Most Important Mission - Chapter 15
By: Sakura Katsana
Author's Note: Well I'm glad you all loved the last chapter. It's the longest so I'll try to write ones like that. Well I don't have much to say other than I read book 15 and loved it. I really want to get writing Chapter 15 so I'm gonna stop now.
Also, I spelled another name wrong, yes I know. Bad Sakura, ^_^;; Well his name isn't Juujoumaru, it's Juuroumaru. Sorry everyone!
Well I think that's all for now. Right?
. . .
Yeah. That's it. ^^
Oh wait!
Shout outs:
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Alexis of the Westlands: I love long chapters and I'm glad you do too. How'd ya guess about the Kagura thing? LOL. Just kidding. It was kinda supposed to be obvious.
Koni: I love when they're nice to each other and its about time don't you think? *Everyone nods* ^^ I thought so. Well anyway, Miroku DOES need to learn that but he never did in the manga. Well I guess in my fanfic he will. R&R
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Sakura: Now have someone teach you . . . I don't want to find you wrapped around a pole . . .
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I think that's all the reviews . . .
Yup, I was right.
Well here's the next chapter!
~Sakura
***
Chapter 15: Captured and Saved . . . Sort Of
"Sango!" Miroku took a step closer and the young woman tightened her grip on the girl and placed her finger on the trigger.
"I'm not one for guns . . ." The girl began, "But it'll do if you take a step closer."
"Kagura . . ." Miroku growled.
"I see my name proceeds me," Kagura grinned.
"What do you want?" Kagome looked at Sango's calm eyes. In the deepest part of the magenta pools Kagome could see a glint of fear echoing through.
"Your life," Kagura stated like it was the most obvious thing she'd ever known.
"Feh," Inuyasha scoffed.
"What was that dog boy?" Kagura grinned towards him.
Inuyasha stayed silent, his throat finally emitting a low growl.
'Dog boy? How does she-' Kagome decided there were more important things at the moment. "Let her go Kagura," Kagome warned.
"Inuyasha's new little girlfriend telling *me* what to do?" Kagura rolled her red orbs. "There's something to talk about later." Kagura snapped her fingers, "Let's just see if any of you are worthy of fighting me."
Inuyasha waited for the right second to strike. He needed to get Sango's attention. He needed to lock eyes with her. Finally, she did. 'Sango, remember Kouga?'
Sango thought for a moment and realized what Inuyasha was talking about. 'Yeah, I do.' Her eyes smiled as she back-kneed Kagura causing her to loosen her grip.
Everything happened simultaneously.
Inuyasha whipped out his gun and fired towards one of their attackers. Sango jerked away from Kagura, whipping out her razor boomerang, throwing it towards an oncoming attack from around a dozen men. Kagome shot a poison dart at Kagura, which grazed her arm.
"Inuyasha! Do they work if they just cut the skin?" Kagome yelled over the sound of guns being shot off.
"H*** yeah!" He slammed another man to the ground jumping into the air. A group of men rushed towards him as he slashed the air killing them all instantly.
Kagura stumbled back a few steps, her vision getting blurrier by the minute. Slowly she backed into the wall and leaned on it to steady herself.
As the battle continued a silent figure entered the club unnoticed.
***
"Naraku," Kikyo appeared on the large plasma screen.
"Well Kikyo, to what do I owe this visit?" Naraku's eyes glimmered.
"Spare me your 'politeness', Naraku," Kikyo glared at the youkai** in front of her. "You've defied me again."
"What are you talking about Kikyo?" Naraku gave a quick glance over to his office door.
"Your 'daughter', if you can actually call her that," Kikyo played with the small sphere around her neck, "fired her weapon in the middle of a club full of ningen."
"Ningen? You make it sound like you aren't one yourself," Naraku smirked.
"She could have been seen, the authorities could have been called d*** it," Kikyo growled.
"I don't control her every move, Kikyo," Naraku took in a deep exasperated breath, "My youngest daughter has a will of her own."
"I thought you handled that."
"What gave you that idea?"
"The dart you stabbed her with before wiping her memory clean," Kikyo drawled.
"I didn't brainwash her, although that would have been a good idea." Naraku smiled.
"You make me sick."
"I'm glad."
"Take care of your disobedient daughter now. I won't have her screwing this whole operation. I will get what I want." The transmission ended and silence filled the room.
***
Inuyasha, Kagome, and Miroku continuously fought off more of their attackers wishing each one they punched was the last.
Their wishes weren't coming true.
What was coming true was exactly the opposite.
"Where did they all come from?" Kagome yelled over the sounds of guns blazing.
"Don't know!" yelled Miroku from his spot by the bar. "We'll try and find out later!"
Sango threw her boomerang again doing a tri-kick, while waiting for it to return. As Sango landed she saw something out of the corner of her eye, long, silvery-white hair. "Inu . . .?" Sango heard Inuyasha yell something to Kagome from her other direction. "Who . . .?"
***
"Rin . . ." A young woman sat in a darkened room. A single tear splattered on the photo in her hands.
A loud banging on her door caused her to quickly wipe her tears away, hiding the picture in the process. "Come on stupid wench! Get up! Naraku wants to talk with you!"
"Shut up Goshinki!" The woman slammed her fist against the wall as she got up. "Who said I was asleep?!"
"One day . . ." Goshinki growled retreating down the hall.
"Baka . . ." The said 'wench' walked to her dresser grabbing up her blade. "Naraku needs smarter sons . . ." She sighed, leaving the room making sure to lock her door on the way out. 'If I could only see you again, my dear Rin . . .'
***
"Juu . . ." Sango was silenced by the figure walking towards her.
"Sango?" Juuroumaru whispered once he was about a foot away.
'Brother? You speak?!' Kagura became dizzier than she was as she tried to think. 'I've heard that voice before . . . Somewhere.' She tried focusing her eyes up towards her brother.
"Juuroumaru, what are you doing here?" Sango growled taking an instinctive step back.
Juuroumaru gave a small chuckle, "To see you, Sango," he took a step closer to her, "To see you dead." Juuroumaru pulled out his own gun and fired, aiming for her heart. "This time I'll break it for real!"
Inuyasha whipped around too see Sango being attacked by someone, which by the looks of him had more authority than the ones he was fighting, and it seemed she was going extra hard on him.
Really . . .
Really hard.
'Is that . . .' Inuyasha was interrupted by having to toss another man across the room.
Inuyasha painfully, due to a bullet wound in his side, turned around to see that they were hopelessly outnumbered. With a bullet wound in his side that he had gotten moments before, Inuyasha painfully turned around to see they were hopelessly outnumbered.
"You two take the left, I'll take the right!" Inuyasha growled knocking out a few ningen in the process.
Kagome nodded, "Alright!" her and Miroku began to attack.
After knocking Sango to the ground Juuroumaru hesitated taking a final blow. Holding Sango to the ground by her neck, Juuroumaru turned to look at the poisoned yasha crouched down by the wall.
"Kagura?" Juuroumaru cocked his head.
Kagura's eyes slowly fluttered shut. Although she was not unconscious it was hard to stay awake.
Juuroumaru nodded towards Sango then got up allowing the ningen to keep her on the ground. "Sister? What the h***?"
Kagura's eyelids only trembled as she tried, but failed, to open them to look at her brother's face.
"So that's what he did to you," Juuroumaru formed it more as a fact not a question. "Hold on," the younger youkai slowly heaved his poisoned sibling into his arms and looked back at the battling agents.
Kagura gave an involuntary twitch showing she was still among the living.
"Take care of them," Juuroumaru growled walking towards the back door. "Take them to the base, leave their deaths to me," Juuroumaru called over his shoulder before exiting into the cold night air.
