Chapter 5
"Damn it all, Becca," Kaysha growled slamming her hand on the table. "Can I not do anything right, she has been in there for the past four hours and hasn't left once,"
"She probably fell asleep," Becca sighed.
"I can hear movement, she's still awake," Kaysha looked toward Kagome's bedroom door wishing she could do something to help her.
Shifting her eyes back to her question sheets and growled roughly at them, taking them into her hands she flipped them over and shoved them into her folder before stuffing that into her messenger bag and throwing that to the ground of the sitting room, kicking it under the sofa then slammed down into a recliner glaring daggers at the bag where it rested out of sight.
"Um, if I may," Ruby shifted slightly in her seat on the sofa when both pairs of eyes from the other occupants of the room, flicked to her in the same flaunt movement. "Maybe we could try and go explain this to him?"
Kaysha sighed softly, closing her eyes. "How would that work, he hates me, he won't talk to Kagome after that and Becca and he don't really know one another,"
"I could talk to his father and see if he might be of some help, I can also talk with Miss. Izayoi," Ruby smiled softly. "Kagome looks quite a lot like Mrs. Tashio; they are both so beautiful,"
"But how could you talk to either of them and yes, they are looks and personality wise," Kaysha giggled softly, winking to Becca, who smiled slightly.
"Well because I work for Mr. Tashio as his secretary and assistant and have much time to see him if need be, Miss. Izayoi is normally somewhere around the building helping the other workers out, it is just difficult because Sesshomaru is usually not too far from Mr. Tashio while at work,"
"Well that's a bummer; maybe catch Mr. Tashio while Sesshomaru is in a meeting?" Becca offered, taking a sip of her green tea.
"Hmm, that might work," Ruby tapped her chin timidly with her right index figure, looking up at the roof, the glanced to her bag sitting against the coffee table in front of her. Narrowing her eyes onto the bag she slid forward on her seat and snatched the bag up, dragging her onto her lap as she sat back, pulling it opened and shifting through it.
The other two watched closely at Ruby had her head buried in her bag and a few things fall from the sides, after a few moments they relaxed back in their seats, a minute later Ruby cried victoriously, startling them from their thoughts, they looked to her curiously. Clutched in her hand was a small book with colorful sticky notes popping out of the sides.
"What's that?" Kaysha asked timidly, leaning forward slightly on her chair, jumping back when Ruby dropped her bag to the ground centimeters from her face.
"Good old organizer," Ruby smirked. "Could I borrow the phone please?" Becca blinked a few times before pointing to the phone just outside the archway to the kitchenette. Ruby jumped from her seat and strode to the phone, setting her organized on the stand in front of her, just to the side of the phone.
Opening the little book she went to the phone numbers, skimming her finger over the names for a few moments when her finger stopped and tapped the name twice, she lifted her other hand up, taking the phone of the hook and held it between her ear and shoulder then looked at the number while pressing the numbers on the phone, the lifted her finger and hand, gripping the phone and looked to her new friends.
They waited in silence listening for the other end of the call to be picked up. Moments later a young woman's voice flouted from the phone to their ears, calming their nerves.
"Hello you have reached the Tashio residence, how can I help you?" the girl asked softly from the other end.
"I'm sorry to disturb you so early but is there a chance that I might speak with Mr. Tashio or his wife?" Ruby questioned the girl softly.
"My I asked who this is?" she asked.
"My name is Ruby Star, I am Mr. Tashio's secretary," there was a few minutes of silence before a deep muscular voice was heard on the phone.
"Hello, Ruby is there something wrong?" he asked, concern lasing his voice.
"I'm sorry to have called so early sir but I needed to speak with you about something concerning Master Sesshomaru," she scrunched her face at the title. Kaysha and Becca giggled.
"What has happened?" Inu-No-Tashio started to worry the little giggles told his that she was not on her own. "Has he done something to hurt you or others?"
"No, no sir… well not intentionally," Ruby began, taking as deep breathe.
"What is wrong, Ruby? Who are you with?" he was very curious to know what was going on.
"I am at Miss. Higurashi's home with her roommate, Becca and Miss. Kaysha Skyler," Ruby answered, when she didn't receive an answer, she added softly. "She is not here to dig up dirt on your family nor did she ever mean for anything about Master Sesshomaru to ever get out,"
Inu-No-Tashio took a deep breath, if she was at Miss. Higurashi's hose then something must have happened to have her life in danger or went to seek her out or…. He cut his thoughts short and calmed her rapidly beating heart.
"What happened, Ruby?" he was worried for the safety of her for her and her sisters had come to him for help and advice when they had no one else to turn to.
