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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry for the long delay, but I hope this chapter makes up for my tardiness. Until then, read and review! OH! Thanks to all who have been supportive of this humble fanfiction.

CHAPTER 9: FORBIDDEN DESIRES?

The rental car was a piece of junk. Well, what do you expect when you want a vehicle that wouldn't draw attention, or would be that easy to track. Inuyasha should have known better than to let Kouga handle this. The neanderthal was going to hear about this when he saw him next. The carburetor was clogged; the spark plugs desperately needed to be replaces, the tires were balding; and the transmission was slipping ever time they changed gears. Inuyasha was amazed that they had even made it out of town to a hotel.

On the bright side, however, the hotel was clean and a little up scale. The downside, well that all depended on who you asked, was that there was only one room left, and it was the bridal suite. Inuyasha and Kagome registered under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Smirks. A funny last name, yes, but it was a combination of Sango's, Miroku's, Inuyasha's, Rin's, Kagome's, and Sesshoumaru's first letter of their first name. It worked.

Inuyasha and Kagome picked up their keys at the front desk and then went upstairs. They were quiet on the elevator ride up first, but when they stopped Inuyasha held a hand out in front of Kagome stopping her from walking out first. "Wait."

Kagome listened. Her eyes followed his body as he peered out of the elevator.

"It's clear." Inuyasha turned and helped pick up their luggage. "Did I mention we've got the bridal suite?"

"No," Kagome said, with what she hoped sounded casual. She smiled. Kagome could feel the butterflies going full force in her stomach as they walked to the hall to their room.

"You okay, Kags? Because you like you're going to make a run for it." Inuyasha heard Kagome give a soft laugh before answering.

"I'm too tired to run, and besides that my legs are cramping from being in that car all day."

"Want me to carry you over the threshold Mrs. Smirks." Inuyasha grinned as he opened the door to the suite. When she didn't answer, Inuyasha nudged her to get her into the room.

Kagome stepped into the lavish one bedroom bridal suite in awe, but didn't come to until she heard the door click shut. She felt a pang of nervousness hit her. 'Come on Kagome, now isn't the time to be shy. It's just Inuyasha.' Kagome gave herself a pep talk. She could feel Inuyasha behind her, his body heat was radiating off in waves. Kagome walked deeper into the room. She noticed the tray of food that as laden with fruits, cheeses, and crackers. Plus, a bottle of champagne on the side board in the kitchen. 'Food.' Kagome thought, they hadn't eaten since they left Tokyo. She turned to ask Inuyasha if he was hungry but notice he was doing some to the door.

Inuyasha had a thin wire in his hand and was threading a loop around the door latch. On the end of the wire was a tiny square box about the size of a nine volt battery, and after he twisted the wire around the doorknob, Inuyasha turned the box, and a red light suddenly began to blink. He smiled with an air of cockiness.

"What is that?"

"This, Kags, is my own personal security system." His fangs pocked out from his upper lip when he spoke. "Shippo created this for me." Next, Inuyasha laughed slightly as he remembered when his care free days youth. "When I was younger, Miroku, Shippo and I loved to torture Sesshoumaru, so we came up with this brilliant idea." He pointed to the small black box.

"What does it do?"

"Let's just say that whoever tries to open the door will be in for the shock of a life time."

"Oh." Was all Kagome said, but silently thinking what other tricks Inuyasha had up his sleeve. "Well, I'm going to take a shower first, so…" Kagome wandered off not finishing her sentence leaving the rest to Inuyasha's imagination. When she reached the threshold of the master bedroom she found beaming with scented lilac candles and a large canopy bed. The more she wandered in the more she found in the bedroom. It littered with white rose petals. Kagome eyes widened like saucers before she opened her mouth to scream. "AAHHHH!" She turned to run out the door but her feet caught the edge of a beautiful Persian rug.

Inuyasha heard Kagome scream bloody murder and ran to her. He made it to the door when a mass of flesh collided with him sending Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha felt the air being knocked out of his lungs while his ears picked up Kagome whining. "What's wrong?"

