InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Return (sequel to Kagome! Where are you!? ❯ the plane.. ( Chapter 3 )

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Kagome's Return

Chapter 3: the plane . . .


At the forger's house.

In a room in the basement . . .

The man, who never gives his name, hands a passport and sheath of papers to Kagome. "Here is
your new passport, Sango Takahashi."


She nods and smiles at him. ‘That was first name that popped into my mind.' She thinks.

She has changed her appearance for the passport. Her hair is streaked with multicolored dyes.
She is wearing heavy makeup which seems to add several years to her age. ‘Hopefully this
makeup job will work and it'll change my appearance enough so no one will recognize me.' She
thinks. Her clothes are a flowery sun dress, right now. In her other hand is the black bag they
picked up earlier.

He hands a similar passport and paperwork to Sesshomaru. "Here is your new passport,
Sesshomaru Takahashi."

Sesshomaru accepts the paperwork, without emotion. ‘Since this Sesshomaru only needs this for
one time, why should I lie?' he thinks. Sesshomaru is wearing a stylist sports suit, with
sunglasses. The backpack is still on his back. His swords are around his waist.

"And here is the other paperwork you asked for." The man hands a second, smaller, sheath of
papers to Kagome. "I don't remember being asked to fake this paperwork before."

Kagome smiles. She glances at Sesshomaru. ‘The conversation with him, about this paperwork,
will not be pleasant. But, he doesn't know about the rules for boarding airplanes.' Her eyes flick
to the hilts of his swords. ‘Getting those past the security checks, will be difficult.'

She bows in thanks. "I'm sure you liked the challenge."

The man's eyebrows rise in surprise.

Kagome clears her throat. She pulls out a sheath of money from the bag. "Here. For your time
and effort." He accepts the money. She pulls out some more money, "And to forget about us for,
say, a week."

The man flicks his eyes to Sesshomaru, he nods and accepts the money.

"If you'll follow me." The man says. He opens a concealed passageway in the wall. "This leads
to a storm drain in a nearby park."

Kagome bows to him, again and leads Sesshomaru down the tunnel.

Outside, in the park. Dawn is just breaking . . .

There are a couple of early morning joggers around, but the park is basically deserted. One of
them has a pet dog on a leash with him.

"Sesshomaru," Kagome begins. She clears her throat. "Could we find a quiet place? I need to
tell you a couple of things. And tell you how the airport works, so you won't be surprised."


Sesshomaru looks around, scanning the area. He nods. He grabs her elbow and directs her to a
quiet grove of trees. "By the scents, this area is not heavily used."

"Thank you, Sesshomaru." Kagome says as she sits down on the grass, under a couple of trees.
She looks up at him. She sighs, "I'm unsure how to start, Sesshomaru."

He raises an eyebrow. "While you were talking with that human, it seemed simple enough. As we
walk through the, ah, airport, the various border guards and other people will ask for these
papers." He shows them to her. "You made sure that he explained each piece of paper to me."

Kagome nods. "Yes, I did. The translation spell, allows us to speak English, but not read it. And
when the security guards ask for your passport, you need to know exactly what piece of paper to
give them."

"That was obvious, my dear." Sesshomaru remarks. "Why did you want to speak about that in
this quiet place?"

Kagome sighs, "I'm sure you noticed him staring at your swords, and the backpack."

He nods.

"Ok. The reason why is . . . " Kagome looks around, ‘there is no easy way to say this, so . . . ' she
thinks.

"The guards will not allow you carry your swords onto the airplane." She says in rush.

Sesshomaru growls at her. "Why, then, have we wasted a night?"

Kagome grimaces, and looks at the ground. "There are three ways to get around that problem,
Sesshomaru, lord of the western lands."

His eyebrows rise at that title, "And, what are they?" he asks.

Kagome licks her lips, still looking at the ground. "Well, I'm sure that you'll hate one, but, I'm
going to mention it, just to be complete, Ok?" She glances at him, but looks at the ground,
instantly. "We can buy a large crate, pack the weapons and backpack in it, and have it transported
to my mother's house."