"I was chased by Mr. Hojo Kumo, sir, he had been trying to have his way with me, I ended up at Miss. Kagome's home and she saved my life very much, so I am safe but the problem that has happened is Miss. Skyler and Miss. Higurashi had a question sheet sitting on the table and Master Sesshomaru read something on it that happened to not be true and took it seriously and had left without much of a second thought, Miss. Higurashi has been locked in her room for about four hours and has not left once, we cannot be too sure if she is awake or not and do not know what she is doing or what is happening in her room, sir," Ruby spoke quickly trying hard not to cry at the pained waves washing over her from Kagome's room.
As if he could feel the pain of the young girl, Inu-No-Tashio shook involuntarily from the cold waves washing over him. She seemed to be so together and secure but the poor girl was a broken flower on the inside. Never in his life had he felt this much depression from someone so young. He had only met her once while she was working and yet she had kept herself together, protecting Miss. Violet Star from the drunken men.
Yes, she was a bit insane but that just made her who she was and with this much pain, it was unbelievable that she could be so happy, ever.
"What is it that you would like me to do Miss. Star, I might not be able to help much but I will try as much as I can,"
"Thank-you sir," Ruby smiled to herself, it slipping into her voice, calming his nerves slightly. He could hear light footsteps coming towards the phone, frowning slightly.
"Sir, I'm Kaysha and I would like to apologize for the trouble I have put on your family but I would like to ask something of you if I may," this was a surprise.
"What is it young one?" he strained to hear it but very lightly he could hear the heave of breath and a sharp breaking sob from a little away.
Kaysha bit her lip sharply, closing her eyes tightly and strained to keep her voice from breaking. "Could you please…" there was a pause and sharp intake of breathe. "try to explain to your son that what he read was nothing bad and that we had been being childish at the time not meaning for it to be serious," and there her voice broke light the shatter of glass on a marble floor, breaking into sobs and shaky breathes.
"Young one, what is the matter?" he was worried beyond anything, he knew of these girls and they were so very strong and to hear them all breaking so sharply startled him deeply. For everything that he had heard or seen of the girls was remarkable.
He glanced up as his wife scurried over to him with the spare phone in hand, she had been listening. He half heartedly grinned at her. She had been watching these girls for a while and had come to a decision that if to ever meet she would care for them as she did her child and step son.
Izayoi snatched the phone from his hand and brought it to her ear sharply.
"Girls what is the address of where you are?" this he had expected but it surprised him none the less.
"It's…" the address was whispered so softly that Inu-No-Tashio had to strain himself to hear what was said.
"Stay right there girls and please try to get to Kagome," Izayoi spoke before throwing the phone to her husband before scampering off to find the driver.
"Jaken... Jaken!" could be heard bouncing off the walls of their house. "Jaken if you don't get out here now the next time I see you I will make sure to break your legs and make you crawl all the way to your own grave!"
"What is it milady?" a middle aged man ran to her side, pulling his shirt down over his stomach.
"Get that car started now," she growled, stomping up the stairs walking towards their room, throwing the large oak door open. Jaken glanced to his Lord with the very same bewildered look upon his face, steadying his nerves; Jaken took off at a sprint to get the car started and wait out the front for the Lady of the house to tell him where to go.
Glowering loudly, Izayoi chucked the phone onto her bed, grabbing a dressing gown and slipping her feet into a pair of slippers, she made her way down the hall to her youngest son's room. Knocking softly on the door, it opened shortly after with a sleepy eye Inuyasha rubbing his eyes.
One look at his mother told him that she was not in the best of moods at this time, that and her aura was wiping around her in deadly razor sharp moves.
"What's wrong, mother?" he asked yawning softly, looking around outside his room.
"Is your brother home?" she growled, one that you make the strongest of men fall to their knees. He shook slightly, glancing to his brothers door and nodded swiftly, with that she turned and walked up to the door without a second thought it was thrown wide open and into the wall behind it before gracefully striding into the room.
Inuyasha walked to the railing of the second floor and looked to his father talking on the phone. Something was not right and knew that somehow something bad was going to happen.
The sharp crash from within Sesshomaru's room made him cringe and turn to look into the room, Izayoi standing over a not so happy Sesshomaru on the floor, glaring him down with so much force even Sesshomaru's angered expression turned into something of shock when her foot started tapping uncontrollably against floor next to his head, her arms rigged across her chest with her blunt nails leaving scratch makes across her arms that would make a demon proud.
"And what do you think you are to do when you make a young girl cry for four hours and for her not to leave her room or even speak with her friends and only God knows what the hell she could be doing in there!" Izayoi's heated tone shook with venom seeping into every word she spoke.
