To AngelQueen1325 From Dark
Perhaps! Haha! I hope you like this chapter as much as the last, if not more. I worked extra hard to explain everything without giving it all away. C= Enjoy!
`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`
"How long is this guy going to keep us waiting?" Yusuke asked as he sat at a table with his feet propped up while Kuwabara alternated with tossing a ball up and down in his hand and against the wall beside Hiei, stopping and switching whenever the shorter boy growled before resuming his game.
"Patience, Yusuke, we did come unannounced." Kurama said, giving the door of the room a meaningful look that was acknowledged by Yusuke with a slight nod.
"Whatever," Yusuke growled, keeping the facade of ignorance as he spoke. "This guy better have answers is all I'm saying." The teen said just as the door opened and made everyone pause and give the newcomer their full attention.
"Hello, I'm Sasuke Takashi. What brings you here?" Sasuke asked politely before his eyes narrowed at the demon signature holders in front of him. "Who are you?" He asked calmly, while at the same time releasing his own demonic energy, not all of it but enough for them to get the message.
"My name's Yusuke and I'm a Spirit Detective. These are my friends, and we have some questions for you." Yusuke said with a smirk as he looked at the man that he now knew was a demon.
`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`
"It's me...Yeah I know but listen tell Mr. Stick-up-his-ass that something's happened and we have the two pups now...No, I don't think so but only one seems human...Time of weakness?" Hitomi was saying as I stayed hidden in the small nook I had found. After Ayame had come into Hitomi's room she had found me a simple but loose pair of pants she called cargo pants along with a plain bright blue shirt that had no sleeves on it and had left to order food for all of us.
"Alright, when should I expect him?" I heard Hitomi say followed by a hum that made me wonder what had been said. "I'll tell Ayame and wait. See you later then." Hitomi finished and I heard her start to move around again. Keeping as still as possible and trying to control my breaths and heartbeat I waited for her to go past me before moving out of my hiding place and looking around.
"What's going on? Who was she talking to and why was she talking about us?" I thought before padding towards the living room where I could hear Miyoko trying to play with a fussy Masaru.
"I don't get it. He seemed fine a minute ago." I heard Miyoko say in confusion as I walked into the room and into Masaru's eye sight.
"Ak!" Masaru cheered in an attempt to say what I hoped was my name and began to crawl towards me as fast as he could, rolling head over heels when he tried to crawl and stand up at the same time. Without a word I calmly lifted him up and placed him on my hip, shooting a look at Miyoko when she laughed into her hand.
"What?" I bit out and scowled when she waved her hand at me, dismissing my comment completely.
"Nothing, you just remind me of someone I met when I was younger." She told me and I rolled my eyes before looking towards the kitchen at the sound of loud humming. "So Akari, what's up?"
"What do you mean?" I asked her while absently pulling my hair back and away from Masaru's insistent tugs.
"What's your story?" Miyoko asked me with an eager look that made me nervous a bit.
"None of your business." I snapped and turned to leave the room, spotting a door with the picture of stairs on it.
"Where are you going?" I heard Miyoko asked but ignored her as I opened the door and dashed out. "Hey!" I heard through the door as I jammed it shut with the building supplies sitting behind the door.
"Let's get going." I told Masaru, who grinned and clapped his hands together as I started to run down the steps, grinning at the sound of banging on the door above me.
"Ak?" Masaru asked and I shot him a look.
"I don't like them. They're hiding something and I'm getting us out of here." I told him and I could have sworn I saw him nod his head before something seemed to explode above us. "Shit!" I muttered and looked over the railing with narrowed eyes.
"This is the worst time to be scared of high places." I thought with a gulp as I looked down, trying to find the bottom.
`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`
"What do you mean? Who are you?" Kagome demanded while pulling at her bonds once more while Suzume gave her a confident smirk while dismissing her minions.
"Let's play a little game, shall we Maiden of the Shikon no Tama?" Suzume said happily, making Kagome freeze and her eyes widen as she starred at the woman in front of her.
"How do you know that?" Kagome whispered and flinched slightly when Suzume stepped forward and calmly reached towards the bonds holding Kagome's hands together.
"You're quiet the legend. Defeating that vile half breed Naraku then turning around and taking your protector as your life-mate? What an interesting life you've had! And you barely look over twenty-five. What's your secret?" Suzume asked, seeming geniuninely interested.
"I'm not answering any of your questions until I know where my pups are!" Kagome said with a slight snap, trying to hide her growing fear.
"That's the thing. You see your youngest pup is useless to my Master and the kit you adopted is too. The one I'm after is the girl, you know the one." Suzume said and grinned wickedly as understanding dawned on Kagome.
"Akari," she whispered and Suzume clapped her hands together.
"Bingo, now tell me where you're hiding her and I'll let you see your pups." Suzume said while idily looking at her nails, as if she had all the time in the world.
"But why?" Kagome asked, trying to stall for time so she could figure a way out of her cage, so to speak. "And how do you know so much about us?" She asked while forcing as much of her miko energy into a compressed ball hidden by her hands.
"Now there's two questions I don't hear every day." Suzume said with a touch of mockery in her tone. "Unlike my Master's former servant I gathered information on you before attacking. Although from what I understand though Tim did manage to kill your mate. Is that why you've been in hiding for so long?" Suzume asked and Kagome felt her heart drop as the words rang in her head.
"InuYasha's...dead?" Kagome whispered softly, her voice sounding broken even to her own ears as she looked down at her fist.
