The new girl in Town Chapter 25: UP Up And Far Away, an inuyasha fanfic

The New Girl In Town.

***KAG POV***

Chapter 25. Up, Up And Far Away.

I knew I wouldn't forget that smell.

The smell of his car. It was a musky and potent smell that raped my nose. Almost smelled like the miasma that he released at the play.

Almost.

I must have not noticed the smell when he first drove me to the mansion because I was sedated or delusional. But I really smelt it now. You never actually know it until you captured and imprisoned, but little things that you wouldn't notice normally starts to stand out to you.

Like the smell of Naraku's car.

Naraku had visited my room later that evening when the sun was just starting to set on the horizon. I had asked him where we were going but he chose not to answer me with a direct response. I decided to not put up a fight with him because I thought it would be better for me to cooperate with him. That way he wouldn't put me under another drug or something. And I wanted to fully aware of where I was going. I didn't want to be incoherent. So, I followed him willingly.

I stood at the doorway while Naraku grabbed a few things for the road and I pondered on where he was taking me exactly. I didn't know weather to feel excited about where I was going or scared. There was this big fifty fifty chance that I could be going to some place wonderful or back to another prison.

When Naraku finally managed to find his damn keys, he escorted me over to the car and helped me in. The car was sitting directly in the sun and I choked on my breath as I sat down into the sweltering heat. I didn't need any of Naraku's help so I whipped my hand away from him as he tried to steady me into the boiling car. He sighed and walked over to his side and got in as I wrinkled my nose.

That smell.

I reached over and buckled my seatbelt on as he started the car. "Are you ready?" He asked me.

I turned to him and stared at him like he was a tiny little insect that was running across a pair of my new shoes. "What do you think?" I hissed.

He tried not to let it show and he tried to make it look like he was actually sorry that he had done this to me. But he was a bad liar. He didn't think I noticed how his eyes flashed and sparkled and how his lips slightly turned up at the corners, but I did.

"Alright then. Lets go." He said as he turned on the car. I raised my eye's and stared in to rearview mirror. The reflection was that of the mansion I had been kept in for the past few day's. It didn't look that menacing or evil on the outside. Still, a small shiver ran up my spine as I stared back at it.

Naraku started the car and put it in drive and we were off. He drove straight out into the endless sea of sand and dust. I didn't take my eyes off the mansion until it had faded completely behind us and all I could see was dust coming off the back of the car.

I sighed and rested my arm on the window and stared outside. I could hear the tiers crunching the sand and gravel and I could feel the cold air coming out of the AC that Naraku had turned on full blast. I could still smell the over powering odor of Naraku's car. And yet, I could barley notice any of these things. My mind was too focused on only one person. A dead person.

And I wondered does a dead person still mean they are a person? I would like to think so. I would like to think that even after we are dead and gone, some part of us still remains here on earth.

''What are you doing right now?" I thought quietly to myself. "Do you miss me as much as I miss you?" I was forcefully and obnoxiously jerked out of my thoughts as Naraku started to slow the car and finally stop.

What the hell is he doing? I thought as he turned off the car. He didn't say anything as he unbuckled his seat belt and got out. I stared out the windshield and noticed there was absolutely nothing in front of us. Literally. We were still in a huge sand pudding bowl that was endless. I turned around in the seat and noticed it looked exactly the same as it did in front of us.

I frowned as I turned back around and watched Naraku. He walked about three feet in front of the car and then he stopped. He raised his hand out in front of his body, palms facing out. Like he was pressed up against a wall. He slid his hands down the invisible wall like raindrops falling down a window.

I watched as his lips started moving but I could understand what he was saying. I strained my ears to hear him and the only thing I could hear was him saying …"bring me there…." and …"for this is I. This is me and she."

Suddenly, he jerked his hands away from the transparent surface like he touched something steaming hot. I watched at the clear surface Naraku had been touching, melted away and became unclear. It turned a bright purple color and finally faded away. I watched as suddenly the sandy road before me, turned into something out of a children's story book. In front of both of us, was a forest. We were completely surrounded by big tall tree's. The trees were top heavy because of all of the snow sitting on top of them.

My jaw dropped open and I sucked in a huge breath that I didn't let go of. "A…barrier?" I thought silently. "That was a barrier?"

I turned around in my seat and noticed the we weren't surrounded by sand anymore. Just snowy tree's. I choked on my breath and ran a shaking hand through my hair. "That son of bitch.." I whispered.

'That son of a bitch' walked back to his side of the car and climbed in again. I felt frozen as he started the car. He saw that I was staring mindlessly out the front of the car, not saying a word.

