AN: Well, now that I'm finished with Half Innocent, I'll have time to work on this fic! Thanks for not giving me any death threats! ^^;
Disclaimer: Honestly people, just go to the first chapter. -_-
*Abandoned Gas Station – 9:16:25 PM*
All was quiet in the deserted road, not a life moving in the darkening greenery. As an ominous wind blew by, however, a few leaves flew into the air. Moments later a sleek, black limo appeared on the grovel road, the tires groaning slightly because of not being used to such a rural area.
The doors to the gas station swung as the wind picked up, the top hinge complete rusted, cracked and broken off.
It was what you call a ghost town.
The doors to the limo opened up as the car stopped, and the driver got out, opening the door next to him in a hurry.
A man in his black suit stepped out, holding a black leather case very close to him and walking towards the swinging door as if he owned the very road he walked on. His shiny shoes made a different echoing noise when he stepped into the station.
Instead of grovel, we now find the odd fellow in a luxurious room of pure marble inside the so-called, 'abandoned gas station'.
"You're late."
The man's lips curved ever so slightly when he heard the echoing growl. "Not my fault the road is neglected of any signs to direct me to." He looked around, still wearing his black sunglasses. "I must say, this is a nice place you got yourself."
"Pure marble tiles. Now, put the case on the ground."
His eyebrow lowered. "I thought we had an agreement; we have a fair trade, right on the table."
There was a low chuckle as he snapped his fingers. "Get the money."
Another man in black appeared out of the shadows beside him with another suitcase. He opened it to reveal dozens of one hundred dollar bills, all wrapped up and ready to go.
The man, still wearing his black sunglasses, visibly smiled.
"So, you got it?" The man, leaning out of the shadows revealed himself to be quite an ugly bald man – almost like a frog. "The jewelry?"
"Take a look, why don't you?"
Doing the same, he opened the case and inside were dozens of clear packages with emerald diamonds in them.
The frogman (we'll call him that for now) nearly drooled. "Alright, let's get this trade going."
The man shut his case with the precious jewels inside, but then held his hand up. "One more thing."
He growled. "What? What is it now?" He obviously wanted the jewels badly.
"You said you would tell me a little about your self and your boss."
The sigh was audible. "Naraku don't like being talked about when he's not around. Besides, I'm busy."
"Busy? How so?"
"Stop pestering me with all these questions. All I know is I'm supposed to go and kill some guy before midnight in the abandoned fake-hair factory due to the north. Now give it here."
The smile was just too visible. "Thank you. That was all I needed." Then he promptly began to walk out of the station.
"Hey!" The frogman yelled. "What about the jewelry?!"
He kept on walking.
"Boys, shoot him but not the case!"
Dozens of gunshots suddenly echoed through the shadows, making black holes through the marble tiles. Yet oddly enough, not one of them hit the man that was still walking towards the door.
"What are you all doing?! Shoot him! Shoot –?!"
Before the silence, a single gun shot echoed more loudly than the others and he was abruptly cut off, seeing the blood trickling out of his mouth.
"Next time," A familiar hiss ran through his ears, "don't let the enemy know where you are."
The frogman fell to the ground without even seeing the woman behind him.
The silver haired, 'driver' was leaning against the limo, whistling an odd tune. The man with the suitcase walked towards him and smirked, showing his fangs he had hid during the little chat inside the gas station. His long ponytail hair blew in the wind. "Aren't you supposed to open the door for me, dog?"
Inuyasha snorted. "Don't get so full of yourself wolf. The only reason you played the main negotiator this time was because they would have known who I was with my hair."
He leaned against the door like Inuyasha, and took his sunglasses off, revealing his cerulean eyes. He looked off in the distance in the similar fashion. "Wonder if the girls are finished yet…"
Just then, a few gunshots rang through the gas station as two forms dashed out on cue. Sango and Kagome both held their guns, their hair slightly out of place from both of their single ponytails, but continued and jumped over the limo, missing a few gunshots.
"Kouga! Inuyasha!" They both yelled in unison as they landed next to them.
As if planned, both males took out their guns and snapped around, shooting over the car with true James Bond Style.
Kagome growled as Sango panted next to Kouga. "You guys are just playing around…" She glared at Inuyasha, who was still firing at the enemy over the car like Kouga.
"It's our job."
"We're like the lionesses." Sango kept her head bowed so not to get shot. "We hunt down the prey, kill them, and then let you both have the glory."
