AN: This is CutePsycoNHyper's response to my first chapter. BE NICE AND REVIEW!!
Disclaimer- We don't own Inuyasha. (Cry)
"Hey, anybody home?" Kagome called out as she slipped off her shoes as she walked through the door, leaving her bag and coat on the hanger to her right.
"In the attic!" a voice called down, barely audible.
Passing through the kitchen and grabbing the menu book from the counter, she made her way into the hallway, up the stairs, past the second floor bedrooms, up the second staircase and into the attic to find Sango doing her exercises.
The attic had been set up to accommodate all of their hobbies and interests. There was mats for yoga near the multi-colored glass window, a small table next to it was scattered with herbs from the backyard, pots, jars and everything else for the study of herbal medicine. There were pillows and bean bags in one corner next to a small shelf stocked with dozens of books as well as a large, decently powerful telescope that the girls had pulled their money together for a few months ago, sitting on top of a platform that was a few feet under a sky roof, the platform and the stairs for it made out of wood like the rest of the attic. There was a corner of the attic dedicated to martial arts, and held a punching bag, some weapons, athletic tape and a few other basic things.
This was the corner Sango was currently in, putting away her katana after practicing for a few hours.
"So how was your date with Hojo?" Sango said as she used the towel around her neck to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
Kagome glared at her as she sat down at the table, opening the large leather-bound journal to the last place she had written and picking up a pen.
"Oooh….that bad huh?" Sango winced as Kagome kept glaring, her annoyance coming off her in waves, "maybe you should just give him another chance…..or maybe not?" she finished because of the look Kagome shot her…wow she could be scary.
Kagome sighed and smiled lightly.
"Sorry, I'm just having a weird day, although I still can't believe you set me up with Hojo, I mean come on, what on earth made you think I would get along with him? He's SO boring!"
Sango laughed as she sat down next to Kagome at the table, looking over her shoulder to look at the book.
Kagome continued writing her notes on the medicinal properties of Comfrey, leaving a space on the mid-upper right portion of the page to draw a picture of the plant later.
"You know every time I see you doing this I think of the show Charmed," Sango said as she laughed, "how far into it are you anyway?"
"Oh, a couple of hundred plants, I'm organizing it by what they can cure and then adding information on how to use them, where to find them, and all minor medical properties as well as a picture."
Sango nodded as she stared at the huge book her friend had bought last year. The huge book had a Celtic tree in the front cover and had been Kagome's main focus since she bought it for the sole purpose of making her own herbal medicine book to pass down to her kids in the future.
"So other than Hojo, what else has you so annoyed?" Sango asked as she made her way to where she had dropped off her sweater earlier, picking up a water bottle.
"I got molested by a really hot guy in the subway," Kagome answered as she picked up a pencil to begin sketching the plant in front of her.
Sango had to stop herself from spitting out the water in her mouth, instead swallowing it and almost choking.
"You WHAT?! How the hell did this happen? Did you get a good look at him? What did he do? Are you okay? What stop did he get off at, and what time, I can track him, just give me a description!" Sango said as she stepped behind a partition to change into more comfortable clothes
Kagome laughed before going over and stopping Sango from castrating a guy whose name she didn't even know.
"It's fine, it's fine, he just kissed me," Kagome said she rolled her eyes before smiling mischievously, "and trust me, if it hadn't been that he kissed me without permission I would have nothing to complain about."
Sango stared at her friend and then laughed.
"Wow, I think I've been a bad influence on you Kags."
"Nah, I think it's the other way around." Kagome said as she laughed, "besides, today was not a total waste, I ended up finding something cool while I was at the subway."
"Oh yeah, what?" Sango said as she made her way to the yoga mat, needing to relax a little again.
"A really pretty pink stone," Kagome said as she sat back down at the table and continued her sketch, "It's small and round and I found it in my bag while I was in the subway, I dropped it off at Ayame's shop to get it set in a chain."
"So wait," Sango said from her mat, currently holding the Veerasana position, "you left the house this morning to go on a second date with a guy who you can't stand, only to get kissed by a hot stranger and then find a really cute new piece of jewelry?"
"Pretty much," Kagome answered.
"Wow, your life is fascinating." Sango said as she switched to the Trikonasana position.
"Oh you have no idea." Kagome laughed as she grabbed a colored drawing pen.
Inuyasha quickly made his way up the subway stairs and into the street, spotting the black car a minute later and climbing into the back. The car immediately took off at high speeds, and Inuyasha leaned back in his seat and sighed with relief.
"Hello little brother," a smooth voice said suddenly, making Inuyasha jump in his seat.
"Jesus Christ Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha swore, surprised to see his brother next to him.
"My, my, how jumpy you are Inuyasha," Sesshoumaru said, his voice sarcastic.
"Where the hell were you? You were supposed to send back up!" Inuyasha growled
"Are you suggesting that those meager demons were too strong for you Inuyasha?"
