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Chapter 18 Making Arrangements
Miroku and Sango high-fived each other as soon as they were in the vehicle driving away. Sango pulled the jewel out of her bag.
"Now that we have it we can get Kagome back!" Sango said gazing at the small crystal ball. "I thought it would be more…you know…exquisite." Sango gave the small ball a toss into the air.
"What's wrong with it?" Miroku asked.
"It's just so plain." Sango explained.
"I guess we should get a hold of Naraku. The question is, how?" Miroku mulled over the options. "Do you have Hojo's number?" Miroku glanced at Sango.
"Yeah just a second," She reached into her bag again and pulled out her cell phone. They'd all decided to get their own cell phones two years ago just in case they were on their own missions and need help. She pulled up her contacts and rattled off his number.
After dialing the number Miroku pushed the green button and held the phone to his ear.
"Hello?" a cool voice answered over the phone.
"Naraku?" Miroku asked confused as to why Naraku answered.
"Yes Miroku what is it you want?" Naraku's venomous voice echoed in his ear.
"We want to make an exchange." Miroku said with no emotion.
"What kind of exchange are we talking about?" Naraku asked, annoyed not only from losing Kagome but also from losing Hojo. They were both mandatory for his plan to work out. He'd work on getting them back later though; he had bigger fish to fry first.
"I think you know what I mean, Kagome for the Shinkon." Miroku said angered at Naraku's planned ignorance.
Naraku grinned into the phone. They hadn't heard from Kagome yet and they had the Jewel, which would mean he would only need to get Kagome and Hojo to complete his plan.
"Okay Miroku you have yourself a deal, we will make the exchange in five minutes in the bar." Naraku said, he didn't want to give them too much time to figure out they had Kagome.
"What bar?" Miroku asked though he knew the answer.
"I think you know what bar I'm talking about." Naraku said coolly, "Oh and Miroku don't be late." With that he hung up the phone. Miroku did the same, shoved the phone into his pocket.
"What's the plan?" Sango asked as Miroku made a u-turn.
"We make the pass in five." Miroku said as they made their way back into town.
The short drive was silent, neither one spoke as they both though of their escape. Sango kept getting the feeling that something was wrong, but she reassured herself that everything would be okay and pushed the feeling aside. Telling herself that in five minutes it would all be over.
Miroku pulled into the alleyway next to the old beat-up bar.
"Ready?" Miroku looked over at Sango and though about kissing her. He decided not to incase she might slap him, and he didn't want to ruin any chance they might have at a good relationship.
"Yeah, in and out, should only take five minutes, six at the most." Sango placed the Jewel into a hidden pocket on her jacket. "We'll get Kagome and then get the hell out of here.
"Let's go then." Miroku said after a moment's hesitation.
They got out of the car and met at the entrance to the bar. Miroku nodded and then entered the bar, Sango followed him closely behind. The moment the door closed behind them they were surrounded.
"Hey! Get off me!" Sango protested as two darkly dressed figures took hold of her arms. Miroku immediately turned around and punched one if the jaw. He moved to do the same to the other before being dragged backward and thrown into a table. He landed with a thud and looked up at Naraku with a surprised look on his face.
"I'm sorry about the rude welcoming but you did start it." Naraku said lightly. "Where's the Jewel?"
"Where's Kagome?" Miroku countered.
"She's safe, rest assured." Naraku said grinning.
"Let me see her or you don't get it." Miroku wasn't stupid; he wasn't going to get tricked into one of Naraku's tiresome tricks.
Naraku looked Miroku before realizing Miroku didn't have what he was looking for. He immediately turned to Sango who was being held back by two of his men. "Hand if over my dear." He held out his hand to her.
She roughly shook her head before spitting at his feet. Which was the wrong move in her case.
Naraku glared at her then back handed her. She fell to the ground after the impact of the hit. The two men holding her let her slip from their grasp.
"Sango!" Miroku yelled, he needed to know that she was alright, "Naraku leave her alone!" He had to do something, but what?
Naraku looked down at Sango ignoring Miroku. "Hand it over or else," he warned Sango.
