Ok sorry this is late but I was banished from the computer for bad grades. Well in my opinion the banishment was stupid but if I can sneak on why not update right? Right! (Yes I answer my own questions, so what if I talk to myself I bet all of you do too.) Anyway I am finally going to start getting to the plot. Yes that means that Naraku is going to be in this chapter! Isn't that just wonderful! Ok enough jabbering lets get down to business!

Disclaimer: sigh I wish and pray every night but alas my hopes and prayers are never answered. (This means I don't own Inuyasha)

Chapter 10 King Takes Bishop

Kagome slowly opened her eyes to see a slightly blurred version of her best friend sitting in a chair by her bed. She looked at her with a scrunched up forehead that gave away her confusion. "Sango?" she asked softly, Sango looked over at her friend/partner when she heard her name called, and noticed that the younger girl was awake. She smiled down at her gently, "Hey welcome back to the world of the living." Kagome lay back with a groan and put a hand to her forehead. "How long was I out?" Sango turned to get something out of the medical box. "Oh about three hours." Kagome sat up quickly looking shocked, "Three hours!" Sango turned and forced her back down on the bed. "Yes, now relax or Inuyasha will have a fit if he comes back in here and sees you like that."

Kagome's face softened at the mention of her love's name. "Where is Inuyasha and why are you free?" Sango smiled, "I made a little bargain with your new boy toy and decided to help him, and he's either out driving the ship or is busy beating the hentai." Kagome stifled a giggle just as the doors opened, and a slightly annoyed looking hanyou walked in. He was muttering something about a stupid monk when he looked up and a soft smile worked it's way onto his gorgeous face. "You're awake." He stated happily and came over to sit beside Kagome on the bed. Kagome smiled back at him, "Yep I'm awake and ready for anything." She moved her arms to hug him, but then stopped when a piercing pain shot through her left shoulder. She chuckled softly and shook her head as Inuyasha steadied her. "Ok maybe not anything." Sango shook her head in amusement; "Nope you won't be ready for anything real physical for about two weeks maybe more if you decide to pull some stupid stunt."

Kagome glared at her friend. "And what is that supposed to incline?" Sango got up and started for the door before replying, "Oh nothing really, except I wouldn't try to make your relationship with Mr. Doggy any more intimate for a little while." And with that she left the room, before her friend and her companion decided that she needed a few bruises.

Kagome looked wide-eyed at the now closed door where her best friend had just previously been standing. Inuyasha chuckled and laid out on the bed beside his girlfriend. "Well that just ruined my weekend, honestly Kagome why did you go and get shot at such a time like this?" He looked at her with a smirk, Kagome glared at him. "Why you…!" she hissed as she grabbed her pillow, getting ready to hit him with it. Inuyasha grabbed her wrist though. "Ah aw uh remember what Sango said, no real physical activities." He grinned mockingly at her. "Why you little bastard!" Kagome exclaimed. Inuyasha just smiled more, "Thank you, and may I remind you that you are a bitch?" Kagome turned away from him and crossed her arms. "No you may not, because I am not a bitch thank you." Inuyasha snorted, "Oh yes you are and you love it. Plus you're mine so that in its self makes you a bitch." Kagome sighed, she was too tired to fight anymore. "Well at least I'm your bitch."

She lay down on the bed and rested her head on his chest. Inuyasha smiled and wrapped his arm around her. He buried his nose into her hair, smelling her sent and taking comfort in it. He sighed in contentment and they both fell into a quiet peaceful slumber.

Meanwhile Somewhere Near Neptune

"Sir." "Yes?" "We just received word, via a police report, that Inuyasha is in the vicinity of Earth and Mars, and has gained the services of two bounty huntresses. They are on their way towards Saturn sir." A man with long black hair and piercing evil purple eyes smirked, "Very well Captain Hiten send out Sergeant Goshinki to meet them after they pass Earth." The young attractive Captain saluted the authoritative man, "Yes Lord Naraku." And then he left to go do his duty.

Naraku chuckled to himself, "So Inuyasha you're still alive, I had better remedy that before you decide to become a thorn in my side once again." With that he got out of his chair and left the cockpit to go to his private chamber.

Back On The Black Star

"Miroku don't you ever give up?" an annoyed and slightly frustrated female asked. The bruised and battered ex-monk grinned at her from the floor. "Nope." Sango just sighed and offered her hand to help him up. "Daijoubu?" (sp?) "Hai I'm fine." Sango nodded, "Good." Then she walked over to the consol and started checking the radar and infrared scanners. Miroku came up behind her and looked over her shoulder. "What are you doing?" Sango smiled, "I'm checking to make sure we aren't still being followed by some cops." Miroku shrugged and sat in the chair next to her. "Don't worry about it. If they don't follow you after the first three miles they don't follow you." Sango arched an eyebrow at him "Experienced in this sort of situation are we?" Miroku grinned, "Don't forget just who you're talking to." Sango smiled, "I didn't it's just that Inuyasha seems to be the one they're after, while you're just the sidekick." Miroku gaped at her and put a hand over his heart like he had been shot. "That hurts Sango."

