Captured and Trapped

Hello everyone !
Sorry for the late update! For once it wasn’t my fault! :P well, it isn’t my beta’s fault either. She moved out and can’t seem to be able to succeed in having her internet connected. Anyways, she couldn’t work on the chapter. Since it was taking so much time, I asked for someone else help. I thank profusely Pandora of the South to have taken on her time to take a look on the chapter so I was able to post this. Thank you!!

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Chapter 19 :
Saved ?

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Birds were chirping happily not far away from her, she could tell. She could make out their joyous melodic chants as she slowly awakened.

Kagome groaned and rolled over, trying to block out the sound, not wishing to wake up just now. However, as she was about to fall back asleep memories of what happened in the last few days came back flowing through her mind. Her eyes snapped open. She sat up abruptly, ready to see the dirty moist walls of her cell. But all she saw were trees all around her. What…? She frowned and looked around frantically but nothing was there beside dense foliage. She was truly confused.

Then, it was as if lightning had struck her. A hand flew to her forehead as a headache sprinted to life between her eyes. Something was not right here. She was not sure what but something was out of place or missing, if she could just remember what! But the more she reflected on it, the more she tried to remember and the worst her headache was getting.

What is happening? Where am I? She thought. She tried to remember how she could have ended up in the forest when her last memories were of her in a cell with… Sesshomaru!


Kagome looked around frantically to see if she could find any trace of the demon Lord’s whereabouts; there was nothing. Was this what she had found out of place or rather missing?

She couldn’t stop worry from getting a hold of her heart. She got up and then she finally remarked another thing that wasn’t normal: her body wasn’t hurting. She looked at herself over and found all of her wounds already scarred… that wasn’t normal at all. How could that be possible? However, she pushed this issue out of her mind and started to call out for the DaiYoukai. Where is he? Where could she be?

The young Miko was panicking. She started to run, still calling out for him, her only companion in the cell. But rapidly, fatigue won over her still weak body as she fell on the ground. She started to weep her soul out. She was alone, truly alone. Her only anchor to reality and sanity had suddenly disappeared without a trace. Despair flooded through her like a tsunami.

When she was about to abandon and loose any hope, a name was heard in the wind. At first, she ignored it and continued to grovel in self-pity. But then, the voice became louder and the name clearer, easier to understand.

Her sobs calmed down as she tried to listen. Anew the voice came.


“Kagome!”


The young Miko’s head snapped up and turned in the voice direction. Her heart started to beat wildly in her chest. She couldn’t believe her ears.

She tried to not let joy burst through her like fire before she was sure, but hope still rose in her. Did he actually try to find her? Did he find her?

“Kagome!” The voice was getting closer now.

“InuYasha…” She whispered, not sure if she should believe it or not. Wasn’t he supposed to be who knows where with her previous incarnation? Would the dark hanyou have lied to her? She didn’t know what to think but at the same time she was just happy that someone was trying to find her. She hadn’t been abandoned.

And then, he was there. Silver hair, golden eyes, twitching ears on the top of his head…yes it was definitely him.

He knelled at her side.

“Kagome, are you alright? What happened?” He said in his usual gruff way, as he looked her over to find any traces of injuries.

Yes, it’s him! She thought overjoyed. Tears willed up in her eyes, blurring her sight. She threw herself at the unsuspected half-demon. “It’s you, it’s really you! Thank you for finally finding me! Thank you for looking for me!” She said through tears.

A soft pink rushed on his cheeks. Not knowing how to react, the hanyou enlaced her back awkwardly.

“Feh! Of course it’s me wench.” He said in his trade-mark way of talking only to make her sob harder.

After a few minutes, she calmed down enough to be able to speak anew.

“How? Where? How did you find me? How did I get out? How…”

“Calm down, Wench. I don’t know. I just came here. We tried to find you for the longest time but the Bastard had found a way to hide your scent completely. We were able to trail your scent since only a day ago.”

“We?” She said, peeking up at him in curiously. “Where are the others?” She asked, looking around as if they would pop out of nowhere at any second.

“They are not here, Wench. When I found your scent in the air, I left ahead of them. They were too slow. We will probably be able to meet back up to them sometimes tomorrow.”

She sighed in relief.

“Did you see Sesshomaru?” She suddenly remembered who had been missing since she had awoken.

As usual, InuYasha didn’t react well at the name of his hated half-brother. He growled. “Why are you asking for that Bastard?! Was he also responsible for your kidnapping? When I get my hands on him…” he ended in closing his hands in tight fists.

