"No one touches Kagome." The line kept repeating in her head. It was like an old video tape that just kept replaying that one scene. Inuyasha's words hit a place in her heart that made a smile creep over her face and remain there. "No one touches Kagome." Those four words had set butterflies flutter in the pit of her stomach. To her, Inuyasha was practically saying that she was his and that no one would take her away from him. Last night was all she thought about. She had gone to school that day but she tuned everything out. The day passed by quickly and the last bell of the day brought her staggering back to reality. Demonic was going to be playing their latest song, 'Nude.'
Running home Kagome had changed out of her school uniform and into soft blue denim capris that cut just a few inches past her knees and threw on a soft grey cotton shirt that clung to her thighs. Little slits were torn down the sleeves of the fabric and as for jewelry she donned a silver chain heart locket that rested on top of her cleavage. Tapping her thumb twice on her cell showed her that she had about a half hour till the guys had to be on set.
Making her way through the hustle and bustle of downtown Tokyo Kagome made her way to Tokyo Metro and jerked her prepaid card in and out of the pay machine before riding about 10 minutes out to Shiodome, making her way out of the station and down the streets to where Wave Hype stood along with other well known television networks. Over her shoulder to the left was the building to the infamous Nippon Television industry. A block away from that was the tall glass building, where outside of the shut doors it seemed like a million people had showed up because of Demonic being there. Meandering her way through the crowd she edged her shoulder and showed the guard at the door her badge notifying him that she was with the band. With door open partially, Kagome slid in with a sigh escaping her mouth.
"Geez, you would think that they would get the hint that the guys don't want all this attention." Kagome uttered to herself as she heard the elevator ding, making her head lift to see the silver door slide to the side. Stepping inside the small compartment she pushed the 12th floor button and rode the ride up in silence, well except for the soft classical music that was playing in the background. She watched as the elevator display each floor that it was on for less than a second before showing the next. She clasped her hands together when the door slid to the side once again. Walking down the well-lit hall, Kagome racked her brain to remember which dressing room the guys were in, and with a quick downward glance to her phone she saw that there was another twelve minutes before they had to go on.
"Kagome. So glad you could make it." Turning around Kagome came face to face with Kouga Itaki, the bands guitarist.
"Kouga," she smiled warmly over to him. "It's good to see you. I hope you didn't just get here."
"Are you kidding? I was one of the firsts here." Kouga gave her a wolfish smile showing off his pearly whites. "Can I assist a lovely lady into the room?"
"Um, sure Kouga." Kagome tilted her head to the side a little in bafflement due to the fact that this was the first actual conversation that she was having with the guitarist. While thinking and before she could notice anything, Kouga had his arm hooked with hers and that they had entered the room with all of the guys looking at the two. And when she did come back to where she was she found herself looking at Inuyasha who appeared to be glaring at something. Then she noticed that Kouga's arm was hooked around hers and coyly slid her arm out and went to fetch herself a bottle of water that the attendants had set in a basket for the guys. Is he angry with me? Was of course the first thing that came to her mind. Though she still had a smile on her face from the previous night, Kagome was concerned about Inuyasha.
"What do you think eating Inuyasha?" Shippo spoke in a hushed tone to the bands bassist, Miroku Houshi.
'No idea, but we're supposed to be on in five minutes. We can't have him perform in this state. I don't think it'll good." Miroku responded in an equal soft voice.
Now normally Inuyasha would make a rebuttal to the two telling them to shut the hell up because he was in the room and he could hear everything. But he didn't and with the silence made the two worry even more about the lead singer.
"Kagome," the voice made her jump but she turned to see Miroku look at her with a sense of seriousness in his voice and eyes.
"Yes?" Kagome clutched the water bottle in her hand and idly twisted the cap on and off.
"We're going to step outside for a moment, so do you think you can talk to Inuyasha? He needs to shake off this funk that he's in." Tilting her head to the side she peered at Inuyasha and she could tell that he was fuming. When she turned to look back at Miroku he was gone. Geez, this is beginning to become a pattern with me today.
