Tears and Smiles
Chapter 7: Tire Tracks
By: Elbereth
Rated PG-13 for violence, occasional language, and fluff
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha
Review Responses:
Devidoo-glad you like it(gods i hope i get ppls names right)
MysticalAngel- this soon enough....the miroku thing will be explained in a sec
Fhero-sry if you dislike my using cusswords
~~~***~~~MAJOR A/N~~~***~~~
OK people, thank you to MysticalAngel who pointed out the name Miroku in the last chapter. I've got two versions of Tears and Smiles and the first six chapters had to have character changes. I knew I didn't get all of them so please excuse that if you see it. Luckily that was the last chpter I had to go through with the character changes on. On with the fic
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Kagome watched the empty road carefully. She and Sesshoumaru, and her family, and even some of their friends were hiding in the old house out in the forest. She and her friends that were staying with them had been forced to stop going to school ever since last week when the police came searching, interrogating all of their friends and trying to arrest some. Jii-chan had come back and was hiding out with them. The people who were staying at the small house had grown greatly in numbers. Sango, Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippou, Rin, and Kohaku were now staying with them. The other members of the group weren't as highly involved and had been told to stop calling for the time being, only until the danger was over.
That's how she found herself in Yokohama again with jii-chan. He'd wanted to try and contact the DHS workers here, but as it turned out, they were in on Yugasagi's plot too. Kagome had overheard someone saying they'd found the Higurashi girl and to contact Yugasagi. Instead of waiting around and being caught Kagome had slid into an empty hallway and went to a computer room. She had hacked her way onto their system and found all the cities being paid off by Yugasagi. Almost every city in Greater Japan was being paid off, but one caught Kagome's eye. Izumo was still not on that list. It was under a different listing.
DENIERS was the title of the list. Kagome scanned the paragraph and found that the DENIERS list was for those cities who refused any amount of money offered, saying that they had higher moral value than that. As it turns out, the workers in DHS didn't exactly know about it, just that they were to refer anyone who came about Sesshoumaru or whoever Yugasagi was after to a certain worker, who then turned them in to Yugasagi. So as it turned out, it was all just some hidden thing that was only part of the internal workings of DHS. The police was different though. The police stations held by the money was only Tokyo's police. The other cities had refused.
Kagome slipped the lists and information into her bag and slipped back out to the exit in the back of the building. She ran back to the hotel a few blocks away and made jii-chan get ready to leave. They would be leaving after dark, and had hid the car for good measure. That was where Kagome was now. She stood on the sidewalk of the empty street waiting for jii-chan to signal her over. That's when she saw his flash light blink twice, the signal to hurry over. Kagome stepped out into the street and started across when a car engine clicked on and was revved up. Kagome turned to see a car come barreling around the corner and a very well known person in the driver's seat.
Kikyou looked like a maniac as she pressed down on the gas pedal, closing in on Kagome. Kagome stood like a deer, caught in the headlights, entranced by them. Someone shouted and brought Kagome to life. She jumped out of the way of Kikyou just seconds before impact. Kikyou looked angry as she swerved in the car, but Kagome didn't notice. She jumped into the driver's seat of jii-chan's car, him already being on the passenger's side. She turned the key and the engine clicked on. She revved it up in neutral for a second before putting it in forward and flooring it. There was a second where the two cars almost hit, but they slid by each other with only mere inches separating them.
Kagome sped onto the highway with Kikyou tailing her, so Kagome did the first thing that came to mind. She waited until Kikyou was going as fast as them and then when the bitch was right beside them she braked. Kikyou flew ahead of them by a few miles, giving Kagome enough time to make a U-turn and make it to the scenic route. Kikyou was left dazed and confused. Kagome smiled to herself as she and jii-chan made their way back to Tokyo. Kagome drove most of the night before they reached the house. Sesshoumaru, Rin, Kohaku, Sango, Inuyasha, Shippou, and Miroku were sitting on the front porch talking when she pulled in. "Hey you guys."
"Hey Kagome-chan!" Squealed Sango and Rin together. Kagome gave a rendition of what happened in Yokohama. Everyone seemed surprised Kagome could pull the stunts she pulled with her jii-chan's car. Kagome went to sleep that night with a crimson face after all the compliments and praises her friends gave her for her driving.
