Inutori: *singing* I don't own Inuyasha, I don't own Inuyasha!
Inuyasha: Quit that annoying racket already!
Inutori: You mean you want me to own you?
Inuyasha: No, you freak, I just want you to shut up!
Inutori: Not until I tell the readers about my happinesses.
Inuyasha: Then get on with it, wench.
Inutori: Well, I went onto my stats, and I found out that I'm on 29 people's fav's lists, and I'm also on 30 people's author alerts lists. I felt so proud of myself that I wrote another chapter for MPAI! And here it is! Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 14
Detected Crime
Sesshoumaru swallowed, surprisingly nervous. Little Rin was in the ER due to excessive injury and Kikyou was missing. He didn't know how he was going to tell his wife's family, and he really didn't want to.
When he had gotten home last night, he had smelt the blood and had immediately rushed to the upstairs hall, where he found his year-old baby unconscious and the walls smeared with blood. Amongst the blood it was written 'She's mine' and that's what really got to him. Inuyasha was the only person he knew of that had an obsession with Kikyou, but his scent wasn't in the house at all. It couldn't have been him.
His hands shook nervously as the doctor stepped out of the emergency room and approached him.
"I'm sorry, sir, but she didn't make it."
Instead of jumping on the doctor and ripping out his throat like he felt like doing, he nodded and stood solemnly. "Can I see her body?"
The doctor nodded to him, obviously not surprised by the businessman's request. "Follow me if you will."
Sesshoumaru's heart sped up and he nearly lost the contents of his stomach as he entered the ER and saw the still form of his tiny girl.
A hesitant hand reached forward and brushed the soft black hair of his only daughter gently. He wasn't an emotional person. He wouldn't cry. He couldn't cry. What would Kikyou do? She loved Rin so dearly.
Yesterday she had called him at work and told him that she and Rin had a surprise for him. Was this his surprise? To loose both of them on the same day?
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Kagome locked the classroom door, Inuyasha leaning against the wall casually beside her.
"What are you doing this weekend, Inuyasha?" It may have been only Tuesday, but Kagome was anticipating this weekend herself due to her approaching birthday.
"I'm busy." Inuyasha blurted, not really thinking about his words.
"I wasn't asking if you wanted to do anything with me. I was just curious as to what you were doing. Honestly." Kagome's heels clicked on the tile floor sharply as she walked, her head held proudly.
Inuyasha stood up straight and followed after, as had become custom for them since the quarter started. "Excuse me for misunderstanding your question. I'm spending some time with my sister. Got a problem with that?"
"Of course not. Why would I?" Kagome just looked back at him curiously as she dug her keys out of her coat pocket.
"Keh." Inuyasha had obviously chosen not to answer that question and just continued following Kagome.
"Personally I'll be spending time with my family as well, since it's my birthday this Friday."
Kagome heard Inuyasha swear under his breath and she rolled her eyes. He had a serious problem.
"Hopefully I'll be seeing my older sister and her baby, and maybe even my brother-in-law…but I don't like him that much, so I won't mind if he doesn't come."
"Do you ever stop talking?" Inuyasha looked at her impatiently as they got to the car and Kagome unlocked it for them.
"I'm giving you a ride, so don't complain."
"I'll complain all I want, woman." Inuyasha smirked at her and climbed into the passenger seat, pulling his seatbelt on before Kagome could scold him for not doing so.
"Men." She found herself rolling her eyes at him again and buckled herself in as well. Her cell phone chimed and she answered it after starting the engine. "Moshi moshi…iie, I haven't yet…Hai, I'll do that now…Ja ne."
Kagome pressed end and put the car into reverse, pulling out of the parking slot to head to Inuyasha's apartment.
She pressed the number two on her phone and held it down, speed dialing the person she wanted to call. The phone came back up to her ear, and Inuyasha listened to Kagome's side of the conversation she was having. "Hi, this is Kagome. Is Kikyou there?"
Inuyasha froze. Were his ears mistaken, or did he just hear Kagome say Kikyou? Why was she calling her?
His thoughts didn't go very far, and neither did the car, as Kagome slammed on the brakes before they reached the road.
"What did you say?" Kagome's hands started to shake slightly, and Inuyasha wanted to know what was wrong with her. "A-and Rin?" Her lip was quivering as well, and the hanyou just knew that his professor was about to start crying. "I'm coming over…I don't care, I'm coming." Kagome pressed end on her cell phone once again, trying to collect herself. "I hope you don't mind, Inuyasha, but we're going to take a slight detour to my sister's place."
Inuyasha didn't say anything, but the thoughts in his head were flying off the inside of his skull. If Kikyou was Kagome's sister, and Kikyou was married to Sesshoumaru, didn't that make him and Kagome related in some distant, bizarre way?
They were soon speeding down a country road, and there was no doubt in Inuyasha's mind that this was the way to Sesshoumaru's place. "Kagome, what's going on?"
Sesshoumaru's house popped out of the trees and soon they were coming to a stop in the inu youkai's elegant driveway. "My sister…she was kidnapped Saturday evening and my brother-in-law chose not to tell me." She ground out her words as she slammed the car into park and turned of the ignition.
Within seconds she was storming to the front door, with Inuyasha following behind in silent fear. She didn't even bother knocking, but instead slammed open the door and marched in, obviously angry.
"SESSHOUMARU!" Maybe angry was a little bit of an understatement; she was far beyond that.
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They had found Sesshoumaru locked in his study, looking sickly and pale. Not that he wasn't pale in the first place, he just looked unnaturally white.
"Where's Rin's body?" Kagome seemed to have calmed down a bit since she had first arrived, but Inuyasha was still a little nervous about her. And the fact that he was in the same room with his alienated brother didn't help.
"What does it matter? She's dead." Sesshoumaru didn't even look up at them, and he didn't act anything like himself.
Kagome glanced around the room, laying her eyes on two swords that stood on display above the fireplace. Without even asking Sesshoumaru, she stood up, walked over to them, and removed them from the wall.
She picked one of them up and threw it at Sesshoumaru. "Nothing ends with death, demon, you should know that." Sesshoumaru caught the sword and looked at it.
"What do you want me to do with this?" He fingered the sword gently and pulled it out of its sheath.
"Take it to where Rin is. You'll know what to do from there." Kagome then picked up the other sword, tossing it none-too-gently at Inuyasha. "And Inuyasha, you're coming with me."
"Nani?" Inuyasha caught the sword and looked up at Kagome.
"We're going hunting." The smile on Kagome's face slightly scared him, and Inuyasha resisted backing away in nervousness. It had to be PMS.
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Inutori: Here's another chapter for all of my faithful readers and reviewers.
Sagi(a friend & reviewer): Who ever said we're faithful? We read other people's stories as well.
Inutori: So in other words you're cheating on me.
Sagi: You hit that one dead on.
Inutori: Whatever, I don't care, as long as people still review, I'm cool with that.