By: EVL5011
E-mail: Evilwithagun5011@aol.com
Chapter 2: The Agency and the Shikkon jewel
Kagome and InuYasha arrived at the village and left Shippo with Lady Kaede. Once they made certain that there wasn't any threat to the village they headed towards the Bone-Eaters well. Kagome hugged the small black case tightly between in her arms, and InuYasha gave her a strange look.
"So, what's so important about that case?" asked InuYasha in a calm voice, while trying not to sound to interested. Kagome looked at the hanyou and tried to think of a simple way to answer him.
"Its kind of complicated, but I think that Kenshi followed me here only because of the shikkon jewel. And I think these other agents got here because one of them has a shard of the shikkon jewel" Replied Kagome.
"Is that how these other "agents" got here?" asked InuYasha while listening to his surroundings.
"I think, what other explanation could there be?" she answered.
The two arrived at the Bone-Eaters well, and Kagome quickly found a spot to sit down. InuYasha stood over her and kept a vigilante eye as Kagome pulled out the small laptop. Kagome opened the small computer and turned it on again. She entered the password and looked for any information on the Agency, and what they wanted with the shikkon jewel. She navigated through various files and came across one that stood out from all the others. Kagome clicked on the file and found out about the agencies plans for the shikkon jewel. The file read: File#83673: Upon finding various ancient scrolls and translating them, we have concluded that a girl by the name of Kagome will be in possession of the fabled Shikkon jewel. She is to be found and put under surveillance. Kagome finished reading the file and opened the next one, it read: File#83674: We have found a strange dormant youkai, and have contained it. The creature is unlike anything we have seen before; we will attempt to awaken it in a few days. We have also found a small shard, once we picked it up it glowed an eerie purple. We have taken the creature and shard to research facility-32. We have attempted to revive the creature, but have failed miserably. We will try again in a few days. Kagome read through the files as fast as she could; she tried to skip through all of the useless files, but found it intriguing to read them. She opened the final file and commenced reading: One of my companions has made an incredible discovery! The creature has awaked after he put the shard next to the beast. The strange beast attempted to break free and grab the shard; we had a team quickly tranquilize it. With the youkai now awake we have taken various samples from it and started to inject human subjects with the animals blood. Many of the human subjects have died, and the creature is awake again. I'm afraid that we can't control it, so we had it killed. It took eighty bullets to kill it, and we lost five agents while trying to kill it. This was very upsetting to the brass upstairs.
Kagome read through the file and noticed one last entry, and quickly opened the document. File#83675: The cave in which the scrolls were found in revealed one last secret. They say that the young girl that possesses the shikkon jewel is alive in our time. We have sent many agents all over Japan with devices to seek out any strange activity. It seems that this girl, Kagome, has already begun traveling back into feudal Japan. If this is so, we must retrieve the shikkon jewel, its potential as a weapon is immeasurable. We have dispatched a medium sized team to find her and get those crystals. According to the ancient scrolls our first agent will find her and ultimately die in the past. Maybe, we shouldn't attempt to play with the timeline. Regardless of what I think, the Brass upstairs has already sent their team to an area of interest. It seems that there have been surges of power. They have gone to investigate; this will be my last report.
Kagome closed the laptop and set it on the ground, she looked up at InuYasha, who had been looking down at her the whole time.
"What did you find out?" He asked.
"It seems that they knew that Kenshi was doomed to fail, and that's why they sent out this other team of agents. Lets go, before they find us here." Kagome replied, she slowly stood up and felt a terrible burden knowing that all the "Agents" really wanted is the shikkon jewel. Even in her time people are still power hungry; as she stood up the small computer exploded. It sent shards of glass and pieces of plastic flying into the air. InuYasha unsheathed tetsusaiga and moved in front of Kagome. He acted as a shield, and Kagome was in disbelief by his act of courage. InuYasha looked towards the trees and saw three men approaching them.
