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Summary:

The Missing Masquerade

It's the last year of Highschool for Kagome Higerasahi, and what better way for her school to celebrate then a Masquerade Ball! But wait, this wasn't meant to happen! Falling in love? With a Mysterious Masked Man?! Will she find her Masked Masquerade in time? Or will he forever be lost behind his Masquerade Mask?

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-The Missing Masquerade-

Chapter 37- Red

"I had you first! And I'm not letting them take you!"

"You had me…what?!" I couldn't believe the nonsense he was speaking! "Naraku! Tell me right now; give me a simple answer, why did you-!" I heard him walking farther and farther away, as if he finally gave up on giving me answers. This was a moment I'd never predicted could happen, Naraku doing what he was doing now…it never crossed my mind that he would do anything like this, "I trusted you, damn it! I trusted you Naraku! I told you everything about anything, you're my best friend Nara-!"

"Your best…friend?" Slowly, the blindfold fell, but he wasn't standing before me, I searched around in the near darkness for the echo of his voice – than it was by my ear, "Is that all you really think of me…Kagome? Just a friend?" His arms wrapped around my shoulders…I still was bound to the chair, and couldn't move, "Three years pass us by, and you've seen nothing in me, the closer you grew to Sesshomaru the more you forgot about me and now your father even, as well as Sesshomaru's own father, are trying to take you…so I took action."

I listened carefully, and said nothing.

"I loved you first," I stilled in his hold.

"How did you know my father and the others were headed towards Sesshomaru's place anyway?" Honestly, now was not the time for idle chit-chat…but I needed to find some way to stall him until I found a way out of this place, "Why didn't you just kidnap me earlier? Like after school or something?" Uh, me and my 'smart' questions.

"Where else would Mr. Taisho send his son and fiancé other than his safe house?" Naraku lent on the chair, blowing a stray strand of hair from his face. While he nicely answered my question, I continued to scan the dark room for anything that could be of help, "And of course I knew that Kouga and Miroku would choke up when faced with an angry dog your family's clean-up crew, they'd tell within seconds."

"Wait – what?! Kouga and Miroku were-!"

"I have my ways of getting people to do what I want, when I want it," How…why would he go to such lengths just for me..? Was he crazy?! "I didn't hurt them…I just have some people keeping an eye on some others."

"You're using people close to them as hostages?"

"More like insurance."

It was hard for me to take it all in. My best friend, who I told everything to, who I trusted everything with…it's like I never knew him at all. It was then that I recalled my father's panic before we left his manor…Could he have also been involved with my mother's death? "You're…you're after my family's fortune, aren't you, Naraku?"

"While it is a small extra, I am not," Oh…so he wasn't – "The entire Onigumo Syndicate, on the other hand, has been after the Higarashi's for generations, hunting them down for the price on their heads,"

"…What?" This couldn't be real.

"And standing before you is the current head of the family," This couldn't be happening, "Naraku Onigumo, in charge of the syndicate since before you were born."

"Stop lying Nara-!"

"Don't worry, Kagome," His once close, friendly voice sounded cruel, "Unlike your mother, I've no plans to kill you."

-The Missing Masquerade-

Chapter 37- Red

Itachi – This chapter was simply doused in surprise wasn't it?