Hey all, So here's chapter four, my second chap! Enjoy the kittens galore! (you'll get what I mean later...)
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA!! DON'T SUE! I do however own three adorable kittens! Yay me!
Chapter Four
Kouga took off his sunglasses as he walked down the hallway of the mansion, his pace quickening as the doors to the library caught his sight.
"How did this happen?! Who do we have on it? Have we set up a perimeter for a search party yet?" Kouga immediately asked the two brothers as he walked in, "And why is mutt boy wearing pink sandals?"
"Hey shut it wolf breath!" Inuyasha growled from a couch where he was currently pondering the situation, "Maybe if you had been on backup like you were SUPPOSED TO BE, I wouldn't have had to ditch my sneakers and grab these stupid things and misplace the jewel!"
"You're actually blaming ME for this?" Kouga yelled back, his hand breaking the sunglasses from his annoyance, "I was the one who said we should have sent someone else in to actually get the damn this! But NOOOO…..dog breath here wanted to be the big hero, and what does he do? Drops the freaking jewel!"
"Quiet both of you," Sesshomaru said, turning around from facing the fireplace.
Kouga opened his mouth again, before quickly closing it after a look from Sesshomaru.
"I have contacted Miroku, and he has cleared out the subway stops on which Inuyasha boarded and descended. A team of 20 men are doing a sweep as we speak on the stops, and the subway train itself, we shall have it in our custody within 5 minutes, once the last of the people currently onboard disembark." Sesshomaru informed the young men in his presence. "If our search proves fruitless it will mean that the jewel is in someone else's possession."
"Naraku?" Kouga asked as he leaned on the desk, his arms across his chest.
Inuyasha leaned forward into his hands and sighed before looking up at Sesshomaru again.
"No, he doesn't have it," Inuyasha reasoned, "Because if he did, we would be dead already."
"Yes you're correct," Sesshomaru informed him, "we've already sent someone to verify, and it appears he does not possess it."
Before either man could say a word, Sesshomaru's cell rang.
"Hello? Yes. Fine. Do another sweep and report back once you're done."
Sesshomaru looked back at the two men, before shaking his head. "The team has swept through twice with no results."
"So let's get out there and get it back," Kouga said as he pushed himself up and made his way to the door, "I've got some contacts back from the old days, we'll get the word out and we can-"
"No!" Inuyasha called out, stopping Kouga in his tracks.
"What do you mean no? We've got to get this thing back as soon as possible, you know that!" Kouga exclaimed.
Inuyasha looked at his brother, their eyes catching and both nodded in mutual understanding.
"Stupid wolf," Sesshomaru, "do you not understand what the situation is? Even my idiotic brother was able to catch on."
"What do you mean?" Kouga said as he walked back into the room and sat down on the couch opposite Inuyasha.
"If the team didn't find it, and we don't have it, and Naraku doesn't have it," Inuyasha explained, "that means that somebody probably picked it up and has it probably has no idea what it is or what it's for."
Kouga nodded as realization hit him.
"We can't let Naraku know that we've lost the jewel, which means we have to keep this as quiet as possible," Inuyasha continued from his spot on the couch, rubbing his temples as he thought about the task ahead, "because if Naraku figures out what happened before we bring it back, he'll go after whoever holds it."
Sesshomaru nodded his head slightly, "And that person will be in grave danger."
The next day…
"SANGO!!" a voice screamed from outside, making Sango spill her cereal and run out the door to the front garden, grabbing a knife out of the knife board as she passed it by.
"What happened?!" Sango called out as she burst outside, the knife in front of her and her body tense, prepared for an attack.
"Over here!" Kagome called from the side of the house, waving to Sango who sprinted over.
"What is it Kagome?" Sango said as she put the knife away, not sensing any danger.
"I found some kittens," Kagome said as she moved some bushes away, and revealed three kittens curled up, half dead.
"Oh, the mother must have abandoned them and taken the rest," Sango observed as she examined the three little things, "they look about two weeks old."
"Oh, the poor cuties," Kagome said as she picked them up, "come on, we can take care of them until we find them good homes, I'm sure I can convince someone at work to take care of them."
"Sure why not," Sango said as she took one of the kittens, a little black one, "they look like they're American short hairs."
"Can you take care of them while I go to the store down the block and pick up some stuff for them?" Kagome asked as she handed the other two to her before she walked through the door, dropping off her jacket on the coat rack and heading towards her room.
"Yeah sure, just hurry up, I have to go out in an hour," Sango called up.
Kagome quickly changed out of her work clothes and grabbed some jeans and a t-shirt, slipping on some shoes and grabbing some old blankets and a heating pad from the closet in the hall.
"Here," she said, handing the blankets and pad to Sango before grabbing her keys from the coffee table, "make sure they warm up or they could die, so turn up the heating pad to the highest degree and put them all together in the middle of the blanket, with the pad under it."
