Nov 2nd 2010: Author's Notes: I know it's been an incredibly long time since I last continued this fiction, however in honor of write a novel month I'm trying to continue as many of my fictions as possible and felt this one needed some long deserved love. Here's to hoping I do well!
End of Chapter 26:
"Leave it." His voice thick with desire made her unwilling to question the quiet command and then forgetting about the expensive piece of equipment as he returned to fulfilling her own passions, making her grow dizzier by the second with a voracious need of her own. The sudden building of pleasure back again as she whimpered with yearning to reach the moment of pleasurable release that was whispering at the edge of her senses.
When he stopped her unintelligible whimper seemed more like a mumbled begging and she nodded against his shoulder when he asked her if she was ready for this, her body wanting him so much that her better judgment was tossed to the side without much hesitation. She would have agreed to anything in those moments of heightened passion.
Chapter 27: Angels and Demons
Kagome sighed in a wistful girlish manner as she looked at herself in the mirror, Kaiba was still sleeping on the bed when she'd woke up that morning. She was a little sore, but that was easily overlooked considering how wonderful she felt otherwise. The night had been busier than she'd expected, but it was the best kind of active she'd ever experienced. She blushed some though as she looked in the mirror at herself, she didn't feel as different as she expected she would after her first time.
She hadn't actually meant for it to go that far, but one thing had lead to another and before she knew it they'd been together, against each other, he'd been inside her. She took a deep breath and shivered, the bathroom tile was quite cold and her naked body was disliking it. Kagome leaned into the shower to turn it on, leaving her hand in the spray long enough to wait for it to be a comfortable temperature before putting a towel nearby and getting inside.
Her head leaned back into the spray, when she felt the hands curl around her throat, eyes snapping open to see a masked woman just before she was slammed back into the tile. She never had the chance to yell, she was pulling at the woman's arms but they were like steel posts, unbending while neutral eyes watched her as if choking someone to death was nothing to them.
Kagome finally gained the balance to kick out and got the woman in the stomach area, but the attacker didn't budge and Kagome's leg felt like she'd just slammed her limb into a brick wall. Though the new pain made her grit her teeth and the desperation of the moment tapped into her holy abilities, the energy flashing mercilessly as it curled along the womans arms. The scent of burnt flesh mingled with that of the water from the tap as blood started to run down the drain below her feet. Kagome held her neck as she gasped, hoping to get back the moments of breath that had been stolen from her, coughing while holding up her free hand as if to fend off further attacks.
The shot that went off a moment later made her ears buzz and she was pretty sure she wouldn't be able to hear for a while, or that maybe she was going to just go deaf. She ignored her neck to raise her hands to her ears as she scrambled away from the shower through the shattered glass on the floor, the woman had taken the shot but was still standing there hissing at her. Kagome realized on her painful retreat that the woman had to be a demon.
Kaiba was outside and the second shot helped to further her hearing loss, by the third and fourth she could only barely tell he was still shooting but at least the woman had stopped walking toward them and had sunk to the ground. It took Kaiba moving just in front of her to pull her eyes away from the body on the floor and to his face. She could barely tell he was asking her if she was alright, she nodded though and glanced back at the demon woman.
Something just told her it was a demon, a sixth sense in the back of her mind, but it was quite injured after all the shots Kaiba leveled into it...it made Kagome frown some. She couldn't make out what he was saying but he pulled her away from it and wrapped robes around her moments before security burst into the room ready for action. He motioned them to the attacker and was saying something else but it was all very blurry, it would take her a bit to recover from the short range effects of the gun-shots being so close to her. How Kaiba could hear anything she wasn't sure, but she hid to the side of the room trying not to blush at the situation.
Not really the best way to spend her morning after such a great evening, that was for sure...she was lucky to have done so well but she was fairly used to demons attacking her after her time in the feudal era so she didn't react as badly as she would have without that prior experience.