"Surprised?" He snickered. When he didn't receive a response from a shocked me, he chuckled again and shrugged. "That was all an illusion."

I sucked in a sharp breath and turned to look at him. "A…an illusion? How…how did you…" I trailed off.

"Well actually it wasn't all that complicated. I simply conjured up a barrier. And the illusion?" His eyes glowed. "That was child's play."

Was he kidding me? Here I though we were out in some completely different country, but in reality we hadn't even left japan this whole time! "You unimaginable bastard." I hissed at him. "How could you do this?" I practically shrieked.

He smiled again and shut his door. "Because I can."

xXx

Naraku had driven us out into the main part of japan. We drove down busy and crowded streets the were full of people. I wanted to scream out to them and pound on the glass of the car's window, but I couldn't. My lungs weren't working with Naraku right next to me. And I didn't argue with him. I didn't fuss. I just let him do whatever he wanted to me. I was a life size rag doll.

It didn't take much time to figure out that Naraku was taking me to the airport. Narita International Airport to be accurate. I almost asked him where we were going, but I knew he would never tell me. But I was giddy as he finally drove around the airport. I had to contain myself from jumping up and down in the seat because someone at the airport could recognize me. The airports security, police office officer. Anyone.

Once we parked the car in a parking structure, Naraku sighed and turned to me.

"Are you going to behave?" He asked me with a raised brow. I licked my lips and rolled my eyes but I didn't acknowledge him. "Because I can give you another drug and make sure that you come very willingly." I looked at him and he eyed me. "So, whats it going to be Kagome? Are you mine or aren't you?"

I could have said no. I could have said "Are you fucking kidding me? I belong to no one! I love Inuyasha not you! You stupid ugly mother fucking bastard!"

But, I didn't. I couldn't. Not now anyway. The only way I could possibly get away from him, was to give him a little. I wanted to make him think I was completely his. And then, I would run away when he least expected it.

So, I said, "yes. I am." I even gave him a small, weak smile.

He seemed to be pleased by this because he smiled himself and said "good. Very good."

He told me to wait in the car and then he got out and went to the car's trunk. When he came back, he was carrying three bags. He tossed me one of the bags and said to open it and put on everything that was in it. I unzipped the bag and looked inside. I was still wearing the ripped up costume from the play so I didn't complain about the clothe's that were inside. The clothes consisted of a black pencil skirt, a baby pink blouse that had ruffles around the neck and black high heels. I made sure Naraku wasn't watching me as I changed. He was actually changing himself behind a wall.

Once I was finished changing in the back seat of the car, I looked back into the bag and found a black purse that was empty, a pair of sunglasses and….a blonde wig.

I frowned.

How would anyone possibly recognize me in this? I sighed when I realized I had no choice in the matter. I gathered all my hair up and put it into the itchy and scratchy wig. Once all my hair was in it, I opened up the vanity mirror in the car and saw my reflection.

I frowned more.

Nobody would ever recognize me now. I looked like a completely different person. Which was exactly Naraku's idea. He wanted to make sure anyone couldn't identify me. I looked flushed and a tad bit thinner then I usually was. Probably because I hadn't eaten properly in a few days. My cheeks were a light shade of pink and my eyes had bags under them.

The wig framed my face with bangs that barley touched my eyebrows and the rest of the wig was rested carefully on my shoulder's. For a bunch of fake hair put on top of my head like a mop, this wig looked surprisingly realistic.

I sighed as I realized no one would ever recognize me. I mean how would they? How could they possibly see through my camouflage?

Letting out a few choice cuss words, I stepped out of the car. My heel's clacked on the parking structure as I walked over to Naraku who was smoking a cigarette. He had changed out of his regular blue tee and jeans.

"huh…" I said under my breath. He looked like a professional business man…

He was wearing a black suit and a dark red tie that contrasted with his eyes. His shoes were shiny and new and they shone brightly under the lights. I looked up to him and saw that his hair was slicked back and tied into a low pony tale that ran down his back.

Once he saw me walking over to him he let out his breath and cigarette smoke. He eyed me feverishly and smiled. "Well don't you look beautiful and sexy?"

I scoffed."Cut the shit. Why are we dressed this way?"

He snorted and tossed the cigarette butt to the ground. "Because we are Mr. And Mrs. Yamashita. A very rich and very powerful new couple hitting the business scene. And as of right now we are going away on our honey moon."

I chuckled darkly. "Oh thats just too cute. Were a couple now?"

He shrugged. "We already are aren't we?" He said and I swallowed down the urge to vomit everywhere. "Anyway, I guess you'll need this." He said as he brought out a small red velvet box in front of me. I gasped and took a backward step away from him. Not out of pleasure or happiness. But out of horror and bloodcurdling fear.