"Yes, he died nearly five hundred years ago. My, you would think his own mate would know such a thing." Suzume mocked, thinking she had broken the woman so easily.
"No, he's not dead." Kagome whispered, her head coming up and her eyes flashing dangerously at Suzume, enough for the woman to take a step back. "InuYasha's not dead!" She yelled and threw her hands at Suzume, knocking the woman back into and through a wall. Seeing her chance, Kagome scrambled to free her legs before running out of the hole in the wall she had created and onto a deserted street.
"InuYasha, find me." She whispered and laid a hand on her mate mark, which was on her collar bone, before running down the street not looking back to notice that Suzume was rising out of the rubble with a dark laugh.
"This will be fun!" Suzume said before licking her lips and starring into the mostly destroyed building. "But first, a snack." She said and vanished inside.
`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`
"InuYasha, are you sure this is going to work?" Shippo asked with a touch of fear and worry in his voice as he looked down the Bone Eater's Well.
"You'll be fine, Runt. If it works on Akari it'll work on you." InuYasha said but wisely kept his mouth shut on adding the fear and worry in his thoughts. No sense in worrying the Kitsune more than he was.
"But what if it doesn't? What if the well closes off again but I'm stuck in the middle of it? What if it closes off before I can get through? What if when we get there we can't find Kagome? What if sh-" Shippo rambled, his voice rising in his panic, only stopping when InuYasha bopped him on the head to silence him.
"Stop with the 'what if's you've got my blood in you now and I expect better from you. Besides what's Akari going to say if she sees you crying your eyes out like a baby kit?" InuYasha asked pointedly, making Shippo blush in embarressment before trying to stutter out an insult of his own, his mind completely running past the first sentence.
"Now, we've already told the old hag what's going on and Setsuna knows to tell Miroku and his pack what's going on so let's get going." InuYasha said and without another word jumped down the well with a blast of blue light and what Shippo thought were faint bells.
"Wait for me!" Shippo yelled and dove down the well, his eyes screwed shut as he flew through the bottom of the well leaving behind only a blast of blue light as he slipped into the time stream.
`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.`.
"So you're telling us that whoever took Kagome might be using her because she's a miko. And not just any miko but the guardian of the Shikon Jewel?" Kuwabara asked with disbelief as Sasuke nodded his head simply, with his arms crossed over his chest. The team had spent the better part of an hour talking to Sasuke and learning what they could from him about what had been happening.
"That's right. A member of my pack was told to keep an eye on Lady Kagome while she was in the city by an ally and alpha of another pack. I assume the only reason Lady Kagome was taken was due to the fact that my allies were unaware of such a major move to capture the priestess and were ill prepared to counter attack." Sasuke explained, being vague when it came to names, something the team noticed immediately but did not comment on right away.
"What about Kagome's kids? Are they safe?" Yusuke asked with a hard glint in his eye that Sasuke had seen in other pack alpha eyes when it came to the younger members of their pack.
"Safe. I'll be keeping an eye on them until I can contact the infant's pack and a relative of the older one." Sasuke said calmly but tensed when Yusuke slammed his fist into the thick table, making it crack with the blow.
"No way! You'll give them both to me or I'll shoot your ass right now!" Yusuke snarled as both Kurama and Hiei moved forward to stand on both sides of Sasuke while Kuwabara flexed his fists and stood next to Yusuke.
"Why should I?" Sasuke asked seriously as the young man growled and ground his teeth before pointing a thumb at his chest.
"I'm thier cousin," Yusuke said with a trace of cockiness as Sasuke cocked his head to the side to look at the floor before sighing and shaking his head.
"I'm afraid it's still not possible. I can give you Akari, but Masaru will be returned to his pack so they can better protect him." Sasuke said keeping his voice neutral as he waited to see what would happen.
"Why only take one? Surely their pack would seek the safety of them both?" Kurama asked his confusion genuine since for him, his pack had always taken in pups and - if they had them - their human or half human siblings, choosing to keep the family together if at all possible, something he had picked up from a kit he had meet in his childhood.
"It's safer to do it this way. The ones who took Lady Kagome will not hesitate to come back for her two pups if they are needed. If they're together it will be easier to find them, where as if they are separated it will be harder, for one thing a being among their own kind is harder to trace than if they are with one of another kind." Sasuke explained calmly, his blue eyes focused on Yusuke, who had yet to stop glaring at Sasuke.
"Hn, you must be joking." Hiei said with a smirk as he drew Sasuke's attention. "Clearly you know nothing if you weren't able to sense the yokia in Akari." Hiei told the wolf demon, making him look slightly surprised.
"What?" Sasuke asked in surprise before his attention was distracted to his side as it buzzed.
"Sasuke, the pups are heading down. They're taking the stairs, if your sister can't get them first I expect you to. Regardless of your friends." Ayame said making Sasuke's face twitch in embarrassement as he clenched his hand around his phone, listening to it crack.
"Mother, I'm in a business meeting!" Sasuke hissed and did not miss the smirks on the teenage faces around him as they listened in on his call.
"Yes, with your friends I'm sure." Ayame clipped at him, making Sasuke groan and mutter something. "Don't you dare take that tone with me, young man!" Ayame snapped as Sasuke crushed his phone in his hand just as Yusuke and Kuwabara burst into loud laughs while Kurama just laughed quietly and Hiei just rolled his eyes.