InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Escape ❯ Introduction ( Chapter 5 )

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But then again, he was tired of always being alone. Maybe he should focus on the future instead of being so absorbed with the past. He had failed Kikyo and would probably never find Naraku. His ears swiveled in the direction of his guest as she began to stir. Intrigued, he leapt up out of his chair and made his way cautiously over to where she was resting.

. . .

Kagome groaned. Her head was killing her. What she wouldn't give for some Advil. Coming back to reality from dreamland was no joke. Cinnamon spices overcame her senses. Wait a minute, she didn't have anything in her room that smelled in the least bit like cinnamon. Groggily, she slowly came to her senses. A blurred figure stood before her. After blinking several times, she came face to face with a white-haired, golden orbed, dog-eared demon. Then, did what any red-blooded female would do in her situation. She screamed bloody murder.

Introduction

Inuyasha flattened his ears to his skull in pain, her screams reverberating throughout his entire being. "Shut the fuck up!"

She ignored him and continued to emit the loud screeching noise. Growling, he launched himself at her and tried to clamp a clawed hand over her mouth…and instantly regretted it. Hot bolts of bluish energy lashed out upon contact with her skin, the resulting impact sending him crashing into the wall on the opposite side of the room. A wave of dizziness passed over him before he came to his senses. The screeching immediately subsided, a perplexed expression crossing her features. 'Where had those blue sparks come from?'

"You're a miko?" he questioned incredulously disregarding the pain that was shooting up through his spine from the collision with the wall. But he didn't get an answer because no sooner had the words left his mouth, the door to his room was flung open. His two neighbors and coworkers barged in looking ready for battle.

"Inuyasha, what's going on?" Miroku asked, baseball bat in hand.

"Yeah, we heard screaming and a loud crash," Sango said looking wildly about the room.

Inuyasha scowled before rising from the floor. "Its none of your damn business so get out." Who the hell did they think they were barging in on him? He only withstood their incessant chatter because he had to work with them.

. . .

While her captor was chit-chatting with his friends, Kagome had began to slink off the opposite side of the bed, her full intent on making a mad dash for the door. She didn't know who the hell these people were and certainly didn't want to stick around to find out. As inconspicuous as possible, she slowly edged off of the bed and onto the floor.

"Oh my Inuyasha," the guy with the small ponytail said drawing his attention from the pissed off hanyou to the lovely damsel that was attempting to escape. "Who is this beautiful young woman that has graced us with her presence?" A devious smile crept onto his face as he reverted his gaze from the girl to him. "You sly devil you. Next time be sure to keep the passionate screams of ecstasy to a minimum. And here we were thinking that you were in trouble."

A look of utter disgust tinged with a hint of embarrassment marred her captor's features. "Get out Bouzu! And if I did choose to sleep with a chick, it wouldn't be a puny squirt like her!"

Kagome stopped in her tracks, feeling anger boil inside of her. "How dare you call me names! And right after kidnapping me no less! Just wait till I get out of here you egocentric, inconsiderate jerk! My parents are lawyers and once they find out about this they'll fry your ass in court and hopefully they'll give you life in some dark, damp jail cell for the rest of your miserable existence!"

For a moment he looked thrown off, but that was easily overridden by the intense hateful glare he sent her. "After all I went through saving you dumb ass from drowning and freezing to death this is the gratitude I get! I should have left you out in the street where I found you!"

She was about to make a smart retort when she finally grasped the reality of her situation. The last she could remember was passing out from the cold or hunger after her now ex-boyfriend stood her up once again. So obviously this meant that he didn't actually kidnap her, but saved from an inevitable death. The anger that she had shown earlier quickly dissipated, a small shy, smile overtaking her face. "Oh," she replied sheepishly, "then I would like to extend my gratitude to my hero. Thank-you…" What was his name again?

Before he had a chance to answer, the guy with the small ponytail practically ran up to her after dropping the baseball bat and grasped her hands in his, a look of urgency shining in his bright blue eyes. "Pay no mind Inuyasha. My name is Miroku. And what may I ask, fair maiden, is your lovely name?"

"Umm…Kagome. Kagome Higurashi," she responded slightly flustered. Talk about forward.

"Kagome," he sighed in a blissful manner, ignoring the familiar ring of the name, "what a striking name. Your beauty is something to be cherished and revered, as is your breathtaking body and soul. And I would do all of the above if you have the honor of bearing my child."

A bat flew out of nowhere, knocking Miroku to the floor upon contact. Kagome blinked. Was this guy serious?

"Don't mind the perverted monk," said the girl placidly who had hurled it. "My name's Sango." She smiled.

"Hi Sango. I'm Kagome," she responded stepping over the swirlly eyed pervert that lay in a heap on the floor.

"Enough of the introductions," Inuyasha snapped. "You can all leave now."

"Is he always this grumpy?" Kagome inquired with a raised brow.

"For as long as I have known him. Come on. All of this has made me hungry. Hopefully Yasha will have some food cuz I'm starving."

Happy to have found a new friend, Kagome followed her out of the room and to the little kitchen.

"Hey! You can't just come into my home and ransack my place for food!" Inuyasha yelled as the girls embarked on their search.

For the first time since she arrived, Kagome took a good look at her savior. He was actually kind of cute with his snow white ears, white-silver tresses, and piercing golden eyes that were at the moment full of annoyance. Letting her curiosity get the best of her, Kagome walked hesitantly over to him.

He stared at her warily. "What do you want?"

Before he could react, she reached up and tweaked one of his ears. <AN: Gotta love the ears!> They were so soft. She began to stroke them. Inuyasha's, defensive stance melted to one of complete contentment as he closed his eyes, apparently enjoying the ministrations. A low growl or rather a low purr rumbled deep within his chest. Kagome giggled at this. She didn't know inuyoukai could purr.

