Methods Of Seduction Chapter 4: Backup & A Partner, an inuyasha fanfic

Summery: What happens when a sexy detective and a horny L.A.P.D dick are forced to work together on a huge case that gets front-page headlines in the local newspaper? Can Kagome avoid Yash's sexual wantings while trying to solve this case? Kag wants him to go to hell but Inu wants her in the sack no matter what.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Even though I wish I did.

Warning: Dirty all around and steamy! No lemon though in this chap...awww too bad. I feel for ya. Maybe another time... [smirk]

Author note: Yeah I'm updating! Woo-hoo! Once again I'm terribly sorry for not updating sooner. I've had a lot on my plate the past couple of weeks and it hasn't been fun. Yes I know shame on me and all that other horrible stuff but I do have a life. I know ya'll don't like to hear that, especially those whose life revolves around reading Fanfiction...I don't like to hear it either but I'm getting back into it. I read fanfics to ya know, and well I have tons saved on my favorites list! =3 But guess what happened? I got another idea for a fic. And I haven't even finished this one, you say? I know. Shame shame on me. No worries. I'm still on this one.

Oh and just for a reference, my chapters usual take at least a week to update...since they're so looong. But ya'll like em like that dontcha? Well I'm really hating the thought of going back to school...ugh...June is over and then that means I only have a month left. That will sooo sux. Well onto happier thoughts...and yes...in this story Kanna is a bit of an adult. But much more surprises are to come! And if you think you can figure out some major twists and turns I'll be throwing in, do let me know! I'd like to see who could figure any of the clues out. If anyone can that is...mahahahahaaaa ==

Methods of Seduction

Chapter 4: Back-up & A Partner

Black, smoldering vapors clogged the air and made it difficult for anyone to see or breathe. The distinct sound of fire consuming things could be heard as it crackled and sizzled dangerously. The sounds of groaning and yelling reached her ears as soon as she came to. Kagome blearily sat up, noticing the flipped police cars and their demolished states, the half-burned bodies and various shrapnel littering the blackened pavement. Several burning infernos were blazing brightly, a couple being put out by uninjured men and woman from the unit. From her unit. "This is why I don't have partners..." She muttered darkly. Everything was a mess and who knew if the youkai kidnappers had escaped or not. Her life was nothing but a tangled weave of problems and complications. She shouldn't have had to deal with this. She had the case on Naraku to be working on.

"Higurashi...?"

Kagome quickly turned around and scrambled towards her Captain. "Kaede...are you ok? Anything broken? How many fingers am I holding up?" Kagome helped her to her feet as she berated her with numerous questions. Kaede dusted herself off and turned to gaze at her detective. "We need someone in there now."

Kagome ran a dirtied hand through her hair. "I know..."

"You have to do it, Kag. If Takahashi were here, he could help you—"

"I don't need his help! Just back me up and I'll go get Suichi to cover me. He's a cat youkai and fast as all hell. Don't worry 'bout me! I'll be fine!" She called over her shoulder to her Captain as she stalked over to Suichi and told him his job.

"So I just get you in there?"

"Right. We have to use their blind side and I have a communicator with me."

"Guns?" The neko youkai asked as he handed her a bullet proof vest.

She slipped it on and didn't miss a beat. "As always. Pocket knife in the boot."

He grinned at her. "Going commando?"

She snorted as she caught the approving look from Kaede before the unit through gas bombs in front of the warehouse. "Hardly." She turned to face him. "Ready?"

He gave her an admonished look as he picked her up bridal style. "You need to ask? I'm always ready."

She put on her gas mask as they plunged into the gas fumes, going abnormally fast, but not before saying, "Pervert."

He gave her a short nod when he set her down on the blind side of the warehouse. She returned it and watched him bound back into the fumes, back towards safety. Not wasting any time, she quickly scanned the side of the old warehouse before finding an opening in the side. The wood seemed to be rotting and she made sure to be careful not to push against it lest she make her presence known. She slipped into the small opening, quickly trying to adjust to the dark area. Now where was she supposed to go...?