"If that's how you like to see it sweetie." Kouga smirked. "Get in the car!" He yelled when a few more guys ran out.
Inuyasha got into the driver's seat and Kouga in the passenger's seat beside him. Sango and Kagome got in the back seat in a scurry of hurry, watching some of the men get in their own hidden vehicles from the windows.
"They got more men than we thought." Inuyasha growled as he stepped on the accelerator, shooting a few rocks at the car behind them with a satisfying crack before shooting off down the road. "Kouga, you still got the jewel?"
"Of course I do. It's loaned from the museum anyway."
"Too bad you didn't get the money too."
"Tell me about it."
Sango rolled her eyes and Kagome snorted. Little did they know the girls had grabbed a handful of hundred dollar bills when they were in the gas station and after Kagome killed that frogman – Finder's Keepers.
"Say, can you girls –?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah…" Kagome and Sango sighed audibly, muttering incoherently and rolling down the windows.
"Thanks doll." Inuyasha grinned and exchanged glances with Kouga. Both of the males shamelessly watched the females poked their heads out with their guns, their posteriors visible to them. Life was good.
Kagome cursed when she nearly dodged a bullet. She had just healed from her leg wound; she wasn't going to get any head injury. "Sango!" She yelled over the car screeches.
"Yeah?!" Sango shot another bullet, successfully breaking the opponent's front window.
"Shoot the tires!"
"Gotcha!"
Both females aimed and fired at the mass of black rubber behind them and in a matter of seconds, there were loud popping noises as the car slightly jolted behind them and started to loose control, making the cars behind that one screech to a halt.
Sighing, the females got back into the car and rolled the windows up. "We got rid of them."
"Thanks babe."
Kagome shot a bullet at the front window.
Meanwhile…
Miroku gulped.
Over his lifetime, he had seen many pesky ladies that wanted him and whatnot, but this chick was the creepiest babe he had ever encountered in his currier as a doctor. And meaning creepy, he meant creepy.
Looking around the fake hairs binding him to the huge metal table, he bit his bottom lip and searched for any escape route from this oblivion of a hair. He was just covered in purple hair! The horror…
Yura, his capture's name, noticed his desperation. "Awww…don't look so desperate doc, you'll die soon." She cooed and rubbed her red skull she held in her other hand like a puppy.
Just plain creepy…
"Umm…why did you tie me with…hair?" He asked, wanting to make a conversation and steer away from looking at all the manikins with the long wigs. This hair thing was getting to him…
"Oh, well, you see…" She sat on the huge table he was laid out on. "I used to be a hair specialist when I was a young teen."
"…eh?" Miroku raised his eyebrow. "Well…that explains a lot."
"Yup." She agreed very bubbly. She just didn't look the type to be any murderer. "But then my parents died because they got electrocuted."
"Electrocuted?"
"Yeah; my parents were serial killers. So they got sat on the electric chairs." She giggled. "Their hairs stuck out when the sparks ran through them! It was so funny!"
Miroku smiled wearily. He was very scared now… "Err…by any chance; can you tie me up some other place? I feel very uncomfortable in this position…" He was right about her not being a murderer. She was just too childish.
"Oh? What, you think I'm going to rape you?" She giggled, her magenta eyes sparkling and her red bow flowing through her black hair.
"Err…" That was true.
"Nah, I don't do that. I just kidnap people and watch them die."
Creepy…! Miroku just wanted to hide in a dark corner now.
"But, maybe I can find a nice place to tie you up on. I think your 'rescuers' are coming now."
Rescuers…?
10 minutes later…
"This any better?"
Miroku looked down at her from the ceiling, he's waist and arms tied up in chain and dangling in the air helplessly. "…yeah. Yeah, much better. Thanks…"
Yura smiled her toothy smile. "No prob."
*Somewhere in Gunma (Location shall be unnamed) – 9:38:47 PM*
The tall man watched the flashing screen, neither smile nor frown crossing his cool face.
Sesshoumaru furiously typed away on his computer while watching the monitor above him. Inuyasha would be destroying his limo into pieces by now, ridding of all clues for the enemy.
Going back to the screen, he heard the monitor buzz slightly, but didn't look up. Oh well, that was the cost of being a secret agent; you had to give up many things for your work.
"Hello Kaede." He said with a monotone voice, not exactly greeting her.
"You're the only one who always knows when I'm on the screen."
He kept on watching his computer screen, not looking up at her at all. "My senses are keener than any of the others in this line of job."
She sighed. "I take it your brother has just left to fetch the doctor?"
