The Great Detective
Summary: He has smarts. He has good looks. He has personal charm and knows his way with people. He has a goal - to save a girl of his dreams from clutches of a delinquent and violent individual. Brace yourselves because here he comes!
A/N: I won't lie to you - the first chapter is just reposted from Barks chapter 57, so if you read Hojo's Encounter you can skip it and move to the second chapter (that's why I posted two chaps together). But feel free to comment on the first one too! You can suggest me ideas for the best title for this story or stuff.
1. Alley Encounter
Hojo was on a mission. He had all he needed - a bunch of pretty flowers Higurashi shouldn't be allergic too, a bag full of alt meds and a box of gluten-free cookies. All he needed to do now was to cross a few streets and climb the shrine steps. He smiled - soon he would see his innocent, gentle angel. She was so rarely at school lately, it was hard to catch her and just talk, so he decided to pay her a visit and
He entered an alley - it was just a pathway between two tall buildings, a short way no one usually used. Hojo walked beside a few old boxes and piles of rubbish before he saw Higurashi.
She was approaching him fast - her hair waving as she was moving, a determined look on her face. Her school uniform was torn and her scarf was missing. And she was ridding on the back of a guy Hojo vaguely remembered - after a second he realized where he had seen those red robes, obviously dyed white hair and obviously fake dog ears. It was the same boy who had taken Higurashi to visit her aunt some time ago.
A cloud of smoke was quickly following the running pair. Hojo opened his mouth to greet his beloved angel when he saw her notch an arrow on a bow she held. When she did the boy carrying her abruptly turned on his heels so she could send her arrow flying straight in the cloud of smoke. Something shrieked in the cloud, Hojo could almost see shapes moving inside it. Something hit the wall of the building to the right hard enough to make some loose pebbles fall. The cloud pulsed and darkened, but was still moving forward.
"Fuck it!" the red-clad boy cursed and let the girl slide off his back to stand behind him. He unsheathed the sword he had at his side and the school boy could see an old looking katana transform in a flash of light in a huge blade which belonged more to video games than real world.
"Inuyasha, you can't-!" Higurashi screamed, but it was too late. The cloud was almost reaching them.
"Wind Scar!" roared the white-haired boy as he slammed the sword to the ground.
The alley exploded.
Hojo sat up from the ground where he fell when the concrete under his feet shook and cracked. A pile of fallen boxes and cans was around him, shielding him from view. He brushed some of the rubbish off his clothes before some movement caught his attention. Higurashi was kneeling up from the spot where she had been curled in a ball, the boy leaning over her to protect her from the falling debris. The boy shook himself like a wet dog, sending all the dust from his hair and clothes to fly up in a cloud around him. Then he looked at the other end of the alley - long, deep cracks in the ground, walls missing big chunks of them and sporting deep cracks, rubbish covering the whole area. Somewhere in the distance someone was screaming and there was the sound of police sirens approaching fast. The alley was eerily quiet.
"INUYASHA!" Higurashi exclaimed when she finally stood beside the boy and looked at the destruction. She grabbed a forelock and tugged hard.
"Ow! Watch the hair, wench!" the boy growled, the fake dog ears somehow moving to lay against his head.
"Look what you did!"
"Yeah, I see," he smirked smugly, apparently proud of himself. "I did better job than this poorly aimed arrow. What was that, wench? You're better than that!"
"I would hit the mark if you were steadier!" she growled at him and looked at the piles of debris before them. She walked to one and dug out a piece of something shining pink. She put it in a bottle hanging around her neck and smiled when she returned to the boy. "Okay, let's go before someone sees us."
"Feh, I'd beat him senseless if he tried to say anything," the boy grinned, but sheathed his sword and knelt down so Higurashi could climb on his back. Hojo caught a fangy grin on his face when he glanced Hojo's way. He put a finger across his mouth and Hojo saw he had unnaturally long fingernails. "Besides no one would believe him."
"Stop bragging," Higurashi gripped her bow when the boy chuckled and... Hojo's eyes followed the pair as the boy jumped up, easily reaching the top of the shorter building three floors above the ground.
When the police came and asked Hojo what happened the boy merely uttered a few words.
"It exploded... It exploded very bad..."
While he was sitting in an ambulance headed to a hospital to get a check up he was thinking that he really had to ask Higurashi why she was hanging around this red-clad boy - he definitely was a violent, rash boy and didn't treat her like a gentleman. No gentleman would carry a girl - a very sick girl - on his back and shout at her or call her wench. Maybe he was a gang member? Gang members were the worst! Hojo decided he had to investigate it - he couldn't let his angel to stay in hands of a pure demon like a gang member.
A/N: ~still cackles because Hojo labeled Inuyasha 'a pure demon'~
The second chapter will be up in a few minutes