AN: I'll make this short before the computer shuts down again. The district I'm living in is going through a temporary, spontaneous black outs. I have to save this like every five minutes and then wait for the power to come back on for another five minutes. It gets kind of annoying after I forget to save and the computer shuts down on me after five times. My laptop is getting fixed in the shop. What a coincidents.

Disclaimer: Hold on…got to save this…*five minutes later and holding a candle in hand* alright, what was it again?

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The Life of a Devil

Trusting To Kill

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Sango stared, one to the other, a bit unsure on what she was suppose to do.

It had been awhile since they had actually gone out from the secluded mansion, and sitting in such an inhabited restraunt was more than unnerving. Not to mention how quiet Kagome was at eating her rather 'different' meal than the others.

It didn't help that there were funny glances thrown at them, occasionally from the males and especially from the females in the other tables.

She cleared her throat.

"Err…Kagome?"

The girl grunted, paying attentions while slurping her Oden soup noiselessly. At least she had manners.

"Is everything here…so small?"

She couldn't really help but to ask that one odd question. From the noisy streets to the small tables and pink accessories, it made one from the, quote 'gaijin' and quote, lands wonder how in the world these people lived like this in small area.

Kagome looked up from her small bowl and stared dully at the sheepish looking girl. "Are you really Japanese?"

Sango put up her hands up in defense. "Hey! I haven't been in Japan for a long time, okay? I knew that Japan had their stuff around here small." She mumbled.

Kagome snorted and looked over at the boys, who were still staring down at their less-than-an appetizing meal. She couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Apparently you guys just couldn't remember how small Japanese appetizers were."

Kouga couldn't help but grunt at this. "What the hell is this stinking shit? This pork is like two times smaller than what I usually eat!"

Sango kicked his shin under the desk. "Shut up! And start speaking in Japanese; you're getting us weird looks!"

Inuyasha scoffed. "The wolf's right, though. This stinking food wouldn't even fill half of my appetite." He said this while poking his meat with one of his chopsticks, obviously unaccustomed to how he was supposed to use his wooden object.

"Inuyasha, please." Sango sighed. "Just get used to how Japan is. We have a mission, so please, please, please just try and get accustomed to this. Please." Sango pleaded so hard that she nearly hissed her words out.

The ex-assassin couldn't help but grin down at her meal. The two boys were in her jungle now, and she wouldn't miss any chance to annoy them.

Inuyasha sighed and glared at Kagome, who was too busy slurping her Oden until the bowl was empty. He knew how relentless she was to push him over the edge, but he would have to keep his cool for now. Still glaring, he took the bowl of ramen off the table and started poked the contents with his chopsticks, frowning at the seaweed.

"I'm not eating this shit."

Sango sighed/growled. "Would you stop acting so arrogant?! Eat it, it's good for you."

Inuyasha glanced at her, who was evidently giving him a very 'do-it-or-else' look. He snorted and started to swirl his chopsticks around the ramen, after Sango cleared her throat, Inuyasha grudgingly shoved the noodle and the other contents into his mouth, chewing unsurely. His lifted his left eyebrow and continued to slurp his bowl empty.

Kagome shook her head and glared at Kouga, who was still poking his meat.

"Well?"

Kouga looked up, still frowning. "What?"

"Are you going to eat that or not?" She said, pointing at his untouched food with her chopsticks.

He scrunched his nose. "This is barely what I call food. A squirrel could eat this thing with one bite."

"Okay, now you're definitely exaggerating." She was staring at him dully now.

"I ain't eating this."

"Either that, or just starve to death. I really don't care, you know."

With an annoyed sigh, he picked up his chopsticks and began to poke the minimized meat in front of him.

Kagome sighed.

God bless Sango if she had to deal with them every single day like this.

~*~

"Naraku."

The eerie dark room stayed silent as a feminine figure walked in.

