A/N:- Hi there everyone. Sorry for not updating in a long time but I haven't been staying at home and even if I was my net has been behaving oddly. It's a shocking thing that my net decided to work today so I am using the opportunity to update. Anyways, enough of that. Thanks for my reviewers mad4life, saphira404 and Bibliophile Nincompoop. Without you I wouldn't have been able to continue with this story. You guys rock! Well, read and enjoy this chapter.
Roadside Romeo
Disclaimer:- If I owned Inu Yasha I would have never let Kagura die instead have had her happily married to Sesshoumaru.
Interrogation
A door opened and a man wearing a black suit and dark aviators with long, silver hair got out. He removed his sunglasses to reveal a pair of golden-amber orbs. The man had a dead pan look on his face as if annoyed by the sudden intrusion this lady had caused him.
"What do you want?" He asked coldly.
Kagura was too stunned to reply or even put two syllables together and form a coherent word. But she got her act together and demanded in an angry voice, "Who the hell are you and why the heck are you following me?"
"I am Officer Sesshoumaru Taiyou, FBI." He said flashing his glittering badge in front of Kagura's shock-widened crimson eyes.
"Alright, alright. As far as I remember I haven't committed any crime that I am aware of." Kagura said scared of what this was all about. 'What does the FBI want from me? What could all this be about? Is this about what I think it is about?' It was all she could do to not keep from going into hysteria.
"I haven't said that you have committed any crime." Sesshoumaru answered just as the passenger's side door of the sedan opened up and a man with a long black ponytail wearing the same kind of suit this Sesshoumaru was wearing stepped out.
"What's taking you so long?" the guy asked of his colleague while shrugging heavily as he noticed that the lady standing in front of him was the one who they had been following. "So I guess the gig is up. She caught us. No pun intended." He said grinning. Kagura noticed that his plain green eyes lit up just as a little kids would.
"You have better things to worry about than this Kouga. I suggest you get back in the car and let me handle the situation here." Sesshoumaru said not even taking his glance off of Kagura to take a look at his partner.
"Now, now. There's no need for us to get so rude. After all I am your partner now since your last one quit because of your behavior." Kouga said sighing. He was well aware of his partner's canny ability to be rude and offhanded to just about anyone. Neither did he give a rats shit worth of thought to his subordinates nor care about what his superiors thought. He was a "one man show" as they liked to call him back in the department.
"Can anyone please explain to me what is going on here? You two are really annoying and there is somewhere I need to be. So just get on with things. If you want to arrest me, do it now or else I am running away." Kagura said in one breath, all her earlier worries about her past gone, well almost gone. All she wanted to do was run into the comforting arms of any nearby mall and get away from whatever these two men had in store for her.
"Well, you are not going anywhere until and unless this Sesshoumaru is done with you. Get in the car. Now." Sesshoumaru said opening the door of the back seat. He was about to shove in Kagura when she stamped on his left-foot in all her high-heeled might.
"I will most certainly not get in a car with you. You could be two kidnappers for all I know. You can get those badges on E-bay these days. Don't you even think for one second that I am fooled by your acts. No ways, Mister. I know all about you and your kind. Pretending to be the police and picking up nice little girls like me and doing God knows what with them. I read the newspapers you know. You are NOT taking me anywhere, you jerks." Kagura took a deep breath to try to calm down her nerves. She had never been this outraged before. No guy had ever made Kagura feel like she did right now, stupidly fuming.
"You have spoken enough, witch. Now you will do as this Sesshoumaru tells you to. You will get into the car right this second or else I will have to force you in." Sesshoumaru said wincing in pain, shuffling his weight on his uninjured foot.
"And how exactly do you plan on-" Kagura was yelling when she was interrupted by the officer named Kouga.
"Ma'am, would you please be kind enough and do us a favor and just get in the car? Really, we mean no harm to you." Kouga tried to reason with Kagura flashing her one of his heart-warming smiles.
"Alright. But first tell me what all this is about." Kagura said trying to fake nonchalance.
"We can't disclose the information out in the public." Sesshoumaru replied but Kouga raised his hand as if he wanted to explain the situation.
