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AN: You guys can thank this chapter to the fact I haven't slept in 38 hours and still can't fall asleep...which is plain cruel. Sorry about the delay, but the next chapter might not come out until I get a laptop or go to my grandmother's house. Then I can have time to type it okay? You can try to convince me otherwise but it will be pretty hard to do. This is even longer than I wanted since at 11 p.m I still can't fall asleep, I am writing more so you don't kill me.





Chapter 8



Traitor or Traitors



"Wake up Kagome."





The whispered command seemed to tear apart her clouded mind as she slowly came aware of her surroundings. Groaning in pain, her head throbbed in time with the voice that called her name. Opening her eyes, everything blurred around the edges. Blinking furiously, she focused on the figure by the window.







"Naraku."







He smiled at the barely veiled venom in her greeting.. She was really here...with him. Ever since he heard of Kouga's pet, he was filled with curiosity. But when news of Kouga's death and her escape, he became obsessed. What kind of woman...could kill one of his kind? What kind of woman could the wolf clan be unable to tame? He spent months trying to find out why. But now that he knew who and what she was, he vowed to bend her to his will. Now was his chance.





"Hello, dear Kagome."





Laughing to himself, Naraku got up from the window and walked up to her. Hands chained separately to the wall and feet shackled in place, Kagome gave him the impression of a crucified mortal. Alive and angry one though. Laughing inside, he touched her cheek with one long nail. He looked into her eyes as he dragged it down, peeling away skin. Her breath caught with pain, but she made no noise. Naraku watched as the red liquid streamed over the pale skin of her face. Captivating. Tangling his hands in her hair, he pulled her closer and whispered into her ear.





"You're mine."





~*~*~ (AN: My cousin convinced me to put these in when there is a scene change okay? Sorry about it)







Tense seconds passed while the eldest Tiayoukia brother stared at the telephone in his hands. Naraku had her. He took her. Naraku took what was HIS! The receiver cracked and shattered under Sesshomaru's tightening grip, shards burying themselves deep into his palm. Sesshomaru gazed down without noticing his blood falling as his eyes started to fog over with hate. He would kill Naraku. No one, NO ONE, touched Kagome other than him. A low growl ripped his way out of his throat and he turned to the door ready to go kill Naraku, when slowly the door opened to reveal...





"Master Sesshomaru!" Jaken cried seeing his master look at him with pure hate. Stumbling back, he hit the wall as Sesshomaru pushed him out of his way and stalked down the hall toward the front entrance. Sweating profoundly, the toad-like youkia stumbled his way into Sesshomaru's study and surveyed the ruin. The telephone lay in pieces on the slightly melted floor, where Sesshomaru unconsciously let his poison eat away at the area around him. It was worse then Jaken had first thought. Surely...that man...He couldn't have been right about his master's feelings...Could he?







"What are we going to do though!" Aisu cried, finally tiring of Inuyasha and Miroku continuously going over what they already knew. "I don't care how much you know about Naraku and his dealings, but do you two know where he lives? A safe house of sorts? Kagome could be anywhere with the information you are giving me!"





Inuyasha winced as her voice rose with each word. What was it with women and screaming? Miroku on the other hand nodded along with her. " She is right Inuyasha." He said after she calmed down slightly. "We need to know where Kagome is. She is all of our friend and we all want to find her. But we must work together."





Inuyasha looked at their expecting faces and returned his gaze to the ground. His voice was clearly despaired when he finally spoke. "But you don't understand. This is Naraku Onigumo! I don't associate with him. He would rather I be dead since I am only hal-" He stopped scowling before continuing. "I mean, Naraku only deals with my brother. So I don't know where he lives or where he is staying in this city. That is the problem. We can't ask Sesshomaru right now because he doesn't care what happens to Kagome. To him she is just another useless hum-







"Shut up Brother. You don't know what you're talking about." Sesshomaru's enraged voice said from the stairs. Aisu and Miroku gasped as they noticed his eyes were glowing an frighteningly red color. He stopped, still in the shadows of the balcony and closed his eyes. The red glow disappeared as he took a deep breath trying to calm down. But his anger and hate was still evident in his clenched hands as he stood there eyes closed. "Kagome...means more to me then you could imagine." He proceeded all the way down the stairs and faced the stunned group.





