AN: Ahh yes, the romance scene we've all been waiting for…Mu wha ha ha ha ha!!! And I'm also sorry to say I won't have Shippou in this fic. Because if I did, I'd have Souten too, and it'll get even more complicated. I just can't steer away from my original coupling! Oh yes…it's about time someone noticed that Naraku is surrounded by women. All his henchmen are practically girls…in this fic I mean.
Disclaimer: Don't bother me with this…you guys a piranhas! You keep taking, and taking, and taking…and did I mention taking?
*Sesshoumaru's Mansion – 8:57:09AM*
Kagome flopped onto her bed and growled. She rubbed her eyes and looked out the open window. So many things had happened, even before sunrise…
*Flashback*
"Look, I can't stay here for long."
Kagome frowned, leaning from the opposite couch. "Why? It's safe here."
Ayame sighed. "Look, it's not that." She looked from right to left, everyone else watching her oddly. Standing up, she walked towards Kagome and showed her hand.
She frowned. "A smudged hand?"
Ayame blanched and looked down at her hand. "Oh crud…I rubbed my hand on my forehead when I was running…sweating like crazy…"
…so that was the greasy looking smudge all over Ayame's face and shirt. She looked as if she had just run through an oil factory.
"Darn it…umm…" She looked around and noticed Kouga, who was glaring at her from his chair. He was taken back when she walked towards him and leaned down close to him; as if about to kiss him.
She rested her hands on his shoulders and started to blink like crazy. For a minute, he looked as if she was crazy then realization seemed to sink in. He nodded and Ayame, blinking once more, nodded too and walked back towards her couch without saying anything.
Sitting back down, she smiled at Kagome as if nothing had happened. "You know, I wanted to give you this cute boy's phone number, but looks like I smudged it. Oh well, too bad…"
Kagome frowned. "Ayame, what are you –"
"Anyway, how are you after you betrayed Naraku?"
"Why are you asking these –?"
She shook her head furiously.
Kagome watched Kouga stand up and whisper something in Inuyasha's ears. His eyes widened and nodded. Sango and Sesshoumaru watched them quietly, as if they could tell what was going on by just watching them. Inuyasha nodded to Sango and she nodded back, standing up too and walking towards Kagome. Sitting down, she leaned in to her ear.
"Ayame's bugged."
Kagome gasped quietly. Well, that explained everything…
"Anyway, I just thought it might be nice to visit, since I'm on the run and all." She shrugged and stuffed one of her hand into her jean pocket. "Well, I think I better go now. Sorry for causing so much ruckus. You guys just looked as if you would have kicked me out if I didn't force my way in anyway."
"Hell yeah." Kouga growled as if nothing had happened. "Get out of here. It's better not having another stinking canine staying in here."
Inuyasha and Ayame glared at him.
She snorted as she stood up. "The other would be you, right?"
"Get out."
She rolled her eyes. "Whatever. No need to be so touchy." She turned around as she delicately pulled a green paper out of her jean pocket. "Well, I hope I'll see you all again…" She glared at Kouga. "…maybe not all of you…"
He snorted as she walked away, but not before she dropped the paper on the coffee table without a single sound and walked off, not looking back.
"Well, see ya. I'll be in my weaponry shop. My gramps first shop he left for me…"
*End of Flashback*
"So, what did the green paper say anyway?" Kagome asked, watching Sango go through the abnormally large closet…she would have thought the closet was the exact same size as the guestroom – actually, it probably was…
She sat up from the bed. Why in the devil did all the rooms have to be so…dark?! She looked around the brown modern room.
"Read it yourself." Sango poked her head from the closet doorway, and handed Kagome the paper, going back to the giant closet and shuffling through some clothes.
I hope you all understood that I was bugged – I wouldn't want to be thought as a crazy girl. Anyway, as I probably have said, Naraku killed my gramps and everyone I ever knew. I want revenge, but I'm only a weapon specialist; I'll only get in your way. So I pulled some strings from my gramps' old friends and found out that Onigumo, a billionaire and Naraku's stepbrother, knows the exact pattern of where Naraku moves to and from – meaning his hideouts. The only thing is…he's mentally out of place because his 'loving–brother' tortured him for suspicion of treason (personally, I think he just didn't like him). I think the only way you could even meet him is to attend the Medieval Ball he has – or his caretaker has, since he's mentally off from Earth at the moment – every once a month. So that means you're going to have to wear a gown or some sort to the ball which is going to be held about tomorrow night. I would go with you, but there's no way anyone's going to get me into any girly clothes. Well, I hope this info helps – I want to see Naraku dead as much as I want a personally customized bazooka.
– Ayame
"…what?!"
Sango poked her head from the closet again. "For some reason, I knew you weren't going to be happy about it."
