Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
AN: Sorry for the late update, I don't have any time to write since school started. And when I had the time, my computer busted up and my friend took his sweet time to repair it. The day my beloved computer got back, I had to study for mid-semester exams. Isn't it suck? Well enough of my blabbering and on with the story. Beware, it's long.
Chocolate is good. It's a God sent for sick people like her.
… Okay, so it's not good for sick people, but hey, all she suffered was a severe case of burnt wound, amnesia and broken legs and arm. Therefore she was allowed to eat chocolate as many as she like, right? Chocolate cream, chocolate liquor, chocolate milkshake, Toblerone, Swiss Lindt's Excellence, Godiva and many other type of chocolate, you name it. May God bless her stepson. She's going to be a fat pig ready to be slaughtered when she's out of the hospital.
"Good morning, Sakura." Mr. Nakano, the ever-punctual doctor, strode in to the room without knocking. Sakura yipped and used her good hand to shove the chocolate's wrappings under her blanket. She smiled sheepishly at the stern doctor.
"Want some?" She offered the unopened pieces. The doctor shook his head.
"It's not good to eat so many amount of chocolate like that, Sakura. You can get diabetes."
"But, I can't do anything else. I'm boreeeeed."
The doctor mentally raised his eyebrow at his whiney patient, the chocolate already having its toll, but outwardly he kept his cool. "Really? You could ask Shiori to bring you books. How's your wound?"
"Itchy."
"Nothing else?"
"Nope."
The doctor filled the form idly. Sakura's condition was already improving; all he had to do is administer the salve for the burnt wound or check the broken bones if it healed perfectly. In two or three months, Sakura would be up and running, burning out the calories.
"How about your son? I heard you and your friend are planning something."
"How'd you know?"
"Nurses."
"Ah." Sakura nodded in understanding. "It's nothing big, actually. Just a little plan to make my little Inuyasha and Kagome fall in love with each other. It's named dundundun The Trip of Love." (AN: Crappy title, I know)
This time, Mr. Nakano's right eyebrow rose inquisitively. Sakura grinned from ear to ear.
"May I …"
"Nope. It's top secret between me and Shiori so hah." She cackled insanely.
Mr. Nakano went out of the room after he finished his examination and wondered if memory loss has something to do with age regressing mind, maybe he could write a thesis about that. On the other hand, maybe Sakura was already crazy before the amnesia. Who knows?
First Kiss
Chapter 11: Mission Impossible
By: Lafine
"Fuck."
Those simple four letters word summarized the situation Inuyasha and Kagome were currently in. One moment they were having a nice, friendly bet and the next moment they knew, Kikyou was gone. Gone with the wind. Lost in the mist. Kidnapped (a BIG possibility) by the evil incarnation with the name Naraku to who-know-where.
This was bad. Totally, awfully bad.
"What should we do?" Kagome asked worriedly. "We should call Sango and Miroku."
"Call us for what?" Miroku asked from behind her, not forgetting to cop a feel. "We heard this awfully high pitch soprano voice screamed so we came back to check on Inuyasha."
Kagome smacked him senseless with Sango's help before returning to the matter at hand.
"Kikyou's gone!!"
"WHAT?! How can that be?"
"She must have sneaked away when we saw you off. I and Inuyasha were be … talking and we realized Kikyou was missing when we heard her scream."
"It was Kikyou? I never thought her voice could be that high." Miroku muttered, remembering how windows broke a few minutes ago. The other tuned out his (unneeded) observation.
"Naraku must have kidnapped her." Inuyasha, Kagome and Sango decided instantly. Miroku looked at them skeptically. "How could you guys be so sure?"
"There is no other suspect, besides Naraku always do everything, mainly illegal, to get what he wants." Inuyasha said with Kagome and Sango nodding in agreement. They had enough bad experience with Naraku to know his twisted personality.
"Well, if you say so …" Miroku shrugged. "Then don't waste precious time, let's go rescue Kikyou now. Does anyone have an idea where he took her?"
