InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ InuYasha's Strength ❯ One Fell Swoop ( Chapter 14 )

Chapter 14

In One Fell Swoop

 

A week had passed by since InuYasha had called and still Sesshomaru's people had yet to find the discrepancy in the evidence. Kagome had become distant from everyone except her children. Sango and Miroku had tried talking to her, but nothing had helped. Kagome kept to and busied herself with her children. She was hesitant to let Keitaro go to school but relented as Kagura suggested she live life as if InuYasha was away on business. Kagome agreed.

 

Sesshomaru had gone through great measure to ensure the safety of his brother's family. He had the most advanced security system set up around and in his home. Kagome's room had guard posted outside her door and window as well as cameras in every hall. Kagome's room even had a security system that only she and Sesshomaru could deactivate and her own weapon closet. Sesshomaru even went as far as to turn the small attic above the closet in her room in to a safe room complete with a motion detector that only he was alerted to, crib, bed and phone should anything go wrong and all his money on the security systems be wasted should they fail.

 

No. They would not fail. Kagome, Keitaro and Mieko would all be safe in his home. They could stay there alone without fear. This he was sure.

 

Finally, the phone call came in that Sesshomaru had waited for.

 

“Taisho Residence.”

 

“Sir?”

 

“Ayame?”

 

“Sir, I found it. Apparently some one went through very little to get a hold of this information, but I did manage to put it all back together again.”

 

“What did you find Ayame?”

 

“InuYasha didn't rape Satsuki Kaguya. The DNA clearly states the semen is that of a shape-shifter youkai. Plus, this bastard is on file. Bet you'll never guess who it is though...”

 

“I'll bet I can.”

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

Kagome walked downstairs to Sesshomaru's office. He had called her down there.

 

“After you lay the children down, come to my office I have news.”

Kagome's heart dreaded those words, but at the same time needed to hear them. She had cried every night since InuYasha's last phone call. Ever since she received the kiss Keitaro so lovingly gave her as it was meant from his father. She needed him, her children need their father. As she arrived at the office door, she hesitated.

 

`What if?' She didn't finish that thought as Sesshomaru opened the door. The two stared at each other for a minute before Sesshomaru took her by the arm and led her to sit in a large overstuffed chair.

 

`This can't be good if he's making me sit.' She thought as her heart sank deep within her chest.

 

“Kagome, what I am about to tell you- it is important that you listen to everything I have to say before you jump to any conclusions.”

 

Kagome nodded, bracing for the worst- praying that she wasn't right.

 

“The evidence we were waiting for to clear InuYasha's name came back. It pinpointed him as the rapist.”

 

Kagome's face fell but she remained silent, looking at him to finish.

 

“I however and the detective that worked on your case believed that there was something wrong with the evidence.”

 

Kagome was on the verge of tears. What the hell had happened? Why InuYasha?

 

“I sent one of my own lab techs in and she discovered that the evidence had been tampered with-making InuYasha guilty. I only just received the call.”

 

Kagome looked up at him, tears now falling down her pale cheeks.

 

“Does that mean?”

 

“Yes Kagome. InuYasha is coming home. He has been cleared of all the charges.”

 

Kagome held it in no longer. The past week she had put on a strong front for her children, while distancing herself from her family. She lunged at Sesshomaru hugging him tightly.

 

“Thank you.” She whispered tearfully.

 

“I made a promise Kagome. My heritage demands that I keep that promise.”

 

“Thank you Sesshomaru.” Kagome said as she released him. “When does he come home?”

 

“He should be released tonight. I'll have to wait for Kagura to get back to go get him so you are not-.”

 

“No please!” Kagome pleaded. “Please, just go get him! We need him so much! I need him to hold me! Please Sesshomaru, please go and bring my mate back to me.”

 

Sesshomaru sat in silence for a moment, then nodded.

 

“Very well. So long as you remain in your room until I return. At least I know you'll be safe.”

 

“I will.” Kagome said hurriedly. “Thank you Sesshomaru.” With that, Kagome left the office leaving Sesshomaru to his thoughts. He pressed a button on his desk and a guard appeared at the door.

 

“Sir?”

 

“I'm leaving. No one is expected nor will anyone be allowed onto the grounds. The girl nor her pups are not to leave the house understood?”

 

“Yes sir.”

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

Kagome practically ran upstairs, eager to hold her children and tell them that their father was at long last coming home.

 

Suddenly she felt the familiar sense of dread.

 

Brushing it off as excitement, Kagome hurried to her room, not noticing the bodies of two guards hidden in the corridor next to her room.