Taking a swig from the water bottle, Kagome made her way over to the lead singer and nudged him with her shoulder, causing him to look up to her, his eyes definitely held anger in them. "Hey do you want some water?" She held up the bottle of Ice Mountain water and offered it to him.
"No." Just that one word felt cold to her.
"What has you so glum?" Kagome pulled a chair over and straddled the back of the chair, her hands resting draping over the back of it with her bottle of water in her hands.
Inuyasha turned his head and narrowed his eyes at her. "If you don't realize it, I was threatened last night. Kagome, I don't enjoy being threatened."
"Threatened?" Kagome uttered, letting last night replay in her head. She just thought he was jealous over the fact that earlier when she walked in Kouga had his arm hooked around hers. "I thought you were jealous of what just happened." She motioned her hand over to the door meaning when she and Kouga had walked in.
"Keh," was his response.
"Are you jealous?" Kagome inched her chair closer to him and inched her head towards his to look him in the eye.
"Are you kidding? Me jealous of Kouga? Hell No." Kagome couldn't stop a giggle from escaping and Inuyasha rose to his feet quickly and lifted Kagome off of her seat and pressed her against the wall. "This isn't funny Kagome. This is serious shit. Sesshomaru threatened to take you away from me and… I-I don't know what I'd do now if I lost you."
This made her heart skip a beat then speed up. With her back pressing up against the somewhat cold wall, she shivered and looked into Inuyasha's golden orbs. "But you won't lose me Inuyasha. I will never leave you… I-I love you too much." Releasing a breath she didn't realize she was holding.
"Kagome," Inuyasha's eyes had softened but his voice had carried a more warm tone. His hands had lowered and relaxed on her denim clad thighs and before she knew it his lips had caught hers in a heady kiss. It felt more raw than the previous ones that they had shared. When he released her lips, her head tilted back when she felt them work on her neck, she let out a gasp as the skin of her neck was sucked into his mouth she could feel his teeth lightly grind on the flesh. It made her tremble and lean into him.
"Inuyasha… oh god." Kagome let out a soft moan as his lips moved slightly to the right of where they were previously and once again the explosion of the sensations that he created were sent through her body making her tremble in pleasure. Placing her hands on his broad shoulders, she gently pushed him away their eyes both hinted with lust at the other. "Not like this." She spoke softly. Licking her lips, she tried to calm her fast heart beat.
"Later then." Inuyasha grinned at her and eased her off of the wall and directed the both of them to the door. "It's probably show time." Just before opening the door he leaned down and kissed her.
Kagome looked down the hall as she walked down with Shippo and Kouga beside her, Miroku was up beside Inuyasha talking about something. But she didn't hear because the two beside her had started a conversation.
"So, how'd you do it Kagome? In just over a minute you have him grinning." Shippo asked, but before she could even answer Miroku had turned around and she noticed that he was looking at her chest and if it wasn't for the fact that he spoke up she would've slapped him.
"Nice work, Kagome but you might want to try and find a different shirt to wear." Miroku stated with a perverted smirk on his face. Looking down to her cleavage she noticed there were two darkened red circles at the nape of her neck. Presents from when Inuyasha had sucked on her neck made her cheeks flame to a bright red.
"I see how it is." Shippo's own cheeks were slightly tinged red slowly he made his way up to where Inuyasha was, pretty soon the band would be needed.
"He sure works fast." Kouga spoke to Miroku as he too stepped forward to complete the band. As Kagome looked from one to the other, she realized why everyone was so crazy about them. They were all gorgeous in their own way. Even though most of her attention had been on Inuyasha she realized that if one of them had decided to branch out they would never be the same. She heard the voice yell the five second notice and she watched as they all sat on a couch adjacent to the two male hosts of the show. She leaned casually against the wall and watched as they answered question after question, one caught her full attention.
"So Inuyasha your new video has made some controversial headlines on some of the popular websites, is it true? Are you considering a second career in acting?" Yuki Tanemura, one of hosts, had short spiky jet black hair.
