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Disclaimer: Don't own…never will.

Title: Slave to Love

Summery: After deciding to pay off money that her family owes by working as his personal 'slave'. Kagome starts to feel something grow between her and her 'master'. And having him flatter her doesn't make things much better. Still she can't fall for him, not after putting her through what he does. [Rating will DEFFINATLY go up in later chapters]

Genre: Romance/ Humor/ Drama

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Chapter 3-Blackmailed
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It was around late evening on Monday and Inuyasha was getting ready to call it a day. He came in early, and stayed at his office late in hopes to avoid two people for as long as he could. But that only meant more work for him. Though Inuyasha wasn't one for complaining about his work, he also wasn't one who cheered about it either. So when 9 o'clock rolled around he stood up ready to head out when his office phone rang.

Turning back with a raised eyebrow, he headed back to his desk to pick up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hey! Inuyasha, what's up!?" A mans voice bellowed loudly into the telephone slightly more cheerful than Inuyasha expected.

"Miroku…?"

"Who else did you think it was?"

Inuyasha let out a slightly irritated sigh. "What do you want?"

Miroku, pretending to be hurt responded. "Is that anyway to treat your best pal? I've been with you through everything. But then I leave for a couple months, and you turn against me."

"Yea…yea, to what do I owe this cheerful phone call?" He asked.

"I'm going to be coming back to Tokyo for about a month or two for a temp job fill in. The company I work for is apparently short or staff at the building down there. So, I'm going to fill in for a while."

Inuyasha nodded to himself, though Miroku couldn't see it. "Sounds interesting but, why are you telling me?"

"You don't really think I'd come to Tokyo and not annoy the hell out of you for a while now did you? Besides, your big business party is coming up in a matter of weeks. So this couldn't have been better timing!"

Inuyasha thought moment. "Oh…so you want entry to the party huh?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously.

Miroku chuckled on the other end. "Rather I was invited or not. I was still going to show up. I must see my loving lady Sango! And I know she'll be there!"

"Did it ever occur to you that…" He stopped himself. "You know what, you've got yourself an invite. I'm sure Sango's dying to see you too. So when will you be down here?"

"Sometime this week."

"Alright, I will see you when you get here." Inuyasha smirked while hanging up the phone. "Loving lady Sango…HA! This will be entertaining." Inuyasha said while gathering his things again and leaving the office.
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Kagome sighed out of utter boredom while sitting at the edge of the pool. She found herself spending a lot of time there when she got lonely. The lights in the water created a calming atmosphere for her and it made her feel happy.

"I can't believe how long it's been since I've been back home; or even spoken to my family. I wonder if they miss me at all?" She said softly.

Since it was Monday, and late, Sango wasn't anywhere in the house. The only people around to talk to where a small amount of house workers and…Kikyo. Kagome wasn't even sure why she was there. Inuyasha wasn't home yet so what reason would she have to be in the house? And though Kagome wasn't intimidated by Kikyo, she couldn't risk her finding out she wasn't Sango's real cousin.

A cold wind blew and made Kagome shiver. The weather was beginning to change, and she wasn't dressed for being outside. Still, she didn't find herself going back in the house until Inuyasha walked through the front door. She'd rather risk getting sick then having to breath the same air as Inuyasha's girlfriend.

"Girlfriend…" She whispered while turning her body towards Inuyasha's giant house. From the outside she could see Kikyo's shadow from behind a closed curtain seemingly talking to someone. Kagome squinted her eyes trying hoping to identify the figure she was talking to. But unfortunately, she couldn't make out who it was and just passed the figure off as another house worker. Still, the conversation between the two people caught her attention; and being the curious person she was, Kagome watched the transaction between them.

In a way, the two inside the house seemed to know each other fairly well. They were sharing laughs, exchanging casual physical contact. Nothing really out of the ordinary, so Kagome was going to give up on her spying attempt; but when she noticed Kikyo's shadow suddenly tense up and start to frantically tell the unknown person something.

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "I wonder what's happening in there…"

The unknown figure then handed Kikyo something rectangular shaped which could have been anything. She then nodded her head and threw her arms around the persons' neck. When they pulled apart, the other person left the room and Kikyo put the rectangular shaped object in a table top drawer right before someone else entered the room. Kagome confirmed him to be Inuyasha seeing Kikyo's reaction. It appeared as though Inuyasha asked her something and shrugged her shoulders, shook her head and laughed.