"Kagome."

She almost jumped at the unexpected sound but caught her wits. She fingered her ear-piece, pushing a tiny button so she could answer. "Kaede..?"

A sigh was heard. "Good you're all right."

She sweat dropped. "Of course I am. Now how am I supposed to get around in here when it's pitch black?"

"No problem. Just follow my instructions. Soon you'll have some light. Where you're at in the building isn't the part of the warehouse where they're stationed. That's why it's their blind side. Hopefully they don't know about that hole and get suspicious. We'll be keeping their attention focused on the front so hopefully you can get by unnoticed until it's too late."

Kagome nodded and 'hmmed' in response. She listened as Kaede continued. "Go to your left and you'll find a metal staircase. What a metal staircase like that is doing in an old, wooden warehouse, I don't know. Once you hit floor, take another left. It should bring to the backside of the warehouse. You should be able to come up on them from behind. In case of an emergency, they're vents above your head that are big enough for a body to crawl through. Where the child is located, I don't have that info yet. Good luck and be careful. I called in help from the 9th District."

Kagome gaped angrily. "That's—"

"Takahashi's, I know. He's on his way over here, I think, because he didn't arrive with his unit. It's okay to have back-up and a partner. Never forget that."

Kagome clicked off her communicator and pocketed it. She began to crawl towards the left and as indicated by Kaede, low and behold—a staircase. She quietly climbed them and she noticed that now, she could see much better. She was grateful for that. It wouldn't do any good for her if she couldn't see in the dark while the youkai were in their element. They could see extremely well and she couldn't. Well not in the dark anyway.

She pulled out her gun and slowly crept her way down the long hall that she'd come upon. Once again, following orders, she was going left. There was a corner at the end of the hallway and it turned to the left. 'What is it with the left business!?' As she reached the corner, she came at it at an angle so she could see if anything was waiting for her around it. Nope, there was nothing. Gun first, she rounded the corner and she found herself in another hallway. 'How many hallways are there!?'

This one seemed to be different though. There were a couple of doors on the hallway that she was wary of passing. With her training though, she was expected by duty and instinct to check those rooms. As she took a step, a floor board creaked and she cursed heavily under her breath. She took a calming breath and opened the first door on her right. She slowly pushed it open, grateful for that annoying creaking sound not being present, and stepped inside. It was dark and dusty a bit, but she could see alright. As she stepped further into the room, the door behind her slowly swung closed. Heart hammering in her chest, she spun around with her gun to see no one. She relaxed a bit when she realized that the doorframe was uneven and the hinges were very loose on the door. With the weight of the door, and the weakening strength of the hinges, of course the door would swing shut slightly. It happened all the time. But she had to admit, the timing was uncanny.

After searching two other rooms on the hallway she reached the last door. As she went to open it, she heard a noise from within and she froze. 'Is it possible for them to have accomplices hidden away in these rooms? Are there more of them than we thought?'

Stealing her nerve, she gripped the door handle and swung it open forcefully.

Her gun was cocked and she had her finger securely on the trigger. She scanned the room quickly, all the air leaving her lungs in a whoosh. "Oh...my..." She almost dropped her hand-gun when she took a step forward but she regained a firm grip on it by what she saw. There were tons of explosives and weapons littered about the room haphazardly. She gulped, carefully stepping around the dangerous equipment.

That's when she heard it. A soft rustling noise. It was coming from behind one of the large mountains of weapons. She breathed heavily and stealthily stepped around the pile in a rush so she could catch her prey. "Freeze!"

Wide, scared, green eyes met her own dark azure ones. She quickly put her gun into its holster on her right thigh and knelt down in front of what appeared to be the kidnapped human boy. "Shhh, it's ok. I got you, you're alright now. I'm gonna get you out of here."

She undid the boy's gag and untied him. For a human, he was relatively small with bright red hair and large green eyes. She checked him over for injuries, also aware of her surroundings. "Are you hurt?" At the boy's negative shake of his head, she sighed. "Can you speak?" when he just nodded yes she tried not to get agitated. They needed to get out of there...

