The Perfect Assassin

Description: Sango is a young assassin and one of the best. Not only that but she is a famed thief. Well known as The Taiji she is the best of the best. Working for an unknown benefactor…she works in the dark of night. Miroku is a top special agent and soon to be leading the investigation about her. When Sango is given a new job by her boss, to kill the young special agent, it poses to be a bit of a problem when she realizes she has fallen in love with the dashing young man.

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Mia: He people, Lili is a little high on caffeine and sugar…she is way to hyper.

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Chapter Three

The Chaos of the Case

Sango stretched as she left her apartment, on her way to visit her boss.

"What a beautiful day," Sango sighed, "If only, if only…."

Sango walked down the street and casually stopped in front of what looked like a typical business building, with unusually high security. She walked up to the door and pressed her hand against the press pad and let the Iris Scanner scan her eyes. She waited a moment as the door opened to allow her through. Taking the stairs she walked up to the tenth floor, and walked down the hall to the room at the very end and stopped again in front of the door. Taking a deep breath, she slid her work I.D. through the reader and typed the password into the keyboard next to the I.D reader.

S-h-i-k-o-n N-o T-a-m-a, Sango typed into the keyboard, There we are.

Trotting into the room, Sango sat down in front of a large desk.

"Ah, Sango, my perfect assassin, I happen to have some terrible news for you," a young demon turned his chair around to face Sango, his black hair flowing around him, purple-black eyes filled with anger and mirth.

Sango sat up straighter, startled, "What? What are you talking about, Naraku?"

Naraku grinned evilly, "I am afraid, my dear, that you failed your last mission."

"WHAT, I killed that man that you told me to kill, I got rid of him," Sango yelled, outraged.

"Oh but alas, you have failed. You see this morning you were on the news, the man lived with some grave injuries. Here take a look," Naraku picked up the remote controller, and turned on the news.

Hello and Welcome to Live 5 News. I am Eri Tanki. Now, we return to the latest on the Taishi Case. Mr. Taishi has awakened from his critical condition state, and will live. His injures have started to heal and he should be out in a month or so. The FBI have started investigation into this case and they say that all citizens should take some extra precautions to stay safe, and that rest assured CSI will catch this criminal.

Naraku turned of the T.V, and turned to Sango, "I believe you know what happens if you fail a mission, right."

"NO DAMN IT! NARAKU, YOU BASTARD, YOU WOULDN'T DARE," Sango shrieked, eyes tearing up.

"Oh, but Sango, darling, you know I would," Naraku said, his wicked smile growing.

Sango's eyes started tearing up. I will not cry in front of this bastard, I will not cry, She thought determined. "Please, Naraku-Sama, you know I would do anything for my brother, please," Sango pleaded.

Naraku's eyes darkened in wicked delight, "Fine, fine Sango, I will have your next assignment soon, but for now, I wish for you to spy on the FBI team that is investigating this case and disrupt them. Remember your record says you died in that horrible accident with the rest of your family, so as far as you know you are Cori Tanaki, not Sango Taijiya. As far as you know you are not Sango Taijiya and if they manage to make the connection to her, you will act as if you lost your memory. You know the drill."

"Yes, yes," Sango said irritated, "I will go. I will also have information on each of the FBI members that are on the team investigating this case."

"Very well, dismissed," Naraku waved her away and turned to look out his giant window.

Sango shot him an evil glare and stormed out of the room.

With Miroku at the hospital

Miroku walked into Mr. Taishi's room and sat down next to Mr. Taishi, checking his little information about the almost victim.

"Mr. Taishi, I am Special Agent Miroku Houshi. I am leading the investigation of your would-be-assassin. I would like to ask you a few questions…if that would be alright," Miroku looked up from his papers and pulled out a small notebook and pen.

"Yes…that is fine," Mr. Taishi nodded, his hazel eyes foggy from the meds, "but please call me Trace (CSI, don't ask)."

Miroku nodded,"First, do you remember how your assassin looked like?"

"Yes," Trace nodded, "She--"

"SHE," Miroku interrupted shocked.

