InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hunt for the Sword of Legend ❯ In Which the Supporting Characters Come to Support ( Chapter 26 )

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Chapter 26:


In Which the Supporting Characters Come to Support


“What the fuck did he do?!” screamed Inuyasha. When Kagura wouldn’t answer him because she was too busy cowering in the corner, he rushed her. Picking her up by the arm, he questioned her again. “What did he do?” he asked through gritted teeth.


“N-nothing!” she replied. “He didn’t get to do anything. Your wife,” she said as she pointed to Sesshoumaru, who was barely holding himself together. “Your wife bit him when he tried to kiss her. Then, while he was yelling at her, your girlfriend,” she pointed her finger at Inuyasha, “managed to pick up the knife and cut her ropes. It took three men to pull her off of him, and two more to get your wife under control.”


Inuyasha took a shuddering breath and sank to his knees. He couldn’t do this anymore. The first thing he was going to do when he got Kagome back was lock her in his house and never let her out of his sight.


Sesshoumaru couldn’t figure out if he should be proud of his Rin or angry with her. ‘Proud…let’s just settle on proud,’ he thought, trying to spare himself an early grave due to heart failure.


“What happened after that?” asked Sesshoumaru after he found his collected center.


“He slapped them a few times and locked them back into the room. They’re fine, though. Just a busted lip and maybe a few bruises.” Kagura voice shook a little. She was sure they were going to kill her for her part in all this. She was just that moment realizing that they had their emotions back under control.


“You can go now if you would like. Or, I can call someone to protect you and you can go with them. It’s your choice.”


Kagura was confused. Was he really saying that he would protect her?


“I don’t understand,” she said quietly.


“You did us a very big favor, and I will not repay that by handing you back to that vile man. So, as I said, I can make a call. Until this whole thing is under control and then you can decide what you would like to do next.”


“Next?” she questioned. Would it really be that easy? Kagura hadn’t thought that far ahead. If Naraku was to be taken down, what was she going to do with the rest of her life? “I don’t really know what to do,” she mumbled to the floor.


“Jeez, he really messed you up, didn’t he?” the younger brother asked.


Kagura decided that she would figure that out when the time came. At the moment, she only really needed one thing.


“I’ll go with someone, if it’s not too much trouble. And I wondered if I could ask a small favor.”


Sesshoumaru nodded for her to continue.


“Naraku has another woman held as a slave like me. She and I have been together for a long time. I just wanted to ask that you please not hurt her. If she does anything to you, or if she has done something to Kagome and Rin, it’s only because if she doesn’t do as Naraku says, he’ll kill her. Please, she’s just like me…”


Inuyasha watched as Kagura’s head bowed and she fisted the fabric of her shirt tightly in her hand. He sent a glance to his half-brother and they shared a nod.


“We’ll do what we can for her. Maybe there’s something we can say to her so she’ll know that you’re with us and that you’re safe…?”


Kagura looked to Inuyasha with a wary glance.


“You…you can tell her that her sister is safe.”


Inuyasha nodded.


“Don’t worry. If we can, we’ll help her, too.”


Kagura smiled a tight smile and listened as Sesshoumaru made a call. She reached under her shirt, pulled the wire from her stomach, and handed it to Inuyasha. He put in on the ground and smashed it with his shoe.


“Thank you,” she said, and Inuyasha smiled.


“We should thank you.”


~0o0o0o0~


“Shit!” he exclaimed as he listened to someone destroy the mic he had taped to Kagura. He knew she would help them. Naraku was surprised that she had left it on her person that long. At least he knew what to expect now. After everything was done and over with, he would get Kagura back. She would be punished for her misdeeds, ten fold.


Now was not the time to dwell on such things, however. At the moment, he needed a plan. They were sure to still be angry, even with Kagura smoothing out the unanswered questions. Anger would make them emotional and reckless. He could use that to his advantage.


~0o0o0o0~


Kagome was sure that dawn was approaching. There was no way of really knowing, but her internal clock was telling her it was about that time. Rin’s head was still lying in her lap. She had only been able to sleep a few hours before waking up. Not being able to let herself doze again, she had offered Rin the only thing she had at the moment, a comfortable place to put her head.


