InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Centre ❯ Reprimanded ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 9: Reprimand

"How could you be so irresponsible? We KNEW you had very little experience, but THIS? This is unacceptable! A multi-million dollar facility that has been around for more than a hundred years and YOU wrecked it! Do you have anything to say for yourself, Miko Higurashi?!" the weathered old miko demanded. A weaker miko, the woman made up for it by being 300+ years old and vicious as a viper.

"No ma'am," Kagome whispered, head down in front of the council.

They were the Grand Council. Twelve youkai, twelve miko, twelve holy monks and twelve humans. They made all the decisions as far as the department was concerned.

<Upstairs>

Inuyasha growled low and deadly as he watched from the elevated area, a glass panel separating them all from Kagome as she stood before the council. Bastards had been railing on her for over an hour and she just stood there, taking it all in.

"Inuyasha, if you jump at the glass you'll get a nasty shock again," Miroku commented. His left arm was in a sling, a bandage was over his eyes and his upper torso was covered in bandages as a result of close contact with Sesshoumaru's poisonous fumes. The doctors said he would probably see again. For now Sango was his blind seeing eye….wench. Inuyasha and Miroku thought it was a great joke. Sango was less inclined to share the humor.

"Why the fuck is she just standing there? Why doesn't she tell them to fuck off or something? So she leveled the place? So what? Now no one else can use it."

"Inuyasha, Kagome acted in anger. Mikos cannot do that," Miroku commented. "Even in the face of the worst evil and horror they must maintain control of their emotions."

"They're just jealous of her power and use her inexperience as a fucking excuse," Inuyasha said, crossing his arms as if to say his word was law.

"That may also be true, but we cannot ignore the fact that Kagome broke the rules. She knows she did. Look at her. She is taking responsibility for her actions."

"You could profit from her example," Sango added dryly.

"Feh!"

<Back Downstairs>

"For your disobedience we are demoting you back to novice status. Obviously you have a great deal more training to do before you can be trusted again." Kagome's head shot up. NOVIS STATUS? That was the lowest rank! She was back to square one. That was too harsh a punishment!

"But..what about Naraku?" she asked and immediately regretted opening her mouth. The council chair glared down at her. Kagome steeled her back and met the harsh woman's gaze.

"Naraku is no longer your concern. The council will decide what to do with him. You and Novice Rin are hereby forbidden to have anything to do with this case, or any other case until the council allows it! Give yourself a hundred years or so. This decision will not be available for appeal." With that the council rose and adjourned.

Kagome dropped to her knees in defeat, tears spilling down her face. She had failed. All because the thought of Rin dead had sent her powers out of control, leveling the facility once everyone was out. She had felt the death, despair and fear leaking from the walls of the place. A place like that should not exist. Like a fool she had taken matters into her own hands. Now she paid the price.

<Later that day>

"May I just ask one question?" Kagome said, her left eyebrow ticking as she fought off a headache. "Why are you all in my apartment?"

Inuyasha, Shippou, Miroku, Sango, Kouga and a dozen other wolves were all standing in her living room. Well, Miroku was trying to convince Sango to help him up since he couldn't see and she was ignoring him because he had referred to her as his Seeing Eye Wench again. Shippou was fighting her cat Buyo for a piece of chicken, a loosing battle for Shippou since the cat was bigger, and Inuyasha was threatening to rip out Kouga's throat while Kouga was threatening to remove his ability to father children.

"Where else are we supposed to go?" Shippou asked as the rest of them fumbled for answers.

"I don't know. Didn't the officials tell you anything?"

"We were all given a pat on the head, a short apology and thrust back out into the world," Sango said. "I'm trying to find my family, but until the blind can see again I'm stuck with him."

"Uh, I can't see to go anywhere?" Miroku said.

"Ok, here are the rules. Shippou can stay, Sango can stay, Miroku, you are here until you can see. Everyone else, OUT!" Kagome must have looked really scary because it was a tie as to whether the wolves or Inuyasha was out the door first. Exhausted, Kagome managed to give the three in the living room a couple of blankets and make her way to her bedroom where she collapsed in tears on the bed.

<Outside the apartment building>

"Nice going, dog-turd. Now we've been thrown out!" Kouga snapped.

"HEY! Since when is this my fault? There's only one of me and more than a dozen of you!"

"Idiot. Ginta, round everyone up, let's go find an apartment close by. I can't leave my woman unguarded." Inuyasha's eye twitched.

"Your…woman?" he growled. "Like hell!"

"Just wait, dog-breath. I'll have Kagome bent over and marked before you can say fetch!" Inuyasha wanted so bad to hit him right then, but a smell hit his nose just before a garbage truck drove by, gagging them all. He waited for his nose to recuperate just to make sure. Kouga was not as patient.

"See ya around dog-turd!" Kouga called out, taking off down the street with his fellow wolves straining to keep up.

Inuyasha would have followed and beaten the shit out of him except he smelled the salty residue of tears. Kagome's tears. Kouga may have made a verbal claim on her, but humans didn't recognize that sort of shit.

"How the fuck do I court a human?" he growled to himself. Hmm, fire escape.

<Kagome's bedroom>

Kagome woke with a crashing headache. Shippou was curled up in her arms, snoring in an adorable, soft, cute sort of way only kids could manage. She smiled softly, carefully pulling her arm out from under him to move off the bed in a manner that wouldn't wake him.