"Yes, she, "Trace continued, his long brown hair, bobbing up and down in its ponytail, "had …long brown hair, pulled up into a pony tail that reached her waist…and she was about, hm… 5' 6", with chocolate brown eyes. When she shot me, she apologized and I remember…I remember tears glistening in her eyes before I blacked out…She had a good figure, strong, with some muscles. And…she seemed really sad about 'killing' me."

Miroku frowned, "She was sad…that is unusual."

"Yes, I know…but it is the truth," Trace said.

"Can you tell me anything else," Miroku asked, "Do you remember anything about her face besides her eyes?"

"No, she was wearing an unusual mask, kind of like a modern day gas mask, except a little more old fashioned," Trace replied.

"Thank you, that is all for now, we will make a computer model of the would-be-assassin, and bring you out model to approve or disprove," Miroku said, standing up and preparing to leave.

"Oh, before you leave, here," Trace handed Miroku a small Petri dish with a bullet in it. "The bullet they pulled out of me during my surgery, they asked me to give this to you."

"Thank you and one of my team members or me will visit you to update you on the case from time to time."

"Thank you."

"No problem, it's my job," Miroku bowed politely and left the hospital.

With Inu-Yasha and Kagome, at the crime scene

Inu-Yasha and Kagome walked up to the crime scene, with cameras and gear in hand. Putting their gear down, the two ignored the cops walking around and got to work immediately. Kagome started snapping pictures of the crime scene and Inu-Yasha took a look around and began to gather evidence, not that there was much.

Walking around, Inu-Yasha spotted a small piece of paper on the floor next to the bed, and picked it up carefully, reading it he smiled.

"Kags," He called, "I've got something here."

Kagome walked over and frowned, "Did you remember to take a picture of where the evidence was before you picked it up?"

"Opps," was Inu-Yasha's guilty response.

Kagome rolled her eyes, "At least you are wearing gloves, just put it back down for a moment and snap a few pictures and then you can tell me what it is."

Inu-Yasha did as she requested and then picked it up again, "This is a note from our dear assassin."

"Hm…maybe if we are lucky we can pull something from this note," Kagome said thoughtfully, "Bag and Tag it."

After about an hour they looked at the little evidence they had gathered.

The note, from next to the bed

The pen the note may have been written with.

Blood from the bed.

The phone from the bedside

The blood soaked sheets, pillows, and mattress

After they had gathered all the visible evidence, Inu-Yasha politely convinced the cops to leave the room so Kagome and he could use the ultraviolet lights.

After about 15 minutes of scanning only part of the room Inu-Yasha was about to scream. Kagome however continued.

"I have a better idea," Inu-Yasha said, "You check the window and I will sniff around here and tell you if I find something."

"O.K," Kagome said shrugging. Inu-Yasha looked at Kagome a moment rather wide-eyed.

Kagome has been rather passive today, Inu-Yasha fretted, I wonder if anything's wrong… Inu-Yasha shrugged it off and got back to work sniffing along the carpet, like a real dog.

"Inu-Yasha," Kagome's voice floated over to him in the silence.

"Yea, what," Inu-Yasha replied lifting his head from the floor.

"Mr. Taishi was attacked last night right?"

"Yes…So what?"

"It…it was raining wasn't it?"

Inu-Yasha let out a groan, "That is right, that means you will find very little evidence in the window…but, look anyway, who knows, maybe we will get lucky."

Kagome shrugged again and went back to scanning the window with her ultraviolet lights and special glasses and Inu-Yasha went back to sniffing around. After another 10 minutes of absolute silence Inu-Yasha, smelt something different near the bed. It wasn't the plastic and metal of the cops. It was a different scent, not one he was familiar with.

It smelt of gunpowder, rain, salt, Inu-Yasha frowned, but what was that last scent it was sweet almost FEMMINE? Then it hit Inu-Yasha, "Cherry Blossoms!"

"What did you say," Kagome asked, looking at him confused.

"I found something. This scent is different than all the others, it smells of gunpowder, rain, salt and CHERRY BLOSSOMS!"

Kagome frowned for a moment, "I think I understand, the gunpowder was from the weapon used to try to kill Mr. Taishi, Rain because it was raining last night, Cherry Blossoms…it must mean our killer is a female! But, I don't understand the salt?"

