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10 - Hidden in Tenseiga Hotel

"Inuyasha, I'm so sorry," she told him as she put her head in her lap, unable to look him in the eyes. 'Now he'll reject me and blame my father for his parent's murders. I would if I were him'

Instead, he pulled her closer to him, resting his chin on her shoulder. "I love you, Kagome," he whispered in her ear. "It doesn't matter now what happened in the past. All that matters is that we have eachother now."

She leaned back into his chest as tears of relief pooled in her eyes. "Thanks, Inuyasha." His arms wrapped around her small body and her heart melted with the intensity of her love for the dog-eared boy.

"Well," Miroku said after a few minutes. "What shall we do about our little problem?"

"Tonight we stay here and relax, at least," Sango said as she leaned her head on Miroku's shoulder. "I'm exhausted!"

"Yeah, you're right. Tomorrow we'll head for safety," Inuyasha said as he laid down on the couch, pulling Kagome down next to him and hugging her to his chest, not wanting to let go of the precious warmth of the young woman.

"Inu, where are we gonna go, anyway?" Kagome asked him sleepily as she snuggled into his chest.

"No worries, Gome. You'll see."

The inu-hanyou and the raven-haired girl instantly fell asleep. Sango and Miroku moved into the next room and turned on the television. As they got comfortable on the couch, a news report crossed the screen. "At 1:30 this morning, two teenagers were found brutally murdered outside Futal High School." The couple looked at eachother, worry filling their eyes. A picture flashed on the screen, showing two teens, lying on the ground, beaten and stabbed into eternal sleep. The demon boy wore a football jersey and the girl's long raven hair was extremely ruffled as her emotionless brown eyes stared off into space. "Kouga Ookami and Kikyo Nisou were supposedly killed by the infamous syndicate, 'Blue Moon'. The investigation has had no other leads. If you have any information, please call 284-....." A small click echoed through the small den as Sango turned the television off.

"Do you suppose..." she asked.

"Yeah, they probably thought that Kikyo was Kagome." He pulled Sango closer and layed his chin on top of her head. "Oh, my love, I know, it's hard. There's nothing we can do now."

Sango's body gently shook as tears filled her magenta eyes. "I know we didn't like them or anything. But they didn't have to die..." She turned and buried her head in Miroku's chest until she fell asleep.

Miroku looked at the young girl's head and sighed. 'I have a feeling that the next couple of weeks are going to be very hard. We're going to have to stick together, otherwise we won't make it out alive' He layed his head back on Sango's and let the sweet darkness of sleep overcome his mind.

Unknown to him, Inuyasha layed awake. His head rang with the sound of the news reporter's words. Kikyo, his Kikyo, was dead. 'No! She's not mine!' he thought furiously, banishing the words from his head. 'Really, she never was mine. Kikyo was always so... distant. Hopefully, she'll be happier where she is now' He looked down at Kagome. Her face was calm and peaceful as he felt her body rise and fall with her deep breaths. 'I won't let that happen to Kagome. Never. I'd die before I ever let them touch her again' He gently kissed her forehead and closed his large amber eyes, resting his body for the long day ahead.

The gang awoke the next day to a loud banging sound. Inuyasha and Kagome dragged themselves into the den, only to find Miroku on the floor with a large bump on his head.

"That's what you get! You can help but feel me up, even in your sleep!" she said as she stormed into the kitchen.

Kagome and Inuyasha just stared blankly at the lecherous boy on the floor as he got up and looked around. After he realized Sango wasn't in the room, he walked to the kitchen. "Oh, Sango! Come back, my love!" he called.

Inuyasha let out a large sigh as he sat on the love seat in the den. "That guy will never change."

"Oh well. If he didn't act the way he does, then he just wouldn't be Miroku," Kagome told him as she sat down next to him. He slid his arm around her shoulders, pulling her closer to him. "But I do feel sorry for Sango," she said after a moment. "I'm just glad you're not a pervert."

Inuyasha put on a sly smile. "Who said I wasn't a pervert?" he said as he moved her closer.

