Most Important Mission - Chapter 20
By: Sakura Katsana
Sakura's Note: Well, the first thing I should say is the disclaimer because although it's completely unnecessary I like being creative and making up (at least what I think) are new ways or very rare ways of showing it. So, here it is.
Disclaimer: I am innocent. I did NOT tie Rumiko Takahashi up in my attic and steal her identity. I did NOT marry Inuyasha or commit homicide via Kikyo . . .
. . . But just wait till I get out of here.
But anyway, back to business. ^_~
First of all, I need to say thank you to all of you guys for reviewing last chapter. I'm really glad you liked it because let's face it; everyone loves reviews. Plus, your reviews inspire me to write a great chapter and then you guys review it and then I get inspired again and then I write another great chapter and then you revi-
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Sorry, Toaster Strudel at 10:17 at night can do that to people. ^_^;;
Shout outs:
200 Reviews!! I broke the 200 review mark. *does a little dance*
*Confetti and balloons fall from ceiling* You don't know how happy I am! I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to review my chapters and give me the encouragement that I needed to continue. (_( *grabs a tissue* I would especially like to thank Greg the Fire Kitsune for giving me the remaining reviews I needed to reach my goal.
It wouldn't hurt to reach 300. ^_~
1) OVAs.
I would like to thank Okibi Usagi (love your name by the way) for telling me what they are. This chapter, before I continue to ramble on for nothing, is dedicated to you. And incase no one other than you is reading this, it will be re-announced at the end of my A/N. For everyone that doesn't know what an OVA is here are the words straight from Okibi's review:
OAV or OVA: Stands for Original Animation Video or Original Video Animation, respectively. Both mean exactly the same thing: an episode or series made directly for videotape sales, rather than for theatrical exhibition or broadcast as a regular television series.
2) Kagura and Yura (Question by Josie)
The question was a little hazy but I'll try my best to clear up everything here.
*Rin is Yura's daughter. Yura gave Rin to Sesshoumaru when she was about 2 because it would be even more dangerous if she was around Yura (because of Naraku). Sesshoumaru could better protect her and later on, after Rin was hurt by Naraku, he left for America with her. Oh, and our *favorite* little annoying toad demon Jaken.
*Yura and Kagura are best friends and they're there for each other all the time.
*Yura, after allowing Sesshoumaru to take care of Rin, developed feelings (no not that kind) for Kohaku because he had been kidnapped when he was little, just like . . . You'll find out. So she acted as the closest thing to a mother figure that he had.
Hope that cleared up at least some of your confusion, Josie, if you still have questions feel free to ask me. Hopefully they'll be cleared up in this chapter anyway. Thanks for the review and R&R!
3) Rin's Father:
Good question. I haven't exactly thought about it, ^_^;; I know there had to be one but I don't know if I'll mention the name or not. If someone has an idea they want to suggest go ahead, but don't be offended if I don't use it because I never really planned on putting him in here. LOL.
Thanks to:
Okibi Usagi (thanks for the Snowballs review also), sacredmist, darklight (for both chapters), Kitkat101, hanyougal34, Virginia Choir, Josie, Angel81, InuShemeeko, Miko Sakura-sama Fan (for 3 reviews), NewGirl.0, jschu25, Sammy&Jingles, CanNotBe.Seen, 2hot4u, and StickySyrupPancakes (for all 20 reviews, Arigatou!).
This chapter is dedicated to Okibi Usagi *hands her Pocky*
And without further words from me, Chapter 20.
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Chapter 20: Exes?!
For the first time since she'd spoken Kikyo turned to look at Inuyasha, "Why are you so shocked, Inuyasha? Haven't you seen two sisters talk before?"
Inuyasha turned to look at Kagome, who stared back at him fearfully. 'S- sisters . . .?'
"By that priceless look on your handsome face I guess you didn't know, did you?" Kikyo smirked, "Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag."
"What . . .? Kagome, is this . . .?" He couldn't finish even the simplest sentence. He knew it was true, they resembled each other like sisters would.
But even though all reason told him that they were indeed sisters, there was still that small part of him that refused it to be true.
"Inuyasha . . ." Kagome took a step forward, her heart breaking when he took a retreating step back in return, swallowed the lump in her throat and looked him in the eye, "I'm sorry, I couldn't tell you."
Kikyo watched the exchange with a void expression on her face.
On the inside though, that was another story.
To see Inuyasha alive-
Not to mention as good-looking as ever-
And seemingly so close to her sister made her want to scream in outrage. The only thing other than that whirling through her head was ideas of how to make this be to her advantage.
Then the perfect notion struck her.
"Since you're in the state of telling the truth why don't you tell all of it, little sis," Kikyo cast a cheeky look at her sister before it transformed into one of seriousness.
"All of it?" Kagome shifted her gaze from Inuyasha to her sister, "What do you mean by all of it?"
Kikyo shook her head in disappointment, "What did our mother always say about lying?"
Her sister cast her a hateful glance. "Don't speak about her to me, you have no right."
Kikyo glared and diverted her attention to Inuyasha, "She's been playing you this entire time. Isn't she just the *best* little actress there is?"
***
He slid into the empty room silently.
Instantly the scent of air-borne arsenic filled the air.
Cursing wordlessly he walked towards the door, breathing only by slashing the air with his own poisons from his claws in front of him.
"You're not going to find him anytime soon Kagura, why can't we just go where he wanted us to meet? It's suicide."
He could hear Kanna's voice from outside the door.
***
"What?!" Kagome cried. She turned to the agent next to her, "Inuyasha, that's not true, she's lying!"
". . ."
"Inuyasha . . . Please believe me," she pleaded.
That was her mistake.
Kagome, right then, felt her heart fall into the pit of her stomach. Her mother, before she had left for the base, had told her something she would never be able to forget as long as she drew breath.
~Flashback~
Kagome eased into the empty kitchen and spotted her target.
The cookie jar.
She reached in a grabbed a handful of them, imagining how good they would be.
