Of Dogs, Wolves, and Dragons
Chapter Two: The Treaty
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means English
(A/n: Do I really use a lot of colons?)
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In a large, beautifully decorated room sat Kagome, atop a small platform that was placed in the center of the room. The only thing lighting the room was the light coming from the screen of her laptop. All the walls in the room were a dark blue while the floors were black and blue marble. All the windows in the room were covered by black curtains which didn't allow light in at all. There were three doors in the room; one leading out into the hall, one to the private bath, and one to the walk in closet. Against the far wall was a luxurious four posted bed with blue silk sheets and pillows. On the platform, which stood about a half a foot of the floor, were two leather couches, two seats, and a metal framed table with a crystal clear glass top in the middle of it all. Kagome leaned on the table, typing on her laptop, when there was a knock at the door.
She grunted and walked over to open the door only to find her two best friends; her cousin, Sango, and her fathers guard, Kouga. Kouga, blue eyes shining, looked delighted to see Kagome, she seemed less than enthused. Sango dragged the two into the room and plopped herself onto a couch, each of the others copied and sat down; not next to each other of course as there was plenty of space. Kagome went back to what she was previously doing and wasn't paying much attention to her two friends.
Sango and Kouga were each regarded with much esteem within the family syndicate. Kagome was a tad jealous of the fact for she wasn't as athletic as them. Kouga was the only heir to the Katsuo family; all of his family was killed when he was five. For the next fourteen years of his life, he was taken in by Kagome's father and treated like a son. He excelled highly in all styles of hand to hand combat and sword fighting. Sango was just as athletic as he, and put up a fair fight. She was the same age as Kouga but much wiser for her years. It scared people sometimes. She also is an orphan, her only family being her little brother, Kohaku.
"Kagome," Kouga said from his place on one of the couches, finally breaking the silence; she made no response. Sango looked at her cousin confused and sat up.
"Kagome?"
Nothing.
"Kagome."
Nothing; Sango and Kouga exchanged annoyed glances and then nodded to each other.
"KAGOME!!!" they shouted at one. She fell backwards from shock.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!" Kagome screamed holding her heart for emphasis. The two others shrugged and plopped back down on the couches. Kagome glared at each of them.
"You've been acting weird since this morning, what's wrong?" Kouga asked.
"What're you talking about…I'm fine, perfectly healthy!" Kagome said in a half hearted voice. She was already sitting back in her normal position staring at the computer screen.
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A few hours later...
In a beautiful, high class Chinese restaurant sat Hibiki-taijin, who glanced at his watch every so often. Sachi and Shino each sat to one side of him while Inuyasha and Miroku stood behind him. Sesshomaru was outside acting as a scout, well that was his excuse anyway. He didn't seem to like his brother much. Inuyasha, now of course, was out of his gi and dressed in denim jeans and a red t-shirt. You really couldn't tell much though because each of Dragons wore a black trench coat with one to three gold chains across their chests. Depending on what kind of coat you had signified your ranking. Hibiki-taijin had three chains. The other five had two chains; Sachi and Shino's coats were trimmed in gold. There were a few other (one chain) Dragons spread through out the restaurant.
Classes within classes
"When're they coming? They're late…" Shino asked while making a tower with chopsticks.
"I don't know; I don't even want to be here," Sachi stated before sipping her drink.
Before Shino could say anything Miroku announced that they were here and pointed towards the door. Shippo, a young one chain, began walking towards the table with six others behind him--the Higurashis. Shippo stood behind Hibiki-taijin with Inuyasha and Miroku. An older man sat across from Hibiki-taijin, while two girls sat down next to him and three young men stood behind him.
"Higurashi-san," Hibiki-taijin said in faked happy tone, "I'm glad you could make it."
"Yes, now this whole thing can finally be over, Hibiki-san." Higurashi looked around at the people who surrounded the other man. "You are well protected, do you not trust me?"
"You shouldn't say anything about protection; you know how our business works. Plus you seem to have two lovely body guards sitting next to you," Hibiki-taijin joked.