"Naraku." Kagura said again, her cherished fan still in her hand. She was that of a traditional woman. Her hair up with two slender feathers and light make up to show her natural beauty. She was dressed in her usual red attire, covered by her red jacket. Her footsteps were light, so light that even ninjas made more noise than her. She approached the table cautiously, already knowing that he was there.

This time, the lights lit up as she said his name, yet it was still dim, hardly any light to see his face.

"I see that you have come." Was his simple answer.

Kagura bowed ever so lightly. "As you have requested."

She looked up at his darkened face, covered by the shadows of the room. She glared when he chuckled. Oh how she hated his voice.

"I should be surprised, my dear. The last time you arrived, you almost lid half of the Tokyo police in here."

Actually she had meant to go through a chase and lead the police here, but of course, Naraku's man had always made sure they were never discovered.

"Well, it won't happen again." She replied, trying to keep her voice the same. How she despised that smirk.

"I doubt that." He said; an unseen glint in his eyes. "As I was saying, I have another mission for you."

She visibly tensed, not liking how familiar this sounded. Bad déjà vu.

"Let me guess. Another abduction." It was more like a statement than a guess.

He chuckled that chuckle she truly despised. "You guessed right my dear. Except this time, I would like you to add something a bit more…dramatic."

She lifted her slender eyebrow. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me." He said as he continued with that same, casual smile. "You'll be on your way after my drug deal in the afternoon, but first, tell me the status of how your current hostage is doing…and where is Kanna?"

Kagura nodded, ignoring the nagging annoyance in the back of her head. "The hostage is still in his room, although he seems to be going through a temporary memory-loss from the injury to his head by the fire. Kanna is currently with Hebi in the East side of Tokyo, excavating through the damage to find Yura's red skull."

Naraku nodded. "Good, good." He sneered. "Three out of three. No…three out of four."

She stiffened. This didn't sound good.

"Kagura."

"Yes?"

"I would like you to pick up your weapons and attack a minor glitch after your mission."

She tried to keep her posture straight, but in her mind, alarms were already going on.

Sorry kid…

~*~

"So you were living with them for that long, huh?"

Kagome asked, eating her smoothie pancake while sitting on the street bench. They had decided to leave the boys alone after they had discovered the delights of Japanese cooking. Sango was looking at the foreign food in her hand with a rather quizzical look, but took a bite out of it a moment later and smiled in delight with an 'hmmm' in contempt.

"Sango?"

"Eh? What?" She asked, jerking her self out of her dream-like state.

"Gah…" Kagome sighed in dismay, hitting her free hand against her forehead.

Sango frowned, her mouth full of her smoothie pancake. "What?" She exclaimed in muffled voice.

Kagome ate the last of her treat. "I was asking you what you were talking about in the restraunt before we got nearly killed by those fan girls."

Sango had a thoughtful look as she stuffed herself with the last of her pancake and snapped her fingers as she finished. "Oh yeah, that…umm, hold on." She said as she got up from the street bench and walked towards the small shop they had bought the smoothie pancakes, probably looking for the napkins.

Kagome frowned and shook her head.

A yawn escaped her as she stretched, which was quickly replaced by a painful grunt.

Hours cramped in the airplane weren't such a comfortable trip, especially when you're traveling with more than 100 passengers. But when you're traveling with three people who weren't used to traveling with other people in such small space, it was a real pain. She scrunched her nose as she stretched her arms, hearing some of her bones pop back in. So much for going undercover…

She had learned that particularly uncomfortable lesson when she had tried to pass Inuyasha through the small space when she was heading towards the bathroom.

Shaking her head, she scoffed, trying to shake away the rather disturbing memory. Although she knew for a fact that it wasn't exactly what you call a 'Welcoming kiss'. She didn't know whether she should have been happy or sad that she was still going to have to watch out for him. 

It was no wonder why she had nearly fell off her chair when the payphone next to her rang sharply, disturbing her much needed thoughts.

