Disclaimer: I do not own the sons of Inu no Taisho.

I have just one thing to say, though—damn those blasted writer's block! Curse you all! Curse you!

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Chapter 8: Of Men and Their Demons, Part One

Rin took another sip from her coke can from her place in the kitchen and tried to catch another glimpse of her fully-clothed Sesshomaru from the corner of her eye, who was crossed-armed and resting his back against the living room wall. Luckily, he didn't catch her peeking at him this time and remained looking out the window, his head tilted away from everyone's view.

Kagome poked her head out of the fridge and snapped open her second coke. "Why is it we never have any alcohol around when we need it, Rin?" she asked sarcastically.

Rin turned to face her. "Because we never needed it before, Kags." She watched as her friend took a long heavy gulp from the can, her head tilted upward.

The two girls had been in the kitchen trying to digest all the information they had been told ever since they had found out the truth about their dogs—or whatever it was they were thanks to Myoga, who mentally made them itch. They still couldn't believe that the two males in their living room were actually two living, breathing, known-to-be-extinct but really-only-been-heard-in-legends-before youkais from a long-forgotten era, asking for their help. Yes, their help. Why not the police, the F.B.I. or the Men in Black? It just had to be them two. As if college and being single wasn't enough to deal with.

The demons had no where to go and sure as hell couldn't do anything about it until they found a way of going back to whence they came—the past. Not to mention they couldn't even set a foot outside the apartment walls since Kagome's hold of the Shikon Jewel inside her kept up a barrier around them by mistake, and she had no clue how to get rid of it. Yes; until then, they were as stray as any other dog that roamed the streets. And having around a creepy, talking flea that lay hidden in Inuyasha's hair didn't make things any more comfortable or pleasing for anyone—not even the hanyou.

After Kagome whipped her mouth and, hoping that when she opened her eyes again this would all be just one big dream, she looked into her friend's eyes that had on that significant wet, puppy-dog eyes she always wore when she wanted something desperately.

Kagome stepped back. "Oh no! Don't look at me like that! We can't keep 'em, Rin! I mean, they're guys…or, whatever…. and…not even dogs anymore!" She opened her eyes wide in noticing that she must have said more than she should have and instantly looked over to Inuyasha who was currently sitting on the couch with his arms crossed and had been staring at the two ever since they had left the confines of Kagome's room. "Uh—n-no offense? Y-you know what I mean, right?" she plead him.

"None takin'," he barely made out in a pout and monotone voice, still fixing his golden orbs on the two females.

Kagome sighed in relief. If the two demons had really wanted to kill the girls in the first place, they would have done it more than six times already with her big mouth. They had said they weren't going to harm any of them, but it was kind of hard to chew, especially having someone like Sesshomaru around. And there was also the fact that Inuyasha's eyes kept magically gravitating towards Kagome's chest, since her shirt was still wet and clingy from the dog bath that had taken place just a few hours before. Talk about uncomfortable.

"But Kagome! Look at them! Thy need our help!" Rin whined. At this they heard Sesshomaru grunt, almost as if laughing at that statement.

"Rin, they're not just pets you can take care of, you know." She mentally slapped herself in the cheek and looked over to Inuyasha, who just waved a claw this time. Good. She was forgiven for that smart ass but stupid comment too.

Rin shook her head like a little girl and bit her bottom lip. "Please, Kags! Pretty please!"

Kagome didn't know what to do. She lifted her coke at eye level and inspected it curiously, trying to clear her mind a little while buying time to think up of something. Hmm…One hundred and ninety calories…Calories from fat: sixty…Sugar…one hundred percent…

She shrugged, gulped down another mouthful of coke, and made a recollection of that day's events, after the big storm.

After taking a whole minute to scream frantically at Inuyasha's human figure Kagome had managed to run out of the bathroom to get away from him, barely missing Sesshomaru as he passed by the hall to put on his attire that still lay in Kagome's room.

The only explanation she could make out for the hanyou's sudden appearance was witchcraft, which scared her to death. After all, it wasn't every day that a man appeared out of thin air where a dog had been, right after a huge storm.

