Guardian Demon by Outlaw024
Authors Notes: Well hello again. What are we in store for in this chapter of Guardian Demon? I do not have a fucking clue. I'll be pulling ideas out of my ass as I go along. I bet you all want to check up on ol' Jaken and see how he's doing. Well I've got nothing better to work with. Ok. Maybe I'll do a humorous day at school. Yeah, that's it. Pointless, but hell, it's an idea. And Death is back, but he'll be in one or two more chapters. Ok...let's get started.
Chapter 7 Thursday 0700 HoursInuYasha was sitting at the kitchen table with his head down and a steaming cup of coffee in front of him. It was his fifth drink so far. He needed a large caffeine boost to make up for the loss of sleep from the night before. Kagome walked into the kitchen.
"You look like you've had better days," she observed as she sat down next to him.
InuYasha sighed. "I didn't get much sleep last night."
Kagome made a sympathetic groan and rubbed his ears. "Maybe I should drive today," she offered.
"That sounds good," InuYasha replied as he leaned his head closer to Kagome's hand. He emitted a noise that sounded almost like purring. Kagome giggled and continued to pet his ears.
In the carInuYasha could never sleep in a car, no matter how tired he was.
"So why couldn't you sleep last night?" Kagome asked him while they were at a stoplight.
InuYasha began to think about Kikyo and his conversation with Death. "I dunno, I wasn't tired I guess." There was a moment of silence. "How about some music?" InuYasha leaned forward and turned on the radio.
"..Love the one you're with! Love the one you're with! Do do do do do do!" Then a DJ's voice cut into the song. "That was (band?) with 'Love the one you're with" here on..."
Kagome reached out and changed the station. "Let's see what else is on."
"...Lean on me, when you're not strong......." "That was Bill Withers with 'Lean on me' here on KISS 107.9"
Literature Class 0800 HoursInuYasha sat in the back of the room with a zombie-like face and his chin resting on the desk. He was slowly dosing off.
"And what can you tell me about this particular scene?" the teacher inquired to the class as she paced around the room. She had the usual teacher fashion sense: a long blue skirt that reached down to her ankles, and turtle neck that was a slightly darker shade of blue than the skirt, and white sweater to complete the outfit. Her gray hair was pulled back into a bun. She stopped next to InuYasha's desk and her blue eyes glared down at him; InuYasha was almost completely asleep. "Am I boring you...InuYasha is it?"
InuYasha snapped to attention. "Wha? No, not at all. Please continue." The rest of the class laughed.
"Thank you for your consent, now try and stay awake, you have a job to do and my students have to learn."
InuYasha slumped into his chair and glanced over at Kagome. 'Great,' he thought, 'I've embarrassed her and now she's going to be pissed the rest of the day. I'm a jackass.' When Kagome looked over at him, he tried to mouth "I'm sorry" but she turned away. 'You stupid piece of shit!' InuYasha screamed at himself in his mind.
After classThe bell rang and students poured out of every classroom like there was a marathon to be run or something. InuYasha walked silently next to Kagome who showed no signs of anger or annoyance. InuYasha placed his hand on her shoulder and she turned to look at him with a puzzled look on her face.
"Kagome, I didn't mean to embarrass you back there. I'm really sorry."
Kagome giggled and then smiled at him. "Don't worry about it. You've been working hard all week; it's no surprise you can't sleep. You must be so stressed. And plus, that class is boring as hell."
Higurashi Residence 2200 HoursKagome was pacing back and forth in her room while InuYasha sat in her desk chair with a science book open on his lap.
"Can you repeat the question?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha glanced down at the book. "At what temperature does nuclear fusion occur?"
"...15 million degrees...Celsius," Kagome replied nervously.
InuYasha looked up from the book. "That "
Kagome let out a sigh of relief and flopped down on her bed. "I still don't think I'm ready for this test tomorrow." She groaned as she covered her face with a pillow. "Uh'm gunna pail," she muttered.
"Ummm...what did you say?" InuYasha asked.
Kagome took the pillow off of her face. "I said I'm gonna fail," she repeated, "I haven't studied enough." She rolled onto her side and hugged her pillow.
"You'll do fine," InuYasha reassured her, "you've been studying for three hours straight. You just need to get some sleep, go to bed early tonight."
"You're right," Kagome agreed. She stood up and put the science book back into her bag. "Well, goodnight then."
InuYasha walked to the door. "I'll see you in the morning. And don't worry you'll do fine tomorrow. Well, sweet dreams." InuYasha shut the door behind him just as Ryoku walked up to him with a plastic Bick (A.N: I added the k so I won't get sued.) lighter and a carton of cigarettes.
"You need to go down to the station and see if Jaken's ready to talk," he told InuYasha.
InuYasha sighed. "Ok." He was tired, but he had to do it.
Police Station 2230 HoursInuYasha sat in the interrogation room with the carton of cigarettes and lighter on the steel table in front of him. Suddenly the door opened and a tall, muscular man in an orange jumpsuit walked in and sat down across from InuYasha.
"Hi Kaneda," InuYasha slid the items across the table but didn't remove his hand form on top of them, "have you been doing your best acting?"
"Of course." Kaneda's voice was cold and harsh.