Sesshomaru glared swiftly at her before starting to move when her small foot crashed to his throat cutting him short of moving. "Do not think you will be moving boy until you answer me," Inuyasha glanced to his father as he hung up the phone and looked back to his mother and back to his father who was now standing rigged next to him.
"I have nothing to explain to a human woman as you," Sesshomaru growled at her. Now she might not have been demon but hell she was acting like an Inu female in heat.
"Like hell you have nothing to explain to me, Sesshomaru Tashio!" she sneered down at him. Sesshomaru stopped dead win his movements at this. Never in all his years of living with this woman, Inuyasha's mother, had he ever hear her sound so much like a demon but right now all he saw was his mother looking down at him in shear spite with hateful eyes. "You will explain, now!"
Inu-No-Tashio shivered visibly, never had Izayoi taken it upon herself to physically attack anyone, no matter how angry she was, she had never sneered with such shear hatred lasing her kind and magical voice, never had she been so much like a Inu female mother, in all the years he had been with her.
Right now, she would have brought the demon society to their knees and have them groveling at her feet. Even the elders would have been with their faces to the ground.
Human had been known for their greed and selfish behavior, but this very woman had proven them wrong that now all were of that and right now she would have proven to them that human were no weak little things that you could just break without a consequence following the action.
Right now anyone would believe that she was an Inu female protecting her pups from a threat that hurt them. She was protection Kagome, like she was her pup.
He took slow and steady steps toward her, lightly brushing the backs of his knuckles across her lower back gaining her attention.
"You need to go to the girls, they are having no luck getting a response from young Kagome," he softly spoke, concern lacing ever word flouting from his mouth. Without a second more, Izayoi was out the door and out the front door before any of them could blink. Inuyasha calming walked into the room a curious look on his face.
Sesshomaru's mind clicked into place when Kagome's name drifted to his ears. Something was wrong, what had happened to make her… just then was when the question repeats itself in his mind. That's right, he had left without a second more and came home. He growled viciously starting to get up when his father's foot stomped on his chest, crashing him back into the ground with a scowled across his face.
He had some major explaining to do but by the dark look within his father's eyes, he would be listening to what needed to be said or he was in for some serious punishment. This day was just getting better and better… Not!
*.*.*
"Kagome, please come out," Becca urged softly through the door. Her only replay was a sharp intake of breath and something clashing with the door then crashing to the ground with a thud.
"Kagome, we're worried, please come out of there," Kaysha tried with the same result only a much harsher throw and crash.
"Maybe we should wait until Miss. Izayoi gets here; she would be the only one to be able to even remotely reach Kagome," Ruby shuttered with the loud crashing from inside the room. "Does she normally destroy so much?"
"No, she is normally cleaning and fixing," Becca winced as something expensive seemed to smash onto the ground. "I have never seem her this upset through the time I have known her,"
"Maybe we should call her mother," Kaysha subjected, there was silence for a moment before the door slowly cracked open to show Kagome death glaring her with murder flashing in her eyes.
"Uh, are you alright?" Ruby whispered. Kagome's eye twitched slightly.
"Never in any circumstance do I ever what to hear even the mention of my mother," Kagome growled darkly, looking over her shoulder to a family picture hanging on her wall. Her arm twitched slightly as her eyes looked at it. Twisting on her heels she glided to the picture, picking up a broken wooden stick, lifting her arm above her head and struck the spot where her mother's face was shattering the glass into shards, the wood not sharp to a point, so couldn't destroy the picture.
Kaysha's ears twitched and she run off and out the front door returning minutes later with a frantic Izayoi two steps behind her.
"Where is she?" Izayoi demanded, the girls pointed into the room where Kagome was snarling at the portrait. Izayoi stopped dead in her tracks into the room as she looked around. The only things that weren't destroyed were her bed, laptop and a few precious things laying on the bed, otherwise almost everything else in the room had been abused by her violent manner. Ever her clothes had been thrown carelessly around the room.
Kagome turned swiftly around, her eyes landing on Izayoi as they widened. Izayoi could see the pain in Kagome's eyes and the slight start of tears brimming in her eyes. Izayoi ran into the room and over to Kagome, wrapping her in a death grip and her legs gave out on her, she collapsed into Izayoi, fisting her hands into the dressing gown and her violent sobs shaking her body.
Kaysha, Ruby and Becca broke into a run to their friend, helping Izayoi get her to her bed, where she curled up against Izayoi's lap and cried herself into a dreamless sleep. They waited until Kagome's breathing evened out before starting to talk at all.
"This is the result of Sesshomaru walking out of here," Kaysha sighed.