Three blank expressions answered his question. Miroku groaned in exasperation. "You don't know?! How can you save her if you don't have any idea where to begin with? You guys are idiots."
"Who you're calling an idiot, huh?" Inuyasha grabbed Miroku's uniform collar and shook him. Miroku smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, Inuyasha, just a slip of tongue."
"We could always try his house." Sango offered and then she turned to Kagome. "Do you know his address, Kagome?"
Kagome shook her head. She didn't pay any attention when he introduced himself in front of class, feeling that she won't need it. Now she regretted it, if she listened maybe they had an idea where he took her best friend. She wrung her hand in worry. What if Onigumo continued the harassment she managed to stop five years ago? She couldn't forgive herself if anything happened to Kikyou.
Inuyasha noticed the crestfallen Kagome. 'Oh my God, she will cry any minute. I hate it when girls cry.' And in a voice that he hoped sounded irritated, he said, "It's no one's fault. Besides I bet he didn't tell his address to anyone, after all the bad guy always want his hideout to be a secret."
"Inuyasha." Kagome smiled at Inuyasha's attempt to cheer her. "Tha …"
Inuyasha interrupted before Kagome finished. "Keh, if you have time to cry it will be better if we find out his house."
"I'm not crying."
"Yeah, but you're almost to."
"Guys, you will break your second truce if it keeps up." Sango intervened. "We better go back to school and ask Mrs. Masumi de vil. *frown* if she feels generous enough today maybe we can know."
Their hope packed its bag and fled. Mrs. Masumi was the headmaster's secretary. She's an old woman who HATES students and always makes everything difficult for students. All the students nicknamed her Cruella de vil.
"Damn, we won't know even after we die." Inuyasha cursed. "That old, skinny, bagpipe will never tell anything."
Miroku cleared his throat. After he got the so desired attention from his friends, a big grin make its way to his face and he said, "Leave the search to me."
~*~*~*~*
In Miroku's room, Sango and Kagome sat on the bed while Inuyasha sat cross-legged on the floor. He turned the computer on and connected it to the Internet. After a few minutes of silence beside the modem's voice, Sango let the question to surface.
"What are you doing, Miroku? You said to leave the search to you but I don't think Yahoo Search Engine has any pages with Onigumo's information."
Miroku tutted. "Sango, Sango, Sango. Let me show you that my hands can do something other than groping."
"So you realized that you're groping her the entire time." Inuyasha snorted. Miroku sent him a look to shut up. Inuyasha just shrugged it off.
"You see, our school has its own website."
"And it doesn't contain any of the students file if you don't know." Inuyasha added. Miroku glared at him. "Let me finish. The website itself doesn't have any information about the students BUT it connects us to the school's computer and I have my way to reach the students' data."
"You mean you can hack school's computer?" Sango said in a newfound admiration before it dissipated and turned into a frown. "So that's why you know every female student's number."
Miroku grinned. "Yes, aren't I a genius?"
Sango threw him a look that can be called dirty before relented. Right now she didn't have time to smack Miroku for doing something like that. They were racing against time and Miroku usually took at least one hour of unconsciousness when she really hit him.
Miroku typed on his keyboard and Sango leaned from behind him to look at the monitor. She propped her elbows on Miroku's chair to get better leverage. Behind them, Kagome and Inuyasha, who took Sango's seat, whispered to each other.
"They really fit each other, don't you think?" Kagome said with a giddy voice. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at her. "I think Sango really likes Miroku, do you think Miroku likes her too?"
"I don't think so. Sango always gets angry when Miroku gropes her."
"Well, doh. You really don't know anything about girl, do you? Will you like it if someone you like gropes you?"
"Yeah." Inuyasha answered instantly. Kagome looked at him with disbelief. Either for the easy way Inuyasha said it or the fact that Inuyasha likes being groped. She shook her head.
"Okay, what will we do if we find Onigumo?" Kagome asked.
