Partners

Chapter 7

It had been six months since Inuyasha appeared on Genkai's doorstep, and Inuyasha and Yusuke's fight. Yusuke had some scars on him from the half demon's blows. Everyone at school was wondering about the second biggest punk at their school's sudden disappearance.

"I heard he got kidnapped by a gang," said one kid as Yusuke was walking home.

"Hey Urameshi!" Kuwabra shouted.

"What?" Yusuke said dryly.

"So where has Inuyasha been? You know how many rumors I've heard!"

"He's at Genkai's," Yusuke said simply.

"Well aren't you worried that he might come back stronger than you?"

"No."

"Fine, but did he have to go through that tournament thing?"

"No he just had to beat her four students, and I was one of them."

"You lost?"

"Yeah he won by a fluke! He just had enough energy just to stand for ten counts!" Yusuke yelled. "I would of won, or at least a tie." The two continued to walk home while Yusuke kept on ranting about the fight.

Meanwhile Kagome was walking home when she met up with Keiko and Sango.

"Hey guys!" she said cheerfully.

"Hey Kagome," Keiko greeted.

"Any word about Inuyasha?" Sango asked.

"Nothing, it's like he disappeared off the face of the Earth," Kagome said.

"Well I'm sure he'll turn up soon," Keiko said.

"He's probably just skipping school, again," Sango said.

"Who skip school for six months?" Kagome asked.

"Yusuke did," Sango said.

"Yeah but he said he at a trainer," Keiko said.

"Maybe he's at that same trainer," Sango figured.

"At hope he's okay," Kagome said. The two other girls started chuckle. "Hey what's so funny?"

"It's just that the way you sounded it sounded like he was your boyfriend or something," Sango said. Kagome blushed and said,

"Inuyasha my boyfriend? Yeah next thing you know him and Yusuke will start getting along!" Kagome said.

"Hey it was just an observation, but I'm sure he'll show up Kagome," Keiko said.

"He better or next I see I'll ring him by his neck! See you guys later," Kagome said and started walking home. When she left, Sango felt something on her butt. She knew who it was immediately.

"MIROKU YOU PERVERT!!!!!!!!!" she bellowed and slapped him across his face. "If you do that again I'm gonna move to punches!"

"Why Sango I'm hurt I was only picking up something and slipped," Miroku said innocently.

"Yeah whatever," Sango said and walked off, Miroku followed her. 'Another happy couple,' Keiko thought and giggled. Kagome was walking home with thoughts of the half breed in her head.

'Inuyasha that jerk. He's been gone for six months. With not even as much as a phone call!' Kagome thought and turned the corner. Then four gangsters surrounded her.

"Well hello sweet cheeks, you need to pay a toll to pass through here," the leader said.

"No way you jerks," Kagome replied.

"Too bad, well we have ways to make you pay up," he said and pulled out a knife.

"You better leave her alone you bastards!" shouted a strong voice from behind them. They turned around and saw a boy with black hair ripped shirt and pants and bruises on his face.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome said.

"Get him!" the leader shouted and his three guys charged towards him. Inuyasha jabbed the first one in his stomach, and pushed him out of his way. He ducked away from a left hook, and chopped the guy in his back. He finished the job with a strong side kick in the third guy's chest. He glared a hole through the leader.

"Hey look man it's not what it looks like!" he said and threw the knife away. Inuyasha continued to walk towards him. The leader was terrified and ran off.

"Bastard," Inuyasha mumbled. He walked over to Kagome. "You okay?" he asked. Kagome nodded, and slapped him as hard as she could across his face. Inuyasha fell on his butt. "What the hell was that for!" he said.

"You disappeared for six months and you didn't tell anybody, not even your own mother!" she yelled. Yusuke and Kuwabra turned the corner and saw Kagome yelling, three guys on the ground out cold, a knife in ground and Inuyasha on the ground with a slap mark on his cheek.

"Looks like Kagome gave Inuyasha a welcome home slap," Yusuke whispered to Kuwabra. Inuyasha got up.

"Look I'm, sorry it's just that my stupid teacher wouldn't make me have a phone call before we started."

"So Inuyasha your back," Yusuke said.

"Yeah well I'm glad I had a fight as my welcome home," Inuyasha said. Kagome, and Kuwabra were surprised. The Yusuke and Inuyasha they knew would be at each other's necks by now, but they weren't they were actually talking and laughing together.