"Get off me you b-", Sango lost consciousness as one of the men holding her hit her on the back of her neck.
"Sango!" Miroku lunged forward only to see a gun being pointed at the back of Kagome's head. Hesitantly, Miroku backed up until he was back-to-back with Inuyasha and Kagome.
Suddenly, before any of the agents could react to seeing Sango being dragged from the building, everything went black.
***
A ningen dressed from head to toe in black opened the door to the limo allowing Juuroumaru and Kagura to enter.
"Ju . . ." Kagura murmured.
"Just keep talking," Juuroumaru instructed laying her on one side of the limo.
Kagura felt like her head was splitting open, and her legs felt numb. "Juu . . ."
~Flashback~
"Naraku!" Kagura burst open the door to find no one there. "Where . . .?" She cried out in pain and she felt something stab her in the shoulder.
"Nice to see you again Kagura . . ." Naraku pulled out the dart and bent down to look at the crippled yasha* in front of him.
"Naraku . . . Why?"
"You were coming to finish me off weren't you? Here to defend your lover's adopted child?"
Kagura stayed silent as the room began to spin. "What . . .?"
"Did I stab you with?" Naraku chuckled, "Let's just say your mind will be 'reborn' to better fit my needs after today." Naraku stood and snapped his fingers. "Take her away."
Two men in black grabbed Kagura's arms and dragged her from the room.
~End Flashback~
'I . . . Remember . . . Naraku . . . Did this to me!' Kagura's thoughts began to darken as she slipped out of consciousness.
"Kagura?" Juuroumaru emitted a low growl, which was unlike him, and brushed her bangs out of her face. "D*** it hurry up!" Juuroumaru snarled banging on the small bulletproof glass blocking himself from the driver.
***
The sound of water dripping somewhere in the distance echoed through the otherwise silent halls.
"Where . . .?" Inuyasha groaned opening his eyes. As he tried to move his arm up to his face realization struck . . .
'I'm chained . . . To a wall . . .' Inuyasha growled trying to yank the chains off the walls. "D***!"
***
2 Hours Later . . .
The groaning of another captive being heard from Inuyasha's left interrupted his silent thoughts on escaping. Even with his enhanced eyesight, Inuyasha could only vaguely make out the figure as Miroku.
"What the h***?" The shackles rattled showing no sign of breaking as Miroku groaned in annoyance. "Inuyasha, are the girls in here?"
Surprised that Miroku had noticed him in the pitch black room, it took Inuyasha a moment to register the question. The hanyou glanced to his right to see the outline of Kagome. "I . . . Only see Kagome . . ."
"What?" There was a slight rattle from the chains to Inuyasha's left.
"I only see Kagome, she's still unconscious next to me." Inuyasha sniffed the air, "I can't smell Sango, no . . . wait." Inuyasha sniffed a bit harder and could detect Sango's scent, "Well *this* is a big room."
"What do you mean?" Miroku turned his head to see two golden eyes staring off into the distance.
"I mean, Sango's here but about a quarter mile away . . ."
***
1 Hour Earlier . . .
Naraku looked up from his computer screen when a light knocking was heard from his polished oak door. "Nani?"
"Goshinki said you wished to see me," the woman's voice said in a monotone from the other side of the door.
"Ah, it's you, come on in." Naraku saved his file before closing his laptop and focused his attention on the woman at the door.
"Well . . .?"
"I have an assignment for you," Naraku's lips curled up at the corners, "Are you interested?"
"Do I have a choice?" The woman sighed walking further into the room.
"I see you've learned from *last* time," Naraku picked up a black folder off his desk and slid it across the finely polished top.
The woman caught it with ease before opening it with mild interest.
"What happened to you?" Naraku eyed her over quickly. "You look hideous."
"You always know what to say," she responded, throwing the folder back onto the tabletop. "So you want me to get rid of him do you?"
"He's useless to us, unlike the others. Just knock out the *valuable* one and kill him." Naraku concentrated his attention on his laptop.
The young woman nodded dully and turned to leave the darkened office.
"You won't decide to do otherwise, ne?" Naraku growled.
"Hai." The woman walked to the door, "But if this is some kind of trick, Naraku . . ."
"You'll . . . *What* exactly?" Naraku's eyes glimmered.
Instead of speaking the young woman pulled out her blade feigning slicing off her head. With a smirk she left the room with a bit more of a happy sway in her hips.
***
Same Time . . .
The only visible slice of the moon shone through Kanna's window. Although morning would be here soon Kanna rolled over in bed still clutching her mirror to her chest.
It had been a long day.
Killing that assassin that had betrayed her father . . .
Spying on those two undercover agents at her father's black market trading site . . .
Killing those two undercover agents at her father's black market trading site . . .
Ah . . . It had been a long day indeed.
Kanna groaned in protest as a low knock sounded at her door.
"Kanna," a low male's voice whispered, only managing to reach her ears by some kind of miracle.
"Juuroumaru?" Kanna rose slowly from her bed and walked to the door. "What is it?"
"Our sister, Kagura," Juuroumaru waited for Kanna to unlock her door and allow him inside.
"What happened?" Kanna's usually emotionless eyes flickered with concern.
"She's been poisoned," he stated simply while closing the door.
Kanna nodded turning her mirror over to the back and pulling a small circular disc from a crevice. "Follow me."
Juuroumaru readjusted Kagura in his arms as he followed his elder sister out of the room and down the hall to a set of cleverly disguised doors. Opening the second door, Kanna gestured for Juuroumaru to follow her.
They walked through the secret door and down a series of completely silent halls towards a wall at the far end.
"What *is* this place Kanna?" Juuroumaru looked around amazed he had never heard of this place before.
"Naraku's personal chemical lab." Kanna walked to a metal table. "Put Kagura here."
Juuroumaru did as instructed and looked over at the older yasha of the two. She was carefully looking at her sister as if trying to guess what type of poison had entered her body.
"Who did this to her?" Kanna's voice was colder than Juuroumaru had ever heard it.
"An agent, I'm not sure," the youkai followed Kanna's eyes to Kagura's arm where a trail of red was trailing up her arm, across her neck bone, and towards her heart.
"We don't have much time." Kanna whispered holding her sister's hand.
***
Inuyasha turned his head to look at who was on his right.
Kagome.
"She still hasn't woken up yet?" Miroku asked pulling at his chains one last time.
"No," Inuyasha replied solemnly. "How long have we been here?"
"Well, we went to the club and last time I checked my watch, which was a few minutes before the ambush, it was 1:05." Miroku paused in thought as if thinking if he was correct. "What time is it now?"
As if on instinct, Inuyasha tried lowering his arm to look at his watch . . .
"D***," Inuyasha cursed looking back at Kagome. "Miroku, move your arm so I can see your watch."
Miroku grunted as he readjusted his arms so his watch faced Inuyasha. "That good?"
Inuyasha grunted in response trying to focus on the watch that he guessed was about three feet away from him. "It's nine something . . ." Inuyasha shifted back into the most comfortable position possible.
"She's been out seven hours then," Miroku glanced over to where he guessed Kagome was before looking out in front of him into the somewhat endless darkness. "Do you think she's awake?"
Inuyasha sniffed the air and shifted his now-visible ears to try and hear any sound from where Sango was. "From what I can tell, no." Inuyasha took a final glance into the darkness hoping to see his best friends outline.
Nothing.
"How dark can a place get?" Miroku looked over at the barely-visible hanyou next to him. The only things he could see were his two golden orbs.
"How are we getting our air if there are no doors?" Inuyasha thought out loud.
"What makes you think there are no doors?" Miroku looked to his left hoping to see some hint that there was a way out.
"With even a single door I'd be able to see *some* light," Inuyasha paused in thought.
