The Will Of The Free
A/N: Hey! Welcome back! This story is set post Age of Ultron and will have a time-line incorporating the events of Captain America: Civil War
One livid Kagome Higurashi was escorted into a large tower in what she hoped was still Brooklyn, New York. She kicked and strained against the arms of the men to no avail. She definitely didn't want to use her abilities on these people, only to escape. They stopped outside a small door, pushing her inside and turning the key behind them.
X
"What're you planning to do with her?" Steve asked, sitting on a chair in Fury's office.
"Interrogate her, we want to know if she's a danger to the public and if we can weaponize her." Fury clicked his knuckles.
"Why? SHIELD is strong enough already, and she didn't seem to want to be here." Steve sighed.
"Why not? If she's like Wanda we can maximise our strength as an organisation, if she can be persuaded to our side." Fury clasped his hands together.
"She's a person-" Steve started, standing up.
"How do we know?" Fury shrugged, "Let's go observe her interrogation." Fury too, was now standing, gesturing for Steve to follow him out of the door.
X
Director Fury and Captain Rogers were standing behind a one-way glass wall. Kagome was inside, looking around her.
There was one agent in the room with her, sitting on a chair opposite the one she was cuffed to, but she could sense two auras outside the wall. One was the man that was the reason she was captured in the first place, the man with the warm blue aura. The other aura was cold and dark, but strong. The feel of it sent a shiver through her spine.
The agent opposite her cleared his throat.
"What is your name?" He asked.
"You can't keep me here!" She hissed.
"We are well within our rights, be cooperative and you stand a higher chance of being let go." The man's voice wavered slightly, but he carried on, "What is your name?"
Kagome sighed, "Kagome."
"Surname?"
She sighed, "Higurashi."
X
"Pull up all information on Kagome Higurashi and prepare a brief." Fury barked into his comm.
Steve watched her, seeing her in the light for the first time. She was pretty, a short woman that was almost stereotypical for her race, apart from her long hair and startling blue eyes.
"Do you really have the right to keep her here?" Steve turned to face Fury.
"After the New York attacks the government has given SHIELD the right to detain any with superhuman abilities." Fury stated emotionlessly.
X
Kagome felt the aura warm, blue aura outside the wall get angry. She turned towards the wall, looking Steve in the eye even though she couldn't see him.
"Miss Higurashi, could you provide details of your abilities?"
"I don't need to tell you that!" She growled, looking back at the agent opposite her.
"We reviewed footage from a security camera in the street and Captain Roger's eyewitness testimony. We are aware of your abilities, but not to their extent. Provide details of your abilities." The agent demanded.
X
Steve was starting to get annoyed, the girl was being interrogated and the government had given SHIELD the right to keep her as long as they see fit.
"Let me interrogate her." The words spilled out of his mouth before he could stop them.
Fury raised one eyebrow, "Are you sure, Captain?"
With that, Steve strode out of the room, ready to take over the interrogation.
He pushed open the door to the interrogation room.
X
Kagome could feel the warm, blue aura moving towards the door, about to enter her room. He pushed the door open, "I'll take it from here, Agent." Steve nodded.
"Of course, Captain." The agent left the room hastily.
"You! You were the one that caused all this!" Kagome spat angrily.
"I'm very sorry, ma'am, but what I saw needed to be investigated." He sighed, "I'm Steve Rogers, ma'am."
"I'm sorry you had to see what I did, Mr. Rogers." Kagome tried to be polite, ready to start trying to persuade her way out of the facility.
"You're in The Avenger's tower in Brooklyn, New York, Ma'am. I'm going to need you to answer a few questions and then I'll try to let you go as soon as possible."
"Let me guess, you need to know I'm not a danger to the public?" Kagome forced a smile.
"I'm afraid so, ma'am. What- What were the creatures you killed? Mutated animals?" Steve tried to be intimidating, leaning on the desk.
"I think so- I've seen them before, in Japan, a long time ago." Kagome filled her sentence with half-truths.
"In Japan?"
"I thought they might have been animals effected by radiation left over from the second world war, I had no idea they'd be in New York." She fibbed.
"And your abilities? Where did you get them?" Steve asked.
"I was born with them, I attribute them to radiation as well." She sighed.
"And the extent of your abilities? What could you do?" Steve leaned back.