Inuyasha let out a chuckle. "Hardly Yuki, in fact I would hardly call that acting I almost came during the shoot." His statement made Kagome's cheeks flame up. She didn't pay attention to much after that, she couldn't believe that he would've said something like that during a live broadcast. She faintly heard Shippo flick his drum-sticks quick and fast over his drums. With a few seconds of that, Miroku strummed his bass for a deep and sharp note. Kouga entered with his hand flicking so quickly that he played his rift perfectly. At the end of his rift, they steadied out the music and Inuyasha's vocal cut through the room. But he wasn't even fully into the first verse when Kagome heard a voice beside her. Turning her head slightly came face to face with Sesshomaru.
"Do you always watch from the shadows, Miss Higurashi?"
"Mr. Masaki, um why are you here?" Kagome asked him.
"They didn't tell you? My company just bought the station. That means that this show is now my show. But I don't feel the need to interfere with production at this point."
"Oh." Kagome nodded slightly before directing her gaze to the floor, not feeling the need to have to say anything else.
"It seems that I'm the guy everyone hates."
Jerking her head up she looked over to the man that looked eerily like Inuyasha and shook her hands in front of her as she spoke, "Oh, no it's not like that."
"Oh it's okay." Before she knew it, he had hooked his cold finger under her chin and lifted her head to make her eyes connect with his amber eyes. "I don't need you to love me. Frankly you don't even have to like me, its better if you don't." And again before she knew it, he had placed his lips against hers. She attempted to push him away but he was firm in his actions and it didn't seem like he was going to move anytime soon.
Moving her head to the side allowed her to get away from his lips but his body was still towering over hers. "Sto-."
"You don't want to interrupt the show do you?" Sesshomaru commented. Again his lips crashed over hers and he forced his tongue inside of her mouth, his hands had her trapped against the wall and for a second time she turned her head away from his.
"Inuyasha.." She whispered.
"I doubt that he'll ditch his band-mates to come save you. Wouldn't be good for his career would it?" Sesshomaru was going in for another forceful kiss when a voice broke in between them.
"Hey! What the hell did I tell you about her?" Inuyasha glowered at his half-brother and tore him away from Kagome and wanted to punch him so very much, but with the director yelling at him that they couldn't cover anymore for him made him release his hold on Sesshomaru and pull Kagome away with him to the stage.
"Wait… they're still playing. This is live TV Inuyasha." But he didn't respond once to her but kept pulling onto the floor and snaked his arm around her shoulder and sang to the camera. It appeared to the audience that Inuyasha was recreating the video for all them.
"I'm going to wash his scent off of you." Inuyasha whispered so that she would be the only one to hear his words. Kagome looked at him shocked for a moment and then it dawned on her, he was trying to provoke Sesshomaru. With Inuyasha arm wrapped around her ass. He flicked his middle finger in the direction of Sesshomaru and thankfully the camera was only on his face for that moment. After the performance the cameras had cut to the host who was wide-eyed from the surprise performance.
"And that was Demonic ladies and gentlemen. Even I had no idea what we were in for." With that everything was done. The broadcast was over and everyone was packing the instruments while talking. Kagome was more so standing there talking to the guys while they packed their own instruments.
Meanwhile, in the wings of the set, Sesshomaru Masaki watched Inuyasha and Kagome talk animatedly. The voice of his assistant, Jaken broke the silence that was around Sesshomaru. "Excuse me sir, but we can't waste any more time. We need to get you back to the office."
"It wasn't a waste. I needed to know how far he'd go. I'm going to have to rearrange my plan now. At first I was going to take my time dissecting Demonic, but I see he's not going to work that way. Good to know and anyway I prefer a clever prey." Sesshomaru smirked slightly to himself, his mind already making altercations to his scheme.
"I know it's none of my business, but why?" Jaken asked.
"My father thinks highly of Inuyasha's potential to lead Sido Music across Asia. And I don't plan on losing to him. I will not sacrifice nor share my father, my honor, my status or my fortune. And that is why I'm going to relieve him of his most treasured possession." Sesshomaru remarked.
Author's Note: I appreciate all of the reviews. It's what I live for and I'm glad I got such great feedback on the last chapter. I hope this one will make some of you pleased with how this story is progressing. And now, I bid you ado. I hope all of you hit that pretty blue square so you can review. I love you guys. Thank You.