AN: Hmm…I'm just starting to realize I'm not a kid anymore. T.T Where has the time gone to?! That's the cruelty of life…you could never get your past back…unless the government's working on a loophole or something *shrug* unfortunately, my dad's not in the government…or is he? Hmm…he never does talk about his job…and I hardly see him that much…Oh well; who cares? ^.^

Disclaimer: See the first chapter!

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The Life of a Devil

'Till Death Do You Part

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*Sesshoumaru's Mansion – 8:47:37AM*

"Well, I'm glad you lovebirds made it with your clothes still on."

Kagome looked away. She was incredibly glad that she had put away the earrings in her purse last night. "So…what was it you were worried about again? An eristic cat?"

"An equisetic cat." Sango corrected her, holding the furry creature while sitting on the armchair in front of the monitor. "That damn Naraku starved her to death. She's just terrified of everyone…"

"But she's not scared of you."

She shrugged. "I'm a natural cat person."

The control room door opened at that moment and Miroku strolled in, sighing and looking exhausted.

"Miroku!" Sango looked from the screen. "That took a long time."

"7 hours and 40 minutes." He rubbed his temple. "But it looks as if she's going to live."

"Too bad."

He shook his head at Kagome, but with his lips quirked up. "Yura's going to live, but her legs are useless now. I would have had to amputate them if the virus had spread out any further."

"Oh good."

"But why was Yura's reaction so fast?" Sango asked. "I mean, Kagome has to take the medicine everyday, but it's not like she has such a bad reaction to the virus…unless…"

Miroku watched the girls' white face solemnly. "Yes, I figured Naraku finished his virus just recently ago. He probably wanted to test the effects with that dart I found in Yura's hand…"

There was a momentary silence.

Kagome, needless to say, was disgusted. Yura, like her, had been tested by Naraku for his experimentation. Somehow she couldn't see Yura as the same insane weirdo anymore…

"Where are the others?" Sango broke the silence.

"Inuyasha and Kouga are checking if there are any bugs in the building; just to make sure. Sesshoumaru's trying to figure out what the letter Kagura wrote meant. It seems a bit strange, since she seems as if she's trying to help us…"

"Or trick us." Kagome suggested.

"True."

Miroku shrugged. "He's more interested in the children part."

"You mean the children are fine?" Sango asked confused. "Doesn't she mean Rin?"

"But it says children. There must be another child other than Rin." He shook his head. "Kagura's an odd one. Of course, she probably couldn't let herself be more specific or someone with Naraku would have found out."

"Well, I guess we can't really find any more clues until Kagura or someone else gives us a lead." Sango stroked the sleeping cat's fur. "And I would use Kirara against them, but…"

"Kirara? You named it already?" Kagome looked at her with one eyebrow quirked.

"A cat does need a name."

Meanwhile…

"So you're sure this isn't a trick?"

Kouga and Inuyasha lazily sat down on the couch, their back slightly aching from bending down so much while checking the entire premises for any bugs or bombs. They really didn't think there would be any, but even they had to back down from Sesshoumaru's threatening glare. Sometimes, they wondered just why he lived in such a huge mansion…

"I would know it if this was a poor trickery." Sesshoumaru answered Kouga. "Naraku isn't the type to set any tricks that might be out of his own style. The part where Kagura wrote, 'He'll attack if you don't'…it seems very cliché for him."

"Or blasé." Inuyasha shrugged.

"I guess sending Yura here would be a little overboard for him."

"Correct." Sesshoumaru nodded in agreement with Kouga, which he rarely did. This sent Inuyasha and Kouga in a light shock.

Inuyasha recovered first. "But, it's not like we have much choice." He frowned. "The end of the month is this week, and the shipments, or 'the finished viruses', is going to be sent to the west and half the Earth is going to be extinct in less than a week."

Kouga and Sesshoumaru knew he was more worried about Kagome than the virus spreading through the continents. Kagome's last day of life was also the day the shipments were going to be sent, but they didn't bother talking about the depressing situation.

"We don't know how he's going to send the shipments though."

"That's the point." Inuyasha said. "We have to strike before the end of the week." He pointed towards the map they got from Onigumo on the coffee table, along with the letter. The huge red dot was surrounded by smaller blue dots and other small holes that indicated a few dots had been taken off. Onigumo sure had been specific about where Naraku was…

"Oy, Inuyasha." Kouga watched him warily. "Get a grip; this isn't war."

