Yay! 3 more reviews. Me thinks this fic may be too good J Don't worry Cookie6. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha have brotherly conversation in chaps 4 and 5. And Kagome bashes Kikyo here!!!!! Welcome shippou-chan

Demon Zoo

By Fantasy Cat

Disc: Nothing mine due to the fact that Inuyasha is being sold to Kikyo, kill kill!

Chapter Four

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After closing time. Inuyasha watched his brother as Kagome gave him his meat and water. Sesshomaru carried both his meat and his water dish into his cave once again. Inuyasha sniffed the air. The odor had not changed near Sesshomaru's lair for the past few days.

"Earth to Inuyasha?"

"Wha?" Inuyasha whirled around unaware that Kagome found her own way into his cage. "Inuyasha, what's up with you?"

"My brother's up to something. I know it!"

"Oh forget about that. There's something important I have to tell you."

Inuyasha looked at the contents in Kagome's hands. "Hey, you brought me Koala Yummies."

"Inuyasha! Naraku's going to sell you tomorrow."

"WHA?!"

"It's true. He's letting us do one more show on Monday and then you have to go home with some woman."

"Is she hot?"

"With all honesty. She looks the biggest skank to ever walk the earth."

"No need to be jealous Kagome."

Kagome's face was turning red. "I'm not jealous, I'm just upset. I mean, aren't you? I've been working with you for so long and now you have to leave just like that…it just isn't…" Inuyasha noticed that Kagome's eye were beginning to water.

"No, no. Don't start crying, I can't handle crying. Kagome, I'm going to miss you, too. And…as much as I can't stand the people who come by and throw trash into my cage, I don't wanna leave."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Here, I get lots of attention, outdoors and company. I bet this lady is gonna leave me in a bathroom all day while she's gone."

Kagome lept onto Inuyasha. "Oh," she said sadly. The hanyou hugged Kagome. "I bet she's not gonna feed me junk food or ramen like you do." Inuyasha knew this was making Kagome smile.

They waved goodbye to each other through the bars as Kagome walked away to clock out. "Whoa. One more day left…" said Inuyasha.

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Kagome was still upset about Inuyasha leaving. They have done many shows together and despite who they were or on what side of the bars they were on. Sango and Miroku knew that they were the best of friends. Kagome and Inuyasha: one final show on Monday.

As she went into the dressing room, she didn't want to think about it. She realized that she was the only one who hadn't clocked out. Who knew she was talking to Inuyasha that long? Quickly she dressed and then went to clock out. But then her eyes turned right and she noticed that dust was coming in from the furnace room

She went over and turned on the light. Dust was everywhere and she could see that the furnace itself was left open letting dust fly all over. Kagome was about to close the furnace when she found a small object inside. She picked up the small flat material. No doubt there was dust stuck to the object so that meant that someone had tried to melt it. Kagome brushed the dust away but nothing was present but a melted looking wax. Finally a text began to appear with the words "Rin" but nothing else could be seen.

"It looks like a card," said Kagome.

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Inuyasha walked into his own lair. Being a hanyou, he had some luxuries. The cave was larger and well insulated. He had some blankets, pillows, books, and food just lying all over the place. A small door led to a water closet with a sink and a small toilet. If he wasn't half-demon, he might as well be human.

He dug through the mess on the ground of his cave and picked up a magazine. Then he turned on the ceiling light and fluffed a pillow for him to lay on. He opened the magazine, then turned it sideways and released the foldout. "Heheheh. It sucks that this is the last Playboy I'm getting from Miroku." He settled back until his nose began to bother him. "What the hell?" he said. It was that same strange human smell in the air again.

Inuyasha was irritated so he stepped out of his cave then went around the rocks where he got a good view of Sesshomaru's cave. It was dark, not lit with luxury like Inuyasha's. Inuyasha walked closer. The smell that bothered Inuyasha for days got stronger. "Sesshomaru?" said Inuyasha in a normal voice. He knew he wouldn't respond. Yes, hanyou and Youkai could communicate with each other, but Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were not on good speaking terms.

Then the hanyou saw a flea leaping from rock to rock in-between the bars. "Myouga!" Inuyasha called out. "Have you been in Sesshomaru's cave in the past two days?"

"No! Why?! What've you heard?!" Myoga panicked. This flea demon wasn't a very good liar.

"Nothing that I couldn't smell, and you are gonna sing like a canary for me. There's a weird smell coming from his cave and I want answers now!"

"Inuyasha," a new voice called out to him. Sesshomaru stepped out of his cave. "If you are so suspicious as to what is in here, why don't you come and see for yourself?"

"Yeah, how do you expect me to do that, dumbass? Walk through the bars?"

"It is pathetic to see that these humans have trusted you to never escape from your hell-hole when we both have the strength to leave," Sesshomaru's paw went up to something wrapped around his neck. It was a metal collar. A small green light was shining. "It's too bad I'm not as spoiled as you."

Inuyasha stared at his brother. He bent down near one corner of his cage where his brother's cage was on the opposite side. "If I cut off a few bits of these. None of the humans would be able to notice". Inuyasha struck his claws at the bars about one feet above the ground. The metal bits came out with ease but the bars were still wobbly without their bottom supports. Now Inuyasha could crawl through the hole into his brother's cage.

"It's your first time in my cage," said Sesshomaru. "Worse than your luxury pad?"

"A lot better than where I'm going soon."

"Oh, yes. I have heard. Your girl may miss you as I hope you do not return."

"My girl?"

"Kagome, the bitch."

"Hey! Don't call her that!" yelled Inuyasha.

"Shut the fuck up," Sesshomaru growled with his eyes turning red.

"Why?"

They went up to the entrance of Sesshomaru's cave and Sesshomaru went inside followed by Inuyasha. Never before had Inuyasha's wide ever been wider than now. Sesshomaru was kneeling down next to the girl asleep under the blanket. That was what Inuyasha had been smelling "Because, your rudeness will wake her up."

Italicized quotes mean that the hanyou and youkai are talking to each other. Note that hanyou can talk to both humans and demons but humans and demons cannot talk to each other.