"Exactly an hour ago he left with my limo to get the exact whereabouts."
"It's always on the last moment." There was a slight beep from the monitor. "Also, I got the information that Naraku has hid his main location yet again."
"We knew that. The assassin, Kagome or so, went to look for it last week but found nothing more than a huge abandoned building."
"Very tricky…" Kaede cleared her throat. "Speaking of Kagome…"
"I'm keeping an eye on her." Sesshoumaru replied, knowing full well what she wanted to say. "She seems to be on our side, but she may be still followed by her former crew. She's probably the main target of Naraku now."
"I was afraid of that." Kaede nodded. "Well, I'll end the transmission here."
"Good day."
*The Abandoned Fake-Hair Factory – 10:04:39 PM*
"You guys really like destroying things, don't you?"
Kagome hid behind the tree, watching the slightly darker sky hover over them.
"It's simple; and I like easy stuff." Inuyasha smirked as he sat on the branch above her, watching the door to the factory very intently.
She sighed. Just her luck to be paired up with the dog of the group. Sango and Kouga had gone around the area, checking for any guard they hadn't knocked out yet.
"Is this your first time?"
Kagome looked up. "Hmm?"
"I mean, is this your first time you snuck in illegally?"
"Well, no of course not." Kagome snorted. "I'm an assassin. I myself am illegal."
"But have you ever rescued someone?"
She looked away from him. "…no."
Inuyasha leaned against the tree. "You're normal."
"What?" Kagome scowled up at him. "What are you talking about? Stop talking nonsense."
"You may act like a tough macho chick outside, but you're just a school girl on the inside." He shrugged. "Sort of like Sango."
Something inside of her had gone limp. She opened her mouth, but she couldn't respond. What he was saying…was it true?
Of course not…
Kagome glared at him instead. "You're just toying with me."
"Am I?" He casually smiled down at her.
Then something rustled in the bushes.
Kagome snapped around and held up her gun as Inuyasha jumped down from the branch, ready to take out his own pistol.
But before any of them could respond, a small can rolled out of the grass.
"What the –?" Kagome frowned, but before she could do anything else, Inuyasha had taken her hand.
Just as he began to run, a spraying sound escaped the lid of the can and a light smoke steadied out of the hole, starting to fill the air with the dizzying and intoxicating aura.
That was when Kagome realized the toxins.
Inuyasha was running at top speed with Kagome's hand in his, running from the trees that were now already clouded with the gentle yet deadly smoke and ran full straight into the clearing.
Kagome was getting slightly dizzy, since she wasn't sure she had sniffed the smoke, but continued running alongside Inuyasha.
"Hiraikotsu!"
The familiar boomerang swirled above them, but Kagome was sure Sango didn't have two boomerangs…her head was beginning to cloud over.
"That's the signal!" Inuyasha yelled as they neared the factory. "Get inside, we're surrounded!"
She let herself be thrown into the opened door as a few gunshots rang the air, too dizzy to straighten her composure.
But just as Inuyasha was about to stand up, the door behind them flew shut as a few bolts and clicks were heard.
"Oh crud." Inuyasha cursed and grabbed for the handle, but it promptly fell off as he tried to pull. "A solid metal door."
Kagome then realized that they were surrounded in darkness. "Oh…my head…" She groaned.
"Just stay still."
"Oy, Kagome! Inuyasha!"
Both of them looked up to see Kouga jogging towards them, his gun in his hand and a light trickle of blood running down his forehead.
"Yo, Kouga." Inuyasha stood up, helping Kagome stand up. "Where's Sango?"
He sighed. "I lost her in the smoke. I tried calling her after she caught her boomerang, but the gunshots were too loud."
"So she could be still out there?" Inuyasha frowned with his eyes slightly in disbelief. This was the first time Kagome had seen him worried; though she couldn't exactly see him clearly.
"What happened to Kagome?"
"She took a whiff of that gas. It must be really strong, because I didn't even see her sniff it."
Kagome shook her head. "My head…it's just a little dizzy…"
Suddenly, all three of them jumped as a loud clank echoed through the building and the all the lights turned on one after that other following after the loud sound.
It was the oddest factory any of them had ever seen.
There were manikins all over the place with fake wigs slightly tilted from their heads; a dozen or so machineries here and there with large portions of hair sticking out of their large knife like steels.
But as they looked around, there was another loud clank and before they knew it, the whole building was coming back to life. The machineries were moving with their steel scissors cutting up hair and a large tank in the middle was swirling around mixtures of colors to dye the hair with.