"Kagome!" her mother called from the living room, "Can you come here?"
"Yeah mama!" She quickly placed the cookies, sadly, back into the jar and bounded for the living room in search of her mother.
Mrs. Higurashi sat there folding clothes, "Kagome, have you seen Buyo?" Kagome shook her head no.
Her mother gave her hands a second glance before looking up at her daughter, "Kagome, did you steal cookies from the cookie jar?"
"No! No! I didn't steal the cookies from the cookie jar! Honest!" Her eyes held a pleading glimmer as her mother looked her up and down, resting her eyes on Kagome's hands, where melted chocolate still remained.
Mrs. Higurashi looked into her daughter's eyes and gave a small smile. "I believe you." Kagome sighed with relief. "Kagome, let me tell you something."
She waited for her daughter to sit down next to her, "When you're telling the truth, there's no need to be nervous because it'll be a lot worse if you're lying. People tend to disbelieve people, even when they're telling the truth, if they're pleading for them to believe. Remember that."
"Yes mama," Kagome nodded.
"Good, now lets go get us some cookies." Kagome giggled and followed her mother to the kitchen.
~End Flashback~
She looked at Inuyasha, calming her insides as she did so. 'He will believe. I know he will. I've never lied to him before, why would I now?'
Inuyasha on the other hand was more confused than he had ever been before.
Could Kagome, his Kagome, be lying to him?
. . .
His Kagome?
. . .
Yes, his Kagome.
That seemed right.
Kikyo huffed angrily.
The silence was killing her and the 'no movement' thing was attacking her nerves like a termite attacked wood. In reality it had only been about 30 seconds since she had last spoken, but she had always been one to blow things out of proportion.
Now was one of those times.
"Inuyasha, she's lying." Kagome's voice was cool as she spoke, "Yes, we are sisters. But I would never work with her.
Ever."
Inuyasha took a moment to look into her stormy orbs.
How could he have ever doubted her?
Nodding once to show he believed her he turned his attention, now, on Kikyo. "That was really convincing, Kikyo. You haven't changed at all, have you?"
Kagome allowed herself to smirk.
He believed her.
Kikyo shrugged, "Hell, it was worth a shot."
Inuyasha sneered.
"You, on the other hand, *have* changed, Inu-kun," Kikyo smiled at him mockingly, "But not for the better though."
"You act like you know him so damn well," Kagome said, looking her sister up and down, "Make's me sick."
"Oh, but I do know him very well," Kikyo winked at the angered hanyou, "Almost every inch of him, actually."
Kagome went stiff.
'Almost every inch?!', what did that mean?
. . .
Oh.
Well then.
Wait.
*Almost*.
Almost was good.
"What lies are you spouting now, Kikyo?" Her older sister smirked, closing the distance between her and Inuyasha in a passionate kiss.
Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock but he didn't pull away. Kagome's eyes widened as well, this couldn't be happening. The woman that had done so many wrongs that could never be undone was now in a very deep, hot, kiss with the hanyou she had come to believe despised this woman!
Kikyo, somewhat reluctantly, ended the kiss, her brow furrowing quickly at Inuyasha's hurried getaway. She sighed, lazily turning to look at her sister, "You see, *little* sister, *that* is how I know him so well."
Kagome stood there, nonplussed.
What was her sister trying to say?
No, she couldn't mean that . . .
Could she?
Kagome's hands balled into fists, "No . . ." The word was spoken with more anger than uncertainty and defiance.
"Ka-"
"No, I don't speak to liars." Kagome glared at the hanyou, her eyes- unbeknownst to her-tearing at his heart. "I came her for a reason, now it's time to fulfill it."
She eyed her sister over carefully, knowing almost completely that she wouldn't try to kill her.
Since she was a little girl she could see the jewel, not in it's globe form, but as a faint pinkish glow, when it wasn't right in front of her. It was nowhere near her sister, which was surprising.
She took a retreating step back, "You're lucky you don't have it. I didn't know what I'd have to tell our mother." She spun around, giving Inuyasha a final glance, before running down the hall, not caring who she ran into.
***
"Where are we?" Sango asked, stopping at a corner to look about.
"Looks like the second floor," Miroku answered, "How do we find him?"
"Split up?"
"No."
Sango smiled at his urgency, "Fine."
"So where would he be?"
"Why can't we just split-"
"No."
She sighed, "Why not?"
"No."
". . ."
"So where would he be?"
Sango let out a low growl, "I don't know. Where do *you* think he'll be?"
There was a pause on Miroku's part, "I know!"
". . ."
". . ."
The young agent sighed, realizing she would have to ask, "Where. . .?"
"The lowest floor."
Sango blinked, "The lowest floor?"
"The lowest floor."
"It's worth a shot, come on."
Miroku smiled happily as Sango bent down to tie her boot.
"You ready?"
". . ."
"Miroku!"
"What? Oh yeah, ready." Sango eyed the agent curiously before heading towards the elevator she had spotted earlier.
"Well this is nice," Sango said dryly, spotting two goons guarding the elevator as if it were a transporter for Naraku himself.
. . .
Ah.
"You left, me right?" Sango cracked her knuckles.
"Can I be right?"
"Why you?"
"Because I'm right handed."
"So am I!" Sango cried in exasperation. Looking over at Miroku's disappointed face her annoyed exterior melted away.
. . .slightly.
"Alright, you can handle the right one. He looks like he has the worst hygiene anyway." she stifled her laughter at his now pale face.
"On second thought, you can take him."
"No, that's ok, really." Sango smirked, getting up and walking past the two thick goons seductively.
Miroku almost didn't notice the two goons' reactions due to Sango's swaying hips.
"Hey, who are you? Where's your ID?"
"Where do you think?" That said, Sango punched the clean-shaven man into the wall where he checked himself stupidly for blood.
Miroku joined her in attacking the other thug that had unfortunately gotten up that morning to protect this . . . Elevator.
