Disclaimer: Rumiko Takahashi you are da bomb!
"speaking"
'thinking'
Ages: Inuyasha 22
Kagome 20
Sango 21
Miroku 23
Shippo 17
Rin 16
Japanese glossary -Neko=cat - Inu=dog -Ja'aku=wicked, evil -baka=stupid; idiot -Youkai=demon -hanyou=half-demon
Chapter 3: Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
A little while later:
Inuyasha had his blood red trench coat on and was walking down a dark ally in the midst of a serious mental fight with himself. One where he was loosing.
'Why does she have the Shikon no Tama?!' he argued with himself as he walked. His silver hair trailed behind him as he stormed down the darkened streets towards the Inu's Headquarters to talk with Sesshomaru.
He burst through the main doors, Kagome on his mind, and knocked a few of the younger Inu members out of his way. He spotted Sesshomaru in a side chair and grinned showing his teeth. Sesshomaru focused a cold stare on his younger brother.
"Ah, Inuyasha, did you friend help you pick up a woman? I suppose so since you have her scent on you." Sesshomaru grinned. He'd been teasing Inuyasha to get a girlfriend for some time now since he's had women over him and Inuyasha hasn't. Most said it was impossible to stay around Inuyasha and live long. Violent fellow.
"Actually no, but I have something even better." He grinned.
"Oh, so I suppose that this woman actually was able to hold a conversation with you?" Sesshomaru stared at him loving his annoyed expression. What can you say? It's what brothers do.
"No." Which was true since she more or less screamed at him most of the time, but he wasn't here to talk about his love life. "I've located the position of the Shikon no Tama" He whispered so that only Sesshomaru's hearing could pick up.
"WHAT?!?!?!?" Sesshomaru screamed. Not pleasant on Inuyasha's already tortured ears mind you. However, Inuyasha still smirked at this rare joy of seeing Sesshomaru shocked.
"Yes, brother, a HANYOU was able to point out the location of the Shikon no Tama, which happen to be in the hands of the same girl I found earlier tonight." Inuyasha leaned against the wall, his smug expression plastered on his face. "She's stubborn, but it should be easy to recover the jewel from her. She's currently at Fire on..." Inuyasha was cut off when his cell phone rang.
"Inuyasha, what do you want?" He answered
"Hey, it's Miroku" Miroku replied apparently panting rather hard and a female voice could be heard screaming 'Miroku' in the background.
"Miroku! What have I told you about calling me when your having sex!" He almost hung up the phone when Miroku screamed into the receiver.
"Where is Kagome?"
"What do you mean where is Kagome? She's at Fire on Ice baka. Just where I left her." There was a slight pause.
"After you left she seemed royally pissed and went after you...shit...that was the Shikon no Tama she had with her right?"
"Yeah"
"Damn, we have to find her. She'll get mugged dressed like that on these streets and with our luck it'll be someone from Ja'aku, and they'll hand the Shikon no Tama right over to Naraku..."
"Fuck." Inuyasha growled angrily. ""Alright you start from the club and I'll come from this direction. She's gotta be around here somewhere." He hung up the phone and turned to be met with Sesshomaru's death glare.
"Let me guess. In the heat of the moment in which you realized it was the Shikon no Tama you just left her completely alone with no protection and now it will probably fall into the Ja'aku's hands right?" Sesshomaru smirked and Inuyasha angrily stormed out of the Inu headquarters. "Never send a hanyou to do a youkai's job" Sesshomaru picked up the phone and began placing calls to the Inu members for a 20,000 dollar reward for the capture of this 'Kagome' and the jewel alive and unharmed as well as second in command of the Inu's which happen to be Inuyasha's current position.
His last comment bugged her. He'd called her a bitch! Who calls someone that when they haven't done anything wrong? Kagome was not a happy kitty.
She also did not take notice of where she was headed, the people there, or what she was wearing. She had picked out the black mini skirt to show off her lefs and her bib halter top to show off her flat stomach and smooth ivory back. It was only when someone tapped her shoulder did she snap out of her trance and turn to see who it was behind her. She expected to see Inuyasha's face for some reason she did not know, but it wasn't his. It was the face of a Neko Youkai that she did not recognize. It was make and it stared hungrily at her body.