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Everyone sat around the small table trying to see the lists Kagome had. They were the lists of cities who had people working for Yugasagi. They went trough the information over and over, and everyone decided Izumo was their best bet, if they could get their before Yugasagi caught them. That's when Mrs. Higurashi burst in with the fact that they needed more groceries. Kagome and Sesshoumaru nodded and stood up. "We'll leave you guys to go over this stuff. Sesshoumaru and I need to go get the groceries ok." Everyone nodded and Sesshoumaru grabbed his keys. The couple drove into Tokyo on high alert, watching for cops from every direction. Sesshoumaru had tucked all his hair up into one baseball cap, which was pretty hard to do with how much hair he had.
They pulled in at the grocery store when Kagome saw the car again. She grabbed Sesshoumaru's arm and nodded toward it. The tag on the front of the car said Kikyou. Both tensed slightly and Kagome sighed. "Stay in the car, and keep it warmed up. I'm going to go in." Sesshoumaru looked like he was about to protest when Kagome put a finger to his lips. "I know what I'm doing Sesshou-chan." Sesshoumaru nodded, surprised that Kagome used a nickname for him. He turned and went back to the car while Kagome went inside the grocery store, looking around cautiously. She spotted Kikyou in one section and tailed her carefully with her own shopping cart. She put things in it that was needed. By the time Kikyou was leaving Kagome was still stacking up the cart with enough food for everyone.
Finally Kagome got to a register and paid for everything. She proceeded to walk outside carefully. She pushed the cart up to Sesshoumaru and his car and was beginning to load the things when she heard an engine rev. Kagome silently thought, 'Oh god not again. How many times is she gonna try this?' What she said was, "Sesshoumaru, continue loading the groceries for me." Sesshoumaru nodded and Kagome walked out into the pull out area of the parking lot. Kikyou was behind the wheel of her car with an evil grin plastered on her face. "This time I'll get you, you little bitch!" With that the car lurched forward and Kagome ran the opposite direction of Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru could only watch helplessly, realizing Kagome had taken the keys with her.
Kikyou had pressed the gas pedal all the way to the floorboard when she saw the truck starting into the parking lot. She could only scream and try to hit her breaks when the person in the truck jumped out of the car. Kikyou, being the stupid git she was, didn't realize that she could have jumped and hit the truck. The next thing everybody knew, there was an explosion. Something had been ignited in the truck just before the driver had jumped out, which caused the lovely explosion that followed the wreck. Kagome glanced at the person who had jumped out of the car and nearly screamed. Yugasagi stood there smirking at his work. He looked at Kagome and stalked toward her. Kagome, in turn, ran back to Sesshoumaru's car, handed him the keys and jumped into the passenger seat. The two teens shot out of the grocery store parking lot and back to the highway, which they used to get back to the house in the woods.
The two arrived back at the house and got inside still breathing hard from the run in with Yugasagi. "He nearly caught Kagome!!" Sesshoumaru said after catching his breath and slowing his heartbeat back down to normal. Kagome leaned against the door then sighed and said, "Yeah, but now let's just get the groceries inside." Everyone nodded and they went in and out to get grocery bags, in the end getting everything inside. Sesshoumaru flopped onto the moldy couch and sighed. Kagome sat on the floor next to his head. All of their friends gathered around and soon they were discussing how to get to Izumo. That's when Sango snapped her fingers. "We need computers with internet access. Anyone bring a laptop?" Everyone shook their heads.
"Ok..... We need to get at least five computers out here." Kagome groaned. "The cops are after every single one of us Sango. Where are we gonna get five computers?" Sango shrugged but Inuyasha and Miroku spoke up. "We have at least three we can use. I would call and tell my parents, but they bugged their phone lines with tracking devices. We can still go get them though." Kagome brightened. "Hey and I have one." Everyone sat there for a second wondering about the final computer when Sesshoumaru spoke. "My old house. There are three computers still in there since Yugasagi has to live somewhere."
Everyone agreed and soon there were two cars headed into town. Sesshoumaru, Kagome, and Rin in one car, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango in the other. Rin and Sango were going because someone had to keep lookout at both houses. The cars split up when they got to the road that led to the shrine. Kagome put on a pair of blue tinted sunglasses and pulled her hair back. She tucked her hair into a hat like Sesshoumaru had and then Rin yanked out a book to look inconspicuous. She sat at the foot of the steps while Sesshoumaru and Kagome ran up them. Kagome unlocked the front door and led Sesshoumaru to the office her mother used.
