NEW CHAPPIE

Name of Story: Misa

Summary: My name is Misa. Up until recently, I was an average human girl. I worked in my family's fields and my parents were forcing me to marry some boy that I do not love. So, I ranaway. Now, I am on a journey of my life with Sesshomaru, heir to the Western Lands

Author's Note: I am back! That is all I have to say. Hope you like this chapter, for those of you who are reading this but not reviewing for it. R&R

Name of Chapter: Geisha House

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I held onto Akio for a while longer, loving the comfort he gave me. Being able to sense others feelings, he knew I was distraught about Misa. He stayed silent, letting me ponder what I was going to do.

I knew one thing for sure; I was going to make sure she did not get the same treatment I had.

The pain of being whipped repeatedly was so painful, at times I blacked out from it. I almost bled to death. If it were not for Akio, Fukio, and Aoi, I would have died. Fukio and Aoi cared for my lashes, tenderly cleaning and bandaging them. Akio gathered herbs to help them heal faster and sneaked food from the kitchens so I could eat when I wasn't in too much pain.

Akio, he gave me a reason to live. He promised me if we got out of here, he would marry me and make my dreams come true.

"You should get back." Akio whispers to me now. I nod, not making a motion to move from his strong arms yet.

It was my own personal piece of heaven in this hell right now.

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"Misa…" I groan, turning the other way from the prodding in my shoulder. "Misa…Misa, wake up."

I barely recognize the voice. My brain is too fogged with sleep.

"Misa, Mikio is here." I bolted upright and franticaly looked around the room. Mikio wasn't there. I was still in the room at the geisha house.

I turned my head and glare at Kayo, whom was giggling behind her hand, her face slightly red.

"That was a dirty trick, Kayo." I growl to her. Kayo laughed harder.

"I can't believe you still fall for that!" Kayo gasps, holding her stomach. "Even afer all this time!"

"I don't know why I do, though." I say, crossing my arms against my chest and pointing my nose upwards and my eyes closed. "After you disappeared, Mikio got married to a girl from another village."

Kayo stops laughing in mid-laugh and looks surprise at me.

"Oh, Misa. I'm sorry. I knew how much you loved him." Kayo replies, looking at me now with sad eyes.

"I saw him when I was changing into my outfit at the village." I explain. "At first I didn't recognize him until after I beat him for spying on me when I was changing."

"He saw you undress?" Kayo eyes widen. I nodded.

"I think he was almost unconscious when I left. Almost." Was that only two days ago? It seemed so far away.

Kayo mumbles something darkly about "Being unconscious" but she straightens suddenly and hands me a bowl of rice.

"Here, eat up." Kayo says, picking up her own bowl of rice. "We got to hurry."

"Okay." I didn't realize how hungry I was until I dipped into my rice. I hadn't eaten anything since yesterday morning before Juro and Jin took me. Jaken and I were going to stop for our midday meal but Juro and Jin showed up first.

I blinked; looking at my empty bowl, not one single grain of rice remained.

"I haven't seen you eat that fast since the time we got lost in the forest for an entire day." Kayo says, smiling. She hands me her bowl of rice and I try to protest. "You eat it. You're probably really hungry." She leans close to me and whispers in my ear. "Besides, I can get food from the kitchen." She winks at me.

"Okay." I say and begin eating the rice. It took me a while longer to finish this bowl. When I was done, I sighed in contempt. My stomach was full.

"Done now?" Kayo asks me and I nod. Her tone and expression turn serious. "Good. Now listen very carefully, Misa." I perked up, looking at her intently. What ever she wanted to tell me was very serious. I've only heard her use a serious tone when she was chiding a small child for throwing rocks at a cow.

"You must do what ever you are told to do here." Kayo continues, looking sternly at me. "Don't fight, don't refuse, and you must do what you're told."

"Or else what?" I ask. I know I should say "Okay" but some how; I can't fight the words I want to say. I do the opposite of those words. I fight. I refuse. I don't do what I'm told. "You know perfectly well I disobey orders, Kayo."

