Disclaimer- I still don't own Inuyasha! -_-
(A/N-A reminder that everything I do in this story serves an ultimate purpose, and since I have majority of the story written I know what I'm talking about. So, once again, continue to bear with me! And just so you know, Sango is one of the sorts of people that just go completely crazy with rage. Yea, that's why the gang is terrified of her)
Chapter two: The kidnapping
Three days later…
It was finally the end of the day, and after many appointments Kagome was ready to go home.
OK, that was an understatement…all she wanted to do was leave the office and partake in some wonderful wine to wash away her stress. She couldn't think of anything else that would sound good besides a nice hot spa that she doubted she'd be getting tonight anyway.
She just couldn't get her meeting with Sango and Miroku out of her mind. It was almost insane the way her stomach was reacting to them. She figured that they were lying about something, yet she enjoyed it and was perfectly comfortable around them, and she found it rather odd. "Hmm…strange. Something tells me there was something wrong with that whole conversation. They seemed a little too innocent…"
Wanda poked her head in the door and smiled softly. "Anything I can get you before I leave, Miss. Higurashi?"
"No, Wanda thanks anyway. Go ahead and go home."
"Thank you ma'am." Then she turned and left as quickly as her feet could carry her.
Kagome called from her cell phone to get her limo to pull up front, and she walked down the huge steps to meet it. It must be midnight. Kagome thought by how dark it looked outside. The air was slightly chilly and she couldn't help but think that if her father would only let her get the coat she wanted, she'd be warm this moment. She hated it when he forced her to wear only what he wanted her to.
She shook that thought off and continued to think of more important matters. A strange feeling wouldn't leave her gut, but instead of panicking to find out what it meant, she just calmly waited outside her building.
A black limo could be seen pulling up around the curb, and Kagome almost thought it was hers. She had walked to the edge of the street corner to get in, but noticed right away that something wasn't right about it. In fact, when it pulled out in front of her and the door opened, she was most certain of it.
A black-gloved hand reached out and quickly grabbed her, pulling her into the dark limo before she had the chance to protest. It was dark enough in the limo that she couldn't see the man who had taken her yet, but it would be impossible with his hands holding her tightly so she couldn't turn around, anyway. She was a little frightened as the limo sped off. What the hell is going on?
The man behind her leaned in and sniffed her hair, chuckling at her startled reaction. "Well, well, well, you must be Kagome Higurashi. Am I correct?"
She snorted in disbelief. "Who the hell are you! What do you want?"
He sighed. "Cuff her, Miroku."
"MIROKU!" Kagome's vision was adjusting and she could see one of the figures move forward to duct-tape her arms together.
The man behind her growled softly, tightening his hold on her waist. "Damn it, Miroku, you told her your real name? Damn, if you want something done right…"
"Personally, if you had gone into her office, she wouldn't have talked to you because you would refuse to wear anything but your normal clothing, Inuyasha. And your normal attire is rather shocking."
Kagome sighed and turned her head enough to look into a pair of golden eyes. They were stunning, she realized, but the man reeked of danger. He seemed to use his look to his advantage and bared a pair of ferocious looking fangs as if to intimidate her. All that resulted in doing was pissing her off. "So you're that gang leader, Inuyasha the shadow lurker or something to that effect? What do you want!" She repeated.
He carefully removed a hand from holding her waist, wrapping the other more securely around her, and removed the leather glove to reveal very violent looking claws. She gasped when he put them in front of her face so she could get an idea just how sharp they were. "You are in a very dangerous situation, Miss. Kagome. A rich woman such as yourself could be used as a wonderful blackmail item, you know."
"Oh I see; you are going to blackmail my father with my life, huh?"
"Shut up and listen, woman. I said I could use you that way, but I have other plans for you."
"Like?"
"Persistent bitch, now aren't we?"
"I have every damn right to know why I'm being used by you, Mr. Inuyasha."
He snorted. That cocky little bitch…
Sango sighed from her spot in the limo. "Just tell her, Inuyasha. We have to get her to cooperate, anyway."
He pointed at her figure across the limo, apparently able to see her perfectly while everyone else couldn't see much of anything. "Shut the fuck up, second in command! I know what the hell I'm doing!"
"Well FYI, tying her up and calling her names isn't going to get her to do what we want!"
Kagome grabbed his clawed hand from her now unbound hands, shocking the hell out of Inuyasha while she inspected his claws carefully. "So you're a Hanyou, huh?"
