Title: Caged Bird
Rating: Pg-13
Genre: Angst
Prompt: Please
Characters: Kagura and Naraku
Word count: 300
Warnings: Mildly violent
Summary: if only she could fly.
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Pain like fire ignited every inch of her body coursing through her till she laid on the floor gasping for a breath, while Naraku's laughter cut through the air like a knife.
"You should know better than to disobey me by now Kagura." He said his crimson eyes glistening in the dark miasma clouded room.
Still winded, Kagura could only manage a defiant glare. Earning her another painful squeeze of her heart, the pain doubled and it was becoming even harder to hold onto consciousness.
Naraku laughed mirthlessly as she gasped for air. Though she'd never admit it aloud, she knew it would be so much easier to try and please Naraku, compliantly follow orders like emotionless Kanna and the human puppet Kohaku, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She imagined herself like a cage bird fighting at its restraints desperately attempting to get free, only to have it wings singed by a burning white-hot cage that shrank at each for attempt for freedom.
Kagura could feel the darkness creeping around the edges of the white hot pain of Naraku attempting to squeeze the life out of her. Although, she knew he wouldn't get rid of her while she still had a purpose. To Kagura, her purpose seemed unclear, sometimes she felt like he kept her around as some kind of sick distraction from his master plan, like she was meant to be disloyal, so he could use her and punish her at his discretion
"Don't think anyone is coming to save you." Naraku taunted menacingly.
There was need for that, she never hoped for a savior, though silvery tresses and a crescent moon haunted her dreams. She knew her bird cage was locked and shrinking, but maybe someday the cage would open so she could fly free.