okay so first off i want to thank Nezumi-24-7 for my cover photo! its awesome and I love it! thats pretty much all i have to say because i'm boring like that..

anyways, DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha I WAS A FREAKING TODLER WHEN THE MANGA WAS RELEASED!

Kagome woke up the next morning to the light of dawn. The night before she had opened the curtains in hope's to wake up before Inuyasha, and sneak into his private study. no one tells Kagome what to do especially not a dog, she got out of bed and tip toed past the wheelchair, fuck the god damn doctor I'm sick of this thing and its too fucking loud. She walked out of the room and down the hall as quietly as possible. she stopped in the living room to make sure Inuyasha was still asleep before heading to his private study and picking the lock. She grinned as the door swung open without a sound, she padded into the room and straight to the covered piece before reaching out and pulling away the fabric. if she could have gasped she would have, she found herself starring into a black and white a sketch of two eyes the only was color in the irises, a striking blue resembling sapphires shrouded in smoke. Tears seemed to drip from them and down the page, each tear mirroring part of a broken city, everything in the sketch screamed of pain, hatred, loss, and fear. Kagome staggered back, she knew those eyes, she absolutely hated those eyes. Those where her eyes at there most raw, she hated it, she hated the sketch for showing how she felt but she hated Inuyasha for even drawing them, she hated how it meant he knew. He knew how she felt when she was vulnerable. She took another few steps back and jumped when she hit something hard and warm, she turned to see two angry golden eyes starring directly into her own.

Inuyasha looked from her to the sketch and growled lightly, "what did I tell you about that sketch?"

Kagome looked down and shook her head, realizing she had left her panel in his room.

He narrowed his eyes at her, "I told you not to touch it right?"

Kagome nodded eyes still focused on her bare feet.

Inuyasha grabbed her chin and forced her to look at him, he noticed instantly when she started trembling. "why are you shaking? is it because I said I would kill you?"

She shook her head and still refused to look him in the eye.

Inuyasha noticed this and growled louder forcing her attention back to him, he stopped when he saw tears pooling in her eyes, "why then? and why the tears now when you have readily accepted death so many times before."

Kagome looked up at him pleadingly, he Instantly let go and she ran from the room.

He sighed and ran a hand through his hair before glaring at the sketch, "I should have just destroyed the fucking thing." With one last glance he left the room to go after Kagome, when he reached his room and tried the knob he found it locked. "Kagome open the door."

Silence.

He growled lightly, "c'mon Kagome we need to talk about this open the damn door." His keen ears picked up shuffling on the other side of the door, when Kagome unlocked the door he instantly pulled it open and walked into the room, when he closed the door behind him she bolted for the bathroom. he caught up with her and stopped the door before she could close it and pulled her out, "I cant talk to you if your hiding in the bathroom now can I?" she shook her head and he directed her towards his bed when she sat down on, he walked over, crouched down on the floor and looked up at her, "So what was with the trembling and the tears?"

She looked away from him.

"was it because I drew your eyes?"

She shook her head.

He grabbed her Panel and handed it to her, "just tell me...please."

She snatched the panel from him: I hate you

"you don't."

I do too I hate anyone who knows.

"knows what?"

that I'm still effected.

Inuyasha opened his mouth to reply when his phone rang, he growled before answering, "this had better be important." the person on the other line spoke and inuyasha visbly stiffened before looking at Kagome and hanging up the phone, "Well it look's like Sango and them are back from their missions...and you have visitors in the main courtyard." Kagome got up and started walking to the door, previous conversation forgotten, but was stopped by Inuyasha, "Kagome, chair. now."

She glared at him.

"If you want to get better faster the doctor says you have to use it."

She flipped him off but complied, wheeling out of the room and to the elevator quickly. when her and Inuyasha reached his office she waved a quick hello to his top six, glared at Kikyo and then left the room, heading to the first floor of the building. The courtyard had confused Kagome when she first saw it, mainly because it isn't really even a courtyard. theres one on almost every level of the building, resembling different environments, the members are free to use them for any purpose as long as they where authorized to be on that level of course. The courtyards in a way where a different entity in themselves, they had their own elevators connecting to each other they seemed like an amazing opportunity for training to her. She liked the one on the first floor the most, it was the main courtyard and it resembled a jungle. When the elevator doors opened on the first floor she was greeted by a bored looking Inuyasha. she raised a brow and pointed up figuring it would be explanation enough.

He gave her a pointed look, "your visitors have caused quite the commotion, it would be worse if you went in there alone."

She rolled her eyes: who's visiting?

"Its a surprise."