"How in the fuck…"
"Very interesting, I guess your name makes since now. Dog demon. Or at least, half dog demon."
Everyone in the limo dropped their jaws. Inuyasha stared at her carefully, his ears twitching madly. "How the hell did you know that, number one, and number two, how did you get off your bounds?"
"If you must know, I took a few classes in college. You have all the signs of a Hanyou from my history books when I studied Japan, and not to mention your dog-ears give it away. A full Youkai looks more human, or at least normally. And I'm not going to tell you how I got off the bounds; I'm just going to tell you that I have taken many self-defense classes. I am a rich kid, you know."
Inuyasha was shocked with her answer, as was everyone else in the limo. He had never been more patient with a person in his life, and nothing was more irritating to him than a woman who couldn't keep her mouth shut, or one that continued to astonish him with bravery. He felt it made him look weak, and sadly his reputation could not afford that. He used his claws hand and grabbed her chin, painfully forcing her to look in his eyes. "You will do whatever the fuck I tell you to, got it?"
"Fine."
He raised an eyebrow. "Fine? You're giving up so easily?"
"Not that I'm giving up, but as Sango and Miroku already know, I have a boring life and this is a little improvement on my dull ways. I'll do most of whatever you tell me to simply because I'm not used to being the one receiving harsh orders or obeying hard laws."
"You'll do all that I tell you to."
"Well you better not expect me to sleep with someone cause I will flat out refuse on that, no matter what you say."
"You'll do it and like it, if I tell you to, bitch."
"No."
"Are you arguing with me?"
"Yes, I believe I am."
"You've got some nerve, girl."
"Excuse me, but I am a woman, not a girl."
"You could be a fucking whore for all I care and it wouldn't change my mind!"
"Well I'm not a whore, or a little girl, or a bitch! Get used to it, dog boy!"
He growled loudly this time, trying as hard as he could not to slice the woman in his lap in half. He had plans for this girl alive and she needed to stay that way for the time being. Meanwhile, he needed to figure out how to shut her mouth so that he didn't loose his temper…
Miroku and Sango's mouth's basically hung open. Neither could believe that Inuyasha hadn't gutted her by now. Even if he needed her alive, by now she would have normally been mince meat. Miroku decided to make a statement when he noticed this and snorted rather loudly. "Inuyasha, are you feeling ok?"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"You haven't killed her yet, and she's been insulting you and wearing out your patience, all the while she's sitting on your lap where you have direct access to her throat."
Inuyasha directed his growling towards Miroku and Sango decided to step in. "Damn it, Inuyasha, just get on with it!"
"Fine, damn, keep your shirt on Sango." He grabbed the back of Kagome's neck hard enough to show her who was in charge without snapping it in half, and slipped a pair of sunglasses that were way too dark to see through over her eyes. "We might tell you our purpose after we get to the base, but you are going to attract attention in your slutty outfit."
"Excuse me, it is not a slutty outfit, it is a business outfit."
"Ugh, what the fuck ever! You're not going to walk in wearing nothing but that." He forced her in a long sleeved leather jacket, carefully buttoning it up the front so that none of her dress showed through. "When we get out of this car, walk like you weren't kidnapped, and if you scream then so help me I'll rip your throat out."
"I told you already! I'll do most of what you say."
"You fucking bitch…"
"You have quite the mouth, you know. I think you have the most colorful vocabulary I have ever seen."
He scowled. "You ain't seen nothing yet, bitch." His hand rested on her shoulder as the car came to a complete stop. Opening the door, he motioned for the other people in the car to get out first so they could assist him with the woman on his lap.
Miroku grabbed Kagome's arm and helped her off Inuyasha's lap and onto the sidewalk outside of the warehouse. Inuyasha had his sunglasses on as he stepped out and grabbed Kagome's other elbow roughly, leading her towards the building at a quick pace so they weren't spotted on the street.
Miroku helped on the other arm as he pulled out his cell phone and told Shippo to unlock the doors. They opened and Inuyasha pushed her into the building, waiting until the door closed before he took the sunglasses off of her. She looked around in the warehouse and widened her eyes in wonder. "Wow, you people sure know how to live..."
"Duh, bitch. Follow me." The three gangsters walked up the path of stairs, and to avoid the questioning looks she was getting by the people in the other room, she followed quickly behind. Not that she was worried about them or anything, but she'd prefer to stay near the bad guys that she partially knew.
