AN: I'm back from the de~ad…actually, I'm just back from my little boring vacation in the mountains. Obviously, there was no way to go in the internet there, but I did bring my laptop and got a lot of chapters done. ^-^ Oh yeah, I also decided to stick with PG-13 for now~! Since there was more request saying I should just leave as it is than turning it to rated R. But if it does get a little bit intense later on and more swear words start to appear, please review and ask to change the rating, I don't want to get in any trouble!

Disclaimer: I'm so happy! My cousins are gone, the boring trip is over and I don't own Inuyasha! Wait…I shouldn't be happy…

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The Life of a Devil

Tears of Heaven

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Kagome groaned in agony as her whole surrounding became a blur around her. The sun had risen and it was time to repeat her job. She knew that somehow Naraku had already gotten the message and was probably having a tantrum over the failure. She knew that if she didn't make a move soon, he'll just bomb them with air missiles and destroy the whole LA for all he cared.

Her lungs were itching to get out of her breasts for air, but her throat was burning with fire. She clutched the doorway with her left hand and stumbled a bit as she tasted metallic liquid in her taste buds. Sure she liked seeing blood on other people's skin, but tasting her own was a whole different story. The pain coursed through her entire body in a millisecond and her leg became unbearably weak.

The skin she was in seemed like it had just dived into river in the middle of December, but her flesh and muscled felt like it had just came out of a oven. She felt her stomach churn before her brain started to buzz annoyingly. Growling in agony, she started to turn around and make her way to the bathroom instead, now that she got a mouthful of blood, and her stomach seemed to be too full to take in any more, other than blood.

Just turning around was a difficult task as her whole body began to go numb and her feet that supported her whole weight felt like they were walking on pins and needles. Small beads of sweat fell from her forehead as her breath started to come out in short pants, unable to take in enough air because of the blood collecting in her tonsils. The saliva in her mouth began to burn her skin and her nostrils became allergic to…everything.

Choking on her own blood and saliva mixed together, Kagome finally reached the door to the opening and tried to open the door. Her hands were covered in so much sweat, that it was almost impossible to open the door with her greasy skin. Every time her skin made contact with a solid object it had started to burn like hell and became so numb that it was just too painful to move or stay conscious for that matter.

Hell with this…

Finally forcing her numb and sweaty hands to turn the knob, she pushed the door open with her shoulder and cried as that similar pain she recognized coursed through her right shoulder. Her eyes began to water with pain, but the slightest touch she had on her skin make the pain more unbearable. Closing her eyes to stop the tears from flowing down her cheeks, she limped toward the bathroom counter since her left foot had already failed her.

Hell everything…

She collapsed onto the counter with her elbows each beside the sink as she felt another pain shoot up from her shoulder. Turning her head and ignoring the pain it caused, she eyed the scar warily. The single dart that had mysteriously embedded itself against her skin had made such a huge and quite an ugly scar. She would have become quite suspicious if it wasn't for the blood that had suddenly made its way out of her mouth and onto the sink.

Life…

Looking down at the swirling blood in the sink, she reached for the first-aid-kit with a shaking hand. She knew that bringing her helpful, little, white box would be a lifesaver sooner or later, and now it was proving itself. Clumsily, she opened the latch and pushed up the lid, reaching in for a painkiller. Her whole face had became bloodlessly pale yet the skin that made itself contact with a anything churned to bloody red, making her look like some droplets of blood that had landed on a pack of snow.

Fuck…

Painfully turning the white cap off, she poured the tablets onto the counter and without reading any instructions she shoved in two of the white circular medicines into her mouth. She felt the painkiller make contact with the saliva and the blood in her mouth but she swallowed what was in her mouth without hesitation and began to collapse onto her back.

…everything…

Darkness began to overcome her vision until she could see nothing but black. The pain became to numb away and her whole body began to forget what pain was. It was bless falling into unconsciousness. But before she completely fell, she saw the image of the silver haired man, the smirking-freak that was looking at her with his amber eyes. The golden sheen all around him. Her head began to boil and her blood began to rush into her head before she let out her anger towards the world. Towards the man she knew that had taken her only source of help. Towards the one man that was going to pay dearly.

"Damn you…"

Painfully.

"Damn you asshole!"

Than, it was nothing but darkness.

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"Oy, Inu!"

"…"

"You awake in there?!"

"…"

"You dead in there?!"

"…"

"Damn it, are you going to unlock the door or what?!"

