InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In the Dark of Night ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Hey everyone, sorry this took longer than expected to get out. Stuff happens. The good news is that summer is coming in three weeks for me and I'll have time to work on my stories so look for lots of updates!

To my reviewers, thanks for the support of my work. You guys rock!

Ok, I've recently ran across two fics that I think are awesome. And in case you haven't noticed I'm a diehard Inu/Kag enthusiast. When you get the change check out:

Love and Marriage by Mistress Strom Crow; (AU) Inu Yasha didn't believe in love until the night before his own wedding. One problem, it's not the woman he's supposed to marry. Multipart Song Fic with future citrus. Inu/Kag...essentially...

Through the Rain by ShimmerSweet; (AU) Kag and Inu are in love but her family hates demons, so to stop their love her mom sends Kag far away. Will their love survive?

And because I love her work, read ANYTHING by RoseFire. She has some awesome AU fiction and I get jealous that I can't write like that. Oh well, maybe one day.

Disclaimer: I own Inu's apartment, but alas not him.

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In the Dark of Night: Chapter 3

Inu and Shippo sat down for dinner. A routine the two had created since Shippo's arrival nearly a month ago. Originally the plan was to take the teen to his cousin's home in Kyoto, but as luck would have it she was out of town on her honeymoon with her new husband. And as much as Inu hated the idea, Shippo was not his responsibility for the time being. Too many demons probably knew that Shippo has spent at least some time with the slayer and that in itself was enough to make Inu worry about his well being.

The last thing he needed was for someone to get the kid to try to get to him. At least in Kyoto demons weren't as big of a problem. For some reason the majority of Japan's demonic energy and disruptions were centered in Tokyo.

Inu was never sure if that was a good thing or not.

"Hey Inu," Shippo called from the bathroom, "on your way back tonight will ya bring me back some pocky?"

Inu from his bedroom just rolled his eyes at the bathroom door. "Dammit Shippo, I bought some yesterday!!!"

"Yeah, and I ate it while you were at work. What's your point?"

'This kid is gonna drive me batty!! When in the seven hells is his cousin coming back?' Inu let out an exasperated sigh, "Feh!"

He realized that the adjustment was gonna take some time. That was the only reason he let the runt get away with all the shit he did.

Shippo had no problems with the house rules that Inu initially set up...well almost.

Shippo liked to mess with the weapons. And that in itself was enough to drive Inu up a wall. After catching Shippo, for possibly the thousandth time, eying one of knives hanging on Inu's bedroom wall with a great admiration, Inu decided that is would be in the kid's best interests to learn a few things. Since then Inu's had a massive headache that doesn't seem to wanna end.

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'Another dull night, another DULL patrol...' Those were his thoughts as he roamed that streets of Tokyo. For some reason anything and most everything demon like was taking a vacation. Not that Inu minded, but things were too quiet for his taste. After all nothing in his life had even been dull and for it to start now just unnerved him.

"Then again, I could be paranoid. Gods I need a life..." he muttered softly to himself.

Never let it be said that first instincts aren't usually correct. He had a bad vibe on his sixth birthday, one the night his parents died, and one now. These were the kind of vibes that meant your life was gonna change in some way shape or form.

Damn this sixth sense of impending doom.

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In an abandoned street a fight had broken out. Usually when the odds are five against one the one usually gets their ass handed to them, but as fate or whatever you believe in as usual decided to spice things up a bit.

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'Dammit! I thought those bastards didn't sense me!' She barely dodged the sword that nearly severed her head from her neck. A roundhouse kick and an upper cut later the only one of her attackers that was unarmed was out for the count. 'One down, four to go.' She took a dive that somehow turned into a rolling summersault to her fallen weapon. Thanking the kami-samas above for giving her the foresight to at least bring the damn thing when she went out for her evening search for the information she needed. She picked up her sword, not her primary weapon of choice, but her weapon nonetheless.