"Naraku knows I will be coming after him. He isn't at his hotel as you assumed in your ignorance. The only way we will find Kagome again is to track her down and/or find out who works for Naraku here in the city. He has to have some lowlife obeying his orders. Other wise it wouldn't be his st--







"Now wait! I want to know how you know this. That Naraku will be expecting you. After all you are a cold blooded monster who throws people out on the street. You don't care for anyone who's life doesn't matter critically to you!" Aisu yelled. Inuyasha flinched as his brother stiffened next to him. Though he had basically the same opinion didn't' mean he would want Sesshomaru to hear it. Especially after what he just said about Kagome meaning more to him then she would ever know.



"What..." Sesshomaru said in a voice of ice. "...would you know about me? You have only read stories they put in the tabloids, not the truth. I don't have a heart do I? Then why aren't you dead right now? I could have you killed and cover it up so no one will ever know, but I don't. Is this how I prove to you that I am heartless? Or is it because I am worried about Kagome Higurashi, the girl who I--." He froze on the words.





He loved her. He really did. Sesshomaru froze in mid-rant. How could this have happened. Youkia weren't suppose to fall in love at first sight. They weren't suppose to fall in love at all. Especially with a human! If...any other demon lord found out...they would kill him. They would join together and kill her in front of him just like they did with his Inuyasha's mother. Fear struck deep within his heart. He didn't understand why he felt this way for the girl, but...he knew it would never work. One of them, possibly both, would end up hurt or killed. Sighing, he lost his anger toward the young human in front of him.







"You have never been hurt by me, so don't accuse me of being heartless." Aisu gasped at these words. Before when he broke off his rant about Kagome, she had thought possibly, he may have a heart. But her, Aisu Tora, never suffering at his hands! Oh she suffered.





"You destroyed my father! You think I have nothing against you? My family is dead right now because of what you did! My brother died before he reached fifteen by a bullet to the head. Do you have any idea how hard it is to live in the place your brother was killed? Or where your mother died by a drunk driver who NEVER WENT TO JAIL BECAUSE HE WAS ONE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES!" She screamed at him.





Sesshomaru stared at the glaring girl in front of him. He...did that? But...When? "Who was your father?" Surely there was a reason.





"My father was Jon Tora. He worked for your father for his whole life and then when he died you fired him. You threw him out onto the streets! He was a--





"Fucking Traitor!" Sesshomaru yelled back. Finally losing control of his emotions, he stalked up to her and yelled into her face. "THAT DESPICABLE HUMAN IS THE REASON MY FATHER IS DEAD. DEAD! IF HE HADN'T BEEN SELLING INFORMATION THEN MY FAMILY WOULD STILL BE TOGETHER!"





Inuyasha looked quickly at Aisu to see her pale. But his attention was captured by his brother, who with the loss of his emotions, also lost his human facade. As he yelled close up into her face, his eyes became slitted and his ears sharpened out into points. Across his cheekbones, two slashes of red proclaimed his race and a blue crescent marked his rank as Prince. Horror filled his gut as Miroku noticed the changes that occurred on his elder brother.







Sesshomaru panted for breath as he forced himself from hacking the Tora girl into tiny pieces. This was the devil spawn of the murderous scum. Turning around, he faced the wall wishing it would burn into ash. After a minute or so, he turned around and faced the human.





"Look I am sorry for your loss, but your father deserved it. He didn't tell me he had children or I would have made sure you and the rest of your family was safe, but the past is the past. " Still the girl looked at him with a sort of fascinated horror. Then his worst fear was spoken from her lips.





"W-what are you?"







Sesshomaru looked down, horrified to see his claws there. What happened? Looking up at his brother, he didn't notice any change. "W-what happened....Inuyasha?"





Miroku tore his gaze from Sesshomaru, the elder brother of his best friend who had just turned into a youkia. What was going on? Could it be that...his suspicion was confirmed when Inuyasha said in a resigned voice, "Brother, you lost your illusion along with your control."





"Inuyasha...you also...are a youkia...a demon?" Miroku said stunned. But surely Inuyasha would have trusted him enough to tell him? He had trusted him...and yet Inuyasha...didn't? Sesshomaru's voice broke the silence.





"No Inuyasha isn't a demon...and how would you know about demons, Housi?" Sesshomaru said in a cold voice. Perhaps he could spare his brother from detection. Perhaps these humans would believe it.





Inuyasha and Miroku started to speak at the same times.











"I am a de---







"I am too a---







Inuyasha nodded for Miroku to continue. "Well, I descend from a long line of monks who were helpers of the legendary Mikos when the world was overcome with demons." At this Aisu's head jerked up from studying Sesshomaru's demon body (AN: GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER! SHE IS RESERVED FOR ANOTHER!...*coughs politely* now to continue). A miko? But...wasn't that what ...Kagome was? Before she could say a word, Inuyasha tried to explain what was going on.





