• CHAPTER 186 - THERE'S ALWAYS AN INTERFERENCE

    You've had only so much taken from you that all there is left to take is your own life. Surely, you wouldn't let somebody else fulfill that duty for you, but they could always stop you.

    My lungs were on the verge of combustion and I was on the edge of taking a huge breath. I would feel the water choking me and filling up my lungs, but I couldn't make myself take that breath. My chest was in pain and my body was slowly starting to numb by the toes. My grip on the bronze handles was slowly loosening, despite how hard I was gripping them. I could feel my life starting to slip away and I finally released my grip.

    In another instant, I was pulled upwards by an Angel. Just before I was pulled up, I released my captive breath and inhaled heavily. I refused to open my eyes just yet; I didn't want to believe yet that I was in the afterlife. I was going to open my eyes and see mom and dad and Aya standing at the golden gates. But there was no heavenly music that I thought I would hear. The ground I landed on was hard and moist and my right bicep was starting to hurt.

    I opened my eyes as soon as I coughed and heaved out a lung full of water. I continued to cough severely, unaware of my surroundings. My throat started burning and my coughing continued to act up as I was rolled onto my back. Before my vision adjusted completely, a cold hand pummeled me across my right cheek. My jaw popped a little and I groaned loudly in pain. I looked above me once more to see Minoru crouched over my naked body, glaring at me with his thirsty red eyes.

    "You stupid little b***h!" Minoru blustered and slapped me once more. "Don't you dare put your blood to waste like that!"

    Hearing his voice and feeling his touch again made me--at the same time--want to punch, slap, kick, scream at, and yet obey him with my tail tucked between my legs. A third slap brutally made my way across my cheek and Minoru held both of my hands above my head with only one of his hands. I started sobbing again as Minoru lowered his face down to mine.

    "Do you want me to punish you again?" he smirked maniacally. "I can go for a few more days."

    I shook my head, "No..."

    Minoru pulled me up onto my feet by my bicep again and I leaned over to heave out more water from my lungs. My throat was sore and my chest was aching; I thought I had reached the afterlife but I was sadly mistaken. There was no pain in the afterlife, and there was no Minoru. Minoru wrapped a towel around my dripping skin and he scooped me into his arms. He carried me to my prison cell and laid me down on the ground. I instinctively curled up into a ball and rolled onto my side to protect myself from the world.

    "Maybe that will teach you not to be so thickheaded next time," Minoru hissed as he sat himself next to me and popped his knuckles. "Seems as though you have Kai wrapped around your feeble, little finger."

    "I love him..." I mumbled quietly.

    "How disgusting; he's a pathetic excuse for a Vampire."

    "Don't-don't you ever...treat him like an animal." I hissed at Minoru. "Drop dead, you scum."

    Minoru was on his hands and knees above me as I was still curled in a ball on my side. He gripped me by my jaw and forced me to look up at him. The tears of sorrow and fear soon turned to tears of anger and they burned my cheeks. Minoru chuckled in amusement, probably entertained by my pathetic glare I had been shooting at him.

    "If you keep looking at me like that, I'll have to punish you again," he chuckled again, running one finger up the side of my right leg.

    "No--!" I started.

    There was a loud bang against the prison door and we both looked over to see Kaiba handling a crowbar in his hand. He took a glance in our direction and looked away, "Hisao wishes to speak with you, Minoru,"

    Minoru stared at me for a moment before he slowly licked my cheek, causing me to gasp sharply and push him away from me. He left with a chuckle and Kaiba entered the prison instead. I sat myself up and secured my towel around me, still without any of my clothes. In Kaiba's right hand was a loaf of bread and in his left hand was a water bottle with fresh water in it. My mouth started watering immediately and I reached for the bread.

    Kaiba pulled the bread away from me and shook his head, "Not so fast,"

    I paused, "Wh-why?"

    Kaiba lowered himself onto his knees in front of me and inched the bread towards me. I leaned forward slowly and took a bite out of it. It was dry and bland, but that was all I was fed while I was a prisoner; I had no sense of taste anymore. As my eating pace was speeding up, I gripped onto Kaiba's wrists to keep him from pulling my food away. I was starving, and so were my babies.

    "I never realized you were pregnant," Kaiba eyed me. "How far along?"

    I quit eating for a moment and looked down, "I don't even remember anymore...it's not like it matters. They're going to die with me anyways." I was under the impression that I was almost three months along.

    Kaiba chuckled a little, "Uketomeru's second shot at fatherhood and it's stripped away once more,"

    That sparked anger in me but I did nothing; I didn't want to risk Kaiba punishing me either. I gripped his hand with the water bottle, unscrewed the cap and started chugging the lukewarm liquid. I was a little too thirsty; I was chugging the water so intensely that it started draining down the sides of my cheeks. Kaiba pulled the bottle away from my lips and offered me the bread once more. I bit off of the loaf and started slowing down my eating, feeling tears gather in my sore eyes once more.

    "Now what?" Kaiba huffed.

    My bottom lip quivered and I looked down at the ground, allowing my tears to drop onto the cold stone floor. I wrapped my arms around my stomach and cried silently, "Your cousin is a monster," I sobbed. "How can he live with himself, knowing he does such a thing to women?"

    "It's just how he is," he stated. "You learn to throw some dirt on it."

    "How could I get over something like that?" I hissed at Kaiba between my teeth, raising my head. "I can't just 'throw some dirt on it' you retard."

    I leaned forward to take another bite of the bread and Kaiba pulled the loaf away from me. Instead, he took a bite and stood up, keeping my food away from me. I crawled in his direction and reached up for the bread again, acting as a starving man would. Kaiba teleported from inside the prison to the outside of my cell and locked the door.

    "M-my food..." I stood up and approached the door, still dripping wet from the bath.

    "You've been deprived of food for the rest of the day," he tilted the water bottle slowly and allowed all of the water to drain onto the floor in front of me. "And water."

    I continued to stare at Kaiba in disbelief as I could feel the water trickle between my toes. I gripped onto the bars of the prison and pressed my forehead against it, "Please, don't starve me like this," I pleaded. "Don't starve my babies, please..."

    "You're too disrespectful," Kaiba lectured. "Do you want me to get Minoru back in here?"

    I backed away a couple of feet, vigorously shaking my head, "No!"

    "Then behave," he hissed. "The next time either of us come to check up on you, your attitute better be adjusted."

    I nodded obediently, "Yes,"

    No more words were spoken as Kaiba left with the rest of my food. The loaf of bread was fairly small and I only had about half of it. I seated myself on the ground and soon found myself doubled over in pain. My stomach was killing me; my babies' starvation must have been starting to agitate them. I felt like I needed to vomit but there was almost nothing in me except for what I had just eaten. I dry heaved for a few minutes until a little bit of bile came out.

    "You guys are hurting mommy," I groaned but smiled subtly, thinking they could see me. "You need to calm down, please."

    I dry heaved again and groaned ever louder; I was feeling so physically miserable. I couldn't control what I would eat anymore or how much I would eat. I felt like death, even though, just a few minutes ago, I felt like I had finally reached the afterlife. That was my second or third time trying to commit suicide; I couldn't count anymore. My brain was shutting down from the lack of confidence. I glanced down at my bare ring finger and closed my eyes, remembering. What was Minoru going to do with my ring, now that he had taken it away from me after forcing himself on me?

    "I'm sorry, Kai," I sighed. "I failed as a fiancèe and a mother."

    That's all I was anymore; a waste of space. I couldn't keep my promise to the ones I loved most, and so I was being punished for it. Maybe death wouldn't be such a bad thing anymore...but I was forbidden to do it myself.