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Chapter 8
Naraku Kumo mansion…
The limo pulls in front of the house, well if you look at it more like a mansion. The driver gets out and goes around to passenger door opening it. Out walk inuyasha, then koga, and kagome.
"Thank you." She says to the driver with a smile. He nods his head and goes around to the trunk to unload their luggage. Kagome turns around to the guys and sees them already heading for the place.
She looks up at it and is amaze at what she sees. A 4-story building stood in front of her. The house was tan with dark purple almost black color trimming around it.
"Kagome are you going to sit there and gawk all day or are you coming?" says inuyasha with a not so comforting attitude.
'What crawl up his-'
"Ay idiot you better watch what you say in front of my woman."
'His woman?' kagome thinks shocked.
"Your woman? Since when did she become that?"
"When I first laid eyes on her. It was then that I knew we were meant to be together. Ain't that right kagome?"
She walks pass the two up to the door answers koga with an "only in your dreams".
She walks up to ring to doorbell but the door opens before she even touches it. A girl around age 7 or 8 is standing there. Her hair is white and her eyes are also and when she spoke it sound as if she had no emotions what so ever.
"Are you here to see my father?"
Kagome kneels down to the girl and smiles. "Yea we sure are. I'm kagome. This is koga and inu-"
"I know who he is," she says as a matter of fact. "My father is expecting to see you all. Follow me."
Kagome stands up and watches the little girl walk away. 'Weird.' She takes one step towards the door but stops and gasps. The hair on the back of her neck stood up in a warning. 'Danger! Danger!' The little voice in the back of her mind was yelling.
She clutches her hand over her heart as it started to speed up. It was another one and aura of some such, but this one was different. The person owning it wasn't trying to hide whatever it was they were hiding.
She gulps. 'I wonder is it's too late to turn back?'
Inuyasha and koga watch as she stops herself from going into the house and saw when her whole body tense up. They heard when her breathing started to come out in short ragged breaths.
They could feel the amount of demonic energy Naraku was giving off the moment the little girl came to the door. Koga looks towards inuyasha whose eyes are narrowed slightly. He turns back to kagome. 'Is it possible that she can sense it also?"
Seeing how the girl looked as if she was going to have a panic attack any minute, koga steps in to help her breathing. He steps up and put his hands on each side of her arms.
"Take deep breaths and concentrate on something else other than what you are now." He says in her ear. She does as she's told and takes in large amounts of air at a time. "How about you think about how much an idiot inuyasha can be even though he's your boss."
The technique worked and kagome's breathing went back to normal. The aura also had calm to a minimum but it was still there lingering over the house making it an unpleasant place to be.
She shivers. 'Does everything about this guy creeps me out?'
"You ok?" says a voice behind her. She turns to come face to face to koga.
"Yea just panic for a minute…it happens all the time." She lies and by the stern looks on both inuyasha and koga's face they knew she was. She lowers her head to the hands on her arms.
"You can let go now." He does having his hand fall back to his sides. She lets out a nervous laugh and turns towards the door. "I guess we should go inside." She walks over the threshold into the home heading towards the little girl who had stop to watch the scene.
When she sees kagome step through the door she turns and continue on her way through the house. Kagome follows along with koga and inuyasha trailing behind her.
The girl stops and turns around to them. "You will reside here. My father will be down with you shortly." She turns and leaves the room.
Kagome looks around at her surrounds seeing the dark furniture that dwell in the home. She takes a seat on one of the couches waiting for their host to arrive.
Koga takes a seat next to her while inuyasha sits across from them. They each stare at each other wondering what this Naraku will be like.
They don't have to wait long cause in comes a man in a black suit purple shirt underneath. He has long wavy hair that stop short of his butt. His dark eyes stared at everyone who will be in his home for the next few weeks.
His eyes landed on kagome for a few seconds but it was enough to make a shiver run down her spine.
He looks over at koga and frowns. "I didn't know there would be extra company joining you today Mr. Taisho."
"Yea well I didn't know either until it was time to leave. He insisted that he join."
A smirk appears on Naraku's face. "Well I'm sure that we can find somewhere to place him and the lady also. I will have someone place your items in your rooms. As of right now I can show you all around to get you acquainted to the place. Please follow me."
Naraku showed them around and at some point during the tour he had managed to get his arms around kagome's asking her questions about herself.
"So what made you come on this trip to my lovely home?"
Kagome gave a fake smile. "it's a lovely home indeed. Well you see I had no other options but to leave the comfort of my home and attend this trip."
"Oh really and why would that be?"
"Let's just say some unconventional things were brought up at the time and here I am?" she said glaring daggers at her boss who turn his head from her glare.
Naraku chuckled seeing the look that she sent Inuyasha. "Well I'm sure he has a reason for pulling you away from work."
'Yea his fiancé broke it off with him and she was supposed to be going on this stupid trip!'
"Yea a good reason indeed." She hears koga choke behind them. She glances over her shoulder at him giving him a glare. He gulps.
Kagome turns her attention back to Naraku when he begins to speak again.
"And here's the pool. You may come here at any time you like the door will always be open."
Kagome looks towards the door seeing the pure clean water just through the windows. "A pool?"
"Yes. Do you like to swim?"
"Use to…not anymore." She says still staring at the water.
"Well why is that?"
Kagome sighs remembering the day she swore to never step foot in the water again.
Flashback…
It had been a beautiful day just like every other. The sun had set casting the beach in a wonderful midnight glow from the moon.
Kagome sat in the sand her eyes looking at waves as ever so offend the water would touch her toes from the tide.
An arm snaked around her waist and she leans back into the person. "It's beautiful. Thanks for bring me here."
