AN: and the second half of chp 17, very sorry for the long wait, it's been a hectic month and won't really calm down until June, I am going to try my hardest to finish the story before the end of May but it's more of a goal that I might not make because of other things I'm dealing with lol. Thanks for sticking with it!
Inuyasha awoke with a groan, his head was spinning and he felt like someone had punched him in the gut. It took a moment for his vision to focus but when it did he noticed that he was sitting up against a wall, he also noticed his hands and feet were tied. He tried to pull his arms apart but it seemed that the ropes were stronger then normal rope. The room had no light but that didn't affect him much, he could still see pretty well. He took a quick sniff of the room, a few horrid smells crept into his nose but he got the information that he needed. Kouga and Sesshoumaru were in the vicinity but not in the same room.
"Hey wolf-shit, you still alive?" he called out his voice echoing slightly.
"No thanks to you! Now will you quite shouting my head feels like it's going to fall off," Kouga grumbled in response. Inuyasha chuckled, if he could be angry then the wolf wasn't too badly injured.
"Before you start calling out, yes this Sesshoumaru is alive," his brother said a bit more quietly then the other two. Inuyasha almost breathed a sigh of relief, almost.
"Hey dog breath, you tied up with crazy strong ropes to?" The wolf demon called out to him.
"Yeah, they're probably imbued with spiritual power but how Naraku got his hands on this kind of power I have no idea," the hanyou responded trying to free his hands a second time.
"I wondered the same thing, that barrier wasn't the typical form that Naraku usually uses, it wasn't demonic but it wasn't like that of a priestess either, it was too dark," Sesshoumaru said more to himself then the other two.
"I don't really care who cast these stupid binding spell I just want to get the hell out of here and get Kagome!" Inuyasha growled his impatience and fear starting to creep up on him, not fear for himself but fear for his best friend.
"If I told you that I wouldn't have any fun," a sickly sweet voice echoed around the three captives. Inuyasha felt the power before he saw the woman wielding it, what he felt caused a shiver to run up his spine. This was a priestess but a dark priestess, and she was powerful.
"Tsubaki, it seems you have lowered yourself to working for a lowly Yakuza demon, how disappointing," Sesshoumaru sneered. If Inuyasha didn't know any better it almost sounded like Sesshoumaru was smiling at him.
"Ah yes, the great Lord Sesshoumaru, not so great now that I've bound you," Tsubaki laughed. The sound made Inuyasha cringe, her voice ripped through his ears. Inuyasha opened his mouth to respond but a low growl coming from his brother gave him pause, he hadn't heard his brother growl that angrily since the last time Rin. Inuyasha sniffed the air and almost laughed out loud, he smelled his sister-in-law, of all the stupid things to do.
"What have you done with my mate," Sesshoumaru growled, his voice low but Inuyasha knew the tone, if his brother didn't like the answer everyone in the building who got in his way would die.
"Aw, does the itty bitty inuyoukai miss his whore?" Tsubaki cooed in a sickly sweet baby voice.
"You have one more chance to answer me."
"Or what, you're going to kill me? Ha! I have you bound remember, you can't do-what's going on?" Inuyasha felt his brothers youkai growing and started to regret the fact that he was so near the taiyoukai.
"Inuyasha, what the hell is your brother doing?" Kouga asked his voice wavering slightly.
"Transforming, if you can get you ass as far away from him as you can," Inuyasha growled lowly hoping the bitch of a priestess didn't hear him. The next moments were a flash of activity that Inuyasha might have missed if he hadn't been trying to see what was going on. Sesshoumaru transformed into his true form, a huge white dog, the binding ropes didn't stand a chance. His brother had blasted a huge wall into the side of the dungeon letting in enough light for Inuyasha too see everything clearly. Sesshoumaru lunged for the dark priestess but with a snap of her fingers she was gone. The inuyoukai howled in anger and spun around growling trying to sense his mate, his poison saliva was dripping too close to Inuyasha.
"Sessh! Calm the fuck down, burning holes into me and Kouga isn't going to help!" Inuyasha yelled as he rolled, the space he had just been was now a smoking black hole. The large white dog turned his large head to his younger brother and in a flash of light Sesshoumaru was back to his original form. In silence Sesshoumaru walked to his brother and with a few quick slashes had the inu-hanyou freed. Inuyasha rubbed his wrists and pushed himself up as his brother went to free the wolf. Now that there was a gaping hole in the side of the building Inuyasha had a better sense of where they were in the large Yakuza house. He started towards the door leading out of the dungeon when a yell stopped him in his tracks.