They unhooked the computer and grabbed everything, and for once Kagome was grateful she knew how to get internet and things like that up and running. They carried the computer down the shrine steps and put it in the trunk of Sesshoumaru's car. Rin was already in the back seat and Kagome and Sesshoumaru jumped in swiftly, already hearing a car coming. They took off toward Yugasagi's house and were very pleased to find he was gone, and the key was in it's usual place. They went inside and Sesshoumaru went into his room first. Kagome worked on getting that one while Sesshoumaru went to get another one. They slipped out with two of the computers and went back in to get the final one. Kagome carried everything out and they had gotten all of it loaded when Sango called Kagome's cell phone with her own.
"Kagome, we're gonna need a couple of TVs." Kagome groaned. "How many is a 'couple'?" Sango sighed. "Three." Kagome groaned again. "We've got one Kag-chan. We just need two more." Kagome sighed. "Alright. We'll meet you back at the house." With that she hung up and turned to Sesshoumaru. They were around the corner from Yugasagi's house just in case he came home. "We need two TVs. I've got one back at the shrine we can snatch, but we need one more." Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's get the one in my room." Rin was still sitting in the backseat of the car when she said, "Hey take one of these." Kagome held out her hand and Rin gave her a walkie talkie.
Kagome smiled and then she and Sesshoumaru went back into the house. They went up the stairs quietly and were in Sesshoumaru's room when Rin's voice came over the walkie talkie. "Kag/Sess we got a problem." Kagome pressed the talk button and spoke into the walkie talkie. "What's wrong Rin?" Rin's voice came over the walkie talkie. "Yugasagi just drove by. He didn't recognize me or the car but he should be getting there any second." That's when they heard the car door slam shut. "Ok Rin we'll be back soon." With that Kagome turned the walkie talkie off. She looked at Sesshoumaru who was listening at his door intently. He could hear Yugasagi trump into the house and then up the stairs. He walked by their door with Kagome and Sesshoumaru both holding their breath. That's when they heard him pick the phone up and call someone. Kagome, being very brave, lifted the phone in Sesshoumaru's room to her ear silently. And made Sesshoumaru stay as quiet as possible. Luckily Yugasagi was a heavy breather and didn't hear her.
He dialed the number and the phone only rang once before a male voice picked up. "Moshi moshi." Kagome felt like she knew the voice. "Ah, Hiten. Good to hear from you. Have you found Sesshoumaru yet?" Their was shuffling over the phone and Kagome was glad because she needed that time to catch her breath. Hiten worked for Yugasagi, but wait, he hadn't asked about her, maybe she could use this to her advantage. "No sir. I haven't found either Inuyasha, Miroku, or Sesshoumaru. Is there anyone else you want me to look for?" There was a breath and then, "No that will be all Hiten. Oh and please call Yura and tell her that I got rid of Kikyou."
"Yes sir." There were two clicks and then Kagome put her phone down silently. Sesshoumaru already had a small pulley system set up to get the TV out the window. They waited until they could hear Yugasagi snoring a few doors away before lowering the TV. Then Sesshoumaru crawled out while Kagome stayed inside. "Come on Kagome. His naps are never long." Sesshoumaru whispered. Kagome shook her head. "We have to try and find some more out about his underground business that we might not find on the internet." Sesshoumaru sighed. "Hold on. Tell Rin to come get the TV." Kagome nodded and told Rin over the walkie talkie. Rin proceeded to appear from around the corner. She took the TV back to the car as Sesshoumaru hauled his pulley system back into his room.
Kagome waited as he opened the door without so much as a creak, lots of practice obvious. He proceeded to go to Yugasagi's room that the door was wide open so you could see into it. Yugasagi wasn't in there, but he was downstairs and snoring so loudly the walls vibrated. Sesshoumaru started to go through the desk with a laptop on it while Kagome rifled through the dresser. Sesshoumaru hissed at some stuff and pulled out a bunch of thick file folders. Kagome gasped and helped him get all of the files out. They laid them on the bed and continued their search. Sesshoumaru got online on the laptop and tried to get into the homepage Yugasagi had, but it was password protected so that only people who worked for Yugasagi could get onto it.
