Slave of Love

Disclaimer: I don’t own Inuyasha. It belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Nor the book “Enslaved” by V.Henley.

A/N: Ok people, thank you for your reviews. I know I’m evil…. but I have to make the suspense last if not…I don’t get many reviews! Anyway, here’s chapter 6, enjoy!

Chapter 6: “Sensual Thoughts”

“How did you find me? I mean, what are you doing here?” Kagome asked as she closed the book hurriedly.“I a“I assure you that I was not looking for you. Fate has a wicked way to throw you into my path. As for what am I doing here, I’m here to buy a library, even though it’s non of your business”, he replied, with irritation in his tone of voice.

“You wouldn’t be talking about this library, would you?” she said in a worried tone of voice.

“Why yes, as a matter of fact. This very same one.”

“Well, then you have been misinformed, this is not on sale, Lord Bath”

“And who the hell do you think you are, wench?” he asked, annoyed by the fact that she knew his name, but he still didn’t know who she was.

“Lady Kagome Higurashi, the owner of the library”

“Hello Kagome” Naraku told her as he entered the room. “I had no idea that you were here, dear girl, I’m sorry if we bother you.”

“What is the meaning of this, Naraku? You know that my father’s collection is not on sale and this....’Gentleman’, says that he is here to buy it.”

“Higurashi, I had understood that this library was yours” Inuyasha said, demanding an explanation from the man.

“Then you understood wrong, milord, because this collection is a part of me, and it would be like cutting off my arm if I loose it”, Kagome said, her eyes challenging him on telling Naraku about her escaped last night.

The earl had no intention on doing something so low, so he replied to her as if talking to an equal.

“You are right, this is a superb collection, and I wouldn’t want to loose it either if I were you. But I thought Higurashi had the legal right to dispose of it.” Inuyasha said, calm, but with deception in his voice.

“I do have the legal rights over it. I am Kagome’s legal guardian until she reaches her majority age and it was her father’s desire for me to guide her on every way.”

“How can you sell father’s collection, then? You know I grew up among this books, they are the only thing I have left from him”, she yelled at him, with passion.

“Enough young lady! Have respect for our guest.” Naraku told her surprised that she had yelled at him.

Kagome ignoring him turned to Inuyasha and addressed to him.

“Please, milord, don’t buy it. If there’s any honor in you, you wont.” She said approaching him.

“Are you questioning my honor, wench?” Inuyasha asked offended, walking to her as well.

“I’m only saying that you will not buy the collection if you have any. You are the one questioning it”, she said.

They were almost nose-to-nose by now; it was as if some magnetic force brought them together.

“You better be careful with what you say, wench, someone might take it the wrong way”

“Stop calling me that! My name is lady Kagome Higurashi, learn it, use it or don’t even bother to address to me at all. Which I might add, it would very much please me” ‘No it wouldn’t you liar, you want him, and you know it’ ‘Shut up! You don’t now anything’, she argued inside her head.

“Kagome!” Naraku interrupted them. “This is shameful, go immediately to your room”

‘What am I, two years old?’ “Fine, but only because I have things to do and I don’t want to be around him anymore”, with that said she left the room, with her head up, walking like a queen.

‘Or a goddess.’ Inuyasha thought. ‘So, she really is a lady, and a feisty one for that. She is even more beautiful in daylight, than I imagine.’, he was already hard by the end of the discussion with that vixen and it wouldn’t go away any time soon. ‘Great, now I’ll have to go visit Haru tonight. It seems that I will have to accept her invitation after all’.
With a sigh he said his goodbyes to Naraku and left towards his house, his thoughts lingering on a black haired goddess.

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For Kagome lunch was a nightmare. She had to see Kikyo’s dismayed face while hearing her uncle talk for hours about the lack of respect she had had and ill mannered she appeared in front of the earl, and, bla, bla, bla...’God, does he ever shut up?’

Now being the afternoon, she came downstairs dressed in an ugly green shaped dress, chosen by Kikyo of course, waiting for Koga to come to pick her up to go walking. She was in complete silence and now, with Kikyo watching her every move, she would have preferred that her uncle was there. ‘What a surprise, he is not...I wonder where is it that he flees every day? Maybe with his mistress? Or maybe-’ Her thoughts were interrupted by Kikyo’s voice.

“Where do you think you are going?”

“To the park, with Koga Shinda. I’m surprised that you don’t remember since it was you the one who accepted this walk in my name.”

“I meant, what make’s you think the invitation is still on, after the why you treated lord Shinda?”

“Koga is not a lord”, Kagome said, thinking that Kikyo was talking about the way she behaved with Koga in Almack’s. ‘Well, he wasn’t so well behaved himself ’she though excusing her behavior.

