Dancing Dragons
-Chapter 8-
I was on a damn jet to New York wishing I was back in my house with Kagome. My feelings for her were getting harder and harder to ignore. It was no longer simple carnal attraction.
"Monsieur InuYasha, vous avez mal?"
"I'm alright Myouga."
Myouga was, more or less, my traveling companion. He was mainly in charge of my schedule and accommodations. He knew many languages and was therefore very useful.
"InuYasha, if I may ask, why do you not let your older brother take over?"
"Excuse me?"
"It would surely give you time to look for a mate."
In a fleeting moment I could hear myself respond with every fiber of my being that I already had one.
"Or maybe spend more time with the possibility?"
I started to seriously consider the option. The crazy notion was brought on by none other than Kagome.
'Kagome, Kagome, Kagome, Kagome,' I repeated in my head.
"I-," I started, cut-off by my vibrating hip. "Excuse me Myouga."
I unbuckled my seat belt and walked towards the back end, flipping the phone open as I went.
"Hello?"
"InuYasha?"
Speak of the seductive devil, Kagome.
"Kagome?"
"Mhm."
"Me and Miroku are here too." spoke up Sango.
I was on speaker phone and for some reason or other I had this awful sense of foreboding on this particular conversation.
"Hey guys. All's well?"
I placed the phone between my ear and shoulder, grabbing a foam cup.
"Most definitely," Miroku answered happily.
I filled the cup with coffee, added sugar, and milk. I eyed the open refrigerator, origin of the milk, and found whipped cream.
"Hold on."
"Okay." they said in unison.
I put the phone down and attacked my coffee with whipped cream. I put it back and picked up my phone once again.
"Back."
"Put your coffee down," said Miroku quickly.
I put it down gently, licking the whipped cream off my fingers.
"Why?" I questioned curiously.
"InuYasha, Sango wants to know how good our sex was."
My eyes almost bulged out of their sockets at Kagome's tone; her voice was so... So casual.
"I- What?" I stuttered.
"We want to know if it was as good as she says it was!"
Now I knew why Miroku had told me to put down my coffee.
"I- I- I-."
"Are you as big as she says?" Miroku inquired slyly, a hint of amusement in his voice.
My eyes widened even more, if that was possible, and I was utterly amazed at how much of a tease Kagome was.
Kagome's POV
"Okay, why isn't he answering?" interrupted Sango, annoyance clearly shining through her features.
"Because its true!" I squealed in delight.
"Ladies, I do believe we've left InuYasha in a state of shock."
"Oh." I said with an 'oops' look. "Tell him we left to the mall."
"What for?" asked Sango curiously.
"Tomorrow's outfits!"
Sango smiled and nodded in approval, leaving Miroku to deal with InuYasha.InuYasha's POV
I was trembling on the floor, barely holding the phone.
"She certainly has you a bit bothered." chuckled Miroku.
"Shut up." I growled half-heartedly.
His laughter fueled my feeling of helplessness. I got up stiffly and drank half of my coffee in one gulp.
"I'm absolutely sure Sango has done the same or worse on more than one occasion."
"Not as far as to ask about my size... I don't think..."
"Wanna bet on that?"
Miroku sighed on the other end of the line.
"So what are you planning to do with the numbers you took from Kagome's phone?"
"Huh?"
"I know, they know. What're you planning?"
"Are they gone?"
"Yep."
I calmly took a sip from my coffee, though my hands were still shaky.
"I have no idea. I feel like calling them all and telling them to distance themselves. I want to tell them that she's mine and mine alone."
I could almost see Miroku's knowing smile and I felt like ripping it to shreds.
"Tsk, tsk my friend. No girl likes an overly possessive guy, scares them away."
"Wha-."
"You tell the guys to distance themselves and she won't have many friends and she'll feel like she's in a small box that you're heavily guarding."
"Aa."
"Mhm. Well, I must be on my merry way."
"Alright. We'll talk later."
"Yes and, by the way, Kagome and Sango agree that my size is very much so fitting of any gifted man."
I heard him laugh insanely before he hung up. I almost crushed the phone to pieces as I returned to my seat.
"InuYasha, do you want to head to the hotel first or do you wish to arrange a meeting A.S.A.P?"
"The hotel sounds nice." I said through clenched teeth.
Kagome's POV
"Sango, get out of that dressing room already." I demanded.
Sango peeked her head out, hair cascading down.
"Give me back my hair-tie." she scowled.
