Helpless

Thirteen

Kagome felt a searing pain in her wrists again, and as she opened her eyes she saw why. Iron cuffs were on her wrists, attaching her to a chain that was thrown over a branch of a tree, forcing her to stand up. A cruel, lustful gaze met her eyes from the shadows, and as she met the dangerous crimson of them with her hazel eyes, she dragged fiercely at the chains, trying to free herself, but the branch did not give way. Suddenly the eyes were upon her, and she saw to whom they belonged. Pallid, ghost-like skin glowed on his face, and jet black hair was tied back out of his evil face, and a wide, malicious grin spread across it as he neared her. He stopped just inches before her, and she felt his hot breath on her face, she looked away from him, not wanting to look at him, she tugged at the chains again, trying to escape, but the man grabbed the chain, straightening her arms up, and pressing himself against her body.

'Don't do that,' he said, his voice was a low, calm one, and the confidence within it frightened her.

'What am I doing here? And what are you?' she demanded of him, and his evil grin failed to falter. He pressed himself closer to her.

'You are here because I have been searching for you, ever since I saw your image in the sacred mirror,' he replied, gazing at her, though she did not look up. 'And as for what I am, I think you already know that…' Kagome looked away from him, avoiding his gaze once more,

'You're a monster…' He nodded slightly, bringing his free hand over her wrists. His skin was cold, unlike his harsh breath, and Kagome tried to pull away, but he was too strong for her. 'What do you want with me?' she asked, the fear overwhelming her voice, though she did not care if he could sense it or not. He ran his hand down her arm, and down her side to rest on her hip, and she shuddered.

'You read the runes of my life, I want revenge for what was done to me, I want to plunge the world into the prophesized darkness, and rule over the shadowed world...and I want you at my side.'

*~*~WARNING for insinuated rape-situation. It isnt graphic or deeply described, barely mentioned, but if it upsets you skip to next warning~*~*

Kagome suddenly realized what he had her here for, and struggled to be free harder than ever. The helplessness in Kagome's eyes as she tried to break free, shimmered to heighten her attractiveness, and Kazuya pressed himself even harder against her. His hand ran up her side, and along her collarbone; Kagome turned her face from him, finding him disgusting, as he ran his hand over her heart, and held his hand there. 'It's amazing the fear I inflict in people, I can almost dance to the beat of your heart.' Kagome did not move or say anything, tears falling silently down her cheek as she knew what he was going to do to her. She squirmed.

'Stop it! Stop it!' she shouted at him, writhing with disgust, wanting to be free from him.

Suddenly he released her, both hands running up over the cuffs binding her wrists, and causing her a momentary pain, snapped them off her wrists. Kagome dropped to the ground from the weight that her legs had to carry on their own so suddenly, and she ran her hands around her free wrists. Kazuya knelt beside her; he ran his hand up the back of her calf muscle, as he spoke again to her.

'I want to make you immortal like me,' he said, she looked up at him, anger replacing the tears in her eyes.

'But I don't! I don't want to become immortal, least of all so I can live eternity with you!' Her voice was full of loathing for the creature before her, though he did not seem to notice it.

'After I have killed the hanyou and the others you will learn to love me,' he insisted, moving closer to her, his hand travelling higher up her inner thigh.

'Love isn't something you learn, especially for someone you hate.' Kagome realised where his hand now was, and pushed it away from her nastily.

Kazuya grabbed hold of her wrists, dragging her up close to him, and her hazel eyes quivered as he looked into them, making her understand that he had the power here, not her. As he held her tiny wrists in one hand, his other hand caressed up her stomach, over her breastbone; he clasped his pallid fingers around her shirt collar, and began to drag at it. Kagome pulled her body away from him, but his grip was vice-like, she struggled against him as he ripped and tore savagely at her clothes.

