InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 49 ( Chapter 50 )

Muso growled at low under his breath at the excruciatingly slow cashier at the rural grocery store, wishing that she'd hurry up as he checked out the mother of three riled children before him. Her pile of groceries mounted seemingly unceasingly onto the small conveyer belt with another two piled shopping carts behind it. He glanced around the store, hoping to find another cashier to help him with his small basket of antibiotic ointments, bottle of peroxide, bandages of various shapes and sizes and bottles of aspirin and Ibuprofen. With a miserable sigh of resignation he lowered his head to the inevitable fate of having to wait for the snail paced cashier to assist the woman in front of him.

 

“Please Kagura… hang on for a little bit longer. I'll be there as soon as I can,” he thought inwardly, wishing that he'd been able to bring her with him to the rural town for medical attention. However his stunt with Naraku earlier while he'd been `occupied' was enough to put the fear of his wrath into every fiber of his being.

 

With a shake of his head, Muso thought, “Soon I'll be able to get her out of there and away from that monster. He'll take us all down with him before this is over and I don't want to be there when he does.”

 

“Are you ready, sir?” a small voice asked from his left, jarring him from his thoughts.

 

Muso looked toward the voice, noticing the slender pale haired cashier in the next lane over motion toward him. “Yeah… sure,” he replied as he moved toward her lane, placing the basket upon the conveyer, grateful that a small prayer had been answered for a speedy return to his beloved. “I'll be there soon, my love,” he thought as the pale haired cashier moved with haste in getting his groceries scanned and placed in their waiting bags. Once he paid for his supplies, Muso returned to his truck, spitting gravel as he quickly left the parking lot.

 

 

As the demons of her dreams raced threw her mind and tore at her flesh, Kagura moaned, screamed and gasped under the thin blanket that she'd been covered with as the fever induced nightmares ran rampant through her mind.

 

Dream sequence…

 

Red hate filled eyes loomed large in her nightmares as pearly iridescent fangs gnashed thin air above her head. She recognized the thin magenta strips upon the muzzle of the huge white dog chasing her down as well as the violet crescent moon upon his forehead.

 

With wide scarlet eyes, Kagura screamed, “NO!!!!!” as a huge white paw tinged with green poisonous gasses landed mere inches from her fallen form. The great muzzle of the enraged demon lord moved toward her. His huge pale nose hovered near her sprawled form as he inhaled her scent, growling deeply in anger and frustration as he identified the scent. Acidic saliva dripped dangerously close to her struggling form.

“It wasn't me… It wasn't my plan to hurt you!” she screamed, struggling to get back on her feet to run from the enraged beast. A feral howl of pain echoed through the night as the demon lord called for his beloved.

 

Seeing her opportunity, Kagura scrambled back onto her feet, ignoring the tearing of the sharp rocks upon her feet as she ran on trembling legs away from the demon. Sensing that his prey was running once move, the great dog lowered his head letting out a menacing bark as he gave chase, following her fear laced scent.

 

Kagura ran as fast and as far as she could, stumbling a couple of times, skinning her hands and knees multiple times, leaving a thin blood scent trail which egged on the great white hunter. Nearing the clearing where the vehicles had been abandoned, Kagura tripped on last time, landing harshly on her side as a deep gash sliced her deep across her chest, gushing blood. She looked over her back at the item that she'd tripped over and saw the blank, lifeless face of Muso staring back at her with a horrible expression of excruciating pain upon his face.

 

“No… No… no…” she murmured, ignoring the pain in her chest as she scrambled toward her lover. Touching the cold, lifeless face tenderly she murmured, “This wasn't suppose to happen. We weren't supposed to be here when he came for her! But now… now it' all falling apart and he's to blame.” Kagura balled her fists as she slowly pushed herself onto her feet, steeling her eyes into hard rubies; she glared toward the one demon that was behind the whole mess that she was in.

 

He moved swiftly toward his clunker of a car, trying to escape the wrath of the ferocious dog demon who had hunted him down. “I've got to escape. I've got to get away from here as fast as I can, before he finds me. The horrors of what he'll do are unimaginable,” he thought frantically as the shoved his key into the ignition. As he frantically turned the ignition trying to get the unruly Dodge to start, he glanced frequently into the rear view, fearing the approach of the great white dog as he bound toward the vehicles.

 

Once the engine sputtered to life, he looked back toward the front of his vehicle as he jammed the transmission into drive. The sight before him was not as he'd expected. Kagura stood before his car, glaring daggers at the cause of all her pain and heart ache. “Naraku… you vile bastard, this is your entire fault and you have the audacity to flee the scene like some drowning rats,” Kagura yelled above the din of the noisy engine.

 

Leaning out the driver's side window, Naraku yelled out, “Get out of the way you crazy bitch before he kills us both!”

 

Having had the proverbial `last straw' broken by his actions, Kagura threw back her head in a manic laugh as she flicked her favorite red and white fan open. Turning her attention back toward the evil hanyou as she replied, “You don't have to fear him, Naraku. You will meet your end… Dance of Blades!” the scream rang like cannon fire as she flicked her wrist at the oversized car.

