When it comes to ownership wrights you all know what I'm gonna say.
Chapter 9- Captured
Kagome sighed in relief and got up off the cave floor and said "I love him, and if you want to drown him" she pulled out her shell dagger "You'll have to go through me first"
Kagome nervously liked her lips as she really didn't want to fight her own sister, but she knew that if the choice came down to it she would defend her land friends to the end. "I'm not joking Kikyo!" she warned her own siren nature surfacing slightly when Kikyo made to grab her own dagger. "If you are so blinded by your hatred for one human killing our mother that you let it spread to all humans then you have been getting to siren for your own good, sister"
Kikyo suddenly got a hold of herself and said "You love that human so much… that you'll fight against us? Your own family?"
Kagome's hand was trembling "I'll hate myself as much as you will, but yes, if it comes down to a fight then I'll battle you" her eyes turned onto the watching mermaids and she raised her voice "and any other sea creature that dares to raise a hand of harm against my boyfriend"
Kikyo snorted and said "If you feel so attached to them… then go, go live with them"
Kagome's eyes filled with tears, Kikyo…
Kikyo huffily whipped her eyes and nose to make it look like she wasn't crying. "Well go on then! You clearly want to be with humans more than me… Leave!"
Kagome was hit with a wave of boiling water that had her flying backwards out of her cave with Kikyo glaring and building for another attack.
Kagome looked at her older sibling with sore eyes then whispered so only Kikyo could hear her "Mother wouldn't have wanted this…" before picking up her belongings and leaving the cave then after a quick smile at her fellow mermaids she turned and left the village.
Kikyo collapsed and started to scream-sob on the floor. Kanna swam over and said "That was a little harsh wasn't it?" before leaving the elder sibling to her misery.
Kagome sighed in relief when she saw the lights of Inuyasha's home and surfaced with a broad smile. Her eyes widened in horror when she saw her Inuyasha on the sand with blood soaking his silver hair and cloths all ruffled and cut. He had lots of large bruises over his face and arms and seemed to have trouble breathing.
Kagome let out a soft cry of pain when she saw him like that. He was surrounded in men and women dressed head to foot in black with goggles and caps so they couldn't be recognised. Sango and Miroku were laying unconscious a few feet away from the back door, not moved from where they tried to escape.
Kagome whimpered in her uselessness and let out a gasp when one of the men hit Inuyasha with a metal pole.
Kagome raised a hand and held a coil of sea weed. With a angry shout she lashed out with it and it snapped tightly around the nearest man's throat and she dragged him harshly into the sea while he struggled to get the pressure off his throat.
She didn't drown him she couldn't bring herself too no matter how angry she was from both Kikyo's fight and Inuyasha's injuries.
Grabbing another coil of sea weed she snagged a few more silently before they all realised that the threat was coming from the sea.
"Hit the flood lights!" one man shouted and suddenly the cove was filled with a devastatingly bright light.
Kagome cried out at the sudden brightness and dived back under the water swimming to deeper water on instinct. "Rise the nets!" the same man ordered.
Kagome let out a horror filled scream when a net appeared in front of her rising high out of jumping reach over the water with heavy rocks weighing the net down so there was no getting under it. Kagome looked left then right.
The net was positioned over the cove entrance and there was no way she could get away now. The men saw her, with the aid of the flood lights, struggle with the net as she tried to wriggle under the bottom but couldn't even pry it out of the sand.
Inuyasha groaned and opened his eyes to see Kagome attempt to leap over the top of the net, silver and green scales flashing in the harsh light of the men's machines. Kagome fell back into the water with a cry and then swam to the shore when Inuyasha managed to drag himself to the edge of the waves.
"Don't let it escape! Don't let it near the shore!" the cove was alive with fire as flame throwers were ignited in an attempt to keep the 'savage' mermaid from dragging them into the water and drowning them.
Kagome dove away from the fire with a scream of terror.
Inuyasha picked up a heavy rock and pounded the heads of the three men near him and Kagome swam towards the lack of fire.
"Inuyasha!" she whimpered as he collapsed from pain and exhaustion and reached as far as she was able to touch his outstretched hand. He was so hurt that he could hardly draw the breath to talk clearly. But he managed to get a few broken words out telling her to run, or swim, away from here.
Kagome screamed as one man grabbed her and she slashed him with her dagger. He dropped onto the sand and lay still. Kagome swam back then stared in horror. I killed him! Her sigh of relief was heard by everyone when the person groaned and rolled over.
Inuyasha's golden eyes locked with Kagome's as he silently begged her to escape.
Kagome gave in an agonised look before diving into the depth and using her mermaid powers to launch out of the waters and clear the net. It looked like she was going to escape then a bang of a gunshot was heard and Kagome convulsed once horribly in the air, landing in the water with a splash curled around her tail.
The gunshot was not a gun, Inuyasha realised with horror, it was the harpoon that he had seen earlier. The strong rope attached to it was in the hands of the one who shot her and was shouting for help to drag the creature back to the land.
Inuyasha watched helplessly as Kagome was dragged back to shore by all the men who were still fully body functional.
The harpoon had gone right through Kagome's tail so she was almost speared. She was too hurt to resist now. Inuyasha dragged himself over to her and found a hidden strength that was deep inside him to get up and cradle her in his arms.
"Kagome?" he asked shaking her slightly. She whimpered and her eyes opened, they were filled with sad-angry tears. That hit the rocks turning to sea glass of red and blue.
One man picked then up with an interested look on his face. "Put it in the tank"
Kagome clung to Inuyasha till they were forced apart by the flame throwers. Kagome had her head covered in a sack and her hands bound. She lay limp in one of the men's arms and lay still at the bottom of the shallow tank that they were transporting her in.
