The Accused Hanyou and the Misguided Miko
Chapter Three: Naraku and Kikyo… Witnesses???

'It's been three days since I've been living here at the mansion…' Kagome thought. 'And it's all thanks to my savoir, Inuyasha. I wonder if he's doing alright. His brother and sister in law are so kind to me, even though I'm nothing but a whore. But they have faith in me… Why? They've bought me clothes, food, and gave me a place to stay. How can I ever thank them for their gratitude?'

"Kagome! Time for lunch!" Kagura yelled from the bottom of the stairs to her room.

"Aye! Coming!" Kagome responded.

Their mansion was huge. The staircase was in the middle of the house, right in front of the entrance to their home. To the left was living room and to the right was the kitchen. Beside the kitchen was what they called a 'small' powder room. But it was the size of Kagome's bedroom growing up as a child at the Higurashi shrine. Speaking of rooms you should see the size of her rooms! They gave her one of the rooms that had a huge balcony on it. All the bedrooms were on the second floor. Kagome had counted at least ten bedrooms but when she asked they just laughed and said there were thirteen. Each bedroom had a private washroom, which Kagome enjoyed very much. On the third floor there was a work out room, and the fourth floor there was a greenhouse, better said, it was on the roof. With such a beautiful garden. They also had an elevator so there wasn't much of a need to use the stairs. Kagome only used the stairs if she was on the second floor.

Kagome ran down the staircase and made it into the kitchen quickly. 'They make such tasty food.' Kagome thought with a smile. 'Their cook is definitely an excellent one.' She made it into the kitchen just as the chef was placing their lunch on the table. She walked over to her seat and politely sat down.

Before her was a huge lunch. She didn't believe she'd ever be able to eat so much in her life. This is why she always took the stairs to her bedroom. Before her was a huge serving of French fries with cheese sauce covering them, a burger with lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onion rings, cheese and bacon on it – just the way she loved them – and a glass of orange juice. When normally she would either have to skip lunch, wasn't given any or had to 'work.' And even if either of those didn't apply it was a quick cheap sandwich from a small store, which usually made her sick.

"This looks so good." Kagome said smiling.

Kagura smiled. "I'm glad you're coming accustom to our way of living Kagome."

"And it's much better that you're wearing decent clothing now." Sesshoumaru said and then began eating his food.

"I don't know how to thank you two for helping me out so much. And it's only been three days. How can I ever repay you?" Kagome said.

"Don't worry about it Kag…" Kagura began.

"A way to repay us?" Sesshoumaru asked looking over towards Kagome.

"Y-Yes. You've done too much already. I couldn't accept this without giving something in return." Kagome said looking a bit sadder.

"There is one thing." Sesshoumaru said.

"Whatever it is… Please let me repay you!" Kagome said with a serious look on her face.

"Sesshoumaru, she doesn't need to pay us back!" Kagura said glaring at her husband.

Sesshoumaru looked over at his wife. "The one way to repay us is not let our gratitude be in vain."

Kagome had a shocked look on her face. "In vain?" She asked.

"Don't have our help for you mean nothing. Never go back with Naraku." Sesshoumaru said looking at her. "And I mean never." Now he was glaring at her.

"There has to be other ways of paying you back."

"Do you mean you cannot keep that promise?" Sesshoumaru asked tilting his head to the side out of curiosity.

"No! I didn't mean it like that! I will never go back with Naraku!" Kagome demanded. "But, there has to be something I could do." Kagome said calming herself down.

"There isn't. So just do that. And enjoy your stay here." Sesshoumaru said getting up and going over to the living room, leaving a half full plate of food on the table.

Kagura looked over at Kagome. "That's his way of telling you that you don't owe us anything, we're set for life, we just want to help you."

"I know, but there has to be some other way. I, I can't just live off of you guys, you're much too nice for that, I'll feel bad taking, without giving anything back." Kagome responded.

"Kagome it's alright. Just, as Sesshoumaru said, don't let our help go in vain."

"I won't! I promise!"

Kagura laughed a bit. "Than don't worry about paying us back alright? Just stay here and live with us, we have enough money anyways and it won't be such a big deal." Kagura said.

"But how long can I stay here?" Kagome asked.

