Chapter 2
"Good to see you're finally here, Kagome!" Miroku cheered happily as she walked in the back door to the club. "What took you?"
"Becca nearly ran Sesshomaru over," Kagome almost laughed at the thought of Sesshomaru lying on the ground twitching.
"Are you imagining him twitching on the ground?" Miroku asked cautiously. Instead of answering she started cracking up laughing. "You know, I don't know how safe you are going to be here because all the girls are in love with him,"
"In love with that son of an argent bastard, I don't see why they would be," Kagome chocked on her laughing.
"Alright, just make sure you can take on a group on girls," Miroku shook his head at her. "You might want to get out there and help them out, it's a busy night tonight and they need all the help they can get," he warned before walking out of the room and to his friends in the crowd.
Kagome grinned to herself and she put her bag down in a locker, then removing her trench coat, folding it up and putting it on top of her bag before closing and locking the locker then headed out the door.
Walking out into the crowd all eyes turned in her direction. Kagome took a light breath and walked over to the bar tender.
"What will it be Miss?" he asked over the booming music.
"No thank-you but I am here to work, any chance of help needed?" Kagome beamed at the boy.
"Ah, new waitress I see, you have a long night lined up for you tonight," he looked down at her shoes and frowned. "If you can last the night in them," he looked back up at her face, seeing the small grin.
"You don't know what you're talking about, I live in these things," she laughed.
"Alright, if you say so," he smiled, turning around and picked up two trays of drinks, setting them down on the counter. "These two trays need to be taken up to the V.I.P lounge, just up those stairs," he said pointing to a staircase a few feet away, everyone crowding at the bottom, even the waitresses.
"Why are they all crowding around over there?" Kagome asked as she picked up the trays.
"There is no doubt that you know of Sesshomaru Tashio?" Kagome rolled her eyes. "Yes, he and his family are up there with a few friends,"
"Thanks for the knowledge, God encountering him twice in one night; is it not enough for once?" Kagome asked more herself then the boy but he laughed at her and got back to work. Kagome set off toward the staircase, ignoring all the gawking from the boys around and made straight for the room. When a few of the other waitresses saw her heading in their direction they stepped in front of her blocking the stairs.
"And where do you think you're going with those drinks, newbie?" a short girl with long brown hair tied up in a bun sneered at her.
"I'm sorry who are you?" Kagome mentally rolled her eyes. "If you expect to keep your job here girly, then I suggest you get back to work, lest I tell my dear friend Miroku that you are just standing around not doing your job right," Kagome stated, using her hip to push the girls aside then made her way up the stairs.
"Who was she?" one of the other girls asked, blinking at Kagome's retreating back making its way up the stairs.
"I don't know but damn she's got a good body," a boy from near to her commented. "Got some hips to bear a child, breasts to fit in my-"
*bang*
"You boy will keep your mouth shut about her, lest I throw you out on your ass!" Violet snapped, holding his head down against the table with her hand. "Keep it shut!"
"Wait you know the new girl?" the short brunette asked.
"Yep," Violet said and walked off to continue her job.
*.*.*
"This place is getting horrible service, Miroku," the boy next to him growled. "Where are our drinks, damn it!"
"Be quiet, Inuyasha" Sesshomaru growled at the boy with bleach blonde hair with a major side fringe.
"Make me, you-" Inuyasha was about to continue when in walked one of the most beautiful girls he had seen working here in a long time. She was wearing black high heels and a very short black and blue checkered dress which might he say was strapless. Her eyes where smiling at him and everyone else in the room, plus there was her bright smile pasted to her lips.
"Sorry, it took so long, I hope you can forgive the bit of tardiness," Kagome apologized with a small curtsy, then walked over setting the trays down on a table next to them, picking two glass's up at a time, she walked over and set them down on the table in the middle of the group.
"Um, Miroku, who is this lovely young lady?" a very pretty lady smiled. Her hair was long and black, left out with bright brown eyes gleaming. She seemed to be with Inu-No-Tashio.
"This Miss Izayoi is Kagome Higurashi," Miroku smiled, walking over to Kagome, laying his arm over her shoulders. "Though sometimes I wish she was my sister,"
"Pleasure to meet you Mrs. Tashio," Kagome smiled brightly and curtsied lightly to the woman. Izayoi bowed her head slightly.
"She is very well meandered, I would not be surprised if she was your younger sister," Inu-No-Tashio smiled.
Kagome's smile grew wide. Miroku gulped, walking back over to Inuyasha to hide. "If only you know how polite Mr. Houshi here was," Kagome laughed and winked to Miroku.
