Disclaimer: Inuyasha et al. do not belong to me, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

Author's Notes: This fic was written for KagomeHig715 for her birthday. Happy Birthday! I apologize for this being late, thought I could do it sooner.

This is only the first post, there is more to this story coming in the next few days. The characters are OOC, I tried to make Inuyasha gruffer, but it just wasn't working with the story. However, the fact that it's an alternative universe helps compensate for this, as Inuyasha has grown up with different circumstances than he did in canon, and therefore would act a bit differently as well.

On with the show…

Witness

By Priestess Skye

She sat in the empty room, twisting the napkin in her hands to shreds. One of the other officers had handed it to her sometime ago before sitting her in the room. She was beginning to feel claustrophobic after spending time in the dreary room alone. She looked toward the mirror on the one wall and knew somebody was watching her. She didn't care, they could watch her all they want, they weren't going to see anything until they sent somebody in to talk to her. As to why they needed somebody else to talk to her, she didn't know as she had already given her statement to three different officers. To Kagome, it just seemed like they were dragging out the process even longer, especially when she could be getting home and packing her belongings so she could get out of town, and quickly.

After a few more minutes of silence, she finally stopped and looked at the shreds of napkin on the wooden table in front of her. She sighed as she placed what was left of the napkin on the table next to the shreds, and lay her forehead against the cool wood. Each moment that passed seemed to grow agonizingly longer, and yet, she was still alone, waiting to speak to the final officer. She didn't think she could be any more nervous than what she was, and she knew without a doubt, that if somebody didn't come in soon to distract her, she'd be in tears from frustration. Despite everything that she'd seen and had been through, she wasn't ready to let anybody see her tears. It was something her father had taught her before he left. Tears were a weakness, and while they were allowed some of the time, more often than not it was better to keep them to yourself. Put on a brave face, is what he'd always tell her. She could remember coming home from school upset more than once, and it was always the same thing, 'put on a brave face'. Well she was getting tired of her brave face.

She nearly jumped when she finally heard the door creak open, and lifted her head from the table thankful that somebody had finally decided to check up on her. The sooner she answers the questions, she sooner she could go home.

"Miss Higurashi?" she heard a male ask.

"Yes," she responded quietly as she lifted her eyes to his face. She nearly jumped again, but this time for a completely different reason. Of all the men she expected to show up in the room, this one man certainly wasn't one of them. Gone was the blue uniform, and crew cut hair. Gone was the spit and polish shoes and shiny badge on the front of his jacket. Instead she saw a man with the most beautiful silver white hair she had ever seen, a colour extremely unusual in a man his age. While her heart had always skipped a beat when she saw a man with blue or green eyes, it skipped two beats this time when she gazed upon his amber ones, and noted the intensity in them. The man standing in front of her wasn't a man at all, but a god. Any other time and place she'd have been swooning all over him. It must be the nerves, she justified to herself. For a change they were allowing her to behave in a more reasonable manner.

"Lieutenant Inuyasha Taisho. Sorry to keep you waiting." He took a seat in front of her and placed a small tape recorder in the middle of the table, before shrugging off his jacket entirely. She nearly groaned at the sight, knowing that this meant she wouldn't be able to go home as quickly as she thought she would.

"I'm sorry to be a bother, Lieutenant, but is this going to take long? I've been here all day and I just need to go home," she pleaded, allowing her eyes to tear up just a little to garner some sympathy.

She heard him sigh and watched him as he reached across the table to grab one of her hands. "Call me Yash, I'm not one for titles unless I want to frighten somebody or pull rank," he smirked. "And no, you won't be going home, I'm sorry to say. Unfortunately there has been an unexpected turn of events. We tried to work as quickly as we could so Naraku wouldn't find out about you, but it seems we were a little bit too late. I can't go into details, but Naraku knows what you saw, and he knows that it could be dangerous to him."

"What does this mean?" Kagome had a sinking feeling that she knew what it meant, but she wanted it confirmed, she needed it confirmed.

"It means precisely what you think it does." He leveled his gaze at her, forcing her to look at him and understand what he was about to say. "Naraku has placed a bounty on your head. 50,000 if you're brought to him dead."

She gasped, both in shock at the amount, and in fear at the implication of the bounty.

"It gets worse. There's a second bounty for 100,000 if you're brought to him alive. For some reason Naraku wants you, I don't know why, but he does. I wouldn't doubt it for a moment if somebody was already in your home waiting for you to arrive." She shivered at the thought of some man hiding in a dark corner of her apartment, most likely her bedroom closet as most people are unguarded in their bedrooms. "That scared you," Yash noted. "Good, it was meant to scare you. Anything I tell you, I'm not going to sugar coat. I'll tell you more once we leave, but meanwhile, for my record, I need you to answer some questions again. I've read your statement, I've seen your evidence, and both are very good, but I need to it all again, coming from your mouth, not just on paper."

Kagome nodded, not able to do much else. "I'll tell you everything I know."

"Good. Then let's start at the beginning. What were you doing out behind Pennies earlier today?"