongue of yours out right now!" he shouted as his hand flew to his Jakotsutou.
At that moment, Bankotsu chose to walk in the mouth of the cave. "Hey. We're not keeping her to harm her Jakotsu. We're keeping her cause we need her. And alive." The young leader then plopped himself down and reached for his favourite drink. Sake.
Ginkotsu and Renkotsu followed him in. Good. That girl was up. Maybe he could put his plan to action now and start earning her trust and friendship and persuade her to work with him against Bankostu. Yes that would be a good idea. "Kagome. How are you feeling?" he asked in the best caring voice he could fake.
Her eyebrows flew up and disappeared behind her bangs. "I never thought you were the kind to care, Renkotsu."
"Well I do care now. And I care about you. Is there something wrong with that?"
"Well..no...but.."
"You know Kagome, you're quite pretty..."
Both Kagome and Bankostu had a huge reaction to that simple little comment. Kagome blushed when she realized that Renkotsu was flirting with her and looked away, deeper into the cave. Bankotsu choked on his sake, jumped up and balled his hand into a fist while yelling out "Oi! Quit making moves on her Renkotsu!"
All eyes turned to him as everyone stared at him with a funny look on their face. Kagome's face turned even redder than before and only then, did Bankostu realize what he had accidently blurted out.
"I-I mean...she's here to work for us..and nothing more!"
Suikotsu rolled his eyes and shook his head. What an idiot, he thought.
Kagome lifted her head. Work for us. That phrase, or any variation of it was the one she hated the most. Work for us. Find shards for us. Need your powers. Was she good enough for anything else? The shichinintai certainly didnt think so; they're only keeping her alive to find the shards. And Inuyasha certainly didn't either; He had chosen Kikyo over her and had made it quite clear.
She sighed, fighting the tears behind her chocolate brown eyes that were currently threatening to fall. Of course he did, Kikyo was his first love. So womanly, so proper, and so powerful. And Kagome? A weak little school girl that always needed saving. Of course he chose her over Kagome.
She couldn't help it anymore. A single tear fell down her eyes and flowed down her cheek. None of the Shichinintai noticed it due to the fact that they were currently discussing..no scratch that, arguing over what their next course of action would be. And of course she was included. Every two seconds, her name would be mentioned, in connection to the shards of course.
Two more tears fell out. Just thinking of Inuyasha was painful. She forced her heart to believe that she hated him, but underneath, she still loved him, or so she thought.
Right when the tears fell, Bankostu chose to look her way. It's not like she wanted a bastard like him to see her crying, but when he saw the tears, he stared for a moment, then got up and then walked over and knelt down beside her.
"You alright Kagome?"
She, to say the least was surprised, but the miko said nothing, only nodded while choking back a few tears.
"Are you sure?"
She shook her head.
"You wanna go talk about it?"
Again, she shook her head, signaling a no.
"Stupid wench. Crying all over the place, should've just left you for the dead." grumbled Jakotsu under his breath, but unfortunatly for the gay guy, Bankostu heard him.
"Jakotsu. We should not have left her for the dead because we need her and her abilities."
"Abilities? What ablilties? That wench probably has no skill in anything so why her? Why not my sexy little koinu? Or that handsome houshi that travels with him?"
Bankostu shook his head. What was the point of trying to tell him again? It was obviously not going to go into that thick skull of his.
"Whatever. Suikotsu, Jakotsu, go look for some food. Renkotsu, Ginkotsu, go and see if you can find the Inu-Tachi. We need to kill them as soon as possible to gain another jewel shard from Naraku." said the leader after a while.
"No! I wanna go find cutie Inuyasha!" whined Jakotsu to everyones total surprise...
Shaking their heads, the rest of the Shichinintai got up to do their assigned tasks. Jakotsu too after a while, reluctantly got up and walked out, but not without a tongue stuck out of slasher's mouth at the modern miko.
