Alrighty guys! Hello, and thank you for the reviews, I loved them as always! Only 26 this time around, but I'll assume it was because I was late and I think I kinda blindsided you with the wedding and all, but no worries, cause with THIS chapter, unless you all die or something, I WILL HIT 400 REVIEWS!
Also, I sent off for a review from FFWAP, which you can get to through Silent Sky's profile. You'll get a nice, long, in depth review that tells you what's good and not-so-good, no frills attached. It's totally great. I'll be making a few changes for the rest of this story based on Cutie Pie Hentai's review from FFWAP. I hope you notice them and enjoy them.
Okay, in all honesty, this has to be the least planned out chapter I know of, but hey, I'm just gonna go with the flow here.
V.IMPORTANT – THOUGHTS ARE NOW IN ITALICS (at least most of them.)
Chapter 19: Plotting Behind Invisible Doors
Click. Click. Click. Click.
The sound of thin heels resonated through the drafty halls of the abandoned mansion Kikyou Jimega paced up and down in, calculating her next move.
As she stopped pacing, and looked contemplatively out of the window so high above the Hollywood Hills, she declared herself entirely, totally, and irrevocably stuck.
Kikyou ignored the bustle and rustle of the meek servants behind her, putting the finishing touches on organizing the bedroom she was in. This particular one suited Kikyou's personality to a tee, she thought ironically, a shadow of a smirk breaking her angular features.
The room was extravagantly furnished, with a four poster water bed, and heavy wallpaper and hardwood flooring. But it was dark, in earthy colors of maroon and forest green. Absolutely everything in the room was a various shade of this colors, but one thing Kikyou had been careful not to do was let it get too bright. Because that reminded her of who she used to be, before Onigumo, before Hiten and Manten, before London, before...before Inuyasha.
Yes, he was the reason she was here now, back in the country, in LA, of all places. She'd tracked him down despite his best efforts to be untrackable. And now, the sense of vengeance was getting worse and worse as it grew within her.
She thought she'd finished with Inuyasha, she did. She'd hurt him, blown his very foundation apart with a single blow. She hadn't ever wanted to hurt him again. She'd had her fun. Until her mother, her poor, devastated mother had died. Not just died, oh no...Kikyou herself had gone to visit her in the psychiatric unit in Westminster, London, mere months ago. Who knew she'd open the door only to fiercely smack her mother's dangling body back and forth, from the noose on the ceiling fan? Not her, that was for sure.
However, now was not the time to focus on her mother. True, she was the reason she'd come back for one final dig at Inuyasha, but now, she had to find out how to hurt him.
Alright, let's review what I know, Kikyou thought, blinking back the tears welling in her kohl outlined eyes. Inuyasha has recently gotten married, and his new whore of a wife is on the verge of giving birth anytime in the next month or two. This implies they must be mated, filthy hanyou that he is. He has several comrades boarding in that oversized shed he calls a house and of course, will fiercely protect them all. If I know Inuyasha, Kikyou wondered, a dark light brewing in her murky brown eyes, he'll love this model and that child more than anything else in this world. The best way to get to him is through his heart. Now, I wonder, what would the great Inuyasha be without his mate and baby by his side?
A sly smile building on her ruby red lips, Kikyou stalked over to a far corner of the room, picked up her slimline black cellphone and scrolled through her phonebook. On finding the right number, she pressed the green "Call" button.
A row of perfect, almost plastic white teeth revealed themselves in a wide smile as the phone on the other side began ringing. Kikyou Jimega had a plan.
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Whilst Kikyou's call went through and the person on the other side picked up, on the other side of town...
Kagome Mireshi's dark brown eyes popped open, and she found herself face to face with her husband's naked chest, rising and falling slowly in sleep.
Uh oh. Inuyasha was gonna hate her for doing this to him the...twenty-ninth night in a row.
"Inuyashaaaaa..." Kagome whined quietly, prodding him gently as she squirmed uncomfortably, the hunger pangs killing her.
"Whaaaaaaat..." Inuyasha rumbled back cracking open one glowing amber eye in her direction as she sat up.
Oh no. He recognised that look on her face. That apologetic, and yet somehow looking like a starving puppy look. He squinted as she pulled the light switch above their heads, grinning happily down at him, her eyes sparkling with glee.
"What is it this time?" He muttered, rolling out of bed and looking for his boxers, which he glimpsed across the room. At least he could remember the last energetic therapy session...
"Oden with chocolate fudge sauce and a few peanut butter and mustard sandwiches!" Kagome said excitedly, resting her hands on her swollen stomach.
She raised a critical eyebrow at Inuyasha look of disgust, as he was midway through pulling on a pair of jeans.
"How do you not throw up that shit, and yet when I eat Ramen I could get you to the other side of the grounds in five seconds flat? You know, I have to make my own now, I'm really good at it!" Inuyasha stated proudly, puffing out his chest in triumph.