"What's with the abrupt change of conversation? And it's when, not if." Inuyasha scoffed. "First we can beat him to the ground, after that we can try tying him up and whip him or maybe tying him to a big stone and kick him to the river so he'll drown or we can stick needles under his nails or …"
"Woah, change the conversation again." Kagome said, almost screaming. She didn't need to know the torture Inuyasha prepared for Onigumo. Her poor mind and stomach can't handle it.
"What's wrong, Kagome?" Sango turned her head to find Kagome covering her ears with her hand and Inuyasha looking smug. "What are you two doing?"
"Nothing, Sango." Inuyasha said innocently. "We're only talking about the weather." Sango gave him the "Yeah right" expression and turned her attention once again to Miroku.
"Have you found it?"
"Wait a second. Ahah, there it is." Miroku clicked enter and in the monitor, Naraku's profile showed up. Inuyasha and Kagome stood up from their seats and crowded behind Miroku. "Hey, no pushing."
Name: Hitomi Kagewaki
Birth date/place: 29 September 1986/Tokyo
Home: 1/3 Nerima Fn 5, Tokyo
Telephone: 011-62-8327563
(AN: Sorry, I don't know any address or phone number in Japan)
With the information in hand, the group went.
~*~*~*~*~
"Man, he's rolling on the money." Miroku whistled in their hiding place. Naraku's house was inside a complex, which is famous for its rich people. An extravagant two stories European type house that stands across a park where Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Kagome were hiding. The sky was dark because it's almost eight o'clock. "Do you think he has his private pool?"
"Shut up, Miroku. Now let's rehearse the plan. Kagome and I search the second floor while Miroku and Sango cover the first floor. If you find Kikyou, haul her to the exit and meow two times. If you find Naraku first, beat him and meow one times. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, but why meow? You're INU-yasha, I think barking is better." Inuyasha gritted his teeth. "Miroku, you should stop saying humorless gag in situation like this, I might give in to the temptation to beat you into a bloody pulp."
Miroku put a hand to his heart and sighed dramatically. "Dear Lord, I only wanted to lighten the heavy situation we are in and what kind of response do I get. Oh, life is unfair indeed."
Sango bopped him. "Okay, let's go now. I think no one's at home."
If anyone were on the street or watching out of their window, they would see four suspicious teenagers tiptoeing to the dark house but since there was no one, the fours suspicious teenagers managed to climb the house's fence without rousing any voice. Well, aside from the hissing voice of a cat whose tail was stepped on by Inuyasha.
~*~*~*~*
Inuyasha climbed up the tree beside the balcony with feline grace with Kagome following behind him. For some reason she didn't want to be the first to climb so he made way first (Inuyasha wonders why). He gripped the branch and stabilized himself. After making sure that he won't slip and break his neck, Inuyasha extended his hand to Kagome who accepted it gratefully. They spied the closed window for a moment before Inuyasha jumped to the balcony without voice. After inspecting it, he turned to Kagome.
"Come on, Kagome. No one's here."
"Wait a minute." Kagome whispered from her position. She was struggling with her short uniform skirt and the wind was making it difficult. She doesn't have any intention of flashing Inuyasha and would rather die if it happened. And so, Kagome jumped with her hands clasping the hemline of her skirt. Even though she had A+ for her physical education, it didn't mean she could land smoothly without the help of her hand to balance herself.
Kagome slipped.
And she would have had a nasty bruise if Inuyasha didn't have the reflex of superhuman and caught her before she became friends with the hard marmer floor. Unfortunately for them, Inuyasha wasn't prepared for the momentum of Kagome slamming to him and they both toppled backwards.
After a couple of shushed groans, Kagome realized their position and blushed. She was on top of Inuyasha. Her face resting against Inuyasha's chest and her hands were on his hips. One of his hand was wrapped around her shoulder and the other around her waist and she could feel Inuyasha's heartbeat under his uniform. If possible, the blush went deeper.
