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Captured and Trapped	By : StephanieG Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 43467 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Disclaimer : I don't own InuYasha.
Thank you to Pandora of the South for her ever so faithful support and help as the beta for this chapter and story.
Thanks for the reviews.
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Chapter 24 :
Pardonned or not… ?
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Michio slide down the wall, one hand clenched on his heart as if to stop it from jumping out of his ribcage. The scene from earlier still fresh on his mind…
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Earlier…
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“What are you doing, sneaking around like that, Michio ?” Came a familiar voice from behind him.
The young reptile froze, his breath hitching in his throat in fear.
“What were you doing around the cell, Michio? Your father said that you weren't allowed close to the prisoners anymore.” Repeated more severely the voice.
“I-I know, uncle.” The young boy said while turning towards the older youkai who was looking at him suspiciously. “I just wanted to verify that Lor…the prisoner was effectively taking care of the human's injuries is all.” He said, looking down, berating himself for almost letting out 'Lord Sesshomaru'.
The other youkai narrowed his bulbous eyes before judging the boy was inoffensive.
“You are lucky that it was me who saw you. Take that as a warning. I won't tell your father this time, but don't push your luck. Leave the prisoners alone. Their Fate is already sealed. No one escapes our prison alive. You know our rules. Be careful or you could end up with the same Fate. Also don't worry unnecessarily for the human. The Inu will make sure that she lives. After all, I'm sure he does care for staying in the cell with her instead of her cadaver. You know how sensible mutts are to strong smell.”
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End Flashback
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With that said, his uncle had left him standing in the corridor, alone.
A shiver went through Michio's body. He had been lucky indeed. If it had been his father who had seen him disobeying a direct order…he preferred not to think about it. He will certainly have to be more careful or he won't live for long.
However, he wasn't agreeing with his uncle: it was not the prospect of staying in a confined space with a corpse that was pushing the Lord of the Western Lands to take care of the human Miko. Michio was sure of it.
The young adolescent stood up shakily on his legs and went to where the library was…if you could call that a library. It was just one of the cells where several books of different origins had been piled up. His grandfather had been an enthusiast of magic and most of the spells his clan used were coming from those books.
Michio was not authorized to be there and would risk a severe beating if he was to be caught but it was the only thing he could think of to do for the DaiYoukai of the West and the Miko…
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The monk and the slayer were walking in silence under the sun. The silence disturbed only by the sound of their steps on the dusty road.
Miroku suddenly froze in midstep, the rings of his staff tinkling by his abrupt stop.
Remarking the tenseness of her companion, the demon slayer stopped too. “What is it, Houshi-sama?” Asked Sango, ready to engage in combat.
Miroku sighed and started to walk again.
“Someone is following us.” He stated simply.
“What?!” Exclaimed Sango while looking around nervously.
“It's InuYasha.” The monk said after a moment over his shoulder.
“What? Why would he follow us? Is Kikyo with him?” Sango asked as she walked quicker to catch up with him.
Shaking his head, Miroku turned towards her. “I can't sense her aura, just InuYasha.”
She bit her bottom lip, a nervous trait of Kagome, that she seemed to have been infected with. “What should we do?” She wondered, really unsure if she was ready to face the hanyou so soon after what happened the last time.
“Nothing.” Miroku said shortly and added, before she could say anything. “He is staying at the very edge of my senses right now. When he will be ready, he will come.”
Even if Miroku was still really angry at InuYasha, he won't stop the hanyou from joining back with them. Oh he had no illusion; their friend will probably never apologize or admit that he had been in the wrong. However, he was the brute force of the group and had the enhanced senses that could be essential to retrieve their miko friend from the clutch of Naraku or anyone who had kidnapped her. It was a fact that the young monk was really aware of. So the lesson the hanyou was long overdue will have to wait…
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Not far away…
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InuYasha jumped to the next tree, trying to be as silent as possible. He felt like a criminal, following his friends like that, when he did nothing wrong.