"Healing, I can use them to repair wounds. I can use them to almost smother creatures like those in light, and kill them. And to charge objects with my power." Kagome didn't think she should be telling a stranger so much, so many useful bits of information. But the mans aura was so bright, so warm she just felt she could trust him.
"How did you discover your abilities?" Steve could see the woman physically relaxing.
"I was – I was mugged one night, and I pushed the woman away, and there was a burn mark on her face after I slapped her," Kagome decided to leave out the fact the woman was a demon with a centipede body.
His face turned stony, "You've never killed anybody with your abilities, have you?"
Kagome shook her head, she'd only really killed Naraku and his hoard of demon's, but she doubted they'd be considered 'anybody' by todays' standards.
"Why did you come to America?" Steve noted she'd mentioned Japan as her place of origin.
"I felt like a change of scenery," It was partially true at least, it wasn't the main reason she was there but it was a positive.
"That will be all for now, ma'am, thank you for your cooperation." Steve stood up, to leave the room.
X
"Director Fury, Captain Rogers, I have your brief on Kagome Higurashi."
"Go ahead, Agent." The director gestured for the agent to start.
"Normal life, lived on Higurashi Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, until her 15th birthday. Reported missing for a few days before returning to the shrine, and from then on for two years absences attributed to sickness, though no hospital visits were made. From her 17th birthday onwards, she has been in the United States, making several visits back to Japan to visit her family. Notable connections include; Sesshomaru Tashio of Tashio Corps, Shippou Faukai, Mr. Tashio's adoptive brother and Kouga Oohali of Karikazi incorporated."
"Those family members you mentioned, any abnormalities there?" Director Fury questioned.
"Father died in a car accident shortly before her 15th birthday, only one remaining grandparent; her mother's father. Her mother had been widowed before and had one other child, younger than Kagome called Souta." The agent responded.
"That will be all for now," Fury dismissed him.
"Are we keeping her contained?" Steve furrowed his eyebrows.
"For now, yes." Fury answered in a stoic voice.
"You know what happened to Wanda when she didn't have stimulation for her abilities- we should give Miss Higurashi the same treatment until she can be proven not to be a threat." Steve glanced the man standing next to him.
"Hm. If she is anything like Wanda, she will eventually need stimulation." Fury scratched his chin. He pointed to the floor in front of him and two guards stepped forward. "Have Miss Higurahi escorted to a bigger room, the one down the hall near Captain Rogers will do. Be stationed outside of the room, and set up monitors for any abnormal activity." Fury barked at them.
X
She was being dragged away. Again.
"Hey! Watch where you're putting your hands!" She shouted. "Where are you taking me now?" Kagome pulled on their arms, squirming to get away.
The guards eventually stopped outside a room, opening the door, one of them turning to speak to her.
"You will be fed three times a day. I recommend sleeping while you can and not doing anything to upset Director Fury." He yelled mechanically, repeating a message.
Kagome sighed, before walking into the room, "Can I get the cuffs off?"
The guard shook his head, negative, "Not until authorisation has been received."
Huffing, she walked into the room, taking in her surroundings, hearing the door slam behind her.
The walls were a dull grey, a white bed placed against the wall, with two tables either side. From what she could see, there was an open door leading to an on suite bathroom. There was a black rug on the wooden floor at the foot of the bed and an armchair in the corner.
Next to the chair, she noted, were some large blocks of wood like children's building blocks but bigger.
She sat down on the bed and noticed a change of clothes on the pillow.
Naturally, her hand reached for the jewel around her neck, and she was happy to find it still there. They had taken her phone from her during the ride to the tower, but let her keep the jewellery, probably thinking it to be of no importance.
X
"I wonder where Wanda is," Vision mused, floating down the halls of the tower. He noted there were excess amounts of guards there that day, and Director Fury himself was there, though he didn't bother to question why.
He felt a strange power source coming from the wing where those that needed sleep had their rooms. "Perhaps that is her exercising her power?" He questioned aloud.
Floating at a faster pace, he went to go locate her, floating straight through walls until he was about to enter the one the power source was coming from.
X
"Well, you're not Wanda." Vision stared at the young-looking asian girl sitting on the end of a bed, one hand on a jewel around her neck.
"And that's not any normal necklace."
A/N: Bit of a longer chapter here, what do you think? I'm going to focus on integrating Kagome into the Avengers in the next few chapters!
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