'Maybe a change of tactics might work...he was kidnapped after all...' "Ok. My name's Kagome. What's yours?" She said sweetly, hoping to goad him into telling her his name.

Bingo. It worked. At the mention of her name, his eyes seemed to light up with recognition and she smiled warmly. "My name's Shippo." She cocked her head to the side curiously. "Shippo, huh? Well, I've come to get you out of here. We'll need to hurry. I don't think you'd want another run-in with those goons who kidnapped would you?"

His shook his head fearfully. "No way!"

She giggled and ruffled his hair fondly. "Alright. Good, good. Now, we gotta be quiet remember?"

He nodded enthusiastically. She stood up and grabbed his hand. "Follow me, ok?"

He nodded again and she peaked out into the hallway before retracing the way she came.

"Shit!!!"

"Hiten, aniki, what's wrong!?"

The older brother growled angrily before returning fire at the cops. He choked as the gas bombs they were throwing about released suffocating fumes. "This isn't working!!" He turned and grabbed a loaded machine gun and fixed it to the window. He pulled the trigger back and the shots starting going off. He smirked as he heard the humans yelling. He took out a clip and wrapped it around the trigger so it held it in place.

"Heh."

His little brother came over to view his work. "Why'd you do that?"

He scoffed. "Let the idiots still think we're by the window firing at them. It'll keep them busy and through them off while we go back and collect the explosives. We'll nab the boy and blow this joint to pieces with all the explosives we got in that room. We'll make a get away and they'll never even know we were gone."

The two smirked before heading off towards their captive.

Kagome felt a pull on her hand and she stopped and looked back at Shippo. "What is it?"

"They're coming!" He squeaked fearfully.

Her heart beat increased. "How do you know? How can you hear them? I can't!"

He latched onto her leg. "I just can!!"

"How close are they?"

Before Shippo had a chance to answer, she heard the faint talking of the two youkai. They'd for sure catch her scent in the now empty room that had held their hostage. And then they'd come after them. 'I thought they were at the front!!! What the hell are they doing back here!! DAMMIT!!! What to do...what to do...'

Inspiration literally hit her as a tile in the ceiling fell on her head. "Shit!!"

She looked up to see the vent and remembered Kaede's words. "The vent...the vent!! Come on Shippo, into the vent hurry!!" She lifted him into the vent and he hopped up easily into it. She jumped and grabbed the edges with her hands and pulled herself up into the small area. She coughed at all the dust they uprooted and cobwebs were everywhere.

She pulled the bottom of the ceiling back into place and told Shippo to head straight, figuring that was the way back towards the stairs. As they were crawling through the vent she heard the youkai's angry yelling. 'Oh man...we gotta get out of here.'

"Where the hell is that brat, Manten!!"

"Why the hell are you yelling at me for!? I wasn't his babysitter!!!"

"Gahh!! We don't have time for this!! He obviously got away or someone got in here and let him loose!!"

"Who do think came and got him!?"

"Probably that bitch, Higurashi. The only other scent in here, other than the brat's, is female and it's recent. They couldn't have gotten far. Search the whole place and check the rooms! I'm gonna go make sure the guns haven't run out of ammo and that the cops are none the wiser."

Kagome paled as her and Shippo slowly and quietly moved through the vents. 'Kaede thinks that they're at the windows shooting!! It's a decoy! I think the stupider of the two is coming after us. Most likely the younger brother.'

"K-Kagome..." Shippo whimpered. She looked at him. "What? What's wrong?" She whispered. He pointed a finger below him. She looked down and what she saw made her freeze. 'Oh shit...' There, right beneath them, with a gun...was the big old idiot youkai named Manten. He seemed to be sniffing around and walking forward. He hadn't once looked up though. . 'Thank god he doesn't have Inuyasha's nose...we'd be dead for sure.'

She motioned to Shippo to keep still and quiet with a finger over her mouth. He nodded and froze.