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

 

He watched her from a distance, eager to take her as his own again. The once pure and gentle priestess- now a simple tainted priestess- no more than an ordinary woman with small powers. He had been watching her since that night, leaving only when it came to his plans of bringing InuYasha down further and further into his hell. He had let them find the evidence. Hell, one more thing to be guilty of wouldn't make a big difference. They wouldn't catch him. He wouldn't let it happen twice.

 

`Kikyo. I've missed your touch. How I've longed for it these many years.' He felt himself go hard at the memories. He had raped the priestess that night, in his true form. She had been helpless to stop him as her body complied with his touch. He had impregnated her. Another of his plans to remove InuYasha the object of his affection's life.

 

Yet he had failed.

The girl had been with child only a short time when she was informed of the `hanyou's transgression'. Yet, she had chosen to keep the child and raise it on her own, failing to realize that by doing so only kept her within InuYasha's possession, keeping himself from getting what he wanted.

 

Kagome.

 

He had sensed an unusual power within her the first time he had seen her, just as he had with Kikyo. As time passed it only grew stronger and he could only wonder. Finally, he discovered that she was the granddaughter of the Sunset Shrine's only priest- the shrine which had been in their family for generations- was said to have once been the home of the Shikon no Tama, born from one of Kagome's ancestors nonetheless and entrusted to the Higurashi's for safe keeping.

 

`They had hoped for a pure priestess to be born and purify it. Kikyo had been born to protect it, yet Kagome holds it within her body. This I can't understand. This is why, I must have them both.'

 

Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted as his phone rang.

 

“Yes?”

 

“Sir we are in position. Sesshomaru is leaving, we will have the girl in no time.”

 

“Good. You know what to do.”

 

“Yes sir.”

 

He hung up the phone and waited. Kikyo always walked the shrine grounds late at night- searching for the evil that she could not evade even in her dreams.

 

Finally his efforts of manipulating her dreams paid off as she came outside.

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

She could sense him, he was near by. So why did she let him continue to disturb her?

 

`I am a fool. To let one such as he intimidate me. I won't allow it to go any longer.'

 

Kikyo sat up in her bed, trying to locate the direction that she felt his evil the strongest. Once she located it, she pulled on her clothes and walked outside. She walked to the edge of the trees and looked around. Seeing nothing turned around only to feel the tiny prick of something sharp against her neck. She fell to the ground as darkness consumed her. She remembered no more.

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

He waited until she was next to him to move. He watched as she looked around trying to find him. He laughed mentally as he shoved a needle deep within her neck and watched as the young woman fell lifelessly to the ground.

“I warned you my dear Kikyo. Now, what are you to do in my mercy. I promise you- I will only hurt you as much as you've hurt me.”

-*-*-*-*-*-

 

Kagome felt like it had been hours. Sesshomaru lived on the edge of the city and the police station wasn't far.

 

“Why didn't I just go with him?” She then turned to her sleeping children.

 

`Duh.'

 

Suddenly the familiar sense of foreboding was again present. Kagome felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on edge as it was eerily quiet. Then there was a loud crash in the hall. She ran to her doors locking them. Then turned to her still sleeping children. \

 

“No. Not now.”

 

Keitaro was sleeping quietly when his mother mother's fear hit his delicate nose.

 

“Mom?” he called as he rubbed his eyes. “Mom what's the matter?”

 

“Shh Keitaro.” Kagome put her hand over her son's mouth to keep him quiet as she looked over at her window, grateful she had closed the blinds to keep the light out of the room during the day. She then looked back at the frightened child in her arms.

 

“Keitaro, do you remember when Uncle Sesshomaru told you that there bad men that wanted to hurt us?”

 

The little boy nodded.

 

“Well, they are after mommy. So you and Mieko are going to hide in mommy's closet ok?”

 

Again Keitaro nodded.

 

“You need to be quiet Keitaro ok?”

 

“Ok.” He whispered under her hand.

 

“Good boy.”

 

She quickly got up and picked up her sleeping daughter. She then grabbed Keitaro's hand and led him to the closet, entered then, called the dogs then shut and locked the door behind her. She punched in a code and hit enter. She looked up to see a set of stairs unfolding before her. Once the stairs were climbable, she grabbed Keitaro's hand again and dragged him up the stairs, followed closely by Butch and Nana.

 

Her fear was gone now. She had a duty as a mother to protect her young before herself.

 

And by God, if she died protecting them then she would do so without regret.

 

She quickly laid the baby in the crib and turned on some soothing music before turning to Keitaro.

 

“Keitaro.” Suddenly the sound of breaking glass and shouting could be heard from just outside the closet door.

 

“Mommy. What is happening?”

