Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Inuyasha.
AN: I know the whole, Kagome is Inuyasha's slave thing isn't very original but the story line that I felt in me was so awesome I just had to get it out! I hope you enjoy it!
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To Be Human
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Chapter I
The Fated Meeting
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In a small village a couple miles away from Tokyo, a woman sat fearful on the dirt floor of her small, dingy hut. The hut smelled of dirt and old produce but it was considered home to the small woman who was now gripping dirt in her unsanitary hand. Clutching her free hand to her rapidly growing red cheek, her whole body shook in terror as she felt her face throb in pain. She had been struck by a hand that had claws attached at the tips and her cheek bled from the gashes adorning it, the edges of the wound swollen. "No!" She yelled to the man, her voice hoarse. "You can't take her! She's my daughter!" Slowly, she stood on trembling feet, desperately trying to shield her four year old daughter's body from the demon in front of her.
It was dark and the man that stood before her was covered in fur from the bottom of his waist down, old armor wrapped around his tan chest and his long black hair was held up by leather. A tail flicked out behind him and his menacing blue eyes stared down at the frightened woman, a predatory smile etching his darkened features. "You have no choice, human," he growled, his fangs glittering in the small available light of dawn. "She is now property of the Demon Trade Market. Don't worry, she'll be taken care of and she'll have the best education possible. Much better than anything these villages can give."
The woman spat at the ground in front of him, her motherly instinct telling her to take her child and run. She was defenseless, though, with a thin brown cotton yukata being the only garment covering her thin frame. Frantically, she looked around her, trying to find something that could be used as a weapon to defend herself and the life of her child.
"You can't fight me," the demon said with a smirk. While the woman before him continued to stare at him with apprehensive eyes, he looked behind her, his smirk widening as his sensitive ears heard a soft moan. "It seems we've woken the baby."
Without a second thought, the woman gasped as she turned around, clutching the small child in her arms to her chest, her body stricken with fear. "Mommy?" The small child asked; worry etched on her tired features as she sluggishly looked up at her mother.
"You can't take her… she's only a child." The woman was now crying, her tears falling into the small child's matted midnight colored hair.
The demon's smirk turned annoyed as he pulled a sword out from his hip, his eyebrows knitted in anger. "That's why we're taking her, human! If we take her now, she won't know anything other than what we'll teach her and normal speech." When the woman made no movement, the wolf sighed. "If you don't let us take her, we'll kill you. What do you want; your child to be unfazed or for her to remember your death? It's your choice."
Slowly, the woman moved away from the child, her arms never leaving the child's body as she gazed into the little girl's eyes. "Baby," she whispered. The child looked up at her curiously, fear having not made it into her young heart yet. "Baby, dear baby… just promise me one thing." A few dozen tears left the woman's brown eyes as she coughed profusely, her body ill stricken. "J-Just live… do w-whatever it t-takes. Just live."
"This is getting boring!" The wolf said. His blue eyes gleamed red as he barred his fangs in a wicked smile that could've frightened anyone. "Let's just have some fun and end this." Raising his blade, he quickly slashed at the woman, her body soon covered in blood as the deep gash burst open and took up the expanse of her back..
A cry left the little girl's lips as she saw blood leak out of her mother's paling mouth. With tear filled eyes, the child watched her mother's dead eyes look at her as she was lifted into the wolf demon's arms. "Mommy!" She screamed, her arms trying to reach for her mother.
"Shut up!" The demon said as he made his way towards the door of the hut, aggravated.
In his arms, the child fought bravely to get to her mother, kicking and screaming, punching and biting but to no avail was she freed. "I promise, mommy! I promise!"
The wolf demon growled as he pushed the girl into another demon's arms, putting his blade away as soon as his arms were free. "Can someone shut up that piece of human scum already?"
Before more tears could leave the little girl's eyes, a man hit the back of her head, silencing her immediately. With blue eyes staring back at him, the man felt no remorse as he put the child's unconscious body into the cage in the back of a truck. Other children, both male and female were inside the cage, some sleeping, crying, and some even bleeding from harsh treatment. One little girl was the only one brave enough to take the unconscious child into her arms, saying little prayers into the girls ears.
When the child woke, she was met with the face of a girl two years older than herself. Looking around, a tear slid down her face as she asked the other girl, "W-Where am I?"
"We're at the Slave Market."
"What are they going to do to us?"
The older girl's eyes watched the smaller girl as she said, slowly, "They're going to teach us how to be proper slaves, and when we're old enough… we'll be sold."
"To who…?"
"Demons."
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15 years later…
"Two hundred and fifty three years ago, our ancestors fought in the great Demon revolution. For a total of fifty days, humans and demons alike fought each other in a seemingly endless war before the great demon Naraku helped the other great demons end the war. Now, we enslave the humans… why?"
A student in the front of the large classroom raised his hand; his body practically emitting eagerness that made other demon students roll their eyes at the zealous display.
