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He's My Girl	By : osherry Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 11937 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: We own neither Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2, the fandom, nor anything else that Rumiko Takahashi has created and we’ll never make any money off of it. We shall not covet Inuyasha or his super-cool ‘Tessaiga, ’ or dang...even that gorgeous bishie

Chapter List
- 14
- 15
- 16
Chapter 15: Lost Among the Flowers
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Warnings: Foul language and some violence.
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Special thanks to our awesome and talented betas Hedanicree, SplendentGoddess and Theleb K'aarna
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The authors would also like to thank Eggry (author of another great fan fict called ‘Guilty Hero'). She's a big ‘Jackie Chan' fan and helped to brainstorm the fight scene in this chapter.
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For Eternal Destiny fans, consider this a very late and exceedingly long entry for the ‘I was born for her' contest.
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Co-authored by Karaumea and Ai Kisugi
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Chapter 15: Lost Among the Flowers

Soft ballet flats made little noise as Rin climbed the run-down stairs to her small apartment in the Shinjuku red-light district. After a long night spent in stilettos, her feet screamed in agony with every step she took, but she was used to the pain.

Once she reached her floor, she rounded the corner to the patio that led to her apartment with a tired sigh. With her head bowed in exhaustion, she trudged to her door. Rows of clean laundry fluttered in the wind, breaking the stillness of the night and caressing her bare arm as she passed. When she looked up, it wasn't the battered wood of her apartment door that her gaze fell onto, but a bouquet of daisies lying on the floor in front of it. The girl gasped in surprise as a cherished name fell from her lips in a soft whisper. "Sesshoumaru."

Ever since the dog demon had found her, Rin had been torn up. There was a reason she had disappeared without a word. She knew in her heart that her father's death had not been an accident and she had to prove it to the world. She needed justice. She had to get those bastards locked up so that they wouldn't hurt anyone else. This was her fight, and Rin had no intention of involving the ones she loved in this mess.

Especially not her beloved...

If she had told Sesshoumaru of her plans, there was no doubt that he would have stopped her. Even worse, he would have taken it upon himself to find her father's murderer. She couldn't let him endanger his life for her sake. Because she couldn't live if something happened to him, she had cut him out of her life.

When she had seen him again, she couldn't stand the accusations in the golden orbs she adored. She wanted to tell him that she never wanted to leave him, that she still loved him with all her soul.

But, the way he had treated her as if she was a common...

The girl shook her head to chase away the memory and crouched down to pick up the flowers. His hostility hurt, but she couldn't blame him for that; she deserved his anger, after all. However, that didn't mean she was going to stand his insolence. Expecting him to continue his insults, she hadn't let Sesshoumaru speak the last time he had shown up at the club.

But perhaps, insulting her hadn't been his intention at all.

A sad smile tugged at her lips as she breathed in the familiar fragrance of the little, white flowers. Daises were Sesshoumaru's way of saying ‘sorry.' Her fiancé had never been one to apologize verbally; it wasn't in his nature. Instead, he used to give her daises whenever he had upset her, and every single time, it had been enough for Rin.

However, one apology was not enough this time.

With a wistful sigh and a firm hold on her precious flowers, the stripper took out her keys and engaged in a small battle with the rusty, old lock to open the door. Once the lock gave in, she shoved the stubborn door open with her shoulder and stumbled into her apartment with a muted curse. She stuck her keys back in her purse and dropped the tiny bag on the floor before she used her now free hand to turn on the lights. When her tired gaze landed on the small room that served as her living room, kitchen and bedroom, her mouth dropped open.

Daisies...

They were everywhere. Over the counter, covering the battered wooden surface of her old coffee table, on the worn out futon that served her as both a bed and a couch, spread over the dull tatami mats at her feet... With the innocence and sincerity of their pure white petals, each blossom screamed ‘sorry.'

‘A thousand times sorry.'

The single bouquet she had been holding slipped from her slackened grip. "Sess," she whispered before a sob passed her lips. One of her hands came up to cover her mouth while the other clutched at her shirt over the excited bird trying to escape from her chest. Her apartment became a white blur behind the veil of the tears gathering in her mocha orbs.

"I really am, you know," murmured the deep voice of her beloved to her ear, earning a gasp from the young woman. Releasing her breath slowly, she leaned back into the reassuring warmth of the strong chest behind her. A small smile lifted the corners of her trembling lips as his arms wrapped around her waist, and his nose ghosted over her exposed neck, taking in her scent reverently like he used to do before she had left.

Slowly, Rin turned in his arms and looked up at his rueful eyes. "You hurt me," she said as a tear rolled down her cheek.

Sesshoumaru caught it with his thumb as he gently cupped her cheek. He rested his forehead against hers and exhaled heavily. "You hurt me more," he whispered.

The young woman closed her eyes against the turmoil of emotions swirling in his golden eyes. She knew too well how much he must have suffered in her absence; she had felt the same. She fisted his shirt in her hands and swallowed the lump in her throat. "I'm sorry."

"So am I," was all Sesshoumaru said before his lips descended upon hers. Gone were the anger from their previous encounters and the urgency of their touches as the dog demon relayed his remorse and reminded her how much he adored her with the gentleness of his caresses.

When he pulled back, Rin could no longer hold her tears. "I'm sorry," she repeated between sobs.

Clawed fingers swiped her wet cheeks gently before she was pulled into his reassuring embrace. She sniffled into his shirt while Sesshoumaru shushed her and softly stroked her back. "Don't," he started as he tightened his hold around her. "Don't apologize. What's done is done. Just tell me..." He pulled back slightly to look her in the eye. "Why?"

The way he looked at her... She could feel his desperation, his need to know as if it was her own. Despite her need to protect him, Rin knew she could no longer keep the truth from him.

So, she talked.

She told him everything she knew about her father's job and his death, her suspicions, her decision to seek the truth, why she had told no one about her plans and cut her ties with everyone she loved, how she had gotten the job at Seventh Heaven, and what she had found so far. She could tell that Sesshoumaru wanted to interrupt or voice his displeasure with her actions several times, but to his credit, he kept his mouth shut and listened patiently.

Once she was done, the dog demon sat quietly next to her on the futon. Her anxiety grew every second that passed in silence before she finally broke down and asked, "Won't you say anything?"

He took a deep breath. "You can't go back to that place," he started. Rin tried to protest, but he silenced her with a finger on her lips. "I won't let you put yourself in danger. Leave it to me. I will deal with those bastards."