*
"I guess idiots take longer to feel the pain," Miroku considered.
"Yeah," Sango stepped over the right goon and into the elevator, "Thick skulls can do that to people."
Miroku smirked, looking for the 'Ground Floor' button.
His disappointed look said it all.
There was none - - -
- - - that you could *push*.
Both agents eyed the keyhole warily and in silence.
Sango's head banging against the side of the elevator broke it though.
"Why *bang* us? *bang* Why *bang* do *bang* we *bang* never *bang* get *bang* the *bang*-"
The elevator door closed and jerked, showing it was lowering.
Sango looked over at Miroku, who was returning a metal pin back into his pocket. "You know, sometimes I wish I could just kiss you?"
Miroku smiled genuinely back at her, "Wish granted."
***
"So, what exactly are we supposed to do during all of this?" Kouga said through gritted teeth.
"We're going to take care of as many of these bakas as we can until they can finish what they need to do." Ayame took in a deep, ragged, breath sending locks of her blazing red hair to whirl around her face.
Kouga was rapt in her.
This was why he had fallen in love with her.
The way she could be so tough and gutful, looking beautiful all the while, and still give off the impression of some graceful woman.
. . . Until you saw her uppercut.
"Yo, Kouga," Ayame slapped the back of the agent's neck, "You alive down there?"
When had she stood up?
. . .
Oh well.
"Oh course I'm alive, why? You wish I wasn't?" Ayame rolled her eyes in his general direction before walking off down the hall. "You didn't answer me!"
Ayame ignored him.
"Hey!"
Was that a giggle he just heard?!
Grumbling, the wolf demon trotted after the yasha, a small amused smile on his face.
*
"It hurts!" Another thug whined.
Nazuna rolled her eyes, "What do you suggest we do then?"
"You could . . .kiss it?"
Nazuna smirked.
She loved her job.
She eyed the somewhat cute assassin over, "Alright."
"I'm about to gag," Ayame murmured, "I'm really, truly, about to gag. Really, no lie, about to gag-"
Kouga placed a hand over her mouth.
"et ore 'and oob my outh*," Ayame advised, her eyes full of forewarning, pleased when her ex-partner hastily removed his hand. "Thank you."
"So what do you want to do?" Kouga said in monotone. "I don't think that chick's gonna be done anytime soon."
Ayame blinked, "Chick?"
"Yes, chick - - -What?"
"Never mind," Ayame groaned, lightly whapping the agent over the head- again.
"When you think of what we're going to do just let me know," Kouga settled into a resting position behind the door and sighed.
"You are the stupidest jerk I've ever met."
Kouga sighed again.
"Nazuna, my arm hurts!"
She smirked before turning around to look at the stunningly hand-
UGLY assassin behind her.
Nazuna slowly rose to her feet, ignoring the saddened guy she had been helping, and looked at the thug's arm skeptically. "It'll get better."
Ayame snickered.
"What's so funny?" Kouga grumbled.
"It reminds me of something."
". . .and . . ?"
"When Inuyasha took me to a bar and this hideous guy came out of nowhere and asked me out. I acted the same-"
Kouga nearly choked in astonishment.
"Inuyasha?!"
Ayame nodded unflappably.
"Dog-face?"
Ayame nodded.
"Dog-face took you to a bar?!"
"Will you shut up?" Ayame growled, "Yes, he took me to a bar. I had just come and he was the only demon I knew."
"*Half-demon*," Kouga corrected.
"Yes, oh my god!" Ayame said, feigning astonishment and rolling her eyes, "Half-demon."
"Half breed," Kouga corrected again after some thought.
Ayame scowled at him, whapping him over the head in the process, "Don't call my family that!"
Kouga hated choking.
But he seemed to be doing it a lot lately.
"Family?!"
Ayame sighed, desperate to get to beating up the assassins only feet away. "Distant cousins. Distant, distant, distant cousins. Like great, great, great, great aunt twice removed or something."
"So if I were to marry you we'd be-be *related*?!" Kouga yelped indignantly.
Ayame raised an eyebrow, "What even made you think of that?" Ayame blew some hair out of her eyes, "Sometimes I worry about that cute face of yours, having to live with such a STUPID brain."
Strolling out casually among the thugs she winked back a Kouga.
"Hey! Who are-" Nazuna was silenced rather quickly by a fist in the face.
"So you didn't go out with him?" Kouga asked, somewhat relieved, as he punched out the ugly thug from earlier.
"I don't go out with family, it's just not me." Ayame smirked, knocking over another idiotic male that had recklessly run towards her. "Why? Jealous?"
"What? No!"
Another assassin fell to the floor.
"You seem like it."
Yet another assassin was punched senselessly to the white tile floor.
"I'm not! It's just . . ." He trailed off as he was caught off guard by a goon about two sizes two small to hurt him.
"You better not be, because if we're getting into that . . .what about you and Pillow Girl?"
"So now we're back to that?" Kouga growled, punching another attacker from the side, not losing eye contact with Ayame.
"No, I'm just saying," Ayame sighed, seeming to lose some of her fire, "Don't get started on it because I wasn't the one that moved on so fast to Pillow Girl and thanked you for leaving."
Kouga paused, ridding himself of the remaining goon that still wished to fight him.
~Flashback~
"Kouga!" Kouga rolled down his window and looked out.
"Hey Ayame, I thought you had the day off."
"Oh, yeah, I do," Ayame smiled, looking up at Kouga with her bottle green eyes. He noticed some of their curious sparkle was absent.
"What's up then?"
"I have some news," Ayame took a step closer to Kouga and sighed, "I got promoted." Kouga's cerulean eyes sparkled with pride.
"That's great! What to? Captain of our Division?"
Ayame shook her head, "Higher."
Kouga's smile broadened, "Vice President of Operations?"
Ayame shook her head once again, "Boss."
"Gods Ayame, I'm so proud of-"
"In America."
Kouga's smile disappeared with a look of confusion.