"Happy?" Oh…Kagome was mad alright. "Happy?!" Real mad. "Are you kidding me?! Ayame, my own third cousin who's been once removed, leaves me with this sort of situation?! A ball?! And for the love of Kami, it's Naraku's brother we're talking about!"
"Oh give pity for this Onigumo guy." Sango waved it off. "He's Naraku's stepbrother, and he's been tortured by him. I'm sure he hates him…though I'm not sure if we could get anything out of his slightly off mind…"
"Exactly!" Kagome raised her arm in the air. She obviously didn't want to go to this ball. "How are we going to find out anything from him?!"
Sango shrugged. "We could probably sneak into his office or something."
"But isn't it invitation only?"
"Please Kagome." Sango looked at her with a sarcastic look. "We're secret agents. Pull a few strings here and there, and we could be thought as a multimillionaire in a finger snap." She snapped her fingers as an example.
Kagome groaned. Looks like she had no exit out of this…
"But one thing."
She looked at her with a tired expression.
"How did Ayame get removed?" She shuffled back into the closet. "I never got the concept of it."
"Oh bravo. What a brilliant question." Growling, she fell back on the bed. "Her family; they went through a lot of divorcements here and there. I think Ayame's real mother was my mom's cousin…or was she my mom's second cousin?"
Sango poked her head from the doorway again. "Huh?"
Kagome shook her head. "All I know is her family went through a lot of weird divorcements, so I don't really think she used to be my third cousin…"
"…oh."
It looked as if not one of them in the room understood what Kagome had just said.
"…well, I gotta find you a nice gown. Get over here; I don't know your size."
Kagome grumbled as she hopped off the bed and made her way over a few gowns on the floor. "You really know how to cleanout the closet. Whose gowns are these anyways?"
"Mine." Sango said.
"All these?!"
She looked at her with those 'innocent' eyes. "What? A girl has to have a lot of clothes when your life is always at stake with the crime lords, drug lords, and not to mention all those military government officials around here!"
"…whatever."
"Now, what do you think about this one?"
To Kagome's horror, Sango stood up from the carpet and turned around, holding a strawberry pink gown that had lacy stripes of ruby red flowing down to the hems of the dress. Not to mention all the yellow bows stuck onto the gown; Kagome would have thought someone would have suffocated with all the bows stuck to the neck.
"So, what do you think? Is it pretty?" Sango twirled around, holding the dress to her chest and checking it out. "Do you like it? The color's cold Passion Pink."
"Are you kidding me?!" Kagome burst out. "That thing's hideous! The most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my entire stinking life!"
Sango snorted as she dropped the gown on the floor. "Oh calm down. I knew you wouldn't like it. Here follow me – there are more gowns deeper into the closet."
Kagome followed Sango (making sure to step on the hideous pink gown while at it) and was led into a huge hallway–like maze of closets after closets. Following Sango through the odd rows of gowns, she noticed a few nice ones (obviously black) and some more disgusting ones (obviously pink).
"Don't you want to find your own gown first?" Kagome asked, wanting to break the ominous silence. "I mean…there's a lot in here."
"I'm not going."
Kagome stopped in her tracks. "What?!"
She shrugged. "I really don't feel like getting into any gowns any time soon."
"But you can't leave me with two perverts to go to a ball…that's just nasty!" Kagome yelled.
Sango sighed. "Hey, I made up my mind. Besides, they act less perverted when they're around strangers." She started the journey through the closets again.
"…yeah right." Kagome started following Sango again through the maze, but she couldn't help wonder why Sango was acting this quietly today. Now that she thought about it, she had been acting this quietly since Miroku had groped her breasts…eh…
"Oh!"
Kagome jumped. "What?"
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!!!"
"…what?!"
Sango pulled out a gown from the rows of the other dresses and held it up as high as she could with her arms. "This is perfect for you!"
Kagome stared at the gown with a stunned expression. "It's pink…"
"No it's not!!!" Sango exaggerated. "It's a dull violet with a hint of pink on the neck collar that's V-shaped!" She held up the bottom rim. "And don't you even like the slits near the thighs?!'
"…it still looks like pink."
Sango growled. "It's not pink!!!"
Kagome kept on staring at it. "I say it's still pink."
She threw the dress at her. "Whatever, you're still going to wear that thing!"
"What? Why?! Why couldn't it be green? Or even white?!"
"Please Kagome, green looks better on…well, on Ayame…and you're just kidding about the white thing."
Kagome muttered some incoherent things. She was right…
"Just take the gown. It's better than those pink bowed ones…"
"…fine." She grumbled as she took the dress. Sango didn't notice how she was staring at the dress with a surprised look. It was probably more than twenty thousand dollars, and Sango was just letting her take it…
"How about this?"
