HI! So this is like my seventh story, and I know I'm just begging for trouble but that's OK because I love all of my stories cause' I think their really unique. Welp, uh, I don't own Inuyasha. This story will probably get really complicated so pay attention to the finer details, if you forget easily I don't suggest you read it.

Steel Bars

' You can die at any moment, but it takes true courage to live.'

CHAPTER ONE

Kagome pushed her hair back. She was in the warden's office, She had been referred to this man after she graduated from Tokyo University at the top of her class, she had always wanted to be a physiatrist but she never thought it'd be for a New York jail. She had to leave everything behind to do this job and she loved the experience, but nothing stopped her from her ultimate goal; to become a cop.

She wiped the sweat from her brow, it was mid summer and the heat was unbearable in the enclosed space of the wardens office. He had a window in his room but there were bars preventing anyone from touching the window. He was wearing a suit and tie; she couldn't see how he wasn't even breaking a sweat. He rubbed his gold-hooped earring on his right ear lobe and smirked.

"Well, Miss Higurashie Your record is seamless. Welcome to New York." He smirked and the whites of his teeth seemed to sparkle.

"Thank you, Mr. Kazana." She shook his hand.

"You start first thing tomorrow." with that she walked briskly out of the prison for two reasons. One to get home, two so she could change her tampon.

"Next time." she told herself. " Get the scented ones." she wrinkled up her nose realizing that she was stinking quite badly of rotten blood. She stopped dead in her tracks as she felt something wet on her butt. She cringed as she twisted her neck to see the dark red spot that had soaked through her tan mini skirt. " Shit." she muttered to herself. She had to walk home that way because she hadn't thought to bring a jacket and she didn't have a car yet.

Upon reaching her apartment she fumbled for the keys and finally opened the lock. She walked in and locked the door behind her. Her box fan was going full blast allowing whatever cool air there may be to pass into her room. She stripped her cloths and started a cold bath. Walking around in her bra and underwear she pressed her next to the freeze and grabbed an ice pop and sucked all the color from the tip of it. She strolled into the bathroom and disgarded her bra, and panties before slinking into the bathtub with her hair pinned up and the ice pop vacuumed into her mouth.

Kagome swiped her security patch to get into the second floor rooms, which held some of the more disturbed prisoners. She walked to the end of the corridor passing all of the inmates who were talking happily amongst themselves at the edge of their bars and stopped only when Kagome had opened the door to see whom it was.

"Are you the new Therapist?" A small boy who looked about twelve asked from his cell pushing back his red hair and pulling up his socks.

"Yes, I am." Kagome answered before disappearing into her new office, which was nicely furnished with a soft and a fancy lounge chair. She had a soda machine in there and her desk was already filled with any imaginable supply she might need. She looked at her schedule. First she would deal with a boy named Shippou then it would go on from there to Kanna, the her sister Kagura, then a man named Sesshomaru, then his half- brother Inuyasha, to Kouga, to his fiancé Ayame, then to Jaktsuo. And all before she could have lunch.

She opened her door and peered outside of it. All of the inmates were still talking against their bars like everything was normal. "Um, Which one of you is Shippou?" she asked.

The young boy with red hair spat at her feet. "Who wants to know?"

" I do." Kagome said. She wanted to add ' duh! Who else do you see here?' but overcame the temptation, he was a boy after all, even if he was in prison.

A Female guard wearing a pink shirt and tight black pants unlocked the cell. Shippou strutted into the room and plopped down on the sofa.

" Shippou?" Kagome asked taking a seat in the nice comfy armchair.

He looked up at her with shimmering green eyes." Yes."

"What's a boy like you doing in a place like this?" she asked him conviently.

" I murdered two people." he said casually like it was no big deal. Kagome inhaled deeply, that had taken her quite by surprise.

Shippou smirked at the reaction. " They deserved it though." Kagome pushed the subject further. But Shippou either wasn't telling or was to painful for him to tell, so she sent him back and told him to bring in Kanna.

"Hello Kanna, my name is Kagome. Why are you in a place like this?" Kagome talked to her gently because she seemed much younger.

" I'm in here because I hurt people. I do bad things. Isn't that why all prisoners are in jail, because at one point in their life they do something bad?" Kanna retorted to this question with the wisdom of a fifty two year old man. Kagome hadn't expected this. The girl had white hair and dark brown eyes that seemed black. She wore the orange prison attire but she had two white flowers in her hair. She said nothing else for the remainder of the time. She sent her back and called for Kagura receiving the same answer to her question as the previous.

When a silver haired-yellowed eyes man name Sesshomaru came in his was willing to tell her everything though.

" I killed a man and his wife. They annoyed me by the way they acted so I thought they deserved to die. I slit them open and hung their corpse from the rafters allowing their guts to hang in their face while they were still alive. I loved it so much, I was sent to jail shortly after I pleaded guilty." He showed no sign of sadness as he said this, no human sign of emotion. She wanted to slap him of hurt him for what he did, but instead clutched her clipboard and sent him on his way.

" Inuyasha why are you here?" she asked the brother to Sesshomaru who had similar features.

" I was convicted of killing my wife. I didn't kill her. But Here I am, while her killer walks free, but when I find him, I'll tear him wide open so That I go to jail for something I did do this time." Kagome sensed a lie in him but she didn't say so, he seemed like the type who lied all the time and she hated liars.

Kouga walked in and took her breath away; he was strong muscular looking with coal black hair and deep baby blue eyes.

'' Kouga what did you do?" Kagome pushed her hair back and smiled at him.

" I killed a rival gang of Kagura's and Sagatory rape for Ayame." he informed her with finesse only he could pull off. Kouga looked over her." Your like a ten." he informed her raking his eyes over her frame. Kagome blushed and didn't like this. "NEXT!" she shrieked.

A girl with red hair and blue eyes walked in a shy manner.

"Okay, So why are you in here Ayame?"

" Because I'm a hooker." she told Kagome as if she said what she was doing was a paper rout.

"Your so YOUNG!" Kagome yelled.

" So! My family needed money. I made enough to support them even now." she itched her head and laid down. " Can I go?" she asked.

Kagome nodded and wrote down the conversation.

Jakutso walked in with his arms crossed stubbornly and a frown on his face. " I'm in here because I'm a pimp. Okay? I'm a Pimp. P-I-M-P, Pimp. I sell Hookers to clients I bet on races, I steal I cheat and I kill, I'm like the modern day Al Pachino, you name it I've done it."

Kagome choked on her own words and he must've thought that was funny because he shrieked laughing.

" I like you little one. Maybe I'll tell you my life story sometime." with that he didn't even wait for her to dismiss him he just walked out, laughing like a madman.

Kagome ran her fingers through her hair." Great. I'm a baby-sitter for three psycho ax-killers, three convicted murders, a pimp and his hooker. What have you gotten yourself into Kagome?"

v I should feel cruel and unusual but I don't.

3/21/04