Chapter 30

Touga leaned his elbows against his desk, deep in thought. He knew what he did wasn't okay. Kagome was going to be furious with him, and he felt as if he was betraying her. But he couldn't just let what he learned go. She had been abused, and nearly violated. By two different people.

He couldn't let them get away with it.

The male that had tried to force himself and a mate bond on Kagome, Touga couldn't do anything about. He had no idea who he was. Sango nor Rin would tell him anything, so there was no point in even asking. He would just have to wait until Kagome gave him a name, or it came up some other way.

Kikyou on the other hand. That was something he could handle now. And that was exactly what he was going to do. He had his assistant call in the woman, and she should be arriving any moment. His stomach clenched at the thought of Kagome being angry with him, but he needed to do this. Not only did Kikyou hurt Kagome, she hurt InuYasha. Both unforgivable acts. Then to make matters worse, she got to keep her job while Kagome was fired.

The injustice had his blood boiling, but he would handle things his way. The demon way. Kagome and InuYasha would never have to fear Kikyou again. He would make sure of it. He picked up his cell phone, looking at the time.

Kagome was in his building. She was on the first floor, where the day care was. Today was her interview. He had promised not to interfere, so he gave Toran, the babysitter, Kagome's number and left it at that. If Kagome got the job, it would be of her own doing. He had faith in her and knew she wouldn't have any problems getting the job.

What he didn't like was that Kagome and Kikyou would be in the same building at the same time. He hadn't meant for that to happen. By time he scheduled a meeting with Kikyou, Kagome had gotten the call for an interview, and there was nothing he could do to change it either. All he could do was hope that his conversation with Kikyou wouldn't last very long.

Just them his intercom beeped, and he pressed the button, telling his assistant to let his next meeting in. Kikyou was here, and she was going to regret ever touching what was his when he was finally done with her. He stood, moving to the side of his desk to wait. This wasn't going to take long at all.

Slowly his door opened, revealing Kikyou. Her hair was done up, makeup covering her face in a way that was unappealing. She wore a trench coat that covered past her knees, and he prayed she wasn't naked. He gave no reason for their meeting, just asking that she come in.

"Kikyou." His face scrunched into a scowl as the smell of her arousal hit his nose. Along with something else that disgusted him even more. Dozens of males. How a woman like that could think he would ever want her amazed him in a way that wasn't good.

"Touga." Kikyou closed the door behind her, then turned back towards him. "I'm glad you finally called. I've been waiting on this day for so long." To his utter horror, she quickly untied the sash around her trench coat, and pulled it open. She had on a sheer light blue lingerie set. The set itself was intriguing, but the woman wearing it ruined it.

"Hmm. Where did you get that?" She smiled at his interest, and he quickly obliterated the bubble she had created. "I would like to see Kagome in it. Perhaps on our mating night."

"You would still mate her even though you're with me?" Kikyou's soft demeaner faded, leaving nothing but that angry shell that she truly was. "I can be enough for you, but I won't share you with that bitch."

"Why would you ever think any part of me would go near you." Touga's eyes began to bleed red as his beast stirred. They would not take any insult to their future mate. "Tell me, Kikyou? Did you forget about a demon's sense of smell, especially that of an inu? I smell the men on you, and in you. I would never sully my person for the filth that you are."

She reared back as if she had been slapped, her eyes widening in shocked hurt. She should have known better. He wasn't about to spare her feelings. "Should I also add that you not only abused my soon to be wife, but my son as well. Perhaps your mind is not all there. No one who had their entire brain capacity would ever think hitting my son would get me into your skirts."

"You don't have to be so cruel." She crossed her arms, still trying to push out the breast that he didn't even notice. "If you don't want me, then why am I here?"

"You touched my son. You touched my female. And yet you have received no punishment. A whore like you deserves as much pain as I am willing to give." He smirked triumphantly when the scent of fear filled his room. That smelled so much better than her arousal. He stepped forward, making her step back into the wall. "I want to hurt you. My beast wants to rip off chunks of you. No one touches what is mine and gets away with it."

Tears formed in her eyes, and he watched as she squeezed them shut tightly and looked away. She should fear him. He wanted her to constantly be looking over her shoulder to make sure he wasn't there. "However, this world has laws. You are lucky Kikyou, that we are not in the past. I can not physically touch, but I can ruin you." His wicked smile didn't falter as she opened fear filled eyes and looked at him. "If you ever step near anything that I consider mine again, you won't have anything to call yours. I am powerful enough to get what I want, and if I want you living on the streets with nothing to your name, then it will happen. Stay away from me and mine."

"I love you." It was a whispered plea, and he scoffed, disgust forming in his stomach. How he long to hear those words from Kagome, but instead they came from a woman he would never want.

"Those false words fall from the lips of a whore. You do not love me Kikyou, you know nothing of me. You love the power and money being with me brings. That is all you desire, and you will not get that through me. You wonder why her, correct? I can see it on your face." He took one last step towards her, staring down at the woman. "She is everything that you're not. She is and will always be better than the spiteful woman that you are. You will never match up to what she is. So, accept your place beneath her, because that's all you will ever be."

"You don't know everything about her. She's your enemy." Kikyou wasn't going to lose against Kagome. Touga already admitted that he couldn't physically hurt Kikyou without getting in trouble. And if he tried to take everything from her, then she would just go to Naraku. He couldn't touch her. "She's a miko."