"Roses, white roses." Kagome mumbled into Inuyasha's chest. She felt embarrassed at how she reacted; it was like a normal reflex. But it wasn't, so Kagome had her face buried into Inuyasha washboard abs.

'Shit!' he thought, 'that damn bastard ruined roses for her. Kags can't even she them without loosing it.' Inuyasha struggled to sit up with Kagome pressing into him. "Feh! The way you were screaming Kags I thought it would have been a spider or something." He teased her.

Kagome gave a dry laugh. "I probably startled all the occupants on this floor. I bet they think I'm being killed or something."

"Or," Inuyasha smirked with this next line he was about to grace her with, "they'd think that there are two mature people that just got married, and are using their bridal suite to have wild, hot horny, blow– your- mind sex."

Kagome's head shot up at that statement. Her cheeks were crimson when she met Inuyasha's eyes. The glint of mischief in his eyes was apparent, and of course Inuyasha was laughing. However, Kagome on the other hand wasn't; she was completely stunted. Kagome's dainty hand made a fist and punched him in the arm. "Inuyasha." Kagome wasn't blushing due to the fact that the topic of sex embarrassed her; it was more like she wanted it with Inuyasha, but not this way.

Rin was getting ready to pull out her hair, if she could reach it, that is. Not only did she wake up in the same room she escaped, but now she was secured to the bed with a piece of silk tying her hands to the post of the bed. 'Damn him, damn him!' Rin cursed. She tugged on the restrains but they wouldn't give, and even though it was silk, Rin could feel the soft textured material chaffing her skin. How long had she been tied to the bed? Three hours, four?

Rin was pissed that Sesshoumaru would tie her up like this, to a bed no less. She gave him her word that she wouldn't do anything to try and get away, and that she would stay at the mansion, so why on earth did he do this? Why? It may have had something to do with the fact, that when Rin said she'd stay, it didn't include being complacent to Sesshoumaru's will. That might have been it. 'Great!' she thought, 'I have feeling of a demon who thinks he can do with me what he will. Well, I don't think so!'

Rin looked around the room looking for anything that could had her in getting this silk restrain off her wrists. She found nothing. Rin was going to give up when her gaze lowered to her feet out of hopeless desperation. It was then that she saw her brown suede four inch, high heeled Manolo Blahniks. That's when the bazaar but cleaver idea came to Rin, she would use the end of the heel to untie the knot.

Rin brought her legs off the bed and started bringing them over her chest, then her head. She felt like she was squishing herself but Rin had to do something. Her right foot being more steady then her left, she worked the knot in the silk. But, not after too long Rin's back started to gain a dull ache which turned into an intensified burning due to the strain. Her leg went plummeting down onto the bed. Rin was huffing and puffing from exertion.

'So close!' she wailed mentally. The slim spike of her shoe made a gap just big enough for it to slide through. 'It will work this time. It has too.' Rin was determined to get free. She grunted when she rocked her hip back and forth again the momentum to throw her legs over her upper portion of herself. Rin was starting to really question her choice of major in school. 'Maybe I should give up on school and become a lock smith. Hahaha! Even better, I'll become an escape artist!' So, deep in concentration was she with precision and accuracy, Rin didn't notice the bedroom door opening and closing.

"What do we have here?" A steel smooth voice called out with a hint of amusement.

Rin jumped at the voice which cause her Manolo Blahnik spiked heel to ram right through the gap of the silk and get itself snagged. Rin's head moved to the side to see the devil himself looking at her with amused golden eyes.

"It seems as if I've found you in a precarious position my pet?"

Rin went to lower her legs but found that she could only move one. The other wouldn't budge. She was fighting the flush that was creeping to her cheeks at the thought that her low ride jeans must be giving Sesshoumaru quite a rear view. Rin mustered the best 'I could careless look' at his Royal Highness then looked away from Sesshoumaru.

He was laughing at Rin's poorly performed dismissal in her undignified position that showed off her shapely backside. Sesshoumaru walked over to the bedside and gave his intended a mocking glance before freeing her. But, not before he cupped Rin's bottom and gave it a teasing squeeze which earned him a squeal.