The sound of a gun going off almost startled her into yelping. She quickly covered Shippo's mouth to stop any noise from escaping him. He huddled close to her chest and she tried to regulate the erratic beating of her heart. It seemed that Manten had taken to just shooting sporadically whenever he heard a noise. He had walked forward a bit when he suddenly pointed the gun upwards and shot into the ceiling—the vent. The vent that they were in at the moment. She stared, horrified at the whole in their pathway several feet away from them. Manten seemed to be slowly figuring things out. Not good.

"C'mon, Shippo!! Where are you, ya lil bastard!!!" He shot at the roof sporadically again, grinning like an idiot. "I wonder if yer in da vent? That'd be a funny thing, wouldn't it? I wonder if that bitch is with ya as well. If you just come out, we won't hurt ya...just rape the dear, old detective to death but you'll be fine!!"

'That guy is crazy!! No way am I gonna let him do that to Kagome!!" Shippo thought fiercely. Underlying that determination though, was extreme fear. Bullets rained around them, miraculously missing them. But what if next time they didn't miss?

"Kagome?" He whispered, wondering if he'd ever see sunlight again.

Kagome hugged him tight. "Hang on, Shippo. While that big idiot was rambling, I came up with an idea. Just sit tight and don't move no matter what, ok?"

He nodded. Kagome fished out a spare pen in her clothing and sighed thankfully. She then took out her hidden knife in her boot and hooked it at the front of her right shoe. She did the same to her left and waited for the right opportunity. Right when Manten stopped firing, she through the pen down the long vent, it making a loud clanking and clattering noise. It was metal after all.

Just as she suspected, Manten hurled off in the direction of the noise and began firing at it. She watched as the far end of the vent, where the pen had landed, was ripped apart by bullets. Her plan was working, as soon as he figured out that it was just a pen, he'd coming running right back towards her spot, realizing that someone had to have thrown the pen.

Right on queue and not a moment too late, she heard the aggravated sound of someone storming her way. She looked through the vent to see him very close to her spot and trying to reload his now empty gun. She couldn't let him do that now could she? Of course not. 'I've got you now, you bastard!' She kicked the bottom of the vent open, ignoring Shippo's cries, and swung down, propelling her body forward as her legs rammed into his chest and throat. Well, to be exact, her knife-tipped boots ramming into his chest and throat. She'd never forget the painful shock on his face as he dropped his gun in stunned horror. She dug the tips of her shoes into his chest deeper, staining her shoes with his blood. She watched as blood gurgled out of his mouth before she whipped the lodged knife tip in his throat to the right, killing him instantly.

She kicked him off of her shoes and dropped down to the ground, panting. She fixed her knives and slid them, after cleaning them though, into her boots again. She heard Shippo call her and she looked up to see him jump down and she caught him easily.

"That was awesome! How'd you do that! I wanna learn!! You are sooo cool!!" Shippo rambled quickly, his animated face showing delight and happiness. She giggled and hugged him quickly, telling him she'd teach him later after they got out of there.

"Ok, let's get out of here." As she and Shippo, hand in hand, turned to walked around the dead body, a voice from behind them had them whipping around quickly in panic and horror.

"YOU BITCH!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BROHER!!!! MANTEN!!!!"

Kagome gulped as the older brother, Hiten with his long braided black hair, screamed and shot past them towards his now dead brother. Kagome was quick to jump out of the way with Shippo, watching as Hiten bawled over his lost brother. It quickly turned disgusting as Hiten bit into his brother's forehead, absorbing something. For some reason, Kagome couldn't manage to find her voice when the youkai whipped around to face her and Shippo with glowing, angry eyes. "I'll rip you to pieces for what you've done!!"

Not being one to wait for the obvious slap in the face, Kagome bolted and took off with Shippo around the corner. As she rounded the corner, she saw out of the corner of her eye, Hiten loading a shotgun and firing. The bullet whizzed by her head and blew a disturbingly big hole in the wall across from her. With Shippo still firmly latched onto her, she took off at a dead run.