I shook my head softly with a smile. She pouted and stepped out slowly. She had on a black strapless dress that pooled around her feet.
"Kagome, we own a club, not a fancy restaurant!"
"Alright, alright."
I got up and started searching the store. I returned with skirts and shirts of my choice. I handed them to Sango, who grumbled something about 'all the unfairness in the world'. I laughed and lifted my arms, stretching out the knots in my back.
"Mmm... nice view," said a voice behind me as Sango stepped out with a black skirt and a purple spaghetti strap.
"You think so? I'd think it would be obstructed by my hair," I said, turning around.
Konan flashed me a smile, as did Miroku. My eyes, however, settled on their friend.
"This is Kouga. Kouga, that's Kagome."
"Hello there," he said in a deep, masculine voice.
"Hello to you too."
Sango cleared her throat and Miroku's eyes nearly popped out when he caught sight of what she was wearing.
"You want that one," I said with a smile.
I gave her the hair-tie and she returned to change.
"So," said Kouga in my ear, "what does a goddess like you do at night?"
His breath on my ear had my head spinning.
"I run a club," I said turning slightly to face him.
"Really now… Later on?"
"You mean when I'm wearing my night clothes?"
"When you aren't-."
"You should check out the club tomorrow night Kouga," Konan said with an angry expression.
I took the opportunity to put some space between me and Kouga, to his disappointment.
"It opens tomorrow night."
"Did you invite all of them?" I asked anxiously.
He nodded and I threw my arms around his neck
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
Kouga, I felt, was attracted to me and wasn't one to give up easily. Two weeks were starting to sound like forever.InuYasha's POV 1 Week Later…
One fucking week was starting to sound like forever. How I survived the first one was beyond me.
"Myouga?"
"Yes?"
"How fast can you get me a jet home?"
"It's been ready for a week."
My eyes widened and settled on his fidgety figure. I had the sneaking suspicion that he knew a bit more than he was letting on.
"The meetings?"
"Handled for me to be there as a representative if you so decide."
"My clothes?"
"Washed and packed."
"I see..." I muttered thoughtfully.
Was I that obvious? Did I need to see her that bad? Yes. I had to see her as soon as I possibly could. I needed to hear her voice, touch her skin.
"I'll take you up on that jet back home."
Myouga quietly nodded and left to find my suitcases. He returned shortly with three suitcases the size of Montana and approached me.
"Yes?"
"Shall I alert your household of your early return?"
I thought it over for a minute, an unwanted picture of Aya on my bed made my mind up for me.
"No, I'll handle that on my own."
I watched him smile knowingly and leave the room. Too many people were smiling knowingly damnit. I quickly came to the conclusion that I was extremely obvious in my sentiments towards Kagome and that I missed her a bit too much.
"Monsieur Fanfares will be piloting the jet back to Tokyo; he's the fastest we've got."
I nodded to him, shook his hand, and made like a cheetah to the terminal.
Kagome's POV Dream Sequence Starts
"Last night's whipped cream, hm?"
I nodded slowly, his arms around my waist, slowly pushing me back until the back of my knees hit the edge of his bed.
"Mhm."
"It tasted good." he whispered in my ear, a shiver running down my spine.
I closed my eyes, fervently asking myself what I had gotten myself into as my back hit his mattress. My thoughts, however, were non-existent when I felt his teeth against my neck.
"Kagome." he whispered.
"Mmm."
"Kagome."
Dream Sequence Ends
"Kagome!"
"Mmm- What!"
I sat up groggily, half-expecting to see InuYasha there. Instead I saw Sango and Miroku hovering over me.
"I swear," muttered Sango.
Miroku gave her a pointed glare before turning his attention back to me.
"Are you alright?"
"Y-Yeah," I said, my cheeks most assuredly red, "what's up?"
"Rohan and Aya got a hold of one of our fliers from last week."
"What?" I asked, fully awake now.
"That bitch decided to be nosy and went into my room and found the fliers on my desk."
"They were bound to notice the radio vans and loud music Sango. Plus, it's about time we did some snooping and lying of our own."
Sango and Miroku raised an eyebrow at me. I smiled wickedly, grabbed hold of a brush, and cackled.
"She's out of her bloody mind," Miroku whispered to a nodding Sango.
"Most definitely," she whispered back.
I fixed them with a pointed glare as I finished combing my hair.
"Come on love birds," I muttered, passing them to reach the door, "I'm sure Aya isn't going to waste much time in calling InuYasha."
