A/N: It's been long since the last time I wrote, huh? Well, I'm glad you guys reviewed so much! I was very happy to see those nice, encouraging reviews! To every person who reviewed last chapter, thanks and consider this chapter dedicated to you!
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Chapter 9: Captured
Inuyasha heard Kagome's plea through the receiver. He picked up his pace, but the stupid ninjas weren't letting him get by. He could hear her labored breathing, but somehow also knew that he wouldn't make it. But, he had to, even if it took a limb to get there.
"Damn all of you to hell!" He yelled, punching one Ninja in the stomach, elbowing the one behind him and giving a swift kick the Ninja who thought nun-chucks were still in style. Although he had fun kicking ass, his priority was to get to Kagome. More ninjas appeared, almost as if they were responding to his thoughts and telling him that they weren't going to let him make it all the way to Kagome.
Knowing that just fighting them would take too long, he prepared to run through the lot. He was quick and he'd punch the ninjas that were in his way. He took a second to turn and gave it his all running. Sure enough, some of the ninjas fell as he passed by.
He hoped nothing had happened yet, at least nothing to compromise Kagome. Just hold on, Kagome!
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Kagome knew that she only had seconds to get away. Even as the door unlocked, she lunged to the backseat, hoping to get there and find something useful to defend herself, but she feeling someone pulling her by her legs. She managed to grab the bag that Kaede had given her as they pulled her out, kicking and screaming.
She struggled with her captors and tried some defensive moves that she had been taught, but seeing as she was tied, she couldn't use the Karate skills that had been embedded into her. She ground her teeth as they pinned her hands behind her, effectively ending her struggle. She glared at Naraku and, if looks could kill, he would have been on his back in seconds.
"Naraku." She hissed, only earning a laugh from the long-haired man.
"It seems you're a lot more feisty than I thought." He laughed again. "No matter. You will give me what I want."
Kagome raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? I don't have the chip." She glared even more daggers at Naraku. "You're the one who stole it!"
Naraku only grimly smiled. "Yes, I do have the chip but I lack the codes to program it."
Kagome tried to not look startled. "So? What does that have to do with me?"
"Don't play dumb, girl!" Naraku hissed, moving closer to Kagome in a threatening manner. "You might think that it'll be easy to fool me, but I've heard about you and the agency you work for." He composed himself, stopping his approach to Kagome as his goons held her. "And I've also heard your role concerning the chip."
Kagome gulped. "What?"
"Yes, it's true. I would be glad to kill you right here and now, my dear, but I need you for now." He tipped her chin up with his index finger. "You'll do as I say, do you hear?"
Shaking her head away from his touch, she bit back, "When hell freezes over!"
Naraku only turned away and signaled for his men to move her into the black van, when suddenly someone with silver hair appeared from the building.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted, trying his best to run.
Hearing Inuyasha's voice re-fueled Kagome's determination. "Inuyasha!" She shouted. The bag that Kaede had given her was still in her hand, and she maneuvered it to hit the man in the face. He yelped and loosened his hold on Kagome, which she took advantage of and wiggled herself free.
Naraku pointed to Kagome. "Get her!"
Kagome ran to Inuyasha as fast as she could, but his speed met her half-way. "Inuyasha!" she shouted, throwing herself at him and hugging him.
Inuyasha sighed. "Sorry for being late, Kagome. Damn ninjas were keeping me busy." He hugged back. He looked up to see Naraku's goons hot on their trail. Knowing that running would be out of the question, he pushed Kagome behind him. "Time to kick some serious ass!"
Inuyasha threw his punches with precision and skill. They came everywhere, from behind to the side and yet they still couldn't pin him down. His kicks sent them flying, and though he wanted to finish the job, her hovered around Kagome to keep her safe. One goon lunged for Kagome, but Inuyasha kneed him in the stomach.
"This ends now!" He heard Naraku shout. He turned around to see Naraku holding a gun. Inuyasha was about to scoff at him about how bullets weren't really going to affect him like a regular human, when he pulled the trigger and shot him.
Only these weren't bullets. Inuyasha fell on his knees, already feeling the effect of the tranquilizers. He damned everything he could think of.
"Hey! Let me go, dammit!" Kagome yelled, just as Naraku grabbed her. She kicked him and struggled, but Naraku thrust another tranquilizer in her arm. She hissed in pain, but slumped over in seconds.
"Kagome," Inuyasha whispered, reaching out to her. He desperately wanted to help, but he could feel his eyes closing. How many damn tranquilizers did he use? He thought uselessly. It didn't matter because in a couple of seconds he'd be down under.
Damn, damn, damn! I couldn't even save her . . .
That was his last thought before his eyes closed completely.
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Inuyasha cracked his eyes open, for a second not remembering where he was or what had happened to him. He sat up and rubbed his head, wincing slightly. It was dark, but his eyesight was keen enough to make out the screech marks of tires just ahead in front of him.
He stood up immediately, suddenly remembering what had happened. He ran to the car and tried to turn it on. After many failed attempts he finally figured it out. Once it turned on, the computer screen on the dashboard lit up, revealing a concerned Miroku and a frenzied Sango.
"What happened?" demanded Miroku. Sango could be seen muttering to herself an pacing behind Miroku. "We got a signal that the defense shields were put up and then the car was suddenly off radar, like someone has used some type of cloaking device!"
Inuyasha sighed. "They took Kagome."
"WHAT?"