She remembered the conversation that had taken place the night before, right after the pale woman had thrown her and Rin back into their makeshift cell.


Rin had been laughing so hard after the woman had shut the door, that she could barely get a sentence out.


“I…r-really hope…for his sa-ke that he d-doesn’t…show that to…my husb-band!” Rin finally got out before she was taken by hysterics again.


Kagome couldn’t help but chuckle lightly at her. She had found rather quickly that Rin had an infectious laugh.


“Yeah,” she replied. “He and Inuyasha both are libel to blow a gasket.”


That brought an even bigger laugh from the small woman.


“Oh God!” she gasped. “I wasn’t even thinking about Inuyasha. He has an even quicker temper than Sesshoumaru. The police will be lucky to find an intact piece of him anywhere if Inuyasha gets a hold of him!”


The laughter continued until Rin had yawned so big that her jaw popped. Kagome had suggested that they get some sleep. They had no idea when the guys were going to show up. It was better that they were as well rested as possible.


A few minutes later, Rin shifted in her sleep and opened her eyes.


“Oh, man!” she moaned. “It wasn’t a dream!”


Kagome let a little chuckle escape from her lips as Rin pouted and sat up against the wall.


“No. I was hoping that myself, when I woke up.”


Rin sighed and then leaned her head against Kagome’s shoulder.


“Kagome?”


“Hmm?R 21;


“What…” she cleared her throat and tried to start again. “What are you going to do when all this is over.”


Kagome smiled, but Rin couldn’t see that. Hadn’t Inuyasha said that Rin would be happy when she found out that Kagome was staying? At least there was one happy thing to talk about.


“Well, I’ll go back to practicing law, or course.”


“Oh.” said Rin. Kagome could hear the pout in the other woman’s voice if she listened hard enough.


“Yeah, but I won’t be able to do that for a little while.”


“Why not?”


“I’ve got to study for a little while if I’m going to pass the North Carolina bar exam.”


Kagome listened to the silence that her statement caused. It took her a few seconds, but Rin finally got there.


“Oh, my God! You’re staying here!?”


Kagome smiled and answered. “Yes, I am!”


Rin grabbed Kagome by the shoulders and hugged her. Kagome hugged back and she wondered what Rin would do when she told her the best news.


“And, I’ll be seeing you all the time. You’ll have to come visit me and Inuyasha every weekend.”


The squeal that came from Rin’s mouth nearly deafened Kagome. Rin threw her arms around her and hugged her so tightly that she felt as if she would never be able to breathe again.


“Rin,” she gasped. “Too tight!”


“Oh! I’m sorry. I’m just so happy for you both. You two are so great together! I can hardly wait for the wedding!”


“Whoa! Slow down. We haven’t know each other that long. We want to take it easy for a while.”


“Okay, okay. I can wait. You will let me help you plan it when the time comes, right?”


“Of course! I’ll need my maid of honor to help me with everything.”


Kagome laughed at Rin as another unearthly squeal escaped her.


~0o0o0o0~


After sending off Kagura with one of his men, Sesshoumaru ushered Inuyasha to the desk were he was still pouring over the rough drawing of the building she had given them.


“What do you think?” he asked.


“Well,” Inuyasha began. “He knows we’re coming, but he doesn’t know when. We could use that to our advantage. I know you have a few cards up your sleeve, so it would be nice if you would let me in on them.”


Sesshoumaru never got to tell him, because a knock at the door interrupted him.


“You expecting someone?” the younger brother asked.


“I may be,” Sesshoumaru answered with a mocking smirk and a well placed eyebrow raise.


Inuyasha rolled his eyes and stomped over to the door. He looked out the peek hole and his eyes widened.


“What the fuck are you guys doing here?” he asked as he flung the door wide open.


Sango pushed past him, followed by Miroku. She made sure to slap Inuyasha in the chest as she went past.


“Hi, Inuyasha. It’s nice to see you, too,” she bit as she laid her bag down on the only bed in the room.


