Staring at the front door of his home, InuYasha took a deep breath before entering with his brother, and made their way to his father's office. Sesshomaru marched ahead of his little brother as he pushed the office doors open, never losing his graceful stride.

"Father! We must speak with you."

InuTaisho glared menacingly at InuYasha as he put his phone down.

"InuYasha, would you like to know what I just saw?"

"What? Dad, we don't have time for this!"

Standing up, his father stomped over to him and looked ready to burst with rage.

"Someone just sent me a video of you and Kagome at the fair where one of your whores approached you! I told you not to cheat on her! That was my only rule, and you would get the money, but now you can forget it!"

Okay, in a normal situation InuYasha would have rolled his eyes and waved off his dad, or even got defensive with him, but under these circumstances the guy had been through enough!

"I don't care about the damn money anymore!"

His father took on a look of shock as he felt around for a chair to sit in, "what are you saying, son? That's so unlike you."

"Yeah, well this is the new me. This me is in love with Kagome, and I would never cheat on her. Even the thought of it is gross and ridiculous. Naraku sent you that video, because it's someone he hired to pretend to be 'one of my whores', as you said."

"Why on earth would Naraku do something like that?"

Sesshomaru stepped into the conversation, "because your son was a no-good womanizing man whore that fooled around with Naraku's wife at a dinner party. The man has taken out his revenge by this… and by kidnapping Kagome."

Jumping to his feet, InuTaisho stared wide-eyed at his sons, "what?! You let that evil conniving monster get a hold of her?!"

"Dad! I didn't let her do anything! She ran off when that woman approached us, and I did my best to try and find her, but he had been watching the whole time, and got to her before I could!"

Shutting his eyes tightly, InuYasha tried to reel in his temper for it wasn't his dad that he wanted to kill.

"I'm going to storm Naraku's mansion and get her back. She is the best thing to ever happen to me, and that beast plans to break her before giving her back. I don't want him to have a chance to hurt her, and we need help to save her."

Sesshomaru spoke up, "there is a small group of mercenaries I've been in contact with, and they are ready to go when I say it's time. In fact, their leader seemed to be quite eager to leave now."

Studying his sons, InuTaisho had to admit that he was proud of them.

"You boys are ready to go to war if need be, aren't you?"

They both nodded and InuTaisho smiled, "I suppose you need my technical expertise to turn the alarms off and open the doors, right?"

"It would be a big help, Dad."

"Call your men, Sesshomaru. I should be ready within the hour."

Their dad busied himself on the computer, hacking codes and gaining pass keys into Naraku's home. They were fortunate that his place was a smart home with everything integrated to the mother computer, Shikon No Tama, that their dad's company created.

Walking outside, he waited for their back-up crew only to physically groan when he saw who the leader was.

The seven comrades stepped out of their huge black SUV, and Bankotsu's vision burned with fiery rage.

"How could you let Kagome get hurt?!"

Before InuYasha knew what was going on, he was hit with a right hook. Nursing his jaw, he turned to the teenage hothead.

"She's precious to me, so you can trust that I didn't let anything happen to her! Help us or don't, because we don't have time for this bull****!"

"Of course, I'm gonna help! I've been in love with her since middle school and I'll be damned if some rich ass**** thinks he can hurt her and get away with it!"

Sesshomaru decided to break it up, plus, the one they called Suikotsu was freaking him out.

"If you two are finished, my father has done his work and we are ready to ride. Here are the ear pieces so we can communicate with Father. He can walk us through all of the codes to get in, once we're there."

Ear pieces in, everyone piled into the SUV and made their way to Naraku's mansion.

(With Kagome)

Waking up, Kagome looked around and remembered every sickening moment from before. It's funny, she had no idea when she'd passed out, but at least she had some clothes on now. Looking over to the only exit, Kagome saw a tray of food lying on the floor and got up to check it out. Tomato soup and a chef salad with a cup of juice to drink. Did he think she was stupid enough to fall for it? She could guarantee that the soup was drugged, and probably the juice as well, but could he drug the salad?

As hungry as she was, chancing the food was not an option for her…and neither was staying in this prison. She searched every nook and cranny of the room, but found her tool in the bathroom, tucked away in a drawer. Finding the tweezers was like finding gold to her!

Sitting on the floor next to the bed, on the opposite side of where she suspected the cameral was, Kagome started her work on the collar around her neck. It was a nice distraction from her hunger pains as she scraped the sharp edge of the tweezers against the collar, feeling the smallest of indentions start to form. She would get out of this alive! It could not, no, it will not be her destiny to be raped and killed by some creepy pervert with vengeance on the brain.

"I won't do it anymore. I won't cater to his sick fantasies; I don't care how many times he shocks me."

One hour later, and she was a quarter-ways through the thick rubbery plastic material, but her stomach was starting to burn from hunger. She was feeling weaker and weaker as she fought to keep her eyes open, but found herself glancing over at the tray.

"Maybe I can eat the cheese and meat on the salad, and still be safe. Well, my only other choice is to starve until I pass out, then wake up even hungrier than before."

Taking a deep breath, she walked over to the tray, and scarfed down the meat, cheese, and cucumbers, closing her eyes to savor the moment. Having renewed energy, she went back to the side of the bed and continued to saw into the collar.

Naraku grinned as he watched her in the monitor. With every bite she took, he felt excitement like no other. Sweet and innocent Kagome thought she was safe as long as she ate the meat and cheese, but she would have been safe if she only ate the cheese.

Naraku's grinned turned sinister, "she didn't think I would put anything in the meat, but I made sure to soak it in a special concoction before it was cooked. Just you wait, Kagome, the fun hasn't even started yet."

Said girl was so close to freeing herself when a huge wave of drowsiness hit full force.

"Oh no! How can…this…be?"

Falling to the floor, she made sure to hide the tweezers in the mattress before being doomed to the drug-induced sleep.

(with InuYasha)

Bankotsu stared at the hanyou, "so, what you're telling me is that Kagome wouldn't even be in this mess if it weren't for you."

"Yeah, it's all my fault."

It was silent in the SUV, until the loud punch Bankotsu gave him. InuYasha could have easily dodged it, but a large part of him wanted to feel punished for the situation, and if that meant he let some weak human get some punches in, then so be it.

"Bankotsu, I can't help what happened. All I can do it make it right by saving her. After all of this, it will be up to her to stay or go. So, if she chooses to leave me, then go after her, but if she wants to stay, then you should move on because I would never let her go."

"How can you say to let her go, when you know how amazing she is?"

Nodding his head, InuYasha smirked, "yeah, you make a good point. Either way, we're getting her back."

"Yeah."

The rest of the ride was silent, and Sesshomaru thanked God he no longer had to hear any more of their moronic dribble.

(With Kagome)

Naraku admired how seductive she looked strung up and bound to his own personal torture device. It was like the top end of a sling shot, but the rubber band became stretchy shackles, and it could swivel to the other side so he could admire her round bottom.

He left her clothed so he could see the terror on her face when he ripped it off her. Unable to resist, he trailed a slender hand down from her neck, to her collar bone, over the peaks of her breasts, and stopped himself from getting carried away as he stilled his hand over her stomach.

"Rest for now, Sleeping Beauty, for you will awaken to my beautiful nightmare."