"But why such a strong reaction," Izayoi wondered softly, brushing Kagome's bangs out of her eyes. "What happened to make her lose it so bad and have Sesshomaru growling at me?"
Kaysha sighed dejectedly and went to grab her bag and dragged it back. Taking out the question sheet, she handed it to Izayoi. Izayoi read over it and closed her eyes softly a small smile gracing her lips.
"So that is what has happened," she giggled. "Seems Sesshomaru has some sort of feelings for this girl, even though he wouldn't ever admit to it,"
Ruby's eyes widened and her jaw become slack. "You're saying that they have feelings for one another?" Izayoi nodded softly and looked down to the young maiden resting soundly on her lap.
"Could you girls please leave this room for a little while, I would like to see if I can do something for this young girl," they all nodded and left the room, closing the door softly behind them. "Katsumi, if you can hear me please, I would like to speak with you,"
In the fog of Kagome's dark mind Katsumi heard the soft voice of a woman calling to her, she had heard this woman once, when she had first made it out. Sighing she closed her eyes and shifted her aura into Kagome's and into the subconscious of Kagome's mind so should could speak to the woman.
Izayoi waited silently for a reply and a minute later Kagome's voice floated to her ears with a slight change to it.
"What can I help you with?" Katsumi murmured softly.
"Please could you help me work out what has happened?"
A sigh left Kagome's lips. "That would have been my fault, maim,"
"How could this of been your fault, Katsumi, dear?" Izayoi really was curious. Katsumi sighed again and told Izayoi of everything that had happened that morning coming down to this. "So the young one has slight feeling for my step son,"
"Yes, it was not meant to work to this but it seems I might have made a big mistake,"
"No, no you haven't dear, just please take care of Kagome as much as you can, I know this is not your place to live but she needs someone else for her while she won't talk to her friends and it will be hard for me to reach her," Izayoi sighed sadly. "She has been through much and since you are here there must be something keeping you from leaving,"
"I'm not too sure but I will, for her sake and your request, help her as much as I am able, that boy needs to be taught some serious manners and restraint and not to take everything so seriously,"
"Yes, but only does a child act the way their parents treat them… his mother has never been so nice to him and it worries me to know that he could turn out like this while his father is a caring man, it seems Kagome has never had to comfort of a loving mother and the love of her father has been stripped from her life by the woman who is surpassed to be her own mother,"
"Yes, it seems quite a few have been neglected by their mothers," Katsumi sighed.
"Thank-you for telling me Katsumi, you are a beautiful girl but please do try not to be so cruel," Izayoi smiled.
"I will try," Katsumi smiled before drawing back into herself with mind and aura before drifting off into her own dreamless sleep.
*.*.*
"What happened, father?" Inuyasha asked leaning casually against Sesshomaru's bedroom wall, watching his brother lay on the floor with their father's foot, pressed against his chest.
"Yes, Sesshomaru what has happened? Care to explain to me why Miss. Higurashi has locked herself in her room and will not even speak with her friends?" Inu-No-Tashio growled.
"What happens in my life is no concern of yours," Sesshomaru growled back.
"It does when I get a call from my secretary and her friends with them begging for my help," he grumbled. "and to have them all crying, it is dejecting to know that a young girl as Kagome would be locking herself in her room and crying for four hours, Kaysha to be breaking at the seams about this girl whom she has just met, Becca to be trying to no cry with her friends and for my secretary Ruby, to be calling me in the earlier hours of the morning almost impossible to hear over her constant sharp breaths trying not to cry,"
"What happened, Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha jumped from his spot on the wall, his muscles locking into place, knowing that those four girls were near impossible to harm.
Kagome he had met her once and talked to her while in hospital but still she had taken it upon herself to protect Violet, whom she had only just met from drunken men, Becca had been under Kagome's wing for the time they had known each other and had been so strong for her friend, Kaysha the reporter who had always come across his brother with different girls and Ruby had been looking after her three sisters for as long as he had known them and then with his mother so riled up, it was unbelievable that such a woman of a pure heart could be so deadly, even to a demon.
Sesshomaru grumbled softly. Of cause the girl would call his father for help, he hadn't really noticed who she was but now he was not too happy with her. Meddlesome girls and what was more Izayoi even scared him more than his own mother had when he was young, that spoke volumes, if she could bring him down to submit then what where other girls capable of.
"And I will need to speak with you alone in my study, Sesshomaru," Inu-No-Tashio grumbled before turning and heading out the door. He had missed something very important between his father and younger brother. Shaking it off he got up from the ground, grabbed some clothes and headed into the bathroom for a long hot shower to clear his mind. He was certain when he came out Inuyasha would be following him around for answers.
