InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ This Wasn't In The Job Description ❯ The Quantum Singularity ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 9

 

The Quantum Singularity

 

Kagome opened her mouth, but she was speechless in surprise. `Replacement?' Kagome thought, `what does she…'

 

Kagome blushed as she realized what Kikyo was saying. Kikyo started looking annoyed, her lips pressed in a thin line as she waited to be let in.

 

“Oh, ah, I'm Kagome Higurashi,” Kagome stammered. “I was hired as his personal assistant.”

 

“Really?” Kikyo drawled and pushed past her into the house.

 

“Where's Miroku?” Kikyo demanded, turning to Kagome once she was in the door.

 

“Follow me,” Kagome said, and led her up the stairs.

 

Once they had passed, InuYasha stuck his head out the door, watching them walk down the hall.

 

“Bitch,” he muttered under his breath, blushing.

 

InuYasha had heard the whole conversation with his sensitive hearing. Replacement - just what was Kikyo getting at? It figured she would say something like that to embarrass poor Kagome, but he didn't like it just the same. Growling softly in annoyance, he returned to putting the filched files away before he followed them upstairs.

 

Slowly, Kagome opened the door to the room Miroku was in. As she entered with Kikyo, Miroku's eyes opened, and then opened wider when he saw Kikyo. Leaning on his uninjured left hand, he levered himself up into a sitting position.

 

“Ah, two visions of loveliness,” Miroku said. “Have I died and gone to heaven?”

 

Kagome smiled, blushing slightly.

 

Kikyo brushed past her. “Can it, Miroku,” she said. “Let me look at your hand.”

 

With a feigned affronted look, Miroku raised his right hand as Kikyo sat down in the chair that InuYasha had previously occupied. Carefully, she took his hand, removing the chain of strange metal, and beginning to peel back the gauze. Just then, InuYasha came in, leaning up against the doorjamb and glowering at Kikyo with his arms crossed. Kagome glanced over at the hanyou from her position at the side of the bed, but he did not give her any notice.

 

They all gasped when Miroku's hand was completely uncovered. It had a perfect black hole in the middle of it - not a trace of green oozed any more. It was no more than a split second before a digital alarm clock sitting on the dresser across from them zipped off and was sucked into his hand and everything else in the room began to shake and tremble. Quickly, Kikyo replaced the gauze and chain.

 

“Shit!” InuYasha swore, gaping in shock. “What the fuck is going on, Kikyo?”

 

Miroku was looking at his hand as if it was some kind of foreign invader, and his face was pale and sickly. He gulped, unable to say a word.

 

“It's a quantum singularity,” Kikyo said. “The deviant nanotech that had been in Naraku's lab has created a black hole confined to Miroku's hand.”

 

InuYasha sighed and put his head in his hand.

 

“How can that be?” Miroku asked in wonder and dread.

 

“You know that Naraku seeks to replicate the Shikon no Tama formula,” Kikyo said. “When he failed in this experiment, creating nanotech that sucks matter into nothingness instead of transmuting genes, he abandoned it and left it as a decoy for us to find.”

 

“More like a trap for us to fall into,” growled InuYasha angrily. “So - can anything be done for him?”

 

Kikyo shook her head and pursed her lips, then looked up at InuYasha.

 

“The chain will keep the nanotech dormant,” Kikyo said. “But every time Miroku exposes his palm, the hole will get bigger and bigger - until one day, it will suck him in entirely.”

 

Kagome gasped and raised her hands to her mouth, tears of shock coming to her eyes.

 

“Isn't there anything that can be done to stop this?” InuYasha said in horror.

 

“The Shikon no Tama formula, if it exists somewhere, would be able to reverse it,” Kikyo said, standing up.

 

Miroku and Kagome watched as Kikyo walked up to InuYasha and skewered him with her steely, determined gaze.

 

“I will be the one to find it, InuYasha,” she sneered. “It's mine and Midoriko's work and belongs to me if she is dead - just you remember that.”

 

Kikyo pushed past InuYasha as he rolled his eyes at her.

 

“So if you think you can do it yourself, why do you keep calling me when you track down a lead?” he snarled after her angrily. “It's because you still need me to protect you, admit it!”

 

“Take care, Miroku,” Kikyo said languidly. “Good-bye, InuYasha. Be careful or you'll drive your new girlfriend away with that foul temper of yours.”

 

“You bitch!” InuYasha exploded angrily, but Kikyo was already heading downstairs towards the front door.

 

InuYasha turned and punched the wall in anger, his fist going right through it and leaving a gaping hole.

 

“Isn't the hole in my hand bad enough?” Miroku said, with a tone of weary patience. “Do you have to put holes in the walls of your house as well?”

 

"Fuck Kikyo!” InuYasha said. “Fuck the hole in the wall, and fuck you too, Miroku! If I want to put a hole in my own fucking house, it's my right!”

 

InuYasha stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him and could be heard a moment later slamming the door to his own quarters closed.

 

Kagome gasped, blinking a few times in shock. It seemed Kikyo was right about more than just Miroku's hand. InuYasha did have one foul temper.

 

“If InuYasha's temper weren't bad enough already, Kikyo always has a way of making it worse,” Miroku said.

 

Kagome looked over at Miroku and he smiled at her. She could not see the twinkle of lechery in his eyes at the moment. Instead, she saw a brooding darkness probably caused by the death sentence he had just received. Kagome felt bad for him, and thought she would much rather see the lechery there instead. She still smarted inside as well from the parting shot Kikyo took at InuYasha. Why did Kikyo persist on calling her InuYasha's girlfriend? Thinking about that got Kagome's heart racing, since there was a resemblance between them. Kagome began to blush at the thought that InuYasha might have hired her for other reasons beside what was in her resume. Oh, thank goodness her mother didn't know anything about this! Kagome could just hear the big fat `told you so,' she would get from her.

 

Suddenly, Kagome gasped and jumped forward as she felt a hand caress her ass. She had been so wrapped up in her own thoughts, that she had not noticed Miroku approach her. Kagome spun around and gaped at him as he grinned.

 

“Hand still works,” he said happily. “Feels much better after touching a beauty like you, Kagome.”