AN: Whew not much to say, getting near the end, of lots of stuff, I'm out of school in six weeks woot! And this story is coming to an end as well :D Sorry for this being late, I have been working 12 hour days at the theater trying to get the set up. If anyone is in the Flagstaff Arizona area come and see the play! Read and Review
Miroku watched in horror as his girlfriend and his friends were taken by the wind witch. He had almost joined the fray but knew that he would be no help if he got captured. Miroku fidgeted behind the wheel of the van waiting for Ayame to get close enough for him to flag her down. After about another ten minutes Miroku grabbed his cell phone and flipped it open prepared to dial the police, even if Ayame wasn't causing that much damage he could tell them the truth, that his friends had been taken inside Naraku's house by a wind demon. Just as he was dialing a knock on the window caused him to yell out and fling his phone into the back of the car. Miroku turned to glare at the person and was confronted with Ayame's grinning face. He stepped out of the car to find her bouncing on the balls of her feet in excitement.
"What are you do happy about?" He asked cocking an eyebrow at her. Ayame shook her head the smile plastered on her face and pointed behind Miroku. Miroku turned and his jaw hit the floor, how did he not hear her? There was trash everywhere, it seemed as if Ayame had taken every trash bag and torn it open. He shook his head and turned back to Ayame slightly unnerved by her grin.
"Look, that's great, but we have a bigger problem. One of Naraku's flunkies took, Sango, Zuki, and Bank!" Miroku said his voice getting a bit high. Ayame flinched at the high tone and then her face fell. It took her a few moments for his information to sink in, but when it did she spun around and jumped the twenty feet to where their three friends had been standing. She sniffed the air to get an idea of what had happened and nearly kicked Miroku's head off when he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"We have to let Inuyasha know," he said after Ayame had recovered from her scare.
"I don't have his number in my cell, give it to me," she said pulling out a green phone with purple Iris's on it. Miroku gave her the number and handed the phone to him as it started ringing. He looked at her funny and she just shrugged. "He's your friend, you deal with him." Miroku scowled at her, he knew Inuyasha would not take the news well. Miroku tapped his foot impatiently as the phone kept ringing, and ringing, and ringing…
"What the hell? Why isn't he picking up!" Miroku flipped the phone shut, wondering if Inuyasha had forgotten his phone, or it had been taken. They tried three more times until they finally gave up.
"We have to get in there and help them," Ayame said turning towards the house. Miroku steeled his nerves and walked towards to house without a glace at Ayame. Just as he was about to walk over the crumpled iron gate there was an arm around his waist and he was flying. He almost shouted out but kept his mouth shut tight. They landed just on the other side of the wall with a cover of trees.
"Why the hell did you do that?" He growled glaring at Ayame, he did not appreciate being manhandled without his permission.
"The guards would have seen us if we just waltzed through the front gate, if we want to get in I'd rather not do it as prisoners," Ayame hissed back as she peaked through the trees. With a quick sniff to the air and another glance she nodded.
"There are ten human guards outside the house, I don't smell or sense any demons on the outside, there are five on this side, I'm pretty sure I could take them all but it would be loud," she mumbled more to herself.
"If they don't have guns I could take two," Miroku said his face cracking into a slightly evil grin. Ayame looked over at him and smelled his confidence, with a curt nod the two slowly started to stalk their targets.
He was pissed. The other two occupants of the room could have told you that even without their keen sense of smell. Inuyasha had his fists clenched so tight he was cutting into his palms, stalking back and forth in the room they had been led too. First, they had been welcomed into the house by gracious bows, and then put in a room to sit around and wait for nothing. They had been in the room for about half and hour but Inuyasha was certain it had been longer then that, Sesshoumaru was starting to loose patience with his younger brother.
"Will you sit down," the elder dog demon hisses, his mouth almost curving into a frown. Inuyasha just growled at his brother before resuming his pacing. Kouga was about as anxious as Inuyasha he was just hiding it better. Sesshoumaru was sitting in a comfortable armchair the tips of his fingers touching just below his chin. When they had come into the house none of their noses could sniff out Kagome or Kikyou, it seemed that Naraku had made sure that any demon with a strong nose would not be able to sniff around his house and find anything. Sesshoumaru was only a few seconds away from knocking his little brother out when a young woman shuffled into the room carrying a tea tray. The girl smelled of a human but had hints of Naraku laced in her scent. She nervously glanced at the taiyoukai who hadn't bothered to cover up his facial marking for the meeting. With a very soft squeak, she dashed from the room without a bow. Inuyasha had paused in his pacing to sniff the girl but quickly resumed when she ran from the room. None of the occupants made a move to get a cup of tea. Inuyasha was too pissed to take anything offered by Naraku, Kouga didn't like tea, and Sesshoumaru was not one to pour his own cup of tea when there were perfectly capable servants to do that sort of thing for him. Inuyasha was so focused on his anger he didn't notice the odd smell that was starting to creep into the room, but Kouga did.
"Augh! What is that smell?" He gagged trying to cover up his nose. Inuyasha stopped and took a deep sniff and almost lost his lunch. Sesshoumaru even grimaced when he took a sniff of the air.
"Poison gas, extremely potent, specifically made to incapacitate demons with sensitive noses," a phantom voice said from the other side of the shoji screen. Inuyasha leapt towards to the voice to be promptly thrown back by some sort of barrier.
