Chapter2
"Talk"'Thoughts'I :: Flashbacks /IactionOokami - WolfNingen - HumanYoukai - DemonYouki - Demon energy / auraOnna WomanHanyou - Half demonHotaru - FireflySengoku Jidai - Feudal Erab 0ooo0 /b - Scene Change or POV Switch
b Chapter TwoBack in America /b
The flight back was uneventful she slept most of the way; it was a plus to have a private jet to pick you up. Kagome's record company had her busy almost every day until this party she was to sing at; they wanted her to get some publicity for her new album. Kagome was never too thrilled about this but it could have been worse. 'Going to a club is not the worst of jobs.' she thought as she remembered that tomorrow night she had to go to the new V.I.P night club called 'Danger Zone' to sing at least one song for the opening party. It was the price you pay for fame.
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The sun had set and Kagome waited in her high-rise condo for the limo to pick her up and take her to the club. She was dressed in a black tight shirt that was very low cut and short, it was a party shirt. She also wore a short leather skirt and black lace up heels to top off her outfit.
I RING RING /I
Kagome's cell phone rang from inside of her small black purse. "Hello?" her soft sensual voice sounded over the phone to the caller.
"Kagome is that you?" the voice of Taylor a member of her band asked.
"Yes Taylor what's up?" she asked kind of worried as to why he would call knowing she was scheduled to be somewhere in a few hours.
"I just wanted to make sure you were still going to that club?" he asked and waited silently for her reply.
"Yes, I'm waiting for the limo, why?" Kagome replied.
"Well do you want a date, so you are not fed to the ookami alone?" a soft chuckle sounded through the phone.
Taylor and Kagome use to be something of an item, but it did not last long. He cared for her deeply but he knew that there was something holding her back and when he asked she had simply said that he would not understand and that was it. He wanted to understand so bad, he loved her. She was always so distant they were never intimate. 'Not because of lack of trying.' he thought sourly to himself. He wanted nothing more then to get lost within her, the lack of intimacy was what broke their relationship. She had said that she was unable to give that part of herself to him and maybe he should look elsewhere for it, and that was how they broke up. Before that talk it was an argument about how she never wanted to have sex with him and that was when she said that.
She sighed quietly, "Yeah I guess if you don't mind, we can go as friends." she said in a low tone.
Taylor really was a nice guy but she could not bring herself to give her body to someone who could never know her fully. If she ever told him or anyone for that matter they would lock her up and throw away the key, a straightjacket was not something she wanted to add to her wardrobe any time soon. So off course she broke it off because she realized she could never love him, she found that males from her time were entirely too boring. 'Or is it ningen in general? Could it be that I do not like the males from my time because they are all ningen?' that was a question worth pondering. Not that it would matter any because youkai no longer exist in her time. 'Unless they are all in hiding.' she thought as she heard a beep from the intercom.
I Beep Beep Beep /I
"Taylor I have to go someone is at the door I think it is the limo. So I will see you later?" she asked
"Yeah I'll meet you inside the club, I'll even sing with ya. Well c-ya bye." he said while she hung up the phone.
She walked towards her front door and pressed the intercom button "Hello?" she asked.
"Ms. Higurashi-san? Your limo is here." a young man's voice sounded through the intercom.
"Ok be right down." she said releasing the button and grabbing her purse from the couch and walked out the front door.
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A crowd of screaming people waited in a line to enter the new club, the limo stopped at the front of the doors. The driver walked around to open the car door so she could exit, he stood calmly awaiting the outburst of screaming fans he knew was coming. He knew who the young woman was, how could he not? She was voted number one new singer of the year and nominated world's sexiest eligible bachelorette, that in and of itself was a big feat. Not to mention being the lead singer in Hotaru. Kagome shifted to allow easy exit, she knew that this was the most important part of the whole night. If she tripped and fell on her face it would be plastered all over the news, such an embarrassment. So slowly she allowed one foot to touch the road while shifting to allow her other. Once both feet were firmly on the ground she stood and began to walk towards the front doors smiling and waving at her fans. She stopped to sign a few autographs and take a few pictures then she went through the front door, the bouncer already knew who she was.
