The New Girl In Town.

Chapter 26. Ill Be There

***KAG POV***

The car ride wasn't long. Maybe it didn't seem as long as it actually was compared to the thirteen hour flight I had just been on. Or perhaps it was the new sites and things I was seeing.

I didn't really know.

The driver of the car that picked us up at the airport made my jaw lose its function. He appeared to be a child or a young boy. His hair was a shocking white color that had the hue of grey in it. His skin was so pale and milky white that it glowed. And the thing that stood out to me most of all were his violet colored eyes that were pupil-less. They contrasted with the color of his skin and made them pop out at me.

"Are you ready to go Kagome?" Naraku asked me as he tugged on my arm. Urging me to get into the limousine car he had.

The boy driving the car wore a simple black uniform and he hid his eyes under the brim of his hat, but couldn't contain the smug smile that crossed his lips as he caught me staring at him.

I blinked my eyes as I came out of my self induced trance and turned to my forced fiancé and nodded my head like the robot I was. Naraku smiled and helped me into the car and then he followed.

Once we were situated, Naraku grabbed onto my left hand and smiled at me while he simultaneously squeezed my hand gently. I bit the inside of my cheek and turned away from him and I could practically feel him frown as I did this.

"Lets go Hokudoshi!" Naraku barked from the seat next to mine. Suddenly, the car jerked forward and started rolling down the new york city streets.

I gazed out the window longingly and tried not to smack Naraku's hand away from my own. The city was a lot bigger then I ever thought it would be.

There were so many car's and people it made my head spin.

Naraku said that he wanted to take me around the town and show me off. I did't complain. There more I was outside, the more people saw me. The more people that saw me, the more chance I would be recognized. And the more recognized I was the closer I was to getting Naraku's ass thrown into a demon prison for the rest of his miserable disgusting life and the chance for me to go free. So I let him take me out.

He had Hakudoshi drive us everywhere Naraku wanted to go. Like the statue of liberty, the empire state building and times square.

Times square was my favorite.

When Naraku seemed satisfied with himself, he bought me a hot dog at a hot dog vendor standing on the corner of the street while hakudoshi glared at us. I wrinkled my nose at the thought of eating food from a vendor that worked on the side of the road but I took the food and ate it anyway. And, it was good. Really good. I scarfed down the hot dog as fast as I could but tried to seem uninterested in Naraku's gift. I didn't want anything from him.

When we finished site seeing and eating Naraku had Hakudoshi drive us to a small park so we could have a stroll together.

I glared out the window of the car as we drove along and I could feel Naraku trying to figure out how to console me and try and figure out what or who I was thinking about. He probably wanted to know what made me tick. But I kept my snarky sarcastic remarks to myself and continued to squint out the window.

When we made it to the park Naraku placed my arm on his folded one and led me through the park that was surrounded by tree's.

"How are you feeling Kagome?" He asked me as we walked.

I sniffed and turned my head away from him. I felt his grip on my arm tighten as I didn't respond.

"Do you like it here? New York I mean." He asked trying to get a response from me. But I continued to look at a park bench as if it was the most interesting thing in the world.

"Are you going to ignore me all day or are you going to try and give me a chance?" Naraku asked as agitation and aggression became clearer in his voice.

A chance? Well that was laughable. He had to be joking right? I continued to ignore him.

He became increasingly agitated by my no speaking to him and it made me smirk silently to myself. It was funny to watch him squirm around like the worm he was.

A few kids running through the park playing with a small ball, ran past Naraku and I, laughing and playing with each other. One of them wasn't watching where he was going and ran right into my leg and fell backwards onto his butt.

The red headed little boy looked up and me and his eyes were so big and round that it made me slip my arm out of Naraku's grip and crouch down to his level so I could see see his face better.

"Oh are you alright sweetie?" I asked. He looked up at me with tears filling the brims of his strikingly bright blue eyes and brought up a small fist and pressed it into his mouth as if to conceal a cry I knew was coming.

"I..hurt my finger!" He wailed out pathetically as he stretched out his finger for me to inspect.

I tilted my head to the side and smirked. "Where? Where's the boo-boo?" I asked playing along with his little games.

"Here!" He said as he shoved his finger into my face more.

"Ohhh…here?" I said as I gently took his finger into my palm like a fragile bird.

He sniffed and nodded his head. "Make it better." He pouted.

I felt Naraku shift uncomfortably next to me but I smiled softly and lifted the little boy's finger to my lips and kissed it gently. "There. Is that better?" I asked once I moved my lips away.

He smiled so hard and it was so cute I was scared I was going to get a cavity looking at him. He laughed, stood up and gave me a toothy grin. "Thank you lady." He giggled.

I giggled back. "Of course." I then looked around in search for the boys mother but didn't find anyone walking toward us or him so I frowned.. "So..,"I said trying to keep the kids attention, "where's your mother? Or are you here with you father?"

"There dead. My parents are dead." He said.

The fact that he said it so matter-of-factly and without remorse made me take a step back from him. "Well…who are you here with?" I asked. Trying to be as gentle as I could with him.

"Im a foster kid!" He said proudly as he smiled up at me.

I swallowed and put a smirk on my face to seem friendly. "Well…whats your name? My name's Kagome." I said trying to seem friendly without being creepy.

I felt Naraku tug on my arm and he took me aside and glared at me. "What the hell do you think your doing? Don't tell him who you are!" He growled into my face.

I pushed his hands off of me and rolled my eyes. "Relax Naraku. He's a little boy. He wouldn't hurt a fly. Take a chill pill and calm the hell down. Jeez…" I said as I pushed past him and walked back up to the redheaded boy. "So," I said with a smile, "whats your name?"

He grinned up and me with his bright blue, green eyes. "My name's Shippo!"