Inuyasha stood at the top of his staircase and stared down at the group of people glaring at Kagome. "What the fuck are you people looking at! This is none of your damn business, so turn around and do whatever the hell you were doing before we walked in!" The men immediately turned around and started playing a game of darts, ignoring them completely once again.
Inuyasha opened his office doors and ushered everyone in, simply pointing at the chair in the middle of the room for Kagome to sit in. After rolling her eyes, she quickly walked over to it and sat down, leaning back and being as un-lady like as possible with her arms crossed over her chest and her legs sprawled out in the chair. She saw no need to be a lady in front of a bunch of guys, anyway. If they didn't like it, they could bite her.
Inuyasha sat at his desk and leaned back as well, propping his feet up on the desk with his arms behind his head. His chains could be heard dragging against the floor, and underneath his shiny boots, a Swiss knife was revealed. If she was correct, all he had to do was push a button and the knife would pop out, just like how the people pop car tires in the movies.
Miroku and Sango stood near a wall, and Miroku had just earned a punch to the face from his groping of Sango. She sat there muttering about stupid boyfriends while he leaned against the wall so he wouldn't have fallen down and embarrassed himself.
Inuyasha sighed, eyeing Kagome carefully. "Well, Sango, what should we do about her ugly clothes?"
"Hmm…you're right. I've got something better she could wear. It looks like we're about the same size."
Kagome huffed and glared at Inuyasha. "Tell me, why did you kidnap me again?"
"I'm getting to that! Shit, you women are the most impatient species…"
"Women are not a species alone, Inuyasha. We are part of the human race and are entitled to the title of woman."
He jerked his feet forward, setting them on the floor instantly and pointing at her like a child. "I'll fucking slit your throat if you don't knock that off!"
"What? Afraid you can't handle it?"
"I could handle anything you dish out, bitch."
"Then why don't you reply with something other than threats? Or is that all you're good at?"
He widened his eyes in surprise. What a mouth…
Miroku shook his head slightly. She's not afraid of him…and she appears to be perfectly matched when it comes to arguing. Perhaps Inuyasha is enjoying himself more than he leads on to be…
Inuyasha stood and walked around the desk slowly to circle her in her chair. "You know, any normal human and I would have killed you in the limo, but something about you keeps me from killing you. Since you think you're so smart, care to explain that to me?"
"Maybe I'm the first real verbal challenge you've had in a while, and you like a challenge, don't you Inuyasha?"
"Maybe. That doesn't mean that I'm going to put up with your mouthy comments."
She made a sound like she couldn't believe her ears, grabbing the arm of the chair to support herself as she shifted. "I have mouthy comments? Listen to you! Every other word with you is a swear word, and every sentence that comes out of your mouth is a threat!"
"So?"
"So you shouldn't sit there and tell me about how mouthy I am being when everything you say would make a sailor blush!"
Sango suppressed a laugh and Miroku smiled brightly, making Inuyasha glare at them both in frustration. "Sango and Miroku, get your ass's out of here! I'll call you when I need you!" The two turned on their heel and headed towards the door, Sango turning around and saying with a laugh "I'll pick her out some good clothes, don't worry." Then they were gone to venture down into the depths of the club.
Kagome had a very cross look on her face. "I ask again, Inuyasha, why did you kidnap me?"
He eyed her carefully, not sure about answering or why he was even thinking about it. "Because I am at war with my brother, and he was going to kidnap you first."
Kagome rolled her eyes and leaned back in the chair. "Oh Kami, Inuyasha, that's childish."
"Is it? Tell me something, Ka-go-me. Would you rather be in the ruthless hands of my bastard brother, who actually does want to use you for blackmail, or in my hands where you actually get to live until you push me over the edge?"
She stood and crossed her arms. "Since you have made it perfectly clear that you aren't going to kill me yet, I guess I'd rather be here, but that only answers part of my question. Why be so childish as to keep your brother from getting what he wants out of my father?"
"Because, damn it, it's war! We keep each other from things that the other person wants, so taking you first is another way to get him pissed off."
"Then what do you plan to do with me?"
He rubbed his chin as if in deep thought. The fact that he hadn't thought about it yet is what made Kagome slightly nervous. He could suddenly decided to use her as target practice, since he didn't actually need her alive. He could do anything he wanted to her…
When he seemed done thinking, a cocky smirk appeared on his face as he moved to sit on the desk in front of the chair. He crossed his arms and watched her reaction as his chains made a strange clinking noise against the desk. "What do you know about guns?"