Kagome finished her search through the dresser and moved to the closet. She opened the door and more file folders that were bound together came toppling out. Sesshoumaru picked up the giant stack of folders, which since they were bound together none of the papers spilt out of. He set them on the bed with the rest of it and they continued to look through the closet together. Kagome found some of Nikki's things still in their, and immediately put them on the bed. Anything they could salvage they would.
Soon they were hefting the files to the foot of the stairs. "Should we go out the door or what?" Kagome whispered so quietly that Sesshoumaru almost couldn't hear her, almost. He shrugged and pointed to his room, but to their horror the sheets he'd used had partially ripped from the weight of the TV. They looked down the stairs and listened to Yugasagi's horrendous snoring. Kagome looked between her two choices of a broken pulley or taking the stairs and possibly getting caught by Yugasagi. Instead of risking it using the pulley Kagome started down the stairs in a catlike ease. She was stealthy and graceful as she eased down the stairs, her steps feather light so as not to make the floors creak. They had just made it to the front door when the snoring lightened and they heard a yawn. Of all times for him to wake up he chose the moment they were at the front door. The irony of it all was just too great.
Sesshoumaru opened the door and held it for Kagome as she carried some of the files out. Somehow they'd managed to get every file into their arms so they wouldn't have to go back again. She turned and took the ones in his arms as Yugasagi came around the corner to see them there. He started after them when Sesshoumaru slammed the door in his face and ran after Kagome. They managed to get to the car before Yugasagi came charging after them. Kagome finally had enough light and a moment where everything in time seemed to slow down so she could study what he now looked like. He was thin, surprising for the fact that he was an alcoholic. His hair hadn't changed from the light brown it had always been and his eyes, the eyes that haunted some of her nightmares, were still those bloodshot strangely orange eyes.
As soon as it seemed Kagome was done studying the man time lurched into its natural speed again and she scrambled into the convertible as Sesshoumaru fumbled with the keys. Yugasagi was at the end of the car and he seemed to be trying to strangle Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru shoved the key into the ignition and started the car, flooring it when the engine roared to life. Yugasagi had a moment where he tried to hold onto the car, but he soon let go and yelled at them from where he was standing. Sesshoumaru pulled in at the shrine steps and pulled out just as fast. The cop that checked every four hours was heading up the steps to the shrine. They once again parked around the corner and Rin took her post of distracting the man while Kagome and Sesshoumaru went to get the TV.
Rin didn't have a tough time getting the cop's attention. She simply started screaming about a robber and the cop went running after the invisible robber. Sesshoumaru and Kagome were back quicker than ever and soon the group was off back to the base in the woods. They arrived to find everyone milling around in the living room. Miroku, Inuyasha, Kohaku, and Shippou went out to Sesshoumaru's car and started carrying in the computers. Then came the TVs. Kagome, Rin, and Sesshoumaru carried the file folders in and soon the living room had turned into a real headquarters. Sango and Kagome seemed to know the most about computers, even though Kagome had never had a personal one, so they hooked everything up and got internet established. Then the TVs were hooked up to everything on the computers, etc.
"Umm....Sango? Why do we need the TVs exactly?" Asked Kagome as she looked at all the equipment in the living room. "There are video clips on the internet that everyone will need to see. There's already a TV in one bedroom and an itty bitty one in the kitchen. We needed three more to put in here, the bathroom, and the other bedroom. If we find a clip now, no matter where anyone is they'll be able to see what we're doing or what the video is. With the way Yugasagi talked about his underground corporation I needed at least five computers so that they couldn't track all of them if we hacked in at once. All these computers are set to their old houses, that's their address. If we all hack in at once only one of the houses will be hit. Besides that, we've got quite a few different things we have to investigate."
"Does this mean most of us will be working on a computer for the next few days?" Asked Miroku. Sango nodded and everyone sighed. The next few days were going to be all too long.
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So how do you like it. YAY Kikyou is dead!!! I know it was kinda sadistic how I handled the Kikyou situation, I think the Anita Blake novels are rubbing off on me.... Neway.... Need some more reviews so I can get the next chapter out. No more reviews no more chapters!! Ja ne!!