"No!" she cried out as she jumped to her feet. "Don't you see?! This is exactly why I didn't tell you before! This is my fight, Sesshoumaru. I have to do this. I won't let you get hurt because of me!"

"So what?" asked Sesshoumaru with a low growl. His voice couldn't have sounded more dangerous if he had been yelling at her. "Do you expect me to sit back and watch while you throw yourself in the middle of cold-blooded killers?"

Rin gulped in nervousness. When he worded it like that, it did sound rather ominous. However, she stood firm against his piercing gaze and nodded her head determinedly. "Yes."

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed down to slits, and he opened his mouth to object. However, he was interrupted when his phone started ringing. He growled in irritation as he snapped the device open and brought it to his ear without a glance at the caller ID.

"Takahashi," he answered angrily, but his voice took on a slightly more respectful tone when the caller spoke. "Miss Kaede, to what do I owe the pleasure of hearing from you at this time of night?" His brows furrowed indistinctly, then-a look Rin knew very well that betrayed his confusion. "My sister? Oh, Shaya, yes," he said, and Rin wondered what he was talking about. She knew his family as well as she knew her own. Sesshoumaru did not have a sister. Her attention was turned back to the conversation when the dog demon asked, "Abducted?" She took a step back in surprise when Sesshoumaru jumped to his feet. "Higurashi girl? Kagome?" he asked, eyeing Rin warily.

Dread filled the young woman's heart hearing her dear sister's name used along with the word ‘abducted.' Her eyes widened in fear and she took in a sharp breath, getting ready to demand an explanation, but he stopped her with an imploring look.

"Poison, you say. I see," he continued before ending the conversation swiftly. "Thank you for the information. I will let my family know."

Once he took the phone off his ear, Rin attacked him with questions. "What is it, Sess? What is wrong with Kagome? Who was abducted?"

Sesshoumaru seemed reluctant to answer her, but now that the cat was out of the bag, he guided her to sit next to him on the futon and started explaining. "It seems that your sister and mine were abducted during their school trip."

"Abducted?!" Rin cried out before confusion took over. "Your sister? Sess, you don't have a sister."

The dog demon snorted in disdain. "Unfortunately, I do now." At his fiancée's questioning look, he reluctantly explained. "After you left, Inuyasha got out of hand. You remember how crazy he was about your sister?"

Rin nodded as she smiled softly. "He was absolutely smitten with her. He couldn't even speak when she was around!"

"He was a baka," commented Sesshoumaru. "He got even worse when she was no longer around. Fighting, drugs, alcohol... You name it. I didn't intervene at first. If the idiot didn't have the courage to get what he wanted and got wasted instead, it was his problem. But, the last number he pulled was hard to ignore. He and that moron, Ookami, got into trouble with a crime boss. They were sure to get killed if we didn't intervene. So, I had two concealment charms made for those two half-wits. They are now your sister's classmates."

"You," started Rin, flabbergasted. "You made Inuyasha look like a girl?" When the dog demon nodded, she burst into laughter despite her upset over Kagome's abduction. "Oh, my God! That's hilarious!"

"That's not all," continued Sesshoumaru. "I pulled a few strings to get him to stay in Kagome's room. If he will ever become a man and stop being a pain in the ass, he needs to learn how to keep his head together around his girl. That baka should thank me when this is over."

The young woman's laughter turned into giggles. "I'd love to see how Kagome will react when she finds out her roommate is a boy."

Sesshoumaru smirked in amusement as if he could see his little brother being pummeled by the girl in question. "That's the baka's problem, not mine. I can't do everything for him, can I?"

Rin shook her head as she sobered. "Do you think they were kidnapped because of Inuyasha?"

Sesshoumaru nodded thoughtfully. "I don't think your sister was the target, but regardless, they have her now."

"My sister... in the hands of a crime boss... Oh, Kagome," choked out the young woman as the severity of the situation hit her once more.

"Don't worry, Rin," said the dog demon as he stroked her back soothingly. "Inuyasha might be a baka, but he won't let anyone hurt her." He then stood up to leave.

"Where are you going?" she asked in alarm.

Sesshoumaru looked down at his beloved fiancée before he said, "To get your sister back."

Rin was on her feet at once. "I'll go with you," she declared with certainty.

"No, you won't," he ordered without a second thought. His voice left no room to argument.

However, Rin was too riled up to listen. "They have my sister!" she objected.

"Yes, they do," agreed Sesshoumaru. "And, it's without a doubt because of my idiot brother." He took her face in his hands and gazed at her coffee orbs with his stern golden ones. "This one is my fight, Rin. You'll stay out of it if you want me to stay out of yours."

He left after giving her a kiss. As she watched him drive away from her window, Rin huffed, remembering that he hadn't promised not to get involved with her business.

He'd said ‘if.'

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Hojo looked at the gathered blossoms in his hands with a look of uncertainty. He had been gathering flowers for Kagome every single day since their ill-fated date. Their night had been wonderful at first, but in the end, the girl of his dreams believed that he had hit on her roommate. If only she knew how outrageous that idea was... However, Hojo was an optimist; he knew that the truth would win out eventually. He just needed to talk to Kagome. He was quite sure that if he could actually have a face-to-face conversation with her, he could explain that not everything was as it seemed.

Hojo honestly could never see himself with any girl other than Kagome. He snipped an errant crimson rose, with a deep burgundy blush with his cutting shears. He continued to shear off the sharp barbs so that Kagome could have a thornless rose. He added it to the other roses he had gathered.

Hojo had been dropping off bouquets of the most exquisite roses for more than a week, however Kagome still hadn't bothered to contact him.

He wondered for a second if Ari, the girl he dropped the roses off to, had ever given them to Kagome. She did look up to him with these absurdly wide eyes every time he came around to drop off some more flowers. However, the thought was quickly squashed. He couldn't think of any reason why she would lie to him. For that matter, he never really understood why anyone would lie. He wore his heart on his sleeve and was quite sure that everyone else did the same.

Perhaps Kagome never replied to his many overtures because she wasn't impressed with the roses? Maybe he needed to find something more exotic, something she had never seen before. He placed his collection of roses on a potting station and moved to the back of the greenhouse. The greenhouse belonged to his father's business. In fact, his father owned a number of buildings in greater Tokyo. However, out of all his father's buildings, the greenhouse was his favorite.

He looked at the door to the back of the building that connected to an almost never-ending collection of greenhouses. The head gardener had told him to not travel any farther than the rose gardens. However, his fingers twitched as he grasped the doorknob that opened to a menagerie of other glass buildings. Each greenhouse held more and more exotic flowers. Surely, there would be something there that would please her eye?