He had been so angry and hurt that the persons he called 'friends' had betrayed and left him behind as they did. His claws flexed again as he thought of the monk's words towards Kikyo. How could he accuse her of working with or have any type of contact with Naraku, the very being who lead her to her death, fifty some odd years ago?! It was crazy! She would never, InuYasha was sure of it. Something else must have happened or she must have come up with some kind of plan to kill the dark hanyou because he knew for sure that she would never associate herself with her killer and betray him. Really, Miroku had obviously 'read' wrong and made a mistake. There wasn't any other explanation.
He had hesitated a few days before deciding on following the others. In fact, if it had been for him, as he had calmed down, he would have followed them and yelled some more. It had been Kikyo who had opened his eyes and made him realize that they betrayed him so they should be the ones trying to find him and apologize, and not the other way around. InuYasha had agreed and was convinced by her reasoning. However, as time went by, he stopped and reflected on what happened some more and on what had been said. He wasn't the 'thinker-type' so he got several headaches before realizing that he had jumped on conclusions a little too quickly, as he always did, without thinking.
Oh, he was certain that the monk was wrong concerning Kikyo. Sure the older miko didn't particularly carry Kagome in her heart but he was pretty sure that she would never hurt her on purpose. After all, it was like hurting herself.
He knew that Kagome had said before that Kikyo had tried to kill her but InuYasha was sure that she was mistaken. Worst case scenario, Kikyo must have been trying to frighten her reincarnation, nothing more. It was normal for Kikyo to have some resentment towards Kagome, the younger one was living on her soul while Kikyo had to content herself with only part of it and a fake body. But he had known Kikyo for years and, even if she grew a little colder and more vindictive than when she was alive, she was still close to what she had always been and would never harm an innocent.
The couple of days with Kikyo had been strange and awkward, to say the least. First, it was so calm: no senseless thatching from the futuristic miko, no annoying kitsune, no pervert monk getting slapped around by an angered demon slayer because he felt her up one too many time…
InuYasha was so used to being surrounded by noise all the time that the cold and devoid presence of the undead miko was making him uneasy and jumpy.
Second, Kikyo only let her snake like youkai carry her from time to time, but never him. She said that it was undignified for her to let him carry her. It had hurt him a little, but he managed to overcome it quickly.
Then there were the periods of 'feeding' for his first love. Luckily, she always left to be alone to collect souls but it was still unsettling and the snake-like youkai almost constant presence was creeping him out.
He had followed dutifully the direction pointed by Kikyo, walking further and further from the other members of his group. After two days of nothing, InuYasha had finally decided that maybe he should ask more information on the sources of the undead miko. After all, he had yet to see the supposed unrest in this part of the lands that Kikyo talked about. At first, she had ignored the question then refused to answer, which only made the hanyou all the more curious. But in the end, InuYasha stopped asking for answer and started to demand them. She had been reluctant, it seemed, but she finally told him that he already knows the response of his question since she said it that day: she didn't know if Kagome was really a prisoner in the South or not. However, it was a good possibility. All the lands had been calmed as of late, aside from the rumor of unrest in the South. The hanyou had accepted her answer without a fuss.
Something else was bothering InuYasha and kept circling in his mind. As they settled for the night and Kikyo got up to go in the woods for her 'feeding', InuYasha called out for her and asked her what had pushed her into believing that something was hatching between Miroku and Kagome.
He saw then something flash in her dull eyes but it was so furtive that the hanyou dismissed it, as he watched Kikyo shrugging her shoulders. InuYasha had insisted and Kikyo said that it was just an intuition, that she found Miroku's concern more evident than in anyone else. She even added that she had seen the way the monk and her reincarnation seemed to be getting closer.
InuYasha won't admit it out loud but he was worried because he had remarked himself that the two of them were closer than before and it doesn't reassure the hanyou that someone was confirming his own observation. It didn't sit well with InuYasha at all. He was the center of attention of the young miko, had been for years since she fell in his world, and he intended to keep his place there.