Upon hearing the sound of her giggles, Inuyasha snapped out of his daze and recoiled from her touch. "Do you like molesting people you don't know?" he growled half-heartedly.

"Only you, Inuyasha." She tweaked his ear once more.

"Keh." He folded his arms and looked away.

"So how long have you known each other?" Kagome asked after both she and Sango had started eating out of the container of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

"I don't think that's any of your business," he grumbled, watching the two ravenous girls gulping down his ice cream.

"I believe that it was two years ago," Miroku responded emerging from the back room sporting a rather large lump on the head.

"We all were hired as mechanics around the same time and were all knew to the area," Sango said licking her spoon. "Our boss, Toutousai, pulled some strings with Kaeda-san, the landlady here, and gave us a good deal on the apartments."

"They weren't that good," Inuyasha grumbled. "If you gluttonous pigs are done gorging on my food, you can leave now."

Sango glanced at the digital clock on his microwave. "Wow it's 3 am. I gotta go to work in the morning. Thanks for the ice cream Inuyasha, and it was nice meeting you Kagome. I expect we will be seeing more of you now that you're Yasha's girlfriend."

"She not my fucking girlfriend! Now get out!" he barked.

"Until next time, my lovely Kagome-sama," Miroku said taking her hand in his and placing a chaste kiss on it.

"Out houshi!" Inuyasha grabbed him by the collar and practically threw him out the front door.

"Why are you so mean to your friends?" Kagome asked as he slammed the door.

"They're not my friends," he griped.

"Then what are they?" She cocked her head to the side.

"They're just people who don't know how to mind their own damn business." He eyed her deliberately.

"Do all monks act like Miroku?" she questioned once more ignoring is golden fixed stare.

"Just the lecherous ones. Now if you're done asking 20 questions I would like to get to sleep. Some of us have to work in the morning."

"Who works on Sundays?"

"Obviously I do. Come on." Paying no heed to her protests, he picked her up and flung her over his shoulder.

Kagome struggled futilely in his tight grasp. "This is no way to treat a guest!" When in actuality she didn't mind getting a close up view of his firm buttocks. She mentally slapped herself for thinking such lecherous thoughts.

"You're not a guest. Only a nuisance," he scoffed walking into his bedroom, then tossed her unceremoniously onto the king size bed. "Now go to sleep."

"Where are you going to sleep?" Kagome eyed him suspiciously. There was no way on earth they were sleeping the same bed.

"I'll sleep where I damn well want to. Its my apartment," he snorted as if reading her mind. "But if you must know, I'm sleeping on the couch."

She visibly relaxed. "So, does your family live around here?"

His back stiffened. "No."

"Where do they live?"

"That's none of your business. Damn, you're worse than the houshi and the taijiya," he snapped in irritation.

Kagome shifted uncomfortably on the bed. Guess she'd struck a tender nerve. "I didn't know Sango was a demon exterminator," she commented abruptly changing the subject.

"Well now you know so go to sleep."

She stared at him expectantly. "Aren't you going to leave?"

He snorted. "Like hell. Wouldn't want you sneaking off in the middle of the night…with my stuff." He said the last part a little too fast.

"Like there would be anything I would want to steal out of here," she muttered turning over, secretly grinning to herself. So he does care, how sweet. Suddenly tired, she settled comfortably into the sheets under the watchful gaze of her savior.

Inuyasha sighed. The girl was more trouble than she was worth asking all those damn questions. He'd even forgot to ask her about the whole miko thing. Why didn't he notice it when he first saw her? Usually he was able to use his intuition to detect certain power energies. The wench obviously didn't know what she was capable of. He rubbed his back instinctively from where he had collided with the wall.

And it didn't help that he was receiving a sense of foreboding lingering in the air. He could feel it in his bones. Growling quietly to himself, he left the room in search of the hidden presence within his abode. Something was off. Returning to his room, he retrieved the Tetsuiaga from its domicile in the back of his closet. After flicking his golden gaze at the now sleeping miko, he made his way back out of the room.

His ears perked up at the sound of scraping in the next room which primarily housed a bunch of boxes. Inuyasha removed the rusted blade from its holding and with one flick of the wrist, transformed it into a giant fang. Preparing himself for the worst, he swung the door open ready for action…to find a mouse receding within the depths of dark room in a flurry.

"Keh, stupid mouse," he muttered. "And Kaeda-baba is making me pay all that damn money for this crappy apartment with rodents running around in it." Why was he so on edge? They wouldn't be able to find him. He had covered his tracks too well. He even used that stupid concealing spell Kaeda-baba had given him to mask the youki. He sighed, putting the untransformed fang back into the sheath. He should stop being so damn paranoid.

But all frame of thought vanished upon hearing an explosion, which had came from the next room over. 'Shit, Kagome'. Inuyasha rammed into the wall connecting the two rooms. The entire room was in shambles. Dust and debris cluttered the once tidy room. His dressers, desk, and chairs were all obliterated. His bed had been virtually split into two. Fear clutched his chest as he rushed over to where Kagome had just been sleeping.

"Kagome!" He flung the torn mattress and tattered sheets out of his way. But there was no body. 'Where the fuck is she?'

"Looking for something hanyou?" came the sickening high-pitched voice of a female youkai.

His head snapped up in the direction of the voice. Blood began to creep into his eyes and pure rage threatened to unleash itself as he witnessed Naraku's right hand woman clutching his miko by her neck. "Put. Her. Down. Now. Kagura." He warned in a barely contained voice. Fiery hatred coursed through his veins.

End.

AN: Interesting development.

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