AN: Sorry for the delay on this chapter. I was thinking of posting another story and I was thinking about what can happen here. So enjoy the chapter!!

The Acquisition Game

Chapter 2

The Nine Street Dash!!

"Shit," Kagome glanced at Sango who had the same expression as herself. "We better get out of here."

"Good idea." Sango nodded to Kagome and they quickly walked faster back to their shop carrying their barrel of fish.

It wasn't that bad. At least it didn't look that way. They were just...frustrated that's all. Not that bad, was it? "This is bad." Their grandpa sighed in aggravation as he sat himself down on the couch and shook his head in weariness.

"Hey! He was the one who blocked Kagome when she try to walk past them. It wasn't our fault." Sango told him honestly as she sat next to him feeling guilty.

"You don't understand, Sango. You don't know who we are up against." Grandpa told them as he folded the newspaper neatly in half on the table. "He is the son of the Aristocratic Naraku. He would never let us get away with it."

"Grandpa, you worry too much." Kagome told him as she tried to calm him down. "You need to calm down, probably he doesn't even know who did it."

"Calm down. Calm down! How do you expect me to calm down when our lives are in trouble?!" He slammed his hand on the table making the objects on the table got hoisted into the air.

"Dad!" Mrs. Higurashi slapped his arm lightly. "My China! Anyway, probably it would be best if we send you girls to somewhere else just for cover. Until this stuff passes anyway." She told them softly.

"Damn it!" A dark haired man slammed his fist on the table as soon as he saw his son being carried in on a stretcher. "Who the hell did this?!"

"I-I-I..." The servant stammered in his lost of words.

"Either you say it or lose it! Who did this?!" He was losing his patience on this servant. Watching his only son wrapped up in bandages wasn't a pleasant sight. He grasped his servant's collar and pulled him closer to him as he grimaced in anger.

"It was the girls from the marketplace. He kicked young master back and he tripped over a barrel of fish. Th-then he slipped on a fish and he fell back." He told him loud and clear.

"Girls?" He shoved the servant back and sat on the armchair in contemplation.

"Yes, Master...Naraku." The servant told him. "There were two of them. I think they were called...Sango and Kagome."

"Sango and Kagome? They will pay for what they had done! I promise." Naraku said with confidence. "I will squash them like a bug. But for now, call a doctor." Naraku fixed his posture. "Call all troops and go to the markeyplace and find a Sango and Kagome and bring them to me. I want them to suffer." He clutched his knuckles firmly together and ther servant knows what was about to happen when he haave them in his hands.

"Yes master." He nodded and went out, leaving Naraku alone in the room.

"Sango and Kagome? You'll pay for more than what you have done!" He sat in silence for awhile and waited in patience for the doctor to come. At once, a doctor carrying a medicine box walked in and kneeled to Naraku.

"My lord." He bowed lowly to Naraku.

Naraku snorted and stood up gracefully. "This way, doctor." He told him and lead him to Onigumo's room.

He waited outside the room patiently for the doctor to walk out. When the doctor did finally walk out, Naraku waited for him to start.

"I'm sorry," the doctor apologized. Naraku widened his eyes and grasped his collar.

"You better have a better explanation than just a sorry," Naraku growled in rage. "What's happening to my son, Onigumo?!"

"He seemed to have suffered a..." He paused, he didn't want to say it, or else he'll get REALLY mad.

"What? Tell me now, or loose your hand!" Naraku twisted the doctor's arm back and grimaced at his pathetic cry for help."Well?"

"He has suffered a brain damage from the hard knock on the ground that caused the slight contusion on the left side of the brain." The doctor spitted out as he groaned with agony to his right arm.

"Will he survive?" Naraku asked in a gloomy tone. He slowly gripped his arm tightly and shoved him to the wall. "Answer me!"

"Yes, he will," the doctor told him, "but..."

"What? Tell me!" Naraku tilted his head, eager to know.

"He might...might...either lost memory or..."

"Or?!"