*Naraku's Hideout – 9:10:53AM*

"Sesshoumaru-sama."

Kagura snapped her head up as she laid the tray of food on the small wooden desk. "What?"

"Shiro." Rin gasped. "Sesshoumaru-sama! I remember!"

The woman watched with a slightly open mouth as the little girl started to jump up and down on the bed, making squeaking noises and confusing Kohaku in the process.

It looks like the injection's finally wearing off…

Kagura hid her rare smile and looked from the jumping Rin to the slightly dazed Kohaku who had just woken up.

"Is it morning already?" He groaned.

She didn't answer his question. "Sango."

Kohaku looked from the happy Rin to Kagura with an even more confused look. "What?"

"Sango." Kagura repeated.

He narrowed his eyes and looked around. "Is everyone going insane today? Kagura, I'm Kohaku."

She sighed. Guess the injection worked slowly in an older child…

"Who's Sango?" He scratched his head as he got up. "I mean, it does sort of ring a bell."

Kagura watched him.

He shrugged. "I'm hungry; what's for breakfast?"

A twitch formed on her left eye. "Chinese Custard Bun."

The two children, Rin still chanting 'Sesshoumaru-sama and Shiro', hopped off from the bed and pounced at the tray of food in front of Kagura like a pair of piranhas.

Kagura watched them with a tired look, seeing them eat their way through the plate like pigs. "Enjoy." She said sarcastically.

*Weaponry Shop – 9:31:43AM*

"He he he he…"

Ayame adjusted the speaker and watched the screen with an evil smile. Sure she stank at electronics, but when a situation like this popped up these 'bugs' the government used were sure handy dandy.

Well, sure she had been pretty annoyed when the black wearing guys had attached a bug on her, even though everything would have been easier if she had just given the letter to Kagome and left immediately…but she just had to see the last of her family member a little longer. Though Kagome did make a few odd friends…like that idiotic wolf…

She fumbled on a few buttons before she realized that she had to press on the 'on' switch first to hear exactly what the people were saying.

"– what do you want me to do with the body, sir?"

She heard someone say in her headphone.

"Just hang it in the Tokyo Tower like I said. If the plan works, the body would make a nice decoration."

Ayame stuck her tongue out. What a disgusting guy…

"The flights are also ready, too, I take it?"

Flights…? Now this was interesting.

"Yes, we've saved a private jet at the airport. It will be between midnight and 3AM, so no one will catch a glimpse of the shipments' departure, sir."

Ayame quickly took notes of the 'private' conversation. This was getting extremely serious…

*Sesshoumaru's Mansion – 10:03:08AM*

"What do you mean I can't go?!"

Sango watched the argument from outside the slightly ajar door. She wasn't the only one listening in on the couple.

Inuyasha sighed. "Look, I just don't think it's a good –"

"What, you think this would be a bad idea?" Kagome raised her arms in the air. "You think I'm too weak?!"

Miroku's head appeared above Sango's, watching the conversations very interestedly. "So, who's winning?"

Sango hushed him.

"No! I don't think you're weak." Inuyasha muttered the next part. "You're too macho to be weak…"

"What?!"

"Nothing, nothing…"

Sango nodded towards Kagome. "She is."

Inuyasha, still not noticing that there was an audience outside the door, sighed yet again. "Look, this is a serious mission. We're talking about getting inside a fully guarded building with hundreds of cameras."

"I don't care if I have to risk everything for this one mission!" Kagome yelled in pure annoyance. "This is Naraku! I want to kill him for what he did to me! I want revenge!"

"Kagome, please!" He growled. This was getting very annoying for his ears. "Stop being so childish!"

Sango and Miroku looked at Inuyasha with wide eyes. Inuyasha, calling someone else childish? …wow…it looked as if the mime had talked and the whole world had rotated upside down…

"Childish?! Why can't I go while everyone else can, then?!"

Inuyasha's fist was shaking. "Because! I can't stand the thought of loosing you too!"

Sango, Miroku, and Kagome's jaws promptly dropped open, but Kagome's expression was different then the other two's.

The dog-boy faced down at the floor furiously, his eyes closed and his mouth tightly clenched. There was a distinct gnawing sound from his visible teeth.

Kagome shook her head. "So this is what it's all about, isn't it?" She smiled grimly. "You lost your first love to Naraku, and you don't want to loose me too, mm?"

Inuyasha looked up with a face that was frighteningly like Sesshoumaru's. Emotionless.

