Pet Spider

Summary: Inuyasha has the ultimate leash to control his tantrums, so why not collar Naraku, who has an even greater temper? What will the consequences be in subjugating such a volatile being? Kagome will find out soon enough. (Humor/romance/angst in that order. Lemon and Character death near end of story.)

Beginning is comedy ending gets more angsty, a mismatch of ideas thrown together just for the fun of it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. There is a lemon and character death near the end of the story.

Chapter 4

"No way!" Inuyasha denied Kagome. "You haven't been here that long, you're not going home yet!"

"I have exams to take, and classes to catch up on," she countered back. "You can't make me stay here, I have a life there as well."

Usually keeping out of an argument, Miroku carefully addressed the two, "Lady Kagome, I am not in any way saying you shouldn't go home, but what do you plan to do about your newest… procurement." His head turned towards Naraku who had been listening intently, as always. This was the first time he'd heard about wherever it was that Kagome hailed from. "The rosary requires him to remain within your sensory range, does it not?"

Kagome's face fell, she had never thought about going home after placing the spell. What was she to do? She couldn't disable the proximity gem, then he might run off and do who-knows-what. But bringing him to her time… no, impossible, even if he could pass through… well, he is good at maintaining a disguise, and the rosary would keep him in line, so maybe…

"See, Miroku is right," Inuyasha grasped the new ammo quickly, "you can't just go bringing him to your time."

"Your time?" Naraku repeated, genuinely shocked at this information. 'Could that be the answer to her paradoxical nature?'

"Inuyasha, you idiot," Shippo piped up, scolding the thoughtless dog.

"What if I did take him to my time?" Kagome spoke her thoughts out-loud.

"Are you crazy?" Inuyasha accused.

"It makes sense," she explained, unaffected by his outburst. "The rosary will keep him from hurting anyone, and he's a master at disguise, I can bring him with me to school and pretend he's an 'exchange student' or something." Inuyasha continued to disagree until Kagome's temper flared, "Its either he comes with me or I release him to wreak havoc once again, Inuyasha! Would you prefer that?"

"I would," Naraku chuckled. In all honesty, he was more curious to see her time than get released, yet. By saying he would prefer one option, Inuyasha would automatically disagree with him, and in this case, giving him exactly what he wanted.

"Fine, but I'm coming with you," Inuyasha growled, not for a second trusting Naraku. Who would?

Standing at the edge of the well, Naraku looked down it skeptically. It didn't look like anything special, but he did recall the first time that he ever saw Kagome it was when she was climbing out of this well.

"Okay, Inuyasha, you jump through first and I'll go through with Naraku to make sure the well accepts him," Kagome deduced tactically. Naraku wrapped an arm around her waist, making her blush, and waited on Inuyasha to jump.

"What? Get your hands off her!" Inuyasha barked.

"You heard her," Naraku taunted. Inuyasha growled, but jumped in anyways and was soon followed by Naraku carrying Kagome. The pair landed and Kagome stumbled on the old bones in the bottom, falling into Naraku's strong chest.

"S-sorry," she blushed even harder. She'd been doing that a lot lately, but why?

"Hurry it up already, Spider," Inuyasha barked. He jumped out into the well house and Kagome started leading the way. She carefully peeked out the door, looking for any visitors that might be at the shrine and luckily found none, but before she would continue, she addressed both demons behind her.

"Inuyasha, you already know much of this, but Naraku, there are no demons here," she began explaining the rules. His eyes widened at her declaration, wondering just when this time was. "Because of such, you must remain disguised at all times." Her hint was heeded as he altered his appearance as he had done before. "There are many things you are going to see that you don't understand. I don't mind if you ask questions as long as you don't draw attention to yourself and embarrass me, understood?" He nodded minutely. "Last, both of you, be nice! No fighting, arguing, anything like that. I don't want to have to say the words." 'Im sure I'll think of more later, but for now, that will do.' "Okay, lets go." Kagome pranced happily to her house yelling, "Mom, Gramps, Souta, I'm home!"

"Oh Kagome dear, so good to see you," Ms. Higurashi greeted her daughter. "How have you been?"

"Been great mom," she smiled back. "I brought someone back for you to mee-"

"Ah, a demon!" Gramps shrieked as Inuyasha and Naraku entered the room. He grabbed a handful of sutras and charged at Naraku. "I'll purify the evil spirit."

"Gramps, No," Kagome objected as she held him back. "Stop it already, he already has a spell on him." After getting the elderly coot to exhaust himself, Kagome suggested, "Why don't you go count your antiques to calm down, okay gramps."

"Yeah, that's a good idea," he panted out as he padded out of the room.

Once one annoyance was gone, another showed up, "Inuyasha, you're here. Come here I wanna show you this new video game I got." He found himself being dragged away by the star-struck boy.

Letting out a sigh at the commotion finally dying down, Kagome continued her introduction, "Mom, I wanted you to meet someone from the other side of the well." She gestured towards Naraku who had been looking around the strange house trying to understand what a toaster was. "Now Mom, I know I already told you about him, but please hear me out before you freak. This is Naraku. Naraku, my Mom." She braced herself for her mom to lose her cool.

