InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Bear Witness ❯ Progress Reports ( Chapter 12 )

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Chapter Twelve: Progress Reports

*Three months later*

~From: Marshal Kagome Higurashi at stakamada.wct

To: Sergeant Kaede Milstrome at govtatl.org {SF: Not a real email address.}

Date: Thursday, October 08, 2003 10:45 PM EST

Re: Three Month Progress Report

Things have calmed since the first week. Takamada and Hitame no longer fight, and Marshal Taijia and I are slowly adjusting to the normal office day. ~

"Kagome?"

Kagome glanced over her shoulder. "I'm coming. Just give me a second."

~There have been at least 9 assassination attempts; with five on Takamada, three on Hitame and one bomb threat to the entire hotel. Marshal Taijia discovered and disarmed the bomb before it could endanger any lives.

RECOMMENDATION: A metal for Marshal Taijia.~

"Kagome?"

"I said I'm coming!" Kagome growled over her shoulder at the study door. "Jeez, find some patience will you?"

~Three more Tenseigas have been either destroyed or stolen. The FBI are currently investigating the incidents.

I have filed a sexual harassment report on Agent Terrance Kenji, but the case has been suspended due to his disappearance. He has been missing for over three months. His car was found yesterday in Nevada, abandoned.~

"If you don't come out this instant, I'm coming in."

"I said wait a minute," Kagome growled. "I'm almost finished!"

~On a personal note, the only thing that is off is Takamada himself. For most of our investigation, he insists that I stay near him, but for one week every month he insists that I trade with Miroku or Sango at the hotel. During this week he keeps me in and out of the office with useless errands. It is rather confusing and I keep forgetting to ask why.

End Report~

"Well, since you won't come to me, I guess I'll have to come and get you," Sesshoumaru said seconds before he came into the room. He scooped Kagome up from the computer and flung her over his shoulder as he walked back out the door.

"Wait!" Kagome squealed as she struggled to get free. She brushed her hair to the side and fumbled for the 'send' button. "I have to send this!"

"Do it tomorrow," Sesshoumaru said as he moved to close the laptop.

"If its late, I get called back to do the report in person!"

Sesshoumaru stopped, considering this a moment before giving a shrug. "Then I guess I should send this then." He pressed the send button, closed the laptop and walked out of the study.

"Put me down Takamada," Kagome huffed as he opened the bedroom door.

"If you insist."

"Eeeeeek!" Kagome squealed as she sailed through the air. She landed on the bed with a thump, looking as cross as she could at an abnormally playful Sesshoumaru. "Are you nuts? What's your problem?"

"I politely asked you to come here, and you ignored me. So I decided that maybe polite wasn't the best way to ask you. This seemed to work much better." He sat down beside her as Kagome continued to scowl at him.

"You're a jerk," she grumbled. "Now what can I do for you?"

"It is time you went to sleep," Sesshoumaru said as he pushed her under the covers. Kagome shook her head and stood up.

"No. I don't know where you got this idea from, but I'm not sleeping with you again," Kagome growled as Sesshoumaru settled under the covers and slowly tugged her to him.

"I said no," Kagome grumbled as Sesshoumaru pulled the covers over her.

"Can't you hear?" she asked. Sesshoumaru still said nothing as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "Takamada, I said no."

"You can't honestly tell me that you enjoy sleeping in that easy chair," Sesshoumaru finally said as he closed his eyes. "Or do you?"

"I don't but-"

"But nothing. Go to sleep."

Kagome sighed irritably, ready to protest further when Sesshoumaru nuzzled her neck with his nose, rested his head on her shoulder and went to sleep. "For the love of God," Kagome complained. She reached back and absently scratched behind Sesshoumaru's ear, earning something like a purr in response. 'May as well get some sleep, since Mr. Death-Grip won't let go until morning. Do we have to do this every night? I wonder if he'd let me up if I had to go to the bathroom.' Kagome giggled softly at the idea and went to sleep.

*Inuyasha's Journal Entry*

10/15/03

~ I'm starting to believe that Naraku's threat to our company may have been a blessing in disguise. How else would such changes come to pass in my life, and in my brother's life, without it? After all, my childhood with the cold and emotionless taiyoukai wasn't as bad as it could have been, but it wasn't as good as it could have been either.

After Father's death, Sesshoumaru took full responsibility for my mother and I, even though I knew he didn't like the idea very much. We never knew how Father died, we just kinda took Sesshoumaru's word for it, since he wasn't one for those kinds of games. After Mother died, Sesshoumaru still looked after me. He stopped me from nearly shaming the family by chasing after the Shikon no Tama, to which now I don't regret. The jewel brought nothing but pain and death to whoever touched it, including the hanyou that chased the miko that protected it. The miko killed the hanyou before she passed on. ~

Inuyasha sighed deeply, remembering the face of the hanyou stuck to the tree by the miko's arrow. 'It could have been me, if it weren't for Sesshoumaru.'

~ Soon our days in the Feudal Era went by swiftly, and we traveled to parts of the world that humans didn't know existed yet. We arrived in America 100 years ago, and Sesshoumaru started the company 40 years after. 'After all,' he once said, 'If we must live like the humans, then we must live as the best of them.'

Then I met Kikyou.~

'Kikyou,' Inuyasha sighed, then gazed out the balcony doors. 'How I miss you.'

~ Kikyou was the first human to find out about what we are, and she accepted me, loved me, even married me despite what Sesshoumaru said about her. Sesshy hated her with a passion, and swore she only wanted to use me for the family's money. We argued many days about her before she- ~

Inuyasha bowed his head, then decided to leave that sentence alone.

