Toyfriend
Chapter 26: A Banana For A Chipmunk?

Something was warped and wicked within her. That much was obvious, beyond obvious actually, when she woke up on the same table that she had passed out on from being cut into... From having her biological father stick his hand into her gut, to put the jewel back where he had found it. Unlike before, her hands were untied, her ankles free from restraints, so with ease she could get up and slid off the table.

Cautiously, her hand wandered over her stomach. It was once again smooth, it took her hazels wandering down to verify that the wound was gone. The power of the shikon was grand. A gift, really, she knew that. She could feel that.

When she walked forward to the door she found that it was unlocked, with ease she could step out and see that she was no longer in the apartment that belonged to Naraku. Instead, it appeared she was in a warehouse of some sort. It only made sense that he had multiple strong holds.

"Good morning, well, evening," a deep, rather rough yet oddly soothing voice greeted. Cautiously she turned her attention to the man sitting at a table, examining some papers. He then pointed to the chair across from him where a shirt hung over it. "You'll probably want to put that back on."

That made sense to her, so she nodded and walked over to pick it up and slip it over her head. It wasn't like she enjoyed walking around in nothing but a bra, after all. Then she took the seat to sit in.

"Do you have any questions?" he inquired as he looked up to her. "Or have you finally come to see things my way?"

For a while, a long while, she remained silent. Her hazels looked on his crimsons. His blank face reflecting the same emotion as hers. That was a good question, one she had to think about. What did she think about anything or everything for that matter?

The way her mind worked yesterday seemed to make no sense to her now. The way she used to feel about things was… well, ridiculous. The disgust she once held for the man that sat across from her was replaced with something akin to admiration, to gratefulness even. If not for him and his actions, she wouldn't be alive that day.

The sudden surge of power within her gave her clarity. That was what she thought, at least. Everything made more sense. The way Naraku thought seemed to be the best way of thinking. There had been subtle hostility towards Gami festering in her ever since damn Izanami and Izanagi decided to stick their noses where they did not belong. Since they forced her to marry a man she did not want to marry.

She hadn't wanted to wed Inuyasha. She didn't want him as her husband. Really, she didn't want that type of life but they made her take it. The annoying fuckers.

The new idea of crushing Gami and giving power to those who were strongest in the world, demons, supernatural creatures of all time, was far more appealing than allowing ignorant, weak, mortals have control of the world. It didn't make sense to her that Gami made it like that.

"Kagome," Naraku started to gain her attention back again.

"I suppose," she slowly drew out, "I finally see things your way. The right way."

"Good," he said with a gradually growing grin. "Then there are a few things we need to take care of before we can proceed with my master plan. I assume you will be as helpful as possible?"

"Sure," she replied with a shrug of her shoulder. "I am happy to help, dad."

"I'm very glad to finally hear you talk like this, for a while there I thought you were hopeless case. But I just couldn't give up. After all, you are my daughter," he responded before he took out a set of keys and placed it on the table. "Make yourself at home."

"Thanks," she softly chimed as she grabbed them before standing up. As soon as she turned around she almost ran smack dab into a man. A rather handsome one when she got a good look at him. An extremely handsome one, the more she looked. With a smirk fused smile she glanced the tall fellow up and down until they locked with his blue eyes under the purple cross on his forehead.

"Bankotsu, Kagome," Naraku introduced with a wave of his hand while his crimson gaze shifted back to the papers in front of him, "Kagome, Bankotsu. Bankotsu, watch out for her."

"I can do that," he assured with lopsided grin as his own gaze ate her up. "How about I take you back to the apartment?"

"I could use a shower," she answered, rather suggestively at that. He easily picked up on that, and grinned all the more as he showed her to his car. Once she was in it the light glistened off the diamond right on her left hand to catch her attention. For a moment she stared at.