Making her way to the living room she had flung herself onto Rin as soon as she spotted her friend. Rin caught her, surprised, and asked what was wrong. Hugging her back tightly, she had added, "And why are you so wet!"

Kagome huffed and gasped for air. "Th-there's a monster in the bathroom, Rin!" She pointed a nervous finger towards the hallway.

Rin thought she had meant Sesshomaru and shook her head. "No! Wait, Kagome! It's not a monster!" She thought for a moment and corrected herself, "Well, I'm still not sure what it is, exactly, but whatever it is, I think it's friendly."

Kagome backed up from her grasp. "Are you crazy! What type of idiot do you take me for! Look, first Inuyasha was there, and now there's a man in his place! A naked man, Rin!" she emphasized her words by adding frantic arm movements to them.

"Yeah… I know," Rin blushed. But then she got a bit confused. "Inuyasha? What does he have to do with anything?"

Just then said hanyou came out still dripping wet from the hallway, holding onto a white towel he had been able to wrap around his waist with his right claw. "Stop screaming! My ears hurt just as much as my back does! Jeez, wench!"

The girls turned around and once Kagome noticed who it was she hid behind Rin for cover. She squealed and pointed her finger at him. "That's him, Rin! That's the monster I was talking to you about!"

Inuyasha blinked, taken aback. "I'm not a monster, you wench! I'm a demon!" He lifted his left hand in a fist and showed his canine teeth. The girls jumped back a little, startled. "It's not like you've never seen one before! Kami, are you two hopeless!"

Myoga, who at the time was still unknown to the girls, had hopped onto his master's shoulder all the way from the bathroom and spoke up as Inuyasha looked down at him. "Lord Inuyasha. I don't think this is a good time to talk about demons and such."

"D-demons?" asked Rin.

"I'm telling you, Rin! We're going to die!"

"Stop being so stupid, wench, or I'll just have to take you up on your offer!" he screamed back.

"Somebody please help us! Anybody? Help!" Kagome's bear grip got tighter around Rin's waist.

"Ow. Kagome, that hurts!" she flinched.

"Look, take anything it is you want! Just let us live!"

"Ah! Kagome!"

Myoga jumped into Inuyasha's ear. "Master we need these women to help us so try not to scare them, alright?"

Inuyasha flipped his head as to face Myoga if he were as tall as him, making the flea fall out of his head from the force and onto his shoulder again. "What do you mean?"

As Myoga started fidgeting for an answer Rin whispered to Kagome, "Who do you think he's talking to?" Neither had noticed the miniature demon bug yet.

"Myoga! What's going on! And don't even try to lie to me!" Inuyasha's voice made the girls face their attention towards the hanyou again.

Myoga was sweating. Boy was he in sweet tomally now! Inuyasha's memories and recollection of the past still hadn't gone back to him clearly. The flea inhaled a gulp of air before coming up with, "Well, uh…that's a long story, I'm afraid."

"Get away from me, you…you thing!"

"Ow! Hey, Kagome, your hurting me!" Rin said between breathes, caught in her friend's death grip.

"Get away from us, now! I'm warning you!"

Inuyasha kept blinking at Kagome confused who was now moving uncontrollably while Myoga fought between telling them to calm down, telling them the whole truth in one breath, or even speaking up, at all. Inuyasha said, "Look. Stop acting like I'm going to kill you, 'cause I'm not, alright. And stop screaming! You're loud enough as it is." Of course to Kagome his voice was like what a fish heard whenever someone tapped the glass of their fishbowl: annoying, raspy, loud, and most important, alien.

Kagome dug into the refrigerator and filled a glass with milk, seeing that she had depleted everything else drinkable in the house. She drank it all in one full swoop and shook her head to fight the cold sting. She finished by licking off the milk mustache on her lips. Yup. This was defiantly one of those days you would never forget about. Not by a long shot. Whenever things couldn't seem to get worse, they did.

