Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Flickering Flame ❯ Chapter 8: It Begins... ( Chapter 8 )

A/n: Sorry about the long wait, so without further ado, here is the next rewritten and revised chapter of Flickering Flame.

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*Flickering Flame*

By; Kage Otome (Shadow Maiden)

Chapter 8: It Begins...

She had a headache.

A really bad headache.

Or was it possibly a migraine? Right now she didn’t know, didn’t care. She was beginning to feel nauseous. Who knew being in a room filled with handsome men would make her feel so ill. She would’ve refrained from entering altogether. Good Lord--Men were not only annoying and incompetent. They were incredibly stupid. Not to mention perverted. She swore if that man looked at her chest one more time she was going to wring his neck, rip off his balls, feed it to him, then she was going to sick a hoard of perverted fan boys on him.

She wanted an aspirin.

So what if it didn’t exactly work on her demonically enhanced body.

It’s the thought that counts right?

A soft barely audible groan exited her mouth as Shido’s son who was the ‘president’ of the company in Shido’s absence proposed yet another half-baked and stupid idea. It really was sad that this fool would one day inherit the Southern lands. Kagome had no doubt he’d be overthrown in a week--tops. If not she’d do it herself. God he was worse then--then--she couldn’t even think of something or someone to compare him too! Irritating pesky penguin.

Dear Lord she was beginning to hallucinate.

She was seeing a penguin handkerchief peeking out of his jacket pocket. Now don’t get her wrong, it’s not that she didn’t like penguins it was just this really odd pink and purple penguin, with huge glittery glasses and a rhinestone on it’s head, dancing on a disco ball?

‘Somebody pinch me.’

Sesshoumaru reached under the table and lightly pinched her arm.

Blinking once, twice and a third time she stared.

So she wasn’t hallucinating, it was just the oddest accessory she’d ever seen before in her entire life.

‘I must be sick, that’s the only explanation...testosterone poisoning perhaps, lord knows there’s enough in this room.’
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“ You feeling all right Kagome?” Kuronue asked, amusement lining his voice as they took a ‘lunch break’ from the meeting.

“You relish in my pain don’t you?”

Wrapping his arms around the tense woman, he slowly trailed his arms upwards massaging firmly, tearing a soft barely audible moan from her. Concentrating on her neck and shoulders Kuronue smirked against her hair as he heard the steps of the detectives pause before the door.

‘Shall we mess with their minds?’

A wicked grin soon emerged on her face, an exact replica of Kuronue’s.

‘Lets.’ Kagome moaned louder, making soft panting like noises as his hands worked their magic on her body.

“Kuronue...harder.”

They heard they intake of breath from the other side of the door to the ‘break room’ and could smell the embarrassment coating their scent. But they also smelt their curiosity. Kuronue grinned down at the young woman in his arms, violet eyes twinkling.

“You like that Kagome? Then you’ll love this.” Kuronue spoke huskily as he worked out an especially tense muscle near her neck tearing out a long, drawn out moan. Her eyelids fell in a half-open, half-shut position as her hands clenched the fabric at Kuronue’s waist. ‘It feels heavenly.’ Kagome thought almost drowsily. His hands made their way to her temple, massaging away her headache. Tilting her head back, it came to a stop, resting against his shoulder. Turning her head slightly she pressed her lips against his pulse in appreciation.

This time it was Kuronue who let out a shuddering sigh. Smirking against his skin she gently sucked on the skin at his pulse before trailing soft kisses along his neck and jaw line, each kiss tearing a soft appreciative sound from the koumori. Turning around as his arms fell to his sides she wrapped her slender arms around his waist, nuzzling his neck in appreciation.

“Your the best.” Her voice was light and breathy, eyes devoid of the normal coldness.

Kuronue simply gave her his trademark grin, which was returned by her small smirk.

‘You have no idea what you do to me.’
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They had been on the way out of the building to get some food and report to Koenma what they found. Absolutely nothing. They had been put into ‘assistant’ positions, not assistants to the actual members of the Hakai but to other employees. Not that the Hakai didn’t know they were there, or what they were doing--in fact they were positive the Hakai knew exactly what they were up too, they just weren’t sure why they weren’t doing anything to stop them.

However just as they were walking past the break room they stopped in their tracks, ears catching a soft moan. Curiosity piqued they leaned close to the break room door and listened. Taking a sniff of the air Kurama found himself unable to catch the scent of the person (s) in the room, therefore he was unable to detect what exactly was going on. But from the sounds coming from the room...Well one certainly speculate.

“What the Fuck?” Yusuke exclaimed ever eloquently.

Suddenly a voice, breathy and feminine moaned followed by the same husky, sultry voice saying, “Kuronue, harder.”

Yusuke’s face colored a light pink before he exclaimed again.

“Shit, are they--” He was however cut off by another voice, male and full of promise.

