Title: Falling
Chapter 4: A new threat…
Rating: PG – 13
Summary: I'm Kagome. Inuyasha is my best friend in the world and my secret crush. We've known each other since we were practically born. Our parents are best friends, and I guess it runs in the family. There is nothing that we hid from each other. Honesty is essential in a friendship of any sort. Well okay so there are some secrets… See he has a girlfriend named Kikyo. Even though I don't like her personally, because of her mean attitude towards me, I can't deny his happiness. You know I felt like I was on top of the world. Then it all came tumbling down. My heart was broken by my best friend because of his girlfriend's wishes, and soon found myself moving away. I couldn't face him, but I came back just like most people. The only thing is that I think I'm falling in love with his brother... That can't be right though… I love Inuyasha… Right?
"I don't know what you want from me."
After I went to Sesshomaru's room I took of the heels. They were hurting my feet so badly. I lay down on the bed and faced the ceiling. Soon enough I was bored and decided to explore. It was such a long time ago that I actually was in this room. I went over to his desk. It was the finest of oak. Gliding my hand over the desk I came to a piece of paper.
Dear Mr. Taisho:
I have been considering your offer to bond the two companies to bring down Onigumo Corp. Your company has been equal to mine for number one for quiet some time now. I also know that you wish to stop this competition and make us bond so that both of us are still number one, but the company is only one in total.
All I can say is that I am hesitant because Onigumo Corp. has been having weird occurrences. It's far beyond weird in my mind. There seems to be a plot going on behind out back. It also seems he may be planning something to bring us both down. Far as I can say the owner Naraku has come secret that we don't know. It might be bad for us or even worse.
Another thing is that there have been weird sighting at the company. Sometimes it's people, and sometimes it's what is said. It's not normal. Also I have noticed that his workers aren't human to say the least. Never in my years have I seen one of his workers leave the building. It makes me question what he really is doing in there.
While one of my workers were delivering papers he came to see Kikyo, Inuyasha's fiancé, and Naraku talking about some bond with Inuyasha's company. I know that it's not much, but even that little bit of Inuyasha's company could make him even stronger then we think. Inuyasha doesn't really seem to care about his company but Naraku can make it better and then the bond between those two companies could be our downfall.
After sorting all this out I will bond with you. The owner of Onigumo is planning on becoming number one like all of us, and that can't happen for the danger of our company. It could also be dangerous to the economy. We will discuss this further on the bonding on Monday at exactly 10:00 a.m. sharp.
Mr. Foxfire
"Naraku… Naraku…" I whispered over and over again
I held up the paper to my face and read it again. Naraku seemed to be a very familiar name to me. Where had I heard it before though? The door opened up and Sesshomaru entered. "What are you doing Kagome?" he asked me
I was pulled out of my train of thoughts and looked over at Sesshomaru. "Nothing… it's nothing." I repeated
"Then why were you looking at the paper?" he asked me
"I… I have a feeling that I've heard the name Naraku before. I don't know where, but I've heard it somewhere. It's just… I don't know…" I quietly replied
He looked at me seriously and nodded. After a few more minutes of thinking he sighed. I scolded myself for not remembering. Maybe my mom knows something. Sesshomaru just came up to me and softly pulled me towards the bed and bed down to put my heels on. I looked and gasped. I nodded my head while pulling my foot away. "Don't you have fuzzy slippers or something? The heels were killing me." I replied
He looked up at me like I way crazy. "Do I look like someone who would keep fuzzy slippers?" He asked me
I put my index on my lips and thought. I imagined Sesshomaru coming down for breakfast in pajamas and fuzzy slippers. He sits down and looks at his family saying, "I think the fuzzy slippers go with my eye shadow." Then everyone is looking at him like he was crazy. I burst out in laughs holding my stomach. I looked over at him through my tears. "Are you okay Kagome?" he asked me
I laughed even more. "You… fuzzy slippers… eyes shadow!" I laughed
He scowled at me. I calmed down enough to wipe the tears of laughter. I went over to his closet and rummaged through his shoes. "Jeez Sesshomaru you have more shoes then I do." I shouted from the inside of the closet
Then I noticed some water shoes. Hey they were better then nothing. I put them on and exited the walk in closet. He looked at me like some maniac wearing water shoes with a dress. I just grabbed his hand and dragged him downstairs. Then ½ way down the stairs I stopped. I looked over at him. "Why did you come up?" I asked him
"Dinner is being served." He replied
I smiled and headed downstairs completely forgetting about Naraku. Everyone was already seated and the guys looking at my water shoes. I scowled. "Well you would wear them too if you wore heels."