Without even a backward glance to see if the head gardener was watching him, he opened the door and stepped into yet another warm and humid greenhouse teeming with exotic buds and topiary.

As he wandered farther and farther away from the entrance, he found a few flowers that he was familiar with. Poppies were teaming throughout most of the frosted glass buildings. He spied colors ranging from crimson to yellow to deep gold to the palest pink. Each crepe-like flower held delicate silky petals with a fuzzy black center and long yellow-green stems.

His smile broadened across his face as he picked the perfect bouquet of poppies for Kagome. He paused for a brief moment, clasped his hands together in front of him in prayer and bowed to the spirits.

Kami, all I want is a chance to talk to Higurashi and to tell her the truth. All I want her to know is that she's the only girl for me.

He stopped his prayer and let a goofy smile spread across his features. Perhaps, the gods would bless him with an answer?

While Hojo was gathering his final selection of buds, he sniffed to discover the nauseating scent of smoke that drowned out the pleasant fragrance of the flowers. He turned his head in alarm and noticed that the small greenhouse next door had smoke wafting against its opaque windows.

The boy dropped the flowers and started to scream. "Fire!" he yelled as he dashed to the greenhouse in question.

Nothing could be worse than having his favorite gardens destroyed by flames. He pulled the greenhouse door open and coughed as lingering smoke crept out of the small-enclosed space as if stretching its fine tendrils into the surrounding air. Then, he shoved a few windows open to allow the cool midday air to diffuse the vapors.

Covering his face with his shirt, Hojo tried to find the source of the fire. His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. For a fire, the smoke certainly wasn't dense. In fact, it seemed more like burning incense. Perhaps, it had just started?

Hojo peered into the building with a look of bewilderment. He saw rows of poppies sitting in potting trays before a very curious sight caught his gaze. Two girls were laying on the floor on a futon in the middle of a greenhouse! Next to them was a large incense pot that was emitting wafts of gray-green smoke.

As he looked closer, he was startled when he recognized the high school uniform and raven-black hair of the girl he had just been praying about.

"Higurashi!" he screamed in astonishment. She was unconscious and unmoving. The silver-haired girl who always showed up on their dates was there as well, equally still. What are they doing sleeping in my father's greenhouse?

He wasn't even thinking and soon found his feet at her side. He knelt down to gently shake her awake. "Higurashi! What are you doing here? Not that I mind or anything. I was just praying about you. I mean...praying about you letting me finally talk to you...and here you are... Higurashi? I need to tell you the truth. Honest, it's not what you thought! Higurashi?"

The girl was unresponsive. He paused to shake her once more. Panic crept in when she didn't wake up. His hands moved to her chest to check for a heartbeat, and another hand drifted over her nose to see if she was breathing. He sighed when he felt her chest move slowly up and down underneath his hand. Then, he looked down at his hand in alarm.

My hand, on Higurashi's breast?!

His eyes widened curiously and then he gradually took his hand away from her bosom. He looked at his hand as if he had just gained the ‘Midas Touch' and then started to hyperventilate. It was curious that he was feeling so light headed. However, that was how he always felt whenever Higurashi was near.

As he still looked at his outstretched hand in wonderment, he used his other hand to try to shake Shaya awake.

"Shaya, wake up," he murmured in a drunken stupor.

The sleeping hanyou girl yawned and then did a very un-ladylike thing; her hand slid under her skirt in order to scratch her crotch. Then, she muttered as she rolled over, "Just another fucking minute..."

Hojo's instincts were to recoil at the blatant trashiness of this girl's behavior. But, any friend of Higurashi's was worth his time. He shook her once more. "Wake up, Shaya!"

The edges of Inuyasha's mind were fuzzy with darkness. Someone was shaking him and wherever he was, it certainly stunk.

"Wha...?" He turned his head to and fro and looked around in a drugged haze. His golden orbs looked up and tried to focus on the image of the brown-haired boy wavering in front of him as if it were fog.

"Higurashi, she's unconscious! What's going on? Why are you sleeping in my father's greenhouse?" the boy questioned.

Inuyasha wanted to lie in a dazed state as the fumes lulled him into a dreamlike stupor. But something that the boy said made his heartbeat quicken in alarm and made his eyes widen. "Ka-go-me!" he yelled in a panic and tried to get up.

Just as his wobbly arms tried to prop up his unresponsive body, Hojo's eyes rolled back in their sockets and the boy passed out on top of him.

"Fuck! Get off of me, you moron!" yelled Shaya as she tried to push the boy away who had suddenly become a leaden weight.

A few more shoves, and the boy collapsed onto their futon with a happy smile on his face and a bit of drool running down his cheek. "Higurashi," the boy murmured dreamily as he squeezed the futon below him with one hand in blissful ignorance.

Shaya recoiled at the young man fantasizing in front of him. He would have yelled at the boy to stop thinking about his girlfriend if he wasn't so worried. Despite the way he had to drag his feet and his leaden arms, he managed to pull Kagome out of the greenhouse and into the fresh air outside.

He felt so weak. Anything that could attack him through his sense of smell was always his Achilles heel. The stench nearly made him pass out again, but he knew that he needed to protect Kagome. He needed to get her out of there.

He simply lay down on the cool, wet grass. He breathed in deeply, taking in the clean air and Kagome's gentle scent beside him. He was groggy, but he still found the need to clasp his hand with his unconscious girlfriend's.

Inuyasha's mind was in a fog, and somewhere in its dim recesses, he knew that he was forgetting something important. He was supposed to tell Kagome something. Something that she might not be happy to hear...something about him really being a guy... But, that was silly... He was a guy! Why would he need to...?

The hanyou looked down at his chest and noticed a girl's sailor suit uniform, a silly red tie and two heaving breasts that looked rather funny on his torso.

"Nooooo," he moaned. For at least one brief second, he was hoping that he actually looked like a guy and that Kagome had actually accepted him as one.

But, she still didn't know; she still thought he was a girl.

And I was trying to tell her the truth when I was attacked...?

His blurry vision looked around the perimeter. He saw swaths of green grass and greenhouses on either side of him. Wavering gray-green smoke flickered out of the door of the glass building in front on him and dissipated into the air.

He sniffed. Poison!

