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Chapter 9: Of Men and Their Demons, Part Two

Kagome felt her wrist, where the ropes had been tied. Remarkably they hadn't left any marks or scars. That was one reason she decided to trust these demons. But it took her a while to do so. She recalled how she first found Rin unconscious beside her, both tide onto the bed with no explanation whatsoever of why.

Bolting upright she looked over at her friend, who was still in a sleepy state. "Rin? Rin! Oh my God! What's happened to you! Rin! Speak to me!" she began rubbing her but received no answer. Suddenly she caught movement from the corner of her eye and her heart skipped a beat. No; make that two beats.

Turning to the sight in front of her her breath now caught in her throat and her heart beat faster than she could count. In front of her was that same monster she had seen before, only this time, it was in…her red haori? Not only that, but its arms were crossed and tucked under his sleeves and his face was rather…menacing. Farther away and standing in the left corner of the room was yet another stranger, arms crossed and tucked into the sleeves of the other white and red haori, with armor and all, who Kagome swore would be the first one's accomplice in murder. The two seemed to look alike, but the second stranger's eyes were icier and her mind barely boggled the question of his gender.

Kagome did a double take. "No! There's two of you!" She both asked and stated her question, hoping she was wrong.

Just then the first one blinked and Kagome looked into his eyes, ready for anything. "Well, are you awake now?" it asked. Kagome gulped so hard even Myoga heard her, and she tried moving farther up the bed to get away from them. Inuyasha rolled his eyes and looked down at Myoga who was on the bed, frustrated. "See? I told you it would be impossible."

Myoga looked back at him. "Please, Inuyasha. Just give her some time." Kagome began searching the trace of that last voice and she couldn't believe her eyes once she found the flea.

"Ah! A bug! Ew, get it off, get it off, get it off!" she kicked and paddled her feet. Rin started to come to at that.

Inuyasha would've laughed at that comment but was tired enough as it was to get the information he needed to bother. "Hey, she's awake now. Tell us what's going on, you flea." Myoga gulped. This was the day he had been both hoping for and dreading. He was now the center of attention, and if he screwed this up, he'd never get another chance at it again.

"Mmm? Kagome? Is that you?" Rin began lifting herself up from the bed and tried rubbing her eyes open, but forgot about it once she couldn't even move her arms. "W-what? What's going on?" Her voice grew and she questioned Kagome to her being tied to her bed. "Kagome! What's going on?"

Kagome didn't have the first clue to what to say, so she flicked her head toward the guy's direction, signaling her to look. Rin followed her jester's indication and gasped.

"Oh. Uh…Um…Yeah…" she too was at a loss for words. Was she supposed to be a part of some awful foursome she didn't know about?

Myoga cleared his throat. "Ladies, may I have your attention?"

The two girls looked down at the bug, to which Rin pointed out, "Hey. Isn't that a bug on your bed, Kagome? " Myoga sweat dropped again and Inuyasha couldn't help but smirk a little this time. Rin tried looking closer at him. "Is that clothes he's wearing?"

"Begin explaining yourself, flea." Sesshomaru's patience was starting to wear out, and with or without it was never a god thing. Myoga gulped.

"Y-yes, of course…"

Rin blinked at him, apparently looking deep under his attire to try and recognize that familiar face. "Hey. Are you…Fluffy? You were the one who said he was Fluffy, weren't you?"

At this Myoga slapped himself, four times per each hand, and Inuyasha seemed surprised by her statement, for he'd never heard something like it before. And since it was addressed to his brother, it was quite...well…funny. He covered his mouth to try and hide his snickering.

Sesshomaru immediately corrected her, a cold glare forming in his eyes. "I told you I am Lord Sesshomaru, ruler of the western lands, and no one will treat me otherwise." He finished by furrowing his eyebrows.

Rin tried accessing the information, but still wanted to know, "but you're my dog, right? You know, 'Sesshy'?" Again Myoga and Inuyasha re-did their former actions and Sesshomaru almost growled. Rin obviously wasn't getting the hint that she might as well lay herself on a nail-driven platter in front of him if she was going to speak to him like that.

Myoga cut in, trying to prevent a for-seeing female-slaughter. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" He shook his tiny hands. "Before you say anything else, I suggest you hear me out."