“I was talking about Inuyasha Shinda, earl of Bath”

Kagome’s heart skipped a beat when she heard the name.

“Lord Bath is Koga’s brother?”

“Please. Don’t pretend that you didn’t know, Kagome. You are too smart to play the fool.”

“To be honest, I didn’t associate both gentlemen. I had no idea that Koga was related to the earl.”

“It is the only reason that he is consider a good catch. He was the one who informed the earl about the library”, Kikyo told her.

The bell rang, announcing that Koga had arrived.

“Oh god, what do I do now?” she whispered to herself.

“Consider yourself fortunate. It appears that he is quite taken with you.”, with that said Kikyo left to her room.


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Half an hour later she was in the park with Koga. He was driving his small carriage with expertise, and she was enjoying the sun and nature. Or at least that was what she appeared to the outsiders.

‘What is he thinking about? Did Inuyasha tell him something about me?....Wait! Inuyasha??? where the hell did that come from? Since when is he ‘Inuyasha’? I don’t even like him. He is rude, cold and....and...and he thought I was a prostitute. Yes, that’s it, I despise him and I wont think about him any more.....Even though he does have a strong, hard, muscled body, that would make any woman eager to touch him all ove- ¡STOP IT KAGOME! Don’t be a pervert. Koga. I have to focus on Koga not his brother!’ ‘All though he is more sexy.’ ‘Aargg, enough! You stupid libido.’

Koga was having his own perverted thoughts as well, only that they were about Kagome. ‘I want her. She makes my blood run.’ His glaze went down to her breasts. With a hungry look, he imagined how it would be to suck those beautiful plump round orbs, the feeling of her perked nipples in his mouth, surrounded by his tong.
He was hard as a rock, only with the thought of it, he couldn’t imagine how he would be when he would finally have her squirming underneath him.
‘I have to stop before I explode, or take her right now with all the park watching.’ And the best of all was that she had an assignment of twenty thousand pounds per year. The “vultures” as he called Naraku and his daughter Kikyo had try to offered him only the half of it, but he had negotiated it and came to the agreement of fifteen thousand pounds per year. Once she had his ring on her finger there was nothing that would stop him from taking the twenty thousand pounds.

Kagome felt Koga’s eyes on her, so she took a deep breath and turned to face him.

“I think there is something that I must tell you.”

Koga smiled encouraging her to go on, giving the impression that he new how to be indulgent with a woman.

“LastnightIwenttothemaskballthatwasorganizedatThePantheon”, she said breathless. When she saw Koga didn’t seemed to be scandalized she went on. “Your brother took for a prostitute, because I was badly accompanied, and, well...I kind of splashed him with Champaign.”

Koga threw his head backwards and burst out laughing. Kagome didn’t know how to react, so she began telling him the second story.

“I must be absolutely sincere, Koga. I think your brother hates me. When he came this morning with the intention of buying my father’s collection, I treated him...well, lets just say that I wasn’t very friendly”

“You must look beautiful when you are mad”

She was astonished ‘He is not angry?’

“You are not angry?”

“Why should I? There are moments I despise my stepbrother. We have few things in common. He has a passion for arquitecture, and has predilection for old ruins, which leads him to prefer elder women. I’m surprised that he was interested in you at all.”

‘Well, with out any doubt he has manage to interest me’, she thought. ‘Why is it that the younger brother doesn’t awake any feelings in me?’ Kagome laugh in spite of her. The conversation that they were having was nowhere near of being conventional.

“I frustrated his opportunity of buying the collection, so I guess he hates me now more than never.”

“What a relief. Competing with him for you would be terrible for me, because he is an earl.”

“I am not interested in nobility titles!”

He quirked an eyebrow.

“You are not? Then what are you interested in?”

Books. History. She even liked the idea of writing a story, from a woman’s point of view, of course. All though she wouldn’t tell that to him, those things were her own. ‘Should I tell him what I think or take the conversation to safer grounds?’ she decided to go for the first one, after all he had been the one who asked.

“Freedom. Free will on choosing. I believe that now I have a little freedom to dress, talk, act, and even think, because I’m young and a woman. I know I will grow old, but I’ll never stop being a woman.”

“Good gracious!” he said mockingly, descending his eyes towards her beautiful breasts. “Would you rather be a man?”

“Of course not! I would rather be a free woman. It’s insulting how we are treated as if we were some kind of property, an object to trade. First the girl goes from her father’s hands, to a husband or a tutor ones, and she lives with people watching her every move from the moment she wakes, to the moment she goes to bed. Kikyo would be here with us now if more than two people would fit in the carriage. And the moral codes are so strict that I can only go for a walk around the Serpentine Lake, because, if I misbehave at least a little bit the thousand pair of eyes that are watching us in the park, would start rumoring.”