When it seemed no other student would answer his question, Ryutaro-sensei sighed. "Can anyone other than Manten answer the question?" The uninterested looks Ryutaro-sensei received made him drop his teacher version of the history book onto his desk rather loudly and agitatedly. "Are you serious people?" The owl demon asked. He received no movement and hardly any breathing in response. "Fine. Manten, why do we enslave humans?"
Manten began jumping in his seat, his rather large body making the desk rub against the floor rather roughly as he said, "Because if we don't, they will try to revolt because they are selfish human scum and then we could have another war."
Laughing inwardly, a student across the room snorted. Damn teacher's pet.
Ryutaro-sensei smiled tiredly as he clapped his hands sarcastically. "Very good, Manten. Five extra credit points for you." Looking at the clock, Ryutaro-sensei chuckled at the groans he got from his students. "If any of you had answered the question, then maybe you could have gotten the points." Whispers began around the room, all of them rather unpleasant. "Okay, okay. Now, students, listen up. We have only a minute left. I want you to read chapters three through five tonight and do a detailed outline on it. See you all tomorrow."
"Stupid teacher's pet!" Someone said in back the moment the bell rang.
"You get to do two more chapters, Hiten," Ryutaro-sensei in retort and received a heavy groan in response. "Goodbye… and do your homework!"
Rolling golden eyes in slight irritation, Taisho Inuyasha lifted his messenger bag from the floor and hauled it over his head; he swiftly grabbed his laptop and put it inside. Making sure it was on his shoulder and not on his silver hair; he made his way towards the door, only to be stopped by Nikomura Bankotsu. Inuyasha felt the fellow demon slap his back in a friendly manner as he said, "What you doing tonight, Yash? Going to see that wolf babe who's been hitting on ya?"
"No."
While the two continued to make their way towards the University parking lot, neither of them noticed that a few other people had gathered around them. Before either of them knew it, Nikomura Suikotsu and Nikomura Ginkotsu were beside them, joining in on the conversation. "That Ayame chick is hot! I'd do her," both of them practically yelled enthusiastically.
"Look, guys." Inuyasha said as he suddenly stopped in the middle of the giant hallway, his face clearly showing he was annoyed. "I am not attracted to Itou-chan and plus, my father and I are doing something."
"A Great demon is doing something with a hanyou?" Bankotsu said, receiving a glare in return.
Ginkotsu ignored his brother's mockery, "What you guys doing?"
Before Inuyasha could answer, Suikotsu cut in with suppressed enthusiasm, "Hey… Aren't you turning twenty one today?"
"Ooh! Of age are you? That means you get your slave today!"
Growling slightly, Inuyasha ignored Ginkotsu as he quickly said, "Like I could care less about some human slave! It's bad enough I have a human mother!"
"That's right puppy," replied Bankotsu rather smugly. "You're born of a human mother… Must've been horrible for your father to find out his destined mate was a piece of human flesh. Whatever happened to the bitch he mated and had Sesshomaru with? It would've been much better and less humiliating of him if he had ignored his destined mate and stayed with Sesshomaru's full demon mother."
Inuyasha growled in rage as he listened to Bankotsu's words with ears that clearly showed he was not a full demon. With a snarl, Inuyasha pushed his way through the Nikomura brothers and exited the Humanities building, quickly going over to his red Mercedes-Benz. Through his rage, he almost ripped the door to his car off as he entered his vehicle. Fucking brothers, he thought angrily. They say they're my friend's but all they do is shit on me and fuck with me? Keh!
He quickly turned on his Mercedes and exited the University campus.
He was of age, yes, and that did mean he had to get a slave but was it really law? Damn slave trader's just want money. Damn fucking politician's just don't want to hear the damn slave trader's moan and groan over having no one wanting to buy a fucking human. In 1907, the demon leader's of the world had decided to make it law that every demon who became of age would have their own slave to order around. It didn't matter how many human's one demon had for the human's rutted like bunnies in their concentration villages. Just the thought of what his beloved mother had gone through made him shiver in disgust. Plus, the politician's probably thought it'd be better for the human's to do something, like being slaves, rather than just living a somewhat "peaceful" life in a concentration village. Mother… he thought lovingly.
What he had told the Nikomura brothers was a lie. He loved his mother desperately and when she had died, he had been devastated. It was four years ago and it still made him want to cry. Fuck human emotions! They're nothing but trouble!
By the time Inuyasha had gotten to his father's somewhat small mansion, he was relatively calm, the drive having taken a lot of tension out of him. After he had gotten his stuff out and locked his Mercedes, he began the long trek towards the front door.
His father had a love of nature. All around his mansion – which was 90% Earth friendly – there was all different kinds of trees, plants, and even a lake on the east side of his father's land. One thing that was his father's pride was what he called the sun room. In all seriousness, it wasn't a room at all. In the middle of the entire mansion was a courtyard; it was almost like the house was built around it. The Goshinboku, his father's and his own favorite tree, was right smack dab in the center with beautiful Iris' surrounding it.