InuYasha removed his hand from the items. "Good. So what have you been using? The gay tactic or the angry killer tactic?" [A.N: I am in no way trying to insult gay people...or angry killers ;; ]
"A little bit of both this time. I figured I should try something new." His voice suddenly changed. Now it was warm and friendly; almost like Barry White.
InuYasha chuckled. "Is he scared out of his mind?"
"Oh yeah." Kaneda's handcuffed hands reached out and took the carton and lighter.
"Now remember," InuYasha told him, "you can't keep the lighter with you. Ask Tobasu or Kutuku to hold it for you. When they're on their patrol route, just stop them and ask for it."
"Yep, I got it."
"Ok, and thanks for helping us...again."
Kaneda had been an accessory to a murder a few years back but had ratted out the actual murderers. He was spending 15 years in jail. He had been helping the police out over the past three years by scaring suspects who wouldn't talk. The guards would put the suspect in a cell with Kaneda and let him work his magic for a few days. Then they'd offer the suspect another cell IF they got the information they needed. It never failed.
A few minutes laterJaken stumbled into the interrogation room and sat down in a chair; his face covered with yellowish and purple bruises from InuYasha's last visit.
"How do you like your cell mate Jaken?" InuYasha asked. There was no verbal reply, but the look in Jaken's swollen eyes said that he was terrified. "Y'know Jaken, I could give you a different cell if you tell me what I want to know."
"N...n.....no."
A few more minutes laterJaken did not talk for the rest of the interrogation. InuYasha was utterly shocked that Kaneda's method hadn't worked. He would have gotten the phone book again except that the police chief had written InuYasha a note saying that he could not use it. There was nothing left to try, so InuYasha went home after making one last effort to get Jaken to talk. It didn't work and now Jaken was being escorted back to his cell clutching his stomach where the punches had landed.
Higurashi Residence 2400 HoursAll of the world was asleep right now except for InuYasha. The cold darkness of night surrounded him except for the dim light above the kitchen table. It would have been dejá vu except this time there was no bottle or rum there to help him; he didn't need it. Suddenly there was a sound of clinking glass behind him.
"Jeez, this lady has a fine taste for alchohol," Death informed InuYasha as he shut the liqueur cabinet and hid a screw driver in the folds of his robe; the lock had been opened without a key. He sat down across the table from InuYasha and poured himself a glass of Russian vodka. "You want any?" Death slid the bottle over to InuYasha.
"I've quit. Remember last night?"
"No, last night I told you to stop using alchohol as a way to temporarily erase your pain. Everyone needs the occasional drink now and then."
InuYasha reached out for the bottle, but instead of taking it he slid it back across the table. "No," he stated firmly.
Death grabbed the bottle and began to drink directly from it; the neck of the bottle was lost in the darkness of his hood where, InuYasha assumed, there was a mouth. "So, anything else you want to talk about?" Death asked, breaking the sudden silence. He put the bottle down on the table; the sound it made was hollow.
InuYasha let out a deep sigh and rubbed his eyes. "I've been thinking more about what you said last night."
"And?"
"And fucking let me finish my though damn it. And you're right about Kagome, about Kikyo, about everything. I do love Kagome. I love her more than I loved Kikyo, but I'll never be able to get Kikyo out of my memories."
"I'm always right."
"But now I have a problem. How do I tell Kagome I love her? Honestly. Her mom owns one of the most profitable car companies in Japan; I'm just a cop. And if I were to tell her now, when her family has a fucking threat on their lives, she'd freak out. And she's, what, 16? I'm 23. That's seven years apart!"
"The whole age thing is just numbers."
InuYasha sighed. "Kagome is just...perfect. She's made me want to be a better person. You know I stopped smoking because of her."
"Believe me, I know," Death told him, "because now you get an extra ten years of life. Wow, she's already done so much for you."
"I've done nothing for her." InuYasha banged his head on the table. "I'm fucking pathetic." InuYasha looked up and Death was gone. "Jackass," InuYasha murmured. He stood up and tossed the empty vodka bottle in the trash and walked into the main hallway towards the stairs.
-Kagome POV-
Kagome rolled over in her bed and stared at the clock. "12 o clock," she muttered, "I'll never get any sleep at this rate." She had tried counting sheep and just shutting her eyes, but she couldn't fall asleep. "Maybe a glass of milk will help," she decided at last. She threw the sheets off of the bed and stood up. It took her legs a second to get adjusted to walking, but once they were ready, she pulled on her slippers and crept out into the hallway and down the stairs. As she got to the bottom, she noticed a light was on in the kitchen. 'Who would be up right now?" she pondered. As she edged closer to the door she heard InuYasha's voice.
"But now I have a problem. How do I tell Kagome I love her? Honestly."
Kagome felt like she had been struck by lightening. 'Did...did he say he loves me?' Suddenly there was another voice in the kitchen that didn't sound like anyone she knew, and it didn't sound like Sesshomaru or Ryoku. But she only paid attention to the voice for a few moments. Her mind was still racing from what InuYasha had just said.
"Kagome is just...perfect. She's made me want to be a better person."
No one had ever said anything like that about her before. No one had ever been in love with her before. Oh sure, she had had a few boyfriends, but they were never serious relationships. Suddenly, InuYasha came out of the kitchen.
End of Chapter 7Cliffhanger, buwahahahahahaha! I'm so evil. Well, next chapter we will find out what happens, and then the next chapter with start winding down to the action and shit. Until next time.