I know I have another story up that I have no added to but I am at a writer's block with it, I know the ending and some significant plot points but the line that connects them all is showing itself to me. However this idea I had said it needed to be written. Don't own anything!

NOTE: italics note a flashback

HUNTING FOR SPIDERS

Chapter 1: The robbery

I shifted the Crown-Victoria into drive with a sigh. The flashing blue and red lights from the ME van lighting up the car in the dark. I could still smell the dank odor of decomp over the Vicks that I had dabbed under my nose, from the body that had permeated the house. The phone call had come in at 7pm from a concerned family member that their great uncle wasn't answer the phone. I was dispatched to the scene.

I threw my car into park and gazed up at the silent house. I shoved the door open and stepped into the brisk fall air. I slammed the door shut before walking up the pathway to the white front door. I knocked on the wood door and got no answer. I went to the window and glanced in. The living room was empty but I could see a foot sticking out of the doorway that led into the kitchen. I hurried back to the door and tried the handle. Of course it was locked. I took out my lock pick kit and got to work. The door sprung open in mere moments. The strong smell of decomp wafted through the door making me gag. I pulled my jacket up over my nose and mouth and entered the house. I quickly went to the body to see it was on its belly and bloated beyond recognition. Flies were buzzing around the body making me turn away and notice that the back door was locked and there was not any blood around the body. I continued poking around but didn't find any evidence of foul play. Sometimes I really hated being a Detective. I flipped open my phone and pressed the number for disbatch.

"Hi Sue, this is Kagome. I have a body at 311 Brooke St. Seems to have died from natural causes. I will need the ME." I said into the phone.

"Sure thing Kagome, I will send them over right away." Sue said.

"Make sure to tell them to bring their Vicks." I replied before hanging up and walking back out to my car. I pulled the Vicks from the glove compartment and rubbed some under my nose. This was going to be a long night. Within 15 minutes The ME van pulled in behind my car. I stepped from the hood and greeted the ME Hiten. "The body is in the kitchen. Doesn't seem to be any foul play." I told him as I led him into the house and through to the kitchen. Hiten snapped his gloves on and carefully rolled the body over onto its back. He took a liver probe from his bag and stuck into the abdomen. A noxious cloud of decomp wafted up from the new hole like miasma. It cut right through my Vicks making me gag.

"He has been dead for more than two days, Kagome. I can't say cause of death till I get inside of the body but my guess would be heart attack or stroke." Hiten said pulling out the black body bag.

"Let me get my camera before you move the body too much." I murmured before leaving the house and popping my trunk. I pulled out some latex gloves and the high definition camera from the box in the trunk. I pulled the gloves on and stepped into the house once more. I started snapping pictures of the body, the floor, and the rest of the kitchen.

"I will need your help moving his body since my assistant called in sick." Hiten said apologetically. I nodded and put my camera down. Hiten rolled the bag out next to the body and unzipped it. He gestured for me to take the man's feet. I took a grip on each ankle and on the count of three we both heaved the body over onto the bag. I silently cheered that his skin didn't split open like the last one. Hiten began to zip up the bag when I heard commotion at the door. I walked to the door to find a CSU guy at the door.

"Sue sent me to take some fingerprinting and boot treds." The man said holding up the kit. I nodded and went back to get my camera. This was going to be a long night.

It was now 9 o'clock as I started down the street towards my apartment. I had been at work since six this morning and I haven't even eaten dinner yet. I grumbled as I waited at the red light 4 blocks from my apartment.

"Kagome, this is disbatch." Came through over the car radio making me groan out loud. I picked up the handset and pressed the button.

"This is Kagome."

"We have a robbery at 16 Clifton Heights, home of Sesshoumaru Taisho. You are the closet detective to the scene. Need you to report to the scene." Sue said apologetically.

"Tell Bankotsu that I am coming in at noon tomorrow then." I growled into the handset before jerking the wheel in the direction of Clifton Heights.

"Will do Kagome!" Sue said.

I slammed the car into park 15 minutes later in front of a distant mansion surrounded by lush gardens, a high stone wall, and a metal fence.

I pressed the income on the podium next to the driver window.

"Yes?" a snooty voiced male asked.

"Detective Kagome reporting to a call of a robbery?" I said into the receiver.

