I am so sorry about not updating for a long time. I had to be sure of the next chapter and the chapter after.
Manten's fist slammed into the side of his head. For a moment, it was as though he was floating through the clouds, his head cottony and dazed. Inuyasha tumbled away, thick black and silver braids whipping about, and rolled onto his feet, taking off in a mad dash after Hiten. Arrows whizzed past him and caught the man in the ankle; unaffected, he bent and yanked the arrows out of his leg.
In desperation, Inuyasha threw a brick from the sidewalk, narrowly missing and shattering a shop window. "Fuck, fuck, fuck." He needed to talk to Miroku about neighborhood clean-up. The guy had enough money to rectify anything; he was practically Bruce Wayne.
"Bloodhound!" Huntress called from a window of the brick building beside him. Inuyasha glanced up in time to watch her pitch forward and scramble to his feet: "Catch." She somersaulted backwards, and felt his arms close around her within moments, her quiver digging into her back. "Thanks." She brushed imaginary dirt off of her pleated skirt and shook back her hair.
He set her gently on her feet, with all the care one reserves for handling and planting seedlings. He would hate to hurt her; she accomplished that on a daily basis, constantly tumbling into trouble. "Shoot him, and I'll keep Manten off of you. I know he's got a thing for fucking up women." Inuyasha muttered sourly, "This is the one time I wouldn't mind Alpha being here." Super-speed really cuts down on time and effort.
Huntress notched an arrow and drew. "We can handle it." This time it caught Hiten in the back. He fell with a grunt.
Manten chuckled. "Tough, aren't you little girl?" The hulking bald man strode forward. "I ain't like my brother. He's all about finesse and weapons. I just hit shit till it goes down."
Huntress backed away, pulling on her weapon. "What a coincidence. So does he." She came to stand over Hiten, an arrow trained on his eye. "Bloodhound."
Inuyasha looked over his shoulder at her. "Yeah?"
"Sic 'im."
He grinned beneath the dog-mask and turned back to Hiten's brother. He drew his fist back and jumped, pounding into Manten's broad face. Blood covered his fist. He pummeled into his head, pushing the unnaturally thick-skinned man back step by gradual step. Manten grunted and attempted to swing at him but Inuyasha dropped to the ground, leaped up and clothes-lined him. A mid-air roundhouse kick sent the dealer slammed into the building across the street. The silver chain slung diagonally over his shoulder clinked merrily as he loped over to where Manten was laying on the ground. "Heard you were distributing a new narcotic under direction of Naraku. Wanna tell me who your contacts are?"
Manten spat blood between his loosened teeth. "You only got the drop on me cuz you're quick." His form shuddered, palm digging into the paved concrete. "I can't tell you shit, Bloodhound. We both know I'll die if I do."
Inuyasha growled in frustration. "I'll break every bone in your body if you don't."
"You don't fucking scare me, Bloodhound. Whatever you do, Naraku'll do me worse."
Huntress spoke up from where she was watching. "Look, I can't promise safety, but we have a few cop friends. You should be safe for maybe three months. Just until we get Naraku on trial."
Manten eyed her and pulled a grimace with his broken face. "I'm not saying shit."
Inuyasha shrugged and slammed Manten's face into the pavement. Huntress stared at him.
"What?"
"I—nothing." She walked over to him and inspected his knuckles. Some of the skin on them had been scraped off. "Do you need anything for that?"
"Nah. Can't really feel it." He flexed his hand. "Come on. Let's call our director. We'll let the beat cops handle clean-up."