Inu-Yasha frowned, "I believe for some strange reason our killer cried when she 'killed' Mr. Taishi. So this may be DNA evidence!" Inu-Yasha got out his knife and slipped a pair of gloves on. He carefully cut out that section of carpet and dumped into the bag Kagome had waiting.

"So, did you find anything by the window," Inu-Yasha questioned.

"Nope, but I thought we may be able to check the bushes underneath the tree and see if something survived last nights rain," Kagome said thoughtfully.

"Great idea," Inu-Yasha said surprised.

"Why do you look so surprised," Kagome growled, "What? Do you think I am stupid? Well do YOU?"

"Of course not Kagome," Inu-Yasha said, smirking, "Now let's go down and poke around in the bushes for a little while." With that Inu-Yasha walked down the stairs and outside with a miffed Kagome following.

With Sesshoumaru and Rin in the forensics lab

"SESSHOUMARU-SAMA! Sesshoumaru-sama! I found something," Rin said bouncing around the lab enthusiastically, "did you find any thing one the hard drives of the victims computers?"

"…no…not yet. What is it that you found? The connection between the victims," Sesshoumaru questioned.

"Wow! How did you know," Rin asked, wide-eyed, "Oh well, the only link I have found between all the victims, has to do with the businesses that they have invested in. Most have invested in a business or businesses that have a man named Naraku Masuke as the founder! And when each of them died he, Naraku Masuke, got a large sum of money because of their investments. The one's that didn't invest in with him are his rivals in business. And then when they died his sales, etc. went up tremendously."

"I think, "Sesshoumaru started, "that you are definetly on to something." Rin beamed at his praise.

"Hey kids, what do you have for me," Miroku asked, coming into the room.

"Well," said Rin, "Good news or bad news first."

"Bad news first then, good news after that," Miroku said, used to Rin's game.

"Bad news is I got nothing off of the hard drives," Sesshoumaru began.

"Good news is we managed to make a connection with all the victims," Rin finished.

"Well you are right about the good and bad news," Miroku smiled, "But, I have even better news."

"Ohhhh, What! What is the news," Rin demanded, bouncing up and down.

"…no, more Caf-Pow's for you," Sesshoumaru said, taking her extra large Caf-Pow away from her and placing it out of her reach, ignoring her outraged protests.

"Well, I managed to get a description from Trace…err…Mr. Taishi," Miroku corrected himself at their confusion, "here is a copy of his description, try to make a model of her, our assassin, from this information. And yes our Taijiya is a female…what is wrong Sesshoumaru?" At Miroku's usage of the name Taijiya, Sesshoumaru had leaped out of his seat and started furiously typing something into his computer.

"Ah ha, I have got it," Sesshoumaru said, surprising Rin and Miroku.

"Got what," asked Rin and Miroku together.

"There is…was a clan with the last name Taijiya, in an accident five years ago the whole clan was mass murdered. All bodies except two were accounted for. A young girl and a younger boy, today if they are alive, she, Sango Taijiya who was 16, would be 21 and the boy, Kohaku Taijiya who was 11, would be 16," Sesshoumaru reported.

"Do you have a picture of them," Miroku demanded.

"Yes, right here," Sesshoumaru showed Miroku the pictures of the two.

"Look," Miroku exclaimed, "the girl, she matches the description perfectly! That must be our assassin. She must have lived and is using her family's traits to assassin people."

"But," Rin responded, "That still doesn't explain why she is doing it. For fun? For a revenge of sorts? Or perhaps she is being hired or even used!"

"Hmm…well, Sesshoumaru? Do you think you can age this picture five years? You know finish the maturing process, etc.," Miroku asked.

"Yea, give it all about 30 minutes to download the program, and download the picture and then of course the aging process," Sesshoumaru said, starting up the program. Rin watched eagerly over his shoulder, jumping when the phone rang. Going over to the phone, she turned down her music and hit speaker phone, "Talk to me!"

"Hello, Rin," Myouga's voice answered, "I was wondering if you would fax Shippo and me the autopsy reports so we can get familiar with the victims."

"That's 25 reports! I'll just send Jaken, since he is the messenger boy, O.k.?"

"That will be fine Rin. Thank you," Myouga responded.

"No prob! Bye now," Rin answered.

"Bye," finished Myouga.