"Or...will be turned into a mentally retarded man, for the rest of his life." The doctor concluded and slowly felt Naraku's grip releasing. "Thank you Lord, thank you." The doctor ran off carrying the medicine box, leaving Naraku out his son's door with a shocked look on his face.

"Damn it!" He cursed as he swung his fist head on to the pole. "Curse them! I'll be back, for revenge!"

"Inuyasha! Oh Inuyasha! Get your butt down here!" Lady Inu tapped her foot impatiently while the rest of them sat on steps of the stairs. "Miroku, will you please get his lazy butt up. We're gonna be late." She asked Miroku, Inuyasha's best friend and a prince from afar. He wore a prince outfit and has a small ponytail on his back.

"No need for that, ma'am, he would get up. When his alarm clock goes off, that is." He said with a big grin on his face as he chuckled madly to himself.

"When's that now?"

"About...now." As soon as Miroku finished, an alarm clock went off sending a sleepy Inuyasha to the ground with a loud thud.

"What's the point to calling Inuyasha to go anyway? We can go without that dog-turd." Kouga, the same age as Inuyasha snorted as he saw Inuyasha's shadow slowly came across the corridor. "What took you so long, Sleeping Beauty?"

Rin giggled at Kouga's remark at Inuyasha and Kagura hushed her up before she ended up in the conflict between those two. "You got a problem with me, Beast?" Inuyasha cocked his head and twitched his eye slowly as he heard Rin giggled harder.

"Aw, isn't this cute?" Kouga crossed his hands slowly in front of his chest as Rin tried to walk up to Inuyasha.

"Can it, Kouga," Sesshoumaru finally spoke up. "As much as I like hearing these wonderful compliments about you two I would like to get there before it gets dark." He lifted Rin up by her arms and walked out the front door as the guards opened the front gates.

"Yes, let us be off." Lady Inu arched a brow and walked out the castle gracefully to her carriage.

"This is my carriage," Kouga told Inuyasha as he stopped as he reached the carriage door.

"Your name isn't written on there." Inuyasha slowly told him as he climbed into the seat and closed the door in his face. "I'm sorry, your seat is taken."

"Get the..." he looked at Sesshoumaru who was carrying Rin in his arms gave him a stone cold icy glares that sent chilly daggers to Kouga, eyed him carefully for his choice of words, "get out!" He hissed.

"What are you going to do? Glare me to death?" Inuyasha smirked.

"I'm gonna get you...later." Kouga walked to the carriage behind Inuyasha's and huffed with annoyance. "Fucking dog-turd."

He stopped and noticed sudden chilly air was going down his neck, Kouga turned around. "I swear I didn't mean it that way Sesshoumaru," Kouga pulled his hands in innocence.

"When we get back, you're so dead for letting Rin hear that." Sesshoumaru glanced at Rin who was trying to pronounce it. "Dumb ass, Beast," he muttered into Kouga's ears.

"Where are we going again?" Sango asked Kagome who fiddled with the straws in her hat in fascination like she's never seen them before.

"Wha? Oh, to the old Higurashi Shrine. We haven't been there for awhile since grandpa gave all the duties to, who was it again, oh, Hojo."

"Dork." Sango shook her head in dismay as she heard the name coming out of Kagome.

"What?!" Kagome chocked on her peanut as she gasped on Sango's words.

"I mean Hojo." Sango told her as she looked up and saw portraits of Kagome and Sango taped on the board for reward if anybody finds them. "Kagome! Look!"

"Damn, they're onto us!" Kagome said as she saw the pictures which everyone was surrounding to see.

"Yeah, we better get there quickly!" Sango turned around to see soldiers heading their way on the other side of the road. "Kagome! Soldiers!"

"And their looking for us!" Kagome turned around to find a small path. "In there!" They walked over when suddenly a hand tapped on Sango's shoulder and forced them to turn around.

It was the soldiers.

"Their onto us Kagome!" They pushed the soldiers back and ran down the streets.

They kept on running down the streets up and down until they went down an alleyway and decided to stop for rest.

"What is the meaning of this?" Sango asked as she panted for breath. "Nine streets. Nine...nine..."

