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Chapter Fifteen

Retribution


"You did what!?"

The duo of perfectly synced insulted voices echoed loudly and uncomfortably clearly over the fast emptiness of the wide balcony adjacent to Kouga's towering home.

Kouga dipped his head lowly while sitting on the edge of the dying sun basked veranda. Uncaring of the sheer cliff like drop right at his exposed back while he stared down blankly to his intertwined hands placed rigidly in his lap.

"I sent her away." He repeated emotionlessly. Not daring to meet his no doubt fuming comrades currently glaring at him in his recoiled state.

It had only been a day since Kagome had left this very building all but destroyed from the callous words he had forced himself to recite. But the haunting image of her heart broken form assaulted him still.

As did her absence.

"What in Gods name for!?" Ginta snapped furiously.

Kagome had been nothing but a saint towards the obviously undeserving wolf demon before the both of them and this was her reward?

To be discarded like she had meant nothing all along.

Ginta and Hakkaku were loyal to their leader to the bitter end, as they had proven time and time again. But this. It was almost unfathomable! Was Kouga even thinking any longer or just simply running on blind emotionless instinct as he often did when pushed to far.

"I-I just cant believe-" He stammered running his hands through his grayish locks disbelievingly.

"After everything she's- after everything you put her through! You would just-" Hakkaku finished just as equally disheartened and dumbfounded by this news.

When they had finally managed to work up the nerve to stand before their leader once more they had not expected this. If anything they had hoped Kagome's unintentional trip to the hospital would have opened the thick headed demons eyes to the reality of what the priestess clearly meant to him.

But, obviously they had been way off base.

Blind sided the moment they had arrived at Kouga's flat. Not finding him drinking himself into a stupor like suspected, instead he was drowning himself in something far more toxic.

Pity.

"Throw her away!" Ginta barked angrily.

They had Kouga's back on every single decision he had ever made. Bull headed as they all seemed to be, they supported him as they always had.

But this. It was almost unforgivable.

"Enough!" Kouga seethed leaping to his feet absorbing quite enough of his comrades judgment from a situation they knew absolutely nothing about!

"Do you think this is easy?" He snapped hatefully. His hard azure eyes impossibly clear and gleaming with dagger like sharpness and ferocity.

"Do you think any of this shit is easy for me!?" Kouga repeated furiously. It was easy for them to see him as the bad guy in this situation. To cast stoned in his direction. But they had no idea what this decision had done to him! What it was still doing to him!

"For gods sake! I feel like I just got my god damn chest ripped open!" He confessed venomously the hole Kagome had left in her wake still inside his core like a blacken void that could never be closed or mended.

He had been the one to sever whatever had been building between them. As unbelievably painful as it was. It had to be done.

He couldn't drag Kagome down with him. He was a black hole pulling any and everything good in his path into the darkness of his soul. And the mere idea of tainting Kagome and her child in such a way. It had been too much.

But right now. Not having her. Knowing he had given her up he wasn't sure what was more painful.

The idea of hurting her, or the loss of not ever being able to have her.

"I cant even breathe-" He whispered turning from his admittedly surprised companions to lean exhaustedly over the balcony railing.

The statement could not have been more true. Without Kagome, he felt like he was suffocating, drowning in the reality that was he life before her.

He hadn't realized how void, or cold his world had actually been until she had come into it once more. She had been a ray of absolute light and warm in his frozen desolate life.

But he had cast her out in fear that in time like all good things in his life he would snuff that light, that purity out.

"Then go after her!" Hakkaku shouted stepping bravely forward. It was clear they had been a little quick to judge the situation.

Kouga obviously hadn't done this out of spite. But something deeper and more meaningful. Which only formed one clear solution how to rectify the situation.

"Tell her you made a mistake! She'll understand." Ginta prompted. If anything Kagome was understanding. And if she returned even a fraction of what Kouga clearly felt towards her, then this heartache could end just as quickly as it had begun.