She looked at him annoyed and headed to the courtyard, when the doors slid open and she made her way into the huge space she nearly dropped her panel from what she saw. in the distant clearing of the jungle landscape she saw what looked like every member of the main Shikon Rebel base, aka her old classmates. She grinned and switched on her Panels speaker before making her way into the clearing, Inuyasha close behind.

The moment she got into the clearing she noticed a few weary Blood Hounds looking around and smirked, her smirk turned into a delighted smile when she saw Hojo, Eri, and Ayumi make there way into the center to great her. That smile instantly faded when when Hojo spoke, "oh god leader...I-I heard that you where badly wounded in the explosion by one of our men and we hadn't heard from you in over a week we got worried..and decided to come down to see if you had you know...died..then when we get here...well thats a whole different story...we were told you were alive and demanded to see you. Leader what happened to you?"

Kagome looked around the clearing, "Hojo..why the fuck would you need everyone to simply check if i was still breathing? as you can see Im fine." Everyone in the Shikon Rebels gasped and Kagome rolled her eyes, "seriously Im sick of all the gasping. Its not that big of a shock."

Hojo blinked and nodded, "well everyone was worried and we couldn't decide who to send plus I figured that it would make it easier to get in here...what happened to you?"

"fair enough...and well long story short I became a suicide bomber who didn't die until surgery, in which I died twice, fun right? oh and I didn't write you because I was in a coma for ten days. I lost my ability to speak from either emotional or physical trauma they are not quite sure. oh and I can walk but Im in this stupid fucking chair to heal faster...ah! I just came up with rule number 38! thank you Hojo."

Hojo blinked, "so you should get better right?"

"like one tiny bomb and some scrap metal can keep me down."

The group of people cheered and Hojo grinned just as the doors of the courtyard opened and Kikyo stormed passed Kagome and Inuyasha, the rest of his top seven halted beside them. Kikyo stormed right up to Hojo and pointed a gun in his face, "what are they all doing here? when I had initially heard that a large amount of Shikon Rebels here I brushed it off as ridiculous but had to see for myself what is the meaning of this boss?"

Inuyasha raised his eyebrow, "They wanted to visit the wench. Don't question my decision to allow it Kikyo."

Hojo kept his eyes trained on the gun, "that and we wanted to propose a deal..can someone get her to remove the gun from my face."

Inuyasha looked at Kikyo, "Gun down. now."

She complied but tuned it around a pistol whipped Hojo.

Inuyasha growled but froze when Kagome got up from her chair and threw it at Kikyo in rage, he had seen her angry before but never this pissed off, "YOU LITTLE WHORE HOW DARE YOU FUCKING DEFY YOUR BOSS AND HIT ONE OF MY MEN! I SHOULD FUCKING KILL YOU FOR THAT!" Kagome's rant ended in a fit of coughing, "Damn it..*cough*...that would have sounded a lot be- *cough*-tter...if It didn't sound like..."she took a deep breath to stop another series of coughing, "someone ran my throat through a cheese grater." She ignored the shocked looks from Inuyasha and the Blood Hounds behind her and walked over to Hojo, "you okay Hojo?"

Hojo smiled, "dont talk to much still its bad for your vocal chords."

"and guns are bad for your face but I guess you never got the memo."

He chuckled and almost winced at the pain, he looked over her shoulder in an attempt to block it out and his eyes widened at what he saw.

Kagome noticed and turned to see what he was looking at, she smiled when she saw kikyo on the ground looking up at Inuyasha in shock with blood running down her face, "so you finally decided you had enough?"

He glanced at Kagome, "I can only be tolerant for so long, Kikyo I will punish you for this later, out."

She blinked, "bu-"

He snarled at her and she stood, glaring at Kagome who rolled her eyes, "Bitch this is your fault not Scruffy's and not mine."

She opened her mouth to reply but closed it and left the room at another snarl from Inuyasha. He sighed and rolled his shoulders when she left, "Incompetent little whore." Kagome snickered and he looked up, "women get back in your damn chair."

Kagome smiled and pointed at the ground underneath a nearby tree, "the terrain was too rough and it broke."

Rin, Sango, Shippo, and Kouga laughed. Miroku grinned and Inuyasha tried not to laugh, "yeah the terrain heres a real killer."

Kagome nodded, "yep its a damn shame it flew to protect me and then..."

Inuyasha chuckled, "a tree popped up out of nowhere and killed it?"

Kagome shook her head in fake disappointment, "yep those damn trees. evil I tell yah."

He rolled his eyes before walking over to her and picking her up, "well don't worry theres plenty more chairs in the medical ward, we will just get you a new one."