"…"

There was absolutely no response from inside the room and the door still stayed locked. Kouga's left eye twitched very distinctly. He balled his left hand into a tight fist to control his temper from rising and ran his other hand through his jet, black hair. He would have just loved to break that damn door open that was blocking his entrance, if it wasn't for Sango's warning she had given the last time he had broken a door down that was jammed into the hinges. Besides, he was pretty sure that she had added a metal sheet between the doors, just incase. This was the few time he would be cursing at Sango instead of Inuyasha.

"Fine! Miss your freaking breakfast if you want to starve yourself so badly!" Kouga snarled as he banged the door, testing wither if his theory about the metal sheet was correct. The walls that held the hinges in place shook, but the door stayed in place. Sango had been pretty fast and clever when she had did the little decoration.

The walls rumbled and the metal hinges creaked, but that was the only sounds that had responded to his anger. Still no response came from him.

Kouga growled and turned around to the hall, mumbling 'asshole' and stalked down the kitchen. One might have said the rare silence that had befallen the whole mansion was quite peaceful, but to Kouga, it was a sickening silence. The only time it was ever quite before today was when Kikyo had died from the sudden air bomb. He could never forget the mourning silence but even than; there would be some arguments over the next assignments and such.

His lips turned to a cruel sneer as he went down the staircase. Look at him. He was starting to miss the yells and the arguments with the mutt. Of course, trying to avoid an argument was never his strong suit, so you could see that he didn't exactly like where this was going at all.

Muttering incoherent curses under his voice, he pushed open the door to the kitchen and grudgingly walked to the breakfast table. He ignored the girl that was typing non-stop on her laptop and ate what was on his usual plate.

Sango glanced at Kouga's direction out of the corner of her eyes and met with the sight of him scarfing down the bacon and completely ignoring the scrambled egg beside his orange juice. She shook her head and snorted. Kouga heard the snort.

"What?!" He growled out through a mouthful of bacon. Sango could only stare.

"With all that happened last night, you still have your appetite…" Sango quietly said and looked down at her own untouched food and the one beside hers.

Kouga glared at her. "Bacon" Was all he said as he pointed at his opened mouth showing the bits and pieces of bacon that was already chewed on, making Sango grimace, and he began to wolf down on his precious bacon again. Sango just stared at him for a moment before she sighed and closed her laptop, turning it off.

"I think this is it…" Sango said glumly and pushed her laptop to the side, also starting to begin her breakfast, but more delicately than Kouga.

He looked up from his food with a piece of bacon sticking out of his mouth. "What's it?"                                                     

"The medication you dummy." Sango growled out, frustrated by his dumbness and gently laid a handkerchief on her lap.

"Oh…where is that thing anyway."

"The jewelry? It's in the lab." She said as she started to pick at her peas.

Kouga ate more slowly this time with a frown on his face, as if there was something on his mind. A few more minutes passed by before he finally chose to brake the silence that included Sango's tinkering sound of her fork cutting into her bacon.

"So does this mean that Naraku's involved in this?"

Sango almost fell off her chair when she heard this particular hell-name. It had been a long time since that name was used and she knew that Inuyasha would have a tantrum if he heard it in the mansion. She nodded nonetheless. Kouga growled.

"So you mean that Kikyo-look-alike is working for him?" He grumbled.

Sango nodded once again.

"You mean-"

"Yeah…he probably gave her that form that was stolen from the hospital. Besides, it's not everyday an assassin immediately recognizes their target."

Kouga leaned back in his chair,  his plate clean of any bacon and only the grease showed that it was ever there beside the untouched scrambled eggs.

"That's too bad…"

"What is?" Sango asked, looking up from her plate that was halfway empty.

"That she works for him…she was pretty cute." He smirked to himself, probably seeing of lecherous image.

Sango blanched at this. When she regained her composure, she glared holes into his head.

"You're becoming as perverted as Inuyasha." She growled out, picking up the fork and knife that had fallen on her plate.

"What's so bad about that?" He remarked. This caused Sango to bring down her knife rather harshly on her plate and make a screeching sound as she continued to cut her bacon in halves.

"Anyway," Sango began grudgingly, trying to avoid his smirking face by closing her eyes, "I think that medication is exactly what we need to track down Naraku, except, the only thing is-"

"What is it dear?" Kouga said as charmingly as possible. Sango chocked.

"Shut up Kouga…like I was saying, I just don't understand why she had the medication with her, I mean; Naraku would have known that it would have been a risk giving such a precious sort of clue to her of all people."

Kouga rolled his eyes.

"It's obvious, isn't it?"

"What?" Sango frowned, ready to take on anything perverted.

"She's he's whore."

Sango just stared at him.

