InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For the Love of a Miko ❯ Kidnapped ( Chapter 4 )

Hello peoples....long time no see. Yes I have here my nest installment, but before you get it you must all get on your hands and knees and beg for it like dogs! Bwahahaha. (Looks around to the sound of crickets chirping in an empty auditorium.) "Sigh, oh well it was worth a shot." Here you go

Disclaimer: I have no ownership over Inuyasha or the characters that he affects. There now leave me alone to wallow in self-pity.

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RECAP:

Inuyasha leaped from the confines of the well. He sniffed the air, and immediately made a mad dash towards the village of Kaede.

"KOUGA!"

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For the Love of a Miko

Chapter 4: Kidnapped

Kouga willed himself to accomplish the task at hand. He, the prince of the wolf pack, fealt he was above kidnapping, but if it ment he had a chance to gain Kagome's love, then he would do it. He took one last look at the well that he had watched Inuyasha dissapear in earlier. Kouga turned and made his way to the village.

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"Kaede, why doesn't Inuyasha tell Kagome what he really feals for her?" Sango asked the old miko.

"Tis a strange relationship between those two. Though I know not the reason of Inuyasha's inability to tell Kagome, I believe that it may have something to do with my sister Kikyo." answered Kaede.

"What does Kikyo have to do with Kagome's relationship with Inuyasha?"

"I believe that the question is not what they have to do with Inuyasha, but what he has to do with them." Kaede answered.

"Well, what does he have to do with them then?" pleaded Sango. 'This conversation is getting nowhere' she thought to herself. She turned her attencion to the little kitsune who was playing with Kirara. 'He looks so carefree' she thought to herself. She inwardly winced as she remembered how her brother used to play with her youkai cat in the same way. Her thoughts were pulled away though at the sound of Miroku trying to explain Kaede's answer.

"I believe, what Kaede is trying to say is that Inuyasha is afraid to reveal his fealings to Kagome, because of his fealings for Kikyo. As a result, both Kikyo and Kagome are in pain, because they have seen how he acts around both of them. Naturally they feal betrayed. He runs to Kikyo, and Kagome sees this, and is heartbroken. Kikyo watches how he is around Kagome, and she feals the same loss." Miroku explained, suprised that he had gotten a grasp of what Kaede was saying through her riddles.

"Aye Miroku." was all the woman said.

"But you know Sango, I would never hurt you...." The monk began, his hand reaching ever closer to her feminine backside.

Kaede noticed before Sango, not wanting to have to repair her hut again, she asked Sango to retrieve some water from the spring nearby.

"Sure," Sango replied, oblivious to the longing stares she was getting from the houshi.

"Can I go to?" Shippo chirped, hope lining the very pitch of his voice, "PLEASE????"

"Ok Shippo," answered Sango. She knew the only reason he wanted to go was so he could play in the water, and check to see if Kagome had returned yet. She inwardly chuckled as she thought of how much he loved his new mother.

The pair walked off towards the stream, unaware of their stalker's presence.

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"They've left for the stream Kouga, now is your chance. If you truely want Kagome as your mate, this has to be done," replied a shady voice.

"I have eyes of my own wench, I do not need you to tell me the obvious. How are things on your end?"

"Inuyasha should be returning soon with Kagome. They will know what has happened through the monk. Don't worry. I can take care of Inuyasha, but can you handle Kagome?" asked the voice

"Of course I can. She trusts me almost as much as that mutt-face you're so infatuated with. By the way, why did Naraku need my help? Other than for the shards in my legs?"

"That is a question you should ask him."

With that the miko apparition dissapeared into the wind. 'Well I guess I should get going' thought Kouga

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"Wow the water's so warm!" Shippo cried out. "I can't wait for Kagome to get back, so we could go swimming."

"I doubt Kagome will be in the mood to go swimming, besides it's getting dark, and....." Sango started, but was cut off by the sound of rustling bushes. She quickly looked around for her hiraikotsu, but remembered she didn't bring it since it was so close to the village.

"It's so nice to see you again Sango."

Kouga lifted his head above the bushes, and almost fell over from exasperation. Sango half smiled and turned to lift shippo from his perch behind a stump.

"What do you want Kouga, Kagome's not here, and Inuyasha will be very displeased if he finds you still lurking around the village." Sango stated matter-of-factly.

"I have not come for Kagome." He said eyeing his prey with coy interrest.

"Then what are you hear for?" She asked innocently.

