Opposites Attract

Chapter 15: Imprisonment

A/N: Well folks, here’s another chapter for ya, enjoy!

A couple days later…

A half groan, half growl of pain sounded from within a dark dank place. The cause of the sound was not quite fully awake yet, but she was slowly coming to conscious. As she attempted to remember what occurred, she lightly sniffed the air. Said air reeked of the stale smell of fear, blood, and death. Another fowl odor that did not escape her keen senses…ravens, particularly the ‘raven bitch’ invaded her nostrils. She immediately became fully alert as flashes of the fight in the den and in her village came flooding back into her mind. Silver eyes opened fully and scan the area looking for fellow pack members. She noticed that most of her weapons, her double edged extension swords were missing. She knew her ‘necklace’ a.k.a alternative weapon remained hidden within her body. That will come in handy later on, she was sure of it. Her white jacket with the silver lining was missing as well as her silver goblets and armor. Kirara’s remaining garments, her silver shirt and white pants were torn along her right side which was bruised and both her legs. As she looked around, her arms and legs begin to struggle against the chains around her wrist and ankles that held her in a spread eagle position on top of what looked like an X shaped metal table. Said table was at least five feet off the ground, laying horizontally on a large pole that supported it in the center.

She bit her lip until it bled to keep herself from crying out in emotional and physical agony. She did not wish to draw the attention of her enemy just yet. Also she figured the other overpowering smells would cover the scent of a small amount of her blood. So worrying her lip with her fangs until it bleed should not have been too much of a problem. She ignored the pain on her right side and left shoulder as she continued to try and pry the chains loose. Although being the strong Kaki neko youkai she was, she was unable to break the chains that held her in such a vulnerable position. The bruise ribs on her right side and her dislocated shoulder did not help matters. She also noticed that she could not active her power over fire and melt the chains. Another issue with her powers was that she could not transform back into her true form. She thought that the mere increase in her size would cause the wrist and ankle locks to shatter into useless metal chips on the floor. A part of her did not want to due to the small fear of being stuck that way again; unable to communicate with mostly everyone she loves. However, it was a risk she was willing to take if it meant that she could save her baby as well as the others.

She suspected that there was some type of spell on the chains keeping her powers at bay. She knew that shoulder would hurt like hell when she reset it, but she had no other choice if she wanted to be able to fight when she was free. And she was determined to do just that, free her pack members and herself from the clutches of the murdering raven bitch. Even if her powers were still lacking, she still had a set of claws, fangs that were razor sharp and her hidden weapon. She decided that when the others are safe, she would eviscerate Kurorasu very slowly and painfully, putting an end to her existence permanently. Her black and white claws twitched and elongated a little as she thought about performing such an act. Seeing that her claws in her humanoid form were practically new, she thought it would be a good idea to really break them in. She couldn’t wait to use the murderer of her first pack as a fleshy, bloody scratching post.

After taking several deep cleansing breaths to relax as much as possible in her situation, she redirected her attention to checking on the other two captives with her senses. Even if she herself cannot see to their safety at the moment, she wanted to at least check on the other two statuses and hopefully find the general direction of their location. She thought that it would be best to do that ahead of time so she could plan their escape. After all she needed to know whether or not she needed to steal medical supplies or other materials for the humans in case they are badly injured.

She already knew the captive inside her womb was well considering the situation they were in. And for that she was very thankful. The bond she had with the baby was strong. Even in an unconscious state her instincts would have taken over and roused her awake if any type of danger were to come too close to her child.

Trying to decipherer all of the different smells was most frustrating. She wanted to kick herself for not having a better nose. Although her senses were keen, they were not as good as her hanyou pack brother Inuyasha. And her mate Sesshoumaru had a better sense of smell than his younger sibling. Inwardly wishing that they were there, she shook away such unproductive thoughts. She was on her own for now; it was up to her to save her fellow pack members. She is a guardian and a warrior, whether she has fellow warriors by her side in battle or not. She would not sit idly by and wait to be rescued. It just wasn’t her style to play the damsel in distress. She knew her pack would stop at nothing until they found them, but she wanted to be proactive. Especially since she knew Rin and Kohaku’s situation, she knew they could not be resuscitated with the Tensaiga if they were to die again. Besides, Sesshoumaru saved her once in the caves, she wanted to fight by his side this time when he arrives, not be a weak burden.