The three men stepped out of the forest and into the light. InuYasha sniffed the air and noticed that one of them smelled different. The three men measured over six-feet in height, and had physical large builds. Although their faces were concealed behind black masks, he knew that one wasn't the same as the other two.
"So, you killed our sergeant? We're going to have to hurt you! You stupid little half-breed!" yelled the agent in the middle. The three agents looked at each other for a second and removed their masks. The one on the left was a dark haired man, the one in the middle was bald, and the last agent was "different. The agents' eyes were crimson red; and his face stared at InuYasha with an intense look. The agent in middle stepped forward and looked at InuYasha and Kagome.
"I'm sorry, how rude of me. My name is unimportant, but you can call me Urufu. My bald friend there is Hebi, and my red-eyed friend is Kuchikukan. Now that I'm done with introductions, its time for you to die!" yelled Urufu. InuYasha turned his head and whispered to Kagome to get to safety. She ran into the forest and took cover next to some large trees. InuYasha walked forward, being cautious, he raised tetsusaiga into the air and watched the three men. Urufu reached to his back and unsheathed a hidden weapon; it was a razor sharp kyoujin (assassins dagger). The other two men stood back as Urufu slowly moved towards InuYasha. Urufu then lunged at InuYasha and sliced InuYasha across the arm. InuYasha couldn't believe that a mere human was able to move that fast. He quickly reacted and swung tetsusaiga and cut the air; Urufu jumped back avoiding the massive sword.
"I hope that you're holding back kid, because that was pathetic!" Urufu sneered. InuYasha darted towards Urufu and swung tetsusaiga again. Once again he missed, but unknown to Urufu the sword hit a tree. The tree slowly fell back and Urufu was in the way. It fell towards him and gave InuYasha the chance to strike him down. InuYasha swung tetsusaiga at Urufu and sliced him across the chest as he avoided the falling tree. Urufu grasped his chest and looked at his hand; he noticed the blood seeping from the cut. Urufu looked at InuYasha and raised his kyoujin and thrust it into InuYasha's shoulder. The hanyou grabbed Urufu's hand as he pulled out the dagger, and tightened his grip on Urufu's wrist. Urufu shouted in agony as his wrist broke under InuYasha strength. He dropped the dagger and InuYasha pushed tetsusaiga into his ribcage. Urufu's eyes widened as InuYasha pulled the sword upwards; the unsettling sound of breaking bones was heard as he pulled up. InuYasha pulled tetsusaiga out of Urufu, and let him fall to the ground.
The other two men looked at this disturbing site with an expressionless look. Hebi looked at Kuchikukan, and then nodded his head and stepped forward. Kagome looked on from behind a tree as Urufu fell to the ground. She felt uneasy on how comfortable InuYasha was killing another living creature. Hebi stopped and reached to his back and drew a pikkeru (ice-axe); it was a weapon used by ice Oni. As Hebi held the pikkeru in the air, it left a trial of cold mist. Hebi smiled and walked towards InuYasha, who was standing over a dead Urufu. With weapons drawn they both swung and at each other. The two weapons collided with each other; the sound echoed through the forest. Hebi kicked InuYasha in the stomach, and moved back. The hanyou grew upset with mere humans actually striking him. InuYasha took a defensive stance and decided to wait for Hebi to make the next move. Hebi darted towards InuYasha with the pikkeru raised in the air, and quickly swung tetsusaiga vertically. The phantom sword severed Hebi two forearms clean off, and InuYasha now stood with his back turned to the agent. Hebi stopped, and lowered his arms, he gasped in shock as his forearms lay behind him. He slowly turned around and noticed InuYasha standing face to face with him. InuYasha plunged tetsusaiga into the ground and bent over to Hebi's arms.
"It seems you dropped something!" smirked InuYasha as he reached for Hebi's pikkeru. He grabbed the small axe and tightly grasped the weapon. Hebi looked on in horror as InuYasha smiled and raised the weapon into the air. The young hanyou buried the axe deep into the agent's head. Hebi fell to the ground, his head slowly freezing and his body twitching. Kagome walked out from behind the tree and approached InuYasha. The hanyou now had one agent left to kill, Kuchikukan breathed deeply as his two friends now lay dead on the ground.
