-1A/N - I have been waiting to write this chapter for two years. Boy am I glad I finally am able to. My heart is racing now, I've known what was going to happen all along!

Daibakuhatsu Daigaku

Chapter 21

Blood

Saturday, April 1, 12: 12

Hakodate, Japan

Kichinkyo building, Women's dormitory

Yuka weakly sighed, taking the cup of tea down from her lips and swallowing the last sip of soup. "…Th…thanks…"

"Yuka, what happened to you?!" Sango now asked. She had been patient while the girl was getting in some nutrients, but now she had to know something. She knew Yuka was involved: look at her!

The thin girl slowly took in a ragged breath, gently propping herself up against the wall, her body still fully supported by Kagome's bed. It seemed that she knew this was coming, and the answer was not easy. "…Months ago, my boyfriend and I… we were walking. On the beach… Police mobbed us. They blindfolded and gagged us. Then we turned up at a concentration camp. It's outside a little town in northern Hokkaido."

Sango's jaw went slack. She couldn't see anyone else's reaction (since she was sitting and staring right at Yuka), but she probably didn't need to. Concentration camp… "Who was the concentration camp for?" She brought herself to ask.

Yuka nodded with a light smile, as if only waiting for permission to speak about it. "Anyone,"

"Anyone?" Inuyasha asked.

"… that the government hates… demons, half demons, foreigners, civil disobeyers… political enemies, political activists, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews… I met many of those… That's why my boyfriend was taken…"

"That's right…" Sango said to herself. "Kagome said he's from Hawai'i."

Yuka's smile faded. "Was. He's dead now."

Koika took a hard gulp into her throat, looking at Sango who was also looking slightly pale. "Um…"

"I have… other things to tell you… many things… bigger than this."

She now had everyone's attention.

"I wasn't taken… for being political."

Sango frowned. "But, why were-"

"I was taken… because they thought I was the first in line… but I was the second."

"I beg your pardon?" Koga asked.

"They thought that Sunset Corp… put the Shikon no Tama in me, but Kagome had it put it. I was the next closest match… I think her father did that, write me in as the holder… on purpose, to protect Kagome."

"Her father?" one of them asked. It didn't really matter who at this point.

"Vice president of product engineering at Sunset Corp… or was when he was alive… and when the company was as well." She took another long sip of tea. "Before you ask anything else, I have to say somethings. Sunset corp.… they set up a program to find children who matched… well with their new product. They had to match with genes of spiritual force, had a certain amount of estrogen production, and other stuff… I didn't find out a whole lot, but enough… I was sworn to secrecy in those early days of testing… I wish I broke that earlier."

"At least your breaking it now," Sango began. "But what does the Shikon no Tama do?"

Yuka sighed. "I only have a vague clue… something about talking with the dead or spirits or… stuff like that."

"How…" Inuyasha was slightly flabbergasted, as were many of the others. "How can you… make something like that?"

"Not sure." Yuka offered simply. "But it also has to grow in the right person… for a long time. They did… many tests on us and a few other kids trying to see who was best… At first, they thought I would be the top, but… ironically, Kagome, the child of the head of the project… she was the best fit. "She took another sip of liquid. "She was the best match, I was the second best. After me was a little demon boy called… Jyakotsu, I think, then a young Irish girl who went back to Galway after… the tests."

Jyakotsu. The name seemed to resonate through the entire room as if a lead anvil were pounding on all of their heads. They knew about his murder. And now they knew a very big clue about why it happened. "Yuka…" Sango whispered. "Jyakotsu is dead. He was student here. He was gunned down months ago."

Yuka nodded, not surprised. "If they went after me, then they went after him. And Kagome."

Inuyasha snapped out of his stupor of the murder mystery. "Kagome? What do you-"

"Wait… your Inuyasha, the… oh, I heard about you." She said, almost like an old woman talking to a grandchild's friend. "I heard a lot about you from Kagome."

He blushed, but pushed through it. "No, forget that! Kagome! What is going on with her!?"