Except there was something very solid behind her that blocked the side of the bed. Kagome almost screamed as a clawed arm wrapped around her waist, pulling her close and warm breath tickled her ear.

"It's just me, go back to sleep," she heard him whisper. Kagome's entire body stiffened like a ram rod.

"Get. Out. Of. My. Bed. Inuyasha." She turned her head and gave him a dark glare.

"Keep your shirt on woman. You grabbed me, remember?"

Kagome blushed. She had. He had come through her window like some sort of savior/thief and she was seeking comfort from someone, anyone. He hadn't said a thing, just wrapped his arms around her and let her cry. The only problem was it was a twin bed. Kagome was not comfortable sleeping near a demon who had been interested in getting into her pants and was pushed against her in a rather intimate way. There was something firm poking into her.

"Can you let me up? I have to…use the bathroom," she finished lamely. Anything to get away! What was it with these youkai? Were they all this horny?

Inuyasha grumbled something intelligible and rolled over to let her off. Kagome was most embarrassed to find out the thing that had been poking her was the hilt of Tetsusaiga. Great, a half-demon who slept with his sword. Could her life get any more strange right now?

"YOU ARE NOT TAKING A SHOWER WITH ME!" she heard Sango shout from the kitchen area.

"Men," Kagome mumbled, pulling clothes out of her drawers. She began to pull her shirt up to take it off when she stopped, looking at the bed. Inuyasha had his back to her and Shippou's eyes were closed. She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly changed.

"Great. I have a hentai, a man-hater, a hanyou and a baby youkai in a one bedroom, one bath two room apartment. And I am the only one with a job. A demoted job. With no benefits. Life sucks," Kagome said, a hand quickly covering her mouth. "And I am developing a potty mouth. What next?"

Miroku was standing by the microwave, a bowl of noodles heating inside. Heating for 88 minutes. Kagome jumped over the couch to get to the microwave, pulled open the door and coughed as smoke filled the place.

"I told her I couldn't guess where the buttons were," Miroku said, as if none of this was his fault. "I tried to keep count, but I lost track."

"Next time wait, please. I don't want anyone hurt." Kagome grabbed a sponge only to have her hands grabbed by Miroku's. He was looking behind her right shoulder, obviously still a little oblivious in his state.

"You were…concerned for me?" he asked gently. Kagome felt a blush rise to her cheeks. "Kagome, may I ask a question of you?"

"S-sure."

"Would you bare my children?" Kagome blinked, uncertain if he was serious or not. He looked serious. But it was such a stupid question.

"Miroku, I've hardly known you long enough to jump into marriage like this."

"Oh no no no no! That's not what I meant at all!" he said. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. "Just the kids. And the practice for the kids of course. Practice does make perfect and with a sexy bod like yours who wouldn't want to practice?"

Inuyasha woke to a pained scream that sounded like Miroku was being severely strangled. Yawning he opened the bedroom door. He was amused to find Kagome sitting on Miroku's back, an arm pulled back and up in a painful manner and a dark, dangerous gleam in her eye.

"You sick, perverted, idiotic, disgusting-" she said, accentuating each adjective with a twist to his arm. Miroku was crying mercy like never before. Even Sango didn't make him beg for forgiveness this much.

"Oi, Miroku," Inuyasha called out. "What'd you do this time?"

"N-nothing, Inuyasha. Why do you ask?" Miroku asked, his voice pained.

"Nothing? You were asking me to bear you children like a broodmare! You sicko! Did it escape you that you have the same damn mentality as Naraku?" Kagome accused.

"But I only want my own kids! And I want a willing woman! I did ask, Kagome. All you had to do was say no!" Miroku protested. "Inuyasha, help!"

"Fuck no. You've had this commin a long time. I just thought Sango would be the one to do it. Oi, bitch. When you're done with him get ready to go."

"Go? Just where am I going?" Kagome asked, dropping Miroku like a dead weight. He hit his chin with a crack and groaned.

"To Rin's place, of course. You want to see her don't you?"

"Huh?" Kagome asked, very confused. "See her? She's alive? WHERE!?" she asked, jumping up and grabbing Inuyasha by the shirt collar.

"Feh, of course she's alive. You think Sesshoumaru would let her die? You really know nothing, do you bitch."

Kagome pulled Inuyasha up so they were eye to eye and nose to nose. He could have sworn he saw flames in her eyes.

"My name is Kagome. Ka. Go. Me. Not bitch, not wench or any other derogatory name you can devise. Got that Dog-boy?" she asked. Inuyasha smirked and wrapped a hand around her waist. Before Kagome could react he pulled her against him and gave her a firm, possessive and passionate kiss.

"Fine by me," he said, leaving her standing there, flushed and confused.

What the hell was that??? Kagome asked herself.

"Inuyasha, no fair getting it on with Kagome when I can't watch!" Miroku complained and got two bumps on his head for his trouble.

<Rin's place>

Sesshoumaru was stretched out in front of the furnace, shirtless, reading a book. A familiar scent hit his nose and he sighed, closing the book. Well he'd have to face him sooner or later. Damn bitch of his was friends with Rin. That meant they'd be coming over often. Of all the cursed luck.

"Jaken, inform Rin she has guests," he said.