"It's just that I lived there for a few years before coming out here and they're looking for a top agent who knows their way around the Japanese agencies, since they're teaming up with them for the missions of the others. You know? Miroku and Kag? Since I have so much experience and am bilingual they offered me the job and wouldn't let me refuse."
Kouga stayed silent, allowing everything to sink in.
"I'm sorry," Ayame whispered. A single tear trickled down her cheek, sparkling in the moonlight. "I'm sorry."
Kouga got out of their car and unconsciously wrapped his arms around her, "It'll be ok, don't cry. I've never seen you like this. You should be . . .happy." He forced the words through gritted teeth, hoping to Kami-sama they were believable.
Seemingly they were.
"I'm going to miss you," Ayame whimpered, "I'm leaving you and I don't when I can see you again!"
She didn't know, but with each word a little bit of him crumbled.
It was true.
All of it.
She'd have too many responsibilities to come visit, he had to take care of all of his as well.
There just wasn't a way.
That's when it happened.
All of the rationale left him, deserting him in his own pool of sadness and anger.
That was when he released her, got back into his car, and slammed the door.
"Kouga? What is-"
"Go. Don't come back. I-I never want to see you again." With that, he ripped out of the garage into the night.
~End Flashback~
***
Sesshoumaru opened the door, allowing some of the venomous vapors to escape and cause everyone outside to cough involuntarily.
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagura gasped, "What in all the hells?"
"You didn't come." He stated obviously. Kagura smirked, she hadn't known him this long and not picked up on his mannerisms. He had been worried and come.
"Where's Rin?" Yura jumped in, grasping the youkai's shirt with hopeful eyes.
"With Jaken," Sesshoumaru said, seemingly uneasy about his decision.
*
"Sit down and shut up girl!" Jaken growled, "Just because he said no marks doesn't mean I can't hit you!"
Rin scowled, crossing her arms defiantly and sticking out her tongue, "You're no fun."
"Neither are you!"
"Uh huh! Lord Sesshoumaru says I am!"
"No he doesn't!"
"We play Playstation together! I am too fun!" Rin argued, knocking the demon off the curb. Jaken scowled at the girl.
"Since when do you play Playstation together?"
Rin raised an intuitive eyebrow. She was much smarter than her childish appearance let on. "Is Jaken jealous?"
Jaken took a step back, "No!"
Rin alternated eyebrows.
"Shut up."
Rin smirked, "You better be nice to me."
"And why is that?" Jaken grumbled.
Rin picked up a piece of glass, "Lord Sesshoumaru wouldn't want to find me with a cut, would he?"
*
"Jaken?! That *toad* thing?" Yura hissed, "What were you thinking?"
"Of beating him up if she has a scratch," Sesshoumaru said in monotone, shaking the distressed assassin off him. If he didn't know any better he'd think she still thought he liked her after that lie Kagura had told on his first day . . .
Everyone seemed to calm back down, save for Juuroumaru who had been emotionless as Sesshoumaru the entire time.
"What are you all still here for, it seems you're all present," Sesshoumaru said unfazed by the awkward silence.
"Sesshoumaru, take Yura and the others back with you now," Kagura looked at Yura faintly, "She needs to be with her daughter and they aren't safe around Naraku."
"What are you staying for?" Sesshoumaru's hard exterior cracked slightly. "If they're all here . . ."
"Kohaku, revenge, and unfinished business," Kagura gave a faint smile at the youkai, "I'm sorry, but I can't leave yet."
"I'll take them, but then I'm coming back here," Sesshoumaru spoke as if it was a promise, which Kagura was sure it was.
"No." Kagura shook her head, "He'd kill you if he even knew you were here right now."
"Too late musume*."
***
"Kikyo," Inuyasha growled, "This was all a trap, wasn't it? One huge scheme to get everyone after you into one place to kill."
"I'm impressed," Kikyo pulled out a revolver from her side, "You figured out a lot, haven't you?" Inuyasha glared. "Seeing how I'm about to kill you, I'll fill you in on the blanks.
When we were young, Kagome and I came upon a small jewel in our back yard. I realized it was the Shikon no tama, the jewel they thought had been destroyed. I wanted it, but Kagome was always with it, except when she was asleep she would put it in a small tin. When she was asleep I took it and informed Naraku. He offered me the chance I could never have had living with my sister and mother and brother.
Because I held the Jewel my power exceeded his and I received more power and riches by blackmail and threats. Then I attempted to use the Jewel but realized it didn't work for me. My sister had held it for all those years . . .
She was the one who could use it, not me.
So I planned for the day that she would come face to face with me. I could use her to use the Jewel. Then, low and behold my Inu-kun and two others follow. I thought I could allow Naraku the honors of killing off those two after him, and I . . . Would have the pleasure of taking care of you." Kikyo allowed a smile to cross her face.
Inuyasha didn't want to believe it, but he knew, once again, that it was true.
Kikyo aimed her gun, "Oh, one more thing, it wasn't my people who killed your parents. I did it personally."
That was all she had to say.
The nerves that had seconds ago been too stunned to move now sprung to life.
He lunged for her.
Both began fighting ferociously, not caring about anything else.
That was when they came to the window.
Inuyasha knocked Kikyo off of him, causing her to lose what little balance she had regained, as she hit the glass
. . .and it shattered.
Before he could reach it, Kikyo had fallen.
He took the last step and looked down.
There, lay Kikyo's lifeless body.
***
*Musume means daughter.
*Also, the muffled words were; "Get your hand off my mouth."
Oh my god, a cliffy! But . . .
Kikyo's dead! Kikyo's dead! *throws confetti and balloons everywhere*
Kagome: WOOHOO! She went to hell! The bitch went to hell!
Inuyasha: ^_^
Shippou: Question, why'd she go to hell in the beginning if she was a priestess? Wouldn't she go to heaven? It's not like she'd done anything when she wasn't a clay pot . . .