He turned the headlights off a block before he ended up at his destination, Detective Tsuwamono's residence. His hand turned the ignition off killing any noise that would alert neighbors of his prowling. Romeo waited anxiously in his sedan at the darken house a hundred feet ahead of him. He flicked to dome light off in the car, so that when he opened the car door no interior lights would go off. Then, Romeo exited his car as deftly as a thief in the night.

His palms were damp with perspiration as he made is way near the house. Romeo's hot breath could be seen as wisps in the chilly night air revealing his rapid, shallow breathing. He hid in the shadows of the moonless night, making his way to the house Romeo longed to burn. He could see two cars parked out front; one which he identified as belonging to Detective Ookami and the other belonged to Detective Tsuwamono's roommate.

'Interesting,' Romeo thought darkly 'it seems that they are having a late night meeting. Planning Kagome's escape.' His feet carried him swiftly to the driveway of the imbecile half demon, Inuyasha. Romeo wished he could curse that silver haired mindless fool to the seven hells for eternity. Romeo's earth brown eyes darted around looking for the bastard hanyou's car, and yet he didn't see his revivals car anywhere. He began to feel his blood pressure rise at a rapid rate. This meant one of two things. Either Inuyasha's car was in the garage, or they had, in fact, slipped through his fingers. Romeo had planned that they would be so far ahead of him in this.

Sango began to feel edgy and desperately needed to get out. Miroku and Detective Ookami were still ironing out the finer details of there plan. She watched from a segued view on the couch, as they delved deeper into conversation around the kitchen table. Sango felt oddly left out, but didn't mind this time. She stood up and stretched her long toned limbs and then quietly walked near the sliding glass door leading to the backyard. Sango rested her forehead again the cold window pane and let her fingers dance an unknown pattern on the glass. The air in the room was getting stale and difficult to breathe and Sango couldn't help but notice for some reason the room was getting smaller on her. Her hand moved to unlock the sliding glass door with a light click. Very so painstakingly deliberate, Sango cracked the door wide enough to slip through.

'Damnit!' he cursed. Romeo's mind began to weave a web of even darker evil that knew no bounds. That thick, chocking fog commenced to rob Romeo of all reality. The inner beast won out all logical thinking and demanded retribution. 'Vengeance!' it hissed to his soul. He cracked his knuckles in a sickening manor as he moved around the outside of the garage and rounded the corner slyly. 'Burn the bastards!' the voice screamed at him.

Sango took in a deep gulp of air and tried to focus her thoughts that seemed to be everywhere at once. 'I need to meditate,' she told herself. Sango sat down on one of the benches and assumed the lotus position. "Ahhhh!" she let out. Sango closed her eyelids, focused her breathing, and listened to the steady rhythm of her heart beat. thump, thump, thump… Sango felt the tension ease from her body and her mind cleared. It left her completely unaware of the outside world around her.

He found a barrier between himself and the backyard in the form of a three foot tall gate. Romeo looked for the latch that would gain his entrance and his mortal enemies doom. His hand moved towards his desired goal when the lofty sound of a sigh hit Romeo's ears like a tidal wave. 'What is this?' he thought deviously. 'Could it be that someone is outside?' Romeo's beast roared with vile pleasure. 'Perfect.'

Kagome sat on the side of the cal king size bed starring at the phone. 'Momma.' She thought quietly. 'How long as it been since I talked to you last? Months.' Was all that echoed in her mind. Kagome hadn't had any major contact with her family because of her situation. She didn't want them to be in danger by making it look like she was in the area any more. That bastard might try and kill her family, or that is what she was told when she went into the witness protection program.

Kagome reached out her hand to the ivory colored phone and picked up the receiver. She could hear the dial tone blaring in the quietness of the room. What harm could a brief phone call home do? Nothing, as far as Kagome could think of, and besides, Inuyasha didn't say not too. Kagome strained her ears to pick up if Inuyasha was still talking on his cell phone to Miroku. 'Yep,' she thought, 'he's still ranting about the rental car.' With that knowledge Kagome dialed nine for a collect call.

Her heart began to speed up at the sound of her call going through to her house. ring, ring, ring… 'Please Momma, Souta, or Gramps be at home, please.' Kagome pleaded longingly. It rang a total of six times before the operator asked if she wanted to leave a message. She agreed.