It was a wedding ring box.

"Open it." He urged me. I reached out a hesitant hand and grabbed the box. I slowly opened it for fear whatever was inside would eat and swallow me whole. When the box was fully open and I could see what was inside, I wanted to scream. And again, It was not out of happiness or whatever. This was really starting to freak me out.

"Do you like it?" He asked me with a slight tilt of his head.

I stared down at the shiny and glimmering stone that sat before me. It was a princess cut diamond surrounded by a row of smaller diamonds. The band around the diamond had smaller jewels lining it. And the diamond that sat in the middle had to be at least six carrots. At least.

I choked down a sob and Naraku asked me again if I liked it.

I wanted to shout 'No!' and stomp around. I wanted to shove the box down his throat and make him eat it. I wanted to cry and sob. I was filled with so many emotions I couldn't even explain. But not because I didn't want to marry him, which of course I didn't. It wasn't because I was still extremely pissed off at him. I was of course.

No.

It was because this ring was perfect. It was everything I had always wanted in a wedding ring. Which made me more pissed off at him.

I swallowed and did a half shrug. "Its alright I guess."

I tried putting on my best poker face but I guess he saw right through me because he started snickering. "Well anyway, put it on and lets get to our flight." He said with a flick of his wrist.

What? He wasn't going to put it on? Isn't that how it goes? The man gets down on one knee and asks for the woman's hand? Of course we were talking about Naraku here. He really wasn't much of a man.

I frowned as I picked the ring up out of its box and stared down at it. The lights shining down from the parking garage were making the jewel sparkle and shine. I bit my lower lip as I put the ring on my third finger on my left hand. The ring slid on and fit perfectly.

Of course it did.

Naraku strolled over to me and grabbed my hand to examine the ring some more. "It seems a little small. Are you sure this is alright?"

I wanted to laugh in his face. Was he serious? The ring was like a giant rock sitting on my hand. It was so big I could practically go ice skating on it! But instead I hummed and nodded my head. He smiled. "Good. Well anyway, lets get going. We don't want to mss our flight do we darling?"

Again, I wanted to laugh in his face. But instead I gave him a shy smile and said, "lets go."

Naraku picked up the rest of our bags and walked me into the airport. He said our flight was taking off from the second terminal so we had to take a shuttle to get there. As we walked into the airport together I stopped walking and stared. There were so many people running around and so many people trying to get to their own flight's, it was insane.

Naraku turned to me and grabbed my forearm forcefully and dug into my flesh with his fingers. "Stay right here and don't you dare think of moving. Don't talk to anyone, don't signal anyone, don't even breath until I get back. Got it?" Naraku hissed into my ear. "I have to go check in our bags and get our plane tickets. Stay here." He hissed some more, and then he was gone.

I made a face at Narku's retreating back and then I turned back around to watch all of the scurrying people. None of them we paying any attention to me and I frowned. I wanted someone, anyone to recognize me in my disguise.

They didn't.

I watched as the security and police officer's did a shift change. There were guards standing at the entrance and some patrolling the floor and some were at the security check in. I subconsciously started to play with the new foreign object weighing down my left hand as I gnawed on my lip. I glanced around the busy terminal looking at al the security and police police who could help me. I looked all around until I singled out one police officer in particular. He was chatting with some other police officer's but when he caught me staring at him he stared back at me.

I read his lips as he said …" hold on guys. Ill be right back." And he started walking toward me. He was tall and had dark brown hair and eyes to match. He was cute. Like a small puppy dog. Once he reached me he eyed me suspiciously. "Are you alright miss?" He asked.

I swallowed as I felt my my mouth go dry.

Everything that had happened to me over the past week flashed into my brain. The fight. The play. My old boyfriend. The mansion in disguise. The barrier and illusion. The betrayal and the beating. The sword that was supposed to be fake, that wasn't. The kidnapping. The yelling and screaming. My hot tears. And finally Inuyasha's crumpled and bleeding body on the stage.

The officer looked at me with concern strewn all over his face. He reached out and grabbed my arm. "Are you alright?" He asked again.

I opened my mouth slowly and whispered. "No Im-"

"There you are!"

I closed my eyes and sighed.

Naraku walked over to us and smacked the officer's hand away from my arm and grabbed both of my shoulder's so he could look at me. "Are you alright? Ive ben looking everywhere!" His voice was full of concern and love but his eyes were the complete opposite. He was pissed.

I eyed him back for a split second but then put on my best fake smile and even went as far as wrap my arms around Naraku's body. I could tell he was surprised because his body tensed but then he too wrapped his arms around me and followed me in our little act.