Everyone: Who cares? *continues to party*
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, no matter how late it was. I know I promised, no excuses, I broke it . . . T_T *dodges chairs, tables, and other inanimate objects being thrown towards her* Please forgive me! R&R, thanks.
Ja ne
~Sakura
Sakura's Note: Well, the first thing I should say is the disclaimer because although it's completely unnecessary I like being creative and making up (at least what I think) are new ways or very rare ways of showing it. So, here it is.
Disclaimer: I am innocent. I did NOT tie Rumiko Takahashi up in my attic and steal her identity. I did NOT marry Inuyasha or commit homicide via Kikyo . . .
. . . But just wait till I get out of here.
But anyway, back to business. ^_~
First of all, I need to say thank you to all of you guys for reviewing last chapter. I'm really glad you liked it because let's face it; everyone loves reviews. Plus, your reviews inspire me to write a great chapter and then you guys review it and then I get inspired again and then I write another great chapter and then you revi-
*Plum has frozen the keyboard*
Sorry, Toaster Strudel at 10:17 at night can do that to people. ^_^;;
Shout outs:
200 Reviews!! I broke the 200 review mark. *does a little dance*
*Confetti and balloons fall from ceiling* You don't know how happy I am! I would like to thank all of you for taking the time to review my chapters and give me the encouragement that I needed to continue. (_( *grabs a tissue* I would especially like to thank Greg the Fire Kitsune for giving me the remaining reviews I needed to reach my goal.
It wouldn't hurt to reach 300. ^_~
1) OVAs.
I would like to thank Okibi Usagi (love your name by the way) for telling me what they are. This chapter, before I continue to ramble on for nothing, is dedicated to you. And incase no one other than you is reading this, it will be re-announced at the end of my A/N. For everyone that doesn't know what an OVA is here are the words straight from Okibi's review:
OAV or OVA: Stands for Original Animation Video or Original Video Animation, respectively. Both mean exactly the same thing: an episode or series made directly for videotape sales, rather than for theatrical exhibition or broadcast as a regular television series.
2) Kagura and Yura (Question by Josie)
The question was a little hazy but I'll try my best to clear up everything here.
*Rin is Yura's daughter. Yura gave Rin to Sesshoumaru when she was about 2 because it would be even more dangerous if she was around Yura (because of Naraku). Sesshoumaru could better protect her and later on, after Rin was hurt by Naraku, he left for America with her. Oh, and our *favorite* little annoying toad demon Jaken.
*Yura and Kagura are best friends and they're there for each other all the time.
*Yura, after allowing Sesshoumaru to take care of Rin, developed feelings (no not that kind) for Kohaku because he had been kidnapped when he was little, just like . . . You'll find out. So she acted as the closest thing to a mother figure that he had.
Hope that cleared up at least some of your confusion, Josie, if you still have questions feel free to ask me. Hopefully they'll be cleared up in this chapter anyway. Thanks for the review and R&R!
3) Rin's Father:
Good question. I haven't exactly thought about it, ^_^;; I know there had to be one but I don't know if I'll mention the name or not. If someone has an idea they want to suggest go ahead, but don't be offended if I don't use it because I never really planned on putting him in here. LOL.
Thanks to:
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This chapter is dedicated to Okibi Usagi *hands her Pocky*
And without further words from me, Chapter 20.
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Chapter 20: Exes?!
For the first time since she'd spoken Kikyo turned to look at Inuyasha, "Why are you so shocked, Inuyasha? Haven't you seen two sisters talk before?"
Inuyasha turned to look at Kagome, who stared back at him fearfully. 'S- sisters . . .?'
"By that priceless look on your handsome face I guess you didn't know, did you?" Kikyo smirked, "Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag."
"What . . .? Kagome, is this . . .?" He couldn't finish even the simplest sentence. He knew it was true, they resembled each other like sisters would.
But even though all reason told him that they were indeed sisters, there was still that small part of him that refused it to be true.
"Inuyasha . . ." Kagome took a step forward, her heart breaking when he took a retreating step back in return, swallowed the lump in her throat and looked him in the eye, "I'm sorry, I couldn't tell you."
Kikyo watched the exchange with a void expression on her face.
On the inside though, that was another story.
To see Inuyasha alive-
Not to mention as good-looking as ever-
And seemingly so close to her sister made her want to scream in outrage. The only thing other than that whirling through her head was ideas of how to make this be to her advantage.
Then the perfect notion struck her.
"Since you're in the state of telling the truth why don't you tell all of it, little sis," Kikyo cast a cheeky look at her sister before it transformed into one of seriousness.
"All of it?" Kagome shifted her gaze from Inuyasha to her sister, "What do you mean by all of it?"
Kikyo shook her head in disappointment, "What did our mother always say about lying?"
Her sister cast her a hateful glance. "Don't speak about her to me, you have no right."
Kikyo glared and diverted her attention to Inuyasha, "She's been playing you this entire time. Isn't she just the *best* little actress there is?"
***
He slid into the empty room silently.
Instantly the scent of air-borne arsenic filled the air.
Cursing wordlessly he walked towards the door, breathing only by slashing the air with his own poisons from his claws in front of him.
"You're not going to find him anytime soon Kagura, why can't we just go where he wanted us to meet? It's suicide."
He could hear Kanna's voice from outside the door.
***
"What?!" Kagome cried. She turned to the agent next to her, "Inuyasha, that's not true, she's lying!"
". . ."
"Inuyasha . . . Please believe me," she pleaded.
That was her mistake.
Kagome, right then, felt her heart fall into the pit of her stomach. Her mother, before she had left for the base, had told her something she would never be able to forget as long as she drew breath.
~Flashback~
Kagome eased into the empty kitchen and spotted her target.
The cookie jar.
She reached in a grabbed a handful of them, imagining how good they would be.
"Kagome!" her mother called from the living room, "Can you come here?"
"Yeah mama!" She quickly placed the cookies, sadly, back into the jar and bounded for the living room in search of her mother.