"Talking to the dead… could give a lot of religious power to someone… enough for religious, political, or ethical domination of a lot of people." she said. " Not a lot of people went after her after tha-" She stopped, her eyes slightly hazy and off kilter. She turned to Sango. "Where does Kagome keep her movies?"

"Huh?"

"Her movies? I know she'd bring it along."

Sango pointed next to the bed, where a night stand table would be if there was one. She helped Yuka down and off the bed to the stack of discs as she began to fervently search through it. " I know it… I know she'd bring it."

"Bring what?" Koga asked.

"The that." She said simply. All of the movies in the stack were now thrown about the confines of the area, with Yuka slightly puzzled. Her eyes glanced around until she spotted a tin under the bed, and with a little help, she pulled it out. "Her first funeral gift…" She muttered. She tugged at a bit (since her muscles were almost nonexistent) and then yanked open the top, finding inside a few small things, including the Tessaiga, as well as a disc labeled "Kagome's first Christmas." Yuka pushed the eject button on the movie player and pushed the new disc in the slot. "this should show you how much people want the Shikon."

Inuyasha and the others moved around the T.V. screen as Sango helped Yuka back onto the bed, still holding the tin.

For a while the screen was black. But without warning, it clicked on, with a young man in a sweater holding a small baby in his arms, smiling. He was sitting on a small mat in front of a glass top coffee table, with white carpet underneath. Behind him there were numerous Christmas items all hanging about. "Hon, is it on?" He asked.

The screen nodded up and down. "Yeah, I think it is. I have a blinking red light in my right eye. That means it's recording, right?" a female voice said from behind the camera.

"Yep. Anyway, hi there, uh, camera. This is Higurashi Ichigo and little Kagome here," He nuzzled the babe with his chin. "In Paris for Kagome's first Christmas… sort of."

The screen bobbed up and down slightly, in que with a chuckle. "Sure, because Christmas is in April this year."

"Hey, Steppy asked us to try out this stuff. And since most of it is Christmas themed… well, we can pretend, can't we?"

"It would be easier if it were cold outside and people stopped looking at us weird when they see Christmas lights in our hotel window."

Ichigo rolled his eyes an sighed. " Oh fine. You certainly weren't talking like that last night. You gave me my Christmas gift-"

"Do you really think that's something that can be said on camera?"

"How's the eye camera doing, by the way? No funky feelings in your temple."

"Non. Now answer the question, Santa."

"Well… I suppose it isn't."

"Right… " The woman said with a slight chuckle in her voice. "And that would be because…"

"…This video to see how all of the new products are working with visual evidence, not personal happenings."

"Good boy…" the woman was silent for a moment. "Um… you did use a condom last night, right?"

Miroku sniggered.

"Wah- Of COURSE I did!"

"That's what you said when we were on our honeymoon, and now Kagome is proof that you were lying."

"No, I did not lie. The condom just couldn't hold all of it, that's all."

Koika groaned. "Dirty parents… yuck."

"Sure, keep telling yourself that."

"OKAY, to nonchalantly change the subject," Ichigo stood up with a nervous smile. His wife behind the camera followed suit. "Let's get to reporting on the different stuff we're trying out! First off, the Shikon no Tama is still dormant, but that's no surprise. We shouldn't be worrying about that until she is twenty one and I'm in a mid-life crisis."

"I had better have one of these eye-cameras then. Then I can document ever last time that you did something pathetic." Her mother said.

Ichigo's face dropped. "Not funny." he kept his mouth open to speak, but a blast in the distance appeared to startle both him and his wife. The baby Kagome opened her eyes for the first time, showing a proud resemblance to her father. "What was that?" He asked.

"I don't know. It sounded like it came out from LaDefense area." the woman said.

"Are you sure?" Kagome's father asked, getting up to go towards the balcony. "I thought it was closer to Seine."

The camera got up and began following Ichigo to the veranda. "I'm positive!" they got outside. "Oh kami… Look, see in the La Defense area, that skyscraper-"

"I see it." He said with a slight groan. His arms went up around his chest to the baby he held. "You think that was bomb?"

