InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 24 ( Chapter 25 )

As Kagura pulled her car into the parking lot of the Barato Motel in her Pontiac Sunfire, cursing Kagome for showing up and ruining her wedding plans with Sesshomaru. “If the bitch had only stayed away a little longer, then I would be Mrs. Sesshomaru Taisho, instead of out on the streets like some piece of garbage,” she thought crossly. Once she acquired a room at the dump of a motel, Kagura moved toward her room, noticing the beat up green Dodge parked not far from her door. A look of recognition crossed her face as one name came to her mind, Naraku.

 

She moved closer to her door, realizing that another farther down was opening up, revealing the man she detested nearly as much as she did her former roommate. Catching her gaze on his person, Naraku looked at the wind witch as he smirked, “I see that you're out on your ear as well, sweetheart. Care to join me and Kikyo for some dinner?”

 

Looking at her ex-boyfriend in disgust, Kagura snorted as she replied, “When hell freezes over, maybe. I see that you're up to your old tricks again, Naraku. What kind of game are you playing this time?” Kagura leaned against the door of her room as she crossed her arms across her chest, waiting for his response.

 

With a sly smile, Naraku replied, one word that explained everything, “Revenge.” Moving toward his ex, Naraku trapped her against the frame of her door, placing both of his hands on either side of her head as he continued, huskily, “It's been so long, Kagura. I've missed your smell, the taste of your lips against mine.” Quickly he claimed her lips, crushing them in his kiss of heated passion and desire.

 

Kagura fought against his crushing strength, but the sensations that his kiss brought to her body won over her, and soon she was meeting him, kiss for kiss, in a struggle of supremacy. Suddenly a slamming door brought the two to their senses. Seeing the look of desire in her eyes, Naraku took her hand, and gently guided her toward his room, and other waiting mate. “Soon… soon this will be very… very interesting,” he thought as he opened his door, to reveal Kikyo, laying on the bed, waiting for him to return from his trip to the store for food, only to have him bring back some one else instead.

 

Slowly, Kikyo rose up from the bed, covering her nakedness with the rumpled sheet that had previously been discarded in earlier exploits. “Who is that?” she demanded, hurt that he'd bring in someone else to their little party, but noticing the look of lust in her eyes as well, which kindled an emotion that she'd never felt toward the same sex before.

 

Taking stock of the tension in the room, Naraku motioned toward Kagura as he replied, “This is my ex, Kagura Viento. Kagura, this is…”

 

“Kikyo Arcilla-Perraton, the woman wanted for assault of Acacia Matador,” Kagura continued. Taking stock of the sudden look of desire directed toward her person from Kikyo. Feeling a bit uncomfortable, Kagura began to fidget by moving from one foot to the other, rubbing her legs together to try and ease the tingling sensation that she suddenly felt as well in her nether regions.

 

As the scent of arousal hit Naraku like a sledge hammer, he quickly turned toward the two women, discarding his button down shirt as he took stock of the situation. As the smile of lust and desire crossed his face, he thought with a chuckle, “This will be more than interesting… Two women… a case of beer… and I'm a very happy and pleased man.” Quickly taking charge of the situation, Naraku moved toward Kagura, hooking her chin with a single finger, drawing her gaze from the barely covered Kikyo to lock her lips into a kiss full of the lust and desire that he felt building when he saw her again. His hands moved over her torso, removing her shirt in one fluid motion as Kikyo came up behind Naraku, lips trailing kisses down his broad back. As he moved the two women toward the queen sized bed, Naraku thought greedily, “This will be very pleasing indeed.”

 

 

At the Taisho mansion, lost in thought as to what Jade had asked him at the hospital, as well as Koga's unexpected visit, Inuyasha walked right into his brother. Being brought back to reality, with Sesshomaru's hand around his throat, Inuyasha was pushed roughly into the nearby wall, feeling it give as the enraged dog demon before him flexed his claws for further assault.

 

“What the hell do you think you were doing, taking my car… my CAR without asking?” Sesshomaru growled out between clenched teeth.

 

With his own claws on his brother's wrist, Inuyasha gasped out, “I… needed… to get … to the hospital… to explain… to Jade…”

 

“So this is about that bitch you slept with last night? Were you trying to cover your ass by trying to keep her quiet about the whole thing with Kikyo to keep in her good graces? Is that it?” Sesshomaru asked, coldly as he tightened his grip on the struggling hanyou.

 

Using his legs, Inuyasha kicked Sesshomaru in the groin, only to be deflected by a leg of his own, inflicting a great deal of pain into the struck muscular thigh. Although it hurt like hell, Sesshomaru wasn't about to break his stoic façade in front of his idiotic brother. Instead he tightened his grip as he demanded, “I want to know the answers to my questions, mutt. Now tell me what this really about?”