"Hey I have an idea let's all go out for ice cream!" Kagome said. The three street boys agreed. They didn't go for ice cream for a while. Inuyasha had to change his clothes, fix his hair, and clean himself up, and say hi to his mom. When they made it to the truck, Kagome was ordering the cones while the two boys asked the half demon about his training.

"So how hard was it?" Kuwabra asked. "Incredibly hard?"

"You have no idea!" Inuyasha said.

*********Flashback*********************

Genkai was balancing on a spike. She was hardly using any sprit energy. While Inuyasha, you could see his energy a mile away.

"We will stay like this for ten hours," Genkai said. Inuyasha could barely keep in that position for five minutes. After that Inuyasha had Tetsusaiga drawn and Genkai had her palm outstretched. "I will fire a blast at you, and you have to stop with your sword!" she said and blasted. Inuyasha was blown back into a wall. "We will keep doing this until you don't an inch!"

**************end**************

"Then I had to hang upside down from a tree for five hours. I had to stay in my demon form for a month, had to stay human for another month," Inuyasha said going over all the hardships he went through.

"Sounds harder than yours Urameshi." "Learn anything new?" Yusuke asked.

"See for yourself," Inuyasha said, and started to concentrate. His hair started to turn sliver, his eyes went from black to amber, his ears shifted to the top of his head, and turned into dog ears, his nails were now claws, and some of his teeth were fangs.

"No way, you can control what form you go in now?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah, it was tough, but I finally got it," Inuyasha said proudly.

"Guys here comes Kagome!" Kuwabra warned. Inuyasha went back to human.

"Here's your cones," she said cheerfully. Later they were walking together heading for the mall. When they got there, Kagome was about to go in when Yusuke said,

"Hey Kagome we'll be right back, we need to go get something, guy stuff you know."

"Well alright," Kagome said, and the trio walked off.

"What was that all about?" Kuwabra asked.

"Yeah what's the deal?" Inuyasha asked.

"Shut up you two we were being followed, I saw them at the park," Yusuke explained. They went into an alley, and they guys who were following them were thugs, but there was something different about them. The leader of the gang Inuyasha bet up a while ago was leading them.

"Hey I'm back and I brought some friends!" he said. There were ten of them, and all had their sights on Inuyasha.

"I got this guys," Inuyasha said, and he went demon form. All ten guys charged towards the half demon. "Eat this! Iron Remer Soul Stealer x5!!" Inuyasha yelled, and what used to be four blasts, were now twenty! When the attack was done, all the thugs were on the ground knocked out. The leader was once again terrified, and he tried to run, when he turned the corner, BAM! A loud crash echoed through the alley. The trio went to check it out. They saw Botan with a metal bat in her hands.

"Botan what are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked.

"Is it the Mikai insects again? Because if it is life is screwed!" Yusuke said.

"No, no, no Yusuke it's not the Mikai insects."

"What a minute if you're here for a case then you can forget it! I went through the hardest six months of my life, and as soon as I get back, a case pops up. What's matter with Koenma!" Inuyasha yelled. "Come back in five years Botan, and maybe, just maybe I'll take the case."

"In five years you, Yusuke, Kuwabra, Heiei, and Kurama will all be dead!" Botan exclaimed.

"What are you talking about?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah make sense," Kuwabra added.

"Just out with it already!" Inuyasha said impatiently.

"Alright calm down. You are all being targeted by a group of deadly demon assassins!"

"Demon assassins?" Kuwabra repeated.

"Yes they are quite well known in the sprit world, the underworld, and some people, and demons know about them in the living world."

"Are they some underground group or something?" Inuyasha asked suddenly interested.

"Yes they are. Their powers are extremely dangerous, and their skills are deadly."

"Why the hell are they after us?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah and how did they target us?" Kuwabra asked.

"And who hired them?" Inuyasha added.

"Slow down, I was getting to that part. Anyway, they always receive the latest news from sprit world. And assassinate strong sprit detectives."

"That's why Koenma suddenly had a shortage of detectives during the four weapons case," Yusuke figured.

"Yes that's correct. According to our sources, they are coming after your team Yusuke because of the defeat of the Saint Beasts, which were their trainers. They believed strongly in what they tried to do."

