Inuyasha crossover Phantom of the Opera

Chapter 12: Introduction

News of Shippo's arrival onto French soil and staying with their equally exotic oriental beauty was enough to set tongues wagging with wild tales. The gossip mill apparently never sleeps and much as it was amusing at first, it gets dull quickly and soon they were finding it dull.

Erik however took to it like any other normal human being, and every time he would look into it on his own, he was more often seeing the 'truth' of what was being said on the streets. And since this Shippo's appearance and living under the same roof as Kagome, he had not heard from her, not seen her trying to find him like how she would do on a rather often basis when wanting to get his story. Everything was just like that of a frivolous woman wanting nothing more than just to seek attention from the man who had her next. It hurts, even more than when Christine left him for the young pretty boy dressed up all in finery and with a title, swept her away from under his very nose.

The great love that he had always wanted will never be his, not to a person who has the looks of a monster. Erik cursed so loudly beneath the city that it echoes throughout, the precious music sheet that he had so recently composed, thrown to the floor as its pages flew about the cobbled ground. Even his music betrays his emotions, what had he started composing every again, to remember all these bad memories?!

"Monster!" he screamed, crying out to the channels of water and under passages as his voices travels and echoes all around him, bouncing against the stonewalls.

Kagome heard it as did Shippo who turned to one another with a frown, more of a worried frown on Kagome's face as Shippo held more curiosity. Erik reminded her a lot of Jinenji, a hanyou that they had met in their travels, who is now still single but tending ever so gently to the garden and forest of herbs that they had given him. His own Secret Garden.

"Erik," Kagome mumbled as she looked towards where the drainages are.

"He sounds like he is in pain at the moment," Shippo said as he placed as hand over hers, which was looped around one of his own arms.

"Yes, perhaps I should pay him a visit," Kagome thought out loud for a moment, as they stopped in the middle of the path much to the annoyance of the people around them.

It was a good thing though, that no one knows of what they were ever talking about, seeing how they are always speaking in their own mother tongue rather too comfortably and drawing many curious eyes. One would have to grow used to it since most people of their kind do not get to travel to such far off locations, unaccompanied without the risk of dying or be traded away as slaves or worse.

"Let's go Shippo," Kagome told him as she lead him through mazes of paths like it was just a stroll through a garden, until she was sure there was no one looking before slipping into one of those little passage ways that lead to down below the city.

"I think it is time to make a little introduction," she announced, taking the lead in the narrow passage way as she used her heightened senses to search out for Erik in the darkness of the place without a proper light.

It was a little tricky for Shippo especially when he was not used to the scent of the place, and the sewage of the place, but with some help from Kagome, she had made it much easier for his breathing. Though the down side is that it slowed them down a little.

"I'm sorry Shippo about the smell of this place, perhaps we ought to return home?" Kagome asked him in worry as she stopped and look at him who was scrunching his nose up in disdain of the pungent smell.

"Let's move on, we're already this far," Shippo told her as he urged for her to carry on.

"How about a game of tag?" Kagome asked him with a smile in thought of it as she asked him, a slow smile forming upon her face as she saw the smile blooming upon his face like it is Christmas.

The game began as they started racing through the narrow passageways with Kagome in the lead as she giggled when the game started getting fun. Shippo's mind was more on the game as the chase was like play time for them, something that they do once in a while since long ago to keep up pace with one another, and usually in an area where human's are less likely to go into or when the place is similar to now, dark.

When Kagome suddenly stopped, Shippo practically pounced onto her laughing heartily as he grabbed her around her waist and hugged her tightly from behind.

"Hello Erik," Kagome greeted, "This is Shippo," she introduced them as Shippo straightened himself, an arm still loosely wrapped around her waist as he stretched out a hand expectantly towards Erik waiting expectantly for him return it.

Anger was bubbling beneath the surface of half his good face and beneath the mask that hides his deformed side.

"You dare bring another down to mock me!" he shouted out his anger, storming up to them as he spat it out at them to which Shippo turned his head retracting his hand as he wiped the spray of saliva from his face.

Kagome's eyes glanced over at Shippo, but she did the same, gently dabbing and cleaning it off her face with her sleeve. The action itself irritated and angered Erik even more as he snarled at them and turned away, telling them as always to leave in an almost authoritative tone.

"Leave!" he shouted at them again, turning to leave them in a flurry of hurry, leaving the two of them standing there who are indifferent in their expressions.

Neither of the two gave chase to Erik, instead letting him go with Kagome leading Shippo out of the underground passages. She was already feeling bad enough that she had let Shippo down, and it was rather hurtful hearing him shout those words at her.

"He has a lot of insecurities, and a rather large inferiority complex," Shippo commented as they stepped into their current place of lodging.

The household staff greeted them in French as they helped the two of them to remove their coats, hats, and gloves as Kagome and Shippo never missed a beat of their conversation. The only time that separated them was when they both went to had themselves cleaned up. Even when he returned to her room after it dressed casually in a yukata that really would have looked like a robe to anyone who does not know.

Erik was looking, watching their interaction from a secret enough location as they conversed in the foreign language that he did not understand. Just like how he did not understand why he went back to watch the relationship between them when he was already fuming mad about them, at her mainly.

How dare she bring another man down to find him, she is just like everyone else, betraying him at every possibility and opportunity. Why was it still surprising him when he had already sworn off and not let it get to him, ever! Erik wanted to scream, to tie a noose around his neck and have her tied up and unable to run away.

"He's here," Shippo commented as he took a sip of his tea, not used to the western variety despite being more privileged than most.

"I know," she replied, eyes glancing in the direction of where they know he is watching them.

A/N:

Hello Readers
So sorry for all of you that have been waiting for an update, I've been super busy and it is really not easy doing an update without forgoing sleep. I'll really try my best to do a quick update, but no guarantees as it is really just starting to get busy sadly. I hope that you enjoy this update, and I'll try my best to do another quick update soon. No promises though, take care guys!

To chicaalterego
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