"Come on." Kaiba pulled her away after he'd finished barking orders to his underlings, she could barely make him out but at least it was a sign she wouldn't be completely deaf. She followed him away to another larger bedroom, done mostly in blues and silvers...it wasn't a large leap of logic to guess it was his bedroom. "Should be safer here, I have the building going into lockdown until they can make sure there are no further intruders."
Even as he was half yelling it at her so she could hear it metal shutters fell over the windows in the room and soft lighting activated on it's own a moment later. Seto Kaiba had the best security money could buy, he wasn't going to take chances though, his room and Mokuba's room were the safest in the entire estate, the walls were reinforced, it has it's own separate ventilation and electrical signals, if the rest of the place was hit by a nuke, it was likely survival for a few months would be possible in the two brothers rooms with the way he'd had them built.
"You okay?" He looked over her neck, though there was a bit of bruising it wasn't as bad as he'd expected when he'd first walked in. "Dammit, how the hell did they get in there without security noticing? What do I pay those people for?"
He started to pace as he cursed once Kagome nodded about being okay, her ears were recovering faster than she expected and she frowned a little at the way he was pacing and muttering about his staff. Her hearing hadn't recovered enough that she could make out his whispers but it didn't take a genius to guess none of it was good. He was quite intimidating when he got this way.
She noticed for the first time he'd gotten blood on his pants, it was difficult to tell given he always wore black, but the pants were holding a fold even when he turned and held a slightly darker spots at the bottom. Where blood from the woman had splattered.
"I think it was a demon." Kagome finally came out and said it, frowning a little when he turned on her with an expression of confusion.
"Are you sure you are all right?" His pacing stopped and he checked her forehead.
"Yes." Kagome frowned and pulled down his hand from her head. "I told you before that there are demons, I think if anyone would know about this it would be Sesshomaru, erm I mean Mr. Taisho."
He eyed her with the same hestitance a long moment before the glare she gave him made him figure it was better to attempt the call and he opened he picked up the receiver on the desk in his room. "Yes, call Mr. Taisho for me please. Tell him it's from me and it's urgent."
Kagome waited, arms crossed, it irritated her that he just thought she was crazy. "I guess I'd think I was crazy too if I hadn't been through it, but dammit it was a demon! And we need to tell someone, Sesshomaru was a Lord or something, even Kouga's working for him. He should know."
"Yes, Mr. Taisho." Kaiba said then. "I apologize for bothering you, but em, we had a slight issue with a woman breaking in and attacking Kagome earlier this evening."
After a moment where she assumed Sesshomaru replied Kaiba smirked and she scowled, she had the feeling something had been said about her.
"Yes, it does seem to be the case." He commented. "She said that the woman was..."
He hesitated and glanced at her but the way her arms were crossed and she was glaring, he'd rather the guy on the other end of the line think him insane. "she said the woman was a demon and that we should ask you about it."
Another short moment where she couldn't hear whatever Sesshomaru was saying to Kaiba before he widened his eyes a bit and nodded though there was no way the other end of line could tell that. "Yes, yes, I'll have them show you in when you arrive. Thank you sir."
More moments of silence and the smirk that appeared on Kaiba's face made her certain something was being said about her that time. When he finally hung up the receiver she immediately asked him. "Well?"
"He said he would come over and that we shouldn't call the city police, thankfully my team waits for my approval to report to the city police but what's going on Kagome?" Kaiba asked with a raised brow. "I know you said they were demons, but I thought you meant...well I'm not sure what I thought you meant, but...what does it mean?"
Kagome had to smirk at that and sighed, putting her hands on her hips instead of keeping them crossed. "Demons aren't humans or some code word for something, they're demons. Creatures with immense powers, though I guess spirits might be a better word as they aren't all horribly evil. A lot used to be, but I figure with some of them blending into society now that they had to learn to live with humans where they used to war."
Kaiba nodded a little. "And a demon was after you?"
