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Chapter 13: Rise and Shine
Kagome growled at the source that woke her up. "Hello?" Her groggy voice called into the phone. While waiting for a response, she looked at the clock. It was only 5:30 in the morning. She was about to say something very rude into the phone when the person on the other line decided to speak.
"Morning Kagome. Just giving you a heads up that you're gonna be needed today, so I'll be around in about three hours to get you." He was overly perky this morning.
"Kouga. You do realize that it's only 5:30?" She was anything but perky.
"I'm aware of that fact, but I'm also aware that it takes women hours to get ready."
Kagome groaned into the phone, "Kouga, it only takes me about an hour and that's doing nothing."
"So you want me to give you another wake up phone call in a few hours?"
Kagome stretched and made the little squeaking noise that usually went with it. "No, no I'm up now. I'll just go and drink my weight in coffee."
"I'm sorry Kag, but I thought you were like all the others, and needed ample of warning."
Stifling a yawn, Kagome said, "You should know me better, but I'll see you in three." She hung up the phone. It would have been nice to go back to sleep, but she decided to get in a little homework before she has to get ready.
There were only two major things that she had to work on. One being the science project, and the other was the manuscript that her English teacher gave her. She hulled the 200 page manuscript down to the kitchen. She made her coffee and sat down and started to read. She shook her head at the first sentence, and got back up and grabbed a red pen from her kitchen drawer.
Editing the book took a good hour and some, and she now had consumed a pot of coffee. Needless to say, she was wired. She even went so far as to get all her books ready for her project, that she would complete later that night.
She decided to make another pot, because she was not ready yet to come down off the caffeine high. While that was brewing she went and took a shower.
She had just finished her shower and had turned off the tap when there was a banging sound at the door. Quickly she wrapped herself in a over sized towel, and took another towel and placed her hair in a turban. She ran to the door, leaving a trail of wet foot prints behind her.
"Hold on, I'm coming." She looked at the clock. Kouga was an hour early. "You're early Kou-" When she opened the door it wasn't Kouga.
"Finally! I thought I was going to have to break down the door."
"Inuyasha," Kagome was shocked. "What are you doing here this early?"
"I picked up this new game last night and I was hoping that I could have a heads up before Miroku and Shippo try to kick my ass."
Kagome shook her head and let him in. She saw Sesshomaru standing off to the side. Inuyasha already was seated in front of the television, and was ready to go. "Are you coming in, or do you plan on just standing there?"
Sesshomaru, gave her the once over and followed her inside.
Kagome returned to the bathroom, and slipped on a new set of pajamas, and grabbed the terry robe from the back of the door. With her robe firmly in place, she took her hair out of the confines of the towel and headed out. Sesshomaru was sitting at the kitchen table sipping on a cup of coffee, and Inuyasha was screaming some foul obscenities at the screen.
"Have you two eaten?" Hearing no response from Inuyasha, she turned to Sesshomaru.
"He dragged us out before we could have something to eat." Sesshomaru commented and took another sip of coffee.
"Well then, I guess I'm gonna make breakfast. What do you feel like having? We can have something traditional, like bacon and eggs, or I can run out and grab some fast food."
"Fast food!"
Kagome's head turned towards the direction of the living room. 'So he has selective hearing,' she thought. "Guess I'll go and get dressed then." She went back upstairs, and got dressed. Since Kouga was going to pick her up in an hour, she dressed a little more formal than she would have.
She came back down five minutes later, and saw both brothers sitting at the kitchen table drinking her coffee. "Okay, so where should I pick up some food?"
"There's a McDonalds about four blocks down. They have great breakfasts." Inuyasha said as he looked her over. "Why are you dressed all professional, all you are gonna do is pick up some breakfast."
Kagome looked slyly at him, "Don't worry about it." She grabbed her keys and her purse. "So you guys coming with, or am I going by myself?"
"Take Sess with you, I'm going to stay here and play the game. Besides, I know how you drive. I want to be on level ten before they come here and try to beat me." Inuyasha said drinking the last little bit of coffee, and set his cup in the sink.
"Okay then, so what do you want to eat?"
"Sess knows what I like."
Kagome and Sesshomaru were finishing up their cup of coffee when she heard a familiar voice on the two-way walkie-talkie. "Kag, you up?"
Kagome groaned and picked it up. "Morning Miroku. Don't people ever try to do something called 'sleeping in'?"
"Well I saw a car in the drive way and figured that you were up."