"Oh darling I was so worried!" I fake sobbed. "Ive been looking everywhere for you! I got lost and then I got scared becauseI couldn't find you." I whimpered into Naraku's chest.

Naraku chuckle and rubbed my back. "Well its a good thing I found you when I did. Our flights leaving soon!"

I un-wrapped my arms from his torso and he wrapped his hand around my hip. He eyed the officer and he said, "you should be glad Im not the jealous type. It looks like my little wifey has taken a liking to you."

I looked up at Naraku and saw that he was smiling, but his eyes read something completely different.

He was warning the man off.

I coughed uncomfortably and turned back to the suspicious officer and smiled at him. "Thank you for helping me find my," I swallowed slowly, "husband." I choked out.

Naraku rubbed my arm and smiled at the man. "Were going away on our honey moon."

The officer looked at me then up at Naraku then back down to me. "Are you sure everything is alright?" He asked.

I smiled. "Of course. Now that I have my husband with me, ill be perfectly fine." I smiled but my eyes were pleading. I looked at him and hopped he could understand what they were saying. In my mind I was screaming.

The officer nodded his head slowly and said "well, I hope you have a wonderful flight you two. Take care."

I wanted to reach out and say "Take me with you! Im Kagome! Kagome Higurashi! The girl that was kidnapped!" But instead I waved slightly and Naraku tightened his grip on my hip. "Take care."

Once the officer had turned his back from us and was out of earshot, Naraku whipped around and grabbed me by the shoulder's. Hard. I winced in pain as Naraku's grip on them tightened like a snake.

"Why the hell were you talking to him? What did you say to him? Did you tell him who you were? Dammit Kagome!" He spluttered.

I snorted and brushed Narku's fists off of me. "Relax. I didn't say anything. He came up to me. Not the other way around."

He looked frantic and I could tell he was scared of being caught. Good. All Asshat's deserve a good scare once in a while.

"Are you sure? Are you sure he didn't know who you were?" He asked.

I rolled me eyes. "No. He was just making sure I was okay."

Naraku's hand's were balled into tight fists. "You better be sure for your sake."

I rolled my eyes again and crossed my arms over my chest. I looked away from a steaming Naraku to find the officer we were just talking to, still staring at us and I whipped my head back around. "Uh the guy is still watching us." I whispered out of the corner of my mouth.

Naraku instantly looked up and his eyes narrowed on the officer. "Take my hand." He ordered.

"What?" I asked.

Naraku shook his head and shoved his hand into my face. "Take my hand!" He hissed.

I sighed and reached out my own hand and let our fingers intertwine. "Good." Naraku sighed and he pulled me along. It looked like we were a couple just walking along to our flight, but in reality Naraku was dragging me there. His hand was pinched around my finger's in a very angry way and I resisted the urge to scream out in pain.

I glanced over my shoulder and saw the same guy watching me. Studying me.

I whirled back around and stared at the ground and let the blond hair that didn't belong to me become a curtain between me and the officer.

I was a coward.

Naraku was walking along confidently and at some point, I followed his lead. I knew he would't want me to act like I was actually his prisoner so I held my head high and walked like I was on a modeling runway. I didn't let it show that I was super depressed about being forced to marry a complete and total jackass. I let everyone know I was perfectly fine I was with my 'husband', but my eyes told another story. I asked the whole world one question by my body language: Aren't we just the perfect couple?

xXx

The flight was pretty long. Too long for my liking. Well hell it would be to long for your liking too if you had to be stuck on a thirteen and a half hour flight with a narcissistic, psychopathic jack-holey asshat that is also supposed to be the love of your life.

And let me tell you that the inflight movies didn't help at all. They were all in english and I couldn't understand a word they were saying. But I tried watching them anyway because I wanted to get my mind off of Naraku's hand constantly resting on my knee. It was like he was scared I would jump out the airplane's window or something and he had to keep a hand on me at all times just so he could feel in control.

Naraku had gotten our seats in first class and being his 'beautiful and lovely wife' I got to sit by the window. I sat down in the big plushy seat and looked out the window and bit my tongue to keep me from crying. I was leaving everything behind and it pained me so much to watch us taxi out of the gateway and finally move down toward the runway.

New York.

Thats where he was taking me. New York city. It was all the way around the world and no one would ever know who I was there. I found out that was where he was taking me when we boarded the plane. The obnoxious woman calling out the boarding time had informed me where I was being shipped. I had gasped silently and Naraku had smiled at my reaction. Everything happened pretty fast after that.

