A/N: stole my dividers and its rather frustrating to write a story… ill deal with it though, just now I have to go back and put those lines in to make it all match. It's so very sad.

In 80 Days

Urei-sama

The Notorious Trip

"So where did you put the girl?" It was Sesshomaru's steely voice that spoke; muted a bit by the boiler that revved underneath the room.

"She won't be bothering us for awhile… anyway," The other said, "What were the arrangements?"

Kagome found herself on the floor in a dark room. Either that, or there was something covering her eyes. Yup.. definatly a blindfold. There was a loud sound near her, like a generator or something. Perhaps she was in the basement? Kagome tried to pull her hand up to find whatever was on her face, but it wouldn't come further than her other hand allowed it…

"Great… I'm tied up aren't I…" Tediously she felt around for the bag she always carried with her. Perhaps her captor had been stupid enough to leave it here?

"Bingo." She pulled the black sack toward her with her feet, which were also tied, and shuffled around to reach inside it. Pulling out a long case, she fingered around for the button, dropping it a few times before finally getting a good hold and pressing it. A laser shot out of the end which she directed it to the roped around her hands. As expected, they burned off and she was able to reach the blindfold around her face.

Pulling it off, she studied the room… or what she could see if it…

It was humid, the boiler being the source of heat and no windows for ventilation. The floor was rather sickly with grime in the corners and puddles on the floor…puddles that Kagome didn't think were water. Defiantly the basement

She stood up after undoing the ropes on her legs, grabbed her bag and walked cautiously toward the door… locked. Kagome sighed. It was a pathetic attempt to keep her in the room. Lock picking was elementary in her line of work, and she had opened the door in no time…

Out of the basement, and up the stairs. Quietly so not to attract any attention. She got to the landing and pressed up against the oak door…

"You're not a very good kidnapper brother," Sesshomaru… Kagome's lips pursed. Did he know she was on the other side of the door? "She's on the other side of the door." Stupid demon senses…

"Kagomeeee" Miroku whined, sitting on the doorstep to her apartment. "Where are you!" he poked a finger through her 'custom mail slot' and made a weird oOoOoOo'ing sound before giving up.

Finally slipping the letter through, he stood up and turned to leave, the tail of his jacket swinging around as he walked out of the building. His head hung low.

"What have we here? Our little princess has woken up," Kagome noted that it wasn't Sesshomaru who had opened the door. This man was smaller and she noticed that he and her client both shared a similar complexion. it was obvious now that this was the brother Sesshomaru had been addressing. The same long silver hair, the same pearly white fangs… but one thing set them apart… ears. Unlike his brother, with his pointed elf-like ears, this man had actual k-9 appendages poking out of his hair! But that didn't matter at the moment because kagome reconized him as the man who had grabbed her earlier, the man with those sharp amber eyes. "It took you long enough. I was waiting for you to come up," the man sneered, cracking his knuckles.

Kagome glared passionately at him. He appeared much taller than her, of course he had the stairs as an advantage… but even so, it was defiantly intimidating.

"Inuyasha," Sesshomaru said, obviously dominate over his brother. "We don't have time for this; we have to bring the girl." Inuyasha turned his sneer to the other man before backing off, away from the said girl. Turning, he grunted something to Sesshomaru before walking out the door.

Kagome stepped back carefully as her client approached her. Down she went another step on the stairs so as this man seemed even taller than the last. He lowered his gaze to look rather cruelly at her before speaking in that hard voice. "I know you've been following me Kagome," …creepy much? "-But Ill let you play your game for a little longer. Now come!" With that last word he turned to walk out of the room, leaving Kagome there in the staircase, a little shocked but still standing. "You heard me girl."

Kagome's lips pursed at being told what to do. This isn't how the job is supposed to work… holding her pride, she gathered up the bag that she had dropped, and trudged out after him. That first room was pretty close to the front of the building, which explains why Kagome could hear them talking in the first place and as they walked out of the building, Kagome noticed that it was quite early in the morning… How long had she been out??

Sesshomaru lead her to the little black car and opened the door for her to get in. She hesitated a bit before stepping in and sitting down. Fixing her skirt, Kagome looked over to look out the window but her line of sight was interrupted by one dog-eared head that she didn't want to see.

"You!" Kagome shouted. Sesshomaru had gotten into the passenger's side to help the driver with their destination… unwisely leaving the two in the back.

Inuyasha sent a peeved glance back at her as the car started moving. "You're lucky you look like her, or else you'd be dead."

"… Her?" Kagome replied with a quizzical look on her face. "Who do I look like?"

"It doesn't matter. She's dead anyway." He was being difficult…

"It's not proper to bring something like that up and never finish what you were going to say," Kagome retorted

"But it's so fun to watch you squirm."

"You're so rude!"

"Deal with it wench."

"How dare you!"

"what are you gonna do about it?"

