Chapter 5: The Knight
"Kagome…How do you plan on getting to England?" asked Sango with a sigh. The four friends were sitting on Kagome's bed and had discussed what had happened on the Wired not too long ago.
Kagome gave a casual shrug. "Plane?"
The other three gave her a deadpan look and she smiled. "What my dear wife means is how you plan on getting there when you have to stay here?" asked Miroku. Kagome blinked and took a thinking stance. She tapped her chin with a slender finger and then she grinned. She jumped off the bed and began to shuffle through the crap under her bed. The other three watched her curiously and wondered what she was doing. She pulled out a clipboard and smiled victoriously at the others.
"Found it!" She looked through the papers on the clip board and her smile widened. "Perfect! We're going to England tomorrow people just give me a minute to talk with my father." Kagome said standing up off the floor.
"Wait, Kagome? What is this about? How are you going to convince your father to let you go to England?" asked Sango.
Kagome held up the clipboard. "This is a list of all of the traveling my father will be doing for work. He needs to make a quick trip to England tomorrow and from this schedule I found he'll be over booked so I'll offer to go in his place to meet Blair and after we do we can make a quick detour to the Ministry." Said Kagome. The others digested her plan and found it was quite good. Inuyasha got up to walk Kagome to her father's office. They walked in an uncomfortable silence and Inuyasha was worried that something was wrong between him and Kagome. He shot her a nervous look and coughed.
"Umm…What's wrong wench?" Inuyasha asked with his usual gruff voice. Kagome winced and looked down at her feet.
"Nothing…it's just…" Inuyasha knew that whatever it was it wasn't "nothing" and waited for her to continue. "Koga and I talked and he said that you didn't mark me as your mate…" said Kagome softly.
Inuyasha blinked and stared at Kagome like she was crazy for saying that sentence but it soon occurred to him that he DIDN'T mark the girl next to him. He looked at her neck and frowned. "well…." Inuyasha quickly thought of an excuse for his stupidity. "I hadn't asked you to be my mate and I thought you would be mad if I just marked you without asking." Said Inuyasha quickly. Kagome looked up at him and gave him a soft smile.
"Oh…I thought you didn't mark me because you thought the same of me as the other girls you've slept with." Said Kagome with a slightly jealous look.
Inuyasha glared at her. "Those sluts were nothing, I didn't realize you thought that. You are special to me Kagome, I do want to mate with you, and we will some day…" said Inuyasha giving her a rare smile. Kagome laughed happily and hugged Inuyasha who mentally sighed in relief. Why hadn't he marked her? Did he actually FORGET? No he couldn't be THAT stupid…
When they arrived in England they found that it would be better to go the Ministry first and then go to the Prime Minister but when they got to the Ministry there were not allowed in. They spent an hour talking to some of the security there and found the whole idea a waste and went to the Prime Minister's office. When they got there Kagome did a press conference with Blair and once the grueling questioning was done they went into a back room to talk in private.
"You handled those leeches pretty well." Blair said friendly.
"Thank you sir, umm have you spoke with the Ministry of Magic by any chance?" asked Kagome.
Blair got a weary smile. "Yes, they are isolating themselves from the rest here in England. I've offered them assistance with this Lord Voldemort chap but they keep refusing my help. The Order has come to me for info but I didn't have much." Said Blair.
Kagome looked back at Inuyasha and frowned. She turned back to Blair with all hopefulness gone. "So you don't have any info for us?"
Blair blinked down at her. "You mean youre working on this Voldemort situation? Well what kind of info are you looking for?" asked Blair.
"Do you know anything about the Knights?" asked Kagome.
Blair's features darkened and he looked back at his own secret service and then back at her. He leaned forward and whispered softly. "The Japanese Intelligence has a Knight in their custody. If you go to them maybe you can get some info from the member themselves about the Knights. That's all I know dear." Said Blair.
"Thank you sir."
Now back in DC, Kagome was on the Wired looking for information while the other three sat on her bed nearby talking. Kagome walked through the Wired with it's world made of lights. She thought to herself as she walked along the streets lined with shopping sites. She was passing an alley between Sun Coast and Barnes and Noble when she heard something.
"Psst! You're THE Kagome right?" a literally black figure in the form of a rather cliché "stranger" stood there against the brick walls of B&N. Kagome raised an eyebrow at him and nodded slowly. The figure chuckled. "Heh! I heard you were pretty but they didn't do you justice…" he said with such a silky smooth voice that Kagome shuddered in slight disgust.
"What do you want Im a little busy…" said Kagome with irritation.
The figure chuckled again. "The fiery temper I heard about…anyway, I heard you were looking for info concerning the Knight in custody of Japan." Said the figure.
"Yes." Kagome said suspiciously.
"Well I have some information for you, actually scratch that…a hint that will help you on your quest." Said the figure. Kagome waited for him to continue. "You have met this Knight before in Feudal Web… that is all I can tell you. Bye Little Sister!" the figure vanished and Kagome frowned. A lower level Lo Tech…? Doesn't matter.
I've met the Knight before in Feudal Web? But it would have been a Player right? I didn't meet many Players. Let's see I met the leader of the Japanese Intelligence in Feudal Web…Sesshomaru, wait! He had a little girl and a toad demon with him. The toad demon I can understand bringing into the game, he could be a little useful in battle but the little girl? What help would she be? Unless…she had something Sesshomaru didn't have. What would be useful in a virtual reality game that an agent wouldn't have?...computer smarts! Why would a girl's parents let the government use her unless like my father did they thought she did something bad…Could that girl Rin be a Knight!
Kagome left the Wired in a hurry to tell the others her hunch and soon they were all on a plane to Japan to talk with Japanese Intelligence.
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