InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silver Shadows ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

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Silver Shadows

-Chapter 7-

//Sesshomaru//

Perhaps it was the condescending way in which she spoke to him, the undignified liberty she took with his name, the disrespect to his person. In his inner thoughts, however, he knew it was just her existence that irritated him. The way her gait caught his eyes, the arrogance that surrounded her every step. That was what irritated him the most, the fact that she was so full of herself, feeling mightier because she used to be in Naraku's gang.

Such things are meaningless, we are superior and being in Naraku's gang is shameful, not something to be proud of. Petty human wench, I will teach you your place.

Haven't you tried this already, a part of him questioned. Hadn't he? Yes, he failed. The vindictive whore was still running rampant in his father's corridors, suddenly becoming a trusted underling. They'd spent hours discussing the same woman, where her position should lie. A protector to his father was too dangerous, her having such easy access to his could be a problem. Indeed, he had a problem with her having a position in security.

So onto the next category, they suggested. An assassin under the Shadows. It was a high enough rank that somebody with experience could handle, his father insisted against patronizing “Kagome”. He'd agreed with that job, she would be closely watched by Himura and Sasano.

His eyes snapped open. An infernal racket manifested itself in his thoughts, prayers of thousands were everywhere.

Save them, Kami-sama. Let my mommy live-. And I pray for my new goldfish-. Save the children in the orphanage-. Thank you for this food-.

His eyes snapped shut, closing off his thoughts. That bloody woman didn't even have the prayers directed towards her under control. The door shut with a soft click, silence invading the room.

//InuYasha//

He lay sprawled on a chair, the one he shared with her. Staring at the ceiling he contemplated the dull ache that permeated his being. He need his intended, craved her safety. Why had he been forbidden the freedom to fight for her, to go out and bring her back? He shot up and out the door, the new girl had been with Kikyou in Naraku's domain. The closer he got to the woman, Kagome, the louder a certain argument became.

“Why's your whole bloody body black and blue Kagome!”

“Well gee Sango, maybe it has to do with an ignorant prick of a dog you call Sesshomaru!”

InuYasha winced, somebody out there in the world, other than himself, disrespected Fluffy and was still alive. He nudged the door open and was greeted by the sight of the new girl topless with Sango bent over her back.

“Lesbian action?”

Sango looked up with a glare, “Get a life InuYasha.”

He smirked and joined her side, “Fluffy sure did a nice job on your back.”

Kagome looked up at his pained visage, looking past this she noted his eyes. Dull amber eyes, a rare sight, peered back at her. He, no doubt, noticed her resemblance to his fiancée. Sango pulled away and started to pack up the first-aid kit.

“Done?”

“Yeah, and I've got your guns too.”

“Great, I'll need them.”

InuYasha seemed to snap out of his trance, “For what?”

“Something. Tell me, InuYasha-sama, did Kikyou have anything to do with kids in her life?”

“Kids?” he questioned softly.

“Yes, kids.”

“Why do you ask?”

His hardened expression did not give her any leeway, no way of gathering an answer. When she had been beaten by Sesshomaru, as a form of punishment for leaving without notice, she'd had a momentary link to Kikyou.

I was mistaken when I assumed Kikyou had taken my place by Naraku's side. She was forced into that position by black mail, something involving kids. Now, she's reaching out to whoever to get her out.

“What do you know?”

She looked up, shrugging on her shirt, and raised her eyebrow. He had his silver gun, his initials engraved on the right side, pointed at her head.

“You can't get information out of dead people InuYasha-sama.”

“I'll torture you until you tell me,” he threatened.

Kagome looked up with bored eyes, “I'm a trained assassin, torture doesn't work on me. Now, did Kikyou have anything to do with kids?”

The gun slowly pointed downwards, “She visited an orphanage often. Growing up there, Kikyou wanted to give the kids a sense of a family. I-.”

“Have you kept up with them?” she interrupted.

“No, I don't see why I should have.”