"Ha, I guess you're right. I'd like you to meet my daughter, Kagome, and my niece, Sango. Behind me are Kouga, my most loyal body guard, my nephew Kohaku, and my son Souta." He pointed to each person respectively.
Hibiki-taijin nodded in acknowledgement, and introduced each of the five Dragons around him. Everyone merely glared at one another or just looked away.
In order to get the glares to stop, Hibiki-taijin spoke up first. "Well, now lets get this thing started, shall we?"
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Kagome looked from her place next to her dad and glared at each Dragon, and making sure they noticed. She received three indifferent looks and two death glares--one from Sachi and one from Inuyasha.
'I don't want to be here. This sucks,' she thought, 'Sitting here, signing papers with THEM of all people. The Dragons, I hate them…Murderers…they will pay…'
She continued her death glare which was directed at Inuyasha, though she really didn't mean to. It was mainly directed at all of them, but her eyes seemed to linger on the young man.
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Inuyasha fidgeted in his spot, that girl, Kagome, wouldn't stop glowering at him.
'What is that wench's problem?' He didn't have any idea why she would be staring at him in such a way and even just thinking about it gave him a headache. Finally giving up in trying to figure out why she looked so pissed off at him, he went for the most direct method he knew.
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It had only been a few minutes but some how almost every one there, save Hibiki-taijin and Higurashi-san, looked like they were going to fall asleep; Shino had already fallen asleep but was awaken by a kick from his sister; Sachi leaned on the table with arm with an exasperated look on her face; Miroku leered longingly at Sango who shot daggers at him. The others seemed to find something to occupy themselves in one way or another. The two older men continuously talked…and talked…
"I hope that you come see our goods sometime, you'd rea—"
*SLAM*
Everyone was startled at the noise. Inuyasha had slammed his fist on the table, which now had a large crack in it, and was now face to face with Kagome.
"EXCUSE ME WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!" Inuyasha screamed angrily.
Kagome stood up, while everyone in the restaurant had stopped what they were doing to look at the two.
"MY PROBLEM? YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S SCREAMING!!" Kagome retorted.
"Feh, Look who's talking. YOU were screaming just as LOUD as I was thank you very much!"
"Kids! Please calm down…" Hibiki-taijin injected, but it had no affect. They just continued arguing.
"I WASN'T SCREAMING!"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING NOW?!"
"ARGUING!!"
"WHY YOU STUPID WE—MPFHH?!" Miroku clamped his hand over the infuriated Inuyashas mouth before he would say something he'd regret. Inuyasha began flailing trying to get Miroku off of him, so each of the twins grabbed one of his arms and kicked the back of his knees so he'd fall down; it was quite a comical scene. Kagome was busy being pulled along by Sango out of the restaurant. Hibiki-taijin apologized quickly and told Inuyashas capturers to get him out of the restaurant.
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Outside…
"Good job, brother," Sesshomaru said while stepping out of the shadows, "You could have cost us the treaty."
It was completely dark out, the only thing lighting the streets were street lamps and store signs. Miroku and the twins dropped Inuyasha on the pavement and stepped back for fear of his wrath. Inuyasha pushed himself up and dusted the dirt off of him and glared at his older brother.
"Shut up, Sesshomaru. You want that treaty signed as much as us…you know how we all feel. We all hate them…" Inuyasha spat angrily.
"Now, now…I don't feel that way anymore…I have some…inside information that changes everything." Sesshomaru said as he sauntered under a street light. The others looked up interested in what Sesshomaru had just said.
"What do you mean?" Sachi asked as she leaned on the side of the building.
"Like I said, what I'm going to tell you will change your whole perspective about them."
"Tell us then," Miroku said impatiently. He hated when Sesshomaru withheld information just to taunt people.
"Fine, fine, you really are a boorish lot." Sesshomaru said annoyed that he couldn't have any fun. He was a bit twisted.
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[A/n…ooh cliff hanger…sorry…I'm gunna get flamed for that, huh? Anyways I had a bit of writers block so I didn't know what to write. I'll try to update soon, I really have to update my other fic…badly…erg…PLEASE REVIEW…heh, I like feedback…review, review, review!!! Thank you…]
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