I looked over to Mrs. Taisho who was smiling at me. I sat down next to Sesshomaru and Mr. Taisho spoke. "This is the last portion of the party. After dinner I want you all to get out of my house. I'm joking, but the party will be over after dinner."
Looking over all the adults I noticed that none of them had gotten the joke. I just thought one thing, adults. They will never get jokes. Sigh, soon I will be old like them, but then again not for a long, long, long, time. They're like ancient. Everyone started eating and talking. I looked over at Sesshomaru. "So how's it been? I mean what do you do for a living?" I asked him
"I own a distribution company." He simply replied not going into much detail
"What do they do?" I asked
When I looked over to Sesshomaru I noticed that he probably hadn't been asked that question before. "You want to know?" he asked me shocked
"Yeah, I mean does it give out loans, or items, land or what?" I asked him smiling lightly
"Well my company distributes items to other companies. One example would be like a software company. If they need anything then we give it to them. Another thing loans are what banks give out." He cockily replied
"Yeah, but banks are also companies that "distribute" loans to people so… ha!" I said while pointing my finger at him
Everyone was looking at me. I scowled once again at them. Do they not know when to stick to their own business? They're nosier than Sango and Miroku, and let me tell you those two are the nosiest people I know. I growled at them, but they kept looking at me like I had grown a second head. "What? Why are you looking at me? Don't you have wives and husbands you should be looking at?" I snapped at them
I was about to continue when Sesshomaru put a hand on my mouth. He put his mouth to my ear. "You know you're going to get me in trouble one of these days."
By now everyone who heard my warning was back to talking with their partners, workers, or who ever they were. Some were still looking at me and it was getting me angry. Sesshomaru noticed this and glared and them. They got the message finally and looked away. I smiled and continued eating.
After dinner most people went home, but some stayed to catch up or just talk. I went over to Sesshomaru and sat down next to him. He looked over to me. "So you never told me how was life for 2 years Mr. business man." I joked with him
"Nothing much, but annoying." He scoffed
"Annoying how?" I asked
"Who do you think had to keep Inuyasha from getting drunk?" he told me glaring, but it wasn't a real glare, but an annoyed glare
"Inuyasha drinks? What are you talking about? He never drank while I was here." I replied shocked at Inuyasha's actions while my absence
"Oh yeah he went on a drinking spree the day he found out that you moved away. We had to pry him from the club. It took 3 men, but the police got to him first. We had to bail him out. It was in the newspaper." Sesshomaru said while looking at the wall a few yards away reminiscing on the memory
"Why I ought to… ooh next time I see him he's in so much trouble. I told him never to drink. You might want to have a doctor with him at all times until I get through with him." I started to get up, but Sesshomaru pulled me down
I was still mad. I could just imagine the headline, "Inuyasha Taisho crazed drunk or just stupid?" "What are you doing? I need to teach him what it means to drink." I whined at him sticking out my bottom lip
I knew he couldn't resist my puppy face. "Fine, but make sure he can still have children. I want them to grow up and know that their dad was an idiot." He warned me
"Okay." I childishly replied
I ran towards the stairs. I saw Mrs. Taisho and decided to talk to her. "Mrs. Taisho do you know where Inuyasha is?" I asked her
"Yes he's in his room, you know the one at the end of the hall." She smiled at me
"Thank you." I bowed showing my respect for her, which I had a lot of considering she was one of the nicest people I knew
I skipped up the stairs and took a left. At the end of the hall I could see a light from beneath the door. I walked towards it slowly. Then all of a sudden something hit my head and I fell to the ground with a thump. I heard something scurry away and yell. Someone or something was out to get me, but I didn't know whom it was. Either way I was going to figure out soon enough. "It's only begun," was what I heard before I fell into a state of unconsciousness.