Kagome turned around with a soft look before she blanched and it evolved into a skeptical look. Sango was holding a bright red bow that sparkled in the light from the ceiling.
"It'll look nice if you have your hair in a ponytail."
"Sango!"
She backed away. "Whaa~at?"
Meanwhile…
"So basically, we have to get some info out of a mentally disturbed guy, eh?"
Kouga looked out the window. "That's basically what that nutcase said."
Miroku sighed. "You could at least be polite while she's not here." He looked back at the test tube he was continuously churning.
"Whatever."
Inuyasha looked into the mirror, seeing himself in the odd medieval-styled clothes and the obvious scowl plastered onto his face. "This is the part I hate most in my job."
"The dress up?"
"What else?"
Miroku looked up from dropping another liquid onto the blood on his glass beaker. "Is it really appropriate to test this virus in the master bedroom? I know I said I needed somewhere with more space and light…but…" He looked around the luxuriously rich surrounding. Porcelain vases, leather pedestals…this mansion reminded frighteningly of his father's old place.
Inuyasha turned around; letting Kouga choose the outfit from the wall he was leaning on. "It doesn't really matter. This isn't my place anyways."
Miroku remembered Sesshoumaru's cold glare and nodded. That was exactly what he was afraid of.
"I'm not going."
Inuyasha turned to Kouga as Miroku went back to churning the liquids. "What?"
"I'm not going to the ball." He shrugged. "I really don't feel like getting into those kinds of outfits any time soon…" He nodded towards Inuyasha, indicating the nicely patterned clothes.
Miroku kept an ear out as Inuyasha growled. "Hey, I'm not going with two tomboy macho chicks wearing something like this…though it doesn't sound that bad now that I think about it."
Kouga shrugged. "Then go for it." He then promptly crossed the room and walked out the door, closing it unusually quietly.
There was a momentary silence before Miroku broke it.
"Well, he seems quite emotional today."
"Huh?" Inuyasha turned to him, who was still watching determinedly at the test tube. "What?"
He lowered the tube the slightest bit. "What I mean is, ever since Ayame left he's been acting quite solemnly than before."
"…" The dog-boy considered this as he started to take his medieval outfit off. "You know, you're a lot more observant than I would have ever guessed."
He smiled secretly to himself. "I know."
*Tokyo Dome – 10:37:19AM*
"You're late."
He smiled. "That's what makes everything more interesting."
Naraku got out of his black limo, taking off his sunglasses and not carrying any suitcases with him like when Kouga was on a similar mission. His long greasy hair whirled as an ominous wind passed by.
The man waiting at the entrance narrowed his eyes. His hair was pale white, unlike Inuyasha's and his beady blue eyes stared dully at Naraku. "I don't like it when someone's late."
He sneered. "I'm the one who sent you here, didn't I Juroumaru?"
"And I have acquired the blue prints like you wanted." He nodded, indicating the black suitcase next to his feet. "The flight is due on the end of the month. Your…'shipments'…will be arriving in Los Angeles by the end of that day."
There was a clear smirk on his face. "Good…good."
He looked lifelessly at Naraku. "Well. I think my job is done."
"Oh yes, by the way." He smiled humorlessly at him. "Today's your last day isn't it?"
The white-haired man nodded. "I've worked with you for ten years. I'm moving on."
"Well…alright. You were of such good use." He turned around and headed back to his limo. "I'm going to miss your enthusiasm you have during your missions."
"What about the suitcase?" He looked down at it.
Naraku paused, and then got into his limo. "I have no use for such things." He shut the door.
A sudden surprised look came across the white-haired man's face before it slowly dissipated into a cold look. "You bastard." He gasped out as blood trickled down his lips.
Naraku shut the door closed as the man with the cold look collapsed on the cement ground, a dart sticking out of the back of his neck. He sneered as he snapped his fingers, signaling the driver to start driving.
"Yes Juroumaru." His sneering continued. "You were of good use."
*The next day at Sesshoumaru's Mansion – 6:49:03PM*
Kagome watched herself twirl around in the mirror. Oh yeah; she hated this.
"Kagome! You look gorgeous!"
Sango just had to admit it. Kagome's body style matched perfectly with the gown that looked as if it were floating on her aura. The slits showed a nice amount of her legs and the high heeled shoes Kagome wore matched perfectly with the dress. Her hair was down, much to her disappointment, but it added a nice slender look so she didn't argue with her.
"Oh, I just love that neck collar!" Sango squeaked.
Kagome shot a very sarcastic look. Even Sango could act like a school girl sometimes…
Speaking of which…
"You're really a school girl inside."
