Inutori: Hey minna-san! I'm back with another chapter! Hope you enjoy it!
Sagi: Of course we will, once you let us read it.
Gem: Shut up, Sag. The chapter will follow this note. Impatience is a tool of…me.
Kagome: Inutori doesn't own Inuyasha or any of its cast, so go ahead and try to sue, you won't get a penny out of her.
Inutori: Yeah! That's right! I'm broke and in debt! But if you want I could give you an IOU or something…doubt I'll ever be able to pay you though…
Chapter 18
A Dinner Missed
Inutori tapped her foot impatiently on the ground, looking at her watch for the tenth time. She had already been waiting at Inuyasha's apartment door for ten minutes and still there was no response.
Gritting her teeth, she stomped down the stairs to the car Souta borrowed from his mom and huffily got in. "He's not there, the butthead."
Souta looked over at his girlfriend with a sympathizing expression. "Well, we better go pick up Kagome before she gives up on us. We'll just have to try this again some other time." The youngest Higurashi turned the ignition and started the car, pausing while Inutori buckled in.
They escaped from the off campus housing and drove towards Kagome's apartment.
"It's just so frustrating, though. He said he'd come, but does he really? NO!" Inutori slumped down into the passenger seat, silently discovering new forms of torture to use on her elder brother.
"Tori-chan, you need to calm down. You know what happens when you don't." Souta glanced over for a moment at Inutori, aware that her demon youki was swirling wildly around the car.
Inutori sighed, relaxing her tensing muscles. "I know, it's just that Inuyasha is always doing this to me. Taking off and leaving just when I am relying on him the most." The tune of a tango played in the tight space of the car, and Inutori immediately sat up and dived for the purse at her feet. "Moshi moshi."
It was her cell phone that had been ringing.
"Fluffy? What do you mean? Umm…okay…Lazy butt. Sounds like it's your fault." Inutori hung up the phone with a grunt and returned the silver device to its place in her purse.
Souta kept his eyes on the road, his curiosity building quickly with Inutori's silence. "Well, what was that about?"
With a sigh, Inutori explained, "Fluffy left Inuyasha and Kagome in the middle of nowhere with a couple of other people." Inutori stuck her tongue out in disgust. "He said they were going to try and kill some demon, but he already took care of it and hadn't told them. So they're basically hunting nothing." Her head found its way into her hands in a hunched over position, a hiss escaping from between her sharp canines.
"Well, where are they?" Souta stole a glance at his brooding girlfriend as he drove past the road that he would normally have taken to get to Kagome's.
"Somewhere in the Haneki Forest. Fluffy says we need to fetch them or just leave them, but he thought I should know where my delinquent brother was." Inutori leaned back again, frustrated with her entire family.
"Let's leave them. After all, isn't the fact that Kagome and Inuyasha spending time together what we wanted?"
A grin plastered Inutori's face as her mood lightened considerably. "You're right. We'll just leave those two to their own devices."
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Kagome and Inuyasha both leapt over fallen trees and ducked under low branches, rushing back to Kagome's jeep as fast as they could. Naraku was forgotten in their rush to appease the wishes of their siblings.
Sango and Miroku stayed behind to pack up camp, but they would follow behind as quickly as they could.
"Hurry up woman! I'm already half an hour late!" Inuyasha growled back at Kagome, who was only a step or so behind him.
Kagome scrunched up her face in anger. "I'm matching your pace just fine, stop whining. I'm just as late as you are!"
"Keh." Inuyasha jumped back behind Kagome and swept her into his arms, picking up his pace to a neck-breaking speed.
The raven-haired professor clung to his neck within only a split second and clenched her eyes shut, not wanting to get motion sickness.
Close to only a minute later they were on the edge of the forest, the two cars parked only a hundred feet away. Kagome pulled out her keys and jumped out of Inuyasha's arms, running to the driver's door and jumping in, not even bothering to wait for Inuyasha to get in as well.
Inuyasha quickly scrambled in, not wanting to get left behind in Kagome's panicked escape to civilization.
The car jerkily, but speedily turned around and Kagome was soon cruising down the open road at a good ninety miles per hour.
They continued this pace until a police car with its sirens going started to follow after them. With a growl of contempt Kagome slowed down and pulled over, the policeman parking just behind her.
"Inuyasha, cover your ears and claws." Kagome whipped her head in the direction of Inuyasha and then back at her rearview mirror to watch the officer walking around to her window.
There was nothing for Inuyasha to shield himself with, so in a panicked frenzy Kagome cast a spell. His hair turned black and his eyes violet, his ears coming down to the sides of his head like a normal human's.
Kagome rolled down her window, trying to calm her heavily beating heart and think of a way out of a ticket.
"Ma'am, do you realize how fast you were going?"
Kagome sighed, tears filling up her eyes. "I'm so sorry, officer. It's just that we were out camping and my mom called and told me that my sister was in the OR and that I should get there as fast as I could. In my panic I must have stepped too hard on the gas. I'll slow down if you want me to; but I may be too late to tell my sister my last goodbyes." A tear rolled down her cheek and she looked deeply into the officer's eyes for any drop of pity.
"Well miss, I'm sorry for delaying you, but you do need to slow down for your own safety. Hope your sister pulls through." The man tipped his hat to Kagome and returned to his car.
Kagome immediately threw the car into drive and stepped on the gas. Accelerating to a slower seventy miles per hour.
"Smooth." Inuyasha stared behind them at the police car that was turning around and returning to its earlier speed trap location.