"Ah, yes I thought you would fight so, I but a barrier around the room," the same voice sneered. Sesshoumaru hit the barrier with his energy whip which had the same effect as Inuyasha jumping into it, nothing. Kouga didn't even try to get at the barrier, he was too busy focusing on keeping conscious. Inuyasha was the first to go down, quickly followed by Kouga. Sesshoumaru stayed conscious long enough to get a look at the man who entered the room, red eyes flashed and then his world went black.
Kagome jumped when the door to the room she had been stashed in was flung open. She had awoken in this room mere minutes ago and found Kikyou unconscious on the futon. Four large guardsmen lugged in three all the familiar bodies, which were surreptitiously dropped on the floor. Kagome scrambled away from her cousin to tend to her four friends. Sango groaned from her place on the floor before slowly pushing herself into a seated position. She looked around and let out a relieved yell when she saw Kagome was whole and seemingly unhurt. The two young women then took to the task of moving their other three friends into more comfortable positions.
"How the hell did he get Rin?" Sango asked as she helped Kagome drag said girl to the futon.
"I don't want to know, but Sesshoumaru will have a fit. Of all the stupid things Naraku could have done, he decided to kidnap Sesshoumaru's wife," Kagome said with a humorless laugh.
"And a inuyoukai's mate to boot, inuyoukai or ferociously protective of their mates and pack, and Sesshoumaru is not some lower level demon. He's going to flatten the place when he finds out what happened,' Sango responded as she moved to grasp Zuki under the arms. Halfway to the futon, Zuki groaned and shook her head slightly. Sango crouched down and propped Zuki up using her knees as a back brace.
"Unn…where are we?" Zuki grumbled as she peaked around the room. Her head was throbbing and she felt like someone had taken a jackknife to her skull.
"I'm not exactly sure where in the castle we are, but we are in Naraku's house," Kagome said looking closely at Zuki. She had a cut above her right eye that was bleeding profusely. The two girls helped guide the still groggy girl over to a large squishy chair. Kagome dashed to the adjoining bathroom and dampened a wash cloth to clean the cut above her eye. Sango let Kagome do the nursing as she lugged Bankotsu over to the foot of the futon.
"Is he okay?" Zuki asked leaning foreward in her chair making the cleanup of her cut harder on Kagome.
"Just knocked out from what I can tell, I'll be able to tell more when he wakes up," Sango said putting a pillow under his head then stretching her back. Said girl started walking around the room, checking doors and windows to see if there was any way out. Zuki batted the washcloth away from her face and stumbled to Bankotsu's side. Kagome was surprised at the amount of affection Zuki was showing the young man, she just shrugged it off to her having a head injury. A moan from the futon caused everyone to jump, Kikyou slowly sat up and shook her head to clear it. Her eyes roved the room until they fell on Kagome.
"What are you doing here?!" She screamed lunging at her cousin. Kagome sat back a bit as Kikyou grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her slightly.
"I wasn't about to let Naraku take you without a fight from me!" Kagome shouted back after she got over the initial surprise of her cousin jumping on her. Kikyou's face fell and she shook her head sitting back on her heels.
"You shouldn't have come, now he'll just get what he wanted in the first place," she said softly. Kagome placed a comforting hand on Kikyou's shoulder before pulling her cousin into a tight hug.
"Don't worry, Inuyasha will get us out of here," she said so only Kikyou could hear. Kikyou gave her a quick squeeze before she pulled back her eyes brimmed with tears.
"You have such trust in him," she said a slight edge to her voice.
"Of course I do, he loves you, he wouldn't let Naraku-," Kikyou but her off before she could finish her sentence.
"Inuyasha, loved me, at one point, but he hasn't loved me for awhile," Kagome tried to protest but Kikyou silenced her with a finger. "He and I haven't loved each other like that since before the accident, he didn't break up with me after I woke up because of guilt, and I was too selfish to do it myself." Kagome frowned from behind her cousins finger then noticed the rest of the people in the room and blushed. Kikyou pulled back and smiled at the rest of the girls.
"Thank you for trying to rescue me, but you shouldn't have," she said with a sad smile.
"Like hell we were going to leave you, I may not like you very much right now but no one deserves to be at the mercy of that disgusting man!" Zuki said unconsciously grabbing Bankotsu's hand. Sango nodded in agreement a determined look on her face. "Besides, break has been pretty boring it's nice to get some adventure." What Zuki said brought out a few small bubbled of laughter before they group fell into a worried silence. Zuki was worried that Bankotsu was seriously hurt, Kagome worried that Inuyasha wouldn't know where to find her. Even thought she wouldn't admit it, Sango was worried that Miroku had been taken as well. After what seemed like hours Bankotsu started to stir. Zuki hovered over him here eyes darting all over his face looking for signs of injury. One dark blue eye cracked open causing relief to break over Zuki's face. Bankotsu smirked at her before sitting up and holding his head with a groan. Zuki put a hand behind her shoulder to help support him.
"I feel like I've been hit by a truck," he groaned looking over at Zuki.
"Just a giant gust of wind," she said with a grin, Bankotsu smiled back then looked down to find their hands intertwined. Zuki noticed him looking and made to let his hand go, but he squeezed and didn't let her. She blushed slightly and was glad that the rest of the people in the room were tactfully ignoring the display of affection.
"So what are we going to do?" Sango asked flopping down in the chair Zuki had been sitting in. Kagome looked down at the last unconscious person in the room before making up her mind.
"We wait until Rin wakes up, then we figure out how to get out of here."
AN: So I feel horrible that it's taken this long to update so I decided I had to give you guys something lol. This isn't a full chapter but hopefully it will tide you over until I get done with finals and other stuff going on. Again I'm sorry for the delay but I'm writing again which is a good sign, thanks for sticking with the story!