Inuforlyf
The Hunt
January 29, 2010
Summery: Kagome and Kikyou's mother is gone, kidnapped. Their father hears this and asks three Inu youkai, his friends, to look for the lady of their village. However, a deal is made. For the youkai to look for his wife, one of the sons of the eldest youkai must wed with one of the two daughters, who are Miko. Miko are known to purify the demons and hold nearly no nice feelings for the youkai kind. Unfortunately they learn a secret that can very well ruin there life if they are to mate with a demon. Hearing they must wed with one the run, thus beginning the hunt.
Disclaimer: I don not own Inuyasha. This is Fanfiction
Apologies: Before I begin I just want to say sorry to all for the ridicules wait. I didn't forget about any of my stories, its just gone from my head during school time and it's hard to be creative. So I'll try to update before school is back. I've just finished midterms so I have a four day weekend to set my fingertips on fire typing. I want to say sorry again because the hunt's fans were deprived of a continuance chapter.
Now:
Ah! Why am I so stupid! And what's with all the bad luck! Kagome frowned, was karma real? Had she been an obnoxious child? She thought of her past see reveal anything she might have done to deserve this misfortune.
"Don't do this," Kagome whispered to the man, "Please, I really can't become your mate. I truly can't" Her chains were released and she felt the weight of her arms fall onto her thighs. She gasped in pain but continued to speak, "You don't want me to be your mate, right? We can find a way to still have the political bond just please, not with marriage."
"It is out of my hands."
"No its, not!" The man took hold of an arm and pulled her up. She let out a yell and startled, he dropped her. "Oh please don't touch me."
"Why, because I am demon? As if I would want a human mate as my father's failure continues to sing in my ear. Woman, you are not pleasing to hear, smell or see why would I want such a pathetic excuse as a mate?"
"Then leave, leave me here and I'll find my way home. We can settle this without marriage. I can be an ally from the Eastern Lands; you know I have the power so please! Just leave me here."
"You will die here."
"My wounds will heal; they are not grave enough to-"
"Once the Hunt is complete, your body will crave to be near your predator."
"But I'm not even an Inu, I don't think your rules will include me as well. This Hunt thing is invalid." Kagome shifted her legs to tuck underneath her body. She held in a well worth scream and settled on her ankle. "I have a duty out here that must be seen to. I ask of you a favor, Lord Sesshomaru." She bowed and allowed her nose to touch her thumb. Her back sang with pain and her thighs stretched to a skin tearing feel. "You favor is denied, the hunt will be consumed and you will be my mate." Kagome would have cried if it hadn't hurt too much to do so. "Will you force me to slowly die a terrible death? Would you marry out of obligation rather than love? Then you are worse then your father. At least he had the decency to leave your mother for the woman he loved. He did not want you mother to suffer the way I will by your side."
"You know nothing."
"I know he loves Lady--- I know he loves that human enough to leave such a powerful demoness, to show his followers his love for a HUMAN. And then he has Inuyasha as proof of their love! Not a full blood demon heir but a half blood son. I can not give you what your father has now because although I am human I can not give you what your father has. And that's love, I can not understand the Demon culture, I can not understand the genetics or the instincts that demons have and I am not willing to learn as your step mother was. This will just end with my death. Both my soul and my-"
"Your mouth, why does it continue? Your favor has been denied, stand and we shall take our leave." Kagome held in the bile which began to rise as she stood. The pain was affecting her mind and she still couldn't see but she could hear the big bang behind her. The next thing she felt was a hand yanking her up and backwards. "Release her," Sesshomaru said over the roar of people shouting.
"I'm sorry Lord Sesshomaru but this is an escape, we can't let Kagome rot here." Oh, it's Sango, Kami, you are so good to me. "And she doesn't like you much so we'll take our leave."
Kagome was settled on the flying cat and she felt free. She grabbed hold of Kirara's fur and felt the wind on her face, it stung but she couldn't be happier. "Oh Kagome, you look a mess."
"Sango, you are an angel, aren't you."
"I wish I was but no, I'm just a friend."
"A really good friend." Sango chuckled behind Kagome. "Well hold tight, we're going lower so the flowers can hide your scent. This place is really beautiful. I would have never thought it was a prison."
"How did you find me?"
"Travelers like to gossip so when I heard about a group of crazy priests found a painless she demon I thought of you. But you can move now!"
"I think the trauma woke my nerves, I don't know what happen but maybe my spine realigned with all the hits it took. Where are Miroku and Shippo?"
"Oh, on the ship,"
"The ship!"
"Well, yes how do you think we got all the way here? It's been days."