Mrs. Higurashi sat there folding clothes, "Kagome, have you seen Buyo?" Kagome shook her head no.
Her mother gave her hands a second glance before looking up at her daughter, "Kagome, did you steal cookies from the cookie jar?"
"No! No! I didn't steal the cookies from the cookie jar! Honest!" Her eyes held a pleading glimmer as her mother looked her up and down, resting her eyes on Kagome's hands, where melted chocolate still remained.
Mrs. Higurashi looked into her daughter's eyes and gave a small smile. "I believe you." Kagome sighed with relief. "Kagome, let me tell you something."
She waited for her daughter to sit down next to her, "When you're telling the truth, there's no need to be nervous because it'll be a lot worse if you're lying. People tend to disbelieve people, even when they're telling the truth, if they're pleading for them to believe. Remember that."
"Yes mama," Kagome nodded.
"Good, now lets go get us some cookies." Kagome giggled and followed her mother to the kitchen.
~End Flashback~
She looked at Inuyasha, calming her insides as she did so. 'He will believe. I know he will. I've never lied to him before, why would I now?'
Inuyasha on the other hand was more confused than he had ever been before.
Could Kagome, his Kagome, be lying to him?
. . .
His Kagome?
. . .
Yes, his Kagome.
That seemed right.
Kikyo huffed angrily.
The silence was killing her and the 'no movement' thing was attacking her nerves like a termite attacked wood. In reality it had only been about 30 seconds since she had last spoken, but she had always been one to blow things out of proportion.
Now was one of those times.
"Inuyasha, she's lying." Kagome's voice was cool as she spoke, "Yes, we are sisters. But I would never work with her.
Ever."
Inuyasha took a moment to look into her stormy orbs.
How could he have ever doubted her?
Nodding once to show he believed her he turned his attention, now, on Kikyo. "That was really convincing, Kikyo. You haven't changed at all, have you?"
Kagome allowed herself to smirk.
He believed her.
Kikyo shrugged, "Hell, it was worth a shot."
Inuyasha sneered.
"You, on the other hand, *have* changed, Inu-kun," Kikyo smiled at him mockingly, "But not for the better though."
"You act like you know him so damn well," Kagome said, looking her sister up and down, "Make's me sick."
"Oh, but I do know him very well," Kikyo winked at the angered hanyou, "Almost every inch of him, actually."
Kagome went stiff.
'Almost every inch?!', what did that mean?
. . .
Oh.
Well then.
Wait.
*Almost*.
Almost was good.
"What lies are you spouting now, Kikyo?" Her older sister smirked, closing the distance between her and Inuyasha in a passionate kiss.
Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock but he didn't pull away. Kagome's eyes widened as well, this couldn't be happening. The woman that had done so many wrongs that could never be undone was now in a very deep, hot, kiss with the hanyou she had come to believe despised this woman!
Kikyo, somewhat reluctantly, ended the kiss, her brow furrowing quickly at Inuyasha's hurried getaway. She sighed, lazily turning to look at her sister, "You see, *little* sister, *that* is how I know him so well."
Kagome stood there, nonplussed.
What was her sister trying to say?
No, she couldn't mean that . . .
Could she?
Kagome's hands balled into fists, "No . . ." The word was spoken with more anger than uncertainty and defiance.
"Ka-"
"No, I don't speak to liars." Kagome glared at the hanyou, her eyes- unbeknownst to her-tearing at his heart. "I came her for a reason, now it's time to fulfill it."
She eyed her sister over carefully, knowing almost completely that she wouldn't try to kill her.
Since she was a little girl she could see the jewel, not in it's globe form, but as a faint pinkish glow, when it wasn't right in front of her. It was nowhere near her sister, which was surprising.
She took a retreating step back, "You're lucky you don't have it. I didn't know what I'd have to tell our mother." She spun around, giving Inuyasha a final glance, before running down the hall, not caring who she ran into.
***
"Where are we?" Sango asked, stopping at a corner to look about.
"Looks like the second floor," Miroku answered, "How do we find him?"
"Split up?"
"No."
Sango smiled at his urgency, "Fine."
"So where would he be?"
"Why can't we just split-"
"No."
She sighed, "Why not?"
"No."
". . ."
"So where would he be?"
Sango let out a low growl, "I don't know. Where do *you* think he'll be?"
There was a pause on Miroku's part, "I know!"
". . ."
". . ."
The young agent sighed, realizing she would have to ask, "Where. . .?"
"The lowest floor."
Sango blinked, "The lowest floor?"
"The lowest floor."
"It's worth a shot, come on."
Miroku smiled happily as Sango bent down to tie her boot.
"You ready?"
". . ."
"Miroku!"
"What? Oh yeah, ready." Sango eyed the agent curiously before heading towards the elevator she had spotted earlier.
"Well this is nice," Sango said dryly, spotting two goons guarding the elevator as if it were a transporter for Naraku himself.
. . .
Ah.
"You left, me right?" Sango cracked her knuckles.
"Can I be right?"
"Why you?"
"Because I'm right handed."
"So am I!" Sango cried in exasperation. Looking over at Miroku's disappointed face her annoyed exterior melted away.
. . .slightly.
"Alright, you can handle the right one. He looks like he has the worst hygiene anyway." she stifled her laughter at his now pale face.
"On second thought, you can take him."
"No, that's ok, really." Sango smirked, getting up and walking past the two thick goons seductively.
Miroku almost didn't notice the two goons' reactions due to Sango's swaying hips.
"Hey, who are you? Where's your ID?"
"Where do you think?" That said, Sango punched the clean-shaven man into the wall where he checked himself stupidly for blood.
Miroku joined her in attacking the other thug that had unfortunately gotten up that morning to protect this . . . Elevator.
*
"I guess idiots take longer to feel the pain," Miroku considered.
"Yeah," Sango stepped over the right goon and into the elevator, "Thick skulls can do that to people."
Miroku smirked, looking for the 'Ground Floor' button.