When I regained consciousness I groaned while opening my eyes. My head hurt a lot, but the sheets on my body felt heavy. I was extremely tired. I blinked my eyes furiously trying to get used to the sunlight. Wait it was nighttime when I got hit in the head. That means… whose bed is this? I quickly got up, but something pushed be back down. To be more exact someone pushed me down.
I groaned and looked up. "Sesshomaru?" I asked
Who ever the person was snorted. "Is that all you ever think about? Well for your information we forced him to go downstairs and eat."
I finally focused on the person talking. "INUYASHA! Get out I don't want to talk to you… I can't believe you did that after I left." I yelled
"What are you talking about?" he asked me confused
"You drank. You knew that I hated when people did that. You knew that was why my dad died, but you still did it." I cried as the memory of my dad dying because he was drunk
"Kagome I was stressed okay. What am I supposed to do? I come to school and Sango tells me that you moved away without telling me. Heck I was sleeping when you left to the airport." Inuyasha informed me
"So it wasn't you…" I whispered but Inuyasha heard what I had said
"What are you talking about?" he asked thoroughly confused
"Nothing. Just get out before your fiancé gets madder at me for talking with you." I sighed and faced the window waiting for him to leave, but he didn't
I waited a little longer, but he didn't move. I didn't hear the chair moving, only breathing. "What are you talking about? I don't get you Kagome. First you make a big deal in your announcement last night. Then you're talking about a phone call. Then now you're talking about her getting mad what's going on?" Inuyasha sighed while he asked trying to get everything sorted out
"She called me after my trip at the mall. She demanded to know what made you so sad. I won't give the full details because it could be bad on your end. If she won't tell you the truth about the reason she's marrying you then I have no say. She was getting mad at me when I told her I talked to you okay? Just leave. I have no reason to get in your relationship with Kikyo. The years apart have come to a make me realize that you had control over my life. I also realized that the truth was blinded by me because of my love for you. Then I met someone in Kyoto who made me realize that I was only hurting myself and eventually stopped loving you. I stopped liking you, and started hating you because you were being controlled by Kikyo." I revealed to him while his face scrunched up trying to grasp everything
"What are you talking about? Kikyo loves me, she said so herself to me. There hasn't been a lot of time that we have been apart. It was a rare occurrence. She wasn't getting mad she was concerned of my welfare unlike you." He shouted at me defending his fiancé
"Believe what you want Inuyasha. If she truly loves you then she would never hide anything from you and you will see soon enough she's not all she seems to be. To let you know I cared for you welfare more than you think. Don't you remember all the times I was with you dragging you to my house because you got in a fight? Don't you remember all the times that I helped you with your work? Don't you remember how I went with all those dances with you because you weren't the good-looking Inuyasha Taisho everyone knew in high school? Huh Inuyasha or was it just another one of those blurs in your life?" I asked him glaring right in his eyes
"Kagome… I'm sorry…" he quietly replied trying to get my acceptance
"No Inuyasha you don't do you? You don't remember how I was your only friend in grade school up till high school. You don't remember how that time when we had to do that music project and you forgot. I came up and told her we did it together and that you wrote the lyrics while I sung it for everyone. I never said no to you until you left me. Inuyasha you never knew how much I did for you because I was always by your side. You grew accustomed to having me there and then when I left you drank at bar ending up in jail for a while." I shouted at him making sure that he understood everything I said
I saw Inuyasha get up and leave. I knew he was hurt by my words, but he deserved to know how much he hurt me. I was always there for him. Whenever he forgot his homework I gave him mine so he could copy. Whenever he was sad I was there to ask him if he was okay. Even when he was with all his friends who by the way were girls I still was there for him, but just in the shadow. I remembered him always going to parties and talking about me behind my back. I remembered one of his friends, Sarana, who was mad at him because we got in trouble one day for cheating. She wouldn't go out with him either because he was such a player. She was probably the only one who probably didn't want to go out with him.
