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Sesshomaru went straight to work, needing the distraction. His face stayed impassive as he walked into his building in all his glory, his cheek a red patch of fresh skin where his wound just finished healing up.

He was so pissed off, he walked to his office without a word to anyone. There was death in his eyes so everyone quickly got the hint and stayed out of their boss's way. He paced the room for a moment, unable to sit down. His angry higher than it has been in a long time.

How dare that damn human bitch talk to him the way that she did? How dare she put her damn hands on him, like he wasn't the got damn Lord of these lands. Who the hell did she think she was to act out the way she did? All because of a stupid mark, she agreed it was an ' in the moment' mistake, why the hell was she so mad about it? Why was she taking it out on him when she was the one that said to drop it? He turned, hands touching his desk, to cause a scene the way she did, he shook his head, angrily sweeping everything onto the floor. He better not be in the damn papers in the morning or he would have her head.

Still angry he continued pacing, the fact that she was willing to fight him was bothering him the most. He growled at the thought, she pulled out her weapon so casually, not caring that she made the lord of the west angry, not caring they were in public.

She was so willing to disobey it was maddening! He picked up his chair and turned to the window ready to heave it. He suddenly paused, wait, he liked this chair. He set it back down and sat in it, leaning his head back and closing his eyes, trying to calm down.

" Damn, what's the matter with you?"

Amber eyes blinked open, seeing Kouga step into his office, looking at the mess he made. Sesshomaru ignored him and leaned his head back, closing his eyes and touched his temples to stop the pulsing of the headache that was coming.

Kouga frowned, he knew the pose well with his friend, he was pissed and trying hard not to kill someone. The wolf walked over and shut the blinds to the bay window behind the demon lord. He then moved towards the stand of liquor that was always set up in the corner. Pouring two stiff drinks he opened the cabinet above him and grabbed an extra ingredient.

Sesshomaru heard a plop of something hitting his desk, amber eyes opened and saw the demon strength Tylenol bottle and a cup of bourbon. He immediately reached forward and opened the pill bottle, shaking 4 into his hand before tossing them in his mouth and drinking the half cup of liquor in one shot.

Kouga sat down, " Long day?"

Sesshomaru slapped his cup, a motion Kouga knew meant he wanted more, so he refilled the cup. He took this drink a little slower, shaking his head as he leaned back, " I'm going to kill this girl."

The wolf raised a brow, " Who, the cop?"

Sesshomaru frowned at the mere mention of the woman, " She doesn't listen."

Kouga leaned back in his seat, " Did you expect her to after meeting her?"

The question made Sesshomaru think, no not really, the girl showed a strong resilience to authority even though she was an authoritative figure, again he shook his head, " She fights me."

Kouga just made a face, " She's an RDSVU agent, she probably knows how to handle herself very well."

Sesshomaru silently agreed, he never met a female like her before, someone so willing to disobey, someone so willing to fight back. Females are suppose to be obedient and submissive, quiet and in the shadows. This girl, she was the complete opposite, she was loud and rude and annoying and talked too much. The girl gave him a headache and yet he can not deny he was extremely attracted to her. She had power that was beyond most higher demon's levels, he smirked for a quick moment, not to mention she had a left hook that could take someone's head off. He shook the thought away, he was suppose to be mad at her. Kouga watched as his friend stayed silent, leaning back in his seat, taking a slow, long sip of his drink.

The wolf grinned, tasting his own drink, knowing the demon lord was thinking over the idea of killing his new wife. " What happened?"

Amber eyes glanced up, " I marked her."

Kouga coughed on his drink, not able to breath for a moment, " You what?"

Sesshomaru frowned, throwing the rest of his drink back, " It was by accident." he suddenly stood, shaking his head, " I don't know why she's so upset about it." he snarled, starting to pace, " She's the one that said it was no big deal."

Kouga blinked, " Wait, she knew what the mark was?"

" No, she asked about it and I explained. She asked why I did it, and we both agreed it was by mistake."