Inuyasha shook his head, trying to figure out what was going on. When he looked up again, Miroku was frowning at him, and he was awfully close.


“Alright, go ahead and say what you need to say, but know this. I swear to God, if you think that you can keep me from her, you’re dead wrong. I’ll get her back, and then you can step back and let your cousin be happy.”


“Oh, don’t worry. I know she’ll be alright. I also know that you’ve most likely beaten yourself up about this little situation far more than I can. But, I will give you one thing.”


Inuyasha was about to come back with some sarcastic reply along the lines of, “Oh yeah, and what’s that?” But before he could, a well place right hook jerked his head sideways.


He grimaced and shook his head to clear the buzzing noise that was becoming deafening. He moved his jaw around and spat the blood that had filled his mouth when he bit his tongue on the floor.


Inuyasha wanted to start swinging. He wanted to yell at him and curse him and ask Miroku if he thought he could protect Kagome better. Instead, he decided he really did deserve the punch. He had let Naraku get his hands on Kagome. It was all his fault that she was in his custody. He would get her back. Then, he and Miroku would go for round two. He could wait.


“Again,” he said, still spitting blood on the carpet, “what the fuck are you two doing here?”


“I called them. They were actually in New Orleans looking for you and Kagome.”


“What in the hell were you doing there?” he asked.


Sango sighed and sat on the bed.


“We were going to meet up with you and Kagome, but I lost my cell phone and I couldn’t remember your number.”


Miroku started snickering in his hand and Inuyasha raised a questioning brow. Sango growled and slung a pillow at his head, which hit her target perfectly, but failed to shut him up.


“I’m assuming you’re laughing about the lost cell phone.”


“Why, yes. Yes, I am.”


“And why would that be? Something tells me it‘s more complicated than it sounds.” Inuyasha regretted asking the question moments later, because Miroku’s smirk grew to a full fledged grin, and Sango blushed to the roots of her hair.


“There may, or may not have been some pictures on her phone that she didn’t want anyone to see,” explained Miroku.


Inuyasha got the idea fairly quickly, which he made known by narrowing his eyes, but something was still missing.


“And how do you know about the pictures?”


Miroku could barely contain himself. He was grinning like the cat that got the canary. The silly smirk wouldn’t leave his face.


“Oh, that’s easy. I know about the pictures, because I took them!” he proclaimed proudly. Sango accented his declaration with a groan and buried her face in her hands.


Inuyasha stifled a sigh and just settled for closing his eyes and shaking his head. What did he do to deserve having to be stuck with such idiots?


“How are Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dee supposed to help us?” he asked of Sesshoumaru.


The elder of the brother stood and made sure to pick up the drawing he had been looking at for the last half hour. He went to one of the walls and secured the picture to it with a thumb tack so that everyone could see the piece of paper.


“Alright, here’s the plan.”


~0o0o0o0~


A/N: Sorry I left you guys on a cliffy and then took forever to get this out. I’d like to say thanks to those who nomed and seconded my stories for IYFG awards, even if they were disqualified. Well, my one-shot was, but I suspect this one will be as well. It has been twice already.

Speaking of one-shot, I have a new one that I am very proud of. Since my smut was getting some nice reviews, I decided to try my hand at something with a little less plot and more citrus. “Passenger” can be found at mm .org. I really like it and I hope you will all go read it.


As always, I’ll post the reader reviews on live journal, although, they won’t be up until sometime tomorrow. What? I’m tired! :whines: Now, on with the sneak peek…remember, it has not been beta-ed yet.


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Chapter 27:


Mission Possible and Games That Go Wrong


“Where the hell are those two?!” she exclaimed, throwing her hands into the air. She whipped around to stare at Kagome, who wasn’t sure what she was supposed to say. Rin dropped her arms and let out the whining noise again as she plopped down in a heap on the floor.


“They’ll come, Rin. We need to stay positive.”


“I know, I know, but when? We’re in this God-forsaken place, locked in a room with no windows, no water, and no air conditioning. It’s like the seventh circle of hell!”