"Anything for you kagome." Hojo says kissing the side of her face in the process.
Kagome relax against him closing her eyes. It would be awhile before she could do this again. He was leaving on some trip for his job.
He was an undercover officer doing some big project. He was good at it seeing how no one would expect a young fellow like him to be a cop but that didn't stop kagome from worrying.
Last month he had said that they were getting close to closing the case. They had arrested someone by the name of Onigumo and got him to spill what he knew.
He was, as of now, lock up till they release him, with a wire, back to their prime suspect. It was dangerous but she didn't think about that.
2 weeks out of the month without her husband by her side was heartbreaking, but he always made it up to her with days like this, just him and her in each other arms.
Kagome looked up towards the cloudless sky and then looks towards the sea. A smile appeared on her face.
"Want to go swimming?' she asks looking back at him.
"You know I love the water as much as you do. It is how we met." He stands up reaching down to pull her up happy that they had their swimsuits under their clothes.
"Well let's go then." She pulls her shirt over her head tossing it to the ground and starts to loosen the belt on her shorts. She tosses those to the side and starts to make her way into the water.
She turns around and sees him places his gun down on top of his clothes. She frowns. Why did he have to bring that thing? It always made her feel as if something bad was going to happen.
He came into the water to her and pulls her close.
"What's the matter?"
"Did you have to bring it?"
Hojo sighs. "Kagome you know I have to keep it on me."
"I know, I know but I just don't like seeing it. It makes me realize that you really do have a dangerous job to have it."
Hojo pulls her close. "You don't have to worry. I know how to do my job nothing going to happen." He kisses her. "Ok?"
"Ok." She pulls away from him and goes under water after mentioning a 'see you under.'
He chuckles and follows her under.
After a while of laughing and enjoying themselves, the two decided that it was about time to head back.
The waves wash over them as they sat there not really wanting to leave. A light flashing on the shore gets them to look towards it. They see two guys standing near their clothes.
"Hojo who are they?" he moves in front of her.
"I don't know."
They see one of them reach over to their clothes and pick something up.
"My gun." Hojo says.
"Your gun? What do you mean your gun?"
"Kagome stay behind me." her eyes widen in horror.
"Hojo!" they hear from the shore. "It's a pleasure to finally see the one who's been following me for months."
Hojo narrows his eyes. This was not good. He was unarmed and had his wife with him.
"What do you want?" he yells.
They see the crimson eyes of the guy stare their way. Kagome shivers at the bad feeling she was getting from him. A grin appeared on his face.
"Your lovely wife I may presume?"
"She's not who you should be concentrating on. What do you want?"
"Well you see, you know far too much. I can't let you live with all this information. It could get into the wrong hands."
"Look we don't want any trouble-"
"You got trouble when you took this case. I'm sorry but that's the way I work." He looks to the person next to him.
"Oh God." Kagome whispers. She watches the guy rise Hojo's gun in their direction.
"See you in the next life." The crimson eye man said before turning to walk away.
Kagome grab onto her husband. "Hojo!" he turns to her covering her with his body. She screams hearing 2 shots ring out. She and Hojo fell back into the water falling under the currents.
All was quiet. The only sounds were the rushing of the waves. The man on the shore had been long gone. Kagome drags herself back on the shore coughing up water as she did so.
She started to get her breathing back under control. Once done she looks around at her surroundings. Her eyes widen in shock at what just happen.
'Hojo!'
She stands up and looks around. Panic shown on her face as she saw the figure lying face down in the sand a few feet away.
"Hojo!" she yells running towards him. Sliding to his side, she looks at the two bullet wounds in his back. Blood poured from the wounds and it didn't look as if they wound be stopping soon.
The tide washes up over his back washing the blood away but only to have it return full force. She puts a hand over each wound adding pressure to try to stop the bleeding.
"Oh gosh it won't stop!" tears were now running down her eyes. She was going to watch the love of her life die in her arms.
"Ka…kagome…"
"Hojo!" she carefully flips him over to face him. "Hojo I can't stop the bleeding I don't know what to do I don't want to lose you." She cried.
He brought a hand to hers holding it tightly. "Kagome," he coughs. "I'm sorry…"
"No."
She felt his hand loosen on hers and watch it fall down to his side.
Flashback ends…
She had cried non-stop till a pair had come by and seen her. They called the cops and, with force, got her to let go of her deceased husband.
She wouldn't talk to the cops for the only thing she remembered was the crimson eye that was as red as Hojo's blood as in blended into the sea.
Till this day she still had nightmares and every time she was near large bodies of water like this she could still see the blood. That's why she stayed away from the water.
A pressure on her arm gets her to look over at Naraku. He reaches up and wiped the tears from her eyes. She shivers slightly.
"I'm sorry for asking you something so personal." She shakes her head and takes a deep breath wiping her face.
"No it's ok. It feels so much better to tell someone what happen. I haven't even told sango and she's like a sister to me."
"Well I'm sure on day you will. Let's get you to your room. I'm sure you would want to lie down."
She nods. "I would like that." A woman is walking down the hallway and Naraku calls her over. "Kagura would you be so kind to show these two gentlemen the rest of the house and to their rooms?"
They watch the woman glare at him then puts on a fake smile and turns towards them. "Nice to meet you two." They nod their heads at her. "Please follow me." She turns and walks down the hall inuyasha and koga close behind.
"Let's get you to your room my dear." Naraku says to kagome she nods and they turn and walk the other way down the hall.
Hello everyone hope you like the chapter though it was kind of sad. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm going out of town for a while so I won't be able to update for a few days. But don't worry I'm going to writing while I'm gone for all my viewers. Thanks for reading and your reviews.