InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Adoption ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )
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By: Keva 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.27.2012 | Pages: 9 | Words: 9.0K | Visits: 333 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.27.2012 | Pages: 9 | Words: 9.0K | Visits: 333 | Status: Work In Progress
Kagome sat on the couch shifting as her poor abused hind end stung like there was no
tomorrow, sniffling and trying to hide her shame from all the eyes upon her. Here she
was fifteen and being talked to like she was five then was put over his knee and spanked
like a child very painfully for that matter and she definitely did not want a repeat
performance. Truly it was her own fault had she just behaved and not acted like an infant
and not fought him against getting spanked it most likely wouldn't have hurt that bad and
he even said as much.
"Are you serious?" Bankotsu asked in shock.
"Very much so." Naraku sighed tiredly.
Bankotsu looked from Naraku to Hiten to Sesshoumaru and then back to Naraku. "Why?"
Was about the only question that really made any sense and he was sure that the answer
would confuse him even more.
"My reasons are my own." The statement was said with finality telling his roommate that
any disputes he had over the matter were closed.
"So what does that have to do with us?" Hiten asked with a wave of his hand from
himself over to his roommate who was sitting next to the girl.
"I believe he desires us to assist him." Sesshoumaru answered his him.
Hiten looked at Sesshoumaru then over to Naraku. "What do you mean assist you?" He
then looked over at the downtrodden girl. "She is just a mere girl and if I remember
correctly quite the little whore. Not worth the time if you ask me."
Kagome's head shot up and she glared at the one who would dare call her such a thing
and without a second thought she was on her feet and right in his face. "DON'T YOU
DARE CALL ME THAT!" She bit out and jabbed a finger into his chest. "YOU KNOW
NOTHING ABOUT ME AND I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I NEVER HAD
SEX UNTIL…" The rest of her words were cut off by a strong hand on her shoulder.
"Enough." Naraku ordered.
Kagome turned to face him her eyes brimming with tears. "They raped me." She
whispered her voice echoing the pain she felt in her heart. She jerked free of Naraku's
grip, ran up to her room, threw herself onto her bed, and sobbed violently into her pillow.
Naraku sighed and looked at his friends who all had a look of shock well except
Sesshoumaru who already knew what happened.
"She was raped by her friends?" Bankotsu asked with a sad shake of his head.
Naraku plopped down onto the couch next to Sesshoumaru and jabbed his fingers
through his wavy midnight hair in agitation. "Hai" He then looked over to Sesshoumaru.
"These so called friends that committed such a crime against her included your idiot half-
brother."
Sesshoumaru's golden eyes narrowed to deadly little slits. "Are you certain?"
Naraku nodded his head. "When I mentioned your father she immediately said your half-
brother's name and I could see in her eyes the fear and the truth of what happened." He
closed his eyes willing the oncoming headache to just go away only to fail as his temples
began to throb. With another sigh he opened his eyes and continued. "I'm sure that
alcohol and some sort of illegal substance was involved."
Sesshoumaru sat back and tried to bite down the rage boiling up within him. His idiot
sibling was the waste he always knew him to be and now he was threatening to destroy
the Taishou name with his behavior. Perhaps now their father would see Inuyasha for
what he really is a waste of flesh that needs to be put down for the good of humanity.
"Does my father know?"
"Not as of yet." He leaned back into the couch as well, dropped his head back, and stared
up at the ceiling. "The girl, her father, and I have a meeting with him first thing in the
morning."
Sesshoumaru rose to his feet and made for the door. "I will be there." He stated before he
walked out of the apartment fully intent on going to his father's house to beat the living
shit out of his half-sibling providing his father doesn't stop him first.
Hiten looked at Naraku as all this new information rolled around in his head and he
suddenly felt sorry for the girl and how mean he had been towards her. "So what do you
want us to do?"
Naraku didn't bother to look at him when he answered. "She needs support and constant
supervision."
Bankotsu and Hiten glanced to one another then turned their eyes back to their exhausted
friend on the couch. "Well we can do the supervising but I don't know about the support."
Hiten stated as he moved to sit on the loveseat next to Bankotsu.
"Well I think that Sango and Kagura would be good support for her and Shippou. He's
sensitive like that." Bankotsu said with a nod towards Hiten. "Maybe, possibly even
Miroku?" He finished wearily.
Hiten gave a fake laugh. "She needs moral support not some hentai molester."
Bankotsu nodded in agreement. "Sango, Shippou, and Kagura then."
"Yea they'll be fine." Naraku responded tiredly then rose from the couch. "You two talk
with them and let them know of the situation. Tell them to come over in a few days."
With that he made his way up the stairs to Kagome's room.
xx
Sesshoumaru barged through the front door of his father's house heading straight to his
brother's room. "Inuyasha" He hissed like the name was poison on his tongue. He threw
the door open to the disaster area the boy called a bedroom and found the bastard
sprawled out across the bed with the sheets tangled around his legs.
Without a word or a sound he moved to the bed and jerked the simpleton up by the hair
and threw him off the bed onto the floor at his feet.
"What the fuck?" Inuyasha growled as he tried to get to his feet so that he could kick his
brother's ass only to find that the sheet made it impossible as it tangled even worse
around his feet.
Sesshoumaru reached down and snatched his sibling up by the throat. "I know what you
did and it is an unforgivable act." He turned and slammed him against the wall. "You
have shamed our name for the last time."
Inuyasha struggled against the hold his brother had upon him. "Wha… What the fuck are
you talking about?" He choked out.
His gold eyes narrowed as he leaned in to his brother so that their noses were almost
touching. "Care to tell me what you did over the weekend." The statement was an ordered
that demanded his sibling to respond truthfully and anything other than the truth could be
deadly.
Inuyasha stared at his older, bigger, and much stronger elder brother as he tried for the
life of him to remember what he did over the weekend. All he could remember was
hooking up with his friends over at Kikyo's house and then waking up at about four in the
morning in her bed; then he came home and crashed out in his own bed. "I don't know."
He gasped out. "Just hung out with my friends."
Sesshoumaru dropped him to the floor. "I suggest you try to remember better than that."
He stated in a deadly whisper.
Inuyasha stared up at his brother with brows furrowed trying with all his might to
remember what he did over the weekend. Koga scored them some heavy duty acid, they
took it, started drinking, and after that everything went blank. "Well we did acid, drank
some beers, and then I don't know what happened after that."
Sesshoumaru stared down at his sibling trying to kill him with his glare alone. "Well then
little brother let me enlighten you as to how you spent your weekend."
xx
Naraku awoke early the next morning to the feel of a knee being pressed painfully hard
into his lower back. There were two problems with the feel of a knee in his back one; it
was virtually impossible to be his own knee and two; he went to bed alone the night
before. As he made to turn over to see who was behind him another painful issue made
itself known. Apparently the being behind him didn't think that kneeing him in the back
was enough they just had to tangle themselves into his hair making it impossible for him
to move without ripping it from his head.
He had a suspicion as to who it was and was about to inform her that he didn't approve of
her being in his bed when a small hand flopped over onto his face smacking lightly across
his cheek. Were he anyone else he might have chuckled at the whole scene but as it were
he wasn't anyone else and most definitely not a morning person especially when it was
three in the morning.
"Girl"
Nothing.
"Girl"
A small moan and a jerk of the hair.
"Kagome"
Removal of hand from his face but knee pressed harder into his back.
"KA GOME!"
A groan, a yank on the hair, hand returned to his face and curled with finger far too close
to poking him in the eye.
That was it he had reached his breaking point. He threw her hand from his face, reached
behind him, pushed her knee from his back, and hissed painfully when he tried to remove
her from his hair; only to find that not only was she tangled into it she was laying on it.
Reaching behind him he managed to grab her upper arm and jerk her up hissing in pain as
she took his hair with him.
