InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Running From The Past ❯ A Gift ( Chapter 27 )

Disclaimer: Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha not me.

Chapter 27

A Gift

"How'd it go at the police station?" Miroku asked. They were all in the lobby sitting down.

"They asked a lot of boring questions." Kagome said.

"That fucking detective was enjoying it though." Inuyasha growled.

"Will you let it go?" Kagome said.

"Let what go?" Sango asked.

"Inuyasha thinks he was flirting with me." Kagome said.

"What did he do?" Miroku asked. Inuyasha told him what happened. "Yep he was definitely flirting."

"That is not flirting." Sango said.

"It's subtle flirting." Miroku said.

"It is not anything. It's asking the questions you need to get information." Kagome said.

"It was flirting." Inuyasha said.

"Then he's horrible at it." Sango said.

"Can we drop this subject please?" Kagome said.

"Well as amusing as this conversation was I believe it's time for me to go to the police station." Shippo said.

"Do you want me to come?" Kagome asked.

"No, I should be fine on my own. Besides I don't think Inuyasha would like that very much." Shippo said. He got up and left.

"Damn right." Inuyasha said. "I don't want you over there unless you have to be. That damn guy might try something."

"I'm going to watch TV. Sango would like to come?" Kagome asked.

"Hai." Sango said. They both got up and walked to Sango and Miroku's room.

"They just left us out." Miroku said.

"She's just mad because I'm right." Inuyasha said.

"How can they not see that was flirting?" Miroku said. They both shook their heads and went to talk to Sesshomaru.

An hour later Inuyasha and Miroku both went back up to Inuyasha's room. They thought the girls would be in there. When they were nowhere to be seen they went to Miroku's room.

Both girls were lying on the floor asleep with the TV on. Inuyasha picked Kagome up and walked back to his room. Miroku laid Sango on her bed. She clung to him and it didn't seem like she would be letting go anytime soon. He laid down and prayed Sango wouldn't kill him without hearing an explanation.

Inuyasha laid Kagome down on the bed and crawled in next to her. She turned to his warmth and sighed. He smiled and pulled the covers up. He too joined her in sleep.

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Inuyasha groaned when he heard knocking at the door. As much as he didn't want to he got up to answer it. It was the only way to get them to stop. He opened the door. Shippo was standing there with a box in his hand.

"Someone from the front desk asked me to give this to Kagome." Shippo said. He walked in and set it down on a table nearby.

"Sure Shippo come on in." Inuyasha said sarcastically.

"Thanks Inuyasha." Shippo smiled.

"Don't be a smart ass." Inuyasha said and bopped him on the head.

"Itai." Shippo said. He glared at Inuyasha and bit him.

"Itai, you're going to get it now." Inuyasha said. He dove for Shippo but he managed to wiggle his way under Kagome's blanket.

"Oi!" Inuyasha shouted. "Don't wake her up."

"Too late." Kagome said. She sat up and saw a lump under the blanket. She lifted it to see Shippo's smiling face.

"Inuyasha started it." Shippo said.

"I did not you bit me." Inuyasha.

"Only because you hit me on the head." Shippo yelled.

"You were being a smart ass." Inuyasha said.

"You guys are acting like children." Kagome said. She got up and stretched. "When did you get back Shippo?"

"I just got back." Shippo said. "I came to give you a package."

"A package?" Kagome said.

"Hai." Shippo said. He handed her the box.

Kagome looked at it strangely. Who is sending her stuff? She opened it up and took out the paper surrounding the actual `gift' part. She took it out. She gasped. It was a doll, and it looked like Miroku.

She dropped the doll remembering what happened with Shippo and the doll she got that looked like him. She looked inside the box to see if there was anything else in it. Nothing, not even a note.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked coming from Miroku and Sango's room. He didn't know she had opened the package.

Kagome held up the doll for everyone to see. "It looks like Miroku." Shippo said. "This is way too much of a coincidence."

"It's him. He's messing with us." Kagome said. She thought she'd gotten rid of him at least for a while. "It's like the note he left. He'll be coming soon. This doll proves it."

"You don't know if it's from him." Inuyasha said.

"How the hell would you know?" Kagome shouted. She covered her mouth. "Gomen."

After Inuyasha had gotten over the shock of hearing Kagome talk like that he hugged her. "Someone else could be messing with you." Inuyasha said. "I won't let anything happen to you."

Of course he was pretty sure it was Naraku who was sending her the `gifts'. He didn't want to upset Kagome anymore than she was. He could smell her tears. He sighed and held her closer to him.

Shippo watched from a distance. He didn't want to accidentally say the wrong thing. He examined the box to see if there was any clue to who could've sent it. If it was Naraku he wanted proof. He was sure everyone else did too.

After sniffing the box he looked at the flaps and on the outside of the box. It wasn't until he'd thrown the box he'd seen something taped on the inside. It looked exactly like it was part of the box.

He peeled it off. He turned the paper over and on it was a spider mark. He knew that mark. It was Naraku's. He had hidden his well-known trademark. Why would he hide it? Did he want them to find it?

Kagome had finally cried herself to sleep. Inuyasha laid her on the bed. "Inuyasha do you still have that other box?" Shippo asked.

"I think Sesshomaru might still have it why?" Inuyasha asked.

"We need to go get it." Shippo said. He grabbed the other box with the paper and ran out of the room. "Hurry up." He yelled from the hallway.

Inuyasha banged on Sango's door. "I need you to watch Kagome for me." Inuyasha said. "Don't wake her up." And he left to follow Shippo.

Shippo kicked open Sesshomaru's office door in search of the package. Sesshomaru looked up to see what was going on. He saw Inuyasha run into the room. "Is there a reason you walked in uninvited?" He asked with an emotionless voice.

"I need the box that was sent to Kagome last." Shippo said.

"It's over there." Sesshomaru said and pointed to the corner of the room.

Shippo ran and grabbed it. He looked and started feeling the sides for any loose ends. When he found it he peeled it off. Sure enough a spider mark was left on the paper. "I knew it." Shippo said.

"If you don't tell me what you knew I'm going to throw you out that window." Inuyasha said angrily. "It had better be good too." He didn't want to leave Kagome's side unless it was absolutely necessary.

"This is Naraku's trademark symbol." Shippo handed the papers to Inuyasha.

"What do you mean trademark symbol?" Inuyasha asked as he looked at the spider symbol.

"Whenever he signs anything he uses this mark." Shippo said. "His planes, bags, and sometimes his clothes has that spider on it."

"So you're saying it is Naraku?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Hai." Shippo said.

"Why would he send a doll?" Inuyasha asked.

"Well a doll of Shippo arrived not too long ago and something tragic happened." Sesshomaru said. "History has a way to repeat itself."

Inuyasha and Shippo thought about it for a minute until they realized what Sesshomaru had just said. "Miroku is in danger." They both said.

They both raced up the stairs not bothering with the elevator and busted through Miroku's door. He was nowhere to be seen. They ran to Inuyasha's room hoping he was there.

"What's wrong?" Sango asked when they ran into the room.

"Where's Miroku?" Inuyasha asked.

"He went to get some snacks." Sango said.

"Shit." Inuyasha said. "We have to find him."

Shippo nodded and they ran out of the building. Sango stood where she was. "What in the hell is going on?" Sango said.

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Oh no Miroku in danger. What will happen? Well I already know but I have yet to write it down. I know, I know damn author and her cliffys. Let me know what you think. Ja ne.