I also remembered in 8th grade when he never did any of his homework. He did do some, but he always had some missing and I would help him finish it in time. I was there for him a lot. There was a time when his mom was probably mad at me for getting his "baby" in trouble but she got over it and so did I. Sometimes the past made me think that I had been watching too much t. v. about how friends stay friends forever. Sango actually once said that we were "friends" and I agreed, but she meant "friends with benefits." Makes me laugh at that thought.
I felt someone shake me and I turned towards who ever it was. It was Sesshomaru and I sighed with relief. "Sesshomaru what's wrong?" I kindly asked
"I've been waiting for you to get up. Everyone was shocked when they saw you unconscious next to Kikyo who was shouting to everyone that she found you like that. The weird thing is that I saw a small bat next to you. Suspicious don't you think?" he asked me while he raised one of his eye brows
"The last thing I remember after being hit in the head with something was some shuffling. Then I heard the whispering of someone saying 'it's only begun' and then everything went black." I told Sesshomaru with a serious face
"It seems someone is after you Kagome. I don't know why, but you must have something that they want." He sighed
"I know… that's what scares me." I said while pondering on what to do
I went over to the phone to call my mom. When I picked up the phone someone was already on the phone. I know it was bad to listen on other peoples' phone calls but this didn't feel like an ordinary phone call. "Did you get her?" asked the voice
"Yeah, but that Sesshomaru seems a little suspicious. I don't know what am I supposed to do." Said the other person
"I don't care. You're the only one who can weasel your way in and get the information I need. I need that information. If you don't get it I will personally kill you." Ordered the mysterious man while he threatened at the same time
"I know boss I know. I have to stay in the shadows to not raise suspicion. It's kind of hard considering the fact that there are servants everywhere." Argued the second person
"Remember don't mess this up. Do whatever you need to finish the mission." He told the worker to do
"Yeah I know. That Kagome is the only one in our way otherwise then I have this mission down." The worked replied
"I see. I will take care of the girl you just make sure that you don't mess up. I will make sure that my sweet will be well taken care of. She has something I desire. I don't want the cops or anyone finding out about this." Said the boss a little nervous yet calm
"I have to go boss I'll give you a report later tonight at 11:00 p.m. when everyone's a sleep." Said the worker
"I will be waiting for it." Agreed the boss
I put the phone down and gasped. This was frightening me. I didn't know what I had done, but it was scaring me. Someone was out to get me because I was in the way. What did I do? What did I have? What did I have to do to save myself? I walked over to the bed and picked up my heels with a look of determination covering up the fear. Sesshomaru stood in front of me. "Kagome what happened?" he asked me worried
"Someone's out to get me Sesshomaru. Some one wants me so that they can finish the mission. I'm in their way. That someone is in this house in the shadows getting information, but I don't know what information. I need to figure out what." I replied looking right into his pools of honey
"We have to tell the cops Kagome. This could be dangerous." He tried to reason with me
"We can't tell the cops because it might cause the killer to do the job faster whether or not they get caught or not. I can't risk that. They might kill you or one of the others. I can't risk their lives or yours." I replied without fear
Hey guys! Okay I'm updating all my stories now because I'm going to be gone for 2 weeks. Japan here I come. Anyway so as a present I undated all my stories or am on the verge of. Have fun and review! Hey! Okay I was wondering if you guys could get me to 50 reviews. I would love it if you guys could! Thanxs!