AN: Last week, unknown to my knowledge, my uncle, my cousin, and my second cousin got into a horrible car crash while visiting my grandparents in China during Chinese New Year. They're in the hospital. With all the homework and all the pressure on studying for exams, not to mention my parent's arguments about family issues, which is not helping because they're already on the verge of divorcing, updating will be slow and reasonably not fun for me. Please don't pressure me with my hobby.

Disclaimer: Use your common sense. -.-

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The Life of a Devil

Gun to the Wolf

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Darkness surrounded the tall mansion as the shadows loomed over the clearing.

It was a secluded place, where no one would ever dare travel to, for it was somewhere deep within the forest, hidden by the technologies and all the commotions back in the city, some hundred miles away. A deer would look up ever once in a while from its grazing to stare and wonder at the magnificence of the mansion. Birds would stop their chirping momentarily to eye the clearing with suspicions written all over its sharp eyes. Yet things would go back to the way they were, as if a huge house made out of pure concrete set in a large clearing in the middle of a bear-infested mountain was an everyday occurrence.

Yet one look at the wired fences and the electrical gate would be enough to tell anyone it was just abnormal.

He took a step into the clearing from the shadows of the forest.

There he stood, covered in sweat that dampened his shirt, making it almost translucent, yet enough to show off his well-toned, buff chest out to the world, standing there as if he was the god himself. His musty chest heaved for breath as he looked around the familiar territory. A wide grin made its way onto his smug face, his blue pupils dilating with glee. Ever now and then, he would need some time to have a little 'peace' with himself in the forest, and often then not, a friend would join him for the meditation.

His fangs gleamed in the bright ray of the sun, another trickle of sweat forming on his forehead and his long black ponytail, swinging from side to side.

He bent down, and picked up the heavy fur of meat, throwing it over his shoulder.

And this time, it was one of those rare times when a male bear would join him for a quality time.

His muscle clenched at the sudden weight, but relaxed as he slowly made his way towards the electric fence. As he sled his cardkey with his free hand (trying not to drop it in the process, because of his sweat), he spotted the familiar sign just a few feet away.

'Do not enter…hunted.'

He couldn't help but roll his eyes. What would the other agents think when they saw this lame sign, hanging from the branch just a few feet away from a wire fence. The teenagers that sometimes hike up here would just get another thrill of climbing up the wired fence and trying to sneak into the so-called 'hunted' mansion, all the while ignoring the hidden cameras and the electrical alarm system. What idiots would do that?

Of course the weight on his back couldn't help but become heavier when he was trying to think of a good way to destroy the sign, so he resorted with a snort and made his way towards the front door.

If he wasn't so tired from the morning exercise, he would have immediately noticed the lights coming from the basement window, followed by groaning and moaning of two girls, running around, doing whatever they were doing…

~*~

Kagome panted.

She didn't like to show it, but she had to admit that this was a lot harder than she had ever imagined.

Sure she had done this kind of work in the past with many other men, but doing this was nothing compared to before. Of course, she had never done this with another girl either, so she did have a good excuse.

She moaned as she tried to sit up, both her arms supporting her weak frame, trembling with pain. Maybe it was the symptoms of the medication finally catching up on her, or maybe it was just her unprofessional way of handling this kind of work, she would never know.

The other girl groaned as she also got up from the ground.

"C'mon, we have to continue." Sango huffed out, her chest rising and falling, trying to get air into her lungs.

Kagome groaned.

"Why in the hell do we even have to do this?" She whined, sounding a lot like when she was five.

Sango waved her hand, issuing her to take her position. "It's better for your body if you do this everyday, besides, the virus will probably slow down if you workout more often than not." She said, taking her own position, stretching her legs out.

Kagome sighed and adjusted her headband, trying to get it out of sight. "Alright, but I'm only doing this since I just want to prove that I did spar with eight other men before in the gym." She said smugly.

"Sure." Sango snorted, racking up Kagome's nerve.

