Human Compensation

Inuyasha made it outside just in time, she was half-way to the ground. He made a gigantic leap and caught her in mid-air.

“Kagome!” He called her name to see if she was okay.

Kagome slowly opened her eyes. “I’m not dead?” She asked, her voice shaking in fright.

“No, Kagome, you’re not dead,” Inuyasha let out a loud breathe of relief. He felt as if ten years had been taken off his life.

Kikyo was standing outside watching them as Inuyasha gracefully floated down to the ground. She frowned at the way he was holding the girl as if she was some precious object.

Inuyasha gently sat Kagome on her feet and held her around her waist to keep her from falling. Her legs were shaking so bad she could barely stand up on her own. He glared at Kikyo as she glared back at them.

“Inuyasha!” She yelled angrily. “Why did you save her? I thought you would be glad to be rid of such a nuisance since it was Sesshoumaru who forced her on you.” She watched how Kagome clung to her ex-boyfriend as if he was hers. A hurt look came on her face. “Does this human compensation mean more to you than me?”

Kagome frowned slightly wondering what she was talking about.

“Kikyou, you whore, if I wasn’t so concerned about Kagome, I’d kill you, myself.”

Kikyo smiled at that. “What’s stopping you? Let her go Inuyasha.”

“So you can try to kill her again? Not on my life. You’ll have to get through me first!” Inuyasha held Kagome tighter against him.

“Inuyasha, what does she mean by human compensation and why is she trying to kill me?” Kagome asked her voice still shaky.

“You don’t know?” Kikyo laughed. “How pathetic!” She began to walk in wide a circle around them trying to find a way to shoot Kagome without hurting Inuyasha.

Inuyasha held Kagome protectively against him as he watched Kikyo closely, not daring to even blink. Where was everyone? They had to have heard or seen something. This was happening right outside their building!

“Well, little girl, I guess I can entertain you with a story before I put you to sleep forever!” Kikyo said giggling at her joke. “Hmm, how should I began. Oh I got it. Once upon a time there was an old man, your grandfather, who needed a lot of money to fix his junky old shrine. He tried to borrow it from regular creditors but no one would lend it to him because he didn’t make much money. Then he went to Sesshoumaru with the promise that if he gave him the money he needed, he would be able to pay him back once the shrine was rebuilt. The old man kept his promise and the money started rolling in when people started to come back to his dumb little shrine. He gave Sesshoumaru all the money back except for ten percent. Sesshoumaru gave him a few months to pay back the ten percent but the old man still didn’t give it to him. He thought since it was such a small part of the money missing, Sesshoumaru would let him slide. Wrong! Since the old man couldn’t pay him back Sesshoumaru decided to take his granddaughter as the ten percent payment, which is you, Kagome. How does it make you feel to know you’re only worth ten percent? And on top of that you’re working for the mafia! A youkai mafia! The most dangerous criminals in this city!" Kikyo laughed again. Sas ras really enjoying the look of shock and denial on Kagome’s face. If she couldn’t hurt the girl physically, then she wanted to hurt her mentally, and it was working.

Inuyasha growled at her, giving her a murderous look. “Shut the fuck up, Kikyo, before I claw out your tongue!”

“You’re going to have to let her go in order to do that, Inu, sweetie,” Kikyo said her voice dripping with sickening sweetness.

She fired a beam at him. Inuyasha swung Kagome around, turning his back to it while he covered Kagome’s body with his.

“Argh!” He yelled at the intense pain that shot through him when it hit him.

“Inuyasha!” Kagome looked up at him worried and scared. He held her closer.

“Let her go you idiot and you won’t have to suffer so much. I’m only after her, not you!” Kikyo said firing another beam at him.

Kagome felt the heavy impact of it hitting his body and the heat of the blast. He was going to be killed while trying to protect her. She didn’t understand why he was doing this.

“Inuyasha, please,” she begged him. “I’m not worth it!”

Another blast. This time he staggered against her.

“No!” Kagome yelled tears running down her face. She didn’t know what to do. She couldn’t help him, or maybe she could. Kikyo had said she was only after her. She tried to pull away from him.

“What the hell are you doing?” Inuyasha shouted harshly.

“She only wants me. I can’t let you die for me. I can’t......”

Inuyasha held on to her tightly. “This is no time to play the hero, you stupid girl!”

“But....”

“Shut up and let me protect you!”

Inuyasha turned to Kikyo. She was insane. He should have killed her when he had the chance instead of feeling sorry for her and letting her go to Naraku. It was his fault that Kagome was in this predicament.

Her laughter came to an abrupt ending when Sango’s humongous boomerang crashed into her back, knocking her down on her face. Inuyasha saw Sango and Miroku standing a few feet behind Kikyo with a few other men from the building.

“It’s about time!” He yelled at them.

“Is Kagome all right?” Sango wanted to know.

Inuyasha glanced down at the pale girl noticing for the first time she was bleeding. The shattered glass from the window she’d been thrown out of had cut her arms. How much blood had she lost? He looked down at the puddle of blood on the ground. “Shit!” He cursed. Seedeeeded to be taken care of immediately.

“What do you want us to do with her, Inuyasha?” Miroku asked preferring to Kikyo.

Inuyasha picked Kagome up in his arms. “Kill her,” he said without even glancing back as he leaped away.

Miroku opened his air void. Kikyo stood up quickly and disappeared.

“Damn, he’s not going to like that,” Miroku said.

“I’m more worried about Kagome,” Sango said.