When we boarded and we found our seats Naraku insisted I sat next to the window. Maybe because he thought if I was cornered, he would have the upper hand. Im not really sure why he did that but your guess is as good as mine. The plane we were flying in was a seven-forty-seven so our first class seats were located on the upper level of the plane or the 'sky deck' as the flight attendants called it. Once we found our seats my mouth went slack when I saw how fancy the seats were. They were huge and spacious and could probably fit two people. The seats could be reclined all the way back and could even be turned into a makeshift bed. The seat's in front of us had built in mini Tv's in the headrest so everyone could pick their own movie and not have to watch picked out for us against our will's.

I scowled at Naraku who wasn't paying any attention to me and buckled my seatbelt just like the flight attendant had shown us. I sat there reading the safety instruction manuel trying to get my mind off of me being shackled to Naraku for the rest of my miserable life when I heard the captain come over the intercom to say "flight attendants, please prepare for departure." I looked up from the comic of people trying to inflate their oxygen masks in a case of an emergency, and watched as the flight attendants took their own seats. I looked over to Naraku who smiled at me and then closed his eyes. I swallowed a huge lump in my throat and put the manuel back into the seat pouch. I new I wouldn't need it. In case of an emergency (which I was already in anyway,) I was a dead person either way.

And then after that, we were moving. Were were moving slowly, but we were definitely moving. There were tiny raindrops sliding down the window I was staring out of and it completely explained my mood. Sad and depressing.

I put my pointer finger on the window's cool surface and raced down the window just like the raindrops.

Naraku placed his hand on my knee while he read another newspaper and I gulped and turned away from the window. I closed my eyes and started a breathing exercise.

In through my nose out through my mouth.

I cracked my eyes open and stared out underneath my eyelashes. The cabin was dark and some people in the cozy plane were already trying to fall asleep. I turned my head again and looked back out the window.

Gramps.

Bouyo.

Souta.

Miroku.

Sango.

Koga.

Mom.

Inuyasha.

I stared out the rainy window and said my silent goodbye. My eyes filled with warm tears but I refused to let any fall.

And then just like that, the plane turned to the right and we were facing the runway head on. We sat there for about five seconds before we started moving again. I could hear the whirl of the engines as they started to come alive and wake up. I gripped onto the side of my seat as I felt us lurch forward. The plane started slowly creeping down the long jetway but increased its speed quickly. Faster and faster we went until I felt like we were going to run out of runway space. The plane did I final lurch and then lifted its nose into the air and then the back followed. And then, we were flying.

I stared out the window and watched as the world I had just been resting on, grew smaller and smaller. As the cars that were bigger then me a few seconds ago became the size of tiny ants. As big colossal buildings grew to be the size of my fingernail. There were a lot of clouds in the sky so climbing past those weren't much fun. You know, the turbulence and all. And I could hear the engines pushing us higher and higher into the sky.

I turned to look at Naraku who had his reading glasses on and was reading a book.

I rolled my eyes at him and slumped back into my seat and decided to look out the window because the view out my window was much better then the view right next to me.

About fifteen minuets into the flight, the flight attendant's came around asking everyone what we would like for dinner. Naraku had said he wasn't hungry and I was about to say the same thing ( I mean ewww. Plane food?) But my stomach gurgled which made the flight attendant giggle.

"I guess ill have the chicken salad." I voiced out while I blushed.

The flight attendant smiled. "Would you like anything to drink? We have an assortment of wines and beers."

I resisted the urge to snort. She actually thought I was an old married woman? Couldn't she see I was really a seventeen year old girl who was being forced to marry the guy sitting next to me? I mean come on? Who just wouldn't think of that naturally occurring situation?

Instead of giving her that snarky remark, I said, "Ill just have some sprite. My stomach is a bit upset." She nodded and smiled and gave me a soda can and a cup of ice to pour it in.

After she walked away Naraku turned to me with concern on his face. "Are you alright? Whats this about your stomach being upset?"

I sipped on my drink and chewed on the ice cubes. "Oh please. Don't actually tell me your worried about me." I snorted. "Yeah right."

He grabbed my hand which was resting on the seat and squeezed it, but not forcefully. "Yeah is right." He whispered. I looked up into his eyes as he gazed into mine. They looked so innocent and so caring and lovable that it made me want to upchuck. Good thing airplanes carry complementary upchuck bags….

I slowly brought my hand out of his as his other hand placed gently on my knee, began to massage my flesh. "Kagome you have to tell me when your not feeling well. Believe it or not, I actually care about you and your well-being."