"Fuck you." She muttered glaring up at him.
Naraku's eyes flashed and he showed no mercy. He kicked her in the side as she lay on the ground.
Miroku winced when he heard her whimper. "Stop Naraku now! Leave her alone!" Miroku struggled against the two bulky men holding him back from a smirking Naraku.
"So you finally asked her out? I was wondering when you'd get the guts." Naraku looked at Miroku with amusement before turning back to Sango, "Pick her up." He sneered at his men. They roughly yanked her to her feet.
"Do you have it Miroku?" Miroku held his head high not saying a word. "Maybe this will help you remember." He pulled a gun from his belt and pointed it to Sango's head. "What do you say now?"
Miroku looked into Sango's frightened eyes and he knew what he had to do. He dropped his head in defeat. Naraku motioned to his men to release Miroku. He slowly walked over to Sango, making sure not to look to Naraku. He reached his hand into her jacket pocket that he knew was holding the Jewel Naraku wanted.
He pulled it out gently then turned to Naraku. "Here take it just let us go." He dropped the Jewel into Naraku's hand and Naraku motioned to his lackeys to release Sango. Miroku pulled her to him the moment she was free.
"I'm sorry" She muttered softly.
"It's not your fault; we'll be out of here in a few seconds I promise." Miroku said determinedly.
"And what about Kagome?" Sango asked turning to glare at Naraku.
Naraku ignored the foolish girl as he walked over to a small machine. He placed the Jewel into an opening at the top. He waited for the Jewel to empower the machine but nothing happened.
"This is not the Shinkon!" Naraku yelled in rage. "You still have it!" He yelled pointing to Miroku and Sango.
"No! That's it! That's the Jewel!" Miroku said, "That's got to be it!"
"Well obviously it's not!" Naraku looked him in the eye and decided he didn't have it. He wouldn't risk the life of the girl in his arms.
"Well then, it looks like you'll be staying for a while longer." Naraku worked to calm himself down. "Why don't I just call Kagome and see what she has to say about this."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Miroku spat.
"Well you see your little Kagome is very slippery. She escaped over an hour ago."
"You mean she was never here?" Sango asked outraged. This was the second time she'd gotten caught in a situation that could cost her her life. She was tired of being rescued. For once she'd like to be the one to save Kagome, or even Miroku. She could be with Kagome and Miroku with the Jewel at the house planning on where to go next, but no, she was stuck in this hell hole with Naraku playing games with her. Using her like he did before, like he always did.
"Plans are changing, now in order to get you two back Kagome has to get me the real Shinkon No Tama." Naraku smirked, "Hopefully she will not fail you, and I think I'll give her a time-limit just to keep her on her heals." Naraku pulled a small flip phone out of his pants pocket and dialed Kagome's number. He waited for her to answer knowing she'd find what he was looking for.
>>>>WITH INUYASHA AND RIN
"Yash?" Rin glanced into the living room, "Yash! Yash!" she ran over to the couch where he was sitting. She smiled down at her and picked up the remote, after changing it to cartoons he pulled the little girl up onto the couch and sat her down next to him.
"Yash?" She looked up at him and waited for him to respond.
"What?" he asked looking down at her.
'Is Kagome your new girlfriend?" She asked hopefully.
"No!" Inuyasha responded quickly.
"Well then I think you should ask her out!" Rin advised.
"I can't do that!" He snapped.
"Why not?" Rin glared at him for not agreeing to her plan.
"Because, Rin, I have Kikyo!" Inuyasha explained, "At least I think I do." He muttered under his breath.
"I like Kagome better though!" Rin wined.
"Rin…" Inuyasha couldn't say he disagreed with the girl, but then that would be like cheating. Wouldn't it? "Wait, where is Kagome?" Inuyasha glanced around the room.
"She left!" Rin said as if he should have known.
"What do you mean?" Inuyasha looked down at his niece expecting her to say 'just kidding' but she didn't.
"She went home!" Rin got down off the couch and looked underneath it.
