Summary: He's a detective. She's your every-day-average teenager who works as a waiter. One night, she witnesses a murder and now she's under his protection. MULTI-CROSSOVERS!

Pairings: Is mostly IchiKag but the rest, well you'll find out soon enough :)

Protecting The Innocent

Chapter 2

Ichigo stared at the two beautiful women before him.

"Which one of you made the call?" he asked.

"Me." Kagome said. "I..I called."

Ichigo looked over her body for any injuries, but didn't see any. "Are you hurt?"

Kagome shook her head. "N..No."

Ichigo nodded and brought his hand up to his right ear where his blue tooth was at and said, "Hey Yusuke, everything's clear. The girl's here but she has someone else with her. I suggest we bring her with us."

"Alright," Yusuke answered back, "Are there any blood anywhere?"

Ichigo answered back, "No. The murder that she witnessed wasn't here but I suggest we go there next before going back to the station."

"Alright. Well, everything's clear out here. Nothing's out of the ordinary. I'mma call Grimmjow and tell him to meet me here. Get to the scene and tell us where they're at and we'll meet you there."

"Alright, but I'll give the other girl to one of the officers." Ichigo looked at Kagome and Sango. "Stay close." He said before walking out of the restroom. Kagome looked back at Sango, who pushed her telling her to go and follow him and she did.

Ichigo walked up to one of their officers who had blonde spiky hair and whisker marks on his cheeks. "Naruto."

Said man turned around to see Ichigo with two girls. "I need you to take her back to the station and keep an eye on her." He said, putting his hand on Sango's arm and handed her to Sango. Sango was confused, she had no idea what was going on. "If the killer is really have this girl, Kagome, than I have no doubt that he'll track down their friends."

Naruto nodded. "Right."

Ichigo looked at Sango. "I need you to tell him all of your friends' name. It's possible they're in danger."

"Danger! What do you mean!" exclaimed Sango.

"Miss, let's go." Naruto said, pulling Sango towards his police car.

Sango obliged but before she got into the car, she looked back at Kagome and mouthed: "Be careful."

Kagome watched as the police car that Sango just got in with the blonde police officer drove off.

Ichigo turned to Kagome, "I'm gonna need you to take me to where your friends were killed."

Kagome felt her eyes water as she thought about it, but nodded. "O..Okay. It..It was close by Beria's, it was the first alley on the left."

Ichigo nodded and told Yusuke that over the blue tooth. He went over to his black van (a/n: when it's an emergency, Ichigo doesn't drive in the police cars) and got in the driver's seat while Kagome got in the passenger seat.

Kagome's eyes widened and tears slid down her cheek as she saw her three best friend's dead body's.

They were all laying right next to each other. Ayumi in the middle, Eri on the right and Yuka on the left.

Ichigo looked at Kagome and saw her crying. He knew it must've been hard for her to see her friends like this. He sighed before he kneeled down before the bodies, inspecting them.

They were all attacked almost the same way. All three of them have stab wounds in their stomach, arms and legs. They all had a slit throat and all of their clothes were ripped and blood was all over their body. He looked around the scene. Blood on the walls and the floor.

"Can you tell me their names?" Ichigo asked Kagome.

"E..Eri N..Nagata, Ayu..Ayumi Sa..Satsuna, a..and Yu..Yuka Ve..Vebrinth." she stuttured out.

Ichigo nodded as he kept staring at the bodies.

"What do we got?" asked Yusuke as he and Grimmjow stepped into the crime scene.

"Well, it's the same as all the others. Slit throat, multiple stab wounds and clothes ripped. Names: Eri Nagata, Ayumi Satsuna and Yuka Vebrinth."

Grimmjow stared at the bodies and shook his head. "This dude's a fuckin' psycho."

Ichigo turned to Kagome and saw her shaken up. "I know this is a lot to ask but...did you see the killer rape any of them before he started chasing you?"

Kagome shook her head, "N..no. He..He just st..stabbed them and I started running and he started chasing me." She closed her eyes, replaying the scene in her head and more tears slid down her cheek. Ichigo noticed this and sighed, before looking back at the bodies while Kagome opened her eyes when she heard Yusuke speak.

"Well your question from this morning has been answered, Ichigo." Yusuke said. "He does rape after murder."

"But this is different." Grimmjow said, kneeling down next to Ichigo to inspect the bodies.

"What do you mean?" Yusuke asked.

"The slit on their throats, it's not pouring as much blood as the other victims did." Grimmjow said as Yusuke knelt down next to him to see what Grimmjow was talking about.

"Meaning he didn't slit their throat deep enough..." Yusuke said. "Did you just see him stab them or did you see something else?" Yusuke asked, turning his head to look back at Kagome.

"He just st...stabbed them."

"Either he's starting to feel sympathy for killing them or someone else did it..." Grimmjow said, inspecting the slits on each of their throats.

"Someone else?" asked Ichigo.

"Someone with less experience than him...I don't know, it's a guess...Tessai needs to take a look at it back in the lab..we need to see how deep this wound is compared to the others..." Grimmjow said, motioning for the other people to take the bodies.