Encourage me and I will not forget you
"Jakotsu..You should be nicer to Kagome-san." said Suikotsu after a short walk of silence. The two of them were in the forests trying to find anything edible, but so far, they didnt have much luck.
"Why should I? She's just a bitch that o aniki's making us keep."
"Look. I know for a fact that she is a very nice girl and if you give her the chance, she would be a very good friend to you."
Jakostu snorted in disbelif. "As if anyone would befriend us. And seeing we've been betrayed once, we don't need to be betrayed again."
"Yes. That's true, but, Kagome-san wouldn't betray our friendship. At least I don't think."
"At least you don't think! I'm not putting my second life on the line just to befriend a woman! Do you not remember that we captured her from her friends and are now holding her captive and you say she would not only become out friends but not betray us? No way in hell!"
Suikotsu sighed. "Just think it over Jakotsu."
The slasher hmphed and walked faster ahead of the split personalty doctor, while swearing to himself that the day he would give Kagome a chance to be his friend is the day he leaves the Shichinintai. In other words, never.
Love me and I may be forced to love you
"Kagome. Are you sure you're alright?" asked a slightly concerned Bankostu while at the same time trying to mask his worry.
"-Yeah..."
"Okay good. If you ever need someone to talk to,I'm here."
"Bankotsu...thank you."
"Hey it's alright. And...I meant what I said."
"What?"
"About me finding you attractive."
Kagome lifted her head and gaped at the Shichinintai leader with an open mouth. A slight redness was coming to her cheeks. He stared back at her, taking in her beauty.
He leaned in slightly closer to her face and said in a lower voice "You know, Kagome I-"
"You what?" she breathed back
Bankotsu leaned in even closer, so close that he could almost count the droplets on tears that still clung to her cheeks. He could see her slightly parted lips and her big eyes looking back at him and decided that no matter the outcome, he was going to kiss her.
Closing his eyes while puckering his lips, he slowly leaned in all the way down and was a hair's width away from her lips when..
"Um...I'm not inturrupting anything am I?" said a voice causing the two of them to quickly turn and face the direction the voice was coming from. The modern day miko's face flushed a bright red and the older teen scowled.
"What the hell do you want Renkotsu?" snapped an annoyed Bankotsu glaring at the fire user that had just walked in while slowly moving back away from Kagome.
He sat down facing away from Kagome and said "Nothing."
A moments of silence fell, which Renkotsu chose to break."Kagome. Come take a walk with me. I want to talk to you." To build up her trust in me...now is a good time to do that...
"What? No way in hell! And...What are you planning Renkotsu..." said his slightly suspicious leader.
"What? I'm not planning anything. I just want to talk to Kagome."
"Ya right...Probably telling her she looks hot again or complimenting her too short kimono." groaned Bankotsu.
"Can't Renkotsu take me out for a walk without any comments?" said Kagome quietly. But the two guys heard her.
"What! You actually want to go out and walk with him Kagome?" said Bankotsu with his eyes slightly wider than normal.
"Well...ya...better than sitting around in a cave doing nothing all day..."
"But we weren't doing nothing!"
"What?" screamed another voice from the entrance of the cave which Kagome instantly reconized. Jakotsu.
"So you two weren't doing nothing which means you were doing something!" he yelled drawing his Jakotsutou and pointing the tip at Kagome's neck. "Confess!"
"For one we were doing nothing and as a second comment to that thick skull of yours, my life line is not in my neck like your guys' are!"
And once again, those two were off, arguing for the second time of the day.
Might as well start keeping count. Thought Bankotsu as he gave a slight smile watching the two argue. It was quite amusing. Jakotsu getting beaten in a shouting match by a woman and both of their faces getting redder from anger by the second. In the end, it was Kagome that stopped the match.
"At least I'm normal like other people who like the opposite sex instead of being weird and liking the same sex you gay cross dresser !" and with that last comment, she jumped up and stomped out of the cave.
