InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Resurrection Remixed ❯ Cross that line ( Chapter 10 )

Part Ten: Cross That Line

 

 

 

Inuyasha woke in stages. Everything was foggy at first then he felt really warm. As if being hugged. Next he smelt the scent of his brother and by the time his eyes opened, he was in a full blown panic. Just about the same time Inuyasha opened his eyes, Sesshomaru did the same and gold eyes met gold eyes.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Kagome smirked at the sound of the screaming pair. She could only imagine the first thing they saw when they'd finally awaken and chuckled. She moved through the apartment and on to the master bedroom. When she entered the room it was to find Sesshomaru and Inuyasha on different ends of the room. They were staring at each other in horror and she giggled even more.

“Good morning,” she said to the two men. They both looked at her with guilty blushes and she couldn't hold her laughter. “How did you sleep?”

Sesshomaru growled at his sister in law and left the room mumbling something about disrespectful wenches. Still smiling, Kagome turned to face her mate. She lost her laughter then as she looked into his golden gaze. She tried to blink away the tears as she stared at him. The events from the night before came rushing back to her and she remembered thinking how she was going to lose him.

“Kagome,” Inuyasha said as he took a step towards her. That was all it took. Within seconds, the young woman was in his arms holding him tightly as she cried against his chest. “Don't cry baby. Don't cry. I'm here.”

“I knew something would happen,” Kagome said as she sniffed. She then looked up at him with angry eyes. “I knew something would happen to you but you just had to go didn't you?”

“Kagome…”

“Oh don't you Kagome me. If you'd just listened and stayed with me you wouldn't have been hurt.”

“I know Kagome but I had to go.”

“No you didn't. You didn't have to go. Inuyasha you were almost killed last night. YOU ALMOST DIED!”

Inuyasha's puppy ears flattened against his head as the woman yelled at him. He'd never seen her like this before. She was absolutely furious with him for leaving when she didn't want him to. He knew there was nothing he could say because she was right. If he'd listened to her, he wouldn't have put himself in danger. He watched her rant and raved and thought that she'd never been more beautiful. This was a side of his beautiful Kagome he'd never seen before and perversely enough it was turning him on.

“Kagome,” he growled. The woman ignored him and continued to argue. His demon growled at being ignored. “Kagome.”

Kagome's head snapped up as she caught the warning tone in Inuyasha's voice. She saw that his eyes were flickering red and stopped pacing. She also stopped talking. He continued to watch her intensely. She knew that Inuyasha would never hurt her but he was still a little nervous. This was his demon she was dealing with. The animal in him was very unpredictable.

Kagome blinked and within that second, Inuyasha was standing before her leering over her. She looked into his now golden eyes and saw the molten heat there. “I love you Kagome.”

Her eyes softened then as she looked up at him. “I love you too Inuyasha. I couldn't bear to lose you.”

He smiled. “Now you know how I felt,” he said softly. “You wont' lose me Kagome. I promise.”

“I'm holding you to that,” she said as she allowed him to claim her lips.

From the next room Sesshomaru growled and rolled his eyes. As if waking up beside his brother this morning wasn't bad enough, now he was present as the couple mated in the other room. He was so going to get Inuyasha back.

 

 

 

“You sent for me,” Manten said as he entered the room. His brother's back was turned to him and the man was standing rigidly in the window of his office. Manten could feel the waves of anger radiating off the man and it scared even him. His brother was a very violent man and no one knew when he would snap. With him in this mood, he could very well kill one of them.

“They have failed,” Hiten said without turning around.

“Brother?” Manten asked.

“The Ookami brothers. They have failed me.” Hiten's voice was unusually deep which meant his demon was in control.

“Do you want me to order their deaths?” Manten asked.

“No need,” Hiten said as he turned to face his brother. His eyes were even redder than normal. “Takahashi took great pleasure in sending me a little gift.”

Manten looked in the direction Hiten was pointing and his eyes widened as he saw the fur of both wolves. They'd been skinned. He then turned his attention back to his brother. “What are we going to do?”

Hiten smirked. “If we can't get Takahashi we're going after someone close to him.” Manten could only wonder who his brother was talking about.

 

 

 

Souta yawned and rubbed his eyes as he sat up in bed. He glanced over at his bedside clock and saw that it was just after three in the morning. What the hell had wakened him? He looked around the room and saw nothing out of the ordinary and shrugged. While he was up he might as well use the bathroom. He left his bedroom and trudged towards the bathroom. When he was done doing his business and washed his hands, he headed back towards his bedroom.

As he walked down the hallway, a movement outside caught his attention. He looked out the second storey hall window and saw someone moving around in their backyard. Without thinking about it, he was quick into action. He moved swiftly to his mother's bedroom where he shook the woman awake.

“Souta?” Ayame asked as she blinked her eyes open. When she saw the frantic look on the boy's face, she sat up in bed fully awake.