Elbereth
Chapter 7: Tire Tracks
By: Elbereth
Rated PG-13 for violence, occasional language, and fluff
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha
Review Responses:
Devidoo-glad you like it(gods i hope i get ppls names right)
MysticalAngel- this soon enough....the miroku thing will be explained in a sec
Fhero-sry if you dislike my using cusswords
~~~***~~~MAJOR A/N~~~***~~~
OK people, thank you to MysticalAngel who pointed out the name Miroku in the last chapter. I've got two versions of Tears and Smiles and the first six chapters had to have character changes. I knew I didn't get all of them so please excuse that if you see it. Luckily that was the last chpter I had to go through with the character changes on. On with the fic
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Kagome watched the empty road carefully. She and Sesshoumaru, and her family, and even some of their friends were hiding in the old house out in the forest. She and her friends that were staying with them had been forced to stop going to school ever since last week when the police came searching, interrogating all of their friends and trying to arrest some. Jii-chan had come back and was hiding out with them. The people who were staying at the small house had grown greatly in numbers. Sango, Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippou, Rin, and Kohaku were now staying with them. The other members of the group weren't as highly involved and had been told to stop calling for the time being, only until the danger was over.
That's how she found herself in Yokohama again with jii-chan. He'd wanted to try and contact the DHS workers here, but as it turned out, they were in on Yugasagi's plot too. Kagome had overheard someone saying they'd found the Higurashi girl and to contact Yugasagi. Instead of waiting around and being caught Kagome had slid into an empty hallway and went to a computer room. She had hacked her way onto their system and found all the cities being paid off by Yugasagi. Almost every city in Greater Japan was being paid off, but one caught Kagome's eye. Izumo was still not on that list. It was under a different listing.
DENIERS was the title of the list. Kagome scanned the paragraph and found that the DENIERS list was for those cities who refused any amount of money offered, saying that they had higher moral value than that. As it turns out, the workers in DHS didn't exactly know about it, just that they were to refer anyone who came about Sesshoumaru or whoever Yugasagi was after to a certain worker, who then turned them in to Yugasagi. So as it turned out, it was all just some hidden thing that was only part of the internal workings of DHS. The police was different though. The police stations held by the money was only Tokyo's police. The other cities had refused.
Kagome slipped the lists and information into her bag and slipped back out to the exit in the back of the building. She ran back to the hotel a few blocks away and made jii-chan get ready to leave. They would be leaving after dark, and had hid the car for good measure. That was where Kagome was now. She stood on the sidewalk of the empty street waiting for jii-chan to signal her over. That's when she saw his flash light blink twice, the signal to hurry over. Kagome stepped out into the street and started across when a car engine clicked on and was revved up. Kagome turned to see a car come barreling around the corner and a very well known person in the driver's seat.
Kikyou looked like a maniac as she pressed down on the gas pedal, closing in on Kagome. Kagome stood like a deer, caught in the headlights, entranced by them. Someone shouted and brought Kagome to life. She jumped out of the way of Kikyou just seconds before impact. Kikyou looked angry as she swerved in the car, but Kagome didn't notice. She jumped into the driver's seat of jii-chan's car, him already being on the passenger's side. She turned the key and the engine clicked on. She revved it up in neutral for a second before putting it in forward and flooring it. There was a second where the two cars almost hit, but they slid by each other with only mere inches separating them.
Kagome sped onto the highway with Kikyou tailing her, so Kagome did the first thing that came to mind. She waited until Kikyou was going as fast as them and then when the bitch was right beside them she braked. Kikyou flew ahead of them by a few miles, giving Kagome enough time to make a U-turn and make it to the scenic route. Kikyou was left dazed and confused. Kagome smiled to herself as she and jii-chan made their way back to Tokyo. Kagome drove most of the night before they reached the house. Sesshoumaru, Rin, Kohaku, Sango, Inuyasha, Shippou, and Miroku were sitting on the front porch talking when she pulled in. "Hey you guys."
"Hey Kagome-chan!" Squealed Sango and Rin together. Kagome gave a rendition of what happened in Yokohama. Everyone seemed surprised Kagome could pull the stunts she pulled with her jii-chan's car. Kagome went to sleep that night with a crimson face after all the compliments and praises her friends gave her for her driving.