She was surprised when she walked into the club, 'You could barely hear the noise outside of here but it is so loud.' she thought as she allowed her ears to adjust to the volume. As soon as she entered the main area she took a look around. 'Not bad.' she thought as she saw the huge dance floor and the comfortable looking seats. Once she was satisfied with her little look she began her trek to the V.I.P room where she would relax before the show.
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I Knock Knock /I
The sound of someone knocking at his door disrupted his thoughts, sitting behind his mahogany desk the silver haired golden eyed male looked towards the door, "Enter." his cool baritone voice echoed within his large office.
He watched as one of his advisors walked into the office. "Mr. Taisho, Ms. Higurashi had just arrived and is waiting in the V.I.P room until it is time for her show. I think it would be best for the club if you introduced yourself sir." said the young youkai after a low bow to his boss.
"No, you can go and introduce yourself as my advisor and I will watch the show from up here. You are dismissed." he said with a tone leaving no room for argument.
The young advisor scurried out of the room. 'Damn that guy is scary.' he thought as he walked towards the V.I.P room. He was rather excited with meeting the beautiful lead singer in Hotaru and he could barely suppress his giddiness. He was not a youkai that was attracted to ningen but she was different, he could not explain it, but he could feel it. He would put aside his slight dislike of ningen to be with her, 'To be with her does not mean I have to like all ningen.' he thought to himself after realizing that no matter how wonderful a ningen would be he could not totally get rid of his dislike; Especially not when he and his kind were forced into hiding by lesser beings.
Sesshomaru watched his advisor leave after he dismissed him and let out an inaudible sigh 'I miss the days when I did not have to mingle with ningen on a daily basis.' he thought as he looked out of a big window that overlooked the dance floor below.
Days like this made him remember how things used to be, when he was free to be himself, a youkai. He was 1200 years old and still unmated. Youkai females were almost all killed off 150 years after the defeat of the hanyou Naraku. The females alive today were young, most were barely into adulthood but none caught his attention. He wanted a mate who was aware of how thing used to be, someone who was alive when youkai ruled the lands. There were no onna-youkai alive that were worthy to be his mate, they were all too pampered and had no clue how to utilize the power given to them by birth. He needed heirs that would be suitable enough to take over the legacy of his and his parents. He, his hanyou half brother, and his daughter were the only surviving youkai of his clan. To keep his clan alive he needed to mate an Inu Youkai female but there were none left alive, or a powerful miko who could absorb enough of his youki to provide him with a full blood inu heir who would not be half something else. When the majority of youkai died off it marked the end of the miko. A shrine maiden no longer needed spiritual powers to be a miko now-a-days, and the last miko who would have been powerful enough would have been long dead by now. He had not seen or heard of his brother's wench since the defeat of Naraku, and since Inuyasha mated someone else he just assumed that she was dead.
A war had broken out between the youkai and ningen populations; even though youkai were stronger they were greatly outnumbered. The youkai population was forced into hiding after the near extinction of their kind, hiding in the shadows and killing any ningen they came across. As the time passed the villages grew into small cities and the forest was near eliminated, most remaining youkai fled the area to new lands. Forced into hiding was bad enough but he would not run away like a coward; so he was forced to adapt to the coming times. The surviving youkai stayed in the background not getting involved in ningen affairs so when the wars came they left, only to return when they were over. He like most used that time to travel the world and gained quite the impressive antique collection which he sold to help make a living. In the early 1900's he had come to America and stayed, it was not as overpopulated as Japan had been at the time, so he was content. As time went on he decided that he would stay, there were more lands and forest than in Japan.
There was a whole underground youkai society and he was one of the eldest youkai alive, other than the other ruling parties. He, his brother, a wolf, and a panther youkai were the four rulers of the youkai kind, all currently residing within New York City.
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Kagome was sitting at a table drinking a fuzzy navel when a young man with shoulder length black hair and ocean blue eyes walked up to her table.
"Ms. Higurashi?" he asked his deep voice and piercing gaze all directed towards her.
"Yes," Kagome said in reply to the man's question.
"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, I am Ezekiel." the young man stated as he put out his hand to shake hers, which she accepted graciously.