"Okay, hurry back," Sango called out as she cuddled the three kittens.
Twenty minutes later Kagome walked through the door with four bags full of kitty things.
"Geez Kagome, you know that it's only THREE kittens right?" Sango said from her position on the couch, the three kittens still on her lap, nestled in between the heating pad and blankets.
"Yeah, but I wanted to make sure they had everything they'd need," Kagome explained as she went to the kitchen and grabbed the three kitten baby bottles she had bought and some powdered kitty milk from the bag, as well as a plastic water bottle from the cabinet.
She got a mug from another cabinet and filled it with water before placing it in the microwave to warm up for a minute and a half. Meanwhile she mixed the powdered milk with water in the water bottle, and then poured the mix into the three kitten bottles and then grabbed the mug of steaming water from the microwave.
Truth be told she had gone a little overboard at the store. She had not only gotten two cans of powdered milk and three bottles, but also a small basket, some baby blankets, some ribbons and little silver jingle bells, a tiny extendable wooden playpen, a portable cage, and a big pillow.
"Here, give me the kittens and go get the bags from the kitchen please?" Kagome said as she placed the bottles and the mug of water on the coffee table before placing one of the bottles inside the mug.
"Sure, but why are you putting the bottle full of milk in water?" Sango asked while she went to the kitchen and grabbed the bags.
"Because I couldn't microwave the milk, it's bad for them, makes they're stomachs regurgitate it." Kagome said as she picked up the bottle from the water and tested it on her hand before feeding it to the first kitten she grabbed, the gray and white one, and putting another bottle in the mug.
The kitten eagerly latched onto the bottle, clearly hungry and ate almost two tablespoons before falling asleep.
Between Sango and Kagome they were able to feed and stimulate the kittens into peeing within thirty minutes. In the end, it turned out that the black and all gray ones were girls, and that the grey and white one was a boy.
Kagome and Sango leaned back and relaxed against the couch, the kittens asleep in the basket, which was filled with the pillow, the heating pad and a few blankets.
"Didn't you say you had to go somewhere?" Kagome asked as she stretched.
"Yeah, but I'm just gonna blow it off, those kittens are exhausting," Sango responded before looking through the bags again, "why did you buy a playpen?"
"So that the kittens can exercise and build up their strength in their legs," Kagome responded as she took it out of the bag, followed by some blankets, "and the blankets are to surround it, so that there are no holes and they can't get out and get stepped on."
"And the ribbons and bells?" Sango asked as she took out the said items.
"For the kittens to wear, so we can hear where they are," Kagome said as she put a bell in the middle of each ribbon, placing them on the table for later.
"How was the temple yesterday?" Sango asked while she pet the kittens, who purred in their sleep.
"Oh fine, Grampa and mom send their hello's by the way," Kagome responded as she went to the kitchen for some water, "and they wanted to know if you were coming for the festival next week.
"Of course I'm going!" Sango responded.
"Good, because they already set up my old room so we can spend the whole three nights there," Kagome said laughing, "so where'd you have to go that you ended up blowing off?"
"Oh, just to meet some guy for a cup of coffee," Sango responded from her spot on the couch, "he's been asking me out for a while, and I finally agreed, I guess I'll call him to tell him I'm not gonna be able to make it." She said as she moved toward the phone.
Miroku sighed as he hung up the phone just as he walked through the door of his apartment.
Damn, I was so close! She had finally agreed to meet me outside of work! He thought as he slumped in his seat.
He had been in love with Sango since their work had caused them to cross paths for the first time three years ago. She was beautiful, strong, intelligent, funny and had the body of a goddess……my god those breasts….
Miroku was snapped out of his daydream by his phone ringing again.
Shaking his head and guessing he'd need a cold shower as soon as possible he quickly took his phone from his pocket and answered it.
"Miroku," Sesshomaru said as he walked toward the living room, "what did the search uncover?"
"Nothing, the train is clean and so were both stops," Miroku responded as he slumped on the couch, "we've obtained the security videos from the inside of the subway and the stops and we're running them through the computer as we speak."
"Good, we want to keep this silent for as long as possible, but unless we unearth some useful information, we may have to bring in the slayers for help," Sesshomaru responded, "keep me updated."
"Of course," Miroku said before the phone cut off, leaning against his couch and sighing into his hands.
He loved working with Sango, but he didn't want to bring her into this, not into anything involving Naraku. He knew the man's reputation of what he did to female enemies, how he would capture them and keep them as play things, breaking their spirits before killing them.
Miroku shuddered as he thought about Sango, hurt and violated.
Never! He swore, anger overtaking him.
He would make sure that Sango NEVER got even remotely involved with the jewel or Naraku.
With this new resolve, he got up to change clothes.
He had work to do.
So that's my chap! Please review, it's what keeps me and Jen going!
I don't have time to go through my devil's dictionary right now but i'll post some later, bye!
CPH
-08/12/08