The young woman just rolled her eyes at him. "Get over it I was just kidding." Miroku smiled at her, "So you do care! Oh Sango I love you too!" Sango gritted her teeth, "Watch it houshi, you don't want another bruise do you?" Miroku sweat dropped and placed his hands in front of him, waving them in excuse, "No no I'm fine, one bruise is good enough for now." Sango nodded and turned back to the screen while Miroku sighed in relief.

Sergeant Goshinki left Naraku's battle cruiser, The Marauder (AN: Real original huh?) on June 5th. At 1500 hours (3pm.) it would take him two days of non-stop flying to reach Inuyasha and the others. The orders he received were simple enough as always. Kill Inuyasha and anyone with him and bring back their heads. Goshinki smirked to himself. 'How I love killing. And this time there are supposed to be a few delicious young maidens with that vile hanyou.' His smirk widened to a grin at the thought of eating some very tasty human females. He punched the coordinates into his ship's computer and began to worpspeed towards an unsuspecting Inuyasha and crew.

Kagome was wide-awake; three hours of unneeded rest will do that to you. She was currently lying on her side within the strong embrace of a sleeping Inuyasha. She brought her hand up and gently ran it through his bangs. He looked so peaceful and innocent, could this really be the same egotistical outlaw that she knew? She traced the backs of her knuckles down his cheek then let her hand come to rest against his chest. ' What's it like to be an outlaw? What's it like to be an orphan? What's it like to be unwanted?' She realized that her new love was so many things that she didn't understand. She understood losing a parent, she herself had lost her father when she was very young but she still had her mother so she was no orphan.

She had always had friends. She was never really popular but she still had always had a group of close nit friends that never made her feel unwanted. And even if she hadn't had friends, her family was really close, and they always wanted her around and made her feel loved. And even though she had broken the law recently, and was definitely doing it right now by dating an outlaw, she herself was still unwanted by the authorities. Kagome frowned as she realized she could only imagine, and never fully understand or commiserate Inuyasha's life. She closed her eyes and sighed in depression, the small sound unintentionally woke her partner.

"What's wrong?" came the deep husky voice, and Kagome tilted her sad chocolate eyes to meet his worried amber ones. "I just realized that I can never empathize with you about your life because I've never had to go through everything you have." Inuyasha smiled softly and tucked a rouge tendril of hair behind her ear. "And I'm thankful for that." Kagome gave him a somewhat confused look and Inuyasha sighed, realizing he'd have to go a little into detail. "Kagome I would never wish what I had to go through on anyone, especially you." Kagome frowned, "Was it that bad?" He closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the pillows.

"Lets just say it definitely wasn't the time of my life." Kagome sighed, "I'd still like to have some idea of what you felt." Inuyasha looked at her funny. "Why?" She smiled, "So I can make sure you never feel like that again." Inuyasha was speechless only his mother had ever said anything like that to him before. The idea that someone could actually love him and want him to be happy was so overwhelmingly pleasant, that he felt he didn't deserve it. "Arigato." was all he could say. Kagome smiled and laid back down on his chest. "You're very welcome."

The next two days went by well, Inuyasha was acting like a mother hen, to a very quickly becoming frustrated, Kagome. Sango was being kept busy with the overzealous monk, who by sheer chance, spent most of his time on the floor. The team was so busy with themselves, that the missile aimed at their side was completely undetected. The alarms went off and Inuyasha dropped to the floor in agony, trying desperately to block the sound from his sensitive ears. "What the fuck is going on?" He yelled, the loud bang and shudder of the ship as the missile made contact and exploded gave him his answer.

"Fuck! Who's firing on us?" He yelled as soon he was off the floor. "I'm on it!" Kagome exclaimed in return, taking the opportunity to finally do something after all her time in bed. She sat down at the main console and pulled up the vid screen. "We have a small black cruiser on the starboard side!" Inuyasha scrambled up to the computer and looked at the ship that was floating in the middle of the screen. "Shit! That bastard Goshinki! Pull up the vid com." Kagome quickly typed some buttons and an image of a large and extremely purple youkai came onto the screen. "Inuyasha so nice to see you again." "Goshinki you damn bastard being Naraku's lap dog again I see." Goshinki smirked, "I'd rather be his dog than to be one destined to be uthenized along with his bitch." Inuyasha snarled and saw Kagome visibly flinch from the asshole's comment. "We'll see about that. How about we settle this the old fashioned way, man-to-man. No tricks no help just you and me." Goshinki grinned, his pointed teeth showing in a look that was pure evil. "You're on." Inuyasha smirked, "Give me five minutes." Then the screen went black and Inuyasha turned to look at Kagome and saw that she was pale and gripping the desk fairly tightly.