"Nine freaking streets they had been chasing us!" Kagome finished off for her.

"Thank you," Sango bended over and looked left and right of the alleyway. "All clear."

"We better get going." Kagome and Sango started walking the other way, hoping the soldiers wouldn't find them. All of the sudden, tapping sounds were heard coming their way. "We have to run again," Kagome whined as she shuffled her bag.

"There they are!" One of the soldiers exclaimed.

"Here we are, the Higurashi Shrine," Lady Inu piped gleefully. "Inuyasha, what are you doing? We're going in." Lady Inu sighed and lead Rin into the doors of the shrine. Inuyasha, who was too busy having a staring contest with Kouga didn't notice everyone has left but Kouga and himself.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Inuyasha ran after his mother with Kouga following behind. "Mother." Inuyasha caught up with his mother with Kouga shoving forward.

"Manners boys, manners." Lady Inu told them as she took the bamboo ewer with bamboo lots inside with number written on them. She kneeled before the God statue with Kagura next to her as she carefully placed the incenses on the sands of the bowl; while Lady Inu carefully shook the lots inside hoping to choose a good number.

After she's done, she stood up and walked over to the altar and sat across an old man with a fan in his hand. "I would like to ask about my son's future." Lady Inu told him simply.

He nodded and gazed at the number. It was twenty two. "It's a good one, my lady. Though, it is a good one, I'm afraid your son's life isn't going to be an easy one." The old man told her.

"Alright, an adventurous one, even better. What about my future daughter-in-law?" Lady Inu said quietly hoping Inuyasha wouldn't hear her.

"I'm sorry," he chuckled, "one lot, one future told. Next." He told her. Lady Inu snorted at him and stood up quietly as she moved next to Kagura.

"Your Majesty," a voice called out from behind.

"Abbot. How nice to see you again. You remember my son, Prince Inuyasha and Prince Sesshoumaru, Prince Kouga and Prince Miroku."

"Of course." He nodded. "How about a seat inside the room." He lead Lady Inu inside and left the boys out in the shrine.

"How about that?" Kouga crossed his arms and stared at Inuyasha for another game of staring contest.

"Crap." Next thing they know, they were on the run again. "This way is to the shrine, is it?"

"Yes!" Kagome shouted to her. "Lets split up!" Kagome suggested. Sango nodded and they ran different paths to the shrine.

Kagome kept on running on and on till she saw the shrine's dome in the air. She lope up the stairs and was surprised that the soldiers were there before her. She quickly stopped in her tracks and try to find another way to escape. She dodged as the soldiers swung their swords at her and quickly ran to the nearest doors.

More soldiers came up to her with weapons in their hands which they kept swinging them in the air like toys. Kagome saw a small dart coming her way. She turned to the right slowly, letting the dart sliced through some of the skin on her face. She grunted in irritation and fell back through the doors.

She landed on her butt and she slowly looked up as a body coming her way from the air. She couldn't make out who it was because the sun was right behind him. She winced from the brightness and let gravity take over.

A hand stretched out and grabbed her arm, moving her out the way for whatever was coming at her. "Ah!" She grunted as she fell back to the person who caught her.

"Naraku! What do you think you are doing?" Miroku shouted as he helped the girl off of him.

"Prince Miroku...." He paused to see the whole royal family excluding the king, Inutaisho. "I was just, getting my revenge no doubt." He kneeled down to the royal family. "Strange to see you all here, my princes."

"Lady Inu brought us," Sesshoumaru told him. "Why were you after that girl?"

"We had...a small conflict between....something" Naraku told them, not daring to lie about it.

"Such as?" Inuyasha asked curiously. "Don't tell me she ate your cat."

"No, Prince Inuyasha. He injured my son, Onigumo. She just had to pay the price for doing so." Naraku told them slowly.

"What is going on out here?" A young man walked out with Lady Inu and the abbot from the temple. "Kagome?" He exclaimed. "How did you get here?"

"Long story, I'll tell you later, Hojo."

"Naraku! What are you doing here?" Lady Inu asked him as she sat down on the chairs from the altar.