 

“Honey, mommy has to go downstairs. I want you to stay up here until daddy comes. OK?”

 

“Daddy is coming?”

 

“Yep. He should be on his way home now.” Kagome said as she walked over to the closet and removed a package that was long and thin.

 

“Really?” The little boy said in quiet wonder.

 

Kagome smiled as she returned to him with the package and a phone.

 

“Yep. Now listen to me ok? It's very important.”

 

“Ok.”

 

“When I leave I want you to put this over the door ok?” She said as she handed him the sword. “And the house becomes quiet; I want you to press this button ok? Uncle Sesshomaru should pick up. When he does just tell him that Naraku stopped by for a visit ok?” Kagome explained calmly.

 

“Mommy. I'm scared.”

 

“I know sweetie.” She said as she took him into her arms and held him. Another sound came from just below the stairs. They were trying to get into the closet.

“Take care of sissy for me ok?” She called as she ran down the stairs followed by Butch.

 

“Mom!” Keitaro shouted as the stairs began to fold up.

 

“I love you Keitaro. Tell daddy and sissy I love them if-.” The stairs cut off her words.

Kagome entered the lock down code for the house and waited for the alarms to go off.

 

Surely it would only be a matter of time before Sesshomaru returned and help arrived.

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

 

Sesshomaru had called ahead to make sure that Myoga had taken care of all the necessary paper work for InuYasha's release. The only thing left to do, was retrieve his car that had been impounded.

 

InuYasha had expected Kagome to come with Sesshomaru, in fact he had thought for sure that she would come. Instead he was received by his brother in his black limo.

 

“Welcome to the free world again little brother.”

 

“Where's Kagome?”

 

“Good to see you too. She's at home.”

 

“With who?”

 

“Keitaro and Mieko.”

 

“You left her unprotected?”

 

“No. I have hired fifty men and spent about three million dollars on a security system that will do its job to protect her should the men fail.” InuYasha seemed to relax a bit.

 

“Fine, let's get the car and go back. I want to see my family.”

 

InuYasha sat in the limo while Sesshomaru did the paper work to remove the car from impound. He sat there thinking about his family, what the reunion between his children and himself and the bittersweet moment of seeing his Kagome again.

 

All this was cut short as all sorts of alarms started going off and a small but familiar voice came out of nowhere.

 

“Uncle Sesshomaru?”

 

“Keitaro?”

 

Suddenly the T.V came on and showed what seemed to be a room with a crib and a bed. Keitaro was sitting next to his sister in her crib.

 

“What the fuck?”

 

“Hello? Is some one there? I need help! The Naraku came to visit! He's downstairs with my mom.”

 

InuYasha about tore off the door trying to get out of the car.

 

“OI! Sesshomaru! Naraku is making his move! We need to get there! NOW!”

 

-*-*-*-*-*-

 

At first, Kagome wanted to do nothing more than stay with her children, but doing so would lead to the discovery of the panel, thus the possibility of she and her children being discovered. Thus, she opted to sit and wait for them to get through the closet door.

 

Was she nuts?

 

Was she really going to just let them take her?

 

“If it means they won't find Keitaro and Mieko, then yes.” She whispered.

 

`Aw hell no.' She thought as she got to her feet. She then walked over to the closet where Sesshomaru had kept a few weapons for her use should she need them. She had never opened the closet, so naturally she didn't know what was inside. What she found was disturbing.

 

“A bow? Whatever happened to a nice 9mm or a .45?” She asked herself aloud. Again, something knocked against the closet door and she could hear men on the other side trying to figure out how to unlock the door. She turned back to the closet in hopes of finding a more `modern' way of fighting. Her efforts were rewarded with a quiver of arrows and two small daggers.

 

“Remind me next time to bring my own.” She moaned as she hit her head against the weapons closet door. Again, her attention focused on the closet door as it became quiet again. She quickly grabbed the daggers and hid them within her clothing. Taking the bow and knocking an arrow, she aimed the arrow at the door and waited.

 

She didn't have to wait long. The door was blown away by something and men in dark clothing started pouring in. Kagome didn't know why, but she had always had a fascination with the bow and arrow. So, when the chance for a course came up in high school, she didn't hesitate to take them. She was grateful she did. As Butch lunged at the figures, she managed to hit three of them before the bow was knocked from her hand and she was shoved to the ground. She felt something hard and cold be shoved against her temple. She heard a shot and the pain-filled cry of Butch; she tried to move to see but was stopped.

 

“Move and you die.” One of the figures said as she was gagged. Suddenly, she felt something prick her neck and the last thing she remembered was one of them asking-

 

“Where are her kids?”