She furiously shook her head and stared back at the mirror. Why the devil was she thinking about him of all time?!
"Kagome, you home in there?"
The mentioned girl looked up from Sango's continuous tapping on her head. "Hey! Stop it!"
She stepped back, holding something in her hand. "Well, now that you're with me. I think you I should repeat what I just said."
Kagome turned around and fully faced her, seeing her hold up a pearly pair of earrings. One of them was violet; the other a slightly lighter color.
"This one –" – she held up the violet one – "is the viewing camera. I can see everything you're seeing."
"So much for privacy." Kagome said.
"The other one –" – she held up the lighter shade of color – "is the speak microphone. If you need any help, just speak in here. Everything's going to be transmitted back to the office room back here in the headquarter."
"Doubt I'll have any trouble."
"Well, that's probably what you expec-"
She didn't get to finish her sentence, since she was cut off by a heavy barking outside the window. Kagome walked over towards the curtains and moved it a bit. "What the heck's going out there?"
Sango followed her towards the window and saw Shiro leaning on a tree with its front paws and barking up at the branches, as if there was a squirrel up there that was pestering him. They watched as a familiar form come out, walking up towards the dog.
"Is that Sesshoumaru?"
"I think so…"
A momentary silence before…
"Maybe I should go down and help him."
Kagome watched in amusement. "Wow…that dog's really getting a good bite out of him."
Sango started to head out of the door. "Err…stay here; I'm going to help him. Only Rin was ever able to control that dog anyway."
"But it's almost seven."
Sango looked towards the grandfather clock and cursed. "Alright, get into a limo, but make sure you don't get into the same one with Inuyasha."
"Why? Not that I oppose to that idea."
"I already told him to get into a separate limo at a different time so to throw off any attention, but he'll probably try and follow you or something."
"Oh goody."
Sango poked her head from the hallway, just a few moments after she started to close the door. "Go to the garage, but make sure he's not following you." Then she was gone out the door.
Kagome raised her eyebrow. She sure was keen on getting Kagome away from Inuyasha alone in a car…but then again, she could probably understand that.
Taking her purse which had absolutely nothing in it ("Throw off suspicion!" Sango had said), she walked out the guestroom and shut the door. But before she headed down the hallway, she looked to her right, then to her left.
Sango had obviously left an impression on her.
*Onigumo's Mansion – 8:09:59PM*
Kagome thank the lord (which she had never did in her entire life) when the limo finally drove into the wide open gates.
The very (and horribly) uncanny look the limo driver was giving her matched perfectly with Kouga's eyes…and it was giving her the continuous chills down her spine.
She lowered the window and poked her head out (very un-lady-likely). There sure were a lot of limos around here…
"We have arrived at our destination."
Kagome would have talked back to the driver, but it seemed like his job to announce their arrival, so she kept her mouth shut. Even when the man opened her door and she stepped out, she felt his eyes on her form. Too bad she didn't have a chance to grab any rocks from the garden and pack it in her empty purse before the earring on her left ear suddenly sent out soft murmurs; audible only to her ear.
"Testing – one, two three…Testing – one, two three…Testing – one, two three…Testing – one, two three…Testing – one, two three…Testing – one, two three…"
"Sango!" Kagome hissed as the driver started to drive the limo to a nearby parking space. "Would you shut your mouth already?!" She held the earring close to her ear.
"Oops, sorry. Always wanted to do that."
"Is she there?" A second voice asked.
Kagome raised her eyebrow and was glad that Sango wasn't there to see her funny expression. "Oh, Miroku's there with you?"
"Don't you get any ideas!"
"Too late, Hun."
There were a few thuds from the earring before someone spoke. "Sango, control yourself! You're supposed to tell Kagome what to do!"
An audible sigh – "Oh fine." – A few incoherent mutters.
"Is anyone going to say something?" Kagome asked with a hint of mirth.
Sango cleared her throat. "I take it you're standing at the entrance?"
Kagome looked up.
She was standing in front of an enormous mansion – no, more like a castle. There was a large fountain in middle of the garden that was in front of the castle-like building, and the stairs that lead to the wide open doors were purely made of marble tiles.
A billionaire he was; even if he was mentally disturbed.
"Just go up the stairs and in the doors. If anyone asks you for a dance, refuse. You have to wait for Inuyasha."
Kagome nodded and remembered Sango couldn't see Kagome's reaction, since her right earring could only see what she was seeing. "Gotcha."
As she walked up the stairs, she noticed a few limos coming from the open gates. While wondering if one of them held the 'beloved' dog-boy inside, Kagome walked through the open doors and was bombarded with an incredibly strange sight.
It was beautiful, she had to admit, but the sight where everyone was wearing such bright colors made her a bit shocked for a moment.