No one needed to know that he was having the outdoor kitchen rebuilt as a result of his earlier efforts. So what, a little shattered drywall and burst hot water mains never killed anybody...
"Blame the baby, not me!" Kagome said, holding her hands up defensively and climbing out of bed, putting on a robe.
"Where the hell do you think you're doing out of bed?" Inuyasha asked, stilling her with and arm as he finished wrenching on a t-shirt. His eyes were narrowed in her direction, staring at her furiously.
"I'm gonna go eat with Sango again..." Kagome said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"She's not human, she doesn't need sleep, or to not have to watch you devour sickening food I travel miles, may I add, to get for you and the crazy pup..." Inuyasha grumbled, yanking on a pair of sneakers before grabbing a set of car keys.
"She is also my best friend, and it's no fun eating crap without someone to talk to about it!" Kagome defended, making to walk past Inuyasha to the door.
"Fine then, but I'm carrying you there..." Inuyasha said, sweeping her up into his arms bridal style. He'd learned the hard way that putting her on his back when he was pregnant was not a good idea. For either of them. He'd been flat on his back for three hours last time he tried.
"I'm not a child Inuyasha, and besides, take me back, I have to pee." Kagome commanded.
Jesus, she gotten a lot more demanding since she'd been pregnant. I knew I hated dominating women...
Inuyasha sighed and turned around, sprinting for their bathroom and depositing in her in the room, right next to the toilet.
"Go, then." He said, indicating the toilet, hoping she'd just obey him this time...
"The hell are you on?" Kagome asked incredulously, her face creasing in puzzlement. "You're still in here."
"I'm aware of that." Inuyasha said calmly, still pointing at the bowl.
"I'm peeing." Kagome said, still wondering why he wasn't leaving already. All the rest of times he'd tried this, she'd got him to leave.
"And you also need protecting. You're in your last trimester, missy, so you could drop the little bastard any minute now, and if you're locked in the bathroom when that happens, we can't carry out The Grand Plan now, can we?" Inuyasha said, smirking and twitching his ears at her.
"Inuyasha, in case you hadn't already noticed, I pee 20-odd times a day now! And every single time, you've tried to come with me, and every single time, I get rid of you! Now go!" Kagome insisted, pushing weakly on his chest. "Plus, I'm bored of the only time I get to see outside being when we're rehearsing the goddamned Grand Plan!"
"I'm sorry, maybe I shouldn't worry about the safety, health and wellbeing of my family!" Inuyasha said sarcastically, standing his ground.
"Well, if it involves you tailing my ass to the bathroom, maybe you shouldn't!" Kagome shrieked, pushing again at his chest.
"Kagome, watch it, watch it very closely, because I am currently the only person who will actually go and get your smelly, freakish selection of food you so desperately want right now, so if I were you, I'd stay on my good side." Inuyasha threatened, suddenly seeming one hell of a lot more intimidating, Kagome thought as he stared icily into her eyes.
"Okay, listen Inuyasha." Kagome began reasonably, wrapping her arms loosely about his waist and pulling him a little closer. " I have been peeing alone for over twenty years now. I don't need you to help me with that. If, on the off chance I even think I might possibly be hinting at wondering if I'm going into labor, feel free to break down the door and execute the Grand Plan, okay?" she finished diplomatically, smiling angelically up at him.
Holy shit, she needed to be. Damn baby, pushing on her damn bladder...
"I'm waiting outside. Make it fast." Inuyasha snapped, twisting out of her grip and slamming out of the room.
"Thank you! I love you!" Kagome called out, before getting down to business.
"Love you too, arrogant, loud, thorn-in-my-side wench..." Inuyasha muttered, knowing she would hear him as he leaned against the door.
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"So where the hell do you expect me to find her? Inuyasha's trebled security on that place since he arrived back in the country, there's no way we will get in there. And if I know Inuyasha, there's also no way she goes out unattended." Kikyou snapped into the cellphone, pacing loudly.
She'd stripped off her heavy black leather trenchcoat, only to reveal knee-high leather spike heel boots, the four inched of extra height clicking as she walked. She also wore a black leather shift dress and large black shades just to assist in the image stakes.
"Kikyou my dear, you think too rashly." A slimy voice crooned down the line, as Kikyou held her head in her free hand.
"The only way to him is through her. He cannot be killed unless we have a form of bait, you KNOW that!" Kikyou insisted down the line, growing more exasperated by the second.
"Kikyou, think, my sweet." Kikyou shuddered at the repulsive pet name. "If Inuyasha is killed, how does that get you anywhere? You'll just have to flee to yet another continent to escape the law. Tell me, how did you hurt Inuyasha the most last time?"
A light of inspiration lit up in Kikyou's mind, as a sly smile spread across her face.