“And there is your mistake,” she said with a smile. “I'll see you later, I've got to go ask for permission to go somewhere.”

“Matte!”

She looked back as Sango re-entered the room with her guns and a holster.

“Is there any way of your knowing if Kikyou-.”

“She's in danger, I know that much. Blackmail, I suspect.”

InuYasha's grip tightened on his guns as she continued.

“Of course Naraku's a bastard, so he'll use the blackmail to any extent. He'll probably try to rape her-.”

“What!”

Her eyes were narrowed as he held her above the ground, his clawed hands on her throat.

“Let me go,” she growled.

Sango sighed and threw up her hands, “If Sesshomaru has to pull you guys apart it won't be pretty.”

The woman left the door wide open, people passing by sporadically ignored them.

“Put me down you ignorant buffoon,” she threatened again.

For good measure, her aura began to resemble an electrical field, licking at his hands. He visibly resisted the urge to retract.

“Perhaps you would also like to be punished for more impertinence?”

Kagome glared at the new intruder, muttering, “Is my new room an irresistible attraction for morons?”

Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed and pried his younger half-brother off of Kagome, “My father would like to speak to you wench.”

“After you guys.”

Sesshomaru dragged InuYasha out, leaving Kagome to lock up her room and head to the Elder.

//Sesshomaru//

The fury was building inside of him, a more than questionable anger that made his blood run hot. It couldn't be that he was angry because InuYasha had been all over the impertinent wench from before, could it? It couldn't possibly. No, this had to go down to his primal need to kill the woman and InuYasha's interference. No other explanation existed. His hand shot out and grasped InuYasha's neck against the wall.

“Listen InuYasha, and listen well. Stay away from that woman, she is mine to kill!”

“Oh fuck off Sesshomaru, since when have you ever been so interested in a woman?”

“Not a woman, a prey.”

InuYasha jerked loose with a growl.

“You don't understand mating bonds Sesshomaru, I will do anything to find out where Kikyou is and I don't particularly care if I kill your prey in the process.”

“Should you deny me of my prey, InuYasha, our father will not stand in the way of your death.”

Even as he walked away from him, the anger boiled beneath the surface of his skin. His mind screamed out in denial at what he knew was to be done. Sesshomaru would protect his prey. The female would not die at any other's expense.

//...//

“Move, move, move, move, move!”

Loading the gun was an easy feat, shooting all the men that were coming at her with loaded guns was not.

“Higurashi,” a young man warned behind a stack of hardened cement bags.

“Yeah, yeah, I know,” she grumbled back.

“Just trying to help a girl out,” he commented with a smile.

Her eye twitched and she shot repeatedly.

“Stop! Higurashi! What is the meaning of this!”

Kagome looked up and dropped her gun.

“We don't shoot allies on the forehead!”

She kicked the unconscious male on the floor, “Yeah, well. We shouldn't mess with females either.”

Kagome scoffed and started walking away from the shooting grounds.

“Higurashi don't you walk away from these grounds, you will learn with and like the rest of the people here!”

Kagome turned slightly and flicked the instructor off, “Instruct that asshole!”

The old man shook with rage and pointed a fully loaded gun at her back, “Don't turn your back on me!”

He shot repeatedly in his anger and found himself decapitated on the floor. Kagome was fuming a few feet away.

“Goddamnit, what is it about you people and shooting me!”

Strong, frigid hands picked her up and carried her away.

“Hey popsicle prince, put me down. My arm is hurt, not my damn legs!”

“Incompetent human, you would be wise to keep yourself away from danger. Do not provoke your instructors, and keep yourself alive until I kill you.”

“You egotistical, son of a-.”

“The term is not offensive seeing as I am an inu youkai, perhaps you would like more time to rethink your insults?”

//...//

Sasano Miroku and Himura Sango stood watch outside of their boss' son's office. He'd carried in an angry, injured Higurashi Kagome and were make-shift guards.

“Cease your ramblings ningen woman!”