"Why I ought to-"

"C'mon, get ready!" Sango cut her off, jumping up and down in excitement.

Kagome sighed and got on her feet, taking off her headband and throwing it aside with frustration written all over her face.

Sango eyed Kagome's composed position and took it as her ready position. She shrugged and walked towards the switch near the door, adjusting her spider wed wristbands in the process. "You ready?" She asked, just to make sure.

Kagome answered by cracking her neck and eyeing her with boredom.

Sango sighed and pointed her index finger at the button. "Okay, remember the computer's adjusted to Inu's stamina, so you may not be able to keep up with this exercise." Kagome answered with a snort.

"Like hell if I'm going to let that mutt beat me in anything." She muttered.

Sango shook her head. "I warned you, though." She said as she pushed the small red button, then walking back next to Kagome on the mat.

The lights dimmed and the ceiling began to rumble. Sango looked as if this happened regularly (which, consequently, did) but Kagome looked a bit weary of this. "So tell me – what's this simulation again?" She asked, her eyes fixed on the ceiling and trying to cover her hint of nervousness.

Sango was picking something out of her nail when she answered. "Like I said, it's Inu's. I think it's number 37 or something…" Her voice was drowned out by the mechanical whirling sounds as random ceiling parts started to open up. Kagome frowned.

"Wait a sec…you said number 37 was level ten."

Sango didn't have time to answer as a large anonymous object plummeted down at the two girls from one of the open ceiling parts onto their heads.

~*~

Inuyasha looked away from the screen as the door to the living room banged open noisily. He stared with a bored look when he realized who it was. There he was, standing their soaked in his sweat, his smirk never wavering with a huge bear right over his shoulder. Oh yeah, the usual morning routine.

"What'd you get this time?" Inuyasha asked as he turned back to the T.V. ignoring the panting Kouga as he sat down on the carpet in front him and dropped his victim beside him (If anyone was to find out about the blood on the couch, namely Sango, Kouga would have his head off. He was going to keep his old sweaty-self on the carpet).

"Just the usual oncoming bear." Kouga replied rather smugly. His eyes averted to the same T.V. screen…or so it was looked to be.

Inuyasha pressed the menu button on the so-called remote control and the screen suddenly went blank. After a few minutes, the usual logo for the Windows came on, with the usual music of course.

"What's the password, Wolf?" Inuyasha looked at the said Wolf, using Kouga's code name.

He shrugged. "Don't know…I think it has the word 'rule' in it though. It's too bad Sango keeps on changing it everyday…"

As if on cue, Kouga looked at Inuyasha, Inuyasha looked at Kouga, and they both had a very bored look in them. They nodded in unison. Inuyasha averted his gaze on the screen again and pressed some buttons on the remote, the password box filling with hidden words. Inuyasha clicked enter, and the screen went blank again. After a few minutes, the screen flashed with the familiar blue color and these words filled the screen. 'Welcome, Fox!'

Kouga snorted. "Just leave it to her to have her password as 'Girls Rule'."

Inuyasha ignored his remark and continued on pushing more buttons, until a folder, similar to that of a computer folder, popped up marked as m03. He lifted his eyebrow with a sarcastic, "Another mission, huh?"

There was a momentary silence between the two men (which was highly rare) as they gazed at the few sentences on the computer generated T.V. Sango really loved making everything computerized. Then a sudden echo disturbed their rare silence and their eyes averted towards the open door that showed the dark hallway.

"Fox?" Kouga frowned, using Sango's personal nickname.

Inuyasha shrugged and both of them went back to the screen, but another crash followed and they immediately got up on instinct.

"You think she's working out?" Inuyasha asked, a hint of hesitance in his voice, which Kouga caught immediately but did not make any remark on it as they both heard a very distinct yell.

"Watch where you're aiming that thing at!"