" I took someone who mattered to him, more than me." She replied, the smile growing wider.
"Right, and who do you think matters more to Inuyasha, you or his mate?" the man asked, glad she was getting his drift.
"His mate, sadly." Kikyou grumbled.
"Correct. Would it therefore, not make more sense to..." the man trailed off, expecting an answer.
"To kill her and the baby?" Kikyou asked, incredulous.
"Of course." The man replied smugly.
"But..." Kikyou said unsurely, sucking in a deep breath.
"But what?" the male voice snapped back down the line at her, daring her to oppose him.
"But...but nothing, Onigumo." Kikyou sighed in defeat.
"Good, I thought so. Find out when the wench is due, see if you can get hold of her OB-GYN. A Dr. Kasha Yumeda, I believe. Hold her hostage until I arrive, then have her killed once you have her information, do you understand? Find out everything you can about the pregnancy." He replied.
"Oh yes. Kikyou, please stop referring to me as Onigumo. He is nothing but a shred of humanity residing in my soul, and I refuse to be associated with such a weak excuse of a human. I am Naraku now." The voice said calmly.
"Yes, Naraku. The woman will be here by this afternoon." Kikyou said, hanging her head.
"Goodbye Kikyou, and don't let me down now." Naraku warned happily, sending a smacking kiss down the phone to Kikyou, before hanging up.
She cringed in disgust.
Kikyou knelt on the floor as she allowed her cellphone to slip from her hand to the floor. The noise it made seemed so loud as she became aware of what she had just agreed to do.
Sure, Kikyou was a psychopath. She knew that, and so did the five other psychiatrists who had told her so in the years since Inuyasha had flown her to London. But the most important thing about Kikyou's mental condition was that it was solely directed towards Inuyasha and those related to him.
Sure, she could dispose of his mate. That was the easy part. But one thing Kikyou had never contemplated doing, even in her darkest fantasies, was murdering a child, or leaving a defenseless child without a mother. But that was what she was doing, and Kikyou couldn't feel sorry for a child who would be motherless as she had been, not now, not while she still had a score to settle.
With that thought in mind, Kikyou walked over to her laptop, logged onto the internet, and started looking for the whereabouts of Dr. Kasha Yumeda.
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"No, Inuyasha." Kagome said, crossing her arms on top of her belly as she obstinately pouted at him.
"You have to!" he insisted, pulling on her elbow as he stood behind her. He wore a black bandanna over his ears, combined with baggy jeans and a black muscle shirt saying "Whose Your Daddy?" across his chest.
"No I don't! I did it once, and that's all the thing damn well needs. All I do is sit there for most of it anyway!" Kagome said, turning round to face his pleading little face.
"But Sango won't do it for us anymore! She says we manhandle her too much, and I figure it'll be more realistic if you're a part of it!" Inuyasha said optimistically, the happiness in his voice killing him to put on.
"I thought people weren't supposed to be HUGGING me too hard, let alone manhandling, according to the Great Pregnancy Laws of Ye Olde Inuyasha!" Kagome scoffed sarcastically.
She looked blooming in her turquoise chiffon tunic, with gold embroidery at the low neckline and the hems of the wide sleeves. Even running around in her maternity jeans and matching turquoise flipflops, Inuyasha needed her to do this for him.
"Well, not manhandling you exactly, just ensuring you get into the car on time. It's all ready, all you have to do is say the lines and stand in the kitchen." Inuyasha begged, fixing her with his best puppydog look. His eyes went wide and shiny, whilst his ears bent against his head, as he pouted down at her.
"Oh fine..." Kagome agreed, waddling off as fast as her huge stomach would let her.
"Yes!" Inuyasha cheered in relief. He HATED begging for things, and he was just doing this to make sure he did it right when the time came around!
He pulled his cellphone quickly out of his pocket, and pushed 4 on his speed dial.
"Alright she's in place, did you get the Spider?" Inuyasha asked, jogging slowly towards the kitchen.
"Yes, Inuyasha." A bored male voice replied.
"Is that the kind of fucked up attitude I need for the execution of the Grand Plan?" Inuyasha asked.
"Inuyasha, this is the eighteenth execution. I say we've got it by now. We have been practising for three fucking months. Sango's already refusing to bear my children now, I'll have you know." He grumbled down the line, putting the Porsche Spider carefully into the driveway. He was handling the single fastest car Inuyasha owned, and he'd skin his balls if anything happened to it.
"Okay, smartass, just shut the fuck up and say your fucking lines when you're supposed to okay?" Inuyasha snapped down the line, closing his cellphone as he arrived at the kitchen door, where Kagome sat on the countertop drumming her fingers together.
"You want me to start now?" she asked reluctantly.
"Cellphone?" Inuyasha asked, peering around the door.
"Yes." She sighed.
