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Chapter 7: The Message is Given

"So, what is the message?" Sesshoumaru said, dangerously quiet.

"The message was from the kidnapper. He said that you had better hurry, Inuyasha is starting to think that you really do hate him, just because you haven't found him." Ronin answered, a bit strained by the hand still holding his throat.

"Is that all?" Sesshoumaru all but growled.

"Yeah that's it. That is all he said!" Ronin was starting to worry that Sesshoumaru wouldn't let him go.

Sesshoumaru brought Ronin right up to his face. "For your sake, it had better be."

Sesshoumaru then released him. Confused as ever, he started to pace.

Why would Inuyasha think that so blindly? Someone has to be filling his head with talk that I really do hate him...but... in order for him to believe that, it would have to be someone that he knows and trusts, someone... that... I...know...

That thought made him stop dead in his tracks. He had a worried look on his face.

"Sesshoumaru? What is it man?" Dai asked, suddenly concerned for his friend.

"I think that I can narrow the search down quite a bit." Sesshoumaru answered.

"Oh yeah? How's that?" Yukio inquired.

"It is someone that I know..." Sesshoumaru replied. Sesshoumaru then looked at Ronin. A look of pure, un-hidden hatred. Everyone started to back up. Ronin's eyes went very wide at the look Sesshoumaru was giving him. Strike that, it wasn't just a look, it was 'THE' death glare that Sesshoumaru gave anyone he was just about to kill.

"Ano... Sesshoumaru... why are you looking at me like that?" Ronin asked, quite afraid.

"You, how did he know YOUR cell phone number?" Sesshoumaru asked, venom dripping from his voice. Everyone looked at Ronin, speechless. Ronin looked at everyone before settling his eyes on Sesshoumaru.

"Answer me now."

"Is it so wrong to give someone you know as a friend your cell number?" Ronin asked, feigning innocence.

Sesshoumaru snapped right there. He lowered his head and closed his eyes. Ten seconds went by, nobody was doing anything, barely even breathing. Sesshoumaru then looked up, his eyes still closed. Everyone froze, they knew what was coming, well, everyone but Ronin knew. He hadn't been around long enough to know. When Sesshoumaru opened his eyes, the only thing Ronin saw was red. Sesshoumaru had gotten right up in Ronin's face.

"If anything happens to my little brother because you and a friend of yours are trying to mess with the Taisho family, I swear to you, the death I promised you before will seem like bliss compared to what I have planned should anything happen." Sesshoumaru growled.

Dai and Yukio exchanged glances. They had been Sesshoumaru's friends the longest, all through junior high and now high school. Never in their time together had either one of them ever heard Sesshoumaru make a threat like that in that way. Needless to say, he even had them a little worried.

"Now," Sesshoumaru continued. "Who is it? Who took my little brother?"

"I can't tell you. He would kill me. It is someone you know though. I will tell no more." Ronin replied. Sesshoumaru looked at him, he then shook his head.

"I thought you knew where you stood. You stand lower than me, you will answer my-" Sesshoumaru stopped mid-sentence. Dai looked at him.

"Are you okay Sesshoumaru?" Yukio asked.

"Don't you smell that? It smells like traitor, and..." Sesshoumaru's eyes went wide. "Why that son of a b!"

"Who? Sesshoumaru, we can't help if you don't tell us what you are thinking!" Dai said.

Sesshoumaru didn't answer him. He just stood there, shaking. His fury at whatever the revelation was, evident. Sesshoumaru then looked at Ronin again.

"All you have done is delayed the inevitable. You will die for kidnapping my little brother, and you will die now." Sesshoumaru went to attack. Ronin closed his eyes, waiting for the blow he knew was coming. He waited for ten full seconds, but the blow never came. He opened his eyes to find Dai and Yukio holding Sesshoumaru back.

"Sesshoumaru, you can't do this!" Dai said.

"Stop this!" Yukio stated.

"This isn't right!" They exclaimed together.

"I don't care! That b... and that sick, f... friend of his are both going to die for whatever they have put my brother through! I will not stand by and let them torment him like this!" Sesshoumaru said. Suddenly, he stilled. Yukio and Dai looked at each other.

"Uh-oh" they said in unison. As they said that, their grip on Sesshoumaru was lost as he transformed. It was the first time any of his friends had ever seen it. They had heard rumors that he was just as, if not more, graceful, beautiful, and deadly as his father when transformed. They had hoped never to see it, only because it meant that someone had pushed him past his seemingly endless limits. When he got in that state, he was not going to willingly stop. He could if he wished to, but he wouldn't. Of that, they were sure.

With Inuyasha and kidnapper...

Inuyasha was growing tired. Tired of being there, tired of waiting, and tired of being with a kidnapper who smelled like death and destruction. He began to really consider the possibility that Sesshoumaru really did hate him, and was enjoying life without him. It didn't help that his kidnapper would remind him of this every other hour. And it just became that other hour.

"So Inuyasha, do you believe me yet? Trust me, it's true,"

"I don't believe you." Inuyasha said, less than convincing.

"Oh yeah? Then why do you sound like you do, more and more?" his kidnapper then laughed.

'Wait a minute... I know that laugh...gasp it can't be...'

Inuyasha started to shake.

"What is it Inuyasha? Why are you shaking?" he said, not really caring.

"I know who you are now. But why? Why did you kidnap me? What do you want? I thought that you were my brother's friend!"

"Because I was trying to do your brother a favor. But then what does he do? He is trying to find you! After all the hard work I had to go through to pull this off, he goes and screws it all up! No one, it seems, but him, really cares whether or not you live or die!" his kidnapper went off.

'So he is looking for me, he does care. But what about momma and father? Don't they care? Aren't they even looking?'

Inuyasha had stopped listening to his captor's ranting. He now knew the truth, his brother did care. Mores so it seemed, than either one of his parents. He didn't understand. Why would the one person who claimed to have hated him, and the two people who claimed to love him, have switched places? If Sesshoumaru really did love, or at least care, about him, did that mean his parents really didn't love or care about him at all? He was so confused. The only person who could answer that fully was Sesshoumaru, but right now, his 'caretaker' would have to do.

"Hey. Excuse me. Uhhh, HELLO!"

His 'guardian' had not stopped rambling. It seemed as though he would go on forever if Inuyasha didn't so something soon.

"Hey! Naraku!"

The man turned around...

A/N: happy now? You know the drill, read and review if you want to know what happens...