*.*.*
Loud humorous laughter could be heard echoing off the walls of every room in the large house.
Hojo sat grimily on the ground in front of his father and brother as they laughed hysterically at him. Oh this was so horrible, to be beaten by the girl he was surpassed to marry and then have her throw it in his face how she wasn't going to marry him and to come back and explain it to them, it was embarrassing.
"You're saying that you got beaten by a girl?" Naraku smirked widely as Hojo nodded. "And told that she was never going to marry you?" once again Hojo nodded. Naraku's mouth twitched constantly before crashing to the ground in another round of hysterical laughter.
Oh how he hadn't laughed this much in years and how amusing it way for him that his brother couldn't even deal with a little slip of a girl like that when she was right in front of him. He had been brought down in seconds and near unconscious not long after. It was disgraceful for a man to be brought down so easily by a woman. Oh how this had just made his day, even his father couldn't stop laughing so hard, the boy had turned out much like their mother.
The man sitting next to Naraku on the ground took a deep breath, calming himself down just as a young woman ran into the room bowing lowly to him.
"What is it?" he asked and she swallowed deeply.
"Sir, Mr. Takumi would like to speak with you," she spoke softly, calming Naraku's laughter down, something wasn't right if their hacker wanted to speak with them.
"Bring him in," his father growled. Onigumo stood up gracefully and strode over to his desk, sitting down on his chair as calmly as he could. Naraku followed his father and stood to his right, Hojo sighed inwardly before going over and standing on his father's left.
Moments later a very frustrated looking snake demon stepped into the room, his face twitching uncontrollably, while his fists clenched and unclenched.
"What is the matter Mr. Takumi?" Onigumo grinned at the frustrated demon.
"Sir, someone has managed to hack onto your family site and deleted your announcement about Master Hojo and Miss. Kagome Higurashi," he hissed sharply, as his eye started twitching.
"Someone has managed to hack our site?" Naraku's eyes widened slightly. "Who could possibly manage to do that?"
"It was hacked by a civilian, no one under and government could, yet someone from their own place managed to hack in, delete the announcement and lock me out before I could pinpoint their location,"
Onigumo stiffened visibly in his seat, how a civilian could do that and not be caught was amazing. Rigidly he locked onto their family site and growled to himself when what the snake had said was the truth.
"How could a damned civilian manage that?" he snapped, glaring darkly at the screen. His eyes looked to the snake demon before quickly sliding back to the screen when a comment popped up on the screen.
Seems to me that you are having no luck here, I bet you must be pretty pissed off knowing that a civilian could hack on here and delete something so important to you, but truth is you are all very wrong. Ha, ha, too bad for you and your sons that no one likes you or your family! Send my regards to your hacker for losing to a human. Bye! ;)
How much he wanted to break the screen in front of him right now, Hojo glanced at the screen and grumbled. This was just utterly embarrassing for the Kumo family. What was happening with the world?
*.*.*
"I wonder how Kagome and Izayoi are, I'm so anxious about them," Becca squirmed in her seat, wiggling her fingers.
"I'm sure they are fine, Becca," Ruby smiled, sitting down next to the girl, putting an arm over her shoulders.
"But Izayoi is taking so long," Becca whined, gamming her hands between her knees.
"Calm down, child, everything is fine, Kagome is fast asleep and will be for a while to come," Izayoi smiled warmly at the three girls sitting on the sofa.
"Is there anything that you will need help with Miss?" Ruby asked softly.
"No, right now Kagome needs all the help she can get; the poor girl is suffering right now and is finding it difficult to find a way to deal with this pain, I can see that she has not had a very loving mother around her and doesn't know what to make of this," she sighed sitting lightly in the recliner, looking at the girls.
"What can we do to help her?" Kaysha shifted uneasily in her seat, wishing she could do something to help her friend out.
"There is not much we can do, Kagome and Sesshomaru need to work this out themselves, they have never really gotten along so they have to work around that," Izayoi smirked. "Not saying we can't help them out, but that will have to wait for another day, would it be alright if I were to sleep her for a while, I would not like to go back to that house of male Inu demons,"
"Of cause Miss," Becca smiled, standing to her feet and lightly holding her hand out in front of Izayoi. "It won't be much but it should be enough for you to rest in for a while," Izayoi took Becca's hand and followed her down the hall to the room across from Kagome's. Becca lead her to the bed and left her there while going and sliding the curtains closed.
"If you will need anything we will just be down the hall and should Kagome start to shift she is just across the hall," she smiled before walking out of the room and back down the hall to her friends to a wait.