Kagome huffed again and put hands on her hips. "I told you, I took a self defense class. I own a fucking gun."
"But can you use it?"
"Give me a gun and I'll test it on you."
"Watch it woman, you're still on thin ice."
"I can shoot and hit, and I'm a good actress for when the time calls for it. Why?"
His smirk remained and got a little bigger. "We'll put you to the test, but if you're as good as you think you are then maybe Sango won't be the only girl in this group anymore. If you're any good, I might even have you do some assignments with her."
"You're being nice. What gives?"
"Maybe I gave you the wrong impression, but I'm not the type to just throw out a good opportunity. You just have to get used to the fact that I'm the boss around here, and you have to listen to me."
She sighed. "I know that, but as of now you haven't said I was in your group, and I don't have to listen to you."
"You had better listen to me or I'll…"
"I know, I know, you'll slit my throat." She sat down on the chair again and crossed her arms, looking off to the side in thought. "I just have one question."
"What?"
"You're not going to make me dress like some slutty bitch, are you?"
"Hell, if you wanted to look like a slutty bitch then wear your normal outfits. The outfits that Sango has will make you look violent, not slutty."
Kagome brushed it off. "Where do I sleep?"
"Just don't worry your little head about anything. Sango will be one of your look outs." He looked behind him at a noise in the basket and sighed. "Shit." He got up and picked the little bundle up, and Kagome stared with wide-eyes at him as he held an infant. She could feel her laughter before she let it loose and then basically tumbled onto the floor. He stared at her with a strange face and she stopped for breath. "You're a daddy? Poor kid!" Then she resumed her torturous laughter on the floor.
He growled and stomped over to her. He hit his heel against the floor and the switchblade came out, pointed directly in her face. "Get up!"
She continued to laugh but stood on her feet. He held the kid out to her and she took it, staring with question as she calmed down. "Why do you want me to hold your brat?"
He growled loudly with clenching fists. "That's not my kid, damn it! Hold it, it smells."
"Well where are the kid's parents?"
"I don't know, and I frankly don't care. We didn't worry about that…only that the father is part of my brother's gang and he pissed me off to no end."
"Well you need to give the kid a bath and change it's diaper, Inuyasha. You have to take care of it, not neglect it and let it sleep in a basket of clothes."
He shrugged. "I don't know anything about kids and I don't really care. If you want to take care of the little whelp then by all means do."
"I don't know much about kids either."
"Well you know more than I do."
"I'm not taking care of it. It's your responsibility."
"Psh, my responsibility is taking care of and managing my gang, and ordering them around. I don't have fucking time for a kid!"
"Then you should have thought of that before you took it. If you neglect it, it'll turn into a mindless zombie that won't do anything anyone tells it to."
He glared at her. "Don't give me a damn lecture, bitch, I don't care about the kid. I took it for a reason."
"Then you hold it." She gave it back to him and sat down in the chair again. Inuyasha appeared to be pondering whether or not to kill her, but he ended up exhaling carefully. "You know, bitch, I'm going to be surprised if you're still alive at the end of this week."
"Well, Inuyasha, I've had a hard life, believe it or not, and debating and arguing and complaining is what I learned to do to stay on top."
"Hmph. Whatever. I could care less." Fascinating…this girl's right, she is a challenge. And she has no idea how much I love a challenge. I think I'll keep her around.
"But I'd like to do you a favor."
"I'm listening."
"You obviously don't want to care for the kid and you want to piss the parents off. Well, you did that much already, so why don't I feed it, bath it, and change its diaper, and then take it to the social services station where they'll place it in a foster home?"
He grunted as he induced a rubbing on his eyes. "There's just one problem with that theory."
"And that is?"
"The parents would eventually get it back!"
"Well by now they know it was you who took it, don't you think? If the cops come after you, then either way they're getting the brat back."
He growled and ran a hand through his hair, letting his gaze stare at the ground. Kagome was surprised that he was even considering it, especially since she hadn't even known him for an hour. "Fine, I'll let you, on one condition."
"What?"
"Sango has to go with you."
Kagome sighed. She had many comments for that ready, but she decided not to mouth of any more than she had to at the moment. "Ok, fine, Sango can come with me."
A knock came on the door and Inuyasha scowled. "What the fuck is it now!" Sango walked in with handful of black clothing and chains and she smirked down at Kagome. "Let me borrow her for a few minutes, Inuyasha, and we'll see how dangerous she can look."
