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 10: Father Knows Best

"You know why you are here, Loki." His father's beard was greyer than he remembered it to be.

"I do."

"What was your plan, then, exactly?" From his throne in the empty hall, Odin looked quite intimidating. Loki, however, as he stood several feet away, still bound by his wrists, and shackled at his ankles, was hardly amused.

Loki sighed. This trial was trivial; he knew his father wasn't going to do anything exceptionally drastic—since Odin had not done anything extreme to Loki when he had tried to take over earth, there was no way that he would do anything worse for failing to break out of his prison. "I was going to use my magic to escape through the keyhole." Loki refused to look at Odin.

"My dear boy, why did you possibly think that would work?" Odin warily looked over his delinquent second son. "He really needs a haircut," the Allfather amusedly thought to himself. Of course, there really was not much Odin would do to Loki; he loved the boy too much, and a parent would do anything for his child. Odin also knew, however, that Loki was clever enough to have worked this out for himself, so the King of the Gods was going to make this as painstaking as possible. "Loki," he said. "I asked you a question."

There was another few seconds wherein Odin knew that Loki was testing his patience, "BOY—"

"I hoped that she would let me go." Loki turned his face to look his father straight in the eye.

"Ah, so it was arrogance then? Did you believe you had charmed her?" Odin settled into his seat, and chuckled at Loki's annoyance.

He heard Frigga quietly sigh behind him, "Girl problems." Odin smiled when he saw Loki's cheeks color.

"It is not a problem," Loki muttered. "Anyway, she did not let me pass."

"No," Odin said. "She did not."

"If you have only brought me here to mock, then—"

"Now, Loki. Calm your temper. Thor has spoken to me in private, and has explained the situation as tactfully as he was able. He recommended enthusiastically that you remain as you have been. He seems to believe that this punishment is enough in itself, and I believe I understand now why that is."

Loki felt a pang in his gut; his sentence was long—nothing but a trifling for a God, but longer than any human would be able to last no matter how hearty they were. Both of his parents were able to discern in a second what he had wished to keep for himself forever, and it irritated him, but Loki also hoped he could sway them because of it. "She will die decades before I will see the light of day next." He did not have to fake the appearance of sadness as he shuffled his body to look at the vast beauty of Asgard from the open wall to his right.

Odin's eye softened at the piteous sight of his younger son mourning for an unexpected love that he believed would never come to fruition. "She will live the life of an Asgardian if she picks a God."

Loki quickly turned back toward his father, "has she been told?"

Odin nodded, "she is well aware. I do not believe she intended to stay forever, but when I spoke to her this morning, she seemed equally determined as you, son." The Allfather watched the gears in Loki's brilliant mind spinning on full tilt. When the boy looked up at Odin again, the mischievous sparkle had returned to Loki eyes, and his skin seemed almost flush.

Loki, logically, could hardly let himself hope, but his cold blood pumped through his veins just a tad faster at Odin's implications.

"Do you accept your sentence, son? Kagome will no longer be your guard, but your punishment will remain unchanged. I will find another to be your guard, however, be warned that if there is another trifle like this one, I will not be lenient the next time around."

Loki nodded. He just needed to behave himself for the next five decades or so, and then he'd be free to see Kagome. That wouldn't be so hard, right?