~ Now Naraku is trying to take what he's spent so much time creating. And somehow, in that cloud there's the proverbial silver lining.

For me, it's in the form of three marshals and a men's store clerk with steel gray eyes. Miroku, the poor lech, is just like another brother to me. We talk about all kinds of things, where Sesshoumaru is all steel and cold and shrewdness. Miroku knows how to play a killer game of chess too.

Sango, the older female marshal, has a big heart and looks after me like an older sister. We argue constantly, but in a way its funny to see her so riled up. She's getting the hang of office work, and I've told her if she ever needed a job to come and work for me. Myouga loves her too, but that old flea loves everyone.

Then there's Katrina, the store clerk I ran into. She's so- ~

Inuyasha turned and smiled at the covered form on his bed.

~ So intriguing, and beautiful. She's funny, smart and witty to a fault, not unlike Kikyou. Sometimes I feel guilty for what I have with Katrina and wish I could talk to Kikyou, but somehow I think she's with me. I think she'd approve of Katrina, even though Sesshoumaru doesn't. He said something about not getting a scent off her, but I don't seem to have that problem. She smells like the sugar cane fields that are in Central America and clothes left to dry in the sunshine. Speaking of Sesshoumaru…~

Inuyasha grinned, then turned around. Finding the form still sleeping, he turned back to his laptop and started typing again.

~ It would seem that the third marshal, Kagome, is having an effect on him. Kagome is like the girl next door, you know the one that you dream about marrying when you grow up? Yeah, this is her. She's always smiling and laughing, even when Sango and Miroku pull their 'sneaks'. I finally made Miroku tell me what that meant, and when I found out I thought that I'd die laughing. That fits Sango and Miroku perfectly!

Kagome is even tempered, and the nicest miko I've ever met. Yup, you heard right, she's a miko. She's not one of those that want to just immediately purify a youkai either. She actually wants to save the world, if you can believe it. The girl herself is amazing, but the effect she's having on old Stone Face is remarkable.

Sesshoumaru's not as stuffy as he used to be. Where at one time he'd sit in his office fully dressed, you can now come in and find her loosening his tie or hiding his suit jacket from him. That's the greatest part of the day, seeing him grumbling down the halls about wenches stealing his stuff as he searches the entire building. Kagome gives it back to him at the end of the day, but Sesshoumaru has yet to find it on his own. And I never knew until her that he even owned a pair of suspenders, no less wore them. I think I'll get him a pair for Christmas.

He keeps her away from him when she goes into heat, which is funnier still. You can see how badly Kagome wants to ask why, but she holds her tongue and does like he says. She still manages to protect him though, so you have to give the girl something for her diligence. Kouga is attached to her like a leach, always asking her out on dates and begging Sesshoumaru to let her have a day off so she could go. I believe that if Kagome really were his assistant, he'd lock her in his office and away from Kouga at all times. Kouga really tries when she's in heat, and you can almost swear you can hear Sesshoumaru growling threats in the hallway.

Oh yeah, Sesshoumaru and I don't fight anymore. When we try, Kagome breaks Sesshoumaru's containment spell and levitates us until we calm down. We have no choice but to talk to each other like 'civilized people' since Kagome doesn't like it when we yell either. I can't wait to hear how she behaves when they go to Seattle tomorrow for the instillation of the new Tenseiga ~

"Are you almost finished?"

Inuyasha looked back at his bed and smiled. "Almost Katrina. I'm coming."

"M'kay." He heard Katrina yawn, then fall back asleep.

~ I have to tell you what I saw a week ago! I woke up a little early last Monday, I think about 5:00, and went to Sesshoumaru's room to discuss something. I got as far as his bedroom door and couldn't get it open. I couldn't break the containment spell on it either. Since Kagome sleeps in there too, I started to wonder what was going on so I did like any curious youkai would do: went back in my room to my balcony and climbed off it, over the roof and to Sesshoumaru's balcony. When I finally landed, I nearly burst out laughing.

There was Sesshoumaru, wrapped around Kagome's back like a baby pup with his nose in her hair. I knew they argued a lot lately, but I didn't think as to why until then. I stole onto the balcony the next night a little before they went to bed and hid. It turns out that they don't do anything, but he insists that she sleep beside him instead of in the easy chair. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and just looks at her like she's some kind of angel or something.

You know, I think Sesshoumaru loves her, but doesn't want to admit it to himself. He's so…well, kind toward her when he thinks no one's looking, and he has this look in his eye when she approaches. He looks up from his work when she asks a question, something he never did toward anyone other than Rin. It's good for ol' Stick in the Mud to have some love in his life, and I hope he admits it to himself soon.

I want nieces and nephews damn it! Is that so wrong? ~

"Inuyasha…"

Inuyasha smiled, saved, closed his laptop and headed for bed. "Sorry about that," he whispered as he kissed Katrina's cheek. She smiled and turned to face him, patting his cheek lovingly.

"It's no problem. You've kept that journal for how long?"

"For at least four years," Inuyasha said as he kissed her forehead. Katrina smiled back. "Then I can wait. It's worth it, in my opinion."

Inuyasha draped his arms around her and went to sleep. He nuzzled his face in Katrina's hair as she looked at him.

'Oh no,' Katrina thought as Inuyasha kissed her shoulder blade in his sleep. 'I'm not supposed to fall for him. Naraku isn't going to be happy in the least!'