I smirked down at his innocence and felt Naraku return to my side. "Well Shippo it was very nice to meet you." Naraku gently tugged on my arm and I rolled my eyes. "Well I best be going…" I said.

Shippo's face fell as he began to frown. "Oh…so will I ever see you again?"

I felt my face falter but smiled through it. "Maybe someday." I started walking backwards away from him as Naraku clung onto my shirt. "Bye Shippo." I waved and looked at him once more before I turned around and started walking side by side with Naraku.

When we had walked a few feet Shippo had shouted to my back "will you adopt me?"

I felt my heart pounding and tear's threatening to fall but I didn't turn around. I just kept walking back toward a smug ass brat who was driving me around the city and Naraku who was squeezing my shirt to make sure I didn't adopt the kid. I pretended I hadn't heard Shippo and kept walking away.

I knew I was giving him a better life where he was then coming to live with me. He would probably be hated by Naraku and maybe even beaten.

No.

I wouldn't let Naraku smack the light out of that beautiful child's eye's. He could do it to me but not an innocent child.

No mater how much I wanted to pick Shippo up and take him home as my own.

xXx

"Here were are," Naraku said as the car slowed.

I didn't look out the window this time.

I didn't care.

I felt like Naraku had drained all the possibilities, all the hope and dream's right out of my body.

"Kagome?"

I looked up from my lap and stared at Naraku who was waiting for me to get out of the car. I slid over the back seat and stepped out of the car onto a street. I looked up at where Naraku was heading toward and saw a regular looking apartment building. It was brick styled and was probably three story's high.

It looked…normal. Too normal for Naraku.

I grabbed my coat from the back seat and walked toward the house with the devil child, Hakudoshi, chuckling evilly behind me as I took my slow steps.

Once I made it to the front door, Naraku opened it and stepped through. I followed him cautiously and nearly fell into an giant open hole in the floor.

Naraku grabbed onto my arm just in time before I became a human pancake a story below and and Hakudoshi just floated above the hole.

"What….What the hell?" I shrieked.

Naraku chuckled and let go of my arm. "The house is under construction and is condemned at the moment."

I stared around the empty building with an opening hanging mouth. The house was a complete and utter mess. There were holes in the flooring and they were scattered everywhere. There was a gaping hole right where the staircase lead up too and I didn't know if anyone could get up to the top floor.

The light's were only light bulbs hanging by threads coming down from the ceiling. The walls were cracked and broken and the lights switches were missing they're light switch plates.

There wasn't any furniture and I guessed there wasn't any electricity either.

It looked like a tornado had gone through the place.

I felt my nose turn up and I gripped onto my coat tighter like it was a security blanket. "What the hell is this?" I asked half to myself.

Naraku chuckled and walked right over one of the whole in the floor like there was actually floating there. "Welcome home darling." He said with a wink and I could hear Hakudoshi snickering next to me.

"Welcome home."

xXx

My room wasn't a room.

It wasn't an anything. It was a dark dank space that was surrounded by brick and cement. Probably to keep people out and me in.

"Your kidding right?" I asked him and he only chuckled.

"No. I don't kid." He said as he ushered me through the makeshift doorway that consisted of red brick.

"Well..where't my bed? Where's my closet?…Where's my anything?" I asked him as I threw my coat to the ground and placed my hand's on my hips.

He raised his eye brow and the corner's of his lips turned up with a kind of pleasure of seeing me so angry with him. "Im sorry they aren't here yet. I sent Hakudoshi out to fetch your things. He will be back soon. I promise."

I walked around the caved in room and let my hand trail on the wall. "Well..what am I to do in the mean time?"

" I have asked our maid, Kanna, to come in and prepare you for bed."

I started to laugh. It started out as a snort but I couldn't contain it for long. I started to laugh harder and harder. Gut laugh. I laughed so hard I started spit a little.

"What could possibly be funny?" He asked.

I braced myself on the side of the concrete wall and smirked at him. "You have a maid thats coming in to prepare me for bed?" I snorted again and how ridiculous the nonsense was.

"Well..yes?"

I smirked. "Ok so let me get this straight; you fly me all the way to New York and keep me in a old run down abandoned hovel of an apartment and you have a maid that is to dress me for bed?" I started laughing again. I laughed so hard I thought I was going to hurt myself. The notion was just so funny.

"I don't plan on staying here for long. Just for tonight." Naraku grunted.

"What? Well where are we going tomorrow?" I asked once I finished laughing.

"Well seeing as how it doesn't really mater if you know or not, ill tell you. Were going to be staying in my new sky scraper."

I scoffed. "You have a sky scraper? For what?"

He casually started moving around the room. "I bought it for my new business I'm going to be running. I will be the CEO of a new company."

I scrunched up my face. "So what does this all have to do with me?"

He stopped walking and looked at me dangerously. "You're here because I'm getting my revenge."

"Revenge. On who?"

I could see him clenching his teeth in debate on weather or not he should tell me. He sighed and leaned up on a wall across from where I was standing. "You are just a pawn in a big chess game that is being played around you."

I raised and eyebrow. "Well, I have always been good at playing game's." I said cheekily.

He smiled. "Touché." When he saw I wasn't letting the topic go, he sighed again. "Alright. Ill tell you… Im getting back at the Takahashi Family."

"Why?" I asked.

"Because, they ruined my family's life thats why." He snapped. "They have taken everything away from me and my family. So now, I repaying the favor."

"How so?" I asked casually. I didn't want to act as nervous as I actually was.

"Well first I killed off there mother. Izi? Izayoi? I cain't recall what her name was…"

My eyes grew wide and I gasped. My heart was beating rapidly in my chest. "You…You killed Inuyasha's mother?"