"Alright...I'm timing this again, this should be faster than the last two, Sango kicked a lot those times...GO!" Inuyasha said, pushing the timer on the stopwatch around his neck.
"Shock. Horror. Abomination. I have gone into labor with the pup of Inuyasha, hanyou inuyoukai prince..." Kagome called out loudly, her voice monotone with the trouble of doing this yet again.
"Kagome, it's okay, just hang in there until the next contraction whilst I get all your stuff and put it into the car!" Inuyasha said gallantly, kissing her cheek as he bolted from the kitchen.
"Be having a contraction!" Inuyasha called back to her.
"Oooooh, ahhhh, owwwwww..." Kagome muttered, knowing he'd hear her.
"Better than that!" he called back.
"Okay, step 1, the bag of clothes." He muttered to himself as he riffled through the closet in their room.
Having grabbed that, he then completed Step 2, which was to grab the other bag of baby clothes from Kagome's half of the bathroom.
"Step 3, call Miroku and get him to bring the Spider down."
"Miroku?" Inuyasha asked, checking their time. They were doing well.
"What a surprise Inuyasha, what would you like me to do?" Miroku said down the phone, having expected the call.
"Car now, get it." Inuyasha said, looking for Kagome's toiletry bag.
"Oh shoot, which one?" Miroku replied, deliberately wasting time.
"Fuck off, and get it, bouzo." Inuyasha snapped, flipping the phone shut.
Having retrieved the toiletry bag as Step 4, Inuyasha moved straight onto Step 5: call Sango and let her know, and she would let everyone else know and load them into another car to follow the Spider.
"Sango?" Inuyasha said, pushing 5 on his speed dial to get her.
"Fancy you calling, Inuyasha? What's up?" Sango asked in a falsely bright voice.
"Kagome's in labor, tell everybody and get the Skyline out!" Inuyasha said, really getting into the sense of urgency he'd created.
"Damn, I'm surprised I'm not the one in labor for once..." Sango muttered darkly.
"Just get the damn car!" Inuyasha insisted, ignoring the remarks.
"Okie dokie!" Sango chirped, promptly hanging up.
"Alright, Step 6..." Inuyasha muttered to himself. Retrieve his own bag of spare clothes that he had put near the door. Damn Kagome for making him run all over the house like this.
"Step 7 is complete, and let's go! Step 8!" Inuyasha yelled, jumping over the door and straight into the convertible Skyline, and pushing on the accelerator pedal for Miroku, who just wasn't doing it fast enough for him.
Miroku chuckled to himself as he made the required indication to the car behind to follow them as they sped off through the grounds on the predetermined fastest route to the youkai hospital.
Miroku fixed his cell earpiece to his right ear as he continued driving, knowing that Inuyasha would not let him break a traffic rule like that whilst he was "driving his pregnant mate to the hospital."
"Sango?" Miroku asked after he called her, still chuckling.
"You've noticed, right?" she asked, the humor lacing her voice as the others could be heard guffawing loudly in the background.
"Sure have. Everyone else too, right?" he asked, still laughing.
"How long before he does?" Sango asked gleefully.
"Shouldn't be too long. You know she'll let him know." He replied, quaking with laughter.
"Leave your cellphone connected to me, we wanna hear this, okay?" Sango asked, giggling dryly.
"Jesus, Ayame can record him, she loves these things." Miroku commented, struggling to hold back tears.
"Ayame, you hear that?" Sango called.
"Shhhh, his cell's ringing, I'm gonna put you on now." Miroku whispered urgently, taking out the earpiece and putting it close to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha's so stupid. Five...four...three...two...Miroku thought as he continued to chuckle as he broke every speeding law under the sun, due to Inuyasha cursing at him with words he never even knew existed.
Inuyasha's cellphone kept ringing with the shrill tune of "Rock A Bye Baby" Kagome had put on to piss him off.
This was not part of the Plan . Inuyasha thought urgently, glaring at the phone which still rang relentlessly.
"Hello?" Inuyasha asked curiously, smacking the back of Miroku's head for breaking into a full gale of laughter.
"Hi sweetie!" A sugar sweet voice chimed down the phone at him. Inuyasha released the breath he hadn't even known he'd been holding.
"Oh hey Kagome." He replied, leaning back in his seat comfortably.
"Inuyasha, where am I?" Kagome asked sweetly, her eyebrow leaping up and down as she sat on the countertop in the kitchen.
"In the back of the car, hopefully practising your breathing exercises?" Inuyasha said, confused.
"Take a look, dog boy." Kagome said, stifling a giggle as she swung her feet off the counter happily.
"Aw fuck..." Inuyasha cursed, realizing his huge mistake, snapping the phone shut before Kagome could start teasing him for this.
"Miroku, turn your fucking ass around, and tell the other fucking retards to as well. Fuck, we left her there Miroku..." Inuyasha said, whacking him hard on the shoulder.