"I cant do that." Kouga stated forcefully. His sharpen eyes staring ahead to the fading sun and the crimson sky it left in its wake.

All the torment aside. The motives for his decision stood.

What he and Kagome had or might have had. Was now over.

"Why?" Hakkaku questioned angrily. How could he be so stubborn? It was clear that being apart from Kagome in such a seemingly permanent way was tormenting him.

And he was sure the absent priestess felt the same.

"You know god damn well 'why'!?" Kouga snapped jerking to face the unrelenting duo at his back. His jaw tight and his eyes fury filled.

Watching as both demons fell silent at the mere sight of the rage they had been prodding all along.

"Demons like me. Monsters like me. Don't get second chances." He stated hard and cold like every word was formed of stone.

"And we sure as hell don't deserve them!" He added vacuously. All his building animosity and rage stemming from the same place it always had.

The dark unforgiving secrets of his past.

The ghost of such haunting memories wasn't so easily forgotten by anyone. Especially the two sympathetic demons that stood before their fuming leader.

Even now the lingering phantom of what the azure eyed demon had suffered haunted them all.

Sensing they were reliving the very thing he was Kouga turned from them. Very few knew the carnage that was his past life but unfortunately Ginta and Hakkaku were not that privileged.

They knew better than anyone what he had been capable of when overwhelming circumstances had driven him to the brink of madness.

Their faces alone told the story of his malicious state. The hard scars his very claws had left in their wake just as gut wrenching to see as they always had been.

"Kouga," Ginta whispered sensing the turmoil that rampaged inside their leader just beneath the surface.

"We know you better than anyone. We've spent our entire lives at your side." Hakkaku added just as understanding as his counterpart.

"But even-" He blinked in Ginta's direction falling short on the words they knew Kouga desperately needed to hear.

"We'll never understand what you've endured." The grayish haired demon completed. Thinking, knowing that not just any person could understand the weight Kouga had carried with him for centuries.

"But someone else does." He whispered.

Kouga turned to his comrade staring into his partial onyx eyes the overwhelming empathy making him feel like he was drowning all over again the realization of who he spoke of.

"Kagome, she knows exactly what its like to lose everything. Everyone." He added thinking back to the friends he once remembered Kagome having, along side Inuyasha.

To have every comrade along with your mate stolen. It seemed such a cruel punishment for someone so loving and selfless.

"But she didn't let her grief burry her." Hakkaku said in admiration. Through all the travesty and unfairness the world had forced upon her the priestess had stayed nothing but whole hearted.

Tender and caring as she had always been even throughout the vast stretch of time.

"Unlike you." Ginta said dryly, remorsefully.

"For centuries we have watched you fight, drink and whore yourself into stupors. Destroy piece by piece the wolf you are." He said hesitantly, thinking back to the all the self inflicted damage he had witnessed first hand his leader endure.

"And eventually that person. That demon that we know you are capable of being. Is going to drown." Hakkaku added fearfully, but with a gut wrenching feeling of certainty.

"The weight your carry Kouga. All the pain that you've locked insides for all the years." Ginta whispered peering at his equally as compassionate comrade then to the leader that both faced them silently.

"Its hard. And its not fair." Ginta whispered thinking back to just how cruel the universe was capable of being.

"But, you've got to let go of the past. So you can build a future." He whispered.

Kouga absorbed his closest comrades words. Thinking momentarily just how much these past centuries have matured his once air headed and clumsy counterparts into the enlightened demons they now were.

But no matter how much their words stemmed from a place of admiration and caring. One simple fact remained as bitterly the same as before.

"I don't deserve one." He admitted coldly.

"I don't deserve her." He breathed. Something as dark, something as impure and blood soaked as he stood could never hope to have a future with someone so…pure.

Hakkaku stared over to his half hearted smirking comrade before speaking.

"Of course you don't." He admitted lightly.

"But you do deserve to try." Ginta added.

