chapter 24: Father knows best... part II.

"Ahh hope you ladies are comfortable, now I take it you are the new lord of the west, Sesshomaru, yes?"

"Hn."

"So Toga, gave yuh the thrown, man I haven't seen that old coot, since, since... actually since I ended up here.." laughed Kuroi.

"How do you know of my father?"

"Why he and me? We were the best of buds back in the day. Man the shenanigans and stunts we would pull, no wonder we were always in trouble. I knew you too, when you were just born and a lil lad, man you have grown into quite the young youkai, everything it seems your father looked for in his heir-."

"My father passed away many moons ago." Sesshomaru cut into kuroi's conversation.

"What? How?"

Sesshomaru then caught Kuroi up on his late fathers demise at the hands of a human male and the birth of his bastard hanyou son, inuyasha, as well as his finding the whelp and taking him in, which came as a surprise to many.

"Hm, well considering that you have run into this little lady here, I believe it is time to come clean."

"What do you mean?" asked Kagome.

"Well you see my dear, I haven't been completely truthful with you. This place was a creation of mine. I created it out of my youkai. This whole place that you can see touch and fell is the manifestation of that power."

Sesshomaru's eye twitched, Kagome gasped softly and Kuroi continued on.

"Now, once I gained complete control and reached my full potential I was able to do this as well as set up a cloak as well so that no spell or person will be able to cast a spell or what ever to be able to see into my mountain home, at least if the person doesn't have enough power to over power me. Lastly, I have a few things to teach the both of you and will need you to stay here with me, that was the point of my creating this place, to fulfill your father's wishes. Also, only three people would have been allowed to enter here, and since all three of are here we might as well as begin no?"

Kagome and Sesshomaru shared a look. Sesshomaru opened his mouth to refuse the offer but Kagome spoke up before he got the chance to.

"Sure, Sesshomaru and I wouldn't mind." Sesshomaru looked back at Kagome, one eyebrow raised only to meet the pleading eyes of his mate and decided that he would agree as well. He then nodded at kuroi and they all stood.

"Great, now let me show you to your room."

red eyes peered out of the window, and saw nothing but death and desolation. The owner of said eyes smiled.

"Kana, get kagura to much time has been waisted, I fear that Sesshomaru has some how find out to much about the prophecy and is now trying to keep my prize away from me. I believe it is time to have a surprise ready for when he returns, dont you think so my dear."

"Yes, Naraku." said Kana as she walked backwards, keeping her attention on her master. "should I free her from her bonds?"

"Her bonds? Oh yes, those... I am feeling slightly more generous now that I have come up with this idea, yes, and clean up the pool of blood she was laying in, actually take some of it and put it in the mermaids bath, I am pretty sure our soon to be guest will enjoy it." naraku began to laugh as Kana quickly left the room.

Kana walked into a large torture room that sported a 5 by 5 foot pool. It was about 1 foot deep however and sat underneath a sun roof and a glass that magnified the suns rays. On one end of the pool was a pole that stuck out of the water and had chains coming from it. To the left of it was a wall where chains were attached to the wall and ground and also where Kagura currently laid beaten and bloody. On the opposite side of the wall was a large bed with chains on each bed post. The bed was also able to flip up and hang on the so that the whole room could easily view it. Across from the bed near the corner was a large table and crate that held every torture device known to man. Kana left the door and began to walk across the floor towards the pool of blood Kagura laid in. she passed the pool and then the large chair that had straps connected to it where the arms laid and the feet as well as one for the neck. Kana passed it quickly. This whole room was designed mostly for one person and she pitted the girl if she ever found her way into her masters clutches. She also knew that if the girls friends fought with her and didn't succeed they would be given the esteem privileged of seeing her being torture as well as her seeing them getting the same treatment. She prayed to God that if they did indeed fight, then that they would come out the victor. Even she didn't wish this on anyone. Kana walked over to the hook with the keys that loomed just out of kagura's reach and took them. She then unfastened the binds that held her and watched as she slumped to the ground, splashing some of the blood that lay on the ground onto Kana's clean white dress. The bloody red color stood out sharply against the color of Kana's dress making her seem dangerous, deadly, all the things Kana was not. Kana's face showed none of the pain and hurt that she knew she should have felt. It merely looked on blankly as she nudged her fallen sister.

"Sister, master Naraku wishes to see you." she said quietly. It was the only endearment that she would grant Kagura just so that she knew that the part of her that still felt something was still there, still inside her, locked up tight and unable to reach her, but it still saw and knew. Kana had a plan to help her sister, she would betray her master and she knew kagura was much to expressive and therefore would not be able to keep Naraku from knowing that she would be plotting against him. Thats why it was up to kana to save them, Kagura and herself.

She grabbed Kagura's arm. "Sister, master wants you."

Kagura shuttered and kana hefted the limp larger body till it stood and shaky legs moaning and groaning. Kana knew that her sister could not take another beating and therefore helped her to move quickly to the door. Kagura stopped and hurled onto the ground. When she had finished emptying her stomach contents, what little there was, and began to dry heave kana urged her to move on. When they finally reached the door kana looked back at the room. She watched as most of the bile rolled down into the pool. Once outside her masters door kagura took a deep breath, stood and went limping into the door.

The door then closed infront of kana and she walked back into the other room she had recently vacated. She then walked over to the area kagura had inhabited for about a week and sat on her knees. She then began to push the blood over until it began to run down the slight incline towards the mermaids bath, and like the bile it ran into the water tinting it red. She watched the blood run into the water and then stood she went over and grabbed a bucket from out of the chest of torture materials and used it to scoop up some water from the pool. She then walked back over to the wall and poured the bucket onto the ground so that the rest of the blood washed into the pool. She repeated this several times till the floor where kagura had laid in a bath of her own blood was a mere stain of red that extended into the mermaids bath. She then returned to bucket to the chest and left the room so that she may return to her own room and wait and plan the right time for her and her sisters escape.