Focusing on the problems at hand and totally disregarding her thoughts on the events in their cave for now, she thought:

‘Besides, what type of mother am I if I can’t protect the children in my pack? I failed once; I won’t let that happen again.’ She thought with a new resolve. She closed her eyes and focused only on her sense of smell.

After several moments of concentration she was barely able to catch a whiff of wildflowers, pine, fear, worry, anger and perspiration. Her concern increased greatly if at all possible when she smelled one of her pack member blood. The scent caused her struggles to increase a new. She pulled at the chains on her arms and legs as she thought:

‘Rin, Kohaku…I have to help them! They have been through so much hell, their just a kitten (Kohaku) and a pup (Rin)…I won’t let her take their lives away…I won’t let her take any pack members away again…’

The kaki neko thoughts were interrupted by the offensive smell of Raven bitch in the nearby area. She could smell two other ravens that accompanied her enemy. Although she was careful not to draw the bird’s attention right away, it seems they decided to pay her a visit regardless.

Attempting to hide the fear she had for her child’s and the two humans safety, Kirara put on a mask of confidence and anger and whipped her head to the right as the steel door was pushed open. She laid her eyes upon two twin towers guards as they walked in the door first, shielding her primary adversary from her piercing silver orbs. The large bulky raven youkai were pale with black talons on each hand, feathers around their collars and wrists, jet black eyes that look like bottomless pits and long wavy black hair that reminded her of another deceased fiend…Naraku.

“Finally awake I see.” Said Raven bitch said as she stepped in between and in front of her two large body guards.

Kurorasu was pale like her body guards, tall, slim with the same inky wavy black hair pent up in a bun. She was wearing a feather head band that had no feathers in the front but two large black feathers on the side that framed her beautiful face. She also wore smaller black feathered earrings on each of her pointy ears. Red lipstick adored her lips and a red long kimono with splits up each side of her legs clothed her body. The low cut kimono that revealed her full cleavage was decorated with ravens that were soaring on her sleeves and shoulders. She sported with her outfit black sandals and that blasted magical belt that gave Kohaku, Sesshoumaru and Kirara much annoyance before.

Resisting the urge to grunt in pain from the nasty slowly healing wound Sesshoumaru gave her a while back; Kurorasu tilted her head continued in a smooth soft malevolent tone:

“By the frown on your face I can see that you’re not too pleased to see me.” Then she boldly walked over to Kirara who begun to give off a threatening hiss. Ignoring the warning she walked right up to the irate neko slowly leaned over her face just out of reach of her fangs which snapped at her delicate neck. Then Raven bitch smirked and said:

“You know, your precious human boy gave me that same look, he is now a bloody heap in his cell…” Kirara eyes widen in concern than narrowed as the fires of hell and the promise of much pain to come to Kurorasu blazed within her them.

Not letting the glare that almost reviled Sesshoumaru’s get to her, she said in a sickly sweet voice as she petted Kirara’s black and silver locks:

“Don’t worry your pretty little head, he still lives… for now…”

“Where are they?! I want to see them with my own eyes, now!” Kirara practically roared as she snatched her head away from the unwanted touch.

“I just told you about the boy. What, you don’t trust me?” Kurorasu smirked.

“…” Kirara just gave her a look that said “what the fuck do you think!!!”

Kurorasu merely chuckled evilly and continued as she stroked Kirara’s hair in a show of fake affection, despite the neko silent protest of jerking her head away:

“As for the little miko, she had to be subdued as well. I don’t need a mere human hatchling testing her feeble powers out on my servants and guards, it is most annoying.” She said as she finally stopped petting Kirara, stood to her full high and gave a dismissive wave of her hand as if the child was nothing more than a fly that needed to be swatted.

Kirara growled low before she hissed out:

“And how did you subdue her?” Without missing a bit Kurorasu said:

“Simple, I threaten her flock or as she put it “family” lives. The little brat is very protective of you and the boy…” Kirara scowled even more at the ‘brat’ comment, only fond pack members were allowed to call each other names out of playful affection! The Raven bitch had no right to speak of Rin or any other member of her pack in such a way with such a nasty tone!

