A/N: Hi guys! I hope you like the first chapter! On to the technical bit:

My inspiration for this story came from Wolf Blossom's 'I Dare You'. While the stories are completely different, I felt she deserved credit for my inspiration. So, thank you again Wolf Blossom!

Anyhow, I don't own any of the characters. And I hope that you enjoy the story! I've got 10,000 words to post in the next couple of days so I hope this is going to be a long story because we aren't even halfway there!

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"I see you've forgotten your manners in the last five years Ms. Higurashi." His eyes never left the road, but his tone made her feel as if his fingers were under her skin.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I had to use formalities with a man who kidnaps me." Kagome crossed her arms over her chest and stared out the window at the scenery that was passing by much quicker than normal.

He looked over at her and she felt her skin crawl. With as much spite as she could possibly muster she whispered. "Your Highness." But he heard it and returned his eyes back to the road, an air of haughtiness exuding off him for getting his way.

Inuyasha Takahashi, this yellow-eyed devil, was the crown prince of Japan and he had taken her hostage for unknown reasons.

After another 15 minutes passed of silence, Kagome looked over at him. "Where are you taking me?" She asked, her nerves kicking in from the distance between her and Ileana.

"Home."

Shock and horror crossed her face as she looked down at her plain teaching attire. "To the palace?" She stuttered.

"Yes, Ms. Higurashi." His voice was stern as he laid his cell phone in her lap. "Call your mother and tell her you won't be home until late this evening."

Playing it cool, she folded her arms and looked out the window. "Why would I need to call my mother? I'm a grown woman."

His voice was nails on a chalkboard when he leaned over and whispered in her ear, "I know, Ms. Higurashi." And for the second time in twenty-four hours, her stomach his the floor.

"Why are we here?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha put the car in park in front of the palace.

"We have business that needs to be discussed." He replied steely as he got out of the car and straightened his suit before opening her door. She wanted to bolt as soon as she saw the daylight on the other side of his tinted car, but she knew better. His arm was around her waist in a steel death grip as soon as her feet touched the ground.

She walked like a lady as he led her past his servants. She refused to be made a fool and seem weak in front of these people who thought it was fine to whisk her away from her life without warning. "Your Highness." His servants bowed as he walked past, but he didn't even acknowledge them as he led her into a sitting room.

"There are to be no visitors or calls today." He ordered as he slid the door to the room shut.

Taking in the room, she instantly dipped into a short curtsey. "Your Majesties." While she didn't respect their son, Kagome had a deep respect for his parents, Emperor Inu no Taisho and Empress Izayoi; for all that they had done for Japan. Their eyes never came off of her, but the Queen seemed less stern than her husband. 'What was going on?' She wondered internally.

"Please sit down." Emperor Inu no Taisho's voice boomed through the small space. Tentatively, she sat in a comfy chair her bottom very close to the edge and her back straight, hands clasped in her lap. "It appears we have some very serious matters to discuss with you, Ms. Higurashi."

Nerves kicked in as she looked over at Crown Prince Inuyasha, who was looking at her, an unreadable expression on his face. She was determined not to show weakness in front of these people because she knew they would eat her alive. "What is this business, Your Majesty?"

"Your daughter." He said curtly.

"OUR daughter." Inuyasha clarified. The Emperor shot him a stern look, but Kagome's heart was pounding, nerves and worry threatening to make her carefully constructed face fall. The Prince's outburst had spiked curiosity inside of her, though.

"Regardless, it appears that your daughter is the blood of the Crown, and it is in ill taste for her to remain an unnamed heir to the throne of Japan."

Empress Izayoi's eyes watched her with a soft look, sympathy perhaps? Panic was setting in her chest as his words sunk in. "And what would you propose we do to remedy the situation?" She asked with a shaky voice.

"We have two options," The Emperor stated, making eye contact with Kagome to gauge her reaction. "The first is that you relinquish custody of your daughter to the Crown and we will raise her under the impression that her mother had perished in a car accident." Kagome's eyes steeled and her hands clenched in her lap, it took everything in her to hold her composure at the thought of loosing her daughter.