"Are we really in the northern Lands?"
"I think so," Kirara took a dive and Kagome tightened her hold. "Well then, we can find Shippo's family."
--8—
Sesshomaru almost chuckled at how he let her slip through his claws. This was a joke. The kamis above were having a day for fools. He walked into the field of flowers to locate his ward and the dragon. Eight days. He used his nose, the instinct of the hunt to find her, only to lose her once more. And the flowers were messing everything up. Her trail vanished completely in the mess of petals and Sesshomaru hoped a random fire would fall upon this place.
"Rin," He said and a little child's head popped up from a location in the ocean of flowers. "LORD Sesshomaru! It's so beautiful! The flowers are everywhere and smell so nicely. Would you like a crown? Rin has made many and bouquets to give the lady you have been searching for." She paused in her happiness and looked around her Lord. She quickly ran behind him then back around to his front and placed a questionable look on her face. "Where is the lady?"
"Get on to Ah un, Rin." The young girl nodded feeling sad that her Lord Sesshomaru had once again failed to find the lady.
--8--
"When will we start training?" Ayame asked as she crawled over a fallen tree. "This is training." Kouga relied and turned to face her. "Really, what am I learning?"
"You're learning to be an obedient student." Lord Kobiyashi answered and Ayame rolled her eyes. "Really what are we, AH!" Ayame shouted as she fell, tripping over a protruding root. She spit out dirt and blinked before crawling to her knees, "Kami! Kill me! Just kill me!" She shouted to no one in particular and Lord Kobiyashi laughed a full hearted cough. "Do you think my pain is funny? Huh? Well, then, you are an ass."
"Incorrect, I am a fox."
"From the way you're laughing I thought you were a coyote!" She shot back.
"Oh, like the one you couldn't even run away from? And you call yourself a wolf. What a pitiful excuse of a-"
"You two are giving me a headache!" Kouga growled and help Ayame up; she smiled at him and dusted herself off. "We've been walking for two days straight, I've been looking for that girl for six days and damn it, I'm sick of not getting anywhere!" The black fox sat on a boulder and watched Kouga fume with amusement. "I'm forgetting why I'm looking for this wench in the first place."
"For power," Ayame supplied and leaned against a tree, the men stared at her, surprised. "What?"She asked. "How would you know that?" Kouga asked with a head tilted to the right. "Well…" She froze thinking of a way that would make sense, "That's the only thing that makes sense. It can't be love because you keep call her that girl or wench and it can't be because you were told to be a superior because no one would go through so much trouble so it has to be for a personal search. Power makes sense to me. What ever that girl has you want it." She concluded and gave her fingernails attention.
"Lovely deduction Ayame, but don't you think that was too lovely, Kouga?"
"Huh, what do you mean?"
"AYAME, couldn't have just figured out why you were searching for the miko after only two days." Lord Kobiyashi reasoned.
"I'm not stupid, and Kouga talks in his sleep." Ayame lied. Both men raised an eyebrow, "No I don't" Kouga argued. "Well, how would you know? You're sleeping when you do!"
"URGH Why did I agree to help you?" Kouga mumbled before trudging off. "Because I'm cute!" Ayame called off behind him and Kobiyashi laughed. "You're a delusional liar." And he hurried off behind Kouga, Ayame frowned, And you're the second person I'll kill once I get my heart back.
"Are you coming or are you just going to stand there!" Kouga shouted as he continued to march.
"Coming!" She replied with sugar lacing her words and hurried to reach the other two.
--8—
Kirara Landed and Kagome slid off to rest on the ground. "Where's the ship?" Sango asked staring into the vast open waters. Kagome nodded her head in confusion and closed her eyes to rest.
When Kagome finally awakened she was covered with a blanket and Shippo was tucked beneath her arms. The sun had set but her two other companions were not near by. There was a dimming fire and kirara was keeping watch on a very comfortable log. Sitting up, being mindful of the kit, she scanned the area realizing she was still near the beach. The scent of flowers danced with the scent of the ocean she closed her eyes with a smile.
Immediately after closing her eyes, memories of the current events pressed against her eyes and shot it open. She mentally groaned realizing she was still in pain, hungry, thirsty and sick of living. She turned her neck to watch the fire finally die away and frowned at the sudden cold. She had been out of her home for five maybe six days, she had lost count.
Day one was when she and Kikyou escaped or ran away. Day two was at the village of purity, she was sure she stayed unconscious over night there. On day three Christina was buried. Then that night she was kidnapped and abused. After that there was a journey she remained unconscious throughout but she was told it was a five day travel. It has been eight days then, growing into day nine now. She stood but quickly fell back to the ground in lack of strength. She huffed from the struggle and crawled towards a tree to keep her upright.