His eyes filled with horror as he tried to vacate the car, knowing that it would be cut to ribbons with him in it. As the blades sliced the car into several pieces, blood curdling screams of agony sounded, only to be cut excruciatingly short as a huge white paw landed on top of the car, crushing it beneath the great dog demons massive weight. Kagura smiled sadly as she knew that she was about to meet her end as well. There was no denying the anger of the demon lord that she'd betrayed she thought as she resigned herself to her fate.

 

As she lowered her body to the ground, resting on her knees with her head bowed in the sign of respect and submission, Sesshomaru reverted back to his humanoid form as he drew a sword from its sheath at his side. “I see that you have accepted your fate, Kagura,” he commented in his monotone voice, steeling himself as he advanced toward her position, raising the katana above his head.

 

“Just make it quick and clean is all I ask,” Kagura replied as she braced herself for the final blow, being grateful that she'd taken out Naraku before her own death. As the sword moved in a graceful arc toward the bared neck…

 

End dream sequence…

 

Kagura sat bolt upright on her cot, gasping for air as if she'd been underwater and drowning. Her hands shot to her neck, verifying that she was still alive and not beheaded as she had dreamt. “That was close,” she thought to herself as she lay back on her cot, thankful that it had been a dream… just a dream.

 

As she lay against the cot, a sudden burning sensation cut across her chest like a hot knife. Screaming in pain, Kagura's hands shot to her chest exploring the wound that appeared as if by magic upon her chest. Holding her hands to her face, Kagura saw the copious amounts of blood covering her hands, flowing freely down her chest as she breathed shallowly.

 

With one final scream, a second slash from her unseen assailant silenced the wind witch, severing her head from her body, so much like her dream that for the final seconds that her brain was able to process what had happened, Kagura actually thought that she was going to wake up at any minute. “It's only a dream… it was only a dream…” were her final conscious thoughts before everything went black and the look of horror covered her face.

 

 

With an arm behind his head for a pillow and the other holding the remote, Inuyasha sighed for like the hundredth time as he passed channel after channel at least a half a dozen times. “Over 500 channels and there ain't shit on!” he growled in frustration before finally settling on ever popular `Girls Gone Wild.' As he eased back on the couch a bit further, thankful that it was his dominate arm that had been spared in the fight, he watched the pay-per-view, enjoying as much of the nudity, sexual acts and girl-on-girl action. While the movie played, one of the characters, a stunning red head conjured images of the crimson golden tresses of his obsession, Aryn.

 

“Shit… this isn't how I want to start things with her,” he thought gruffly as he hit the `off' button on the remote, shutting off the movie in mid-screaming orgasm. Inuyasha looked at the elegant clock that hung above the entertainment center and groaned as he saw that it was only seven o'clock at night… to early for bed and to late for hitting the bars… not that he was in any condition to drive just yet.

 

With a sigh of resignation, Inuyasha reached toward the coffee table that had been moved by one of the house maids for easier access for the injured hanyou. He picked up the cordless phone and blindly dialed Miroku's number. “Come on… come on…” he thought as the phone rang a few times before Sango's sweet voice answered.

 

“Hey, Sango is Miroku home?” he asked as he leaned back on the couch, irritated at the fact that he was still stuck at home with nothing to do and no one to talk to.

 

Sango looked back over at Miroku as he poured over the police reports and files of both Naraku and the case at hand. “Yeah, Inuyasha, he's here. Would you like to talk at him?” she asked as she moved closer to her frustrated fiancé.

 

“Why else do you think that I'd call… to talk to you?” he replied a little irritated.

 

With a shake of her head Sango replied, “No, here he is,” as she shoved the phone toward the distracted Miroku. Miroku looked at the phone as if it were some strange torture device as he gave a quizzical look at Sango. She mouthed the word `Inuyasha' before turning back to making some dinner for her over worked and stressed out future husband.

 

After a second or so of silence, Miroku sighed in slight frustration at the rotten timing of his friend. “Hey, Inu,” he finally said as he pushed back from the table and the stacks of files.

 

“Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to come over and watch some movies or some thing.” Inu asked as he leaned back further into the couch, irritated that he was reduced to such begging as he felt sorry for himself.

 

Looking at the stacks of files, as well as the list of notes he'd been able to glean from them over the last few hours, Miroku replied, “I'm kind of in the middle of something, man, or else I'd be over there in a heart beat.”

 

Knowing the past of his henti friend, Inuyasha chuckled slightly as he replied, “Oh… I hope that I'm not interrupting any thing intimate between you and your lovely fiancé,” as a devious smile crossed his lips, imagining what his friends were doing as he called.

 

“No, I'm actually in the middle of an important case, Inu. Speaking of which… you catch the evening news tonight?” he asked as Sango handed him a cup of coffee.

 

With a quizzical look upon his face, Inuyasha replied, “No… I think that I was catching a few winks, why do you ask?”