"Humans would be responsible to handling my swords?" Sesshomaru asks in a low voice.

Kagome nods.

"Never."

She swallows, "I thought so. Here is the second way, We can get a smaller, ah, crate, and pack
the weapons inside it. That crate would be loaded on the plane with us." She shows him a couple
of papers, "That's what these are for. These documents claim that the swords are old family
heirlooms that we've returning home with."

She glances at him. No response.

"The bad part about this, Sesshomaru, is that humans would be placing the crate on the airplane,
and we would not know exactly where they are."

"No."

"There is no way that'll you will let humans hold your swords?"

"You are correct."

Kagome sighs, "Than that leaves one last way. The swords and the backpack will be in your
possession all the time."

"Since you did not mention this first, I assume that there is a problem with this plan?"

Kagome licks her lips. "Yes." She whispers.

"Well?"

A pause . . .

"Miko Higurashi Kagome."

Kagome looks at Sesshomaru. "Can you alter the size of your true form?"

A pause.

Sesshomaru's eyes narrow. "I am to pretend to be a dog." He says in an emotionless voice.

Kagome pales, but nods. "You've told me that your swords, clothes, and weapons vanish
somewhere when you're in your true form. That will allow you to get past all the security, and
still have your weapons on."

"Those extra papers. You mentioned quarantine. Rabies shots." He continues to speak in that
emotionless voice.

Kagome nods, "Yes, to bring a, ah, a" she licks her lips, "A pet dog into japan, you need a couple
of veterinarian reports."

"A pet dog." Sesshomaru glares at Kagome.

Kagome nods.

‘There is no way that I will allow random humans to handle my weapons.' Sesshomaru thinks,
‘While we were waiting at that man's house, Kagome found some maps and showed me the route
that she was talking about. That route will take days, over a week probably to get to japan. This
airplane will get us there within a day.'

Sesshomaru's glare intensifies. Kagome looks down at the ground. "I am sorry, Sesshomaru."
She whispers. "I wasn't thinking."

"I can reduce my size." Sesshomaru states.

Kagome looks at him. Tears are beginning to form in her eyes. "Sesshomaru?"


"There is only one choice, Kagome. How small do I have to be?"

Kagome reaches out and hugs Sesshomaru. "Thank you." She whispers into his hair. "This way
is so much easier."

"Afraid that I'll make a mistake?" He whispers back as he hugs her.

A pause, then Kagome nods.

"A possibility. How will this work?"

Kagome looks around. She looks up at the sun. "We'll have to find a pet shop, and probably
wait until it opens. But, I'm hungry, so that'll take some time. Then, we'll buy a dog kennel,
which is approved for air travel, and a few other things."

She pauses.

‘No. Don't smile.' Kagome thinks. ‘Don't smile. And, when you get to the pet shop, don't go
overboard.'

"Then, we'll travel to the airport." She looks at him. His expression is still emotionless. ‘I'm sure
he is hating this. This has to be very embarrassing for him, so, don't make a big deal out of it.'
She thinks.

"We'll have to show up there in a cab, and you'll have to be in your shrunken true form. I'll
probably be able to walk you around, but, I'm sure that you're going to spend a lot of time inside
a small kennel."

Sesshomaru growls, deep inside his chest. "By walking around, you mean something similar to
that man that had a dog on a leash, earlier?"

Kagome nods. She can hear his teeth grinding.

"Continue." His emotionless voice states.

She sighs, "I'm going to have to place you inside the kennel. Then, the humans will place you
onboard the plane. This will take a long time, Sesshomaru. Hours."

She can see his jaw throb. Kagome swallows. "I promise, Sesshomaru, as soon as the plane is in
the air, I'll convince the stewardess to let me into the cargo section of the plane. And I'll stay
with you as long as I can. But."

"This will not be pleasant." Sesshomaru states.

Kagome nods, looking at the ground.

A pause . . .

"Sesshomaru?" Kagome whispers.

Sesshomaru sighs, and stands up, "Let us begin, Kagome." He reaches down and picks her up.