But just for a moment, because after that she took it off and slid it into her pocket. It was something she didn't want to start out with. That annoyance, that bother, those subtle whispered of sadness over the marriage… all twirled into hatred when she finally became whole.

Because that was what she was now that she had the shikon in her. She was, after all, a shikon nymph and she needed the shikon. Now that she was complete, full even, she could see things clearly.

"I want something from you," caught her attention, it got her to turn her hazels to the handsome man beside her.

"Name it," she could see herself giving him many things. All he had to do was ask and it would be his. She could think of plenty of things she wanted from him.

"Inuyasha, that bastard, killed my brothers," he grunted as his grip on the wheel tightened, "will you help me get revenge on him?"

That gave her pause for a second. Oddly enough, at least oddly to her, her first instinct was to tell him no. Hell no, actually. But then she thought about it. Inuyasha had been just as avid to make her do something she didn't want to. To make her marry him… now she was his forced wife. If he was gone, then she'd be a widow.

For some reason, the thought gave her a smile. A wicked, rather unsavory one probably, but a smile nonetheless. That had to mean something. And he was so annoying to live with sometimes. His temper was a bother. Everything about him seemed wrong for her now that she could think clearly over it.

He wasn't good enough for her. He was impure. Nothing more than a mere half-breed.

"You're a full blooded demon, aren't you?"

"Yeah," he responded, "so, will you help or not?"

"Help how?"

"I just need you to be the bait, I just need you to get him to come to me, and I'll take care of the rest. I'm the strongest one out of my brethren, he won't be able to beat me."

"I bet you are," she whispered back before her hand slid from her lap over to his. "Sure, I'll help but first let's see about that shower, shall we?"

To that, he just grinned all the more.

.oooOoOooo.

Two days had gone by without as much as a sign of Naraku, any of his known associates, or Kagome. It was driving him insane. Thousands of different of things could be happening to her in that moment but… he didn't know which was actually occurring. He didn't know if she was alright. If she was alive.

He could barely even focus on the meeting he was forced to attempt. All the VPs and council members were there to talk about what had happened. To decide what their next step was.

"Takamoru," forced him to focus, but it turned out that it wasn't him that Izanagi was speaking to. It was his father, so his golden gaze shifted over to him - stopping, briefly, on his brother and Kikyou who he thought were sitting awfully close together. "Where are we on that lead?"

"It didn't get us anywhere," Inutaisho grumbled, "we're trying."

"We're always saying that shit," Inuyasha asserted to gain everyone's attention. "We aren't getting anywhere… your gods and you can't find Naraku? Isn't that a bit pathetic?"

"Inuyasha," his father harshly snapped, "be quiet."

"Why?" he grumbled, "what are they going to do to me if they can't even get Naraku? You all seem incompetent to me."

"Oh, and you are better? What have you done exactly," Izanami snapped.

"I'm not a god," he retorted, "you people are useless. Sitting around here talking isn't doing Kagome any fucking good."

Whatever anyone had to say in return to that he didn't hear, because he got up and left without another word. It was true, they were gods and they couldn't accomplish a damn thing. Harshly he hit the elevator's down button and tapped his foot furiously as he waited for the annoyingly slow metal box to finally arrive. He didn't know what to do but he knew he couldn't sit around just waiting for something to happen.

Kagome was out there. She was in trouble. He had to at least try to find her.

That was when a ringing caught his attention so he reached into his pocket to pull out his phone. The number wasn't familiar to him but he answered anyone. In a gruff, grumble, he asked, "what?"

"Inuyasha?" shaky voice replied, a girl's voice, his wife's voice. Instantly his heart leaped.

"Kagome?" he rejoined, "Kagome, where are you?"

"Inuyasha…" she repeated, again in that hurt tremble, it made his gut twist with concern. "Help me…"

"Where are you? Tell me and I'll come get you!"

"Some… warehouse I don't know."

"Try to find something, anything, that'll tell me where you are," he ordered.