"What hell are you guys doing?"
Miroku landed a hard punch on the solar plexus of the last guy he was fighting. Ayame and already dispatched two and Miroku had taken out one. Ayame roundhouse kicked the man she was dealing with and knocked him out. While the man Miroku had punched was gasping for breath, he hit him on the back of the head with a staff he had taken from one of the guards. Ayame jogged up to him with a huge grin that Miroku returned taking a moment to catch his breath.
"Ready to go rescue the idiots?" Ayame asked. Before Miroku could respond, a huge explosion caused the two to reel around as they saw part of the building get blasted away. The thing that had caused the blast made Miroku blanche, it was a giant white dog. Before he could say anything Ayame was gone in a whirlwind leaving Miroku to try and run after her before she got herself killed.
"Ayame! Where are you-what the hell?" Miroku slid to a stop next to the wolf demoness and gaped at the sight before him. There was a giant hole in the side of the building which had been cause by what Miroku could only call a giant white dog. He could see Kouga had pressed himself against the opposite wall trying to be as small as possible with his hands and feet bound. Miroku was flabbergasted to see Inuyasha rolling around on the ground seemingly trying to talk to the giant dog. After a few moments of yelling from the hanyous' part and growling from the giant dog, said giant dog disappeared in a puff of smoke and Sesshoumaru was standing in his place. The three canine demons had yet to notice Miroku and Ayame standing there gaping at what they had just seen. Ayame was the first to recover from the shock with a yell.
"What the hell are you guys doing?" She started to storm towards the hole that had been blown into the side of the building. Kouga spun around and a wave of emotions passed over his face finally landing on annoyance.
"Ayame what the hell are you doing here?" He demanded stalking towards her. Miroku saw Ayame bristle as being yelled at and stopped in her tracks clenching her fists. Inuyasha was walking slowly towards Miroku keeping a wary eye on the two wolf demons. They silently glared at one another before the storm came. Kouga was the first to explode quickly followed by Ayame. Miroku and Inuyasha caught a few words mostly things about being idiotic or egotistical.
"How long do you think they can go at it like this?" Miroku whispered out of the corner of his mouth. Inuyasha glanced at him before crossing his arms and shrugging his shoulders.
"Depends on how pissed off Ayame is, Kouga may act like the big wolf, but Ayame has him on a leash," he said very seriously. Miroku snorted and shook his head silently agreeing with the hanyou. Inuyasha decided to give them a few more seconds before he was going to break up the fight, right before he went to them his brother had jumped between the to wolves and glared at Kouga.
"Wrap this fight up right the fuck now or we will be leaving your corpse here," Sesshoumaru growled. Inuyasha hadn't seen this much emotion from his brother in his entire life. Kouga usually was too thick headed to back down from a fight he would loose but even he could feel the anger crackling off of the inuyoukai. Ayame crossed her arms and smirked behind Sesshoumaru before she sauntered off towards the house. Kouga watched her for a moment before taking off after her. Inuyasha heard his brother mutter something about stupid wolves before he jumped to the hole he had created. Miroku and Inuyasha were quick to follow. Now that Inuyasha was outside he was starting to pick up the scent of Kikyou and Kagome, he didn't want to acknowledge that the scent of Kagome affected him more than his own girlfriends.
The five conscious occupants of the room sat around the small young woman hoping she would wake up soon. Bankotsu had barely let Zuki leave his side, whenever she wasn't moving about the room he had her pulled close to him as if she was close enough nothing bad could happen to her. Kagome couldn't help the small smile that crept over her face when she saw the intimacy between the two musicians. Sango would get up every so often to wander around the room, Kagome had quickly discovered that the room was surrounded by a barrier. It wasn't demonic but nor was it a pure barrier, Kikyou had suggested that a dark priestess was working with Naraku which made sense. Zuki hovered over her small friend still unconscious on the futon, she was breathing and as far as anyone could tell there wasn't anything seriously wrong with her. Kagome and Zuki sat on either side of Rin on the floor, Bankotsu had pulled a chair up behind Zuki so her back was currently leaning on his shins. Except for a slow movement of her chest Rin didn't move, Kagome was starting to worry that she wouldn't ever wake up when a huge explosion shook the room.
"What the hell was that?" Zuki asked from her new position on the floor.