The Emperor watched her closely, already having known the answer to his first suggestion. "The second is that you marry Crown Prince Inuyasha." His eyes moved to his son who sat stoically in his chair, his eyes cold steel, but he offered no argument to his father's proposal.

Kagome, on the other hand, did. She stood up a little straighter and stared at the Emperor dumbfounded. "You, want me," she said pointing at herself, "to marry your son because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants? Are you crazy?" She knew her language was inappropriate in the company that she was present in, but what they were asking of her was ridiculous.

The Empress hid her face behind her hand in an attempt to keep the smile on her face from being seen by the men in the room. "If you refuse we will try you as a traitor." Emperor Inu no Taisho's eyes were the same colour as his son's but they held more of a steely bite as he stared into hers with no remorse. A gasp escaped Empress Izayoi's lips at the implication her husband had made.

"You can't be serious Inu no Taisho. She's only a girl whose trying to protect her daughter and you're willing to send her to the gallows over an heir?" Izayoi's voice was incredulous as she stared unabashed at her husband.

"I will give you a month to make up your mind, Ms. Higurashi. In the meantime," He said while rising from his seat, "You will remain in this palace under the watchful eye of my staff. You're job at the school has been suspended as well, so there is no point arguing about it." The Empress followed behind her husband, still a bit in shock herself from her husband's ultimatum.

As soon as the door shut behind them Kagome's eyes began to water, but she refused to let the Prince see her upset. "I want to go home. Take me back to my car."

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Ms. Higurashi. Your time at the castle starts today."

Angry, she turned and faced him full on. "I want to go home and relieve her so she can go take care of the rest of the family. If you want to be an insensitive jerk and not drive me back to my car, so be it. I'll catch a cab back to the school, or better yet, walk.

His molten eyes locked onto hers. "No. I will send someone for our daughter."

"I need to be the one to be there for her. If someone else comes into the house and tells her that she has to leave she will be terrified. Plus I need to get her things together for her, things that you or your men wouldn't know are important to her." Her eyes were hard as she stood looking down at him in his chair, but her five-foot-four frame didn't give her much height over his sitting frame.

"Fine. I will drive you to the school so that you can drive home, but I will drive you from your house back to the palace."

"No. If I have to come and live with you here in your domain under no will of my own then I deserve the right to drive myself back to the palace with my daughter."

He looked away from her and threw his hand out. "As you wish." He said with a mock bow, relenting to her request, knowing that it would be the last time she would have the privacy of a normal life.

They sat in silence in the car for most of the way. Finally, Kagome looked over at him and asked quietly, "How did you find us?"

"By chance. I was driving through the city one day and saw you window-shopping. I didn't know it was you, but the silver hair gave our daughter way. As you know the Takahashi's are the only ones in Japan with the genes to produce hair that colour. I cancelled all of my plans and came home, the rest of the day I spent researching, trying to find out who the mother of that silver-haired girl was. I never expected it to be you."

She blanched at his words. "Why? Was I not good enough to be on your list of potential mother's of your child? Just because I'm not your usual type of bimbo supermodels, I don't make the cut?"

His eyes were dark as he turned and glanced at her. "Truth be told I didn't even remember your name. I had to find it in the servant's database."

A shiver went up her spine at the memory of her work at the Takahashi palace. It was only summer work while she took a break from her studies before her first year at university. "Sorry I wasn't memorable." She shot back with distain in her voice.

"You were memorable." He softly said as he put the car in park. His eyes were soft for the first time as he looked at her for a fleeting moment. Her hand stilled on the door handle as she looked at him, shock rippling through her. "Now get out of here. I expect you back at the palace no latter than tomorrow morning, but it would be in your best interest to be there tonight." The warmth in his eyes was gone, replaced with the cold steel that she had seen all day.

"Very well." Kagome opened the door and stepped foot onto the solid pavement of the familiar school parking lot and strode to her car, not pausing to look back at him. Quickly, and with as much poise as she could muster she entered her car and drove off. Never bothering to look back at the silver haired man who was watching her drive away.

Stay tuned for another chapter!