"That sounded like InuYasha." Kagome gasped, getting up from her position on the ground, abandoning the forms.
"Uh…" Miroku began in objection, not wanting to stay around and find out.
In that moment, Totosai came running towards them at the opposite end of the hallway. As quickly as possible for a man his age of course. His mouth was agape when he saw Kagome standing curiously at the other end.
"Quick woman, run! He's after you!" Totosai warned, soon losing his breath. Kagome didn't have much time to process before InuYasha emerged around the corner like he was after his prey. Kagome almost didn't recognize him.
Miroku grabbed her wrist and the two sprinted in the opposite direction.
"Miroku, let me go!" Kagome squirmed as she was pulled along with his running.
"Kagome, they've clearly lost control of their cyborg and it wants you, are you out of your mind!"
InuYasha simply trudged passed Totosai who had flattened himself against the wall as much as his body would allow.
Kagome broke free from Miroku's grasp and headed towards the direction of InuYasha.
"InuYasha!" She cried, running as quickly as her tiresome legs would allow. He stopped in his tracks, mumbling her name under his breath. His claws had extended to great lengths. She crashed into his chest without consulting her better judgement and wrapped her arms around him. "It's me, what wrong with you!"
"Kagome! Use the voice activated subjugation!" Totosai instructed. "Before it's too late."
"InuYasha!" She pleaded, wincing at the pain as his claws sunk into the flesh of her back. "InuYasha, sit!"
His demon cried out in defeat as a powerful electric volt surged through his body. The current flowed through Kagome as well but she didn't let go of him. The red and blue pools invading his eyes seeped out like viscous tears.
"Ah. Inuiei. There's my brother." A similar voice called, ascending the stairs with an angry Urasue at his side. Sesshomaru rose a brow down at Urasue as she clasped her hands together in a peculiar shape and began chanting under her breath.
The necklace around InuYasha's neck shattered in that instance, sprinkling tiny fragments against the freshly polished floor. They could almost hear the janitor sigh in the distance.
InuYasha came back to his senses, bringing all of his attention to the woman who collapsed in his arms from the electric shock.
"Totosai, I can't leave the office for thirty minutes without the entire place combusting, what the fuck?" Urasue ran her fingers over her temples.
"Alright I don't know what's going on here, but I need you to come with me." Miroku flashed Urasue his police badge that was tucked under his shirt.
Urasue rose a challenging brow. "That's fine with me, but perhaps you might want to consider taking her to the hospital first."
()()()()
Kagome's eyes opened slowly, her lashes separating reluctantly like the teeth of a Venus flytrap. She didn't recognize the room she had currently been slumbering in. She was adorned in a hospital gown and hooked up to several monitors. Her vision finally came into focus and luckily by her side was none other than InuYasha.
In a groggy voice she attempted to speak. He rose out of his seat and covered her hand with his.
"Kagome, I'm so sorry." It was evident that if there was a heart inside his chest, it was shattered for what he had put her through.
"For what?" She smirked. "Shocking me on purpose the first time or the second time? I'm only human remember."
"I can't explain what happened, but even so, please accept my sincere apologies."
"InuYasha, it's not your fault what they did to you. You have nothing to apologize for." She reassured.
"I hurt you." He said sadly, light traces of blood still outlined in his nailbeds.
"Not in my eyes. I'm just glad I got to see you once more." She squeezed his hand and gently lifted his ring finger that had her name still written on it in tiny writing. "What's this?"
"I figured that if they were going to initiate a factory reset on me, I wanted to have at least one clue to remember you by. After all, that seemed to have helped for Izayoi and Sesshomaru."
"You're sweet." She gazed into his eyes for a couple of moments before realizing something. "Your necklace. It's gone."
"It was a shackle that linked me to Urasue, she had to break it in order to save you. Otherwise the shock would have—"
"I know."
"I had to beg for them to even let me see you. Your friend Miroku probably has an entire s.w.a.t. team outside the door."