A nice silence followed, where everyone was all amazed that Jakotsu had not killed the girl during the fight to add to that he didn't follow her out. He just plopped down onto the cave floor, glaring at the fire as if Kagome's face was in there.
"I think I'll go see if she's okay." said Renkotsu after a while breaking that silence. Bankotsu looked up at him.
"Why you?"
"Why do you care?"
Silence fell in the little cave again.
"Well..I guess we should check if she's alright?" said Bankotsu slowly, secretly worrying about the younger miko.
"Phst. I'm not checking. You guys can go but I'm staying right here." said Jakotsu.
"Well then, for that comment, you can go."
"What? Why do I have to? But Bankotsu no o aniki!" the slasher whined, pushing his lip out for more effect.
But it didn't work. "No. Go. And she's gotta come back in once piece."
Very very reluctantly, Jakotsu got up and slowly dragged himself out to the mouth of the cave. Mumblings of "Stupid wench." or " Bitch. I'll make her pay for this." were heard until the slasher disappeared out of sight.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you
Inuyasha screamed in fustration. He had been turned into a mere ningen with no telling when he would be back to hanyou, he had lost a chance to defeat Bankotsu, and he had seen the woman he betrayed come back to life.
Kagome. Her face popped up suddenly into his mind. Why though? He had Kikyo. He didn't need Kagome...
He sighed. Maybe...maybe at the bottom of his heart, he was slowly starting to regret his choice. With Kagome, there was so much laughter and happiness. With Kikyo, all of that was gone. She would never crack a smile, never have that happy personality around her...
Inuyasha didn't want to admit it, but really, he missed Kagome at that moment.
Criticize me, and I may not like you
Kagome slowly walked through the woods, yelling to no one in particular to calm herself down. Stupid Jakotsu, stupid Shichinintai. Stupid everything! Geeze, how did she get herself into this mess anyways.. She regret listening to Renkotsu at the battle. If she had refused, she would probably be dead, but oh well she was dead anyways.
But at her time of desperate measures, she had chosen to listen to him. But why? Why would she choose a bunch of killers over her own friends, albeit one of them that betrayed her for clay and dirt.
She sighed, so wrapped up in her thoughts that she didn't notice she had walked into an area where there was an unusually thick layer of leaves on the ground. Had she been paying attention, she would have instantly been suspicious, but she wasn't.
Not two steps later, she felt her foot hit nothing and felt herself falling into a deep hole.
"Aw great!" she screamed in despair and kicked the earthen walls. But that did nothing, except make a little dent and creating a little sand waterfall.
Grabbing the vines that grew on the walls of the ditch, she pulled herself up and started to climb back out while silently congragulating herself on her quick thinking. That joy was short lived, however for not two seconds later, she felt a sharp thick thing being stuck into her back.
She screamed and turned around.
There was nothing there.
But she could've sworn she felt the prick. Looking back into the hole's ground, she saw a thick torn like thing there.
She suddenly felt so tired. "Aw...crap...must be poisonus..." she moaned as she felt her tongue getting slowly thicker and thicker, making it difficult to talk.
Two more step ups later, she was straining.
"Only a little further. You can make it."
When at long last, the glorious moment of when her hand hit the forest floor, she realized she didn't have the energy to pull herself out.
So she hung there, wondering what to do.
A presence of one...no wait two jewel shards were quickly approaching her hanging body. One was close..Very close..
Summoning the energy to lift her head up and look above her, she saw the shadow of a demon, followed by a twinkle of a tainted sacred jewel shard. She was screwed. And she knew it.
She could do nothing.
But not one second later, a loud scream was heard of
"Oi wench! Move out of the way!"
Looking once again through the crack of her half opened eye, she could not believing who her saviour was, then darkness surrounded her for the second time that day and she fell.
TADA! haha there you go. He was THIS close to kissing her but Renkotsu just had to walk in and inturrupt. haha. Now as always, te preview:
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