"Hmmm?" She moaned with a rub of her eyes.
"Girl you will return to your bed this instant." He growled.
Kagome turned sleepy blues to him. "Oh okay." She said with a yawn and a stretch.
Naraku fully expected her to do as he told her to, as she agreed to do, as a normal person
would do… his expectation was for naught as the girl plopped down and instantly fell
back to sleep. He should have forced her out of his bed and back to her own but at three
in the morning he didn't care as he only had a good two more hours before he had to get
up so he left her where she lay and went back to sleep.
xx
Kagome gripped tightly onto Naraku's arm and moved closer to him as she walked past
the chairs containing three of the people who wronged her in the worst way along with
their parents. She then practically merged into his skin when they walked into Taishou-
sama's office only to come face to face with Inuyasha.
Naraku peeled the girl from his side and leaned down next to her ear. "He can do no harm
to you here."
She didn't hear a word he said as she was too busy staring at her old friend with wide
fearful eyes.
He rose up to his full height and gave a small bow to the large man sitting behind the
desk. "Taishou-sama"
Toga gave him a nod and turned his eyes to the girl attached to his side. "Is this her?"
"Hai" He answered as he attempted to peel her from his side.
Toga smirked and went back to the papers on his desk. "She better be worth it Naraku as
dealing with her issues are going to take up half my day.
Naraku grunted and finally pulled her from his side and passed her off to Sesshoumaru.
He almost laughed when she wrapped herself around his arm and buried her face into his
shoulder. "Well since one of her issues is currently sitting in your office and her father
has yet to arrive…" He sat down in the chair in front of the desk. "I suggest we start
there."
Toga placed his elbows on the desk and locked his fingers together. "Indeed" He stated
darkly with a death glare upon his youngest. "So tell me boy how do you suppose I
should punish you for your grievous offense against this girl?"
Inuyasha stood up from the couch with his head downcast. "I don't know." He whispered
fearfully.
"I do." Sesshoumaru stated while trying to ignore the pinching of the girl's fingernails
into his arm.
Before Toga could respond there was a small knock on the door followed by his
assistant's voice. "Taishou-sama?"
"Enter"
The door slowly opened and in stepped Izayoi she glared deadly at her son before turning
to her husband. "Sir Higurashi-san is here."
Toga smiled lovingly at her. "Show him in." He then turned to his youngest. "You will go
sit with the rest of your heathen friends and once I am finished here I will deal with you."
He watched as Inuyasha made for the door. "Oh and if you so much as take one step
towards the elevators to leave…" He leveled him with a look that should have made him
fall dead to the floor. "You will regret the day you were born."
Inuyasha gave a small nod to his father and before he could bring his head back up fully
Izayoi grabbed him by the ear and drug him out of the office hissing death threats all the
way.
Kagome pulled her head from Sesshoumaru's arm to watch the scene and chuckled lightly
at Inuyasha's misfortune but that chuckled died on her lips when she locked eyes with her
father. She gave him a small nod of acknowledgement and stepped closer to
Sesshoumaru.
"Higurashi-san" Toga said from his desk not bothering to stand. He decided that if what
Naraku said about the man was true then he was going to do everything in his power
which was a lot considering who he was to destroy the man before him. How could
anyone be so uncaring about the fact that their child was raped was beyond him.
"Taishou-sama" Gin said with a deep bow.
"Have a seat." Toga ordered with a wave of his hand towards the empty chair next to
Naraku. Once the man was seated he began. "We all know why we are here so let's get
right down to it." He stared at the girl's father coldly. "Tell me Higurashi-san why do you
believe the girl should stay with you?"
Gin looked over to his daughter seeking the support she was supposed to give only to
narrow his eyes upon her when she looked away from him. He turned back to the large
man behind the desk. "She is mine. I raised her, took care of her, and supported her even
though I have always known that she wasn't biologically mine."
Kagome gasped wide eyed at her father. He wasn't her real father? Granted she had
always known that he never really cared for her but never once did the thought that he
wasn't her biological father ever cross her mind. She tightened her grip on Sesshoumaru's
arm as her eyes burned to shed the tears she refused to let free.
Sesshoumaru looked down at the girl on his arm and truly felt sorry for her. First she's
raped and her father doesn't care that his daughter was violated in such a manner and now
he was announcing like it meant nothing that he wasn't her real father.
He didn't know why he did it nor would he normally do such a thing for anyone.
However for this girl he would he brought his free hand up and covered her hand with his
in a comforting fashion.
Toga stared at the small man before him with an arched eyebrow. "That is all fine and
well. Now how about telling me why you really want to keep her." His voice held an
edge that said he had better be completely honest or else.
Gin fidgeted slightly in his chair and wondered why his daughter wasn't standing behind
him as a good daughter should. He looked over at the man behind the desk and through
his fear he still managed to lock stares with him. "She is my daughter that is reason
enough to keep her."
Naraku locked stares with Toga. "This man who claims to be her father only desires to
keep her for the money he receives from Kai-san's estate." He then nodded towards the
yellow folder sitting in front of him.
"Aw yes." Toga stated like he forgot about it. He opened the folder and scanned over the
top page of the document inside even through he had already read it. "Let's end this as I
have much to do." He cocked an eyebrow at the man in front of him. "Shall we?"
Beads of sweat began to break out on the man's forehead as the room suddenly seemed to
grow very very hot.
Toga closed the folder and locked his fingers together in front of him on the desk. "As I
have a full day that seems to revolve around your daughter I have made my decision
regarding her future from this point on."
Gin fidgeted nervously and cast a glance over at Kagome who in turn gripped onto
Sesshoumaru's arm tighter.
Toga looked over at the girl hanging on to his eldest son like a lifeline and smirked
inwardly at how his seemingly cold and uncaring son was comforting the girl. "Kagome
this is your last chance to return to your father for once I make my decision it will be
final and there will be no turning back."
Kagome looked at the silver man behind the desk that looked so much like the man she
was hanging on to. Her eyes then slowly moved to her father locking stares with the man
who wasn't really her father and she could see the threat in his eyes that said she had
better stand at his side. She then slipped her eyes over to Naraku who was staring at her
and reminding her with his eyes that this was her last chance at a better future.
She knew if she went back to her father that all in the room would be disappointed in her
she could see it all over Naraku's face. Yes Naraku was a cold domineering bastard who
seemed beyond controlling but she had also seen his brief moments of compassion and
could see it in his eyes that he would take care of her as if she was his own child. During
the short time they had been together; and as much as most of it seemed like he was just
being an A-1 jerk, she knew that if she stayed with him he would do everything in his
power to make sure that no matter what it was she wanted to do in her life she would
have the opportunity to do so.
She let him know with a small nod what her decision was before turning to Toga. "I do
not want to go back to my father." She stated with a tighter grip on Sesshoumaru's arm
and made sure she didn't look at her father for if she did she might change her mind.
"Very well." Toga stated and turned to look at Gin. "Higurashi-san as of this moment all
custody of Higurashi Kagome shall be turned over to one Akira Naraku." He leveled the
small man with a pointed glare. "All assets, payments, and trusts that Kai-san has willed
to his granddaughter will be transferred into an account controlled by me and Akira-san."
"You can't do this!" Gin yelled as he banged his fist on the desk.
Toga narrowed his eyes. "Oh hai I can." He locked his fingers together when he placed
his elbows on the desk. "As of midnight last night I gained control of Kai-san's estate and
all assets in his and your daughter's name." He cocked a smirk at the now wide eyed and
paled with shock man. "Leaving you with nothing but what you have left in your
account."
"I will fight this." Gin hissed.
"Oh? And pray-tell how?" Toga questioned with a cocked brow. "Do you truly believe
you have the power or even the money to fight me?" He practically scoffed.