Sango suddenly flew from behind Miroku to his his chair in less than a minute. Miroku didn't even have time to brace himself as he fell onto the floor.
"There were ninjas, and then the shooting and . . . oh god, they have Kagome." Inuyasha's head hit the steering wheel, the honk sounding loudly as it finally really hit him.
Sango shook her head. "No, no, no,no! Inuyasha, this is NOT GOOD!" She wailed, at the same time being exhausting angry. Miroku finally pulled himself up to see Inuyasha from the screen.
"What exactly happened?"
Inuyasha tried to make sense of what had occurred in the last few hours. "Kagome and I came to the business building in hopes of finding the chip here or at least a clue to where it might be. Kagome wanted to come with me, but I had told her that she couldn't because there was to much danger. Damn," he added, "I should have let her go with me."
"Inuyasha . . ."
"Sorry!" He exclaimed. "When I had gathered the information, I tried to get out but this whole group of ninjas appeared from nowhere. Kagome said through the speaker that she was in trouble so I tried hurrying up, but I didn't make it. Well, I did, but they used some high end tranquilizers on me." He sighed and let his face fall into his hands. "I couldn't save her."
Miroku sighed. "Inuyasha, it's alright. We—"
Sango burst in. "it's not alright, Miroku. Kagome is being held hostage and is probably being probed and tortured about information on the chip!"
"Kagome knows something about the chip?" Inuyasha asked, raising an eyebrow. Miroku and Sango glanced at each other.
Sango sighed, making Miroku get out of his seat so she could plop down in it instead. Crossing her arms she said, "Kagome is the smartest agent we have at the S.S. At the beginning of the project Shikon Chip, we knew that we needed someone more intelligent than anyone could hire. That was when the S.S brought her in. We were still in training, but since we were the ones that were going to succeed the officials in charge of the operation, we were involved as well."
"But what does she have to do with the chip?"
Sango sighed. "Well, Kagome is the only one who knows how to program it and deprogram it. She was the one who built the chip."
Inuyasha's jaw dropped. Kagome was the maker of the chip? Was it that why she was so smart? Because she had been trained since the day she had come in . . . ?
A memory came to mind and Inuyasha saw his fifteen-year-old self, training inside the gym. He had heard rumors about a big new project and how the agency was looking for the best candidate. Inuyasha had trained harder than everyone else those few months leading up to the announcement. He wanted to prove himself to everyone who had ever doubted him in the past. He wanted to make his parents proud and have people admire him.
Oh, but how angry he had been to find out that he hadn't been chosen. Instead, someone totally new was chosen to do it. Inuyasha never resented or hated another person more, even if he had never met that person. The simple reason was that they had been chosen over him. He was more upset when he saw her, because he knew that it was the girl they were letting tour the building. He had been beat by a girl! For crying out loud, his manhood was in question.
He wanted her to be ugly, to be nasty and mean, but he was only breathless when he saw her look at him through the glass while trained. Her beautiful blue-gray eyes and her porcelain skin had left him breathless and he hated her even more for that.
Inuyasha guessed that he had told her she was ugly, because her beauty bothered him. He thought that she was a push-over but when he insulted him full force, he made it his life-long ambition to make her life as impossible as his.
"Inuyasha, hello, you there?"
The hanyou jumped when he heard Sango's voice. It seemed like she hadn't finished telling her story. Inuyasha this time paid closer attention to Sango's words.
"When the chip was stolen, we knew that whoever had didn't have all the information they needed, because they hadn't bothered to grab Kagome. Sending her to deprogram the chip and then destroy yet was our last option. We figured that she needed a body-guard, and who else but you?"
"Yeah, I suck." Inuyasha sighed. He was going to be in trouble if he ever walked back into head-quarters without Kagome beside him. He felt that he wanted her to be by his side, which was weird to think about. He shook his head.
"Anything else?"
Sango shook her head. "No, not really."
Inuyasha nodded, looking at the papers he had been able to take. "Then listen to my new plan and we'll be able to find Kagome and destroy the chip in no time."
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Kagome woke up groggy on a cold, hard floor and sat up. She felt her hands tied behind her back and remembered what had happened before she blacked out. She tried looking around, but the cell she was being held at was dark, dark enough that even here her eyes could not adjust. She tried moving around, but her feet and knees were bound. Kagome sighed. They sure were thorough with tying up the prisoners around here. But why did they want her in the first place? Surely, didn't know about her involvement with the chip.
Just as her mind was contemplating the motives of her kidnapping, the door opened and Naraku himself walked in. He stood in front of Kagome, hand in his pockets as if he didn't have a care in the world.
"Are you ready to talk?"
Kagome pretended to play dumb. "Talk about what?"
"You know what I'm talking about." Naraku glared. "I know that you know how to program the Shikon chip."
"I have no idea of what you're talking about."
"Silence!" Naraku yelled. "You think you're so smart, but all you're good for is nothing. You're the top spy of your agency and you get caught? I guess the S.S is getting soft on you guys!"
Kagome glared, but made no more move to talk or to gesture about anything. Naraku huffed with anger and grabbed Kagome from her hair and pulled her up.
"If you don't want to die, then you better do as I say!"
Kagome spat on him. "Over my dead body."
Naraku smiled devilishly. "We can arrange that."
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A/N: Oh yeah! The story is getting juicier! Now we finally know why Kagome and Inuyasha hated each other! I'm glad I got to update this story before my five-day trip so please surprise me with a lovely bouquet of reveiws!
~Daichi