"Probably. Either that or… maybe an airplane?"

Ichigo looked at the camera with a quizitive look on his face. "What, you mean like a French version of 9-11? Well-"

"OH KAMI, ICHIGO LOOK! ON THE SEINE! Oh, how do you zoom in on this thing!?" The screen turned red, and then yellow, then fuchsia as Kagome's father looked out over the railings.

"HOLY CRAP! ALL OF THAT, THAT ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD!… OH KAMI! HONEY, ZOOM IN ON IT-"

"I JUST ASKED YOU HOW TO DO THAT!"

"Move the second slider on the big round thing! Oh kami! Oh kami- that's a nursery! THOSE CHILDREN ARE ON FIRE! OH KAMI!"

The camera zoomed it. Koika gave a yelp as they watched small children running in a frenzy their clothes on fire, their faded screams barely reaching the camera. "Oh kami, oh kami, oh kami…" Kagome's mother stopped when there was a loud banging on the door. Ichigo quickly took the baby harness off of him and onto his wife before he went to the door.

"Oh my… oh kami, oh Buddha…" Her mother said again and again as new fire balls and smoke plums exploded over the city of Paris.

Inuyasha looked at the date on the bottom of the camera. It read April 4, 2012.

Ichigo got back onto the veranda. "Oh Buddha, what- CRAP! THAT WAS FREAKING CLOSE!"

"Who was at the door…?" Kagome's mother asked.

"A letter. Oh kami… I think I better call a taxi to get us out of the city." He said, again leaving the porch.

The camera zoomed in on a different part of the city. "Oh Buddha… Oh kami… Wait, is that…" The camera looked up to the sign on the top of a university building. Then she looked down at the happenings. The students, all attending the University of Paris for Demons, were screaming and running away from men jumping out of trucks, armed with machine guns and grenades. Each one wore no shirt, only a bullet proof vest, where red crosses were painted on both sides. "Oh no, oh kami, Ichigo! ICHIGO, I THINK IT'S A MASSACRE! PEOPLE ARE GOING AFTER DEMON PLACES! ICHIGO!"

The camera turned to look inside. He was grabbing his wallet and the camera woman's purse. "I called the front office. Their sending a taxi now. Suzuko, we have to go now!"

"Oh kami…" The camera ran inside. Kagome was beginning to cry. "Oh kami." She grabbed her purse, and then followed her husband out the door. They ran down the hallway, hearing a loud crash and scream on the floor beneath them. They ran past the stairs and went to the elevator. "Safer…" Ichigo muttered breathlessly.

The two got inside and went down, a gentle ping and music playing as Kagome wailed, her mother cooed, and the sounds of slaughter and attack strengthening as they went past the fourth floor. The doors opened to the lobby, and the main officer there looked out over the top of his desk, looking slightly relived. "Monsieur Higurashi! Ze car es outside!"

"Merci!" Ichigo called back as both he and his family bolted out the doors. Mrs. Higurashi got into the taxi with her child first, the camera looking over to see Ichigo getting in. "BRETON!" he shouted at the driver, who looked quite amazed. "Breton?" He asked.

"OUI! ALLEZ-VOUS EN! HATE!" Ichigo yelled at him. The driver gave a small yelp as an explosion rang behind them, firmly shifting gears and roaring down the road.

"Breton?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

"It's a long way, but it should be the safest place, I suppose. We could get to England fairly easily from there."

"Why not go to Calais, if we're trying to get to Briton?"

"Because I don't think it's the best spot." He said firmly.

"But-"

"Please, Suzuko, We'll just go to Breton."

The camera nodded.

As the car drove, it went by several burning buildings, and a good many corpses. They also went through a few hunting parties of the crossed people, for whom the driver had no problem running into a few of them as he sped down the way. Kagome was really beginning to bawl now, so her mother was attending to her. But in the side view, one could see Mr. Higurashi reading his letter, and his grip on it getting greater and greater, almost ripping. "No… no, that fucking bastard…"

"Huh?"

They were on the road in front of the Eiffel Tower now.

