In Under Deep

A.N. I am not passing up my other fic! It is just going to take longer than I want. It is the club! I mean, come on now. Do you really think I will just spit that one out! With the help of a friend, we are going to have a very nasty, sexy, and scary club experience that Kagome will ever have! Muwahahahahaha! ahem Anyways! I am writing chapter five to IND for now and you all will have to wait longer for TA (hehe tits and asswell I thought it was funny) to come out. I have to perfect that chapter, and I am finding it very hard to write. So just bear with me. I would like to thank DarkMiko66 for the recommended story on this fic. I am truly honored that you love my story enough to post your recommendation for it. I LOVE YOU! Now, you know that drill, Review! It makes me feel good.

Disclaimer: Now I really know how the other writers feel about having to type this shit. I DON'T OWN IT! If I did, I would be very well off, but I don't, so I am poor. Hey, anyone feel up to drawing my sharks? I would love to see how someone would view them.

Kagome pushed herself through the water. Her head the only thing above so she could breath. She slowed her movements until she came to a floating stop, her dark hair pooling around her to make an appearance of dark ink trying to spread out in the salt water. Her dark blue eyes scanned her surroundings, taking in nothing but water and dark gray metal walls. I told them to come in here, where are they?' she thought to herself. The holding tank was huge and it spread across several rooms, but were where hear friends? The sharks were just to big to miss.

While looking at her surroundings, Kagome started to think about her lab partner. The tall one with long hair that made her jealous and eyes like the brightest sun. A sun she hadn't seen in a long while. But to look into Sesshoumaru's eyes made her want to see the real thing less. A smile appeared on her face when she thought about her chance to touch his hair. Sesshoumaru spilled some chemicals on it, due to Nicole's shit' accidents, and was trying to wash it off when Kagome offered her help. He was reluctant at first. Not wanting to let her near his person. With a little coaxing from her, he finally let her rinse the rest off. His hair was so soft and fine. It looked like spun silver and the fineness wasn't baby fine, but a nice silkiness that if the wind blow, it would flow in the breeze.

Kagome frowned at her hair. She used a lot of conditioner in her hair, but it never felt like that. She had nice hair, but compared to his, it was a dud. One thing she loved about her hair was the color. She had nice black hair that shined blue when the light hit it just right. At least she had something about her hair she liked. Ha! Take that Sesshoumaru! You may have the texture, but I have the color.' His hair color was nice too. O'well, cant have it all.

In her mental musings, Kagome didn't realize she had two large fish stocking her. One would think of the Jaws theme as the biggest, Tom, allowed his large fin to surface from the water. He swam right up behind her at a deliberate slow pace. He slowed his motions even more until he only crept inches from Kagome. Suddenly she got sifted forward. Kagome let a startled eep' before she spun around with a big grin on her face. A second great white appeared on the side of Kagome while she wrapped her arms, the best she could, around Tom.

You guys are silly!' Kagome mentally said as she giggled out loud.

Gome never saw us come,' Tom smugly thought to her.

No, I didn't. You guys are getting so good at stocking. I am proud of you.' Kagome rubbed his nose as she admired their sizes. Tom, you are getting so big! I must remember to measure you again.'

What about me, Gome?' Shi inquired with a nudge.

Kagome smiled and reached her other hand over to rub her on the nose as well. I haven't forgotten about you, Shi. You are getting big too.'

Both sharks ate up the attention they were receiving from their favorite human. Tom shifted himself as much as possible so Kagome could reach near his gills. Tom loved to be rubbed there. She stopped her motions and decided to measure the sharks. It has been six months since she last did it. Why not do it now when she had the time?

Kagome told them to follow her to the main water room. Kagome swam up to the beginning of the tank and grabbed the side to hoist herself up on the edge. Water ran down her body as she pushed up out of the tank and steadied herself on her two long legs. Her long black hair stuck to her back and she had to pull it away so she could move her head easier. She walked over to a small compartment where she housed the measuring tape. Kagome got Miroku to purchase her a forty foot tape a while back when her twenty foot tape started to get too short. She pulled it out and wrapped it around her left arm so she could keep a descent hold on the long flimsy measuring tape while she figured out how much the sharks had grown. Making sure she had her clipboard nearby, Kagome started to make her way back to the tank.

