Punishment

Inuyasha-Avengers

Kagome-Loki

Comedy, Romance

Series

For his misdeeds on Midgard, Loki was given only one punishment: Kagome.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the Avengers, Inuyasha, or Norse Mythology. Also, I'm sorry if there are lots of facts that are wrong and stuff.

Chapter 7: Caged

A total of forty-five days had passed since Loki had been assigned Kagome as a guard, and a total of sixty days since he had been removed from Midgard. Teasing his sentinel had become his pleasure, and he was nothing if not a master of the art of teasing. But he was to be completely honest, recently his teasing had become flirting, and he couldn't deny that he was absolutely loving it.

"You have a beautiful name," Loki said as he paced around his room with his fingertips lightly dragging across the cold, rose-colored walls, scanning the cracks. "From which country on Midgard does it originate?" Loki grinned, and he could almost hear the blood rush to her cheeks.

"Th-there's a country on Earth—Midgard, or whatever you call it—called Japan. That's where Tokyo is; that's where I'm from."

Loki turned to Kagome, and smiled gently at her, "Do you miss Japan?"

Kagome sighed, and settled herself deeper into her cushioned chair by the exit, "I do. But I know that I have to be here for now. There isn't much I can do about it." Loki stopped his counting, carefully filing away his gathered information to re-explore again later, and stared at Kagome.

He suddenly realized that she was a prisoner here too.

"Why can you not leave, dear?" He asked, hardly breathing.

"Well, I mean I am your guard," she teased, but saw the deep green that had settled in his irises, and knew that he was not in a laughing mood. She looked away, "I… I was revealed to be a priestess, and so they collected me." Loki didn't need to ask who had done so. The contentment that had settled comfortably in his gut evolved into a bubbling anger. When Kagome finally seemed to notice the silence that had fallen over them, she looked up and frowned, "You've gone so pale… Please, Loki, don't worry about it; I'm glad that I'm here now! Like I said before, I'm so thankful—"

"You did not "volunteer," as Thor led me to believe?" His eyes, now a poisonous green, shot toward Kagome, and—though she knew his anger wasn't aimed toward her—her spiritual energy began to bubble beneath the surface of her skin.

"No, no, no! I did! SHIELD found me and brought me in, but Thor came to me to ask if I would be your guard, and I agreed of my own free will. I thought that anything would be better than to be used by SHIELD. Please… Thor saved me from that life; he really did!"

Loki swallowed his temper, and walked over to her. Placing his hand on her cheek, he smiled, "Do not worry, Kagome. I am not upset." He really wasn't; he was determined.

Loki decided that it was time for him to break loose from his cage. He would break out, and make absolutely sure that Kagome would have the option to leave if she wanted to.