Kagome flinched at the hostility easily detected in his voice. She couldn’t comprehend it as she usually wouldn’t pay any attention in the dispute between the two brothers and would let it slip away; but this time, this time she couldn’t. Maybe it was because they shared so much together during their detention, but Kagome couldn’t stop herself from defending the demon Lord. InuYasha was always finding a way to put every misery of the world on the shoulders of his elder brother and she had allowed him to do it. Sesshomaru had really wide shoulders, after all, but she couldn’t let InuYasha accuse him this time.

“No, InuYasha, Sesshomaru didn’t do anything! He was imprisoned with me. Can’t you smell him, somewhere around here maybe?”

“Keh! If I could smell his stench, would I still be here? My claws would be ripping through his gut as we speak!” He said, flexing his fingers menacingly, his claws shinning in the sun. There was a strange and frightening glint in his golden eyes. She had never seen him look so evil, even when he spoke of Naraku or Sesshomaru in the past. Kagome shivered uncontrollably, unable to stop a grain of fear from uprising in her heart. Since the day of their meeting, never had she felt fear towards him, even in his youkai form, but now he seems so different.

“Ha! I can’t believe he was captured too! You being caught, not so surprising, but him?! Ah, the all mighty pure blood, well not so mighty any more now is he!” InuYasha said, cracking up.

“InuYasha.” Kagome said warningly.

Immediately his ears flatted on his head.

“I do not know how he was captured but they poisoned him severely. You would have been kidnapped too if they wanted you!”

“What?! Are you defending the Bastard?!” The hanyou yelled out at her face.

“No, I’m not. I’m just telling the truth.” She said in a sigh.

Anger drained out of his form immediately when he finally remarked how exhausted she looked. “Feh! Are you sure you are alright, Kagome?” He said, looking her over again.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Just a little tired.”

“You could have said so Wench.” InuYasha then squat in front of her, waiting for her to climb on his back. As soon as she was installed comfortably, he was off.

She gripped him as if he would disappear at any second. She didn’t know how long or how much ground they had covered but as the sun was getting lower, the first drops of rain was falling. After a good curse, InuYasha changed direction and stopped in front of an old and abandoned hut. Letting her get down, the hanyou walked in; when he realized that she wasn’t following him, he called out for her.

“Oi, Wench, get inside or you will end up sick!”

Kagome finally stepped in too. As soon as she passed the door, InuYasha grabbed her.

“EEEEP! Put me down!” She stopped her wailing when she realized that the half-demon had installed her on an old pallet, and blushed.

“Sorry.” She whispered softy as she was getting more comfortable.

“Feh! Bothersome Wench!” The hanyou answered back without looking at her.

Sensing that it would be preferable to change the subject, Kagome spoke again.

“Say, InuYasha, how did you know that this hut was here and vacant?”

“I saw it on the way.” He said after a moment.

Kagome cocked her head to the side, confused as to why he wasn’t following the same way on the return trip to the others. After all, it took them a moment before getting to the hut. She shook it out as she watched the half-demon’s back. He had been looking for something all this time, but what?

“What are you doing?” Kagome asked, tiredness finally taking a toll on her.

Cursing again, InuYasha finally grabbed a chair and destroyed it. Taking the wood shards he answered.

“What do you think? We have to make a fire or you will get sick. Humans are so weak and pathetic.”

“Why didn’t you just go look for wood outside instead of reduce furniture to firewood?”

“And let you out of my eyesight? Not a chance! You will get yourself kidnapped again as soon as my back is turned again!” He exclaimed.

“InuYasha.” The hanyou recognized the warning and didn’t continue, not wishing to get ‘sit’, even if it had been some time since the last.

Once the fire was going, InuYasha went to sit down beside her on the bedding.

“Now, Wench, you will tell me what happened.” He said gruffly, crossing his arms.

As soon as the words had left his lips, images of what happened flow in front of her eyes. Unable to control herself, again, she threw herself at him, seeking some kind of comfort in feeling him close. She started to sob uncontrollably.

“It was horrible! We could not do anything… I could not do anything… They hurt him, InuYasha, so much, and they made me watch…and…”

“By Him, you mean Sesshomaru?” He asked gently, passing a comforting hand on her back as he held her.

“Yes.” She let out in a whisper.

“I don’t see the problem here!”

Shocked, Kagome tried to get away from InuYasha, hitting him when he didn’t release his hold. “How can you say that? He is your brother.”

“Feh! If the place were reversed, do you think he would worry about me? No, he would laugh his ass off!” He said, growling.

She calmed down visibly and stopped fighting him. After a moment, she talked. “I don’t think you are right though. Well, he would not be sad but… it wasn’t a fight or anything of the sort. It was just plain torture. No one deserves that, not even him.”

“Keh! You and your big heart!” He said huffing. “And then?” He asked cautiously in his own way.
“Naraku…he hurt me…” Kagome closed her eyes tightly and swallowed loudly. She didn’t want to talk about it at all. It was still too fresh in her mind.