That was when a loud giggle caught all three of their attentions.
"Oolala, so you all actually came?"
They all turned around and looked up towards the stairs above them to see a woman in a short and sleek, black Chinese dress and a long cut showing the full view of her thighs. Her hair was held up with an exceptionally larger red bow than before. Kagome knew instantly that this meant trouble.
"Yura…" Her left eye twitched. Naraku sure loved playing with her…
The girl heard Kagome's mumble as the two guys looked at her. "Oh!" She started walking down the stairs. "Kagome~! You really did join them then? I never thought you would…"
Kagome looked away. "…yeah…"
"Well, I'm sorry to say we're enemies then." She cocked her head.
"…yeah…"
"It's too bad. You were so much more fun than any other girls in the building." She shrugged. "Oh well. I guess it was bound to happen. You didn't seem like the type to work with Naraku. Then again, Kagura doesn't either…"
"You talk a lot, you know that?" Kouga growled, yet not being able to resist looking at her legs.
She smiled with shining eyes, just as she reached their level. "Well, it's not like I've actually done this before."
"…what?!"
"She's usually the kidnapper." Kagome mumbled. "She never really killed anyone."
"But hey, there's first time for everything, right?" She snapped her fingers and smiled more broadly as another loud clank rang through the air.
All four of them looked up to see a large crane moving slowly to hover above the tank of the mixing dye, and to the horror for the three of them, a human was hanging from the crane by the chains around his arms and waist. He was gagged and blindfolded, not seeing what was below him.
"I'm sure the doctor is a very patient man." She watched him with an oddly proud look on her face. "Maybe he can wait long enough until you save him…unless you die in the process."
She shrugged as if this was just all a game and turned around, walking back towards the stairs. "If any of you can reach me in time up at the controlling center, I won't drown him in the toxic color." She called, not looking back. "But remember; there's a time limit."
"Shit." Kouga looked around as they heard a few clicks. "They got in while she was talking."
Inuyasha was about to follow Yura up the stairs, but he jumped back when a series of guns fired at him.
"No one's here but her." Kagome looked around. "This is a trap."
"What?" Inuyasha looked around, but didn't dare move again. "What do you mean a trap?"
"She never killed anyone…with her hands."
The males' skin whitened.
"We sometimes called her a 'rogue'. She killed people with her traps." Kagome bit her bottom lip. "If we move, we could get our legs blown off."
There was a moments of silence before Inuyasha snorted. "I'm not used to standing around." Then, intentionally, he stepped forward.
Everything happened spontaneously.
Kagome instinctively jumped back as a huge wooden crate fell from the ceiling on top of them as an arrow whizzed by, missing her nose just by inches. Inuyasha had thrown himself forward and rolled across the floor, getting to his feet as if he was on ice and dodging the attack with true style. Kouga had jumped over a large wooden box and had started for the doctor, who was still dangling helplessly from the crane.
Kagome, her head still woozy, got to her feet a little clumsily and took her gun out. "Watch out for any mines or strings; she's especially fond of explosions!"
"Thanks for the info!" Inuyasha yelled from across the room as he dodged a few arrows, stumbling on a long string by his feet. He regained his composure and shot at a nearby manikin, causing it to fall back. Just as it did, a few arrows flew by and stuck itself in the head of the manikin's. "Try shooting at the manikins! They'll set a few traps off!"
She had to give credit to him; he was smarter than he looked.
Stumbling her way towards forward, she looked up at the control room and saw Yura already beginning to push a few buttons; ready to drown Miroku. Cursing, she dashed towards the stairs but didn't even notice the small part of the ground sticking up a little. She stepped on the soft mound and that was when she noticed a rather very large looking ax falling on her.
"Oh shit…" Kagome's jaw dropped. Now this was even dramatic for Yura…
"Kagome! Watch it!"
She grimaced and just as the ax was a few feet above her did she finally jump out of the way, but not before getting her top part of the wrist nicked a bit. She landed hard on her other elbow, causing her to loose her grip on her gun which sailed off into the air and off to devil knows where.
"Arrrrrrgh!"
Kagome and Inuyasha watched in shock as Kouga flew through the air, much like in the same fashion as Kagome's gun, with a very large and deep cut across his chest and landing hard on his back with a dull thud.
"Looks like someone got too near to the hair turners~!" Yura's singsong voice echoed through the speakers and pointed towards a very sharp looking steel that was twisting and turning crazily. "Too bad he had to stumble on that string. I'll be surprised if he can even breathe after that~!"