"If you are, then you'll end up just like Miroku," she said as she pushed his face away with a hand. "Sango has been teaching me some karate on the side, you know."

"Hehe... I was just kidding, Gome," he said with no hint of sarcasm.

'If she really has been taking lessons from Sango, then I'd better be good...'

"So, Inu, where are we going today?" Kagome said carefully after a moment. Inuyasha rested his elbows on his knees. His amber eyes darted around carefully; his ears twiched with distress.

"Well," he said. "We're gonna go to Kyoto."

"Kyoto! That's so far away!" she yelled.

Inuyasha reached up and rubbed his ears with a pained expression on his handsome face. "Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? To get as far away as possible?"

"Yeah... I guess. Did I hurt your ears?"

He gave her a look. "No, I'm just rubbing my own ears for the heck of it..."

She rolled her eyes at him as she pulled his head into her lap and rubbed his ears. "There, you big baby!"

"Gome..." he practically purred as his whole body relaxed on the couch. Suddenly her hands stopped moving and dropped to rest in his long silver locks, which were draped over her lap. "Gome?" he asked as his eyes opened and his gaze rested on her face.

"We're really going into hiding..." she said in a distant tone. Her eyes were glazed as she thought about what was going to happen.

"Yeah, well, we really don't have a choice at the moment. But don't worry. I won't let anything happen to you."

"I know," she said. He pulled her down into a sweet, passionate kiss. As they pulled apart, Inuyasha felt a small drop of water fall to his cheek. Kagome's scent was laced with salt as the tears fell silently from her eyes. He sat up and pulled her into a tight embrace.

"It will be okay... It's okay..." he whispered gently into her ear. She snuggled into his chest, taking a deep breath.

"Life will never be the same, Inuyasha... I'm so sorry," she said in a depressed tone.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you and Miroku and Sango just got away from all your problems with the syndicate, and I just came along and pulled you right back. It's not fair that you got dragged along with me." Her tears came quicker as she smothered her face in Inuyasha's shirt.

"Hey, it's okay," he tried to tell her. "They would have come after us eventually. We just got really lucky. It's not your fault."

"Okay," she said, even though she knew he was just saying that to make her feel better.

Later that day the group set out. They arrived at the train station and bought their tickets for the long ride ahead. The tired teens grouped into a small car and waited for the train to depart. "Inuyasha?" Sango asked.

"Yeah?"

She snuggled closer to Miroku, shivers running through her body as the train started to move. "Are you sure we're gonna be safe wherever you're taking us?"

Kagome had been thinking the same thing. "I guarentee you," he said as he wrapped his arm around Kagome's waist and slid her across the seat to him, setting his chin on her head. "We'll be safe."

The car was very small, allowing only two people on either side. With their bags, the space was even smaller. The group was very cramped, but as they sat beside the people they loved, it really didn't matter. Eventually, everyone was asleep except for Inuyasha. He was always alert, knowing that if the syndicate had caught wind of where they were going or which train they were on, there would be very limited chance of escape.

For the next two hours, everyone was fast asleep, escaping from the nightmare that was their lives and into a fantasy world where syndicates were the least of their concerns. Inuyasha watched over all of them carefully, mainly watching Kagome sleep. Suddenly, her eyes started moving rapidly underneath their lids and her face obtained a scared expression.

Kagome's dream -

"Inuyasha?" she called out into the foggy night, her arms wrapped around her small cold body. Her eyes strained against the mist as she scanned her surrounding. Nothing was farmiliar; she couldn't see more than five feet infront of her face. "Inuyasha?" she called again, hoping the inu-hanyou would hear her calls of distress.

"Hehehe..." A low laugh came from the fog. It seemed to come from all around her, as if engulfing her in the despair of her situation. "So, the last living Hiragashi..." a menacing male voice said, surrounded her. "I must say I'm impressed that you survived this long..."

"Who are you? What do you want with me?" she yelled into the fog, scarred out of her whits.

