"Whatcha working on?"
Inuyasha looked up from his paperwork and saw a small, skinny, girl, no older than 18 looking down at him. "Can I help you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry!" the girl cried, her cheeks becoming a pretty shade of pink. "I'm Kagome." she held her hand to shake hands, but the papers in her arms fell on the floor. "Shoot!" she cried, hurrying to her knees to pick up the mess of papers that lay strewn across the hard wooded floor.
Inuyasha looked around the department, seeing serial killers, and rapists, and hit men every where, then looked down at the sweet, no cussing, girl, and couldn't help but wonder what a sweet girl like herself would be doing in a place like this.
"Here, let me help." Inuyasha said, getting up from his chair and coming around to the front of his desk and helping her pick up the mess of papers.
"Oh no, really, that's ok!" Kagome hurried to say, her cheeks becoming a darker shade of pink.
"It's not a problem, really."
"Oh, well, thank you." she said, going back to the papers.
"So, what are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked, his detective curiosity getting the better of him.
"Oh, right. I'm your new partner."
Inuyasha couldn't help it, his eyes went wide and his jaw dropped. She was going to be next to him everyday, and help him put away some of the most dangerous people in the country. The girl who couldn't even keep a hold of a stack of papers?
"No, not partner." she added quickly. "More like an assistant. Secretary? Um..." her sentence hung in the air as she looked down at the cold wooden floors, her cheeks a nice red now.
"It's ok. It doesn't matter what you call yourself."
Kagome looked up and met his amber eyes and smiled, knowing immediately that he was going out of his way to make her comfortable. "Thanks." she said, smiling.
Inuyasha nodded, looking down at the long list of paperwork that he would ignore.
"So, um, what were you working on? If you don't mind me asking?" she added the last part quickly, noting the way his eyes snapped up at her.
Inuyasha thought it over. If she got into the Fugitive Apprencitation Detail Department then she was ok, so telling her was safe. But if he told her, then this sweet little girl would be involved. But surely she knew that, she had to have known the danger she was in, joining this department.
"I'm working on Her." he said finally, going back to his nice red chair sitting behind his desk.
"Her?" Kagome asked, clearly confused.
"She has plenty of names, but no one knows her real name."
"But how's that possible?"
"She's just that good."
Silence fell over them. Kagome took the blue chair that sat across from Inuyasha's, her desk bare of everything except a stray red pen. "So no body knows her name? What about what she looks like?"
Inuyasha just laughed a dry laugh. "She's been so many things, blond, tall, short, brunette, blue eyed, green eyed, pretty, ugly, young, old...you name it." Inuyasha looked up at Kagome and saw obvious confusion.
"Well, if you don't know anything about her, how do you know She exists?"
"We had people, old hit men, mob guys, rats, who had proof that She's real."
"But then, how do you have nothing about Her? With the proof you should have at least something right? And what do you mean had?"
"Well, they disappeared before we could get the information from them."
"You mean..."
"Yeah, She got to them before we could."
"So, what did She do?"
"She's a murderer."
"You mean, like, a serial killer?"
"Not really. She doesn't kill for the joy of it, or just to kill. She only kills when She needs to."
"Needs to?"
"She kills to stay on top, to make sure She doesn't get caught."
"Caught doing what?"
"Whatever She wants."
She sat at the head of the dining table, looking out at the 14 masked faces staring back at her.
"Ok," She said, slowly, behind her own mask. "Now, take off your masks."
9 of the men started to do as she said, but the others stopped them with their words. "Aren't you going to take your mask off?"
Smiling behind the mask She replied, "No."
"Then why are we?"
"I like knowing the faces of the people I'm going to be working with."
"So why aren't you taking your mask off?" another asked.
She just sighed, tired of explaining the concept a new bunch of people. "Because I'm important and you're not. You need me, not the other way around."
"What do you mean you don't need us?" A short, bald man, wearing a hideous brown suit and red tie asked.
"I mean, I could kill you now, and have someone else sitting in your spot, with the exact power and money that you do. You, on the other hand, can't."
Silence. She watched in frustration as no body removed their masks. "If you don't want to take orders from me, fine. Leave." she said, pointing to a door on the left.
She watched as they all hesitated before the bald man got up and walked around the table, opened the door. Mumbling started as they all watched on, when two men in black suits appeared.
They grabbed both of his arms, despite the man's protests, and dragged him out into the dimly lit hallway, letting the door swing shut behind him. The man's yelling's continued, until a loud bang stopped them, followed by a thud. Everything was silent, the only sound being the dragging sound of the body.
"Any one else?" She asked, raising an eye brow. "Good. Now, remove your masks."
Simultaneously, the plain white masks that had covered 13 faces were removed, revealing the men that were to be her pawns.
"All righty then. I call the shots around here. Any sign of disloyalty, any at all, and your dead. You will do what I say, when I say, no questions asked, or your dead. Any questions?"
Pale, blank faces stared back at her. "Good. From this moment on, you'll be at my disposal, 24/7. There will be times I tell you to do something, anything, anytime, anywhere, and I'll expect you to do it, and if you don't, then your dead."
She paused, letting her words sink in. "Now, if you survive this...adventure, and trust me that's a really big if, then I still expect everything from you. If you get caught, and plan to rat me out, years later, I'll know, and you'll be dead within the hour. After this, you'll be richer and more powerful then ever, but you'll be mine, till the day you die. Which could very well be tomorrow."
Looking around at the men, all of which were 30 or older, balding heads, and at least 2 diamond rings on each finger, she saw fear and terror in their faces, but in their eyes she saw something more, she saw greed.
"Leave." She commanded.
The thirteen men scrambled to their feet, chairs scrapping against the hard wood floor beneath as they all headed toward the door on the left.
"If you value your lives I suggest you go through that door." She said pointing toward the door on her right. Watching as they all immediately stopped and ran over to the other door, the safe door; she couldn't help but think of blind mice who just kept running to survive.
Hey everyone! I'm back!!! Lol so, what did you think? Its been a while since I've written anything...but hopefully you all like it. I'm almost done with the story actually, I just have 3 or 4 more chapters to finish writing, so all in all there'll be about 10 or 11 chapters...give or take a few chapters. Anywho! I had s bunch of snow days and this is what I've been doing...along with raeding and sleeping of course. Anywho: I really hope you guys like this chapter, and this story for that matter... Read and Review ok guys? Till Next Time...