He turned towards the wolf, shaking his head, hands waving in the air, trying to get someone to understand his side of the story, that none of this was his fault. " She comes to my house and makes me chase her, and then she fights me like she's alpha then her powers burst around me, driving me damn it crazy, I couldn't control it, what the fuck was I suppose to do. "

Kouga's mouth dropped open in a wide smile, Sesshomaru paced only when he was pissed. The dog demon cursed only when he was very pissed. And he only talked with his hands when he was extremely pissed. This girl had him doing all three, which was a first in the almost 1000 years they new each other, she was really getting under his skin.

Amber eyes narrowed at the look on his friend face, " You got 3 seconds to wipe that smile off your face."

Kouga covered his mouth with a snicker, knowing full well his friend would not hesitate to hit him. He shook his head, " Okay, Okay, so you marked her, and you both agreed it was a mistake and now she's mad."

With a frown, Sesshomaru nodded, moving to his desk to pour another drink. Kouga raised a brow, " Did you both really agree or did you tell her it was mistake and then she agreed?"

The cup paused to his lips at the question, he had to think about it for a moment. His eyebrows frowned as he thought back, " She asked me why I marked her, I didn't answer and then she was upset for the rest of our time together."

Kouga frowned, " Sounds like you hurt her feelings."

Sesshomaru blinked, sitting down, " No. She was the one to say it was no big deal, that it was a mistake."

Kouga nodded, " Yeah, after you basically rejected her. She was putting on a tough face."

He thought about it, he knew he felt a wall raise around the woman as she spoke to him in the car. He raised a brow, looking to his friend, " You are saying she caused a public altercation because she was upset though she said she wasn't upset."

" Public altercation?"

Sesshomaru just sighed, taking a sip of his drink, " She pulled a gun on me after we fought in the elevator."

Kouga snorted, " That's definitely going to be in the papers in the morning."

Sesshomaru frowned, sipping more of his drink, " Why would she be upset about the mark, she doesn't even know me, why would she want me to mate her?"

Kouga shrugged, " Maybe you should ask her."

The inu thought about it, then shook his head, he knew if he seen her he was going to kill her. But now he was curious about the girls intentions, what if she was working for the human rebellion against demons. Trying to get him to mate her for a more insidious cause. Maybe an interrogation was in order, it may be able to shine some light on why this girl was acting the way she was and who she was working for. Amber eyes glanced down to his watch, its just hitting noon, he needed to rest and gather more information on this girl before he confronted her.

Throwing the rest of his drink back, he stood, " I have to go, have someone clean this up."

Kouga just nodded as he friend headed for the door, " Will do." he snickered as it closed, " Have fun." he mumbled before outright laughing. He never seen a pair that was more perfect for each other than his best friend and this cop. It was all too hilarious to him.

Standing with his cup, he left his friend's office with a smile, " Hey EV."

The admin assistant walked over, " Hey Kouga, is he okay?" referring to her upset boss that just stormed out.

Kouga nodded, " He's fine, can you get someone to clean up his office and replace his booze, we drunk it all."

Yvonne smiled, knowing it was a calming technique the two older demons shared, " I'll get right on it."

A woman stood by the open shutters of a manor in the middle of nowhere, she wore the traditional white and crimson-violet pattern kimono of a dancer. Her yellow patterned style obi was slim and tied in the front instead of back. She wore a pair of bright green beaded earrings, each bearing five beads and a feather on end each. Her short black hair was pulled up into a small ponytail with two feather hair ornaments pinned in it, her crimson eyes oh so bored.

" It is almost time, she is almost ready."

Crimson eyes rolled at the voice, opening and closing her paper fan out of sheer boredom, " Is who almost ready for what?"

A man slowly stood from his seated position, she watched a lean but built body come into view. She looked up farther, long black hair flowed around his shoulders. She continued until she stared into fiery crimson eyes. He was smiling. She hated that smile, so charming and yet so evil. " I would tell you my plans Kagura but you would interfere like you've done in the past."

Crimson eyes glanced away in shame, he was right, she had tried to stop his plans once before to win her freedom but she miscalculated and paid dearly for it. " Forgive me Naraku."