Kouga eyed the pair of compassionate eyes aimed at him. Absorbing the care, the admiration and support they held and amazingly always would.

Could things really be that simple? Everything they had suffered? After everything he had put Kagome through. Would she allow him to try? To spend every moment of every day earning her love?

It seemed and impossible feat.

But, unlike before with all the other trials of his fragmented life.

He would happily die trying.


Tenderly, and with loving fingers a small pointed brush ghosted over the robin egg blue walls leaving a small line of fresh paint in its wake.

Kagome stood comfortably in her badly paint stained oversized overalls with matching white tank top and messy bound raven locks. Shifting on her bare feet that stood on top of thin crunchy plastic liner that spanned the length of the almost completed nursery.

Tiredly she brushed the back of her hand over her slightly paint dotted cheek to brush a loose raven strand back behind her ear as she continued to finish the last little details to her son's soon to be room.

The only benefit to having cried herself into a stupor the previous night was she had plenty of energy to finish the minor little chores around the house she had been postponing.

Sadly though, in a time that should have been her most joyous. She was filled with remorse and unrelenting longing.

Ever since leaving Kouga the previous night. Her entire world seemed to turn gray. The bright promising future she had foreseen, had been ripped apart and she was left with nothing but the overwhelming feeling of uncertainty to what now laid ahead of her.

A feeling she was all to familiar with when her dreams of Inuyasha had been snuffed out.

So many unanswered questions that she feared the actual answer too swirled around her. Though some called to her louder than others.

One, had what she and the absent wolf demon shared really been so easily discarded?

It certainty felt that way. Past disagreements and down right arguments aside it had never felt this way before. No matter how badly Kouga had hurt her with his actions or words.

They had always managed to find each other again.

But this time. It felt permanent.

Like Kouga hadn't done and said what he had lightly. Like what he had wanted between them was crystal clear, and what he wanted was distance. Separation.

The only problem was. Could she give him that?

Her sole priority right now was her son. To bring him into the world and embellish him with all the love and support she could possibly give him.

But what happens when she became afraid of falling short of that goal? Felt like she was incompetent in the ways of motherhood? Did she really have the strength to stay completely away from him and the encouraging words she knew he could provide?

Tokyo was a big city, but it wasn't a country apart like she felt like she needed in order to abide by the distance Kouga clearly wanted.

Kagome sighed exhaustedly.

She didn't know what it would take to get over the absent wolf demon. And honestly she wasn't sure she ever would. But, she wouldn't allow herself to be pulled back into something that would only end in heartbreak.

It already felt like she was receiving a fresh crack in her already fragmented heart with every knock on the door of ring of the phone.

Sadly though it was never the person she desperately wished would be on the other end.

As if some divine sort of irony a thumping knock radiated loudly from down stairs and Kagome paused mid stroke with her stained brush.

She sighed heavily before placing the oak handle down on the plastic lined floor then walking towards the open nursery door.

She had barely managed to make it over the threshold and down the hallway turn to the top of the staircase when the knocking increased in its ferocity.

Kagome sighed half heartedly. It was most likely Shippo, the fox had made it a daily routine ever since her return from the hospital to pop in on her.

Then again the company would be appreciated at a time like this. If for no other reason than to keep her out of her own head.

She had managed the first step down the carpeted stairs when the relentless pounding on the door intensified once more.

"I'm coming!" Kagome shouted loudly. Jeez, the kitsune certainty wasn't in a patient mood today.

But the absolute moment Kagome's voice carried throughout the empty house confirming to the figure on the opposite side of the locked door she was home. All hell broke loose.

With inhuman ferocity the door buckled from unseen pressure and not one but a team of black dressed figures came flooding in.

Kagome froze at the sight of the strangers filling her house like a horrific tide.

One practically large obvious demon locked beady eyes onto her at the top of the stairs and Kagome felt the color drain from her face.

"There!" He shouted and an army of equally as terrifying looking strangers followed all charging forward up the stairs directly towards her.