"Aw, c'mon! You knew that Naraku used to be interested in Kikyo!"

"Like you were?" Sango muttered grudgingly. Kouga snapped his head at her. "Hey! Don't say that!" He whispered furiously, eyeing the kitchen door warily as if there was a loud speaker there that might catch his voice. "You know how Inuyasha is if he finds out anyone else is interested-"

"Was interested, in my woman."

Both of their heads immediately snapped back to the ominous and dangerously low voice that had came from the back door in unison and saw what they hoped wasn't there. It was Inuyasha with only his pants covering his skin that lift him bare-chested. His silver hair was ruffled like always and his amber eyes gleamed of malice from his leaning posture on the open door. The best way to describe him was that he was definitely not a morning person.

"Err…" Kouga said as he eyed Sango with a you're-going-to-pay-hell-for-this look and Sango was just staring at the floor, trying to avoid the bare-chested Inuyasha from the back door. Inuyasha glared at the two of them. After a few minutes of silence and glaring, Sango finally chose to break the silence.

"So…umm…how long have you been…there…"

"I've been here after Kouga tried to wake me up and before he even got here." He said as calmly yet dangerously as possible. Sango flinched at his killer eyes.

"You've used the window again, eh mutt?" Kouga asked, completely forgetting that he had just practically said that he was once in love with Kikyo AKA, Inuyasha's woman.

Inuyasha growled.

"Shut up, wimp." He said as he took a seat beside Sango and started eating his scrambled eggs in the same fashion as Kouga. Sango looked from Kouga to Inuyasha, than back to Kouga again. Neither wouldn't have admitted, but if you looked passed their facial features, they could have a perfect example of twin brothers. Rude, obnoxious, over-jealous, whiny…the list would just keep on going and going.

"Sango." Inuyasha called, pulling Sango back to reality.

"Eh? What?"

"About that girl last night." He replied, more quietly than before.

"…Yeah? What about her?"

"You think he's trying to taunt us?"

Sango went quiet and looked at Kouga, who was also dumbfounded as she was. Apparently, not one of them had really thought about it that way before.

"…Probably. He did drop that bomb on…her." She said, careful not to say Kikyo's real name.

Surprisingly he's response to that was smirking and shoving a mouthful of bacon in his mouth before he pushed his chair away and began to leave the kitchen as Kouga followed along.

"Wait, where're you going?" Sango called after them.

"We need to buy some new tuxedos. It got ruined after last night." That was their response before the kitchen door closed behind them. Sango's mouth was halfway open and her eyes were staring at the door in a very sarcastic fashion. Yup, they were definitely the same. Shaking her head, she went back to breakfast and laid the handkerchief on her lap and began to cut her bacons again.

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Hell, this was definitely not her day.

Kagome stalked through the quickly dieing crowd in annoyance and tried to read all the foreign signs that had surrounded her like piranhas. All she wanted was some painkillers and what does she get? Some free coupons from some crazy man, a few gums stuck to her shoes, and those weird looks she got from some teens around those ultra-hip shops.

It was amazing how fast the painkillers could die out on you, especially those times when you needed them the most like now. She could feel the numbness come back to her legs and every time she was shoved by another shopper she would feel that all too familiar pain. The sun was quickly setting away into the night and she was still completely in a daze as the crowds began to lessen and lessen. Worst of all she swore the clouds above her rumble as a few raindrops landed on her face.

Kagome sighed. The best she could do was to leave and come back tomorrow for the painkillers. Making up her mind, she started to turn around in dismay and back to her apartment. She started walking away from the crowds as more clouds started to gather above her. Not liking crowds that much, she chose to take the more uninhibited road back. Her vision was beginning to blur and she licked her lips, tasting the same metallic liquid again that she started to dislike so much. She quickly rounded a corner.

Lady luck was definitely not on her good side that day. A strong pain coursed through her entire body as she bumped into a solid yet warm object. The object, apparently, had two strong hands and both grabbed her arms instinctively. "Hey." Kagome gasped as she looked up at the stranger. The first thing she saw when she looked up, the first color she saw; amber. Golden, amber eyes, looking deeply into her hazel ones. She didn't like the position they were in as he was still holding her painfully on her arms and she was still trapped in the small deserted road.

She would have just loved to blow his head off right than and there, but she knew that he would grab her before she could reach for her pistol and get caught immediately. Rain started to pour on them as she looked into those amber eyes. He, that mutt, smirked.

"Hi there."