"I know..." Miroku said, struggling to speak through his chuckles.
"YOU KNEW!" Inuyasha yelled, blowing up in Miroku's face.
"Inuyasha, think about it." Miroku laughed, unfazed. "You remember her clothes, your clothes, the baby's clothes, her toiletries, called me and called Sango. Odds were, you were gonna forget something. This time, it just happened to be the pregnant woman!"
"Asshole..." Inuyasha muttered darkly, slumping in his seat, crossing his arms and pouting as his ears flattened against his head.
"Alright, Inuyasha. I'll just drive you back to where you abandoned your heavily pregnant wife, and leave you to her wrath!" Miroku said, snorting with his own laughter as the tears flowed.
"I DID NOT ABANDON HER!" Inuyasha yelled indignantly, jumping out of the car as Miroku entered through the first of the nine security gates.
"Riiight...So what else do you call leaving your wife, who would have been in labor with your first child had this been the real deal, in the house whilst you flee with everyone and everything else but HER, to the hospital?" Miroku asked, quirking an eyebrow as he managed to stem his snickers.
"A big MISTAKE, in the Grand Plan, okay?" Inuyasha replied defensively. "Now just hurry your ass up and get through the last gate, okay?"
"Fine, fine..." Miroku said, shaking his head. "Oh look! Kagome's come out to greet us!" he said, practically cheering at how good Kagome was gonna make this for him. He loved that girl!
"Hey Kagome!" Inuyasha said, scratching the back of his neck sheepishly as she stood in the doorway, smirking smugly and tapping her foot impatiently.
"Forget something, Inuyasha?" she asked sweetly, looping her arms around his neck.
"Um...I'm sorry?" Inuyasha tried, knowing the things she could have him do for this.
"Yeah, show me how sorry you are. Here's the list of things I want, just for this," Kagome began, counting off on her fingers.
"For this?" Inuyasha asked, interrupting her before she could start counting.
"Hello, how am I supposed to tell our baby that unless Mommy did something about it, Daddy would've left Mommy to have him all by herself? That kind of childhood hardship demands a price!" Kagome reasoned happily, winking at Sango, who was helping hold up Rin, who was clinging to Sesshoumaru for support, who was holding up Ayame by the elbow, whose head rested on Kouga's shoulders who had his arm around Miroku.
Needless to say, they were all cackling fit to burst.
Inuyasha reddened as his wife began her list.
"I am gonna need to NEVER have to practise the Plan again -" Inuyasha cut her off quietly.
"The Grand Plan." He corrected innocently.
"The Plan again," Kagome said pointedly. "I am gonna need some Chinese chicken with black bean sauce and egg fried rice, and I want that smothered in ketchup and cheese sauce, okay, like the kind you put on nachos, and I also want a can of whipped cream along with some coffee beans, the whole kind, not all chopped up cause they get stuck in my teeth. The cream and the beans HAVE to be mixed up, and...there's something else I want too...Oh yeah, the peanut butter and mustard sandwiches from a couple nights ago, I liked those. OOH, and I want some scrambled eggs mixed with strawberry syrup, sounds great, ne?" Kagome gushed happily, sighing in rapture at the food going round in her head.
The chain of her laughing friends had turned into one long line of gaping jaws and green tinged skin.
"How does she get practically orgasmic over food like that?" Ayame broke the stunned silence.
"If you could call that combination actual food..." Rin said, holding her hand over her mouth.
"You should have seen the chocolate fudge oden..." Sango said darkly, her face creasing in disgust at the memory. "You're all lucky little shits, she's never asked for you to stay up and talk with her whilst she actually eats and enjoys those creations."
"I never knew how much you sacrificed for our fucked up little family, Sango." Kouga whispered, patting her on the shoulder gratefully.
"You don't know the half of it..." Sango replied, grateful for the vote of thanks.
"Alright, we're going inside now, are you retards coming or gaping out here?" Inuyasha asked, unlocking the door, as Kagome babbled on, telling him all the things she wanted from him now he'd "abandoned" her.
He never smelled the miniscule change in Kagome's scent.
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"Kasha, hi, my name's Kikyou, and how are you today?" Kikyou chirped sarcastically, as she walked slowly around the tall inuyoukai bound to the chair in front of her.
"Who the fuck are you, and what the fuck do you want with me?" Kasha asked, glaring at Kikyou suspiciously.
"Now, now, is that anyway to talk to such kind hosts?" Kikyou asked, pouting in mock disappointment. "The Thunder Brothers got you here in as much comfort as they could! No one asked you to put up such a fight!"
"Oh shit, maybe next time I get kidnapped, I should bring you a bottle of wine as a thank you!" Kasha spat out.