"Then how, like you said, are we even alive? Shouldn't we be out of oxygen?"
"Vents." Inuyasha stated simply looking above his head.
***
"What do you mean their tracking systems can't find them?" the yasha growled to the unfortunate agent on the other side.
"They must be in some type of lead-covered area for the tracking chips not to work," the man on the other side reminded.
"Well have you tried using our computer system to track the last place they were before they were untraceable?" She grew more annoyed, not to mention worried, by the second. 'Keep calm, keep calm.'
"We're doing that as we speak boss," the voice cupped the mouthpiece to his cellular and began talking with another agent in the background.
"It's no use Joe, I can hear everything," the yasha rolled her eyes tapping her desk. "So it seems their tracking systems were removed?"
"Yes boss," the agent paused as he listened to someone in the background. "Are you coming down here?"
"I guess I'll have no choice. Tell me, is the *prince* still a jerk?" She paused waiting for an answer.
The agent on the other line paused a few seconds before responding, "Yeah, seems to be."
"Well tell him I'm coming, that'll make him shut up." The boss sighed but couldn't help but give a vague smile. "I'll be on the plane tonight."
"I'll be sure to tell him."
Based on his voice, the agent seemed to have found something to be happy about.
"Bye," the yasha hung up the phone standing up.
"Boss?" A smaller voice came from the door.
The boss smiled, "Yes Shippou?"
"Um . . . Ayame, I've been trying to hack into Naraku's personal computer all night and I think I found something." Shippou turned quickly to hide his blush.
"I'm glad you're around, Shippou. At least I can count on you to find something." Ayame followed the kitsune from her office towards Shippou's.
"I traced a signal coming from another outbound computer and it lead me here. It came in about an hour ago and I just now got in a few minutes ago. It seems Naraku's been busy trying to find Kikyo's sister, her name's Kagome." Shippou clicked on a file to show a picture.
"This picture came in today?" Ayame squinted trying to make out the girl's features.
"As far as I know, yeah." Shippou right clicked on the picture and copied it into a photo analysis program. "I'll enlarge her as much as I can," the kitsune cut out the girl's small picture from the original and pasted into a new file clicking 'Zoom'.
Ayame and the kitsune both looked at the girl in awe, "She looks . . ."
"EXACTLY like Kikyo," Shippou finished the sentence for his boss.
"Wait a second," Ayame put her hand on the mouse causing Shippou to blush redder.
His hand was under hers.
"What's *that*?" Ayame pointed to a small part of the zoomed picture that indicated someone standing next to her.
"It looks like . . . *White* hair . . ." Shippou squinted his left eye trying to make out anything else, "It's too blurred. I can't see anything."
Ayame went back to the original picture and tried zooming in on the scene. "That's . . ."
Shippou finished for her, "Inuyasha."
***
"Sesshoumaru-sama, when will we reach Tokyo?" Rin stood up in her seat and plastered her face to the window looking out into the night.
"Soon Rin," Sesshoumaru settled the young child back into her seat.
"Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin looked up at 'her' Sesshoumaru.
"Yes Rin?" Sesshoumaru said lazily.
He *had* been trying to get some rest before he knew he would have to fight again.
"Why are we going?" Rin's quizzical face looked from Sesshoumaru to her palms and then back to the youkai.
"We're going to get someone," Sesshoumaru stated calmly.
"Are we going to get Kagura-sama*?" Rin smiled hugely at the youkai in front of her.
Sesshoumaru became very interested in the stars outside.
"Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin tugged on Sesshoumaru's shirt.
Sesshoumaru couldn't ignore the girl long, "Yes Rin?"
"Are we going back for Kagura-sama?" Rin repeated.
"Maybe," Sesshoumaru sighed looking down at the girl. "Maybe."
(A/N: I seriously thought of ending it there but I love you guys too much to make you wait, plus that would only be 12 pages and I promised you longer ones like chapter 14. So that'll mean 20 pages. Anyway, BTS)
***
"It'd be a great way of escaping if it weren't for these d*** chains," Miroku growled tugging once again at his chains hoping, that by some weird miracle, they would just crumble away.
Inuyasha sniffed the air once more to check on Sango. After making sure she was still unconscious Inuyasha turned his attention to Kagome. 'When will she wake up? Could she be . . .?'
'No . . . She couldn't, I can hear her breathing . . .' Inuyasha pushed all the negative images out of his mind.
"They've been out too long," Miroku turned in the direction of Inuyasha's voice to the best of his ability.
"What do you want me to do about it?" Inuyasha grunted trying to listen to Kagome heart beats. 'Good, they're regular.'
"Maybe you should try waking her up," Miroku looked out into the darkness. 'Sango . . . Are you alright?'
"And how am I going to do that?" Inuyasha didn't look away from Kagome's sleeping face.
It was times like this that Inuyasha was glad he had the keen eyesight of a dog.
"I don't know, think of something," Miroku sighed closing his eyes. "Maybe just nudge her to try and wake her up."
"Nudge her?" Inuyasha turned his head to face Miroku, "How would I be nudging her? With my arms that are chained to a wall two feet off the ground?"
"Sometimes, Inuyasha, you don't use your head . . ." Miroku shook his own and looked over to the hanyou. "Use your legs, they *aren't* chained."
Inuyasha stayed silent realizing his lack of thought on the whole 'nudge' idea. The hanyou lightly nudged the sleeping Japanese agent with his knee praying to Kami that she would wake.
For once his prayers were answered.
"Nnhh . . ." Kagome groaned slowly moving her restrained arms. "What?" She asked groggily.
"Kagome," Inuyasha gave a sigh of relief as he and Miroku both gave their full attention to the bewildered agent.
"Where . . . *Are* we?" Kagome groaned turning to look at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha? Where are you?"
"I'm right here Kagome, Miroku too," Inuyasha wished he was still strong enough to rip his chains from the wall but that bullet took a lot out of him. "You can move as long as you ---," Inuyasha was interrupted by the girls whispered swearing. ". . . Don't try and pull too hard on your arms."
"Thanks for telling me *before* hand," Kagome feigned genuine thanks lightly tugging at the chains.
Inuyasha just rolled his eyes, "Sango's about a quarter mile away so ---"
"A quarter *mile*?!" Kagome hissed. "How the h-"
"Don't interrupt a pissed off hanyou with a bullet wound," Inuyasha warned. "There's no way to see her in this darkness so we need to try and wake her."
"How do you know she's in here?" Kagome spoke as if he hadn't just threatened her.
"My nose sniffed her out," Inuyasha allowed himself to go limp and hang from the wall like the others.
"Where's your wound?" Kagome's voice softened.
"Feh. It's nothing," Inuyasha grunted when he tried shifting his position.
"A wound isn't *nothing* even with your fast healing," Kagome countered. "Where is it?"
"There's a bullet in my side, is that good enough for you?"
". . ." Kagome sighed turning her head to look away from the men.
"I'll take that as a yes." Inuyasha turned away and stared at the floor.
"Why don't you just save me and Sango the trouble and get a room," Miroku sighed closing his eyes once again.
Neither agent said anything about Miroku's little side comment and continued feigning sleep.
***
"Oh h*** no," the agent groaned walking over to his car and resting his head in his hands.
"Oh yeah, she told me herself." Joe leaned on the agent's car and looked out at the sunrise. "She's coming alright, she's coming TODAY."
"Why? Why is she coming for me *now*?" The agent looked up from his hands at the scene in front of him.
"Whoa, who said she was coming for *you*?" Joe grinned.
"You mean she's not?" the agent gave a hopeful smile.
"Kouga, you really *are* conceded," Joe pulled out his gun reloading it. "She's coming to track down two of *our* agents."