Kayo looked troubled and was about to say something when a plump middle-aged woman interrupted her.

"Miki, we must go now. Or else we'll be in trouble." The woman says. "The sun is about to rise."

Indeed, it was beginning to rise. The sky was a pink and light blue hue.

"Okay, Fukio." Kayo replied and then turns back to me. She gives me a pleading look and grasps my hands tightly in hers. "Please, Misa? I hate to see you get hurt."

I sigh and look away. "I'll try my best to…obey." I say the word like its poison. I will try to obey for Kayo's sake. The look that she's giving me, I never seen it before so I know she means for real and not joking around.

Kayo smiles and helps me stand up.

"Good. Now, just follow me around and be silent." Kayo said then started walking towards the door.

I followed her with the woman Fukio behind me. I suspected to keep me from running.

I wanted to get away from here but at the same time, I wanted to stay so I get more time with Kayo. She's my best friend and I haven't seen her in almost two years. Therefore, I'll stay for a while to memorize the design of this place then convince Kayo to run with me.

"This house is larger then any other mansion," Kayo begins as we travel down stairs. Everywhere young and old women are running around, carrying things in their arms. Trays of food, boxes, and cloth. I see some of the other girls from the carriage nearby.

They look terrified.

"It has a wing separate for Geisha's and servants." Kayo continues, waving to a few women and smiling. "It has a large kitchen with wood stoves and wells for water. There's a large dining room where men and Geisha's can dine in style." Kayo giggles, turning a corner.

"There are also rooms where Geisha can, ah, perform their Geisha duties." Fukio adds. My face heats up slightly and a pink hue is visible on Kayo's cheeks.

I try to gather this information, incase I need it for later but I'm too busy remembering what way we are going so I can't get lost when I try to run away.

Kayo leads the way up another set of stairs and stops at a marvelous designed sliding door.

"We start with this room each morning." Kayo whispers and then knocks on the door.

"Come in." A shrill high-pitched voice replies and Kayo slides open the door. "About time you got here. This room is a mess."

Clothing was scattered on the floor carelessly. Empty trays of food were on the floor and table. The bedding was half way on the floor and the bed. In addition, there was a gross smell was coming from the far corner.

"Get cleaning." I looked to the woman who spoke. She had long jet-black hair, mean muddy brown eyes, and wore a simple pale blue sleeping kimono. She was sitting on the windowsill and glaring at us.

I was going to say something when Kayo pushed my shoulder forwards into a slight bow.

"Yes, Mayi." Fukio said, bowing then straightening up and walking into the room. Kayo shot me a glare before entering the room also. I reluctantly followed her in.

"Who is she?" The girl Mayi barked, looking at me with distain.

"New servant girl." Fukio answered automatically in a stern voice.

I am not a servant! I wanted to say but I bit my tongue and glared at Fukio.

"What is your name, servant?" Mayi asked me.

"Misa." I replied shortly.

"You have an attitude. And your name, it's pathetic. You're pathetic." Mayi stated, holding my chin in her hand. Her long nails dug into my flesh. I glared at her and turned my head to release her hold on me. "Clean my chamber pot."

"My name isn't pathetic. Nor am I." I snapped at her.

Mayi slapped me.

"How dare you contradict me? I am your superior." Mayi said, matching my glare. "You are a worthless pathetic servant. You will never achieve to anything more."

"You want to bet on that?" I dared, crossing my arms tightly against my chest and giving her a challenging look. I hated to be told I was worthless and pathetic. I was neither of those things. I will achieve something more. I will be demon.

"Get to work, scum." Mayi ordered, pointing to the chamber pot.

"Okay," I said, getting an idea and smiling with evil. Kayo shot me a warning look as I picked up the pot, holding my breath and trying not to gag. The stench was so overwhelming!

My plan was to dump it over her big head but I ended up tripping over a pile of clothes and spilling some of its contents on the floor and most of it landed on Mayi's kimono.