"Kagome?" The resting miko raised her head and saw her two human companions coming out of the trees and into the clearing. "Oh Kagome, are you alright, we've gotten some food for you to eat."
"We realized you have no nourishment to sustain energy." Miroku continued Sango's mothering and helped Sango help Kagome eat the rabbit they had finished cleaning. "You must chew, Kagome, in order to have energy."
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With her stomach filled with berries, bunny and water Kagome stood and thanked her two companions before wandering the beach. She sat on the plush sand and listened to the heavy waves of the night. The sea hit the bordering rocks hard and hazard but she stayed dry and safe with trees near her back to run to later.
Where is she? With narrow eyes, she searched the waters for answers. She should have never left and gotten her sister in danger. She sighed, why am I so impulsive?! Kagome asked the kamis for help, she needed to find her sister and head home, this was just pointless. But now, she had Shippo to take home and she promised Miroku and Sango to help in their quest to destroy some man that's been nothing but evil.
"Kagome, I don't want to bother you but we have a longer journey ahead of us, if you don't sleep now, you won't be able to travel." Sango told her. Kagome nodded and stood to fall Sango into the forest to the clearing where the camp was set. "Thank you Sango."
"For what?"
"For everything. I would be dead countless of times if it wasn't for you. I don't know why you put up with this. It's dangerous."
"I like the adventure, and I have been getting benefits from this as well. Its good training, I found my kirara and I'm getting to travel. Don't be so guilty."
"I think you may be crazy."
Sango laughed and hooked an arm around Kagome's, "But it's what makes living fun!"
"What is?"
"Dodging death… alright, that was dramatized but it's been fun; the shadow demons, the bears the kidnappings the chase or in our case the run. It's a good work out and a wonderful story to tell our kids."
"I won't be having any kids if I'm always on the run and never accepted." Kagome answered glooming. "We'll try to stay in the north, we need to know who's in charge of the orphanage now that Christina isn't, and they may not have any one anymore." Sango told Kagome to give the sad looking girl a sense of direction.
"And what about my sister, she lost in the world I have no clue as to where to start looking."
"We'll find her, together. I won't let you be alone."
"You don't even know me Sango how can you be so trusting?"
"I'm not usually but with you, I'm willing to make an exception. Trust me, I know you enough to know this worried and paranoid person is only because of the hunt."
The two girls settled at camp and lay beside the sleeping kit. "You never fully explain what the hunt is, and Sesshomaru mentioned it earlier too. What is it?" Kagome whispered in fear of waking Shippo.
"The hunt is usually between two who are courting already and are to be mated, when there is a disagreement the one with the strongest opposition needs to leave the other for a moon cycle, if the other is to catch the first and consummate the hunt not only are they mated, absolute dominance is given to the hunter. The reason why it is no longer practice is because of the canine demons. They are big on the alpha male issue and during the hunt it is dangerous if the inner demon comes out. Everything becomes barbaric."
"I don't get it. You and my sister made it seem like this horrible thing that can kill me if the wrong step was taken."
"Well at least you get it." Sango answered sadly and Kagome turned searching the darkness for Sango's face. "What?"
"Luckily the Royal Inuyoukai has great control over their demons but should he lose that control, Kagome, you're as good as ashes. During the mating ceremony, they get too rough for a human to handle and if you're a miko you may just kill yourself while he takes you." Kagome shivered at Sango. "Let's hope he doesn't find me then."
"But he already has."
"And I've escaped."
"I know but I'm thinking now, maybe I shouldn't have done that."
"What do you mean?" Kagome groaned out, she felt her life was getting more complicated with the words Sango were planning to say. "Technically the hunt is over but you haven't consummated the capture so by tradition you've given yourself to your mate."
"But I'm not a demon so tradition and demon magic doesn't work on me." Kagome huffed out to end the conversation but Sango continued. "Maybe it does work on you but in a different way. Since you can't instinct desire in Sesshomaru something can happen in his head to make up for your lack of um… demon desire."
"This conversation is getting weird."
AN
Wow two chapters in the same year!!!! Okay I know I'm crazy but it's only because I was dropped as a child… alright I wasn't but that's the only explanation I can give to you all that and that I don't get enough reviews but its alright. When I find a way to update chapters will come flying all in the same MONTH! I know. UN heard of!
Beta needs to come back and start working. All i did was read the last paragraph and thought this made absolutly no sense, but the readers needed a chapter so here this is