A/N: I find it very interesting that when I put down songs that other people wrote, people asked me if I had written them. And yet, when I do write my own song, no one asks. Very interesting

Inuyasha: It's because no one likes it.

Hey!

Inuyasha: It's true.

*holds up reviews* Read em an weep, dog boy!

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Inuyasha and co. I do, however, own the original character that will be making an appearance sometime soon. And I do not own Mistress Nika.

Oh, and this story is rated R for some limey moments and Kag's mouth. Occasionally Inu's. I mean, they are in college.

How does Shards of a Broken Mirror as a title sound? Gah, I'm losing it..

Previously, on To Be Announced: The man looking at his attacker, the man's body jumping as he was shot and the gunshot kept repeating in her head until she finally blacked out.

To Be Announced

Chapter Three

Goodnight, Dear

~ Police station ~

Kagome woke hours later to a veritable zoo of sounds. And, much to her chagrin, her eyes wouldn't open. She ordered her mind to lift her hand to rub her eyes, but it was being rebellious and refused.

She let out a little moan of frustration, when she felt something shift beneath her. The eyelids that had been previously unable to lift were now wide open and staring. At a very bright, very painful fluorescent light. With a cry of pain and indignation, she turned her head into what she thought was the side ofwhatever she was lying on.

She heard a chuckle. But not an ordinary chuckle, no, a rather loud and vibratory chuckle in her ear. She blinked. Then again.

Turning her face back up, but not so much as to stare at that goddamn lamp again, she saw an exhausted yet bemused face looking down at her. She was on someone's lap!!

"Morning, sleepyhead." Kagome recognized that voice.

"Inuyasha?"

"Yes?"

"Where the fuck are we?" Inuyasha's face darkened.

"In the police station." Kagome reared up.

"What? Why-oh. K'so."

Kagome bit her lip as she remembered. The club. The alley. The murder. "Inuyasha?" her voice was soft. Inuyasha's eyes softened and he held Kagome in his arms.

"Yeah?"

"What's going on? Where-where are Miroku and Sango? Who was killed?" she buried her face in Inuyasha's chest. "What's going on?" She sounded so lost, it just about broke Inuyasha's heart. This wasn't the K-girl he knew. This was a rare peek into her soul. She was like a little child.

"Miroku and Sango went to get us some food. They'll be back soon." He motioned with his head. "And we've been waiting for you to get up, so they could question you." Well, he thought, more like I wouldn't let them wake her up. He smiled inwardly at the terrified look on the young deputy's face when he had growled at him to back off. He was sure that his eyes had bled a little red

Kagome's head shot back up, narrowly missing Inuyasha's chin. "They-they don't think I did it, do they?"

"No. But they want to know what you saw. Kagome" His voice trailed off. Kagome looked up at him questioningly. "What did you see?" he asked softly.

Images flashed before her eyes. The alley, the man slumped against the wall, the gunshot.

"It's okay. I'm here. It's alright." She heard her boyfriend's voice pierce through the darkness and she took a deep, steadying breath.

"I went outside for some air. I heard a noise around the corner, in the alleyway. I was curious, so I followed it. "Her voice sounded far away. "When I turned the corner, I saw" Her voice wavered. Inuyasha rubbed her back comfortingly. "There was a man, slumped on the ground, leaning against the wall. Another man stood over him." Her voice started to shake. "He shot him. And I couldn't do anything! I just stood there, while he murdered him! I couldn't do anything" Kagome buried her face in Inuyasha's neck and let loose with dry sobs. She would not allow herself to cry.

"It's alright, baby. It's okay. Did you see their faces?" Kagome shook her head.

"No. They were backlit, I couldn't see any details." Her voice was muffled by the hanyou's neck. Inuyasha nodded, and proceeded to rock her, his K-girl, focusing more on reassuring her than finding the bastard who made his girl feel this way and killing him.

To her credit, Kagome didn't break down at all during the questioning. She told them what they wanted to know, and when one seemed a little too much for the idea of Kagome being the killer for no good reason that she could except that she looked different, she almost got into a fight. Inuyasha was very proud of her. That was his K-girl. Doesn't take any crap from anybody, authority figures included.

Miroku and Sango had returned a few minutes into the interrogation, grumbling about fast food lines. Sango almost burst into the room to defend Kagome when that officer insinuated that she was the killer. Miroku had had to hold her back by the shirt. She calmed down when she saw Kagome had things under control.