"Fine then." Kagome turned around, not facing Inuyasha. "I'll stay here. Happy?"

He didn't respond. He didn't even nod. All he did was stare at the back of her head during the few minutes of the painful silence and then promptly turn around and head out the door.

Miroku and Sango quickly 'eep'-ed and ran down the hallway for their dear life and watch Inuyasha come out the door from the other corner of the hallway, seeing him head towards the opposite direction.

Kagome stared at the window as a slow sneer crossed her face.

Who was he to tell her that she couldn't go?

*Naraku's Hideout – 1:05:38PM*

"It seems as if they're finally going to visit us, sir."

Naraku smirked. Finally, it was time. It was finally time to see that mongrel die…but not just yet. He had to suffer…suffer as much as possible…

"Good." Was all he said.

"Would there be anything else you need, sir?"

He shook his head. "Just get Hari." An evil grin crossed his face. "We're going to have to make a surprise appearance."

He licked his lips. This was definitely going to be fun.

*Mall – Midnight*

Everything was quiet in the darkness. No sound…no movements…the street was lifeless with a few of the streetlights buzzing every so slightly. No cars drove by the huge building.

Then quite abruptly, two shadows appeared near the entrance.

"This is pathetic."

The other guard snorted to his partner. "Of course it is. We've been guarding this dump for nearly two months and no one's even bothered breaking in here." He cracked his neck. "I don't even know why Naraku wants us to walk around here…"

//Clank//

The two men in black snapped around and watched the shadows behind them, seeing nothing but black.

"Who's there?!"

//Clank//

A soda can rolled by their feet.

The first guard pulled out his gun. "Come out here you bastard."

It was clear to say they were surprised to see a young woman come out instead. She was looking around worriedly and batting her eyelashes at them, her low ponytail swinging every time she stepped forward.

"Oh my…did I do anything wrong?"

The two guards exchanged looks. Then quite familiar perverted grins appeared on both of their faces.

"Oh no, you haven't done anything wrong…" They both pocketed their guns and approached her with the same grin still on their faces. "…babe."

The woman frowned. "Excuse me?"

"You're going to have to come with us." The first guard grabbed her forearm and started to drag her with him.

"Why?"

"Guard business." The second one said.

Her eyebrow quirked. "I never heard about that."

"It's very special."

The woman let them take her towards the parking lot, but not one of the guards noticed her evil smirk that was beginning to take over her worried expression.

As the two man continued walking towards to their car for 'obvious' reasons, one of them tripped on something and stumbled along the way.

"What are you doing?" The second guard asked, annoyed.

"There's something on the ground."

That was when the two man noticed about a dozen men, guards just like them, all unconscious on the ground.

"What the –?!"

They never knew what hit them when the woman brought her hands down between their shoulder and neck, pressing their pressure point.

The woman or more specifically, Sango patted her hands and watched the two men fall unconscious on the ground. She took her hair band off and adjusted her hair to make it into a high ponytail.

"That's two more to my collection of perverted idiots."

"You alright?" Miroku asked from the earphone she was wearing. "It's impossible to see from the car."

"Yeah, I'm fine. Any word from the other guys?"

"Sesshoumaru just threw two guys in a dumpster near the west side, Kouga knocked out a few guys at the north and Inuyasha got in the target's building through the east."

"Alright, tell them the south side is cleared."

"Gotcha."

Meanwhile…

Inuyasha looked around the closed shops with an odd look. This was ridiculous. Naraku, the all mighty drug lord of the black market, having his secret hideout in the basement of the Tokyo mall?!

What was next?

"Hey, Inuyasha." Miroku spoke in his earphone.

"Mm?"

"Sango's cleared the south side. She's coming in with Sesshoumaru through the west and Kouga through the north."

"All right. Tell them to meet me at the…" He looked around. "…meet me in front of the ice cream store."

There was a momentary silence.

"…what? I can't see any other stores in the dark, okay?"

Another silence, then – "…fine."

Inuyasha shook his head as he clicked off. But his momentary relaxation was disturbed when a small echoing noise traveled to his ears.

Footsteps…

He quickly narrowed his eyes and backed up, searching through the shadows with his sensitive eyes. After a few tense seconds, he spotted a slender figure with her hair in a low ponytail. He immediately sighed.

"Oy, Sango." He growled. "Next time, don't act like some kind of a ninja in the shadows or whatever."

"Sango?"

Inuyasha's arrogant smile immediately dropped and his blood ran cold. "K-Kagome?"

