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Tainted	By : Tassanaburrfoot Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Shichi'nintai (The Band of Seven) > Shichi'nintai (The Band of Seven) Views: 12465 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Now that she was out in the open, Kagome found it much easier to track the days. Whether this was actually a good thing, she still couldn't decide. Each day was another day with him. Each day seemed to become even more confusing than the last, too.

She really didn't understand what he was doing. It seemed almost as though Suikotsu had taken over a part of Bankotsu's mind or something. Or Bankotsu had been replaced by some lovesick schoolboy. Either way, he wasn't… acting right.

Sure, he still demanded sex of some sort every day, but as the days turned into weeks, he started to become less violent. He didn't keep her locked in the bedroom like he had originally said he was going to do. Instead, she was allowed to roam freely about the palace, so long as she stayed away from the palace gates.

That was how she was able to realize that they were alone. When she asked him where Renkotsu and Jakotsu were, he was honest with her. He told her they left to seek out Inuyasha and start trouble. They were keeping the half breed busy for a while.

Kagome sighed. Sure, she understood why Bankotsu was keeping her locked away. Without a doubt in her mind, she knew Inuyasha was probably in a fit of worry over her. Sango and Miroku, more than likely, were having a time just keeping him calm. And Shippo… Poor Shippo. She could only imagine the heartache the little orphaned kit was going through right now.

As her friends crossed her mind, so did her family. This only made her even sadder. By now, her mother was, without a doubt, fraught with worry. Gramps was probably praying at the temple every single day. Sota would be close to finishing school for the year, but without knowing how his sister was doing, he was probably struggling.

Oh, Kagome hoped not. She'd hate to see her brother struggle because of her. She wasn't worth that amount of worry.

She sighed again as she leaned against the railing. She had been walking along one of the palace's covered lanes and stopped to gaze out into the unending forest. It really was beautiful and she wondered how Bankotsu had found this place.

A boutique of flowers was suddenly shoved in her face. She gasped and took a step back only to collide with something solid and hard. She turned her head slightly to see his face. He gave her a genuine smile. "For you," he told her.

Stunned, she accepted the flowers and he bent down to kiss her cheek. "Th-thank you," she stammered.

His smile grew in size as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him. "A woman as beautiful as yourself deserves beautiful things," he told her.

She blushed as she turned away from him. Why was he doing this? It seemed only last week he was backhanding her across the face and forcing her to live in a dungeon cell. And now, he was giving her flowers and making remarks about her beauty? She didn't understand the change. It didn't make sense!

"So, any sign of him yet?" he asked.

She glanced up at him in surprise. He was looking out at the forest, the same as she had been. He didn't seem angry, but, rather, genuinely curious.

Her eyes hardened. She did not know the game he was playing, but if he thought she was going to give up, he was wrong. She followed his gaze and decided to answer him. "Not yet," she replied. "But he'll come. He always does."

He chuckled as he bent down to nuzzle her neck. "And in the meantime," he whispered in her ear, "I'll be coming as well… inside of you."

Her face twisted in disgust as she tried to pull herself out of his embrace. "Ugh! You pervert!" she hissed.

He laughed as he held her in place. "Careful," he said. "You'll ruin your flowers."

"I don't care about flowers," she snapped as she fought even more to get out of his embrace. She pounded her fists on his chest. "I am so sick of you. Why can't you just let me go already? You got what you wanted!"

He continued to hold her as she hit his chest. The flowers, now in shambles, drifted out of her hand, some onto the ground and some over the railing. Every fiber of his being wanted to hit her back. How dare this little slut strike him! But he restrained himself. He knew that if he had any chance of winning her over completely, he would have to stop being so violent every time she threw a tantrum.

His eyes narrowed as he glared at her. She froze in fear as she met his eyes. She knew what that look meant. She also knew she deserved whatever punishment he decided to dish out. Kagome waited for the predicted backhand or rape that would happen next.

Instead, he whispered, dangerously, "Are you really that naïve? How could you possibly know what it is I want? I have given you every luxury. Everything you have asked for, I have done."

She barked false laughter. "If that were the case, you would have let me go by now," she sneered.