"How did she get home?" he asked, maybe her friends had come to get her, but he couldn't remember her calling them for a ride. Rin looked up at him and shrugged. She then pulled a puzzle out from under the couch. "Can I play this Yash?" she asked holding up the puzzle box.
"Did she walk?" He got off the couch.
"I don't know!" Rin shook the puzzle box before opening it and pulling out all twelve pieces that made up the puzzle.
"She shouldn't have walked all the way home!" Inuyasha paced behind the couch deciding on whether or not he should make sure she got home okay. "I should have taken her." He silently cursed the stupid girl.
"Yash you should go save her!" Rin suggested as she bent over her puzzle and got to work.
"Rin can you be good for ten minutes?" Inuyasha asked eyeing her to make sure she would stay out of trouble.
"Are you going to go ask Kagome out?" Rin questioned.
"I'll be right back." Inuyasha purposely avoided Rin's question.
"Kay Yash!" Rin looked back down at her puzzle and Inuyasha left knowing she wouldn't do too much harm. He went to the foyer and grabbed a jacket out of a closet on his way. He walked out the door and got into his car. He started the engine and looked around as he heard a phone ring.
He dug in between the seats searching for a phone. He pulled a small Motorola flip-phone out from in between the seats and stared down at it. 'It must be Kagome's' He thought.
He opened the phone and pushed the green button to accept the call.
"Hello?" He answered into the mini speaker.
He listened to the person on the other line breath heavily and then he heard what sounded like Sango screaming and then a loud thud. 'This can't be good.' He thought.
"Hello?" He asked, "What's going on?" He listened harder hoping to hear some sign of Sango's voice. "Sango?" The line went dead. Inuyasha held the phone out away from him and then pressed in the four digit number to check out the number.
The number showed up as unlisted. Inuyasha tossed the phone into the seat next to him. He had to go visit Kagome now, by that phone call Sango was in trouble. Maybe Miroku too. Inuyasha wondered for a minute. Why did he care anyway? He just had this feeling in his gut and so he pulled out of the driveway and speed off.
>>>>WITH KAGOME
Kagome sighed in relief when she turned the corner and saw he apartment building. She slowed her pace to a steady walk until she could catch her breath. She had run all the way here because she didn't want Inuyasha to realize she had gone and then come after her.
She looked to the parking lot hoping against all odds that their vehicle would be parked in front of their door but it wasn't. Kagome watched a car pass when something caught her eye. She did a double take when she realized that it was just some guy running down the street.
She smirked when she saw what he was wearing, black baggy pants that he had to hold up and a long-sleeved black t-shirt. She laughed then stopped suddenly, she did another double take and realized that it was Hojo who was running.
Where was he going? She stared at him in disbelief when she realized that he was running toward her apartment building. Kagome instantly took off. She was happy to realize that she was gaining on him after only a few seconds. She'd had a lot of practice when it came to sprinting short distances.
She cursed him aloud when he suddenly put on a burst of speed. He crossed the road without looking and almost got hit but he never stopped. Kagome judged the distance between them now and decided that she should pick up speed now. She pushed her already tired body to move faster and she smirked wickedly when she finally started to catch up with him. She was on his tail and he looked tired and dirty. (Just like her!)
She looked ahead and realized that they were getting extremely close to her apartment. She had to beat him. She glanced over at him and he smirked. Kagome paused for a second, her thoughts making her want to strangle him. 'Why the hell is he smirking? He's so not going to win!' He thought's had distracted her and he took the chance to trip her up.
She fell roughly to the ground and a small scream escaped her as she banged her head against the asphalt. He mind went blank and she opened her eyes. All she could see was black. She closed her eyes tightly hoping that after a second it would fade. She focused on her other injuries.
Her ankle was throbbing but she didn't think it was broke. She was pretty sure her elbows were bleeding and she felt a headache coming on. She was so going to kill Hojo. She opened her eyes slowly and realized she could see, but everything was blurry.
She then realized that Hojo was standing over her. She immediately punched him in the face, then jumped to her feet. She staggered around and almost fell again. Quickly she steadied herself and then turned back to Hojo. He was leaning over holding his nose, and she could barely make out his words. It took her a few seconds to realize he was cussing her out.