The disturbing thing? It wasn't Sango's voice that had yelled. Kouga was completely dumbfounded, but Inuyasha's reacting was the complete opposite. She was pretty tough, he admitted, and having a pretty tough chick that's actually a hired assassin wanting to kill you wasn't the smartest thing in the world, but he had overlooked the whole thing. But the thought of hearing her voice like that…from a room…with Sango…he was getting second thoughts about this.

His face was drained of any colors, yet he didn't look quite as panicky as his thoughts were in his head.

"C'mon, Wolf." He muttered before he promptly made his way towards the door and into the dark hallway. Kouga didn't react as he watched Inuyasha disappear into the hallway, but he did shrug and grumble a few incoherent words before he also started to follow the screams echoing down the hallway, Inuyasha far ahead of him to the room.

"Watch it!"

Kagome yelled as another blunt object swooped down between Sango and Kagome, separating them yet again. She groaned and side-stepped from another punching bag that flew down on her, hanging by a steel chain from the ceiling.

Sango looked as calm as ever, batting away any intruding object away with her huge Hiraikotsu, using it as a flyswatter and batting away everything and anything as if they were bunch of insects.

Kagome, on the other hand, was having a hard time with this 'training-exercise', trying to jump, dodge, punch, kick, and back-flipping, all the while trying to deal with all these random punching bags that were swooping down on them from every ceiling holes in any random moment. Needless to say, she was covered in her sweat and weaponless, unlike Sango, she was completely vulnerable. She felt slightly bare naked without her favorite weapons, like her mini-gun.

Several minutes ticked by as she dodged another one of those annoying, never-ending supply of punching bags, and high-kicked another one away from her. She punched her way towards where Sango was. In truth, the named person was flipping off everything that came towards her, including the black punching bags that was now on the ground, the chains that was suppose to hold it to the ceiling broken, and the sand quickly falling out of the scar she made on the bag. Kagome didn't even know what was coming when she was knocked out of the way by Sango's boomerang. 

She blinked as she stared up towards the ceiling. An annoyed growl emitted from her throat. But before long she had to roll out of the way of a rogue punching bag that was dangling aimlessly from a rusty chain. She got on her knee and glared at Sango's back, who was still occupied from batting the bags away.

An evil smirk appeared as she tiptoed her way towards Sango, dodging more than once as bags swooped down on her for the umpteenth time. She was breathless when she had finally reached her destination, right behind Sango. Her hand was already fisted and pulled back, aiming right on the back of Sango's head.

That's when the gun-shot rang out.

Everything seems to stop when a deathly silence replaced the once noisy room, surrounded by whirls of machines that had came somewhere from attic.

The two girls looked behind.

To tell you the truth, Kagome hadn't expected what she saw next. It was a man. Yeah, a man that had a buff chest and incredibly hard muscles on his arms and legs. His shirt was clanging unto his chest and back, the sweat dampening his body. His face was covered by a smirk, clearly shown as a victory mark. The weird thing? An ordinary, yet much buffed, man with a huge bazooka-like gun on his shoulder, aimed right on Kagome's head was never a normal sight to see. The only thing Kagome was looking at was the X-G gun on his shoulder when Sango interrupted the silence.

"Kouga put that gun down!" She yelled, annoyance written all over her voice.

He didn't react, as his eyes were still on Kagome, who began to twitch when she noticed the very disturbing interest in his eyes.

Sango tried again.

"That's the prototype, stop messing around with your 'toys'!" She yelled yet again, but this time sarcasm was written all over her voice.

The named man, Kouga, grumbled, breaking the eye contact with Kagome and grudgingly pulling off the humongous gun off of his shoulder, while mumbling, "I wasn't playing with it…"

Sango heard this and snorted, walking towards him.

"What do you think you're doing, shooting to switch off when you could have just pushed it?!" She screamed her face red. Kagome noticed how casual Kouga looked, though a bit annoyed. This seems to happen in normally in the mansion. "Do you know how much it costs to pay for the damages?! The last time you blew off half of this base I had to hire our private carpenters again, and you know how much I hate them!"