Gin knew he was defeated. No one stood against Taishou-sama and won anything he
didn't want them to win. How do you fight the largest law firm in all Japan and Western
Asia and win? You don't. He rose from his seat and glared at the man across from him.
"You can have the bitch and everything that comes with her." He spat then turned to
leave but not before looking over at his so called daughter and gave her a glare of
contempt that would wither the most beautiful of flowers.
Kagome gasped and moved to stand behind Sesshoumaru in fear that her father was
going to attack her or kill her. Never had she in her life been looked at like that and it
scared her to her very depths of her soul.
The door slammed shut so hard that were there pictures on the wall they would have
surely fallen to the floor.
Toga shook his head slightly in disgust but dismissed the actions of the man. "All right
next on today's agenda…" He looked over the paper in his hands then looked over at his
eldest son and had to bite down the chuckle at seeing his stoic struggling with trying to
remove the girl from behind his person with her fists knotted in his once perfectly ironed
shirt. He then looked at Naraku with a deep smirk. "You sure you really want to take
guardianship of this girl?"
Naraku snorted as he watched the girl and his best friend. "I'm beginning to wonder."
Toga waved his hand in dismissal. "Let's get on with it; shall we? I have much to do
today and am running out of time." He looked up at Naraku. "Do you wish her to stay or
leave?"
Dark eyes locked with gold. "She will stay so that she can see justice served on her
behalf."
"Very well." Toga stated as he punched the button on the intercom. "Izayoi you can bring
them all in now."
"All?" Naraku questioned with a cocked eyebrow.
"I don't have time to deal with them one at a time." Toga narrowed his eyes when the
door opened and people began filing into his office. "We'd be here all day."
Naraku shrugged his shoulder in dismissal and just hoped that they hurried through this.
He chanced a glance over at the girl who was now sitting on the couch, eyes wide and
glassy, skin pale, and hands knotted together in a white knuckle grip. He could practically
taste her fear as it rolled of her in waves almost to the point of choking every person in
the room with it. Perhaps he should have her leave. However before he could have her
removed from the room Toga began.
"Let's just get right down to it." He stated with a hard glance around the room lingering
on his son for a moment longer than the rest. "As it seems that each one of you has
decided that you are free to do and behave as you please…" He glanced at each one of
the parents standing behind their respective child checking to see if they really cared
about what their offspring had done and only found one that didn't seem to care one way
or another. "I believe I have found a suitable punishment for you." He leaned back in his
chair and locked his fingers together in front of him. "However since I am a fair man I
will give you each a chance to argue your innocence." He was then silent making bets
with himself as to which one of them considered themselves to be innocent in everything
they did and wasn't disappointed when the one he knew for sure would speak up began.
"I did nothing to her." Kikyo spit out. "She asked for what happened to her…" She took a
small step forward and narrowed her eyes upon the man behind the desk. "Practically
begged for it." She hissed.
"I DID NOT!" Kagome stood up and yelled out with a pointed finger at her once upon a
time so-called best friend. "IT WAS YOU WHO DARED THEM TO DO IT!"
Kikyo turned and locked stares with the girl who looked similar to her. "You are such a
liar." She hissed. "All you want is attention by playing the poor pitiful me act." She
narrowed her eyes. "Little miss perfect who never does anything wrong." She placed her
hands on her hips and leveled Kagome with a pointed glare. "You were the one that
brought the drugs and alcohol and you were the one flirting with Koga and Inuyasha like
the little whore you are."
Kagome saw nothing but red. "You lying little bitch." She hissed and had every intention
of beating the girl into a bloody pulp only to find she was suddenly hindered with strong
arms holding her back. However, that didn't stop her from struggling in an attempt to
break free so she could kill her one time friend.
Sesshoumaru hauled her up and carried her out of the office struggling all the way. "Let
me go!" She yelled as the door closed behind them. "I'm going to kill the lying whore!"
They all heard the muffled yell come through the thick door.
Naraku ground his teeth and Toga smirked at him in a 'are you really sure about this'
manner. "Just get on with it." Naraku growled in irritation but not at the girl it was more
at himself as he knew he should have made her leave the room.
xx
"You will cease this struggling." Sesshoumaru growled and gave a small shake to her
shoulders.
Kagome stared up at him and deflated. "Why? Why are they doing this to me?" Tears
filled her eyes and trailed down her cheeks as she stared up at him. "I thought they were
my friends." She whispered brokenly and dropped her head.
Sesshoumaru looked from the downtrodden girl to the office and back again. "Come" He
ordered and began walking towards the elevators.
She didn't question just obeyed and followed him to the elevators, down to the first floor,
to the parking garage, and into the passenger seat of his car.
Sesshoumaru pulled out onto the highway and headed for home. Once they were at his
apartment he placed the girl on his sofa then sent a text to Naraku letting him know
where they were. He took a seat on the coffee table in front of her and using a hooked
finger lifted her chin up so that he could see her face. "Do not dwell."
Kagome let off a small laugh. "Naraku said the same thing." She sniffled. "But how?
How can I forget what they did to me? It will always be there lurking in the darkness of
my mind just waiting to pounce at any moment of weakness."
He released her chin. "You will never forget. You will accept and move on. Nothing can
change the past and only you can create your future. If you let it destroy you then you are
weak. Be stronger than it and them and you will be able to defeat all that stands in your
way."
"It sounds so simple." She sighed.
"It is not." He answered knowingly. "But if you have the strength within you then
eventually you will."
Kagome stared at him and once again was tempted to drool all over him and probably
would have if it weren't for the events of the recent hours. "Thank you." She smiled a
small smile.
"Hn" He responded then rose to his feet.
Kagome looked up at him and almost strained her neck as she had to look straight up. "So
what now?"
"We wait." He said simply and went to the kitchen to get something to drink.
She watched him and smiled lightly. She liked Sesshoumaru and not just because of how
he looked either. No; she liked the air about him and he seemed to have an underlying
sense of humor that was very rarely seen. Although she had seen it... twice and both times
he got her in trouble. Her brows drew deeply as she thought about the two times then
narrowed her them upon him. "You are such a jerk!"
Sesshoumaru turned to face her with a glass of water in his hand with an eyebrow arched.
The girl was a rather strange creature first she was upset about what had happened to her
and now she was calling him a jerk.
"It's your fault I got spanked like an infant." She said with a pointed finger in his
direction.
His other eyebrow shot up as he stared at her.
Kagome rose up and stormed to stand in front of him. "And I demand payback!" She
ordered with a jab of a finger in his chest.
"Girl I have done nothing to you that would require retribution. Your punishment came
due to your own actions." As he looked down at her he was shocked to see that she
actually looked affronted at his words.
She narrowed her blue eyes further. "If it weren't for your big mouth tattling on me I
wouldn't have gotten in trouble."
'Big mouth? Tattling?' Neither of those things described him and he had to wonder at her
sanity. "Perhaps you need a nap."
Kagome stared up at him eyes wide, mouth agape, and completely at a loss for how to
respond to that statement. She clamped her mouth shut causing her teeth to click, and
narrowed her eyes upon him. "I ain't a child."
"Am not." He corrected as he walked past her into the living room.
"What?" She questioned as she followed him.
"I am not a child." He sat down on the couch and grabbed the remote. "I would be more
inclined to speak to you like an adult if you would speak properly instead of speaking like
a lowly street urchin."
Kagome plopped down next to him. "Well soorrrrrrryyy! Not all of us can be as perfect
as your highness." She gave him a mock bow of her head with a twirl of her hand towards
him.
"You are forgiven." He responded like he was actually royalty and had people bowing
down to him daily.