Running on pure instinct Kagome spun from the sprinting demons back towards the hallway running as fast as her bare feet would carry her.

She had barely managed to grip hold of the nursery door where she had hoped to lock herself inside when an overpowering shadow locked arms around her waist hauling her backwards.

"Let me go!" Kagome roared kicking and scratching as fiercely as she could as the ground left her flailing feet.

Who were these people? These demons? Did they work for Sesshomaru? Why was he doing this? Whatever the reason, they were in for a rude awakening. Heavily pregnant and venerable as she might seem, she was far from helpless, and these intruders were in for the fight of their lives!

Focusing as best as she could Kagome flooded her palms with spiritually charged energy sinking the pads of her already sparkling hands into the forearms of her current assaulter!

The purification technique instantly seared into the demons skin boiling it and scorching it deeply causing him to wail out in agony and drop Kagome instantly desperate to pull away from her burning sting.

Kagome hit the floor on her rear with a thud before she scrambled backwards trying to regain her footing as more and more demons shoved past the gravely wounded one she had just electrocuted!

She managed to wrestle herself away from a pair of groping hands slapping them away with her still electrically charged fingers jolting any skin that wasn't her own!

All the while running towards the nursery door. She flew over the threshold before slinging the door securely into its frame and clinking the lock!

Frantically her eyes turned towards the opposite side of the room where the open window called to her. It was a small jump from the window to the awning below but not by much. She could make it!

She flew towards her only means of escape while the nursery door began to shake with the impact from the strangers on the other side.

On the second hit the frail board cracked and caved inwards narrowly giving Kagome an inch before already the small room became flooded with massive monster sized men!

Kagome clung to the window seal just making it half way through before an intruders hand was around her ankle pulling her back inside.

Kagome kicked but as skilled as she was she wasn't able to purify from that particular part of her body! She had to swipe with her hands and right now that was the only thing from keeping her from being pulled weightlessly back inside!

Kagome kicked fiercely but it only seemed to supply her attackers with more leverage as her other ankle was taken a hold of and she was ripped from the window and thrown to the floor!

The moment her body made contact with the floor her head bounced off the hard wood instantly causing blinding pain to rampage through Kagome's system. Her vision blurred and all focus she had maintained on her spiritually charged fingertips slipped away.

She tried to strike at the figures now surrounding her but her body disobeyed her command to just remain still and limp as she was hoisted from the floor.

One demon tucked her to his chest carrying her weightlessly like a bride as she was abducted from the room just as quickly as the men surrounding her had arrived.

Kagome wriggled in his hold but he only held her crushingly tighter until it felt like she couldn't breathe.

Everything was going black, she was loosing consciousness and what made it worse was she was aware of the fact! Something warm was running down her face and her head throbbed with radiating pain.

She couldn't hold on any longer she was fading out. But with her one last conscious thought she reached for the ooze running down her cheek to coat the warm substance around her fingertips and fling it with one short movement to the floor.

Then everything went black.


Silently the dozen or so well polished and elegantly leathered conference room chairs sat waiting the business tycoons that would undoubtedly flood in at any moment. One chair though sat filled at the head of the long oval shaded glass table.

Sesshomaru stared ahead to the vacant room rolling over the agenda for the day in his inhumanly sharp mind. Usually attending meetings such as this were beneath him and left to a close counterpart in his place. But it wasn't the usual company buyout his corporation usually partook in.

It was a transaction of sorts, a multimillion dollar transaction that for appearances sake he would have to grace his future stock holders with his presences.

Not to do so might be absorbed as an insult. Though in truth he cared very little about the courtesy of meager humans he would partake all the same.

Or so he thought.

Instantly the small onyx shaded speaker at the center of the table sprung to life and Sesshomaru's sharp amber eye focused on it intently.

He had specifically demanded not to be disturbed during this meeting that had yet to even begin. Whoever was responsible for this disobedience, was going to suffer. And greatly.