We quietly ran down the hallway we had come to consider our own. We slowly came to a halt when we heard Aya and Rohan shouting at each other in the living room.
"What do you mean you can't bloody find her!"
"Just that, you fucking whore! I can't find Maya Lishohitz anywhere!"
I drew in a breath and felt my heart beat increase ten-fold. I gasped for breath, but forced myself to calm down.
"Can't you do anything right!"
"I don't see you busting somebody out of a heavily guarded jail!"
"Naraku helped you!"
"Naraku," I repeated to myself softly.
Where had I heard that name before?
"I'm not arguing over this anymore, alright?"
"Fine," she huffed.
"How are you planning to hurt her friends? Her?"
"Ugh, I can't believe this!" she muttered.
"Well?"
"Maya's gonna beat the shit out of her. Then Naraku is going to take what's left of her with him to wherever it is he's going."
"What for?" he asked, obviously confused.
"He wants to screw the whore as far as I know."
"Oh."
"What do we get out of all this?"
"I get InuYasha and you get revenge for your stupid pride."
"Mother fucki-"
Miroku covered Sango's mouth and quickly pulled her back behind me, not wanting her to give us away.
"Hello?"
In our panic to keep Sango quiet we hadn't heard Aya's phone ring. I looked at Rohan, who was shuffling something in his pocket. He pulled it out a little bit revealing it to be a tape recorder.
'He's planning to come out clean if they get caught!'
"Where are you?" Aya growled darkly.
"Maya." I whispered.
"What unfinished business? This is your unfinished business!"
"Kar!" I thought, fearful of what Maya was capable of.
"Look bitch, we're meeting at some warehouse at the docks."
"The police? We've had so many people call in with false alarms for that place that they just stopped going."
She laughed manically. I turned around and fled. Miroku and Sango watched me run into my room.
I sat down on my bed, in the dark, my eyes closed, and no sound other than my breathing was present. I pulled my knees up to my chest and wrapped my arms around them.
"InuYasha."
I rocked silently back and forth, tears making their ways down my cheeks, as they used to do so often.
"InuYasha," I whimpered, "save me again. Onegai."
I buried my face into my knees; I seeked the comfort I knew was miles away. I wanted his arms around me again.
"InuYasha!" I cried out, my voice becoming out ragged.
I wanted him there, holding my gaze with his golden eyes. I wanted to hear him tell me everything was going to be alright.
"InuYasha!" I screamed, the sound bouncing off the walls that enclosed me, leaving behind an awful silence.
InuYasha's POV
InuYasha…
'Kagome?'
InuYasha… Save me again… Onegai…'Kagome is that you? Are you okay? Kagome!'
InuYasha…
'Gods, Kagome! What's wrong!'
InuYasha!
"Kagome!"
I looked around wildly, growling with a passion.
"Are you okay, InuYasha-sama?"
"Fanfares-sama! I'm… alright it seems."
"Aa. You've been a bit uneasy for about an hour or so now."
I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and tried to forget Kagome's frantic screams.
"I uh… Who's flying the plane if you're over here drinking coffee?"
"Auto pilot,." he answered, handing me a cup of fresh coffee.
I nodded, still scared out of my wits.
"How long till we get there?"
"Couple of hours, night-time to be a bit more precise. Lady Kagome must be anxious, ne InuYasha-sama?"
"How do you know about Kagome?" I snarled.
"Y-You said her name many times and-"
A beeping noise coming from the cockpit interrupted him, much to his obvious relief.
"Ah, sweet duty calls. Excuse me, InuYasha-sama."
I watched him quickly scamper away from my sight.
"Kagome," I whispered softly.
No matter how much I tried to shake off the feeling that Kagome was in danger it kept returning. I could practically swear I had heard Kagome scream out my name pleadingly. I flipped open my phone and to my bloody luck I was low on battery and had no signal.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck."
I was heavily tempted to throw the phone at the pilot, but I didn't think I'd survive much without him…
Kagome's POV
I barely heard the sound of footsteps through the fog that seemed to have settled around me.
"I-InuYasha?"
"Not quite bitch."
I vaguely registered laughter and I tried to roll away from the nightmare.
"Who are you?" I asked, willing my eyes to open.
"Hah. As if I'd tell you." said the voice, now distinctly feminine.
"Aya?"
"Hah, look she got it right," laughed another, deeper voice, obviously drunk.
"Shut up imbecile!" she screamed, skin hitting skin.