" No need to my pet, your mistake only goaded me forward to a larger goal. She showed me her true potential and now she is almost ripe for the taking."

A brow raised as the wind demoness turned back to her master, " It's still about that girl, that miko?"

Naraku simply smiled, turning his back to his slave, " She is no ordinary miko." he brushed hair over his shoulder as he gazed outside the window to the forest surrounding his borrowed home. " Kagura go into town and start up some mischief between the demon and human rebellions. Just enough to cause some tension and investigations."

Kagura slapped her fan closed, " For what, they're already fighting each other."

Naraku smiled, turning towards the wind demoness, arms folding behind his back as he leveled her with crimson eyes, " Question me again and I will absorb you."

Kagura straightened off the wall, nodding at the threat, " Yes Naraku." Walking down the hall.

He watched her go, he liked how she despised him but was forced to obey. It gave him thrills, the power of controlling others, not just manipulating them, he liked knowing they knew they didn't want to do it but did it anyways. He just like forcing people, scaring people. He shook off the thought, turning, walking in the opposite direction. He had to get ready, he's been waiting for this moment for 12 years, it was finally time to pick up where he left off. Kagura didn't understand why he was obsessed with this particular miko, but she didn't know they had a history. A hand reached up and touched his side, feeling the scar underneath the folds of silk. He smirked at the memory, him and his little miko had a lot to catch up on.

Kagome was pacing her room as Souta laid on her bed, listening to her rant for the last 45 minutes. He had just got home from school and was quietly laughing at his older sister for bombarding him as soon as he walked in the house. He was laying on her bed, nodding to the blah blah blah coming out of his sister's mouth. He listened to her story for the first 5 minutes, came to the conclusion she was in the wrong and started drowning her out after that.

" And then the asshole had the audacity to just fucking leave me there! Can you believe that shit!"

" Mm Hm." a pillow suddenly plopped him on the head, " Your not even listening to me jerk face!"

Souta laughed, sitting up, " Kags, I love you. But you're being crazy right now."

Kagome huffed, crossing her arms, " I am not."

He laughed again at how childish his sister can be, " You're mad at this demon because he marked you by accident. Do you want to mate this demon? Share your powers, live forever?"

She frowned, sitting on the bed, " I don't know." she mumbled.

He nodded, " Exactly, you don't know. So why you so mad, he probably don't know either. You said it happened in the moment. You two was sucking face and he bit you. It sounds like a legit accident, what got you so pissed about that."

Kagome crossed her legs, rolling her eyes, her brother was right. There was no reason to be mad, it was an accident. She was in her feelings because of the rejection she felt, like when her family rejected her when she was eight. He had looked at her the way her family looked at her when she was being hauled off to jail. Dismissively. Her family dismissed her out of their life and Sesshomaru dismissed her in the elevator. That's why she snapped. The demon lord didn't even know how close he hit home.

She sighed, okay, now that she thought about it, Souta was right, she was being childish, " Fine you win." she mumbled.

Souta grinned, " What was that, I couldn't hear you."

She smiled with a roll of her eyes, " Shut up."

Souta just laughed, then shook his head, " You need to apologize to your husband."

Kagome groaned, falling back on the bed, covering her face with her arms, " I don't want to!"

Souta grinned, moving over to her side and laying his head on her stomach. " You know you have to."

Kagome sighed deep, making Souta's head raise then lower, she could feel his aura ciphering from hers at the contact. She ignored the stinging, Souta was the only one to ever visit her in prison, the only one that wanted to hear her side of the story. The only one that believed her, trusted her, loved her. When her family had written her off, he was the only one that still cared about what happen to her. A hand reached down and threaded through his hair, she'll gladly take a little pain for this type of love.

" I love you Souta."

He simply nodded, her aura surrounded him in a warm blanket of heat that tingled his skin. His eyes lowered drunkenly as he let out a soft yawn, it was like her powers were dancing, trying to entice him with its heat, calming him into a warm lullaby of peace. It felt like home, " Love you too big sis." he mumbled, eyes shutting in sleep.