Walking down the steps (a bit struggling on the high heeled slippers) she noticed a few interested glances thrown at her from the men in their oddly fashioned outfits.
"Hey, hey, hey!!!"
Kagome nearly jumped when a clown-dressed man jumped out of no where, just as she reached the bottom step. "Whoa!"
"Now don't ye have any man to have a full night with, hmm?" The court jester, she presumed, waved his long red staff in front of her face; the clown head perched on the tip of the staff (the exact replica of his own) squeaked at her. Something about that white pasty face and his laughing blue eyes made more chills travel down her spine. Not to mention that funny looking shoes…
"Err…"
"Just banish him."
Kagome turned to an old lady that had also appeared out of no where beside her. She was an elderly woman wearing a silky midnight black dress with white frills (obviously dressed up as the queen), with bulging eyes that swiveled from here and there to look towards the other guests but holding pen and a clipboard that totally ruined her medieval look. This woman looked a little like Kaede, with her same exact hairdo, but she had a cold look in her eyes.
"Just say 'I banish ye from my presence'."
She turned towards the jester who looked as if he had fleas by the way he was jumping from side to side, cackling oddly in front of her. "I banish ye from my…presence." She said with her boring monotone voice.
The court jester suddenly stopped and his funny hat seemed to have drooped a little. "I shall travel to another party then." The he promptly rushed to the couple that had just entered the door. She audibly heard the same, "Hey, hey, hey!!!".
"You're a newbie, aren't you?"
She looked back at the old withered woman. "Umm…"
She shook her head. "Name?"
Kagome wondered if she should tell her real name before Sango spoke from her earring. "Tell her your real name."
"Higurashi Kagome." She said.
"Higurashi?" The old woman checked off something from her clipboard. "Oh!" She looked back at her with a different look in her eyes. "A fellow billionaire!"
"I pulled a few strings." Sango said from the earring.
"But of course." Kagome shook the woman's hand, trying to put on a fake smile.
"Well, nice to see you here. Glad you can make it!" She was definitely acting different now. "I'm the caretaker of Onigumo-sama, Urasue. Please, go to the snack table, there are many foods in stock."
Kagome bowed politely to her. "Thank you."
"Please call the servant if you need any help." She pointed to a few men standing near each corners of the room, all dressed in slightly less grand outfits – all colored in brown and a bit worn out in a few places. "They will be of service." She then promptly left to follow the court jester, now harassing the couples that seemed to be enjoying the attention.
Kagome walked across the room, listening to the unfamiliar song the musicians were playing and watching the dance floor.
She was surprised when a man walked up to her and asked for a dance. He was a quite handsome man with a Kouga-style hair and wearing a luxurious golden patterned outfit. She politely turned him down.
Even she was surprised at how many man had come up to her for a dance and how many times she had to turn them down before she even made it to the foods.
"Aren't they so gorgeous?"
Kagome listened to the girls talking beside her by the table while crunching into the caviar chips, having nothing else better to do.
"I know, especially that guy over there." The other girl whispered. They were all dressed in bright pink outfits with huge bows – Kagome nearly gagged on her snack.
"Oh my god, he winked at me!" And so he did.
"Oh my lord, who's that man coming from the stairs?!"
The three girls' squeak nearly made her ears burst, but no one else seemed surprised since most of them were looking up at the same direction.
Kagome didn't even want to look, but as they say, curiosity killed the cat.
The familiar silver-haired man walked down the stairs, his smirk too visible and wearing a white shirt that was lined more luxuriously than the first man that had asked her to dance. A few girls swooned just by looking at him and his tight pants.
She crunched into her caviar.
Even the old caretaker was smitten by him as she nearly fainted when he bowed to her. She didn't even check his name off when he said his name and walked off. The jester was scowling at him.
She continued crunching into her caviar.
He winked at a few women as they gasped and smiled at him sheepishly while a few men growled at him instead.
She crunched into her caviar yet again.
He noticed her from the corner of his eyes and headed her way with a smirk.
She gave a glare and crunched into her caviar.
He smiled charmingly at the three pink girls next to her. They went madly red in pure embarrassment.
She crunched away.
"Hey Kagome-chan." He said huskily as a few girls gaped at him from the back.
She glared; she crunched.
He leaned in, his forehead just barely touching hers. "You look just lovely tonight." He whispered.
She crunched into her caviar…until she noticed there wasn't anymore in her hands. She reached behind her for more crackers before Inuyasha suddenly took her hand.
"I think we should get started with the mission, don't you?" He whispered into her ear.
She nodded. Thank lord he still had a serious side…somewhere deep within him…deep…
He smiled with the same charm and led her towards the hallway that went out of the ball room. A few girls scowled at their entwined hands.