With the grace of a swan and the speed of a cheetah the raven-haired beauty advanced on her former attackers who were now her prey. The clash of metal and claws lasted for a good fifteen minutes; before the five against one battle that initially started was now a one-on-one showdown.

She was going to get what she came for, the information that she'd been searching for, or rather she WOULD have if in that instant an certain dark-haired slayer hadn't run the bastard through.

She stood in shock as the demon fell to the ground with the finesse of a sack of potatoes. She looked up to see the one responsible for this death, something she would have liked to take pleasure in AFTER she acquired the knowledge she sought. Silver blue eyes bore into deep violet one and the tame fury that she used to fight her opponents with was now a full blown rage.

"What in the FUCKING hell do you think you were doing you ASSHOLE?!?!?!" she asked incredulously, "I finally got rid of those other bastards so I could maybe TALK to this snitch lying out here on the ground because I'm trying to find that gods be DAMMED slayer! Then you just HAD to play hero now didn't you?!?" Needless to say she wasn't too happy. Hell she'd been trying to find the slayer for nearly three years now ever since more and more demons decided to make Tokyo their new stomping ground. She knew it was Naraku's doing and this would be the first time in almost two hundred years she'd be able to get that bastard back for what he'd done to her.

Now, if she had stopped and thought for a minute, she would have realized that this 'asshole' was in fact that 'gods be dammed' slayer she was looking for.

"Keh! Wench don't you know who the fuck I am?" Inu roared. Most who came looking for him knew he was the slayer, that was pretty much common knowledge in the circles of those that knew demons and vampires still existed.

"I don't give a rats ass who you are, you just axed my best lead in three fucking years and-" a sudden realization dawned on her. This guy had skill, strength and technique almost a good as her own. She sighed and stopped her tirade almost kicking herself right then and there for her own stupidity. "You're the slayer aren't you?"

"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Who wants to know?"

"I do. My name is Kagome, and we have a common enemy by the name of Naraku."

Then her world went black and she passed out.

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'The enemy of my enemy is my friend...or at least and ally or something like that. Still something about her is off...'

It had been a little over three hours since Inu first met this woman named Kagome, and after their less than pleasant first meeting and her passing out Inu decided to bring her back to his place so they could talk whenever she came to.

Kagome was currently laying out of the dark burgundy couch in the living room. She wasn't badly injured, at least as far as he could tell and while unconscious took the opportunity to 'inspect' his new would be friend or foe.

She was a rather pretty girl, in his opinion at least, her silky black hair fell to her waist similar to his own, but hers was adorned with dark blue highlights. She was a medium build, very muscular and about his height. He guessed at first glance that she was about twenty-one, his age, but when hr first looked into those steel blue eyes of hers he saw the shadow of age. Granted that his own gaze had also been tainted with a wisdom and a knowledge beyond his years from an early age, in her eyes you could almost see a lifetime of pain and suffering in their depths. He knew this girl wasn't everything she looked to be, but he just couldn't put his finger on it. Besides, she could fight, and fight well at that. How else could she have gotten rid of those first four bastards that attacked her. By all logic and rational she SHOULD have been killed, mutilated, possibly raped and then later dumped in a forest or a river.

Yet here she stands-er sits.

'There's something off about this wench dammit...' Inu was still pondering the situation when Shippo decided now would be a good time to get a glass of water from the kitchen. He walked out of the bedroom, stumbled into the kitchen, got his drink, and stumbled back into the bedroom. He took a double take upon realizing that there was a very attractive young woman sleeping on the couch.

"Oi, ::yawn:: Who's the chick?"

"Not really sure. Apparently this wench was looking for me and got into a bit of trouble. Then she passed out like three hours ago."

Shippo shook his head and went back to bed. 'All this time Inu's been tell me to be careful and what the hell does he do? He brings in some girl off the streets."