He smiled smugly like he was proud and nodded. "Yes. I did."

I choked on the air I was breathing. It was like I had been punched in my stomach. "You..Why? How?" I asked.

He shrugged. "I wanted to get back at Inu no Taisho and his sons. Oh and killing her wasn't all that difficult. I injected her with a special kind of poison that works slowly until it takes full effect on the human body. And when she went to the hospital, she was mis-diagnosed with cancer. A cancer that was a so severe and that was so past being treated with any chemo or surgeries, that all she could do was site…and die" He smirked. "Simple as that."

My nose scrunched. "Your disgusting."

"I also killed a woman named Rin?.. I believe her to have been Sesshomaru's mate." Naraku said, ignoring me completely.

I felt my lips and mouth go bone dry as he continued to talk. I realized what Naraku was doing and planning. He was killing off all the mate's of the Takahashi family. And I just happened to be Inuyasha's mate. That meant I was a target.

"And…and what about me. Why am I here? Is it because Im Inuyasha's mate? Is that why?" I asked.

He smiled, showing off his glowing white teeth. "No actually. You were just a cherry on top of a beautiful sundae." He said with a lick of his lips.

I felt my nostrils start to flare. "And how is that exactly?"

"Well I was going to marry you anyway. I knew Inuyasha loved you and his demon wanted nothing more then to mark you and hide you away from all other men. So whats more delicious then having his 'precious mate' being stolen right in front of his eye?"

I swallowed as I let all of this new information sink in. My breathing became shallow and labored as I remembered the conversation Inuyasha and I had about his mother. And how sad he looked when he told me she had died. And I didn't even know who this Rin person was. I ran a shaky hand through my hair as my legs finally gave out beneath me and I slumped to the floor.

"I cain't….how could you…how did you…..why did…" I couldn't form a full sentence let alone look Naraku in the eye.

He crossed his arms across his chest and leaned up on the wall. "I had to do what I had to do."

I scoffed and sat on the floor indian style and he cleared his throat. And suddenly, we were in a very uncomfortable silence that filled the room. I heard a faucet dripping somewhere in the haunted looking apartment but nothing more.

Silence.

Suddenly Naraku stood up straight from the wall and his arms dropped to his side. He had a look on his face that looked like he was trying to solve a complex math problem and his eyebrows were was scrunched together.

"What? What is it?" I asked curiously.

He put a finger up to his lips to silence me. He walked to the middle of the room and sniffed the air. I squinted at him wondering what the hell he was doing.

He then got a look on his face like he solved the complex math problem and walked toward me.

"Come on…we are leaving." He said as he reached out toward me.

"What? Wait…why?" I asked as he grabbed on my arm and forced me to stand.

"Just shut up and lets go." He barked. He walked up the stairs and back into the main living room that had holes in the floor. HE dragged me toward the front door before he cracked open the front door so he could look out onto the city street.

"Shit." He muttered to himself.

"What is it?" I asked again.

I swallowed and felt my heart jolt to myself as I realized it might be someone coming to save me. Maybe it was the police or FBI.

I was giddy as he turned to me and told me to keep my mouth shut or he was going to keep it shut for me. I didn't want to see what that men't so I didn't utter a word as he yelled for Hakudoshi to come here. Hakudoshi suddenly appeared by our sides making me gasp. He grinned evilly at me as he walked past us and out the front door to start the car. Naraku threw on his coat and grabbed onto my arm and walked me out the front door.

I looked up and saw two figures standing by a black car parked across the street, crouching next to their car. I stared at them and squinted when I saw a figure with long dark black hair staring right back at me. His face was hidden by the red scarf rapped around his neck and he had his hands shoved into his pockets.

My eyes trailed down his outfit and they widened when I saw the shoes the person was wearing. They weren't shoes. They were boots.

Biker boots.

Biker boots that looked an awful lot like Inuyasha's boots did. They were almost identical.

My breath hitched in my throat as Naraku shoved me into the car and he followed close behind me.

I pressed my face up against the window so I could see the two figure's that seemed to be very interested in us. I tried to strain my eyes to see what the two figures looked like and sighed when I couldn't. It was to dark out.

"LETS GO HAKUDOSHI!" Naraku yelled frantically.

I smirked and looked at Naraku who was scowling. "Whats wrong Naraku? You seem a little tense." I snickered.

Naraku's head snapped toward me and he glared at my face. Suddenly his hand raised above his head and came smacking down onto my face.

"Shut up Kagome! I warned you…" He growled fiercely.

I tried regaining my breath as I pressed my palm up onto my cheek, waiting for the stinging sensation to fade away.

I looked up to Naraku with tears forming in my eyes. He wasn't looking at me, but he was fidgeting around. My tears slid down my face and cheeks and landed on my legs. I was crying, but I was also smiling.

Because I could see into Hakudoshi's rearview mirror. And in the reflection, was a black car that was tailing us.

I was going to be saved and Naraku and I both knew it.

***INU POV***

My eye's were glued onto the Tv screen that was hooked up to a high tech computer as I tried to control my breathing. My foot was tapping uncontrollably and my hands were clenched into fists.

"Again." I ordred.

I watched as the screen reset again and as the tape began to play.

At four thirty five and seven seconds, a tall woman and man walked up to the check in gate before boarding their plane at Narita national airport. The man was tall, dark and had long hair that was slicked back. He was also wearing a very fancy and expensive suit with matching shoes. He looked like the business-man type. The woman beside him was tall and slender with a petite frame. She had shiny blonde hair and pale milky white skin.

At four thirty seven and twenty three seconds, the woman in the video begins to talk with the woman checking them onto their flight. Unfortunately you cain't hear what she's saying because the there is to much background noise in the busy and crowded airport.