"Your Majesty, this girl, Kagome, she injured my son Onigumo."

"Oh? A mere girl? Don't make me laugh. What makes you have the right to come bursting in here anyway?"

"I'm sorry Lady Inu, but please, let me take care of this. I know just what to do with her and her sister."

"Sister? She has a sister?" Miroku piped in looking for another girl as his hand crept up Kagome's butt.

"Pervert!" Kagome called out as she slapped him across the face with Miroku smiling ever-so innocent.

Lady Inu shook her head at Miroku and glanced at Naraku who had a vengeful thirst in him. "I think I'll take over this case, Naraku."

"But I-"

"Kagome! Are you okay?" A girl slammed open the doors and saw Kagome standing next to a man wearing an elegant outfit.

"Sango! I'm so glad you're here." She ran next to Sango and sighed contentedly.

Probably Inuyasha noticed it and maybe Rin did too as she stared at Kouga's face. Boy, was he out the world. Words were written all over his face like, 'WOW!!'. A click went on in Inuyasha's mind as he chuckled madly to himself.

"But you can't Lady Inu. It's a family business."

"You heard the woman get out of here, Naraku!" Inuyasha told him.

"But it is family business. Please don't get in the way. It's not like you guys are related or anything." Naraku shrugged as he made a point to the royal family.

"How do you know she's not?"Inuyasha asked him as he smirked in an awfully evil way.

"She is nothing to you, she is just a peasant!"

"You got a point, Naraku." Lady Inu told him. "We are not related."

"Um...Lady Inu she's-" Kouga started when Inuyasha finally cut him off the sentence and left him with his mouth open.

"She's my fiance!" Inuyasha quickly blurted out to them all loud and clear.

"Your what? Prince Inuyasha." Naraku said with wide eyes. "She can't possibly be your fiance. She's a peasant!"

"So? Any of your business? No." Inuyasha said cockily as he crossed his arms on his chest.

"But?" Kagome said stunned. "I never-"

"Knew how much I loved you." Inuyasha moved closer to Kagome and moved Sango out the way. "Yep! She's my fiance and please will you get the hell out of here now, Naraku."

"Then Sango! Nobody is marrying her now, are there?" Naraku pointed to Sango.

"She's my fiance!" Miroku quickly told him as he threw his arms over her shoulder.

"What? I-" Sango saw her grandpa over by the corridor and saw him shook his head, seriously. Sango sighed and folded her arms and didn't make another sound.

"You heard the men, get out of here Naraku."

"Lady Inu!"

"GET OUT OF HERE, NARAKU! Lady Inu bellowed and walked back to the room.

"Do you need me to get the door for you, Naraku?" Sesshoumaru sighed at his pathetic look. "Good, now get out."

"I'll be on my way," Naraku grimaced and walked out the shrine.

"Get your hands off of me!" Kagome told him as Sango smacked Miroku in the face as something crept up her behind.

"Pervert!"

"Sango! Kagome!" A familiar voice called out to them.

"Grandpa! Lets go home." Kagome told his grandpa.

"After the wedding you can."

"What wedding?" Sango asked her grandpa as she looked at Kagome who had the same look on her face.

"The wedding which the princes just proposed for. Don't worry, it's just a wedding to cover up for awhile. After Naraku stopped the whole revenge thingie you can do whatever you want. It's for the best for you two."

"Who am I gonna marry?" Sango asked clutching her knuckles together hoping it wouldn't be the perverted prince.

"Prince Miroku." Grandpa told her seriously.

"What?"

"Then I-"

"Prince Inuyasha." He told her without her asking. Kagome looked at Inuyasha who was laughing at the other prince's face with an amusing look on his face.

"No. This must be a dream, a very horrible dream." Kagome fell back to the pole and folded her arms and huffed as she took another glance at Inuyasha who didn't look all too amusing all of the sudden. "I wonder..."

AN: This is the end of this chapter. I hope I can update another chapter soon if I can get my mind off my other story I have now. Please read and review and I promise I will update my chapter 3 asap.