“Would you like to go somewhere more intimate?” Koga asked in a hopeful tone of voice.

“No, I wouldn’t”, Kagome replied amused “And you are not listening to me, and I think it’s on purpose”.

“I apologize. I really am listening”

“Take for ele tle the Celtic women. They had a lot of freedom, could choose who they married, when they married, and they could keep possession of their fortune and lands. Some even got to be chief of their tribe. Medieval women were left in charge of their castles when men went to the Crusades and be away for years and that if they ever came back. Women now a days are treated as if they had no opinions, desires, or even a mind of their own, while you men are encourage to achieve goals and succeed, to enjoy of sports, to travel around the world, and a very few of you ever does that, and if you do, you do it with no enthusiasm what so ever!”

All Koga could an to to her passionate speech was, “I promise that when you are with me, I will allow you to take all the liberties you want”

‘He will allow me??? God! Where does he come from? Is there some kind of club they join or are they just born like this? Could he be more square??? Is what I just said to hard for him to understand? Was I talking in Latin? what?, somebody please tell me!’

But all Kagome did was sigh. His answer was so typical.

“Will you let me escort you to the Richmond’s ball tomorrow night?”

“Thank you, but no”, Kagome answered coldly.

“I wont let you go until you compromise to me in some way”

‘That’s the last thing I want. Why me? I was expecting to spend some time alone, with out the control and demandings of a husband.’

“I suppose that I will attend to Almack’s again on Wednesday night, if Kikyo has some saying over my life, and unfortunately she does.”

‘Fuck. I hate that fucking place’, all though he was seeding inside he kept his outer cordial façade. ‘The sacrifices that one must do for money’. After he left Kagome home, he went to his house, or better said, his stepbrother’s house. I caI can’t wait to go out with the guys tonight. Even though I hate to ask that mutt for money, I don’t have a choice’.

As he walked in the study, he waited for his stepbrother to lift his head from the pile of mail that he was reading.

With out taking his eyes of the letters, Inuyasha said: “First drawer on the right”

Koga laughed. “What makes you think that I need money?”

Inuyasha looked at him. “Don’t you?”, he asked knowing that was what Koga wanted.

“Yes, but if you think that was the first thing I was going to say, you couldbe mbe more wrong”

“Ahh, I see. You were going to tell me, how sorry you feel for me, about losing the Higurashi collection, then you were going to ask me where was I having dinner tonight, and then if I slept with someone last night, as if you give a damn, and only then you would ask me for the money.” Inuyasha stretched in his chair. “Look how much effort did I save you”

‘Damn mutt face, how I hate him!’ he thought as he went to the drawer and took the money. There was only a thousand pounds, that was how his “loving” stepbrother, try to cut his gambling habits. He forced a smile as saying thank you, and left to meet The Pack and the dissolute plans that they had for the night.

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“You are late, Wolf”, Hakkaku complained. That was Koga’s nickname, Wolf, and with the other two, his best friends Hakkaku and Ginta, they formed The Pack, but many people usually called them The Wolfs. “Aren’t you excited about tonight’s plans?”

“Sure I am”

“I ordered for you, just in case you didn’t make it”, Ginta told him as he graved the waitress by the hips, lifted her skirt up and pinched her inner thigh with cruelty. When the waitress screamed in pain, The Pack, celebrated the gesture. That was why they were call The Wolfs so often, because they liked to inflict pain to other people, or better said in wo mor more specifically cheap whores.

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In the other side of London, the elegant zone of Park Lane, Inuyasha was climbing the stairs, being leaded by a maid, who took him to a walk-in closet.
In the main chamber, Haru, countess of Belgrave, was smiling at her mirrored reflection. She ran her hand full of rings through her red hair, and reach out to grave a bottle of perfume. As she did that her black satin robe slide, sexily down her shoulder. She knew she had to make this night unforgettable. That was only the second time that he said yes to one of her many invitations. And she was sure about what she wanted, and that was he. He turned her on as no other man could.
In a crazy impulse she put the bottle of perfume down with a malicious smile and reached a hand to her womanhood, to find it already wet. She plunged a finger in her wetness and put some of it behind her ears, on her breast, then going up to her white throat to then rubbed it on the back of her knees, on her waist and wrists.
She walked to the door and opened it. She pretended to be surprised.

“Inuyasha, darling, I think you arrived ier.ier. I’m not ready yet.”

Both knew that was a lie because Inuyasha had arrived late.