She yelped loudly when the wall suddenly blew up in front of her and she rammed into something hard. Shippo was knocked away from her and she felt a hard-heeled boot slam into the side of her face unexpectedly. She cried out in pain at the blow, her stunned mind trying to process what was going on. She suddenly felt herself being lifted up by her neck in a rather choking grasp. She gasped trying to get free when she heard Hiten's voice. "You'll suffer painfully, bitch. I'll make sure of that."

Quickly gaining some sense of the situation, she reached into her boot and pulled out her knife. She slashed it across his face and he dropped her with a cry of pain. "You bitch!!"

She tried to scramble away and got a few feet and stood up. He was quickly in front of her again and he tore a deep gash into her stomach with his claws. She cried out and her knees went to buckle but he drop-kicked her rather painfully and she flew across the room and hit the floor near Shippo with a 'thud.'

She could barely hear Shippo's cries, even though he was right next to her. Or so she thought so. She felt a hand fist into her hair and yank painfully so she was straining forward into Hiten's red-glazed eyes. "You're having fun, aren't you? I know I am!" He sneered at her with a sick gleam of satisfaction in his eyes. She wasn't one to give up so easily, and she stabbed him in the lower stomach with her knife and drug a path downward towards his extremities. He howled, in what seemed and most likely was, utter pain. She stood up wobbly, and jogged past him down the hall with Shippo clinging to her and trying to help her stay upright.

She heard Hiten holler outragiously and the next thing she heard was a gun going off. She suddenly felt a sharp, white, hot lightening pain streak through her left thigh and she collapsed holding it in pain. She looked at it numbly and saw that it was covered in blood. She also vaguely realized that her stomach was coated crimson also. She looked up to see Hiten on his knees with a long, spear like thing in his hands. And the sharp end was pointed towards her. It seemed, to her, that is was collecting....lightening?

'That's...not good is it?'

The ball of...lightening...collecting at the tip was let go and she realized that this was going to hurt like hell and that she probably wasn't going to make it out alive. 'I should've gotten Yash. Now...he'll never know...' Suddenly, to her horror, Shippo jumped out in front of her and hollered, "FOX FIRE!!" Right as the blast hit them. She closed her eyes, waiting for the excruciating pain of being ripped apart, but when she opened her eyes, she was surprised to see Shippo generating a greenish looking shield around them and his appearance had changed somewhat. "W-What...?"

Hiten screamed outrage and charged them right as Shippo's shield disappeared. Oh shit. To her surprise, the ground beneath her body gave out and she felt herself falling away from the angered figure of Hiten. Her body turned in the air as it crashed through another floor, and when she thought that she was going to fall forever, she hit the floor rather painfully. She sat up weakly to cough up some blood onto herself. She lay back down, breathing heavily. "Shippo...?"

She felt him latch onto her shoulder and she turned to look at him. "You're a youkai?"

He nodded in sheepishly. She could see a beige tail twitching behind him. "What...kind?"

He looked at her confused for a moment. "Kind? Oh! You mean breed. I'm a kitsune."

She smiled at him tiredly. "A fox?"

He puffed his chest out in pride. "Yep! The best trickster ever!"

She giggled. "Neato. Oi, where are we...?"

She watched as Shippo looked around. It was kinda dark but not so dark that she couldn't see him up-close. "We're most likely in the bottom floor. This part's underground, so from the outside it looks like only two levels. We seem to be inside of a purplish-pinkish shield."

"Did you create this shield also?"

He looked at her strangely. "No. This is a miko shield. Demons can't do that. Only miko's can. Didn't you create it to protect us?"

She shook her head, giving him a strange look. "Nooo..."

He looked unconcerned with her startled look. "Oh...well...I guess this shield was already here. Demons can't get past the shield, unless a miko passes through with them or the miko knows that they mean no harm and casts it so they can go into it."

She stared at him gaping. "I guess you must be a miko then."

She shook her head. "No, no I'm not. I would've known already by now wouldn't I?" Her voice hitched in panic and she tried to ignore the extreme throbbing of her injuries.

"Look, Shippo, I'm no miko but I am on the verge of death with all this blood loss..."