I stared at him and tried not to laugh right there in his face. "Well um..," I tucked a random blonde fly away behind my ear as I felt my face flush. "Thanks? I think? Um anyway…" I trailed off. I could feel Naraku moving closer toward me. Trying to console me. Trying to comfort me. And I didn't want any of that nonsense. So I quickly and awkwardly spluttered out that I needed to use the restroom and swiftly walked away from him. In my haste I nearly knocked into a flight attendants food cart, tripped down the sky decks stairs and fell on my face.

Once I regained my composure ( I couldn't regain my dignity. It was shot to hell) and I made it to the restroom, I locked the door behind me. I turned around and stared at my reflection in the mirror.

But It wasn't me who was string back. It was a random blonde chick. I had a diamond ring weighing my finger down, a blonde wig on my head and a blouse that made my boobs look like watermelons. I quickly ripped off the wig and ran a hand through my sleek dark familiar hair.

"Pull yourself together Kagome." I whispered to my reflection.

Once I composed myself, somewhat, I tried using the bathroom. But what's the use is using it when you feel like your going to be sucked down the toilet and out of the airplane? When I knew peeing wasn't going to be an option, I splashed some cold water on my face and the back of my neck to cool myself down. Then I put my hair back up into the wig, unlocked the bathroom door and walked out. I breathed in a lung full of fresh non stinky airline bathroom air, and started walking back toward my seat. Suddenly, I stopped in mid high-heeled stride when a thought came to mind.

'I can run away. I could go march up to an attendant, a passenger anyone right now and tell them who I am! And I could tell them I was being held against my will by a crazy guy! Then they could arrest Naraku and I could go free once this plane lands!' I gave myself a determined nod when I was satisfied with my own little scheme and then started to move my feet in the direction of the nearest passenger and attendant.

"Kagome honey, where do you think your going?"

I stopped walking and mentally groaned. Slowly I turned around. And there he was. Naraku looked impatient, but like he was trying to be that lovable sweet caring husband he was supposed to be. I was about to walk up to him and tell him where he could stick his 'honey 'when a flight attendant walked past us. Instead I said "oh nothing Naraku baby." I responded, smiling through clenched teeth.

He cocked his head to the side. "Should we go back to our seats now or are you going to just to stand here in everyones way?" He glanced past my shoulder and I followed his gaze and was met with a line of people staring at me, trying to get to the bathroom.

I knew that every person in line, including a few flight attendant's, were looking at us. And probably thought without a doubt that Naraku and I were the happy married couple we had been pretending we were. We should probably each win an Oscar for our impressive performance. I knew that beneath the fake show of affection, both of us wanted nothing more than to go ahead and rip each other's guts out. That or get at least a mile away from the other and start gagging from the sweetness were were showering each other with.

I blushed and whirled back around from the glances and glares. "Oh of course, baby."

When this day was over, I had to remember to wash my mouth out with a lot of soap…

Naraku whisked out and grabbed my arm and led me back to my seat. "Thats a good girl." He hissed into my ear. Once we made it to our seats, Naraku practically threw me down onto the cushion. Like he was scolding me. And when he was sure no one was looking at us he gripped onto my arm again. Hard.

"Owww!" I squeaked. "What the hell are you grabbing onto me for? What did I do?"

He glared at me. "You know what the hell you did. You tried reaching out and making contact with someone. You tried telling them who you were!"

'Wooops. Busted.' I rolled my eyes. "Look, I was only going to ask the attendant what other kind of movies I could watch." I lied smoothly through my teeth.

He gave me a 'are you stupid?' face. "Bullshit. Thats bullshit Kagome and you know it."

'Dammit he was good.' "Well come on. Aren't you going to at least give me some credit for trying?"

He laughed. "Um, no."

I crossed my arms over my chest and scowled at the seat rest in front of me which was playing another english movie. "Well whatever. You don't have to grab my arm like that."

He reclined his chair back but kept a steady hand on my thigh. "Obviously, I do. No more bathroom breaks for you."

I shrugged and turned away from him. Let him see if I care. It wasn't like I could really even use the airplanes bathroom anyway…

xXx

I slept through the rest of the long flight. Or rather I had tried to sleep but it didn't really work. There was a crap load of turbulence and it made for a rough ride. Well for my butt it was a rough ride anyway…

After the rough ride was over, I became drowsy and was dosing off every couple of minuets. But every time my chin would slip off my hand that was resting on my seat, I would instantly wake up. Which was actually a good thing. Because if I could't fall asleep then Naraku couldn't do anything…weird with me. God only knows what he's capable of.

'Speaking of the devil..' I thought as I looked over to Naraku. His eyes were closed and he was resting his head on the back of his seat's head rest.