"You may enter." The voice said and the gates swung open making me roll my eyes. I drove up the unnecessarily long drive way and turned the car off in front of the entrance. I popped my trunk and pulled out my camera and a new memory card before approaching the house and knocking with the dog headed knocker.

The door swung open revealing an aging butler in a white and black suit, who for some reason had a green twinge to his skin and an odd looking face. "This way." He squawked and shuffled off. I followed after him with a sigh taking notice of the rich furnishings. I snapped to attention when I nearly ran the little butler over, in my attention being on the hall we were walking down.

"Lord Sesshoumaru is in there." He mumbled pointing at the door we had stopped at before turning away and leaving. I knocked on the door again.

"Enter." A cold voice ordered from within. I opened the door and stepped into the room and my eyes widened in surprise. The room was set up like a display room for ancient Japan. I eyes found the owner of the voice and of the house. "You are the best the police department has to offer?" He sneered. He was a gorgeous specimen of male with his gold eyes and his unusual long silver hair at the age of 25, no wonder all the magazines loved putting pictures of him on their front cover. His insult and sneer immediately set my teeth on edge and made me raise my eyebrow at his rudeness. "Wrinkled clothes and smelling of death?"

"Sorry I didn't get to go home and iron out a nice suit for your audience." I replied with some sarcasm. I pulled out my note pad and wrote the date, time, address, and victim on the first clean page. I glared at him, waiting for him to start.

"What no questions?" He replied coldly.

"Did your mother forget to teach you manners? When someone is sent to help you usually you are polite." I bit out. His eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Raised by wolves were we? You hardly look professional enough to be the best of the police department." He replied hand tightening on his glass of amber liquid. I looked down at the button up shirt and slacks I was wearing. They were rumpled but that's what happens when you work a 25 hour shift.

"That's what happens when you work at 15 hour shift. Can we cut the bullshit? Tell me what happened so I can start taking a look." I growled.

"I came home at around 8pm and had dinner. I came in here to have my scotch and noticed that two of my swords are missing from their display case. I checked the surveillance cameras around the house and it clearly shows a figure covered in black slipping in through the window in this room and leaving with two swords strapped to his back." Sesshoumaru said coldly before taking a sip from his scotch. I went to the window and saw a circle cut out of the glass large enough for someone to slip their hand in and unlock the window. I took a picture of that before going over to the glass display and took a picture of that. There were two swords missing from the stands and another circle of glass cut out.

"I will need those surveillance videos." I said as I began taking pictures of the hard wood floors. Once I finished I looked up at him. He was watching me intensely. "I need to go to my car to get the powder kit." I told him before exiting the room. I followed the path we had taken earlier back out to the front entrance and quickly went to my car's trunk and got the print kit.

I walked quickly back to the room to find Sesshoumaru leaning against the fireplace with a set of DVDs in his hand. I started dusting all the glass on the window and display for prints before moving to the floor for shoe impressions. The glass turned up nothing showing he must have been wearing gloves. However he did leave shoe treds on the hardwood. I transferred them onto the shoe paper.

"That is all I can do for tonight. I will need photos of the swords though to make sure they don't turn up in pawn shops." I said turning to face him.

"The swords are very valuable and I expect them found and returned to me." He stated coldly.

"Well unless this video shows a shot of the robber a shoe print is not much to go off of." I replied with a shrug.

"I want to be kept updated everyday woman." He ordered. I felt my eyebrow start to twitch.

"I know you still think it's the ice age but we are in the 21st century and now women have names. Mine is Kagome, you arrogant ass. You will do well to remember it." I hissed before grabbing the DVDs off the display and marching out of the room. What was he raised by apes? His attitude is appalling! Arrogant asshole, who does he think he is being able to address me as woman?

I slammed his front door on my way out and stomped over to my trunk threw in my camera, print kit, and the DVDs into my trunk before swiftly slamming it shut. I slid into the drivers seat and pealed out of the driveway. The gates opened to allow my exit and I gunned it onto the street heading toward my apartment. 20 minutes later I unlocked my door and dumped my jacket on the coat hook. I entered my room and pulled my gun and holster from my belt and laid it on my night stand table before getting undressed and ready for bed. I brushed my teeth before collapsing into soft sheet and comforter. I was asleep in minutes.

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