"Um sorta. I think so." She lowered her arms as she answered with a bit less certainty. "I'm pretty sure she's a demon, or at least a half demon, she was really strong. You saw her, you had to shoot her several times before she stopped. Even after I burned her."
"Speaking of which. You were in the shower when she attacked, how did you burn her?"
"I...um...as a priestess I have purifying abilities. I am not very good at controlling them but usually they act up if I'm in a lot of danger. They flared and she got burned. It's hard to explain I guess."
Kaiba pulled her closer, putting his arms around her. "So they'd be after you because of that?"
"I don't think so." Kagome shook her head but relaxed into his arms after a moment. "They haven't ever bothered me in this time before."
Kaiba seemed about to reply but his phone rang and he answered. "Show him to the secondary office, we'll be in shortly."
Hanging up the phone he looked to her. "If you are all right feel free to pick some clothes from my closet and then join us."
He motioned to a door and then exited that way into a room that looked like an office.
She blinked and looked at just having a robe on before rushing over to put on some of his clothes, they were a little big but she didn't want to miss it. She shoved on two shirts to try to hide that she didn't have a bra at that moment then put on pants...she'd have to go get her clothes or have Kaiba make someone soon or something.
By the time she got into the office Sesshomaru was already there.
"I was just saying I do believe it's a demon." Mr. Taisho commented as he watched the woman come in with clothes too big for her. "We've been looking for her for some time. I'd like to take the body, if that is of no concern to you."
"Not in particular." Kaiba answered, glancing to Kagome and offering the lightest of smiles before regarding the man across his desk again seriously. "However, I am curious how such a person would come to be trying to attack Kagome."
"As far as I'm aware, the corpse's prior profession was that of an assassin. Best I could suggest to you is that someone paid her to kill Kagome." He stated seriously, getting up from his seat. "I will not tolerate such behavior however, any further problems will come from humans. Though, I would not doubt that if they believed her to still be alive then more attempts on her life would continue. I will collect the corpse, good evening Mr. Kaiba. Kagome."
He slipped away without further words, leaving through the only other door in the room than the one where she'd entered, leaving her to turn and look at Kaiba. "What do you think is going on?"
"I think he's gotten it pretty close to right." Kaiba replied with a frown firmly in place, pushing his brown hair back from his eyes only for the bangs to return to his forehead a moment later. "Perhaps we should play along, announce that you were killed, perhaps the culprit will make themselves known in that way."
"Possibly." Kagome said with a frown... "but my family and friends...I couldn't do that...what about the school. I can't afford to fail again Seto."
"I know." He answered, tapping his fingers on the desk with a sigh. "But I'd rather not hope you survive til the end of school and then wait for another attempt on your life Kagome."
"I won't just let whoever this is make me hide away." She returned shaking her head. "No way Kaiba, then they win, I'm stuck here in this jail unable to even attend classes. I won't do it. I am going to school tomorrow."
He frowned a little at her. "Be reasonable Kagome...isn't it better to miss a bit of classes now trying to draw out the enemy than to possibly get yourself killed...or others killed in the crossfire if they stop making the attacks one on one. It's likely if they are still after you they'll get more careless."
She bit her lip, chewing a little as she paused at that, finally sighing. "Fine, dammit Kaiba, you are so manipulative, you know just what to say to get your way."
He resisted the urge to smirk at the compliment and instead shook his head negatively. "Kagome, I want to keep you safe, if we tell them you are dead but I hire other tutors you can continue to work from here as we try to find the culprit."
"Yeah yeah." She rolled her eyes. "You solve everything with money."
"It's a perk of being rich." He returned as he hooked a finger over the side of the large pants and pulled her over to him. "Besides, I like the idea of you spending your days here where I can see you my angel."
She blushed a little but let her resistance melt under the warmth of his focused charm, leaning down to kiss him as he tugged her closer again.
End Chapter
Whew, that was very hard to do after so long but I hope I continued things along their course well enough.
-Aura
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