"One moment please." asked the phone operator.

Kagome held her breath at what she thought she needed to say to her family. 'How do I tell them? What am I going…' she stopped when she heard the voice of her mother on the answering service. It was like an angel's voice to her ears.

"Hello, you have reached the Higurashi's Shrine and residence. Sorry we aren't home and didn't receive your call in person…"

In the background of that message Kagome could hear her younger brother talking loudly. She remembered what he was yelling when her mother recorded that message. 'But, if you are a telemarketer we aren't sorry!' For some reason, Souta didn't like telemarketers. Kagome smiled at that memory. It was one of the few pure and untainted ones she had.

"But, if you would do us the honor, and leave us a message we would be grateful. Bye!"

BEEP!

"Uh, momma," Kagome was hesitant "this is Kagome." She paused briefly debating what to say. "I, uh, I wanted to tell you that I will be coming home for a few days." Kagome stopped again for a few seconds trying to take a deep calming breath. "I will have a body guard with me. It's someone you know very well." She faked the happiness in her intonation, however; when Kagome started to explain why she'd be home, the emotional stress caught up to her. "He's back momma. He's back." The emotion in her voice was over whelming, and Kagome's voice cracked but she continued. "They want me to lay low, so…" she fumbled a little. "Don't let anyone know I'm coming. He's still after me. I have to go now, but I love y…

BEEP!

The answering service disconnected her before she told her family she loved them. 'It hurts!' Kagome cried as she struggled to regain herself. She pulled the receiver away from her ear and set it back in its cradle. With her other hand, Kagome wiped the tears rolling on her cheeks.

Chief Myoga pulled off his glasses and set the down on his desk. He brought his callused fingers to the bridge of his nose and rubbed. Chief Myoga could feel the head ache coming, right after he got off the phone with the mayor. That piss for brains was screeching like a mother hen, that he, Chief Myoga was being negligent of his job. 'That an uptight asshole!' Myoga thought irritably. 'How he ever became elected mayor of Tokyo I have a clue?' But, there were more pressing matters that vexed him. The top one being that he hadn't heard from Inuyasha yet, which considering the situation could be a problem.

Chief Myoga went for his glasses and put them back on again when the phone rang. He mentally readied himself for another verbal confrontation with another irate citizen. And, if it was the mayor calling back, Chief Myoga smiled forbiddingly; he wouldn't be responsible for what came out of his mouth. "Chief Myoga here." he answered crossly.

"Hey ya, Chief. It's Shippo." Came the young kitsune voice over the line. "What's wrong with you? Not enough roughage and its making you irritable?" Shippo joked.

He let out a heavy sigh of relief. It was only the forensic tech, Shippo Longtail, the most ingenious scientist on the squad, and the most trust worthy. "Hahaha! Funny Red, keep it up and I'll make sure you work the night shift for the rest of your long life."

"Sorry Chief." Shippo back pedaled.

Myoga smile at Shippo's remorseful tone. "That's some fast work there Red. What do you have for me?" Even as he asked the question, Chief Myoga could feel his old body tense like a bow.

"Well, Chief," Shippo answered. "We have ourselves a traitor."

'Holy kami-sama!' Myoga grimaced with that sentence. Romeo was, indeed, one of them. "Who the hell is it?"

He smiled devilishly; he had managed to catch a glimpse of the individual out in the backyard. It wasn't hard, really. All you need to look around corners is a mirror and the right angle, of course. 'Silly girl!' Romeo scolded. 'How could you leave the protection of your companions?' He bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing.

Romeo praised his genius, as he crept back to his car with only one thing on his mind. In his trunk was a five gallon container of gasoline. The thrill that lit through his being at the possibility of getting revenge

Kagome stood in the steam filled humid bathroom debating how to taking that comment Inuyasha made. 'Come on Kags! Inuyasha was only teasing you about having mind blowing sex.' She chastised herself. 'He wasn't being serious.'

