Well here I go again. I would do some answers to reviews to my last chapter but *sigh* none have. But I will push forward anyway for those who will read this. And please don't just read it and not review. I count on those reviews. If I get none I will stop for a while and just hope you guys get the picture eventually.
Disclaimer: Haven't we learned anything by now. No I don't own Inuyasha. Only in my dreams *sigh*.
The Woman Behind the Mask
Chapter 9
Soon all of the others had gone to bed. But Inuyasha and Kagome stayed up a while longer loving the privacy they had discovered.
Slowly Kagome let on a long yawn.
Inuyasha smirked at this and gently picked up the tired and carried her bridal style (A/N awww how appropriate ^^) inside. His soon to be wife fell asleep in his arms. He looked down at her and smiled grateful that this was not a dream but a reality.
He quietly tip-toed to her their bedroom, making sure not to wake anyone else up and gently placed her in the bed pulling the covers over her. Inuyasha smiled to himself as she snuggled down into them. Then he walked around to the other side of the bed and hopped in himself pulling the covers over him.
Kagome had obviously felt him get in and rolled over and placed one of her hands on Inuyasha's chest as she slept.
Normally, Inuyasha would have blushed at this but now it was different. He pulled Kagome closer taking in her very scent that he placed his arms around her and gently kissed her forehead before finally falling asleep himself.
The next morning Kagome woke up and found she was still in Inuyasha's embrace.
"I have always dreamed it would be like this," Kagome thought as she slowly rolled out of the bed.
Kagome slowly walked out of the room closing the door behind her softly to let Inuyasha sleep. Today she was going to go out with Sango to buy the dresses for the wedding.
When she walked into the living room she found that most of the others were all ready up including Sango.
"Hey Sango, I'll be ready to go in a moment ok?" stated Kagome.
"Sure Kagome, just take your time," replied Sango.
Kagome continued to walk down the hall toward the shower. She stepped in a closed the door behind her, then turned around and turned on the shower. She removed her clothes and stepped into the hot stream of cleansing shower water. Her raven black hair began to matte itself down into her body. The hot water was soothing to her and it began to bring back the memories of what Inuyasha has said last night.
"I'm glad Inuyasha is going to be around now. His words gave me the ability to smile. I'm surprised though that he didn't notice how fake my smile was. I don't see what he sees. How can what he said be true?" Kagome thought as the cleansing shower continued. Kagome slowly stepped out of the shower and dried herself off. "I'm not gonna bother anyone with this, I can't let them think I'm weak," Kagome told herself. Kagome pulled her clothes back on which reminded her she would need to buy some regular clothes while she was out with Sango.
Kagome walked back to the living room to find that everyone was awake except Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha must be really tired if he is still sleeping," Kagome said as a smile crept across her face to hide her sadness.
"Well he should be. Every night you were in the hospital he stayed awake watching over you," Sess stated.
"He did?" said a slightly surprised Kagome.
"Well, we'd better get going Kag. We have some shopping to do," said Sango.
"Ok lets go. Guys we'll see you later." And with that they left and Sango's car with Inuyasha still having not told them that her father was still out there.
~~~3 hours later~~~
Kagome and Sango sat in a restaurant eating with their purchases laid out on a table next to them.
"Man, I didn't know it would cost this much for just a few things," Sango stated.
Sango looked over the large expanse of purchases they had a noticed a kid who had tripped and fallen out the table. He didn't knock it over but he fell nonetheless. Sango rushed over to help the kid.
"Are you ok kid?" Sango asked.
"Yeah I'm fine," the kid replied.
Then the kid stood up and walked out of the restaurant.
Then Sango sat back down. "Well like I was saying this stuff cost a fortune."
"Weddings are expensive things Sango," Kagome stated simply.
"I see....well Kagome I think we had better begin to head back. I don't the others to worry, bedsides it is getting dark out."
"Really? I didn't know we had been out that late. Ok, lets go then."
Kagome and Sango dumped their trash, picked up their packages and walked out the door. They began to walk toward the parking lot where Sango had picked her car.
~~~Earlier~~~
"Hey kid," called a voice from the shadows.
The kid looked down the alley way where he heard someone calling him.
"Who's there? What do ya want?" the kid called back.
"I want you to do me a favor?"
"Why should I do that?"
The hand came out of the darkness hold a rather large wad of cash.
"Cause I can pay you generously."
"Wow, ok mister what do I have to do?"
The shrouded figure evilly smiled.
~~~Normal Time~~~
Kagome and Sango slowly make their way back to Sango's car as they talked and balanced all of the things they had bought.
Kagome over to the right and saw the sun slowly setting at the horizon. The sky looked like an artist had painted on the sky. The purples, blues, reds and pinks all swirled together inside one another. The red of the sky immediately reminded her of Inuyasha. Kagome didn't even noticed she had stopped walking to look at the sun set until Sango called her.
"Kagome....are you ok?" Sango asked.
Kagome looked back at Sango.
"Yes I'm just fine. I was admiring the sun set," Kagome replied.
"Ok, then lets get going."
The two girls continued to walk to the car. As they neared it they immediately saw something was wrong.
"Oh no! Someone slashed you tires Sango."
Kagome was right, all four of Sango's tires were flat. A switchblade knife still stuck out of one of the tires where someone had left it.
"It's ok," Sango replied, " we will just call the guys from my cell and they can come pick us up."
Sango set her packages in the back of her car and Kagome followed suit. Then Sango reached into her purse for her cell phone and found something was wrong. She reached into the pockets and then searched again in her purse.
"Sango is something wrong?" Kagome asked.
"My cell phone is gone."
"What?!"
"Yeah, the only option now is to start walking back."
"I guess."
So Kagome and Sango started the long walk back carrying their packages. Unbeknownst to them a dark figure was following them down the street.
Sango lead as Kagome followed right behind her. Before Kagome had a chance to react a hand clasped over her mouth and she was dragged back into the alleyway, dropping all of her packages to the ground.
Sango heard this and just thought Kagome needed some help. So she turned around to help but found she wasn't there. Sango quickly dropped everything and rushed toward the alleyway where she assumed Kagome had been taken.
~~~Two hours earlier back at Inuyasha's house~~~
Inuyasha slowly woke up from his deep sleep. He rolled over to hug Kagome and found that she wasn't there. Worriedly he quickly jumped out of bed and ran into the living room where he found Sess, Rin, Miroku, and Shippo talking amongst themselves.
"Where is Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded.
"There is no need to worry. She and Sango left a while ago to go shopping. Why is there something the matter?" replied Sess calmly.
"I know I should have told you guys this earlier but I didn't want to worry Kagome. He father wasn't captured by the police, he is still out there. I think he still plans to hurt Kagome," Inuyasha replied with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"I'm sure they are just Inuyasha. Besides Sango wouldn't let anything happen to Kagome as long as she is around," stated Shippo.
Suddenly a vision came to Inuyasha in the form of a day dream. In this dream he saw Kagome and Sango walking down the road talking. Then soon Kagome disappeared. Finally the vision ended.
Easily Miroku and the others noticed his long silence and strange behavior.
"Is something wrong Inuyasha?" asked Miroku.
"Yeah something's wrong. I just had a vision....something is going to happen to Kagome. We have got to go now," Inuyasha said as his demanding tone crept back in.
"Are you sure Inuyasha?" asked Sess.
"I'm positive. We have got to get there now."
Quickly Inuyasha and the others ran outside, hopped into Sess's car and sped off to the mall.
"If he has hurt Kagome again. I'll never forgive him.....or myself," Inuyasha thought to himself as they drew closer to their destination.