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Everyone sat around the small table trying to see the lists Kagome had. They were the lists of cities who had people working for Yugasagi. They went trough the information over and over, and everyone decided Izumo was their best bet, if they could get their before Yugasagi caught them. That's when Mrs. Higurashi burst in with the fact that they needed more groceries. Kagome and Sesshoumaru nodded and stood up. "We'll leave you guys to go over this stuff. Sesshoumaru and I need to go get the groceries ok." Everyone nodded and Sesshoumaru grabbed his keys. The couple drove into Tokyo on high alert, watching for cops from every direction. Sesshoumaru had tucked all his hair up into one baseball cap, which was pretty hard to do with how much hair he had.
They pulled in at the grocery store when Kagome saw the car again. She grabbed Sesshoumaru's arm and nodded toward it. The tag on the front of the car said Kikyou. Both tensed slightly and Kagome sighed. "Stay in the car, and keep it warmed up. I'm going to go in." Sesshoumaru looked like he was about to protest when Kagome put a finger to his lips. "I know what I'm doing Sesshou-chan." Sesshoumaru nodded, surprised that Kagome used a nickname for him. He turned and went back to the car while Kagome went inside the grocery store, looking around cautiously. She spotted Kikyou in one section and tailed her carefully with her own shopping cart. She put things in it that was needed. By the time Kikyou was leaving Kagome was still stacking up the cart with enough food for everyone.
Finally Kagome got to a register and paid for everything. She proceeded to walk outside carefully. She pushed the cart up to Sesshoumaru and his car and was beginning to load the things when she heard an engine rev. Kagome silently thought, 'Oh god not again. How many times is she gonna try this?' What she said was, "Sesshoumaru, continue loading the groceries for me." Sesshoumaru nodded and Kagome walked out into the pull out area of the parking lot. Kikyou was behind the wheel of her car with an evil grin plastered on her face. "This time I'll get you, you little bitch!" With that the car lurched forward and Kagome ran the opposite direction of Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru could only watch helplessly, realizing Kagome had taken the keys with her.
Kikyou had pressed the gas pedal all the way to the floorboard when she saw the truck starting into the parking lot. She could only scream and try to hit her breaks when the person in the truck jumped out of the car. Kikyou, being the stupid git she was, didn't realize that she could have jumped and hit the truck. The next thing everybody knew, there was an explosion. Something had been ignited in the truck just before the driver had jumped out, which caused the lovely explosion that followed the wreck. Kagome glanced at the person who had jumped out of the car and nearly screamed. Yugasagi stood there smirking at his work. He looked at Kagome and stalked toward her. Kagome, in turn, ran back to Sesshoumaru's car, handed him the keys and jumped into the passenger seat. The two teens shot out of the grocery store parking lot and back to the highway, which they used to get back to the house in the woods.
The two arrived back at the house and got inside still breathing hard from the run in with Yugasagi. "He nearly caught Kagome!!" Sesshoumaru said after catching his breath and slowing his heartbeat back down to normal. Kagome leaned against the door then sighed and said, "Yeah, but now let's just get the groceries inside." Everyone nodded and they went in and out to get grocery bags, in the end getting everything inside. Sesshoumaru flopped onto the moldy couch and sighed. Kagome sat on the floor next to his head. All of their friends gathered around and soon they were discussing how to get to Izumo. That's when Sango snapped her fingers. "We need computers with internet access. Anyone bring a laptop?" Everyone shook their heads.
"Ok..... We need to get at least five computers out here." Kagome groaned. "The cops are after every single one of us Sango. Where are we gonna get five computers?" Sango shrugged but Inuyasha and Miroku spoke up. "We have at least three we can use. I would call and tell my parents, but they bugged their phone lines with tracking devices. We can still go get them though." Kagome brightened. "Hey and I have one." Everyone sat there for a second wondering about the final computer when Sesshoumaru spoke. "My old house. There are three computers still in there since Yugasagi has to live somewhere."
Everyone agreed and soon there were two cars headed into town. Sesshoumaru, Kagome, and Rin in one car, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango in the other. Rin and Sango were going because someone had to keep lookout at both houses. The cars split up when they got to the road that led to the shrine. Kagome put on a pair of blue tinted sunglasses and pulled her hair back. She tucked her hair into a hat like Sesshoumaru had and then Rin yanked out a book to look inconspicuous. She sat at the foot of the steps while Sesshoumaru and Kagome ran up them. Kagome unlocked the front door and led Sesshoumaru to the office her mother used.