Kagome screamed again that there was a bug—and not just any bug—a talking bug on her bed right next to her feet and started kicking again. She grabbed Rin around the waist and began screaming for help.

Inuyasha covered his ears. "Man! How many times do you have to keep doing that!" He tried speaking to Myoga over their cries. "See? I told you we should 'of muffled their mouths as well, but you didn't listen now, did ya!"

"Stop it."

At Sesshomaru's stern and deadly voice Kagome stopped screaming, and by looking towards him she noticed then that he had two swords with him, and currently had his right claw on a red-hilted one. His eyes were narrowed. Myoga instantly started hopping up and down on his place on the bed.

"No! Please, Master Sesshomaru! I beg of you! Don't hurt her!" He received the youkai's glare and this time, added Lord to his pleads.

Inuyasha spoke up to the girls sternly. "Listen. I know we have swords and yes, you're tied to the thing you humans apparently sleep in. But the truth is that your safe," he paused and looked over to Sesshomaru from the corner of his eye, "…uh…safer than you think with us. I know this may sound stupid and idiotic, but trust me, we mean you no harm."

What came next no one had expected. Kagome busted out laughing and Rin soon got into it as well, and both laughed hysterically for longer than ten seconds. They cried like clowns and would have hugged each other if it weren't for the fact that their arms were still tied up. Inuyasha felt humiliated somewhat and disturbed, Sesshomaru maintained his pist-off stature, and Myoga sweat dropped, thinking this went better than he thought it would.

Upon fading away her laughter, Kagome wiped a tear that had formed and asked, "Yeah, yeah, of course. Where are the cameras, huh? Are they in your wigs, or are they on the walls?" she and Rin chuckled a bit more until the girls realized they weren't kidding. Besides male's faces expressing confusion, they knew they weren't joking anymore; this was for real.

"Rin…I think we're going to die…" Kagome whispered at her friend. "It was nice knowing you. You were like a sister to me."

"And you were like the sister I never had," whimpered Rin. The two started sobbing and brought their shoulders together, holding their closest hands firmly. "I love you, Kagome! I'll miss you!"

"We're really going to die, Rin!"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Keh. You're not going to die, you wench. At least not today."

The girls stopped crying. "So we're not going to be dissected by aliens?"

"Or get raped?" Rin hoped Kagome hadn't put that image into her head.

"Huh?" Inuyasha knew nothing about what they had just said. "What? No, no." He shook his head. "If you'd listen for once, we'd get to our point, so stop your whining and girly cries so we can get this over with, alright?"

The girls gulped but nodded nonetheless. If they were going to be killed, they could at least hear their assassin's last words, right? Besides, if anybody was going to help them, they would have come by now.

"Okay. I'm going to untie you now, alright? But only if you promise to stop screaming, you got that?" The girls nodded reluctantly and shifted uncomfortably once Inuyasha came close to Kagome first, a clawed finger out. She complained, but he tried comforting her. "Look, I'm not going to hurt you, alright? See?" He slowly moved his claw to where her left wrist was tied to the bed and continued, "I'm only going to do this," he slowed his actions to allow Kagome to see that he was going to cut the rope with his nail and at the last second brushed upward quickly in order to cut the rope clean. It snapped and Kagome gasped, but once she studied her wrist and saw that it was alright, she worried less when Inuyasha was beginning to cut away her left foot rope.

"See? No harm done." Inuyasha continued all the way to Rin, and when the friend's tied hands were finally free, they rubbed their wrists and looked at each other, wondering what to think or expect next.

Myoga cleared his throat again to grab their attention. "My ladies, before we go into this, I'd like to correct that I am in deed a flea demon, not just some ordinary 'bug'. In fact, you may call me Myoga." He bowed and the girls kept blinking at him, still trying not to scream.

Rin raised a hand to Kagome's ear to offer some privacy and whispered, "So, you thinking what I'm thinking?"

She nodded. "Yeah, that this is all just a dream and that I'm dying to wake up?"

Rin agreed. "Yup."

"Ahem, can you please stop interrupting so Myoga can get on with it!" Inuyasha broke in. The girls shrugged and said okay, seeing that somehow they'd wake up soon if this was all, indeed, a horrific nightmare.

