Chapter 2.

A flaw in the law

"Come on Rin, time for bed." She ushered her little daughter off to bed.

She stood by the door of her daughter's bedroom and sighed. The dark hair and perfectly framed face reminded her so of her little forbidden baby.

Not a day had gone by that she didn't shed a tear for the precious little youkai she had abandoned. She was no better than that cursed snow leopard lord. Fear had driven her, but fear of what? Some legendary curse?

She kept telling herself that the child had been adopted by a more modern family who showered her with love and compassion, but Layla knew better. She saw in her nightmares the tiny body torn to pieces in an alley.

Her husband had done everything in his power to find the little cub, but after 10 years of no luck, no traces, they gave up. She was happy now. Married, with a beautiful daughter and a son on the way. She rubbed her still flat belly. Such good news she had received last week.

Kida stood outside Parklane. She was bored to death and the night had just begun. A man left the building, he looked happy. Brown hair and soft brown eyes. He stopped and looked at her oddly. She smiled seductively at him and beckoned him to come closer.

He ran to her. "Who are you?" he asked.

"Does it matter?" Her silky voice caressed his senses.

"Nikita?" He asked.

She looked shocked and suddenly stepped back.

"I don't know who you are or what you want, but I suggest you make a point of disappearing. My owner will have your head on a skewer ningen." She snarled as she turned around and walked away.

He toyed with the idea of going after her but he feared for his life. Her eyes had turned icy and her demeanor had been full of static. It was as if she had suddenly become primal.

"I saw her Layla! We need to contact the authorities!"

"Tohaku what are you talking about?" Layla asked shocked. Her husband looked flushed and worried. At first she thought he had been attacked.

"I saw Nikita! We need to go to the police. They'll help us."

"You saw her?" Layla asked. Her knees got weak and she had to sit down.

"Yes. Well she didn't actually admit that it was her. I went up and spoke to her then I asked her if her name was Nikita and she got all icy. I thought she was going to attack me." He explained.

"Where did you see her?"

"Outside the Parklane building…" His voice trailed off as the realization hit home.

"What is it? What does that mean?" Layla asked frantic.

"Layla. She's a hooker. She spoke about her owner. Baby I think she might be a slave."

His phone rang. Something that happened a lot, but not when he was on vacation.

"Someone better be dead." He answered.

"I think this is something you'll want to hear." The voice said. He knew the voice. It was his partner.

"What? I'm on vacation. What could possibly be important enough to call me half way around the world for business?" InuYasha asked angrily.

"Just listen damnit! You want to hear this. We have a possible slave keeper and we have a damn good lead on him and a witness who said he knows one of the slaves who works for this guy. But get this, the keeper just happens to be the owner of the Blue Rose."

"Gaspar!? No wonder he's so fucking rich! I knew there was a reason he made so much money! La Luna is way busier than that place."

"Shall I put the case on hold till you get back…?"

"I'll be back tomorrow." InuYasha said. Then he slammed the phone shut.

"Kikyo! Baby! You're not gonna believe this!" He called to his mate who was on the porch in a hangmat with a sex-on-the-beach next to her and a romance novel in her hands.

He was in a cave, there was water trickling down the entrance. The most beautiful kitsune he'd ever seen was riding in his lap and there was a hard knock at the door and InuYasha screaming 'Wake up you lazy ookami and open the door! Stop dreaming about Youko as a woman and open the damn door you hentai bastard! Kouga!'

Then he shook the dream off. "huh?" He murmured.

"Yasha is breaking the door down." Kagome mumbled sleepily

Kouga stumbled to his feet and staggered down the hall to his pounding front door. It must have been about eleven in the morning. He only got in at six. The club had been crazy busy last night.

He opened the door and InuYasha nearly hit him in the face as he was pounding.

"What what! Ai! Yasha calm down!" Kouga exclaimed as he dodged the blow. InuYasha pushed past him into the living room of the immaculate house.

"Kouga! You were right! Gaspar is up to something!"

"Wait What!? You woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me something I already knew?"

"It's nearly noon Kouga. And no. I woke you up to give you strictly protected info on a case I just got handed concerning the workings of your arch enemy." Yasha corrected.

"What workings?" Kouga asked suddenly interested.

"We think he has slaves. At least one. There isn't enough evidence to book him yet but we can get a warrant."

"I already told you he has slaves. That's why you came home early remember." Kouga reminded him angrily.

"Yes I know. But get this, he has youkai slaves. Unless we can find a human among them, we can't book him. The law says nothing about keeping youkai slaves. He's the first guy in history to keep youkai slaves."

Kouga stared at InuYasha as if he was crazy. "Enslaved youkai. As in bitten voodoo style slaves like from the old days?"

InuYasha nodded.

"Bastard! That sounds like something Naraku would have tried if he'd survived." Kouga exclaimed.

"Coffee boys?" Kagome's soft voice asked from the end of the hallway.

"Yes please darling." Kouga said sleepily.

"Yeah. I hate office coffee." InuYasha said smiling. He had never imagined Kouga would actually mate Kagome, but when she left him for, once again running off with Kikyo, Kouga had taken the opportunity. To be completely honest he was glad that she had ended up with Kouga instead of with him. She was such a nice girl, and he was so… well… stubborn. He would have only ended up hurting her.

"So what exactly does this mean?" Kouga asked once they had sat down with their coffee.

InuYasha sighed. "I'm not sure. There has never been anything like this reported before, so now we have to find enough to arrest him and then try to figure out what to charge him for. I'm not even sure if it's really a crime."

"It's terrible that there are still people like that out there! How could anyone do that to their own kind?" Kagome exclaimed.

"You'd be amazed what youkai could do to each other when they get a chance. Especially dai youkai like Gaspar." Kouga said morbidly.

"Yeah they can get pretty nasty if they want to. I'm just surprise no one has reported this. I mean they can't be blind enough not to see a slave bite." InuYasha added.

"You would think that people today would have more morals that what they did when we were kids." Kouga added.

"Well if there's one thing I know, it's that my dad won't be too happy about this. You know how he is." InuYasha added grimly.

"You can say that again." Kouga said.

"So what do we do now? We can't just sit around and do nothing while those girls suffer!" Kagome asked sadly.

"There is nothing we can do Kagome. Besides, if he has been keeping slaves it's been for at least ten years. These things take time." Inuyasha answered.

"That's horrible."

"It's okay baby." Kouga said hugging her.

InuYasha sighed. She was so easily hurt and he knew this was hard for her. It was hard for everyone. He had to solve this case. He just had to!

A/N no Sessh yet!! Muhahaha. Just wait. He's coming.

I'll update ASAP!