'shit'
"So what's a pretty little kitty like yourself doing in this part of town. It's not safe to be wandering alone, at night like that you know." The Neko Youkai said and licked his chops.
"I'm was leaving" She answered firmly and turned about to make a dash for the way she'd come, but he caught her arm.
"Oh no your not. You're not leaving here with out a toll kitten." Kagome struggled against his grasp, but he only held on tighter then sniffed her. "hmm...your virginity will be a sufficient toll." She didn't have to turn around to see his lusting eyes staring at her, nor did you have to be a demon to be able to sense her fear. She struggled harder, but it didn't work. Other Neko Youkai seemed to appear from the shadows and they dragged her into a nearby ally where she was thrown and pinned roughly to the ground.
"Please...God...no" she tried kicking and punching again, but it was no use. There were six fully-grown male demons against her one defenseless self. The leader came up to her and held her chin, a wicked grin on his lips.
"You're going to taste good, honey." He whispered into her ear as she spat in his face. He growled. "Feisty, well then lets get this going. Don't want to make you impatient koneko." His grin spread to show glimmering white teeth and two sharp fangs. He lifted his claws and brought them down on her tearing her shirt and bra to pieces, leaving three deep bleeding claw marks and her bare skin exposed. She struggled more, but it only resulted in his goons tightening their already hard grip on her. Next he tore her skirt and panties off leaving her body completely bare and exposed. She unknowingly slivered as a cool breeze swept down the ally. The concrete was hard and cold under back and legs, but she cared not for that minor discomfort. Her eyes were wide with shock as the leader unzipped his pants. "Might as well get right to business." He spoke lustfully. "You'll love this." With this he lowered himself to straddle her as his buddies egged him on in loud whoops and calls for second and third dibs. Kagome closed her eyes, scared to death.
"no...STOP!" She screamed as he was about to thrust into her. She felt a power surge from her chest and the pain she expected would come from loosing her virginity never came. She opened one eye and felt no one holding her anymore, and all was quiet. 'That's odd.' She thought and looked around at several of the crispy bodies still letting off steam from their mutilated bodies.
The neko youkai who'd almost rapped her staggered onto his feet, his entire front side fried with second degree burns. As he recovered, Kagome backed further away from him, edging deeper into the shadows as quiet as she could.
"You BITCH!" He screamed as he looked down at his hands, then to his dead, and fried comrades. His skin blistered and he let his claws out, eyes flaring a fierce demonic red. He lunged at her claws beared, "I'll kill you!!" he screamed in mid air as he was about to tear her into pieces.
"IRON REAPER SOUL STEALER!"
His claws never reached Kagome as she put her arms up to defend her self. Instead the now fully mangled body of the neko youkai lay in a sizzling heap on the cold pavement. Kagome felt dizzy and looked up to see a dark silhouette outlined by the moonlight. It looked like a fallen angel. Kagome let out a small cry of shock, cold, and fear before she passed out into the angels arms.
Inuyasha had been tracking Kagome into Naraku's territory when he caught her scent. At first it was frustration, which he could understand easily, that scent was common when people spend large amounts of time around him. Next was fear. 'So she finally realized she was lost.' However as he drew nearer he smelt blood, her blood. He began to panic and ran faster. He turned down an ally to see a neko youkai launch himself at Kagome. He reacted purely on instinct.
"IRON REAPER SOUL STEALER" he yelled slicing the demon and it fell to the ground in a crumpled heap. He looked up and saw Kagome in the shadows hugging her knees to her chest. She was naked. He gulped and tried to calm his nerves as he felt himself go hard. 'Stop it Inuyasha!' He yelled at himself. 'She could have been rapped. You've been hanging around Miroku too much.' He told himself ashamed of his thoughts. He heard a faint cry from Kagome that made his heart tighten as he watched her fall slowly backwards, her body going limp as he rushed and caught her before she hit the ground. gulp Her body was stretched out in his arms and for a moment he stared in awe at her beauty, before snapping back to reality and shaking the thought from his head. He carefully removed his red jacked and wrapped her in it to stay warm, and carried her the long trek back to his place.