"Oh is this so," he leaned forward with interest.
"I don't think we need to discuss how polite I am," Miroku intervened.
"Oh I think we do," Inu-No-Tashio replied, looking back to Kagome, who had set the last of the drinks down on the table in front of Sesshomaru. Inu-No-Tashio watched with wariness as Sesshomaru stared the girl down… well tried to stare her down, Kagome grinned at him and stood up setting her hands on her hips and giving him a very superior look, like looking down at a child who had just done something really bad and was about to get punished. Sesshomaru's eye twitched as he glared at her, but she wasn't backing down and didn't seem to be intimidated by who he was.
"It seems you have met your match Sesshomaru," Inuyasha laughed. Kagome and Sesshomaru both turned and glared him down, that he wasn't expecting, he jumped up and hid behind the couch he was sitting on. The other three in the room couldn't help but laugh at the scene before them.
"There seems to be a bit of tenseness in the air, why is that?" Miroku asked after his laugh died out. They glared at each other for a second more than both snobbed the other, turning their heads away from each other. Miroku blinked then shrugged. A few moments later Kagome was back to smiling and started chatting away with everyone, even Sesshomaru when he decided to talk.
"Kagome, Kagome, Kagome!" Violet's sweet voice danced up to the group in the V.I.P lounge. Kagome stood up absently and ran to the door, opening it and looked out and down at her new friend.
"Violet, what's wrong?" Kagome called but she got not reply, looking as hard as she could in the dim light she could just make out Violet flat against the wall hiding and two drunken guys advancing on her. Kagome glared at the men and started to growl rather loudly.
"What is it, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked softly, resting his hand on her bare shoulder, Kagome grabbed his hand, spun around and twisted his arm around pinning it to his back. She was not at all the girl he was just talking to.
"Kagome," Miroku cooed softly, walking over to her. "Let Inuyasha's arm go, before you break it." Sesshomaru couldn't help but grin.
"Kagome, help me!" Violet sounded terrified. In an instant Kagome had let go of Inuyasha and was sprinting down the stairs to the bottom of them and then disappeared into the crowd of people to find her friend.
"What the hell just happened?" Inuyasha grumbled, rubbing his arm slowly. "Damn that girl has a lot of force behind her,"
"Never when you comfort her, lay a hand on her," Miroku shook a little. "The last time I did that, I nearly lost all my limbs."
"Why would that happen?" Inu-No-Tashio asked, very curious as to what the girl was like.
"Well, a few years ago her friend was walking home by herself and near got raped by a group of guys from their school, she had run for it and called Kagome while doing so. As soon as Kagome heard the boys yelling after her, she was out the door. By the time she got there her friend was slammed up against the wall. Two boys were holding her there while one of the others were feeling her up and doing other things to her. Kagome had ripped him away from the girl and beat him down, the others attacked her, she managed to knock them all out, but one of them while had hidden and was standing behind her friend with a knife to her throat, Kagome took a step forward and before she knew it the guy had slit the girls throat, let her fall to the ground and started laughing." Miroku explained images of how Kagome looked when she had come back to his house, because she had been staying over there.
"So, Violet is like this girl and it's like a traumatizing thing for Kagome?" Inuyasha asked, trying to find Kagome in the crowd.
"Yeah, a lot like it only these guys are drunk. Don't get me wrong she can fight when she's like this but otherwise, she could barely protect herself against someone walking up behind her and grabbing her, she would be out before she could get free."
"So you're saying she can't fight but there are times where she can find the power to fight?" Miroku just nodded, thinking about poor little Becca and Kagome at that apartment building with Damien.
*BANG!*
They all stood up and ran out the door to the top of the stairs, looking down around the club, they couldn't see anything. Sesshomaru walked over and strained his eyes, scanning the area.
"She's on top of the bar with something in her hand," he said.
"Though she can fight with weapons," Miroku nervously laughed.
"Why so nervous?" Izayoi asked.
Miroku didn't answer but watched as Kagome spun the broken off wooden pole, from somewhere in the club, around in a circle, glaring down at the men who had been advancing on her friend.
"Come on little missy, you know you want to come home with me," one of them slurred reaching for her ankle she kicked off and jumped, flipping off the bar backwards, landing in a crouch.
"Are you alright, Violet?" she asked her crying friend. Violet nodded. Kagome half smiled, hugging Violet for a second before standing up and smacking all the men in the face with the wooden pole. "Picking on young waitresses, really what do you call yourselves because there is no way you could be called human!" Kagome snapped, jabbing the pole into one of their chests.