The group was exhausted, and all they wanted to do was go home. However, when the police had let them go and they were walking out the door, someone came crashing into it. It was like knocking down Dominos. All the teens went down, yelling and grunting.

"Whoops. Sorry." Inuyasha looked at the girl on top of him. It was a very familiar face.

"Eve! What are you doing here?" came Kagome's voice. The only answer was a series of 'oomph's and 'oofta's as Eve scrambled to her feet. The rest of the group also picked themselves up off the floor.

"Kagome! Are you ok? I heard what happened!"

"It's on the news already?" asked Sango, a tad incredulously.

"Well, no."

"Then how do you know?" Asked Inuyasha.

"Kouga told me." As Eve spoke these words, something very, very fast came rushing into the station, almost knocking everyone over again.

"Kouga?" Kagome's statement of disbelief was lost as Kouga proceeded to yell at Eve.

"I finish telling you what's going on, leave for a moment to get something to eat, and when I come back out, you're gone! You scared the shit out of me! Don't do that!" He cried. Eve bit her lip.

"Gomen nasai. I was worried about Kagome. I wasn't thinking. Forgive me?" Kouga glared suspiciously at Eve for another moment, before breaking down and squeezing the life out of her.

"Er, Kouga...air" Kouga let go and had the grace to look sheepish. Then, he noticed everyone else.

"Oh. Konbanwa!"

"HiEve, what in the world? How did he know?" asked Kagome.

"Who?"

"The Youkai Hotline. The man who died wasn't human. He got the news and told me."

"Who?!"

"The Youkai Hotline?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. The hotline actually worked?

"Yep. Anyway, I came as soon as I'd heard. Are you okay?"

Kagome nodded. "I will be."

"Good. Let's get you back to the dorms then." Everyone agreed and walked out the door, leaving Kouga looking forlorn and muttering a last 'Who?!?!' before dashing after them.

~Somewhere Else~

"She saw you?"

"A little, mistress."

"A little?"

"She couldn't see my face, the light was coming from behind us. But she saw the rest."

"I see."

It was silent for a moment, before the mistress spoke again. Her henchman was trembling in fear, and it annoyed her greatly.

"Follow her. Find out exactly what she knows, then kill her."

"Yes mistress." The man bowed and turned.

"Wait." He stopped. "Make it look like an accident. But make sure her hanyou knows it was I who killed her."

"Yes mistress." The man bowed again and left, leaving the mistress in the dark, to ponder on her own macabre thoughts.

~ One Week Later ~

Kagome cracked her neck before going after the punching bag again. Sweat trickled down her face and she was breathing heavily, a sign that she had been working out for a while. Or, at least, Inuyasha thought so.

"Hey." Kagome jumped, missing the bag.

"Oi! Now look what you made me do!" Inuyasha grinned. Kagome found she couldn't help grinning back. She barely ever thought of it, now. She had returned to her normal life. The police hadn't contacted her again. It had been hard, those first few days, hearing it on the news, seeing it again in her mind. But it had helped that she had classes, and that she had Sango to talk to.

Kagome turned to her hanyou. "Whatcha want so badly you had to interrupt my workout?" Inuyasha studied her. He had always found it amusing that she wore her dark makeup even when working out. He had asked her once why it didn't run. 'The wonders of waterproof makeup.' She had replied. He had just blinked and shrugged, leaving the girl stuff to the girls.

Kagome stood there, hands on her hips, head cocked, her expression adorably confused. Inuyasha decided he was in a romantically aggressive mood right then. Striding purposefully over to her, he pressed his lips firmly to hers. He smirked when she gasped and took advantage of her open mouth.

Once he had kissed her nearly senseless, he stopped and looked down at her. Her lips were wonderfully swollen and her eyes were hooded.

"Lunch?" he asked cheerfully.

"Maybe once my brain starts working again. Right now, it's stuck on fire bad, Inuyasha bishi." Inuyasha grinned widely at that and hoisted her over his shoulder, giving her rump a light pat.

"C'mon, I made it." He took her outside, across half of the campus, and finally deposited her beneath a tree on which he had spread a blanket and picnic basket.

As soon as he put her down, she reared up and kissed him. She nearly knocked him down, as he was crouched precariously on the ground.