He smirked and waved them off. "Sure, just as long as she doesn't look like that anymore. My eyes were starting to water." After she muttered, "Fuck you", Inuyasha chuckled softly while putting the kid back down into the blankets. He sighed carefully after he was sure they were gone into the bathrooms. "This will be a hell of an experience."
*~*~*^_^*~*~*
Kagome had changed into a very tight sleeveless shirt with a turtleneck that tucked into skintight pants, held in place with a chain belt. Her boots went to the middle of her calves, but that was hidden underneath the pants. They too had the Swiss knives underneath, and Kagome was informed that all you had to do to activate them was to hit very hard on the heal of the boot. A chain went around her neck and a couple of fingerless biking gloves for her hands. To top it all off, Sango demanded that her hair belonged in a ponytail like hers was, so up it went.
Sango smirked after rubbing her hands together, accessing her work. "I must say, I'll enjoy picking outfits out for you Kagome. That way I'll know what goes good together." She pulled sunglasses out of her pockets. "Just one more touch." Then she tucked the glasses up in her hair, ready to be pulled down any second for exiting outside.
Kagome smiled at her reflection. She enjoyed the rebel look that this gave her, all black with a badass style. It was certainly a change. "Wow, Sango, you have great taste in clothes."
"As long as it's black, Inuyasha doesn't care."
"He said something about you being one of my watch people for a while."
"I have to make sure you won't run away or try to kill us or anything, too. Course even if you did try to kill us, you wouldn't succeed. You're talking to some of the best shots and fighters in all of the country."
She turned around and stared at the girl. "Are you kidding me? After what you and Miroku listened to in my office, you know very well that my life was boring. This is very interesting so far, so there's no way I'd give it up!"
Sango smiled brightly and brought her hand up to her chin. "I've been meaning to ask you this…are you afraid of Inuyasha at all? You seem to like taunting him, challenging him."
Kagome stared down as if the floor was very interesting. Her lips twisted as she thought of anything that she thought frightened her about Inuyasha. "Actually, no I'm not. In a few ways, he's just as stubborn as I am, but he has a more colorful language and a deadly reputation. And he has informed me many times that if I were a normal person, he would have killed me long ago, but he hasn't done it yet. Doesn't seem like he's going to kill me."
"He isn't very patient, but you were right about him loving a challenge. You can back-talk like no one else around here. I used to be the only one even close to competition with Inuyasha. Now it seems we have a match."
Kagome smiled. "Sango, is it possible for you and I to be friends? I know you guys kidnapped me and all, but I really wouldn't mind having a good friend here."
"I don't see why not, seeing that Inuyasha will be keeping you around and having me take care of you." She grinned and shook her hand. "I'd like to have a female friend around here anyway." Suddenly, she turned Kagome around and started to push her towards the door. "Did I mention that Inuyasha's impatient? We need to go before he bursts in here on his own."
"Hey, wait a second."
"Yea?"
"Why are you the second in command? Just curious…"
"Because every damn guy here is afraid of me when I get pissed off. I even worry Inuyasha."
"Oh." She shoved Kagome out the door and they were back into the room, obviously interrupting a conversation between some guy and a very pissed off Inuyasha.
Sango cleared her throat and added plenty of emphasis to draw the attention of Inuyasha away from the other man. "How's this, Inuyasha?"
Both men turned their attention to Kagome and the one she didn't know mustered up a cocky smile. "Well, well, Inuyasha, who have we here?"
Inuyasha growled at the other man and stared at her, doing the random sweep with his eyes from her head to toe several times. "Well at least she doesn't look like a business slut anymore. I like the addition of the chains, Sango."
"You know, she needs a long leather coat and a gun or two and she'd be dangerous enough."
The second man walked near her and circled her carefully, as if he was investigating something he wanted to buy. His cocky grin didn't go away and it started pissing Kagome off. "What's your name?"
She crossed her arms and huffed, looking down then around as if asking for help. "Kagome."
"That's a pretty name. I've never seen you before."
"That's because I've never been here before."
He slipped a hand around her waist and pulled her close while she gasped. He had to be the most vile person she had ever seen. "Why don't you be my woman?"
"Kouga, for fuck's sake..." Sango started. Inuyasha was growling loudly and prepared to break them up, even though he wasn't exactly sure why. He had no relationship with this girl whatsoever, but it must have had something to do with the man…yea, that's it. It's Kouga he loathed and he hated his pick-up lines.