"What do you mean 'track down?'" Kouga raised an eyebrow.
"I mean they're missing, off our tracking system." Joe aimed his gun at a nearby tree and shot. "Bulls eye."
"Who?" Kouga pulled out his own gun and aimed for the same unfortunate tree.
"Our two best, Inuyasha and Sango."
***
"Are you sure this will work?" Juuroumaru gave a thoughtful look to his younger sister.
"I . . . Hope so." Kanna pulled down part of Kagura's kimono to reveal her shoulder. The yasha took the needle and tapped the side before injecting it into her sister's arm.
"How long does it take?" Juuroumaru scanned the room for any cameras.
"It shouldn't take long, it's already taking effect," Kanna nodded towards Kagura's shoulder where the redness was already receding.
"Good." Juuroumaru walked to the exit, "I'll be back later."
Kanna nodded as her brother left the room and headed down the hall, the secret entrance sliding closed behind him.
***
Inuyasha's ears picked up something coming from above. "Someone's coming," Inuyasha tensed ready to fight.
A small creak came from above Kagome's head, followed by a small rope ladder.
The three agents stayed silent and watched as light filled the dark cell causing their eyes to burn. As their eyes readjusted to the light they saw a young woman with short black hair climb down into the shadows.
"Well Hell-O," the woman walked over to where Inuyasha and Miroku hung chained to the cold cement wall. "What have we here?" She walked closer to Inuyasha putting her hand under his chin.
Inuyasha growled jerking his head away and pulling himself and lunging as far as he could towards their captor.
"Aw, the poor little puppy chained to the wall?" she gave a smug grin turning her attention to the other male agent. "And who are you?"
Miroku stayed silent scowling at the woman, his eyes flickering from her face to her short skirt for a split second before regaining his senses.
"Such a pity, two such hot guys having to die so young." She shook her head. "My name's Yura, but I won't be offended if you don't remember it." She winked at the hanyou twirling a lock of her hair.
Yura turned her attention to the vent-like opening in the ceiling. "You can go Goshinki, I've got this under control now," she gave a dismissive wave to the assassin above and sighed looking back at the three trapped agents.
At the sound of Goshinki retreating Yura slowly lowered her blade and put it back to it's sheath by her side. Seeing the confused looks on the agents' faces she just chuckled. "Shh . . ."
Yura turned and walked towards Kagome despite Inuyasha's angry, defiant, tugs at his chains. She looked back at him with mischievous eyes and pulled out a key. Yura unlocked the cuff around Kagome's left arm she repeated with the right allowing her to fall silently to the floor unscathed.
Kagome's eyes widened once Yura pulled out a gun . . .
. . . And handed it to her.
"Take it." Was all Yura said as she threw Inuyasha's gun and a specific razor boomerang at his feet and climbed up the ladder making sure to toss Kagome the key before pulling up the ladder and closing the grate covering their exit - leaving it slightly cracked..
Kagome shook off her confusion hurrying to free her companions.
Inuyasha dropped to the ground, although in pain, with ease. "What in all the hells was that about?" He looked from Kagome to Miroku.
"I . . . Don't know," Kagome breathed rubbing her wrists.
Inuyasha sniffed the air; he smelled blood, Kagome's blood. "Kagome, you're injured."
"I am?" Kagome looked at her arms and legs. "Where?"
"I don't know," Inuyasha sniffed again, "But I smell your blood."
"What are you talking about-" Kagome paused as she fought back a blush. "N- never mind, I'll check it out once we get back to the base." She quickly rushed off into the darkness towards Sango.
Miroku glanced at Inuyasha out of the corner of his eye, "What was *that* about?"
Inuyasha took a second to answer, "N-nothing." Inuyasha blurted out. "Come on, it's still too dark. Without me telling her where to go she'll be bumping into everything," as if proving his point Kagome's 'Ow' could be heard from off in the darkness. With this Inuyasha rushed off into the pitch black area of the cell towards Kagome.
***
Yura sighed as she pulled up the rope ladder. 'Naraku, when will you learn not to trust those who you've screwed around with way too much?'
~Flashback~
"Naraku!" Yura stormed into her boss's office fuming.
"Back so soon Yura?" Naraku didn't bother looking up from his laptop.
"You're d*** straight I'm 'back so soon' Naraku!" Yura slammed the door behind her. "You sent me out there knowing there was a hoard of Japanese agents waiting for me!"
"Correction, waiting for *me*," Naraku corrected, "I sent you out there knowing you would beat them and get them out of the way . . ."
"Don't even try." Yura spoke with malice, "An agent almost *killed* me."
"Oh really? I thought you were better than that Yura," Naraku gave a trivial sign of humor as he spoke. "Well no matter, I have another job for you anyway."
"No." Yura growled turning on her heel heading for the door.
"No?" Naraku's amused face quickly faltered.
"Did I stutter?" Yura turned the knob.
"You'll regret not taking orders," Naraku threatened allowing the woman to leave.
***
Yura closed her eyes after a long day of fighting off dozens of agents single handedly only leaving with her life and a bit more confidence.
Her mental pat on the back was rudely interrupted by a rapping at her bedroom door.
"Go away," she growled, already becoming grumpy from lack of sleep.
The rapping continued.
"Gods," Yura slid out of bed and shuffled her feet towards the door. "What is-" She felt something hit her head causing her to black out immediately.
***
She woke up in a dark room with a single light a few feet away. "Where . . .?"
"I told you you'd be sorry," Naraku's smirked from somewhere in the room. There was the sound of someone, most likely Naraku, snapping their fingers and five large men came into the light.
The last thing she knew before she slipped back into unconsciousness was the feeling of being punched into oblivion.
~End Flashback~
Yura flinched as she remembered how she wasn't able to sit or lay without crying out for weeks after that *pleasant* punishment. "Let's just see how long it takes you to get them again . . ." Yura carefully cut her thigh causing a few droplets of blood to form on her blade.
'That'll do.'
Goshinki grinned when he saw Yura turn the corner, "They're dead then?"
Yura put on her best smug grin and nodded raising her blade to her mouth and licking the blood droplets away. "Dead as dead could be."
Goshinki laughed stupidly as he walked off towards his father's office - probably to tell him the good news about the kill - and cautiously entering.
Yura rolled her eyes as she continued down the hall to her own living quarters. 'I had a mission didn't I? Oh screw it.' She sheathed her blade and entered her room.
***
She sat in the corner watching her sister intently hoping for the best.
Kagura stirred slightly and her arm began to involuntarily twitch.
"Kagura?" Kanna stood, tightly gripping her mirror.
Kagura just groaned slowly trying to move her muscles once again.
"Kagura? Can you speak?" Kanna laid down her mirror, a rare action from her, and walked up to where Kagura lay.
"Sess . . ." She whispered, "Sesshoumaru . . ."
***
Sakura: Well there's another small little cliffy for all of you to enjoy. You know what to do . . .
. . . R&R. ^_^;
Well I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I'll have the next one up by next weekend!
Ja ne!
-Sakura
*Yasha is the female version of youkai. So yeah, Inuyasha's name literally means Dog Girl Demon but let's just overlook that. ^_^;; I might be wrong so if I am please tell me. It's based on what my friend, Yukina, told me.
Since this also has to do with Kagura I thought to spare you the annoyance of seeing three * I would just combine. Yes I know what 'sama' means. I know I'm using it the way I am and you'll see soon why if you haven't already figured it out. ^^
**In this fanfic Naraku is a full demon not a half demon. Thought it'd better fit the purpose. ^^
Author's Note: Well I'm glad you all loved the last chapter. It's the longest so I'll try to write ones like that. Well I don't have much to say other than I read book 15 and loved it. I really want to get writing Chapter 15 so I'm gonna stop now.
