The New Girl In Town.

**INU POV**

Chapter 22. On The Run

I looked straight ahead and sighed just when a man in a black suit walked into the room. His hair was all black and he looked like he was a secret agent or something.

"Inuyasha Takahashi?"

I sat up straighter and my ears tweaked on my head. "Thats me. Who are you?"

"Im detective Johnson," he pulled out his badge and showed it to me. "Can I ask you a few questions?"

My eyes momentarily flicked to Sesshomaru who was eyeing the detective skeptically.

I shrugged. "Sure. Why not."

"Do you know where Kagome Higurashi is?"

Just as the words left his mouth did Koga come slamming into my room. My heart perked up which made the heart monitor I was hooked up to, go hay wire.

"Wheres Kagome?" He walked over to my bedside and growled.

I looked to the detective, then to Koga, then over to Sesshomaru, then back to the detective again, and I told them the answer to there questions.

"Kagome was kidnapped."

Koga growled, Sesshomaru sighed and shook his head, and the detective made a humming sound and walked over to the window that overlooked the hospitals parking lot.

Koga started to pace around the room and Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. "We need to go after her! Where is she?"

I sighed and groaned slightly. "I don't know Koga. All know is that Naraku has her and he told me not to come looking for her."

I had no idea what Naraku wanted with Kagome. But whatever the hell it was, it couldn't be good.

Koga started to badger the detective about finding her urgently and Sesshomaru took a seat across from my bed. I stared at the IV that was pouring liquids into my body and shook my head slowly.

What could he possibly want with her? That bastard….

I kept think about what Narku's plan could possibly be and what his motive if a light bulb could blink up above my head at that exact moment, it would have."I have an idea who might know though.." I spoke so softly that Koga had to turn away from the detective and say 'huh?.'

I blinked and nodded my head slowly but surely, "I know who might." I said again but more clearly this time.

I looked over to Sesshomaru who had an elegant eyebrow raised at me. "Sesshomaru, can you call someone for me? And do you think you could bring her here? I don't think ill be allowed to leave until my wound is healed better."

He mulled it over and then nodded his head slightly. "I might be able to. But it depends on who your asking for…"

I smiled slowly. " Oh, Im sure she's been dying to see me..."

A few hours and a couple of cherry jello cups later, did Sesshomaru come waltzing back into my room. I used my free arm to prop my pillow up sideways so it supported my back. Over the course of those few hour's did I get the run down on my injures. If I was human, I would have died a few minuets after Naraku stabbed me and I had been injected with his poisons from the miasma. Naraku had punctured my left kidney and my spleen and a lot of blood had spilled into my chest cavity and that's why I started coughing up blood. But the demon blood flowing through my veins had immediately started to patch up my wounds on the inside, so when I was transported in the OR, the work that the medical surgeons had to do, was already half done for them. My nurse said I was lucky.

Sesshomaru stopped in the doorway and ushered whoever was with him, to come into my room.

Kikyo held her head to the ground and she had red splotches on her cheeks and I knew she had been crying. She lifted her head and saw me staring at her and she put a hand over her mouth.

"Oh Inu-baby…." She was still wearing her costume from the play only it was ripped and torn in a few places. She stopped walking when she got to my bedside and she just looked down to my face and frowned. "Are…are you ok?"

I snorted and rolled my eyes. "You'd think that after being stabbed in my spleen and kidney that people would know that I wasn't ok. But that seems to be the popular question."

She bit her lip hard and Sesshomaru brought a chair for her to sit in. I reached over my bedside and grabbed her hand and rubbed it slowly. "How are you?" I asked.

She sniffed and gave a humorless chuckle. "Your asking me how I'm doing? Your truly insane Inuyasha…"

I rolled my eyes. "Yea…I know…"

We sat there quietly before I had to ask her, "Kikyo…what happened today?" And thats when she lost it. She started crying, well, bawling was more like it. Her sobs wailed out into the room and my ears flattened down on my head.

Dammit, I hate when girls cry…

"Oh - sob- Inu- sob- YAHSHAAAA- and more sobbing sounds." Kikyo put her head into her hands and cried.

Sesshomaru walked over to Kikyo's shaking body and handed her a handkerchief with annoyance strewn across his face. She took it and blew her nose into it- hard. She tried giving it back to Sesshomaru who only made a stink face and said, "no. You keep it."

I grabbed her hand again and sighed. "Kikyo," I said softly, "Where is she?"