There was a gentle knock at the door.
"Come in." Kagome said.
Rin entered the room first with a bouquet of flowers, followed by former supermodel Sesshomaru looking as fabulous as ever.
"I thought I saw you at Shikon Corp." Kagome stated at Sesshomaru, recalling the memory.
"Yes. I went to confront Urasue with my own research about her unethical business. My lineage of inu-youkai will not stand for the continued use of youkai DNA in her product. Low and behold we walk into her product losing its mind and throwing about her employees which is yet another lawsuit under her belt."
"You're going to sue her company?"
"As should you."
Miroku joined the party in Kagome's recovery room, now dressed in his policemen attire. The pants complimented his backside quite nicely.
"Urasue's work checks out unfortunately. You won't get far with the lawsuit." Miroku sighed. "InuYasha was a peculiar case but she's been given an extended period to tweak her operation so that this doesn't happen again."
"Where I come from, human, I'm well known and get what I want." Sesshomaru challenged.
"Sesshy offered a sum Urasue couldn't refuse. InuYasha belongs to you now Kagome." Rin spoiled excitedly.
Sesshomaru scoffed and rolled his eyes, excusing himself from the room.
InuYasha and Kagome looked at each other excitedly and Rin giggled lightly. They reminded her of the storybook characters that Sesshomaru would read to her. She may have utilized her last Christmas gift for Kagome's sake.
"I want to kiss you right now, but I'm afraid we'll end up back to where we started." Kagome chortled.
"That's something I'm willing to risk." InuYasha smiled back shyly at her and kissed her lightly. Rin hid her blushing face in the bouquet of flowers.
A clawed hand reached in and dragged her out.
"Lord Sesshomaru." Rin gasped, looking up with a smile, her front teeth missing.
"Are you happy?"
"Very much so!" Rin hugged Sesshomaru's leg. "Uncle's back in our life. Sort of, but it'll do."
()()()()
"Damn that Sesshomaru! Who does he think he is." Urasue snarled, leaning over her desk.
"You did take the check graciously." Totosai stated, leaning against the sofa in her office.
"He attempted to make my work look malicious. That was never my intention. I wanted to make use of worthless bodies on death row and have medical breakthroughs with organ donors to help Japan's loneliest people. We created art and somehow that girl corrupted my work."
Each time Totosai heard the word 'my' his eyes bugged out a little more and he looked a little more spaced out than usual. "What's so hard for you to process about the love that the human DNA provided was reborn? She simply nurtured it. Both the human and youkai had taken over at some point. It's remarkable if you ask me. You even mashed their names together for the hybrid, how much more disrespectable can you be."
The fire in Urasue's eyes nearly singed Totosai's body.
()()()()()()
One Year Later.
Kagome carefully unraveled a family portrait with InuYasha beside her in her apartment. InuYasha helped her frame it in the dining room.
"They would have really loved you, InuYasha." Kagome assured. InuYasha snaked his arms around her and hugged her warmly.
"Come and eat you two." Izayoi smiled, patting them both on the shoulder and proceeded to the kitchen to set the platters on the table. Kagome took in the scene, her hand never leaving InuYasha's. Rin and Sesshomaru were filling the cups for everyone. Miroku and Sango were flirting at the table. Ayumi had added some last minute spices to the meal before helping Izayoi bring over everything. Kagome smiled warmly. This was the most people she had ever had at her apartment since losing her family. She was happy that it was InuYasha she had received in the crate, and nobody else.
()()()()
Somewhere in America, in a dark, secluded house a woman swayed seductively from side to side as she descended into her chamber. Her body was clasped in nothing but a shear robe that beautifully outlined her hips. She stood before a crate that was nearly six foot and licked her lips excitedly.
She snipped away at the zipties with ease and lifted the crate open. She took a moment to relish at the Shikon's beauty before shifting over the black tresses to one side and read the name marked on its neck.
"Naraku."
Precious crimson eyes opened to welcome his master, Kikyo.
THE END
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