Kagome paused for a moment. They were so big. How was she going to measure them on her own? Duh, girl. You should have thought about this before you got everything together,' she thought with sarcasm. The last time she did this, Kagome had to get Miroku to help her. Great,' she thought, how am I going to do this?'

Kagome was so busy thinking about ways to handle her current problem, she didn't realize Sesshoumaru had walked into the room. The tall demon looked at the woman standing in front of him. She had a two-piece black swim suit on. It wasn't vulgar. It covered her where it needed to, but Kagome's body was so shapely that it still didn't leave much to his imagination. He started at the top of her turned head and followed the dripping wet hair down her back. Sesshoumaru couldn't see her slender shoulders because of the wet black mane, so he just continued on to her nicely rounded ass. Oh yes, her rear was very nice. He made sure to catch himself with a for a human,' before allowing himself to become fascinated with how her legs connected nicely to the rounded rear. He continued down her muscular legs until it ended with her pretty feet that resided in a small puddle of water.

Sesshoumaru wandered at his sanity for thinking her feet pretty. She had no claws on her toes, just regular human nails. What Sesshoumaru could see of her toenails, Kagome had painted a bright neon pink. The color alone almost hurt his eyes. I thought the neon look went out in the late eighty's,' he thought. That time period was hell for all demons. The bright colors the humans loved to wear could have blinded his race for all time. Sesshoumaru was very glad that look went out.

Shaking his head to clear the unwanted thoughts, Sesshoumaru cleared his throat. It had the desired affect. Kagome jumped at the sudden sound and spun around. She did this a little to fast, because the next thing she remembered was slipping on the puddle she created and landed with a hard thump' on the slippery glass floor.

"Ouch," she huffed out. Her bottom was now throbbing with the rough impact.

Sesshoumaru had to fight to keep the smirk from his face. It was really funny to see her fall. Instead, Sesshoumaru let his eyebrow rise to show his small' amusement to her dilemma.

"You could at least help me up!" Kagome huffed. Her face was now red, due to her embarrassing fall, and the smug dog standing in front of her was not helping the matter.

Sesshoumaru decided to be chivalrous and extended a clawed hand down to help her up. May as well be somewhat nice, right? He made sure Kagome was stable before letting her hand go. Kagome was still blushing like made. He wondered how much of it was due to the embarrassing fall. Over the past four months, Kagome has slowly wormed his way into his heart. It was very confusing. He actually started to talk to the small woman. She was nice to talk to, even if most of it was verbal sparing. Kagome had given him quite a challenge. He loved challenges. That challenge was to out smart her on what ever it was. It could be small to large. What ever it was, Sesshoumaru would tease her to no end. It made the long days much brighter for him.

"May I ask what you where doing?" He asked her with a hint of amusement betraying his voice.

Why do I get the mental image of him laughing his ass off at me,' she thought to herself. It didn't take an empath to see his humor begging to be pushed over. "I am going to measure Tom and Shi. The both of them are growing and I must record it."

Sesshoumaru looked at the two sharks waiting patiently for their human to come back into the water with them. He shuttered a little when he thought about the shark incident on her birthday. Kagome never did mention it. He wondered if Tom ever told her. Sesshoumaru looked at the large animals and had to admit that they have grown. By just his eye, he could have guessed around four more feet. He wondered if they would ever stop growing. They were still young and had a few more years of growing to go. If they kept this rate up, the great whites would see at least forty to fifty feet. The would be so big, the holding tank would have to be enlarged.

"Are you planning on doing it yourself?" He inquired, still looking at the large fish.

"Well,.yes," Kagome answered with an unsure voice.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at her again. She really hated hit when he did that. That eyebrow of his meant teasing. Teasing he loved to do. He walked over to edge of the tank and pulled his shirt over his head. After that, he undid his jeans and slid them down. He wore only sandals, so they came off with his jeans. All he wore now was a black pair of swimming trunks. Kagome watched all of this with a wide eyed expression of disbelief. Could he really be willing to help her out?