Kagome took the comb in her hand and started to brush through her wet locks. Her mind began to contemplate things she wasn't sure she should be thinking. 'Sex with Inuyasha…' Kagome's eyes gained that far away look, but her complexion had a pink healthy glow. It must have been the heat in the bathroom…

After the slight grumble in his stomach, Inuyasha picked up the phone in the front room of the suite and dialed room service. He did this for two reasons. One, Kagome was still in the bathroom doing kami knows what? And two, this would cut down the risk of anyone seeing Kagome, if that bastard Romeo started to track them. Granted, Kagome was an unforgettable beauty, but it didn't help when you yourself had physical traits that stood out as well.

The phone rang twice before someone answered. "Yes, I would like to order two salads and two bowls of ramen to be delivered at Suite 20." Inuyasha listened as the hotel operator began to ask what kind of dressing he would like, and what flavor of ramen? Inuyasha scratched his head in puzzlement; truth is that he hated salad. It was too green to him and he had this theory about salad. It was evil, and on top of that, it tasted nasty. His body shuddered at the thought of eating such crap. But, he did this for Kagome. 'Girls liked salad, don't they?'

Inuyasha cleared his throat before speaking. "Give me ranch dressing for the salads. Lots of it, and as for the ramen, make it beef. Oh, could you tell room service to knock on the door then leave the food tray outside." With that Inuyasha hung up the phone, and glanced at his watch for the tenth time in that hour. He stalked back into the bedroom and again noticed the bathroom door shut. "Damn!" Inuyasha groaned. "Kags, are you done in there?" he bellow loudly. After a few nanoseconds of silence, which felt like perpetuity to Inuyasha, he went straight for the door with a look of determination on his face. "Kagome! Can you hear me? Are you alive in there?"

BAM! BAM!

Inuyasha knocking on the bathroom door took Kagome by surprise. "Ei!" she squealed. That loud unannounced racket was like a pin to an inflated balloon, it burst her day dream of the possibility of love making with Inuyasha. Kagome dropped the comb like she had been scalded while at the same time brought the other hand over her heart. Her head snapped in the direction of the door. Kagome went for the bathroom door and through it wide open. "Where's the fire Inuyasha?"

He would have retorted, but the vision before him made his jaw drop. There Kagome stood engulf in a sea of sultry moisture swarming around her body, but that wasn't the half of it. She was wearing the same white spaghetti strap nightie, and Inuyasha was getting an unknown eyeful. The moisture in the air combined with Kagome's wet skin made the thin silk material cling in the most revealing manor. His golden eyes darkened as they took in, yet again, firmness of Kagome's breast. Her pert nipples erect, tainted a deep coral color. Inuyasha fought himself to keep his eyes from going lower, but temptation own out. They traveled down the length of Kagome's body where he could just make out the juncture between her legs. Inuyasha could feel the blood rushing to his manhood as it rose to attention.

Kagome's eye brow rose in a questioning manor at Inuyasha's odd behavior, but didn't know how to handle it. She was fight to keep herself from drooling at him. What ever Kagome expected to find when she opened the bathroom door was not Inuyasha shirtless at the threshold. Her eyes widened a fraction as she noticed his washboard abs, hard and toned. Kagome caught herself before she could look any lower. So, she shook her head at him, or more at herself, and walked out of the bathroom into the bedroom. However, Kagome mumbled something she would regret saying for the rest of the evening. And in that moment of absent mindedness, totally forgetting about Inuyasha's superb hearing muttered, "Phth! Is it getting hot in here, or am I suffering from hot flashes already? Boy Kags, you'd think that you'd never see him without a shirt!"

Inuyasha was cursing himself for reacting like that, even more so, when he thought of all the ways he wanted to ravish Kagome. He had a job to do, which was to protect her, at all cost. Not seduce her. Inuyasha turned around and followed Kagome's form walking away from him. He prayed silent that she would not notice the tent in his pants. 'Shit! This is going to be a long night.' Then is ears twitched at what sounded like a low murmur of Kagome's voice. Inuyasha felt a grin crack on his face. Gone was all the previous thoughts of not trying to seduce her, for Kagome was obviously feeling this sexual tension between them. "So Kags, are you all hot and bothered?"

Kagome froze. 'Uh-oh!'