InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Centre ❯ ...often go awry ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter 11: …often go awry.

"Cough it up, Kag. What's going on between you and Inuyasha?" Rin asked, opening the drawer to her dresser and randomly pulling out a pair of spandex pants.

"Going on?" Kagome asked, confused.

"Nice collection of expensive clothes you had there. Not to mention he is giving death glares to any male within ten feet of you. Even uninterested males. Are you playing him?"

"Playing him?" Kagome asked, her voice smaller and more uncertain.

"Letting him shower you with affection until you get bored and dump him," Rin translated, mentally telling herself to be patient. Patience was a virtue.

"Affection? All that was affection?" Kagome demanded. "I'm glad you realize what the heck he's doing. I haven't got a clue!"

Oh boy.

"Ok, listen Kag. Power draws power. You are a powerful miko which means powerful demons are going to be attracted to you. The fact that you are of a perfect age and totally untouched makes you like….hmm, a free sample from an ice cream truck being held out just waiting for someone to snatch it as it drives by." Rin thought the analogy was brilliant. Kagome's expression suggested otherwise.

"So I'm a cream popsicle?" Kagome hissed. "What is it with you people!? Why is everything about sex?"

"Sex? Not everything is about sex, Kag. Sex just happens to be a part of it and since you are so incredibly shy about it, naturally it is the most obvious thing to you when confronted with the unfamiliarity of this world. Honestly, babe, you've lived a very sheltered life. Welcome to the sunshine."

"I don't get it," Kagome said, dropping onto Rin's bed with a sigh, putting her head in her hands. Rin crouched down to her level, her voice softening.

"Listen Kag. It doesn't matter what anyone else wants, demon, human or hanyou. It matters what you want. What do you want?"

Kagome looked up, a slight frown upon her face. What did she want? Did she want the house with the fence, the husband coming home from work, the dog and 2.5 kids? No…not really. Her heart didn't show any inclination toward that. Did she want a life alone? No one by her side? Well, no, not that either. Single parent? God no. Steady relationship? And she had time for that when? Fuck buddy? Ok, not even going there. What did she want?

Rin let Kagome think while she pulled out maps and a compass, laying them on the table. The question she had asked was hardly a simple one. It might be years before Kagome realized what she truly wanted, but at least now she was thinking about it.

"You know what I really want? At least, short term," Kagome said, breaking the silence.

"Um, oh, I know this one…..ice cream?" Rin asked, grinning back at the younger girl. Kagome laughed, easing the strain from her face.

"No, I was going to say Naraku's head on a platter, but maybe afterwards a triple scoop sundae with nuts would be good."

"Nuts huh? Kag, one day you are going to have to admit you are one sexually frustrated puppy."

"Hey, listen here….wench. When you start getting some then you can tease me. Until then, keep your perverted thoughts to yourself. New subject. Where is Naraku now?"

<In the living room>

Inuyasha glared at Sesshoumaru.

Sesshoumaru glared at Inuyasha.

<Some hours later, at Rin's apartment>

"So the last sightings were here," Rin marked on the large laminated map. "Here, and here. If we triangulate that we find that from almost all his sightings they all converge here, near this old factory."

"It seems too easy," Sango said, studying the map.

"Can someone describe it to me?" Miroku asked. "Saying here to a blind man really isn't very descriptive."

"No one asked the blind man's opinion," Sesshoumaru said with a sneer.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, while in my house I expect you to extend the utmost civility to my guests. Is that going to be a problem?" Rin asked, brow arched. "Or do I need to bite you again?"

Sesshoumaru had a totally stoic expression, but his cheeks tinged red.

"B-bite?" Inuyasha sputtered. "Oh man, you got whooped, didn't you? I gotta see this!" Sesshoumaru snarled as his brother pulled back his long hair, but a glare from Rin kept him from doing anything beyond growling.

"Biting huh? Sounds kinky to me," Miroku snickered.

"Rin bit him? Why?" Kagome asked.

"Sesshoumaru is a dog-demon," Sango explained. "Dogs, like many animals, are used to being in a pack. Within the pack is a hierarchical order with two dominating members on the very top; alpha female and alpha male. The female is usually dominant over the male, although males would have you think otherwise. Rin proved her dominance by holding Sesshoumaru in a submissive hold, at the back of his neck where the neck and shoulders meet. It's rather dangerous since Sesshoumaru has every right to kill Rin if she can't hold him."

"Oh…" Kagome said. "Where do you all get this kind of information?"

Sango, Rin, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru all exchanged glances.

"National Geographic," they answered in unison.

"And occasionally the Discovery channel," Rin added.

"Hey guys," Miroku said, only to be ignored.

"Ya know the Learning Channel can be fun," Sango said to Rin. "Although after a couple of those Baby stories I swore off ever having kids. No way is something that big coming out of there."

"Guys?" Miroku tried again.

"Keh, at least you got to watch TV, Sango. Some of us were kept locked up 24/7," Inuyasha interjected.

"Yo guys."

"Well no sense in chancing you jerking off to-" Sango began.

"HEY! I'M BLIND, NOT FUCKING MUTE!!!" Miroku yelled.