"I saw a street sign… I think it said Shinjo. I-"

"Hey, what are you doing?" Inuyasha could hear before the line went dead. Quickly he pressed the closest floor button so that the elevator could stop and he could run back up to the same floor he had just been on. There he grabbed a family heirloom, a sword that he was skilled in using, then he turned on his computer to do a quick search of warehouses near Shinjo street. He didn't care that he wasn't supposed to take his ring off, he did it anyway. He could get to the warehouse quicker if he ran than if he had to take his car.

"Inuyasha?" Stopped him before he could even run out of his office, his golden gaze shifted up to see Kikyou at his door. "What are you doing?"

"I don't have time to talk right now," he retorted before he ran passed her, down the stairs, and out the building.

Five minutes, that's all it took him. If he had driven it would have probably taken him a half hour with traffic. After that it wasn't hard to narrow down which warehouse, he could quickly pick up on Kagome's scent. Hastily, without much thought, he ran into the one closest to the docks.

As soon as he got in he stopped in his tracks. Right there, in front of him, leaning against a desk, was his wife. She looked perfectly fine - very hot, too, though that was beside the point at the time. All the same he let his golden gaze shift over her to make sure she was unharmed. She wore a pair of black boots, tight dark blue skinny jeans, a white corset top, and a black biker hood jacket. That wasn't her style of clothes…

She also wasn't restrained like he thought she'd be. She just had her legs crossed and was examining her nail as if nothing was wrong. As if she hadn't been kidnapped over two days ago.

He didn't understand but he didn't have time to question it before his ear twitched to the sound of someone running up behind him. He looked just in time to jump and avoid a large sword being slammed towards him. Good thing he did, too, because it broke the wall it smashed into. If it had been his body he'd have been dead.

That finally got Kagome to look up at Bankotsu, who was prying his sword from the wall, then to Inuyasha as he landed near her.

"Oh, you're here," she greeted rather dully.

"Kagome…?" He replied, curiously, with a bent brow, "what's going on?"

"Bankotsu wants to kill you, you know, for killing his brothers and all," she answered with a shrug of her shoulders. "I advise you attempt to defend yourself."

"What?" It didn't make sense. It was like she didn't even give a damn… if not for the fact that he was certain from the smell that it actually was Kagome then he would have been certain it was a shapeshifter. But a shapeshifter couldn't fake a scent, not that accurately at least.

Then his gaze dropped to her left hand, her ring was missing. Apparently she could tell that was what he was focusing on because she reached into her pocket and pulled it out to extend it out to him. "Take it back, if you'd like. I'm not going to wear it anymore."

"Kagome…?" he questioned as he held out his hand for her to drop it in. It didn't make sense.

"Oh, come on, Inuyasha," she rolled her eyes as she looked over to Bankotsu who finally freed his sword from the wall. "As if I want to stay married to you. You know I didn't want to get married to start out with. It's so stupid. I refuse to continue with it. It's not like it did us any good."

"What are you saying?"

"Isn't it obvious?" she inquired with a glare. "I'm annoyed with you, sick of pretending like I actually like being married, I hate living together. Aren't you bothered by me, too?"

He shook his head, because he couldn't form any words. What the fuck was going on? Kagome… that wasn't his Kagome. Somehow, they changed her.

"Enough talking," Bankotsu ordered as he pointed his sword to Inuyasha, "I'm going to get my revenge on you. Your wife here was nice enough to call you up to get you to come even."

His eyes snapped back to Kagome at that, she gave him a weak smile and another shrug of her shoulder.

"Something about being a widow is appealing to me," she confessed.

"What's wrong with you?" he barked, "what'd they do to you!"

But she didn't answer him, and even if she did he wouldn't have heard it. He had to start to defend himself, he drew his sword to block another one of Bankotsu's attacks. Constant clashes of blade to blade began then, each dodging the others attack, both rolling out of the way just in time. Neither got more than a scrape here, a bruise there, as they fought throughout the warehouse.