'No, don't!' she screamed at him, but he ignored her pleas, and shredded her clothes with his claws. 'Please stop it!' Her voice was full of desperation but he ignored it still. Kagome pulled one of her hands free, and she slapped his pale face with all the force she could, and he stopped in his assault. He gazed at her in surprise for a moment, before dragging her roughly to her feet before him, staring dangerously into her eyes. He kicked her full force in her stomach, and she was sent flying, skidding across the floor, and she lay there, unable to move, powerless. She lay motionless on her side one arm lying across the ground, her head resting on it where she had fallen, her eyes closed, and the other hand rest across her chest, concealing it from her onlooker.

He gazed sadistically at his prisoner, evaluating his unwilling partner's naked flesh, and licked his lips approvingly. Her curvaceous body seemed to glow with radiance, and he approached her willowy body, evil intentions in his mind. Kagome was conscious, but only just, and not truly aware of what was happening. She could feel someone watching her, and she could hear, but sounds were blurred and fuzzy, and she could not make them out. She had lost all control of her body, and it felt limp and lifeless, except for the cold air that she could feel on her bare skin, but did not have strength enough to even shiver, and the agony in her stomach where he'd hit her and where a giant bruise now grew.

*~*~SAFE TO READ AGAIN NOW!~*~*

Kazuya knelt beside her body, Kagome's face was concealed by her arm, but he knew she was conscious, somehow he could sense it and he reached his hand forward to touch her supple skin. Suddenly a hand clasped tight around his wrist, he looked up and saw whom it was attached to, but merely grinned at his attacker.

'Here to stop me are you?' Kazuya asked, a little too confidently.

'Actually, I am,' replied his attacker, and bent Kazuya's wrist back until it gave a sickening snap. Kazuya growled nastily as his wrist bent back. His attacker hurled him across the ground, and he skidded to a halt a short distance from Kagome and Kazuya's enemy; Inuyasha knelt down beside Kagome, and pulled her up into his arms, nuzzling his face against hers tenderly.

Kagome whimpered in pain as her stomach was forced to bend when Inuyasha pulled her into his arms, his deft fingertips caressing the curls of hair around her temples. He took one of her hands and ran it softly over his own cheek, wanting her to know that he was here.

'Kagome…?' he whispered to her, still nuzzling his face close to hers. Kagome was too far out of it, and did not know who this was that was holding her. However, she was so exhausted, and in so much agony, she had no idea who was holding her, nor could she find the strength to care. She heard Inuyasha speak, but did not hear what he said, and his voice was so filled with emotion and huskiness, that she could not even recognize it.

Inuyasha despaired when Kagome did not respond to his voice, and tears built in his eyes. As his tears fell on Kagome's cheek, Kagome exhaled hoarsely and Inuyasha looked hopefully at her. 'Kagome? Kagome I am here, please…it's me.' Inuyasha nuzzled closer to her, stroking her hair, hoping she would respond to him. Kagome felt Inuyasha stroke her ebony hair, and realized in her helpless state that only one person had ever done this for her; as she thought this, she studied the husky voice, without understanding the words, and she frowned as her realization brought her slightly back towards reality, and the pain.

'Inu…' Inuyasha looked down at her, as she tried to speak, 'Inu…yasha?' Inuyasha took her hand that he still held, guiding it through his hair, and over his doggy ears, they twitched with a mind of their own as her limp fingers stroked them. Kagome could not smile, she did not have the strength, but she could force up words, just one; Inuyasha smiled thankfully as she whispered, 'Hai…' in his ears. Kagome's situation was not much better, words still made no sense in her ears, and the only sense she seemed to be able to have in tact was touch, as her eyes refused to open. However, she knew that Inuyasha was here, and she slipped even further away from the world, knowing she would be okay now, though she could not manage to fall asleep, even with this comforting thought in her mind, the agony would not allow it.

Inuyasha pulled his kimono off of him without letting Kagome fall from his embrace, and pulled it round her. Suddenly he discovered the massive bruise on her otherwise flawless skin, and his temper had been exceeded, as his vision passed from the black and blue blemish on her stomach, to the monster that had done it. Kazuya now rose at last from the ground, the evil grin finally having fallen from his face, and into an even more menacing glare. Inuyasha pulled Kagome close to him as the creature rose, his emotions a mix somewhere between fear and anger.