"Mr. Tashio? Sir. We have a problem." A sharp and highly alerted voice announced over the intercom from an apparent direct line phone call.

Sesshomaru's silver brow arched. He instantly recognized the breathless voice. It was the team lead he had personally put in charge of keeping a watchful eye of a certain raven haired girl.

Sesshomaru stood up in one swift motion from his sunken chair to swipe a clawed finger over the loud speaker button.

"Speak." He commanded.

The voice on the other end was clearly hesitant and almost fearful, but responded all the same.

"The girl. She's been-" The unknown male voice paused on the other end making absolutely sure his information had been one hundred percent correct before relaying such drastic news.

Instantly Sesshomaru's naturally bright exuberant amber eyes darken into a thick molten gold. The fierceness they already held doubling ten times over.

"Taken." The intercom buzzed, and then the voice faded out into a hiss of static.

Silently the atmosphere in the room shifted from light air to thick almost suffocating tension. The silent rage that was capable of building within the usually so composed demon, broke free.

And god help whoever awakened such a beast.


"I didn't mean it- I mean I did but I was just trying to protect you? I thought I knew what was best- not that you didn't! I'm still not sure this is the right thing but I want to try?"

Kouga palmed his forehead agitatedly as the words formed inside his head but didn't dare leave his surprisingly dry tongue.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" He growled out loud. How could he convince Kagome he had come to make amends when even he wasn't sure he believed the words he spouted?

The emotionally drained wolf demon sighed heavily as he walked further up the not yet familiar street of Kagome's home.

All that was left was to turn the corner and there she would be. Inside her comfortable little house with door shut tight, the only barrier between the two of them.

The only problem was, he feared it was going to take a hell of a lot of convincing to get the no doubt still hurt priestess to even face him.

Even now he wasn't sure he was making the right decision. But, Ginta and Hakkaku's words had driven him this far, and he wasn't ready to turn back. Not yet.

Maybe after he saw her, faced her one more time. The right words would just naturally form. They always had a habit of doing so any other time she was around.

She had that effect on him. Making him spew brutal honesty.

Pausing just shy of the row of greenery that led directly towards Kagome's front door he stood momentarily frozen.

Taking a deep breath he rolled over his motivation. Was this really the right thing? To keep pulling Kagome back to him even when he wasn't sure what he was pulling her back too?

What if she didn't want him? What if he had caused to much heartache to be overlooked….what…what was that smell?

Kouga's shifting train of thought instantly straightened as he breathed the all but polluted air once again this time more intensely.

There was no mistaking it. It was the scent of demons, a lot of demons. A few dozen at least.

On instinct Kouga felt his body tense and his mind race with unwanted possibilities. What was a basic pack of demons doing this close to Kagome's house? Whatever the reason no possible outcome could have a good answer.

No longer hesitant Kouga tore around the corner bushes leading to the pathway up towards Kagome front door. The moment he maneuvered around the greenery his azure eyes widened in dread.

Her door was there alright. Pieces of it anyway. The board had been completely buckled leaving only splintered fragments hanging on the bronze hinges.

Kouga felt as though he had just been punched in the stomach his mind swirling with numerous possibilities and not liking a damn one of them.

Unthinking and running on pure instinct he flew towards her darken home. Leaping over the threshold he slid into the main room of her eerily quiet house.

"Kagome!" He shouted his voice echoing loudly throughout the obviously abandoned walls. Frantic Kouga's azure eyes scanned for clues.

The place was a wreck. Furniture tossed over and hard boot soles scuffing the otherwise polished floor.

Each glimpse causing Kouga's already unrealistic level of panic rise even higher! Unthinking Kouga turned to the upstairs flying up the steps four at a time until he reached the even worse off hallway.

Broken frames and shattered glass riddled along the oak flooring along with the fresh scent of something even more gut wrenching.

It was up here, he could smell it.