"Um.are you planning on helping me?" Kagome asked.

Sesshoumaru turned to her and allowed a smirk to form on his finally chiseled face. "I am not doing this for the free show, if that is what you mean."

Kagome cursed herself as she felt the warmth come back to her cheeks. Damn that demon.' She looked at his finally shaped body. He was not ashamed of his looks. That much was obvious. He even had the audacity to flex his chest muscles at her when he noticed her eyeing him. That prick!'

Kagome quickly looked to the measuring tape on her arm. She missed how his teasing smirk turned into a mischievous one. She unwound it and handed the tape to Sesshoumaru. He took it in one hand and jumped into the water. Kagome noted how he jumped in to where there was distance from the large fish. He held onto one side of the tank to keep himself steady and waited for her to jump in as well.

Once Kagome was in the tank, she pushed herself over to where he was and grabbed one side of the tape. "You take the head," she said in a nonchalant way, "I will take the tail."

Sesshoumaru looked at the shark's head. Images of his long hair wrapped around huge shark teeth, made him pale some. Kagome didn't miss this and had to fight to keep the smirk off of her face. It wasn't very successful. The twitching could be seen anyway and she had to turn her head away from him to hide the wide smile that now showed itself. She fought to regain her composure and turned back to him when he hadn't moved.

"Are you going?" She asked in an impatient manner.

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed some at her and he pushed her out of the way. "Hey!" He heard her protest. It fazed him none. He got to the sharks tail and watched as it would twitch some to keep the large animal in one place. He turned to look at her and raised his brow once again. "Are you ready?" He questioned.

Kagome couldn't believe it. He pushed her out of the way to get to the shark's tail. Oh how she was going to tease him later. She huffed' and went to Tom's head.

Hold still now.' Kagome mentally told Tom.

The said fish just moved his eye to pear at her. Not moving was the last thing on his mind. His young brain just wanted to play with pretty hair. Tom started to move back. His muscular body following his every wish. Soon, Sesshoumaru's body was right next to Tom's head. Sesshoumaru was amazed at how fast the fish backed up. His amazement was short lived though when he saw the large fish turn its head in his direction.

Tom eyed his silver hair floating in the water. Some was floating his way. Opening his jaws carefully, Tom grabbed some in his mouth. He could feel Sesshoumaru's soft hair tickling his mouth behind his sharp teeth. How fun!' Tom mentally shouted.

Sesshoumaru could have pissed himself if it wasn't for the fact Kagome was in the water with him. Plus Sesshoumaru didn't piss himself if he was scared. He watched as the shark extended his large jaws out slowly to grab some of his lose hair. Just one of the teeth were as big as his hands. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened as the shark held some of his long strands in his mouth. He started to swim back with long powerful strokes of his arms. He needed to get away from this big fish.

He pulled his hair out of Tom's mouth and turned to get out of the water. Kagome saw this. "Wait!"

Sesshoumaru turned his head in her direction and glared. A cold glare he hadn't given Kagome since the first day of meeting her. "What?"

"Please, I really need your help. He wont do it again. I promise." Kagome gave him a really pitiful look.

Sesshoumaru had never seen such a look before in his life. This woman was giving him puppy eyes! She was good at it too. "Fine," he said, "keep your fish away from my hair."

Kagome beamed at him and then turned her attention to Tom. Tom,' The shark turned to look at Kagome, don't scare Sesshoumaru.'

If the shark could look crestfallen, he would do it. But Gome, I like the man with pretty long hair. It is much more pretty then the other.'

Kagome knew he was talking about Inuyasha. The half-demon now refused to do anything when it came to them. He got tired of Tom trying to chew on his hair. Now is not the time, Tom.'

The shark moved back to where Kagome was and tried to stick his nose up under her arm. It only resulted in her resting her hand on top of his head. It would do for him. He knew that he could no longer snuggle her like he did when he was small.

Kagome smiled at her large friend. She gave him a pat on the head and looked to see Sesshoumaru move back to Tom's tail. He grabbed the tip of the tail and waited for Kagome to take the other end. After they finally all of the measuring done with Tom, they moved to Shi. The female great white was much more easy to handle. Sesshoumaru was very appreciative about it. He made sure to keep on the side of Shi so he could keep an eye on Tom.