Kagome shook her head in disgust. "She's up to something. I just know it." She said to herself as she kept observing the scene in front of her.

Kikyo continued to deny whatever the two were talking about. And when Inuyasha seemed to have bought her story, Kikyo grabbed hold of his shirt, and pulled Inuyasha closer to her, catching his lips with her own. By that time Kagome lowered her eyes not wanting to watch them kiss. It wasn't right and honestly…it made her feel a little uncomfortable. Once being unable to watch what was going on, she ran around to another entrance to the house, ran up the stairs, into her room, and closed and locked the door.
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Kikyo encircled her arms around Inuyasha neck bringing him closer to her, if at all possible. Inuyasha tightly embraced her small frame in his arms devouring her in their heated kiss. Inuyasha worked his way down to her neck causing a soft moan to erupt from her. Kikyo had begun to work on unfastening his work clothes when a door was opened then slammed shut. Some foot steps were heard running up the stairs, and another set of doors opening and closing.

"What was that?" Inuyasha said after pulling himself away from Kikyo's neck.

Kikyo seemed irritated that Inuyasha was more concerned with the sound he heard, then with her. "It's probably just that annoying girl you have living here. She was outside for whatever reason. Who cares?" She answered while gently cupping his cheek trying to bring his lips back to hers.

But that answer only made him more skeptical, and he pulled completely out of her hold. "It's at least 32 degrees outside. What would she be doing out there? It's freezing!"

Kikyo scowled and grabbed hold of Inuyasha's wrist forcing him to face her. "Why do you care about what she does? I should be the one you pay most attention to. I'm your girlfriend, not her!" She yelled.

Inuyasha yanked his arm away and turned his back to her. "I'm going to go check on Kagome. It's late, maybe you should go home." He said acting as if her last statement had no effect on him and he walked out the room.

The woman stared viciously at the spot Inuyasha once stood before averting her eyes to the drawer she was in just minutes before. A malicious smirk started to form across her face as she went into it again to retrieve what she put in.

"This file should have everything I need to know about 'that girl'." She said while flipping through hoping to find whatever information she needed to know as to why she was there. And she soon found it causing her malicious smirk to turn into an evil smile.

"This isn't over…Kagome."
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It was early Wednesday morning, and Kagome was already awake typing away, while sitting in the kitchen waiting for Sango to show up. Normally she'd wait in her room for Sango to walk in, but she was up earlier than normal so she decided to get a head start on her day. Inuyasha, like always left her a list of things to do before he left for work, and stuff to do while he was gone. Once everything was completed, she was free to do as she pleased. Which, now usually consisted of school work. Kagome wanted nothing more then to attended a university when she was finished High School. But since the whole thing with her family started, she obviously wasn't able to. Instead, she took online classes and felt almost as satisfied.

Kagome glanced at her watch that read 7:30 and as if on point, Sango walked in greeting Kagome with a cheerful smile.

"Wow, you're up early Kagome. What are you up to?" Sango asked while getting started on her days work.

Kagome sighed and kept typing her fingers away. "I'm on the internet trying to get some research for school work."

"Hum, while you're on there would you mind looking something up for me?"

"Uh huh…sure. What is it?"

Sango pretended to looked serious. "There's this definition to a word, and I'm not quite sure it's right. The last time I looked it up, the definition was 'Kikyo'."

Kagome stopped typing for a minute and gave her friend her full undivided attention. "Okay…"

"Yes you see, the word starts with the letter that comes after 'A' and ends in the word 'itch'." Sango busted out laughing unable to contain herself.

Kagome too chuckled, though she tried hard not to. "That wasn't funny Sango." She said while trying to stop her soft giggles.

Sango sat Kagome's morning tea in front of her before speaking up. "If I'm not mistaken, you were laughing too."

"True. But I didn't say it."

Just then… "Kagome!" A loud yell was heard.

Kagome rolled her eyes and took a deep breath. "And my day begins…" She said in a low whisper while closing her laptop and getting up from her seat.