"And where would you go?" he asked. He tugged her so that she was forced to look out at the forest. "There isn't a village or road out there for days. The forest is loaded with demons and wild predators. You may survive one night out there, two if you're lucky. But those demons, those wild animals, they'll find you. And they'll rip you to shreds."

He rested his chin on her shoulder as he pulled her flesh with him. "You're safe here," he whispered before delivering a soft kiss to her shoulder. "You're safe with me, my little miko."

Kagome woke up and looked around her. Bankotsu was sleeping on his back beside her, as naked as the day he was born. A small bit of the sheets covered one leg, but did not bother to hide his most intimate parts. She shivered.

Most of the sheets were covering her, and she knew it hadn't started out that way. As she fixed the sheets so they covered him more, she noticed how peaceful his face looked. She stopped to gaze at it for a moment. When he was like this, he did not look like a mass murderer who enjoyed wreaking havoc and destroying innocent virgins. He looked like a teenage boy who was content with life.

For a brief moment, as she tucked the covers more firmly around him, she was tempted to kiss his temple. The moment passed just as quickly as it had gotten there.

It had been three months since he had kidnapped her and brought her to this palace. About a month ago, he had changed somehow. He stopped playing the dragon to her damsel in distress and became this charming prince determined to woo her. Each day it was getting harder and harder to hate him for what he had done.

The reason why she had woken up in the eve of night hit her again. She sprinted from the bed and pulled the door to the balcony open. She rushed over to the edge of the balcony and began emptying the contents of her stomach.

She felt fingers pulling her hair out of her face and knew she had woken Bankotsu up. As she finished heaving her dinner, she sunk to the floor. Bankotsu was kneeling beside her, his eyes looking over her face in concern.

"Sorry to have awoken you," she whispered.

He gave her a small half smile. "It's ok," he told her. "What do you think it was?"

She shook her head. "Maybe the berries I ate?" she guessed. "I thought they had tasted funny."

He nodded as he helped her up. "Did you want to go back to bed or would you like to get cleaned up?" he asked.

She thought it over for a moment and then sighed. "I should at least brush my teeth," she replied.

He nodded again and placed a kiss on her forehead. He threaded his arm around her waist and walked her to the bathhouse.

"Where's Kagome?!" Inuyasha demanded as he glared at the queer man before him.

Jakotsu pouted. "So worried about that little girl," he commented. "You don't need a girl, Inuyasha. You need a man like me!"

As the man slashed his snake-like sword at Inuyasha, the hanyou jumped away to dodge it. "Shut up!" Inuyasha shouted in disgust.

"Inuyasha!" Sango shouted as she threw her Hiraikotsu.

Her boomerang managed to wrap itself around the snake sword, thus ending Jakotsu's attack. "Filthy woman!" Jakotsu snarled as he tugged his sword free. "I'll kill you!"

As he lashed his blade towards Sango, Kirara leaped towards her and, picking her up with her teeth, brought her to safety. "Thanks, Kirara," the demon slayer said as she patted the cat.

"Your fight is with me!" Inuyasha shouted as he raised his sword to Jakotsu.

In the meantime, Miroku was doing his best to stave off Renkotsu. He parried the attacks the mercenary sent to him with his staff.

"Where is she?" the monk asked as he parried another attack.

Renkotsu sneered at the monk. Then a thought occurred to him. The whole point of Bankotsu kidnapping the girl had been to exact revenge on Inuyasha. The mercenary smirked as he threw his fire whip at the monk again.

An evil chuckle escaped the mercenary's lips. "You want to know where she is, hm?" he asked.

Jakotsu cast a quick glance at his comrade. Surely Renkotsu wasn't planning to betray Bankotsu?

His smirk remained plastered on his face, as Renkotsu continued, "Right now, she is hidden where none of you can find her. Even more, she's probably pleasuring Bankotsu in some way, either with her mouth or with another body part of hers."

Miroku gasped as he immediately caught the mercenary's meaning. Inuyasha parried another of Jakotsu's attacks as he tried to face Renkotsu. "What are you talking about?" the hanyou demanded.

Miroku's eyes hardened in anger as he twirled his staff in his hand. "You worthless corpse!" he shouted as he whipped his staff at the mercenary. "You and your leader will pay for defiling her!"