Kagome only wished she had something to crunch into.
The hallway was practically deserted; this caused her heartbeat to pump double the normal pace.
Why was she so nervous? If he tried to move on her, she would just press on his pressure point…and then drag him to some girls that practically eyed him by the food stand. Besides, why would he move on her? He wasn't over Kikyou…unless he suddenly went completely delirious and thought she was Kikyou or something…
Inuyasha suddenly stopped, making Kagome bump into him. "I think this is the office."
Kagome looked pass him to a hallway that led to a single door that looked tightly shut with a sign 'Office' hanging on it.
"…wow, you think?"
"C'mon."
She followed him, her hand now free, towards the supposedly locked door and stopped when he grabbed the handle. "Oh please. You don't think anyone's going to leave an office door open for some-"
Inuyasha pulled the door open.
Kagome promptly shut her mouth.
"Well, now we have to look for any clues." Inuyasha turned to her with laughing eyes.
Kagome grumbled. "I'll ask Sango." She held onto her left earring.
Inuyasha raised his eyebrow. "She gave you a camera earring too, didn't she?"
She glared at him.
He chuckled. "Figures. Can't trust a dog, now can you?"
"So true." She muttered before she stepped in the room with Inuyasha behind her and listened for any instructions. "What are we looking for Sango?"
"A paper or a map of some kind. Maybe a blue print. I'll tell you if I see you stumble on something."
"Alright, she says looking some kind of blue –"
But even before Kagome could finish her sentence, there was a very loud yell that sounded half chocked and muffled out by a heavy covering.
"What the hell?!" Inuyasha turned towards the office desk towards the left of the huge room and nearly backed away when they both saw a completely bandaged man, sitting on a leather chair and screaming/yelling. His hand was pushing something under the desk and he was looking at Inuyasha and Kagome with a pair of confused and scared eyes.
"Is…is that Onigumo?" Kagome yelled over his screaming.
"Probably."
The man locked eyes with Kagome and his scream became louder. He was trying to back up in his chair.
"He's scared of you Kagome." Inuyasha chuckled.
"Shut your trap." She then snapped towards the heavily bandaged man. "And for the love of Kami, shut – the – hell – UP!!!"
The man immediately stopped. He looked at her with a confused look and seemed to relax a little.
"Wow…you know what you're doing." Inuyasha looked at her with a smile. "Impressive."
"Be quiet."
There was a muffled growl-like 'hmm?' from the man as they looked back at him. He seemed unable to talk.
Kagome sighed as she slowly approached him. "We're not going to hurt you, alright?"
He nodded slowly.
"You know, he seems sane enough." Inuyasha shrugged as he followed suit, approaching him cautiously. "Only seems really mangled."
Kagome ignored him. "Look, you know Naraku?"
He promptly started yelling again.
"Well, at least he doesn't like him!"
Kagome glared back at him before she snapped at the man. "Oh shut up! We don't like him either!"
He stopped yelling.
"Look, we got some info that you know where Naraku might be right now."
He growled, still muffled, but nodded.
"We just want to know where he is."
He cautiously glared at them.
"We only want to kill Naraku." Inuyasha said exasperatedly.
He relaxed very obviously then nodded, but looked as if he couldn't move his neck much. He looked towards the desk in front of him.
Inuyasha followed his fixed gaze and came upon a piece of paper. "That thing?"
Onigumo nodded with a humorless smile. His skin around the mouth horribly wrinkled from that and he winced.
Inuyasha took the paper and looked at it with wide eyes. "Whoa. This thing's practically the whole map of Tokyo…"
That was when they heard it.
"Onigumo-sama?! Onigumo-sama, what is it?!"
Inuyasha and Kagome looked towards the door. "Oh crud."
"He must have pressed on the alarm system when we came in here!" Kagome panicked.
A grunt came from the bandaged man. The pair looked at him and followed his gaze towards an opposite door, but it was hardly visible to the eye since it was hidden behind a huge statue.
"An escape route?"
Inuyasha took Kagome's hand. "Thanks bud." That was what he said before he dashed across the room and towards the door. He pushed the door open before Kagome looked behind her, watching the man on the armchair watching them go with an appreciative nod before the door they came in before burst open. But they were gone through the escape door before the caretaker saw them.
Kagome breathed slowly as possible while Inuyasha led her through the dark corridor, seeing nothing much in front of them.
But then…
"It's almost midnight dear visitors from the new world!" It was the court jester. "Get with your mate and start dancing 'til the night shall ring its beautiful bell!"
"I think we're near the ball room."
True to her words, Inuyasha came upon an open oak door and they walked out to the familiar room, the lights now dim and practically everyone on the dance floor.
"Here, put this in your purse."
