"I thought you were taking me home," Kagome said as she peered outside her
window. Inuyasha had turned off the highway once they had reached the slums
of the city. Run down buildings were everywhere while they literally drove
through a street overrun with trash and garbage rats. Most people watched
as they drove by, sitting on their doorstep and smoking or playing cards.
"I will," Inuyasha replied in a bored tone. "After I'm done in here."
They parked outside an abandoned factory. It was the most pathetic thing Kagome ever set her eyes on. The majority of windows were cracked, there were holes in the brick walls and the color had went from brick red to nearly black. Surrounding it was a rusty locked gate that looked as if it was collapse any second.
Inuyasha got out of the car taking the keys with him. He looked at Kagome, who was in the process of unbuckling her seatbelt, and rolled his eyes.
"Stay here." Was all he said before skipping out on her reply and walking over to the fence and studying it carefully. He tucked the keys in his pocket and gripped the chain links of the fence, one hand holding higher then the other. He bounced lightly a few times before pulling himself up, feet pushing him up and over to the other side. He landed in a crouch potion and stood, dusting his hands off.
"Still got it," he murmured before walking inside.
Kagome watched the whole thing and turned away with a roll of her eyes. What a hoodlum he was...
^______^ (Sexy hoodlum)
He should have taken her home, packed his shit, and stayed with Kikyo. He should have hired some whore off the street to play as the pregnant bitch. BUT NO! He just had to go and forget that he needed to pay a few grand to Naraku today. He just had to be short a few hundreds didn't he? Damn him and the brain damage his cigarettes had caused.
He kicked open the door of the abandoned glue factory and sneezed a few times as a thick cloud of dust hit him.
"Hey snitch!" he said and sneezed again, stepping in and letting the door close behind him. The place noticeably darkened, but the light from the broken windows and huge gaping holes made it possible to see.
"SNITCH! Get your ass out here!"
His voice echoed throughout the empty building. He leaned against an old and rusty machine and tapped his foot impatiently.
"When you find yourself near a sea of blueberry pancakes?" came a question from seemingly out of nowhere, as it echoed through the whole building.
"Drown 'em in strawberry syrup" came Inuyasha's reply.
The echo laughed. "Welcome back half-ling."
Inuyasha snorted. "Get out here you half-pint hacker."
A ball of pink with a wide cross-eyed expression came floating down from the a hole in the roof, a small farting sound coming out as it descended, like a balloon slowly losing air. When it landed it turned into a puff of smoke before disappearing, leaving a little demon boy.
"Long time no see." The boy said and mockingly bowed. "Would have thought they sent you up the river by now."
Inuyasha nudged the kitsune with his foot. "Don't get your hopes up, Shippou. The day I go to jail is the day you die."
"Damn," Shippou muttered. His eyes were baggy for a ten-year-old demon and he was covered in dust. The clothes he wore were torn and patched up in many places and his tail shook involuntarily as small patches of fur floated off.
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "When's the last time you got our tune up? Your breaking down again." He said as he nudged the kid with his foot. "If you were human I'd feel bad for you."
Shippou swiped at his foot. "Well I'm not." He said crossly. "I'm a half- ling. Like you. Only smarter." He smiled at the thought and blinked several times, an action that made Inuyasha scowl.
"Hey!" he said. "Don't go hacking into my records or anythin'. I don't want you lookin' up a thing until I tell you to."
Shippou continued to blink rapidly. "Your not my master or my boss. Naraku is, and as far as your records are concerned, they've been pulled from the police database. Your clean."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. So Naraku had already given him half of what he wanted? And he hadn't even delivered the Midoriko file yet. Which reminded him...
"Enough of that," Inuyasha said, crouching down so he could nearly be at the kid's height. "I need a favor."
-___________- (I know your confused right now...All will be explained in the next chappie...It kinda takes a Sci-Fi twist)
"Your late." Naraku welcomed his most trusted employee.
"I know." Sesshomaru replied.
"Care to grace me with you reason why?"
Sesshomaru raised a hand so that Naraku could see. Slowly he brought it up to his mouth ands sucked the tip at each finger on his right hand, one by one.
"You were late because eating food?" Naraku asked in what could have been disbelief. Or a brief feeling of small respect. Sesshomaru was either very brave or very stupid...No one showed up late when working for him and kept their job...especially because they were being a glutton.
Sesshomaru smirked. "I was eating," he said in a pleased voice. "But it wasn't food."
There was a knock on the door before it opened, and Kagura walked in with a few papers in her hand.
"These are for you-"
"Give them to Sesshomaru," Naraku said with a wave of his hand. "How was your trip?"