She turned around and slowly started walking to her apartment, she wanted to run but was afraid of risking it. She didn't want to injure herself anymore, and besides everything was still blurry.
"Wait! Kagome!" Hojo ran ahead of her and blocked her door. She was only a few feet away when she realized he was in her way.
"If you know what's good for you then you'll get out of my way," she ground out, "Now!"
"I can't!" he pushed her threat aside. "Not until you hear me out!"
"You've got three seconds to move!" Kagome wanted to shout at him but found she didn't have the strength, so she decided threatening him was the only way to get through to him.
"We can work together and kill him!" Hojo offered.
Time's up!" that was the only warning Hojo got before he felt her fist yet again hit his nose. He withered in pain but was still in her way. "Kagome just let me explain—." He was cut off when Kagome kneed him in the stomach. He doubled over in pain again.
"I don't want to hear your bullshit!" She pushed him out of the way and then quickly entered her apartment locking the door behind her. There was a seconds silence before Hojo was back up and pounding on the door.
"Kagome! Let me in now!" Hojo stopped deciding that wasn't the right approach for this situation, "Kagome! Please just hear me out!" He pounded again and Kagome moved away from the door.
"Go AWAY! She yelled back.
He pounded on the door some more while yelling at her to let him in.
Suddenly the pounding stopped. She moved closer to the door and listened closely. She could barely hear a thing. She heard some banging and a small thud. She cracked the door a little and saw a silver blur.
"Inuyasha?" She opened the door all the way and was shocked when she made out the scene before her. Hojo was lying on the sidewalk with his face pressed into the ground by Inuyasha's foot. His hands were locked behind his back with what looked like children's handcuffs.
"Kagome! Are you okay?" Inuyasha took in her appearance. She looked like she'd been thrown off the Eiffel Tower or something.
"No! Do I look okay?" She said sarcastically hoping he couldn't smell her fear.
"Kagome, your face," he stopped and sniffed the air. "You're bleeding!" he released Hojo's head and moved closer to her. He inspected her closely. He took her head in his hands and looked closely at the bruise that was forming on her cheek and eye and the cut on her lip that had caused them to swell.
"Can you see okay?" He asked, not allowing her to sense his worry.
"No everything is blurry." She said trying to focus on anything. She looked up into his eyes and realized that he was worried about her. He locked gazed with her and checked if her eyes were dilated.
He lifted her arms checking to see if they were injured as well. He caught sight of a red blood stain on the sides of her shirt. He lifted her shirt not thinking and saw that her stomach was fine along with her sides. He looked up and noted the look on her face. She was blushing a deep shade of red and she kept looking away. She looked cute despite the bruises and cuts.
He dropped her shirt and checked her arms again. Then he spotted it. Her elbows were bleeding. "Who did this to you Kagome?" He asked, staring intently into her eyes, he was determined to know the truth.
"Hojo." She said in a flat tone., she glared down at him.
Inuyasha turned his attention to the man on the ground, he debated over what he could do to this guy that would equal the pain that Kagome was in at the moment.
"Do you have any other injuries?" Inuyasha asked, he was planning on inflicting every pain that Kagome was feeling onto Hojo. That would serve as a good punishment, he thought.
"My ankle is throbbing but I can't tell if it's broke or if it just really hurts." Kagome tried not to whine but she could hardly see and she really wanted to kick Hojo's ass, she didn't want Inuyasha to do it for her.
"Okay then it looks like you aren't allowed to walk then." He quickly picked Kagome up bridle style so she didn't have the chance to argue. He carried her through the open door and laid her on the first couch he came to. He then left her to go retrieve Hojo.
He roughly carried Hojo in and tied him to a chair using rope that was draped on the door hand to a closet. "Do you keep a lot of rope lying around the house Kagome?" he asked just trying to make her smile. He was worried and this was the only way to hide it.
He left after he witnessed a small smile on her face, "Where are you going?" She asked as he walked out the door again.
He came back in a few minutes later with a square machine. He plugged it in the attached it to Hojo's pinky fingers. It looked like a shocking device and Kagome smirked, "Do you keep shocking devices in your car often?" she asked in the same manner as Inuyasha.