Since his rubbery body barely moved, Inuyasha continued to lie on the ground despite his growing panic. Who would want to poison me with gas? It took less than a second for his fog-addled brain to come to only one conclusion. Naraku! How in the fuck did he find out who I really am? Now I'm really fucked!

He tried to push himself to his feet. His legs barely responded, but the hanyou managed to stand on two feet. Quickly, he started to flap his arms in an attempt to keep his equilibrium. However, gravity pulled him down despite his protests that quickly became expletives.

Next to him, Kagome moaned softly. His ears perked up and twisted toward her even though his body felt like putty.

Then, he heard some voices approaching.

"Line the girls up so that I can take some pictures," said a gruff sounding man.

Another man answered; his voice was petulant and strangely lilting. "I don't know why I have to help you with those hags."

The other man had nothing but frustration in his voice. "I don't want your help, Jakotsu. I'd rather do this on my own. Why don't you go back to the club?"

The man called Jakotsu sounded bored as he replied. "Naraku was rather upset about the last girl you got your hands on. So, I guess I'm just a chaperone." He let out a bored whistle, before he muttered. "Why you have a thing for drugged girls, I'll never know..."

The first man seemed to be trying to stifle his frustrations when they came into Inuyasha's field of vision. He instantly recognized one of them. That freak from the Seventh Heaven who tried to feel me up! The hanyou visibly grimaced. Shit, I need to get out of here. I'm still too weak to take them on.

It was hard for him to move, but he managed to kneel next to Kagome and wrap her limp arm around his neck, while he held her waist. It was only through sheer determination that he managed to lift her up beside him and start their painstaking trek to a neighboring greenhouse.

His only thought was to find a place to hide, while his hanyou healing kicked in and let him regain use of his extremities. The adjoining glass building was filled with exotic, tropical plants. Most of them were towering bushes, about two to three meters in height, with green leaves that looked like a grown man's hand. He sniffed the air; somehow the plant smelled familiar and potent. It took only one more breath to determine what the plant was. Marijuana?! Where the hell are we? Inuyasha had not only sold the drug in high school, but he had imbibed it when stressed. He had just never seen the stuff before it had been dried.

He pieced together two clues. Naraku kidnapped us. These are his greenhouses? Does he also sell drugs? I thought he only ran an illegal casino.

The hanyou girl quickly ducked between the myriad of rows of tall, willowy vegetation. Luckily, the fronds from the cannabis plants provided more than enough coverage. He placed Kagome gingerly down between two aisles. She seemed to be concealed, at least from humans who had no sense of smell.

It was then that he noticed her cloudy mocha eyes looking at him in confused wonder.

Her head cocked to the side and the silliest grin appeared on her face. Her hand quickly found their way to his ear and started to fondle one. His breath rapidly accelerated as his body reacted to her touch. "Oh, I always loved your ears," Kagome said soothingly with a vapid grin on her face.

What in the hell was in that poisonous gas? It's making Kagome all dopey.

One hand gently fingered his overly sensitive ear while another hand crept down his neck and pulled his body on top of hers. Suddenly, he really didn't feel the need to stop her.

"Ohhhh," she moaned, and he found that her breathless sighs made even his drugged body react. She had her legs spread underneath him, his growing hardness nestled in a tantalizing spot. He hadn't meant to put himself in this position, but now that she was so warm and soft and below him...

Shit! She's going to give me blue balls again!

"Kagome, we've been kidnapped. You can't just..." Though, I really don't mind...Dammit!

Her eyes slowly closed and opened again. The cloudiness that obscured her vision seemed to recede.

"Kidnapped...?" The girl blinked to look around her. She spied the tall plants and the concrete floor she was lying on. Then she looked up at the body that was between her thighs. Her cheeks flushed and her eyes widened. "But you were kissing me and now we're..." The confounded girl sat up and Shaya reluctantly moved away from the compromising position they had been in.

Damn... He tried to adjust himself, but it simply looked like he was fiddling with his skirt. "...at Naraku's greenhouses apparently...," added Shaya.

"Who is Naraku?" asked Kagome in bewilderment. She paused while her fingers thrummed against her cheek. "Why does that name sound familiar? Isn't he the father of Kagura and..."

"He's yakuza," Shaya amended in a whisper. "And, keep your voice down."

"But why would he kidnap us?" begged Kagome in a soft whimper.

Inuyasha tried to reply. He looked momentarily dumbfounded, until he placed his hand on Kagome's chin. "It's not you he wants-it's me."

"Wha...what?" responded Kagome as she tried to shake the cobwebs from her mind.

Then, Inuyasha heard the men speaking again.

"Be quiet," he whispered as he put his hand on her mouth. "Stay still and quiet. I need to get us out of this."

His ears swiveled as they tried to pick up on the conversation of the kidnappers. The voices were coming from the other greenhouse and would be too soft for Kagome to perceive.

"What the hell! Where did they go, Jakotsu?"

The effeminate voice droned on. "Don't ask me, Mukotsu. You're the one who was supposed to keep them drugged and unconscious."

"Hey, who is that...?"

"Oh, a lovely boy," murmured Jakotsu with a wistful sigh. "Can I keep him?"

For a brief second, Inuyasha honestly felt bad for abandoning Hojo. The boy had been trying to get them to wake up. The idiot was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. But if he hadn't been there, Mukotsu might have...and now, Jakotsu might...

Inuyasha shivered in disgust. He then made a determination. He was too honorable to just leave the guy there to be molested, even if he didn't have the strength he needed. His body was still drugged and sluggish.

"Wait!" the older man's voice rang out. "It's Naraku's son. This could be a trap!"

Naraku's son...? Wait, Hojo is...? What the f....?

The other man whined. "The boss' son?" Jakotsu's voice then took on a subdued quality. "What a pity. Still, I like the scruffy type better."

"Don't tell me about your sexual preferences. Just help me find the prisoners."

A labored sigh was heard from the effeminate man as the clank and ‘shik' of a sword reverberated through the enclosed space. "Yes, I'll help you find the two skanks, Mukotsu." His tone then took on a juvenile edge as he continued. "And when we see Naraku, I'll be sure to tell him that this is all your fault."

Inuyasha's hands were still on Kagome's mouth when he swore under his breath. "Fucking freak! I should've killed him when I had the chance!"

"Muumph?" muttered Kagome as she looked up at Shaya with surprised wide eyes.

He had forgotten that he had been trying to silence his girlfriend or that she couldn't hear the exchange. He looked at her sternly while gently releasing her lips.

Inuyasha could tell that her heartbeat was starting to accelerate. "How...how do you know the kidnapper?" she asked in bewilderment.