Kagome's immediate reaction was to push herself off Inuyasha and she was almost fighting to get out of his embrace. In the process of entangling herself, she elbowed the poor puppy on his stomach. Kagome stopped when she heard Inuyasha grunted.
"Sorry, Inuyasha. I didn't hit you hard, did I?" Kagome asked worriedly. Inuyasha propped himself with his elbow and release the grip he had on Kagome. He massaged his stomach with his palm while muttering unintelligible words.
"Be careful." He muttered. Inuyasha would gladly throw a few curse words in but he held back. The worry Kagome had didn't make her realize their new position but Inuyasha was definitely aware. Kagome was kneeling in front of him with her hands on his shoulder and one of his legs was between her legs. The blush made its appearance on Inuyasha's face this time. He thanked every deity he knows that Miroku wasn't around to make a lewd joke about it. He pushed her away gently. "I'm okay. Could you please get up?"
Kagome realized their position and the blush made itself known again on her face. "Sorry." She stood and offered her hand to Inuyasha. Inuyasha watched at the hand hesitantly before taking it and pushed himself of the ground. They went into an awkward silence.
A revengeful cat chose that time to jump at Inuyasha's face, clawed him and ran before Inuyasha registered what's happening.
"Ow, stupid cat. What was that for?" Inuyasha rubbed his cheek where tiny claw prints were showing. "Wait until I catch you and fed you to Buyo."
Kagome laughed and shook her head, ignoring the Buyo joke. "We should be checking the house now. We don't have anytime to waste." She walked to the window and gave it an experimental push. "Well, he knew enough to never leave your window open when no one's at home. *sigh* What should we do, Inuyasha?"
"Leave it to me." He grinned smugly. He kneeled to peek at the window's lock structure before pulling out a pin from his hair and started to fiddle with it. Within a few seconds, the window gave a click sound and Inuyasha pushed the window open. "Please make yourself at home."
"Gee, Inuyasha. If you take the wrong road, you'll end up as a thief." Kagome followed him through the windows. After their eyes adjusted to the lightless room, they noted a few 'odd' things about the room.
"Hey, Inuyasha. Do you see what I think I'm seeing?" Kagome tugged at his arm. Inuyasha followed Kagome's line of sight and scrunched up his nose in disgust. "Yeah, I see that too. This must be Naraku's room."
"He uses baboon skin as a blanket. Eeew, is that thing real?"
"White baboon skin." Inuyasha corrected. "And yeah, I think it's real."
"Ugh, I feel sick."
"Wait until later. Now we have to find any clue about Kikyou."
Inuyasha and Kagome returned to their task and started to rummage the room, leaving the baboon-clad bed as the last thing to investigate.
~*~*~*~*~*
Meanwhile on the first floor, Sango and Miroku entered the house without much difficulty. The back door wasn't locked and it led straight to the kitchen. A nice, homely kitchen, Sango noted.
"Hey, Miroku. Come on, we can't waste any time."
"Oh my, Sango, I never thought you would be so eager with my presence." Miroku grinned. His white teeth shone in the relatively dark room. Sango rolled her eyes. "Miroku, stop making everything I say sound so perverted."
"But I'm born that way. Look at my lineage, you know my father." Miroku whined. Sango ignored him. She was walking to the front door to check on the coat closet. Usually in the movie, the bad guy tied and gagged the hostage in it. But reality proved otherwise, Sango found nothing resembling Kikyou in there.
"Maybe there's an underground room in this house. Miroku, stop nagging and start searching." Irritated, Sango was tempted to kick him. He did as he told with a pout on his face. "I feel like a burglar."
"No, we're not. A burglar takes other people's thing while we are merely searching for our friend. This house's occupants are responsible for it."
"Okay, okay. Hey, Sango, I know it's not the time to ask this but do you want to go to the movie after the exams?"
"You're right; it's not the right time." Sango said and started to search the next room.
Miroku sighed. "Why you do never give me any chance? What did I do wrong?" Sango went out of the room and gave him a slanted look. "Ask yourself, pervert."