They unhooked the computer and grabbed everything, and for once Kagome was grateful she knew how to get internet and things like that up and running. They carried the computer down the shrine steps and put it in the trunk of Sesshoumaru's car. Rin was already in the back seat and Kagome and Sesshoumaru jumped in swiftly, already hearing a car coming. They took off toward Yugasagi's house and were very pleased to find he was gone, and the key was in it's usual place. They went inside and Sesshoumaru went into his room first. Kagome worked on getting that one while Sesshoumaru went to get another one. They slipped out with two of the computers and went back in to get the final one. Kagome carried everything out and they had gotten all of it loaded when Sango called Kagome's cell phone with her own.
"Kagome, we're gonna need a couple of TVs." Kagome groaned. "How many is a 'couple'?" Sango sighed. "Three." Kagome groaned again. "We've got one Kag-chan. We just need two more." Kagome sighed. "Alright. We'll meet you back at the house." With that she hung up and turned to Sesshoumaru. They were around the corner from Yugasagi's house just in case he came home. "We need two TVs. I've got one back at the shrine we can snatch, but we need one more." Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's get the one in my room." Rin was still sitting in the backseat of the car when she said, "Hey take one of these." Kagome held out her hand and Rin gave her a walkie talkie.
Kagome smiled and then she and Sesshoumaru went back into the house. They went up the stairs quietly and were in Sesshoumaru's room when Rin's voice came over the walkie talkie. "Kag/Sess we got a problem." Kagome pressed the talk button and spoke into the walkie talkie. "What's wrong Rin?" Rin's voice came over the walkie talkie. "Yugasagi just drove by. He didn't recognize me or the car but he should be getting there any second." That's when they heard the car door slam shut. "Ok Rin we'll be back soon." With that Kagome turned the walkie talkie off. She looked at Sesshoumaru who was listening at his door intently. He could hear Yugasagi trump into the house and then up the stairs. He walked by their door with Kagome and Sesshoumaru both holding their breath. That's when they heard him pick the phone up and call someone. Kagome, being very brave, lifted the phone in Sesshoumaru's room to her ear silently. And made Sesshoumaru stay as quiet as possible. Luckily Yugasagi was a heavy breather and didn't hear her.
He dialed the number and the phone only rang once before a male voice picked up. "Moshi moshi." Kagome felt like she knew the voice. "Ah, Hiten. Good to hear from you. Have you found Sesshoumaru yet?" Their was shuffling over the phone and Kagome was glad because she needed that time to catch her breath. Hiten worked for Yugasagi, but wait, he hadn't asked about her, maybe she could use this to her advantage. "No sir. I haven't found either Inuyasha, Miroku, or Sesshoumaru. Is there anyone else you want me to look for?" There was a breath and then, "No that will be all Hiten. Oh and please call Yura and tell her that I got rid of Kikyou."
"Yes sir." There were two clicks and then Kagome put her phone down silently. Sesshoumaru already had a small pulley system set up to get the TV out the window. They waited until they could hear Yugasagi snoring a few doors away before lowering the TV. Then Sesshoumaru crawled out while Kagome stayed inside. "Come on Kagome. His naps are never long." Sesshoumaru whispered. Kagome shook her head. "We have to try and find some more out about his underground business that we might not find on the internet." Sesshoumaru sighed. "Hold on. Tell Rin to come get the TV." Kagome nodded and told Rin over the walkie talkie. Rin proceeded to appear from around the corner. She took the TV back to the car as Sesshoumaru hauled his pulley system back into his room.
Kagome waited as he opened the door without so much as a creak, lots of practice obvious. He proceeded to go to Yugasagi's room that the door was wide open so you could see into it. Yugasagi wasn't in there, but he was downstairs and snoring so loudly the walls vibrated. Sesshoumaru started to go through the desk with a laptop on it while Kagome rifled through the dresser. Sesshoumaru hissed at some stuff and pulled out a bunch of thick file folders. Kagome gasped and helped him get all of the files out. They laid them on the bed and continued their search. Sesshoumaru got online on the laptop and tried to get into the homepage Yugasagi had, but it was password protected so that only people who worked for Yugasagi could get onto it.