His disappointed look said it all.
There was none - - -
- - - that you could *push*.
Both agents eyed the keyhole warily and in silence.
Sango's head banging against the side of the elevator broke it though.
"Why *bang* us? *bang* Why *bang* do *bang* we *bang* never *bang* get *bang* the *bang*-"
The elevator door closed and jerked, showing it was lowering.
Sango looked over at Miroku, who was returning a metal pin back into his pocket. "You know, sometimes I wish I could just kiss you?"
Miroku smiled genuinely back at her, "Wish granted."
***
"So, what exactly are we supposed to do during all of this?" Kouga said through gritted teeth.
"We're going to take care of as many of these bakas as we can until they can finish what they need to do." Ayame took in a deep, ragged, breath sending locks of her blazing red hair to whirl around her face.
Kouga was rapt in her.
This was why he had fallen in love with her.
The way she could be so tough and gutful, looking beautiful all the while, and still give off the impression of some graceful woman.
. . . Until you saw her uppercut.
"Yo, Kouga," Ayame slapped the back of the agent's neck, "You alive down there?"
When had she stood up?
. . .
Oh well.
"Oh course I'm alive, why? You wish I wasn't?" Ayame rolled her eyes in his general direction before walking off down the hall. "You didn't answer me!"
Ayame ignored him.
"Hey!"
Was that a giggle he just heard?!
Grumbling, the wolf demon trotted after the yasha, a small amused smile on his face.
*
"It hurts!" Another thug whined.
Nazuna rolled her eyes, "What do you suggest we do then?"
"You could . . .kiss it?"
Nazuna smirked.
She loved her job.
She eyed the somewhat cute assassin over, "Alright."
"I'm about to gag," Ayame murmured, "I'm really, truly, about to gag. Really, no lie, about to gag-"
Kouga placed a hand over her mouth.
"et ore 'and oob my outh*," Ayame advised, her eyes full of forewarning, pleased when her ex-partner hastily removed his hand. "Thank you."
"So what do you want to do?" Kouga said in monotone. "I don't think that chick's gonna be done anytime soon."
Ayame blinked, "Chick?"
"Yes, chick - - -What?"
"Never mind," Ayame groaned, lightly whapping the agent over the head- again.
"When you think of what we're going to do just let me know," Kouga settled into a resting position behind the door and sighed.
"You are the stupidest jerk I've ever met."
Kouga sighed again.
"Nazuna, my arm hurts!"
She smirked before turning around to look at the stunningly hand-
UGLY assassin behind her.
Nazuna slowly rose to her feet, ignoring the saddened guy she had been helping, and looked at the thug's arm skeptically. "It'll get better."
Ayame snickered.
"What's so funny?" Kouga grumbled.
"It reminds me of something."
". . .and . . ?"
"When Inuyasha took me to a bar and this hideous guy came out of nowhere and asked me out. I acted the same-"
Kouga nearly choked in astonishment.
"Inuyasha?!"
Ayame nodded unflappably.
"Dog-face?"
Ayame nodded.
"Dog-face took you to a bar?!"
"Will you shut up?" Ayame growled, "Yes, he took me to a bar. I had just come and he was the only demon I knew."
"*Half-demon*," Kouga corrected.
"Yes, oh my god!" Ayame said, feigning astonishment and rolling her eyes, "Half-demon."
"Half breed," Kouga corrected again after some thought.
Ayame scowled at him, whapping him over the head in the process, "Don't call my family that!"
Kouga hated choking.
But he seemed to be doing it a lot lately.
"Family?!"
Ayame sighed, desperate to get to beating up the assassins only feet away. "Distant cousins. Distant, distant, distant cousins. Like great, great, great, great aunt twice removed or something."
"So if I were to marry you we'd be-be *related*?!" Kouga yelped indignantly.
Ayame raised an eyebrow, "What even made you think of that?" Ayame blew some hair out of her eyes, "Sometimes I worry about that cute face of yours, having to live with such a STUPID brain."
Strolling out casually among the thugs she winked back a Kouga.
"Hey! Who are-" Nazuna was silenced rather quickly by a fist in the face.
"So you didn't go out with him?" Kouga asked, somewhat relieved, as he punched out the ugly thug from earlier.
"I don't go out with family, it's just not me." Ayame smirked, knocking over another idiotic male that had recklessly run towards her. "Why? Jealous?"
"What? No!"
Another assassin fell to the floor.
"You seem like it."
Yet another assassin was punched senselessly to the white tile floor.
"I'm not! It's just . . ." He trailed off as he was caught off guard by a goon about two sizes two small to hurt him.
"You better not be, because if we're getting into that . . .what about you and Pillow Girl?"
"So now we're back to that?" Kouga growled, punching another attacker from the side, not losing eye contact with Ayame.
"No, I'm just saying," Ayame sighed, seeming to lose some of her fire, "Don't get started on it because I wasn't the one that moved on so fast to Pillow Girl and thanked you for leaving."
Kouga paused, ridding himself of the remaining goon that still wished to fight him.
~Flashback~
"Kouga!" Kouga rolled down his window and looked out.
"Hey Ayame, I thought you had the day off."
"Oh, yeah, I do," Ayame smiled, looking up at Kouga with her bottle green eyes. He noticed some of their curious sparkle was absent.
"What's up then?"
"I have some news," Ayame took a step closer to Kouga and sighed, "I got promoted." Kouga's cerulean eyes sparkled with pride.
"That's great! What to? Captain of our Division?"
Ayame shook her head, "Higher."
Kouga's smile broadened, "Vice President of Operations?"
Ayame shook her head once again, "Boss."
"Gods Ayame, I'm so proud of-"
"In America."
Kouga's smile disappeared with a look of confusion.
"It's just that I lived there for a few years before coming out here and they're looking for a top agent who knows their way around the Japanese agencies, since they're teaming up with them for the missions of the others. You know? Miroku and Kag? Since I have so much experience and am bilingual they offered me the job and wouldn't let me refuse."