To be honest, he wasn't really sure of what he expected and wanted from the futuristic miko but he certainly won't stay arms crossed while Kagome, who carries Kikyo's soul inside of her, get attached to another male. He won't permit it.
When his anger had totally died out, he realized then that it was just supposition from Kikyo part, as it had been from him before. There was no real proof. It could be that nothing is really happening between the perverted monk and the wench. He might have damaged his friendship with Miroku, only because of some wild guess and his mistrust. That made his stomach drop.
That's when he had informed Kikyo about his wish to join back with his friends wherever they were at now. InuYasha had been truly touched when the undead Miko had made it clear that she didn't want for him to leave her and alarmed when she thought that it was because of her.
In the end, after hours of begging and groveling, finally Kikyo stopped ignoring him. He told her that he would find his group and get them to come back with him after they realized that the woman they were trying to find wasn't there in the direction they took. He knew that there was no proof that Kikyo was right and that Kagome was effectively in the South, somewhere, but he trusted her judgment so blindly, and it seemed to appease the woman. After promising to gather his group and rejoin her back here, InuYasha took off.
That's how he found himself trailing after the monk and the slayer. He had been surprised to see that they had already changed direction so he stayed behind to see if they have reasons to but found none.
InuYasha thought that he was extremely generous. After all, they betrayed him. But, since he had exaggerated that day too, only a little, he was ready to pardon them. See, really generous. The only problem was how to approach the subject. That was essentially why he was still trailing behind them, unnoticed, while trying to find what he could say to them after what happened a couple of days before.
Plus, there was the fact that he had to make them understand that it was wrong to doubt Kikyo's intentions and that if she said that there was a chance for Kagome to be in the South, then damn if they will not investigated in that direction!
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Back in the Northern Lands’ secret prison…
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The young reptilian boy had been going through books for hours but he had yet to find anything useful. If he could just find the right spell nullifying the enchantment of the door, then the Lord of the Western Lands could do the rest. But he went through more scrolls and foreign books that he could remember and did not find what he was looking for. He was sure that it exists somewhere but to find it seemed to appear more and more impossible. He just hoped that it wasn't in one of the books he had to put aside because it was in a language he did not understand.
He sighed. The soft light of the candle was making him sleepy.
He was about to abandon and go try to catch some sleep as his eyes were closing off on their own accord when he came across something that made him forget about sleep entirely.
Hope blossomed in his chest as he re-read the text to be sure. Yes, it might not be enough to get the two of them out of their cell and end their nightmare by the same occasion, but he was sure that it could be of some help in the future. It was quite the simple spell too; one that he could perform himself.
Jumping on his feet with renewed energy, Michio rolled up the scroll in question and hide it in his haori. Now he was thanking his grandfather for teaching him some tricks and languages from oversea and for having been the heir of the clan, insuring his education. He would have been of no help if not for that.
He went to the cell quickly, making sure that no one was around. When there, just before opening the little viewing door, the boy froze as a thought chilling his bones came to him. What will Sesshomaru-sama do to his family and clan if or rather when he will get out of here?
He had never thought about this before. He had been driven by the want, the need to right the wrong but…was he ready for the consequences?
His father and the others had done atrocious things to the Lord and the human girl and it was evident that the DaiYoukai would not let them go easily. Hell, even if they had only helped in his capture and nothing else, it would have been probably enough for the demon Lord to ask for their blood.
So was he really ready to be the one responsible for the, more than likely, almost total destruction of what was left of his clan and family when the Inu asked for blood to appease his anger?
Michio almost changed his mind and was about to turn back and leave when the image of the torn body of the miko flashed in his mind. He realized then that they were already damned to Hell. His mother always said that you must atone for your sins.
It dawned to him that he was, in fact, ready to assume the consequences of his actions, even if it meant his death.
Finally, he crept closer, opened as silently as possible the window and peered inside. However, he could not stop a gasp from escaping his lips at the scene…
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