"And why are they coming after me?" Inuyasha asked.

"Because of the sudden defeat of your brother, Sesshomaru."

"How do they know all this stuff?" Yusuke asked. Instead of answering, Botan bent down towards the knocked out leader and reach in his mouth. She pulled out a vulture-like creature.

"Their called vults. They aren't all that strong, but they're fast and stealthy. They're prefect spies."

"So they sent these things to watch us?" Kuwabra figured. Botan nodded.

"So if they're prefect why did I see them at the park not too long ago?"

"They must be getting ready to attack, they always go one at time. Each of them have deadly attacks, and skills."

"How many are there?" Inuyasha asked.

"Three."

"Only three!"

"Do not under estimate them because there are only three of them they have been wanted for five years."

"You still haven't answered our third question who hired them?" Yusuke asked.

"No one hires them Yusuke. They kill who they want when they want."

"These guys sound though," Kuwabra said.

"I'm positive we can take em," Inuyasha said with a smirk.

"Well good luck, you three, I'm going to take all the vults back to sprit to interrogate them," Botan said and got on her oar. "Be careful!" she called as she flew away.

"Three demon assassins," Yusuke said.

"Well I guess we'll just have to have our guard up more," Inuyasha said simply.

"Oh there you guys are," Kagome said. "Where did you go?"

"We ran into trouble," Yusuke said pointing to the knocked out thugs on the ground.

"Well I just remembered that I have a math test tomorrow, and I better study for it, and your coming with me Yusuke," Kagome said pulling his arm. Inuyasha and Kuwabra were both shocked.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's with this!" Inuyasha shouted.

"Yeah, what's with the sudden interest in Urameshi!" Kuwabra asked.

"Didn't you hear, I'm his tutor," Kagome said simply. "And Keiko's your tutor Inuyasha for history class."

"WHAT!!!!!!" Kuwabra on the other hand started cracking up.

"And what's so funny lame brain?" Yusuke asked.

"You got each other's girlfriend's for tutors!" Kuwabra said still laughing.

"She's not my girlfriend!" Inuyasha and Yusuke said in unison.

"Anyway, come on Yusuke you need to get at a 70% on that math test," Kagome said pulling him.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming." The next afternoon, Keiko was walking with Inuyasha to his to study for the history quiz on Friday.

"What's with this stupid history quiz on the damn Feudal Age. It's just a stupid age where samurais ran around killing each other big deal why do we need to learn about it!" Inuyasha grumbled.

"Come on Inuyasha the test won't be that bad," Keiko reassured him.

"Feh."

"Now tell me when did the Feudal Age end?" Keiko asked. Then Inuyasha heard something. Running. "Inuyasha?"

"Quiet something's coming."

"Who what?"

"I could probably hear it, if you be quiet," Inuyasha said rather rudely. Then out of nowhere something slashed Inuyasha across the back of his shoulder. The half demon fell on his left arm, wincing in pain.

"Inuyasha what's wrong?" Keiko asked. Inuyasha slowly got up and laid his eyes on a girl in front of them. She had black clothing, her hair was in a short ponytail, her eyes were an icy blue color, and her fingernails were claws that were dripping with blood. Next to her was a small pool of blood filled with the blood of a half demon.

"Weak half breed," she said coldly.

"What did you call me?" Inuyasha yelled forgetting Keiko was there.

'What does she mean by half breed, I'll ask Yusuke or Botan.'

"So just who the hell are you!"

"They call me Rai," the girl said.

"Keiko go home," Inuyasha said without taking his eyes off Rai.

"All right, but be careful," she said and ran home.

'Good nothing to hold me back, except for this damn right arm, oh well,' he thought. "So I'm guessing your one of the three demon assassins I've been hearing about."

"Yes I am, and I will take you out first."

"Not if I can help it wench, let's go!" he shouted.

AN: Well this is the start of a dangerous case. How can Inuyasha survive this fight without his right arm? What are Rai's abilities and techniques? Well check out this preview.

Inuyasha quickly dodged a slash, and threw a strong jab, but Rai quickly blocked and slashed the half demon across his chest.

'Damn, this isn't going to well. But there's one attack I've tried yet, but it could take up all my energy, but it's wroth It.' he thought.

Well there's your preview. Check the next chapter of Partners see ya then.