Inu yawned. Although it was a slow night carrying a woman back to his apartment drained him. He slowly drifted off into a light sleep, yet stayed on the alert incase she woke up.

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Kagome woke up in stages. The first thing she noticed was that the sun was shining. 'Must be morning, heh and I'm not lying in the middle of a street bleeding to death.' was the first thing she thought as her awareness slowly came back to her. Her brain slowly resumed functioning and she was able to take in more of her surroundings. 'Ok, first thing I think I'm inside. Guess I found that dammed slayer. I suppose he's the one that patched me up. Suppose I'll have to thank him--hey where is he anyway?' She slowly opened her eyes wincing slightly at the sunlight that poured in through the draperies of Inu's living room window. She slowly sat up unaware of the man sitting in the chair behind her.

"So what do you want?"

Kagome whipped her head around and found herself staring into the most intense violet eyes she'd ever seen. She swallowed at the same time releasing a breath she didn't know she was holding.

Of course the sudden feel of cold tempered steel pressing against her throat made what ever butterflies in he stomach disappear.

"Listen wench I'm only gonna ask this one more time, what do you want." Inu didn't trust her. Usually when someone looked for him they wanted to find him for one reason and that was to kill him. When she mentioned the name Naraku a cold chill ran through his spine and the name of the bastard responsible for the loss of his family. He wasn't taking any chances with this 'Kagome' person.

"Easy slick, I just wanna talk. Mind backing up a little with that switchblade ya got there?" Inu mentally ran through all the ways she could attack. Deciding that she wouldn't get away from him in one piece he slowly brought the blade away from her throat.

"Thanks. Like I said before, we have a common enemy in Naraku. I just wanna make sure that bastard gets what he deserves and rumor has it that you have your own personal vendetta against that asshole. All I want is an alliance, you help me and I help you and in the end Naraku is destroyed and we both get what we want, how's that sound?"

Inu raised an eyebrow at her and then put the blade back to her throat. "Listen here wench, I don't know you. Hell I just met you and you're asking me for favors. Firstly I don't trust you because no one looks for me unless they're trying to kill me, and secondly you reek of cloaking magic. So I'm gonna give you thirty seconds to tell me the truth before I slit your throat."

Kagome swallowed, "Fine." She dropped the concealing spell she had cast on herself to reveal he demon heritage. Her claws elongated, fangs now appeared where her canines in her mouth were and the most noticeable things were the two black dog ears that now twitched on top of her head.

"I really do want Naraku dead ya know."

"Whatever, now get on with it." Inu sat in his chair with a scowl on his face and motioned for her to sit down.

Kagome narrowed her eyes and sat. Talking to this slayer wasn't gonna be as easy as she thought it would be seeing as he had a temper that was about as volatile as an active volcano.

"So I was right you are a demon...."

"Half-demon pal, and you know nothing about me. I've seen more evil than you could ever imagine, hell I've lived longer than you think. So let me tell you right now, if you wanna take down Naraku you're gonna need my help." Her confidence grew with every syllable of every word she spoke. "I've spent my life searching and regrouping so I can defeat him and I realized that I couldn't do it alone and neither can you."

Inu could see the rage and hatred build in her features as she spoke. Kagome sighed, it was never easy for her to remind herself of all that Naraku has done to her.

"So what did he do to you that made you wanna run him though," Inu inquired. It wasn't every day that someone, let alone a demon had a vendetta with Naraku. He pretty much had every demon in Japan and possibly the world under his order. And it was a cold day in Hell when a demon went to the slayer asking for help.

"He ruined my life. No, he did more than that. He shattered my world. I've been alive for over two hundred years, yet I don't look a day over twenty because he made me and immortal demon. Well half demon, but that's not important here. The demon you know as Naraku was once a man named Onigumo. He was my father advisor in court. I'm really Kagome Higurashi, last daughter of the Sunset Clan. Onigumo lied and manipulated my father and mother into marrying me. He wanted my title and place when my parents died. We didn't know it then, but he sold his soul to demons and they possessed his body.