"I really do take my hat off to you Kagome. At least everyone else in the house get to leave every once in a while. I feel bad for you."

"Believe me, I feel bad for myself." She answered while exiting the kitchen and headed towards the direction of Inuyasha's bellows.

"Kagome!!!"

"I'm coming…" She answered back while slowly making her way to him.
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From inside Inuyasha's room, he frantically ran around his room in nothing but a towel, searching through closets, and dresser drawers. But could not seem to find what he was looking for. He only knew of one other person who could possibly know where his stuff was. And apparently, she wasn't moving fast enough for him.

"KAGOME!" He yelled once more.

"What?" Came a soft voice from behind him.

He turned around to face her and noticed her whole face turn red and she quickly turned around.

"Oh my!!! I am so sorry Inuyasha! I didn't know you weren't dressed. I should have knocked first. But you were calling me, so I figured it was okay to come inside and…and…"

Inuyasha smirked at how embarrassed, and flushed the girl had become in a matter of seconds. "It's okay, Kagome. I called you for a reason."

Still refused to let herself turn around, she answered him. "Um…o-okay. What do you need?"

Inuyasha continued to look through his drawers. "Have you seen my red button down shirt? I know you washed it when you did laundry the other day and I can't find it."

Kagome rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Did you check your closet?" She asked nonchalantly?

He paused and let out a frustrated sigh. "No, Kagome! The thought never occurred for me to check the closet…"

"I'm only making a suggestion. You don't have to take your attitude out on me, you know!" Kagome answered back while taking a look through Inuyasha's closet; in the event he over looked his shirt.

Inuyasha's frustration was rising even more. "I can't believe this…I'm going to be so late today!"

"I don't know what your so upset about. You don't have a term paper due in a few days."

Inuyasha walked over to the closet to help Kagome look. Still not having on but a towel, Inuyasha made it really hard for Kagome not to stare. Though she tried her best not to, and to stay focused on the task at hand, she couldn't help but sneak a few glances at his extremely toned body.

After what seemed like an eternity of searching for the missing shirt, Inuyasha decided to call it quits and walked out of the closet disappointed. He sat on the edge of his huge bed and started staring into space. "Just forget it Kagome."

She ignored his statement and pressed further and further into the closet until: "Bingo." She whispered and exited the closet feeling accomplished.

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at the girl. "What's with that look?"

"How many times did you look through your closet Inuyasha?"

"Like…twice, not including just now."

She held up the shirt he had been torn up his room looking for. "Maybe you should look harder next time." Kagome answered while walking the shirt over to him and sat next to him on the bed. She went bug eyed before lying back with a huge smile on her face.

"Do you know how comfortable your bed is!?"

Inuyasha furrowed his brows before letting out an amused chuckle. "I may have an idea." He answered not…completely making eye contact with her. Instead he watched as her chest heaved up and down parallel to her steady breathing.

Silence then erupted between the two and Kagome started to feel a little uncomfortable. She stood up and started heading for the door. "Um…well, glad you found your shirt. I'm just going to…you know…go now. I've got a lot of stuff to do today. You should know…"

Inuyasha stared blankly at her and nodded.
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Hours had past, and Kagome still sat dormant in the kitchen typing away on her computer until she heard a door open. She raised her eyes from the screen, and towards the archway of the room she was in. No doubt in her mind it wasn't who she thought it was.

"I'm more than sure the little pricks here! She never goes home…not that she could anyway."

Kagome faintly heard the voice from down the hall and about four seconds later the she-devil herself walked into the room looking scantly-clad as usual. Kagome only rolled her eyes and continued what she was doing.

"Yes…right in front of me. Alright…love you too." Kikyo dropped her phone in her purse and glared at Kagome with an evil smirk.

Kagome however, didn't raise her eyes to look at her. Though, she could feel Kikyo's eyes burning a hole into her head.

"You know, you're pretty bold, cheating on Inuyasha and all." Kagome openly said.

Kikyo slowly walked toward Kagome and looked at her with the same evil smirk on her face.

"Kagome…Kagome…Kagome…" She said while taking a seat in front of her. "For someone who…doesn't work for Inuyasha, you're here an offal lot, Kagome."

She still hadn't made eye contact with Kikyo. "I'm only here when Sango's here. Now, could you please go make someone else's life miserable?"