Kagome leaned back and punched him hard in the face with incredible force, knocking him a good distance away from her. She rubbed her wrist while he leaned against the wall with a hand on his nose and udder disbelief all over his face. Inuyasha wasn't any better with his mouth hanging open and his eyes bigger than grapefruits. Sango just clapped with a little show of sarcasm and smiled at her. "I don't think you need guns to be dangerous."
Kagome pointed at Kouga while panting slightly. "That is no way to treat a lady."
He smirked as he moved his hand away from his nose, scrunching it up and down to get the feeling back. "Wow, where'd you find this little vixen, Inuyasha?"
He snorted and snapped back into reality. "On a street corner."
Kagome glared at him. "Oh sure, make me sound like a whore."
"Truth hurts, don't it? That's how you were when I found you."
"Jerk."
"Bitch."
"Bastard."
"Stupid gutter slut."
"Arrogant, overbearing smart ass!"
He grinned at her with a show of fangs and leaned against his desk, perfectly comfortable with this conversation. "You wouldn't last a minute against me."
"I wouldn't want to fight with you, Inuyasha, on the off chance that I would break one of your nails and you would kill me out of pure rage."
He growled with a flash of red in his golden eyes. That comment struck him deep and he had no prepared retort to it. Kouga started laughing and both of them glared at him. Kagome then walked over to him and grabbed his collar, bringing his face close to hers. "What the hell is so funny?"
"Your comment."
"Well this is none of your business."
"That doesn't mean it's not funny."
Inuyasha, who suddenly appeared behind him, grabbed a hold of his hair and jerked him away from her. He dragged him over to the doorway and threw him out, yelling after him. "Get Miroku, Kouga and leave us the fuck alone!" Then he slammed the door as hard as he could without breaking it off the hinges. The minute he slammed the door his cell phone rang and he picked it up, answering in his normal way. "Yea, what do you want?"
"Inuyasha?"
"Who the hell is this?"
"This would be Shippo, sir."
"What is it?"
"Sesshomaru happens to be standing outside, demanding entrance to our club."
His gaze dropped. "What the fuck? Don't let him move." He hung up the phone and pointed at Sango, as if that would give him more emphasis. "Keep an eye on that bitch, and don't let her out of your sight."
"Gotcha." Inuyasha stomped out the door, his boots making a wonderful noise against the wooden floor as he slammed the door behind him.
Kagome crossed her arms and huffed at nothing. "I really want to bash his nose in, too. Just once would be nice."
"Hell, if he'll let ya, do it. I'm the only person so far in the club that almost knocked him out with a single punch, and if you can do it too, he'd have no choice but to make sure you're one of us."
"Well you seem to know your way around. Can you teach me all you know?"
"Sure thing. I think that's what Inuyasha was going to have me do, anyway." The girls sat in the room and waited for Miroku, who was supposed to escort them and keep an extra eye on Kagome. However, the eye that would be on her would make Sango's hand itch to smack him as hard as ever.
*~*~*^_^*~*~*
Miroku had to stand by Inuyasha when he met his brother to make sure that he kept himself under control. Normally, Sango would have been the one to help out, but she had to deal with Kagome at the moment. For some reason, Miroku wasn't trusted alone with a woman, especially to keep an eye on her.
He was rather worried at the scowl on Inuyasha's face as he glared at his brother. To them both, it was clear that Sesshomaru was after something. He never came without a reason, anymore.
Both of the brothers would love nothing more than to rip each other's throats out, but they had agreed to keep this war strictly involved with their business. No throat slashing allowed, even though Miroku could tell Inuyasha had to contain himself from doing so.
Sesshomaru, like Inuyasha, was a very rich gangster. Of course, where Sesshomaru spent his money financing his club and paying for nice business suits, Inuyasha spent his on guns and knifes, and leather outfits for all his people with the latest high-tech technology. Sesshomaru was more of a nice person, one who wasn't afraid to communicate and be nice to other people to get what he wanted. Or at least, that's how he seemed to business people. He could be rather hostile towards the people who knew him well.
Inuyasha, however, chose to be a frightening person so that he didn't have to deal with anyone or anything. He liked everyone knowing how dangerous he was. It was an easier method of getting things.
They couldn't be more opposite, but everyone could tell they were related because of their hair and claws. That had to be the only similarity.