I needed to know where Kagome was. I couldn't stand it anymore. She shook her head. "I…I don't know. I don't know..."

"Do you know where he was planning to take her?" I asked quietly. I didn't want her to go off again and start bawling all over the place.

She shook her head again and stared at the floor. I sighed and I could feel my temper start to rise in my chest, "why did he take her? Do you at least know that?" She didn't move or say anything and I knew she knew that one.

"Kikyo," I tried again, "why did Naraku kidnap Kagome? You know don't you?"

She didn't respond at first and then, she slowly shook her head yes.

That got me to perk up," Kikyo…why? Why did he take her away?"

She sighed and stood up and walked toward the window and looked outside. It had begun to rain and she watched as the rain drops fell down the window. "I don't exactly know. All I know is he wants to get back at you."

I squinted and adjusted myself in the bed more. "What are you talking about? What have I ever done to him?"

She laughed humorless laugh and turned back to me. "More then you realize Inuyasha..."

I then began to glare at her. How the hell was this my fault? "Well? Why don't you tell me what it is that I did."

She crossed her arms over her chest and said, "I love you."

I made a confused face. "What?"

"I love you." She said clearly, like it was the most obvious thing in the whole damn world.

"Ok…" I started slowly, "So you love me….but what the hell does that have to do with anything?"

She rolled her eyes and walked back over to the window. She spoke as she looked outside. "He hates you because he love's me. In his mind, you stole me away from him. And now…he's getting back at you for it, by stealing Kagome."

I jerked my head up and practically yelled, "What?" I forgot that I had a new injury in my stomach and side and I grabbed my side as pain filled into my body. I had so many drugs put into my body, that they weren't letting me have any more pain killers until my system had been flushed out.

She sighed. "He also wants a powerful franchise that can outdo your fathers. And then you will be broke, alone, and Kagome-less."

"So why did he stab me?" I asked frustrated.

She turned to me and shrugged, "Icing on the cake? Maybe he really just wanted you dead, that part I'm not exactly sure of."

I squinted at her. "Kikyo, did you know he was going to try and kill me?"

She didn't answer me but simply went to staring back outside. I growled at her and slowly slid my blankets off my body and legs. I put my feet onto floor and it felt like I was using my legs for the very first time. My toes and feet pressed into the ice cold hospital floor and I tried standing up, but my legs wouldn't work with me. I toppled onto the floor and I let out a 'oomph.'

Everyone surrounded me right away, including Sesshomaru.

"Inuyasha are you alright?"

"Inuyasha are you ok? What happened?"

"Oh, Inuyasha!"

I growled and swiped Sesshomaru, Kikyo and my attending nurse away. I needed to do this on my own. I sat there staring at the tiled floor feeling like such a failure. I failed myself, I failed my family and friends, and I failed Kagome. She could be anywhere by now...

I couldn't fail again. It wasn't an option.

I pushed on the floor and tried using the muscles in my legs. They hadn't been used in a day and they were sore from all the drugs they gave me so I wouldn't move in the operating room, and when I was in recovery.

I took a deep breath and leaned up against the bed for support. I used my arms -including my IV arm- and tried using my leg muscles. Slowly my legs awakened and I stood up. It felt like I was standing on solid ground for the first time ever. I swallowed a lump in my throat and started walking towered Kikyo who was on the opposite side of the room. I stuck my right foot out first and pressed down on it. Then my left, and the my right again. I did this until I was towering over Kikyo's body.

I repeated myself to her, "Did you know he was going to attack me today? Did you know he was going to try and kill me?" I growled menacingly.

She lifted her head to look into my eyes and nodded her head slowly. "Yes. I knew.."

Thats all they needed to hear.

Detective johnson -who had been eavesdropping outside the room- walked in with a pair of handcuffs and started cuffing Kikyo behind her back.

"What the hell is this?" She shrieked and started to jerk her body around.

"Kikyo johnson, you are under arrest for being an accessory to an attempted murder and kidnaping, You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."

She looked over to me with pleading and distressed eyes but I shook my head sadly. She knew what she was getting into. There was nothing I could do for her now. The detective continued, "You have the right to be speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning." With that he led her out of my hospital room and down the hallway, but I could still hear him, "if you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense…."

I sighed and closed my eyes. I walked back to my bed and slid in slowly, trying not to cause any distress on my wound.