It was a mistake, a misstep, that turned out to be Inuyasha's undoing. He leaped away from an attack and instead of landing on the ground properly like he had planned, a bar on the ground slipped from under his foot to get him to stumble. That was all it took for Bankotsu to get the upper hand, with huge force he slammed his sword against Inuyasha's to get the half-breed's to fall from his hand.

Then he raised his blade to his neck, a smirk upon his face as he pressed it harder against his skin. It was just enough to make it uncomfortable but not yet able to draw blood.

"Your wife is hot stuff," Bankotsu declared. "Very hot. I got to see all of her yesterday… mm-mm. I'm going to have a lot of fun with her."

"Fuck you," Inuyasha growled.

"She has this cute little birth mark on her right ass cheek-"

"Shut the fuck up," he demanded. He wanted to be mad, to be furious, but hearing that… just crushed him. That was true about her. But how would Bankotsu know it?

"I banged your wife last night," Bankotsu stated, which was just as good as stabbing him in the heart. "Fucked her silly, multiple times. It was hot. She's a kinky little minx, ain't she?"

"You're a fucking liar!"

"Am I?" he replied as he glanced over his shoulder, "Kagome, babe! Come here!"

She did, just as she was requested, and walked up to wrap her arm around his neck. Bankotsu bent his head then. It seemed to be a appeal for something and Kagome knew exactly what. Right in front of her husband she leaned in to press her lips to Bankotsu's.

He didn't know what to think about that, furry festered within mixed with hurt, but he did know that was a mistake on Bankotsu's part. He was distracted. He knocked the sword away and stabbed his clawed hands through his chest.

"Oh my gods!" Kagome cried out as she leaped away and covered her mouth as she watched Bankotsu's body fall to the ground. "Inuyasha! What the hell!"

"What the fuck is wrong with you! He was trying to kill me!"

"Damn it, I liked him," she grumbled back bitterly while she folded her arms.

"He was trying to kill me!" he shouted again.

"I realize that!"

"What the fuck is with you!"

"Bankotsu!" a cry called out which got them both to turn their attention towards Jakotsu as he entered the warehouse. "Bankotsu! Bankotsu!"

"Uh-oh, they are really close," Kagome whispered as she wagged her finger at Inuyasha and began to take a couple of steps backwards. He didn't have much time to react before Jakotsu ran at him with his staff. He rolled out of the way to grab his sword and deflect the next attack.

Again he was forced to do the back-and-forth in the fight but Jakotsu was angry which meant he would make a mistake. Which he did, he was the one that slipped up, that landed weirdly when he jumped away from Inuyasha's blade. He wouldn't take the chance for granted, he sliced his sword through Jakotsu's chest.

"Wow, two in one hour, impressive," he heard before Jakotsu's body even hit the ground.

"Fucking hell, Kagome," he snapped as he glanced over to glare at her, "what is wrong with you!"

"She's finally attacking as she should," Naraku replied as he walked up to his daughter to place an arm around her. "Like a proper shikon nymph, like a proper daughter."

"You brain washed her or something?" Inuyasha guessed, "I swear if you hurt her at all I'll kill you."

"It's disappointing to see you already did that to Jakotsu and Bankotsu, the Shichinintai weren't as good as they were advertised. Not that it really matters, I have Kagome now," he stated with a smile as he looked to his child. "Don't I?"

She nodded with a smile back.

"You brainwashed her or something," Inuyasha guessed in a growl. There was no way that Kagome was doing all of this on her own accord. She was possessed, certainly out of her mind. It couldn't be his Kagome… his Kagome wouldn't say those things. His Kagome wouldn't have just made out with Bankotsu in front of him.

His Kagome would have fucked him the night before.

"No, just showed her the light, awoke her real side. There was no need for brainwashing," Naraku insisted. "Did I brainwash you, Kagome?"