Kagome snorted, turned, and dropped back into the couch next to him so hard it made
him spill some of his water into his lap. She crossed her arms over her chest and cut her
eyes over to him when she noticed he was glaring at her. She looked at the glass and
followed the drops falling from the bottom of the cup down to his lap where he had a
small we spot. "Humph" She grunted. "And you call me a child. At least I know how to
drink from a cup without spilling it all over myself."
Sesshoumaru rose to his feet, stared down at the girl, and with a grace that only years of
perfect training could produce, dumped the remaining water in his cup atop her snotty
little head. He set the cup on the table and swept out of the living room as regally as
someone with a wet crotch could.
Kagome sputtered as the water rolled down the front of her face before she tried to wipe
it away with her hands. "Jerk!" She hissed as she rose to her feet and followed after him.
When she came to first door down the hall she looked in and was halted in her tracks.
The vision before her was one that was going to be burned into her mind for all eternity.
Beautiful alabaster skin stretched across rippling muscles that dipped and curved in every
direction and all she could think was that she wanted to run her tongue all over his perfect
body. "Wow"
Sesshoumaru stopped with his clean pants half way up his legs and stared at the girl
standing in his doorway. With a cocked eyebrow he made slow movements in finishing
pulling his pants up and once he had them on just stood there letting her stare at his
exposed chest. Normally he would never do such a thing but there was just something
about the way the girl looked at him she made him feel like he was a God. He was deeply
tempted to do a little turn for her so that she could get a good look at all of him but
suppressed the urge like a bad habit. "Close your mouth girl you are drooling all over
yourself." He stated cockily with a smirk upon his lips and his arms crossed over his hard
chest.
It didn't have the effect he was hoping for such as the embarrassed shriek and blush. No
not this girl she actually walked towards him and he could see in her eyes that she was in
a trance like state before she stopped when she was just a short arms length away from
him. He watched with a sense of shock as she reached out and very gently ghosted her
fingertips across his abdomen. He caught her hand and when he did she seemed to snap
out of whatever haze her mind was under and did what he expected her to do all along…
shriek and blush.
"Um… sorry." Kagome whispered and tried to jerk her hand from his grasp only to find
that he wasn't letting go. She slowly lifted her head to look up at him and gasped when he
lifted her hand up towards his perfect lips.
Sesshoumaru acted as though he was going to kiss the tips of her fingers but instead he
followed the line of her arm, up to her neck, to her ear. "It isn't polite to stare." He
whispered in her ear.
This time he got what he expected as she blushed and ran from the room like it was on
fire leaving him standing there smirking in a knowing manner. She wanted him as most
women wanted him but there was something different in her behavior towards him and he
was finding that he liked it. He had just found a new way to entertain himself he was
going to see how much she could take before she jumped him like the wanton little bitch
he knew she had hidden deep within her.
xx
Naraku smirked in pure pleasure as he left Toga's office. He'd never seen four people
more deserving than those four. If truth were told he felt as if they got off far too easy and
deserved a much harsher punishment but as Toga said 'They are young. If we do not curb
their bad behavior now it will only get worse and a harsher punishment will only make
them rebel.' Then with that he laid out his sentence much to their mortification.
Each one was sent to military school where they would live on campus and start off with
no freedoms what-so-ever. Anything they wanted they had to earn such as a phone call to
or from the parents and had to be earned through good grades and hard work. If they
failed to comply with the rules then their option was to be sent to the detention center
until their twenty-first birthday. He was more than certain that Kikyo would eventually
wind up in the detention center as she just didn't have the desire to be anything more than
what she already was nor did her mother seem to care either.
The parents of the rest agreed wholeheartedly with Toga's decision and stood behind him
one-hundred percent. He couldn't wait to tell the girl of her violators fate and really
hoped that it pleased her. Perhaps it would help her to get past the pain she was suffering
from and what they had done to her and maybe just maybe she would start behaving.
He had to admit that she wasn't all bad all the time she just had a mouth that never knew
when to close and stay closed. Besides that she was a teenager that was severely lacking
in discipline and as such she would be punished when it was necessary to do so no matter
how much it made him hate himself for it. Last night when he punished her he was sick
with himself for the rest of the night and when he went to comfort her in her room he was
hard pressed to apologize to her for hitting her.
However, as much as punishing her sickened him he knew it had to be done. It was like a
dog pissing on the carpet and you punishing the creature for it then giving it a treat right
afterwards. What's the dog going to learn from such actions? That although it did
something wrong it's still going to get a treat because you got mad at it. He just hoped
that he never had to do it again.
xx
Kagome kept her face as blank as possible as she picked up his discarded card and laid
down one of her own. She kept utterly still as he took his turn and had to bite the inside
of her cheek to keep from smiling.
Sesshoumaru looked at her trying really hard to read her face only to once again find he
couldn't. Her poker face was rather impressive for someone who showed every emotion
she had all over her face. After he took his turn he watched as her lips pulled into a
wicked smirk and he knew once again he had lost.
"Gin!" Kagome chirped cheerfully.
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her. "Cheating is very unbecoming."
"You say that every time you've lost." She responded as she gathered the cards and began
shuffling them. She then rolled her eyes dramatically. "All two times you've lost but what
about the three times you have won? Were YOU cheating?"
"This Sesshoumaru does not cheat." He stated flatly as he picked up the cards she dealt
out.
"Of course not." Kagome stated sarcastically. She then looked at him as she placed her
hand on her cards. "How about we make this game interesting?"
Sesshoumaru leaned back in his chair and cocked an eyebrow at her. "A bet. Perhaps."
Kagome copied his actions of leaning back in her chair but her version of cocking an
eyebrow consisted of both her eyebrows shooting up. "Yes or no? There's no maybe.
Either all in or all out. So how about it ice prince? You got the balls to play?"
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her. She had just trapped him and although part of him
was impressed with her ability to trap him another part was disgusted beyond belief.
However, he would play her little game because he really had nothing better to do and it
was keeping her mind off her troubles. "Very well; I will play your little game."
"Good" She chirped cheerfully with a smirk and for the first time in his life Sesshoumaru
wasn't so sure that he had made the right decision.
"Ok here's the deal if I win you have to take me to the movies to see that new cartoon that
came out last week." She tilted her head to the side and smiled at him. "Deal?"
His golden eyes narrowed to deadly little slits. As if he would ever go to the movie
theater to see such a thing. "No deal." He growled.
Kagome widened her eyes innocently. "You didn't even throw out you're half of the
bargain. What if you win? I mean you've beaten me more than I have you."
Sesshoumaru snorted. "Very well; should I win you will be my personal laundry maid for
a week."
"No way!" Kagome cried out like she was being threatened with death. "Fine I will
change mine and you change yours. Besides I'm not so good with laundry and you would
kill me when I shrunk your favorite shirt or something." She furrowed her brows for a
moment then smiled. "Okay if I win you have to take me to dinner to that sushi place
down by your dad's office."
Now that he could do. "Deal and if I win you will be my personal cook for a week."
"No!" She pointed a finger at him. "Why do you get a week and I only get a few hours?"
He looked down at his cards and began organizing them. "Perhaps you should spend
more time thinking about what you want before you open your big mouth and spit out the
first thing that comes to your simple mind."
She should have taken offense to his 'You're stupid' insult but she was too busy thinking
of what she would rather have when an evil smirk suddenly pulled on her lips. "I got it."
Sesshoumaru took one look at her. "No" He said flatly.
Kagome smiled hugely. "Nope so long as I haven't picked up my cards yet it's not
official." She placed her hand on her cards and put up her half of the bet. "You have to
give me a back massage everyday for a week." She then picked up her cards and held
them directly in front of her face to keep him from seeing the deep red blush on her
cheeks.
Perfect lips pulled into a smirk. "Deal" He said plainly so that she wouldn't hear the leer
in his voice. He was going to have himself a personal cook for a week. He chuckled
evilly in his own mind when suddenly he stopped laughing. What if she poisoned him?