Kagome grinned, sitting up slightly to see her brother had indeed, fell asleep on her. Again. He use to do it all the time when he was a baby. She giggled softly, laying back down on the bed, not minding, he was too cute to wake up. A chirping went off on her waist, " Blu come in."

She grabbed the walkie talkie she had attached to her belt quickly to not disturb her brother, " I'm here." she whispered, " What's up?"

" Just got word Russell trying to bring in a shipment of demon suppressant guns and ammo."

Kagome shook her head, the technology humans have reached to eliminate demons would never cease to amaze her. " He's apart of the rebellion huh?"

" Yeah, Hampton and Ayame are going to hit the shipment, I need you to take him out before they do so he don't get word of what's happening. How fast can you get here?"

Kagome nodded, " 15, tops."

Putting down the walkie talkie, Kagome glanced down at her brother once more with a smile. She was definitely not about to wake him up, he was too damn cute, like a baby. Quietly she reached over, pulling at the covers until a pillow inched close enough for her to grab. Flicking her wrist, her hand glowed white, she coated the pillow with her powers before she again looked to her brother. Slightly sitting up, she gently raised his head and scooted from under, placing the pillow where her body once was.

She watched for a moment as Souta snuggled into her charged pillow, relishing in her powers. She smiled again, softly kissing his temple, " I'll be back later." she whispered.

He mumbled something in his sleep but didn't wake, she shook her head, he was too damn cute, she thought before grabbing her keys and heading out the room. He was also right, she had to apologize to Sesshomaru. Later though, right now, she had to off an asshole trying to start a war.

Sesshomaru sat on his father's couch, listening to him read from the profile report he was able to get on his wife. Tashio shook his head with his leg crossed over his knee, going over the file in his hand, " She was arrested on her birthday at age 8. Trialed as an adult, she pleaded not guilty but was mute throughout the entire trail. Her sister went on the stand and said 'Kagome grabbed the knife that was in our birthday cake, stabbed me in the chest and started screaming for me to get out. After that I don't remember anything else.' She was sentenced to the max amount of years for her age and went to Black Gate."

The elder demon paused, glancing up, " It's odd they put such a young girl in max security don't you think?"

Sesshomaru frowned, " It does not say anything about her powers?"

Tashio looked back down to his report, " Well, my guy spoke to the girl's original mentor. The old woman said Kagome had one of the strongest auras she had ever felt but was not interested in using her powers as much as her sister was. She said Kagome would master tasks and lessons in a day, where it would take Kikyou weeks to accomplish. She said she sensed some jealous in the younger sister and that is when Kagome started slacking off and hiding her aura."

Tashio glanced up, " Do you think that's why Kagome stabbed her, Kikyou started a fight that night and Kagome got fed up?"

Sesshomaru shook his head, " There has to be something else, something we don't know."

Tashio raised a brow, " What are you hoping to find son?"

Sesshomaru frowned, he wasn't sure what he was looking for, " I don't know, something that explains why she is the way she is."

Tashio grinned, " Oh, I can explain that." he reached over to his laptop case on the floor, " My guy went to the prison and spoke to some of the inmates about Kagome."

He laughed as he pulled out his phone, opening the recordings that was sent to him, " You're gonna love this." hitting play.

The sound static for a moment before a male's voice was heard, " Toka Lamati right, sentences to life without parole for murdering 17 human men in one night."

A gruff voice snorted, " Yeah that's me, what of it, you a cop or something?"

" I'm looking for answers about a former cell mate of yours."

There was a sharp laugh, " Look buddy, I been in here a loooooong time, I went through a lot of cell mates, you gotta be more specific."

" Kagome Hi..."

A chair suddenly screeched back, as if someone jumped out their seat, " Is she here?!" a panicked voice yelled, " Is she here with you?!"

" No, calm down, she's not here, its just me, she's not anywhere near here! Calm down."

There was a moment of silence, a deep breath was heard on the recording as the inmate gained her senses. The male spoke after a few more seconds, " What got you so scared of Ka..."

He was cut off again by a deep hiss, " Don't say her name!"

" Why are you afraid of her. She was a child when she got here."