"As long as it takes, we won't let you leave right now Naraku's probably on the hunt for you." Kagura said.

Kagome was silent for a little while. "How… How's Inuyasha doing?" Kagome asked moving her food around her plate with her fork.

Kagura was surprised she even asked. "He's doing as well as he could be locked up. Sesshoumaru spoke with him this morning; they're trying to work things out, after all, Sesshoumaru is Inuyasha's lawyer." Kagura said.

"He is?"

Kagura smiled and nodded her head. "Sesshoumaru's a good lawyer, if any one can get Inuyasha out of jail it's him."

"I hope so… After all this is all thanks to Inuyasha." Kagome said with a frown.

Kagura stared at Kagome, "did you get feelings for my brother-in-law?" She asked.

Kagome's eyes widened. "Um, well you see, he was really nice, and no way can someone that nice kill someone. I mean, only guilty people should be in jail for that kind of stuff right? And since Inuyasha seems innocent, because he's really nice, I don't think he belongs there just because he's a hanyou, it's unfair and stupid and…"

"You did!" Kagura shouted seeing right through Kagome.

Kagome blushed. "Well, I uh… I mean uh…"

Kagura smiled. "That's cute! You two would make a cute couple!"

'So she has feelings for my brother?' Sesshoumaru thought while eavesdropping on their conversation. 'That just makes this even more interesting.' He got up from the couch in the living room and walked to the kitchen. "I'm going to pay Inuyasha a visit." He stated.

"What for sweetie?" Kagura asked. "Didn't you talk to him today?" She asked.

"Not long enough, they kicked him off the phone before we finished our conversation." He said and looked over at Kagome. "Would you like to join me Kagome?" He asked.

"Wha... What?" She asked.

"Would you like to pay Inuyasha a visit to thank him?" He asked again.

'I know what he's doing now.' Kagura thought. 'He just wants to instigate.' She thought smiling.

"Uh, of course! I would love to thank him!" Kagome said.

"Are you ready to leave now? I don't like waiting." Sesshoumaru said.

"Yeah I'm ready, I guess…" Kagome said. She didn't finish her meal; she ate only about half of it, but was full anyways. She put her dishes in the sink and began to leave with Sesshoumaru.

"Hunnie." Kagura called.

"Yes?" He responded.

"Can I come too? I haven't seen him in a long time." Kagura said.

Sesshoumaru smiled. "Of course you can."

With that said and done they all got into his car and left to see Inuyasha.

Inuyasha was lying on his 'so-called' bed staring at the ceiling. "God it's too lonely in here. I hate this." Inuyasha muttered to himself. He heard guards walking towards his cell. 'I wonder what they want…' He thought. They stopped at his cell. 'They're for me? Now what?' He asked himself.

"You have visitors." The guard said. Inuyasha glared at them, he knew they were going to cuff him. They opened his jail cell and told him to sit up he sighed and stood up instead, he turned around with his hands behind his back.

"Just cuff me already." He said. So they did and began dragging him out to special closed off room where he would see his visitors. Since he was a 'murderer' this was how he was treated, heck even if he was going to take a shower or out for a cigarette they had to cuff him for the trip there. Inuyasha thought it was stupid, because, either to take a shower or go for a smoke, they had to un-cuff him right after. Did they honestly think he would attack them inside the building? Once he got out he could easily have them un-cuff him and he could attack them and take off, he could easily handle these guards. But he was innocent and abided by all their stupid rules.

They reached the room, un-cuffed him, opened the door and threw him inside like a piece of trash. "You could be a little gentler!" Inuyasha hollered at the guards as they slammed the door shut. He got up and dusted himself off, as he was doing so he picked up a certain someone's scent. He looked over and saw Sesshoumaru sitting in a chair by the table that was centered in the middle of the room, his sister-in-law standing next to him and Kagome standing there, just staring at him with sad eyes. "Kagome?" He asked confused.

Sesshoumaru smiled. "She wanted to thank-you Inuyasha. Now doesn't she look much prettier with more decent clothes on?" Sesshoumaru asked. Inuyasha couldn't say anything, he just stared at her. She looked nothing like when he first met her. She had her hair in a ponytail with a pink blouse on and baby blue jeans. She had silver hoop earrings on as well and black flats on.