The man in the video obviously seems agitated and restless and begins to tug on the woman arm, urging her to follow, but she doesn't. Instead she continues to talk to the woman who's checking her in. When she obviously gets the information she need's, she look's downcast. Her eyes droop and she starts to bite on her lip nervously.

I suppressed a growl in my chest as the woman in the video started to massage her left palm. On closer inspection of that hand in particular, you can clearly see that she had been burned.

My mind flashed to us standing in her kitchen as my lips cool her burning flesh..

"Stop." I order out. "Thats enough."

Detective johnston arched his eyebrow in my direction and looked back at the screen.

"Thats her," I muttered, "thats definitely her…"

One of the detectives on the case, holding the remote, pauses the video on the screen just as the blonde woman in the video looked straight at the security camera. My breath hitched and I swallowed a now very obvious lump in my throat.

The sparkling brown eyes that had been plaguing my mind for day's and my nights, were staring right at me.

'Kagome.'

I growled low in my chest when I saw a faint coloring around her left eye. A normal person might not have noticed it, but I knew every curve in Kagome's face. So it wasn't hard to see that it was a bruise that had been healing. I knew that Naraku had either hit her, punched her, slapped her or pushed her into something. But I didn't care what the hell it was. He had still hurt my mate and he was going to pay.

He was so going to pay.

Detective Johnston walked up to where I was sitting in front of the screen and put a reassuring hand on my shoulder. "Are you sure this is her?" He questioned.

I snorted. "Id never forget a face like that." I ran a hand through my hair and shook my head. "Naraku probably made her put that wig on so no one would recognize her."

Johnston squeezed my shoulder. "Well his plan worked. We had policemen and guard's on the lookout for her at the airport, but I guessed Naraku slipped through somehow."

I looked at the Tv screen and into the brown eyes that were staring straight back at me. Kagome didn't look frantic or scared. She looked tired and worn down. Naraku was taking little parts that made Kagome who she was, away,piece by piece.

"Were did they go?" I asked sullenly.

Johnston sighed and grabbed a chair so he could sit next to me. "Listen, Im not exactly sure if its safe for us to tell you." My eye's instantly snapped up off the floor and I began to glare at him. "Because we don't want you getting into any danger," he continued. "We already have one life on the line, we don't need two."

He cleared his throat as he saw my facial expression. "So we think its best if you, for now, don't know any little details on the whereabouts of miss Higurashi. I think-"

"Have you ever been in love detective?"

Johnston raised his eyebrow, looked up to the rest of his colleagues who were assigned to the case and then back down to me. "Pardon"

"I said, have you ever been in love detective Johnston?" I asked again but more clearly this time.

He coughed and loosened the noose on his tie like it was suddenly to snug for him to be able to breathe. "Of course but-"

"Then I hope you would know that this is a person I deeplycare for. I love her. I would do anything for her. If she even so much as gets a scrape on her knee, ill kill whoever caused the scrape. So, I would hope and pray to the gods above, that you understand the situation Im in right now.

Kagome, that girl right there," I pointed a clawed finger at the screen," needs me. She needs me. She needed me and I couldn't do a damn thing to help her! So, Im asking you again detective," I leaned down close into his face and glared at him. "Where is she?" I growled menacingly.

My inner demon was roaring to come forth and scratch anyone's eyes out that were standing in the way of me and Kagome, but I pushed it away. I couldn't loose control of myself.

The detective stood up and placed both hand's onto my shoulder's as I tried to control my breathing. "He took her to New York.." He stated slowly.

"New York.." I repeated. "Why?"

The detective shook his head and stepped away from me. "We don't know." He started walking out of the conference we were sitting in and walked toward his office. "But," he said after I caught up with him, "Don't worry. We have already got a team made up. Were sending them out in about an hour."

I stopped walking and grabbed onto his arm so he would looked at me. "You cain't do that. You cain't just send a team of men out just so they can be killed. Let me guess; they're all human right?"

The detective nodded slowly and then he frowned once he caught on to my thinking. I made a 'duh' face. "Yeah they will be slaughtered the second they catch up to Naraku. And thats if they can even do that. Naraku will be a tough bastard to find and regular human's wont be able to do that. And ill just bet you don't have any demon worker's on the payroll right?" I asked.

He sighed and shook his head. "We do have some employee's who are demon's but none that are available at the moment."

I smirked. "And thats exactly why your sending me in.." I said as I shuffled past him and headed toward his office.

"Wait! I cant just send a regular un-trained civilian into a situation like this! That…thats insane!" Johnston said frantically.

I snorted and casually slouched in the chair that was placed in the front of his desk. "Oh detective its alright."

He pursed his lips and raised his eyebrow as he sat down in his own chair. "Oh? And why is that?"

I smiled and showed the detective my fangs which he eyed cautiously. "Because you see detective, Naraku and I have a little score that need's to be settled."

xXx

"Now you know what to do right?"

I rolled my eyes. "Keh.' You went over the plan about a million times before I left." I said into the little earpiece that was lodged into on of my very sensitive ears. The detective and the rest of the men that were working on Kagome's case were monitoring me back at the headquarter's while I made my way into the airport. The plan was that I was going to go searching for Kagome and Naraku and try and get Naraku arrested in the process and save Kagome. Though I knew it was a hell of a lot easier said then done.

"Oh and by the way," I said as I rolled my eyes, "thanks for making me look like fucking James bond. Who the hell picked out my outfit?" I asked as I stared down at my sharp black suit.

Someone snorted on the other side of the microphone and I could tell they got a kick out of my get up. "Sorry. It was all that we could find. It will have to do." Replied Johnston.

I shrugged and made my way to the gate where my plane for New York was taking off from. I had a small suitcase and a 'how to learn english in five easy steps' tucked under my left arm.