That was one man down…
Inuyasha, now furious, shot from where he was and started towards the stairs. But even before he had crossed the room, they heard a large clanking noise and noticed the crane holding the doctor above the tank slowly lowering every inch per second.
"Better get moving~!"
"Hiraikotsu!"
Kagome snapped around to see a rather large part of the ceiling crash down near them, and everyone (Yura, Inuyasha, and Kagome since Kouga was still unconscious or dead) had to stop what they were doing to watch with awe as a slender form dropped from the tall ceiling with her boomerang alongside her, her face half covered with her steel mask.
"…Sango?" Kagome blinked. Talk about making an entrance…
She didn't respond, as she looked at Kouga's still and unmoving form and then up at Miroku, who was still being dropped to the tank and had somehow loosened his blindfold off and was watching with shock, but still gagged and chained, to Inuyasha who had a long cut on his cheek thanks to the arrow, and then to Kagome, who was still on the ground and holding her nicked wrist. Then, with flaming eyes she looked up at Yura, who was looking very impressed.
"Wow…now that's what I call a fighter." Yura smiled and looked down at Sango's waist. "Oh! A sword?!"
Kagome blanched. She knew what would happen next.
"Care for a little one on one?" Yura stood up and walked out of the glass made control room, her impressive custom made kodachi next to her own waist.
Sango glared at her and took her mask off.
"Oh no, no." Yura blinked but kept on smiling. "Keep the mask on. It's only fair for you to use your own weapons, since this is my little playground you dropped in on."
Kagome sighed as she got up.
"Hey." Inuyasha came up next to her, watching the whole scene in slight amusement. Just slightly though. "What's going on?"
"Yura can't resist having a sword fight. She's a skilled swordsman." Kagome sighed and looked at Sango, who could very well hear everything she was saying. "This is our chance to sneak into the control room. When she starts fighting with swords, she's completely out of control."
Kagome and Inuyasha watched as Yura jumped from the stairs and landed right in front of Sango, drawing her kodachi out. "Draw your sword. I don't care if you prefer to use your boomerang instead."
And before the eye could comprehend what was happening, Yura had brought her sword down on Sango, who blocked with her Hiraikotsu and drew her sword out, blocking another attack with it.
"C'mon, this is our chance." Kagome stood up and ran towards the stairs, watching for any hidden traps.
Inuyasha followed her, jumping over a few strings here and there, soon reaching the stairs.
Kagome pulled on the doorknob. "Darn it, she locked it."
"Move; this is a man's job." He then promptly threw himself onto the door and it slammed open, the hinges breaking apart.
"And I thought ladies went in first." She raised her eyebrow as she went in, Inuyasha standing up and dusting his sleeves off. "Now, which buttons?" She looked at the numerous blue and red dots on the control system.
"How about the big red one?"
Kagome looked at where Inuyasha was pointing at. It said in bold red letters – CRANE CONTROL. "Oh, yeah…"
Slamming her fist down on the red button, the couple watched as the doctor on the crane start to rise towards the ceiling…too high…
"Hey, he's going to crash into the lights!"
"Oh man…" Kagome searched through the smaller buttons, not wanting to get Miroku electrocuted, and noticed another large one that was instead blue this time. "Oh, here it is."
"Kagome, hold on!"
Too late.
Both of them paused with a dumbfounded look as they looked around the dark factory; the building now completely shrouded in darkness like when they first came in earlier.
"…I think that was the emergency switch…"
Kagome looked at Inuyasha's hardly visibly form. Then shrugged. "It was an emergency."
There was an audible chuckle. "Right…well, since it's dark and no one can exactly see –"
"Don't even think about it bastard." Kagome tried to glare at him in the dark. "You pervert."
"Darn…"
A giggle echoed the building.
Kagome and Inuyasha watched from the control room to see a slender form jump away from a sleek metal like sheen (probably Sango's sword) and out the now open door.
"I guess you win this little game, Kagome! But Naraku knows everyone's weakness! Let's play again real soon~!" Yura cried as she dashed out the door and into the dark night sky.
But what she said rang in Kagome's ears.
"But Naraku knows everyone's weakness!"
If Naraku knew…
"Kagome?"
She looked behind at Inuyasha. "Hmm?"
"Maybe it's best to get the doc from the crane."
"…oh yeah."
She had completely forgotten about him.
AN: READ!!! OR ELSE…!!!
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