"She does look different. If it weren't for my sense of smell I wouldn't have recognized her." She blushed at the statement.

Kagura smiled at the two. 'They make a perfect match! I'll finally have a sister-in-law!' She thought happily.

"Inuyasha, I… Well, what Sesshoumaru said… I wanted to uh… Thank-you." She said sounding stupid.

Inuyasha tilted his head in confusion looking at her and he laughed a bit. "Loss for words?" He asked.

She blushed. "Well he just said I wanted to thank-you and than me saying thank-you pretty much right after sounds a little… Well, it sounds weird okay?" She said laughing with him.

He smiled. "Well at least I got something to do today. I was getting really bored." He said. "I memorized the ceiling above my bed by now." He said laughing and sitting down in the chair across from Sesshoumaru.

His brother laughed at him. "Hopefully we'll get you out of here soon." Sesshoumaru said. "I still haven't found anything leading to a new suspect though. Who ever murdered Akito is either really good, really lucky, or despises you." He stated.

"Or the cops planted evidence." Kagome muttered.

"That too." Sesshoumaru said sighing.

"Well it seems like everyone hates me." Inuyasha said sighing. "Just because I'm a hanyou…"

"Not everyone hates you Inuyasha!" Kagura said. "I don't, nor does your brother, or Miroku, your other friends, and Kagome doesn't either."

"Okay, most people." He said correcting himself. Kagura gave up, because he was right, everyone did in fact hate him because he was a hanyou.

Sesshoumaru got up from his seat and walked over to his brother. "We'll figure this out, don't worry Inuyasha." He said putting his hand on Inuyasha's shoulder, and Inuyasha winced in pain. "Are you okay?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"Nothing to worry about." He groaned out.

"You sure you're okay?" Kagome asked walking over to him.

"Yeah don't worry about it, nothing I can't handle." He said trying to assure her.

Kagome looked at him and than at his shoulder. She poked his shoulder lightly and he moved away. "Really now?" She asked.

"I'm fine." He argued. This time she poked it harder. "Hey that's hurts!" He yelled.

"Nothing you can't handle huh?" She asked. "What happened?" She asked and they all went silent.

"Kagome this happens all the time." Kagura said. Kagome looked at her.

"What?" She asked.

"He's always hurt in here, it's not like any one cares." She said.

"That's horrible!"

"It is, but there's not much we can do about it." Sesshoumaru said. "We've complained and they always said they'd do something about it, but never do… They just don't care about a hanyou." He continued.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha's shoulder and rested her hands on it lightly. "What are you doing?" Inuyasha asked her.

"Shut up." She said and Kagura laughed. They saw a blue light come from Kagome's hands and they just stared at it, dumbfounded by what she was doing. After about a minute she moved her hands away and stared at him. She smirked and poked his shoulder really hard.

"Hey! That… That… That doesn't hurt?" He said confused and began tapping his shoulder. "What did you do?" He asked her.

"I'm a miko remember? It's a healing spell." She said smiling.

"Uh, thanks…" He said still staring at his shoulder.

'How does a girl like her, get caught up with a guy like Naraku?' Kagura thought to herself. 'I got to ask her to tell me her story…'

"Wow it seems you got quite a bit of power huh?" Sesshoumaru asked Kagome.

"Well growing up I was trained to be a priestess… But now look at me…" She said.

"You're turning your life around… You're not a prostitute any more." Inuyasha said looking at her.

Kagome sighed. "My mother would never believe it. I wouldn't ever dream about bothering her again anyways, I put her through a lot of shit…" Kagome said.

"I'm sure she'd be happy to know that you're okay, and trying to turn your life around." Inuyasha said.

"I bet the first thing she would say is 'yeah and how long is that going to last?' That's what she always says now, which is why I refused to call her when I got thrown in jail again." She said.

"Well wait a week and if you're still with Sesshoumaru and not fucking up, which you better not fuck up," Inuyasha said glaring at her, "than call her and let her know. Like I said, I'm sure she'd be happy."

Kagome just stood there silent. "It's not that easy." Kagome said in a low voice, thank god they were all demons otherwise they never would have heard her.

"Why not?" Inuyasha asked.

