Agent of Silence
"Miroku! Why did you have to say it like that? 'We're going out.'" Sango mimicked Miroku's earlier voice and words, giving him an annoyed glare.
"Sango, Kohaku wasn't listening anyway! Did you even see the look on his face? He was lost in his own world," Miroku stated, as if that should settle it. Where Sango was concerned, this conversation was far from over.
"Miroku! We aren't going out! We are only here to keep an eye on Kagome!" Sango turned her gaze away from Miroku so she wouldn't have to look into his eyes.
"But my dear, we are 'going out' in the literal sense of the words. We have just driven a car out to a fair to have fun! We are out, together. We have gone out." Miroku said each syllable very clearly, but in that charming way he knew would make her give way soon.
Sango spared him one more annoyed glance, totally by-passing his tone of voice, before stating, "We aren't here to have fun! We are here for business, boss's orders! Do you not remember? We are here specifically to watch Kagome and keep her safe," Sango mentally berated herself for ever having risked coming here with him. He was bound to turn this situation around.
"Kagome can take care of herself!" Miroku cried exasperatedly. "And we can help!" Sango shot back.
UHG! He annoyed her to no end sometimes! Always trying to turn the tables on her. Sango clenched her fists at her sides tightly. They were here for Kagome, and they wouldn't be much help if she had to drag an unconscious body along with her while trying to be inconspicuous.
Miroku watched Sango's face closely, awaiting her reaction, but then something caught his eye.
There were three men, one on a side of three different game booths. They would have appeared normal to any passerby. They were wearing comfortable clothing and could be seen resting against the wooden side posts of the booths. But they were entirely too rigid in their poses, ready or waiting for something.
But that would all have been perfectly fine where Miroku was concerned, they could have each been waiting for some one to meet them so they could travel the fair together, until he saw one put his chin down slightly and open his mouth. He was speaking, but there was no one in hearing range . . . and that was because he was talking into his jacket.
"Where to first Sota?" Kagome looked at her little brother. He was about to her chin in height now, and Kagome could comfortably rest her arm around his shoulders.
"The Ferris Wheel!" Sota cried happily, pointing at the huge Ferris Wheel ahead of them. Kagome smiled at him, her eyes holding her sorrow, and grabbed his hand as he tugged her along.
"Are you sure you want to?" Kagome asked when they got there, craning her neck to look up at it.
"Come on Kag, I'm not a little kid, I can do it." Sota said petulantly. "Ok, ok." Kagome said, holding her hands up in defeat, but she smiled none the less and let him lead her to the ticket man.
Two hours later Kagome and Sota had ridden at least a quarter of the rides and Sota didn't seem like he was about to stop there.
"Sota! Can we please get something to eat? I'm starving righthere!" Kagome complained for about the fifth time in the past ten minutes.
"But sis! It's only open until 8! We don't have that long! I want to finish all the rides!" Sota looked at her pleadingly.
"Sota, you know I don't want you going off by yourself! No! Don't give me that look!" Kagome looked at Sota pointedly.
"Kagome! I'm 13! Come on! I think I can take care of myself." Sota grabbed her hand and tugged her over to a table. "You just sit here and eat your food, and I'll be right over there!" Sota pointed to a space ship.
Kagome sighed. She would be able to keep an eye on him, and she saw him so rarely that she really didn't want to resist giving him anything he wanted.
"Fine! But as soon as you are done, Sota, as soon as you are done, I want you right back here." Kagome pointed firmly to her table.
"I got it sis, no running away, no other rides, why don't you just put a bug tracker on me?" Sota grinned and ran off to his ride before Kagome could grab him.
She shook her head sadly; he had no idea how absolutely easy that would be. But she didn't happen to have any on hand at the moment. . .
Kagome just grinned and walked over to the nearest food stand.
Inuyasha opened his eyes groggily.
'3:00? Damn.'
He rolled over to the other side of the bed, pulling the covers with him. He had only slept for an hour! Inuyasha groaned.
He kicked back the covers and got out of bed, his feet padding to his dresser as he looked for something suitable to wear.
'Maybe I'll go to the movies. . .' Inuyasha though sleepily. 'It's only 3, there's got to be something good on.'
But then, Inuyasha didn't really feel like going to the movies. He was too emotional, he might do something he would regret later. 'Like punch somebody.'
Inuyasha sighed, looking at himself in his mirror. His eyes had bags under them, dark bags from lack of sleep over the past 2 days.
He looked back to his bed. He had slept on Kikyou's side. She always had the left.
He turned away suddenly.