"Kagome. Didn't I tell you to wait over there? If you get in hurt don't think I going to run over to help you!" InuYasha yelled at Kagome.
"Fine, I just wanted to see how badly Urufu hurt you." She answered. She looked down at the two dead men on the ground, and picked up the kyoujin. She then ran towards the well and reached for the small metal case, and stood behind the well.
InuYasha turned his attention back to Kuchikukan, who had a modern weapon in hand; unknown to InuYasha it was an anti-vehicle rifle. Kuchikukan aimed the weapon at InuYasha and fired, the hanyou jumped into the air as the single bullet tore through the nearby trees. On his way down InuYasha swung tetsusaiga at Kuchikukan, only to have it blocked by the heavy rifle. InuYasha applied his strength on the weapon in hopes of breaking it. The phantom sword slowly began to cut through the heavy rifle, and Kuchikukan pushed InuYasha back. With the anti-vehicle rifle stuck onto tetsusaiga Kuchikukan bit his lower lip and grabbed InuYasha. Kuchikukan grabbed InuYasha by the face, causing him to drop tetsusaiga.
"You broke my weapon! I guess I'm going to have to kill you with my bare hands." Shouted Kuchikukan. He grabbed InuYasha by the throat with his other hand, and put all of his strength into trying to kill the young hanyou. Kuchikukan suddenly released InuYasha, and gave a loud cry. Kuchikukan turned around and noticed Kagome standing in front of him. He reached to his back and pulled out the pikkeru; Kagome had struck him in the spine. He threw the weapon onto the ground and swung his fist at Kagome, but his attack was stopped. InuYasha held Kuchikukan's hand and sliced his throat with his sharp nails, before Kuchikukan could counter. The large man stumbled onto his knees and grabbed his throat and tried to stop the bleeding with his hands.
"How could I lose to some stupid half-breed?" Kuchikukan cried out. InuYasha raised his hand into the air and sliced the agent across the face; a thick mist of blood splattered across InuYasha's face. "I can't lose! I have the blood of a hanshin in me!" Kuchikukan cried out, as blood ran out of his mouth. InuYasha delivered the final blow and put his fist through the agents' chest. Kuchikukan attempted to yell out in pain, but couldn't as his blood overflowed from his mouth. Kuchikukan died on his knees, and InuYasha grabbed tetsusaiga off of the ground. He snapped the anti-vehicle weapon like a twig, and sheathed tetsusaiga. InuYasha walked over to Kagome who lay on the ground in shock, after narrowly being hit in the face.
"Lets go!" shouted InuYasha. Kagome looked up and reached for InuYasha's hand. He grabbed her hand and pulled her up off of the ground.
"Now, I wonder where the last two are hiding? After all one of them has a shard of the shikkon jewel, right?" asked InuYasha. The two walked out of the forest and entered the small village. They waited for an hour and InuYasha hoped that the two remaining agents would come to them.
Meanwhile, in the forest…the two last agents stood over their dead companions.
"Worthless pieces of sh**! It serves them right for taking on the freak without us." Shouted the masked agent. He walked over to the destroyed laptop and handed it to the other agent. "Go back to H.Q., and tell our superiors that we lost four men. Take the jewel shard and take our dead, once you do that get back over here. We'll kill this hanyou ourselves, and bring me the mumei ittou (nameless sword) from the armory. I'll kill that flee-bag with the akuma sword!" Yelled the masked agent. "Yes sir, lieutenant!" replied the agent as he threw the dead into the well. The lieutenant turned towards the sun and watched as it disappeared into the landscape. "Tomorrow you die." Thought the masked lieutenant.
3-14-04
That concludes chapter 2, and I hope you enjoyed reading it. If you have any comments or a review of what you thought of it feel free to write to me. I won't reveal anything about the third chapter; you'll just have to read it when I finish it.