She didn't mean to make him cry, but she did. He bawled unhappily and cried loudly, trying to ignore the heavy stench of her blood. "Don't die!!!"

She coughed a bit more and wasn't surprised to see blood come out of her mouth. Shippo only bawled louder. In her last moments, he was giving her a huge headache.

"Shippo, be quiet please. My head..."

He sniffled but obeyed. "Okay."

Kagome closed her eyes which were heavy with fatigue. 'I should have called Yash...called him with my cell...my cell...' Her eyes snapped open and her hands roamed her body's pockets until she found what she was looking for.

"My cell! Now...let's call for help before I die!"

He scowled angrily. It wasn't his fault that his cell hadn't been on when Osaka had tried to contact him. Here he was, crouching behind a car with his Captain as well as Kagome's. When he had first arrived, and found out that Kagome had gone into the building, alone, and that she was supposed to have arrived with him, he became quickly enraged. Kagome was putting herself in danger and he was out here, where he couldn't help her. Those idiots hadn't stopped firing at them for the longest time now and he had begun to wonder if something was up. If they'd been at the front, firing sporadically for like forever, then wouldn't have Kagome made it out by now? Yeah, she would've. And that was what he was worried about. There was a lot more happening that they couldn't see and it worried him when Kagome was involved. Though he'd never admit that to her or anyone. Kagome was a very unique person. Well...he didn't know if 'unique' was exactly right. But she had this uncanny ability to give her life for a total stranger without a second thought. And that made him worry. As well as angry. 'How can she think of dying for someone she doesn't even know!? She just writes her own life off like it's nothing! Goddammit, she belongs to me and like hell I'll just let her die like that! She doesn't have that privilege. She's mine, even though she refuses to admit it.'

His thoughts were interrupted by his cell ringing and he amazingly heard it over the gun continually firing bullets. "Hello?"

"...Yash...?"

He paled at the sound of the voice. "K-Kagome!?"

Everything seemed to freeze at that very moment as her name left his lips. Myoga and Kaede stared at him in shock and he knew that his facial features were no better.

"Yeah...it's me."

He got angry and decided to give her a lecture. "WHAT THE HE—"

"I...really...don't have...enough time...for that..."

His heart began to race at the way her voice was so choppy...and breathy.

"What's wrong? Why are you calling me? You wouldn't be calling me unless it was bad."

"Right on the...nail...dog-boy."

"What's wrong, dammit!" He hissed, hoping that his worry wasn't too apparent.

"You have the best...nose...there is...and...I'm sure...that you...could find...me...easily..."

"Why would you need me to find you?"

"They're decoys...at the front...I've already had a nasty...run-in...with them..."

His eyes widened and he quickly told Kaede and Myoga and they had men on it instantly. Worry began to gnaw at him with her choice of words. "What type of 'run-in' Kagome?"

"The...type where...there's...lots 'o blood, Inu." Fear gripped his heart when he heard her slightly slur her words. Something had happened to her. "Are you bleeding?"

"...."

"Kagome!!"

"...Yeah. There's seems to be a...lot of...red on ...me..."

"Shit, woman!! Hang on dammit!" He cursed and kept his phone to his ear as he ran for the warehouse. He snapped his phone shut when he entered, quickly catching the heavy stench of Kagome's blood. And there was a lot of it. He pushed down the need to gag and quickly followed her scent. He came to a large whole in the ground in the middle of a hallway. "She fell down here..." He quickly steeled himself and jumped down into the deep hole.

When he landed he quickly rushed towards a fallen body that reeked of Kagome's blood. He ignored the shimmering of the air as he ran to her side and fell to his knees. "Oh...god...Kag..." He looked at her body. It was tore up and bloody. He could make out deep gashes in her stomach that had somehow penetrated her bullet-proof vest and she seemed to have gotten shot in the left thigh. Her head had a nasty gash that looked like she had been kicked harshly also. He felt a deep rage overtake him as he stared at her wounded body. He felt the raw need to kill her attackers for what they had done. He wanted to rip them limb from limb while they squirmed pitifully in his grasp. He shook his head, deciding to get angry later.