With Myouga and Shippo at Myouga's house

"Thank you, Jaken! Good bye" Shippo waved excitedly. "Here ya go, Doc," Shippo handed half the pile to the short flea demon. (L/N Myouga is four foot, still short but tall enough, Shippo is 3 foot)

"Well, now all we have to do is go through 23 files. So Shippo, any idea on how we are going to separate the files," questioned Myouga.

"Hmmm….um…ah…OH! I know, why don't we separate them by cause of death, that way we can compare them and any similarities will mean the death was caused by the same person," Shippo replied bouncing up and down.

"Very good," Myouga congratulated, "You know all these cases remind me of a case I participated in, in 197-"

"Doc, shouldn't we start separating the files," Shippo interrupted before Myouga could get into one of his long stories about former cases.

"Of course, of course! Let us begin then."

Thirty minutes later they had the 23 files separated into different piles.

Pile 1 – death through gunshot – 10 files +the almost victim

Pile 2 – death through bleeding to death (Stabbing) – 4 files

Pile 3 – Cause of death, skull fracture, caused by being hit with a blunt object – 6 files

Pile 4 – Cause of death, poison - 3 files

"Well, we do know one thing. No matter how varied the way they were killed, the same person killed all of them because of the notes left at the scene of the crimes," Shippo concluded.

"Very good," Myouga said, impressed.

Inu-Yasha and Kagome at the crime scene outside the house

Inu-Yasha and Kagome had spent the last half of an hour, searching the lawn beneath the window of the room where Mr. Taishi had almost been killed.

"AGHHHHHHHH, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE," Inu-Yasha yelled suddenly, startling Kagome.

"What is the mater now Inu-Yasha," Kagome said rolling her eyes.

"I can't smell anything to do with the crime scene," Inu-Yasha wined.

Kagome sighed wearily, "well, could it have to do with the fact it rained last night and washed away most traces of anything?"

Inu-Yasha blinked for a moment then nodded, "Of course…I forgot."

Kagome sweatdropped and went back to searching the bushes underneath Mr. Taishi's window, "OH! Inu-Yasha! I am pretty sure I have something here, in between these bushes!"

Inu-Yasha got up from sniffing around in the mud happily and went over to take a look at what Kagome had found.

Preserved in the dirt between the bushes was a square shaped print with wires lying near it. Next to that appeared to be a shoe-print, a knee print and a toe print. The assassin had obviously kneeled here with a laptop, or a suitcase?

Inu-Yasha smiled broadly and started snapping pictures rapidly, while Kagome took out the plaster and put it in the four impressions. Then as soon as it dried she bagged and tagged it as well as the wires, they finished looking around and declared there to be no more evidence, gathered all the bags of evidence and jumped into Inu-Yasha's car and drove back to HQ.

With Miroku at the bullpen (L/N um a bullpen, for those who do not know, is a group of offices, um…imagine a secluded area of the office kind like this , it has walls and everything. Now all you have to do is add some desks and equipment and u have a bullpen)

"Alright then see you in a few minutes," Miroku said, hanging up his office phone. Putting his feet on his desk and tilting his chair back he stared at the ceiling waiting for the rest of his group to show up. Within minutes Sesshoumaru and Rin showed up, laptop and memory stick in their hands, and sat down, Rin on the floor and Sesshoumaru at his desk across the isle from Miroku's. Shortly after them Kagome and Inu-Yasha walked through the elevator doors looking rather triumphant and carrying all the evidence in their arms. They dumped the evidence on their desks and sat down at their desks behind the piles of evidence. (Inu-Yasha's desk is next to Sesshoumaru's desk and Kagome's is across from Inu-Yasha and next to Miroku's) Finally, right after they arrived, Shippo bounced through the elevator doors followed by Myouga, both carrying two piles each of documents and files. Shippo sat next to Rin on the floor and put his two files down in front of him. Myouga sat down in the spare chair putting his files next to Shippo's.