"Very good Miroku. Inuyasha's here with his brother. Do you want something to eat from McDonalds? Me and Sesshomaru are just about to pick some stuff up."
There was no response on the other end. "Miroku? Hello you there?"
Kagome shrugged and put the device back on the counter. She heard a key being inserted into the back door. She let out a sigh and shook her head. "Miroku, all you needed to do was tell me what you wanted."
"Someone had to protect you from the big bad Inuyasha!" Miroku gave her a sly grin.
Kagome laughed. "I believe that would be Sesshomaru's job. But any case, Inuyasha is in the living room playing a new game. He says he can beat you."
Miroku gave a dark grin, "He can beat me, can he?" He walked into the living room, "Inuyasha, I challenge you!"
Inuyasha almost jumped out of his seat. "Shit, when did you get here?"
Kagome looked at Sesshomaru. "Let's go before there's a blood bath." They walked to the door. "So what do you want from there? And no blood on my carpet please."
"Just get anything you want, just know that Shippo is coming over too." Inuyasha groaned, and Kagome took that as her cue to leave.
Kagome jumped into the driver's seat, and slid the key into the ignition. "Why did Inuyasha warn me about your driving skills?"
Kagome flashed him a smile, "You shall soon see Sesshomaru." She took out of the driveway at breakneck speeds. The short trip was made in record time. Sesshomaru's knuckles were white as his hands gripped the door panel for dear life. "So shall we order?"
"How can someone as sweet as you be a fiend?"
Kagome blushed. "Looks are deceiving, are they not?"
Sesshomaru could only nod, and kept performing deep meditating type breaths until the ride was complete. Seven bags of food, and sixty dollars later, the two made their way home faster than the first time around.
Sesshomaru blanched even more than the previous trip. "Are you alright?" She asked when she noticed his normally pale complexion whiten even more.
Sesshomaru turned and with horror in his eyes asked, "Why did you drive so fast?"
"That's a silly question! I wanted everyone to have their food while it was still hot." She flashed him another smirk and stepped out of the car.
Shippo was kind enough to have the door opened for her. She placed all the bags on the table, and it became a free for all. They boys were on their second breakfast sandwich when Kagome's door bell rang. She got up and answered it. It was 8:30 on the dot. She saw Kouga dressed a little less formal than her own attire, but she wasn't about to change.
"You ready to go?" Kouga gave her the once over, then peered behind her and saw all the others staring at him in either blank hatred or mild amusement. "Why is everyone here at this hour?"
"They came for breakfast, are you hungry, I think I can get the boys to share." Kagome stared at the last bags of food. Inuyasha made a loud territorial growl. Kagome laughed, he was not going to share the food with Kouga. Kagome laughed, "I guess he doesn't want to share. No biggie, we'll pick something up on the way." Kagome turned to the gang, "Now boys, I'll be back in a bit, during that time, you are not allowed to destroy my house or go into my dojo, is that understood?"
"Where ya goin' Kag?" Shippo asked with a mouthful of food.
"I'm taking Kagome to meet my family." Kouga stated for her.
"No wonder you look hot." Miroku stated as he walked back into the living room.
Kagome blushed, but grabbed her purse and left.
Kouga's 'family' was the police department; seemed like everyone wanted to meet the person who became friends with the people in Naraku's inner circle.
She was growing extremely tired of being paraded around as if she were some sort of circus sideshow.
Kouga lead her into a conference room, and took a seat. Everyone was already there. The leader of the drug task force introduced her to everyone, she either nodded or said a polite hello.
Soon business got underway. Talk of how to bring Naraku down got everyone on edge. It seemed that every time they were prepared to move in, Naraku changed locations or wasn't there. He was becoming even trickier.
Kouga stood up and took the floor to make his report. He had made some contacts and brought in an outside source to trap Naraku.
The group seemed rather interested in the matter. Kagome sat half listening until Kouga mentioned the source was from Japan. This got her full attention.
"He invented this syndicate while he was still in high school. His organization is so well done that it now has ties to all the major drug rings around the world."
One of the female officers sitting to Kagome's right perked up and asked, "Why is he helping us? I mean," She laughed not really believing his story, "They are a mafia." Kagome had to agree with her. The lady made a point.
Although, Kouga seemed unfazed. "That's the thing." Kagome wanted to groan when his all too familiar smirk graced his lips. "This mafia was started as a joke, but became so powerful that the Japanese government bought it, and now it's being used as a front to catch sly creatures that evade the law; like our Naraku."