"You mean, if I don't grope you, you will be my girlfriend?" Miroku's face lightens up. "That's kind of hard, but I will do it."
Sango's left eye twitched with the carefree response. She didn't want Miroku to think that it was easy to get her. Her mind filled her with many things she could try to kick him off. She settled to one choice. "Well, let's bet. If you can enter 3-A next year, I will be your girlfriend but you can't …" Sango grinned. "You will stop all those pervert joke, action etc. Oh yeah, you have to burn all the porn magazines under your bed too."
"How do you know about the magazine?"
Sango scowled. So her guess was right. "So do you accept or not?"
With a shining smile that could rival the sunlight, Miroku clasped both of Sango's hand into his and cried joyously. "Of course."
And the front door chose that time to open.
~*~*~*~*~*
"Oh my." A woman gasped as the scene sunk in. Beside her, her husband stood and watched them warily. He was ready to shout 'Thief' but his wife asked first. "Who are you two?"
"We're not suspicious people." Sango's tongue spouted the sentence without thinking. After she said it, she felt like hitting herself. Now, they became more suspicious. "This is not like what its looks like."
Miroku added, "Yeah, we're just uh … venturing around." This sentence made the aggravated man who was undeniably Naraku's father became angrier. Miroku smiled sheepishly and raised his hand to pacify the situation. "We were looking for someone."
"And who is that someone?" The man said through gritted teeth. "Do you youngster KNOW that entering someone's place WITHOUT permission can put you two in jail?"
"For Naraku's father, he sure knows law, don't you think, Sango?" Miroku whispered to Sango who stood beside him. Sango nodded.
"What are you two whispering?" The harsh tone made the two jumped and smiled guiltily.
"Nothing, Sir." There was a panic note in Miroku's voice. "I'm sure we can talk this through. We were searching for …"
"Oi, Miroku, Sango, do you find any …" Inuyasha's voice trailed. He was walking down the stair and stopped when he saw two pairs of angry eyes and another two of exasperation was directed at him. Behind him, Kagome bumped to him when he stopped. "Oh no."
"What's wrong, Inuyasha?" Kagome rubbed her nose and hadn't known the situation.
"We're in deep shit."
"MASUMI, CALL THE POLICE." The man decided that he didn't like the teenagers that barged to his house and want them out. His wife immediately searched for the hand phone in her bag at the order.
"Sir, I believe we should talk first. This is just a misunderstanding." Miroku tried to smooth the situation they were in. "We can talk it out."
The man and his wife paid no heed. Right now, the wife was calling the police number. "You youngsters can tell about what you're doing today at court."
"WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR NARAKU. HE KIDNAPPED OUR FRIEND." Kagome snapped. Her nerves were suffering since morning when she and Inuyasha met with Naraku on the street. It couldn't handle the thought of being imprisoned by police. What will her family say? Or her friends?
However, her shout stopped the man and his wife. They looked at Kagome and Inuyasha then at Sango and Miroku before back again. They looked weary all of a sudden. The woman cancelled the call and looked down at the floor, while the man massaged his forehead.
"Is he doing something again?" At last, the man spoke again but he is no longer threatening. Kagome, Sango, Inuyasha and Miroku sighed in relief. Miroku decided that he should be the one who converse with the pair since the other looked ready to snap at the possible wrong words. After all only he was the one who didn't know about Naraku. That would make him view everything that happened with an objective perspective.
They sat on the sofa that would have been comfortable if only the situation wasn't tense and heavy. Masumi, Naraku's mother, was serving tea to everyone before she sat down beside her husband, Taiki.
"Thank you for your hospitality." Miroku formally said.
"It's fine. Please tell us, is what your friend just said right? That Naraku kidnapped your other friend."
Miroku nodded after kicking Inuyasha who tried to answer. He inherited the silver tongue every man of his family had, along with the perversity, and was sure that if Inuyasha tried to explain the situation, they would be sent to jail faster than Naraku thinking up a new plan.