InuYasha, sensing it, pushed her away slowly and put his hands gently on each of her cheeks.

“Kagome.” He said so gently that it shook Kagome out of her agonizing memories. Her eyes snapped opened and was shocked to find InuYasha’s face so closed to her own.

“Kagome, everything will be alright. You are safe now. You do trust me, right?”

Mutely, the young woman nodded. She was surprised by how the hanyou was acting. His clawed thumb rubbed back and forth on her bottom lip, watching her reaction. He then bent down and kissed her softly on the lips. He looked at her to see if she would let him continue or not but Kagome seemed too shocked to be able to react in any way.

Slowly as to not frighten her, InuYasha pushed her gently on her back. As soon as her back touched the hard futon, Kagome snapped out of her shock evoked-trance.

“Inu…InuYasha…?” She asked uncertainly as the hanyou covered her body with his.

“Shhh. It’s ok. I just thought…I thought I lost you and it frightened me.” He confessed.

Still unsure of what was going on, she couldn’t prevent her eyes from softening at his admission. InuYasha leaned forward and kissed her again. When she didn’t push him away, the half-demon bent lower and nuzzled her neck gently, hiding at the same time his growing smirk.

He then started to kiss her along her neck, grazing from time to time her sensible skin with his fangs. She stayed unmoving under him so he didn’t stop. However, when one of his hands fell on her thigh, she tensed up. She blocked the progress on her leg with her hand gripping a hold of his wrist.

She then felt his hot breath against her ear.

“I know what you feel for me, Kagome. Don’t try to deny it.”

He then continued his advances, ignoring her attempt to stop him.

“InuYasha, no…”

“Just relax.” He whispered against her skin. He then resumed his ministrations.

Kagome pushed the hanyou back with all her might. At first, she didn’t react, too stunned. But now, she was starting too severely panic. She could not comprehend it. Her friend was not acting like himself at all and it was frightening her. Sometime ago, she would have given everything to have InuYasha mark her; to choose her over the undead Miko but now… now it was too much, too quick. That and she could not forget that when she had been kidnapped, the half-demon was who knows where, doing who knows what with Kikyo. The young Miko repetitively hit the hanyou on his sides to make him release her. She was truly scared now.

Reluctantly, sighing, InuYasha abandoned her neck after one last sensuous lick and looked down at her. However, his hands did not budge from their position on her body and were still; with the help of his weigh on top of her, pinning her on the pallet. She was shaking underneath him, he could tell. At first, she was telling him again and again to stop and release her. But now, she was just whimpering pitifully.

“Why are you stopping me now, Wench? Was it not what you have always wished for?”

He then scooped down and tried to kiss her, but the young woman turned her head away. This time, InuYasha let loose a growl of frustration.

“Why are you fighting me, Wench? I thought that you loved me! You do love me, right? You weren’t playing with me, right?” He eyed her critically.

She looked up at him with eyes wide opened. “I…” Kagome started to say but stopped, not knowing what to answer. Her breathing was erratic. Her heart was beating savagely in her ribcage, making it almost painful to breathe.
Not waiting for her answer, InuYasha continued.

“Then why won’t you let me show you my feelings for you?” He asked, clearly frustrated.

Kagome avoided his piercing golden eyes which were making her more uneasy as the time was ticking by.

She turned away again but she could have sworn that she saw his eyes flashed deep red a second. The hanyou was really angry. Kagome whimpered again. She swallowed and tried to calm down her friend who didn’t seem to be him self today.

“I’m just tired. I want to go home.” She said softly. She hoped that after the night, the half-demon will be back to his normal self. She could only hope…or maybe the others will be there by morning. She just has to resist until then.

“Home?! We aren’t really close to the village, you know? And we still have not met up with the others; without taking into account that the night is at the door.”

Something he said drew the attention of Kagome. Something he hadn’t said or didn’t express as he would usually have done. Something was off.

Her breathe caught in her throat as she realized that it was not the first time. She then tried to check her suspicions.

“I really miss my mother, my grand-father and my little sister, Soutan, InuYasha; they must be really worried about me.” She tried to act calm but it was difficult. Her trap was planted. Now she just had to await the result. She didn’t have to wait for long.

“Feh, you will see them soon. But for now, let me show you my feelings for you, please. You were almost lost to me. I realize that time could be against us. One of us could be dead tomorrow. I don’t want to have regrets and to lose any more time on the past. It is time to live in the present. I realize that I made a lot of errors and hurt you much. I want to have a new fresh start. Will you let me show you?”

The prey had fallen into the trap without even realizing it. Kagome’s eyes narrowed while her anger blazed. “You will not show me anything…


Naraku.” She spat out.
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End of the chapter 19.