"Hmm, I see," she sized him up. "You said there is a spell on him, does it make him safe to be around?" Kagome looked up, relaxing a bit at her mother's collected way of addressing this.

"Yeah," she agreed. "He has a rosary similar to Inuyasha's, but its more strict. He can't hurt anyone, nor can anyone hurt him, and it also requires he stays within my spiritual sense range. That's why I brought him here. I also figured I'd bring him to school with me."

"I understand dear," her mom calmed the worried teen. "I trust your decisions."

Kagome lunged at her mom for a hug, "Thank you mom."

"You go make your guest comfortable and I'll have dinner ready shortly," Ms. Higurashi instructed.

"Come on, Naraku, I'll show you around. Naraku?" Kagome inquired as the inquisitive demon was opening and closing the refrigerator trying to figure out when the light turned on/off.

It took a while to get Naraku up to her room, so she could unload her bag, since he had to inspect every single everyday object they passed; a lamp, the TV, the indoor plumbing, the radio Souta left playing, the ringing phone, etc. Then unloading her bag caused it to begin anew as he watched every item she pulled out; text books, portable stove, first aid kit, tampons… Oh no. She snatched the last one back up before he could ask about them and turned a bright red and ran out of the room. When she finally returned, Naraku was seated on her bed with a book in hand. She panicked but then realized it was only a health textbook, that was harmless enough. He was probably just learning new ways to kill or something…

Once Inuyasha got free from Souta, he came straight into Kagome's room to see Naraku on her bed. Being a dog, he had discreetly scent marked the area during the times he spent here. Naraku had to have known that and was challenging him on purpose. "Hey, move it, Naraku," Inuyasha growled, making Kagome turn around to see what his problem was now. Naraku ignored him and only turned the page of the book, appearing to read the boring text. "I said move!"

"What is the matter, Inuyasha?" Kagome challenged. "He's not doing anything wrong. Leave him alone and be quiet, I need to study."

"But Kagome," Inuyasha whined aggressively, "he's- I mean- why are you letting him sit on your bed?"

"As long as he's quiet, I don't mind while I'm studying," she explained. "Besides, you sit on my bed all the time, it's no different." Inuyasha felt like she'd just slapped him and stomped off leaving the confused girl and smirking demon together.

Dinner didn't go over any smoother, Inuyasha tearing into his steak with claws and fangs had Naraku making off-hand comments on how he should learn some manners. Kagome couldn't really disagree with that observation, even though she had learned to tolerate it, but Inuyasha again snapped back at him and started another one-sided argument.

"Inuyasha, that's enough!" Kagome got sick of his 'irrational' behavior. "One more outburst and you can just go wait for me on the other side."

"Well, maybe I will," he snapped back, angry and confused as to why Kagome kept taking 'Naraku's' side.

"Good," she responded snarkily.

"Good," he growled back and stomped off, not even finishing his meal.

"Ugh, what's gotten into him?" Kagome fumed as she aggressively stabbed at her vegetables.

"He doesn't like me," Naraku stated the obvious, amused as she murdered her food. It took less time than he had expected to get rid of the mutt. The rest of these few days would be just Kagome and himself; the perfect opportunity to advance his plan and attain more information than he'd ever dreamed.

After getting Naraku into a suitable disguise, modern clothes and proper age appearance included, she got him into her class by claiming he was her cousin that was staying for a few days and was considering coming to school here in Tokyo and wanted to check it out first-hand. Everything was going smoothly until she got ambushed by her friends, all three swooning over the tall 'boy' and asking Kagome if he had a girlfriend or not. She expected Naraku to simply remain aloof, but he didn't, he was flirting back! She had no idea why but she got inexplicably jealous. It was infuriating how he'd occasionally give her a searing look as if he was challenging her to interfere. She couldn't though, because she had introduced them as cousins.

Having finally gotten out of school, Kagome was finally able to snap, "What was that all about?"

"What are you talking about, Ka-go-me?" he cooed, emphasizing her name in deeper voice, sending chills down her spine. He had been fully aware of her discomfort and only continued for that reason, seeing how far he could push her.

"Y-you know what I mean," she said with an impressive growl, for a human, "all that flirting with my friends."

"Is there a problem with that?" he mocked. "You did tell me to be nice." He had her there, but she was still jealous about it all. It didn't make sense. She wasn't with Naraku, he didn't belong to her, so she had no right to be getting this possessive. Did she want to be with him? Is that what it meant? That couldn't be; this was Naraku she was talking about. She was supposed to be with Inuyasha, wasn't she? But lately, she was finding that she found her dog-eared friend to be more and more platonic and annoying. On the other hand, Naraku was becoming increasingly pleasant to be around. She was giving herself a headache with all this overanalyzing.

Kagome kept having a hard time focusing all throughout the walk home, her head was in the clouds so much she nearly walked right into a busy intersection. Naraku had snatched her up and quickly spun her into his arms and against his hard chest before she could tumble in front of a car. Being held against his perfect body didn't help the flustered teen one bit. She was now stealing glances at him only to look away if he turned his eyes onto her. 'What is wrong with me?' she would rant to herself. 'Knock it off girl, this is Naraku you're gawking at. You're just embarrassing yourself, he probably has no interest in you whatsoever.' She sighed aloud, 'He probably hates me for subjugating him.'