“You like that Kagome? Then you’ll love this.” And thus another moan, louder and longer then the others penetrated the silence of the hall. Yusuke was tempted to open the door, if just to confirm his suspicions that ‘Kagome’ the pretty koorime-kaze youkai and ‘Kuronue’ the koumori, who had once been Youko’s partner, were doing it. Yes it can be interpreted as many things, but surely one can place what he thought it was and for those whose minds aren’t quite up to par at this moment---Sex.

“Are they fucking doing it, and at the office?”

Kurama sighed at his friends choice of words though mentally applauding him for not using ‘fucking’ in the same sentence as he would have done in the past.

“One can only assume.”
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Unknown to the spirit detectives were the two demons listening on the other side of the door both unable to contain their amused smirks. Kuronue’s violet eyes danced with humor and Kagome’s own blue-violet eyes absent of their normal iciness shimmered with mirth. Realizing what exactly she was doing, and just did, her smirk faded and eyes turned cold and blank once more.

Kuronue noting the change in her immediately backed off to give her some space. While she may not have been the cold, ice queen she was to everyone else, she wasn’t exactly warm and fuzzy. Sure she smirked or smiled (which was very rare) but she never really smiled a true happy smile. It was true the team was close, they knew things about each other, things that they would never trust with anyone else but each other. Granted certain members of the team were closer to each other then others. Kuronue sighed, violet eyes tracing over the delicate features of the youkai in front of him. He wondered absently how someone like her came to know Naraku, or the Toguro brothers for that matter, none the less how she ‘befriended’ them. If he was perfectly and utterly honest with himself. They gave him goose bumps, and not the good kind.

“Kuronue?” Kagome called once again, eye twitching at being ignored.

“Huh?”

‘He’s so cute when he’s confused.’ Kagome thought an amused smile on her face before she froze at the thought.

“Kagome? Are you ok?” Glancing up at the worried koumori it took everything in her to stop the blush threatening to rise.

What...is this feeling?
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After pulling their little ‘prank’ on the detectives Kuronue and Kagome made their way back to the conference room where most of the other attendees decided to stay and simply order in lunch. Kuronue’s sharp hearing picked up the quiet conversation of a male on the far right of the room, before his eyes narrowed. Glancing over at her companion her eyes focused in on the male as well. There was nothing truly remarkable about him, granted he was quite handsome, but many of the men in the room were, considering many of them were demons.

Short dark violet hair, almost black in color contrasted greatly with his cat-shaped orange eyes. But that wasn’t what caught Kagome’s attention, it was the small marking almost hidden by his suit, she could see the head of the large lion peaking it’s way over the collar of the male’s suit. She knew that marking, she knew she did. She just couldn’t place it.

Frowning slightly her mind worked furiously to place that marking however just as her mind was moving Kuronue’s ear’s were twitching picking up every whispered word between the man in the corner and the voice talking over the small cell phone. Selective hearing really was a wonderful thing, he could block things out and only hear what or who he wanted to hear. Before the man could hang up the phone Kuronue was already half way out the door bringing along his seriously irked companion.

Ready to verbally thrash the koumori who so rudely jerked her from the room she turned to him before pausing momentarily at the hard expression on his face. She frowned; something was wrong, so she kept quiet, even she knew Kuronue was a force to be reckoned with when angered, though she couldn’t help but wonder what it was that troubled him. Though a small voice said it was the same thing on her mind; the man with the marking of a lion.
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“Are you ready to meet with the little supai tonight, Kouran?”

Adjusting the slender black cell phone the man identified as ‘Kouran’ spoke his affirmation into the phone softly, making sure not to draw any attention to himself. Though he was sure, even with the demons in the room no one would be able to pick up his conversation, after all there were enough conversations to get ‘confused’ trying to listen to just one.

“Is everything set? Did they attain the ‘Great and Terrible Dog Generals’ plans?”

The voice on the other end of the line spoke quietly with an icy edge.

“Do not mock Inutaisho, he’s smarter then you give him credit for, he is already suspicious it is one of his own house betraying him by giving up his plans. So the list is considerably narrow. Do not make a mockery out of this very important matter Kouran--it could cost us dearly. You do remember how long it took to simply infiltrate his home, do you not?”

“Of course.” Kouran sat up, back ramrod straight, eyes serious.

“Good, I’d hate for something terrible to happen because of your stupidity Kouran. Do not forget to meet us at the designated location at 24:00 tonight. Do not be late. We cannot risk our supai’s cover being blown.”

“I’ll be there.”

“Do not disappoint me Kouran. We’re counting on you.”

Kouran took a deep breath, orange eyes steady but slightly apprehensive.

“I will not disappoint you, Kirai.”
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“What is it Kuronue?” Kagome asked.

“There is a spy in our midst.” Kuronue spoke softly, eyes narrowed.