Touga snarled the moment the words left her mouth. Anyone who knew Kagome's secret was a threat. His beast lurched forward and had Kikyou's throat in his hand within seconds. She was pressed against the wall, mouth open as she gasped for air. "How do you know that? Who told you about our mate?"

Kikyou tried to speak, but she couldn't breath enough to find her voice. Her face was going red, and her vision blurring. She shouldn't have challenged this male. Her eyes could only stare into furious red, and she knew her life was in danger. Relief flooded her as the door open, just for dread to fill her once again.

Sesshomaru froze the moment he saw his father's beast. That wasn't something he trifled with. In fact, any time Touga let out his beast, Sesshomaru was just fine going in the opposite direction. Sesshomaru was rude, and had no problem bloodying his claws, but Touga's beast. That was something that was wicked and vengeful. It was why he had held the throne of lord of the demons for so long. Touga's beast would kill in a heartbeat, and enjoy it.

"Father." Sesshomaru shut the door behind trying to think of a way to calm down this situation. "She is on her way. You know as well as I do, she would not want the woman killed. You were only supposed to talk, nothing more."

"She knows. She knows what Kagome is." Touga's voice was raspy with his growls, but his hand loosened enough to let Kikyou gasp for air and cough it right back out. "She is a threat to my mate."

"A threat that can be handled at a later time. Kagome is on her way, she will be here a-"

Again, the door opened and in walked the woman Sesshomaru had been warning his father about. Touga had asked Sesshomaru to let him know when Kagome was on her way to his office. He wanted to be sure Kagome didn't see Kikyou. That obviously didn't happen the way he wanted.

Kagome's eyes spanned between the three other occupants of the room, taking in the scene for exactly what it was. She knew Touga enough to know that he couldn't just let what Kikyou did go. Kikyou would have riled him up and brought out the inner animal that was Touga. And now, she was the one that was going to have to clean up this mess.

"Can you let her go please, Touga?" Kagome stepped towards the male she was dating, but Sesshomaru grabbed her arm stopping her. She looked up to him, seeing the worry in his gaze even if he didn't say anything. "He won't hurt me Sesshomaru, even in this state."

After a long pause, Sesshomaru let go of Kagome's arm. She wasted no time in moving to Touga and grabbing the wrist that was still around Kikyou's neck. "I think she has learned her lesson. You can let her go." Her voice was soft, trying to calm him.

"She knows what you are. I demand to know how." Touga tightened his grip around Kikyou's neck again as Kagome looked to Kikyou with wide eyes.

"How do you know? That is not something you could have figured out on your own." Surprisingly Kagome didn't continue to try and get Touga to let Kikyou go. She wouldn't let him kill her, but Kikyou had dangerous knowledge about Kagome. After everything that Kikyou had done to her and InuYasha, Kagome found it hard to find any compassion for the woman.

"Kagura!" Kikyo's voice was scratchy as she spoke, and tears fell from her eyes wetting her cheeks. "She has a void demon named Kanna. She can see anything she wants to. She told me." There was no way Kikyou was stupid enough to tell anyone about Naraku.

"Why did they have an interest in me?" Kagome lifted her head up in suspension. For a moment, Kikyou didn't answer, and Kagome sighed. "Touga." His hand tightened on her command, and Kikyou began to flail, her own fingers scratching at Touga's thick skin. A tap from Kagome on Touga's wrist had him lessoning his hold again so Kikyou could gasp for air once more.

"I asked! When you were in the coma I wanted to find as much info on you as possible." It wasn't a complete lie, but Kikyou could not mention Naraku. She feared him more than she feared Touga.

"Just leave me alone." Kagome was beginning to hate the woman in front of her. She had never done anything to deserve that kind of treatment from anyone, let alone Kikyou. "Just stay away from me and my family. I don't want to keep doing this, Kikyou. This back and forth between us. It's exhausting."

Kagome turned to Touga, grabbing his wrist once more and massaging the skin there. "Let her go, please. I just want this to be over." Her voice showed its exhaustion, and Touga looked to her, seeing that she was emotionally done with this situation. The amber returned to his eyes as he pulled back his beast and let go of the woman.

Kikyou coughed and fell to the floor as Touga wrapped his arms around Kagome. He licked her neck, soothing her. No one looked to Kikyou as she closed her trench coat and ran out of the office, slamming the door closed behind her. She wouldn't be a problem for them in the future.

"Hmm." Sesshomaru looked at his claws as if he was bored. "I did not know you had it in you, Little Miko. Torture does not seem your style."

"I didn't lay a hand on her." Kagome glared at him, and then leaned her head against Touga's chest with a sigh. "Besides, you know exactly what would happen if anyone found out what I was." He looked to her; eyes serious. She was a miko, a secret that know one could know. And he could see Aura's. Also, a secret better kept quiet.

"They would go after those around you first." Sesshomaru looked to the windows and the city scape beneath them. It was why he told no one of what he was. Aside of Rin and Kagome, and obviously his father, no one knew of his extra ability.

"Souta, InuYasha, Rin, everyone would be in danger. So, if she gets scared enough not to mention it, so be it." Kagome looked to Touga then, smacking him on the chest slightly. "You should have never called her here in the first place Touga." She smiled, rubbing the place where she had smacked him. "But I understand. Thank you for defending InuYasha and me. Just don't go killing people for our sake." He growled in response, running his fingers through her hair. That was not a promise he would make.