Title: Four Souls

Genre: Romance, Action/Adventure, Drama, Smut

Summary: Kagome works with Inuyasha, a professional demon slayer in modern day Japan. Although he's with her boss Kikyo, Kagome can't help but fall for the dog demon, even if he can't return her feelings – that is until he turns to her for help.

Warning: Contains sexual content, violence and language.

Comments: So basically demons are "out" to the public, and live with normal humans in modern Japan. But now all of them are good. So there's a network of slayers, humans and/or demons teamed with a monk or priestess to fight the evil demons. It will be an action romance involving a majority of the most popular Inuyasha characters.

== CHAPTER ONE ==

THE HALF DOG-DEMON (Part 1)

"Inuyasha," she cries, pulling away from his grasp. She hits the wall and can't move away anymore. Inuyasha growls at her, showing his long fangs to her. Even if half of him was human, the other half was demon – she was stupid to forget that.

"I told you to leave," Inuyasha growls. "I told you to run!"

"I couldn't leave you," Kagome says. "Not while you're in pain, Inuyasha-san…"

"Get out!" he screams.

She runs towards the door, reaching for the knob. Then she feels his hand close around hers, just as she begins to open the door. She looks back at him, seeing his face was flushed, his yellow eyes tired. She lets her fingers slip away from the doorknob.

"Stay," he whispers, showing her some of the pain he was feeling. "Please stay with me, Kagome-chan…"

"What about…" Kikyo, Inuyasha's current girlfriend. Kagome had feelings for Inuyasha, there was no denying that. But she couldn't mess around with her boss's boyfriend. That would be breaking so many rules and could cost her not only her job as a priestess but her entire career.

"Stay," Inuyasha says, leaning in closer, pulling her closer by her arm. He wasn't holding on tight. She could have pulled away if she wanted to. But she didn't, she let him pull her closer. She let him wrap his arm around her waist. She let him lean down over her.

She let him kiss her, right on the lips.

==THAT MORNING

Kagome rushes out of her apartment with her equipment bag over her shoulder and her breakfast in her hands. It was a bacon and egg sandwich that she'd eat on the subway. Kikyo was a tough boss, head of spiritual department of Four Souls Inc., and she wasn't Kagome's biggest fan.

"Kagome-san?"

Kagome glances back to see Miroku racing towards her. He was in the monk's uniform, all black that looked like a high school uniform. Kagome's uniform looked like a high school girl's uniform, all black with a black and white plaid skirt.

"You're late too?" she laughs.

"Kikyo will eat us alive," Miroku says.

"Yeah, she will, and if she doesn't Inuyasha-san will eat me," Kagome says.

"He must be a tough partner. Sango-san is my partner and she's the easiest partner to work with until she's angry."

"Stop sexually harassing her and she won't be so angry," Kagome says.

Miroku just shrugs. "I can't help it. She's so beautiful…"

Kagome just rolls her eyes and prays she makes it in time.

==THAT MORNING

"You're late!" Kikyo yells as Kagome and Miroku rush through the doors. Kagome was glad that Miroku was there to take some of the blame with her. Kikyo wasn't as angry when it wasn't just Kagome in trouble. Kagome reaches her cubicle and puts her stuff down.

"Forgive us, Kikyo-sensei," Miroku says.

Kikyo says her head. "Kagome, go down stairs right now. Inuyasha is wait for you."

"We have a hunt?" Kagome cries. "Right now?"

"Go," Kikyo snaps.

Kagome picks up her bag and races out of the room, rushing to the elevator. It comes up quickly and she jumps on, jamming in the button for the lower levels. She didn't realize she'd already have a hunt with Inuyasha. Normally the demon hunting was saved for later, during the night. It was still mid-morning.

The elevator doors open and the limo is waiting in the middle of the parking garage. Kagome flushes, which she feels stupid for, and rushes to the car. She opens the back door of the limo and slides into the car.

"You're late," Inuyasha says.

Kagome puts her bag down on the ground between her legs. Inuyasha is sitting across from her in his bold red kimono, his dog ears fully exposed. In this modern day Japan the existence of demons was no longer doubted. Now the "good" demons integrated into mainstream Japan and the "bad" demons were hunted down and killed.

But as Inuyasha told Kagome over and over again, there was no such thing as a good demon. He was considered one of the "good" ones, so she couldn't really argue with him.

"Here's the case files," Inuyasha says, handing Kagome a sleek black folder. She takes it, trying not to touch him when she does. Whenever their skin touched she found it that much harder to be around him.

"Mistress Centipede?" Kagome reads. "She's been dealt with before?"

"She wouldn't stick with her human disguise," Inuyasha says. "Said that if humans were to accept demons they needed to accept the demons for what they truly were. We couldn't exactly kill her for being too proud to hide in human form."

"So what happened?" Kagome asks.

"She snapped," Inuyasha says, glaring out the window. "Killed several humans last night. She's highly dangerous right now."

Kagome smiles at him. When he glares at her she stops, looking down at the files in her hands.

"What the hell are you smiling about?" he barks.

She was too used to him to be offended by him cussing at her. "I'm sorry, it's just… I think this is the most you've spoken to me in the morning before. You're usually not a morning person."

"I usually don't get to kill demons in the morning," Inuyasha says.

Kagome nods. "That's true."

The rest of the drive continues in silence. Kagome pulls out her handgun and puts it together, loading it with her spiritual bullets that were perfect for taking down demons. Inuyasha had his sword, Tetsusaiga, in its scabbard by his side. Kagome was once fooled by the old, ratty old of the sword, but after seeing Inuyasha in action she knew better.

Kagome straps her gun and some ammo on as the limo slows down. Inuyasha is the first of the car before the vehicle even stops moving. Kagome hops out behind him, fully equipped and ready for almost anything.

There are police outside with their guns drawn, but they knew better than to go inside the building. Only professional demon hunters could take on demons. Kagome can hear the screams coming from within and knew the demon was holding hostages.

"C'mon," Inuyasha says. He takes a step towards the building, Kagome following him closely. She pulls out her demon slayer badge in case one of the cops tries to stop her and Inuyasha from entering.

"Ugh…" Inuyasha groans.

Kagome pauses, glancing back at him. "Inuyasha-san?"

His hand is over his heart and he's slightly bent over. Kagome wants to reach out and touch him but knows not to. It wasn't Inuyasha's time of the month where he turns completely human. She didn't know what was wrong.

"Inuyasha-san?" she repeats.

"I'm fine," he snaps, standing up straight. He marches towards the building like nothing ever happened.

"You can tell me if anything is wrong," Kagome says.

"Nothing else," Inuyasha repeats. "Just keep your head on the mission and don't get us killed."

Kagome frowns at him. "I won't be the one to get us killed."

"I'll just go without you. I don't need you." He turns to walk away but Kagome catches him by the arm, making him pause. He looks back at her, frowning.

"You can tell me," Kagome says softly.

He opens his mouth, as if for one moment he trusted her enough to tell her anything. He stares at her a moment longer, then closes his mouth. He wouldn't tell her what was wrong. Kagome lets her hand drop, so she's no longer touching him.

"Let's go," Inuyasha says.

Kagome nods.

==TO BE CONTINUED