He didn't know what luck had it for him, but he liked where this was going. So Kouga had decided to buy some Chinese for dinner since they both knew that Sango was a morning person which meant that she cooked better at morning than night. He smirked down at the flabbergasted girl and smirked at her stormy hazel eyes. He felt some droplets of rain on his head before it started to pour on them harshly. His hands had instinctively grabbed her arms before he even saw who it was. He had her.

"Hi there." He smirked.

Kagome's vision was worsening by the minute and she knew that if she stayed out in the rain too long it was literally going to kill her from the increased pain she had gained. She visibly gulped and closed her eyes getting ready for what she was going to do.

The minute she snapped her eyes open she pulled away from his grip as she kneed him hard on his stomach and twisted away with the cat-like moves she had gained over the years of her job. She heard the sickening ripping sound as she turned and ran head on through the pouring street, no one in sight. She looked down at her bare right arm and looked back behind her. He was hot on her trail and gaining fast. In his right hand was her right sleeve with the one end showing a visible rip. She groaned. On the bright side, she now had a half sleeveless short and it might look good if she was to go to a concert in the U.S…if she escaped him that is.

She dashed as fast as she can but the painful sensation began to come back and her feet were quickly beginning to numb in the process. Her mouth was full of saliva and blood and her eyes were burning from the pain. Every contact with the raindrops she got was like been stabbed with pins and needles. She had to find a safe place to hide, and fast or she was really going to get killed from the chase.

She made a sudden turn to an alley that was completely covered in darkness for pure desperation and as lack would have it, the tall building on either side of the alleyway blocked most of the rain, but she still had the dog on her trail. She knew that she was slowing down because of the pain, but he was still inhumanly fast. As she rounded another corner, her left sleeve got caught on a pull-up ladder and that dangerously slowed down her chase. Pulling as hard as she can her heard another rip as she dashed away in another close call. The bright side? She now had a sleeveless shirt, hand-made.

Her shoes made contact with a huge puddle on the ground and the sudden contact with her skin quickly made her mind change the word 'water' to 'fire'. The pain caused her stop, and before she could ever swear, she felt his hand cover her shoulder and it just so happened to be the one with the scar. Since she was already in a bending position she grabbed her pistol from her ankle and quickly wiggled out of his light grasp. She had him.

"Gotcha." The table had turned.

Inuyasha knew that something was wrong when she made the contact with the puddle. To him, it was only a splash of water, but to her, it was like been licked by flames. She had leaned down in pain and he quickly caught up. Instinctively he grabbed her shoulder lightly but she still flinched under his touch, and before he knew it, she had her pistol on his forehead. She had tricked him.

"Gotcha." She said and her finger was already closing in on the trigger.

But her eyes were becoming dull faster than her finger closing in on the trigger. Somehow, he knew that she wasn't going to be able to hold it anymore longer.

"What are you doing?" He asked softly as the rain started to pick up. He could perfectly hear her rugged panting and he knew that she wasn't tired from the run. Heck, she was fast, but he knew that she wasn't doing her best to get away. He saw his chance when her hand began to hesitate and she started wobbling on her feet.

He grabbed her wrist holding the pistol and grabbed her other wrist with his other hand and held them above her head. The pistol made a sharp bang as it flew to the ground. She groaned as he started to lean in, trying to get the better of her. She made a quite an aggressive struggle, but to his keen eyes, he knew that her strength was quickly overcoming her with pain and her eyes were already glazed over, making her stare into space. A small trickle of blood made its way out of her mouth.

"Give it up." He whispered into her ear and felt her stiffen at his words.

"K…Kuso…" She tried to resist, but already her legs had given away and she would have just loved to collapse on the ground if it wasn't for his tight hold on her wrists.

Sensing her wariness and seeing the blood sputtering from her stained lips, he loosened his hold and she started to fall onto the ground, no more support to hold her. Quickly he caught her before she fell and grabbed her around the waist, supporting her head with his other hand. Her face was emotionless and her eyes were half-closed as with her mouth. He sighed and stood up, adjusting her so he was holding her bridal-style. Without anymore words he carried her towards where they had came from, the rain still pouring non-stop into the night.

He was going to get a hell of some explanation when he came back to the mansion with the assassin in his arms.

AN: Well…that was pretty…cute…err, right. Anyways, I'll be posting the next chapter up as soon as I can. I'm trying to update all my fics in an orderly fashion, so my head is getting jumbled up with lists here. It doesn't help that I keep on getting new ideas every five minutes either. I'm going to have to get a new muse or something…

*In the background you can here Nekoyasha cursing at me* ^-^'''

Err…yeah, anyway, don't forget to review! I'm addicted to them!