She glared at him oblivious to everyone staring at her and Inuyasha in shock, "but boss we have guests and one of them has important business with you, I cant possibly post pone that for you."

He -also oblivious to anything but the angry girl in his arms- smirked, "Ah but Kagome Hojo needs bandages anyways and Sango will gladly take the rest of them to the cafeteria for some food while we are gone."

Realizing she just lost the argument she huffed and looked away from him, "fine."

With that Inuyasha nodded towards a still wide-eyed Sango, "well since theres a ton of em spilt em up into groups between you and take em up in different elevators at a time, hurry up. come on Hojo." without waiting for a reply Inuyasha started walking, knowing Sango and them would immediately get to work and that Hojo would follow him as long as Kagome was there.

when they reached the hallway and made their way to the elevator Hojo spoke up, "sooo wheres the medical ward?"

Inuyasha glanced at him before stepping into the elevator, "underground."

Hojo blinked, "oh..why?"

"Just incase we get bombed or something similar, while the rest evacuate the injured are safe underground. it might take a while to reach them but its better than them being dead."

Hojo shifted uncomfortably on his feet from Inuyasha's bored and relatively uncaring tone, he had hit that other women too..is Kagome okay here? "uh..well that was a smart idea."

Inuyasha shrugged, "we where bombed 20 years back before official beginning of this war after a huge battle, hundreds of us died because they where in the medical ward on the first floor, I had it moved underground when the building was re-built."

"official begining?"

"yeah the official war didn't begin for another seven years but all three main players are demons, we have lived a long time kid. we are usually good about keeping our little feud under the radar but it occasionally blows up..." he paused for a moment, "but this ones probably the worst, we have never pulled a whole country into chaos. sure we have started a few wars among the humans but never something like this."

Hojo was slightly taken aback by Inuyasha's tone, he sounded not only uncaring but maybe even a little bit amused, "o-oh..."

Kagome chose this moment to jump in, "hey flea bag we're here."

she pointed at the open doors and he stepped out Hojo on his heels, the moment he walked into the lobby everything went silent, then chaos tree doctor immediately ran up and asked if Kagome was okay, Kagome glared at them and swatted one of their hands away, and Inuyasha growled, "CALM THE FUCK DOWN! SHES FINE WE JUST NEED A NEW WHEELCHAIR AND SOME BANDAGES!"

the room instantly silenced and breathed a sigh of relief. a doctor went to get what they needed and another gave Kagome some medicine for her vocal chords after hearing her cuss everyone out under her breath, Hojo sat in a chair very confused, "what was that all about?"

Kagome laughed and Inuyasha shrugged, "probably because last time I carried Kagome in here she was dying and I killed a man because he pissed me off."

Hojo looked at him dumbfounded, "because he made you mad?"

Kagome nodded and pointed a finger gun at Inuyasha head, "yep I was passed out but I heard he shot em right between the eyes."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "oh look Kagome your new chair is here."

she glared at the wheelchair, "God I hate that thing.."

Hojo smiled at her, "its alright Kagome when your better you can run around all you want. besides it it kind of reminds me of that time freshman year when you jumped off the school roof..why did you do that again?"

Kagome laughed, "oh yeah! I remember that I was all like 'I can do anything without fear or hesitation!' and some asshole was all like, 'then prove it jump off the roof!' so I-"

"-you shot out of your desk screaming, 'watch the window bitches!' and the next thing we know your flying past the window a huge grin on your face. the whole school was in an uproar about it and when the nurse tried to get you to use a wheelchair you looked at her like she was an idiot and said, 'fuck no women that stupid thing would make me look like-"

"-a pansy ass bitch. I just started a rebellion group there is no fucking way i'm rolling around because of a few broken bones.' those where good times hojo...good times. actually the more I think about it the more I realize that you were always there to patch me up when I did something stupid to prove a point or just because I could. Thanks hojo, because of you I at least have a few good memories." she smiled sweetly at him and got into her chair, "now boys I believe there was a deal Hojo wanted to discuss?"

at this Inuyasha who had been watching the exchange curiously stood, "lets go to my office to discuss this."

He walked to the elevator with Hojo and Kagome following, this time the ride was silent. when they reached the 49th floor Hojo looked around, "so whats this floor used for?"

Inuyasha didn't bother to look at him, he just kept walking, "The 47th to the 49th floors are used for the business side of things and this floor has my office." he walked through the halls and straight into his office.

When Hojo walked into inuyasha's office he froze, "wow this is really nice."