Myoga coughed a little. "Well, now that I've got your attention I must introduce my master's two sons, Master Inuyasha and Lord Sesshomaru." He lifted his limbs to point at them. Seeing the girl's faces and that they began whispering again, he knew what they were thinking. "Yes, I know. They have the same names as your two dogs." Receiving another shocked look from them, he continued, "Please, sit down and I'll assure you that all your questions will soon be answered."

Kagome and Rin let go of each other and rested their backs on the wall, as Inuyasha joined his bother in crossed arms.

Myoga took a deep breath. "I know this is going to all sound unbelievable, impossible and unreal, but you should keep in mind that what I'm about to tell you is no story, my maidens. So please, sit back, relax, and listen carefully to all I have to say…"

Sesshomaru harrumphed and everyone looked over to him. He just gave them the cold stare and their eyes quickly turned to Myoga again.

"Well, let's see…where to begin?" Myoga paced back and forth upon the bed, with a hand on his chin, as if in deep thought. The girls' heads moved from side to side as their sight followed his steps. Finally, Inuyasha growled and lifted a clenched fist.

"Just get on with it, you old flea!" Myoga jumped up.

"Alright, alright. You don't have to be so feisty about it!"

"Commence or I'll make sure you don't speak at all." Myoga yelped at the sound of Sesshomaru's voice and knew he'd die for sure once he saw his right claw lifting up, emanating poison.

"Uh, uh…" Now the flea was too scared to think straight.

"Oh, come on!" Inuyasha rolled his eyes and walked up to the foot of the bed still crossed-armed and landed a clawed foot atop the rim of the mattress. He directed his speech to the girls. "Look, we're demons, alright? De-mons. And somehow we've been brought to this place and we don't know how or why, you got that! Now tell us just how you got hold of the Sacred Jewel and where Naraku's hiding now!" His voice traveled from a well-leveled tone to a frantic, demanding one. The girls hugged each other, scared.

Myoga cut in. "No master! That's not how it goes!" Inuyasha blinked, confused.

"Then how would you say it, you old fart!"

Myoga sighed. "Yes, it does have to do with all that you said, but it's a little more complicated than that…"

Before Inuyasha could inquire why, Sesshomaru asked, now with his claw down, "What are you talking about, demon?"

By now Kagome and Rin were staring back and forth at the arguing threesome, thinking that even they were confused as to what they were doing here.

"Well…uh…" Myoga fidgeted again and Inuyasha growled and in a flash took out his sword untransformed and slashed it at the flea.

"Quit rambling and tell us the truth, Myoga!" Myoga ducked in time and thought he almost wet himself there.

"D-don't do that, lord Inuyasha! You'll keep scaring the mikos!" By now any sign of fear the girls had had early on were now gone, mostly because any menace left in the room was directed toward the little bug in front of them, so they didn't need to worry any more about that.

Inuyasha feh'd and before Sesshomaru could take out his Tokijin again, Myoga gave in, knowing this would be the worst day of his life and that only his tongue could save him now. "Aright! Alright! I-I haven't been completely honest with you! A-any of you!"

Sesshomaru gripped his Tokijin's hilt and Inuyasha screamed, "What!"

"I said--"

"I heard what you said, I just want to know what you meant by it, you worthless flea!"

"I-I…" Myoga knew this was it. It was now or never. He had to tell not only the women what they were up against, but what his masters didn't know as well, either.

He knew they'd kill him before he'd have time to finish, so Myoga hopped atop Kagome's shoulder to her dread and ignored her squirming for a bit, knowing that neither of the dog demons in front of him would dare kill the miko that held their lives in her hands—or in this case, chest. Kagome was a perfect shield.

"Master Inuyasha, Lord Sesshomaru. I-I'm afraid I have some terrible news…"

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes and kept his claw on the Tokijin, and Inuyasha remained curious.

Myoga sweat dropped and added the following silence as a dramatic opening. "We are not where you think we are, I'm afraid…That is…we are...uh…"

He looked up slowly to them and only dared to look Inuyasha in the eyes before looking back down at the bed to say, "We are no longer in feudal times, my lords. We are...actually…five hundred years into the future…"

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