Dancing Dragons

-Chapter 2-

"Hey there," said one of the guys.

"Who, me?"

"Yes, you."

"What?"

"Wanna come have fun with us?"

I looked at them, doubtful. Something told me not to trust them of all people.

"What'd you have in mind?"

"My bedroom upstairs," he said bursting with laughter.

His suggestion had me surprised while his friends laughed. I stood up, a bit ticked. I learned quickly that everybody here took me for a fool and I had to set them all straight there and then. Their eyes looked me over hungrily as their laughter came to a stop. I fixed them with an angry look. Their attention shifted from me to somebody behind me. I whirled around to find Nana seething.

"Do you guys hit on everything that is female on two legs?"

Nana to the rescue. I sighed in relief and a bit of foreboding.

"Of course not Nana," said the guy that had spoken to me earlier, "we would never hit on females on two legs like you."

I caught the sneer, hatefulness, and most definitely the insult aimed at Nana.

"You take that back," I demanded.

"Kagome-."

"No Nana," I said turning to face the group of guys, "take it back."

"Make me bitch."

"I wouldn't ask for something I would regret later."

"Really? And who in the bloody hell asked for your opinion?"

It was then that I lost all apprehension of hurting this stranger. Insulting one of the few people that had been civil towards me was unacceptable. My fist flew and connected with his nose.

"Take it back!," I screamed, enraged.

"Why the hell would-."

I punched him in the eye.

"Next are your balls," I threatened, "now save yourself some pain and take it back."

He looked at me from his spot among his grimacing friends.

"Alright. I take it back," he said grudgingly, "but as for you…. You'll pay sooner or later."

"I doubt that Konan," said a masculine voice behind me, "seems as if she could leave you without a family next time."

Konan's wide eye, the other was swollen shut, looked fearful. I turned around to see the man from before. The one and only peculiar man from before. My new 'owner.'

"You!"

They all looked at me horrified.

"I'd prefer to be called InuYasha if you don't mind."

"You kidnapped me!"

"Hardly. Dinner?"

Everybody looked at me and I felt nervous. Their looks said 'accept or else we'll all beat you down'.

"Come on kitten. I don't bite… yet."

I felt unusually warm in the face and caught on to what he was suggesting quite fast. If I was going to be here them I might as well play along with their games. I was one for arguments. I was about to retort when another voice cut in.

"You've never bitten anything in your life InuYasha."

I looked around, not finding the origin of the voice.

"Screw off," said InuYasha simply.

"The truth bites my friend."

"And so did your ex-girlfriend."

"That's it," interrupted Nana, "ladies are present and dinner is getting cold. It's nine and counting."

InuYasha sighed and left. Nana pushed me after him. I followed, but wasn't too happy about it.

InuYasha's POV
I sat across from a gorgeous woman I'd never seen before. She was most definitely new because I'd never forget a sexy girl, especially one with the nerve to confront me. I could see her squirm this way and that and move her utensils around.

"Nervous?," I asked.

She jumped at the sound of my voice and glared at me hatefully. I chuckled nervously. This female has it in for me. My ears twitched, though she couldn't see that. Demons weren't common in the present time and most were dragged off for experiments. My mom, before her unfortunate death, gave me a spell to hide my dog ears. Someday somebody would know other than me, Nana, and my two closest friends.

"What the hell is so funny?" she asked angrily.

I glared at her silently, the air around us becoming tense, more so than before. The maids stiffly walked in putting down our plates. She smiled at them all softly saying 'thank you'. As soon as they left I centered my attention and senses on her.

"Why the bloody hell do you have it against me?," I questioned harshly, something I hadn't meant to do.

"You kidnapped me!," she screamed at me.

It was then I realized this was the girl that I had found spying on my deal with Naraku earlier.

"I didn't."

"The hell you didn't!"

"Would you have wanted to stay with a rapist/murder that knew you were there and was about to attack you and most likely rape you as he has a tendency to do?"

Her startled features softened into a calmer expression. Something about this girl had me a bit entranced. I even gave her explanations for my doings. Something about her was throwing my life off balance and I hadn't even known her for more than two hours.

"I-."

"Save it."

Her defeated look sunk into my enraged mind. She looked away from me, finding the walls more interesting than our argument.

"Look I'm sorry I-."

My cell phone went off at my hip and I damned it with every curse word I knew.

"Hold on," I muttered.

She nodded quickly at me, looking at her lap the whole time.

Kagome's POV
His arrogant presence and harsh demands had me surprised and confused. If he had saved me from some rapist then why was he being so harsh with me? If he saved me then he must be a kind man, not what he was showing me now. A call, surprisingly, interrupted his quick, and sincere sounding, apology.

"What?!," he questioned angrily. "So you found him? Leaving?"

He hung up, calmer than when he picked up. He looked into my eyes, debating over something I was totally clueless about.

"Come with me," he said softly, walking out of the kitchen.

I short up after him, a bit too eagerly for my taste. Slowing down, I followed him into some random door next to the main staircase. I got an eye-full of beautiful decoration. A huge library with, I assumed, his desk in the middle of it all. I couldn't contain my silly grin and wondered if I would have access to this place later on…

"It's full of books and you're welcome to them. Just be sure to return everything to it's original spot."

I grinned as he sat down at his desk and rummaged through drawers. I wandered off looking at the various titles and authors.

"Let's go," he said behind me.

I turned around and my smile fell when I saw what he'd been looking for. A shiny gun was in his possession. It was small, but menacing and intimidating all the same. A gun was a gun.

"Should I ask?," I asked softly.

"Later. I won't shoot you so let's go."

I moved towards him, numb with fear. When I was within arms reach he pulled me towards him. His arm snaked around my waist, to my surprise, and walked quietly.

"As far as you know I'm going to take you out to a club. If Nana finds out she'll have a heart attack and I'm willing to see her live for a while longer."

We reached the door and InuYasha looked at me one last time before opening the door and leading me out. He walked purposefully towards the entrance and nobody questioned our destination. Just as we reached the door a voice stopped us.

"InuYasha? Are you going somewhere with that girl?"

We turned around to see a young girl I hadn't met yet with Nana behind her. To say she was a girl was an understatement. She was fully developed as far as the eye could see.

"We were going to Club Sapphire to party a bit," he said calmly, "now, with or without your permission, we'll take our leave."

With that said he turned to leave. The woman glared at me hatefully before InuYasha pulled me through the doorway. I climbed into the passenger seat and slid the seat belt across my chest.

"My name's Kagome by the way. Not 'that girl'," I said after realizing that he didn't know a thing about me.

"If you don't know by now my name's InuYasha."

I smiled at him then looked ahead, admiring the view I had yearned for all those years in captivity. Then my mind started to recollect the place we were heading towards and I panicked.

"Look I'm really sorry I blew up on you back there but I didn't mean for you to bring me back here! I have nowhere to go and I hardly-."

"Chill!," he said quickly, stopping the car and turning it off.

My breath was caught in my throat. My eyes were wide with fear and filled with unshed tears.

I do not own Inu & Co and unless your Rumiko Takahashi neither do you. Hugs and cynical smiles to you too.