'You fucking bastard,' he cursed at the creature before him, his gentleness disappearing just as quickly as it had come, 'I can't tell you how much I'm gonna fucking kill you.' Kazuya advanced slowly towards Inuyasha and Kagome, daring Inuyasha to stop him. Inuyasha pulled Kagome closer, trying to think of a way out of this mess. 'You keep the hell away from her,' he ordered Kazuya, his voice strong, trying to not show just how helpless he felt. I'm not going to lose thought Inuyasha, I've got to find a way out; I won't let her

down. Kazuya stopped as Inuyasha spoke to him, looking evilly amused once more.

'And how you pathetic little fool, do you expect to stop me from taking her?' Inuyasha wanted to leap at him, to hit him, to slash at every pore of the monster's skin, but he had promised not to let Kagome go, and he lost her once by breaking that promise and he wouldn't do it again.

'I don't know how I will stop you, but-'

'-But nothing, you are weak hanyou; your so-called massive strength is nothing to my supreme power. Those almighty sages, even their power could not kill me; it could not even seal my soul to oblivion as they were supposed to have done. What power do you have, you are just a boy compared to me.' His voice was harsh, and superior, and he knew he was going to win if Inuyasha gave in to his hatred and anger at this man.

'I don't know how I will stop you, but I will,' Inuyasha continued, 'because if I loose, nothing will be able to stop you from getting Kagome, and I won't let that happen.' His voice seemed foreign to his throat, it was strong and confident, and not at all how he felt right now. 'And those sages weren't all that incompetent were they? You are alive, but what about Yuna, they killed her, condemned her soul to oblivion, and no one can bring her back. They hold more power over you than you realize.' Kazuya's temper soared, higher than even Inuyasha's and he seemed to be using all of his strength just to not attack Inuyasha.

'You speak of power, but you know nothing of it! Your sword is your power you pitiful half blood child, an old trick of a dead dog-demon and you seem to have misplaced that!' Inuyasha looked at where Tetsusaiga's sheath should have been, and saw that it was gone, and he knew he had left it back in the cave with Sango and Miroku…and Sesshomaru!

Kagome whimpered lightly, not understanding the voices, but still hearing their harsh tones, she lifted her hand slightly and clung to Inuyasha's shirt. He looked down at her distressed face, and knowing she could not hear him, held his hand over hers, and her tenseness seemed to lessen. Kagome's hand, beneath Inuyasha's gave off a faint, mystic, pink radiance, and Inuyasha knew what it was.

'That's where you are wrong Kazuya…thinking that a sword is my power.' Kazuya did not understand Inuyasha's words, but he did not have to, it was soon explained to him. He looked back down at Kagome, and with the hand that was held loosely over hers, intertwined her fingers with his own. As the pink light was completely covered by his hand, it seemed to glow through, and glimmer through his own hand now. A radiant barrier of pink energy rose up around Inuyasha and Kagome, knocking Kazuya flying and smacking him into a tree. As Kazuya rubbed the back of his head, he looked back to Inuyasha and Kagome. He wondered how a youkai could cause a barrier with that purity, and then he realized, it wasn't Inuyasha doing this… it was Kagome.

Kazuya had far surpassed anger now, and he stood up with a quick jolt.

'She is a fragile child Inuyasha; you cannot hide from me forever. I will find you wherever you hide, and when I do, what will stop me from taking what I want?'

'You can't have her,' replied Inuyasha strongly.

'And why ever not?' asked Kazuya, advancing upon them once again as the pink aura began to fade.

'You can't have her…BECAUSE SHE'S MINE!' The barrier burst back to life, devastating the clearing around them, Kazuya being flung away from them, and he disappeared from Inuyasha's view, amongst the masses of blinding energy. As the barrier began to dim, Inuyasha scooped up Kagome, and dashed away from the clearing, determined to be as far away from here as possible when that barrier fell.

TBC

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A/N: Aww, the fluff, I do love it so. Did ya like? Well, more to come, so keep a reviewing please.

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