Also, I spelled another name wrong, yes I know. Bad Sakura, ^_^;; Well his name isn't Juujoumaru, it's Juuroumaru. Sorry everyone!
Well I think that's all for now. Right?
. . .
Yeah. That's it. ^^
Oh wait!
Shout outs:
Molly: Wow. Enthusiastic! I love it! LOL. Well I'm glad you love it so much! I do too. Well keep on R&Ring and I hope you like this chapter just as much or better yet, more.
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Alexis of the Westlands: I love long chapters and I'm glad you do too. How'd ya guess about the Kagura thing? LOL. Just kidding. It was kinda supposed to be obvious.
Koni: I love when they're nice to each other and its about time don't you think? *Everyone nods* ^^ I thought so. Well anyway, Miroku DOES need to learn that but he never did in the manga. Well I guess in my fanfic he will. R&R
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Inuyasha: Feh. You didn't *really* give it to me . . .
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Inuyasha: WOOHOO! *Ahem* Thanks wench.
Sakura: Now have someone teach you . . . I don't want to find you wrapped around a pole . . .
Inuyasha: *Driving off in car*
Sakura: ^_^;; Anyway, back to reviews . . .
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Why?
Cuz it's dedicated to you! ^_^
I think that's all the reviews . . .
Yup, I was right.
Well here's the next chapter!
~Sakura
***
Chapter 15: Captured and Saved . . . Sort Of
"Sango!" Miroku took a step closer and the young woman tightened her grip on the girl and placed her finger on the trigger.
"I'm not one for guns . . ." The girl began, "But it'll do if you take a step closer."
"Kagura . . ." Miroku growled.
"I see my name proceeds me," Kagura grinned.
"What do you want?" Kagome looked at Sango's calm eyes. In the deepest part of the magenta pools Kagome could see a glint of fear echoing through.
"Your life," Kagura stated like it was the most obvious thing she'd ever known.
"Feh," Inuyasha scoffed.
"What was that dog boy?" Kagura grinned towards him.
Inuyasha stayed silent, his throat finally emitting a low growl.
'Dog boy? How does she-' Kagome decided there were more important things at the moment. "Let her go Kagura," Kagome warned.
"Inuyasha's new little girlfriend telling *me* what to do?" Kagura rolled her red orbs. "There's something to talk about later." Kagura snapped her fingers, "Let's just see if any of you are worthy of fighting me."
Inuyasha waited for the right second to strike. He needed to get Sango's attention. He needed to lock eyes with her. Finally, she did. 'Sango, remember Kouga?'
Sango thought for a moment and realized what Inuyasha was talking about. 'Yeah, I do.' Her eyes smiled as she back-kneed Kagura causing her to loosen her grip.
Everything happened simultaneously.
Inuyasha whipped out his gun and fired towards one of their attackers. Sango jerked away from Kagura, whipping out her razor boomerang, throwing it towards an oncoming attack from around a dozen men. Kagome shot a poison dart at Kagura, which grazed her arm.
"Inuyasha! Do they work if they just cut the skin?" Kagome yelled over the sound of guns being shot off.
"H*** yeah!" He slammed another man to the ground jumping into the air. A group of men rushed towards him as he slashed the air killing them all instantly.
Kagura stumbled back a few steps, her vision getting blurrier by the minute. Slowly she backed into the wall and leaned on it to steady herself.
As the battle continued a silent figure entered the club unnoticed.
***
"Naraku," Kikyo appeared on the large plasma screen.
"Well Kikyo, to what do I owe this visit?" Naraku's eyes glimmered.
"Spare me your 'politeness', Naraku," Kikyo glared at the youkai** in front of her. "You've defied me again."
"What are you talking about Kikyo?" Naraku gave a quick glance over to his office door.
"Your 'daughter', if you can actually call her that," Kikyo played with the small sphere around her neck, "fired her weapon in the middle of a club full of ningen."
"Ningen? You make it sound like you aren't one yourself," Naraku smirked.
"She could have been seen, the authorities could have been called d*** it," Kikyo growled.
"I don't control her every move, Kikyo," Naraku took in a deep exasperated breath, "My youngest daughter has a will of her own."
"I thought you handled that."
"What gave you that idea?"
"The dart you stabbed her with before wiping her memory clean," Kikyo drawled.
"I didn't brainwash her, although that would have been a good idea." Naraku smiled.
"You make me sick."
"I'm glad."
"Take care of your disobedient daughter now. I won't have her screwing this whole operation. I will get what I want." The transmission ended and silence filled the room.
***
Inuyasha, Kagome, and Miroku continuously fought off more of their attackers wishing each one they punched was the last.
Their wishes weren't coming true.
What was coming true was exactly the opposite.
"Where did they all come from?" Kagome yelled over the sounds of guns blazing.
"Don't know!" yelled Miroku from his spot by the bar. "We'll try and find out later!"
Sango threw her boomerang again doing a tri-kick, while waiting for it to return. As Sango landed she saw something out of the corner of her eye, long, silvery-white hair. "Inu . . .?" Sango heard Inuyasha yell something to Kagome from her other direction. "Who . . .?"
***
"Rin . . ." A young woman sat in a darkened room. A single tear splattered on the photo in her hands.
A loud banging on her door caused her to quickly wipe her tears away, hiding the picture in the process. "Come on stupid wench! Get up! Naraku wants to talk with you!"
"Shut up Goshinki!" The woman slammed her fist against the wall as she got up. "Who said I was asleep?!"
"One day . . ." Goshinki growled retreating down the hall.
"Baka . . ." The said 'wench' walked to her dresser grabbing up her blade. "Naraku needs smarter sons . . ." She sighed, leaving the room making sure to lock her door on the way out. 'If I could only see you again, my dear Rin . . .'
***
"Juu . . ." Sango was silenced by the figure walking towards her.
"Sango?" Juuroumaru whispered once he was about a foot away.
'Brother? You speak?!' Kagura became dizzier than she was as she tried to think. 'I've heard that voice before . . . Somewhere.' She tried focusing her eyes up towards her brother.
"Juuroumaru, what are you doing here?" Sango growled taking an instinctive step back.
Juuroumaru gave a small chuckle, "To see you, Sango," he took a step closer to her, "To see you dead." Juuroumaru pulled out his own gun and fired, aiming for her heart. "This time I'll break it for real!"
Inuyasha whipped around too see Sango being attacked by someone, which by the looks of him had more authority than the ones he was fighting, and it seemed she was going extra hard on him.
Really . . .
Really hard.
'Is that . . .' Inuyasha was interrupted by having to toss another man across the room.
Inuyasha painfully, due to a bullet wound in his side, turned around to see that they were hopelessly outnumbered. With a bullet wound in his side that he had gotten moments before, Inuyasha painfully turned around to see they were hopelessly outnumbered.
"You two take the left, I'll take the right!" Inuyasha growled knocking out a few ningen in the process.
Kagome nodded, "Alright!" her and Miroku began to attack.
After knocking Sango to the ground Juuroumaru hesitated taking a final blow. Holding Sango to the ground by her neck, Juuroumaru turned to look at the poisoned yasha crouched down by the wall.
"Kagura?" Juuroumaru cocked his head.
Kagura's eyes slowly fluttered shut. Although she was not unconscious it was hard to stay awake.
Juuroumaru nodded towards Sango then got up allowing the ningen to keep her on the ground. "Sister? What the h***?"
Kagura's eyelids only trembled as she tried, but failed, to open them to look at her brother's face.
"So that's what he did to you," Juuroumaru formed it more as a fact not a question. "Hold on," the younger youkai slowly heaved his poisoned sibling into his arms and looked back at the battling agents.
Kagura gave an involuntary twitch showing she was still among the living.