Kagome took the paper from his hand and folded it into her purse. "Well, at least that's done. Can we go back now? This high heels' killing me…"
Inuyasha shrugged. "But now that it's so dark in here –"
"Oh don't start that again." Kagome growled at him. "Besides, Sango can perfectly see and hear what's going on."
"True." The girl said in the earring.
"Damn." Inuyasha chuckled. "But really, why fight it? You know you want me."
Kagome blushed. She was so glad the place was so dark… "Oh please. Don't kid yourself."
He shook his head. "You're the first to reject me, ya know?"
"Not even Sango?"
There was a clear sound of someone clearing their throat and a chuckle in her earring.
"Well, that's another –"
"I really don't want to hear it." Kagome growled then started to take her earrings off. Kagome muttered into her left one, "I'll be fine. If he comes on to me, I'll kick his nut."
Inuyasha had a smile on when she finished putting her earrings in her purse. "Would you really?"
She growled. "You're sick. Don't you even care about Kikyou?"
Bad move.
Inuyasha's smile quickly disappeared with a menacing glare at her. "Shut up."
Kagome narrowed her eyes. Looks like she found a weak point. "I knew it. You still miss –"
"Just shut – the – fuck – up."
She bit her bottom lip and tried not to punch him straight in the nose. "You just try to forget about her by coming onto other girls. You can't deny it."
And he didn't.
"So if you don't really like me, then don't even think about coming onto me." She turned around, not daring to look at him. Well, at least he wouldn't think about ever touching her again…
"You think you know everything, do you?" He growled from behind her.
"Maybe."
"Well you don't." He stepped closer towards her. "If I can't touch you unless I like you…"
Kagome kept her eyes closed and didn't dare turn around. Maybe it was a bad thing everyone was on the dance floor and no one even noticed the pair in the shadows…
"Maybe I should give you that Welcoming Kiss I've been meaning to give you."
Kagome turned around and was about to yell at him for his perverted-ness, but before she could do that, Inuyasha had taken a hold of her wrist and had pulled her towards his chest.
Kagome 'oomph'-ed as she raised her hand to his chest on instinct. She looked up at him with a glare as he let her other hand go. "What are you doing?"
"Welcoming you." He circled his arm around her petite waist and smirked down at her shocked face by his action.
"This isn't funny Inu." She hissed, but for some reason, she couldn't help but enjoy this…somewhere deep within the back of her mind.
He lowered his head. "You like it. I know you do." Then he abruptly crushed his lips on hers, holding her shoulder with his other hand to keep her from moving away.
Kagome's eyes were wide open, unlike his, as she stared at his silver hair. Her hands were balled against his chest and she was wondering what she should do; enjoy the moment, or push him away and kick him where it counted. But all her thoughts were gone when his tongue pushed passed her lips and they were soon locked in a tongue battle.
Inuyasha lowered the other hand from her shoulder and started to massage the leg that was revealing from the slit.
Kagome moaned slightly as she raised the leg he was massaging, putting it on his thigh.
Inuyasha mentally grinned and started to roam her skin, now with more access and deepened their kiss.
She raised her arms around his neck and slowly started to close her eyes before Inuyasha broke the kiss, just as the huge clock rang, signaling midnight.
"So, whose limo should we go on?"
Kagome looked at him with a slightly dazed look. "You…pervert."
"But you just love me, don't you?"
She leaned on his chest and moaned, his hand still on her uplifted leg. "…darn it."
He smiled down at her, his fangs poking out. "Damn right."
*Back at Sesshoumaru's Mansion – 11:58:07PM*
Sango rotated her armchair as the screen turned black, indicating that Kagome had put her earring in her purse.
"She's doomed." She sighed as Miroku chuckled.
"Well, I guess Inuyasha is just too desirable for women, hmm?"
Sango rolled her eyes. "I did not come onto him."
"Oh?" He continued chuckling. "Really?"
She looked away. "The first time I met him, his back was turned to me…and –"
"And what?"
"…I thought he was a girl."
Miroku stared at her with wide eyes before he bursted into laughter.
"Hey! It's not funny!!!" Sango, now blushing furiously, stood up from the chair.
Miroku laughed until teardrops were in his eyes and even Sango couldn't help but stare at him. He looked good with his nice smile.
He raised his hand and promptly ruffled her hair, causing her to come out of her stupor. "You're real funny."
Her face was a giant red tomato.
But before Miroku had the chance to notice what he was doing to Sango's temperature, the office door banged open.
"Hey! Guys, we got some…some…" Kouga stopped to watch Miroku and Sango, whose face was bright red that was quickly turning back to the normal color and temperature with her hair completely ruffled up.
He grinned. "Am I~…interrupting something?"