"Well, that was something wasn't it?" Sesshomaru mused.

I rolled my eyes. "Shut up. Its not funny. She just got arrested!"

He smirked, "on the contrary. I thought it was quite humorous."

"Well then you have a really sick sense of humor." I grunted.

I couldn't believe Kikyo had known Naraku was going to try and kill me. He must have been planing this little scheme for the longest time and I didn't even notice it. He had stabbed me to get to Kagome, just so he could kidnap her? What was his motive? What the fucking hell did he want with her?

Suddenly my nurse walked in. She was an elder woman that was short and round and she looked like a friendly kindergarten teacher or a grandmother. Her name was Doris. "Inuyasha I need to change you bandage and check the wound. Ok?"

I sighed and she walked over to my bed and lifted up my shirt. "Oh," she exclaimed suddenly, "I guess the female doctors were right; you do have a nice chest."

I saw her smirk and blush at my body. I grinned myself and snorted. She saw me and eyed me in a reprimanding way, "Inuyasha..."

My smile grew. "What?" I winked at her and she giggled like a young schoolgirl.

After she changed my bandage and said my wound was looking good and that it was healing faster then the doctors thought it would, She said I could get up and try walking around for a while, so my legs could get stronger and I wouldn't be so trapped in a hospital bed. When she was done and gone, I left my room and walked down the hospitals hallways with Sesshomaru by my side. Which surprised me because for him being such an asshole, he was really being helpful. He moved my IV machine the I was hooked up too around, so I didn't have to do it myself. I didn't need blood anymore, but just water. It kept flushing out my body. Though, I had to pee like every five seconds.

We walked past the cafeteria and then we walked upstairs to the sun room. I didn't want to just sit around, so we continued to walk. I jerked to a stop when we suddenly passed a huge window. I walked slowly over to it and I pressed my hand up against it and stared inside. I took a huge breath and let it out through my nose.

The room was filled with a bunch of newborn baby's.

Now I have no fucking clue on why it struck a nerve, or it made me want to stop and stare, but I did anyway. I stared at all the little pink faces and cute blue and pink beanies they all wore. My ears were even sharp enough that I could hear the little baby noises they were making, through the glass.

I turned away from the window and back to Sesshomaru who was staring at me intently. "I have to find her." I said.

He smirked, "I know you do. You love her."

xXx

"I cant stay here anymore! I cant stand it!" I growled and threw my pillow across the room.

Sesshomaru sighed and sat down in a chair. "Look, I don't like spending all this time in a stuffy hospital with you complaining about every little thing, but dad said I needed to stay here and look after you. And the doctors said you cant go home just yet."

"But Kagome could be anywhere by now! They said they have no clue where Naraku is and especially Kagome! And what about her family! I bet they are just going out of their minds! I need to talk to them! I need to get out of here!"

I had only been in the hospital for two days but I was starting to go stir crazy. I was sick of being bed ridden, especially if I felt fine. That and I didn't want to wear the ugly hospital gown anymore. My ass felt like it was hanging out for everyone to see. The hospital's really need to start getting better ties in the back.

I needed to get outside and start hunting down Naraku and saving Kagome. I couldn't do that with me being trapped inside a stuffy hospital. I tried standing up and marching through the door, but Sesshomaru pushed me back down on the bed. "You need to lie and be still. If you go rushing out of here like a wild animal, the only thing that will result in, is your wound will reopen and you won't be able to find her."

I growled and flicked his hand away, "how do you know I wouldn't be able to find her? I could just sniff her out!"

"No, you couldn't. I already tried that. When I heard on the news what was going on at your school, I rushed over there. And by the time I got there, you were already being transported to the hospital. I surveyed the theater, and I found neither Kagome's or Narku's scent. He has covered his tracks well."

I sighed and ran a hand through my hair, "well dammit! Me staying in this bed is helping no one. Im out of here!" I stood up from my bed and walked past the Tv that was on the news channel. The newscasters kept talking about yesterday's little shooting, because it was a rating booster I guessed. I stopped and stared as the images flashed on screen and then my ears pinned down on my head as Kagome's school picture flashed across the screen.

"Inuyasha…"

I turned around to Sesshomaru who was watching me intently, "what?" I growled.

"There is a detective team out there searching for her you know..."

"I don't give a rats ass about them! You should know damn well that if anyone has a chance in hell of finding her, its me."