After they had finished both of the sharks, Sesshoumaru quickly got out of the water while Kagome took her time. She walked over to the clipboard and wrote down the measurements while Sesshoumaru dried off. Kagome then turned to dry herself off. She looked over and saw that her towel was not by her clothes. 'Where is my towel' Her question was answered when she looked to see Sesshoumaru patting his hair with HER towel.

"That is my towel!" she cried enraged.

Sesshoumaru looked up at Kagome, moved the now damp towel way from his hair so he could swing it over his shoulder, and tossed her back the now sopped towel. "Sorry," he said with a mischievous look in his eyes."

Sesshoumaru grabbed his clothes dressed himself and left the Water Room. Kagome sat there and cursed in her mind. That arrogant dog!' Kagome felt like screaming. She was mad. Kagome dried herself off as best as she could and put her clothes back on. From how wet the towel is, he must have dried his tail too.' She stuffed now drenched towel under her arm and walked out of the room, saying good-bye to the two fish.

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Kagome worked in the lab beside Nicole. Sango had come in earlier saying that she would meet them at the Mess Hall. She was glad Sango was going to join them. It had been a while since her long time friend would eat lunch with her. She had known Sango for about ten years. Kagome met her when she was a senior in high school. She was the only good thing that happened to her. It was nice to have a friend in engineering. She got signed up right after Kagome did.

"Shit!"

Kagome rolled her eyes at her newer friend. She met Nicole when she got here. The dragon was something else. She cussed, acted, and behaved like a sailor. No wonder she was single for so long. Not many men, demon or human, could stand her brash attitude. Nicole was pretty, sure. But her wildness got her into a lot of trouble. One time, Nicole put blonde hair dye in Inuyasha's Shampoo. It was the kind that didn't have the strong smell. When he discovered he had golden hair, Inuyasha went ballistic. He ran all over the base looking for the culprit. Nicole would have gotten away with it to, if she hadn't of cracked. Kagome could remember seeing the dragon shaking with mirth. She just couldn't hold it in. Kagome could still hear the laughter. What amazed her so much, was how smoke and some fire shot out of her nose. Good thing they went near anything flammable.

Kagome watched as Nicole cleaned up her shit' mess. As she finished up, Nicole stilled. Kagome grew concerned of her friends behavior. "Nicole," she asked, "is something wrong?"

Nicole shifted her head up and started to sniff the air like crazy. The action made her think of Inuyasha when he found a smell that caught his interest. Nicole exhaled long and some smoke puffed out of her nose with a silly smile on her face. Kagome couldn't help but giggle.

"Nicole," Kagome tried again.

"I smell.," Nicole started to sniff the air again. "I smell.LIVER!"

The short dragon turned on her sandaled heel with a whoosh of her wings. She practically ran out the door and down the corridor. How Nicole smelled the liver was beyond Kagome. The Mess Hall was in another part of the base. Kagome shook her head and put down the tubes in her hands. Well, it looked like lunch was now.

Kagome wasn't in a hurry to get to the Mess Hall; she just took her time. When she did arrive, the look on Sango's face was enough to explain why most of the people were sitting farther from her table than normal. Nicole was stuffing her face like she hadn't eaten in months. The smell of liver and onions was strong in the room and was not one of Kagome's favorite dishes. It looked like Richie was getting in one of his southern cooking moods again.

Kagome got her food and sat down beside a cringing Sango, who was trying her damnedest not to wear any of Nicole's flying food, and began eating her fried chicken. Kagome was used to Nicole's horrific eating habits. Sango quickly moved over to the other side of Kagome. It was a safer distance.

"So Sango," Kagome started while skillfully dodging a renegade onion, "how are things going with you?"

"Pretty good, Kagome." Sango replied, eyeing the bit of onion that missed Kagome.

Kagome took a bite of her mashed potatoes and washed it down with some sweetened tea. "I heard that Miroku wanted to ask you out to dinner."