"Kagura, ahh dont you look well." Kagura merely glared up into naraku's eyes as she stood in front of him, the blood drained from her face as she fought to stand up right.

"Ah, yes, straight to business then. I assume to are ready to get back into my good graces, yes?"

silence... a tentacle then shot out and wrenched kagura from her feet and held her two inches in front of her master by the neck.

"I will not repeat myself, Kagura." Naraku, spit in kagura's face. "When I speak, I expect an answer, do you understand?" asked Naraku as his tentacle tightened around Kagura's neck.

"Yes, master." sneered kagura ignoring the spit in her eye.

"Now then how about the answer to my first question?" breathed Naraku.

"Of course I wish to return to your good graces, master, I have learned my lesson." spoke kagura as she choked slightly, not from the tentacle, but from the smell of Naraku's putrid breath.

Naraku smiled and dropped kagura into a heap on the ground. She quickly stood and faced her master.

"Great then, this is what I am going to need you to do for me."smiled Naraku as he turned his back to kagura and smiled as he looked out of the window.

"Man, Miroku, what is it that your looking at? And when is Kagome coming back?" whined Shippo as he plopped down onto Miroku's shoulder.

"i do not know Shippo, but hopefully soon, we have found plenty of info on the Kumo Hanyou and why he might want her."

"Really?"

"Yes Shippo-kun. Now go and get Inuyasha its about time for your lessons and I need to meditat, meet me in the field i'm pretty sure your mentor is there."

"Okay, its fun sparring with prince Inuyasha, and General Akio is a great mentor."

"Yes, I am sure the young Kitsune as well as inuyasha is very fond of you as well."

"Monk, stop sayin my name, people might actually think I like you."

"Ahh, I see the young prince has found us instead." Miroku rolled his eyes and chuckled as Shippo laughed. He then looked up at inuyasha."What brings you here, Inuyasha?"

"Akio, wants us, says he's ready for me and the kit, and you since yuh usually tag around for things like this. I dont even know why yuh come if yuh dont fight." said inuyasha as he turned around and walked away his hands behind his head, sword at his side. The rest followed as Shippo spoke up

"Wouldn't expect you to know inu-baka, I mean its not obvious that Miroku watches us train that way he can watch our techniques and pick up flaws and good ideas for himself while he meditates, noooooo, thats not obvious at all." Sang Shippo from miroku's shoulder.

Miroku laughed as inuyasha got all red and kehed, muttering about know it all runts and how they were gonna get a pounding in the ring, and how they should put their money where their fists were.

Hirohito sat back in his room and sighed. He looked at an image as he rubbed his head. It was a picture of his darling daughter when she was no more then five. They were hugging in the picture. He could remember the day as if it were yesterday. He had been leaving again and his daughter was pouting.

"DADDYYY, but I dont want you to go!"

"Yes, I know Utako, but I must, there is a whole ocean that I must protect and I have many obligations to it, many people need me."

"But daddy, I need you too!"

"Yes darling I know, but you know I am always with you. Every time you look in the mirror you will see me shinning back at you."

"What? Nu uh?"

"yes you will, do wanna know how?'

"Yea!"

"Well you see my eyes?"

"Yes"

"And what color are they?"

"Blue?"

"Yes, and what color are yours?"

"Blue, like yours..."

"thats because they are mine, you will always have my eyes, which are a piece of me in you. No one in this whole ocean have those eyes, not even your mother or baby brother, only you."

"Only me." said Kagome as she hugged her father tightly.

"Yes only you my Utako, you also have a piece of my heart here." he said as he leaned back and touched her bare, flat chest.

Kagome placed her small hand in the spot where her fathers finger had touched as she looked up at him. She then smiled and moved her hand to her face and hair.

"And these are yours too daddy?"

Hirohito chuckled "Yup, you look just like your daddy, no one can ever say your not my child."

Kagome giggled as she looked at her mother who came over and held her arms out to her. Hirohito watched as Kagome kissed her daddy's cheek and went over to her mother. He then kissed his wife and left with his patrolling party.

He sighed as the images disappeared, did he really know how much his daughter needed him back then, he had no clue. All he ever saw was her smiles and he never saw anything else, but that day his wife sat down with him and told him about the side of Kagome he never seen. The bullying and depression that loomed over her shoulder and was the reason for her need to explore. Could he really blame her. Her mother didn't know what to do, he was never around, and what he thought was teenage rebellion was really a cry for help. No wonder she was unhappy with his decision, how could he just show up out of the blue and make demands of her life, when she had been making her own decisions for so long. She obviously felt very strongly for this man, or rather, this youkai, and the youkai was obviously trying to get his hard headed daughter to face her problems rather than run from them. Which was a good thing... but he was selfish. He didn't want to give up his daughter, he had just gotten her back... what would he do? All he wanted was to be the father that she needed...

so that is the end of the chapter, and we are now on page 102! yeah... yes I am still here lol, however my other stories have taken the back seat till I have finished... or at lest made some head way this one so yea... by the way please review, tell me what you think... also this story is gonna be hella long jut sayin. Lol. So you can expect a lot from it. Btw doctors orders is half way done so when I start adding to that again, it probably wont be many more chappies till its finished, and a winters first snow has a long way to go, guhhhh, lol. Well if your wondering... huh if there is a part two and daddy hirohito is still confuzzled then is there gonna be a part 3? well then you are correct and there might be a part four before Naraku can get his plan into motion and I can get Sessh and Kags back to the shores, so review and I will see you next time in Chapter 25: Father knows best... part 3?

oh yeah... LOL,

ja ne,

KAR