Animalisticly Kouga's eyes scanned the flooring what he feared most easily coming into sight. It was small, to small to be life threatening but that thought did little to stem the tide of sheer panic.

Kneeling down Kouga slid a finger across the crimson droplets staining the scratched floor.

There was no mistaking it. It was Kagome's blood.

She had obviously put up one hell of a fight to have her house so visibly destroyed and leave behind a trace of her own fierce struggle.

Kouga's fingers curled into an almost bone crunching fist. His azure eyes turning from a soften orb to pure slits of rage. Whoever was responsible for this was…Their head was going to roll!

And he knew just where to start!


The pain. That was the first thing that brought the barely conscious slumped figure back to coherent thought.

It was constant and throbbing seeming to stem from everywhere. But the most concentrated area above all others was radiating from her head.

Kagome moaned loudly but the sound was muffled by something dry and bitter wedged between her teeth. Hazy her bleary eyes parted to peer across a filthy concrete floor her cheek currently rested upon.

Blinking away the haze over her narrowed eyes she tried to sit herself up right only to realize her hands were bound painfully tight behind her back.

Angrily Kagome bit down on the gag muffling her voice as she braced her weight onto her bare shoulder wriggling her still loose ankles underneath her to shove herself up.

She made it into a sitting position with the aid of a rusted tin wall at her back supporting her weight slightly as she slumped forward. Her messy barely restrained raven locks falling over her eyes until she shook them away forcefully trying to gauge her surroundings.

The room was dark, dusty and made of rusted metal. Countless water damaged cardboard boxes and what appeared to be oil drums fanned out around the tight confines.

A large spider web covered window just to her side with broken glass jagged and sharp at the fragmented corners.

As nightmarish as the surroundings were the mere realization that the person she had originally thought responsible for her abduction couldn't have possibly been behind this. Made it far worse.

There was no way Sesshomaru of all demons would be caught dead in a dank hole like this one.

So it begged the question. If not him, then who had done this to her?

Kagome groaned lowly her head was pounding and even now she could feel the hard crust of dried blood coat the side of her face. Which told her she had been out for a few hours at best.

This wasn't good. There was no way of telling just where she was anymore. Was she even in the city?

She tried to adjust her position momentarily distracted by the horrific scenario she had been thrown into by the new uncomfortable amount of pressure rising form her abdomen.

It felt awful! Like her skin was turning to stone from the inside out! She bit down on the rag inside her mouth and cried loudly.

Had her attackers done this? Inflicted some unknown wound she didn't know she had until now? It hurt so bad!

Breaking her away from her almost crippling pain all to briefly Kagome turned to the sound of screeching metal on metal. Watching as a sliding iron door she hadn't noticed before parted open allowing a oddly familiar figure to step through.

Kagome eyed the somewhat stranger through narrowed eyes. His slender form dressed in a clean cut suit and polished shoes. He looked just as out of place as Sesshomaru would if he had been standing before her.

"Sweet dreams?" The politely smiling man asked while walking forward casually.

Kagome eyed his approach tensely her hidden hands tightening into fist wishing she had the use of them now more than ever.

She scooted back as much as the wall at her back would allow desperate to distance herself from the calmly approaching man.

Only now catching sight of something hard and metal gripped tightly in his hand.

It took her a fraction of a second to register it was a gun. A gun he casually held while strolling towards her all but helpless form.

She stilled instantly as her heart dropped into her stomach.

The silver eyed demon smirked widely watching her reaction to the pistol her held. But not wanting to cause additional stress to the situation he waved it off carefully.

"Relax. This isn't for you." Rekin reassured tucking the silver barrel into the back part of his belt under his suit jacket and out of sight.

Kagome breathed a little easier, but not by much.

"You know I really hoped it wouldn't have to come to this. But you just couldn't stay out of the way could you?" The slick haired demon asked a hint of amusement almost laced through his low tone.

Everything about this demon sent Kagome on high alert, but finally having him within clear sight triggered a memory she had long thought forgotten.