"Take care of them," Juuroumaru growled walking towards the back door. "Take them to the base, leave their deaths to me," Juuroumaru called over his shoulder before exiting into the cold night air.
"Get off me you b-", Sango lost consciousness as one of the men holding her hit her on the back of her neck.
"Sango!" Miroku lunged forward only to see a gun being pointed at the back of Kagome's head. Hesitantly, Miroku backed up until he was back-to-back with Inuyasha and Kagome.
Suddenly, before any of the agents could react to seeing Sango being dragged from the building, everything went black.
***
A ningen dressed from head to toe in black opened the door to the limo allowing Juuroumaru and Kagura to enter.
"Ju . . ." Kagura murmured.
"Just keep talking," Juuroumaru instructed laying her on one side of the limo.
Kagura felt like her head was splitting open, and her legs felt numb. "Juu . . ."
~Flashback~
"Naraku!" Kagura burst open the door to find no one there. "Where . . .?" She cried out in pain and she felt something stab her in the shoulder.
"Nice to see you again Kagura . . ." Naraku pulled out the dart and bent down to look at the crippled yasha* in front of him.
"Naraku . . . Why?"
"You were coming to finish me off weren't you? Here to defend your lover's adopted child?"
Kagura stayed silent as the room began to spin. "What . . .?"
"Did I stab you with?" Naraku chuckled, "Let's just say your mind will be 'reborn' to better fit my needs after today." Naraku stood and snapped his fingers. "Take her away."
Two men in black grabbed Kagura's arms and dragged her from the room.
~End Flashback~
'I . . . Remember . . . Naraku . . . Did this to me!' Kagura's thoughts began to darken as she slipped out of consciousness.
"Kagura?" Juuroumaru emitted a low growl, which was unlike him, and brushed her bangs out of her face. "D*** it hurry up!" Juuroumaru snarled banging on the small bulletproof glass blocking himself from the driver.
***
The sound of water dripping somewhere in the distance echoed through the otherwise silent halls.
"Where . . .?" Inuyasha groaned opening his eyes. As he tried to move his arm up to his face realization struck . . .
'I'm chained . . . To a wall . . .' Inuyasha growled trying to yank the chains off the walls. "D***!"
***
2 Hours Later . . .
The groaning of another captive being heard from Inuyasha's left interrupted his silent thoughts on escaping. Even with his enhanced eyesight, Inuyasha could only vaguely make out the figure as Miroku.
"What the h***?" The shackles rattled showing no sign of breaking as Miroku groaned in annoyance. "Inuyasha, are the girls in here?"
Surprised that Miroku had noticed him in the pitch black room, it took Inuyasha a moment to register the question. The hanyou glanced to his right to see the outline of Kagome. "I . . . Only see Kagome . . ."
"What?" There was a slight rattle from the chains to Inuyasha's left.
"I only see Kagome, she's still unconscious next to me." Inuyasha sniffed the air, "I can't smell Sango, no . . . wait." Inuyasha sniffed a bit harder and could detect Sango's scent, "Well *this* is a big room."
"What do you mean?" Miroku turned his head to see two golden eyes staring off into the distance.
"I mean, Sango's here but about a quarter mile away . . ."
***
1 Hour Earlier . . .
Naraku looked up from his computer screen when a light knocking was heard from his polished oak door. "Nani?"
"Goshinki said you wished to see me," the woman's voice said in a monotone from the other side of the door.
"Ah, it's you, come on in." Naraku saved his file before closing his laptop and focused his attention on the woman at the door.
"Well . . .?"
"I have an assignment for you," Naraku's lips curled up at the corners, "Are you interested?"
"Do I have a choice?" The woman sighed walking further into the room.
"I see you've learned from *last* time," Naraku picked up a black folder off his desk and slid it across the finely polished top.
The woman caught it with ease before opening it with mild interest.
"What happened to you?" Naraku eyed her over quickly. "You look hideous."
"You always know what to say," she responded, throwing the folder back onto the tabletop. "So you want me to get rid of him do you?"
"He's useless to us, unlike the others. Just knock out the *valuable* one and kill him." Naraku concentrated his attention on his laptop.
The young woman nodded dully and turned to leave the darkened office.
"You won't decide to do otherwise, ne?" Naraku growled.
"Hai." The woman walked to the door, "But if this is some kind of trick, Naraku . . ."
"You'll . . . *What* exactly?" Naraku's eyes glimmered.
Instead of speaking the young woman pulled out her blade feigning slicing off her head. With a smirk she left the room with a bit more of a happy sway in her hips.
***
Same Time . . .
The only visible slice of the moon shone through Kanna's window. Although morning would be here soon Kanna rolled over in bed still clutching her mirror to her chest.
It had been a long day.
Killing that assassin that had betrayed her father . . .
Spying on those two undercover agents at her father's black market trading site . . .
Killing those two undercover agents at her father's black market trading site . . .
Ah . . . It had been a long day indeed.
Kanna groaned in protest as a low knock sounded at her door.
"Kanna," a low male's voice whispered, only managing to reach her ears by some kind of miracle.
"Juuroumaru?" Kanna rose slowly from her bed and walked to the door. "What is it?"
"Our sister, Kagura," Juuroumaru waited for Kanna to unlock her door and allow him inside.
"What happened?" Kanna's usually emotionless eyes flickered with concern.
"She's been poisoned," he stated simply while closing the door.
Kanna nodded turning her mirror over to the back and pulling a small circular disc from a crevice. "Follow me."
Juuroumaru readjusted Kagura in his arms as he followed his elder sister out of the room and down the hall to a set of cleverly disguised doors. Opening the second door, Kanna gestured for Juuroumaru to follow her.
They walked through the secret door and down a series of completely silent halls towards a wall at the far end.
"What *is* this place Kanna?" Juuroumaru looked around amazed he had never heard of this place before.
"Naraku's personal chemical lab." Kanna walked to a metal table. "Put Kagura here."
Juuroumaru did as instructed and looked over at the older yasha of the two. She was carefully looking at her sister as if trying to guess what type of poison had entered her body.
"Who did this to her?" Kanna's voice was colder than Juuroumaru had ever heard it.
"An agent, I'm not sure," the youkai followed Kanna's eyes to Kagura's arm where a trail of red was trailing up her arm, across her neck bone, and towards her heart.
"We don't have much time." Kanna whispered holding her sister's hand.
***
Inuyasha turned his head to look at who was on his right.
Kagome.
"She still hasn't woken up yet?" Miroku asked pulling at his chains one last time.
"No," Inuyasha replied solemnly. "How long have we been here?"
"Well, we went to the club and last time I checked my watch, which was a few minutes before the ambush, it was 1:05." Miroku paused in thought as if thinking if he was correct. "What time is it now?"
As if on instinct, Inuyasha tried lowering his arm to look at his watch . . .
"D***," Inuyasha cursed looking back at Kagome. "Miroku, move your arm so I can see your watch."
Miroku grunted as he readjusted his arms so his watch faced Inuyasha. "That good?"
Inuyasha grunted in response trying to focus on the watch that he guessed was about three feet away from him. "It's nine something . . ." Inuyasha shifted back into the most comfortable position possible.
"She's been out seven hours then," Miroku glanced over to where he guessed Kagome was before looking out in front of him into the somewhat endless darkness. "Do you think she's awake?"
Inuyasha sniffed the air and shifted his now-visible ears to try and hear any sound from where Sango was. "From what I can tell, no." Inuyasha took a final glance into the darkness hoping to see his best friends outline.
Nothing.
"How dark can a place get?" Miroku looked over at the barely-visible hanyou next to him. The only things he could see were his two golden orbs.