"Quite the spunky OB-GYN, aren't you?" Kikyou observed, cocking an eyebrow at the bound inuyoukai.
"Damn straight." Kasha replied firmly. "Now what do you want, cause I don't know what you have planned for the rest of the afternoon, but I have to go pick up my son from basketball practice in, like, two hours."
"Fine. Seeing as Hiten is still nursing his black eye, and Manten wishes to keep his testicles intact," Kikyou said with a tiny amount of humor in her voice, "I'll ask you straight up. No games, no lies, because I have the means to kill you in the blink of an eye, and don't think I wouldn't." She threatened coldly.
Kasha realized that this was very real, and she nodded in agreement. Best to at least look like she was respectful.
"What do you want to know?" Kasha asked, trying her best not to smirk.
"First, tell me all you know of a couple known as Inuyasha and Kagome Mireshi." Kikyou began, kneeling patronizingly in front of Kasha.
"The hell do you want to know about them for?" Kasha asked, thoroughly confused. Why would this bitch want to know about my favorite patients for?
"Let's just say that Inuyasha and I have a score to settle, and you're the key to doing that." Kikyou said shrewdly. "Now tell me the facts of the pregnancy."
"What for?" Kasha replied, forgetting to be dutiful and obedient as the woman prodded her forehead with one long red talon.
"Need I remind you that I could kill you right now?" Kikyou asked, pulling a small, ladylike silver pistol from a strap on her thigh under her dress.
"Kagome is having a hanyou pup by Inuyasha, as I get the feeling you know," Kasha began reluctantly, praying that she wasn't getting her friends into any trouble. They'd grown closer and got on like a house on fire in the past months after their honeymoon, and she liked them. "She is six months in, but due to the nature of her pregnancy she could give birth as early as now, but shouldn't do for at least another month. The baby is strong and healthy. What more is there to say?"
"You say she could give birth now?" Kikyou asked, inspiration striking.
"You heard." Kasha said back, worried about her actions.
"The baby would be alive and healthy?" Kikyou asked, a smile building on her face.
"Kagome's strong, it should be." Kasha whispered, wanting to kill herself with every word. She was sure something was wrong now, Kikyou didn't smell right.
"Premature labor isn't a good thing, is it Doc?" Kikyou asked sarcastically, walking across the room and casually picking up a piece of metal piping.
Kasha gulped nervously as she watched the pipe, which Kikyou was turning over and over in her hands, stroking and scraping it with her nails.
"How easy will it be, do you think, to get Kagome to do that, hmm?" Kikyou asked, her smile spreading further.
Kasha sucked in a dry breath, terrified it would be her last.
"Not whilst I'm here, bitch." She spat venomously, despite her fear.
"That can be arranged." Kikyou said, savagely bringing the pipe down onto Kasha's head as she stood behind her, where she knew she would not be seen.
"Sweet dreams, Dr. Kasha..." Kikyou said, ignoring the pang of regret she felt as she watched a little blood seep out from under Kasha's head as she drew tiny breaths.
"Now, Kagome, where are you gonna be?" she asked, picking up her laptop and hacking the government's security system, calmly drinking a wine spritzer as she kept watch on the unconscious doctor.
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"Something's odd, Kouga." Ayame said, as they all watched Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet with Kagome, who was dabbing her eyes with a tissue now Mercutio had died. (AN: It's a really good movie! And uber sad, sniff). Somehow, Kagome'd roped them all into watching sad romance movies with her. As though Titanic and Moulin Rouge! hadn't been bad enough. Ayame, for one, was all cried out, thank you very much.
"Like how?" he asked, wiping up the drool that had trickled onto his chin as he got as close to sleep as he could've. Why women liked this shit, he would never understand...What was there to cry when some guy talking total shit who'd been wearing a silver bra and miniskirt to party in last night got killed? He evidently wasn't dependable anyway...giving that pretty boy Romeo Ecstasy...
"Like something's gonna happen tonight..." Ayame said, struggling to ignore the uncomfortable feeling.
"Ignore it, sweetie, it's probably nothing." Kouga said tiredly, wanting to go back to his dream where he was horsewhipping a hog tied Romeo for daring to make Ayame drool with lust at him.
"I still don't think so." Ayame said, elbowing Sango to get her attention.
"Shh, Ayame, Romeo's really sad, he looks so hot when he's sad..." Sango sobbed, batting a dismissive hand her way.
"Sango, snap out of it, tap into your taijiya for me and tell me what you feel." Ayame instructed, a note of graveness in her tone.
Something in Ayame's voice made her want to obey, so Sango sat up and shrugged off Miroku's arm, attached to his sleeping self, shutting her eyes and tapping into her core being.
Ayame waited patiently, chewing one of her nails nervously.
Suddenly, Sango's eyes flipped open, the magenta gleaming in the TV's light.
"Something's up for tonight...and it's to do with Kagome..." Sango said, chewing her bottom lip.
