Different Sides of the Track

Chapter19: Early Morning Phone Calls

It was now somewhere near one in the morning, and Kagome was asleep in InuYasha's arms. Both of them were dreaming peacefully, when Kagome's phone rang. InuYasha's delicate ears picked the sound up, all the way from the bedroom, when her phone was in the living room.

Groaning when the sound did not stop, he contemplated whether or not to wake Kagome. She answered that question on her own however, when she stood up and headed out to the living room to get her phone. InuYasha just sighed and laid back, the sheet low on his waist, his left arm draped over his eyes.

Picking up the phone, Kagome groaned as she recognized the voice. Naraku was not a happy little Youkai.

"Higurashi, what took you so long?"

"Sorry sir, but you know, with it being one in the morning and all, I was asleep."

"Don't you take that tone of voice with me, or I will get to your family."

Kagome's anger level raised a few more notches. She was tired, upset, and now she was just plain pissed.

"Naraku, just why do you want me to steal from InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father?"

InuYasha's ear qwiped and he twitched them toward the room, concentrating hard on the conversation. Kagome was going to steal from his father? She was the one Sesshomaru had been talking about?

"My reasons for 'why' are non of your business unless I feel that you are required to hear them Higurashi."

Kagome took a look back into the bedroom but all she could see was InuYasha's feet. This would prove to be a bad thing if said Hanyou was awake.

"Look Naraku, I don't know if it is wise for me to talk to you about this right now… InuYasha might hear you and tell his father."

'Well, at least she didn't mention the fact that Sesshomaru knows about his little plan… That would get both of us into trouble in seconds flat.' InuYasha thought to himself. He decided to just lie quietly and listen to the conversation.

Kagome finished her conversation quickly and hung up. Naraku needed to call Fukushuu, some thing Kagome was going to do as soon as morning came.

She crawled back into bed with InuYasha, who was pretending to still be asleep. She looked at his face, giving a soft sigh, and nestled her face into his strong chest. She smiled as his arms wrapped around her waist and settled on the small of her back.

InuYasha waited quietly for her breathing to become even, before he crawled out of his bed and crept to his kitchen table. He picked up his cell phone off it, and quickly dialed his brothers' number.

"Hello."

"Sesshomaru? It's InuYasha. I need to meet with you soon."

"InuYasha how dare you call me this late at night? This had better be important or the next light you see will be at the end of a tunnel."

InuYasha sneered at his brother's failed attempt of a gruesome comeback. Sesshomaru wasn't one for dealing with trivial things such as insults, well besides from Half Breed.

"Nice one brother, you're almost starting to improve."

There was an indignant snort from the other line before Sesshomaru listed off a time and place. InuYasha agreed to meet at two at Sesshomaru's.

InuYasha turned back to his bed, only to find Kagome sitting up and looking at him. He gulped, unable to pick up any type of emotion coming off Kagome. 'Shit,' InuYasha thought to himself.

But he had no need to worry, Kagome was just having a dream and sitting in her sleep. She fell back against the pillow and quietly nuzzled her face into the fluffiness. InuYasha gave a small, adoring grin. He quickly crawled back into bed and wrapped his arms around her. There would be no more interruptions that night.