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Chapter 9
Naraku open the door the room and moved aside for Kagome to enter. He saw the wow look on her face. He had a feeling that the room would have the type of effect on her that he wanted. Only the best for a lovely lady in his home right?
"Oh this is too beautiful." The room was outline in green and white from the lily painted walls to the silk green cover on the bed. Kagome turn to Naraku.
"I couldn't take this room it's too beautiful. Surly this has to be for someone special to you."
"Nonsense, you are the only woman in this house so it seems only right to give such a lovely woman such a lovely suite," he says sending a smile towards her. She laughs nervously and looks around.
"Your bags are sitting by the dresser so you may unpack. The door on your right leads to your bathroom and the one on the left is the closet. These," he says walking into the room to the double doors and opening them. "Lead to the balcony and the garden below."
Kagome walks out behind him and sees the stairs leading to the garden. Leaning over she sees the flowers and small pond. 'Nice place.' She thinks to herself.
"I take it everything is appropriate?"
Kagome turns to him. "Yes very. Thank you."
"You are welcome. Dinner will be ready a 7:00 if you wish to attend." She nods her head to him and watches as he leaves the room. 'Nice but strange.'
…
Naraku step out of the room a frown mirroring his face as soon as he steps out.
'So she lived?'
A grin appeared on his face.
'This should be an interesting few weeks ahead.'
…
After being showed the rest of the house inuyasha and koga resided to their rooms, which were down the hall from kagome's.
Inuyasha looks around the room he was place in. It was an average room with average furnishings. He looks towards the balcony and steps out. He looks below at the garden.
He looks over and does a double take when he sees kagome two or three balconies over, glazing over at the garden.
She looked beautiful, the wind blowing softly in her hair, a graceful smile on her face as if she was reliving a memory. He watches her bow her head and her face turns to one of despair.
She puts her hands over her face trying to calm herself. Inuyasha frowns. Perhaps bringing her on this trip wasn't such a good idea.
He watches her sigh and removes her hands. She glances back at the garden then turn and walks back into the room.
Now he really felt that he shouldn't have brought her here. Evidently thinking about the death of her husband had resurfaced some good yet hurtful memories.
With a nod of his head he vows to make this trip a good one for her even with that darn wolf around.
…
Everyone ate their dinner with little conversation going around the table. Inuyasha and koga were discussion a few things with Naraku.
Kagome had begun to daze off into her own little word thinking of the dangers that could happen on this trip.
She was always one to watch people very closely around her since the incident with her husband. She was thinking it wasn't a good idea to tell Naraku and the others.
'Should I have told him?'
Her mind goes back to what a cop said to her at the police station over 2 years ago.
Flashback…
Her head was bow as tears continue to fall from her eyes. She clutches the blanket they had given her over her half naked body. (Remember she's still in her swimming suit.)
She heard 2 cops talking outside the room she was in. They were deciding what to do with her. Placing her in witness protection was definitely at the top of their list.
The door to the room opens and the head chief walks in with another cop.
"Mrs. Kyoto, (Hojo's last name thus hers) you do understand what's going on right?"
She slowly lifts her head up to the guy. How dare he? How could she not understand? She watched her husband get killed by his own gun while he was supposed to be off duty.
Plus he was killed by a person who they were supposed to be watching twenty four seven.
She understood that Hojo was gone and there was no way to bring him back.
More tears fall from her eyes as she buries her face into the blanket. The officer sighs.
"We are sorry for your lost Mrs. Kyoto. Hojo was one of our best cops… Mrs. Kyoto you will have to be place in witness protection for your safety."
He grabs the clip board from the cop beside his. "It says here that your last name use to be Higurashi. Is that true?" she nods slowly.
"You will have to take back your last name. If the guy who killed Hojo knows that you're still alive he will come looking for you."
Kagome looks up at him. "What?"
"I'm sorry. We will make it seem as if you were killed. It will be on the news and in the papers. The couple who also saw you will be taken care of also. We don't want any harm to come to you. It's the least we can do for Hojo."
"How… how long will I have to stay in witness protection?" she asks.
"Till we feel that it is safe for you. You will have to leave town for a while just until the story dies down. After that we will see how it goes."
Kagome looks down at her blood smeared swim shorts. "Kagome, I must warn you now. Don't ever tell anyone about who you are or what happen. I don't care if years have gone by and we have caught the guy. You never know who might be in lead with him.
Promise me you won't tell anyone." She looks up at him.
"I promise officer wolverine." (Sorry couldn't think of any other names plus I'm watching x-men.)
Flashback…
She looks down at Naraku and the others. They were all successful business men who have great lives or even kids to look after. Neither of them could really be in lead with the guy who killed her husband.
She could never forget the eyes of the man. She shivers and looks down at her food. She wasn't very hungry anymore.
"Mrs. Higurashi? Are you ok?"
She looks up at the three guys staring at her. "Actually I'm very tired from the trip. May I be excuse?"
Naraku nods his head. "Yes, sure."
She stands and bows. "Night everyone." She leaves out the room heading to hers.
'I'm sure nothing will happen from telling. I mean it's been years. The guy could be half cross the world for all I knew.'
"Or right under this roof," a voice in the back of her head said. She dismisses it and gets into bed for some must need sleep.
6 days later…
"What do you mean some things are missing?" screamed Naraku, his voice rung throughout the house. Lucky for kagome she was outside in the gardens enjoying the beautiful variety of flowers.
'How can such a creepy guy have such a wonderful garden?' She shrugs and looks up at the study room window where she could feel koga, inuyasha, and Naraku auras.
They had been up in the room for nearly a week and had only come out to eat and to go to bed. Lucky for her she had only been in there the first two days.
She could feel, when it was dinner time, the tension building between the three. They went from talking lightly among each other to barely talking at all.
She looks away from the window when Naraku appears and meets her eyes with his own.
'By the end of the third week this place is going to be hell!' kagome say to herself while making her way back into the home.
Sorry for the long wait everyone. Lets just say I had writer's block and i had school to worry bout. hope you're not upset with me. i will get back to my stories. thanks for waiting and please review.