"No! But there were civilians everywhere, this was supposed to be a delicate mission and people could have gotten hurt," Inuyasha responded.
"It is of no consequence," Sesshoumaru said, brushing it off, "did you manage to retrieve the jewel."
"Of course," Inuyasha responded, still annoyed.
"Very well," Sesshoumaru said, "we shall quarantine it as soon as possible, for now we shall put in the vault at the estate."
20 minutes later in the Inu Family Mansion's Library
"You know, having a vault in a library is just beyond cliché," Inuyasha said as he and Sesshoumaru made their way to the far wall.
"It is traditional." Sesshoumaru responded, "and besides, ours is a little more efficient than others. It'd be impossible for someone to get into it unless they incapacitated both of us."
As he said this, he reached up and picked up a copy of The Prince by Machiavelli and turned to the 42nd page.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha picked up a copy of The art of war by Sun Tzu and turned to page 23.
Simultaneously, the brothers pressed their hands against their respective pages, and a seemingly invisible scan identified their handprints.
Once their identities were confirmed a portion of the bookcase swung slightly open, the doorway so perfectly fitted to the rest of the shelf that it would be impossible to see it unless it was open.
Reaching into the front of his sweater, Inuyasha brought the necklace with the Inu insignia out from under his hoodie, allowing him to step past the force field and into the vault.
Sesshoumaru lead the way through the hallways of treasure and mystic objects, down a deep staircase and through some more hallways into a small secure room.
"This room is surrounded by 20 feet of concrete on each side, it's 50 feet underground and the doorway has the same features as the entrance to the vault once it's set. It won't stop him from getting it if he finds out where it is, but it'll slow him down until you and I get here." Sesshoumaru informed him as he stepped into the room.
The room was filled with many jewels and golden objects, none of them particularly valuable. In fact there were several hundreds of thousands other, more valuable items in the other rooms.
"Well, at least you learned something from the movies," Inuyasha noted as he surveyed the room, "Never, ever leave the most important and priceless article in your possession in a room by itself, since it'll be that much easier to spot when looking for something valuable. Instead leave it with a bunch of other objects that look more valuable and the thieves will skip it."
"As I have repeatedly stated, I do not obtain my ideas from movies," Sesshoumaru responded before going to a small chest and opening it to show several small, round, gems in different colors; green, blue, clear, pink, red…
"Whatever, so we're hiding it here?" Inuyasha asked looking at the chest.
"Yes and leaving it next to several other chests such as this," Sesshoumaru informed him as he pointed back to the many chests," now, if you would please place the jewel?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and reached into his pocket,"yeah, yeah."
Inuyasha stopped dead a moment later, his eyes wide and an empty feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"Well?" Sesshoumaru asked, his eyes narrowing.
"It's….it's gone…." Inuyasha said, his voice choked with incredibility.
"What??" Sesshoumaru growled out. "Did you not say you retrieved it?"
"Yes…" Inuyasha said, his mind still reeling, "I had it at the subway, I had it and I put it inside my sweatshirt pocket…."
"Then where is it?!"
"Hey Kagome!" a voice called from the first floor just as Kagome put the finishing touches to her drawing of the plant. Sango had taken the menu book downstairs after deciding on ordering pizza from Pizza Italiana, the little pizza shop down the street with the cute delivery guy.
"Up here Ayame!" Kagome called back as she put away her pens, leaving the book open for the page to dry, "I'll meet you in my room!"
As she made her way downstairs she thought back to the cute guy….too bad she wouldn't see him again…that had been some kiss.
She smiled just thinking about it as she walked into her room, Ayame already sitting on her bed and reading a magazine.
"Hey, so I have your new necklace." Ayame said as she pulled out a small velvet box. "The stone in gorgeous Kagome, but I wasn't able to identify it."
"Oh well, doesn't matter," Kagome said as she opened it. Ayame had set it in a silver chain with a tiny silver ball every inch or so, the jewel at the middle surrounded by a silver circle to hold it in place.
"Oh! I love it!" Kagome said as she put it on, "thanks so much Ayame!"
"No problem," Ayame said as she got up to go get some food from the kitchen, "but I'm still wondering where it came from, I mean, a jewel that beautiful just lying around, not set in anything, it's weird."
"Plus it's gotta be worth a lot, I wonder whose it was."
"I don't know," Kagome said looking at it in the mirror, "can you make some inquiries through your shop? I mean, if they had something like this, they probably had money, so they might shop around for jewelry sooner or later. If we can find the owner, we'll return it."
"And if we can't?" Ayame asked from the doorway.
Kagome smiled as she picked up the small jewel resting against her blouse and looked at it. "Well then I suppose I'll keep it….what's the worse thing that could happen?"
AN: My chapter again next time. PLEASE REVIEW!!