His face. She had seen it before.

Feeling her slightly more lax posture Rekin knelt down reaching forward to grip hold of the dry rag that muffled Kagome's heavy breathing. Softly he extracted the cloth allowing it to fall around Kagome's neck as she met him eye to eye.

"Y-You're the demon from the park?" Kagome questioned her frantic mind uncommonly sharp as she remembered the suit dressed demon before her all to clearly.

"Oh so you remember me? I'm faltered." He smirked wickedly. It had been quite awhile since he had last laid eyes on the priestess before him.

A lifetime it seemed. One he wished he could revisit and snuff out the problem before he had ever discovered it began.

"Why am I here? What do you want?" Kagome demanded. She had met this demon once. But never again since then. What could he possibly want from her?

"Hum, now that is an interesting question." Rekin admitted rocking back onto his heels to stand fully back up.

"What do I want?" He repeated level headedly.

"Well, if you had me that a few months ago? I would have said nothing. I had it all, a good business, hell a great business, money, women, respect." Rekin recalled his eyes ghosting over with something dark, something angry.

"But that was all before you." He smirked wickedly.

Kagome shifted under his gaze. The way he stared at her. It felt so hateful, like he wanted nothing than to strangle the life out of her right here and now.

"You see? Unintentional as it might have been. You my dear have become quite an annoyance for me." He admittedly lowly.

"Which is why I need you out of the way. Permanently." He stated matter of factly. As if her life held no consequence one way or another.

And it made Kagome's blood run cold.

She didn't understand. How had she wronged this demon? She didn't even know him? What could she possibly done to unleash such obvious rage?

"I can see your confused. I suppose it wont do any harm explain." Rekin shrugged uncaring.

"Introductions should be first I suppose. I my dear am Rekin. Entrepreneur and co-owner of the eastern underground 'sparing facilities'." He smirked at the flawless delivery of his credentials.

"The pits?" Kagome questioned. Was he talking about that place? Was he somehow connected to Kouga? Was that why she was here?

"Oh so your familiar with them? I suppose that shouldn't surprise me. Especially seeing as you just cant seem to help yourself from stealing my main investment." He admittedly lowly. A hint of sarcasm in his dry tone but something far more sinister as well.

"You know. A demon, tall, blue eyes,-" Rekin trailed off to laugh dryly gesturing his fingers down the side of his face.

"Unique face." He smirked.

Kagome swallowed hard.

"Kouga." She whispered. Whishing now more than ever the absent wolf demon would appear at any moment to rescue her from this nightmare.

"Exactly." Rekin breathed. His eyes hollow and cold with not well hidden malice.

"You see . For the past few years I have been making quite a comfortable living arranging shall we say mature entertainment? I find the brutes and Kouga knocked them down. Easy money." He explained briefly.

"Or at least it was until you came along." He whispered darkly.

"Ill admit I should have pieced it together sooner. The no shows, the endless excuses. The oh so mysterious reasons he just flat out refused to get down and bloody like he use to." Rekin addressed thinking back to how much sooner he could have rectified the situation.

"You my dear. I don't know what kind of spell you cast over that mongrel. But bravo. Getting him to refuse a sell out and just close the doors. I never would have that ought that possible." Rekin chuckled lowly, angrily.

"Until it happened." He admitted eyeing Kagome full force. Feeling no sympathy what so ever to the creature that had all but destroyed him.

Kagome didn't dare speak but her mind raced. This was what this was all about? Kouga had closed the pits? And this apparent 'partner' was angry? At her?

Kagome thought about it, and she could see how she had played a part in such a drastic decision. But she in now way deserved this! Neither did her child!

"Now you get it. Now you see why I am so…upset." Rekin hesitated trying to roll over the proper statement to address his slowly decaying mental state.

"A lifetime of carving my way out of the shadows just to be thrown right back down into the blackness. It can agitate even the most stable of demons." He smirked hollowly.