Still using Rin as a shield and gripping onto her to death, Inuyasha tried to negotiate strategically with the two to stop all that nonsense. He stretched out his left claw at them, still holding on to his towel with the right. Showing a fang or two he ordered, "Quit it, or I'll really have to kill you!"

"Stay back!" Kagome thought he was about to attack them. "Rin, he'll kill us both!" She gripped her friend once again, which made her grunt.

Inuyasha started walking towards them. "Hey! Stop that! If you keep doing that you'll—"

Kagome had had enough and screamed once more, "Somebody help us!" before her chest was in pain again, and in mere seconds later had collapsed to the floor, bringing Rin down with her.

Kagome exhaled deeply and clutched her left breast. Surely every normal human being had a heart there, somewhere, but here she had to be the only one with a priceless accessory magically grown in as well. The flea had told the girls that she had apparently activated the Jewel by mistake as a defensive maneavor whenever Inuyasha stepped closer to her, fearing for her own safety. And since she didn't know she even had a powerful mechanism inside her, let alone be able to use the strong energy it was emitting, no one was able to prevent what happened next. The Jewel's pinkish light engulfed both Kagome and Rin and the next thing Inuyasha or Myoga knew before they could uncover their eyes from the blinding light was that the two humans had fallen unconscious on the floor. But if it were in other hands at the time, it could have obliterated the hanyou in an instant.

The next few memories of that day were still a blur to her, but what Kagome could remember after fainting was moaning and moving around on her bed, still half way asleep. She remembered hearing strange voices all around her, but only now could she distinguish each voice independently from one another.

"Kami she's starting to wake up. Finally!"

"Lord Inuyasha, remember what I said earlier…"

"Feh. Yeah, yeah, I know. 'Don't scare her'. Yeah, like that's going to be easy. She acts like she's never even seen a real demon before."

"Half demon, you half breed."

"Grr…Sesshomaru, if you have some sort of problem with me I suggest you say it to my face, you idiot!"

"Now, now, mi'lords. P-please, c-calm down."

"What! If he's lookin' for a fight then I'll give him one!"

"No! Lord Inuyasha! You can't—"

"Are you saying I can't take him on!"

"Feh."

"What? You think this is funny, Sesshomaru!"

"Please! Master Inuyasha!"

"That's it! I'm gonna kill 'em!"

"No! Master! Put that--"

"Grr! Let me go, Myoga! Let me go!"

"P-put down your sword, Inuyasha!"

"Hm. If even a flea is strong enough to hold you back, half breed, then I doubt you'll survive one second in a fight with me."

"What! You sayin' you want a fight, Sesshomaru! I'll give you one!"

"N-nohoho! Please! Stop this at once! We cannot ruin our only chance with the girls! Please! Im begging you! They're needed to--"

"Mmm…mm?"

The guys immediately stopped their bickering once Kagome's eyeballs started rolling under her eyelids and an attempt was made at moving her limbs, but she couldn't. "Mmm? What?"she kept moaning. The three looked on and calmed down a bit, hoping she wouldn't scream at what she would come to notice.

Kagome slowly opened her eyes and after looking at the ceiling for a moment she struggled to move her arms and legs more to stretch out but couldn't. Worried and feeling a little numb, she began yanking her arms from something she couldn't recognize, until a horrible feeling came to her mind.

She quickly looked over to where her left hand should be, and there, encircling her wrist, was a piece of rope, the other end tied to the bed. Gasping frantically, she yanked harder but couldn't get herself lose. Her feet were also tied up to the bed. Shifting her sight towards her right, she saw that her other hand was tied to someone else's. She screamed, years of watching "Unsolved Mysteries" episodes flashing in her head. Pulling her hand toward her, she came to realize where the other arm led to…Rin.

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Due to some technical reasons I kinda decided to leave this chap here (mostly because I hoped this didn't come out too...uh…crappy). And on further technical reasons, the more reviews I receive in a short amount of time, the faster the next chap will come up. No lie!

p.s. if you don't mind reading the next chap in mostly slanted letters, than even better! Tell me, though. (it's all retrospection, so yeah, it'll probably be there, anyways)

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