'I wonder if he's really sleeping..' I thought. I sighed and moved my leg to the left by a hair and Naraku's eyes instantly snapped open like shutter shades on crack. His hand instantly tighten on my thigh. I sighed. 'Yup. He's still awake.' Every time I would move or shift under Naraku's hand he would immediately grip harder onto my leg and would ask 'where the hell I thought I was going' or 'if I was trying to sneak away' or something.

This time though, he simply stared, no excuse me, he glared at me and then rested his head back and closed his eyes again.

I made a twisted up face and stuck my tongue at his pale, unmoving feature's wondering what he would do if he could actually see me doing that, when the captain came over the intercom to tell us passenger's the we would be landing at JFK airport in about thirty minuets. And that the local time there was five-thirty AM central time.

I made a face. 'AM? Japan is thirteen hours ahead of New York?' I thought and opened the window shade. I winced as the bright, early sunlight came streaming through the planes window and into my eyes. I shut the blinds quickly and rubbed my eyes, but somehow I could still see the sun through my eyelids.

"Everything alright?"

I stopped rubbing my sore eyes. "Not that you would care but yes. I am perfectly fine." I snarled.

Naraku laughed and put his chair back in an upright position. "Well as long as your not harmed."

I flicked his hand away from my leg and he smirked at my irritation. "Yeah whatever."

"No really. I meant it when I said I cared about your well-being. You know Kagome, I don't want to be the bad guy in our relationship. You just need to trust in me." He voiced out. He sounded so sincere I almost believed him for a split second. Then I remembered a very important fact; it was Naraku. He didn't even know what the word sincere meant let alone how to use it in a proper sentence.

I swallowed and leaned in close to his face which made him quirk his eyebrow. "Trust? How can you earn someone's trust when the person Im supposedly supposed to 'trust', is the person who killed the man I loved most and who is now forcing me to wed? So lets get one thing straight you stupid, arrogant son of a bitch, I never and I mean ever want to or will have a relationship with you. Got that?"

Naraku stared at me like I slapped him.

Good.

But then his face became harder and harder and he digested what I had just steamed off about. He clenched his fist and turned his body so he could fully look at me.

"You loved…him?" He growled.

My eyes searched his face. 'That was the only thing he got out of that little speech?' My eyebrows came together. "Um…who are you talking about?"

He sneered. "Inu..yahsa Taka…hashi." He gritted out.

My lips made and small 'O.' That guy that I loved. Right… I coughed and cleared my throat and let my face fall blank. "I have no idea what your talking about Naraku. I think you've gone crazy."

Boy. Wasn't that the understatement of the year?

Naraku didn't find and humor in my grabbed onto my arm and dug his nail's into my flesh. I was about to shriek when he covered my screaming mouth with his hand. "You know exactly what Im talking about. You loved him? Well who doesn't love him? He's mister perfect right? Well let me tell you something: He is dead!" He whispered and shouted at the same time. "And you know what else? Your going to join him in the after life, If you don't cooperate!"

He looked so angry and possessed at the same time, it scared the shit out of me. He was still roughly holding onto my arm when a flight attendant came around telling the passenger's to return their seats into an upright position, when she saw that Naraku was covering my mouth and that his had was practically making my arm bleed.

"Is everything alright here?" She asked one she had made her way over to our seats.

Naraku slowly moved his hand off of my mouth and grabbed both of my hands with his. "Everything is fine." He smiled.

The flight attendant looked over to me with a quizzical look. "Are you alright ma'am?"

I swallowed and Naraku's hands gripped tighter around mine in a warning. I nodded slowly and I gave a weak smile. "Everything is…perfect."

She looked unsure as she said, "well if there is anything I can get for you before we land, please don't hesitate to ask." She didn't look away from me and her eyes priced into my own. Like she knew something was wrong and she wanted me to just tell her what it was.

I looked at her with my own pleading eyes and begged her to notice something was wrong with Naraku. But seeing as how I couldn't say anything about it, I cocked my head to the side and smiled. "Thanks. Ill remember that."

The woman slowly and unsurely walked away from us. But once she was gone Naraku let go of one of my hands but still held on to the other. He shook his head as he stared a the floor. "I cant believe you loved him.."

I scoffed. Why was that the only thing he could think about at a time like this?

"I cant believe you loved him…" he mumbled again.

I could feel myself becoming more angry. "So what if I did? So what if I did love him?"

His eyes snapped onto me. "Don't you ever say that again."

Just I was about to respond, did we feel the plane start to descend through the clouds. The overhead seatbelt sign was turned on and I buckled myself in. I didn't want to look at Naraku or his ugly face so I turned away and opened the windows shade and watched at the puffy white clouds zoomed by. The ground was getting progressively closer and closer and I could eventually make out the shapes of cars and buildings. The plane suddenly turned to the left and I got a full view of the city.