Inuyasha had stepped outside with Miroku, staring right at Sesshomaru and his right hand woman, Rin. She was his second in command, like Sango, and her tactics were very deadly. If she pulled a gun, you had no chance of getting out of her way, because she was a quick shot and never missed her mark. She made even Inuyasha nervous. "What the fuck do you want?"
"We need to talk, little brother."
"I'm listening, but I ain't going to be patient."
"Hmph…where did you go to school? 'Ain't' isn't a word."
Inuyasha clenched his fists and growled, speaking through clenched teeth that would bruise his jaw. "Just tell me why you're here now, and then leave!"
"This childish game of war we have been playing is ridiculous, and I think it's time we had a truce. You have disabled me from many good hits, and what's worse is you somehow stole my plan of kidnapping the Higurashi girl, and disabled me from the amount of money I had hoped to receive for renovations in my club."
"You have plenty of goddamn money. And I ain't callin' no fucking truce. Get used to it."
"I just want the girl, Inuyasha. I won't take action if I get the girl."
"No. Get lost."
"What use could you possibly have for the bitch? She's too stubborn to become a whore."
Inuyasha growled deeply, showing his offending claws to his brother quite easily. "I don't stoop low enough to gather whores, like you do. And I'm certainly not dumb enough to get stuck with one for all eternity."
Rin glared at him and reached for her gun, but Sesshomaru was quicker and stopped her, gracefully holding her twitching hand in his. "Do not tempt me, Inuyasha. I must have Kagome Higurashi. Hand her over or I'll take drastic measures."
"Beat it!" Then he turned into his club and slammed the door in his face, opening it again and grabbing the shocked and slow Miroku to drag him in. "Get in here, damn it!" He slammed it again after dragging him inside.
Sango was teaching Kagome how to throw small knives up in Inuyasha's office. The target was he dartboard hanging by the door, and she was getting pretty good at it. Sango smiled as she almost hit the target in the center with near precision. "You're getting pretty good, Kagome."
"Thanks, I used to play darts in my room." She threw the knife again and hit the center, almost jumping for joy but resisting the childish urge. She prepared to throw another when the door burst open, effectively scaring the crap out of her and making her jump, throwing the knife directly at Inuyasha.
She gasped and he stared wide-eyed at the knife and caught it between his forefinger and thumb, just inches in front of his face. He growled at Kagome's wide-eyes and shook his head in arrogance. "Damn, Sango, maybe you should move the board…" He snapped with sarcasm. He took the knife and stabbed it into the center of the mark before continuing into the room and over to his desk.
"You bursting the door down scared her, Inuyasha. She was hitting the target perfectly fine."
Miroku walked in after him and stared at Kagome with a slight smirk on his face. "Wow, Kagome, you really look great. Like one of us."
Sango clenched the pop can in her hands and crushed it, glaring at him carefully. "Don't you even think about touching her, Hentai, or I'll kill you personally. She's on my watch, and I'm supposed to be your girlfriend."
He sighed and crossed his arms protectively around his chest, smirking at her cautiously. "Don't worry, Sango, it was just an observation. I know that I wouldn't be able to speak for a week if I did."
"More like you'd loose the loss of the hand that grabbed her." She narrowed her eyes and made her point by gripping the knife on her pants.
"All right, its hands off, I promise."
"No one will be touching Kagome." Inuyasha stated, out of the blue, from his desk. He suddenly found his hands very interesting. Everyone turned and stared at him with surprised eyes, so he had to continue.
"What? As much as I hate to say it, we need her after all. I don't want her violated in any way by anyone, except maybe verbally by me. So touch her, Hentai, and you'll find out first hand how a neutered dog feels."
Kagome turned towards him with a knife in hand and crossed her arms casually over her chest. She had to fight to keep the utter disbelief off her face. She had been under the impression that Inuyasha hated her, and didn't care if she lived or died, or if she was raped in an alley somewhere. "Why does it matter to you about what other people do to me?"
"Hey, I don't have to care if you'd like."
"I'm just asking."
"Well I'm just telling you. After I got to thinking about it, we always need more women for our hits, and as long as you can shoot and act, you'll be perfect."
"Well thanks, I guess."
"Do me a favor and don't thank me. As of now, you are part of this gang and I'm your boss. Anything I say you have to do, meaning you'll do it or you'll be punished."
She sighed and put her hands on her hips to appear bored. "And what if I attempt to do it, but fail?"
"Then you'll get a hell of a lecture from me, and possibly still be punished. Ask anyone here, my lectures aren't very pleasant."