"As from Miroku you know that long ago there were thousands of demons on earth. They killed and enslaved humans, not feeling anything for the beings they considered inferior. But then a group of priestesses gained a power that could easily destroy a lone demon. Groups of these women joined together and started forward on a march to rid the world of youkia. As a result, the demons also started to ban together, though few like the inu-youkia and the wolf youkia wanted nothing to do with it. When both groups met there was a bloodied battle, where human and demon alike fell. But when the dust cleared, the remaining demons, the neutral ones, watched in silence as the mikos walked out victorious. Sesshomaru's ancestors swore a blood oath that they and their kin would never again attack humans in out right war nor would they try enslave them. But as peace always is, things went wrong. The power of the mikos died and was lost, and the demons became fewer and fewer. Now days there are so many humans that demons must hide in fear of being found. Those of mixed breeds must do the same. You see, I am--





"Brother don't! You want to put your future in their hands? One word and you will be a government pet." Sesshomaru hissed out. The two looked startled and turned to face Inuyasha puzzled.





"What does he mean, Inuyasha?"





"What Sesshomaru meant is this." For the first time in his life, Inuyasha willingly lower the illusion he had been taught since before he could remember. " I am his half brother."







"Inuyasha...why didn't you tell me?" Miroku asked. "Did you not trust m--







"Were you not listening human!?" Sesshomaru asked outraged. "He is my half brother. That means his father was my father, but his mother...his mother was human! If you even thought about him near other demons, they may pick up the thought and kill him! He isn't accepted in either world! What information do you think Jon Tora told? He told other high business owners , who happen to be demons, that my father quietly married a young doctor...a young doctor who happened to be with child. No demoness would want a hushed wedding and no demoness would have gone to a human university to learn to heal humans. They knew that she was human and it was against their laws for the two to wed. They killed our father because of her and would have killed Inuyasha if we hadn't found out who told. Now we are alone in this world because of those who can't get by race. I accept the fact that humans have the right to live but others...like Naraku. They do not. Humans are bugs in their eyes, just something to squish for sadistic pleasure. That is why the seven strongest families left have a council to make sure no one breaks the blood oath."







"Oh...I am sorry Inuyasha. It is just so confusing. Why all of a sudden is all of this happening?" Miroku said in an apologetic tone. The three of them turned to Aisu who was staring at the wall.







So Kagome is a miko...but if the power is lost? How? Was this the big secret that she learned? But why kill her friend for it and what did Sesshomaru have to do with that death? Blinking, she noticed the others staring at her. Blushing she bowed her head in the direction of Sesshomaru. "I must admit things were not as I first believed...but yet not everything has been explained. As much as I want the answers, I feel that we should first find out how to get Kagome. She is with Naraku after all."







With her words all of them realized how much time had passed. They had been talking about this suddenly trivial matter while Kagome was kidnaped! Inuyasha turned to Sesshomaru.







"So if you don't know where he is at the moment how are we going to find her!" His brother just thought for a moment and suddenly snapped his fingers.







"Come on we have to go. He isn't up after nine at night and is really hard to find when he is hiding, so we must leave now. Illusions, Inuyasha?" The younger brother nodded and returned to their normal more human looks. They didn't' know that the two humans were staring in awe as they stumbled after them, nor did they know that they hadn't' been alone.







A short figure on the balcony looked after them as they passed through the main door. It's fingers were curled around a small plastic box, that if seen up close could be identified as a tape recorder. Pressing stop, he hurried to the nearest telephone in the mansion.







"Yes?"





"I got it...also I have evidence that Sesshomaru is going against the Council of Seven." The unidentified figure said in a raspy voice.





"Good. Where are they heading?" After a few words, the phone was hung up and the figure moved to watch the car carrying Sesshomaru and the other three leave the long driveway.





"You had to be stopped Sesshomaru. Your feelings for that human is not allowed. Besides she was human...such filth...someday you will thank me, Master Sesshomaru." With that Jaken went back to his normal duties, knowing that the situation was taken care of.





















AN: Was it long enough??? Sorry if it is a little OOC for Sesshomaru but remember he just got new Kagome was kidnapped. I have some ideas for the nexted chapter, but I hope to get a laptop before that. I wrote this whole thing just for you reviewers, specially Cherrybomb...mean witch...jk. Any way I hope you like it. R&R if you think I need to change anything or if you have some ideas. Or just Review for the heck of it. Please??