He chanced a glance over at her and could see the bridge of her nose still tinted pink. No,
she wouldn't poison… spit in his food perhaps but never poison.
tomorrow, sniffling and trying to hide her shame from all the eyes upon her. Here she
was fifteen and being talked to like she was five then was put over his knee and spanked
like a child very painfully for that matter and she definitely did not want a repeat
performance. Truly it was her own fault had she just behaved and not acted like an infant
and not fought him against getting spanked it most likely wouldn't have hurt that bad and
he even said as much.
"Are you serious?" Bankotsu asked in shock.
"Very much so." Naraku sighed tiredly.
Bankotsu looked from Naraku to Hiten to Sesshoumaru and then back to Naraku. "Why?"
Was about the only question that really made any sense and he was sure that the answer
would confuse him even more.
"My reasons are my own." The statement was said with finality telling his roommate that
any disputes he had over the matter were closed.
"So what does that have to do with us?" Hiten asked with a wave of his hand from
himself over to his roommate who was sitting next to the girl.
"I believe he desires us to assist him." Sesshoumaru answered his him.
Hiten looked at Sesshoumaru then over to Naraku. "What do you mean assist you?" He
then looked over at the downtrodden girl. "She is just a mere girl and if I remember
correctly quite the little whore. Not worth the time if you ask me."
Kagome's head shot up and she glared at the one who would dare call her such a thing
and without a second thought she was on her feet and right in his face. "DON'T YOU
DARE CALL ME THAT!" She bit out and jabbed a finger into his chest. "YOU KNOW
NOTHING ABOUT ME AND I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I NEVER HAD
SEX UNTIL…" The rest of her words were cut off by a strong hand on her shoulder.
"Enough." Naraku ordered.
Kagome turned to face him her eyes brimming with tears. "They raped me." She
whispered her voice echoing the pain she felt in her heart. She jerked free of Naraku's
grip, ran up to her room, threw herself onto her bed, and sobbed violently into her pillow.
Naraku sighed and looked at his friends who all had a look of shock well except
Sesshoumaru who already knew what happened.
"She was raped by her friends?" Bankotsu asked with a sad shake of his head.
Naraku plopped down onto the couch next to Sesshoumaru and jabbed his fingers
through his wavy midnight hair in agitation. "Hai" He then looked over to Sesshoumaru.
"These so called friends that committed such a crime against her included your idiot half-
brother."
Sesshoumaru's golden eyes narrowed to deadly little slits. "Are you certain?"
Naraku nodded his head. "When I mentioned your father she immediately said your half-
brother's name and I could see in her eyes the fear and the truth of what happened." He
closed his eyes willing the oncoming headache to just go away only to fail as his temples
began to throb. With another sigh he opened his eyes and continued. "I'm sure that
alcohol and some sort of illegal substance was involved."
Sesshoumaru sat back and tried to bite down the rage boiling up within him. His idiot
sibling was the waste he always knew him to be and now he was threatening to destroy
the Taishou name with his behavior. Perhaps now their father would see Inuyasha for
what he really is a waste of flesh that needs to be put down for the good of humanity.
"Does my father know?"
"Not as of yet." He leaned back into the couch as well, dropped his head back, and stared
up at the ceiling. "The girl, her father, and I have a meeting with him first thing in the
morning."
Sesshoumaru rose to his feet and made for the door. "I will be there." He stated before he
walked out of the apartment fully intent on going to his father's house to beat the living
shit out of his half-sibling providing his father doesn't stop him first.
Hiten looked at Naraku as all this new information rolled around in his head and he
suddenly felt sorry for the girl and how mean he had been towards her. "So what do you
want us to do?"
Naraku didn't bother to look at him when he answered. "She needs support and constant
supervision."
Bankotsu and Hiten glanced to one another then turned their eyes back to their exhausted
friend on the couch. "Well we can do the supervising but I don't know about the support."
Hiten stated as he moved to sit on the loveseat next to Bankotsu.
"Well I think that Sango and Kagura would be good support for her and Shippou. He's
sensitive like that." Bankotsu said with a nod towards Hiten. "Maybe, possibly even
Miroku?" He finished wearily.
Hiten gave a fake laugh. "She needs moral support not some hentai molester."
Bankotsu nodded in agreement. "Sango, Shippou, and Kagura then."
"Yea they'll be fine." Naraku responded tiredly then rose from the couch. "You two talk
with them and let them know of the situation. Tell them to come over in a few days."
With that he made his way up the stairs to Kagome's room.
xx
Sesshoumaru barged through the front door of his father's house heading straight to his
brother's room. "Inuyasha" He hissed like the name was poison on his tongue. He threw
the door open to the disaster area the boy called a bedroom and found the bastard
sprawled out across the bed with the sheets tangled around his legs.
Without a word or a sound he moved to the bed and jerked the simpleton up by the hair
and threw him off the bed onto the floor at his feet.
"What the fuck?" Inuyasha growled as he tried to get to his feet so that he could kick his
brother's ass only to find that the sheet made it impossible as it tangled even worse
around his feet.
Sesshoumaru reached down and snatched his sibling up by the throat. "I know what you
did and it is an unforgivable act." He turned and slammed him against the wall. "You
have shamed our name for the last time."
Inuyasha struggled against the hold his brother had upon him. "Wha… What the fuck are
you talking about?" He choked out.
His gold eyes narrowed as he leaned in to his brother so that their noses were almost
touching. "Care to tell me what you did over the weekend." The statement was an ordered
that demanded his sibling to respond truthfully and anything other than the truth could be
deadly.
Inuyasha stared at his older, bigger, and much stronger elder brother as he tried for the
life of him to remember what he did over the weekend. All he could remember was
hooking up with his friends over at Kikyo's house and then waking up at about four in the
morning in her bed; then he came home and crashed out in his own bed. "I don't know."
He gasped out. "Just hung out with my friends."
Sesshoumaru dropped him to the floor. "I suggest you try to remember better than that."
He stated in a deadly whisper.
Inuyasha stared up at his brother with brows furrowed trying with all his might to
remember what he did over the weekend. Koga scored them some heavy duty acid, they
took it, started drinking, and after that everything went blank. "Well we did acid, drank
some beers, and then I don't know what happened after that."
Sesshoumaru stared down at his sibling trying to kill him with his glare alone. "Well then
little brother let me enlighten you as to how you spent your weekend."
xx
Naraku awoke early the next morning to the feel of a knee being pressed painfully hard
into his lower back. There were two problems with the feel of a knee in his back one; it
was virtually impossible to be his own knee and two; he went to bed alone the night
before. As he made to turn over to see who was behind him another painful issue made
itself known. Apparently the being behind him didn't think that kneeing him in the back
was enough they just had to tangle themselves into his hair making it impossible for him
to move without ripping it from his head.
He had a suspicion as to who it was and was about to inform her that he didn't approve of
her being in his bed when a small hand flopped over onto his face smacking lightly across
his cheek. Were he anyone else he might have chuckled at the whole scene but as it were
he wasn't anyone else and most definitely not a morning person especially when it was
three in the morning.
"Girl"
Nothing.
"Girl"
A small moan and a jerk of the hair.
"Kagome"
Removal of hand from his face but knee pressed harder into his back.
"KA GOME!"
A groan, a yank on the hair, hand returned to his face and curled with finger far too close
to poking him in the eye.
That was it he had reached his breaking point. He threw her hand from his face, reached
behind him, pushed her knee from his back, and hissed painfully when he tried to remove
her from his hair; only to find that not only was she tangled into it she was laying on it.
Reaching behind him he managed to grab her upper arm and jerk her up hissing in pain as
she took his hair with him.
"Hmmm?" She moaned with a rub of her eyes.
"Girl you will return to your bed this instant." He growled.