"Isn't it obvious?" The voice sounded amused with the stupid question. "I want you dead, of coarse."

Suddenly she heard a gun shot, and she preapred herself to be hit by the bullet. Her eyes squinted closed, waiting for the small metal fragment to pierce her flesh, but it never came. Instead, she heard something fall infront of her. Her chocolate brown eyes opened slowly, already knowing what they would see.

There lay Inuyasha, blood flowing from the puncture wound in his chest. "Inuyasha!" she screamed as she knelt beside him and pulled his dying body onto her lap. "Oh, Inuyasha, why?" she said as she cried into his bleeding chest. She felt a pressure on her cheek, wiping away the tears that flowed freely from her eyes. Her gaze fell instantly to Inuyasha's face. His eyes we're half open, the amber in them still bright.

"Kagome..." he whispered. To kagome he sounded as if he was distant, instead of in her lap.

"Shh... don't talk..." she told him.

"Kagome, wake up... Please wake up, sweet heart..."

- end of dream

Her eyes shot open and she took a deep breath. "Kagome, are you okay?" Inuyasha asked as his clawed hand wiped away the tears on her cheeks. She looked at him, and saw that he was alive and well.

"Oh Inu!" She wrapped her arms around his chest and buried her face into the hollow between his neck and his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her, confused at her sudden display of emotion.

"Gome, what's wrong?" he whispered in her ear gently.

"I had a bad dream, that's all," she said as she sat up and reached into her bag next to her. She pulled out a small pill bottle, fumbling with the child proof seal, unable to get it open in her shaky condition.

Inuyasha took the bottle from her and opened it with ease. "What are these for?" he asked as he handed her the open bottle.

"They're sleeping pills," she said as she popped one into her mouth. "They let you sleep a dreamless sleep." She streched her arms up and yawned. "These are great..." she said as she snuggled back into Inuyasha's chest. "And they work so fast..." She was asleep before her head hit his chest.

He reached up and stroked her silky raven hair with his claws. 'Sweet dreams, Gome. You're dreams are the only place you'll get to roam freely...' He sat his head back on the head rest and allowed himself a few minutes of rest.

"Inuyasha, wake up, stubborn hanyou!" he heard someone yell. In his current state of sleep, he couldn't tell wether the voice was in his dream or reality.

"Hmm?" He opened his eyes to see Miroku standing above him, yelling at him.

"Inuyasha!" he yelled again.

"I'm awake damn it! Shut up, you dumb ass!"

"Okay, he's awake!" Miroku announced to the two girls standing in the hallway, carring their large suitcases and backpacks.

"Damn..." Inuyasha rubbed his eyes and got up, grabbing his two duffle bags with one hand and taking one of Kagome's suitcases from her.

"I could've carried it, you know," she said.

"Do you really think I care?" he said as he looked at his watch. "Our ride should be here by now."

They exited the train and followed Inuyasha out of the treminal and toward a strech limo with tinted windows. The driver got out and opened the back door for the group.

"Thanks," Inuyasha mumbled as he climbed into the back. The three remaining teens just stood there, their jaws on the ground. "Are you guys coming or not?" Inuyasha said as he poked his head back out of the limo's door. They all picked up their jaws and got into the luxury car.

As the limo's engine started up and it pulled away, Kagome was the first to regain her voice. "How in the hell did you get us a limo?!" Kagome said, stunned with her boyfriend.

He grinned at the look on her face. "Let's just say I have connections..."

"Inuyasha are we going to Sessh-" Sango said before she was cut off.

"Yep." Inuyasha gave her a signal to shut her big mouth.

The rest of the ride was silent, except for the occasional slap from Sango to Miroku for his wandering hands.

"They have minds of their own..."

"I don't want to hear it!"

When the car stopped, they all got out reluctantly. "When I get older, I'm getting one of those..." Miroku said as they entered a door.

"Where are we?" Kagome questioned as they entered an elevator with mirrors on the walls and slow music pouring in through a speaker on the ceiling. The man standing by the door pushed a button that read 'Restricted'.