Kagome stared in awe. 'That's quite a front. No one knows it's not really an evil syndicate? Sounds like these guys have finally come to their senses. They should have done this before, so what took them so long?'
Kagome stopped listening to Kouga droll on about this organization, and started to quietly shuffle through the hundreds of pages that they had on Naraku.
She didn't know why she was even here, none of this information pertained to her. Kagome almost gave in to her urge to groan. She was awake for this? To listen to how they were finally getting their asses into gear, and to listen to how one person in Japan made up a crime organization for the side of good?
She felt her eyes start to droop. 'Damn caffeine! I can't believe I'm crashing. Yes I can, Kouga's boring, and I'm distracted. See? I'm talking to myself. Bored.' Kagome glanced up to the front of the room. 'Yup Kouga's still talking. I wonder, could he stand up there all day and listen to himself talk?' Mentally she shook her head. 'I don't want to find out, I really don't.'
Kagome's internal monologue continued until she realized that Kouga not only stopped talking, but also left the room. There were people talking quietly amongst themselves, and she chastised herself for not paying attention.
The room quieted when Kouga entered with someone behind him. Her eyes immediacy narrowed to fine slits. She felt both excited and furious at the same time. She wanted to jump up and slap him. At the same time, she wanted to hug the living daylights out of him. It was two years since she last saw him. He had changed so much during that time. Before her was a man, he was no longer the over zealous teenager she once knew. He now had a ruthless look to him, almost feral, but she knew he was a pussycat on the inside: Or was he?
'What is he doing here?' She wondered in disbelief, waiting patiently for him to notice her. The man scanned the faces in the conference room, and finally landed on hers. A grin settled on both of their faces.
Everyone waited for him to speak. What he said was not what they expected.
"Hello Kagome, it's been a while." His voice purred with magnetism, and all eyes flew to her.
Kagome laughed behind her hand, "It most certainly has Hojo."
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AN: Okay it's tech. been a month, and I want to say how sorry I am, but my evil beta reader says :
Eevee: don't bother to apologize Eevee: tell them to be happy you updated at all
I felt inspired so here you all go! Thanks for all the reviews! I love you guys/girls/*insert self here* people...wow I feel special! Enjoy!
Chapter 13: Rise and Shine
Kagome growled at the source that woke her up. "Hello?" Her groggy voice called into the phone. While waiting for a response, she looked at the clock. It was only 5:30 in the morning. She was about to say something very rude into the phone when the person on the other line decided to speak.
"Morning Kagome. Just giving you a heads up that you're gonna be needed today, so I'll be around in about three hours to get you." He was overly perky this morning.
"Kouga. You do realize that it's only 5:30?" She was anything but perky.
"I'm aware of that fact, but I'm also aware that it takes women hours to get ready."
Kagome groaned into the phone, "Kouga, it only takes me about an hour and that's doing nothing."
"So you want me to give you another wake up phone call in a few hours?"
Kagome stretched and made the little squeaking noise that usually went with it. "No, no I'm up now. I'll just go and drink my weight in coffee."
"I'm sorry Kag, but I thought you were like all the others, and needed ample of warning."
Stifling a yawn, Kagome said, "You should know me better, but I'll see you in three." She hung up the phone. It would have been nice to go back to sleep, but she decided to get in a little homework before she has to get ready.
There were only two major things that she had to work on. One being the science project, and the other was the manuscript that her English teacher gave her. She hulled the 200 page manuscript down to the kitchen. She made her coffee and sat down and started to read. She shook her head at the first sentence, and got back up and grabbed a red pen from her kitchen drawer.
Editing the book took a good hour and some, and she now had consumed a pot of coffee. Needless to say, she was wired. She even went so far as to get all her books ready for her project, that she would complete later that night.
She decided to make another pot, because she was not ready yet to come down off the caffeine high. While that was brewing she went and took a shower.
She had just finished her shower and had turned off the tap when there was a banging sound at the door. Quickly she wrapped herself in a over sized towel, and took another towel and placed her hair in a turban. She ran to the door, leaving a trail of wet foot prints behind her.
"Hold on, I'm coming." She looked at the clock. Kouga was an hour early. "You're early Kou-" When she opened the door it wasn't Kouga.
"Finally! I thought I was going to have to break down the door."
"Inuyasha," Kagome was shocked. "What are you doing here this early?"
"I picked up this new game last night and I was hoping that I could have a heads up before Miroku and Shippo try to kick my ass."
