I'm sooooooooooo sorry I haven't updated! It's been almost a year! Don't kill me! My life is kind of crazy. Oh well! On with the chapter you've been waiting for!

Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own Inuyasha even after all these months…

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

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Slavery

Chapter 5: Tulips

Last Time

Anger boiled up inside him. 'How could she kiss him! He's a slave! I will make her pay. This is not supposed to happen!' his thoughts ran around in his head, trying to figure out a solution. 'I will see to it that she will never be happy again!' With that, the figure turned and left, going completely unnoticed.

Inuyasha was doing his morning chores, you could say. Kagome was bored, inside her house eating. She recalled her kiss from the day before. Nothing much had happened afterward. When she thought more about it a slight blush spread across her face. Her father looked at her and saw it when he looked up from the morning paper. Kagome looked back at him and tried to hide her blush.

Everything seemed to have gone by fast. She... she loved Inuyasha. But, she had gotten a very strange feeling for a while… like someone was watching, waiting. Her thoughts raced around in her mind.

"Are you ok sweetheart?" Kagome's father asked with a concerned face on.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm just thinking, that's all," she replied with a smile. Her father smiled back and gave her a quick hug.

"Oh, Kagome?" Kagome's father asked recalling something.

"Yes, Daddy?" She asked.

"Would you call Inuyasha in here?"

'Oh no!' Kagome's thoughts were racing again. 'Does he know? What will he do?'

"Su… sure." Kagome stood up and walked outside, worried. "Inuyasha?" No answer. "Inuyasha!" Still, no answer. "Inuyashaaaaaa!" 'Oh my gosh, what if something happened to him? What if he's hurt? He may have been kidnapped! What do I do?'

"What is it?" Inuyasha asked as he popped up beside her, which made Kagome fall backwards in shock. Inuyasha caught her in an instant. "Kagome? What the…"

"DON'T YOU SCARE ME LIKE THAT!" she yelled.

"WELL, SOOOOOORRY!" Inuyasha snapped back. Kagome just sighed. "So… what is it?"

"Daddy wants to see you…" Kagome said looking a bit worried. Inuyasha didn't like the look on her face.

"Am I in trouble?" he asked.

"I don't know," she replied. Inuyasha swallowed hard and stood up straight. Kagome and Inuyasha walked into the house where Kagome's dad was still sitting at the table reading.

"Did you want to see me, Mr. Higurashi?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yes, I did." He replied, setting his newspaper down on the table and stood up. He walked over to the counter and picked up his wallet. He pulled out some money and a note and walked over to Inuyasha. "Here, take this and go down to the store and buy a pack of beers, won't you?" he asked with a smile.

Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other, relieved. Kagome read the note out loud to Inuyasha which was to the manager of the convenience store to allow Inuyasha to buy his beer on his behalf.

"Of course, be back later," he said as he walked out the door. Something was bugging Kagome, though. She just shook it off.

"Daddy?" Kagome looked to her father.

"Yes, dear?" he replied.

"Can I go for a walk?"

"Sure, be careful and be back soon."

"I will!" Kagome picked up a bottle of water and walked out the door and down her favorite trail in the nearby forest.

She was humming to herself and enjoying the nice outdoors as she walked down the trail. She was walking for a while when something caught her eye. Kagome turned and saw a little path that turned off the trail and looked like someone was trying to hide it. She walked over to it and moved some bushes out of the way and walked through. She looked up to see the most beautiful field of tulips. There were pink, white, red, and yellow tulips.

"It's beautiful!" Kagome exclaimed to no one. She walked to the tulips and picked out two of each color. "How should I keep them together?" she thought out loud. She then took her ponytail out and wrapped the band which was holding her ponytail in place around the flowers. "There, that will do for now."

Kagome left the tulip path and fixed the entrance so it wasn't easy to see as best she could. She then started to walk back toward her home. Then, she heard a rustle in the bushes to her right. She turned, startled.

"Who's there?" she asked calmly. No reply. 'It was probably a small animal or something.' She continued to walk towards her home, but was suddenly grabbed from behind and a hand was placed over her mouth and she dropped her flowers and tried to fight back. The person who had grabbed her pushed her into nearby grass and tied her hands around her back quickly. The person then picked her up and ran off into the forest.

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Inuyasha walked into the convenience store and walked to the counter.

"Um, I need to see 'the manager,'" he said uneasily.

"I am the manager," the young black-haired man with a tiny ponytail in the back replied.

"My master told me to give this to you and pick up a pack of beer," Inuyasha said as he handed the man his note. He took it and read it.

"Of course," the man picked up a pack of beer from under the counter. Inuyasha paid for it and walked back to the house. He walked inside and gave the change and beer to Mr. Higurashi.

"Thank you very much, Inuyasha," he said with a smile. "By the way, did you happen to see Kagome outside?"

"Actually, no I didn't," Inuyasha replied.

"Hm, strange. She went for a walk down her favorite trail down in the forest. Do you think you could fetch her?"

Inuyasha tried to ignore the 'fetch' part and nodded. He walked outside and down a ways until he picked up Kagome's scent. After walking a while down the trail he stopped. He smelt someone else's scent… mixed with Kagome's. Inuyasha ran down the trail until her saw a bundle of flowers laying on the ground and footprints in the ground which showed a struggle has happened. He picked up the flowers and saw Kagome hair band around them. Inuyasha's eyes widened.

"Kagooommeeee!" he yelled really loudly. He began sniffing until he found the way Kagome had been taken. He ran through the forest, following her scent. He ran until he came across a field. He looked straight ahead and saw two figures. He walked forward to see that one of the figures was Kagome who was tied at the wrists and ankles and had tape covering her mouth. The other was a tall man with long wavy black hair. It was obvious it was this tall man that had kidnapped Kagome.

"Who the hell are you!" Inuyasha shouted at the man.

"I am Naraku and you are a lowly hanyou," the man replied with an evil laugh. Inuyasha growled and ran toward him but Naraku pulled Kagome in front of him causing Inuyasha to stop dead in his tracks.

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A/N: W00tness! Done with this chapter! (Finally.) Yes, it's been a looooong time. Gomen nasai! Anyway, I'll just go now I hope everyone is like, "Yay! Meg isn't dead! She updated for us!" Leave me a review and I'll try to update more! Ja ne!

P.S. - This is what I wanted the tulip patch to look like (you have to fix it, sorry) http(colon)(slash,slash)1stclass(dot)mylargescale(dot)com(slash)RGSW(slash)Tulip(percent sign)2010sm(dot)JPG