"How could you tell it was her?" Ayame asked, puzzled. Sango was only human, after all.
"She's my best friend." Sango shrugged simply, smiling sheepishly.
"Wake Rin, she knows everything there is to know about being pregnant, right? She knew about Kagome's early symptoms at the club remember." Ayame said, prodding Rin in the chest as she sobbed into Sesshoumaru's shoulder.
"What?" Rin asked, staring angrily at them for interrupting her moment of misery.
"Is it okay for Kagome to be giving birth now?" Sango asked, cutting straight to the chase.
"She shouldn't be giving birth tonight; I thought the OB-GYN said there was a tiny chance, but..no...right?" Rin hoped.
"I think this might be it. Look at Kagome's face." Sango pointed to the other side of the immense leather couch.
Sure enough, Kagome's brow was furrowed as she clutched her stomach with her hands.
"Kagome, come here." Sango whispered, craning around Miroku to see her.
"Sango, I...I think I might be..." Kagome whispered brokenly, unable to believe it was coming this early, unwilling to believe it.
"Sweetie we know, at least we think we do." Ayame whispered.
"Don't worry, just wake Inuyasha, and we'll take care of everything else, okay?" Sango said, grinning happily. "Be happier why don't you? This is supposed to be the happiest day of your life!" she said.
"It's too early!" Kagome protested, unable to prevent the smile from breaking out over her features. "And Inuyasha's gonna have a fit. He hasn't practised the plan at night!" she whispered.
"How are the contractions doing?" Rin asked, switching on the lights and turning the DVD player off as the men began to stir from their boredom induced naps.
"Boring, really. I thought they were just hunger pangs at first, but then I figured there must be something up, cause I wasn't hungry, I was just getting through my bowl of pickled onion popcorn, that pregnancy food store is great, I want one here, anyways, they're not painful and I've had about two in the past hour." Kagome rambled.
"Calm, aren't you?" Rin said, watching Kagome pound on Inuyasha's chest to wake him up.
"I'm saving all my abusive anger and anxiety for him later." Kagome smiled wickedly.
"He's in for it later..." Rin singsonged.
"You bet your ass." Kagome agreed. "Inuyasha, wake up!"
"Nooo... " Inuyasha whined in his half-sleep. He rolled over away from Kagome. "I don't care if you want fudge dipped gherkins right now, I need sleep more..." he mumbled.
"Would it help if I said I was having the baby now?" Kagome asked, fully expecting him to shoot up.
"You always say that, and you never are. You dismissed the Grand Plan; you'll regret it when you do go into labor, wench." He warned sleepily.
"Inuyasha." Kagome said, amazed.
"What?" he replied grouchily.
"I really am having this baby, and if you're not careful, I might go to the bathroom unattended and have it there..." she whispered, playing on the one thing that annoyed him the most out of her pregnancy habit.
"HOLY FUCK!" Inuyasha yelled, shooting up and looking her up and down for signs of pain or water. Finding none in her peaceful face, grinning happily at him, he turned to Miroku and shook his shoulder so hard Miroku's eyeballs rattled in his skull.
Finding everyone else had already fled to another car, and to get ahold of the Spider for Inuyasha. After the escapades of this afternoon's Plan rehearsal, he'd left all the bags and stuff in the Spider, that way he didn't have a reason to forget Kagome.
"Move your asses, you retarded shits! She could be dropping my kid any second now!" Inuyasha said, sweeping Kagome up into his arms, who chuckled into his chest happily.
"Fine, fine, fine..." Sango said, hauling the stunned Miroku out of the door behind her, seizing the Spider keys on the way.
She was about to become a godmother!
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Kikyou chewed her bottom lip anxiously as she sat in the back of her limo. She was dressed for action tonight, and she knew it.
Wearing black leather pants teamed with her knee high four inch spike heel boots over the pants, combined with the black turtleneck covered in a black fishnet poncho. Using the large dark shades the complete the image, Kikyou was preparing to do crime for the first time in ten years. Excepting the doctor, who was still passed out at her house. At least, she hoped she was still passed out.
She'd found out Kagome was at the hospital pretty damned clearly, actually. Truth was, it was an accident. Just as she'd managed to find out Kagome's personal details, she'd checked the hospitals first, for some odd reason she couldn't fathom, but had found her just checked in at the Shiori Youkai Hospital Facility, LA.
As the limo pulled into the staff parking lot behind the hospital, Kikyou climbed silently out of the car, beckoning Hiten after her.
"Why the fuck are you having me pose as a nurse?" Hiten grumbled as they snuck through the back entrances of the hospital, peering around for any security measures in place.
"Well, Inuyasha will recognize me, in case you didn't know, and I don't want you hurting Kagome. At least not right now." Kikyou hissed.