Movement was heard, as if the inmate came closer to whisper, " That little girl is the devil. Nothing about her was a child. She was a mini satan when she got here."

There was a pause, " Wait, it says she was in protective custody for the first year she was here, how was she a devil."

" No, they had her in solitary for our protection, not hers. The night she came, she attacked two guards and put her cell mate in a coma. The hounds had to take her down, she was screaming get out at the top of her lungs."

The inmate took a shaky breath, " She let loose this... power. This... white fire. Turned everything in D cell block to ash. No one survived. Not even the humans."

The man spoke up, " What happened next, after the solitary, why was she let out."

" I don't know. I heard this guy started coming to see her in solitary, helped her control her powers or suppress them or something. When she was let out, they put her in D block by herself. It was still empty since she killed everyone there. You could hear her tapping on the bars and singing some haunted ass song. She would talk to herself, like full on conversations. Then one night..."

The man pushed her to go on, " One night what? What happened?"

" One night, I heard her arguing with herself, yelling at..., I don't know, her imaginary friend I guess. She was telling it to shut up, that she wouldn't do it, that she's not going anywhere. Next thing you know she was screaming at the top of lungs."

" What happened?" the man asked, engrossed in the story.

" They thought she was going crazy again, that she was going to burn the whole jail down. Guards started racing to D block and I could here them start to throw up. The doors suddenly opened, we were told to evacuate to the court yard."

" But you didn't did you? You went to D block."

" Yeah, yeah I did, I had to see for myself."

" What did you see?"

" Blood. Lots and lots of blood. The guards around her cell were dead, hacked to pieces. And she was just standing there, covered in blood. Her hair was on fire, her hands too and her eyes... they were black. She looked at me and whispered, 'Run.' and that's exactly what I did."

" You didn't see anything else."

" No."

" Are you sure?" There was a pause, the man spoke again, " Tell me what else you saw and I'll put $400 on your books."

Another moment of silence passed, " When she was standing there, over the guards she killed, I saw her shadow. It wasn't hers, it was shaped like a tall man with clawed hands. I thought it was the light playing tricks on me but when she spoke, it was a man's voice that came out her mouth."

" What did they do after the evacuation?"

" They put her in solitary, for good."

" You mean she spent 10 years in solitary confinement? Alone."

" That guy would come see her often, to help with her powers I guess, and I think her little brother too. But besides that, yeah, solitary, she was escorted by 4 priests and 12 guards with 6 hounds for 45 minutes of sunlight then back to solitary."

" She was just a kid." the man mumbled, feeling sorry for the female he was investigating.

Hands suddenly hit the table, " She is no child. She should have spent her life in that damn cell. That little girl is possessed by something. Something not human, not demon but damn evil. You better be careful who you talk to about her because if she finds out. She'll find you."

The recording suddenly ended, Tashio blinked, then laughed, " It's like a scary bedtime story, freaks me out every time I listen to it."

Sesshomaru frowned, trying to absorb what he just listened to, who the hell is he married to. He shook his head, " That doesn't sound anything like Kagome."

Tashio just shrugged, " Clearly she has more control over herself than she did when she was eight."

Sesshomaru again shook his head, not buying it, " If she murdered people in jail, how come her sentence wasn't increased? It's not adding up."

Tashio blinked, then nodded, " That is a very good question." he looked through the papers in his lap, landing on one sheet and slowly reading it over, " Hm... now that's interesting."

" What is?"

Tashio looked up, then back at the sheet in his hand before handing it over to his son. Sesshomaru reached forward, taking the paper, it was an old clipping from a newspaper. The heading read 'Gas leak again causes explosion at prison.' in the article, it talked about how this was the second time the inmates had to be evacuated from the prison because of an underground gas leak. Two dates were circled in red ink, printed above one read, first time in solitary and above the second one said second time in solitary.

Sesshomaru blinked, " It was never reported." Kagome killing more people was never investigated, that's why she only did 10 years.

" It's an odd thing the Warden would want to cover up huh."