"Damn girl, you are hot, would be even better if you weren't in that dress that hides everything," Kagome sneered, grabbing an empty bottle and smashing the end of it against the bar edge. The men slowly backed off their hands up in front of them.
"We don't want any trouble,"
"If you didn't want any trouble you wouldn't have started anything now would you," Kagome sneered at the men. "Don't think I don't know what the hell you people are like."
"Are you sure it's not people like you, you're thinking of?" Kagome throw the smashed bottle at the man, he moved rather slowly considering he was drunk and got a cut across his face just missing his eye. It went from below his left eye and down across his check then over his lips. "You little Bitch!" he growled harshly, running at her. Kagome spun around on her heels, spinning the pole around her in circles, hitting him a few good times before stopping with the end of it against his neck, back against the wall and his friends fallen over on the ground scared to attack her or go to the girl.
"You say one, more, thing and you can say good bye to everything."
The Tashio family were speechless, even the non-talking sonic Sesshomaru had nothing to say. What were they supposed to say? Really, was there anything to say but whom the hell was this girl and where had she come from?
Miroku was shaking rather violently. Inuyasha helped his friend back into the V.I.P lounge and sat him down.
"Miroku are you alright?" Sesshomaru turned around and walked back in, pouring a glass of brandy and sat it down in front of Miroku who took it gratefully downing it.
"Miroku, do try to explain what is wrong," Sesshomaru said, sitting down in front of Miroku on the table.
"Kagome," Miroku's voice shook. "She's changed so much… so much since she was young. So much since her friend, so much since… someone needs to stop her before she kills them,"
"She wouldn't kill them, would she?" Inuyasha blinked. Just minutes ago he was having a fun conversation with this girl and then she's on a rampage to slaughter people.
"Does she have anything wrong with her?" Sesshomaru wondered out loud, more speaking to himself then the boys.
"Nothing that I know of, she would have told me if there was something wrong with her,"
"Maybe she doesn't know if there is anything wrong with her, so maybe you should take her to the doctors and get her checked out?" Inuyasha suggested.
"If I could, I would take her but I have no spare time to do anything with her anymore and I feel bad about it, but it can't be helped,"
"I could take her if you would like," Sesshomaru offered. He didn't know why he was offering but he had a feeling he knew what was with her and he wanted to know if it was it.
"You, Sesshomaru, offering to take a human girl to the doctors… what is happening to everyone?" Inuyasha sighed, looking up at the door when Kagome walked in with her head held high, her back was straight and she was acting a lot like a stuck up princess. Violet was getting help from Izayoi up the stairs, while Inu-No-Tashio walked up behind them to make sure no-one tried to take them.
"Are you alright Kagome?" Inuyasha asked with his head to the side. Her eyes slid down to him and a small smile graced her lips.
"And who might you be?" she asked in a royal girls voice that wasn't her own. "Do I know you?"
"I'm Inuyasha, we met like twenty minutes ago," he blinked at her blank face. She turned away from him and to Sesshomaru, sitting back in his chair, staring at her.
"And who are you?" she looked him up and down warily.
"I should be asking you that, girl. Who are you and where is the other?" everyone looked at him like he was crazy but Kagome started laughing oddly.
"Smart boy aren't we?" she smirked. "My name is Katsumi Higurashi, Princess of the South. Now who are you?"
"Sesshomaru Tashio, Prince of the West. Why are you here?" he grinned at her.
"Don't know, don't care, I am in a body and I'm not getting out,"
"You will have to," he stated. He also noticed that her eyes had changed to a deep chocolate brown color and was no longer the bright hazel of Kagome.
"Wait, your last name is the same as Kagome's, are you her ancestor or something?"
"You are a smart one boy," she smiled at Miroku who was rubbing his temples trying to not black out. "So, to your question would this Kagome be a Princess of the South then yes she would be, if we were still in that era." Katsumi sighed, walking around the room lightly brushing the tips of her fingers over everything.
"How could you be her ancestor when you are a stuck up, bitch and she isn't?" Inuyasha questioned, not liking this girl one bit.
She slowly turned around to face him with a glare in place. "Watch what you say you lit… lit… what the hell is going on?" Katsumi wondered aloud.
Get the hell out of my body! Kagome yelled in her head.
Oh, you want your body back? You must be Kagome everyone seems to want, Katsumi grinned.
Yeah, so out! Kagome ordered.
No, I think I will stay here for a while and mess around with this Sesshomaru boy a bit, Katsumi snickered in thought.
Kagome growled viciously at Katsumi. You dare touch any of them and I will kill you again… now GET OUT OF MY BODY! Kagome snapped. Katsumi was about to reply when Kagome's body was thrown to the ground with pressure on top of her and she was slammed, hard, into blackness and could hear a cage door slam shut and lock itself.