"To make Kagome come to me." With that he quickly picked up Sango and Shippo in one arm, and sped off towards his pack. Sango started to stuggle free from his grasp, and Shippo tried his luck in bitting the youkai's arm, but his attempts failed. Kouga decided the trek would be too long to carry the human and kitsune in their current feistyness, so he set them down. He pulled out some rope and bound the deamon exterminator. He then tied and gagged Shippo as he caught him trying to escape while he was tying up Sango.

"There, now listen to me. I have no intencion of hurting you guys, Kagome would be very cross if she were to find you dead. She wouldn't be a very willing bride then now will she?" He only recieved deadly stares from his prisoners. (sweatdrop) "Fine if you must know this wasn't even my idea. I can't tell you who is up to it, but they gave me an offer I couldn't refuse. If I had a choice in the matter I would have left you two to your own devises, I don't agree to kidnapping, but the powers that be, decided that this was the best way to get.......I've said to much already. Ask me again, when this is over ok?"

Completely confused, Sango and Shippo just looked at each other to see if the other knew what was going on. They both shrugged and complied to what the wolf demanded them. Inuyasha had to show up sooner or later to rescue them.

Satisfied that he had not revealed too much, Kouga swung Sango over his shoulder and scooped Shippo up in his free hand. With that he sped off into the woods once more, being sure to leave a trail that could be easily followed.

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Kikyo watched in bitter silence as the youkai left with the hostages. "Hmph" she pondered. 'That was easier than expected. Now it's up to Inuyasha to return with Kagome and follow' she thought to herself.

"Kikyo, how does my plan fare as of yet?" Naraku's voice sounded in her head.

"Have no fears, all goes according to plan." She replied trying not to let her hatred for the hanyo escape in her voice.

"Kikyo, with you taking care of things, I will always worry." With that the voice was gone.

'He has no idea' she thought to herself.

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"Kaede, shouldn't Sango have returned by now?" The monk asked begining to worry about his friend. He had noticed that she had not taken her boomarang with her. He knew Shippo had gone with her and could have held her up, but it had been about an hour since she'd left.

"Aye Miroku, they should have returned long ago. Will you go see what they're up to?" She asked.

"Yes Kaede," Miroku started off in the direction she had went until he came upon a fuming hanyo. "Where's Kagome Inuyasha?" He asked.

"Where's Kouga?" Inuyasha huffed hopeing he hadn't left yet. He was going to recieve a beating for making him and Kagome fight.

"Kouga?" the houshi asked, "Sango, and Shippo are missing."

"WHAT!!!," yelled Inuyasha startling s flock of birds in a nearby tree. "Where were they last seen?"

"They went to go fetch some water about an hour ago, but never came back."

The men reached the area where Sango's discarded water buckets were strewn about. There were a few buckets that still contained water. This was the only physical proof that someone had been there, other than their scents, which Inuyasha picked up on immediatley.

"Kouga took them," Inuyasha whispered. "GRRRRR, WHAT IS HE UP TO!!!!!"

Inuyasha's temper was flaring. He knew the wolf was up to something. He never expected anything so underhanded from the wolf prince though. Yes he hated Kouga, but he was an aristrocratic taiyoukai. Why would he stoop so low.

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Kagome reached the lip of the well. 'Well I guess I better appologize to Inuyasha for blowing up earlier. I can't believe I lost controll like that.' She sat there watching the wind turn the long grass into a torrent of waves. The scene reminded her of the beach. She calmed herself and fealt that if she could just stay there then all of her problems would mealt away.

She mentally shook herself, 'damn Kagome, you need help.' Her mind wandered to the kiss earlier. Kouga had stolen her first kiss. She was surprised at herself though because she found that she wanted more of the kiss. She wanted him to be able to kiss her like that whenever he wanted, without having to worry about Inuyasha's jealousy. 'Bad Kagome, get your mind out of the gutter,' she chastized herself. As she tried to calm the butterflies that sprung up in her belly at the mear thought of Kouga so close. Her fingers unconsiously moved to her lips where she could the recall the feal of Kouga's mouth begging for enerance into her own. She had almost let him in too, until her fell on her. 'Damn you Inuyasha. No wait.......bad Kagome."

But then again, mabe thinking about Kouga wouldn't be so bad, since Inuyasha obviously didn't love her.

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"Kagome," huffed Kaede upon seeing Kagome in the clearing, "Is Inuyasha not with you?" She asked trying to catch her breath from the hike to the well.

"No Kaede, we got into another argument and he got here before me, why what's happened?" Kagome was beginning to worry. She knew her elderly friend was too old to be hiking this far from the village alone. Something was wrong.

"Sango and Shippo are missing," was all the old miko could say.

Kagome froze....."What do you mean missing?"

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