"How are we getting our air if there are no doors?" Inuyasha thought out loud.
"What makes you think there are no doors?" Miroku looked to his left hoping to see some hint that there was a way out.
"With even a single door I'd be able to see *some* light," Inuyasha paused in thought.
"Then how, like you said, are we even alive? Shouldn't we be out of oxygen?"
"Vents." Inuyasha stated simply looking above his head.
***
"What do you mean their tracking systems can't find them?" the yasha growled to the unfortunate agent on the other side.
"They must be in some type of lead-covered area for the tracking chips not to work," the man on the other side reminded.
"Well have you tried using our computer system to track the last place they were before they were untraceable?" She grew more annoyed, not to mention worried, by the second. 'Keep calm, keep calm.'
"We're doing that as we speak boss," the voice cupped the mouthpiece to his cellular and began talking with another agent in the background.
"It's no use Joe, I can hear everything," the yasha rolled her eyes tapping her desk. "So it seems their tracking systems were removed?"
"Yes boss," the agent paused as he listened to someone in the background. "Are you coming down here?"
"I guess I'll have no choice. Tell me, is the *prince* still a jerk?" She paused waiting for an answer.
The agent on the other line paused a few seconds before responding, "Yeah, seems to be."
"Well tell him I'm coming, that'll make him shut up." The boss sighed but couldn't help but give a vague smile. "I'll be on the plane tonight."
"I'll be sure to tell him."
Based on his voice, the agent seemed to have found something to be happy about.
"Bye," the yasha hung up the phone standing up.
"Boss?" A smaller voice came from the door.
The boss smiled, "Yes Shippou?"
"Um . . . Ayame, I've been trying to hack into Naraku's personal computer all night and I think I found something." Shippou turned quickly to hide his blush.
"I'm glad you're around, Shippou. At least I can count on you to find something." Ayame followed the kitsune from her office towards Shippou's.
"I traced a signal coming from another outbound computer and it lead me here. It came in about an hour ago and I just now got in a few minutes ago. It seems Naraku's been busy trying to find Kikyo's sister, her name's Kagome." Shippou clicked on a file to show a picture.
"This picture came in today?" Ayame squinted trying to make out the girl's features.
"As far as I know, yeah." Shippou right clicked on the picture and copied it into a photo analysis program. "I'll enlarge her as much as I can," the kitsune cut out the girl's small picture from the original and pasted into a new file clicking 'Zoom'.
Ayame and the kitsune both looked at the girl in awe, "She looks . . ."
"EXACTLY like Kikyo," Shippou finished the sentence for his boss.
"Wait a second," Ayame put her hand on the mouse causing Shippou to blush redder.
His hand was under hers.
"What's *that*?" Ayame pointed to a small part of the zoomed picture that indicated someone standing next to her.
"It looks like . . . *White* hair . . ." Shippou squinted his left eye trying to make out anything else, "It's too blurred. I can't see anything."
Ayame went back to the original picture and tried zooming in on the scene. "That's . . ."
Shippou finished for her, "Inuyasha."
***
"Sesshoumaru-sama, when will we reach Tokyo?" Rin stood up in her seat and plastered her face to the window looking out into the night.
"Soon Rin," Sesshoumaru settled the young child back into her seat.
"Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin looked up at 'her' Sesshoumaru.
"Yes Rin?" Sesshoumaru said lazily.
He *had* been trying to get some rest before he knew he would have to fight again.
"Why are we going?" Rin's quizzical face looked from Sesshoumaru to her palms and then back to the youkai.
"We're going to get someone," Sesshoumaru stated calmly.
"Are we going to get Kagura-sama*?" Rin smiled hugely at the youkai in front of her.
Sesshoumaru became very interested in the stars outside.
"Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin tugged on Sesshoumaru's shirt.
Sesshoumaru couldn't ignore the girl long, "Yes Rin?"
"Are we going back for Kagura-sama?" Rin repeated.
"Maybe," Sesshoumaru sighed looking down at the girl. "Maybe."
(A/N: I seriously thought of ending it there but I love you guys too much to make you wait, plus that would only be 12 pages and I promised you longer ones like chapter 14. So that'll mean 20 pages. Anyway, BTS)
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"It'd be a great way of escaping if it weren't for these d*** chains," Miroku growled tugging once again at his chains hoping, that by some weird miracle, they would just crumble away.
Inuyasha sniffed the air once more to check on Sango. After making sure she was still unconscious Inuyasha turned his attention to Kagome. 'When will she wake up? Could she be . . .?'
'No . . . She couldn't, I can hear her breathing . . .' Inuyasha pushed all the negative images out of his mind.
"They've been out too long," Miroku turned in the direction of Inuyasha's voice to the best of his ability.
"What do you want me to do about it?" Inuyasha grunted trying to listen to Kagome heart beats. 'Good, they're regular.'
"Maybe you should try waking her up," Miroku looked out into the darkness. 'Sango . . . Are you alright?'
"And how am I going to do that?" Inuyasha didn't look away from Kagome's sleeping face.
It was times like this that Inuyasha was glad he had the keen eyesight of a dog.
"I don't know, think of something," Miroku sighed closing his eyes. "Maybe just nudge her to try and wake her up."
"Nudge her?" Inuyasha turned his head to face Miroku, "How would I be nudging her? With my arms that are chained to a wall two feet off the ground?"
"Sometimes, Inuyasha, you don't use your head . . ." Miroku shook his own and looked over to the hanyou. "Use your legs, they *aren't* chained."
Inuyasha stayed silent realizing his lack of thought on the whole 'nudge' idea. The hanyou lightly nudged the sleeping Japanese agent with his knee praying to Kami that she would wake.
For once his prayers were answered.
"Nnhh . . ." Kagome groaned slowly moving her restrained arms. "What?" She asked groggily.
"Kagome," Inuyasha gave a sigh of relief as he and Miroku both gave their full attention to the bewildered agent.
"Where . . . *Are* we?" Kagome groaned turning to look at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha? Where are you?"
"I'm right here Kagome, Miroku too," Inuyasha wished he was still strong enough to rip his chains from the wall but that bullet took a lot out of him. "You can move as long as you ---," Inuyasha was interrupted by the girls whispered swearing. ". . . Don't try and pull too hard on your arms."
"Thanks for telling me *before* hand," Kagome feigned genuine thanks lightly tugging at the chains.
Inuyasha just rolled his eyes, "Sango's about a quarter mile away so ---"
"A quarter *mile*?!" Kagome hissed. "How the h-"
"Don't interrupt a pissed off hanyou with a bullet wound," Inuyasha warned. "There's no way to see her in this darkness so we need to try and wake her."
"How do you know she's in here?" Kagome spoke as if he hadn't just threatened her.
"My nose sniffed her out," Inuyasha allowed himself to go limp and hang from the wall like the others.
"Where's your wound?" Kagome's voice softened.
"Feh. It's nothing," Inuyasha grunted when he tried shifting his position.
"A wound isn't *nothing* even with your fast healing," Kagome countered. "Where is it?"
"There's a bullet in my side, is that good enough for you?"
". . ." Kagome sighed turning her head to look away from the men.
"I'll take that as a yes." Inuyasha turned away and stared at the floor.
"Why don't you just save me and Sango the trouble and get a room," Miroku sighed closing his eyes once again.
Neither agent said anything about Miroku's little side comment and continued feigning sleep.
***
"Oh h*** no," the agent groaned walking over to his car and resting his head in his hands.
"Oh yeah, she told me herself." Joe leaned on the agent's car and looked out at the sunrise. "She's coming alright, she's coming TODAY."
"Why? Why is she coming for me *now*?" The agent looked up from his hands at the scene in front of him.
"Whoa, who said she was coming for *you*?" Joe grinned.