It was odd. He didn't feel this deep emptiness that he had felt on the impact of her death, when he had held her, or the deep sorrow he felt when he realized that she wouldn't be coming back.
It had been a long 30 or so hours. He had come to terms with a lot of things.
She was dead. He had loved her. He wasn't going to die because she had. He had just rejoined the CIA. He was going to get revenge. He had a partner. He—wait .
Partner. Kagome!
"CRAP!" Inuyasha yelled.
He pulled on a pair of blue jeans quickly, grabbing a shirt and his car keys as he ran out the door.
'Shit! We were supposed to start that stupid 'know your partner' thing today! Crap!" Inuyasha pulled out of the safe house driveway in his blue mustang convertible.
He was halfway down the highway before he realized.
He had no idea where she was.
"Sango." Miroku grabbed hold of Sango's arm as she was about to walk passed him in her tirade.
"What!" Sango almost screamed, jerking her arm away from him. She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Miroku stiffly.
"Find Kagome," Miroku said briskly.
"What?" Sango said, softer this time and dropping her arms.
Wasn't he just complaining about how Kagome could take care of herself?
"Now, Sango." Miroku stated again. He blinked three times consecutively.
Sango's eyes widened for a second before she gave a stiff nod and walked away from him, making sure to push passed him roughly, bumping him with her shoulder.
So they had company? Well that was just fine, they could all handle that easily enough. It just depended on what they wanted that would tell them how easy it would be.
Miroku pretended to turn around and gape at Sango before starting to mutter to himself and head off towards one of the game booths that a man was standing at.
To any passerby they had seemed to just have a lover's spat. In reality, he had to keep an eye on their company. Hopefully they wouldn't be going anywhere soon.
He didn't know exactly who they were after, or what they were after, but Kagome was an open target with her brother here if they wanted a hostage.
Some one wasn't very diplomatic. This was, by far, not their territory. There wasn't a deal or trade off that he was aware of. So they had to be watching for someone to come along.
They weren't meeting anyone, he was sure, because there were too many of them for that.
They could be backup for something. That would mean that there were more people around here that were actually in the middle of something. But Miroku was sure that Kaede would have told them if something were up, because she had instructed them to watch Kagome.
It was important to their safety that they be informed of all operations taking place in the general vicinity so they could take part or stay out of the way. But this place was too crowded for a fight, so they must have been expecting to catch some one off guard.
Miroku knew he wasn't out of the loop, Kaede would have properly informed them. This had to be a last minute mission on their part.
He just didn't happen to know who 'they' was.
He stalked over to a dart booth, giving the man 3 tickets in exchange for 5 darts. He hit 5 balloons immediately, winning himself a rather larger . . . pink moose.
'Well at least it's hard,' Miroku thought to himself, leaning slightly to the right to get a better view of his visitors in question, hiding himself behind the moose that surprisingly wasn't stuffed but seemed to be made out of something stiff.
The farthest man on the right looked forwards towards a big space ship and lifted his head high, away from his jacket, and set off towards it—leaving the other two men to look discreetly around themselves before they set off diagonally from the first man.
Miroku turned away from the man in the booth and stepped out of line. He made up his mind and set off briskly after the first man, hoping he didn't find something too bad.
Inuyasha grumbled to himself over his radio as he pulled into the parking lot of the county fair. He had had to call Kaede and ask her where Kagome was just so he could get to her.
'Stupid girl. Who comes to a fair? ……Stupid fair..'
He turned off the ignition and stepped out of his car, shutting it and locking it. He felt kind of stupid standing in the parking lot, but he really had no idea where to go. He didn't know where Kagome was—she could be anywhere!
Inuyasha sighed heavily before resigning himself to a long search and stepping forwards towards the gate.
"Souta? Souta!" Kagome was walking the perimeter of the spaceship for the third time. She knew she should have given up by the second, but she thought she'd make sure she hadn't just missed him.
'Brat, he had to have gone off somewhere. Where could he be?' It was getting close to closing time, only 15 more minutes to go. She had only taken 10 minutes to eat, he couldn't have gotten that far.'
The crowd was progressively thinning out and food stands were starting to pack up.
'Food! Maybe he got hungry!' Kagome set off towards the long line of food stands littering the middle of the fair.
The sun was still pretty high and Kagome gave herself about 20 minutes to find him before it got too dark to see properly.
She refused to let herself get worried.
A/N Yeah, I know. Long time no see. Well, here's this chapter, fairly long and I'm starting the next one, no worries. I know nothing really happened here, but I figure I should get something in, ne? So here you go, and I hopefully haven't lost too many. Sorry for the wait you guys. I'll update soon as possible!