Trying to ignore the weird stares given to her and the payphone, she picked herself up and stared at the phone with utter amazement. She had learned from her short trip in the U.S that their phones were rather more public. Japanese payphone required phone cards for identifications on any purposes. Calling from somewhere else on the payphone line was a very rare thing, if not impossible in Japan.

Frowning ever so slightly, she cautiously took the receiver, the ringing immediately stopping. She put the receiver next to her ear, she greeted, a bit feeling weird doing this.

"Err…hello?"

"1191212."

She immediately froze. She had learned of the code before.

"…what the-"

The same dull and ominous voice she recognized spoke the numbers.

"Wait a minute. Kanna?! How the hell did you…oh yeah, you're a technology freak…I should have known."

"Naraku-sama wants…"

"…what?"

"1191212."

Kagome growled. She knew Kanna enough that it was never easy to get something direct from the white-haired girl.

"Would you just spit it out? How the hell did you even know I was here?! Wait…you didn't bug me again, did you?!'

Kanna ignored her demands for answers. "Kagura doesn't…"

"…who?"

"Sister doesn't want…"

"…I repeat…who?"

"Naraku wants Inuyasha dead."

Kagome's eyes widened. This was wrong. This was all wrong. Naraku hadn't known yet. He still thought that she didn't know…and thought she still worked for him. This wasn't right at all. Normally, he would have gotten the latest 'gossip' by now, even if she was in Los Angeles.

No…

She shook her head.

This is definitely not right…

"The code…" The voice said, knowing with a dull voice, only ending her sentence in rare times, like a few seconds ago.

Kagome hang her head down, her bangs covering half of her face. "1191212…"

"…" The other line stayed silent.

"…the code…kill…"

The other line died before she threw the receiver down with force, literally.

She ignored the glances by the pedestrians and promptly sat back down on the bench, face still covered and head down, and her shoulders hunched, her arms resting on her thighs.

She was pissed alright. She had a good reason to be angry, to be mad enough to just want to punch the first thing that came in her way. 

"Kagome?"

…Guess she would have to release her anger somewhere else.

"Kagome? Are you alright?" Sango asked, wiping her mouth.

The said assassin looked up. "Yeah," She said as she sighed. "I'm fine."

Sango frowned, but shrugged and sat next to Kagome, still wiping her mouth. "Well, like I was saying in the restraunt…"

"Yeah?" Kagome cocked her head, trying to forget what just happened. "What were you saying?"

"The form you got from Naraku. It must have been from the hospital paper that was stolen a few weeks ago."

"Hospital?" She frowned. "Wait a minute. Aren't you guys supposed to be top secret agents or something?"

"Yeah. It was after a mission, and Inuyasha desperately needed an emergency surgery after an explosion. We didn't have time to call for our own private doctor."

"Whoa," Kagome held her hands up. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, an explosion?!"

Sango froze, as if she had said something she wasn't supposed to. "Oh…yeah, that…umm…do you want more of those smoothie pancakes? I'll buy some more." She started to get up, already pulling her wallet out, but a hard tug on her sleeve stopped her on her tracks.

Kagome stared at Sango with a dull look, yet her hand was still clutching Sango's white sleeve. "Sango."

She winced. "Oh darn." She plopped back down on the bench and sighed, leaning her head back.

Kagome lifted one eyebrow. "Do tell about this…explosion."

Sango sighed and shook her head. "Inu's so going to kill me."

"Sango."

"Alright, alright. I'll tell you, so stop looking at me like that."

"Go on." Kagome made herself comfortable in her seat.

"Well, to explain this more easily, Naraku held a grudge against us ever since Inuyasha busted his drug operation in Mexico. Real humiliation, since he lost millions of dollars. That's when he got real nasty. Killed a whole lot of people close to Kouga, when he found out about me and him since we're Inuyasha's partners. His family, friends, relatives…all dead. Kouga's the only one left in his whole family. Inuyasha also had this, err…girlfriend of his. Her name was Kikyou. She was transferred to our group awhile ago." Sango took a breath in.