"Make sure to make contact with us when your plane lands. There will be a driver waiting for you to take you to your hotel when you land. Have a safe trip agent Takahashi."

My brows furrowed. "Agent Takahashi?" I repeated.

Someone coughed awkwardly in to the microphone. "Yes well…you are technically going undercover for us. So that makes you a part time official agent." Johnston voiced.

I reached the gate and concealed myself behind a pillar so I could talk into the mini microphone so people wouldn't think I was a fucking lunatic talking to himself. "Ive made it to my gate. Ill make contact with you when I reach New York." I whispered.

"Talk to you later Takahashi. Have a safe flight."

"Thank you." With that being said, I turned off the earpiece and put it into my small bag and walked toward the gate where my plane was leaving from. I handed the woman behind the check in desk my passport and my flight ticket. Once she scanned the ticket and confirmed me onto the flight, I walked into the jetway and onto the plane. I seated myself in the first class seat I paid for and let out a huge breath I didn't know I was holding. I turned my head to look out the window and watched as the men on the ground worked to fuel up the plane.

I smiled softly.

Kagome. I was actually going to see Kagome. My Kagome.

'Mate.'

I almost jumped up out of my seat as my inner demon started to talk to me. It had been forever since it had uttered a word until now.

Once I steadied my heartbeat and composed myself, I replied. 'Oh so your back now are you? And where the hell have you been?'

Silence.

'Oh so your not talking to me now? You only talk to me when Kagome is concerned?'

'Thats right you jackass. Your the reason she's gone in the first place. I don't want to have anything to do with a weakling like you.'

I scoffed. 'Yea because This is exactly what I wanted to happen to her! Why don't you shut the hell up if your just going to insult me?'

'Your pathetic.'

"I am not!" I growled out loud. Once I realized I had actually said that out loud, I looked up from the planes flooring and saw a lot of concerned passenger's eyes staring back at me.

"Is he alright?" Someone whispered.

"Does he need help?" Someone else murmured.

"Whats wrong with that weird man mommy?"

My ears caught everything everyone was saying about me and I growled and crossed my arms over my chest and went back to staring outside.

'Heh Heh Heh Heh Heh.' My inner demon chuckled which I rolled my eyes at. 'That was embarrassing. Im embarrassed for you..'

'Shut the hell up you ungrateful stupid dog.' I hissed under my breath.

Finally, when my inner demon stopped talking, I was left in peace and quite. I resumed staring out the window thinking quietly as the jets engines started to whirl and hum. I gazed out the window thinking about Kagome and what she was thinking about. If she was thinking about me…

Finally, the plane jerked backward and started moving away from the gate and down toward the runway.

"Thank you Sesshomaru." I admitted quietly. Without him I wouldn't have had the money to fly all the way to america and buy a nice hotel room. I would have to thank him later…Maybe.

I adjusted myself in my seat and cracked open the english reading guide from my bag and started working on my english.

'Hello. My name is…My eyes scanned the words printed in the paperback. I opened my mouth and slowly and mimicked the wording.

"He-hello. mm-my nnn-name i..is…Inuyasha." I tried. It didn't sound perfect and I knew I was stumbling over my words. But I did have thirteen hours to figure it out…

Suddenly, the plane lurched forward and the jet started speeding down the runway like a bullet out of a gun. The plane kept up its speed and finally lifted its nose and wheels off the ground and was soaring through the air like a bird in flight. Instantly my ear's became plugged as the pressure in the planes cabin changed as we ascended into a cluster of puffy white clouds. I made myself yawn so they would pop.

'Now I remember why I hate flying. My ears…' I thought

I opened my mouth again and tried to pop my agitated and twitching ears. "Dammit." I cursed as I tried to make myself comfortable. "This is going to be a long ass flight…"

xXx

"Flight attendants please prepare for landing," was what jerked me from sleeping. I coughed groggily and rubbed tiredness from my eyes. I felt something warm slipping down my mouth and chin and I lifted my palm to whip it away and blushed when I realized it was drool.

'Smooth Inuyasha. Real classy..'

"Did you enjoy your rest sir?" Someones light voice asked me.

I looked up to see a flight attendant smiling down at me with a pair strikingly blue eyes hidden behind a thick curtain of black bangs.

"Uhhh I uh just…uh…" I stuttered as I pushed myself back up into a sitting position instead of slouching obnoxiously in the plushy chair.

She smiled and giggled softly and my embarrassing moment. "Well I just wanted to inform you to put your chair back into an upright position. Were going to be landing in New York once we descend through these clouds."

I squinted at her like she was speaking a different language. My ears tweaked and swiveled back and forth on top on my head.

She smiled and looked past my head and out my open window. I followed her gaze and found the sun blazing brightly back at me.

"Huh." I whispered under my breath. I guess I had slept through half the flight….'oops'.

She gave me one last retreating grin and walked down the isle of the plane to take care of the rest of the passenger's. I stared as she walked away and moved my chair back up into a straight position as if that would erase the embarrassing moment that just happened from her brain.

I knew it wouldn't.

I swallowed and shook my head trying to get the dark cloak of sleep that was hanging over my head, to go away. I stared at the window and took in the new site of bright puffy clouds that look like you could go bounce on like a trampoline.

I sighed loudly and suddenly, the clouds I had been staring at morphed into Kagome. A Kagome that was made out of bright, pure white clouds.

My eyes widened and I slowly moved my head away from the window in confusion and shock. I looked around the cabin to make sure no one else could see what I was seeing. Nobody else was staring out the window like I was. I swallowed and looked back out the the clouds.

Cloud Kagome was smiling and waving at me. I could practically hear her laugh and giggle as she bounced on the clouds next to the plane. She ran atop the clouds as fast as she could to keep up with the speeding jet.