As they got there, Kagome had not woken yet so he placed her on his bed, unconsciously letting his claws linger on her body before he went to his drawers and pulled out a large t-shirt and slipped it over her limp body. He left the room and turned off the light.
He walked down stairs and flopped down on the couch and flicked on the T.V. 'Those were probably Naraku's guys just looking for a girl...but those bodies...what the hell happened to them? They looked like over cooked fried noodles. Hmm...noodles.' He got up and went into the kitchen and pulled a cup of Instant Ramen Noodle Soup© from the pantry and started to boil the water when his cell phone rang.
"Inuyasha" He answered balancing his cell between his shoulder and his ear and used his hands to handle the boiling water.
"It's Miroku, look have you found her yet? I haven't and neither has Sango, I swear that chicks about to hyperventilate, and with Kagome showing that much skin I'm sure she'd attract a lot of unwanted attention." Miroku went on.
'It wasn't just a little bit of skin...' His mind told him and flashed images of her body just after she'd passed out. She was flawless except for a few scratches on her chest which he guessed we from when the youkai ripped her clothes off. He fought against his body as he tried to get the images out of his mind. 'Damn you Miroku for corrupting my mind!'
"Yeah, I found her. Some small gang of neko youkai I think was trying to rape her, but when I got there all of them had sever burns and dead except one who tried to kill her." Inuyasha paused as he hear Miroku sigh in relief.
"And I'm guessing the youkai trying to kill her is dead now?" Miroku asked and received a grunt from the other line. "Where did you find her anyway?" Miroku asked more relaxed, but now it was clear there was an angry female voice screaming at him in the background.
"Girl trouble?" Inuyasha asked perplexed. 'Miroku was supposedly looking for Kagome too right? What is he doing hitting on girls? The bastard can't keep his hands to himself...' Inuyasha growled and rolled his eyes.
"Sango...hang on..." Miroku had apparently covered the mouth piece of the cell as Inuyasha heard a muffled explanation that Kagome was safe with Inuyasha. This didn't seem to reassure her from the tone of voice Inuyasha was picking up.
"Is she hurt?" Miroku came back translating from Sango.
"The only physical damage was a few gashes on her chest."
Pause.
Whispering: "How would you know she has gashes on her chest?" Miroku tried to ask quietly, but within the next three seconds Inuyasha heard a female voice gasp, thrashing, screaming, and a loud 'thunk', Sango was in charge of the cell phone.
"What the hell did you do to her?! Let me speak to her!" Sango demanded as Inuyasha held the phone arms length away from his ear momentarily.
"She's sleeping. Look, I did nothing, but save her sorry butt from being killed by a gang of neko youkai." He paused remembering how they had been fried and wondered. 'Was that part of the Skikon no Tama? Did it protect her?' he thought hard. "She's sleeping upstairs and I don't want to wake her, but let her rest alright? She'll stay at my place until she heals enough to move." He told her in a slightly agitated voice.
"I'm not letting some perverted demon have his way with her!" She screamed into the phone. Inuyasha growled.
"Look I'm just keeping her here until she's stable! I don't want her to injure herself more with unnecessary movement! And I'm not going to touch her dammit!" He yelled back. There was silence on the other end.
"How long until she heals?" Sango asked cooling her temper.
"Probably only a few days to a week or more depending on trauma." Sango squeaked and Inuyasha heard her drop the phone. Miroku picked it up.
"What did you tell her?" Miroku asked.
"All I said is that it will probably take Kagome a few days to a week or more depending on trauma. Who knows if she will even remember that she was maybe almost mugged, rapped and/or killed?" Inuyasha replied his emotions unreadable.
"Alright. Keep her there until she wakes up, then call us alright?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah, sure. See ya." With that Inuyasha hung up and picked the now finished noodles off the stove and poured them into a bowl and began to eat.
Authors Note: heh. So now Kagome is asleep at Inuyasha's place. What will happen when she wakes up? Will she remember?
Oh and i'm sorry for not putting this up sooner. (I planned on updating about 2 weeks ago, but we had to completly rewire and delete everything from my computer because our hard drive was clogged with all those darned pop-ups so i couldn't even open word, or the internet. It sucked. Now it's up and running again and the next chapter will be here in a few days.
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