"Girlfriend?!" Kagome's eyes were wide. She shook her head with a smile. "She must have gotten a hell of a massive 'welcome hug'."

"You and me both." Sango said without thinking.

Kagome eyed Sango suspiciously. "You too?"

Sango froze. "Oh…yeah, but it was a smaller version of Kikyou's kiss. You know, just a peck on the cheek kind?"

"Ahh…" Kagome nodded. This was a bit weird though. Kikyou…she sounded kind of familiar. And Kanna…since when did she have a sister? Kagome shook her head. So much for forgetting about what had just happened there.

"Anyway, Kikyou was a real loner type. You know, never showing any expression, and really into to her job. Kind of odd, since she was a real model type too and all. She was polite, a vixen, and she was also a master of Kung Fu. Anyone's dream girl in her kind of job."

Kagome's eye was twitching now, but she let it go.

"Kouga was immediately into to her, but Inuyasha was the first to make it into to her heart. They kissed, became a cute little couple, and did what lovers do. Of course, that was until Naraku found out about her…"

"Excuse me?"

"I'm kind of confused as much as you are now." Sango rubbed her temple. "Your boss seemed to be the master at getting gossips out of the blues."

"My ex-boss." Kagome corrected her with a frown, yet nodding, agreeing with what she had just said.

"Oh yeah. Anyway, I'm not sure if he was jealous, or if he just wanted revenge, I'll never know. Of course, when he found out about Kikyou, he immediately striked. It was just after our last mission with that Yura girl, you might know her, the poison specialist."

Kagome nodded. "Yeah, I knew her. So you guys were the ones that killed her?"

"Yeah, it was us. I was off somewhere else, going through some of my own business and Kouga was off immediately after the Yura girl died, intent on getting some fresh clues. Inuyasha and Kikyou were still in the cliff where they killed Yura, doing what couples do. And then the cliff exploded."

"Eh?" she frowned at the abrupt glitch in the story.

"It was an obvious trap. I found out about that after I researched a bit. Yura was just some bait to kill off Inuyasha and his angel, who evidently, fell off the cliff and disappeared. Inuyasha obviously survived, though, but with serious injuries. Kind of went through a temporary depression or something like that. He lost a lot of weight after that, but he got some of it back." Sango shrugged and shook her head. "That's basically what happened."

Kagome stared at Sango. This was all so new to her. From all those years of work with Naraku, she had never actually heard of any grudges he had against any secret agents…but then again, she had never actually stayed long enough to really hear any of Naraku's trouble in his base.

"Hmmm…"

Sango frowned at Kagome as she pondered with a thoughtful look. "What?"

"Seems to me like my ex-boss has a lot of hatred against your little group."

Sango nodded with a soft expression. "Yeah…"

"And it seems like he already got what he wanted with Inuyasha and Kouga…"

"Yeah…"

"So does that mean he already got his way against you?"

"Yeah…" It took a moment before Sango realized what she had just said. "I mean no, no, he can't get me. No way." Sango shook her head, her hair waving from right to left.

Kagome caught what she said, though. "Sango, I'm not exactly a patient person."

Sango growled under her breath as she leaned back. "You should be in the FBI or something…" She mumbled.

Kagome scoffed. "Don't ever say that again. I work alone."

"What about Naraku?"

"I only stayed with him because of his money. And he did give me some free sample weapons." She sniffed.

"Well, whatever."

Kagome cleared her throat. "So, what did he do to you?"

"…"

"I'm not going anywhere until you tell me, you know that right?"

Sango mumbled something incoherent.

"Excuse me?"

"My brother…"

"…eh?"

Sango sighed. "I was from a small family in Hokkaido. I never saw my mom, and dad died when I was young. I had a brother I was taking care of. When Inuyasha was in the explosion, I was off visiting my brother. Funny thing was, I found the house my brother was living in burned down and destroyed in the ashes." She leaned back into the chair. "He got me."

