Chapter 4: I'm Onto You
Later that evening, Kimiko thought it'd be a good time to check to see if Kagome has calm down to accept her offer to get to Kyushu Academy. She walks up to her room and about to open it. But it's locked. She growls in how stubborn Kagome can be at some times. But the problem is, she has no idea what Kagome would be like because she wasn't around as much as Kaoru has. She pulls out a needle, bent it and tries to pick the lock so that she could get in. "She's got Inuyasha with her." Kaoru spoke from behind. "Yeah what about him?" Kimiko turns around to face him. Kaoru sighs with a glare. "Don't you know about anything about dog demons?" Kimiko just rolls her eyes. "Why should I know anything about dog demons?" Kaoru keeps his glare, 'How ignorant you really are, Kimiko.' "Inuyasha's demon soul has chosen a mate. And that mate happens to be Kagome." He explains a dog's nature. Kimiko scoffs at him. "Last time I've checked, Kagome doesn't have a mark of Inuyasha on the joint where her neck and shoulder." Kaoru slightly lifts his glare, "Impressive with your knowledge how mating works. That was before you tried to convince Kagome to go the Academy. But Inuyasha thinks otherwise."
Kimiko raised her brow, "What do you 'Inuyasha thinks otherwise'?" The door unlocks from the inside and opens up to reveal a pissed Inuyasha. Kimiko gasps and turns around to see how angry he is. "My point exactly." Kaoru comments. Inuyasha crossed his arms, "If you wouldn't know anything mating, Kagome is my mate, she carries my scent, she bares my mark of my family. You have no right whatsoever to take her away from me. If you do, it'll be the biggest mistake of your life." He threatens quietly, because Kagome's asleep.
Kimiko turns around to see Kaoru in the same posture mouthing, 'Told you so.' However, she can sense that deep inside Inuyasha's voice that he's just bluffing. 'He's trying to protect her. No wonder he's with her all the time.' Inuyasha clears his throat to get her to pay attention to him. "If you ever try to pull a stunt to take her away from me, I will not hesitate to put you out of your misery." He lifts one of his hands out of the crossed arms and cracks his knuckles. Kimiko catches his hands are with sharp claws instead of fingernails. She gulps and backs away. "Understood." She murmurs and goes downstairs.
Once she's out of his sense of hearing or sight, Inuyasha closes the door and locks it so that she won't be able to get in. He turns to his left to find Kagome sleeping. He angry face turns to relief and walks to her. "Is she gone?" Kagome asks sleepily when Inuyasha cups her cheek. Inuyasha nods with an assuring smile. "Yeah, I lied to convince that you're my mate and if she were ever to take you away from me, it'd be the biggest mistake of her life. Kagome, I know it's right to respect your elders, but somehow she doesn't smell right." He said as Kagome scoot over to make room for him to sleep in the bed with her. "What do you mean she doesn't smell right?" Kagome asks as she lies onto his chest. Inuyasha wraps his arms around her protectively. "Somehow, for family scents, you have the scent of your parents and grandparents, but for your grandmother, her scent was not on you at all. It'd be as if she wasn't really your biological grandmother."
Kagome nods to show him that she understands where this is going. "I just don't understand why she's like this. Even though I never got to know her thoroughly, it shouldn't mean that she should be so mean to us." She said sadly. Inuyasha comforts her by stroking her hair. "Maybe your grandfather might know a thing or two about her that you, your brother or mother wouldn't known." Kagome sighs. "We'll have to wait till she leaves. For now, we should get some sleep. As well as getting my ankle better so I can walk properly again." She suggests to him and goes back to sleep. Inuyasha wants to do the same, but he needs to protect her from her grandmother.
Later that night, Kimiko still won't get over Inuyasha's warning, let alone, believe. "I know for sure they're not mates. His empty threats aren't that scary at all." She said to herself. She's in the guest bedroom thinking of an idea to get them apart. She opens her suitcase to find various items that she could use to her advantage. She looks carefully to see her wardrobe, sutras, and, "Incense?" She asks herself as she picks up the packet. She turns to its back to see what it can do. 'The incense is to sooth a person's anxiety, and stress.' That's what it said on the label so far. Kimiko rubs her thumb against the surface to find me instructions. "In order to make the person to inhale the incense, make sure it's in room's area to fill in. Place a spell on the stick and say the name to hypnotic to replace yourself with the person the victim is trusted to the most."
Kimiko gets into deep thinking. 'I cannot be rash if I have to do this. That Inuyasha guy is with her everywhere she is. If I have to pick the right spot to do this, it's the one place where she'll lease expect. The bathroom.' She looks at the clock saying it's 11:39 pm. 'Until the time is right.' She concludes and goes to sleep.
The next morning, Kagome's alarm goes off to wake up the couple. "Inuyasha, would get rid of that thing?" Kagome asks him while trying to go back to sleep. Inuyasha groans as he reaches over Kagome and literally smashed the thing to stop its ringing. The pieces of the broken alarm clock woken up Kagome completely with a look of shock, and anger. "What did you just do?" She asks him. Inuyasha tries to mimic her expression, "You told me to get rid of the thing. So I did." He answers her calmly. He knows fully well he doesn't want his guard down, making Kagome vulnerable to what her grandmother might do to her without him knowing. "I meant to turn off the thing, not destroy it." Kagome corrects his error as she points her finger to the broken device. She growls and gets out of his arms, "Great, I have to go to the store and get a new one." She walks to her closet and takes her robe. "Just where do you think you're going?" Inuyasha gets to her. "I'm going to shower. I don't want to smell like crap." She leaves the bedroom and heads to the bathroom down the hall.
Inuyasha growls in anger, "You're letting her get away with that? I don't think so." His demon soul growls in aggression. Inuyasha goes to the door and opens it to find who it is at the bathroom door. "Just what are you doing?" He asks Kimiko with a glare. Kimiko didn't know that Inuyasha was literally at the end of the hall catching her what she may be up to. "I need to use the bathroom." She excused herself quite pathetically. Inuyasha raised his brow, "Oh really? From the scent you're giving off tells me me you're going to do something to Kagome." He walks up to her. "Are you calling me a liar?" Kimiko accuses him while pointing the finger at him. Inuyasha quickly takes hold of her wrist. "I've warned you last night not to get Kagome enrolled into Kyushu Academy. She's my mate, and you will do no such thing. And if you think I was bluffing, you are dead wrong about her and me." He squeezes her wrist with such force that he could easily break the bone. He releases her to see her suffer from what she deserves.
Kimiko immediately rubs her wrist that was held on to. "How was he able to tell I was thinking that he was bluffing about the mating thing?" She asks herself as she goes outside for some fresh air.
Kaoru comes out of the shed with a scroll in his hand. He spots Kimiko rubbing her wrist, "What did you do this time?" He asks he. Kimiko leers at him, "That damn Inuyasha gripped my wrist and almost broke it." Kaoru gets into his straight face and bumps her on the head with the scroll he had. "Serves you right for trying to pull a fast one on Kagome. And the time in the bathroom is the more predictable idea." Kaoru opens the scroll to show he what's on it.
Kimiko reads the scroll and understands what Kaoru meant earlier about Inuyasha's warning. "Even thought they're not actual mates, the male's overprotectiveness is something to triumph with. If one individual dares to challenge the claim of the female, it'd be the last. Even if it's any of the female's relatives." Kimiko changes her leer to a horror one. "Now you know why Inuyasha's onto you. He doesn't tolerate other people who try to break Kagome." Kaoru glares at her and goes back into the house.