Italics means Japanese
.o.o.o.
Kagome checked the safety on her gun making sure it was off. She and two other agents were crouched next to a side door of the building, waiting for the signal to move in.
The mission was simple, capture the hydra base and bring in the hydra agents. If there were any enhanced persons or inhumans let the agents trained in handling them take care of it. Nothing they hadn't done before.
She shifted again, restless.
"Hey Kagome," she glanced to her left at agent Thomas Williams, he was looking at her curiously. "You nervous? You've checked your gun at least four times in the last five minutes."
The concern in his voice was notable. Kagome smiled to herself, he was always looking out for the other agents on any given mission, she had been working with him and agent Samantha Roberts regularly for about a year now, and Tom always acted like such a mother hen!
The three of them had worked together before the whole hydra disaster, but not too often. They had been on a mission together when the fall happened and had reunited after Coulson re-recruited them for the new SHIELD and put them together as a unit.
The new SHIELD was different than the one that had first recruited Kagome. Much smaller and more personalized for one. Part of that was because so many agents had been killed, turned out to be Hydra, or had decided to move on to other types of jobs.
Kagome couldn't picture herself in any other work. When she had finally accepted that the bone-eater well wasn't going to open again after her high school graduation, she'd lost what little interest she had left in schooling.
She'd helped around the shrine, trying to distract herself, but she'd begun to sink into depression.
Running into SHIELD had pulled her out.
She had been visiting another city with her mother and had sensed a yokai. It turned out that this particular yokai had been hunting and eating humans for a while but had managed to avoid attention by moving around a lot. SHIELD had caught wind of it while it was in America and had finally caught up to it in Japan. There they discovered that the yokai could create a miasma that would paralyze them. Kagome had followed the yokai energy, seen the situation, and reacted on instinct. Her purifying energy had protected her from the miasma and coming from behind she had knocked out the yokai with a pipe segment she had grabbed from the ground.
The SHIELD agents had apparently been impressed by her bravery and once the paralysis wore off, they had invited her to attend the academy. From there she eventually became a field agent.
"I'm not exactly nervous," she began to respond, then trailed off, unsure of how to phrase what it was that had her so fidgety.
"Don't worry," Sam smiled, "everyone gets nervous sometimes. And besides if the rumors about there being captured inhumans are true, we might be seeing Quake! She always comes if there's a chance of finding a new inhuman."
Kagome's smile widened at her enthusiasm. Sam had proved to have an almost obsession with the 'enhanced' and seemed practically giddy at the idea that they might meet one in person.
Kagome glanced at the door again and her smile faded slightly; she couldn't shake the feeling that something else was in there.
A chill wind whipped across the rooftop, and the three agents suppressed shivers. Kagome glanced up, it was almost dawn, there had been no moon that night. She blinked and scowled slightly at herself in annoyance. After returning to modern times for good she'd still kept track of the moon cycles, mostly unconsciously. 'C'mon Kagome' she thought to herself firmly, 'pay attention to the present situation, the past is gone.' Though she had to admit to herself that keeping her mind on the present was even more difficult since she had seen those agents bringing in Tessaiga two weeks ago. She'd managed to hide her reaction (thank you spy training) but seeing it had reopened a deep wound in her heart.
She resisted the temptation to check her gun again, not wanting to worry the others. It had been years since she was last this nervous for a mission, what was going on?
Finally the signal to move in came over their ear-pieces. Kagome and Sam flanked Thomas, keeping watch to the sides and behind as they moved slowly through the upper levels of the building. As they entered the second room five men looked up at them, startled. The shield agents didn't hesitate, in seconds three of the men had been knocked unconscious with icers, the other two had stood up and pulled out guns.
They were hydra then. Kagome ducked behind the door-frame as the hydra agents opened fire.
.o.
Kagome pressed her back to the wall as shots whipped past her. They were nearing the bottom level of the building, where the captive "inhumans" were being held. She doubted if they really were inhumans though, she sensed high levels of yokai energy from below. So either some of the hydra agents, or the prisoners were yokai. Or both, yokai had no qualms about fighting each other.