Sango grabbed the side of the small box as it lurched upward. "Ohh... I hate these things... I'd rather take the stairs anyday..." As the doors slid open, they were confronted with a handsome man. His eyes were an amber color and his hair was silver, just like Inuyasha. However, this man had pointed human ears instead of dog ones and two small purple stripes on either side of his chisled, emotinless face. He was dressed in a shape-looking buisiness suit, a large fluffy tail coming over his shoulder.

"Come," he said as he motioned for the group of teens to follow him. They ended up in a large hotel room, which included a kitchen, living room, at least three bathrooms, and four or five bedrooms. "Welcome to your new home, at least for the time being." He exited the room with no more words.

As the door shut behind him, Kagome looked at Inuyasha as she sat down her remaining suitcase and back pack. "Who was that?" she asked.

"That's my half brother, Sesshomaru, and before you even ask, we're in the Kyoto branch of Tenseiga Hotels."

"Tenseiga Hotels?! The ones that cost like, $700 a night?!" she said, her voice full of disbelief.

"Yep," he replied.

"It helps when your brother owns the chain, doesn't it, Inuyasha?" Sango said as she jabbed hin in the ribs.

"Feh!"

"So... we're going to be living here?" Miroku said as he poked around the expansive minature house.

"As long as we can," Inuyasha said.

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.

"Well, if we're comprimised in any way, then we have to move again."

"Oh..." Kagome said.

"But let's not worry about that now, Kagome!" Sango said as she grabbed her best friend's hand. "Let's go grab some bed rooms with their own bathrooms!" she said as she and Kagome grabbed their bags and ran to the back hallway toward the bedrooms.

"This will be fun..." Miroku said as he rubbed his hands together. He followed the girls back into the hallway, looking for which room Sango picked and making sure he got the one right next to it.

Inuyasha sighed and plopped down on the white leather couch, closing his eyes. 'Thank God for my brother. Without him, we'd all be screwed'

Suddenly he felt a small weight on the couch next to him, and he opened his eyes to see Kagome looking back at him. "Are you okay, Inu?" she said as she scooted closer to him.

"I just am wondering how long we'll have to stay in hiding," he thought out loud.

"How will we know when it's safe?"

"Well, like I said back in Tokyo, my brother and sister-in-law are still involved with the syndicate, so they can inform us when they stop looking for us."

"But isn't this endangering them, then?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah, but when I told my brother that we were going into hiding, he wouldn't let me go anywhere else." With that, Inuyasha got up and picked up his duffle bags and went into the hallway. Not wanting to seem over-protective, he used his nose instead of asking where Kagome's room was. Figuring out that her room was the closest to the end of the hallway, he made his way down to the room next to it. As he passed the first room, Miroku was thrown out of the door and it slammed shut.

"What did you do now, lecher?" Inuyasha asked him.

"Well..."

Sango came out of the room with a bath towel wrapped aroung her nude body, her wet hair clinging to her shoulders. "He snuck into my room while I was taking a bath! And don't even say you didn't know I was getting in the tub!" Sango said as she slammed her door.

Miroku sighed. "What a woman..." he said as he got up and made his way to the room beside Sango's. Next to his room were two empty rooms, then Kagome's room. Apparently the first and last rooms were the only ones with adjoining bathrooms.

He put his things down in the room right next to Kagoe's and came back out, only to find Miroku sitting on the couch watching t.v., and Kagome in the kitchen trying to figure out what to fix to eat.

"Why aren't you calling room service?" Inuyasha asked as he walked into the kitchen behind Kagome. She handed him a small note card that apparently was taped to the phone. It read-

Don't order room service. It's too risky. Don't use the phone, unless you're calling me. My line is compleately private, so you don't need to worry about the phone being tapped. If you need something, call me, not the lobby.

-Sesshomaru

"Oh, well..." Inuyasha said as Kagome kept tinkering around. "Hey! Do they have any ramen?!"

She opened the pantry and looked around. It was expansive, full of enough food to last them months. This made her sad, so she focused on looking for ramen. "Yeah, there's a lot back here."