"Kagome...Kagome can you hear me?" He held her face in his hands. She stirred and opened her blue eyes blearily. "Yasha...you came..." He rubbed her cheek tenderly. "Of course I did, bitch. Didja think I was just gonna let you go like that?"

She faintly smiled at him. "You mean that in more ways than just one...don't you..."

He smirked. "How'd you guess?"

She groaned painfully. "Per...vert...."

He looked at her in worry. "Hang on, woman. You've lost a lot of blood and I'm gonna take care of ya, so don't worry. Just don't go to sleep and stay away from that dammed white light." He took of his jacket and carefully lifted her up. He slipped it around her and pulled it closed against her chest. He then lifted her bridal-style in his arms. Her head rested against his chest, right above his heart. Her breathing was a bit labored but it wasn't shallow yet so he knew he had to hurry. Her soft voice stopped him though. "What did you say?"

"Shippo...where's Shippo...?"

He bristled in jealously. She didn't need another man—"

"Here I am, Kagome!"

Inuyasha almost snarled as he felt something drop onto the top of his head, his dog ears twitching crazily. He caught the scent of fox and the hairs on his body stood up. "What the hell are you...?" He snarled as he grasped the youkai looking child by what was obviously his tail. "Hey let me go you jerk!! Kagome saved me!!"

"Hn. Now get lost." He through 'Shippo' away from him and the injured girl and began to stalk towards the huge hole through which he entered. Just as soon as he'd taken another step, Shippo had latched onto him again. He growled deeply and threateningly.

Shippo didn't even seem fazed as he hung on to him. "What the hell are you doing!?"

The kit looked up at him, unfazed by his deep guttural growls. "I'm waiting for you to get us out of here and take her to get some help. She was talking like she was dying."

With the reminder of Kagome sitting at the brink of death, he jumped out of the hole and began to walk back the same way he'd entered. "Get away and why are you even hanging onto me!?"

Shippo gave him a bland look. "I wouldn't think that you'd want me snuggling up against Kagome like that while she's hurt. I'm not stupid. I could tell what your growls meant, you mutt."

"Why you—!"

"Besides I can tell that she belongs to you, right?" Shippo looked at him with wide curious eyes. 'At least someone understands that...Maybe the kit ain't so bad after all...'

He smirked proudly and shifted Kagome closer to his chest. "Damn right. Only she's too stubborn to admit it."

"Have you mated with her?"

Inuyasha gave him a sideways glance before stepping out of the warehouse. "Aren't you to young to know about that? What would your parents say?"

Shippo didn't even skip a beat. "My parents are dead."

Inuyasha winced inwardly. "Well...why do you want to know anyway?"

"You seem pretty placid once I boosted your ego."

"THAT'S IT—!"

"So did you mate with her?"

"I might've."

"Why didn't you mark her?"

"I'm not that heartless! I won't mark her unless she really wants to be bound to me!!"

"But she's as stubborn as you."

"Your point?" He growled, irritated.

"She won't admit it, even if she wants to cause of her pride. Miko's are like that, ya know."

Inuyasha was caught off guard with that one. "What did you say?"

"She's a miko. You didn't notice that barrier you walked through to get to her?"

'That's what that shimmer in the air was?'

"How—" He went to say to the kitsune kit, but the child had been snagged by the medical unit and was being fussed over. "Feh."

An ambulance had been called and Kagome was loaded onto the stretcher. She was put into the medical truck and he climbed in beside her.

"You'll be ok. You'll be ok." He whispered to her as they drove off.

A/N: Wow!! I wrote all that in one setting! Feel special!! I did that because I felt so bad about not updating sooner!! Well, who liked that Kag kicked ass but got her's kicked in return! And what about her being a miko...? Please review!!!

Oh and want a good fic to read..? It's called:

Bacchanalia

Read it; it's...lemony and amazing!!! LMAO

And....

The Lucky Ones

This one is totally amazing. It's not without its lemons either!!

Inu-ears