Chuckling again Kurorasu continued:

“I have also taken other measures to ensure her obedience…”

“Such as?” Kirara said as she looked dead in the black eyes of her main target while using her other senses to keep an “eye” on the other two beings in the room.

She noticed the looks they were giving her poorly clothed body earlier. Now said other beings were coming too close to her and her baby for her liking. The neko could not currently see, but could still feel the leering looks of lust they were giving her. She suppressed the urge to shiver in disgust and hope none of the bastards were ever near Rin or Kohaku. Although a small part of her feared otherwise…

Kurorasu waved her delicate black talon tipped right index finger back and forth and “tsked” as if she was reprimanding a naughty child and said:

“Oh no darling, that information is on a need to know bases. And right now, you do not need to know…what is the matter, you expected me to reveal everything? That’s not going to happen. But I will tell you that she still lives as well.” She said with mirth and an arched eyebrow as if what she did to the humans was some inside joke. The twin tower guards who didn’t say much of anything chuckled in sinister delight along with their boss.

Kirara growled and struggled in a furious fit to break the chains and sank her claws into their necks! She did not want to imagine the torture Kurorasu may have subjected the young ones to. And the bitches had the nerve to stand there and laugh about it as if it was the most amusing thing in the world. Kirara would have thrown her pride away and begged for her fellow pack member’s safety if she thought it would do any good. However Kirara’s past encounter with her told her that the spoiled raven princess of the East knew nothing of mercy.

A few moments past before the laughter died down. As it did so, one of the twin towers caressed her well toned shapely legs through the tears in her pants while the other one grazed the side of her breast which was partially exposed due to the tear of her clothing on her side. Apparently they had enough of merely looking and wanted to touch the beautiful, wild and delectable female in front of them. Kirara certainly did not want to know what they wanted to do when touching was no longer enough. Their caresses did nothing, but cause her fury to spike and her stomach to turn. Her baby showed its on displeasure by moving as far away from those hands on her thighs and breast as possible.

Kurorasu shooed them away from the enraged neko and looked down at Kirara as she fought the chains like a caged feral animal. Than Kurorasu spoke and she said softly yet with menace:

“My, aren’t you a jumpy kitty. Afraid of what I may do to your precious humans? Scared of what may have already taken place?” Than she smirked evilly again and hissed:

“Do you fear what I will do to you and your mate’s love child?”

Kirara roared at the bird with a jungle neko fury that would make most youkai prey and predator alike back away in fear. The Raven bitch merely laughed while her other two mostly silent minions smirked at her rage. Apparently their master knew how to push the right buttons when it came to the neko.

Seeing their enjoyment of her reactions Kirara forced herself to stop struggling for now. She did however continue to glare and hiss at them as she attempted to calm her rage. It seemed that Kurorasu spoke the truth when she said both humans were still alive if the bird’s heart rate was anything to go by. However she could not be sure. Another reason why she struggled so violently was not only because they were touching her, but more importantly, they were too close to her unborn. Especially since the last statement the Raven bitch said unnerved her to the core. Was she stupid enough to kill her biological and adopted children and have the wrath of her daiyoukai, the alpha male and her mate on her (Kurorasu) head? Granted the bird had already ignited the Inu’s wrath, but that anger would be nothing compared to the fury he would feel if she was to kill any of his ‘pups’ or his mate. It did not matter if he could bring the children back with his Tensaiga or not, the outcome of his rage would be too horrible to comprehend. Kurorasu as a youkai should know this!

‘She obviously doesn’t want our lives to end at least not now, or else she could have killed us in the den. What the hell is she planning to do to Rin and Kohaku, what does she plan to do with our baby…’ She pondered with worry. If only she could get loose and get that belt away from her. She was sure that with her skills she could take out the pamper princess and her guards, no problem. She had her thoughts rudely interrupted again when the raven spoke:

“Answer me neko.” The Kurorasu said with an impatient tone after several moments. The neko desperate fury filled fighting had ceased. The kaki neko facial expression went from being beyond pissed to almost serene. The bird did not like this one bit! What the hell did that neko have to be so calm about?! Kirara slowly turned her head to look her enemy in the eye. After a few more moments of studying the Raven bitch she smiled baring her fangs in a threatening matter as she purred:

“If there is anyone around here who should be afraid it is you.”