Kagome snorted, "everything here is nice, you should see his fucking penthouse it takes up the entire 50th floor, and his room is huge. oh and he has a fucking waterbed! i swear life just aint fair."

Inuyasha leaned back in his chair and planted both of his combat boot clad feet on his desk, watching Hojo's eyes widen in shock and stumble over his next sentence, "h-how do you know what his penthouse looks like and how do you know he has a waterbed?."

Inuyasha put both hands behind his head and smirked at Kagome's annoyed look, "because Ive been in his house and Ive slept in his bed duh."

Hojo looked at a very smug looking Inuyasha, who winked when he noticed Hojo's stare. "So It was only once?"

Kagome rolled her eyes, "no Hojo, every day. honestly what else would I do since I live there."

Hojo choked on his own surprise, "Y-you live there?! with Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha stifled a laugh at Kagome's next response, "well duh hojo its his place."

Hojo looked down at the floor angrily, "so...your sleeping with Inuyasha..I thought you never wanted that kind of relationship."

Inuyasha couldn't hold back his laughter at Kagome's dumbfounded expression, she glared at him before turning back to Hojo, "Like I would sleep with that dinosaur! Im there until I heal! he sleeps on the couch."

Inuyasha was instantly annoyed, "HEY I'm not a dinosaur! I just age slowly!"

Kagome glared at him, "your still a pervert."

he glared back "I can see you still live by rule 28."

Her eyes widened, "OH MY GOD YOU READ MY DIARY!"

"dont flater yourself I only read your rules."

Kagome visibly relaxed, "oh okay. thats fine then."

Inuyasha blinked at her, "is there something in there your afraid of me seeing?"

Kagome smiled sweetly but Inuyasha could have sworn her eyes turned into portals to hell, "No but if you dare touch it again I will turn you into a women."

Inuyasha couldn't detect a single lie in what she said so he quickly change the topic, "so that deal of yours Hojo?"

Hojo looked at Inuyasha, analyzing him for a second as he leaned back in his chair. He came to the conclusion that he probably hated the man before him. Hojo had never hated anyone before sure the gangs as a whole he wished would disappear but never had he hated a person. He watched as Inuyasha stared at Kagome and quickly realized that Inuyasha probably wanted Kagome. and why wouldn't he? Kagome is beautiful...and she seems comfortable around him..if it came down between you and him you wouldn't stand a chance..he's rich, brave, attractive, a good fighter, and could probably give her anything..he's nothing like me...his thoughts where interrupted by Kagome calling his name, "huh oh? oh yeah well we wanted to strike a deal with you guys. make an alliance, we don't kill you and you don't kill us we don't even really need to help each other directly...not unless its something huge."

Inuyasha removed his feet from the desk and leaned forward, interested in the sudden offer presented to him, "and the catch is?"

"Kagome remains our leader its just not the same without her."

Inuyasha didn't even blink, "no deal."

Hojo looked at him baffled, "b-but-"

"But nothing Kagome stays with The Blood Hounds. I did not spend millions of dollars to save her for an alliance I did so to have her here as one of my top members, she's a great asset to us with her knowledge and skills. I would be a fool to let her walk out the front door."

Hojo was taken aback, he figured that Inuyasha would easily let Kagome go if it meant having connections in the war zone, "a-are you sure?"

Before Inuyasha could reply Kagome cut in, "god damn it Hojo you suck at negotiations! Okay so Inuyasha revised deal, you guys get the little alliance and I run the Shikon Rebels but I run it from here, you fund us to have some trippy ass system put in so I can talk to each sector of my people and let me do so at least twice a week for an hour. more if needed."

Inuyasha thought for a second, "we have assurance the Shikon Rebels are no threat to us?"

Kagome nodded, "well no shit thats what an alliance is, you people will be safe on our territory...but you can terrorize us! we will bite back."

Inuyasha pinched the bridge of his nose, Ill have a contract written up and a video chat system set up. Ill keep your connection in one conference room's you can only use it there but it will be you personal conference room good enough?"

Kagome nodded and looked at Hojo, he smiled, "oh and Kagome..."

She looked at him expectantly, "yeah?"

He took her bandana out of his pocket, "I found this in the rubble...the hair you too from West Kingdoms leader was too burt to recover but this was fine.."

She grinned and took her bandana from him, quickly putting it on, "thank you Hojo! life wouldn't be the same without it!"

Hojo nodded, blushing, "No problem Kagome anything for you...I should probably get back to base soon Ill see you soon, leader?"

Kagome grinned at her old title, "Ill show you and the rest out after telling the everyone the good news."

He nodded and she waved he hand in slight goodbye to Inuyasha as she exited the room, shooting him a glance that in a nut shell said 'deal with your...problem.'

