Kagome, Sango and Hojo walked into dinner together, and started at the salad bar. Kagome was once again amazed at how well this palace kept its slaves. Kagome heaped a huge pile of salad onto her plate, and covered it in ranch dressing, chicken, croutons, carrots, and shredded cheese. She picked up a glass of water and put it on her tray. She waited patiently for Sango and Hojo to get out of line for whatever food they were getting.
"Where should we sit?" Kagome asked.
"How about over there? Sango suggested.
"Fine by me." Hojo said.
They all sat at a wobbly table, it was a cheap plastic, but that didn't make the least bit of difference to Kagome. She began mixing and tossing her salad almost everywhere, and began eating her salad savagely. As if she hadn't eaten in over two days, which she probably hadn't. The only thing that made her pause eating was the feel of a hand caressing her leg. She nearly spit out her food, but she didn't, she just swallowed calmly, and glared at Hojo. He gave her a nervous look. Kagome let it slide, for now, but if her tried that one more— Kagome flinched, and gave and extreme death-glare, and kicked Hojo in the shin. Sango gave a curious glance, but shrugged it off. Kagome stared for a second; ready to slap the bastard clear into Hell if her tried to touch her like that. She liked personal space, it wasn't her fault. Kagome began to eat her salad happily again, and she thought Hojo had dropped the subject until she felt a hand creeping up her thigh. Kagome gave a glare, to get him to back off, but of course he didn't. His hand crept further and further up her leg, until her snapped her underwear. Kagome stood up, and backslapped the pervert.
"HENTAI!" She screeched. The entire room looked at Kagome, and she was too flustered to notice Hojo pulling out a knife. There was a fairly loud shattering sound, and Sango leaning over the table, holding a shattered plate over Hojo.
"Bitch." He growled, and threw a shard of the broken plate at Sango, pinning her dress to the wall.
"Hey!" Sango yelled. Hojo jumped for Kagome, completely ignoring Sango, and pinned Kagome to a spare table. Every acted as if this happened everyday, and went back to eating their dinners.
"I don't take rejection very well, you see." He hissed. Hojo slapped Kagome in the face, hard. Kagome did her best to struggle away, but to no avail.
"Let… me… go!" Kagome said through clenched teeth.
"Not a chance." Hojo said, punching Kagome in the stomach. Kagome began to cough a little bit, and a small amount of blood trickled down her mouth.
"Kagome!" Sango yelled. She definitely did not like being pinned to a wall, while watching her new best friend possibly be raped.
"Need help, miss?" A man about in his lower twenties, walked up to Sango. He was wearing an overseer uniform; Sango cringed. But she couldn't help but notice his jet-black hair, tied back in a small ponytail that reached about his neck, and deep violet eyes, that shone with kindness, and a hint of mischief.
"Uh, I-uh." Sango stuttered. Half of her mind was worried about Kagome, a quarter was worried about what the overseer would do, and the last quarter was just lost. The next thing Sango knew, she had fallen onto the floor, with a soft thud.
"Please, you have to help my friend!" Sango said, pointing to Kagome's direction. To her bewilderment, the overseer's gaze was a confused one.
"Who? I don't see anyone in danger here, miss. If you don't mind me asking, what's your name?"
"It's—Uh, Sango, what's your name." She said, walking around the large cafeteria, searching frantically to find her friend.
"Sango, huh? Well my name is Miroku, nice to meet such a lovely lady." He cooed.
"Um, thanks." Sango said, sliding out of the overseer's reach, by ducking under a table, still in search of her friend. Miroku was growing just a bit irritated; her friend must be damned important, if a slave wasn't paying much attention to an overseer. Usually, he had girls begging to be his. But this girl, this girl was different somehow, and being ignored by her, only made him want her more.
"Excuse me for asking, sir, but could you help me find my friend?" Sango asked.
"Why but of course. What does she look like?" Miroku asked.
"She's about an inch or two shorter than me, has black hair about to her mid-back, and brown eyes, if that helps." Sango said, it really wouldn't help if she told him what Kagome was wearing, because all slave women wore the same dress.
Kagome had never been more scared in her life. For one, there was nobody around to help her, and thus they wouldn't hear her, even if they did, they probably wouldn't care much. Kagome was bound by the ankles, and wrists, and also gagged. Hojo was busy making sure no one was around. Kagome looked at her surroundings for a way out, or something to hit Hojo with. Alas, she saw nothing.
"So, you thought you could get away from me, did you?" Hojo asked, a glint of anger in his eyes.
"Hmmph." Kagome said, the gag was indeed making her gag on her own spit, she could taste a small amount of bile, blood, and a bit of her salad from before.
"I see you're having fun with that gag. I'll take it off, you just have to promise to be a good little girl and don't scream or nothing." Hojo warned. Kagome nodded her head slightly, deeply afraid of what he was going to do to her. All of the rumors she had heard were terrible, and horrifying, she had never thought much about them, until now. She was the one who was going to be told about in all of those stories. Hojo moved in closed, and fumbled with the knot on the gag. The second Kagome felt it loosen around her jaw; she spat it out and immediately began screaming for help.
"Help! Someone please! Anyon-!" Kagome was cut short from her pleas.
"Damn it, I thought I told you to keep quiet!" Hojo snapped.
Kagome's fear intensified when Hojo held out a rather sharp-looking knife. Sharper than the one he had before. Where was he getting all of these knives? Did he have like some psychotic stash of them somewhere? Kagome chuckled to herself, the thought was imaginable.
A/N: There! I really hope you guys liked it! I'll update as soon as I type the next chapter!