She waved and mouthed, "hi Inuyasha."

My eyes continued to grow bigger as I looked around and pointed to my chest to make sure she was actually talking to me. She threw back her head and laughed when she saw my reaction. She then nodded and mouthed, "yes you."

I slowly brought my clawed hand up and waved back at her and mouthed, "hi…Kagome."

She smiled and suddenly she ran on the clouds and was right up next to the plane. She jumped from cloud to cloud and finally hopped off one last time and jumped onto the wing of the plane and scaled it until she could come right up to my window.

She pressed her hand up onto my window and smiled. "Hi Inuyasha." She was so close to the window I could see her breath on it. I stared at her like she was a dream. A perfectly real dream.

But I knew she wasn't really Kagome. I knew she was just a disorienting, hallucinatory paranoid complication of what I was feeling inside. That, and Kagome's eyes weren't pale and white like that of the Kagome staring back at me from outside the plane that was flying at about fifteen-hundred feet in the air. The real Kagome's eyes were bright, warm and beautiful.

I pressed my hand up parallel to her's and tried to control my breathing. "Am I…going crazy?" I asked her quietly.

She shook her head and leaned up closer to me. "No. You just miss me as much as I miss you." She then smiled and bit her lower lip. "I miss you so much."

I smiled and stared at her longingly. "I miss you too."

I looked back away from the window as the seatbelt sign came on. I readjusted my belt and pulled it tighter around my waist. When I was finished, I raised my head back to the window I smiled eagerly. Like a small child seeing his birthday gifts all lined up in a row.

But I frowned quickly.

Puffy white imaginary Kagome was gone.

I sighed and shook my head and chuckled humorlessly. "Im losing my mind without her." I muttered quietly.

xXx

I stepped off the plane and walked down the jetway and took my first step onto american soil. Or rather american territory. I knew I had been in America long before I had stepped foot into the airport. But actually steppingon solid ground instead of flying, made it real. I was officially one step closer to finding Kagome.

I stood staring at all the different types of face's and ethnicities before I began walking again. I lifted my bag up higher onto my shoulder and put my suit jacket over my hanging bag and made my way through the crowd.

I aimlessly walked around the airport. Lost because I couldn't read the english signs that instructed me where to go and find the ride that was supposedly picking me up.

'Stupid, good for nothing book on english.' I thought bitterly as a I threw the paperback into the trash and kept walking. I knew that it was useless anyway.

I stopped walking and stared at signs that were obviously made to tell me where to go, but I didn't know what they said. With a tilt of my head and my furrowed brow, I stared at the signs scratching my chin. Johnston had told me there was going to be a car waiting for me. So, when I finally figured out where the car's would pick up passenger's were parked, I made my way down one level and walked toward a pair of sliding glass door's.

When I stepped through the doors, all sorts of new smell's smacked into my nose and new sounds made my already agitated ear's twitch with anticipation. I looked around and over the heads of departing people until I found a sign that waving around obnoxiously that read 'Mr. Talkahashee.'

I snorted and strolled my way over to where the brown haired boy was leaning up against a sleek black car. He was so focused on looking for me, that he didn't even notice that I was standing a foot away from him.

"Um..Its Takahashi. Not Talk-ah-hash-ee." I said as I read out the absurd sign.

The boy instantly flipped around and smiled at me with a bright eager light in his eyes. "Oh your Mr. Takahashi!" He forcefully grabbed my hand and shook it like he was trying to steady himself during a catastrophic earthquake. "Hi my names Akitoki Hōjō! Nice to meet you!"

I shook his hand back and tried to steady myself. "Uhh…yeah." I ripped my hand out of the kid's death grip and ran a hand through my pale white hair to which he ogled. "Yeah well, I guess its nice to meet you. Can we get going?" I asked.

He smiled and threw the makeshift sign to the ground. "Sure!" He walked over to the other side of the car and opened the back door and gestured for me to get in. "Here you go sir."

My eyebrow instantly quirked itself and I hid a smirk that was inching its way across my face like a caterpillar. 'Sir? I could get used to someone saying that.'

I walked over to my side of the car and handed the Atatohshee guy my bags when he offered to take them. Which only resulted in him dropping all my contents onto the dark pavement. I growled quietly as he apologized profusely and as I had to help him gather all of my items of the ground. Once we put them back into my bags, I climbed into the car only to have the kid shut the door on my shirt.

I slid a hand down my face and rested my head back against the car door and closed my eyes.

'Damn, this has been a long day…And its just started.'

Wonderful.

xXx

"..and were about to drive over the Brooklyn bridge if your interested." The kid said as he pointed in the opposite window that I was facing as he drove down a crowded street. I looked out the window and tilted my head up to get a better view of it all. The bridge was a lot bigger then I thought it would be and I pressed my nose up on the cool window to stare out at the dark water we were driving over.

A girl sucking on a pink lollipop in the car driving next to us, stared at me and held her lollipop in her hand like she was staring at monster with a billion teeth or something. Thats when I realized my nose was pressed up against the window and I probably looked like a deranged pig. I coughed awkwardly and told the kid to drive faster just so I didn't have to have the girl stare at me anymore.

Altetofee or whatever his name is, wanted to drive me all around New York so I could get a better feel for it. And every time we passed something big or important like the statue of liberty or the Empire state building, I wouldn't smile. I could barley stand to look at any of the sites the kid took me too. Because I would be constantly thinking about Kagome. Wondering if Kagome had just been where I was standing right now. Where exactly was she? What was she feeling? Was she on top of the stature of liberty or the Empire state building staring back down at me as I stared right back up at her?

I kept feeling like she was near, but every time I would follow my instincts and navigate toward where I thought she would be, she wouldn't be there.