Kagome finished her search through the dresser and moved to the closet. She opened the door and more file folders that were bound together came toppling out. Sesshoumaru picked up the giant stack of folders, which since they were bound together none of the papers spilt out of. He set them on the bed with the rest of it and they continued to look through the closet together. Kagome found some of Nikki's things still in their, and immediately put them on the bed. Anything they could salvage they would.
Soon they were hefting the files to the foot of the stairs. "Should we go out the door or what?" Kagome whispered so quietly that Sesshoumaru almost couldn't hear her, almost. He shrugged and pointed to his room, but to their horror the sheets he'd used had partially ripped from the weight of the TV. They looked down the stairs and listened to Yugasagi's horrendous snoring. Kagome looked between her two choices of a broken pulley or taking the stairs and possibly getting caught by Yugasagi. Instead of risking it using the pulley Kagome started down the stairs in a catlike ease. She was stealthy and graceful as she eased down the stairs, her steps feather light so as not to make the floors creak. They had just made it to the front door when the snoring lightened and they heard a yawn. Of all times for him to wake up he chose the moment they were at the front door. The irony of it all was just too great.
Sesshoumaru opened the door and held it for Kagome as she carried some of the files out. Somehow they'd managed to get every file into their arms so they wouldn't have to go back again. She turned and took the ones in his arms as Yugasagi came around the corner to see them there. He started after them when Sesshoumaru slammed the door in his face and ran after Kagome. They managed to get to the car before Yugasagi came charging after them. Kagome finally had enough light and a moment where everything in time seemed to slow down so she could study what he now looked like. He was thin, surprising for the fact that he was an alcoholic. His hair hadn't changed from the light brown it had always been and his eyes, the eyes that haunted some of her nightmares, were still those bloodshot strangely orange eyes.
As soon as it seemed Kagome was done studying the man time lurched into its natural speed again and she scrambled into the convertible as Sesshoumaru fumbled with the keys. Yugasagi was at the end of the car and he seemed to be trying to strangle Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru shoved the key into the ignition and started the car, flooring it when the engine roared to life. Yugasagi had a moment where he tried to hold onto the car, but he soon let go and yelled at them from where he was standing. Sesshoumaru pulled in at the shrine steps and pulled out just as fast. The cop that checked every four hours was heading up the steps to the shrine. They once again parked around the corner and Rin took her post of distracting the man while Kagome and Sesshoumaru went to get the TV.
Rin didn't have a tough time getting the cop's attention. She simply started screaming about a robber and the cop went running after the invisible robber. Sesshoumaru and Kagome were back quicker than ever and soon the group was off back to the base in the woods. They arrived to find everyone milling around in the living room. Miroku, Inuyasha, Kohaku, and Shippou went out to Sesshoumaru's car and started carrying in the computers. Then came the TVs. Kagome, Rin, and Sesshoumaru carried the file folders in and soon the living room had turned into a real headquarters. Sango and Kagome seemed to know the most about computers, even though Kagome had never had a personal one, so they hooked everything up and got internet established. Then the TVs were hooked up to everything on the computers, etc.
"Umm....Sango? Why do we need the TVs exactly?" Asked Kagome as she looked at all the equipment in the living room. "There are video clips on the internet that everyone will need to see. There's already a TV in one bedroom and an itty bitty one in the kitchen. We needed three more to put in here, the bathroom, and the other bedroom. If we find a clip now, no matter where anyone is they'll be able to see what we're doing or what the video is. With the way Yugasagi talked about his underground corporation I needed at least five computers so that they couldn't track all of them if we hacked in at once. All these computers are set to their old houses, that's their address. If we all hack in at once only one of the houses will be hit. Besides that, we've got quite a few different things we have to investigate."
"Does this mean most of us will be working on a computer for the next few days?" Asked Miroku. Sango nodded and everyone sighed. The next few days were going to be all too long.
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So how do you like it. YAY Kikyou is dead!!! I know it was kinda sadistic how I handled the Kikyou situation, I think the Anita Blake novels are rubbing off on me.... Neway.... Need some more reviews so I can get the next chapter out. No more reviews no more chapters!! Ja ne!!
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