"Asshole…"

"Bitch…"

It was only when the car slowed down, nearing the port, when Kagome stopped pushing Inuyasha's head out of the car window. Dropping him to the floor she looked out through the glass and saw a man sitting near dock 7… a man that looked oddly familiar…

"Where is he…?" Miroku was sitting on a bench at the docks, bundled up in his jacket and scarf with a suitcase at his side. He was waiting for his noble, the one he had made a deal with back at the club. It wasn't like him to be late and he had five minutes until the boat was to arrive.

Miroku blew into his cold hands as the wind sent a shiver down his spine. It was the end of fall and almost all the trees were bare. The pink morning light cast an almost orange glow on the ocean, oddly calm for this time of day. Although Miroku was too cold to notice the beauty of what was around him. He stood up as a black car pulled around the curb leading up to the lot. The passenger side opened to revile Sesshomaru, Miroku's 'supplier'. He was massaging his temples as he walked up the pathway to his bench.

Miroku held out his hand to greet the aristocrat and found it blatantly ignored. Sesshomaru stood in front of him, his hands dropping to his sides as he opened his mouth to speak.

"I will pay you twenty thousand up front. The rest when our expedition is over, agreed?" Sesshomaru stated. Quite business like.

"That works for me," Miroku said, his eyes alight with opportunity.

"And you will give me the document when you have finished. It goes to no-one before me and I can promise it will go to no one after, agreed?"

"…yeah," Miroku said, feeling a little creeped out at the nobles vocal advances.

"Now, I would like you to meet the people we will be traveling with," Sesshomaru surprised the writer as he turned around, directing the driver to open the back doors. Miroku did not recognize the first with his long silver hair, but had a strong feeling he was Sesshomaru's brother… The second person who stepped out on the other hand…

"Kagome!" Miroku called his mouth wide open. She was wearing the same clothes that he had seen her in last and her hair seemed a bit tousled (as always), but besides that she looked fine. She herself seemed quite surprised to see him.

'So this is what he meant by 'trip,' Kagome thought after getting over the initial shock of seeing him there. Although Miroku still looked rather surprised… He was standing there, his mouth wide open looking like a complete idiot. She wanted so bad to walk up and close those annoying lips…

Standing beside her, Inuyasha leaned over to ask her a simple question. "You know that guy?"

Kagome looked over at him, the previous spite still in her eyes. "If you must know, I use to work with him. Saw him just last night."

"Ah… so your not bang--" Inuyasha was cut off as a hand slapped him sharply across the cheek. He looked, wide eyed, at the angry girl as she gave him a look that said "Finish-that-sentence-and-ill-spilt-your-tongue," before stalking off, away from him to stand over by her friend and his brother. "Oh hell."

"Miroku," Kagome started after the said man had regained his composure. "May I have a word with you for a moment?"

"Uh, sure," Miroku replied as she dragged him off down toward the edge of the docks.

"What the hell is going on?" Straight to the point. She had had enough of this secrecy.

"Good question…" glare from Kagome, and he continued. "Well you see, I made a deal with this Nobleman three days ago. It's so exciting you see, I'm writing a documentary about all the different countries of the world-"

"World?!" Kagome said, cutting him off. "WORLD?? You mean you plan to go on a trip around the world??"

"Well… yeah, but the thing is, Sesshomaru only gave me a little under three months to compete it," Miroku replied rather bashfully.

"So what" Kagome mocked. "You have, like, eighty days to go around the world? Well I suppose that would be easy… just get on a plane and go"

"Heh…" Miroku seemed to stiffen at the word plane "about that…"

"Hey! Wench!" The two turned to see Inuyasha waving at them from a distance. He seemed quite fond of Kagome's new nickname… "Get over here, the boats about to leave!"

"Kikyo…"

"Yes my lord?"

A woman who looked in her early twenties sat at a dining table with her back straight and hands on her lap. She was being addressed by her boss with his long black locks, tide back in a lose ponytail. His eyes glowed at the other end of the table, boring holes into hers although it didn't seem to perturb her. She stood her ground, always stoic, always professional.

"I have a job for you."

Those words brought relief to the woman. She hadn't a job in what seemed like months.

"Anything my lord."

She didn't particularly mean that. Deep in her heart she resented him for killing her aunt so many years ago.

"The Demon I have been tracking, he has shown himself early this morning at the docks. I want you to follow him. I'm positive he's leaving England, leaving my line of vision. You are my most trusted agent and I'm sure that you won't betray me. Besides… You know the consequences if you do."

She understood the mans motives. She had heard him speaking of this demon, heard in his voice how much he wanted the power that the man possessed. Sesshomaru was no doubt a prize.

"At once my lord."

Oh My Frikken God this is late! There's a reason! There's a reason… I lost the disk that had all my writing on it. So for like, three months I had absolutely no push to write anything, or read for that matter. Well I just recently found the disk and in two days I've finished a chapter for all of you.

For some reason my last chapter didn't post on the updates… weird.

Anyway love you all and hope you like this one. And don't forget to review