 

“You remember the girl that was staying at Jade's home, Kagome?” Miroku asked as he sipped the coffee, silently thanking his fiancé for the thoughtful gesture.

 

Sitting up a bit, having noticed the seriousness of his friend's tone he replied, “Yeah, she's Sesshomaru's girlfriend. Why do you ask?”

 

“She was abducted from Jade's home early this morning and your brother is following a lead as we speak as I look over some files,” he answered as he picked up another file containing information on the infamous Naraku Viudanegra- Araña.

 

“Kagome has been kidnapped?” Inuyasha demanded having sat bolt up right on the couch as his heart jumped into his throat. He liked the dark haired girl when Sesshomaru had originally brought her home when they'd first been dating. In fact, Inuyasha had actually been rather surprised that the ever stoic, pain in the ass had actually had a girlfriend. He'd actually thought that most of his older brother's attitude problems over the years had been the lack of intimate relations.

 

Miroku flipped through some more of the file as he sandwiched the phone between his ear and shoulder as he replied, “Unfortunately she was and Kagura was in on it. Sesshomaru's furious and beating himself up because he couldn't protect her.”

 

“Where's the bastard now?” Inuyasha growled as he flexed his claws, seeing red at having lost another friend that he hadn't been able to protect due to his own selfish actions.

 

With a quizzical look upon his face, after having read an interesting bit on Naraku, Miroku asked, “What did you say? I was distracted.”

 

“I asked, `where's the bastard now?' meaning where is Sesshomaru?” Inuyasha demanded once more feeling his anger race through his body at having been left out of the loop yet again on the workings of his family.

 

“He's on his way out to the Hacienda El Matador to see Jade. Sesshomaru thinks that Jade may know something about Kagome's abductor. I'm looking for answers from my end, looking at everything that the crime scene investigators had collected, analyzed and such, but we're still grasping at straws,” he replied. Suddenly a look of utter horror crossed Miroku's face as his eyes flitted over Naraku's file.

 

“Oh shit!!! This isn't good,” he thought as he said to Inuyasha, “Hey, I've got to go. Something just came up and I need to take care of it immediately.”

 

Slightly dejected at being left out of the search for Kagome, Inuyasha replied, “Sure, no problem… just promise me that you'll keep me in the loop. You hear anything; let me know for I want to help as much as I can. Kagome makes Sesshomaru happy which means that he's leaving me alone.”

 

“Will do,” Miroku replied before he said goodbye. Once the dial tone announced that Inuyasha had hung up, Miroku quickly dialed Sesshomaru's number, as he drummed his finger on the kitchen table in utter frustration.

 

Picking up on his irritation, Sango looked over her shoulder as she made dinner, asking, “What's wrong, honey?”

 

“This just went from bad to worst case scenario,” Miroku replied as the phone continued to ring.

 

With a quizzical look upon her face, Sango turned her full attention to her fiancé as she asked, “How so?”

 

Just then the phone went to Sesshomaru's voice mail, which Miroku again left his message before turning back to Sango as he replied, “Naraku has a history of doing these types of crimes, however that's not the worst part, he's a half demon of the worst kind...”

 

Her eyes went wide with shock as the realization of his words hit like a ton of bricks. “You don't mean…”

 

“Yep, he's descended from the black widow spider demons,” Miroku replied, knowing that Sango would understand what they were, considering most of her descendants had fought hard against them and that her father had died slaying the last pure blood Black Widow demon shortly after she was born.

 

“You're right, this has gone from bad to worse,” she breathed as she shook from a mixture of fear and rage.

 

Seeing the mixed look upon her face, Miroku moved to wrap her in his arms as he rubber her back, soothing her as best he could. “We'll get through this, I just hope that we can find him soon before anyone else gets hurt,” he murmured in her soft auburn tresses.

 

“I hope so as well, for everyone's sake,” she replied as tears came to her eyes.

 

 

Muso leaned against the cave, his breathing coming in ragged breathes as his muscles screamed for oxygen. He'd driven like a maniac back to the hideout, getting as close to the caves as he could before his 4x4 truck couldn't handle the terrain any farther. Once the truck had struck a rock, messing up the front axel, Muso had gotten out and sprinting the remaining mile or so to the hidden caves praying that Kagura was okay by the time that he returned.

 

Once he'd caught his breath, Muso took the lantern that was sitting on a table in the main room and moved toward his shared cave. The sounds of dripping water and the steady breathing of some one sleeping soundly were the only noises he heard, besides his own footsteps that is, as he moved the twenty feet to his drape covered cave. Suddenly as his hand neared the drape to move it aside the heavy thick iron smell of blood hit his nose, nearly gagging him. Holding back the urge to vomit what little he'd eaten, Muso pushed the drape aside, noticing the faint buzzing sound of insects for the first time droning in the confines of the rock walled cave. He moved the lantern a little ahead of him and nearly dropped it at the sight before him.

 

“NO!!!!” reverberated off the walls of the enclosed area, waking everyone and everything within a good two mile radius.

 

 

 

 

 

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