"It's Steppy! HE KNEW ABOUT THIS! HE'S TRYING TO KILL US!"

"What?!"

"I knew it! I knew I shouldn't have done the Shikon no Tama project with him! I BLOODY FUCING KNEW IT!"

A rocket struck the top of the tower. Suzuko screamed as the top of the Eiffel tower blew clean off, twirling as it soared through the air striking the road right before them. The wave of impact struck the taxi, making it fly off the road and flip several times, landing with a crunch and pop as the Driver was crushed by a chunk of steel. "OH KAMI!!!!" Suzuko screamed. She was wailing almost as much as her daughter. Ichigo, apparently rather bloody from broken glass, kicked at his door until it opened. He took hold of his terrified wife and child and began to drag them outside. "Suzuko!" He yelled at the camera, once on firm ground. "SUZUKO!" The camera shook about as he shook her. "C'MON! SUZUKO! LISTEN!"

"Oh kami, oh Buddha,"

"Are you hurt?!"

"Oh… kami. I'm a little cut up."

"Can you walk?"

She took a step. "Yeah,"

" Okay. Kagome's good." He looked over her shoulder. His eyes widened. "Oh fuck. Run. Run, Suzuko! RUN! RUN DAMMIT!"

They both ran around what was left of the top of the iron tower, the fiery metal dropping bits of itself at the heat melted parts of it. The camera bobbed up and down with Mrs. Higurashi's pants.

There were bodies, screams, explosions, fire, bullet shells, bombs, all of it everywhere that one could hear and see.

"SUZUKO!" Her husband screamed behind her. The camera turned around.

He was standing. A helicopter mounted with machine guns was getting closer to him. "EKUSUDOSA!"

The helicopter fired.

Everyone in the room but Yuka jumped back as they heard Suzuko's scream, watching her husband body being torn apart by bullets. Koika jumped up and ran to the trash can, her stomach heaving. Miroku had his hand over his mouth. Koga looked like he was crunching his teeth into bits, grinding them to keep his mouth shut. Sango was breathing hard, tears welling up in her eyes.

Inuyasha was a mix of these, but the word Ichigo said struck him. It was the word they hadn't been able to figure out in the Tessaiga.

Yuka pulled the cord on the T.V. "The rest of it… it's her mother getting out and going to Breton…"

Inuyasha stood up and went of to Yuka. He snatched the tin out of her hands, rummaged for a moment before pulling out the small red bead. "What is it…?" She asked.

"Ekusudosa." He said. He jumped over to Kagome's computer, and pressed the power button. Nothing happened. He checked the plug, and everything was indeed connected. "Sango, her computer-"

"Oh, here." She got up and hurried over to her roommate's computer. She bumped Inuyasha out of the way and put her finger on the power button, pressing it gently. It turned on.

Inuyasha was now confused. "How-?"

"She had a fingerprint scanner made by a friend and put on. She doesn't want people on here unless… well, I think you get it." She said. Sango took the data bead and put it in its slot as the desktop came up. A window popped open, showing three folders: A text file, a picture file, and a document file. Sango highlighted all three and opened them. The pictures turned up first, then the documents, and finally the text files. There was a small logo of Sunset Corp and description of it beneath it in the first text document. "I think we know all we need to about that." She said, closing it.

The next file had all of the writings that Sesshomaru and Inuyasha hadn't been able to understand. Miroku and the others came over to the computer, except Yuka, who was resting on the bed still.

"Still no idea what that is…" Inuyasha said. Sango looked at him for a moment in wonder, but closed the file.

The final text file opened up.

Sango, the closest to the screen, read it . "Ekusudosa. It says it's a mis-interpretation?"

"Go to the first document file." Inuyasha commanded.

Sango clicked on it. She began to read what it said to herself.

1. Seattle, United States of America. A red tide occurred from the pollution dropped into the bay during its earthquake. It turned the water blood red.

2. Inuyasha - frogs.

Sango looked at the half demon, the only other person who had enough room to actually read the document. He swallowed hard. "When I was younger, my father took me and my brother to Egypt on a business trip. A sand storm had come before, making the Nile muddy. Frogs came out of everywhere, trying to get air. That's why I'm freaked of them; my brother sicked them on me."