"Bitch," he slurred.
"Naraku and Maya get here in the morning."
I heard them leave, still bickering.
'Naraku and Maya get here in the morning!'
I frantically restarted trying to open my eyes. I pulled my arms, but found them tied to who-knows-what. My legs were in no better shape.
"InuYasha!"
Narrator's POV!
Sango and Miroku paced back and forth. It was nine p.m. and they were supposed to be opening the club right then. Kagome, however, was absolutely nowhere to be found. They looked in her room, the bathroom, the library, and even in the club, to no avail.
"What if Aya-."
"Don't say it. Aya and Rohan have been gone for a week now and they couldn't have possibly come in without anybody noticing them… Right?"
Sesshomaru came up behind him and cleared his throat, making himself, and his wife, known.
"Sesshomaru!" Miroku exclaimed, suddenly hit with the brightest of all his ideas. "Would you care to open the club for tonight? Kagome seems to have gone missing."
"I guess... Find her soon though."
Next to him Rin was kneeling, thanking whatever Gods for letting her have a break. She made straight for the kitchens. Sesshomaru, Miroku, and Sango raised an eyebrow at her actions but dismissed it as a 'Rin thing'.
InuYasha's POV
Finally I was out of the terminal, with all of my suitcases (don't ask), and into my own car. I turned on the radio for good measure. Bad idea.
"Yes Martha, last night Maya Lishohitz, convicted of being a slave trader, escaped with help of unknown suspects with Barbie-face masks. Early today the body of Kar Lishohitz, her husband, was found mutilated in his beach home in Tokyo, Japan. The woman is armed and dangerous and if you have any information please call-"
I turned it off. If Maya Lishohitz was on the loose my Kagome was in trouble! She had already killed her own husband Kar because he hadn't been convicted as she had. Now, I felt my stomach doing awful flips in my stomach as I neared my house, or mansion, or whatever. Kagome was in there, she had to be!
"What in all the seven hells that hath fury...?"
There were cars and millions of cars parked in the ample parking lot outside my home. There were radio vans and flashes with people all over being held back by two big looking guys. Had Kagome been mutilated and found? Using speed I knew was supernatural I ran to find the source of it all.
"Sango! Miroku!"
I entered the house and bumped straight into said people.
"Where's Kagome?" I demanded.
"We uh… I uh…"
"They don't know," said Sesshomaru, "and if you'll excuse me I've got a club to run."
"Where's Kagome!"
Kagome's POV
I heard them, faintly yes, but I heard them nevertheless. They were, yep you guessed it, still bickering.
"The whole damn Black Market is looking for her! They even got the police on this!"
'They're looking for me! InuYasha!'
"Rohan! What did Naraku say when he called you earlier!"
"He said that he was no longer taking part in this deal. He left an hour ago for Virginia, Colorado."
"Virginia isn't in Colorado you fool!"
"That's what he said!"
"What about Maya?"
"Maya's still coming."
My breath hitched in my throat, I fully knew that Maya had every intention of killing me off. She was going to kill me agonizingly slow with a knife. It was just what I would picture her doing, just because she was that type of twisted person.
"Good. Maya is still coming. Then I still get my wonderful InuYasha..."
That sick daughter of a dog!
InuYasha's POV
"InuYasha please calm down. I'm sure Kagome's around here somewhere. I mean how could Aya and Rohan get in here unnoticed?"
"Easily! Everybody here knows them and they all don't necessarily like Kagome or have contact with the outside world in any way!"
Sniffling behind me, at the stairwell, caught my attention.
"Who's there?" I demanded in a harsher tone than I had intended to use.
"I'm Sweet Lo."
"Sweet Lo? What are you crying for?"
"I know where she is."
In a second I was at her side, gripping her shoulders in anxiety.
"Where?"
"I'm afraid of them InuYasha."
"Afraid of who?"
"Afraid of Aya, Rohan, Maya, and Naraku."
"Don't be afraid. They won't come after you because we won't tell them."
"You won't?"
"I won't."
"Alright. I overheard Aya and Rohan talking in loud voices in Aya's room the other day. She was telling him how to get to Warehouse Nine in the nearby port."
"Alright. That's all I need to know."
"Hold on there," Konan's voice stopped me, "I'm going with you."
"And why the bloody hell is that?"
"Rohan is my brother."
And sadly, we near the end. But hey, good things come in small packages sometimes, right? Tell me what you think. Arigatou minna-san!