I stared at the city in awe. It was huge. I could see the shape of taxi cars driving down the busy and clogged streets and the building's that reached high into the sky.

"Woah." I breathed.

The plane kept at a steady pace as it descended. The ground kept getting closer and closer as we sped toward the airport. Finally, when the ground looked like it was close enough to touch, we landed. The engines made a loud 'whooshing' noise as they tried to slow down. The plane's wing flaps came out to slow the speeding jet down. I could feel the plane slowing until finally we were at a crawl.

The pilot came back over the intercom to welcome us to New York and to say that he hopped we had a pleasant flight.

"Define pleasant." I retorted sarcastically.

The pilot then told us to stay seated until the plane came to a full stop at the jetway and that he hopped we a have a wonderful day.

Once the plane finally stopped moving and hooked up to the jetway, I unbuckled my seat belt and stood up. Naraku immediately grabbed onto my arm and dragged me down the planes isle.

The flight attendants were all lined up at the planes door smiling and waving goodbye. I made eye contact with the one flight attendant who had been suspicious of Naraku earlier and her face lost her smile and she stared at me.

"have a wonderful day." She said. Though she looked so serious when she said it that it didn't even looked like she cared if I actually had a good day or not.

"You too." I said as I gave her a equally depressing look. Naraku tugged on my arm and made me hop out of the planes doorway and walk down the jet way and into the airport.

The airport was busy and noisy and Naraku kept struggling to make it through the crowds as he continued to hold onto my arm.

"We have a car waiting so hurry up." He barked over his shoulder.

Naraku kept a very steady hand on my arm as we continued to make our way through the airport. Finally, we took an escalator down to the main level and Naraku walked us both out a pair of sliding glass doors. I stepped through the door's just a wave of car exhaust and heat slapped me in the face.

I coughed and surveyed my surroundings which consisted of cars, cars and more cars.

"Toto I have a feeling were not Tokyo anymore." I whispered.

Naraku turned around and smiled at me. "Welcome to New York." He chuckled.

xXx

**INU POV**

I tried everything. I went to the police (they kicked my ass out of the precinct), I wen't to some eye witnesses, who were at the school and around the school at the time of Kagome's kidnapping, and asked if they'd seen where Naraku had taken her. They didn't know. I even went to the FBI. When I told them I was looking for Kagome, they said I was crazy. They said that there was no way in hell (they're exact words not mine), that I would be able to find her. They even laughed in my fucking face! Like I was lunatic or something. Well now I know why people say 'fuck the police'.

I was so fed up with doors being slammed in my face, people staring at my face like was some crazy guy and people laughing right at it! It was like I was a walking comedy club apparently.

I was sulking. Pouting. Scowling, if you will. There was nothing to do and nowhere to go. I couldn't go home because I couldn't face the humiliation of getting absolutely no leads. And I couldn't just run away because then I would be abandoning Kagome.

I could't do anything. Literally.

I had used some of the money Sesshomaru had given me and bought a a room and a pay by the hour motel. It was grungy and smelt funny and it made my nose twitch.

I grabbed the remote off the nightstand and clicked the on button. I stared at the flickering screen scowling. Practically every major new station was tuned into the m'missing girl' case. They all alkyd about how detectives and the police were trying to pick up some kind of lead, but that they just could't find any.

I growled and turned off the Tv. I sighed and laid back on the smelly bed and pillows.

"This is hopeless." I admitted. And it was true.

I missed Kagome so much it hurt. My inner demon was so paranoid and going koo-koo that it wasn't even talking to me anymore. And I actually missed it sometimes. It was like with no mate, my inner demon didn't even exist and it freaked me out. I knew it was still there but... it was dormant.

Suddenly my phone started to vibrate in my pocket. I fished around in my pocket until I found my phone.

"Hello?" I responded tiredly.

"Is this Inuyasha Takahashi?"

I sat up straight on the bed and quirked one of my eye brows. "It is. Who is this?"

"this is detective Johnson. We met at the hospital?"

I nodded though he couldn't see me. "Oh yeah. Whats up?"

"I believe we have some footage caught on a airpot security camera that we think you might find interesting. Do you think its possible if you could come down to the office and examine it with us?"

I didn't answer him though. I had already flown out of bed and ran down the motels door and was running down the street like my life depended on it.

Did anyone else LOVE the ending of the last legend of Korra episode? I almost died of smiling and giggling like an idiot. Cain't wait until next saturday. Now, its time to go watch Howls moving castle...