Kagome’s eyes narrowed.

“Who?”

“I’m not sure, the spy isn’t mentioned by name, but they are to meet with this Kouran and Kirai at midnight tonight.” Kuronue spoke unaware of how Kagome froze up hearing the name ‘Kirai’. He was, however made very aware of it as the temperature began dropping rapidly and the air around her began whipping around her still form. Around (and in) the building youkai and spiritually aware humans stiffened.

“Kagome!” Kuronue called out alarmed by this reaction. Never in all the time he’d known her had he ever seen her lose control.

“Kagome!!”
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In the western palace, thin lips curved up into a cruel smile.

‘Soon...’ the figure thought to themselves, ‘Soon you will get what you deserve Inutashio...’

A few miles outside of the Western lands Kirai grinned to herself violet eyes dancing with malicious intent. Their plan was over twenty years in the making, they’d been patient for such a long time, they could be patient a little longer. Patience would truly pay off, she let out a soft, dark chuckle. The same thought running through her head...

Soon...
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Sesshoumaru entered the room, taking quick stock of the situation, leapt into action. He placed himself behind her pressing a pressure point on her neck, knocking her out, she fell safely into his arms, before looking at Kuronue with a raised brow, obviously wondering what put her into such a state of distress. Kuronue shrugged back before reciting what he’d learned listening to that Kouran’s phone call.

“Kirai?”

“Yeah, that’s what he called her, why?”

Sesshoumaru was silent for a moment before he spoke.

“Kirai is the woman whom Kagome’s ex-betrothed betrayed her with.”

“Isn’t it possible for there to be two different women with the same name?” Kuronue questioned.

“Hm.”
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Blue-violet eyes opened slowly, as Kagome mentally cursed herself, it had been years since she’d lost control...But just hearing that name, she closed her eyes tightly, fighting off the memory. Clenching her teeth, nails digging into the flesh of her hand, she fought off the anger. She needed a cool, calm head for this. The safety of their lands and Lord Inutashio was top priority. Shoving the emotions down she stood from her position laying on the couch in Sesshoumaru’s office, she made her way out of the room; cool, composed.

Stepping out of the office, she was relieved to find the meeting over, she had been ‘excused’ to tend to a ‘family emergency’. Now to find out where this meeting would take place, find the spy, and eradicate them, and those behind this. There would be no mercy for them.

“Kagome, are you all right?” Kuronue asked almost hesitantly.

“I’m fine.”

“It is most likely, the meeting location is only for this Kouran to meet up with ‘Kirai’ and they will proceed to another location to meet with their spy.”

“Most likely. We need to get answers from this Kouran. They probably wouldn’t tell him where they are going to meet the spy. However...”

“Kagome?”

“I’d like to speak with this Kouran.” Kagome said.

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“H ello, Kouran.” Kagome spoke softly, a small smile on her lips, giving her ‘prey’ the illusion of comforting friendliness.

“Hello.”

“I’ve heard such good things about you from Shido-sama.”

“Shido-sama speaks about me?” Kouran said orange eyes wide in surprise.

Kagome gave a soft, ‘cute’ laugh.

“Hai, hai, all the time. In fact he was just mentioning how when his plan goes through how he planned to appoint you to a higher rank.” Kagome said with ‘knowing’ eyes.

“Really?” Now his face looked positively delighted, but just as quickly a suspicious look crossed his face.

“I’ve never seen you around before, who the hell are you?”

Kagome giggled, inwardly wincing.

“Now that wouldn’t make me a very good ‘ghost’ would it. I blend very well, so you probably wouldn’t have noticed me anyway. That’s what makes me so good at my job.” Kagome gave him a brilliant smile, that said, ‘you can trust me, i’m on your side.’

He nodded slowly.

“ We make sure to keep my identity secret, if everyone knows who I am, well then how would I get information?” Her voice was matter of fact and persuading.

“That makes sense, so are you heading to the spot tonight as well?”

“Of course, where were we supposed to meet Kirai at again...The waterfront?”

He shook his head in the negative.

“We’re supposed to meet her at the deserted shrine a few blocks from here...Sunset Shrine.”

“That’s right!” Kagome said with a self-depreciating laugh, smacking her forehead lightly. “This is why Shido-sama, always makes sure I hook up with one of the others, I’m not very good at locations, you see...I get lost in my own closet!”

Kouran laughed lightly with her as well, watching as she blushed prettily.

“So I guess I’ll see you there at 24:00 hours?”

“Hai.”
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“Your good at acting.”

“No. He’s just an idiot.” Kagome replied. “Be ready at 23:00 hours.”

‘So it begins...’
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A/n : Tada! Another chapter finished, hopefully things begin moving a bit faster now. A new story should be coming out sometime this weekend and hopefully also a one-shot (for Kura!). Anyway, I better get back to work. I hope you enjoyed it!