I walked over to the closet they had for patients and grabbed a red shirt and dark washed jeans Sesshomaru brought for me, and put them on. After I was done I put on a pair of socks and grabbed my boots. Just as I was done putting on my second boot, did Miroku and Sango come walking through the door.

"Hey. Hows it going Yasha?" Miroku asked as he walked past me and flopped down on the bed casually.

"Inuyasha…where are you going?" Sango asked with a puzzled look on her face.

I sighed and stood up and looked at her dead on. "Sango Im going to go and find Kagome."

Miroku sat up and looked at me like I was insane, "What?"

Sango's eyes grew wide, "what? No you cain't!"

And sesshomaru simply nodded and said, "I know. Ive tried telling him but he just wont listen to reason."

"Guys listen," I said exasperated "she needs me. I have to find her. Naraku could be doing god nows what with her for all we know. The detectives and police aren't going to find her, Naraku wouldn't make it that simple. He's taking her where no one can find her. And besides, Im half demon. This little wound is nothing. Im fine. And all of you should stop worrying. Its annoying."

I wheeled my little IV machine out into the hallway were the nurses station is. Doris was sitting behind the desk reading one of those girly fantasy books that has a sexy, swooning girl in the arms of a half naked guy on the cover.

I cleared my throat and she looked up at me. "Oh hello Inuyasha.." She trailed off when she saw that I wasn't in that ugly, itchy, blue nightgown anymore.

"Hello Doris," I said in my best convincing voice. It usually made girls go crazy and swoon, but Doris just stared at me with a really bored expression.

"What do you want Inuyasha?"

I blew my bangs out of my face and gave her the most innocent face I could muster. "Oh nothing much Doris…"

She snorted and put her book down. "Inuyasha just tell me what it is you want. Stop beating around the bush. I hate that."

I smiled. "You know, I do to. Man isn't it annoying when people just keep beating around the bush and never really getting to the actual problem? I mean its compleatly-"

"Inuyasha! Get to the point."

I sighed and hung my head. "I need you to discharge me."

She sat up straight in her chair and stared at me. "Inuyasha, you know I cant do that."

"Please!" I pleaded. "You have to!"

She cocked her eyebrow, "And why would I need to do that?"

I sighed again. "Because…"

"Because why?"

Getting more riled up and pissed off, I slammed my fist down on the desk making a loud thumping noise. "Because Kagome needs me god dammit! And I love her and I need to rescue her! I just have to! Thats why! Thats because!"

Doris looked at me like she was startled but understood. "Thats exactly what I wanted to hear." She smiled and stood up and walked around to my side of the desk. "Come on, lets get this IV out of your arm."

Sesshomaru -who had been standing behind me the whole time with his arms crossed over his chest - looked shocked. "Wait…your just going to let him leave? Just like that?"

Doris walked me back into my room and over to my bed. She turned off my IV machine and then began to take the needles and tubes out of my arms. "I have to."

Miroku and Sango were staring at me with concern all over their faces ad I felt like such an ass of making them worry about me so much.

Sesshomaru crossed his arms again and got this superior look on his face, "And why is that?"

Doris turned to him and smirked, "Because he's in love. Haven't you ever read a romance book? This is the part where Inuyasha comes in and saves the day."

xXx

**KAG POV**

It was dark. Well it had to have been, seeing as how I had a blind fold over my eyes. My hand's were tied tightly behind my back with rope that itched my wrists. I figured I was in a car of some sort, because I felt like I was in motion. I sighed and tried moving my legs around, but found that they wouldn't cooperate with me. Frustrated, I opened my mouth to speak, but found that my vocal cords weren't working as well.

I don't know how long I had been out. I don't know where I was or where I was going. Hell, I didn't even know if it was night or day. All I knew, was once my blind fold came off, it would be Narku's smug ass face, smiling evilly at me.

I closed my eyes against the fabric that was covering them and attempted to sleep. But of course that failed. Growing more agitated, I tried moving around, and speaking but nothing worked. I remained perfectly still. It was like being in a straight jacket, without having to actually be in a straight jacket. It was maddening.

Finally, after some time, my voice started working again. Well, sort of. My voice came out in squeaks and moans. I finally heard someone chuckle beside me and I tensed up like a frightened animal.

"So your conscious. How extraordinary. Usually people don't regain consciousness for a few more hours."

I tried saying, you've done this to other people? You fucking weirdo! But it came out like "nuuuffhhuuhhhhh pah."