"We're not very sure, but all the clue points up to him." Of course there were no clue but they didn't have to know that. "We knew that our previous action is unacceptable but we didn't know any other way to prove it. We were looking for our friend's whereabouts and decided that it would be the best way. We're really sorry to cause disturbance for both of you, but we really need to know about Naraku. Do you have any idea where he took our friend?"
Taiki and Masumi exchanged glance. They vaguely knew about their son's actions but could do nothing to stop him. They didn't have the heart to take a firm decision since he was their only child. And parental love always blinds people.
"We don't know." Taiki said slowly. "He never tells anything to us. I'm sorry but we can't do anything for you."
"Sorry won't bring my friend back, mister." Kagome stood up suddenly. Her anger flared around her. Her fist clenched beside her. "I'm sorry to say this but Onigumo is a pain in the ass. *In here Sango, Inuyasha and Miroku's jaws dropped* I've known him since elementary school and he always gets on everyone's nerve. He had this strange obsession with Kikyou and he almost raped her in the end of sixth semester. And now, she is in his hand without any protection. Who knows what he's doing. Do you think I can accept your sorry just like that?"
Kagome was screaming at the end of the tirade. The other stared wide eyes at Kagome with their mouth hanging open. They snapped back in place when Masumi burst out to tears.
"We … we don't want it to be that way either but we can do nothing." Masumi said between hiccups. "Kagewaki was such a good boy before it happened. When he was in elementary school he's still all right but after he enter junior high school, he became even worse. We've tried many psychologies but none succeed. We're at loss too." Taiki hugged his wife and tried to sooth her. He looked at them gravely.
"Please, could you please go? We really don't know anything. If we do, we'll tell you immediately."
Kagome was going to protest but Sango held her. "Kagome, I think they're telling the truth. Come on we can't waste any time here. We have to find another place."
"We're sorry for the inconvenience." Miroku said as Taiki accompanied them to the front door. Sango was holding onto Kagome who looked ready to explode. Taiki shook his head.
"No, it's our fault that we can't teach our son. We pray that your friend will be alright."
Kagome was ready to shout again. How irresponsible can Naraku's parents be? But a familiar voice from the front door stopped her.
"I'm home." Kagome, Sango and Inuyasha recognized the deep voice, which rang every subliminal alarm in their body, easily.
"Naraku." Inuyasha growled and without wasting any time, he ran to the front door. Kagome and the others followed suit. "NARAKU!!"
Indeed it was Naraku who was standing beside the front door. He was in the middle of releasing his shoes. He blinked when Inuyasha stormed to him and grabbed his collar added with a threatening glare.
"Where did you take Kikyou?" He growled. Naraku blinked again.
"Inuyasha?" He asked. "Is it you?"
"Damn right. And you'll be dead if you don't answer me."
"Wow, it's almost two years since the last time we met." Naraku, the evilest and twisted being ever graced the earth, smiled INNOCENTLY at Inuyasha. Inuyasha's left eye twitched. He looked behind Inuyasha and the smile broke into a grin. "Kagome, Sango. You came to play. Who's the other guy?"
The fact that Naraku, of all people, greeted them in a casual manner brought chills in everyone's bones.
"What's wrong? You guys look pale." Inuyasha dropped Naraku and took two steps back.
"Okay, who are you and what did you do to Naraku?" Inuyasha pointed an accusing finger to him. Naraku frowned.
"Naraku? My name is Kagewaki."
"Don't play dumb with me." Inuyasha hissed. "I will send you to the real hell if you keep it up."
"But my name is really Kagewaki." He protested.
Oookay, something was definitely wrong here.
"Kagewaki, is it really you?" Taiki asked hopefully. "You're not Naraku anymore?"
'Naraku' rolled his eyes. "What's wrong with you people? Who is Naraku?"
Tears welled up in Taiki's eyes. He shouted to his wife to come. "Masumi, Kagewaki is back. Our Kagewaki is back." His wife rushed into the scene with her puffy eyes and watched with mixture of disbelief and hope at Taiki. "Are you sure?"