"Well, the thing is that it is a situation of very delicate nature and it would do us all good if we were to go somewhere more private. Like the 72nd Precinct which is just two blocks from here." Kouga tried to again reason with Kagura. For what Sesshoumaru lacked in, his partner Kouga made up for it with his politeness and tranquil nature.
"Fine, just because you say so but it better not take more than an hour. I have places to be." She walked up to car and got in quickly. Sesshoumaru closed the door behind her and everyone settled into their seats.
"So what is all this about? Mind telling me now?" Kagura asked of her two captivators. She was seated across the long, wooden table from the two of them. The one who had introduced himself as Officer Sesshoumaru Taiyou was pacing while his partner, the one named Kouga, was sitting sipping the tasteless police-station coffee.
"I didn't get a chance to introduce myself before. I'm Officer Kouga Kusanagi." He said, resting his mug on the worn table.
"To hell with the introductions. I want to know why I am holed up in this place. And you better spill your guts out now before I call my attorney." Kagura said slamming her fist on the table which made it rattle. She was staring so hard at the two of them it was a wonder that her eyes didn't pop out of the sockets.
"For a fact, we know that you do not have an attorney." Sesshoumaru started, interrupting Kagura by raising his hand up, "But we are not interested in that. What we'd like to know, is about your boyfriend Mr. Naraku Onigumo."
"He is no boyfriend of mine. But why are you so interested in him anyways?" Kagura asked, her mouth gaping open in amazement. She had never thought that this was about Naraku.
"Well, as you must know, he is wanted on the charges of money laundering, trading drugs, match-fixing, running whore houses-"
"You've got to be kidding me. We are so not talking about the same Naraku Onigumo here then. Naraku doesn't do all that. Being a socialite doesn't mean that you be blamed for all those misdeeds. Well, we just aren't talking about the same person, so I am gonna leave if you please, gentlemen." Kagura said getting up but she was pushed back into her chair by none other than Sesshoumaru.
"We are not finished talking here. Other than those charges, he has recently been observed socializing with some major wanted terrorists. And we need to know what his plans are if he is planning on getting involved into some terrorist activities." Sesshoumaru said, pinching his nose.
"Well, I have no idea how you are going to get that information from me as I am as clueless as you are about this whole business." Kagura heavily sighed and started massaging her temples as if to ward off the headache the recent information splurge had caused her.
"Now, you aren't as clueless as we are. You can be of great help to us and to the country." Kouga answered a sly grin on his face. "You can give us some inside information that we don't have. How about we start from how you two met and work things up from there?" For some strange reason Kagura was finding Officer Kouga to be a very calming presence compared to the cold golden-eyed Officer.
"Hmmm…" Kagura tried to figure out where to start her story from. "I was doing an article for the magazine called the 100 Most Influential Socialites of the Year in which Naraku was mentioned you know because of his large inheritance that he had so much liked to boast about when we met for an interview. That was the first time that we met in actual. And that was the beginning of as you say a whirlwind romance. After the first meeting he kept on urging me to go on a date with him for a while before I finally gave in. So we went on a few dates and he was the most charming, gentle-manly guy that I had dated in a while so I let it go on for a while. He never once forced me to behave in any particular way and never hinted that he could be into any of the things that you mentioned earlier. In fact, he was the total opposite, throwing charity fundraisers, donating to various trust funds across the country, always wanting to help others out. But the thing about him is that you believe what he wants you to believe. So it could have been that I was blinded for so long." Kagura mused.
"That's quite an interesting story, Miss Kaze. You are not the only one who was blinded by the better side of Naraku Onigumo. There have been others. He managed to even elude some of the force's best members. That is why we want your help." There was a mysterious tone to the way Kouga said it.
"Wh-what do you mean?"
"You are still on good terms with him, we assume." Sesshoumaru intervened just as Kouga was about to say something.
"I guess I am. Of course. Why do you ask?"
"Well, we have a proposition for you."
To be continued..
A/N:- So what do you guys think of it? Like it or hate it? What about the cliffhangers? Please do tell me what you think of it so far by reviewing. I love to get reviews and I am proud to say that :D Hopefully the next chapter shouldn't take this long to get posted if my net behaves in an orderly fashion so lets just keep our fingers crossed. Till then...