Kagome smiles at him. "Thank you, my consort." She kisses him.

She grabs his hand and leads him out of the park. She does have him hide the swords in the
backpack before they start to walk out in the open. He is wearing his sunglasses, so, while his
facial tattoos are noticed, there isn't anything obvious to attract attention.

She begins to ask people various questions about where a pet shop is . . .

Later . . .


In a pet shop.

Sesshomaru is doing a masterful job of ignoring everything around him. ‘So many pets and
things for them. Hmmm. If what I'm hearing is correct, this Sesshomaru believes that many of
the pets in this city are treated better than many of the peasants in the fields.' He thinks.


Kagome is purchasing everything that is needed to transport a pet through customs. While
looking at the selection of collars, ‘No. Don't go overboard.' She thinks. ‘Just get what's
necessary to get through customs, don't get anything else.'



Her story (she is practicing it with the store clerks, knowing that she'll have to repeat it many
times during the day, and she wants to make sure that the story makes sense): Her father has just
died in japan, so she has to return home quickly. Since there are some inheritance problems, she
might be delayed in Japan for a month or more, so she is taking her pet dog with her.

"Your friend doesn't like pet shops?" the attractive female clerk whispers to Kagome as she
checks out. "He hasn't really said anything."

"He volunteered to watch my pet, but I declined." Kagome whispers back.


They leave the shop. Kagome is carrying the large kennel that she chose. "Sesshomaru, let's go
into that alley, so we can test this out. If I need to get something else, I want to know it, before
we do anything else."

Sesshomaru grunts, but follows her into the nearby alley.

Kagome looks both ways, ‘everyone I see is busy doing other things, so,'

"Sesshomaru, lord of the Western lands, please, if you could, change into your true form, but, if
you would, please make it small enough to fit into this kennel." She bows deeply to him as she
places her hand on the kennel.

Sesshomaru, his face expressionless, looks around. He nods, sharply.

He changes into a large, say, An a German shepard-sized dog.

Kagome bows to him, "thank you, lord of the western lands." She opens the kennel. "If you
could, please enter, so we can see if this will work."

Sesshomaru looks at Kagome. He looks at the kennel.

Kagome can hear his low, deep growl, but he enters the kennel. She sighs, deeply. "Thank you."

‘This is harder than I thought it would be.' Sesshomaru thinks as he explores the inside of the
kennel. ‘So small. So limiting. And the smell, what is this made out of? Do I say, no?' he shakes
his head, no. ‘We need to get to her home a quickly as possible, and, I trust her.'

He leaves the kennel, and after scanning the area, changes back into his human-form.
"Acceptable." He states.

She bows to him, "Thank you." She pulls out the bag of other pet supplies. "If you could, change
back, I need to fit this collar on you and try out a couple of things."

Sesshomaru looks at her. His lips thin form stress, but he changes.

A few minutes later.

Sesshomaru is wearing a plain leather collar. ‘Sigh,' Kagome thinks, ‘This is better, than, that
fancier one.' Kagome has also added an air-freshener and some scrap paper and pillow to the
kennel.

She looks at him, "well, Lord of the western lands, will this do?"

Sesshomaru changes back into his human-form. "It will do."

Kagome smiles and hugs him. "Thank you, Sesshomaru."

He hugs her back, "we are wasting time, Kagome."

Kagome breaks the hug, and nods to him. "Ok. I think we're ready. I'll call a cab and will wait
for it here, and then take it to the airport. Sesshomaru, it will take a long time. The cab trip. I'll
have to buy a plane ticket, and I'm probably have to yell and scream to get a place for you. And
then, we'll have to wait on the plane and security and then the flight." She says in a rush.

"Kagome." He growls.

She blushes, "I just wanted to be sure that you knew what was going to happen, Sesshomaru."

"The sooner this is done. The sooner it," He emphasizes the word, "will," then continues, "Be
forgotten."

Kagome nods. "Of course."

Later . . .

"That mutt had better not mess up my cab, lady." The fat, greasy cab driver says as he puts the
kennel in the trunk of the cab.