"What does you hating being eyed by guys do with any of this?" He grumbled.

"And most of all," Sango continued as if she was interrupted at all, "what do you think you're doing with the prototype?! Do you even know how to use it?!"

This seemed to snap Kouga's rising temper into full maximum. Kagome was eyeing the exit by now.

"What do you know about anything?! I'm the professional here, remember?! What happened the last time we let you handle the gun?!"

Sango's eyes widened.

"You're completely pathetic, you know that?! Why am I even talking to you?! A freak talking about some mission that happened a year ago?!"

"Two months ago!"

"Whatever!" She yelled and turned her back on him. Kouga growled, his anger consuming him.

"That's what you say when you pull the trigger when there were two hundred innocent bystanders in the road."

She turned to face him again, pointing at his forehead accusingly.

"You're the one who pushed me; I almost fell for god's sake!"

"So your instinct was to pull the trigger?!" He shot back with a triumphant sneer.

"It slipped!"

By now, Kagome was already making her way towards the exit, stepping over punching bags that had clear cuts by Sango's boomerang marks and some shot down when it was in the way of Kouga's shot. She was trying to ignore the two snapping weirdoes at the entrance when a loud noise from someone clearing their throat caused everyone's attention to waver behind them.

Inuyasha.

He was actually standing there, right in front of the open window that was blowing air unto his hair.

Kagome lifted her eyebrow. He sure seemed to like using the windows better than the doors…

"What the hell's going on?" He asked quietly, a hint of amusement on his voice.

Sango and Kouga both shot each other an accusing glare, than looked away from one another.

"He/She started it." They mumbled under their breath in unison.

Kagome snorted, bringing Inuyasha's attention to her from his perch on the high window. He raised his eyebrow.

"And may I ask just how she escaped?" He questioned, his eyes twinkling as if they were laughing.

Kagome shot him a glare. "Such an air of formality, don't you think?" She bit out, purely disgusted by the pure sight of him. Inuyasha turned back towards her and narrowed his eyes. Without any more word, he gripped the window ledge and jumped off, landing right in front of Kagome, looking down at her as if she was…well, a piece of meat like a dog.

"Look, wench," He growled, glaring down at her with the same narrowed eyes like Kagome's, "I don't care what you think, or what you say. You're in my territory and you're stuck here. I have the upper hand, you got it?" He whispered menacingly at her, never breaking the eye contact. The tip of his nose was brushing against her own nose, but she didn't bother pushing him away. The key was to keep eye contact, if not, it would mean you were weaker than the other, and she was not going to show any of her so-called weaknesses.

They both heard someone clear their throat, and looked up from their argument. Kagome was the first to break the eye contact, but sneered before she looked away, Inuyasha following suit with a victory smirk on his lips.

"If you guys would stop arguing," Sango smiled her innocent smile, "I would explain everything."

~*~

Inuyasha glared at Kouga's disturbed face.

They were walking down the hall, making their way towards the living room. Kagome was next to Sango, both in front of Kouga and Inuyasha, who both was forced to hold some, if not all, the damaged punching bags slang over their shoulders.

He looked at Kouga again, then at where his eyes led, which was Kagome's butt, then back at Kouga, then back at Kagome's butt, then again and again this charade continued.

"Oi," Inuyasha started quietly so only Kouga would hear him, "what the devils are you staring at?"

Kouga didn't even answer. Only a slight hint of drool seemed to appear on the side of his lips.

Inuyasha's eye twitched.

~*~

"So, what's your explanation?"

Sango was on the arm chair, sitting on the arm rest and sitting beside Kagome, who had her arms crossed in front of her and grumbling endlessly, almost sliding off of the edge of the chair.

Kouga had a very annoyed look on his face, rubbing the back of his head and Inuyasha was sitting next to him on the family couch, sneering yet waiting for his answer.