Kagome turned sleepy blues to him. "Oh okay." She said with a yawn and a stretch.
Naraku fully expected her to do as he told her to, as she agreed to do, as a normal person
would do… his expectation was for naught as the girl plopped down and instantly fell
back to sleep. He should have forced her out of his bed and back to her own but at three
in the morning he didn't care as he only had a good two more hours before he had to get
up so he left her where she lay and went back to sleep.
xx
Kagome gripped tightly onto Naraku's arm and moved closer to him as she walked past
the chairs containing three of the people who wronged her in the worst way along with
their parents. She then practically merged into his skin when they walked into Taishou-
sama's office only to come face to face with Inuyasha.
Naraku peeled the girl from his side and leaned down next to her ear. "He can do no harm
to you here."
She didn't hear a word he said as she was too busy staring at her old friend with wide
fearful eyes.
He rose up to his full height and gave a small bow to the large man sitting behind the
desk. "Taishou-sama"
Toga gave him a nod and turned his eyes to the girl attached to his side. "Is this her?"
"Hai" He answered as he attempted to peel her from his side.
Toga smirked and went back to the papers on his desk. "She better be worth it Naraku as
dealing with her issues are going to take up half my day.
Naraku grunted and finally pulled her from his side and passed her off to Sesshoumaru.
He almost laughed when she wrapped herself around his arm and buried her face into his
shoulder. "Well since one of her issues is currently sitting in your office and her father
has yet to arrive…" He sat down in the chair in front of the desk. "I suggest we start
there."
Toga placed his elbows on the desk and locked his fingers together. "Indeed" He stated
darkly with a death glare upon his youngest. "So tell me boy how do you suppose I
should punish you for your grievous offense against this girl?"
Inuyasha stood up from the couch with his head downcast. "I don't know." He whispered
fearfully.
"I do." Sesshoumaru stated while trying to ignore the pinching of the girl's fingernails
into his arm.
Before Toga could respond there was a small knock on the door followed by his
assistant's voice. "Taishou-sama?"
"Enter"
The door slowly opened and in stepped Izayoi she glared deadly at her son before turning
to her husband. "Sir Higurashi-san is here."
Toga smiled lovingly at her. "Show him in." He then turned to his youngest. "You will go
sit with the rest of your heathen friends and once I am finished here I will deal with you."
He watched as Inuyasha made for the door. "Oh and if you so much as take one step
towards the elevators to leave…" He leveled him with a look that should have made him
fall dead to the floor. "You will regret the day you were born."
Inuyasha gave a small nod to his father and before he could bring his head back up fully
Izayoi grabbed him by the ear and drug him out of the office hissing death threats all the
way.
Kagome pulled her head from Sesshoumaru's arm to watch the scene and chuckled lightly
at Inuyasha's misfortune but that chuckled died on her lips when she locked eyes with her
father. She gave him a small nod of acknowledgement and stepped closer to
Sesshoumaru.
"Higurashi-san" Toga said from his desk not bothering to stand. He decided that if what
Naraku said about the man was true then he was going to do everything in his power
which was a lot considering who he was to destroy the man before him. How could
anyone be so uncaring about the fact that their child was raped was beyond him.
"Taishou-sama" Gin said with a deep bow.
"Have a seat." Toga ordered with a wave of his hand towards the empty chair next to
Naraku. Once the man was seated he began. "We all know why we are here so let's get
right down to it." He stared at the girl's father coldly. "Tell me Higurashi-san why do you
believe the girl should stay with you?"
Gin looked over to his daughter seeking the support she was supposed to give only to
narrow his eyes upon her when she looked away from him. He turned back to the large
man behind the desk. "She is mine. I raised her, took care of her, and supported her even
though I have always known that she wasn't biologically mine."
Kagome gasped wide eyed at her father. He wasn't her real father? Granted she had
always known that he never really cared for her but never once did the thought that he
wasn't her biological father ever cross her mind. She tightened her grip on Sesshoumaru's
arm as her eyes burned to shed the tears she refused to let free.
Sesshoumaru looked down at the girl on his arm and truly felt sorry for her. First she's
raped and her father doesn't care that his daughter was violated in such a manner and now
he was announcing like it meant nothing that he wasn't her real father.
He didn't know why he did it nor would he normally do such a thing for anyone.
However for this girl he would he brought his free hand up and covered her hand with his
in a comforting fashion.
Toga stared at the small man before him with an arched eyebrow. "That is all fine and
well. Now how about telling me why you really want to keep her." His voice held an
edge that said he had better be completely honest or else.
Gin fidgeted slightly in his chair and wondered why his daughter wasn't standing behind
him as a good daughter should. He looked over at the man behind the desk and through
his fear he still managed to lock stares with him. "She is my daughter that is reason
enough to keep her."
Naraku locked stares with Toga. "This man who claims to be her father only desires to
keep her for the money he receives from Kai-san's estate." He then nodded towards the
yellow folder sitting in front of him.
"Aw yes." Toga stated like he forgot about it. He opened the folder and scanned over the
top page of the document inside even through he had already read it. "Let's end this as I
have much to do." He cocked an eyebrow at the man in front of him. "Shall we?"
Beads of sweat began to break out on the man's forehead as the room suddenly seemed to
grow very very hot.
Toga closed the folder and locked his fingers together in front of him on the desk. "As I
have a full day that seems to revolve around your daughter I have made my decision
regarding her future from this point on."
Gin fidgeted nervously and cast a glance over at Kagome who in turn gripped onto
Sesshoumaru's arm tighter.
Toga looked over at the girl hanging on to his eldest son like a lifeline and smirked
inwardly at how his seemingly cold and uncaring son was comforting the girl. "Kagome
this is your last chance to return to your father for once I make my decision it will be
final and there will be no turning back."
Kagome looked at the silver man behind the desk that looked so much like the man she
was hanging on to. Her eyes then slowly moved to her father locking stares with the man
who wasn't really her father and she could see the threat in his eyes that said she had
better stand at his side. She then slipped her eyes over to Naraku who was staring at her
and reminding her with his eyes that this was her last chance at a better future.
She knew if she went back to her father that all in the room would be disappointed in her
she could see it all over Naraku's face. Yes Naraku was a cold domineering bastard who
seemed beyond controlling but she had also seen his brief moments of compassion and
could see it in his eyes that he would take care of her as if she was his own child. During
the short time they had been together; and as much as most of it seemed like he was just
being an A-1 jerk, she knew that if she stayed with him he would do everything in his
power to make sure that no matter what it was she wanted to do in her life she would
have the opportunity to do so.
She let him know with a small nod what her decision was before turning to Toga. "I do
not want to go back to my father." She stated with a tighter grip on Sesshoumaru's arm
and made sure she didn't look at her father for if she did she might change her mind.
"Very well." Toga stated and turned to look at Gin. "Higurashi-san as of this moment all
custody of Higurashi Kagome shall be turned over to one Akira Naraku." He leveled the
small man with a pointed glare. "All assets, payments, and trusts that Kai-san has willed
to his granddaughter will be transferred into an account controlled by me and Akira-san."
"You can't do this!" Gin yelled as he banged his fist on the desk.
Toga narrowed his eyes. "Oh hai I can." He locked his fingers together when he placed
his elbows on the desk. "As of midnight last night I gained control of Kai-san's estate and
all assets in his and your daughter's name." He cocked a smirk at the now wide eyed and
paled with shock man. "Leaving you with nothing but what you have left in your
account."
"I will fight this." Gin hissed.
"Oh? And pray-tell how?" Toga questioned with a cocked brow. "Do you truly believe
you have the power or even the money to fight me?" He practically scoffed.
Gin knew he was defeated. No one stood against Taishou-sama and won anything he
didn't want them to win. How do you fight the largest law firm in all Japan and Western
Asia and win? You don't. He rose from his seat and glared at the man across from him.