Inuyasha sighed as Kagome left and buzzed his secretary "get me Kikyo...now."

one week later:

Kagome sat on the table In conference room six, fully healed and happy to be out of the damn wheelchair and walking. She smiled at the screen displaying 8 different faces, each with a large crowed behind them. She toyed with her bandana, "So I trust since your updates had been peaceful then all is well?"

The eight people nodded, the background crowds cheered.

Kagome smiled and opened her mouth to say more, this was her first time using the video chat provided by Inuyasha and she loved it, when the previously mentioned hanyo walked in "Oi wench it's been nearly two hours what the hell are you still doing in here?"

Kagome rolled her eyes, "Im talking to my rebels boss," she turned slightly to face him with a smirk when her eyes widened in shock, "where are your clothes?" she scanned over the silver haired man before her, clad in nothing but a pair of red sweatpants and a grey bandana.

He shrugged, "was training. everyone was expecting to see you there seeing as your conditions better and you cant stay fucking still."

She rolled her eyes, "I have to get things straight with them first," she gestured towards the screen, "then I was planning on training myself using the main courtyard."

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, "feh. whatever." He narrowed his eyes and walked towards the screen until he was beside where Kagome sat on the table, "So this is all of 'em? eight different war zones. must be hard to control."

Kagome looked at him, "sometimes but they are good about our few rules."

He snorted and scanned the screen, "they have been holding up your side of the deal I trust."

Kagome smirked, "have any of The Blood Hounds shown up dead?"

He grinned flashing his fangs at her and the rest of the Shikon Rebels, "not by them no. so where they reporting to you about." One of the rebels on the screen muttered something along the lines of 'were here you know.' and he narrowed his eyes at them growling, He would have killed the idiot is he was there in person.

Kagome looked at inuyasha's angry form. his fingers twitched in anticipation for a kill and his muscles twitched and flexed under his skin in anger, she shot her rebels a look before turing to Inuyasha, "They where just telling me they spotted Sesshomaru in one of our zones, very much alive."

Inuyasha froze at that and temporarily forgot Kagome's entire following was watching as his head snapped her direction, his eyes flashing red, "That son of a bitch is still alive?!"

Kagome nodded hesitantly at him, noticing his anger had mixed with another emotion, it set her on edge. she nodded at the screen in farewell, "I will talk to you all in two days for another update." with that she cut of the connection and turned to inuyasha, "we haven't talked In a week unless we had to. whats wrong having you run in here was unexpected."

He narrowed his eyes and sniffed the air, "I was walking by and your sent was different then usual so I decided to drop by."

She looked at the ground, "Its nothing."

"liar you smell like panic."

Kagome's head snapped up, "Your nose must be wrong."

Inuyasha shrugged, "I guess theres a first time for everything." he scanned her form, he found himself doing that a lot lately, secretly relived to see her out of the damn chair. "we never finished our conversation from that morning, you know." She stiffed, remembering the sketch that was probably still in Inuyasha's private study. and he continued, "you said you where still effected but I never got the chance to ask what effected you." he looked at the girl before him, her sent was different than usual, he knew he was right. her natural sent of honey and rainwater covered in the dusty smell he usually associated with fear, but she's never smelt like fear, I never thought she could.

His eyes widened when the sent of salt assaulted his nose. Kagome looked up at him, a single tear running down her face, "the fact that Im not as strong as everyone thinks, and that Im still afraid, especially now. your brother is going to want revenge I know thats why he's near my rebels tags."

Inuyasha furrowed his brows and felt his ears pin to the back of his head under his bandana. he was never good at cheering up women. "Uh...well...if theres anything I can do..let me know?..."

Kagome blinked at him hating how she always seemed to break down and expose her weakness to him but before she could stop herself the words flew from her mouth, "then can I move back in with you?"

Inuyasha was taken aback by her request...It was just two days ago she moved out because she had gotten better..and now she willingly wanted to come back? He looked at Kagome and realized for the first time that great fighter or not, this girl had never lived a day of her life without fear. no matter how much she ignored it and hid it, she was afraid. She looked so fragile in that moment, more fragile than he had ever seen her, as if a touch would shatter her. He hesitantly took a step forward and brushed a strand of her hair from her face, "sure Kagome. if that will help." She looked up at him and he instantly regretted his agreement. she looked surprised, innocent, and genuinely relieved. a faint flush dusted the porcelain skin of her cheeks and her lips parted slightly in shock, His gut twisted as the attraction he had occasionally felt for her and denied hit him like a ton of bricks. shit...