"I don't know but the barrier is down!" Sango said throwing the shoji screen open. Bankotsu knelt down next to their still unconscious friend and with the help of Zuki picked her up bridal style, silently thanking the kami that she was a small girl. With Sango in the lead and Kikyou bringing up the rear the five teens crept as quickly as they could through the halls.
"This isn't right, where is everyone?" Kagome asked glancing around nervously.
"I don't know, something isn't right," Kikyou responded quickening her pace so she was almost stepping on Bankotsu's heels.
"Now what on earth would ever give you the impression that something wasn't right my dear Kikyou," a cold voice rang out from the shadows. The lights flickered as an ominous shape appeared in the hall.
"Naraku."
His eyes were what scared her the most, red, like blood. His hair was so black in seemed to just disappear in the blackness that surrounded his form.
"Yes, Naraku. It seems that Tsubaki's barrier did not hold when she felt my compound, no matter, she will be dead in moments." His voice was like liquid velvet, smooth and warm but there was something so very wrong about everything.
"What do you want from us Naraku?" Kagome asked not sure where she was getting the courage to stand up to the yakuza leader.
"Oh nothing from your friends, perhaps if you cooperate my dear Kagome, I'll let them live. Not all of them of course Kikyou has not held up her end of the bargain and will be killed," he said with a cruel smile towards her cousin.
"Fine, then what do you want with me?" She asked her voice sounded strong in her ears, she wondered if she sounded as brave to everyone else in the room.
"I'm sure Kikyou explained all of that to you, but in reality that is not what I want you for. As you know your family has spiritual powers, Kikyou's are quite strong but nothing compared to yours, the powers you have are exquisite and with that kind of power on my side I could have all of the youkai yakuza lords groveling at my feet!" Naraku laughed. His laugh was harsh and helped break the handsome face into it's hideous true form.
"I would never help you!" Kagome screamed her voice hitching in her throat, why did Naraku sound so sure that he could make her work for him.
"I have ways of breaking your will to fight," he said so softly Kagome had to hold her breath to hear him. Quick as a flash a tentacle broke through the makeshift wall Sango and Zuki had made in front of Kagome and pulled said girl to the demons side.
"Now, I will be leaving you four to the 'dogs'," Naraku said. Before any of them could react they were both gone. A howl and pounding footsteps broke the teens of their trance and spun to see five familiar faces running to them as fast as they could.
"Inuyasha! He got her, he has Kagome!" Sango said running to meet them. Miroku met her halfway and enveloped her in a rib cracking hug burying his face in her neck to make sure she was really there. Sesshoumaru swept Rin from Bankotsu's arms and quickly looked her over making sure she wasn't injured. He smelled a strong sedative in her skin but knew it would be wearing off shortly. Kikyou and Inuyasha stood a few feet apart from each other, neither quite sure how to react twords each others prescence. Inuyasha was relived to see and smell that Kikyou wasn't hurt, but his worry for Kagome was so overpowering he didn't feel the relief he should have for his girlfriend. Once Bankotsu's arms had been freed from carrying Rin he had pulled Zuki close to him needing to feel her next to him.
"How are we going to find Kagome?" Miroku suddenly asked loosening his tight hold on Sango.
"I can smell her," Inuyasha said lifting his nose into the air. Sesshoumaru, Kouga, and Ayame followed suite and nodded.
"They're still on the compound, but deep underground," Sesshoumaru said looking at the ground as if it would open up by his own will.
"Then let's go get her," Zuki said not even trying to keep the desperation out of her voice. Inuyasha gave her an appraising look before turning to Kouga.
"I want you to get them out of here, I can get Kagome on my own," he said trying not to leave any room for argument.
"No little brother," Sesshoumaru said firmly. In a quick move that surprised everyone, Rin was in Ayame's arms and Sesshoumaru was telling Kouga instructions for when the police arraived. Sango was the one who put up the biggest fight, followed closely by Kikyou, but neither of the Takahashi brothers were hearing it. Soon enough, Kouga, Ayame, Rin, Sango, Miroku, Zuki, Bankotsu, and Kikyou were all standing on the sidewalk waiting for the police and praying that they would see their friends again.
AN, Hello again! So yes I am sort of back, I'm writing a lot because what else do you do when recovering from brain surgery lol. Only a couple more chapters left, thank you for sticking with me, I will be updating weekly again but I really think there are only two or three chapters left, we will see. R&R!