I finally gave up. Naraku probably wouldn't take Kagome out in public anyway. It was too risky.

Afluroshee was gazing up at the statue of liberty in all her green glory, smiling like an idiot when I yelled for him to come and drive me to my hotel immediately. He responded by catching up to my retreating form and falling in-step with me as we walked away from the rest of the tourists.

Once we made it back to the car the kid asked me if I enjoyed myself at all today. I snapped back at him that I didn't and I wished he wouldn't talk about it anymore. His head immediately drooped and he quieted down like a puppy that got smacked with a newspaper.

I sighed as I suddenly felt bad for ruining his fun. Just because I was in a snippy mood didn't mean I had to ruin his. And it wasn't like I didn't like the guy, it was that..something about him made me just want to punch him in the face.

I couldn't place my claw on it.

The kid looked over his shoulder and then proceeded to cut into the busy new york traffic.

I had ordered a room at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It was one of the hotels father stayed at when he visited the states and told me that if I should ever come to America, That I should stay there.

So I did.

I ordered an extra room for the kid which was right next to mine, in case I needed him to drive me somewhere. He had thanked me like I was a king giving food to his billion children so they wouldn't starve. I merely shrugged it off and told him to drive me to the hotel.

And somewhere between the drive to and from the city I had fallen asleep. I woke up when The kid slammed his door shut, making me jump from my light slumber.

I adjusted myself as he opened the door. I stepped out and adjusted the tie around my neck and took my coat from the kid and walked up toward the hotel. A bellhop ushered me inside and I strolled up to the front desk to check in like I own the joint.

I felt fucking classy.

I smiled at the perky blonde woman that was working behind the desk. She had a pointy nose and narrow eyes but she looked like a nice woman. "Hello Sir. Welcome to the Waldorf. Do you have a reservation?"

I leaned onto the counter casually like I had done this everyday and replied like smooth talking butter. "My reservation should be under Takahashi. Inuyasha Takahashi."

Her eyes grew and her mouth tightened into a small O. "Your Inu no Taisho's son?"

I shook my head yes, letting my white hair fly about. "Im his youngest."

She smiled and I could tell she was fighting back an earsplitting squeal. "Ive heard so much about you. Your father stay's here quite often. He is somewhat of a legend. And so are you." She winked coyly.

I shrugged nonchalantly as she looked up my name on her computer. "Ahh yes. Here we Are. Takahashi." She turned her attention back to me and smiled. "So will you have me charge your rooms to a credit or debit card? Or-"

"Im afraid I only have cash at the moment," I said interrupting her. "I didn't have time to deposit it into the bank," I said as I pulled out a huge wad full of cash from my pocket. "I hope this will suffice."

Her eye's grew again as she stared at the mountain of money I had. She explained how much money it cost for my stay on the floor beneath the top floor and I paid for it in advance. And I still had some money left over.

After she was done gaping at me and she gave me our rooms key's, I had the kid follow me with the rest of my stuff and his bag's up to our rooms. I told the kid to just give me my bag and go get himself comfortable in his room.

"Are you sure you don't need anything?" He asked me as I handed him his room key and his eyes grew to be the size of baseball's.

I smiled softly and cracked open my door. "Im fine. Don't worry about me." I gave him one last glance and then walked into my own room and closed the door.

I turned around and sighed contently as I saw my room. It was brightly lit and it smelled clean. Not that disgusting 'clean' hotel room smell that some hotel rooms have. But it actually smelled…clean or fresh.

There were a few sitting chair's under a large window and two coffee tables. The Tv was in the sitting room above one of the tables. I walked through the room and set my bag on one of the chairs. I slipped off my tie as I walked into the bedroom and past the bathroom.

The bedroom had a king sized bed with a bright comforter and inviting fluffy looking pillow's.

I dropped the tie on the nightstand table that was placed next to the bed and slipped off my shoes and unbuttoned three buttons on my shirt, letting my chest breathe.

I looked out one of the window's and surveyed the street that was busy with car's and people bustling below my window. I tried counting the yellow taxi's that were zooming away and cutting other people off, but failed. There were too many of them.

Finally I walked over to the bed and collapsed onto it with an exasperated and loud sigh. I curled my body into myself and closed my eye's letting myself fall into a dreamless and perfectly deep sleep.

'Finally.'

xXx

Pound, pound, pound.

"Mr Takahashi!"

I bolted upright in bed and ran a hand down my face.

"Huh?" I croaked out as I tilted my head to the side and cracked the knot in my neck.

I squinted my eye's open and was confused by the darkness I was surrounded by. I didn't feel so tired anymore but I felt like I had been sleeping forever.

'Its night time?'

"There's a phone call from headquarters'. They have information regarding miss Kagome!" The kid shouted from the other side of the door.

"What?" I asked still half asleep and awake. I brushed the hair that was plastered to the side of my face away and ran a hand through it, trying to comb out the tangles when I stopped abruptly.

It was black.

'Its black. My hair's…black?'

I bolted up out of bed and ran toward the window. I flung open the window and looked up at the pitch black sky. I must have been sleeping for hours. I kept searching the starless sky and frowned when I didn't find what I was looking for.

No moon. There was no moon in the sky.

"Dammit!" I cursed and slammed my fist down on the windowsill and turned around fuming.

Pound, pound, pound!

"Mr Takahashi!" A muffled voice yelled through the door.

I snarled and marched over to where the obnoxious pounding noise, that was giving me a headache, was originating from. I flung open the door which startled the kid and yelled, "WHAT? WHAT DO YOU WANT?," in his face.

I was fuming and probably had steam coming out of my ear's as the kid's eyes became round and he reached out a trembling hand toward my hair before I flicked it away with a growl.

"Sir! Your..your hair's gone black." He exclaimed.