"That's how he changed me. He drugged me on our wedding night, which I might add I wanted nothing to do with. I could see through his games and I knew something was seriously wrong, but my parents wouldn't listen to me. He changed me that night and pretty much brainwashed me. I was forced to watch him slaughter my mother, father, and my baby brother Souta in cold blood before he destroyed the village.

"I was in his control for over seventy-five years before I finally figured out his dirty little secret. He's a half demon too, but he can't sustain his form like I can because unlike him there were actually demons on my mother's side of the family going back to the feudal era."

"So how'd you get away?" Inu felt sorry for the girl, she'd been through hell and now all she wanted was vengeance. He understood that all too well.

"When he basically brought out the demon blood in me and made that dominate he forgot that I'm mostly human, and with being human I still have a soul and a human heart. I saw my opportunity to run when he had to regenerate his body. The control he had over me weakened enough so that I could regain control of my mind and I ran. I had this rumor going around that I was killed by a slayer, so he stopped looking for me and went back to his primary mission, the search for the Shikon no Tama. That's one of the reasons he destroyed my family. My mother knew of where it was hidden. The demon exterminators of the country were friends of my mother's. She lived in their village before she married my father after her family was killed by a demon attack of her home. They were the ones in charge of the keeping and safety of the jewel.

"Naraku tried to get the information out of my mother, but she refused to say anything, even after he took her mind. I suppose that he thought he could use me in exchange for the information he sought, but both my mother and my father died never uttering a word of it. I told him what I knew of it, not by choice mind you, I rather gnaw on my arm than work with him. I knew that it was in the care of a priestess, but he never found her. And he's still looking for the jewel. It's been two hundred years and I don't think he can handle not having a stable body anymore. Not since the last slayer kicked his ass. Really if she was gonna do something for the world you would have thought she'd kill the bastard..." Inu jumped out of his seat once again brandishing his blade and pressing it hard against Kagome's throat.

"Don't. Ever. Talk. About. My. Mother. Like. That. Again." To say Inu was livid would be an understatement. The only memories he had of his late mother were happy ones and for anyone to say anything differently sent him into a state of rage that could only be compared to that of a rabid dog. Kagome swallowed before she started speaking again. "Sorry, I forgot that was your mother. I was just saying that if she killed him fifteen years ago instead of just knocking him on his ass for a few years we'd all be better off now. I meant no harm."

The wheels in Inu's head started clicking. 'The demon attack, that was Naraku and his cronies...' A sudden wave of guilt washed over him. 'If it wasn't for me she could have gotten rid of Naraku then and there, but she saved me instead...' Kagome interrupted his self pity and loathing. "In any case Naraku is probably still after the jewel, and that's why I came to find you. And let me tell you tracking you down is NOT easy to do. Do they like train slayers in stealth or something--"

"You got a deal." Inu said absently.

"Huh?"

"I said you got a deal, can't you hear wench?"

Kagome groaned, "Fine, but let's get one thing straight, my name is Kagome, got it? Ka-Go-Me. Not wench, bitch or any other colorful name you can think of."

"Fine. So do you have any idea where this jewel is now?"

Kagome blinked, "I was hoping you could tell me."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"You really don't know do you?"

"Know what?" Inu by this time was very annoyed. "Dammit!" Kagome exclaimed, "We have to find that jewel. If Naraku gets his hands on it he'll have the body he's desired for two centuries and when that happens the world as we know it is doomed."

"Yeah, I got that much. Like I said do you know where the jewel is or not?"

"The last person to have it was the slayer. Your mother."

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And that seemed like a good place to end it. So now we know Kagome's story and how she fits in to this. Hey any guesses as to who Inu's mom is? I know someone wants to kill me for putting Inu through so much crap, but hey it makes for good drama and reading. Like always read and review and next chapter we'll see how Inu's little bro is doing.

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