Kagura eyed Sesshomaru and walked over to him, handing him the papers and looking at Naraku. "Fun. We had to kill out a few people who tried to raid our supplies...I got blood all over my newest pair of shoes."
"How unfortunate for you," Naraku said. "Well you can get a new pair when you go back next Monday."
Kagura's mouth opened.
Sesshomaru smirked. Hadn't she just done that a few minutes before? He opened his mouth to comment but received a dark glare from Kagura.
Perhaps this wasn't the right time?
"But...But why?"
Naraku looked sharply at her. "Because now we're having a war with the people you killed in America. Apparently one of the little bastards was the son of your providers. So you get there and you fix it."
Kagura walked over to his desk and slapped a hand down. "Who gives a shit if we don't get speed from America anymore?" she asked. "We have Europe, Asia, Jamaica-"
"Especially Jamaica," Sesshomaru added his two cents.
"- and lots of other countries," Kagura finished off. "Who cares if we lose just one?"
"I do." Naraku said firmly. "And what I say goes. If you don't get back there and fix what you caused I will have your head on a platter, the knife and fork included."
"Well you can just eat me then," she replied. She turned sharply . "Don't say a word." She told Sesshomaru.
Scowling he closed his mouth. If he did say something, he would never hear the end of it next time they were supposedly "stuck" in the elevator once they got to work.
Of course Sesshomaru was very "surprised" when he had found that he'd "accidentally" pressed the emergency break. So he suggested that they stay close together until it started up again...Eventually, after twenty-seven minutes, the break was released and they made their way to work.
By the time they got to their floors they were both out of breath...
"I won't go." Kagura said firmly. "I'm tired of dealing with those idiotic American filth!"
"Now now," Naraku said. "Americans aren't idiotic...just slow. As for the filthy part..." his thoughts drifted to the heart of New York City where he remembered a sewer rat had winked at him and the pigeons never flew away when he walked past them. Someone was not training those street varmints correctly. The rats and pigeons here were practically traumatized by the mere sight of Naraku. He gave off the vibe of death... "Well that can stay," he said. "But as far as your concerned, Kagura. You will go back to America next week and will not return until we are all at peace...and if that doesn't work, kill them all."
Kagura clenched her fist. "You can just kiss my ass-"
Sesshomaru opened his mouth to comment. "It's quite smooth,"
"Like a baby's bottom, I'm sure." Naraku remarked.
Kagura looked at them both, her face the color of fire, and stormed out, nearly managing to knock the papers out of Sesshomaru's hand.
Nearly.
The door slammed behind her and they were left in silence.
Sesshomaru stood there a few seconds before shrugging and reading the papers he'd been handed.
"Fifty thousand yen says you never hit that with Kagura again," Naraku said as he wrote down a note. It was strange how he didn't put any emotion into it at all.
"You're on." Sesshomaru replied as he crumpled up a paper, threw it in a trash bin and pressed a button on Naraku's desk. Fire blazed out from the bin in a small flame and continued burning, Sesshomaru reading, crumpling, and tossing each paper.
"What are those?"
"Your taxes."
"Ah. Continue on then."
^_________^ (Yes, this does matter in the story)
"So where is it?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha got back into the car.
"Where's what?" Inuyasha asked calmly.
"Your lighter."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and turned to her. "What are you talking about?" he asked.
Kagome looked him in the eyes. "You told me, after I ran back to the church, that you left your lighter on the pew...where is it?"
"When did I..." Inuyasha trailed off.
Oh. Shit.
"RIGHT! Oh yeah my lighter," Inuyasha said, searching his pockets.... Where was it?
"I mean, if your planning to smoke a rubber cigarettes, you need to have a lighter don't you? I mean because you get aggressive when you don't smoke...that's why you beat up innocent people like the preacher, right?"
It had taken a while for Kagome to connect one thing from the other. The cigarette joke was to leave her behind so he could come back and do something horrible to the preacher and his church...and why else would he drag her there, then to plan to mug the place? He was an escaped convict, Kagome was sure of it.
Although she was slightly off from hitting the nail on the head...
Inuyasha tried remaining calm. He actually tried to think like Sesshomaru, trying not to let anything show in his face.
Kagome stared at him. "Why is there blood on your hand?"
"I cut myself," he replied automatically.
"Doing what?"
Inuyasha suddenly turned on her. "Why are you interrogating me?" he snapped. "Why don't you mind your own fucking business every once in a while?"
"Yeah ok, so then you can rob me blind? I DON'T think so." Kagome snapped in the same tone of voice.
Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore. He got out of the car and slammed the door, walking away.
"Fuck you!" was his reply.
"You always storm off when you're confronted?" Kagome yelled at him.
Apparently he did.