There was a couple seconds of pin drop silence then:

"YOU WENCH!" Mayi screeched, glaring heatedly at me. I couldn't help but laugh. Mayi's pale blue kimono was beginning to turn green with a few brown smudges. "Look what you did to my kimono! You did that on purpose!"

"It was an accident, Mayi." Kayo defended me. I couldn't help notice she couldn't keep a straight face. Fukio was pale and she looked like she was about to faint.

"You will pay for this," Mayi seethed, pointing a finger at me and glaring with more heat in her eyes and I laughed, holding my stomach.

"I'm so scared." I said sarcastically and started laughing again.

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After the whole, spilling-urine-on-Mayi incident, I was sent to collect clothes from the laundry with Kayo leading the way. And the entire way there, she was either laughing or scolding me for what I did.

"That was so reckless, Misa!" Kayo cried. She laughed suddenly. "Did you see her face?" She stopped laughing and glared at me. "Why couldn't you hold your tongue? If Katashi or Takashi learn about this, you'll be punished."

"I'm not scared, Kayo." I said. It was the truth. I punished before for my attitude and actions so why not now?

"Miki!" Kayo and both turned around to see a girl with her black hair in pigtails run towards us and nearly run into Kayo. "Lord Takashi wants to see you and the new girl. It's about Mayi."

Kayo blanched, fear spreading across her face.

"R-really?" Kayo squeaked.

"Yes, right now!" The girl said, turning around and fast walking. Kayo and I glanced at each other before following.

"We're dead, Misa!" Kayo exclaimed.

"No we're not, Kayo." I reassured her. "I am."

Before she could reply, we stopped at a pair of doors to a throne room. On the large chair sat a man that looked like Katashi. Graying black hair and colder black eyes. He wore a black kimono with silver designs on his sleeves with plain black hakama's.

Standing next to him was man with long light brown hair in a braid down his back. His eyes were a piercing green that went straight to your soul. He was wearing a short brown sleeve elegant kimono with armor strapped to it with a sword strapped to it.

He was looking straight at me.

"Miki." Came the gruff voice of the man on the throne.

This must be Takashi, I thought, looking at the man on the throne.

"Y-yes?" Kayo stuttered, looking at the man with wide fearful eyes.

"What happened in Mayi's room this morning?" Takashi asked. Kayo swallowed audibly.

"Well, uh, you see-"

"I tripped carrying the chamber pot." I cut in for Kayo, seeing her fearful face. "It was an accident."

"That's not what Mayi says." Takashi replied, adverting his eyes to me. I shifted my feet and put a hand on my hip.

"Then she lies."

"I do not lie!" Mayi's shrill voice came from the corner. She was out of her soiled pale blue/green kimono and in a pink one. I suddenly smell jasmine perfume. "You purposely spilled the chamber pot on me!"

"Did not!" I argued. "I tripped over a pile clothes and it just so happened to land on you!"

"Liar!" Mayi turned to Takashi and bowed low to the floor in front of him. "Please, believe me, Lord Takashi. This servant purposely dumped my chamber pot on my new kimono. She's envious that I am so beautiful while she is so ugly."

"Please." I scoffed. I wasn't ugly at all and I'm not envious. She was the one so ugly.

Mayi was about to reply when Takashi interrupted her.

"Silence, Mayi." He said, holding up a hand. "I know how to solve this."

Kayo and I glanced at each other again.

"Wait, Lord Takashi." The man standing next to Takashi said. "I may have a suggestion."

He leaned down and whispered into Takashi's ear.

"What? Are you mad, Hisao?" Takashi exclaimed, looking at the man, Hisao, in shock.

"No, I'm not, Takashi." Hisao said with certainty in his resonating voice.

Takashi sighed and looked at me. I blinked, confused.

"You will be Lord Hisao's escort."

To Be Continued…

Haha! I'm done! Finally. Hisao is my own character. He's from Holding out for a Hero. Well, I'm going to word on something new now. Thank you, Muse, BlackRosetheVampire once again for your support. So:

R&R kindly please!

Drama Kagome