"You can have the bitch and everything that comes with her." He spat then turned to
leave but not before looking over at his so called daughter and gave her a glare of
contempt that would wither the most beautiful of flowers.
Kagome gasped and moved to stand behind Sesshoumaru in fear that her father was
going to attack her or kill her. Never had she in her life been looked at like that and it
scared her to her very depths of her soul.
The door slammed shut so hard that were there pictures on the wall they would have
surely fallen to the floor.
Toga shook his head slightly in disgust but dismissed the actions of the man. "All right
next on today's agenda…" He looked over the paper in his hands then looked over at his
eldest son and had to bite down the chuckle at seeing his stoic struggling with trying to
remove the girl from behind his person with her fists knotted in his once perfectly ironed
shirt. He then looked at Naraku with a deep smirk. "You sure you really want to take
guardianship of this girl?"
Naraku snorted as he watched the girl and his best friend. "I'm beginning to wonder."
Toga waved his hand in dismissal. "Let's get on with it; shall we? I have much to do
today and am running out of time." He looked up at Naraku. "Do you wish her to stay or
leave?"
Dark eyes locked with gold. "She will stay so that she can see justice served on her
behalf."
"Very well." Toga stated as he punched the button on the intercom. "Izayoi you can bring
them all in now."
"All?" Naraku questioned with a cocked eyebrow.
"I don't have time to deal with them one at a time." Toga narrowed his eyes when the
door opened and people began filing into his office. "We'd be here all day."
Naraku shrugged his shoulder in dismissal and just hoped that they hurried through this.
He chanced a glance over at the girl who was now sitting on the couch, eyes wide and
glassy, skin pale, and hands knotted together in a white knuckle grip. He could practically
taste her fear as it rolled of her in waves almost to the point of choking every person in
the room with it. Perhaps he should have her leave. However before he could have her
removed from the room Toga began.
"Let's just get right down to it." He stated with a hard glance around the room lingering
on his son for a moment longer than the rest. "As it seems that each one of you has
decided that you are free to do and behave as you please…" He glanced at each one of
the parents standing behind their respective child checking to see if they really cared
about what their offspring had done and only found one that didn't seem to care one way
or another. "I believe I have found a suitable punishment for you." He leaned back in his
chair and locked his fingers together in front of him. "However since I am a fair man I
will give you each a chance to argue your innocence." He was then silent making bets
with himself as to which one of them considered themselves to be innocent in everything
they did and wasn't disappointed when the one he knew for sure would speak up began.
"I did nothing to her." Kikyo spit out. "She asked for what happened to her…" She took a
small step forward and narrowed her eyes upon the man behind the desk. "Practically
begged for it." She hissed.
"I DID NOT!" Kagome stood up and yelled out with a pointed finger at her once upon a
time so-called best friend. "IT WAS YOU WHO DARED THEM TO DO IT!"
Kikyo turned and locked stares with the girl who looked similar to her. "You are such a
liar." She hissed. "All you want is attention by playing the poor pitiful me act." She
narrowed her eyes. "Little miss perfect who never does anything wrong." She placed her
hands on her hips and leveled Kagome with a pointed glare. "You were the one that
brought the drugs and alcohol and you were the one flirting with Koga and Inuyasha like
the little whore you are."
Kagome saw nothing but red. "You lying little bitch." She hissed and had every intention
of beating the girl into a bloody pulp only to find she was suddenly hindered with strong
arms holding her back. However, that didn't stop her from struggling in an attempt to
break free so she could kill her one time friend.
Sesshoumaru hauled her up and carried her out of the office struggling all the way. "Let
me go!" She yelled as the door closed behind them. "I'm going to kill the lying whore!"
They all heard the muffled yell come through the thick door.
Naraku ground his teeth and Toga smirked at him in a 'are you really sure about this'
manner. "Just get on with it." Naraku growled in irritation but not at the girl it was more
at himself as he knew he should have made her leave the room.
xx
"You will cease this struggling." Sesshoumaru growled and gave a small shake to her
shoulders.
Kagome stared up at him and deflated. "Why? Why are they doing this to me?" Tears
filled her eyes and trailed down her cheeks as she stared up at him. "I thought they were
my friends." She whispered brokenly and dropped her head.
Sesshoumaru looked from the downtrodden girl to the office and back again. "Come" He
ordered and began walking towards the elevators.
She didn't question just obeyed and followed him to the elevators, down to the first floor,
to the parking garage, and into the passenger seat of his car.
Sesshoumaru pulled out onto the highway and headed for home. Once they were at his
apartment he placed the girl on his sofa then sent a text to Naraku letting him know
where they were. He took a seat on the coffee table in front of her and using a hooked
finger lifted her chin up so that he could see her face. "Do not dwell."
Kagome let off a small laugh. "Naraku said the same thing." She sniffled. "But how?
How can I forget what they did to me? It will always be there lurking in the darkness of
my mind just waiting to pounce at any moment of weakness."
He released her chin. "You will never forget. You will accept and move on. Nothing can
change the past and only you can create your future. If you let it destroy you then you are
weak. Be stronger than it and them and you will be able to defeat all that stands in your
way."
"It sounds so simple." She sighed.
"It is not." He answered knowingly. "But if you have the strength within you then
eventually you will."
Kagome stared at him and once again was tempted to drool all over him and probably
would have if it weren't for the events of the recent hours. "Thank you." She smiled a
small smile.
"Hn" He responded then rose to his feet.
Kagome looked up at him and almost strained her neck as she had to look straight up. "So
what now?"
"We wait." He said simply and went to the kitchen to get something to drink.
She watched him and smiled lightly. She liked Sesshoumaru and not just because of how
he looked either. No; she liked the air about him and he seemed to have an underlying
sense of humor that was very rarely seen. Although she had seen it... twice and both times
he got her in trouble. Her brows drew deeply as she thought about the two times then
narrowed her them upon him. "You are such a jerk!"
Sesshoumaru turned to face her with a glass of water in his hand with an eyebrow arched.
The girl was a rather strange creature first she was upset about what had happened to her
and now she was calling him a jerk.
"It's your fault I got spanked like an infant." She said with a pointed finger in his
direction.
His other eyebrow shot up as he stared at her.
Kagome rose up and stormed to stand in front of him. "And I demand payback!" She
ordered with a jab of a finger in his chest.
"Girl I have done nothing to you that would require retribution. Your punishment came
due to your own actions." As he looked down at her he was shocked to see that she
actually looked affronted at his words.
She narrowed her blue eyes further. "If it weren't for your big mouth tattling on me I
wouldn't have gotten in trouble."
'Big mouth? Tattling?' Neither of those things described him and he had to wonder at her
sanity. "Perhaps you need a nap."
Kagome stared up at him eyes wide, mouth agape, and completely at a loss for how to
respond to that statement. She clamped her mouth shut causing her teeth to click, and
narrowed her eyes upon him. "I ain't a child."
"Am not." He corrected as he walked past her into the living room.
"What?" She questioned as she followed him.
"I am not a child." He sat down on the couch and grabbed the remote. "I would be more
inclined to speak to you like an adult if you would speak properly instead of speaking like
a lowly street urchin."
Kagome plopped down next to him. "Well soorrrrrrryyy! Not all of us can be as perfect
as your highness." She gave him a mock bow of her head with a twirl of her hand towards
him.
"You are forgiven." He responded like he was actually royalty and had people bowing
down to him daily.
Kagome snorted, turned, and dropped back into the couch next to him so hard it made
him spill some of his water into his lap. She crossed her arms over her chest and cut her
eyes over to him when she noticed he was glaring at her. She looked at the glass and
followed the drops falling from the bottom of the cup down to his lap where he had a
small we spot. "Humph" She grunted. "And you call me a child. At least I know how to
drink from a cup without spilling it all over myself."