Kagome shook her head and let him in. She saw Sesshomaru standing off to the side. Inuyasha already was seated in front of the television, and was ready to go. "Are you coming in, or do you plan on just standing there?"
Sesshomaru, gave her the once over and followed her inside.
Kagome returned to the bathroom, and slipped on a new set of pajamas, and grabbed the terry robe from the back of the door. With her robe firmly in place, she took her hair out of the confines of the towel and headed out. Sesshomaru was sitting at the kitchen table sipping on a cup of coffee, and Inuyasha was screaming some foul obscenities at the screen.
"Have you two eaten?" Hearing no response from Inuyasha, she turned to Sesshomaru.
"He dragged us out before we could have something to eat." Sesshomaru commented and took another sip of coffee.
"Well then, I guess I'm gonna make breakfast. What do you feel like having? We can have something traditional, like bacon and eggs, or I can run out and grab some fast food."
"Fast food!"
Kagome's head turned towards the direction of the living room. 'So he has selective hearing,' she thought. "Guess I'll go and get dressed then." She went back upstairs, and got dressed. Since Kouga was going to pick her up in an hour, she dressed a little more formal than she would have.
She came back down five minutes later, and saw both brothers sitting at the kitchen table drinking her coffee. "Okay, so where should I pick up some food?"
"There's a McDonalds about four blocks down. They have great breakfasts." Inuyasha said as he looked her over. "Why are you dressed all professional, all you are gonna do is pick up some breakfast."
Kagome looked slyly at him, "Don't worry about it." She grabbed her keys and her purse. "So you guys coming with, or am I going by myself?"
"Take Sess with you, I'm going to stay here and play the game. Besides, I know how you drive. I want to be on level ten before they come here and try to beat me." Inuyasha said drinking the last little bit of coffee, and set his cup in the sink.
"Okay then, so what do you want to eat?"
"Sess knows what I like."
Kagome and Sesshomaru were finishing up their cup of coffee when she heard a familiar voice on the two-way walkie-talkie. "Kag, you up?"
Kagome groaned and picked it up. "Morning Miroku. Don't people ever try to do something called 'sleeping in'?"
"Well I saw a car in the drive way and figured that you were up."
"Very good Miroku. Inuyasha's here with his brother. Do you want something to eat from McDonalds? Me and Sesshomaru are just about to pick some stuff up."
There was no response on the other end. "Miroku? Hello you there?"
Kagome shrugged and put the device back on the counter. She heard a key being inserted into the back door. She let out a sigh and shook her head. "Miroku, all you needed to do was tell me what you wanted."
"Someone had to protect you from the big bad Inuyasha!" Miroku gave her a sly grin.
Kagome laughed. "I believe that would be Sesshomaru's job. But any case, Inuyasha is in the living room playing a new game. He says he can beat you."
Miroku gave a dark grin, "He can beat me, can he?" He walked into the living room, "Inuyasha, I challenge you!"
Inuyasha almost jumped out of his seat. "Shit, when did you get here?"
Kagome looked at Sesshomaru. "Let's go before there's a blood bath." They walked to the door. "So what do you want from there? And no blood on my carpet please."
"Just get anything you want, just know that Shippo is coming over too." Inuyasha groaned, and Kagome took that as her cue to leave.
Kagome jumped into the driver's seat, and slid the key into the ignition. "Why did Inuyasha warn me about your driving skills?"
Kagome flashed him a smile, "You shall soon see Sesshomaru." She took out of the driveway at breakneck speeds. The short trip was made in record time. Sesshomaru's knuckles were white as his hands gripped the door panel for dear life. "So shall we order?"
"How can someone as sweet as you be a fiend?"
Kagome blushed. "Looks are deceiving, are they not?"
Sesshomaru could only nod, and kept performing deep meditating type breaths until the ride was complete. Seven bags of food, and sixty dollars later, the two made their way home faster than the first time around.
Sesshomaru blanched even more than the previous trip. "Are you alright?" She asked when she noticed his normally pale complexion whiten even more.
Sesshomaru turned and with horror in his eyes asked, "Why did you drive so fast?"
"That's a silly question! I wanted everyone to have their food while it was still hot." She flashed him another smirk and stepped out of the car.
Shippo was kind enough to have the door opened for her. She placed all the bags on the table, and it became a free for all. They boys were on their second breakfast sandwich when Kagome's door bell rang. She got up and answered it. It was 8:30 on the dot. She saw Kouga dressed a little less formal than her own attire, but she wasn't about to change.