 

Struggling for more air, working his claws into those of steel around his throat, Inuyasha tried to explain, “I… didn't… have sex… with Jade… Kikyo… attacked her… I needed… to apologize… for what… happened.”

 

As the news registered that Inuyasha was trying to be the better man, than what Sesshomaru had originally expected of his arrogant brother, he eased the grip around his neck, lowering him back to the floor. “I see… however, that does not excuse you from taking my car without asking,” Sesshomaru concluded.

 

Inuyasha rubbed his neck where Sesshomaru had grabbed his neck, luckily for him, it hadn't been his acid claws or he'd have been dead. Looking at the somewhat pained face of his brother, Inuyasha replied, “I'm sorry to have taken the car, I needed to make things right between me and Jade. Although, Koga's back in town and on the war path, I'm not sure if it will help or not my talk with Jade, that is.”

 

With a shack of his head, recalling the last time the wolf demon graced their door step that caused Inuyasha to be in bed for a week, allowing for the mending of a few broken ribs, broken nose and a broken arm. Luckily for Inuyasha, Sesshomaru had been studying to be an EMT before his ultimate release from college over the whole Kagome fiasco. He replied, “You were a fool for going after his girl again. I would have thought the last time you messed with Ayame would have taught you to quit sniffing around his women.”

 

“I'm guessing that it had been a while since she last saw him, seeing as his scent wasn't that strong on her,” Inuyasha replied, moving toward the refrigerator and the ice machine for a bag of ice for his neck. As he filled a bag of ice, he commented, “I saw Kagura packed her bags and left. Am I to assume that the wedding is off?”

With a quirk of his eyes brow, Sesshomaru replied, “Yes, the bitch can rot in hell for all I care. She ruined the only true relationship that I ever had with the woman of my dreams with lies and deceit. I'm not even sure if Kagome would ever want me back after all these years.” He moved toward the bar, near where Inuyasha had taken a seat nursing his neck.

 

Seeing the look of vulnerability, and not liking what he saw, Inuyasha replied, “If she loved you enough to come all the way out here to see you, then I think that she may be willing to make up for lost times. There will be hurtles that you'll have to face, seeing as you were the one who refused to listen to her when she said that the drugs were not hers, as well as the whole having our lawyers accuse her of such. But you need to speak with her, to see where things stand between you two.” As he reached into his pocket, Inuyasha's fingers brushed the broken necklace and the ring. Carefully he pulled both out of his pocket and handed them to Sesshomaru. “Here, I think that these belong to you.”

 

Sesshomaru took the jewelry from his brother, looking intently at the ring that had meant so much to him when he had given it to Kagome. “She kept it? Even after all I had done to her…” he thought, lost into his memories of the past, when he had given her the ring.

 

Seeing the look of longing in his brother's eyes, Inuyasha casually replied, “I know that she's staying out at Jade's place. That's the reason that I was even out there last night, Sesshomaru. It was to help protect her from being attacked again.”

 

Looking once more with steel amber eyes, Sesshomaru asked, “Could you elaborate as to what exactly happened that caused your presence at Jade's home?” As Inuyasha explained the details of his encounter with Naraku, the assault of Kagome, the ransacking of her room, although that was with less detail, and then finally coming to the rescue of the damsel in distress by taking her to a remote location and providing protection, Sesshomaru listened very intently, growing in anger as each detail was given.

 

“So basically your crush on Jade had nothing to do with the protection of Kagome?” Sesshomaru inquired as he digested all that had been said.

 

A slight blush coved Inuyasha's cheeks as he replied, “Well… I had to keep Miroku from taking advantage of her vulnerable state… although Sango was also there, so I think that he had other things on his mind. I did go… to quench my curiosity as to who Jade was. Unfortunately, that was when I found out that she was Koga's girlfriend… after she called out for him in her sleep; apparently she was having a nightmare. Her cats however are another story. I didn't do anything more than just hold her, because of those damned cats. They were protective of her, and I mean very protective.”

 

A slight smile crossed Sesshomaru's face as the image of Inuyasha being denied sexual release by two ordinary house cats. As the image played before his eyes a soft chuckle escaped his lips as he tried to repress the urge to laugh his ass off at his brother's plight. “I would have loved to have seen that,” Sesshomaru thought as he left the kitchen, to go to his room and think about how best to get back with Kagome. At least be able to talk with her and explain that he had been as much a victim of Kagura's deceit as she had been. As the brothers moved toward their various rooms, deep in thought Koga and Jade pulled into the drive way of her home, thankful for the end of one heck of a rotten day.