Sesshoumaru rose to his feet, stared down at the girl, and with a grace that only years of
perfect training could produce, dumped the remaining water in his cup atop her snotty
little head. He set the cup on the table and swept out of the living room as regally as
someone with a wet crotch could.
Kagome sputtered as the water rolled down the front of her face before she tried to wipe
it away with her hands. "Jerk!" She hissed as she rose to her feet and followed after him.
When she came to first door down the hall she looked in and was halted in her tracks.
The vision before her was one that was going to be burned into her mind for all eternity.
Beautiful alabaster skin stretched across rippling muscles that dipped and curved in every
direction and all she could think was that she wanted to run her tongue all over his perfect
body. "Wow"
Sesshoumaru stopped with his clean pants half way up his legs and stared at the girl
standing in his doorway. With a cocked eyebrow he made slow movements in finishing
pulling his pants up and once he had them on just stood there letting her stare at his
exposed chest. Normally he would never do such a thing but there was just something
about the way the girl looked at him she made him feel like he was a God. He was deeply
tempted to do a little turn for her so that she could get a good look at all of him but
suppressed the urge like a bad habit. "Close your mouth girl you are drooling all over
yourself." He stated cockily with a smirk upon his lips and his arms crossed over his hard
chest.
It didn't have the effect he was hoping for such as the embarrassed shriek and blush. No
not this girl she actually walked towards him and he could see in her eyes that she was in
a trance like state before she stopped when she was just a short arms length away from
him. He watched with a sense of shock as she reached out and very gently ghosted her
fingertips across his abdomen. He caught her hand and when he did she seemed to snap
out of whatever haze her mind was under and did what he expected her to do all along…
shriek and blush.
"Um… sorry." Kagome whispered and tried to jerk her hand from his grasp only to find
that he wasn't letting go. She slowly lifted her head to look up at him and gasped when he
lifted her hand up towards his perfect lips.
Sesshoumaru acted as though he was going to kiss the tips of her fingers but instead he
followed the line of her arm, up to her neck, to her ear. "It isn't polite to stare." He
whispered in her ear.
This time he got what he expected as she blushed and ran from the room like it was on
fire leaving him standing there smirking in a knowing manner. She wanted him as most
women wanted him but there was something different in her behavior towards him and he
was finding that he liked it. He had just found a new way to entertain himself he was
going to see how much she could take before she jumped him like the wanton little bitch
he knew she had hidden deep within her.
xx
Naraku smirked in pure pleasure as he left Toga's office. He'd never seen four people
more deserving than those four. If truth were told he felt as if they got off far too easy and
deserved a much harsher punishment but as Toga said 'They are young. If we do not curb
their bad behavior now it will only get worse and a harsher punishment will only make
them rebel.' Then with that he laid out his sentence much to their mortification.
Each one was sent to military school where they would live on campus and start off with
no freedoms what-so-ever. Anything they wanted they had to earn such as a phone call to
or from the parents and had to be earned through good grades and hard work. If they
failed to comply with the rules then their option was to be sent to the detention center
until their twenty-first birthday. He was more than certain that Kikyo would eventually
wind up in the detention center as she just didn't have the desire to be anything more than
what she already was nor did her mother seem to care either.
The parents of the rest agreed wholeheartedly with Toga's decision and stood behind him
one-hundred percent. He couldn't wait to tell the girl of her violators fate and really
hoped that it pleased her. Perhaps it would help her to get past the pain she was suffering
from and what they had done to her and maybe just maybe she would start behaving.
He had to admit that she wasn't all bad all the time she just had a mouth that never knew
when to close and stay closed. Besides that she was a teenager that was severely lacking
in discipline and as such she would be punished when it was necessary to do so no matter
how much it made him hate himself for it. Last night when he punished her he was sick
with himself for the rest of the night and when he went to comfort her in her room he was
hard pressed to apologize to her for hitting her.
However, as much as punishing her sickened him he knew it had to be done. It was like a
dog pissing on the carpet and you punishing the creature for it then giving it a treat right
afterwards. What's the dog going to learn from such actions? That although it did
something wrong it's still going to get a treat because you got mad at it. He just hoped
that he never had to do it again.
xx
Kagome kept her face as blank as possible as she picked up his discarded card and laid
down one of her own. She kept utterly still as he took his turn and had to bite the inside
of her cheek to keep from smiling.
Sesshoumaru looked at her trying really hard to read her face only to once again find he
couldn't. Her poker face was rather impressive for someone who showed every emotion
she had all over her face. After he took his turn he watched as her lips pulled into a
wicked smirk and he knew once again he had lost.
"Gin!" Kagome chirped cheerfully.
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her. "Cheating is very unbecoming."
"You say that every time you've lost." She responded as she gathered the cards and began
shuffling them. She then rolled her eyes dramatically. "All two times you've lost but what
about the three times you have won? Were YOU cheating?"
"This Sesshoumaru does not cheat." He stated flatly as he picked up the cards she dealt
out.
"Of course not." Kagome stated sarcastically. She then looked at him as she placed her
hand on her cards. "How about we make this game interesting?"
Sesshoumaru leaned back in his chair and cocked an eyebrow at her. "A bet. Perhaps."
Kagome copied his actions of leaning back in her chair but her version of cocking an
eyebrow consisted of both her eyebrows shooting up. "Yes or no? There's no maybe.
Either all in or all out. So how about it ice prince? You got the balls to play?"
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her. She had just trapped him and although part of him
was impressed with her ability to trap him another part was disgusted beyond belief.
However, he would play her little game because he really had nothing better to do and it
was keeping her mind off her troubles. "Very well; I will play your little game."
"Good" She chirped cheerfully with a smirk and for the first time in his life Sesshoumaru
wasn't so sure that he had made the right decision.
"Ok here's the deal if I win you have to take me to the movies to see that new cartoon that
came out last week." She tilted her head to the side and smiled at him. "Deal?"
His golden eyes narrowed to deadly little slits. As if he would ever go to the movie
theater to see such a thing. "No deal." He growled.
Kagome widened her eyes innocently. "You didn't even throw out you're half of the
bargain. What if you win? I mean you've beaten me more than I have you."
Sesshoumaru snorted. "Very well; should I win you will be my personal laundry maid for
a week."
"No way!" Kagome cried out like she was being threatened with death. "Fine I will
change mine and you change yours. Besides I'm not so good with laundry and you would
kill me when I shrunk your favorite shirt or something." She furrowed her brows for a
moment then smiled. "Okay if I win you have to take me to dinner to that sushi place
down by your dad's office."
Now that he could do. "Deal and if I win you will be my personal cook for a week."
"No!" She pointed a finger at him. "Why do you get a week and I only get a few hours?"
He looked down at his cards and began organizing them. "Perhaps you should spend
more time thinking about what you want before you open your big mouth and spit out the
first thing that comes to your simple mind."
She should have taken offense to his 'You're stupid' insult but she was too busy thinking
of what she would rather have when an evil smirk suddenly pulled on her lips. "I got it."
Sesshoumaru took one look at her. "No" He said flatly.
Kagome smiled hugely. "Nope so long as I haven't picked up my cards yet it's not
official." She placed her hand on her cards and put up her half of the bet. "You have to
give me a back massage everyday for a week." She then picked up her cards and held
them directly in front of her face to keep him from seeing the deep red blush on her
cheeks.
Perfect lips pulled into a smirk. "Deal" He said plainly so that she wouldn't hear the leer
in his voice. He was going to have himself a personal cook for a week. He chuckled
evilly in his own mind when suddenly he stopped laughing. What if she poisoned him?
He chanced a glance over at her and could see the bridge of her nose still tinted pink. No,
she wouldn't poison… spit in his food perhaps but never poison.