"So I just go in, and get Inuyasha out of the room whilst you get the girl. How are you planning on getting her all the way from the twentieth floor to the parking lot, anyway?" Hiten asked, socking a guard as he came around the corner towards them.
"I'm a miko, dumbass. It won't be hard." Kikyou scoffed.
"One last thing to discuss. My payment..." Hiten said suggestively, his red eyes raking over Kikyou's form.
"Oh you'll be paid in full, once this is over..." Kikyou replied huskily, cringing at the thought of the sexual favors she was having to do for people nowadays. First Onigumo, now Hiten...
"All right then. Find me a male nurse then..." Hiten said, rubbing his hands together gleefully.
Kami, why was she forced to associate with such idiots?
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"Are you hungry?" Inuyasha asked.
"That's the fifth time you've asked, and for the fifth time, no baby." Kagome said kindly, kissing Inuyasha's forehead gently as he sat around her.
"I'm sorry, I just don't want you or the brat to get hurt..." Inuyasha pouted.
"We won't. Like the nice doctor said, so long as I take it easy, I should be fine, and I'm not even a whole centimeter dilated yet. I have at least another day to go." Kagome said calmly, stroking his hair lightly.
"How do I wait that long?" Inuyasha asked, picking his claws anxiously.
"Don't complain, I'm the one whose doing it, remember." Kagome snipped, pouting.
"Hey, you said it was okay!" Inuyasha said, putting his hands up in defense.
"Doesn't mean you're not here with me when I get close." Kagome replied.
"Like, whilst you're screaming and bleeding and crying, and the pup's shoving its way out without any regard for your birth canal and you wish for my imminent death?" Inuyasha said, screwing up his nose in distaste.
"That's be it, thank you for making me look forward to it so." Kagome said, sarcastically.
"Hey, no problem." Inuyasha said, ignoring the pillow she threw at his head. "Don't worry baby, you're strong, you can do it, and I'll be here every step of the way. Never doubt that for a second." He whispered, kissing her neck lightly.
"Thanks. Nice to know you won't leave to go and get food and pictures and other baby crap like a certain bunch of our so-called friends." Kagome grumbled, kissing Inuyasha's cheek.
"By the way, I called that bitch Kasha, but her cellphone rang out, I'll try again later, okay?" Inuyasha said.
"Odd. She loves that cellphone. She called it her little metal friend." Kagome wondered.
"Uh, excuse me? Mr Mireshi, I need you to fill out some forms down in Reception concerning your wife's admission." a male nurse said, his red eyes flashing at Inuyasha.
"I did that already." Inuyasha snapped. He didn't know why, he just didn't like this guy.
"Yes, but there's some we need you to fill out concerning her premature birth." The nurse said calmly.
"Inuyasha, don't pick a fight, just go, okay?" Kagome said, feeling an argument coming on.
"I'll be one minute, literally." Inuyasha said, looking back and forth between her and the nurse.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll live." Kagome said, indicating the 50-inch plasma screen with satellite Inuyasha had had delivered to keep her entertained.
"Give birth while I'm gone and I will kill you, understand?" Inuyasha warned, backing towards the door, held open by the grinning nurse.
He couldn't ignore the niggle he felt in his gut at leaving her, one he hadn't had before, but he didn't want to worry Kagome, and with her asking him so nicely, he couldn't refuse.
"Sure." Kagome said, smiling as she shooed him out of the room.
She relaxed back against the pillows, channel surfing as she laid in bed. After about thirty seconds, the door opened again, and Kagome looked eagerly, hoping it was someone she could talk to. Even in 50 inch size, the 2am movies were still inappropriate for pregnant woman viewing.
A woman in black leather from top to toe entered, and Kagome immediately stiffened. Her miko's instinct didn't trust this intruder, and she put her guard up immediately.
"Who the hell are you?" Kagome asked, her eyes narrowing at the strange woman who looked so familiar.
"Me?" the woman asked, pointing to herself as she advanced on Kagome.
"Yes, who the fuck else?" Kagome snapped back, eyes narrowing further.
"I...Kagome," Kagome gasped at hearing her own name. "I am your worst nightmare, as they say in the movies..." and with that, the intruder pulled her shades off her face, and looked back at Kagome's shocked face as she muttered a sleeping spell at her.
The last thing Kagome saw before she plummeted into the dark of unconsciousness was brown eyes piercing coldly into her own, so like hers the identity of the person couldn't be mistaken.
Kikyou...was Kagome's last coherent thought before she passed out.
AN: Ah, things are hotting up now! You'll just have to wait to see what happens, won't you! Okay, I know I have totally blown schedule with the posting of this chapter, and am insanely late, but I was having issues finding the inspiration for this, but I did, and I hope you like the results! I am sooo sorry I'm late, but as a bonus, the chapter is four pages longer that it usually would have been!
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