"What's wrong with you, mom, dad?" Naraku scowled. "Is this some kind of drama?"
Instead of answering, Taiki and Masumi rushed to their son and engulfed him in a hug. Masumi cried again but this time Taiki followed suit. On the side, Inuyasha, Kagome and Sango had developed a sudden tic on their left eyes at the touching scene, while Miroku …
"Aaaaww, isn't that sweet?" The other looked at him like he just said something foul and nasty.
"Mom, dad? I can't breathe." Naraku protested but his parents didn't give any heed. They kept hugging him and crying as if he was their long lost child.
After five minutes of it, Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore.
"EXCUSE ME. But we have a PROBLEM here."
Masumi and Taiki stared at Inuyasha as if not expecting him to be there.
"We want to know where Oni … your son took Kikyou." Kagome said, unsure to call the long black haired boy Naraku or Onigumo or Kagewaki for that matter. Everything was just too weird to understand. The guy was too weird.
"Kikyou? I already took her home. It's really weird, I think I woke up in some kind of storage room and Kikyou was there, tied up. I don't know who did that and I released her. Thankfully we didn't meet with the person when we went out from there."
Kagome looked flustered. "So you mean, Kikyou is home now?"
"Yes."
Kagome dashed out of the house and ran to the street, screaming, "If she is hurt in any ways, I'll be back to kill you."
"Well. Let's go follow her." Sango dragged Miroku with her while Inuyasha threw a suspicious glare at Naraku before he went out. Inside the house, Naraku stared at his parents.
"What was that all about?"
~*~*~*~*~*
"Kikyou, Kikyou." Kagome knocked at the apartment's door furiously. She didn't miss a beat and almost hit Kikyou when she opened the door. Kikyou frowned at her.
"Kagome, I told you many times. Don't …" Kikyou's admonition was cut short when Kagome threw her arms around her and enveloped her in a bone crushing hug.
"Kikyou, you're okay." Kagome cried. The pent-up worries for her best friend flowed like water from her nerves. "I thought you're going to die."
Kikyou's eyes soften. She patted Kagome's shoulder and looked at Sango who looked as relieved as Kagome. Sango smiled and hugged her too. "I thought Onigumo got you."
"We're really grateful that you're okay, Kikyou." Miroku said. He opened his arms and was about to join the hugging when Inuyasha pulled his uniform to stop him.
"I'm okay. Sorry to make you guys worried."
"So you really weren't kidnap by Naraku?" Inuyasha asked. All that time and effort was for nothing?
Kikyou kept a straight face. "I was kidnapped by him."
"But he said he released you and took you home."
"Yes, he did that."
"So why did he kidnap you and released you afterwards? What's his purpose?"
"Guys. I think you should go home for now. I need time to order my mind. I will tell you the story tomorrow when I'm ready."
"But …" Kagome protested. Kikyou silenced her with a trained glare. Kagome pouted. "Okay, but tomorrow, I and Inuyasha will pick you up for school. Don't sneak out again."
"Okay. Now go home, it's almost 10.00 PM."
Kikyou bid them goodbye before closing the door. She leaned against the door and recalled today's event. If her theory was right, then Naraku was …
End chapter
AN: Okay, anyone can guess what is wrong with Naraku? The hint: psychology.
I hope this chapter is not boring for everyone.
I'm sorry for the late update, really, really sorry. If nothing happened, I will post the new chapter next week. I spent all the time without a computer to outline until chapter 16.
And to respond to justhelping review, Naraku is needed for the plot. He's not an ordinary cameo or the typical villain who should be condemned to hell. He has his own problem and it has something to do with Kikyou and Kagome. You have to guess the rest since I'm not telling now. And, oh yeah, this fic is going to be IY/Kag (I already thought about ending) but there will be another pairing in the story flow. Thank you for your advise ^_^
Review, anyone?