-______-
Chapter sucks but its all vital to the great plot. I apologize for the OOCness of al characters even though I love them this way...
"I will," Inuyasha replied in a bored tone. "After I'm done in here."
They parked outside an abandoned factory. It was the most pathetic thing Kagome ever set her eyes on. The majority of windows were cracked, there were holes in the brick walls and the color had went from brick red to nearly black. Surrounding it was a rusty locked gate that looked as if it was collapse any second.
Inuyasha got out of the car taking the keys with him. He looked at Kagome, who was in the process of unbuckling her seatbelt, and rolled his eyes.
"Stay here." Was all he said before skipping out on her reply and walking over to the fence and studying it carefully. He tucked the keys in his pocket and gripped the chain links of the fence, one hand holding higher then the other. He bounced lightly a few times before pulling himself up, feet pushing him up and over to the other side. He landed in a crouch potion and stood, dusting his hands off.
"Still got it," he murmured before walking inside.
Kagome watched the whole thing and turned away with a roll of her eyes. What a hoodlum he was...
^______^ (Sexy hoodlum)
He should have taken her home, packed his shit, and stayed with Kikyo. He should have hired some whore off the street to play as the pregnant bitch. BUT NO! He just had to go and forget that he needed to pay a few grand to Naraku today. He just had to be short a few hundreds didn't he? Damn him and the brain damage his cigarettes had caused.
He kicked open the door of the abandoned glue factory and sneezed a few times as a thick cloud of dust hit him.
"Hey snitch!" he said and sneezed again, stepping in and letting the door close behind him. The place noticeably darkened, but the light from the broken windows and huge gaping holes made it possible to see.
"SNITCH! Get your ass out here!"
His voice echoed throughout the empty building. He leaned against an old and rusty machine and tapped his foot impatiently.
"When you find yourself near a sea of blueberry pancakes?" came a question from seemingly out of nowhere, as it echoed through the whole building.
"Drown 'em in strawberry syrup" came Inuyasha's reply.
The echo laughed. "Welcome back half-ling."
Inuyasha snorted. "Get out here you half-pint hacker."
A ball of pink with a wide cross-eyed expression came floating down from the a hole in the roof, a small farting sound coming out as it descended, like a balloon slowly losing air. When it landed it turned into a puff of smoke before disappearing, leaving a little demon boy.
"Long time no see." The boy said and mockingly bowed. "Would have thought they sent you up the river by now."
Inuyasha nudged the kitsune with his foot. "Don't get your hopes up, Shippou. The day I go to jail is the day you die."
"Damn," Shippou muttered. His eyes were baggy for a ten-year-old demon and he was covered in dust. The clothes he wore were torn and patched up in many places and his tail shook involuntarily as small patches of fur floated off.
Inuyasha crossed his arms. "When's the last time you got our tune up? Your breaking down again." He said as he nudged the kid with his foot. "If you were human I'd feel bad for you."
Shippou swiped at his foot. "Well I'm not." He said crossly. "I'm a half- ling. Like you. Only smarter." He smiled at the thought and blinked several times, an action that made Inuyasha scowl.
"Hey!" he said. "Don't go hacking into my records or anythin'. I don't want you lookin' up a thing until I tell you to."
Shippou continued to blink rapidly. "Your not my master or my boss. Naraku is, and as far as your records are concerned, they've been pulled from the police database. Your clean."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. So Naraku had already given him half of what he wanted? And he hadn't even delivered the Midoriko file yet. Which reminded him...
"Enough of that," Inuyasha said, crouching down so he could nearly be at the kid's height. "I need a favor."
-___________- (I know your confused right now...All will be explained in the next chappie...It kinda takes a Sci-Fi twist)
"Your late." Naraku welcomed his most trusted employee.
"I know." Sesshomaru replied.
"Care to grace me with you reason why?"
Sesshomaru raised a hand so that Naraku could see. Slowly he brought it up to his mouth ands sucked the tip at each finger on his right hand, one by one.
"You were late because eating food?" Naraku asked in what could have been disbelief. Or a brief feeling of small respect. Sesshomaru was either very brave or very stupid...No one showed up late when working for him and kept their job...especially because they were being a glutton.
Sesshomaru smirked. "I was eating," he said in a pleased voice. "But it wasn't food."
There was a knock on the door before it opened, and Kagura walked in with a few papers in her hand.
"These are for you-"
"Give them to Sesshomaru," Naraku said with a wave of his hand. "How was your trip?"
Kagura eyed Sesshomaru and walked over to him, handing him the papers and looking at Naraku. "Fun. We had to kill out a few people who tried to raid our supplies...I got blood all over my newest pair of shoes."