Kagome's body jerked a few times before settling down, everyone watched carefully as Miroku held her down. A soft moan come from her as her eyes fluttered open for the world to see her pretty hazel eyes again.
"Hey, everyone," she weakly smiled then started coughing. Miroku jumped off her, picking her up and putting her on the lounge. Resting her head on Sesshomaru's lap, even though neither of them liked it but it just couldn't be helped.
"Kagome, what happened to you out there?" Inuyasha asked, slowly moving over to her, she jumped up off the lounge.
"Violet, where is she? Is she alright? What happened to her?" Kagome asked frantically looking around the room for her friend.
"She's fine, Kagome, calm down…"
"Where is she!" Kagome growled, glaring at Inuyasha trying to calm her down. "Tell me where she is or I swear to God…"
"Kagome!" Violet ran over to her, embracing her in a tight hug. Kagome started to cry, wrapping her arms around Violet protectively, burying her face in Violet's hair.
"I'm so glad you're alright! You are alright, right?" Kagome asked through Violet's hair.
"Yes, I am, thanks to you," Violet smiled.
"Good," Kagome smiled into her hair, before her legs let out from under her and she fell to the ground, with Violet following, after losing her balance.
"Is she alright?" Izayoi asked softly, clutching her husband's arm in a death grip.
"Yes, she is just exhausted," Inu-No-Tashio replied to her. "Though I won't be saying much for my arm," Izayoi blinked at him, looking to his arm and let go, a sheepish grin on her face.
"I will take her home," Sesshomaru said, picking her up off the ground carefully, ignoring Violet.
"You, taking her home... Why?" Inuyasha grumbled. Sesshomaru stared at him blankly for a second before heading out the door to the club, carrying her bridle style, to the back of the club where the waitress's leave their belongings. He could tell that all the girls were staring after him longingly, wishing they were the girl safely in his arms.
He swiftly walked to her locker, breaking it open and taking her belongings out of it then headed out the back door and around to his car. He unlocked the car and opened the passenger's door with some complication but managed and set her down in the seat softly, making sure not to harm her. Putting her things on the backseat he moved back to her, pulling the seatbelt around her and clipping it in. As he moved to stand up, he paused, his face a few inches away from hers and couldn't help but stare. He would admit, to himself, that she was a rare beauty. She was a kind woman with a big heart, she would help anyone even if she didn't know them, he knew, she would. Her eyes were so expressive it was hard not to want to be the only one to see it, her smile draw him in the moment he saw it, even if he didn't really like this girl, when she smiled it was like he was a child again, meeting a strange new friend for the first time.
She held herself in high regard to anyone and wouldn't let anyone look down on her, no matter who it was. She wouldn't cower away from a fight, even one she couldn't fight. The way she would make conversation with him and persist until she got a reply made him wonder if she really wanted anything to do with him at all but when she laughed at what he would say about frightened little wolf boys, made his heart do something it would have never done in his life, skip a beat and speed up. Her care for even strangers was amazing. It was hard not to be drawn to this girl, now sitting fast asleep in his car seat, in front of him. It was hard not to reach out and feel how soft her skin was, hard not to do anything but want to be with her and not let anyone else near her.
This wasn't him and he knew it but it just couldn't be helped. So after tonight he would be cold and emotionless to this girl to make her stay away from him but if that didn't work he would have to be anything but himself to anyone who he did not feel he wanted to know. Even if he had to make her cry he would keep her away least something happen and he falls for this girl. Which was impossible for him or so he thought.
Pulling away from the beauty in his car, he shut the door, walking to the driver's side and got it, clipping his seatbelt in and started the car without further hesitation and headed off towards Kagome's apartment building and her friend.
*.*.*
"What are you doing in here, Damien?" Becca asked softly, looking up from the book she was reading.
"Thought I might come on in and see how you are doing, seeing as you ran off and left me nothing to know where you were," he growled low.
"I didn't want to disturb you while you did whatever it is that you do when you get angry," Becca set her book down and moved toward the kitchen, where she knew a Metal bat was.
"Where are you going?" Damien demanded.
"Getting a drink, you want one?" she asked over her shoulder, keeping one eye on his, just in case.
"No, but I would like you to come back home," he said more calmly.
"No, thank-you, I'm happy right where I am," She grumbled to herself.
"What was that witch?" he growled, walking towards her with his fists clenched.
"Nothing," she sighed inwardly and advanced on the bat, grabbing it quickly and walked into the small kitchenette.
