Chapter 14
"In Trouble, Sort of"
Brewing a fresh pot of coffee, Kagome turned back to the Ookami sitting at her kitchen table. He hadn't changed though he was broader in the shoulders and his ocean blue eyes and a few more laugh lines around the edges, but it was still Kouga the same wolf demon whom had tried to make her fall in love with him.
"Um, what brings you here, Kouga?" She asked nervously as she adjusted the hem of her cut off jeans.
"You, Kagome" he said smoothly. It was the same voice that had tried to seduce her years ago but she had been blinded by her "love" for InuYasha. A small smile touched the corner of Kouga's lips.
"Me? But how, if you thought I was dead, how did you find me?"
"InuYasha finally went to the shrine that was built around to the bone eaters well and talked to your mother she told him where to find you" He said accepting a cup of coffee from her as she sat down opposite him.
"Okay, but how did you find me?" she was a little confused unless the hanyou and the Ookami were able to make friends over the centuries…
"Oh, Shippo told me" he smirked, a moment later her coffee cup hit the floor her face in shock "Oh I guess you weren't told, oops" he murmured a little sheepishly.
"You didn't seem too surprised when I mentioned InuYasha"
"I saw him last night. So I suppose it's too much to hope that Sango and Miroku are.." she trailed off realizing the foolishness of that statement, she had scene there graves with her own eyes. Her head bowed in sadness. The magic she had witnessed years ago was now dimmed from the world, it was no longer the vast forests filled with magical beings and demons, witches and miko's, the world had evolved.
"It's Okay Kagome, they lived a long, long time" Moving to the chair closer to Kagome, he put his arm around her giving her a gentle squeeze, pausing his nose twitched and a familiar scent wafted from the miko.
"Yes they did" she said a little exasperated with her self. "I really don't want to talk about this right now; honestly I would rather know what you have been up to for the past five hundred years. You know stuff like, are you mated, did you have kids? How did you and InuYasha come to civil speaking terms? Did you ever come to civil speaking terms? What have you been doing? How has the industrial age been treating you?" she was breathing heavy by the time she finished her rant and more than just annoyed. Angry at her self for allowing such thoughts in the first place; she didn't want Kouga's pity for her over friends that had died over five hundred years ago.
"Uh, Sure Kagome" She had always been scary when she was angry.
A moment later Kagome's cell phone rang.
"Hello?" she asked in to the receiver as she stood and walked a little ways away from Kouga to the kitchen counter. Head bowed as she looked at one of the plants sitting on the kitchen window sill.
A long pause then her head shot up and her attention was no longer on the plant.
"Are you sure?" she asked, she could feel Kouga's attention on her back, the Ookami was trying to listen in.
Another pause.
"Okay, thanks" closing the flip phone she looked at Kouga. "Um it was great seeing you again, but I have to go, something important has come up"
She left the room, leaving a dumbfounded wolf in the kitchen but she had more important things to do right now than worry about him. She just got a break in the case and everything was going to go differently now she would have something to concentrate on other than Sesshomaru and this mating bond.
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Flash Back
The castle was on fire under the full moon, the flames seemed to lick the sky it self. For years the castle had been the strong hold of the eastern bat demon lords, that was until a few moments ago.
Dante watched from the shadows of the forest as the great dog demon; Inu Tashio ran in to the night in his true form carrying the beautiful elemental demoness, Nani. Anger seethed with in him, the blinding light of the massive fire which was destroying his ancestral home, caused Dante's feral side to show, but worst of all was that his new bride had been taken from him. That traitorous Daiyoukai had broken a treaty that had lasted three hundred years, over a woman but not just any woman.
Years ago Septimus, Dante's father, had arranged for the union between Dante and the northern lord through his daughter, Nani. Now tonight; everything had been destroyed and his inner demon was protesting the loss of its mate. It had made no sense, the attack was sudden and in the confusion Inu Tashio had taken Nani.
He would have his revenge on The Tashio, and any child that Nani bared for that demon.
End Flash Back
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His pacing had yield nothing, neither had his mutterings under his breath, the world kept turning and his mate was still not at his side the way she was supposed to be. After having gotten dressed in gray slacks and a white button down and light gray tie the Inu Lord had pulled him self away from his house and to his company after two days of sitting around trying to control his beast so he could go about his daily life before he went insane. Out of respect for her space he had allowed her to remain at her house undisturbed, in a day or two he would go and talk to her.