"It's just really complicated; I don't want to get in to it." Kagome said, her voice sounded shaky like she was about to cry. Inuyasha looked at her could tell she was tearing up. He got up from his seat, walked up to her and hugged her. She began to cry in his chest.

'How come every time I see her she cries?' Inuyasha asked himself. The guard that was standing in there was ready to pull Inuyasha away from her when Inuyasha said. "I'm not going to hurt her, she's crying you asshole."

Kagome looked over Inuyasha's shoulder and saw the guard glaring at him, she glared back at him. She moved Inuyasha away from her and wiped her tears, and than she walked up to the guard glaring at him. "What's your fucking problem?" She asked and everyone just stared at her.

"He's a murderer, why would you cry in his arms?" He responded.

"Oh excuse me, I didn't know you were there the night the guy was murdered and saw Inuyasha kill him, I'm so sorry." Kagome said sarcastically.

The guard glare at her. "I wasn't there, but he's a hanyou that's proof enough! You should know, you're a miko, that's what you said right? Shouldn't a miko's job be to kill these abominations?" He asked. "And besides, aren't that whore that was pimped out by a hanyou? Shouldn't that experience be enough for you?" He asked.

Kagome got really mad. "So what if one hanyou fucks up." She said. "Humans kill each other, rob each other, hurt each other, and abuse each other. Does that mean because one human fucks up, every human should pay?" She asked.

"I couldn't care less if all humans were to be judged that. I'm a demon."

"Full fledged demons also commit crimes, does that mean you should be judged because one demon killed someone?" She asked.

"Well… No…" He said.

"Exactly, so shut your fucking mouth." She said angrily.

"Wow, she's good." Sesshoumaru said. "You should be a lawyer Kagome."

Kagome spun around and faced Sesshoumaru. "That was actually my career of choice before I fucked up." Kagome said.

"Well it's not too late." Sesshoumaru said smiling. "You could be an intern where I work if you like."

Kagome stared at him. 'He's too nice.' She thought. "Really?" She asked.

"Of course."

"That'd be great…" Kagome said.

After that Inuyasha spoke with Sesshoumaru about some legal business, trying to figure out how they are going to get themselves out of this one. Many times as a kid Inuyasha was always in trouble at school, for bullying and etc, but he never did anything, and the other kid got into trouble, his brother was always the one helping him, which is why Sesshoumaru chose to be a lawyer, to always help his brother, and heck, he made a good one, he never lost a case. Many of his cases involved Inuyasha, and murder, but never did he have a case that involved both his brother and murder, this was a hard case, even for him.

About half an hour after they had been discussing this a guy in a suit walked in the room. All eyes were on him, to Kagome, he was just some dude in a suit, but they knew who he was, and by the looks on their faces, they weren't very happy. It was the courts DA, the one prosecuting Inuyasha, and he had a huge grin on his face.

"What do you want now?" Sesshoumaru asked glaring at him.

'Who is this guy?' Kagome wondered.

The man handed Sesshoumaru a brown envelope, he snatched it out of his hand angrily. "What is this?" He asked.

The man laughed, "see you in court." Was all he said and walked out.

"Who was that?" Kagome asked.

Inuyasha looked at her. "That's the man who's prosecuting me." He said.

"What did he want?" Kagura asked.

Sesshoumaru opened the envelope and pulled out some court papers, and didn't like what he saw, he scowled at the paper. "What is it?" Inuyasha asked.

"An updated witness and evidence list… Naraku's on the witness list." He said.

"What?!" They all yelled.

"What's the new evidence?" Inuyasha asked.

"A missing engagement ring… They also have a warrant to look through our home for it." He said.

"Well they won't find it, I don't fucking have it." Inuyasha said. "But how is Naraku a witness now?" He wondered.

Sesshoumaru skimmed through the list. "Kikyo's on it too."

They all froze. "What? Why?!" Inuyasha yelled. "She's the slut who left me for Naraku!" He yelled. "I did nothing to her!"

"I know, but we have to prepared in court now." Sesshoumaru said. 'Things just got more complicated for us.' Sesshoumaru thought.

"When's the next hearing?" Kagome asked.

"One week from today." Sesshoumaru said. He wanted to rip out all his hair and just kill everyone, but he couldn't. 'I hate this.' He thought.