Both of the mercenaries laughed as Renkotsu sidestepped the monk's attack and cast his whip at him again. "I wasn't the one who defiled her," the mercenary assured the monk. "And last I saw, she was enjoying it."

Realization hit Inuyasha and the hanyou's face twisted in anger. His upper lip curled in a growl. "We don't have time for this," he snarled as he turned back to Jakotsu. "Wind Scar!"

The queer man gasped at he raised his sword in an attempt to shield himself from the attack. It didn't work. Jakotsu was hit, full force, with the attack. He was lifted into the air and thrown like a ragdoll onto a pile of rocks.

Renkotsu knew he would have to finish this fight quickly. He took a pull from his gourd and spit fire at the group. Then, as quickly as he could, he ran to the crippled Jakotsu. Seeing that his friend was on the throes of death, Renkotsu bent down towards him. "Forgive me, my friend," he said as he took Jakotsu's jewel shard, thereby ending the man's life.

The mercenary cast a quick glance at the group and threw a smoke screen at them. Then, using the smoke he had used when they kidnapped Kagome, he made his escape.

Miroku had dug his staff into the ground when Renkotsu unleashed the fire. The staff had managed to shield him and the others. Dropping to one knee, the monk stared angrily at the ground. Images of Kagome being raped by these evil men flashed across his mind.

"Kirara, after him!" Sango shouted.

The cat was quick to do her mistress' bidding but returned moments later, unable to locate the mercenary. Inuyasha growled and stabbed the ground with his sword. "Damn it!"

Sango stared at the road ahead of them, worry written across her face. She felt the little fox demon jump onto her shoulder and lifted her hand to pat him on the head. "Kagome," she whispered.

"What?!" Koga shouted in disbelief as Miroku told him about what they learned.

Sango sighed as she reached a hand out to touch the wolf's shoulder. "We're really sorry, Koga," she said.

The wolf glanced at her for a moment before rounding on Inuyasha. "This is all your fault, you stinking mutt!" he growled. "If you had been with Kagome in the first place…"

"Shut up, you stupid fleabag!" the hanyou interrupted with just as much venom. "You think I don't know that?"

"Guys," Miroku said, doing what he could to quell the flames. "Fighting isn't going to get Kagome back. We need to focus on her and not on each other."

Sango nodded. "Miroku's right," she agreed. "We have to look at the clues Renkotsu and Jakotsu gave us and see if we can draw some conclusions from them that may lead us to her."

"The only problem is, they didn't really give us any clues," Shippo said as he stood next to a pint-sized Kirara.

Miroku rubbed his chin. "Not directly," he said. "Renkotsu said she was hidden where we couldn't find her."

Inuyasha sniffed. "He also said Kagome was enjoying..."

"He only said that to goad you," the monk snapped angrily. "Apparently, it worked."

Ignoring Inuyasha, Sango suddenly snapped her fingers. "Weren't there twigs in Jakotsu's hair?"

"A forest, maybe?" the monk suggested.

"There are forests all around, monk," Koga pointed out. "She could be hidden in any one of them."

Inuyasha growled in frustration. "And while we're sitting around here chatting, Kagome's in danger," he snapped.

Miroku looked at his friend. "You said you were unable to pick up Renkotsu's scent after he fled the battle," he stated. "They must be using some sort of camouflage to cover their tracks."

"You think?" the hanyou snapped irritably.

Sango sighed. "This is getting us nowhere. The only clues we have is a forest. At least we know she's alive."

Miroku nodded. "Our only option at this point is to keep going. Hopefully we'll be able to pick up another clue somewhere."

The demon slayer gave him a dubious look. "Sure, if Renkotsu decides to come back out of hiding himself."

Koga shook his head. "Well, I've searched through all the forests around here. She's not in any of them," he told them.

"We'll have to just keep looking," Miroku stated more firmly. He placed a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "We'll find her, Inuyasha."

The hanyou gave a low growl, but did not meet his friend's eyes. Now more than ever, Inuyasha felt the guilt of losing her. He never should have let her out of his sight.

Author's Note: I know it's going fast. But I did that because I did not want the fic to be long and drawn out. My mind has a habit of blocking ideas as well as giving me random ones. I want to be able to finish this story before my mind decides it's had enough.
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