I felt my nose flair and I rolled my eyes. "Yeah yeah I know. !" I slurred angrily.

He raised out a trembling and cautious hand holding a cell phone and handed it to me. "As I said before; the headquarter's called and said they had new news about miss Kagome."

"WHAT?" I howled. I instantly snatched the phone away and plastered it to my ear and walked toward the bathroom.

"Hello? Johnston?" I asked, wondering if they were still on the line.

"Oh good its you Takahashi thank god," Johnston said. He sounded frantic. "We just got a lead from an anonymous tipper who said that he spotted a man who looked like Naraku and a girl that fitted Kagome's description, heading for an apartment building in a quiet neighborhood. We were wondering if you could check it out and investigate."

I smirked as I adjusted the red scarf around my neck and grey winter's jacket around my shoulder's. "Of course. You can count on me."

"Good. Good luck." With that, he hung up.

I shrugged cooly. I didn't need luck to find my own mate. It was just a matter of time.

I turned my attention back to the reflection in the mirror and buttoned up the coat I was wearing for the cold and bracing weather.

The coat was lined with silver buttons and I tucked the blood red scarf into my chest so it would keep me warm. I slipped on my biker boots and a pair of dark black leather gloves to keep my human finger's warm. I combed out my now onyx hair using my finger's and then stepped through the door and let it shut tightly behind me. The kid was already waiting for me as he leaned up against the wall across from our two bedrooms, fidgeting with the hat he was wearing.

"Lets go Attitiotee." I said as I walked down the wide hallway.

"Its Akitokki actually." He said as he fell into step with me.

"Right…right." I said as I tried to remember his name, though I knew I wouldn't.

xXx

"Are you sure this is the place where Johnston said to go?" I asked as I stared out the cars window.

"I-im pr-pretty sure." I rolled my eyes as the kid started to stutter. He was nervous.

He got out of his side of the car and he opened the door for me and allowed me to step out.

The kid had parked the car across the street from the building that Kagome was supposedly in. I had told the kid I didn't want to go barging into the house without having a batter feeling that Naraku was holding Kagome captive in the red flagged house.

"So you know what to say if anyone asks you why were here don't you?" I asked him in a hushed tone as I raised the collar of my coat. He nodded his head in the affirmative and I remained resting on the side of the car, watching the building complex as if it would sprout legs and walk away.

Detective Johnston's source had lead us to believe that the house Kagome was being held hostage was a normal looking new York city apartment. The only thing that was a tad odd about it and that stuck out was that it was condemned. Under construction and deemed unlivable.

"How long are we going to sit here?" The kid whispered to me. He looked around nervously as if he was afraid a man wearing a hockey mask with a chainsaw was coming to chop all his limbs off in a bloody slaughter.

I rolled my eyes and crouched behind the car and stared at the building. "As long as it takes…"

Ateefroshee sighed and crouched down next to me and squinted at the building with me.

About fifteen minuets went by when nothing happened. No one came in or out and damn it all I wished I had my demon ears so I could eves-drop and listen in on whats going on inside the abandoned looking house. I frowned as I took out a pack of cigarettes and lit one. The kid cleared his throat awkwardly and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Sooooo.." He drawled out with a sigh. "Why…why are you going to all this trouble to find and save miss Kagome?" I turned my head to squint at him, cigarette hanging halfway in my mouth with a raised brow. He waved his hands in front of his body franticly as if I was about to punch him. "Oh excuse me for being so rude I didn't mean it in that way. I was just being curious. Forgive me." He said, head hung low.

I chuckled and removed the cigarette from my mouth as I blew out some smoke. The cold chilly air made emphasis of my actions. "Don't be stupid kid. You only gotta ask me somethin if you want to know the answer. I ain't gunna punish you for that." I said with a smirk.

He sighed and relaxed back into the car next to me. "Im sorry its just…I blurt things out even before I think them through. Im sorry I said what I did."

I looked at his sad expression. "C'mon. Don't beat yourself up. Its alright." I said cheerfully, though I didn't know why. He looked at me with a wondering expression and I continued. "Im saving Kagome because…because I love her." I admitted.

His eyes grew round and his jaw went slack. "You…you love miss Kagome?"

I played with the cigarette in between my my teeth. "Mhmm. I do."

He blew his hair out of his face and sat down on the ground. Probably from getting a cramp in his leg from standing awkwardly on the side of the car. "So…would you marry her?"

I turned to squint at him. "Why the hell do you care so much?"

He frowned. "Im sorry…I just…wanted to know is all."

"Yeah well just drop it okay? The most important thing right now is finding Naraku and then locating Kagome and making sure she's alright. Not weather Im willing to marry Kagome or not."

"Your right. Im sorry." I could hear the disappointment in his voice and I frowned.

"Look..its..its not your fault. Im sorry I snapped at you. Its just that Im scared for her is all and my insecurity comes out as me being an asshole."

He sighed. "Its alright."

I smiled softly and went about with my cigarette until I heard the sound of a car engine turning on. I lifted my head to see a black limousine car that was parked in the front of the apartment, being turned on. A dark figure opened the door to the apartment and dragged out a smaller figure by their arm and practically threw them into the backseat of the car. The taller figure followed close behind and then the car revved its engine and took off down the street with the squeals of its tires.

The kid stood up from his crouching position. "Um…What just happened?"

I followed him by standing and shoving both hands into my pockets. "We've been found out thats what happened," I said as I hastily walked over to the driver's side of the car. "Get it!" I ordered. The kid looked like he was a deer caught in the headlights as he ran over to the passenger seat and hopped in as I turned on the car. I didn't even make sure that he shut the door before I pressed my foot down on the gas and gunned it, following the taillights of Naraku's speeding car.

xXx

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