"You ready to go?" Kouga gave her the once over, then peered behind her and saw all the others staring at him in either blank hatred or mild amusement. "Why is everyone here at this hour?"
"They came for breakfast, are you hungry, I think I can get the boys to share." Kagome stared at the last bags of food. Inuyasha made a loud territorial growl. Kagome laughed, he was not going to share the food with Kouga. Kagome laughed, "I guess he doesn't want to share. No biggie, we'll pick something up on the way." Kagome turned to the gang, "Now boys, I'll be back in a bit, during that time, you are not allowed to destroy my house or go into my dojo, is that understood?"
"Where ya goin' Kag?" Shippo asked with a mouthful of food.
"I'm taking Kagome to meet my family." Kouga stated for her.
"No wonder you look hot." Miroku stated as he walked back into the living room.
Kagome blushed, but grabbed her purse and left.
Kouga's 'family' was the police department; seemed like everyone wanted to meet the person who became friends with the people in Naraku's inner circle.
She was growing extremely tired of being paraded around as if she were some sort of circus sideshow.
Kouga lead her into a conference room, and took a seat. Everyone was already there. The leader of the drug task force introduced her to everyone, she either nodded or said a polite hello.
Soon business got underway. Talk of how to bring Naraku down got everyone on edge. It seemed that every time they were prepared to move in, Naraku changed locations or wasn't there. He was becoming even trickier.
Kouga stood up and took the floor to make his report. He had made some contacts and brought in an outside source to trap Naraku.
The group seemed rather interested in the matter. Kagome sat half listening until Kouga mentioned the source was from Japan. This got her full attention.
"He invented this syndicate while he was still in high school. His organization is so well done that it now has ties to all the major drug rings around the world."
One of the female officers sitting to Kagome's right perked up and asked, "Why is he helping us? I mean," She laughed not really believing his story, "They are a mafia." Kagome had to agree with her. The lady made a point.
Although, Kouga seemed unfazed. "That's the thing." Kagome wanted to groan when his all too familiar smirk graced his lips. "This mafia was started as a joke, but became so powerful that the Japanese government bought it, and now it's being used as a front to catch sly creatures that evade the law; like our Naraku."
Kagome stared in awe. 'That's quite a front. No one knows it's not really an evil syndicate? Sounds like these guys have finally come to their senses. They should have done this before, so what took them so long?'
Kagome stopped listening to Kouga droll on about this organization, and started to quietly shuffle through the hundreds of pages that they had on Naraku.
She didn't know why she was even here, none of this information pertained to her. Kagome almost gave in to her urge to groan. She was awake for this? To listen to how they were finally getting their asses into gear, and to listen to how one person in Japan made up a crime organization for the side of good?
She felt her eyes start to droop. 'Damn caffeine! I can't believe I'm crashing. Yes I can, Kouga's boring, and I'm distracted. See? I'm talking to myself. Bored.' Kagome glanced up to the front of the room. 'Yup Kouga's still talking. I wonder, could he stand up there all day and listen to himself talk?' Mentally she shook her head. 'I don't want to find out, I really don't.'
Kagome's internal monologue continued until she realized that Kouga not only stopped talking, but also left the room. There were people talking quietly amongst themselves, and she chastised herself for not paying attention.
The room quieted when Kouga entered with someone behind him. Her eyes immediacy narrowed to fine slits. She felt both excited and furious at the same time. She wanted to jump up and slap him. At the same time, she wanted to hug the living daylights out of him. It was two years since she last saw him. He had changed so much during that time. Before her was a man, he was no longer the over zealous teenager she once knew. He now had a ruthless look to him, almost feral, but she knew he was a pussycat on the inside: Or was he?
'What is he doing here?' She wondered in disbelief, waiting patiently for him to notice her. The man scanned the faces in the conference room, and finally landed on hers. A grin settled on both of their faces.
Everyone waited for him to speak. What he said was not what they expected.
"Hello Kagome, it's been a while." His voice purred with magnetism, and all eyes flew to her.
Kagome laughed behind her hand, "It most certainly has Hojo."
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AN: Okay it's tech. been a month, and I want to say how sorry I am, but my evil beta reader says :
Eevee: don't bother to apologize Eevee: tell them to be happy you updated at all
I felt inspired so here you all go! Thanks for all the reviews! I love you guys/girls/*insert self here* people...wow I feel special! Enjoy!