"If it's a perverted comment, Houshi, I'm gonna ran this sharp pointy compass up a very uncomfortable place," Rin threatened.

"I'm going to ignore that comment. May I point out that these Naraku sightings are all too convenient?" he said. "I mean twenty plus sightings? Seems a little coincidental if you ask me."

"Miroku has a point," Kagome said. "Not to mention there's this one strange sighting over here that doesn't correlate with any of the others. Do we have times he was at these places?"

Rin pulled a laptop from under a pile of papers and flipped it up, clicking away until she was in the operating system.

"I'll be damned. Son of a bitch," she said.

"I take offense to that," Sesshoumaru retorted.

"Look at this. Here, twenty miles from the pin point he was seen at 10:34pm. Over here, at the weird one, he was seen at 10:36 pm. That's over a hundred miles away."

"No way he made that distance in two minutes, even flying," Sango said.

"But which one if him?" Rin asked. "For all we know any number of these is fake or real."

"What about Kagura? And that other one, Kanna you called her? Where have they been seen?" Kagome asked. All eyes turned on her in amazement. No one said a word. "Well cloning one person would be easy, but your entire staff? Look for the location where the most of him and his staff have been sighted. The larger the number, the more likely they are to be real right?"

"Genius, utter genius. She's only 20 and pure genius!" Rin said, typing frantically.

"Either that or we're all idiots," Inuyasha said, crossing his arms and leaning against the far wall. He seemed rather…..quiet and moody. Kagome couldn't quite place it. It was like the spark of his life was smothered. She caught his eye.

You ok? She mouthed, concern furrowed deep in her brow.

Fine, he mouthed back, tearing his gaze from hers. For some reason that reply was like a slap in the face for Kagome. Try as she could, she couldn't get him to meet her gaze again.

"Bingo!" Rin exclaimed. "Kagura, that fucking bitch whose entrails I am going to hang as a Christmas wreath, has been sighted here and here and here. I took into account her damn flying feather and figure she can be here and here, but this one is probably a doozie. Kanna hasn't been sighted anywhere, but get this. Police reports of two brothers sighted moments before a rather powerful bat youkai disappeared, wanted for questioning. Ten miles from here, where none of Naraku's sightings pin point."

"He's probably throwing people a false trail," Sango said. "Wanting us to try this factory. It's probably rigged or something."

"Or he's using reverse psychology and is actually in the factory, laughing at us overlooking something right under our nose," Kagome offered. Again everyone stopped and stared, but this time their expressions were ones of disbelief.

"I guess the genius thing was a fluke," Rin said with a sigh. "Pity."

"So hard to maintain brains or good looks these days," Sango added.

"I think Kagome looks just fine," Miroku said. "She could do with a good lay to get those dark circles out from under her eyes, but other than that she is a very attractive and incredibly intelligent."

There was a long drawn out silence as Miroku quickly realized his mistake. He tried to make a dash for it, but a claw from Inuyasha kept him from running. Then he was surrounded by three rather angry women.

"And just HOW long have you been able to see, Houshi?" Sango asked, cracking her knuckles.

"Anyone ever told you abusing a privilege is a crime in the demon world?" Rin asked, a wicked looking knife flipping nonchalantly in her hand.

"Good lay huh? I'll give you a good lay. How about I deck you? Will that lay you out enough?" Kagome said, her fingers beginning to glow, small bolts of pink lightening jumping from finger tip to finger tip as her normally gentle eyes held a rather dark and scary glare.

"What do ya say we pack everything up while the girls beat the shit out of Miroku?" Inuyasha suggested to his brother. At this point Miroku had crawled to the kitchen and sounds of a good beating were heard echoing through the apartment.

"Disgustingly enough, I agree with you," Sesshoumaru retorted. "I'll get weapons, you get clothes, cars, food and necessary communications devices."

"Hey, how come I have to get so much more stuff?"

"Just shut up and do it," Sesshoumaru snarled. Miroku screamed in the background.

"Wuss. He screams like a girl," Inuyasha snickered.

"If he can sing that well maybe we should let them castrate him and sell him to the opera," Sesshoumaru suggested.

"Can you imagine the look on his face when he discovers the only women to grope are opera singers?"

<Somewhere up north>

"Kanna, where's Naraku?" Kagura asked. "The damn government is sending out agents again. Different ones."

"He's not available for the night," Kanna said. "Plans shall go as discussed. This new group is not as strong. The young miko is out of the way."

"What else are we to do? Until we get the dog demon back we can't run those tests."

"There's a tribe of wolf youkai. Naraku said you can play with them all you want. Just keep the alpha bitch alive for breeding purposes." Kagura cracked a wicked smile.

"A whole pack of wolves huh? Hiten, Manten, let's go. We have work to do!"

"Hey, Kagura. What about this brat?" Hiten asked, pushing a young boy of about eleven years forward. Kagura looked down at the child with a smile. The kind of smile a cat gave when looking at a canary in a cage.

"What was his name again? Kohaku? Hey Kohaku. Wanna see something cool?" Kagura purred as she pulled out her fan. "I can make wolves dance. Even dead ones."