"I get to be the aggressive one here." She said fiercely when she let him go.

"Well, now, that's not fair. I think we should split it. I get Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Sunday, and you get Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday."

"That's one day too many."

"So we split Sunday. But, since it's Friday, it's my day to be aggressive. So, sit there and be a good girl, okay?" Kagome wrinkled her nose at him. But, doing that, she caught a whiff of the most delicious smell ever.

"Oh, Kami, my mouth is watering. What is that?"

"My special stir-fry. I made it and brought it out here. It's a miracle it's still warm." Kagome was salivating as Inuyasha brought out bowls, rice and that lovely stir-fry from the basket.

Kagome put some rice in her bowl, and then heaped on the stir-fry. It was chicken, and she dug in enthusiastically. As soon as she'd had one bite, she moaned in delight.

"This is so good! I never knew you could cook! What's in it?"

"Can't tell you. Chef's secret."

"Oh, you! If I wasn't so busy eating your food, I'd be tackling you."

"I'll take that as a compliment."

As they ate, even Inuyasha's spectacular nose didn't find the scent of the man hiding nearby. He watched carefully, trying to decide if he was done here. She had talked to her roommate about that night, but nothing important came out of his listening sessions. She hadn't seen anything. Still, he would stay one more night, listen in one more time, so as to escape the wrath of his mistress if he missed anything.

~ That night ~

Kagome woke in a cold sweat. That was nothing new, it happened every night. The nightmares still plagued her. But there was somethingdifferent about the man this time. His eyesshe gasped. His eyes were silver! They burned icily, boring into her eyes. How had she not noticed? He was a youkai! She must've repressed it or something. But what had made her remember? Turning her head, she looked out the window. And nearly had a screaming heart attack. Crouched on a tree outside her window was a man. His body and face were hidden by shadow but those eyesshe'd recognize them anywhere now. They flashed dangerously, before he was gone.

Kagome collapsed back onto her bed. Had she imagined it? No. He was there. They were watching her. Rolling out of bed, she walked to Sango's bed and flicked on the light.

Sango muttered something that sounded like 'mumphlet' and buried her head deeper in her pillow.

"Sango!" Sango moaned. "Sango!!"

Sango rolled over, opened her eyes and then sat up at the sight of Kagome standing over her in a pair of black silk pants with little Jacks all over it and a white tank top with a picture of Jack's head. (a/n: Jack Skelington, from the Night Before Christmas)

"What is it? Why are you waking me at-" Sango glanced at the clock. "Two in the morning?"

"He was outside the window." Sango was suddenly wide awake.

"Who?"

"The man. The killer. They're watching me, Sango. We have to go to the station." Sango marveled at how calm Kagome seemed. She nodded, stumbling out of bed.

"I'll call the guys." Kagome nodded and shrugged a black bathrobe over her shoulders.

A few minutes later, there was knocking at the door. Sango opened it to see Miroku and Inuyasha. Miroku was dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt, while Inuyasha wore only his sleep pants and his leather jacket. She let them in before Miroku caught her in a big hug.

"Are you okay?" he asked. Sango nodded.

"I was asleep. Kagome saw him." The couple looked over to Kagome and Inuyasha. She sat on the edge of her bed with Inuyasha in front of her, telling him what happened. They watched as he grew angrier and angrier, then as he ran to the window and threw it open, sniffing desperately.

Whoever it had been had hid their scent. He must have known Inuyasha would look. Damn him!

"Inuyasha." Kagome's voice brought him up short. "They were waiting for this. I've got something on them, and they'll want to get me out of the way. We have to tell someone." Inuyasha nodded.

"We'll take my car."

~ Police Station, 2:25 AM ~

All four sat in an interrogation room, waiting for the detective. She was apparently a specialist in youkai murders.

The door opened and all turned. Four pairs of eyes grew big and four sets of mouths fell open.

Inuyasha spoke first.

"Nika?"

A/N: BWAHAHA-*cough hack wheeze* I've given you all a nice long chap, and I felt entitled to give y'all a cliffhanger. Whee hee! You remember her? Well, even if you don't, you will. Guess who else come into the pic? Her mate! Give you one guess

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

HAPPY HAHNUKAH!!!!

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" Male strippers, yes. Inuyasha, no. Inuyasha as a male stripper, and I will severe your head from your shoulders with a spork. And believe me, I can."

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