Releasing a sigh, he gripped his messenger bag and put his key in the door. He accidently slammed the door in his anger when he closed it and he immediately regretted it when he saw his father exit the "sun room" which was right in front of the main hall way.
"Something wrong?"
Inuyasha looked up and gave his father a tired expression. "Nothing's wrong dad."
"Well," Toga said slowly as he looked at his son. "Go up to your room and get ready. I'm taking you to the Market so we can get your first slave."
"Why do I have to get one, dad? I would think you above anyone else would not want me to have one after Mom."
Toga sighed and looked out beyond the glass wall and over to the Goshinboku, his eyes distant. His voice seemed strained, "It's law. You know that. If I could stop the madness of the Demon Court, I would."
"But you're a Great Demon!"
"Yes, but I have no power when it comes to the Slave Market. Just… get ready and we'll go."
The bit of tension between them ebbed as Inuyasha walked to the stairs, going into his room and surprising his best friend, Miroku. Miroku was a slave, but he was "hired" to be his best friend and, in a way, a butler. If he could do one thing, he would make sure Miroku was freed but he knew that could never happen.
"Bad day?" Miroku asked as he finished folding Inuyasha's clean clothes.
Walking over to the couch that was up against the glass wall that showed off the sun room, Inuyasha deposited his book bag on the cushions. "You have no fucking idea."
"Nikomura brothers?"
"How do you know?"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe because you complain about them practically every day?"
Inuyasha growled in response.
"So you get your slave today?"
"Why is it you're even calling them slaves?"
"What else can I call my race?" Miroku asked as he gave Inuyasha a questioning look. When he received nothing in return, Miroku sighed and stopped folding. "Look, Inuyasha, I've accepted what demons due to my race. Maybe you should too."
Whatever. Taking off his gray polo, Inuyasha went over to his Miroku and grabbed a black tee shirt from the pile Miroku had just folded. He got a "Hey," in response but ignored and changed his sandals to black Marc Ecko's. I think this with my jeans should be fine. It's not like I'm going to a party. "See you later, Miroku."
"I'll get Sango to start dinner."
"Keh."
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The sight of many humans scattered about in numerous cages sent a shiver of revulsion down both Inuyasha and Toga's backs.
Upon entering the Slave Market, they were met by a man named Tsubouchi Kouga, the lead seller at the Market. He was… interesting to say the least. Inuyasha personally didn't like him at all but if he was going to be sold a human, it might as well be by the best seller.
"What kinda of slave ya looking for? Cooker? Cleaner?" Kouga's face soon turned sly as he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively, "Concubine?"
Toga waved his hand at the seller, feeling uncomfortable. "We would just like to take a look, thank you."
"Sure… whatever you like. Just tell me when you're ready to buy." With that, Kouga left, his tail wagging rather happily.
Once he assumed the cost was clear, Inuyasha began walking rather slowly, looking in each cage with a bit of sadness in his eyes. His father was by the door, dressed in his casual clothes with his arms crossed over his chest. A small part of Inuyasha felt thankful for his father staying behind and letting him do this on his own.
Do I want another Miroku or a girl?
After seeing at least ten different cages, Inuyasha found himself in the female section of the Market. Without even thinking, he took a big sniff and the most wonderful smell wafted under his nose. Before he knew what was going on, he was moving through the hallway and came before a cage with one lone human inside.
From what he could tell, with her back turned and a long kimono covering her form, she was astounding. She had long midnight hair that reached passed her behind and even with the kimono on, he could tell she had a gorgeous body. He swallowed roughly and put a hand on a bar of the cage. "Turn around;" his voice having a tad bit of huskiness to it.
She immediately did as she was told and his eyes widened as he gasped.
Her eyes were the color of the ocean and her skin was porcelain white. Long eyelashes met slightly rosy cheeks as she blinked and it brought his attention to her full pink lips. This time, when a shiver went through him, it was due to unknown lust that began bubbling in him. The sight of her sent an unknown wave of power in him and for the smallest second, his vision went red.
Shaking his head, Inuyasha found a button on the side of the cage that said "Press if buying." He felt ashamed when he pressed it and the button lit up, meaning he was actually about to own someone. He was about to own someone who was of the same race as his mother, and he would be her master. A disgusting tingle made him almost want to retch.
She seemed to notice that he intended to buy her and the smile she sent him made him wince. "What is the name of my master?" She asked, her voice the total opposite of what he expected.
He swallowed, "Taisho Inuyasha. What's yours?"
"Whatever you want it to be, Taisho-sama. I am only meant to serve you." She bowed like that of a princess and stood with the grace of one. A small, gentile smile was on her plump lips and he gave her a smile in return.
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Hope you liked it. Review, please. It took me a long time to write and I am just amazed that I finally got the first chapter done. I don't really know how long it will be but I highly doubt it will reach 50 chapters O.O
Peace and love,
Trembling Rose