He smirked back at her, glad that she was still in good humor. "Now Kagome you said this guy was bothering you right?" Inuyasha held her gray eyes with his amber ones.
"Actually, he is not only bothering me but he's starting to get on my nerves."
"Okay Kagome! There's your proof! He likes you and you like him! He will help us! No matter what you're not telling him!" Hojo blurted out the last part hoping it would help him.
Inuyasha thought about what he heard and looked at Kagome her tense stature told him she was hiding something, he'd ask her about it after he bandaged her up though. He walked down the hall and opened doors until he found the bathroom. He found a small first aid kit under the sink and walked out with it.
He also stopped in what looked like Kagome's room, he walked to a dresser and opened the second drawer from the top and pulled out a t-shirt, thankfully he'd found the right drawer. He then noticed a small note sitting on the dresser. It was unfolded so he read it. He picked it up and shoved it into his pocket. He'd also ask her about that.
He went back into the living room and walked over to Kagome. He bandaged up her elbows first then handed her the t-shirt he got for her, she just sat it aside, not wanting to change in front of him. He checked out her ankle, and decided that it was just severally bruised.
Then he looked at her face. It was so beat up it made him want to cry. She still looked beautiful. He scolded himself but realized it was no use, he'd fallen for this girl, somehow. He only knew her for three days and he loved her. He wanted to tell her but couldn't. Not until he broke things off with Kikyo.
"Can you see any better now?" He looked at her concerned.
"Yeah I think it's getting better, because I can see your eyes now, they're amber. They're very beautiful." He blushed slightly at the comment.
Kagome yelled at herself mentally, 'They're very beautiful'? What was she a romance novel character? Stupid stupid girl! He probably thinks I'm mental or something. Why is he looking at me like that? Kagome stopped thinking knowing that it was not helping her at all.
"Kagome we need to talk." Normally Kagome would think of this as a bad thing but since she was planning on leaving soon anyway it wouldn't matter whether he hated her or not. He was going to hate her though, she knew that for sure.
"Can we take care of Hojo first?" She asked hoping for a little more time to think of how she could tell him.
He turned around and faced Hojo.
"What did you have in mind?"
"We need him to help us find Sango and Miroku, my guess is Naraku has them and is holding them hostage." Inuyasha gave her a 'how in the hell' look, "I've been in this situation before." She explained. "But last time I had Miroku to help me, and I wasn't injured." She glared at Hojo again.
"I'll help you." Inuyasha said. "Just let me know what I need to do."
"I told you he'd help!" Hojo spoke out daringly.
"You need to explain things to me first though," He caught Kagome's gaze, "And don't lie, that will only make me madder."
"You're not going to help us, what we did was wrong and you will never talk to me after I tell you." Kagome promised.
"You're not helping Kagome!" Hojo said from his chair.
"If it's that bad then I don't want to hear it! We can get past this later, first you need to tell me what to do so we can find Sango and Miroku." Inuyasha reluctantly let the topic go, he wanted to think Kagome was perfect for just a few more hours.
"Well unless you happen to be an expert computer hacker your job will only consist of going to get me food." Her humor was masked with a sharp hunger that lye in her stomach.
"Well you just happen to be looking at a computer hacking genius so if you have any other requests please shoot." Inuyasha smiled at her.
"So that was you!" she said a light bulb clicking on abruptly in her brain. He was the one who had traced her hacking, he'd almost had her, and she would have been discovered within the hour. With a limitless amount of money at his disposal she would have been found and left to rot in jail.
"What was me?" He thought about what he'd said.
"Nothing." She said not in the mood to talk about it. Maybe just maybe she'd be able to escape without him throwing her in jail.
"Well then let's get to work."
End Chapter
AN: So what did you think? I personally thought it was the best chapter I've written for this story, but that's just my opinion. Man was it hard to get this one typed! So long! So this story is getting very close to the end (You can probably already tell!) Leave me good reviews and I will work hard to repost within the next week, maybe two! My love goes out to all of you reviewers!