Kikyo chuckled. "Oh, that's right. I almost forgot you where, Sango's…cousin. Where is Sango?"

"She's around here somewhere. Why?"

Kikyo shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, no reason; I was just curious."

Kagome furrowed her eyebrows. Something doesn't feel right…

"Why are you talking to me…?" Kagome asked suspiciously.

"Why shouldn't I talk to you? We kind of had a rocky first meeting and I thought I'd call a truce between us."

"Really?"

She nodded. "Really!" Kikyo held out her hand for a hand shake.

Kagome looked at the hand as if it were poisoned. After feeling no real threat, she took Kikyo's hand and shook it.

"So, now that we're friends. I figured we could don't have to keep secrets from each other."

Kagome raised an eyebrow, still having an uneasy feeling about this whole truce thing. "Okay…"

"Let's start with who you really are."

"You know who I am."

Kikyo nodded her head. "Yea, you're right! I do. And you're not Sango's cousin!"

Kagome gasped, and her eyes widened slightly as she now looked at Kikyo, waiting for her to say more. "I-I am Sango's cousin."

"Yea, sure you are."

"I am."

Kikyo nodded her head. "Well…then, if you're Kagome…Sango's cousin. I suppose you couldn't be…Kagome Higurashi personal maid of Inuyasha and…daughter of Yuu and Akira Higurashi."

Kagome stared at Kikyo skeptically. "H-how do you know that?"

"That was question you just said, Kagome. Not a 'no'. Said rumor must be true then. Your family was having financial issues a few years ago weren't they? They turned to Inuyasha for help but couldn't pay him back thus…you come in the picture, right?"

"Why do you care?" Kagome asked.

"Oh, trust me. I really don't care who you are. What I care about, is keeping Inuyasha. Which means, you can't have him. So just do whatever I say, when I say it; which includes distancing yourself from Inuyasha, and your pathetic poor family wont have anything to worry about."

Kagome was being blackmailed, and she didn't like it. "I'm…not interested in Inuyasha. Plus, you cheat on him anyway. Besides, what could you possibly do to my family? Our debt is to Inuyasha…not you."

Kikyo pretended not to head the girls first statement. "Ah what you don't know Kagome is that…I can break…people." She said in a low growl. "Your family…you…I could even break Inuyasha if I wanted to. So like I said, you do what I say, when I say it…and no one ever has to get hurt." Kikyo said venomously, then stood up and started to leave. But turned back around when something else came to mind.

"Oh, one more thing…"

Kagome looked up at Kikyo with an angry glare. "What."

"I know more about you then you know. So I'd refrain from telling Inuyasha anything. Because then…I'd be forced to do something I really wouldn't want to do." She finished before exiting the kitchen.

Kagome didn't speak. She merely stared blankly into space wondering what Kikyo could possibly know about her. What could she be holding over her head? Whatever it was, she couldn't chance it. No matter how much it annoyed her, she had to do what Kikyo wanted.

"How did I ever get myself into this…?" Kagome groaned while softly banging her head on the table she was sitting at.

**Ding Dong**

The doorbell broke Kagome from her thoughts of misery. She stood up and walked down the long corridors which led to the main door.

Inuyasha didn't say he was expecting company…

The bell rang once more just before Kagome went to open it. Once she did, she stared at the unknown figure who equally shared the same confused expression.

"Um…can I help you…?" She asked.

"I'm here for Inuyasha; I'm a friend of his. I know he's not here right now. But I just talked to him, he told me it was okay to stay and wait for him. Are you…his new…girlfriend…?"

Kagome's eyes widened. "No, I'm not; his girlfriends inside actually. Inuyasha didn't tell me he was expecting company, how do I know you're who you say you are."

"You could always call him…"

Kagome shook her head vigorously. "N-no, you know what? I don't really care." She said while stepping aside allowing the man to step in.

"I can only imagine this is a really awkward question but, who are you young lady? You certainly don't look like someone who works here. And if you're not his girlfriend then…"

"I-I'm uh…a friend. Yea…that's what I am." She whispered that last part and began walking back to the kitchen where she spent most of her time.