Kagome felt her mouth dry. She was obviously dealing with a loose canon. A canon who blamed every single one of his problems on her.

"Even if any of this is true. This had nothing to do with me!" She snapped angrily. This demon was insane! Kouga was his own person. She hadn't forced his hand to do any of this! Even if she had. What this man was doing was insane!

"Oh no. It does." Rekin corrected leaning forward until his icy eyes seared into Kagome's recoiled form.

"I tied being the gentleman. I tried just removing you with minimal blood shed." He admittedly thinking back to the strings he had pulled the events he had orchestrated to remove the troublesome priestess.

"But you just came right back. Just like a cancer. I could cut you out, but I just couldn't make you leave." He said dryly.

"What are you talking about?" Kagome demanded.

"Think about it. Do you think it was just coincidence your name just happened to reach someone as high as a western leader?" He asked mockingly.

It might have been that tramp of a doctor that had made the call. But who had given the information to her to begin with? Him.

Who had put her in a rigged cab to all but deliver her to Sesshomaru doorstep? Him.

Every shadow. Every movement that the priestess had seen out of the corner of her eye in effort to remove her from the picture. It had been him.

"Y-You?" Kagome blinked. This was unreal. A demon she hadn't even known. Had been the sole source to the seemingly endless events of intrusion and fear in her life?

"Exactly. Once I heard that silver haired mutt was sniffing around. It provided the perfect opportunity to get you out of the way. To get Kouga's mind back on track, where it should have been all along." He whispered hatefully.

"It would have worked too. If that dog had just done his job! I mean who would make waves over one missing girl?" He asked accusingly.

"I suppose we'll find out." Rekin said with a wicked smile that made the color drain from Kagome's face.

Kagome swallowed hard. She had overcome worse things then this in her life and she wasn't letting this bastard get away with this! She would get out of here! Come hell or high water!

"I don't know what your planning but its not going to work! Kouga will stop you!" She swore with unshakable confidence her hazel eyes filled with absolute fierceness.

In the blink of an eye Rekin retrieved the pistol from his belt pointing the barrel directly towards Kagome's head causing her to still and the very breath flood from her lungs.

He smiled wild and maliciously at her reaction.

"Don't count on it."


"Where is she!?" Kouga's roaring voice exploded outwards as he kicked in the double doors of Sesshomaru's office with such ferocity they splintered into a thousand unrecognizable shards!

Instantly his azure eyes fixed on the silver haired figure on the opposite side of the room standing unaffected by the wolf demons intrusion by his stainless desk.

"I swear to god! If your goons laid a finger on her! I will rip every single one of them apart! And you'll damn sure be next!" Kouga vowed charging forward to the stone faced dog demon.

His mind was an inferno of burning rage filled possibilities of the hell he was preparing to unleash on anyone who crossed him!

The treaty between the two of them be damned! Sesshomaru had already crossed the line by abducting her off neutral territory!

He didn't give a damn the chaos that would ensure. If he had to he would kill the amber eyed dog here and now or die trying!

The moment Kouga stood directly before Sesshomaru's he half expected the dog demon to strike him. To lunge for a life ending attack. But, instead he only stood there amber eyes fixed to the blinking crimson light on the phone center to his desk.

With one swipe of his finger he ended the flashing and the voice on the other end of the line buzzed to life.

"Hello. Sesshomaru." Rekin chimed over the intercom.

Kouga's now blood drained face turned instantly to the voice with a mask of horror spreading over his colorless expression.

"I believe I have something you might be interested in." The formless voice promised with an unseen smile.

Instantly Sesshomaru and Kouga's eyes met and both knew instantly who was responsible for the offense committed against both of them.

And the wrath of hell would follow in their wake.


Now the drama really hit's a hight note. Don't worry I'll be back soon! Being in winter you guys are fourtunte because I love to write during some snow days!

Its just so romantic! Well besides the freezing my fingertips off part!

Anyways don't go anywhere! Next update should be up relatively quicker than expected!