"Good," Miroku said standing, "Now that you are all here, we can go through what we have learned. I will begin." Miroku walked over to Rin and took the memory chip, taking her. He walked over to the T.V between Inu-Yasha's and Sesshoumaru's desks, and plugged into the laptop that Sesshoumaru had hooked up to the T.V, turning on the T.V he picked up the controller and turned to his team, "This girl and her brother were from the Taijiya clan. The clan as most of you know was killed off in a mass slaughter. These two were never found, it is my theory as well as Shesshoumaru's and Rin's that they lived and Sango, the girl, may very well be the assassin. I had Sesshoumaru run the aging program on this picture of her when she was 16, he aged it five years…so, she will look something like this now." Miroku looked at the picture and his eyes widened at the very pretty young woman at the screen, shaking his head, he turned back to his team, "So who wants to go next with any failures or discoveries?"

"Ohhhh, ME ME," Rin bounced up and down on the floor, and jumped up taking the remote from Miroku, who returned to his seat, "I couldn't find much in common with our victims so I looked up their investments and rival business's and found this." Rin clicked the remote and a chart popped up with all the victims' pictures and lines connecting them to a man, "The man is Naraku Masuke, a local businessman. All these victims were either the owners of rival business's or had made investments in his companies."

"Very good," Miroku said looking up from his palm pilot where he had been writing down notes, "Who want to go next?"

"We will go next," said Kagome standing and bringing the evidence bags forward, Inu-Yasha following with his bags. They placed the bags down and Inu-Yasha plugged his memory chip from the camera into the laptop and pictures of the crime scene started flashing across the screen. "Rin, we brought you gifts," Kagome said smiling, "We gathered quite a bit of evidence from the crime scene, seems our killer is getting cocky and sloppy."

Inu-Yasha held up the bags and Kagome narrated.

"This is the note, our assassin left behind; we hope Rin will be able to pull some prints from it. This is the pen we think the note may have been written with; we hope Rin will be able to pull prints from this as well. We collected a sample of the blood from the bed, we are pretty sure it is the almost-victims but it never hurts to double check. We also picked up the phone that the assassin used to call the police to check it for prints. And we gathered the sheets, pillows, and mattress as evidence, also using the blood splatter pattern we will be able to tell what angle the assassin shot from and how tall she would have to be. This is a piece of carpet Inu-Yasha gathered; it caught his attention because of its scent, gunpowder, rain, cherry blossoms and salt. The salt is because he thinks for some strange reason the assassin cried at the scene of the crime, which would prove to be a DNA sample. We also gathered wires from the crime scene to check for prints and DNA. And lastly we gathered a group of prints, this one which we think may be from the bottom of the laptop, this one is a knee print, this is a toe print, and the golden print a foot print."

Miroku's eyes widened, "Very good you two, I am very impressed. So that leaves you two, Shippo and Myouga."

Shippo looked over at Myouga who nodded, bouncing up he gathered the piles and took Inu-Yasha and Kagome's place, "We didn't find much but, we found the assassin sticks to four methods of murdering. Pile one has ten files, plus our almost victim, they all died from a single gunshot wound. Pile two has four files; all these victims were stabbed to death, only one knife wound though. Pile three has six files; all these victims had skull fractures as their cause of death, caused by being hit with a blunt object. Pile four has three files, their cause of death…poison. We are looking for a person with a very physical history, a perfectionist most likely; also she will have a lot of knowledge in plants…which fits a Taijiya family member to a T." Shippo smiled, looking very pleased with himself as he sat down.

"Very good everybody," Miroku said, smiling, "Here are your new assignments, Kagome and Inu-Yasha, I want you two to go interview Trace's, Mr. Taishi's, neighbors. Myouga and Shippo go talk to Tokyo Universities Athletics program, and any Medical teachers about this girl. Rin, you get Sesshoumaru to assist you in the lab while you run all tests you need on our evidence. And, I will go inform the head of our progress, then go show this picture to Trace and if approved, I will go track down this girl and talk to her and 'get to know' her, and here is a picture of her for all of you." With that every one scattered, while across down a certain female assassin sneezed.

TBC…

Lili – well here we are in Germany, six hours ahead of our normal time…wow

Mia – it has been a while since we have been here…but we shouldn't have come during the time the world cup is here…

Bree – decked out in world football cup stuff what are you talking about, GO GERMANY WOOT WOOT

Mia – she has turned into one of those crazed fans! Oh well, we have great shopping here

Lili - looks at chappie I think we dragged it out a little bit…

Mia – oh well…

Bree – GO TEAM

Mia - --; review pleaz