"Met him at the Seventh Heaven after I followed your sister there," murmured Inuyasha distractedly before he put two fingers to her lips. "Shush... And don't move from this spot. I'm going to protect you."

"But...I," Kagome stammered while she clutched at Shaya's shirt in order to keep her from leaving.

"Let me protect you, dammit," the dog-eared girl pleaded with her expressive golden eyes.

Inuyasha... Kagome swallowed and nodded dumbly. As she watched her hanyou move away, she felt a twinge of sorrow creep into her chest. Why are they after him? How did he get mixed up with the yakuza? Then a piece to the puzzle finally fell into place. Was he hiding out as a girl to get away from the yakuza? She was still angry at his obvious duplicity, but now it was being coaxed over by a genuine concern for Inuyasha's safety. Why would someone as macho as Inuyasha accede to hiding as a girl? She groaned to herself. He must be in a lot of trouble. There is no way he would willingly look like a girl unless it is something serious.

Perhaps for the first time since she had woken up, fear shook the miko's small frame. However, this time she wasn't afraid for herself; she was worried about Inuyasha. He's going out on his own; he still seems weak; he doesn't have his Tessaiga; they are probably armed... What if they have guns? Dread quickly gave rise to irrational thoughts. I have to help him. He can't go at this alone. If anything happened to him...

She let that last thought fade as she steeled herself up for a fight. Kagome had many years of experience fighting in her classes at the Shikon Boarding School. Of course, they had never taught her to go against anything other than traditional martial arts' weapons, but she wasn't helpless-even if she felt a little woozy. Her eyes darted around the greenhouse until she spied a large shovel. She carried it in front of her like a wooden staff. She gripped it firmly while grumbling silently. Stupid, gorgeous, macho, dog-eared, troublemaker...

Inuyasha silently crept along the rows of spiky greenery and towering fronds. The cannabis plants were very good for camouflage, especially since his school uniform was also green. His ears swiveled to pick up on noises that an ordinary human ear would not have heard.

He heard the footfalls of one man walking closer to the greenhouse that he was in. Another set of footsteps trailed behind, warily. As with any fighting situation, he moved his hand down to grip his Tessaiga, only to find that his hands were clasping...nothing? Oh shit! I don't have my Tessaiga!

Golden eyes flitted left and right until he spied a wide-toothed, bow rake next to him. He grasped the long wooden handle firmly and moved under the greenery. His eyes fastened on the greenhouse door and the doorknob that was slowly turning.

Whoever opened the door did so softly and with great care. Inuyasha nearly revealed himself by cussing once the door showed a tall, slender man in a pink kimono with stylized green leaves on the silk. The man's face was almost creepy with his serious, yet amused expression. Two streaks of purple rained down from his eyes like tears, and his long, black hair was held in a messy bun. He also held a long, silver sword that looked like a scimitar. For once, Inuyasha was glad that he was facing this foe looking like a girl, rather than a guy. At least as a girl, he wouldn't have to deal with that man trying to get under his skirt again.

Inuyasha waited until the man stepped close enough to the foliage he was hiding behind to make his move.

With swift movements, he jumped high behind the effeminate swordsman, his rake held high and prepared to strike the kimono-clad man hard on the head.

Unfortunately, the man seemed to anticipate an attack and held up his blade against his back, effectively blocking Inuyasha's strike.

The clang of metal against a hard wooden pole echoed throughout the glass building and Inuyasha fell backwards. Shit! I'm not as fast as I should be with these drugs in my system. Jakotsu swung his blade down in Inuyasha's direction. It was only his demonic senses that allowed the hanyou to throw himself on the floor before the blade skimmed above his head. As the sword glided past his dog-ears, he could hear the fronds of the cannabis plants being cut.

When he looked up, he could see a round area three meters in diameter that looked like it had been hacked by an overzealous hedge trimmer. His body, of course, was at ground zero for the whacked greenery. Shit!

The other man's whiney voice started to screech. "What the hell are you doing, Jakotsu? You can't be chomping down the pot plants! You just wasted millions of yen. And don't you dare cut up those girls, they look much better if they're in one piece."

Jakotsu only muttered to himself. "I really don't care for hags. If they get a little boo-boo or two, they'll survive."

"Jak! Don't...you can't cut up the girls!" hollered the spastic short man.

Jakoutsu only answered with another sweep of his sword. This time, Inuyasha watched as he saw the blade snake into a multi-bladed weapon, lengthening to over three meters. Then, it whizzed around the wielder and tried to cut Shaya in half.

Inuyasha blocked with the rake, only to find that he was now holding two pieces of a rake in his hands. One hand held a wooden pole and the other hand effectively had a large hand rake. Fuck!

The hanyou dodged another whirling round of blades as he contemplated his next attack. Jakotsu's blade was too sharp to take on with a rake. But perhaps, if he used it like a ‘sai' and simply caught the blade in its ‘teeth'?

Inuyasha jumped into another aisle of growing marijuana plants, giving himself enough cover to take another action.

"Where are you, little chicky? Where are yyyooouuu?" mocked Jakoutsu as he pursed his lips and held his blade behind his back.

Kagome had managed to slowly move in from the other direction, effectively skirting behind the skirmish. She eyed the felled plants warily and proceeded to bend low as she walked.

While she approached she noticed a short, bald man with eyes like a frog. He seemed to be wailing about something to the other man. Good, he's distracted. Maybe I can take him down.

The miko wasn't very worried when the exasperated midget took some bottles from his backpack. She was only concerned with moving with enough stealth so that she could knock him out with her shovel before he was aware.

Inuyasha sniffed the air as a familiar scent came far too close to where he was hiding. Dammit! I told that stubborn girl to stay hidden. Now, I need to distract them!

"Over here, you freak!" Shaya stood stoic and emotionless in her schoolgirl's uniform, her long silvery hair sweeping past her shoulders and white dog-ears standing up at attention. She held the top of the wide-toothed rake in one hand and the long wooden handle in the other.

Jakotsu only smiled grimly. "Tee hee. Oh, a brave girlie!" He brought his sword around again, preparing for a final strike.

Kagome's eyes widened in horror as she saw Inuyasha putting his life on the line for her. No, you can't do this to me, Inuyasha. Not when I love you...I... She was motionless as the actual meaning of the words suffused themselves into her brain.

The short man screamed and nearly dropped his bottles. "No, Jak! Don't hurt the girl."