Kouga stayed silent, allowing everything to sink in.
"I'm sorry," Ayame whispered. A single tear trickled down her cheek, sparkling in the moonlight. "I'm sorry."
Kouga got out of their car and unconsciously wrapped his arms around her, "It'll be ok, don't cry. I've never seen you like this. You should be . . .happy." He forced the words through gritted teeth, hoping to Kami-sama they were believable.
Seemingly they were.
"I'm going to miss you," Ayame whimpered, "I'm leaving you and I don't when I can see you again!"
She didn't know, but with each word a little bit of him crumbled.
It was true.
All of it.
She'd have too many responsibilities to come visit, he had to take care of all of his as well.
There just wasn't a way.
That's when it happened.
All of the rationale left him, deserting him in his own pool of sadness and anger.
That was when he released her, got back into his car, and slammed the door.
"Kouga? What is-"
"Go. Don't come back. I-I never want to see you again." With that, he ripped out of the garage into the night.
~End Flashback~
***
Sesshoumaru opened the door, allowing some of the venomous vapors to escape and cause everyone outside to cough involuntarily.
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagura gasped, "What in all the hells?"
"You didn't come." He stated obviously. Kagura smirked, she hadn't known him this long and not picked up on his mannerisms. He had been worried and come.
"Where's Rin?" Yura jumped in, grasping the youkai's shirt with hopeful eyes.
"With Jaken," Sesshoumaru said, seemingly uneasy about his decision.
*
"Sit down and shut up girl!" Jaken growled, "Just because he said no marks doesn't mean I can't hit you!"
Rin scowled, crossing her arms defiantly and sticking out her tongue, "You're no fun."
"Neither are you!"
"Uh huh! Lord Sesshoumaru says I am!"
"No he doesn't!"
"We play Playstation together! I am too fun!" Rin argued, knocking the demon off the curb. Jaken scowled at the girl.
"Since when do you play Playstation together?"
Rin raised an intuitive eyebrow. She was much smarter than her childish appearance let on. "Is Jaken jealous?"
Jaken took a step back, "No!"
Rin alternated eyebrows.
"Shut up."
Rin smirked, "You better be nice to me."
"And why is that?" Jaken grumbled.
Rin picked up a piece of glass, "Lord Sesshoumaru wouldn't want to find me with a cut, would he?"
*
"Jaken?! That *toad* thing?" Yura hissed, "What were you thinking?"
"Of beating him up if she has a scratch," Sesshoumaru said in monotone, shaking the distressed assassin off him. If he didn't know any better he'd think she still thought he liked her after that lie Kagura had told on his first day . . .
Everyone seemed to calm back down, save for Juuroumaru who had been emotionless as Sesshoumaru the entire time.
"What are you all still here for, it seems you're all present," Sesshoumaru said unfazed by the awkward silence.
"Sesshoumaru, take Yura and the others back with you now," Kagura looked at Yura faintly, "She needs to be with her daughter and they aren't safe around Naraku."
"What are you staying for?" Sesshoumaru's hard exterior cracked slightly. "If they're all here . . ."
"Kohaku, revenge, and unfinished business," Kagura gave a faint smile at the youkai, "I'm sorry, but I can't leave yet."
"I'll take them, but then I'm coming back here," Sesshoumaru spoke as if it was a promise, which Kagura was sure it was.
"No." Kagura shook her head, "He'd kill you if he even knew you were here right now."
"Too late musume*."
***
"Kikyo," Inuyasha growled, "This was all a trap, wasn't it? One huge scheme to get everyone after you into one place to kill."
"I'm impressed," Kikyo pulled out a revolver from her side, "You figured out a lot, haven't you?" Inuyasha glared. "Seeing how I'm about to kill you, I'll fill you in on the blanks.
When we were young, Kagome and I came upon a small jewel in our back yard. I realized it was the Shikon no tama, the jewel they thought had been destroyed. I wanted it, but Kagome was always with it, except when she was asleep she would put it in a small tin. When she was asleep I took it and informed Naraku. He offered me the chance I could never have had living with my sister and mother and brother.
Because I held the Jewel my power exceeded his and I received more power and riches by blackmail and threats. Then I attempted to use the Jewel but realized it didn't work for me. My sister had held it for all those years . . .
She was the one who could use it, not me.
So I planned for the day that she would come face to face with me. I could use her to use the Jewel. Then, low and behold my Inu-kun and two others follow. I thought I could allow Naraku the honors of killing off those two after him, and I . . . Would have the pleasure of taking care of you." Kikyo allowed a smile to cross her face.
Inuyasha didn't want to believe it, but he knew, once again, that it was true.
Kikyo aimed her gun, "Oh, one more thing, it wasn't my people who killed your parents. I did it personally."
That was all she had to say.
The nerves that had seconds ago been too stunned to move now sprung to life.
He lunged for her.
Both began fighting ferociously, not caring about anything else.
That was when they came to the window.
Inuyasha knocked Kikyo off of him, causing her to lose what little balance she had regained, as she hit the glass
. . .and it shattered.
Before he could reach it, Kikyo had fallen.
He took the last step and looked down.
There, lay Kikyo's lifeless body.
***
*Musume means daughter.
*Also, the muffled words were; "Get your hand off my mouth."
Oh my god, a cliffy! But . . .
Kikyo's dead! Kikyo's dead! *throws confetti and balloons everywhere*
Kagome: WOOHOO! She went to hell! The bitch went to hell!
Inuyasha: ^_^
Shippou: Question, why'd she go to hell in the beginning if she was a priestess? Wouldn't she go to heaven? It's not like she'd done anything when she wasn't a clay pot . . .
Everyone: Who cares? *continues to party*
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, no matter how late it was. I know I promised, no excuses, I broke it . . . T_T *dodges chairs, tables, and other inanimate objects being thrown towards her* Please forgive me! R&R, thanks.
Ja ne
~Sakura