Sitting behind his desk trying not to think about Kagome, Sesshomaru kept his head in his paper work forcing a level of concentration previously unachieved by the taiyoukai for several centuries. He didn't notice the knock on the door or the fact that the door opened when an acknowledgment wasn't heard. It wasn't until a familiar hand covered the piece of paper Sesshomaru was working on that he looked up.
InuYasha stood before him finally able to turn the taiyoukai attention on to him self.
"I'm busy InuYasha, what do you want?"
"Finally able to get out of the house I see" the hanyou commented a smirk plastered it self on his lips as he fell backwards into one of chairs facing Sesshomaru's desk.
"Indeed" He replied sitting back in his chair eyeing the hanyou "What do you want"
"Um, well I was wondering if you had heard or seen Kagome in the past two days?"
Instincts suddenly on high alert Sesshomaru's eyes turned a little pink around the edges.
"Explain" came the Inu Lord's stiff reply.
"Well I went to her house yesterday to visit with her, you know catch up on old times she could tell me how the past ten years were for her, you know" receiving a glare from his brother InuYasha continued with his story "any way, so I went there and was told by some guy named Kai, that she was off visiting her mom but I went and saw Mrs. Higarashi and she said she hadn't seen Kagome, since right before she left to the an old village about a week ago. I'm a little worried, that Kai guy didn't seem to know anything and it's not like Kagome to not tell some one where she is especially now since she's bonded with you, didn't you know she was gone?"
His eyes were darkening with each word that InuYasha spoke.
"The bond is not complete she has not been marked yet, she is unsure of my feelings for her as well as her own for me. I do believe the night we were intimate was more for something to do than out of any feelings for me. She says that it was a mistake and she is looking for a way to break the bond between us"
"Woh, what do you mean you didn't mark her? Are you crazy, and as for her feelings, I've never seen her look the way she looked at you the other night. When she had feelings for me she never once looked at me that way, I don't think that she had ever been in love with me but I know she cared about me but your different, I can tell"
"It does not matter how she feels, InuYasha, I am not going to let her break this bond between us. For the first time in my life I feel whole, being separated from her has been hard but I will see to it that she is safe" Sesshomaru said standing "Come little brother we will find Shippo first and get him to track her credit cards and see where she was last"
To his credit InuYasha didn't say another word and followed Sesshomaru out of his office and to the BMW waiting in the presidents/owner's parking space.
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Two days she had been in this stinking hole, two days of playing lackey to some lower level demon in some gang that she could purify in a single burst, two days of dressing in really tight black leather pants, four inch healed knee high black boots, black bodice/corset looking thing and a three quarter length black leather jacket and hair pulled up in a high pony tail. It had been a tough two days she had fought a lot of the demons in order to gain rank, those Jujutsu lesson's she had been taking over the past ten years were defiantly worth it. Just over an hour a go she finally heard what she had been waiting to hear, one of the ancient demon's were out and about and using some of the more powerful of the younger demons' whom hadn't had a proper guiding hand. These younger demon's were said to have been attacking The Western Lord, this was the break she had needed this was what she was looking for and now she needed to get out of here before she was found out as whom and what she was. They didn't need to find out that, sexy and dangerous Kara Negumi was really Kagome Higarashi private investigator.
As she looked around the underground lair of the Yakuza based gang and started to form her plan, it was easy to get in but getting out; that was hard.
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"Okay, So I went a head and pulled her phone records as well" Shippo said looking at the sheets of paper in front of him. "Turns out she's been making a lot of calls, but the number she's calling isn't all that important"
"What the hell Shippo, why not, Kagome went missing for crying out loud and you say it's not important where she was calling" InuYasha was beyond annoyed though Sesshomaru was doing better than he was in the nerves department.
"No it's not important, see she left the GPS device on in her cell and I was able to track it and where she 's calling from"
"And that would be?" Sesshomaru asked the busy Kitsune.
"The lower south east quadrant of the city"
"But that's all Yakuza territory, hell even most humans try to avoid that section of the city. What in the name of hell would she be doing there?" InuYasha was incredulous, that was a very dangerous part of the city.
"I do not know, InuYasha how ever I think we should go and check"
Shippo handed over the address where she last used her phone and the two inu brother left.
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This was the third fight today she had been in, it was getting annoying no scratch that it was worse than annoying, she was getting angry. Kagome wasn't even paying attention as she viciously punched the demon she was fighting in the stomach. Her body was on auto pilot her mind else where, on Sesshomaru, actually; what was he doing right now? did he even notice she had been gone for almost three days now? did he even care? that kind of depressing thing.