It was enough of a distraction that Kagome rose up tall behind the squat man. With a firm hand on her shovel, she managed to whack the flat edge of the metal against his head. Mukotsu was quickly silenced as his body collapsed and his concoction spilled onto the floor.

Then with no thought to her well-being, she dashed toward Shaya and the ongoing fight. She tried to effectively swipe the swordsman with her shovel, but was caught unawares by the trick blade. The sword fell in a quick arc, effectively chopping off more cannabis leaves and cutting her shovel in half.

"Dammit, Kagome! I told you to stay away!" yelled Shaya as she rushed Jakotsu.

The swordsman's blade swung low again and Kagome could only watch in horror as the silvered weapon closed in on her head. Oh, Kami! May the gods protect me...

Her eyes shut at the last moment to feel a rush of wind and the clang of steel on steel. "Fuck! Kagome, get the hell out of here!" yelled Inuyasha. His feminine voice was deep with anger.

Kagome put her hand to her throat. She had been sure that it would have been severed just moments ago. She looked up to see long legs in front of her, a short green skirt and a mass of silvered hair with dog-ears twitching on top. "But!" she protested.

"Will you shut up and let me protect you?" screamed Shaya as she stood between Kagome and Jakotsu, her rake held like it was a sword to be wielded.

Words escaped Kagome's mouth before she had time to retract them. Her emotions were too strong to be held in check. "I love you," was all the teenage girl could whisper to the hanyou's back.

Hearing the magical words from the miko's sweet voice, honeyed eyes widened in disbelief, and Inuyasha's back stiffened. Did she just say that she loved me? Fuck, she loves me! Elation then coursed through his veins, and a cock-eyed grin graced his features before quickly being stifled by reality. Shit, she just told Shaya that she loved her. She told a girl that she loves her. Shit! Fuck! Dammit! This fucker is going down!

Inuyasha swiveled in front of his girl as the blade fell down against him again. But this time, he was ready and nothing was going to get past him, not when he had someone to protect.

The blade caught in the twirling teeth of the rake. With one swift pull, Inuyasha ripped the snake-like sword from Jakotsu's hands, effectively disarming his opponent.

However, instead of acceding defeat, the effeminate man only laughed in hysterics. "I didn't know that Ookami and Takahashi were lesbian lovers. This is so rich!"

Shaya stiffened at the accusation. There is no fucking way that me and the wolf... What did he say...Ookami? He thinks Kagome is Kouga? How in the fuck...?

"I'm not Ookami!" protested Kagome. "I'm a Higurashi!"

"Higurashi?" murmured Jakotsu before his eyes narrowed into snake-like slits. "If you are related to Detective Higurashi, then you should die like he did." The weaponless swordsman ran forward trying to attack the prone girl, but the hanyou was quicker.

It only took a swift upper cut to his jaw to knock Naraku's freaky pawn unconscious, but the dog-eared girl kept on hitting. "Don't you ever threaten Kagome. You'll never hurt her!" More blows fell against the man's face creating a bloody mess. "She's mine, dammit. I was born for her." He hit the man in the face again. "And she...she was born for me..." Both his fists and his mouth stilled as the hanyou felt a tender hand grace his back. His stuttered breath left him in abrupt heaves and he felt like he could be either blown apart or mended by the girl behind him. He never felt so helpless as he did when she was around.

Inuyasha dropped the man he was fighting into a heap on the floor. With his miko's touch, his entire body seemed to melt. "You love me?" Shaya asked Kagome even though her back was to the miko.

Kagome moved closer and encompassed him with her arms, hugging him from behind. "Always," she whispered as she pressed herself against his back.

He didn't know whether to sob or cry out in joy. She had just told him that she loved him, but she had told it to a girl, a girl that was not Inuyasha, a girl that Kagome was rapidly becoming far too attached to. Oh, fuck me...

"Kiss me," Kagome murmured to his back.

All Inuyasha could do was comply. He'd do anything she wanted of him. He'd even pretend to be a girl for the rest of his life if it meant her happiness.

He twisted slowly in her arms, to finally gaze down at two orbs of swirling mocha. He felt so helpless as she gazed up at him with her eyes speaking of only adoration and love. He would have killed to see this sight. He had dreamed of this moment for years. But in his dreams, his miko had been looking up at the man that he was, not a damned girl with ridiculously large breasts.

Don't fucking cry! Men, don't cry...

Tears crept into the corners of his eyes as the hanyou closed them and his lips met Kagome's. His hands held her shoulders, and he pressed his hard body against her soft form. Then he fell into her, her grace, her lips, her love... Time seemed to both slow and speed up; all he knew was that they were both being held in a timeless second, and a world of their own.

Unfortunately, the real world intruded as it always did.

A loud, blissful moan was heard from the other greenhouse. "Higurashi," bellowed out Hojo, before a happy sigh followed the cherished name, irritating Inuyasha to no end.

Sweet, wet lips pulled away from his and the hanyou groaned in misery.

Kagome turned her head in startled curiosity.

"I swear that I just heard Hojo," muttered the miko.

Inuyasha looked the other way as he tried to dissuade her. "How could Hojo possibly be here?"

Kagome's eyes widened in understanding, "Naraku kidnapped us...and Hojo is his son..."

Inuyasha could only look on in befuddlement. How come I'm the last to know that those two were related? "You knew that Hojo was his son?"

"Well, yes," answered Kagome with a gaze of perplexity. "I mean, he's Kagura's brother. He's been asking me out for a number of years. But I wasn't attracted to him, I was attracted to..." She gazed up at Shaya, looking momentarily into her honeyed orbs. Then she quickly fixed her eyes to the ground. "...my crush..." She took a deep breath and then paused, her lips quirked upward as if she had just thought of something funny. "But, my Dad told me to not see Hojo. He said that Hojo was trouble. He said..." She gazed back at Shaya and locked eyes with her. "He said, like father...like son."

Fucking right! At least someone agrees with me! Inuyasha tried to squelch his joy at being on the same page as her deceased father.

Shaya looked at her with steel eyes. "Then, stay away from him, Kagome."

The miko looked up at him with determination. "I agree, Shaya, but I still need to close up this chapter of my life. Let's try to wake him before we leave."

"But...I," stammered Shaya as she trailed after Kagome like an errant puppy dog. "Your father said not to see him."

Kagome flipped her hand at Shaya in a dismissive gesture. "I know...I know. I just need to get him to stop trying to see me and I think I know just the thing." The miko headed right back into the room with the drugged incense.