"Come here and face me, you little bitch!" he sneered at her.
"No, I won't talk to you when you are like this and I'm not being stupid and going to you because I know what will happen if I do." She snapped at him, clenching her hand tightly around the bat behind her back.
"Why you," he growled and lunched at her forcefully, knocking them both to the ground and the bat out of her hand.
*.*.*
"Becca," Kagome softly whispered as Sesshomaru make his way towards the apartment. "Becca, run,"
Sesshomaru glanced over at her and could smell the fear scent coming from here.
"Run," she said louder, her head lolling side to side, like she was looking for something. "Becca, he has a knife, run!" Kagome's voice was razing and her body frantically moving, like she was looking for something.
"Kagome," Sesshomaru called to her but got no reaction from her. She was too far away at the moment.
"Becca!" Kagome shuttered.
"Kagome, wake up!" Sesshomaru growled low at her, reaching over to her hand and shaking her, a little.
"Becca!" she shrieked, clenching onto his hand tightly, it actually hurt. "Get out of there, go!" her tight was getting tighter and tighter on his hand before she sprung up, hitting her head on the roof, yelling her friends name.
Kagome breathed shallowly and looking around her frantically, noticing that Sesshomaru was arching an eyebrow at her, she looked down at what she was hold and let go before looking to see where they were.
"Are you alright?" he questioned, with his eyebrow arched.
"I don't know," she shook violently. "Please, speed up and take the next left here then right, it is quicker to the apartment and thank-you for taking me, sorry if it is any announce to you," Kagome breather softly, clenching her hand over her dress where her heart was beating miles per second.
He just turned back to the road and did as she instructed, bringing his speed from 30m/ph to 150m/ph, skidding around corners and dodging the other cars on the road, when the apartment come into view, she skidded into the parking lot and she was out of the car before he could stop the engine, running as fast as she could in her heels.
He turned off his car engine and ran after her, noticing her shoes at the bottom on the stairwell, he shook his head and picked them up, why, he didn't know but leaving them there just wasn't an option, he walked in and looked up, she was already up to the third floor landing and running up to the forth, he sighed and jumped up to the fourth floor landing, waiting for her to get there, it only took a second before she was out the door, not even noticing him there. This confused him.
"Get away from me!" they heard Becca scream from the apartment, Kagome sped up and flung herself at the door, breaking it down effectively, off its hinges.
"Now, now my beauty, I'm not going to hurt you," Damien smiled wickedly at her. Never heading the door hit the ground or the girl running at him, knocking his off of Becca, into the glass coffee table sitting in the middle of the room.
"Becca, RUN!" Kagome screamed over her shoulder at her friend, Becca hesitated before getting up and running out the door, right into Sesshomaru, catching her quickly before she fell to the ground.
"Sesshomaru," Becca whispered, burying her face in his shirt, he just shrugged mentally and held onto her.
"You stupid little, whore!" Damien growled, throwing her back against the ground and getting up, looking down at her. Kagome growled in the back of her throat and stood up, just four inches shorter than him, and glared him down. "Oh, is the little girl finally growing up?" Damien laughed out loud and was barged into by Kagome shouldering him in the stomach, effectively knocking them to the ground and onto the glass covered floor.
"You dare attack my friend in my home; you dare attack me and insult me! You are lucky that I don't feel like killing someone because you would be dead!" she sneered at him. He laughed in her face, reaching behind him and pulling out a sharp, rusty butcher's knife and started grinning like a maniac.
Shit, what the hell am I supposed to do now! He has a knife, I have nothing and I can't kill him, far out I hate this guy! Kagome grumbled to herself in thought.
You now I could help you out here, but no I'm stuck in this stupid cage! Katsumi grumbled from the corner of the cage on the floor, flicking rocked around.
I don't trust you enough to do anything like that, so no! You stay where you are and that's that, Kagome growled lowly to her when she was about to retort. She looked at Damien and jumped up, just missing the full effect of the knife cutting her, only getting a little scratch across her cheek.
"You're not going anywhere little girl, it's time you learnt some manners about how to talk to a man and come face to face with them," he chuckled to himself, lifting the butcher's knife up to his face and licking the blood off the blade. A terrifying smile spread across his face, she turned and run out the door, in the opposite direction to Sesshomaru and Becca, Damien come out with that smile on his face and went after her like a crazed man, knife in his hand, ready to kill someone with it and all she knew was he was after her and she had no way to escape him or the knife.
What had she gotten herself into this time? He was hot on her trail when she ran into a wall and he quickly advanced on her, closing the knife in on her throat with force that could cut her head right off.