Sesshomaru nodded, that was super suspicious, something more had to be going on here with this girl. He frowned, was he married to some diabolical evil incarnate? Who was this woman?

Tashio watched his son go through his thoughts, he agreed, what he discovered about Kagome was a lot to take in, but like his son, he knew there was more to this story than they knew. He uncrossed his leg, setting the file on the coffee table, " Forget the history for a second and tell me how do you feel about Kagome as a person?"

Sesshomaru blinked, looking up to his father, " What?"

Tashio just shook his head, " You like the girl, I know you do."

He immediately frowned, " I do not. She is human. A priestess. A demon slayer at that." he shook head, frustrated with himself, " She is loud and bossy, and always talking back to me, she barely listens and she voices her opinion when its not asked for. She's stupidly impulsive and too damn powerful for her own good. She has ridiculous mood swings and a mouth like a barbarian. She..." he frowned, " She gets on my nerves to no end."

Tashio just laughed, " You really really like her."

" Father, this is not funny, I could be married to a psychopath that is aligned with the human rebellion to kill me and start a war."

Tashio snorted, " She's an RDSVU agent, her job is to prevent wars between species. And she's been doing her job long before she met you. I don't think she was sent to kill you son."

" She's hiding something."

Tashio just smiled at his stubborn son, " We're all hiding something Sesshomaru." His head nodded towards the door, " Why don't you go talk to her, ask her what she's hiding from you."

Sesshomaru shook his head, " It's not that simple."

" Have you tried it?"

Sesshomaru frowned, staying quiet, knowing he wasn't going to win this debate with his father. Too tempted to roll his eyes, he stood, heading for the door.

Tashio grinned, " And actually consummate the marriage. I know you haven't." he suddenly laughed, hearing a growl come from the hall as the front door was slammed close. He shook his head, " Stubborn ass." he mumbled, reaching over and picking on the file he had on Kagome.

A piece of paper slipped out, he bent, picking it up, it was a picture of Kagome, she was young, around 9 maybe 10. It was taken at an angle, as if someone leaped up to see through the bars on the door. She was sitting in the middle of an empty cell, a simple cot in one corner, a toilet in the other. She faced the door, dirt and grime covering her from head to toe. Her hair a shaggy mess down her back. Her nails bloody and dirty from carving into the walls. Her back was perfectly straight as she sat with her legs crossed in front of her, hands on her knees. She was so still, he got the sense she was already like that before the picture was taken. Her eyes were closed as if she was mediating but for some reason Tashio knew she was struggling with something.

He could feel the ominous aura cloaking the walls of that cell. It made the elder inu's hair stand up on end, he rolled his shoulders to relax the tension that was building because of the dark aura. He brought the picture closer to his face for a better look. He could have sworn he saw something move behind the girl. Though Kagome was sitting, her shadow showed something standing. Something large, clawed, with the frame of a man. Eyes suddenly popped open, spewing black light, the girl's mouth opened and a scream wailed throughout the house.

Tashio jerked back, dropping the photo and jumping away out of reflex. His heart was pounding in his chest as he looked around his house. Darkness, full of malevolence and anger, filtered through the room in uncontrollable palpitations. It weighed down his chest to the point he was almost hyperventilating. He wasn't alone, something was here, something was angry.

His senses were on overload, cold air brushed against his neck, he turned so quickly he almost fell over. Running on pure adrenaline, he dove for the picture on the floor, picking it up and tossing it in the fire place. With a flick of his wrist, he slapped the logs with his poison whip, starting a fire in a blazing roar.

He watched the picture burn slowly and immediately noticed the change in the air. The malice and darkness not gone but dropped to just subtly noticeable. He watched the fire for a moment longer, watching the picture be eaten away by the flames. As the fire destroyed the photo, he saw the wall behind the sitting Kagome write out something as the flames changed its color. She's Mine was carved in crude capital letters. He shook his head as the flames gobbled up the last of the photo, the small amount of darkness now completely gone.

Strong hands rubbed at the goosebumps covering his arms, he knew damn well he was not staying in this house by himself tonight, " Where's my keys." he mumbled, heading for the door.

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