Sango looked at her friend with a shocked expression that quickly turned to a reddened one. She hadn't excepted yet, but she did like the perve. Once one got past the wondering hands, Miroku was a really nice guy. It was just getting to the point of getting past the wondering hands thing. "Well, I like him, " she said after swallowing around a piece of pie, "I haven't accepted it yet."

Kagome stopped her eating and looked at Sango. The two would look great together. Sango just needed a little pushing in the right direction. "Well, I think you need to give him a chance. He is really nice."

Sango looked at her with a tilt to her head. Maybe I should.' "I will think on it."

To Kagome, that was a yes. Every time Sango said that, she would always go ahead with it. She got a big smile on her face and continued her eating. Unfortunately, she missed the flying onion targeted at her head. "Ew! Nicole, slow down already! Your going to chock."

"Mmm..No..wImm..mont. I..havemm..anhm enlarghgthroaff."

Kagome just rolled her eyes while Sango looked on with disgust.

Sesshoumaru sat down on the edge of a crate while checking off some of the things on a list. Miroku was helping Will move some more stuff onto the loading dock. Will had gone up to the surface with Shippo and both had brought back the supplies they needed for the next two weeks. Sesshoumaru started to respect Shippo. The tall fox still had some filling out to do, but the kid was nice and respectable. He adored Kagome like no tomorrow and was nice to everyone. He will become a good man one day. Right now the nineteen year old was just goofy and tricky. Very true to his fox nature.

Will as another story. The Australian was very dirty. He only showered twice a week and he had another part of him that stunk almost as bad as his odor. He was very nosey. Will constantly questioned about the Shikon Effect and how the anti-agent was coming along. Miroku found no harm in the questions and always answered the man. He just thought Will to be curious. Sesshoumaru on the other hand found him to be very annoying and nosey. And surprisingly enough, it wasn't because he was human. Something didn't smell right about his sea water and greasy smell. Something was underlining it. It bothered the dog.

While talking to Inuyasha about it one day, he found his half-brother had the same opinion. Inuyasha barley talked to him and kept his distance. He had a bad feeling about him too. What was it about Will that had him so worked up when he was near? One day he would find out.

Sesshoumaru checked the finale thing on the list and got ready to leave. The sooner he left the loading dock the better he would feel. Sesshoumaru also had a lot of work he needed to get done today. The sooner he left, the better. "I will be going now, Miroku."

Miroku looked up from what he was doing and nodded his head at him. "Okay Sesshoumaru. Have a good day."

Sesshoumaru nodded his head back and turned to leave when he was stopped by Will. "Hey mate. I was wandering how your work was com'in"

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the blonde man. "That is not of your concern, human."

Will put a hurt look on his face. "I was just wondering, mate."

Sesshoumaru stepped around him and continued on his way. He just didn't like the man for some reason.

Will looked at Miroku with a confused expression. "Why doesn't he like me?" He asked.

"I don't know, Will." Miroku replied as he went back to his work. He wondered why Sesshoumaru acted that way around him. He had noticed Sesshoumaru acting better around them the past few months. It looked like he was getting over his human hating, which made Miroku happy. Looking at how he acted around Will, though, made him think differently.

"Well, you know how dogs sometimes don't like certain people," Will joked, "maybe it is the same way with dog demons."

Miroku stopped what he was doing. That makes since' he thought. Dogs don't like certain people. Inuyasha doesn't mess with him either.' This thought bothered Miroku. They ran a secret base. If anyone got info out on the surface pertaining what they were doing, well he didn't want to think about it. But then again, Will was just a curious guy. This bothered Miroku. He hoped it was just the two brothers not liking the man and not something else.

A man sat down in front of a radio. It was late at night now, although you couldn't really tell in the base. Everyone was asleep. With all the demons around, he had to make sure about what time he could do this. He turned on a small desk lamp, but he sat back in the darkened part of his small room. He picked up the mouth piece and turned the radio on to the channel he used to talk to his boss. in." The man spoke over the static of the radio. He didn't have to wait long for a reply.

"What do you have, Will." Came a smooth voice.

Will leaned forward so he could be seen in the light the small table held. "Not much new going on yet, mate. They still haven't made much in progress yet."

"Continue what you are doing and report back to me."

"Will do. Over and out, Mate."