Chapter XV
At dawn, Kagome woke and did her morning routine. She woke up, Jaken to gather up some wood for the fire. Much to her surprise, he obeyed her without saying a word. She then woke up Shippo and Rin to get them ready. She found Inuyasha asleep in a tree above her. She was surprised that he was asleep.
She murmured, "He must be tired." She sighed as she went to the nearby river to refill her water bottles. She brought the water bottle to her face. She saw that it was dirty. "I guess I have to boil the water before we leave." When she turned around, she screamed as someone quickly knocked her out and put over its' shoulder and escaped before the inuhanyou could come to her rescue.
Inuyasha woke up once he heard someone's annoying squawking voice. "Inuyasha! Inuyasha! Wake up!"
"What? What happened?"
Shippo climbed up the tree and started to yell, "are you deaf or something?!"
"What are you talking about runt?!"
"What? You didn't hear Kagome screamed at the river! We did!"
"Why would she screamed? Did the ugly toad saw her naked or something?"
"NO! YOU IDIOT! Someone took her! Once I heard her scream, I told Jaken to wake you up as I went to, at least, try to slow them down. But when I arrived, Kagome was gone. The only thing that was there were water bottles."
"Okay. I will go there to investigate while you, Rin, and Jaken go pack up..." He left to investigate.
Rin pulled on Shippo's sleeve. He looked at her. "I have a bad feeling about this. We should return to Lord Sesshomaru."
Meanwhile as they went to pack up their camp, Inuyasha went to the river. He went where the water bottles, that were carelessly laying around, and started to sniff to find her scent. However, he couldn't find it.
"Shit! I can't get a hint of her scent! I can't give up, now. I'd always find the wench and I'll find her again." He started sniff out for her scent and any other scents that was there. He sniffed and sniffed until finally he found an unknown scent and her scent together. He growled because the unknown scent belonged to a dragon. He returned to camp to tell them what he found.
When he arrived there, he noticed that they were ready for travel.
Jaken squawked, "I believe we should return to the Western Palace. We aren't far from there."
"What?! No way, ugly! You continue on to Edo, while I go follow that scent!"
"You found her scent, Inuyasha," Shippo asked hopefully.
"Yes, she and whoever has her went north."
"North! We must tell Lord Sesshomaru!"
"We? What 'we'? I said you go..."
"No, Master Inuyasha," Rin interrupted. "We all should return to Lord Sesshomaru. I am sure that he would want to know that Lady Kagome was kidnapped."
"I believe we should too, Inuyasha," Shippo said. "Or are you scarred of your brother?"
Inuyasha growled. "There's no way in hell I am scarred of that asshole."
"Yeah, then, prove it," Shippo goaded.
"Fine. We'll go back to the Western Palace." He started to walk west, then stopped to look over his should. "Well, are you coming or what?"
Then Rin, who just got on Ah-Un, Shippo, who was inwardly snickering, and Jaken went to follow Inuyasha back to the Western Palace.
Meanwhile, Kagome found herself on the shoulder of some stranger, who was running awful fast. She contemplated about trying to escape, but thought against it. It was only because somehow she knew that this stranger would reunite her with Inuhime.
An hour or so later, she found that she was right. She pretended that she was still knocked out while she overheard what's being said.
"I got the miko that defeated Naraku, milord."
"Good, take her to the dungeon and put her in the same cell as the Western Princess."
Not long afterwards, Kagome was cuffed and stuck into the same cell as Inuhime. She looked around after she heard that the stranger left them alone. She turned to her right and saw Sesshomaru's twin there.
"Inuhime?"
"How many times do I have to tell you to call me 'Inuki'? How you got here anyways?"
Kagome giggled. "Plenty. I was kidnapped."
"How he passed Inuyasha?"
"He was sleeping, which was unusual for him. He hardly ever sleeps. I hope that they are alright."
"They?"
"Yeah, Sesshomaru and your mother ordered us to return to Edo with Rin, Ah-Un, and Jaken. Poor Shippo. He must be worried sick about me."
"I'd wondered how you came across him?"
"Well, you remembered what I said while we were at the palace, right? About how Shippo stole the shards to get revenge on the Thunder Brothers, who killed Shippo's father for the Jewel Shards?" Inuhime nodded. "Well, Shippo said that his mother was killed when he was still a pup." Inuhime nodded. "It had been him and his father since before the Thunder Brothers killed him. I insisted that he came along after Inuyasha defeated them, but he was against the idea. However, I didn't care what he said and Shippo has been with us ever since then.
"She was probably protecting him; no doubt, while his father went hunting. I assume that he sees you as his mother now. It's so unheard of that a human adopted a kit to be part of the family."
"So, I'd heard."
"So, how do you feel about my brothers?"
"I used to want to be with Inuyasha. We tried to work it out, but..."
"It didn't," Inuhime finished. "Sesshomaru?"
Kagome blushed. "I admit that I am having feelings for him."
Suddenly, they heard a key unlocking the door...
Inuyasha (c) Rumiko Takahashi
Fanfiction & OCs (c) ladytari