The teen walked out of the shadow with a bored face. "That hurts Inu. You can't even tell me apart from Sango?"

"What are you doing here?!" He looked down at her.

She sighed. "It's not like you were really going to stop me from coming here."

"You idiot! What if you get hurt?!"

"Awww~ the little puppy cares about me…" She smirked and brought her arms around his neck.

He immediately tensed. This wasn't right…

But all his thoughts flew away when she brought her lips against his, running her hands through his long hair. He put his hands on her waist and closed his eyes as she opened her mouth, letting him travel inside her mouth with his tongue. She brought her leg up to his thigh and moaned slightly in a similar fashion like last night.

"…Inuyasha?"

His eyes snapped open and he abruptly broke the intense kiss. He looked to his right to see Kagome – the real Kagome – watching him with her mouth slightly ajar, her hair held up to a high ponytail. "Kagome? …then who…"

He looked down at the 'Kagome' in his arms and his eyes widened.

She was wearing a pink jewel around her neck.

"K – Kikyou?"

Kagome watched with utter confusion as her look-alike pushed away from the even more shocked Inuyasha with a very evil smile on her lips. The woman backed up and raised a pistol.

Everything happened so spontaneously Kagome didn't even realize that she had been nearly shot until after the loud gun shot echoed through the building as Inuyasha threw himself on top of her.

"Inu, you would risk your life for her?" The woman…no, Kikyou asked with her head cocked to the side.

Kagome, breathless now, stood up with the help of Inuyasha (who lucky hadn't been wounded), and looked at the woman in front of them with wide eyes. This was Kikyou…her face duplicates with her own. Same cheekbones, same face structure…only the eyes and the skin told them apart, as well as the hair.

Hari lives.

…that's what Kagura meant…

Kikyou held her gun at them and took the hair band that was holding her long hair into a low ponytail and dropped it on the ground. Her long midnight hair fell back like water.

"Kikyou." Kagome said. "You're…Hari…aren't you?"

The older woman smiled. "Yes Kagome. I'm Kikyou, Hari, and Kizu."

"No." Inuyasha gasped. "No, I saw you fall off the cliff. I saw your face…you…"

"But didn't you think there would be a nice little net there to save my fall, mm Inuyasha?" She waved her gun around playfully now. "Didn't you think I've been betraying you all this time with Naraku? Didn't you think I was the one who maimed Onigumo, Yura, and killed Juroumaru with my dart, mm Inuyasha?"

Kagome's eyes widened. Everything made sense now…the dart in Yura's hand…the fear in Onigumo's eyes when he saw her…she didn't know about Juroumaru, but that didn't matter…

"And not to mention…" She took something out of her pocket. "A girl like me who's a master at darts would be able to infect Kagome with the incomplete virus?" She held up her dart in her other hand.

Inuyasha couldn't believe it. Kikyou…his Kikyou had betrayed him…betraying him this whole time with Naraku…

"Why…?"

She laughed at his question. It was a cold laugh. "It was my job to go through your heart, Inuyasha. It was my job to kiss you, to touch your skin, to touch your hair…it was my job to make you fall in love with me."

Kagome frowned. There was a slight change in her voice…she was holding something back.

Kikyou quickly covered it up with an arrogant smirk that could have rivaled that of Inuyasha's own. "It was my job, Inuyasha."

He kept on shaking his head and continued doing so. "No…no, it's not true."

Kikyou grinned, but it was forced. "No? You think it's not true?"

Kagome watched Kikyou walk up to Inuyasha, the gun still pointed at him, and looked into his eyes.

"You want to know why I did all these horrible things?"

No one answered…

She cocked her head. "It was because I fell in love with Naraku first…"

Kagome definitely saw something wrong there. First…?

Inuyasha was breathing heavily, and Kagome was beginning to get red in the face, though not one of them noticing their own behavior.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha. But I think you just aren't my type…" Kikyou was about to continue when her smile dropped and she noticed a fist coming at her from the side.

She jumped back and dodged Kagome's angry assault, watching the younger duplicate of herself pant heavily. But it wasn't from the sheer force she had given to throw that punch – it was the anger that was flaring inside of her.

"You're disgusting." Kagome growled.

"Am I?" Kikyou frowned. "What about you?"

"What about me?!" She yelled. "You infect me with Naraku's bullshit virus! You toyed with Inuyasha's heart…who else can be more sick and wrong as you?!"