The mans' eyes seemed to light up, and he fallowed her. "Well, from a friend, to another friend…My name is Miroku. And you are…"

"Uh…Kagome…"

"So, how long have you known Inuyasha? He's never mentioned you."

"I doubt he would. I've only known him about a month and a half." She said quickly while taking her seat in the kitchen; just as Sango walked back in, and her eyes nearly popped out of her head.

"AHHHH! Miroku, what are you doing here!?" She screamed.

Kagome looked at Sango noticing this new expression she had. Not really being able to fully read it. It seemed somewhere between shocked, creped out, and happy all at the same time.

Miroku averted his eyes from Kagome, up to Sango and he seemed to have started glowing.

"Sango…my darling Sango!" He exclaimed happily while slipping his arm around her shoulders.

Sango made a face at his hand, and then at him before swatting his hand away. "Keep your hands to yourself! What are you doing here anyway? Inuyasha's not here…"

Kagome looked back and forth between Miroku and Sango. "I take it you two know each other?" She asked in a hushed tone.

"I'm going to be working at an office not too far from here. That way I get to see your darling face almost everyday!"

Sango made an annoyed face. "So you think…"

"By the way Kagome you need…" Kikyo re-entered the kitchen not knowing there were more people in there now.

Kagome looked toward Kikyo's direction waiting for her to say something more. But she didn't, instead, Kikyo looked toward Miroku and made a disgusted face.

"Ugh…" said Kikyo.

Miroku, not knowing who the woman was at the time took the liberty in introducing himself.

"Hello, I'm Miroku; Inuyasha's closet friend. I came down here on business from Kyoto…"

Kikyo looked behind her signaling he couldn't have been talking to her. "I don't care who you are, or where you came from!" She said rather rudely.

Miroku's cheerful smile washed away and he turned toward Sango. "Sango…who is that!?" He said loud enough for Kikyo to hear.

"The Seed…of Chucky…" She answered.

Kikyo only rolled her eyes and signaled for Kagome to come with his since she obviously didn't want an audience. Kagome sighed, stood up, and fallowed knowing good and well Sango would question her later.

Once far down in the hallway, Kagome crossed her arms and stared at Kikyo blankly. "Yes, Kikyo?"

"I think I'll be staying here a couple nights to be closer to Inuyasha."

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "What? Your other boyfriend's kicking you out his house?"

Kikyo squinted her eyes at Kagome. "No, but I need to make sure you stay away from Inuyasha like you're supposed to do. And what better way to do that then to flaunt him in your face.

Kagome rolled her eyes and shook her head. "Didn't I already tell you I'm not interested in Inuyasha…?"

"Hum…you may have. But even a blind, dead rat could tell he's interested in you!" Kikyo said spitefully.

Kagome started chuckling. "What? Inuyasha is not interested in me either. Besides, there's like a six year age difference between us. Plus, he's dating…you. And unlike…you I don't think he'll sleep around. Especially not with me because I wouldn't let that happen."

"Well, I'm going to stay here and make sure it doesn't happen! So I need you to set up one of the biggest bedrooms in this house for me. Make sure it's up to my standards…"

"How will I know if it's up to…your standards?"

"If I walk in the room and I'm not happy…you're going to need to try harder. Now get moving! We wouldn't want your pathetic little family to suffer because of you."

Kagome sighed and started making her way up the endless staircase.
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AN: OH…MY…GOSH! I am so happy right now! I just found out some of the GREATEST news ever! There is going to be BRAND NEW Inuyasha episodes to finish out the manga. The new title for the series is called Inuyasha Kanketsu Hen or [Inuyasha: The Final Act] the series is suppose to pick up right were it left off back in 2005 with episode 167. I was so ecstatic to find out this good news and it's 100% official and true. The new series air in Japan this fall…but who knows when everywhere else in the world will get it. Honestly, I don't care! I'll watch it in Japanese if I have to. I'm just happy that the show is back!

Okay, now that, that's out of my system…I hope you enjoyed this chapter, though it probably pissed a lot of you off with what's happening and what not. But I promise it will get better…or not. Yea…I just made a promise I really can't keep! XD Uh...yea...R&R please&thank you!

-Dia

PS. The new title cover for the new Inuyasha series is my avatar picture on my authors page!