Drapetomania by Theores

Prologue

I do not own Inuyasha or any other character associated with Rumiko Takahashi. I make no money off this or any other work I create.

Prologue

Sitting on the edge of the bone dry well, Kagome took a couple deep breaths as she fully grasped the concept of what she was about to do. Growling, the woman dug her claws into the wood, splintering the rim of the empty waterhole. She had thought long and hard about this for over a season, why was she considering backing out now? “I have to get out of here” she muttered to herself, trying to find her courage to finally let go and move on with her life.

Around her everything was almost ready. The spell only needed her words to activate it. Absently glancing at a part of the alchemic like circle she had dug into the ground, she closed her eyes in indignation as the scar on her palm burned in warning that she was on the path to dishonor. “Enough of this!” she finally yelled out. Ignoring the pain in her hand, Kagome stood from her seat and turned to face the well. Pulling out a rather large codex, she quickly flipped to a previously marked page and after reading the words for a moment, closed her eyes once more to prepare herself for enchantment she was about to place on the area. Just as she opened her mouth to speak, the demoness abruptly dropped everything to slap at her face which suddenly felt like it had been stung by a mosquito. Dragging her hand away from her cheek, she glanced at her palm and scowled when she saw the now flat flea who was slowly replenishing the air in his body.

“Myoga!” she cried out softly when he was fully restored, “What are you doing here?”

Sweat running down his wrinkled face, the bloodsucker coughed and with just as much emotion replied, “I could be asking you the same thing Kagome-san!” Looking around at the sizable holes she had made on the ground, he noted the pattern which he could now see from his new higher position in Kagome’s palm. “What are you doing?”

Appearing guilty for a second, she regained her composure long enough to answer the smaller but elder being in her hand, “I...I asked you first Myoga! How did you even find me?”

“I’ve been following your trail for a few days now,” he replied, “Honorable Shin’ichi-dono and Sesshomaru-sama…”

“Sent you after they weren’t able to find me themselves.” Kagome finished for him, a hint of hostility in her voice, “You would think they would take the hint.”

“Kagome-san…” Myoga responded, the sweat on his forehead increasing in size, “I know you're falling out with Sesshomaru-sama was less than amicable but you must reconsider the consequences of your actions after…”

“I did the right thing.” she stated, once more cutting off the old flea who was nervous enough as it was.

“Kagome-san, with all due respect, abandoning your position, and breaking your vows to both our Lord and master were hardly the appropriate responses to Sesshomaru-sama’s joining with Lady Miyako.”

“He lied to me first!” Kagome growled out, “He swore to me he wouldn’t touch her! He promised me I wouldn’t be named a concubine!”

“In order for a mating to be accomplished, the two must copulate at least a day after they imprint each other, Kagome-san you already knew that promise could never be kept.”

“I don’t care! He broke his promises to me, why should I be expected to keep mine?!” she demanded to know. The hand that held the flea burned even hotter in pain causing the flea demon to glance down at her palm and gasp.

“Kagome-san, you see?” kneeling down, Myoga stroked the light pink scar, the flesh pulsating in time with her heartbeat, “You broke a sacred blood vow and now you will suffer until you amend it!”   

“Leave me alone!” shaking her hand slightly, she removed the flea demon from her hand, bending down and picking back up the codex she had dropped. Unnoticed to her, Myoga managed to jump up onto the book’s spine as it was raised, soon disappearing between the pages of the massive record on papyrus. Huffing when she saw the flea demon intently reading the paragraph she had been about to chant before he interrupted, Kagome finally ordered the nuisance, “Get out of here!”

“Ka...Kagome-san…” he sputtered in reply, “This is Kokumajutsu (black magic) and of the western influence no less! You know better than to mess with this!”

“I’m not messing with it!”

“Kagome!” he yelled, no longer using the honorific in his displeasure “This type of divination is forbidden! I implore you not to do what you're thinking of doing! Sesshomaru’s mating is not that serious!”

With tears in her eyes, the demoness snapped, “I don’t want to be a concubine, and I don’t want to keep giving my research to people who just take it without a second thought as to what I go through to make it! Sesshomaru…...I can’t say no and I can’t go back, not now! Myoga I have to get out of here!” shaking her head and gritting her teeth, Kagome began to chant in earnest, tuning out Myoga’s pleas for her to stop even as the circle around them started to glow with a blue light.

“Kagome-san!”

A/N: I’m starting over Drapetomania. I didn’t realize it was so popular the first time. Well, I’m gonna be making a lot of changes from the first time. Consider that old version dead and gone. The new age has begun. Please review! -Theores