"Shit! Kagome, stop!" Shaya placed himself before the miko and tied his sailor necktie around his nose. He pushed Kagome to the side. "This stuff will knock you out," he muttered in annoyance before he dodged into the building.

He held his breath as he quickly ran in to grab the boy and throw him over his shoulder. Within a few seconds Hojo was sputtering and coughing on the grass near Kagome's feet.

The brown-haired boy's eyes opened, but he didn't focus on anything. Instead his dazed eyes drifted from side to side as if he was watching clouds meander on by.

Kagome knelt down and tucked her skirt around her thighs. "Hojo?" she asked as she gently rocked his shoulder to gain his attention.

The boy dazedly gazed at the object of his affection. A huge grin broke out over his face. "I think I was dreaming about you. Higurashi..." The boy tried to sit up and then fell back down as he collapsed backward. "Oops...I...Higurashi..."

With a serious gaze, the miko looked at the boy and took in a deep breath. "Hojo, I have something I need to tell you."

The boy smiled before trying to sit up again. This time he managed to hold steady as he gathered Kagome's hand in his. A growl reverberated around the atrium, but Hojo just seemed oblivious.

"I have something I want to say as well, Higurashi," responded Hojo blearily. "I...I wanted to talk to you." He eyed Shaya warily. "It wasn't what it looked like. I'd never want another girl. I only wanted you!"

The miko's stern face took on a look of confusion. "What? What are you saying, Hojo? Why did Shaya shove you to the ground?"

"I don't know, Kagome. I only told her that I didn't want her. That I only wanted you."

Kagome turned to Shaya. "Shaya?"

Shaya stood with her arms crossed and a frustrated scowl on her features. "Look, Kagome... I've told you this before...He wasn't flirting with me. The idiot thought that I was interested in him, and he was telling me that you were the one he liked."

Kagome's eyes widened comically. "But you..." she paused to point at Hojo. "I mean...you," she paused to look in a daze at Shaya.

Hojo tried to pull Kagome's hand next to him, and Kagome recoiled. It felt so wrong for him to be touching her. She knew deep inside that she didn't want him near her. She only wanted one person to be intimate with her, and that was the hanyou beside her.

"I would never betray you, Higurashi," commented Hojo with sincere brown eyes.

Kagome blatantly ignored Hojo to look in confusion at Shaya. "When you said he wasn't flirting with you..."

Shaya looked her directly in the eyes. "I told you the truth, Kagome. Have I ever lied to you?"

Kagome shook her head. What was going on? Her lying hanyou boyfriend and even Hojo were evidentially telling her the truth. And even though Inuyasha would have gained from lying to her, he hadn't. But he had lied to her hadn't he? Hadn't he lied to her before?

Kagome paused to think. She had never asked him straight out if he was really a boy. So technically he never lied to her other than make up a girl's name and say that he was Inuyasha's sister. The miko's eye twitched in annoyance.

Then, she thought back to the night where she found Hojo on the floor and Shaya standing above him in anger. She reprocessed the image in her head, but this time replaced Shaya with a very angry Inuyasha.

She nearly gasped. Was he jealous? Did Hojo say something that made Inuyasha finally snap?

"Oh," murmured Kagome as a realization dawned on her. Suddenly, she felt bad for teasing Inuyasha mercilessly and for suspecting that he had anything other than the purest of motives. Though she didn't fully trust him yet, she felt like she finally had the heart to forgive him for putting her through the uncertainty of falling in love with his female persona.

Hojo beamed a silly smile in Kagome's direction. "See, even Shaya is saying that I told you the truth." He gathered her hands again, pulling her toward him. He was too oblivious to notice Kagome's stiff form or the hanyou's agitated snarls. "Please, Kagome. Forgive me and please go on a date with me again." Kagome opened up her mouth to speak and then closed it, to only open it up again as she pulled away from Hojo's embrace. The boy looked down at her forlornly. "Kagome?"

Kagome's wide mocha orbs spoke to him with genuine honesty. "I am so sorry that I didn't believe you, Hojo. You didn't deserve that. Shaya even told me that you weren't trying to pick up on her. I just didn't believe her."

"But why, Kagome?" asked Hojo as his eyes searched hers.

"Why would you go for a plain girl like me, when you could have a gorgeous girl like Shaya?"

Hojo tried to cup Kagome's face with his hands, but she pulled away, and Shaya was growling again. "Kagome? Don't you know that you are beautiful?"

Kagome looked in bewilderment to both Hojo and Shaya. "I...I," she stuttered.

Hojo interrupted. "You are all I think about, Higurashi," said the brown-haired boy. His eyes met hers again. "So can we start over? Will you go on another date with me?"

Shaya's snarls increased in volume and Kagome was a little worried that Hojo would soon have a fight on his hands. She quickly intervened and moved between the two contestants.

"Hojo," Kagome explained. "You just don't understand. Shaya's my girlfriend."

Hojo looked back and forth between Kagome and Shaya. "Yes, I knew that," continued Hojo. "If you're asking if she can go on a date with us, that's OK. I'll just ask Hiten if he can go out with us again."

"No," responded Kagome. "You don't understand. Shaya is my GIRLFRIEND. I love her."

"Of course, she's your girlfriend. Of course, you love her," said Hojo as he nodded in agreement. "I wouldn't expect anything less of someone as wonderful as you. Still, I don't see what this has to do with..."

Kagome groaned in frustration and put her hand to her forehead. She turned to Shaya and grabbed the girl by her sailor suit tie. With the tie in her hand, she quickly pulled the girl's face to her own. "You don't understand, Hojo. I love Shaya."

And with that Kagome's lips met Shaya's. The hanyou girl's eyes widened momentarily before closing in bliss as the two girls' mouths opened to explore one another. The miko's face held nothing but pleasure as they expressed their affection in terms that were far from what a mere friend would do for another.

Hojo could only stutter as Kagome pulled away from Shaya. She grinned knowingly at her former beau. "Hojo," she added. "I'm a lesbian. I don't like boys. Thank you so much for wanting to date me, but I'm just not interested." There, that should keep him from ever trying to go after me again! Hojo was never the guy for me...it was always Inuyasha.

A quirky smile tugged at her lips as Kagome pulled Shaya along behind her.

Both Hojo and Inuyasha were left gaping in astonishment.

Inuyasha could only whimper in defeat as he was dragged along after his girlfriend. Dammit! Kagome really is a lesbian? I am so fucked!