Landing the final blow to the weak youkai in front of her something caught the edge of her senses, something powerful, something familiar. Her head shot up and her attention was completely on her surroundings on every exit, every person and demon in the room and the funny thing was no one seemed to notice that a very power full demon was coming.
Pulling on her jacket, Kagome went to her favorite place in the underground, it was one of the few places down here she felt safe, it was the closest thing to a tree she could find, the scaffolding near one of the entrances was the only place no one else wanted to perch.
She now recognized the youki that was coming down the hall but it wasn't who she was expecting she could have sworn for a moment that it was...
Though completely out of place in the underground in his Gucchi shoes and gray Armani dress pants and white button down, InuYasha gave off the aura of dangerous and powerful demon as he came through one of the stone arches.
"What do you want heir to the west" Huso, the leader of the gang demanded from his throne like chair near the back of the room.
"You have something that belongs to my brother" he stated calmly
Kagome laughed "Awww, did the puppy lose his toy?" She said flipping down near InuYasha pretending she didn't know him.
"DO NOT INSULT THE LORD OF THE WEST, KARA" Huso yelled at Kagome.
"But I want to play" Kagome pouted "beating up these moron all day is not entraining anymore" she said playing the role she created for her self.
Coming away from the throne and pulling her roughly by her hair to his side, her head tilted back as his grip did not let up and she was forced down on to her knees her face dangerously close to his hip. Huso lowered his voice.
"For that You will be punished, I'll give you something to do with those hands and that pretty little mouth of yours and trust me you will enjoy ever second of it"
"YOU WILL NOT TOUCH HER" Came Sesshomaru's voice from the shadows; his gray suit just as out of place as InuYasha's.
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His beast was telling him to kill the man holding Kagome by the hair, but she didn't look afraid of the weak demon holding her. She wasn't even surprised that she was being treated such. Once the inu lord had spoke had she feared, could she be afraid of him, did she run away from to this because she didn't want to be with him that was an incredibly depressing though. Did she dislike him that much that she was willing to be with that...thing.
Breaking out of Huso's grasp Kagome stood in front of the demon leader and glared at the Inu Lord and his brother.
"I am not going back to you" she stated eyes trying to tell him something but what he could not say.
"You will, you should have picked a different name, Kagome, Kara doesn't suit you"
"Damn you Sesshomaru, why couldn't you just leave me alone for a little longer before you decided you missed me enough to look for me" Genuinely pissed off now as she stomped over to him.
"I will always find you, no matter where you go" she was standing in front of him now, sweeping her up into his arms he sped out of the Yakuza underground, leaving InuYasha to take up the rear.
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Sitting in the back seat of Sesshomaru's BMW while Sesshomaru drove and InuYasha rode shot gun, pissed her off even more. Not that she wanted to sit beside Sesshomaru any way's she felt like she was about to boil over.
"You ruined everything" she yelled "I didn't need your help"
"It looked to me like you did" Sesshomaru stated calmly "In fact it looked like you were about to be raped"
"Oh please" she huffed "like that would have happened"
"Do you have any idea how dangerous those people were" InuYasha asked he had been just as worried about Kagome especially when she appeared not to know him.
"Yes, Damn it, I do. I was undercover, I was trying to get information on Sesshomaru's blackmailer"
InuYasha opened his mouth to say something but stopped, that had not been what he was expecting her to say, trying again he opened his mouth.
"Wait a second, your the investigator" a dumbfounded look crossed his face, before it turned into one of shock.
"Yes, why do you think I was down there?"
"We thought you may have been kidnapped, what we saw was entirely unexpected" Sesshomaru said "You told Kai that you went to visit you mother"
"Yeah so, I always tell him that when I go undercover, I don't need people looking for me when I'm in situations like that"
"You do not need to look any more, I do not want you in the path of danger"
Rolling her eyes at the back of Sesshomaru's head, Kagome crossed her arms again.
"Oh please, can I be your little house wife Sesshomaru? I so want to be bare foot and pregnant" the sarcasm was thick in her voice.
"If only dealing with you was that simple" he returned
"Give me a break, Sesshomaru, you hired me to find your blackmailer and damn it I'm going to find him" glaring at the back of his head for a moment before she watched the scenery of the city go by.