"Nope," she chimed back.

"You've been nothing but a bother for a very long time, Inuyasha. As long as it is appropriate for you," his crimson gaze shifted to Kagome, "then may I kill him?"

"Knock yourself out," she replied as she stepped away and waved towards him.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha snapped again.

"You sure do bitch a lot," was all she had to say to that.

"This ought to be easy," Naraku declared with a grin before he let a multitude of sharp, silver, like legs sprout out to raise him high. Right then, more than ever before, he looked like a the disgusting spider he was. Quickly he swiped at Inuyasha with one of them which he was able to block with his sword but not the other that went towards him. He dodged, just slightly, to avoid a full on hit but he still got scrapped along his side to draw plenty of blood.

"Face it, Inuyasha, you are no match for me," Naraku chuckled, deeply, as he slashed three of his sharp silver blade like legs towards him. He couldn't have blocked them all, if not for the aid of someone else's blade he would have been stabbed in the gut. He could hear the clash of Naraku with another, so he turned his golden gaze to see another silver haired man there.

"Sesshomaru…?" Inuyasha inquired with a lifted brow. "What are you doing here?"

"Kikyou thought you were acting strange, she checked your computer and saw this address, she asked for me to come here with you," he answered as he glanced over to his brother. "Good thing I did or else you'd be dead now."

"Fuck you," he grumbled back. But it was true, he needed Sesshomaru help and was grateful to have it. He only had a short time to look over to see that Kikyou, too, was there. Her attention seemed to be fixated on Kagome, though.

That was all that he had the time to think about before he had to focus on the task at hand - killing Naraku. Maybe if he did then Kagome would be freed from whatever weird spell she was under? Maybe he would get his wife back?

"Kagome," Kikyou greeted, which gained the girl's loose attention before her hazels returned to fight going on between her father and the two Takamoru brothers. "There seems to be something very different with you… your aura has changed."

"So?" Kagome rejoined with a bent brow as her gaze shifted over to the soul eating demon. "What do you want, Kikyou?"

"You have your shikon back," Kikyou realized as her chocolate orbs shifted over her stomach then up to meet her hazels. "I see, Naraku put it back tainted. Hence the aura and attitude change."

"I feel better than ever," she assured her, "so leave me the fuck alone already."

"I doubt that," Kikyou countered as she walked up to her. "You don't seem to care that Inuyasha is risking his life at the moment, that hardly seems appropriate seeing as you are his wife."

"I would rather not be married to him," she asserted when she glared back at Kikyou, "leave me the fuck alone, or else."

A screech got Kagome to turn her attention back to her father, who had just been stabbed by Sesshomaru as Inuyasha sliced off one of his legs. She would have shouted or done something to try to help him but Kikyou grabbed her to turn her interest back. It was a painful amount of pressure she put on her stomach.

"Let go!" Kagome ordered.

"No," Kikyou rejoined and though Kagome began to struggle it didn't matter. In mere moments a blue energy zapped out of Kikyou to consume Kagome - causing her to scream in pain before collapsing on the ground. Just like her father did after being stabbed again by both Takamoru brothers.

The other difference was that Kagome was alive, and Naraku dead as a doornail.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted as he ran over to drop to his knees to her before swooping her body into his arms. "What'd you do, Kikyou!"

"Naraku put the shikon back in her, tainted, hence her strange behavior. I merely purified it, she should be back to normal once she wakes up," Kikyou explained, which seemed to be acceptable to Inuyasha since he just nodded his head and turned his gaze back to her. Once Sesshomaru reached her side she turned her stare to him and asked, "are you alright?"

"I'll be fine," he assured her.

"Let's leave these two alone," Kikyou suggested as she took his hand to lead him out of the warehouse.

If… Kagome had the shikon tainted in her then that was why she was acting strange. It wasn't her fault. None of it… right? And even if the shikon was in her then Bankotsu and her… they didn't. They couldn't. Kagome wouldn't… would she?