“Why is that?” Kurorasu said as she arched her eyebrow again.

“You should be terrified of what I’m going to do to you when I break free.” Kirara said as her fangs elongated a little.

“Hardly.” Kurorasu scoffed as her devious smile left her face. Then Kirara continued to smile and retorted.

“Well since you have such a ‘don’t care attitude’ about the pain I will cause you, you better prey that I get my hands on you before my mate does. My Daiyoukai will cause you suffering in ways that even I could never imagine. And if you are stupid enough to even think about harming any of my pack any more than you have…well lets just say you will be begging to die but he won’t let you.” Kirara purred in a low sinister voice of her own.

She idly thought that picking up some of her mate’s habits like his cold calculating calm does come in handy when addressing an enemy. Although she finds it really difficult to keep the façade up.

Kurorasu did not like the possessive way the neko said ‘My Daiyoukai’ nor did she like the thoughts the neko put in her head. The raven involuntary shivered at the mere reminder of what Sesshoumaru acid claws could do to her if that flea bitten feline had her way. She still felt the pain from her earlier encounter with said claws. However, she would not have to worry about that any more once her plans are carried out. And as far as she was concerned with her belt, head start on the rest of the pack, knowledge of the territory, elite guards at her side and Kirara as a hostage, the deck was stacked in her favor.

Kurorasu glared at the neko who had the gull to threaten her while in such a vulnerable state. It was as if the neko thought she had a wild card up her sleeve…please.

Placing her talons that belonged to her right hand by the neko’s jugular, brushing the kaki neko mating mark along the way, she whispered in a deadly tone:

“Oh I know about the bond of mates and I know that an alpha male will stop at nothing to protect their lovers and their offspring. However, that will be used in my favor not yours.”

“Yeah and how do you figure that?” Kirara questioned as she glowered right back at her.

Smiling that sinister smile again Kurorasu bent over Kirara again and whispered in her ear:

“A clever kitty you make, I know you figured out part of my plan. However, I assume you don’t know exactly what will take place so let me fill you in. I intend to bare Sesshoumaru hatchling. This will form an unbreakable bond between us.”

It was Kirara’s turn to scoff as she said:

“Oh please, as if you could do anything to force him to rut with the likes of you.”

Using her left hand, Kurorasu gripped the neko’s dislocated shoulder tightly for a moment causing Kirara to wince and bit her lip. Be that as it may, she refused to cry out. Satisfied with causing the kaki neko pain, Kurorasu continued to whisper:

“Perhaps not. However, just because I bear his child does not mean that it has to be MY hatchling…” She said as she released her throat and placed her right hand on the neko slightly protruding stomach.

Kirara eyes widen and she gasped as she realized were the conversation was going. Kurorasu laughed in her ear as she said:

“That’s right; I will carry not only his heir, but yours as well. I will transfer your seed into my womb. This in turn, will draw him to me and away from you and his current flock.”

“Impossible, you cannot break our bond no matter what trickery you pull! You said it yourself; the baby has our blood running in its veins, not yours!” Kirara spat as the Raven bitch stood to her full height.

“Oh you think so, that just shows me that though you are a clever kitty, you can be a naïve one as well. I’ll leave you alone to let your fate sink in. Now if you excuse me, I have to make other preparations. Perhaps if you are a cooperative little kitty, I will let you see your human flock one last time before you lose your pack to death and your mate to me.”

She laughed as the neko screamed obscenities at her back as she walked away. She exited the dungeon with her guards in tow and gave her servants orders to fetch the ingredients needed for her potions. She knew if her plan came to fruition, her Sesshoumaru would no longer care what happened to that misfit pack of his. That included his current mate of ‘lower status’. Once he no longer cares, she can dispose of them anyway she sees fit.

As she made her way to her library in the underground hide out she thought in the same possessive tone the neko used earlier while she rubbed her currently vacant womb:

“Very soon My Daiyoukai, very soon we will be inseparable…”


TBC:

A/N: As usual I apologize for the long wait. Life has a way of being very distracting Oh and sorry that Sesshoumaru was missing from this chapter. He will make his presence known in the next installment. Reviews are always adored and appreciated!!! Until next time…