"He won't, sir." Kagome replies as she and Sesshomaru, in dog shape, enter the back seat of the
cab.

"JFK, hmm?" the cab driver mutters as he starts to drive. He uses the rearview mirror to look at
Kagome, but, he's seen enough people treat their dogs as people, that he ignores the one-way
conversation she's having with her pet.

‘Since I'm not going to get him to do this again,' She thinks, ‘I'd better take advantage of it.'

She whispers to Sesshomaru, "here, lay down on my lap, Sesshomaru." She pats on her lap. "As
we travel, I'll point out the sites."

Sesshomaru, after a small growl, lays down on her lap. She instantly begins to pet Sesshomaru.
Her hands softly caress and run through his silky white hair.

Kagome begins, while one hand pets Sesshomaru, to use the other to point out the buildings etc.
on their way to the airport. She's obviously enjoying herself.

Sesshomaru, though, isn't. ‘Small, confining. I dislike this place. The smells of this place are
horrible. I want to get back to my forest, or any forest, anything to get the stench of this city and
the humans of it out of my nostrils.'

He glances at Kagome. ‘Perhaps that is the reason that she likes the forest so much?' he thinks, ‘I
know that if I lived in this city, I'd been retreating into a forest as often as I can.'

‘I'll have to ask her, one of these days.' He thinks.

‘His hair, I'll never get used to its silky smoothness' Kagome thinks as she pets him.

‘Her caressing . . . ' Sesshomaru thinks, ‘I will not react to it. But . . . it feels soo nice.'

Later, at the airport . . .

"Miss Sango Takahashi." The good-looking male sales clerk says, "Thank you for wanting to buy
a ticket to japan." He looks at the kennel at her side. "But, this airline has rules for the transport
of pets, especially large dogs, like yours, which state that we need a day's notice to prepare the
plane, properly."

Kagome pulls a huge wad of cash. "Could you get your manager, please?" She smiles, "I am
having a family emergency back home in Japan, and I'd like to see if something can be done,
please. I'd hate to try a different airline."

The clerk looks at Kagome, looks at the cash, "You'll be paying in cash?"

Kagome nods, "Yes. One-way to japan, as soon as possible, please?"

The clerk licks his lips, "could you wait over her, miss." He points to one side. "I'll page my
manager. You and he can talk and see what can be arranged."

Kagome smiles, nods and moves to the side.


The manager arrives in a few minutes. Kagome and the manager go into his office and talk.

The manager, after a few minutes, leaves his office and goes to the clerk. He hands him a stack of
bills. "Miss Sango Takahashi will be purchasing a one-way ticket to japan. It will include the
costs for transporting her pet dog, Sesshomaru." He tells the clerk.

The clerk looks at the stack of bills, "Which flight, sir. Tomorrow morning?"

"No. I've talked to the ground crew of the flight that leaves in four hours. There is a dog already
on it, so adding a second isn't a major problem."

The clerk nods. "Ok. Sir. Your call."

Inside the office.

Kagome, who is sitting on one of the chairs in the room, rubs her forehead. "How long have I
been up? All of last night, then the day before on the world with Belldandy. I'm tired." She
whispers. She blinks, ‘I've got to stay awake.'

Sesshomaru, who is in the kennel, looks at her.

The manager reenters his office and hands Kagome her ticket and the paperwork necessary for
Sesshomaru. "If you could fill this out, I'll begin to prepare things." He says.

Kagome nods. "Thank you, sir. Where will I stay until the plane boards?"

The manager says, "given the special circumstances, it'll probably be best if you stay here. Just in
case something comes up."

Kagome nods. "Thank you, sir."

Kagome thinks, ‘Good. I didn't have to use that JEDI mind trick too much on him. But, if I have
to use it, I want to be in a private place, like this. Sometimes the effects of the mind trick are
noticeable.'

After a couple of minutes, the phone rings the manager, after a short conversation leaves.

In a different room, a short time later . . .

A couple of FBI agents are talking to the manager. "She just walks up, pays in cash, and wants
the first plane to japan, right?" one of them ask.