"Yes! Fix it, fix it, please?!" he said as he crawled over to her and pulled on her jeans.

"You don't have to beg!" she told him as she took out enough packages for all of them.

"Yay!" He jumped when the phone rang. Everyone just kinda stared at it, not sure wether to pick it up.

Inuyasha approached it and answered. "Hello?"

"Inuyasha." The voice on the other end of the line was low and flat, yet farmmiliar.

"Oh, it's you, Sesshomaru." Kagome and Miroku relaxed and went back to what they were doing.

"What's up?"

"Just wanted to see how you were doing-" Suddenly in the background, Inuyasha heard a crash.

"What's going on, Sessh?"

"Nothing. Rin accidentaly knocked over a plant. Hold on." What he heard was his young neice crying and Sesshomaru telling her it was okay and that he didn't like that plant anyway. He ordered his assistant, Jaken, to clean it up and returned to the phone. "Sorry about that."

Inuyasha grinned. "Well, aren't you 'daddy of the year'?!" he said jokingly.

"Feh."

"Now I know where I got that from..."

"Anyway, I also called to tell you that we will be over tomorrow for dinner so we can talk."

"By we, you mean..."

"All of us."

"Cool. It's been awhile since I've seen you guys."

"Rin still talks about you all the time and asks when 'Uncle Yasha' is coming to visit."

"It has been awhile, hasn't it?"

"Yes. Is Sango well?"

"Yeah, she's great. Her and Miroku are together now."

"Really? I would have thought of Sango not to go for perverts."

Inuyasha laughed. "Yeah, well... Nothing we can do about that."

"And what about you?"

"Well... there is someone..."

"It's that Kagome girl you were telling me about, right?"

"... Yeah."

"I can't wait to meet her," Sesshomaru said, almost sounding sincere. "I'll see you tomorrow, Inuyasha."

"Yeah."

"Goodnight."

"Night."

With that, Inuyasha put the phone on the hook. His nose smelled the heavenly aroma of cooking ramen and went back to the living room. Sango was sitting on the couch, wearing a t-shirt and pajama pants with her long dark brown hair wrapped in a towel on top of her head.

"Sesshomaru and his family are coming over tomorrow for dinner, you guys," Inuyasha announced to the group.

"Great! I can't wait to see Rin! She's so cute!" said Sango.

"Dinner's done!" Kagome announced.

Inuyasha was in the kitchen and had half of the ramen noodles on his plate in his mouth within three seconds.

"Inuyasha! You pig!" Kagome said as the other two walked into the room to see the ravenous boy wolfing down his dinner.

"I'm a dog, not a pig," he said between bites.

"Grrr..." Kagome growled as she sat at a bar stool next to him and started eating.

Inuyasha lay in bed that night with a full stomach. He rubbed his belly in saisfaction, thankful that Kagome made another batch of ramen noodles. His door creaked open and there stood Kagome, wearing a spaghetti straped shirt and blue pajama pants covered with rubber duckies.

"I just wanted to say good night," she said as she walked into his rooom and sat on the edge of his bed. "I hope you're full now."

"Yep," he announced happily as he pulled Kagome down to him for a kiss.

"What was that for?" she asked after they pulled apart.

"For fixing me more ramen."

She sighed and rolled her eyes. "Of coarse it was."

"And this is good night." He brought her back down again and gave he a much more passionate kiss. They would've stayed like this longer, except they heard a loud banging noise in the hallway. Kagome stood and stepped out of the door.

"Miroku got himself thrown out of Sango's room again," she said with a sigh. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah." She was about to close the door, whem Inuyasha called to her. "Kagome?"

"Yes?"

"I love you."

A smile graced he beautiful face. "I love you, too. Night." She closed the door carefully.

"Night." He rolled over and fell asleep, dreaming of the life he would someday have with the woman of his dreams after this whole business with the syndicate was over. 'Hopefully, there won't be anymore casualties. I won't let anyone elso die'.

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