"Nice to meet you Ezekiel, I am Kagome." she replied as the man smiled and she gasped then looked to the hand within hers and her eyes widened. "Youkai." she whispered almost too low for him to hear… almost.
When he had smiled she saw his fangs which caused her to double check and looked down to his hands which both housed sharp claws. She whispered the word to which she knew he was and her aura spiked in reflex, the youkai holding her hand hissed.
"What the?!" he said sounding truly shocked. "What are you?" he asked Kagome looking at her wearily. When her aura spiked it kind of singed his hand.
He was young and therefore had never met a miko before.
"Me? I should ask you youkai." she said low enough for only him to hear her in her native tongue. She watched as his eyes widened in shock.
"Wh- what did you say?" he asked trying to make sure he heard her right because there was no way a ningen would know what he was.
"I do not feel like repeating myself. You heard me correctly, and as to what I am, I am known as a Miko. But my specific title that other older youkai may know would be Miko no Shikon." she replied fully expecting him to know what that meant… Which he did.
"No way! I had heard stories about her and you are far too young and unmistakably ningen to be the same onna." he replied confidently while calling her bluff.
"Sorry to disappoint you but I am she, traveling companion to the inu hanyou Inuyasha. If you did not know him then surely you would know of him he was half brother to Lord of the western lands in Sengoku Jidai. Surely you would know him, if any are still alive it would surely be him, he was after all the strongest youkai in all Japan. I happen to know this firsthand, not many youkai could stand up to my powers of purification but he could with ease." she paused for a moment "Well, that was before I trained my powers." she finished the last part in a low tone as if speaking to herself (which she was)."
"You say you know this lord of the west?" he asked curiously
"Yes but anyway how is it I could not sense your youki? I could see through your illusion just fine but I cannot sense your youki." she asked, she had to know it would bug her for the rest of her life if she did not.
He cocked his head as if trying to decide how much he should tell her. "It is under bindings." he replied, that was all he was willing to share but to Kagome it was enough she understood what he meant.
"I see, well you should strengthen your illusion because anyone with a dime's worth of spiritual powers could see right through it with no problem." she offered her advice, "But then again I am probably the only one alive with enough spiritual powers too see it." she said with a shrug.
He knew there was something different he just did not know she was this different and he needed to tell his boss and soon. "Well, I will allow you to get ready for your show, good luck." he said shaking her hand one last time as the male ningen from her group just walked up to them.
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Once he left the company of the girl he quickly made his way back up to the office of his boss. He knew his boss would want to know right away if what she said was true then she would know him. As he reached the door he knocked
I KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK /I
He added the extra knock for good measure, he was worried or excited he could not decide. "ENTER." a deep voice sounded from the other side of the door and he opened it and walked inside closing the door behind him.
"This had better be good to interrupt me after I had dismissed you Ezekiel." Sesshomaru said coolly clearly irritated by all the disruptions.
"Sorry sir, but I found out something important about Ms. Higurashi and I knew you would be interested to know." he said with a slight squeak in his voice which conveyed his excitement about the matter.
"Well?" Sesshomaru said his voice sounded with his boredom.
"She knew I was a youkai, she could see right through the illusion, sir. She said she was a miko and not just any miko but the Miko no Shikon. I knew that if what she said was the truth then she would know who you were sir because if it is her then she used to travel with Inuyasha." he finished out of breath from trying to say it all in one breath. He looked at Sesshomaru and noticed that he had a strange expression on his face, disbelief. He knew his boss was not one for showing emotion and if some leaked then he had to be feeling a lot of it.
"The miko of the Shikon would be long dead by now." he said before he glanced at Ezekiel then back to the papers on his desk and waved a dismissing hand at the boy.
He could not believe that a ningen could live this long, no matter how powerful, it was impossible. Unless she mated a youkai and if she did it would have been Inuyasha. He just could not believe that someone was saying they were her, especially after he had just been thinking about her. 'Talk about coincidence." he thought before he shook his head to dispel his thoughts. There was no use dwelling on the past but he did decide to watch her show just for the hell of it. If by any chance it is her he would know.