Sango and Miroku had come around at the end of the display and at once jumped into Sango's car to follow them.
Inuyasha lay in the back of one of the army trucks bleeding and too hurt to move much. Kagome lay helpless in a tank no bigger than a coffin and he reached into the waters to pull the sack off her head.
Kagome's wide eyes met his and he tried his best to comfort her by rubbing small circles on her back and in her hair.
"I promise that I'll get you out of here" he whispered to her and she nodded looked scared and she knocked her head gently into the glass so it was like their foreheads were touching through the glass.
One of the men saw what they were doing and kicked Inuyasha's already hurt stomach. Kagome managed to sit up in her coffin and yelled at the man who hurt her human. "What the Fuck is wrong with you? Leave him alone!"
The men all gasped at her voice and one muttered "I didn't know they could talk"
"That's why it's so important to make sure we do know after this month is over…" The two youngsters looked up at a man with red-brown eyes and pale face with long black hair.
"Hey boss? Is it a good idea to show your face?"
The 'boss' glared at him and the speaker cringed into the side of the van. The man kneeled down by the youngster's side and said smoothly "So sorry for not introducing myself, I am Naraku. I was a scientist that specialised in genetic mutation between fish and mammals, but you wouldn't know anything about that would you?"
Kagome edged away from him and he sighed "Stubborn creature" he stood up and pulled out a small knife. Fear glinted in Kagome's eyes and she struggled as he reached for her. He only cut her bonds and she looked up at him in confusion.
"It would be an honour to know your name…" he got no answer and she only fussed gently over the human boy next to her pond. He watched as she cupped his face and whispered his name over and over until he opened his eyes.
He smiled up at her and she cupped her hands in the water of her tank then poured it over his injured chest. When he was covered in sea water she closed her eyes and her hands glowed a soft blue as she healed the human she had fallen in love with.
The men all gasped when Inuyasha sat up perfectly fine again. He held her in a brief hug then he was the one protecting her.
Naraku used the blunt side of the knife to jab Inuyasha's chest and he raised an eyebrow in both amusement and fascination. "Amazing… it seems I chose right in picking a mermaid to study"
Kagome whispered the unfamiliar word in Inuyasha's ear. "Study means to look and find out information about a certain subject" he whispered back to her.
Both her hands were on his shoulders and she had her cheek pressed into his neck. "Does it hurt?"
Naraku chuckled softly. "Don't fret creature, it will only hurt if you struggle. We wanted to be friends but your boyfriend here wouldn't even let us have a civilised conversation with you… so we had to convince him the hard way, then you turned up and… well things turned out smooth enough"
Inuyasha was growling lowly and Kagome had her hands in his hair running it through the soft texture and was determined to not talk to these men.
Naraku glared at her suddenly "Am I ever going to know your name?"
Kagome squeezed Inuyasha's shoulder and just glared at the horrid human. The water around her torso steamed slightly in her anger but it went unnoticed. Inuyasha put a hand over hers and whispered softly to her "Don't give him what he wants"
Naraku stood glaring in frustration and said to the nearest man. "Take it to the aquarium and chain her friend to the ledge, a little pain will loosen its tongue"
Inuyasha stiffened as they talked about her as if she wasn't a person. Kagome's hands gently soothed his back to rein in his anger with an adoring touch. He leaned back against her hands and just before the men could pick up her coffin he scooped her up in his arms and carried her into the abandoned aquarium.
Hearing the gentle purr of an engine he looked up to see Sango and Miroku standing by the fence watching helplessly. He nodded at them and they mouthed something like "We'll save you" but they were so far away that it was hard to tell.
Kagome's prison wasn't as bad as the coffin but it was still a prison. The walls were completely glass leaving no privacy with cameras above the water and below. The water was only at three quarters its proper height and there was a metal ledge that over hanged the water a little and the entire place was covered in flood lights. There was a small sitting rock in the centre of the pond and a small cave of plastic rock for her to sleep in but that was it, she would have liked some sort of greenery in all the grey and brown and clear.
The men would have thrown her into the aquarium but Inuyasha lowered her in slowly and as soon as she was in the water she did the natural thing and swam around frantically looking for a way out. It wasn't much bigger than a tennis court.
She surfaced again and whimpered when she realised she was truly stuck. She swam back to Inuyasha and reached a hand out to him. "It's so closed in" she whimpered softly so only he could hear her.
He squeezed her hand and then the men in black grabbed his shoulders and pulled his arms behind his back. Kagome yelled at them to leave him alone but they didn't listen as they dragged him from the room and onto the ledge on the other side of the pool. Kagome was at once at his side.
The men chained his ankle to the wall of the ledge so he couldn't go anywhere other than the three square meters allowed to him.
Kagome hissed like an angry snake and dived across the ledge grabbing one of the men and pulling him into the water. He screamed and struggled but she held him at the bottom of the water until he started to breathe water.
Then with sheer strength she threw him out of the water and through the door of the aquarium then pulled herself up next to Inuyasha and cuddled into his side gently massaging his new bruises on his back and arms.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered to him when the lights went off for the night. "I'm scared"
He held her tightly and said "I'll protect you"
Kagome shook her head "You can't, they'll hurt you again, and all because of me…"
Inuyasha kissed her hair and rubbed her back comfortingly. "Don't you worry about me, you're the important one" Kagome sniffed and cried onto his shoulder in the pitch blackness.
I an so evil, I like torturing my, or someone elses as this is a fanfiction, characters so that when they are finaly together they deserve to be. 3
R&R!