She nodded.

3. Amazon, Brazil. Mites become infested with rabies. Affects local population

4.Argentina and Brazil. The mites bite many livestock, making most attack humans, just like in the writings of Exodus.

Sango grinded her teeth, but kept reading.

5. Argentina and Brazil. Animals that attacked humans die after three days of infection. Loss of livestock makes widespread famine.

6. Moscow, Russia. The bird flu mutates, making it a virus that also makes boils on the skin that turn blood red and then pop, killing the person by lack of breath and lack of blood.

7. Washington D.C., Former U.S.A. Cuba nukes it. Equivalent to the fiery hail.

8. Perth, Australia. Grasshopper population explodes. When grasshoppers are forced to breed in high numbers in small locals, they are then called locusts.

9. Hokkaido, Japan. Black out in Hokkaido. Lasts for three days. The great Darkness.

10. Death of the first born.

"Oh kami, oh kami, oh Buddha, Miroku, get my coat! MIROKU GET MY COAT!"

"Why? What is it?" He asked as Inuyasha bolted out the door,

"LOOK! LOOK AT THIS! EKUSUDOSA WAS PUT IN KATAKANA AND ROMAJI INSTEAD OF TRANSLATED! EKUSUDOSA MEANS EXODUS! THEY'RE GOING TO KILL HER!"

"What?!"

"KAGOME HAS AYOUNGER BROTHER! SHE'S THE FIRST BORN! SOMEONE'S GOING TO FUCKING KILL HER!" Sango screamed. Without another word, she bolted out the door. Koga followed. Koika wiped her mouth and sprinted out.

Miroku stood there for a moment.

"What are you doing here?!" Yuka asked as strongly as she could. "Go with them!"

"No, wait. I have to see those pictures." He said looking the computer

--

Inuyasha bolted out the front door. He put his head to the ground, smelling for her scent.

He took off in a sprint down one path, the way to the grocer building. He heard the others crash through the glass windows of the doors behind him, but he didn't stop.

Kagome…

He had to find her. He had to protect. He wouldn't let anyone lay a finger on her.

Down that way? Yes, her scent was strongest there.

Another turn. A long path.

The demon blood in him burned as he ran the path in second.

Another turn. Small corridor.

Turn around. Other way. Her scent is stronger.

He ran forward. He was getting closer to the grocer now.

He took another turn.

The grocer building stood there.

He ran forward a bit.

He found Kagome's shoes. The ones she put on limply.

She ran.

He ran around another corner.

There was a bag of trampled food stuffs spread across the path.

He heard his friends shouting Kagome's name behind him.

He ran forwards. Another turn.

Down an ice tunnel. It still stood.

He knew he was getting closer to her.

He smelled burnt Skyukuchi tire.

He sprinted forward.

Left turn here, almost there.

He could feel her.

She was there. She was.

He made the corner.

On the ground there was a pool of blood and hair, and a bit of her coat.

Inuyasha fell down on his knees. He felt like roaring in anger. He should have gone with her to get the stuff. Damn IT! DAMN IT! FUCKING SHIT! KAGOME!

His cell phone rang. At first he wanted to ignore it. Or better yet, crush it. Crush it like who ever took her. Damn them. Damn them to hell!

"WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?! He answered the phone.

"Inuyasha, did you find-" Miroku.

"NO! THEY TOOK HER! I'LL GO AND BURN TOKYO DOWN, THOSE BASTARDS! THEY FUCKING TOOK HER!"

"Not Tokyo. You don't have to leave Hakodate." Miroku said.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT, MIROKU?!"

"I looked at the pictures here," He said, looking at the computer screen. At the picture Kagome's mother, father, her baby self and Steppy. "I know where you can find her, I think."

"WHERE!?"

"She's with Steppy, or Father Stepanov in reality. The Orthodox Church. It's near Hakodate mountain. I'll get the others. We'll catch up."

It feels so good getting that out now.