“We have to get out of here,” he said to his mother.

Ayame scrambled out of the bed and grabbed up a bag by her bedroom door. In times like these and with a son like Inuyasha, one was taught to be prepared. They were only lucky her father was out of town visiting some friends. Ayame headed towards the door only to run into Souta as the boy came rushing back into her bedroom.

“We can't go that way,” he said as he softly closed the door and jammed a chair behind it. He looked around the room trying to find a way out when he glanced at his mother's bedroom window then back at her. “It's the only way.”

Ayame nodded. “Let's go.”

Souta grabbed up the bag and headed over to the window. He opened it and looked outside scanning the yard to make sure it was safe. He threw the bag out of the window and it landed with a soft thud. He then turned back to his mother. “I'll go first to make sure it's safe. Follow right behind me mom.”

“I know Souta,” Ayame said. She watched as her son climbed out of the window and shimmied down the tree growing up beside the house. She said a silent prayer, and then followed her son out of the window and down the tree. Ayame hadn't climbed a tree since she was eighteen years old and that was more than a few years ago. She was surprised that she managed to make it to the ground without falling.

“Come on mom,” Souta said as he grabbed her hand and led her through the backyard. In the darkness, they could see men moving through their house and Ayame swallowed in fear. She knew they were there to kill them. When they rounded the side of the house, Ayame saw someone standing on their front porch. Lucky for them the man didn't see them but unfortunately, he was blocking their path to the garage. They couldn't' get to the car.

“What are we going to do Souta?” Ayame whispered to her son in fear.

Souta was scared too, but he knew he had to protect his mother. He'd already lost Kagome and there was no way he was going to lose her too. He leaned against the side of the house as he thought of something. He knew they didn't have much time before the men discovered they'd escaped. Souta looked around the side again to see the man was still standing there. They had to get him to move. Souta got an idea then. He searched the ground for a large stone and grabbed it up.

“Mom when I tell you to, run towards Mrs. Yoshida's house okay.”

“What are you going to do Souta?”

“Now is not the time to ask. Just do it okay? Run to the house as fast as you could and hide.”

“Okay,” Ayame said as she nodded to her son. Souta turned away from her and threw the rock as hard as he could into the neighbor's yard. There was a large crash and immediately the dogs next door were in a barking frenzy.

“Now mom! Go!”

Ayame took off and ran as fast as she could to her neighbor's house down the street. She didn't look back but kept on going. When she reached the house, she hid to the side of the house behind some bushes. It was few quiet moments when she sat behind the bushes alone with her heart pounding in her chest. She didn't hear anything but the barking of the dogs in a distance. She couldn't see much in the darkness and feared for not only her life but the life of her son. She couldn't hear if Souta was running behind her and she definitely hadn't seen him come running down the street within the last few moment. What if he'd been caught? What if he was dead? Tears started to run down her cheeks as she thought about losing another child. Dear Kami if you are listening please keep her son alive.

“Mom?” a soft voice asked and Ayame's heard jerked up. In the shadows she could just make out the thin body of her son.

“Souta?” Ayame whispered back and hugged the boy when he was close enough. “I thought you were dead.”

“Not yet,” Souta said. “We have to get out of here.”

“But how. The car is back at the house,” Ayame pointed out.

“I know. Follow me,” Souta said as he grabbed her hand and lead her through the Yoshida's back yard. It wasn't fenced in like some of the other houses and soon they were moving from yard to yard heading onto another street. Ayame continued to look behind fearing someone was following them. “Wait here,” Souta told her as he hid her in the shadows of a house.

Ayame watched as her son, walked over to an ordinary looking four door sedan. He looked around himself making sure no one was around before he pried one of the doors open. When he got it open, he called his mother over and bundled her into the car. He then slid low in the driver's seat. She watched him as he ripped the wires from the bottom and began to twist some together and within seconds the car started. Ayame could only stare at her son as the boy then sat up, put the car in drive and sped off.

From the distance, they could see flames leaping into the air and heard sirens. Ayame knew without being told, that it was her house set on fire. There was no doubt about it.

 

 

 

 

Inuyasha growled at the ringing phone and reached over to answer it. Whoever it was, it better be important. “Hello?”

“Yash?” came a young male voice.

Inuyasha sat up in bed and glanced over at Kagome. She was still asleep. He got out of bed and headed into the other room. “Souta?”

“We're in danger Yash,” Souta said into the phone.

“Where are you?” Inuyasha asked with fear. He couldn't afford for anything to happen to them.

“On the road heading north,” Souta told him.

“Good,” Inuyasha said as he ran a hand through his hair. “Go to the designated place. I'll be waiting.”

“Okay.”

“Be safe Souta. I'm on my way.” Inuyasha ended the call and headed back into his bedroom. He shook Kagome awake and she gave him a confused look. “Kagome. I have to do something.”

She was immediately awake. “No Inuyasha. You were just hurt last night. I won't risk it again.”