"Well, I don't need to pay two thousand bucks just to get to a dinner with my brother." Kagome gripped the steering wheel tighter, wanting to be in the city already.
"But still, you just lied to an officer of the law. You could get in some major legal trouble for that, couldn't you?" Inuyasha looked forward again as the city lights in the distance began to enlarge.
"Maybe, but that officer didn't even take down my name, and he probably didn't write down my license plate number. It'll be hard for him to track me." Kagome smiled, slowing down some as they reached more population.
Inuyasha just shrugged in loss. "Your funeral."
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Sesshoumaru leaned back in his chair with a sigh. Kikyou was sitting out in a tree outside with Rin in her arms. Or should he call her Kagura now, as she had called herself?
Things were just so confusing with Rin back from the dead and Kikyou now a demon. If he had thought his life would take this kind of turn a couple years ago, he would have checked himself into the loony bin.
But here he was, sitting in his stuffy office, looking out the gigantic glass windows at his wife awkwardly rocking their hanyou daughter in her small arms.
His expression didn't change as he turned back around to face his mahogany desk and continue typing the draft of a proposal for his company at his computer.
With that stupid stalker of Kikyou's (or Kagura's) dead, there was nothing to worry about, right? If that were the case, why did the great demon lord still feel like killing something?
Maybe it was because his wife and only confidant didn't remember a thing about him. Or maybe it was because his only daughter had been killed; forget the fact that he had revived her. Or maybe it was the fact that his wife had been corrupted by the blood of a foul smelling demon who needed desperately to take at least 50 long baths.
The mouse crumbled in his clenched fist; the plastic unable to keep under the strength of an angry demon. Sesshoumaru's eyes flashed red, and he had to take a deep breath to calm himself. No use loosing his temper now, the cause of all of these problems was already spread all over the woods.
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Kagura ran her claw gently over the sleeping child's nose, careful not to cut the girl's delicate skin. Holding the baby brought a soothing, familiar feeling to her heart and she never wanted to let go of it.
The dog demon was just inside the house and he was facing away from her. He had been watching earlier and it sent shivers down her spine; it made her uncomfortable to be scrutinized by him silently.
She looked around, dusk settling in and bringing a cool breeze with it. Long shadows played over the ground, giving the place an eerie sense of being watched. Despite the cold inside and out, Kagura felt a tinge of recognition. She would never admit it out loud, though.
Darkness came and Kagura decided to take the child inside where it was warm and put her to bed. Sesshoumaru had shown her where Rin slept, but the house looked so different without light illuminating the halls.
The hallway was dark and quiet, and Kagura felt the hairs on the back of her neck raise. This place…it smelt of blood. Wafts of the foul stench flew into her nose and Kagura suddenly felt an unfamiliar dizziness overcome her.
Her knees met the floor and she quickly set the sleeping child down before she was dropped. Darkness overtook her vision and she crumpled limply to the floor, her breath coming in frantic spasms.
A cold shiver ran down her spine and Kikyou's miko powers allowed her to sense another person's presence in the house. She swallowed nervously; having that knowing feeling that something terrible was just about to spring out into the open.
Clutching Rin closer to her chest, Kikyou quickened her pace down the hall towards the nursery. In her mind she was panicking, but her face gave way to no emotion like always.
Her heart was beating faster with every step, and she could barely hear over its pounding rhythm. That is, until a door clicked shut somewhere nearby and her entire body froze. No constant heart beat, no breath escaping her lips. She was stiff as a board.
The baby in her arms shifted restlessly, whining and grabbing onto Kikyou's shirt; obviously wanting to be nursed back to sleep again.
But now was no time for that. There was someone in the house, and Kikyou could sense that person's evil youki.
"Ki-ky-ou."
Her heart started again, but the rate at which it beat far surpassed that of which it had been before. With a throat dry from fear, Kikyou tried to speak calmly as she answered. "Who's there?"
"Come to me, Ki-ky-ou."
The deep voice sent a waterfall of shivers down her back and it took all of her will power to keep her standing up. "Reveal yourself, demon."
She listened to the click of someone's hard boots on the wooden floor, and then a man stepped into the light of a nearby window. Her muscles gave way underneath her and she collapsed to the floor in utter terror.
The face before her…she knew that face…she had tutored him after school when she was still a teacher…he had asked her to marry him…impossible…what was he doing here?
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Sesshoumaru heard his daughter's cries in the hallway and could smell the fear coming from Rin's location. He stood up, his face as stoic as ever, and went out into the hall to find Rin on her back screaming and Kikyou collapsed on the floor.
She was lying in the exact same place that he had found Rin and all of the blood covering the walls. He quickly scooped up Rin and put her in her crib, ignoring her cries for attention and returned to his wife.
Her breathing was fast and irregular and her heartbeat was soaring through the roof. The dog demon knelt on the floor and rolled Kikyou over, pulling her into his lap and into his chest. He held her possessively and let her subconsciously relax in his embrace and listened to her heart and breathing return to a more normal rate.
His eyes flared red again. What had that fiend done to his s wife to change her like this? If only he had prolonged that fool's death and made him suffer more. No one had the right to torment the great lord Sesshoumaru's wife. NO ONE.
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Inutori: Hope you all liked the chapter. I've been kind of tired since my medication isn't really working as well as I'd like.
Sagi: You're just having withdrawals.
Inutori: I don't take drugs! How could I be having withdrawals?!?
Sagi: Maybe because of-
Inutori: Nevermind, don't answer that. Anyways, minna-san, please review and give ideas as to stuff that should happen now! (not the ending of the story, just ideas) Ja ne!