"How unfortunate for you," Naraku said. "Well you can get a new pair when you go back next Monday."
Kagura's mouth opened.
Sesshomaru smirked. Hadn't she just done that a few minutes before? He opened his mouth to comment but received a dark glare from Kagura.
Perhaps this wasn't the right time?
"But...But why?"
Naraku looked sharply at her. "Because now we're having a war with the people you killed in America. Apparently one of the little bastards was the son of your providers. So you get there and you fix it."
Kagura walked over to his desk and slapped a hand down. "Who gives a shit if we don't get speed from America anymore?" she asked. "We have Europe, Asia, Jamaica-"
"Especially Jamaica," Sesshomaru added his two cents.
"- and lots of other countries," Kagura finished off. "Who cares if we lose just one?"
"I do." Naraku said firmly. "And what I say goes. If you don't get back there and fix what you caused I will have your head on a platter, the knife and fork included."
"Well you can just eat me then," she replied. She turned sharply . "Don't say a word." She told Sesshomaru.
Scowling he closed his mouth. If he did say something, he would never hear the end of it next time they were supposedly "stuck" in the elevator once they got to work.
Of course Sesshomaru was very "surprised" when he had found that he'd "accidentally" pressed the emergency break. So he suggested that they stay close together until it started up again...Eventually, after twenty-seven minutes, the break was released and they made their way to work.
By the time they got to their floors they were both out of breath...
"I won't go." Kagura said firmly. "I'm tired of dealing with those idiotic American filth!"
"Now now," Naraku said. "Americans aren't idiotic...just slow. As for the filthy part..." his thoughts drifted to the heart of New York City where he remembered a sewer rat had winked at him and the pigeons never flew away when he walked past them. Someone was not training those street varmints correctly. The rats and pigeons here were practically traumatized by the mere sight of Naraku. He gave off the vibe of death... "Well that can stay," he said. "But as far as your concerned, Kagura. You will go back to America next week and will not return until we are all at peace...and if that doesn't work, kill them all."
Kagura clenched her fist. "You can just kiss my ass-"
Sesshomaru opened his mouth to comment. "It's quite smooth,"
"Like a baby's bottom, I'm sure." Naraku remarked.
Kagura looked at them both, her face the color of fire, and stormed out, nearly managing to knock the papers out of Sesshomaru's hand.
Nearly.
The door slammed behind her and they were left in silence.
Sesshomaru stood there a few seconds before shrugging and reading the papers he'd been handed.
"Fifty thousand yen says you never hit that with Kagura again," Naraku said as he wrote down a note. It was strange how he didn't put any emotion into it at all.
"You're on." Sesshomaru replied as he crumpled up a paper, threw it in a trash bin and pressed a button on Naraku's desk. Fire blazed out from the bin in a small flame and continued burning, Sesshomaru reading, crumpling, and tossing each paper.
"What are those?"
"Your taxes."
"Ah. Continue on then."
^_________^ (Yes, this does matter in the story)
"So where is it?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha got back into the car.
"Where's what?" Inuyasha asked calmly.
"Your lighter."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and turned to her. "What are you talking about?" he asked.
Kagome looked him in the eyes. "You told me, after I ran back to the church, that you left your lighter on the pew...where is it?"
"When did I..." Inuyasha trailed off.
Oh. Shit.
"RIGHT! Oh yeah my lighter," Inuyasha said, searching his pockets.... Where was it?
"I mean, if your planning to smoke a rubber cigarettes, you need to have a lighter don't you? I mean because you get aggressive when you don't smoke...that's why you beat up innocent people like the preacher, right?"
It had taken a while for Kagome to connect one thing from the other. The cigarette joke was to leave her behind so he could come back and do something horrible to the preacher and his church...and why else would he drag her there, then to plan to mug the place? He was an escaped convict, Kagome was sure of it.
Although she was slightly off from hitting the nail on the head...
Inuyasha tried remaining calm. He actually tried to think like Sesshomaru, trying not to let anything show in his face.
Kagome stared at him. "Why is there blood on your hand?"
"I cut myself," he replied automatically.
"Doing what?"
Inuyasha suddenly turned on her. "Why are you interrogating me?" he snapped. "Why don't you mind your own fucking business every once in a while?"
"Yeah ok, so then you can rob me blind? I DON'T think so." Kagome snapped in the same tone of voice.
Inuyasha couldn't take it anymore. He got out of the car and slammed the door, walking away.
"Fuck you!" was his reply.
"You always storm off when you're confronted?" Kagome yelled at him.
Apparently he did.
-______-
Chapter sucks but its all vital to the great plot. I apologize for the OOCness of al characters even though I love them this way...