“You look more than ready, to me”

“Maybe we could have dinner here, instead of going out”

“I thought you’d never asked” he said as he lifted her in his arms and took her to bed, where he lay her down. He contemplated the effect of her red hair on the black silk sheets, her white skin, and her luscious body and started to undress slowly. He was surprised to see how avid she was, spreading her thighs wide apart in a clear, but silent invitation. Hi lie between her parted thighs and ride her hard and fast….The first time.

During the next two hours, Inuyasha attended Haru’s pleasure with generosity. His first rule with women was to always let them satisfied. And thank god, most women were different in bed, because he always got tired of the same one after he had taught her. He loved to teach his likes and dislikes so that he could have more pleasure and at the same time letting the woman know that she had pleased him.
He had no intention of staying the night. That was his rule number two. The reaction of the women determined if he ever saw her again or not. In Haru’s case, she was to satiated to protest when he got off the bed and began dressing.

“You are a devil! I can’t even move and you are ready to go party around London.”

“Any objection?” Inuyasha asked, as he watched her intensely.

But Haru knew better, and didn’t object anything. She knew he hated reclaims and scenes so she kept her mouth shut. She wasn’t about to him already, and in truth she didn’t have any complain about the hours of pleasure that they had shared.
He bow to kiss her tangled hair, as she closed her eyes and let sleep took over her.

“Gnighnight, Haru”

“Mmmm”, she murmured.

Inuyasha smiled to himself conformed of the way he left her, but then a thought crossed his mind. ‘Why is it that she keeps appearing in my mind? Tonight I had a beautiful woman underneath me, but all I could see or think when I closed my eyes was a raven-haired goddess, moaning my name in ecstasy. Damn hehat hat damn wench!’

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Kagome stifled a yawn. Kikyo and her were having a tea reunion in the Dvonshire Tea House. The place was crowded and hot. ‘And to that add the fact of a breathtaking corset that it’s killing me...or if given the chance to choose, prefer to bore to death. Can there be something more boring than this?’, she glanced at Kikyo. She was in her element, and there were a couple on men talking to her, so she was in thing. She watched as the other girls flirt and giggled like idiots to the young fops that had assisted the tea dressed in satin pants that reached their knees and listening to their mothers talked about the perfect lineage they came from. Kagome turned to the woman that was talking to her.

“Our ancestors remount to the Norman conquest, you know?”

She looked at the woman’s son and couldn’t help to wonder. ‘Where the hell did the Norman blood fade away to ever give something so weak and pathetic as that in only seven hundred years?’
With a polite smile printed on her face, she let her imagination take her away. ‘How exiting must have been to a Saxon lady, to encounter with a Norman conqueror’ and with that she began daydreaming.

She was riding on the preir when she first noticed him. He was huge and ride an enormous black stallion. She shivered as she looked at him; he was the biggest man she had ever seen. The conqueror was looking strait to her, like if she was a prize that he had to be hunted. And the hunting began. She galloped towards the woods, knowing that he was after. Sh. She could hear him come near. He was so near now that she could clearly distinguish the helmet and the coat of mail that cobber that powerful chest. Just as she was reaching the forest, she felt a pair of hand graving her by the waist and lifting her off the horse. He sat her on his saddle in front of him. While she fought him, the cape that was covering her head fell, and her glorious jet-black mane fell into those masculine hands full of scars.

“I claim you as mine!”

The conquerors voice thundered with authority, and she only wished to obey him. He took of the helmet and ran a hand through his black hair. A pair of purple almost black eyes, so full of lust, that left her breathless, met her. Then the man’s mouth took possession of the girl’s soft one in a long, deep and sensual kiss. She put he hands on the man’s chest, touching the most she could; it was big and hard, like all the rest of him, so strong that made her knees tremble like gelatin. When he released her mouth she heard him say in a low, rasp voice: “Give it to me”

Her heart was beating fast, and she was panting. When she heard him say those words she sigh in defeat and gave into the ecstasy that man offered her.

“Give it to me”, the voice repeated.

Kagome blinked when a pale hand touched her trying to grave her teacup.

“Oh Hojo! Sorry. Here you go”

The young Lamb sighed as he took her cup.

“Can I imagine that you were dreaming about me, Kagome?”

“You can imagine what ever you want, Hojo”, Kagome told him wickedly. ‘Damn you, Hojo, I was having one of the best fantasies I ever had!’ With a sigh Kagome decided to let her fantasies for the night, when no one would interrupt her. The fact that the Norman conqueror was someone she knew, and said to despise, didn’t even cross her mind.

A/N: Ok, tell me what you think, I hope you’d like it, and please R/R!!!!, the more you review the sooner I update. BTW, the stupid junk I call computer broke down, so it will take a little lo tha than usual for me to update, but don’t worry I’ll do my best for you guys. Ja!