Sango and Miroku nodded. She sighed with exasperation and raised her eyebrows. "He's right, even I can't argue when I don't do what I'm told."
"So there, you happy?" He stood and came around the desk, circling her again, looking at her work on the dartboard. "You can throw, I'll give you that, but I want you downstairs and learning how to shoot a gun." He reached into his pocket and handed her a black handgun, butt first, knowing all the while that if she wanted to she could shoot him right then and there. Somehow, though, he doubted she'd ever do anything like that.
She inspected it carefully. "This is sorta like mine."
He took interest and crossed his arms. "Good, then you'll know how to use it." He then handed her a cell phone after she inspected her gun carefully and put the safety on it, sticking it in the front of her pants. It was a little flip phone like his with a dragon design on the back. "This phone only responds to the calls in the group. You get a call on it, you better fucking pick it up, no matter what time it is, or I'll kick your ass. It's the only way we'll get a hold of you, so have it on you at all times, got it?"
"Got it."
"Good." He reached into even more of his pockets and pulled two chains with wallets on them. "Put these on."
"Why?"
"Because I said so."
She slowly put the wallets in her back pockets and the chains attached to her belt loops. He watched her carefully with slight interest and then took her cell phone back, grabbing the top of her pants with a claw and hooking it on. She felt rather odd with him touching her, but she didn't object. Instead, she stared at him. "Say, boss, I have a question."
"What?" He asked harshly never looking away from his work.
"Is the only reason I'm even in this group because I punched Kouga in the nose?"
He smirked while he adjusted her chains. "That was a very nice bonus. You proved to me that you could handle yourself in most situations. Which brings me to my next topic…"
He took out a large knife with a sheathe over the blade and a little clip on the side. The blade alone was longer than her hand, and she watched him while he attached it to her pants, as well. "Don't ever go anywhere without your chains. It's the only way we could find you if something happened."
"Ok."
He pulled back and stared at her carefully. "Now, if I have you doing jobs on your own ever, you'll have a way to talk to me or listen to me. Probably an earpiece in your ears and you will wear wires if I need some evidence. But no matter what you do, you will always have this." He pulled out what appeared to be a thin form of a round garage door opener and handed it to her. A little button rested in the center, and it seemed thin enough to pocket without it being visible, being no bigger than a half-dollar. "If you ever think that you're in danger, you pull this out of your pocket and hold onto it. I don't want you do die or something with egotistical theories of having to be brave. If something happens that you can't stop, push it and it'll alert me to your position and situation immediately. Don't loose it, got it?"
"Sure thing, boss."
"And call me Inuyasha. Only lower people can call me boss."
"Lower people? I thought I was a lower person. I just joined, you know."
"Yea, well, I'm going to be using you a lot. I don't put strong women as lower people because the bastards in the club would assault you anyway. In a higher position, they'd be too scared to mess with you because they'd think that I'd beat them up for it."
"Ah, I see."
He looked up at Sango and smiled evilly. "Sango, she'll be sleeping with you." Miroku seemed, for some reason, very disappointed, and after Sango had elbowed him hard, Inuyasha continued. "You can be her look out and make sure that she learns everything she needs. I don't want to be her babysitter. I might even have a job for you two in a couple of days."
"Ok."
Inuyasha turned his attention back to Kagome and seemed to sweep her body over, almost as if he was her clothing designer. "She needs a leather coat."
"Why?"
"One, because it'll hide all your weapons, and two, because I said so and everyone in my club has leather coats. I'll have you measured later, 'cause it has to be perfect. I'll be calling you often. Trust me on that." He moved to sit back down at his desk, but before he did he finished his statement. "Sango, go show her around and then the two of you meet with me in the gun chambers in half an hour."
Sango nodded and grabbed Kagome's elbow, leading her out the door at a pace that Kagome had to struggle to keep up. Inuyasha pointed at his chair with a smirk on his face and Miroku sat. "We have a lot to talk about in little time, Miroku. Make yourself comfortable."
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(A/N- I know they use bad words a lot, but that's just to prove a point later on in the story (I promise!) SO just bear with me, ok? And just to avoid any future questions, this is when Inuyasha starts liking Kagome. He realizes that she's a great challenge for him. And Kouga and Kikyo get bashed a ton (Because I personally don't like either of them) And Sesshomaru is the main enemy instead of Naraku. But I do love Fluffy! Such a pretty drawing!)