Miroku grimaced as the sounds of multiple objects hitting the floor resounded. Was Sesshomaru beating Higurashi Kagome to death?

“Lie down,” Sesshomaru growled.

Sango turned to Miroku with an incredulous look. That simple command sounded so inappropriate.

“It's fucking cold and I'm not exactly in my warmest attire, am I?”

Miroku's eyes shot open and mouthed, “Oh-oh!”

“You try my patience wench. Lie down!”

Sango wore a shocked expression as Miroku held his sides tightly, holding in his raucous laughter. Sango looked to both ends of the hallway they were in and mouthed,

“Shouldn't we leave?”

A female groan drifted to their ears and Miroku slid to the floor, squeezing his eyes shut in an attempt to contain himself.

“What the-. Hey! That's too fucking big!”

Sango clutched her stomach and ran down the hallway, this was a private act. She vaguely heard Sesshomaru grunt and Kagome let out a scream.

“Keep still wench!”

Miroku sighed contentedly, “`Bout time he got laid, he needed to vent some of that stress and anger.”

“Get it out!”

He rolled his eyes and talked to himself, “Trust me, you want it out now but soon enough...”

InuYasha walked past Miroku and paused. He pensively chewed on a red apple and pointed a finger at him.

“I thought you were screwing somebody in Sess's study.”

“Nah,” Miroku said off-handedly, “Sesshomaru is.”

“Oh.”

He began to walk away when the information processed and ended up on the floor. Well, the apple was ruined, the five-second rule didn't apply anymore. He looked back, and assumed Sango's position.

“It hurts damnit.”

“It's only because you are a ningen,” Sesshomaru replied icily.

“Maybe if you were better at this it wouldn't!”

“Oooh,” Miroku said as he grimaced. “Burn!”

“Hey boys,” InuYasha's father commented as he reached for the knob of the door.

“Hey dad-.”

“Sir, I don't think-.”

“Hey Sesshomaru I've...got...a mission...?”

InuYasha nudged Miroku over to get a peek inside. Miroku chuckled and continued to stare. Kagome's startled expression as she lay shirtless, bent over Sesshomaru's desk, was comical. Sesshomaru glared at them, his hand poised over Kagome's left shoulder blade with otweezers.

“You work fast,” Miroku commented, absently noting the blood dripping onto important documents.

“Wow,” InuYasha muttered. “All this time I thought he was gay.”

Kagome rolled her eyes, wincing when Sesshomaru dug the tweezers deeper into her shoulder.

“Oh you'd be surprised InuYasha-sama,” she stated sarcastically, grinding back into his brother for good measure.

“Oh Kami-sama,” he said to himself in irritation.

Sesshomaru pushed away from her, a bloody bullet on the palm of his hand. He deposited it on his father's as he made his way out.

“I believe your instructor is more intent on killing than instructing.”

InuTaisho nodded assertively and Sesshomaru left, “Well, show's over I guess.”

InuYasha grasped Miroku's collar and dragged him down the hallway. Kagome, having lifted herself from the desk, adjusted her clothing, rolled her shoulder with great difficulty. Sango paused at the door and `tsk'ed.

“Damnit, I was just done bandaging you up Kagome!”

“I'm afraid I got into a skirmish for women's role in society Sango-chan,” Kagome responded with a smile.

//...//

Miroku ranted and raved next to InuYasha on their way to who-knows-where.

“I mean really, the nerve you have! You may be InuTaisho-sama's son, but that gives you no right-. Are those girls we're heading towards, InuYasha?”

InuYasha rolled his eyes, “We're not here for entertainment of any sort Miroku, keep your hands to yourself.”

An old woman slowly hobbled to the front of a diversified crowd. The car rolled to an abrupt stop and the two men stepped out. InuYasha removed his glasses and swung his gaze around. This was the place where his mate-to-be spent most of her time, devoted to the care of the less fortunate and left behind.

“How may I help you young men?”

“We're here to ask you a few questions about Himura Kikyou, perhaps you could spare us some time?”