Kagome watched as they zipped her best friend's body, putting them on a stretcher and taking them to the back of a truck. "I...I need t..to call my mo..mom." She managed to say.

Ichigo turned to her. "Didn't you have a cell phone?"

"It was my friend's Sango, the girl you took with that blonde cop, and I gave it back to her when we were in the stall. My cell phone's at home."

Ichigo nodded. "Sure." He reached into his pocket to give Kagome his cell phone but Grimmjow stopped him. Ichigo looked at him, confused.

"We'll let you call your mom at the station. We still need to ask you some questions since from what I understand, you are the only witness and you were face to face with the killer." Grimmjow told her, staring at her.

Kagome stared back at Grimmjow's aqua eyes with her chocolate brown ones and nodded. "O..Okay."

Ichigo took his hand out of his pocket. "Come on, let's head back to the station."

AT THE STATION

Sango ran up to Kagome as she saw her walk in with three police officers. "Thank god you're okay."

Kagome hugged back. "I'm..I'm fine, Sango." She pulled away and saw the rest of her friends here..including her family. She looked at Sango.

"I told the police officer to call your family too."

"Kagome, what's going on? I just got a call from Sango and she told me to come down here quick." Kagome's mother asked.

Kagome opened her mouth to say something but Ichigo beat her to it, "Your daughter was a witness in a murder. The killer is now after her." Everyone gasped and Ichigo looked around at all of Kagome's friends and family as he continued speaking, "You are all here because there's no doubt that if the killer is after her, he would go after her loved ones. From now on, you all will have your personal bodyguard with you at all times to keep you from harm."

"W..Who's gonna protect Kagome?" asked Souta.

Ichigo looked down at the black haired boy and said, "...I will."

Then he, Grimmjow and Yusuke walked away. Kagome looked at her friends and families worried expression and gave them a smile. "Don't worry about me guys. I'll be fine." Then, she followed the three guys.

"Tch. I don't need no bodyguard." Inuyasha said.

Sango looked at Inuyasha. "Just because you're a black belt in Karate doesn't mean you can handle yourself against a killer, Inuyasha." she rolled her eyes. "And besides," she sat back down next to Miroku, "I'm more worried about Kagome's safety than mine. You guys should've seen her when she saw him when we ran out of the restaurant. She froze and she was stricken in fear. I hope they find him."

"You said he was chasing you right?"

Kagome nodded at Grimmjow's question.

"Did you see his face?" Yusuke asked.

Kagome shook her head. "No. He was wearing a mask. All I could see was his eyes and his lips."

"What color were his eyes?" Grimmjow asked.

"Red. Blood Red."

"We need you to tell us what happened." Ichigo said.

Kagome stared at him for a moment then she nodded. "Okay, um..well, we were at Beria's having a girls night out and we were drinking. Yuka and Ayumi were drunk and Eri was tipsy. I was sober because someone had to drive them home, you know? We were walking to my car, which was parked in the back but we decided to take the shortcut, which was through the alley. I was walking behind them. When we turned the corner, he grabbed Ayumi. Yuka yelled to let her go but he pulled out a knife and held it to her throat. Eri and I froze but Yuka ran to him, telling him again to let her go but..." Kagome sniffed as tears were running down her cheeks, "he...he stabbed her and she coughed out blood. I yelled out her name. T..Then he...he slit Ayumi's thr...throat. H..He was on his way to me and Eri and Eri told me to run. I..I couldn't move. I was to..to shocked to see the murder of my two best friend's..then he...he stabbed her. I..I didn't think more and...I ran. I ran as fast as I could. I thought I could lose him in the crowd but I didn't. He followed me into the restroom in the restaurant..and...and that's when I called the police." She said, sobbing.

Ichigo stared at her with sympathy. She witnessed the murder of her three best friend's and was reliving it by telling them what they want to know. "That's enough questions for now. We'll ask you more tomorrow. You should get some sleep."

Yusuke and Grimmjow nodded, agreeing with Ichigo.

"B..But where would I sl..sleep? Y..You s..said I c..can't be a..alone." Kagome managed to say.

Ichigo sighed. "You'll stay at my place tonight. We'll get your friends and family a bodyguard and they'll go home too." he said, standing up with Yusuke and Grimmjow.

Kagome nodded. "O..Okay."

"We should let her wash her face." Yusuke suggested.

Ichigo nodded. "Yeah. I'll take her to the bathroom. Tell the chief that we need our best cops to protect her friends and family."

"I'll go back to her friends and family and Grimmjow would go to the boss." Yusuke said, walking out.

"Why am I always the one who has to go tell him everything!" Grimmjow argued as he walked behind Yusuke.

Ichigo looked at Kagome, who was sniffling occasionally. He walked over to her and knelt down in front of her. "It's alright." He said in a soft voice.

Kagome looked up at him with her red puffy eyes and tears stained face.

Ichigo smiled softly. "I'll protect you...I promise."