"Kagome?" She gulped and turned to him, keeping her eyes down. Inuyasha sighed and knelt before her. He lifted her chin and made her meet his eyes. "Sweetie I have to go kill Goshinki now ok? I don't want you to worry I've fought him before I'll be ok." Kagome looked at him and it was Inuyasha could do to not pull her to him; she looked horrified. "Promise me you won't die." Inuyasha smiled softly and rubbed her cheek. "I promise." Kagome sighed, pulling herself together and managed a small smile and a nod. "Ok." Inuyasha gave her a quick kiss then headed towards the hanger and his smaller fighter ship.

The two ships faced each other, both black and equally equipped. The speed of Inuyasha's fighter was matched by the accuracy of Goshinki's missles and both ships had grappling arms, ready to be utilized if need be.

Their coms buzzed lightly signaling a connection, "Goshinki." Inuyasha said in a brief greeting, just because they were enemies didn't mean they didn't respect each other. "Inuyasha." Came the gruff reply, Inuyasha smirked, "Let's dance."

Touch; I'll stand for nothing less

Or never stand again

These are the limits when one's buried

This body's left the soul

The two ships wove around the air in an intricate dance of jabs, twists, and twirls. Each firing at near point blank range and each narrowly missing being hit as they skirted out the way. Goshinki would fire a missile and Inuyasha would dodge and turn until the missile would meet its end by colliding with a meteor. "Nice shooting Gosh where'd you learn to aim? The video arcade?" Goshinki laughed, "That's some fancy maneuvering as well Inuyasha but you can't run forever." Inuyasha smirked, "It's not running its strategy." Goshinki growled, "Yea? Well strategize this!" He let loose a huge missile assault and Inuyasha was quick to react, twirling and dodging with the deadly arsenals hot on his tail.

Could we have known

Never would I, helped to nail down

Now losing taste and touch

Turning a pale blue leaning in to say

This body's left the soul

Kagome fidgeted and tapped her foot anxiously as she watched the fight play out before her on the vid screen. Miroku and Sango were with and both had strained expressions on their faces. Those were a lot of missles chasing after Inuyasha. Kagome flinched and jumped when on of the weapons hit it's target and they lost sight of Inuyasha for a few seconds while the smoke cleared. But he came out of it and didn't look to worse for ware. Sango reached up and squeezed her friend's shoulder in reassurance. Kagome turned to look at her and Sango gave her a small smile. Kagome nodded then returned her attention back to the screen. ' Ok Inuyasha you promised me you wouldn't die. I'm trusting you to live up to it.'

The brain needs oxygen

Can't sneak around this bait

His catacomb has got me by the chin

This body's left the soul

The missles were gone and Inuyasha had managed to somehow only get hit once. "That was pretty good mutt you avoided all but one of them and now I'm out." The voice sounded pouty and childish and Inuyasha couldn't help but chuckle. "You sound as if I took the last cookie. Let's just get this over with I got a girl waiting for me ya know." Goshinki grinned, " Well I wouldn't want her to wait too long for you to die now would I how about I let her see you one last time before I rip off her pretty little head." Inuyasha's eyes narrowed and he growled, "I don't think so." Goshinki chuckled, "And why not." "I made a promise not to die and I hate to break my promises." "Well I'm sorry but this is one promise you are going to break." Inuyasha gritted his teeth and brought up the grappling arms. "We'll just see about that!"

Could we have known

Never would I, helped to nail down

With nothing to gain

Here's the clincher, this should be you

The two ships were locked in a stand still. Both had their arms out and locked in a clinching grip of tested strengths. " You're going down Goshinki ready to die?" Goshinki smirked, "I'm not the one who's going to die half-breed." Inuyasha growled, "That's what you think!" he shoved his controller forward and managed to break off one of Goshinki's grappling arms. Goshinki stared wide-eyed in fear as Inuyasha hurtled himself towards him at break neck speed. 'No.' Goshinki's mind screamed just as Inuyasha's arms made contact with his fuel storage causing the ship to implode upon its self.

Now saturate

Now saturate

Now saturate

Now saturate and touch

Kagome, Sango, and Miroku all jumped for joy and hugged each other as they cheered. Kagome smiled at the image of Inuyasha's ship and tears of pride streamed down her face. 'You did it Inuyasha you kept your promise.'

Inuyasha was sitting in his ship panting and smirking "Well Goshinki looks like I win."

Now saturate

Now saturate

Now saturate the earth

Now saturate

Now saturate

Now saturate the earth

"Sir?" "What is it?" "Goshinki was defeated sir the hanyou won." Naraku sat in his chair and looked thoughtful. "Sir?" the young man asked again. "Thank you you may leave now." "Yes sir." The man bowed quickly then left the room. ' Well Inuyasha you're proving to be more of a pest than I once thought. This will prove interesting."

This happened to be never changing

Holding inside, the phobia of you

Made cold and crippled, ending it all

There it is! I think it turned out rather well don't you? It's definitely a long chapter but that's to make up for not updating for so long. Well ttyl ok ja!