He laughed again and it sounded like his voice was coming from the driver's seat and I figured I was in the passenger seat. "Don't try to speak. It won't work. I have injected your body with a potent poison that will keep your body and tongue still, but your mind very much alert."

Injected? My body? Potent poison? Thats it, this guy is insane.

"So, Kagome, how are you feeling? How does it feel to see your precious love die, right in front of your eyes? How exactly does it feel? And be honest, your answer could effect my future tests and projects."

That asshole, he's talking about, Inuyasha.

Inuyasha...

I had been trying to keep my mind off of him. The last thing I saw of Inuyasha was him being stabbed, and bleeding out all over the stage floor. I had cried out to him in all of the madness and the insanity, but he couldn't help me. He was to badly injured. I saw his lips moving while his blood was seeping out all around him. His lips read Kagome. Me. He wanted me. I wanted him. I wanted all of him. From then on until forever. And now he was dead. Gone. Inuyasha, my Inuyasha was gone.

A small tear rolled out from underneath the blind fold and down my face. My lips shook and quivered and more tears rolled silently down my face.

I head Naraku chuckle to himself as he saw me crying, without actually being able to cry out. "Thats what I thought."

The rest of the car ride was quiet. Naraku didn't Listen to any music, nor did he stop to get gas, so I couldn't yell out for help. Not that I really could ask for help. My voice box was broken.

Finally he turned the car down a road that was bumpy and uneven. It was a gravel road.

He drove on that road for about an hour before the car slowed, and finally stopped. He unbuckled himself and got out of the car and walked over to my side. He opened the door and leaned in and unbuckled my seatbelt. I felt his hot breath on my face and I wanted to throw up all over him and his car. I wanted my barf to get all over him until he couldn't stand the smell of puke anymore and he ran away screaming.

Of course that didn't happen so instead, he put his arms under my body and lifted me out of the car. I felt him lift me into his arms bridal style and he closed the car door with his foot. I felt him walk slowly over to a door that he opened and he walked inside. Again, he shut the door with his foot, and carried me up a flight of stairs. I felt him walk me all the way down a hallway and into a room. He sighed and gently set me onto a soft surface, like I was a fragile bird.

"This is your room….for now. We will be moving in a few days."

Oh wonderful. Another road trip with this crazy physco.

He slowly wrapped his arms around my body and I flinched back, making him laugh. "Relax, I was just taking off your blindfold." He continued to wrap his arms around me, but I noticed he got unnecessarily close to me. Finally he untied my blind fold and my eyes snapped close from the sudden light. After I felt adjusted, I slowly opened one eye, and then the other. The room was nice, to say the least. It had high ceilings and big open windows. I expected a dungeon or a dark basement that I wold have to be chained in.

I looked over to him and glared hot fiery daggers of death. Hoping he would die from them.

He didn't.

He smirked and walked over to the window and stared out of it casually. "Its only you and me here. There is no one else. The land is surrounded by a barrier that I made myself, so don't even think of escaping or trying to get away." He turned to me and stared intently. "Your mine. Do you understand? Mine."

I wasn't a possession. I didn't belong to anyone and no one ever told me what the hell to do. And I would have told him so but, I still couldn't move.

"Anyway, you should sleep now. Im sure this is a lot to take in and you should get more adjusted later, but you must be tired." He walked over to the doorway and just stood there staring at me. He looked like he was trying to figure me out, or like I was some type of confusing math question. He finally sighed and said, "don't try and leave. Its pointless," and then he shut my door.

I wanted to cry out, scream, yell, cuss, punch something, hit someone, throw a lamp against a wall and stomp around. But I couldn't. I could nearly move my fingers. I rolled my eyes and tried leaning to the right so I could fall against the pillows and get some rest before I tried to break out of my prison. I leaned over to the right and my body tumbled over and smashed into the pillows like I was a brick. I sighed and tried closing my eyes just so I could have a little peace but, how could anyone ever find any kind of peace, when they are a prisoner on the run?

OK I was going to name this chapter The Rouge Hanyou part 2 but, it just didn't seem to fit in with this chapter. I made this chapter a lot longer but I cut it into two parts for suspenses sake. Sorry ;P

And again, sorry bout the wait. Life tends to get in the way and say 'ahhh yea you wanted to do that? Well shit, I wanted to make you do this today.' and then changes your whole sowwwie about that :/

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