Chapter 26: More Things To Worry About
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Kagome runs through the forest in the middle of the night. She doesn't know why she's running, but she doesn't want to stop to know why. "I'm going to make sure you never make it to the other side." A dark voice echoes through the woods. "No, go away." Kagome manages to shout to anywhere the voice is coming from. "There's nowhere to run for your own safety. Not even Inuyasha knows where you are." The voice taunts her. Despite of keep on running, Kagome can't help but to feel but being force to believe the voice. 'Inuyasha where are you.' Kagome cries in thought. She runs towards someone and bumps into it. "Now you're mine to be my mate." The person embraces her too tightly, not to let her go. "Please, you have to let me go." Kagome begs as she tries to get out of the grasp. "You're mine and that's that." The person pops out of tentacles of some sort to trap her. Making sure she's not moving, the person leans forward to bite onto her point where the shoulder and neck meet. "NOOOO!" Kagome screams from the top of her lungs.
Inuyasha widens his eyes when Kagome explains about her nightmare. Inutaishou comes into the room. "It's him." He mouths it to his dad. Inutaishou widens his eyes in return. "Then we must leave." He suggested to him.
Once Inuyasha and Inutaishou make it back to the mansion, Kagome slides off Inuyasha's back. "Kagome, you're going to stay here for awhile. My dad and I need to discuss about something. I promise it won't be long." Inuyasha said to her as he takes her to one of the guest rooms in the mansion. Kagome nods in return and enters the room that he lead her to. Once Kagome goes in, Inuyasha takes her into his arms. "You can get more sleep up here." Nodding again, Kagome gets into bed after taking off her shoes. Once Kagome was comfortable, Inuyasha kisses her forehead. Kagome smiles in responds and turns to one side to get back to sleep. Inuyasha smiles and closes the door to let her rest way more thanks to the safety of the mansion. That's the last thing to get of worrying about her.
Inutaishou makes his way to his office and goes through a huge book shelf on one side of the room. He places his finger on one of them until he stops on a journal. He pulls it out to read past information about something. After turning to the third page, he finds it blank. The door opens to reveal Inuyasha coming into the office. "Got anything worth looking into?" Inuyasha asks as he comes to his father's side. Inutaishou frowns, "I'm afraid this is all I can find about him." He answers as he gives the journal. Inuyasha reads whatever is on the page that was half witten. Inuyasha frowns along. "And here I thought you and Hige managed to put that guy to the highest security prison in the world." Inuyasha said to him casually. Inutaishou furrows his eyes, "Then we might've missed something about that psycho. You do know what this guy is capable of. He'll stop at nothing until he gets what he wants."
Just who is this man that Inutaishou and Inuyasha so worried about? What kind of connection does he have with the Takahashis and the Higurashis? Inuyasha turns to the previous pages of the journal. The first one is where his father wrote down so far.
The spider being known as Naraku is on the loose and needs to be capture and be taken into custody. So far there was a lead that he made an appearance at the Higurashi shrine.
Inuyasha widens his eyes at the end of the log. He looks up to the date of the log and sees that this was written on the same year that Kagome's father passed away.
The capture has been a success because Hige Higurashi did his best to protect his family, including his dog hanyou daughter Kagome Higurashi. The downside was that he didn't expect that Naraku had a deadly miasma that caused his death. The reason is that Naraku was after Kagome and he almost succeeded. Little did Kagome know is that she inherited her mother, Ai Higurashi's spiritual powers because she is a priestess. With such power, she managed to purify most of Naraku's power, which gave the authorities the opportunity to arrest and take him to the highest prison in Japan.
Before Naraku became a huge problem to the family, Inutaishou and Hige were able to build this place with special properties to repel Naraku's Miasma so that it wouldn't let him escape.
Inuyasha turns a few pages to find more details about this man, but unfortunately that was all that was written in the journal. "What are we going to do now?" He asks his dad who is now sitting in his office chair. "The only thing we can do is go to the prison that Hige and I designed only for him. But since Hige was killed by him, Naraku wasn't able to destroyed his spiritual side." Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "His spiritual side?" He asks him as he sits on another chair in the office.
Inutaishou nods his head as he pulls out a scroll from the bottom drawer of his desk. After he unrolls the paper, there's a drawing of Hige in his true form and Ai with Kagome in her arms. The one side is written in Japanese calligraphy.
My mate Ai's spiritual power will protect me and our daughter from being completely destroyed despite if either of us die from Naraku's wrath. Kagome however is to revive the body of Hige because he was the one who made sure the family is protected from him personally.
Inutaishou sighs deeply. "How is it that Naraku got mixed up with Hige's family?" Inuyasha tried to get his dad's attention. Inutaishou looks down to the scroll. "How much do you think Kagome knows about her father?" He asks his son in a scowl. Inuyasha holds his chin. "I'm not really sure how much Kagome knows much about him. All she ever told me that she inherited his demon side." Inuyasha honestly answers his dad's unnecessary question. Inutaishou understand what his son is saying. It's near impossible to know everything about a person's life. "All I can say is this." Inuyasha looks at him. Inutaishou looks back. "What is that?" He asks him. Inuyasha looks towards the direction of the bedroom that Kagome is sleeping in. "Kagome is never to know any of this. If she did, she'd do whatever she can to go after Naraku." He said with a sour look.
Inutaishou sighs, "If that's the case. We would have to do as stealthy as possible." He agrees. "So where is this maximum prison?" Inuyasha asks his dad. "The facility is deep within the mountains from the south." Inuyasha nods. "We might as well go down there and check to make sure that mad man is still locked up down there." He stands up and walks to the door. "No, Inuyasha. I know how much you want to go there to be safe for Kagome's sake. But she needs you more than she should. Sesshomaru and I will go there." Inutaishou speaks to his son with such wisdom.
Inuyasha twitches his ear to pinpoint to hear Kagome still dad asleep. 'At least she won't know any of this.' He thoughts in relief. "If I were you, I'd go to watch over her." Inutaishou said as he passes his son to get to the door first. "And what about her family?" Inuyasha catches up to him. Inutaishou smiles with assurance. "The shrine is protected specifically from Naraku, so they have nothing to worry about. Ai and her father are the only ones who know about the shield dome around the shrine." He said as he places his hand onto his son's shoulder. He then leaves the room but leaves the door open so that Inuyasha can follow him out.
After closing the office door, He goes to his bedroom to change his chothes because being in a bunker for awhile can make him wear his waredrobe that long. He changes out and goes into his shower to rinse off his body odor. After a brief 5 minutes he shakes himself off dry and changes into his casual clothes; faded blue jeans, black belt, white t-shirt and a red hoodie. He throws his dirty clothes into the laundry shoot that takes them to the basement where the washer and dryer are. He then makes it to Kagome's room and quietly as possible to open the door and to find her still asleep. 'Seriously how long does she sleep?' he though with a goofy grin. He walks around the king-size bed and sits on the other side to see her bangs partially covering her closed eyes. 'At least you're safe and sound with me.' He thoughts fondly and continues on looking after her.