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Heavy smoke hung over the circular table as its occupants assessed each other through the mist emitted by their cigars. Ryokotsusei sat smugly; the barely concealed smirk on his face betrayed his excitement with his hand. Naraku couldn't care less; he was having a good day, after all. Now that the girls were captured, it was only a matter of time before he got his hands on their idiot brothers.

He was biding his time now, letting the parents' fear for the lives of their precious daughters grow each passing minute. Then, he would demand that they give him their sons in exchange for their daughters. This was his favorite game-waiting to rile his victims up and basking in their misery. He hadn't become a mob boss among demons for being compassionate, after all.

When he had received the news the day before, he had called his peers for an early poker game; there was no better way to kill time while he waited than to add that ugly lizard's stash of Yen to his own. His luck was finally turning around; he was sure to take all of the winnings from those bastards.

Naraku glanced at his hand. He was lacking the ace of hearts to complete his royal flush. He put down the useless card and signaled that he wanted only one. Once the dealer gave him his new card, the mob boss' hand hovered over it. His fingers twitched in anticipation as he stared hard at the piece of paper as if he could make sure it was what he needed by the sheer force of his gaze. Right as he was pulling the card up by the hold of his two fingers on its edge, a loud crash was heard outside.

The room went into a flurry of action in the blink of an eye. Once again, dozens of guns were drawn out as the guards directed them either at the door or at each other. From across the table,

Ryokotsusei rolled his eyes at the over-excited gunmen and snorted in disdain. "Naraku," he started with an amused chuckle. "I admire your ability to hire the most incapable servers in all of Tokyo, my friend. You should let us know how you manage that sometime so that we'll be sure to not make the same mistakes." He smirked before he added, "Though, I doubt we'd be able to keep up with you even if we tried."

Naraku's eye twitched in irritation. "I thought I already fired that idiot," he grumbled as he signaled the guards to put away their guns.

Right then, the door burst open and a blur of black and white stormed inside. Instantly, the few guns that were drawn back were incapacitated by a green light. Before Naraku could even contemplate what it was, the same green light was wrapped around his neck as the intruder held him up against the nearest wall.

The offending substance that hurt like hell wherever it touched his skin turned out to be a whip made of acrid demonic poison as his Armani-clad attacker came into focus. Naraku looked up at the fuming eyes of Takahashi Sesshoumaru with irritation. "What the..." he started to ask, but his voice was cut as the whip tightened around his neck.

"You will return my sister and the Higurashi girl back unharmed this instant," demanded the dog demon with a menacing growl.

Not one to be intimidated by the likes of whom he would refer to as a mere puppy, Naraku hissed, "How dare you?!" He glanced at his men, willing them to shoot the bastard, but Sesshoumaru pulled on his whip, threatening to behead his prey and discouraging the few guards that moved to draw their guns.

"Do as I said, Naraku," growled the dog demon. "Or else..."

"Who says I have your sister?" shot back the mob boss. "And... Who else did you say? Higurashi girl?" He snorted before he added as nonchalantly as one could when his head was on the line, "Never heard of that name before."

Sesshoumaru was not convinced, though. His eyes narrowed, betraying his disbelief before he opened his mouth for what was sure to be a new threat. But, the shrill ring of Naraku's phone stopped the dog demon, and he snatched the device out of the criminal mastermind's pocket.

Naraku had had enough of this humiliation in front of his peers. He was silently stretching a pointy tendril out of his hand to be plunged into the insolent puppy's useless brain when said puppy looked at him with a smirk after glancing at the caller ID. "Answer," he demanded with a tug at his whip and effectively put an end to Naraku's plans as the hanyou had to retract his tendril to hold the phone.

"What?!" he snapped at the caller.

"B-boss?" stammered Jakotsu's high-pitched voice from the other end of the line. "I-it wasn't our fault, I swear! We were caught off-guard! And... and, your son was there, too!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" hissed Naraku after listening to the incomprehensible blabbering of his henchman.

"The girls, boss!" cried out Jakotsu. "They escaped! The hanyou one was a real pain in the ass, and the other one turned out to be sneaky! They knocked us out! We can't find them anywhere! I swear your son was here! But, he's gone, too!"

Having heard enough, Naraku snapped the phone shut.

A knowing smirk formed on Sesshoumaru's face, indicating that he heard every single word the idiot Jakotsu screamed to his boss' ear. "Didn't know about the girls, huh? I must admit, Naraku..." He snorted before he added, "...that was rather funny."

"I will kill you for that comment alone," hissed the fuming mob boss.

"You know," started the dog demon as he took a few steps back, forcing Naraku to follow him to the door by the hold of his whip. "You cannot expect to be intimidating when your men can't even deal with two defenseless teenage girls." Once they reached the door, he growled to the hanyou's ear, "Stay away from the women I protect."

The moment his neck was released, Naraku whirled around to spear the infuriating puppy with countless tendrils. However, Sesshoumaru was nowhere to be found. "Damn those dogs," he grumbled furiously. "I will kill this one along with his bastard brother."

A snicker brought his attention back to the occupants of the room. His face was red with anger as his glare landed on the dragon demon. Ryokotsusei sat at the table; his cards were back in his hands and an amused smirk played upon his thin lips. "I'd reconsider that decision if I were you, my friend," the annoying lizard mocked as his smirk grew into a wide grin. "It would be better if you found a way to hire those brothers, instead. After all, they can take down your men single-handedly."

Something cracked under Naraku's fist when the dragon added jovially, "Even their sister managed to escape!"

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Authors' Notes:

#1: Thanks to ScarsoftheMoon, ShouraiChan, Thayet and Witchblade86 for getting back to us about the story that Ai was trying to find. It had an alternative universe Inuyasha who was human most of the time and hanyou during the new moon. The story is ‘The Other Side of the Coin' by Leoli and can be found at: AFF Admin told me that I had to delete the link... (Ai recommends that you read the second ending.)

#2: Yakuza is the term for the Japanese mafia.

#3: Some readers were a little worried about our real life commitments. Karaumea just got on a plane and landed on another continent. She will be back in the US by August. In the mean time, she'll be working on finishing HMG along with another story of hers. Ai is just plain busy at work until the end of June. Then, she has almost no work July & August. So expect more from Ai after June. :-) We hope to get this story completed by September. Yes, your authors will complete this story. We're currently looking at this story running about 20-22 chapters in length. However, real life interferes sometimes.

Next chapter: Does Inuyasha finally tell Kagome the truth? And what is this? Seventh Heaven has a new dancer? Until next time...!
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