Kagome stayed silent for awhile. Naraku really was a bastard. Wait, scratch that…he still is a bastard.

"…not that I really care." Sango said with a meager smile.

Something clicked in her mind. "You haven't told about this to Inu and Kouga have you?"

"…" The silence was enough to answer by itself.

"Oh Sango dear…"

"Don't 'oh Sango dear' me!" Sango snapped. "You wouldn't know how I feel at all."

Kagome lifted her eyebrow. "Shows how much you know."

Sango snapped from her casual position. "What's that suppose to mean?!"

Kagome shook her head, but quickly stopped when she heard a screech. "What the-"

"C'mon Kagome." Sango said with a very annoyed look and grabbed Kagome's sleeve, quickly pulling her towards the bus stop. Kagome could see that everyone on the street was staring behind them, too shocked to notice two girls ramming into everyone else.

"Wait! Sango, what the hell's going on?!" Kagome shouted, trying not to trip as she was pulled along relentlessly. "Is it a shoot out?!"

"You wish!" Sango shouted. "Daddy must have found out!"

Kagome faltered. "Daddy?!"

~*~

"You guys are the most despicable beings on earth!"

Kagome watched with a bored look, but her ears were completely intent on hearing what Sango had to say about this. Apparently, this was how everyday life was for this little family in front of her.

Inuyasha trying to ignore Sango's yelling, sitting and leaning back as far away as possible. Kouga behind the chair with a very annoyed look and trying to dodge Sango's punches every time she noticed him trying to leave the room. And Sango, the woman of the house, yelling her head off at the two for molesting couple of teenagers that apparently had their daddy come pick them up at the street. Yup, your typical day of the secret agents.

She felt a smug smirk coming on when Sango smacked Inuyasha upside the head when she noticed he wasn't paying any attention, so she left the room and went into the hotel bathroom that connected the two separate rooms.

Amazing how a bag of money could afford almost any luxurious hotel in Tokyo, a suite to be more exact.

As she stared into the long bathroom mirror, something clicked in her mind that immediately wiped her smirk away.

"Naraku wants Inuyasha dead." 

There was a loud shudder as a fist connected with the mirror.

Damn it…

Kagome looked down at her still fisted hand, ignoring the searing pain of her blood trickling down her arm.

She could just put poison in their beverages. She could shoot them in the night. She could push them off the balcony. She could…

She smacked her bloodied hand against her forehead.

There was no way she could do this, yet she had to. She licked her dried lips.

She owed it to the man. No matter how much she would deny it, she knew she owed him. If he hadn't found her…if he hadn't taken her in…

No…

She tried to concentrate.

He betrayed me…he inserted a virus in me…I shouldn't feel so guilty…I shouldn't

"What the hell?"

Kagome snapped her head up as Inuyasha entered the bathroom.

She sneered. "Don't you know how to knock? I could have been peeing."

Inuyasha snorted as he stared down at Kagome's bloody fist. "When there's a loud crack and the whole room shakes after that, you just know no one's peeing."

Kagome just stared at him. "Oh for the love of…get out."

Not listening to what she had just said, he walked up to her and grabbed her wrist. Too shocked to push him away, and too much in pain, Kagome let him bring the hand down towards the sink, but quickly found herself when he turned the water on.

"Uh shit!" She cried, trying to pull her hand away. He didn't let her, though. "Let go! That stinking hurts!"

"Shut up." He commanded promptly, applying soap on her hand. "Stay still."

Kagome stared as he cleansed her bloody hand, watching as he gently massaged her scraped knuckles. She looked up at the mirror, wondering why in the world she was blushing…

…that was when she noticed the crack in the mirror.

Oh man…

Another 7 years bad luck…

AN: Senseless fluff here, though it's rather light. Again, I apologize for the slow update. Anyway, next chapter – The Feminine Gun. (I, personally, like the next chapter.) ^.^