The manager nods. "And she's carrying more cash inside her carry on bag."

"And that's another thing, her only luggage is a carry on bag and dog kennel?" the other asks.

The manager nods.

The two FBI agents look at each other and nod. "We need to talk to her, somewhere private."

"She's in my office. I thought someone might want to talk her."

"Let's go."

A few minutes later . . .

The manager opens his office, "Miss Sango Takahashi these two . . . " His voice trails off.

Kagome has fallen asleep in her chair.

The two FBI agents look at each other. "Either she's a real pro, or she's really tired." One of
them whispers to the other.

The manager gently wakes up Kagome.

"Oh! Sorry." Kagome blinks. "It's been a tiring couple of days."

One of the agents clears his throat. "Miss, we do have a few questions we'd like you to answer, if
you could."

Kagome looks at the two men. ‘Probably customs officials, or maybe FBI types.' She thinks.
‘Now we'll see if my skills are good enough.'

"Could I have some privacy with these two?" she asks the manager. He looks at the FBI men.
They nod. He leaves the room.

Kagome concentrates on the JEDI mind trick. ‘I'll reinforce my story with it. That should work.'

Kagome smiles at the two men and begins her tale.

Fifteen minutes later the FBI agents leave the room. "It's Ok." One of them says to the manager.

"She's cleared."

Later . . .

As Sesshomaru is being loaded on the airplane.

He sniffs and gags. ‘I will remember the smell of these humans.'

He growls as the kennel is shoved in place.

The loader kicks the kennel. "Shut-up mutt."

‘I will kill that human.' Sesshomaru glares at him. ‘I will remember his scent and sooner or later .
. . '

"I don't think you made a friend there, Bob." One of the other loaders mentions.

"Who cares? It's only a mutt."

Later . . .

Kagome is sitting on a window seat in first class. She takes out the cell phone and flips it open. It
rings.

"Higurashi residence." Her mother says.

"Hi! Mother!"

"Kagome!"

"Mother. I'm on a plane. We'll be taking off in an hour. Your plan worked."

"Thank the gods." Her mother sighs. "When will you be landing? I can be there."

"Mother. I'd rather you stay with Shippo and Rin, Mother. Sesshomaru and I can get home from
the airport without any problems."

"Ok, if that's what you want."

"How are they?"

"Shippo woke up for a few minutes, then fell asleep."

"He'll be hungry, Mother."

"I thought so. I've got some soup on the stove, Kagome. As soon as he's ready to eat, I'll be
ready."

"Thank you." A pause. "Rin?"

"No change."

Kagome grimaces. "As long as she stays alive until I get there, I can fix her."

"You're healing spell isn't that good, Kagome."

"It is now."

A pause . . .

"I see." Kagome mothers' hisses. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"When I get home, please?"

"Ok." A pause. "Chika just opened the door, Kagome."

"Ok. I'll talk to you later."

Kagome hangs up.

‘The pilot just said that we'll take off in an hour.' She thinks as she looks out the window.

‘Too much time.' She thinks. ‘With nothing to do, but think.'

She looks down at her hand. She makes a fist and squeezes it. ‘What will I say to my mother
about Sesshomaru? In all the plans that Sesshomaru and I made, we never talked about that.'

She takes a deep breath and sighs. ‘And what will I say to Inu-yasha? Every time I try to think
about that conversation . . . I can't. I just can't see Inu-yasha stopping and talking. He'll try to
kill Sesshomaru and I can stop him with the necklace. And then . . . nothing. I can't think of
anything to say next . . . '

In the cargo compartment.

Sesshomaru lays down and puts his head on his paws. ‘What do I say to her mother? And why
am I just now thinking about that? Did I believe that we'd never return home?'

He growls. ‘And exactly what do I say to Inu-yasha? He'll never stop attacking and listen to me. I
must think of something . . . '

The end chapter 3

Authors' note: chapter 4 will see them home. And Sesshomaru will meet Kagome's mother . . .
which will be interesting, no?


Thank you for reading
jeff shelton