Sango sighed.

"I started some research while you guys were supposedly training in your gyms. I know that you know about the computerized T.V. Why do you think I have cameras set up, eh?"

Inuyasha and Kouga swore with feeling, and Kagome visibly stiffened. Did that mean Sango knew about Inuyasha's little attack on her?

"Anyway," Sango continued, but also gave a fleeting glance at Kagome, answering her question (she also swore, but with less feeling), "I came up on some research and read some files. Our next mission has something to do with this too."

On cue, a huge screen scrolled down from the ceiling, right in front of the T.V. and covering the whole space of the fire place, which was huge. Kouga and Inuyasha seemed surprised as Kagome was. So Sango renovated almost everyday…

"As you can see," Sang started dully pointing at the huge picture of a young man who was walking towards his car. He had a small ponytail with some earrings, though they looked like those cheap clip-on. He had indigo eyes and wore a whit suite, that of a doctor's. On the top of the picture was the name 'Dr. Kazaana'.

"What is this?" Kouga asked, obviously confused.

"Like I was saying," She said sarcastically, glaring at Kouga who also showed the mutual hate, "this is Dr. Kazaana, a world renowned doctor and researcher of every medical issue. Now, I learned that he's targeted by Naraku."

Inuyasha frowned. "Eh?"

Sango nodded.

"That's right. You see, Naraku started this virus called V – 157. It's a super virus that can cause major damage to your body with any slight contact with it. It can't be any danger unless it's passed on through the blood by a sharp object. That's what Kagome has now."

Kouga and Inuyasha both stiffened and stared at Kagome. She glared.

"What?"

"Anyway, Dr. Kazaana had recently gotten bribes, even death threats from some anonymous e-mails that was rounded through China. It's obvious that Naraku doesn't want anyone to find out about this new virus of his, or find any cure for that matter. So, our job is to find and to protect Miroku…"

"Who?" Kouga spoke.

"…umm…I mean Dr. Kazaana…Miroku's Dr. Kazaana's first name." She added the last part when she got some weird looks from the three other people in the room.

Kagome looked back up at the screen and frowned.

"Wait a second."

Sango turned her head back, eager to ignore Kouga's weird stare. "What?"

"It says," She pointed with her finger, "Dr. Kazaana's in Kyushu."

Sango nodded. "Yeah, we're going to Japan." She said ever-so-casually.

Kagome faltered.

"Excuse me? Japan? Where Naraku's going to be?" She asked, totally disagreeing with Sango.

"Look, I know it's not exactly the safest plan…heck, we haven't been there for some years now, but we have to got there if we want to get his weakness. Even if we're going into his territory, and…hey!" Sango shouted as Kagome started her way towards the exit. "Where are you going?"

"Take a bath." She stated clearly as she headed towards the hallway, not looking back.

But once she was in the dark hallway, a slight tug on her hair faltered her steps.

"Hey." Inuyasha barked at her.

Kagome growled. "What do you want?" She demanded.

"Like I told you," He pulled her hair harder, "this is my territory, you can't do anything about it, and I got the power. Don't think you're free, now that you're with us."

Kagome growled, but then smirked. "Kind of childish for a famous agent to threaten a mere assassin. Seems to me like you're scared I'm going to take over this base."

Inuyasha visibly stiffened, but relaxed with some sort of reassurance and let her hair go. He smirked when he walked passed her. "In your dreams, bitch."

Kagome didn't move as Inuyasha disappeared into the darkness, but another form walked passed her. Kouga.

"Don't mind him," He smirked when he passed her, giving her the eye. "Just try to avoid his welcoming kiss."

As he walked away from her, she yelled. "I already got one from him."

Kouga didn't stop. "That was the welcoming hug."

This time, it was Kagome's turn to stiffen…

Welcoming hug?

AN: Rest assured that I will not be deleting any of my fics. I will be adding the reasons why my fics were delayed on other author's note in my other fics.