It sounded like some fighting was happening in the lower levels, some of their agents must have gotten down there. Thomas finished off the last agent that had been firing at them and beckoned for her and Sam to follow. He edged his way down the stairwell, keeping an eye out for more hostiles as he did. The sound of fighting continued as they reached the bottom floor and faced the doorway, if anyone was being held captive in this base, this was the last floor to secure and check.
Kagome squinted at the door, on it was vaguely familiar looking stylized Kanji, though she didn't recognize these specific ones, they must have been ancient. Then it struck her, this writing was similar to the sutras Miroku used to carry. These were anti-yokai wards, probably meant to contain them and their power. Well that confirmed it. These weren't inhumans being held here. They were yokai, and somehow, hydra knew about them when SHEILD did not.
Kagome opened her mouth to warn her teammates. It didn't matter if they thought she was crazy, they needed to be prepared for what was ahead. But too late. With a signal for them to follow, Thomas burst through the door into the room. It was chaos. Hydra agents were taking cover in packs, trying to ward off the yokai that were most definitely not restrained, as they attacked the humans who had held them captive. Kagome spotted several ogre-like yokai they she remembered having fought before, as well as some who were definitely spider-types spinning webbing around some unconscious hydra agents.
Kidy-corner to her group, another door burst open, and several more SHEILD agents rushed in. They hesitated for a moment, as Thomas had, trying to absorb the surprising situation and figure out who they were supposed to be fighting, and who they were supposedly rescuing. That hesitation disappeared as several hydra agents turned and began firing on them. The SHEILD agents dodged for cover, then began to return fire.
Kagome and Sam worked their way across one side of the room with Thomas guarding their backs, trying to flank a rather large group of agents who were distracted fending off what looked like a swarm of flaming rubber balls. Kagome recognized the kitsune illusions for what they were, how many types of yokai had they managed to capture?
As they reached the middle of the room, and with a nod the two women darted into cover spots opposite each other. This would allow them to cover more of the room,
"Sanko Tesso!"
Kagome froze, that phrase, that voice! Only years of training kept her from dropping her weapon in shock. She slid along the divider she was using as cover and looked toward the source of the words. He looked older, but the stark white hair, the pointed ears sticking up from the top of his head. Inuyasha half-crouched behind a crate peering away from her toward where his attack had downed several hydra agents.
For a second, she couldn't move. Emotions long since buried and forgotten surged within her, shaking the discipline she'd so strictly enforced as part of her training. Inuyasha was here, he was alive! Despite the difference of 500 years and an entirely different continent, he was somehow standing in front of her, with that familiar scowl on his face.
Kagome wrenched herself back to the present. 'you're in the middle of a fire fight moron,' she berated herself, 'you can have a teary reunion once the hydra agents are taken care of!' She scanned from her position for hostiles. The hydra numbers had dropped enormously. It seemed that their captives had managed to do some serious damage once they'd escaped. Not surprising really. Inuyasha alone was very good at destroying things, even without tessaiga.
Her eyes settled on a woman across from her. A woman with a rifle trained on Inuyasha's back.
Kagome didn't think, only pulled her trigger, but an empty click met her ears. She cursed, (in English, she'd learned some good ones over the years) by the time she reloaded, the hydra agent would already have fired, Inuyasha didn't seem to be wearing his fire rat robes anymore, he would be killed. From deep inside her a response she'd thought buried in the past flared and she shouted without thinking. "Osuwari!"
As the hydra woman fired her weapon, light flared along the necklace Inuyasha wore, and he was pulled down, face first into the ground, as the bullet whizzed through the air where he had been standing. A second later Sam's bullet dropped the hydra agent.
Inuyasha spluttered as he shoved himself to his knees and twisted to face her, shock lining every feature on his face, "Kagome?"
.o.o.o.
So these scenes were the main things I wanted to write. I have some ideas on how the story could be continued, So if that's something you guys are interested in let me know. If not I might just leave it as is, it depends on how my muses behave.
According to my headcanon here Inuyasha's aging is drastically slowed by his Yokai blood, so they'll appear to be roughly the same age.
As always review please, I love reviews!