"You." Was Kikyou's simple answer.

Kagome paused. "…what?"

"Well, weren't you the one who lied so Inuyasha would take you in with that junk about some virus? Weren't you the one who also toyed with Inuyasha's heart? Didn't you promise Naraku you would bring his head?"

Kagome's mouth was opening and closing like a fish's. What…what, what, what, what?!

Inuyasha was watching Kagome with hurt filled eyes. "You…?"

Kagome looked back at Inuyasha then at Kikyou and realized what she was doing. She quickly turned to Inuyasha with panicking eyes. "No! Don't listen to her!" She glared back at Kikyou. "You bitch! You're playing with his mind now!"

She casually smiled. "Am I?"

Kagome desperately looked at Inuyasha, but he was shaking his head at her. "Inuyasha, no! I didn't betray you! She's lying!"

He didn't answer. It looked as if he was gasping for air.

"Inuyasha! No! She's playing with you…again!" Kagome yelled at him. "I'm not lying!"

"Am I?"

"Stop it!" Kagome screamed back at Kikyou, but that was when she realized something…something she had learned while training to become an assassin.

Never let your emotion take over and let your guard down.

It was too late for that now.

"Bitch!"

As soon as this one word flew out of her mouth, there was a loud gun shot that nicked her hand, but it wasn't from Kikyou's gun.

Cursing, she jumped back as a few more gun shots rang the air and well knowing that they were surrounded, ran for her dear life. But as she did so, Inuyasha grabbed her wrist abruptly from behind.

"What the –?!" She cried out when Inuyasha twisted her wrist slightly, making her feel as if her skin was on fire. "Inuyasha! What are you doing?!"

He didn't answer as he stayed on the same spot, drawing out his gun out and shooting exactly three times at random spots.

There were thuds and a complete silence after that.

…okay, so it wasn't that random.

"Bravo Inu." Kikyou kept on her fake smile. "Your aim is as good as Naraku's."

"Don't compare me with that bastard." He growled. Looks like he got his temperament back.

"Well, I'm sorry to say we have to go now Inuyasha." She sighed. "Orders are orders of course." She pointed her gun at Kagome. "We'll be taking her with us too."

Inuyasha tightened his grip, making Kagome wince as she tried to pull free from him. "You're not taking her."

Kagome stopped when she heard him spit the last word out. Did he still believe she had betrayed him…?

"Oh, I can't let you do that." Kikyou sighed again. "See, your little friends should be unconscious right now and if you don't let us have Kagome…well, let's just say I can't control the boys' hormones anymore with Sango lying on the ground defenseless like that.

Inuyasha's hand with the pistol in it shook. "Sango…she's been sharing rooms with you for years…and you would let that happen?"

Her smile disappeared. "I told you…I can't control the boys' hormones. No matter how much I'll disapprove of it…"

"You…"

Kikyou looked at Kagome. "You shouldn't be speaking dear. Seeing the situation you're in."

She gnawed her teeth and didn't reply.

"Now Inuyasha. Let her go."

He narrowed his eyes. "No."

"Then…you leave me no choice." Kikyou's dull eyes narrowed.

Kagome yelled when a few man jumped down at them from the ceiling, hanging on the rope all this time and landing right on top of Inuyasha. His gun fell out of his hand and he was soon enveloped in the pack of men, trying to fight them all off of him.

She stood up and tried to reach for the gun but before she could reach it, a sharp sting nicked her shoulder; the exact spot the first dart dug through during the fight with Hiten and Manten…

Kagome cried out as her vision began to blur around the edges. "Inuyasha!"

"Kagome, run!" he yelled, pushing back a few men and becoming visible from the black guys that were on top of him.

But she couldn't run. She fell on her knees as her legs gave away.

"Sleep…dart…" She groaned out as she fell on the floor, her left side of the face on the ground.

"Really Kagome." Kikyou's voice hovered over her as Inuyasha yelled and was enveloped by the black men again. "You should work on your defenses. This is the second time."

Kagome growled and remembered Hebi's words.

"You…you were the one who threw the dart…Hiten and Manten were working for…you…"

"Aren't you smart?" She didn't smile. "But with the circumstances…I'm sorry Kagome."

Kagome didn't hear the last part of what she said as her eyes closed, sleep taking over her limp body.

But the only thing she did hear was Inuyasha's desperate cry for her while fighting off the men with his fists.

"Kagome!"

AN: I'll say nothing. Seven words are enough.