"Oh shut up."
Miroku, who had no idea what he meant, asked, "What's the problem Kouga?"
He shook his head. "You have to come to see this."
Miroku and Sango exchanged glances before they started to follow Kouga out the door. They followed him all the way out the front door and into the front lawn before someone finally broke the silence.
"Where are we going?" Miroku asked.
"Just see this for yourself." Kouga then pointed towards the gates to where Miroku and Sango looked towards when a loud barked echoed into the night sky.
Sesshoumaru was standing there with something black in his hand and a hand around a collar, holding Shiro back from something small on the ground.
Something white and fluffy…
"Is that…is that a cat?" Sango gasped. She was a major feline lover.
Sango rushed towards the furry thing on the ground, but as she approached it, the cat abruptly snapped its eyes open to reveal shining red eyes, its black pupils narrowing because of the darkness. It hissed and tried to stand up, but it mewed in pain when it tried to stand up and fell back on the grass.
"Oh…I can't believe it! It's so starved its bones are visible from the skin!!!"
Sesshoumaru held onto the dog's collar that continued barking ferociously at the cat that kept on hissing. "You should pick it up. He's getting restless."
Sango bend down and coxed her hand towards it. The cat hissed and bit her edging finger, but she only winced and kept on edging forward. Confused, the cat mewed and let Sango take her, knowing that it biting wouldn't do anything after seeing her reaction.
Miroku watched interested and saw Sango stand up with the cat in her arms. "C'mon, let's get back inside."
The four of them walked towards the mansion door and Sesshoumaru led the dog towards one of the small guest cottages they hardly ever used.
Shutting the door as Sesshoumaru walked in, they looked at the cat in Sango's arms.
"So, what's the emergency?" Sango asked. "I mean, I know if the dog attacked the starved cat it wouldn't have been pretty, but –"
"That's not it." Kouga said grimly. He looked over the confused Miroku and Sango at the silver-haired form. "Should I tell them or should you?"
Sesshoumaru held up the thing in his hands. It was a camera…or it used to be. "This was around the cat's neck."
Sango's eyes widened. "An equisetic cat?" She looked down at the cat in her arms which was barely awake. "But…the government banned that after their first equisetic cat got driven over before it could even spy the building they were sending it to!"
"Hold on." Miroku frowned, raising his hand in confusion. "Equisetic cat? Aren't they a myth? I mean, a trained cat that has a camera around its neck to spy on the target?"
Sesshoumaru shook his head. "It is no myth. The government did ban it after the first failed mission, but it looks like someone was spying on us this whole time…" He glared at the cat. "It seems as if Naraku knows exactly what we're doing now."
Kouga sighed. "Shiro attacked it since it knew how odd a cat is with a camera around its neck, so it chased it around and crashed the camera." He pocketed his hands. "Kind of explains why he was acting weird this whole time…"
There was a momentary silence before the doorbell rang.
Miroku frowned and went over to open the door since he was the closest. "Why in the middle of the night –?"
As he opened the door, he looked around to see nothing. "How odd…" He was about to close the door when he heard a cough from the ground. He looked down to see what made him yell in horror.
"What?" Kouga and everyone else looked over his shoulder and all their eyes widened. "Whoa!"
There, on the ground, was the familiar hair fanatic, holding her stomach and on her knees. They couldn't see her face, but Kouga sure was mad.
"You!" He started for her. "Oh I was waiting to get my hands on –"
He didn't even finish when Yura looked up, her eyes blotchy red as tears flowed down her misty eyes and a trickle of blood flowed down her mouth. She was holding something in each of her hands as they heard a distant engine starting and a car driving away in the darkness.
"Kagura…" Yura chocked out and coughed out blood.
"What?" Sesshoumaru looked passed her but didn't see anything. He cursed. Rin was obviously still in his mind…
"What are you doing here?" Miroku asked cautiously.
Yura looked up and a smile crossed her face, but was suppressed by a wince. "Doc…"
That was the last thing she said before she collapsed unconscious on the floor in front of them, her arms outstretched with a dart in her right hand and something else in her left hand.
Sesshoumaru picked up the paper in her other hand.
It read…
Naraku knows; he will attack if you don't. The children are fine but Hari lives. The shipments are due by the end of the month.
– Kagura
The four of them looked down at Yura with the dart inside her hand.
…
Somehow, this didn't sound good.
AN: If you're wondering, the equisetic cat is real. The secret agents…or the spies…whichever, trained a cat to have a microchip camera around its collar and spy on a particular target that shall remain unnamed. Anyway, this cat was trying to cross the street to that building for its first mission when it got ran over by a car. –.–;;; So they completely threw the idea of having a spy cat out the window. Too bad though; it would have been kind of cool…