“I'm not going to argue with you Kagome. This is important. You can yell at me all you want when I get back but I have to go. Just trust me okay.”

Kagome only could stare at his back as he pulled on a shirt with his pajama bottoms. She watched in sorrow as he took a gun into the waist band and turned back to her as he slid on his shoes. He leaned across the bed and kissed her. “I have to do this Kagome. I'll be back really soon. Just watch.”

“You promised I wouldn't' lose you.”
“And you won't. Just get some sleep and I'll be back before you know it.”

Kagome angrily watched him leave the room. She snorted. “Get some sleep yeah right. Wait until he comes back. He's going to get it.”

“I'm not even going to guess where you learnt to do those things,” Ayame said to her son as they pulled up to what looked like an abandoned house. Souta parked the car and the waited in the dark. “And the fact that I'm allowing my fifteen year old son to drive means I've lost my mind.”

Souta smirked. “Inuyasha taught me. He said if we ever got in trouble I'd need to know what to do.”

“Wait until I get my hands on Inuyasha,” Ayame said to boy.

“You'll give him a big hug and kiss,” a deep male voice said scaring the hell out of them. Ayame bit back a scream but her eyes widened and her heart was pounding in her chest. She looked up through the window and saw Inuyasha's white hair and amber eyes glowing back at them. She got out of the car and rushed to hug the young man.

When she was in the comfort of the young man's arms she allowed herself to break down. Inuyasha awkwardly held his mate's mother as the woman cried into his chest. He looked over and saw that Souta was still sitting in the car staring straight ahead. His eyes softened as he looked at the young boy who he called little brother. He felt anger and hatred towards Naraku's spawn. Because of them, his family would never live a normal life. Not even his adopted family.

“Inuyasha,” Ayame said against his chest and looked up at him with eyes that reminded him so much of Kagome's. Seeing fear in those eyes caused his heart to break.

“We have to get out of here,” he said as he wiped the tears off her cheek. He looked over to see Souta getting out of the car. He'd heard what the man had said. Inuyasha noticed that they didn't have any bags with them which meant they had a difficult time getting away. “Come on.”

He led them over to his car and after making sure they were not being followed, Inuyasha started back to the apartment. From the rearview mirror he could see Souta staring out the window and sighed. He then glanced to his side and saw Ayame huddled into herself and she stared out the window. He reached over and grabbed her hand. Linking her fingers with hers, he brought her hand to his cheek and nuzzled it.

Over the year since Kagome was gone, he constantly visited the family to make sure they were alright. They were the only link he still had to Kagome and her mother comforted him many days when the thought of never finding his mate again became almost too much to bear. Now they were in danger because of him and he hated himself for it. Not only had he lost Kagome once but he'd almost lost her family. Speaking of Kagome…he had to let them know something very important.

“Mrs. Higurashi,” Inuyasha began. “Mom…I have something I need to tell you and Souta.”

“What is it Inuyasha?” Ayame asked as she looked over at the young man. She took note of the nervousness and wondered what it could be? Was it possible that he found someone else? Did he want to ask her permission to take another mate…not that he needed it.

“It's about Kagome.”

Ayame sighed. She was right. As much as it hurt, she knew Inuyasha deserved happiness and she would not begrudge him taking another mate. “What about her?”

“She's alive.”

 

 

Kagome sat up in bed the moment she heard the front door unlock. She knew it was Inuyasha returning home and was waiting for him. She was still angry at his departure and had a few words to say to him. She climbed out of bed and stalked out of the room. Before she had a chance to say anything, she took in the scene before her. Standing before Inuyasha, was her mother and little brother. So surprised was she, that she initially had no reaction. Soon tears sprung into her eyes and she felt weak.

Ayame looked up and saw her daughter standing across from her. It was just so unbelievable. Sure Inuyasha had warned her in the car and explained how they'd found each other but she had thought it impossible. She'd thought that he was so grief stricken that he was now making up things to cope with the loss. She didn't want to dream, didn't want to hope that the man's words were true. But the proof of his claims stood before her. Ayame swayed as she took in the sight of her daughter. The daughter who she'd thought died a year ago.

“Kagome?”

“Mom?” Kagome asked as she took a step towards the woman. That was all it took before they ran to each other and were embracing in the middle of the room. There was a lot of tears and hugging. Ayame held her daughter away from her so that she could look her over. She just couldn't believe it yet there she was. Kagome in the flesh. Her baby girl was back in her arms.

Kagome looked over her mother's shoulder and saw her little brother standing still and staring at her. She grinned at the boy. “I don't bite ya know.” Within seconds Souta joined the two women. He hugged his sister tight not wanting to let her go. Fearing if he did so, she would disappear again. He was just so happy to have her back.

From his position by the locked door, Inuyasha watched the small family reunion. He saw the brilliant smile on his mate's face and was happy he could put it there.