"You mean she's not?" the agent gave a hopeful smile.
"Kouga, you really *are* conceded," Joe pulled out his gun reloading it. "She's coming to track down two of *our* agents."
"What do you mean 'track down?'" Kouga raised an eyebrow.
"I mean they're missing, off our tracking system." Joe aimed his gun at a nearby tree and shot. "Bulls eye."
"Who?" Kouga pulled out his own gun and aimed for the same unfortunate tree.
"Our two best, Inuyasha and Sango."
***
"Are you sure this will work?" Juuroumaru gave a thoughtful look to his younger sister.
"I . . . Hope so." Kanna pulled down part of Kagura's kimono to reveal her shoulder. The yasha took the needle and tapped the side before injecting it into her sister's arm.
"How long does it take?" Juuroumaru scanned the room for any cameras.
"It shouldn't take long, it's already taking effect," Kanna nodded towards Kagura's shoulder where the redness was already receding.
"Good." Juuroumaru walked to the exit, "I'll be back later."
Kanna nodded as her brother left the room and headed down the hall, the secret entrance sliding closed behind him.
***
Inuyasha's ears picked up something coming from above. "Someone's coming," Inuyasha tensed ready to fight.
A small creak came from above Kagome's head, followed by a small rope ladder.
The three agents stayed silent and watched as light filled the dark cell causing their eyes to burn. As their eyes readjusted to the light they saw a young woman with short black hair climb down into the shadows.
"Well Hell-O," the woman walked over to where Inuyasha and Miroku hung chained to the cold cement wall. "What have we here?" She walked closer to Inuyasha putting her hand under his chin.
Inuyasha growled jerking his head away and pulling himself and lunging as far as he could towards their captor.
"Aw, the poor little puppy chained to the wall?" she gave a smug grin turning her attention to the other male agent. "And who are you?"
Miroku stayed silent scowling at the woman, his eyes flickering from her face to her short skirt for a split second before regaining his senses.
"Such a pity, two such hot guys having to die so young." She shook her head. "My name's Yura, but I won't be offended if you don't remember it." She winked at the hanyou twirling a lock of her hair.
Yura turned her attention to the vent-like opening in the ceiling. "You can go Goshinki, I've got this under control now," she gave a dismissive wave to the assassin above and sighed looking back at the three trapped agents.
At the sound of Goshinki retreating Yura slowly lowered her blade and put it back to it's sheath by her side. Seeing the confused looks on the agents' faces she just chuckled. "Shh . . ."
Yura turned and walked towards Kagome despite Inuyasha's angry, defiant, tugs at his chains. She looked back at him with mischievous eyes and pulled out a key. Yura unlocked the cuff around Kagome's left arm she repeated with the right allowing her to fall silently to the floor unscathed.
Kagome's eyes widened once Yura pulled out a gun . . .
. . . And handed it to her.
"Take it." Was all Yura said as she threw Inuyasha's gun and a specific razor boomerang at his feet and climbed up the ladder making sure to toss Kagome the key before pulling up the ladder and closing the grate covering their exit - leaving it slightly cracked..
Kagome shook off her confusion hurrying to free her companions.
Inuyasha dropped to the ground, although in pain, with ease. "What in all the hells was that about?" He looked from Kagome to Miroku.
"I . . . Don't know," Kagome breathed rubbing her wrists.
Inuyasha sniffed the air; he smelled blood, Kagome's blood. "Kagome, you're injured."
"I am?" Kagome looked at her arms and legs. "Where?"
"I don't know," Inuyasha sniffed again, "But I smell your blood."
"What are you talking about-" Kagome paused as she fought back a blush. "N- never mind, I'll check it out once we get back to the base." She quickly rushed off into the darkness towards Sango.
Miroku glanced at Inuyasha out of the corner of his eye, "What was *that* about?"
Inuyasha took a second to answer, "N-nothing." Inuyasha blurted out. "Come on, it's still too dark. Without me telling her where to go she'll be bumping into everything," as if proving his point Kagome's 'Ow' could be heard from off in the darkness. With this Inuyasha rushed off into the pitch black area of the cell towards Kagome.
***
Yura sighed as she pulled up the rope ladder. 'Naraku, when will you learn not to trust those who you've screwed around with way too much?'
~Flashback~
"Naraku!" Yura stormed into her boss's office fuming.
"Back so soon Yura?" Naraku didn't bother looking up from his laptop.
"You're d*** straight I'm 'back so soon' Naraku!" Yura slammed the door behind her. "You sent me out there knowing there was a hoard of Japanese agents waiting for me!"
"Correction, waiting for *me*," Naraku corrected, "I sent you out there knowing you would beat them and get them out of the way . . ."
"Don't even try." Yura spoke with malice, "An agent almost *killed* me."
"Oh really? I thought you were better than that Yura," Naraku gave a trivial sign of humor as he spoke. "Well no matter, I have another job for you anyway."
"No." Yura growled turning on her heel heading for the door.
"No?" Naraku's amused face quickly faltered.
"Did I stutter?" Yura turned the knob.
"You'll regret not taking orders," Naraku threatened allowing the woman to leave.
***
Yura closed her eyes after a long day of fighting off dozens of agents single handedly only leaving with her life and a bit more confidence.
Her mental pat on the back was rudely interrupted by a rapping at her bedroom door.
"Go away," she growled, already becoming grumpy from lack of sleep.
The rapping continued.
"Gods," Yura slid out of bed and shuffled her feet towards the door. "What is-" She felt something hit her head causing her to black out immediately.
***
She woke up in a dark room with a single light a few feet away. "Where . . .?"
"I told you you'd be sorry," Naraku's smirked from somewhere in the room. There was the sound of someone, most likely Naraku, snapping their fingers and five large men came into the light.
The last thing she knew before she slipped back into unconsciousness was the feeling of being punched into oblivion.
~End Flashback~
Yura flinched as she remembered how she wasn't able to sit or lay without crying out for weeks after that *pleasant* punishment. "Let's just see how long it takes you to get them again . . ." Yura carefully cut her thigh causing a few droplets of blood to form on her blade.
'That'll do.'
Goshinki grinned when he saw Yura turn the corner, "They're dead then?"
Yura put on her best smug grin and nodded raising her blade to her mouth and licking the blood droplets away. "Dead as dead could be."
Goshinki laughed stupidly as he walked off towards his father's office - probably to tell him the good news about the kill - and cautiously entering.
Yura rolled her eyes as she continued down the hall to her own living quarters. 'I had a mission didn't I? Oh screw it.' She sheathed her blade and entered her room.
***
She sat in the corner watching her sister intently hoping for the best.
Kagura stirred slightly and her arm began to involuntarily twitch.
"Kagura?" Kanna stood, tightly gripping her mirror.
Kagura just groaned slowly trying to move her muscles once again.
"Kagura? Can you speak?" Kanna laid down her mirror, a rare action from her, and walked up to where Kagura lay.
"Sess . . ." She whispered, "Sesshoumaru . . ."
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Sakura: Well there's another small little cliffy for all of you to enjoy. You know what to do . . .
. . . R&R. ^_^;
Well I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I'll have the next one up by next weekend!
Ja ne!
-Sakura
*Yasha is the female version of youkai. So yeah, Inuyasha's name literally means Dog Girl Demon but let's just overlook that. ^_^;; I might be wrong so if I am please tell me. It's based on what my friend, Yukina, told me.
Since this also has to do with Kagura I thought to spare you the annoyance of seeing three * I would just combine. Yes I know what 'sama' means. I know I'm using it the way I am and you'll see soon why if you haven't already figured it out. ^^
**In this fanfic Naraku is a full demon not a half demon. Thought it'd better fit the purpose. ^^