"Uh," she muttered as she started to come around. With a shake of her head she pried open her lids to see Inuyasha there. Her brows bent together lightly, in confusion, before she seemed to remember what was going on. Cautiously she sat up before she found her way to her feet and glanced over herself. "Why did I think that wearing this was a good idea?"

"That's hardly the most important question here, huh?" Inuyasha grunted back as he, too, stood up.

"Oh?"

"Oh," he dragged out with strain, he could feel a vessel popping in his forehead even. "How about all that shit you said no more than ten minutes ago to me?"

"Oh, gods, Inuyasha," Kagome groaned with a wave of her hand as she tried to turn away only to have him grab that hand and yank her back to him. "I'm tired, I don't want to have this conversation right now!"

"Well I do!" he snapped back, "and how about that shit with Bankotsu, huh? How about you making out with him in front of me!"

"I obviously wasn't in my right frame of mind!" she shouted back as she ripped her hand free. "Now let it go, Inuyasha!"

"How the hell am I supposed to do that?" Inuyasha growled, "what about all that other shit he said, huh? How did he know about that mark on your ass, huh? Did you really fuck him?"

That stumped her briefly. She couldn't answer it right away… she had to think about it. Did she really have sex with Bankotsu? Slowly, the night before came back to her in small flashes at first then all at once.

She was in a shower, washing herself clean, scrubbing her hair then leaning backwards to let the water rinse out her hair. The sound of the shower door opening up caught her attention. Slowly, a naked Bankotsu slid into the stall with her. Instead of being annoyed she grinned widely as she wagged her finger for her to come closer.

Which he did, easily. His, big, rough, hands were placed on her hips and then she leaned backwards to place her back to his chest. His lips were pressed on her neck, she bit her bottom lip as her smile grew. The shower didn't last for much longer before they ended up out of it and on a bed. Entangled in a bed…

"Kagome?" Inuyasha drew out, "did you have sex with that fucker or not?"

"I wasn't in my right state of mind the other night," was her answer. And since it wasn't a no then… it had to be a yes. The shock on her husband's face was apparent.

"What about all the other shit? Huh? About being annoyed with me? About being sick of the marriage? About wanting to be a widow?"

"Inuyasha," she whined but that didn't stop him.

"Sick of living with me, are you?" That was only the start of it, too, he kept recanting all that she had said, kept bitching about it all. He just kept complaining.

She was tired, with an aching body from the zap Kikyou gave her, annoyed with everything that had happened. All of that mixed together with the general need for this conversation to get over with got her to say something she very well might regret later. Why did he have to go on like that after everything she had been through? Why couldn't he just ask later?

But he didn't. He was furious, so he asked then, "did you mean all that shit or not?"

"Yes," she snapped, yes just to make it all stop and because maybe a little part of her meant every word of it.

Yes she meant it? Well then fuck, he meant what he'd say, too. "Banana," he barked, "we need to break up. I can't deal with you anymore."

She just thought about it, for a moment, before she said, rather harshly, "chipmunk. I think we need time apart, too."

And that was it… that was what it took to get them to split finally. A series of aggravating accusations, hidden frustrations, and subtle resentment to the situation. She didn't really feel broken up about the situation at the time being, annoyed, angry, and tired… all she wanted was to go to sleep. To try and figure out all that had happened.

Neither of them were really upset with breaking up as they parted ways. Perhaps for the final time. After all, did a two-hundred and fifty year old half-breed really belong with a twenty-two year old shikon nymph? Probably not.

A/N: Here's a rather quick update. Yay for me. So, I'm pretty certain that I'm going to end this story within about four chapters. So it's coming to a close.

Thank you to those who reviewed. It will probably be a while before I update this story again (three days to a week). Now that I have finished Damned Deed I do plan to make this my next completed story.

Please continue to review. I appreciate them all, small or large.

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