After that night with Inuyasha, I knew, my life would not be the same from this day on. Was it a mistake? That, I cannot answer. Although deep in my heart, I knew, if it happened to come out, my life would be over… and the walls I so carefully put up would come crashing at my feet. It may even jeopardize my relationship with Kouga. Oh yes, Kouga. Guilt had crashed upon me when I realized I had forgotten all about Kouga. How could I have? I love the man; I should've been spending every waking moment of my life thinking about him. But here I am, going on life pretending as a single woman, and worst of all, thinking of another.

Inuyasha.

I hated him for coming into my life, but a part of me also thanked him. I felt young again, rejuvenated, and… content? I hated myself for feeling so. I knew I was suppose to be happy, but not with Inuyasha. I was suppose to be filled with laughter and peace… with Kouga. But I wasn't.


The young woman working furiously at her half polished shoe, took a pause to wipe her drenched forehead. The sun wasn't so much as blazing today, but Kagome couldn't help but feel anxiety pouring into the pit of her stomach. Something was nagging at her at the back of her mind, but she refused to reach out to it. Instead, she spent her entire morning scrubbing away at her shoes, which looked more worn than before. But she had to take her mind off everything. Off …

"Kagome?!"

The woman in question froze in her seat, and on reflex, jerked her head towards the sound of attraction. The door.

A loud pounding followed, and Kagome had to mentally kick herself when she felt her hand tingle, signaling it was going to her side to pull her gun out. She knew who it was. He was no harm.

Or was he?

All night she couldn't sleep. Instead, she spent her time thinking of him. They've only met for a few days, only went out for a few times, but she still went with him. It was then she realized, she knew nothing about him! He could be a crook, a murderer, a wanted criminal… but she still went with him. What made her give in so easily? What made him so special that made her forget about Kouga… her supposed love and future husband.

"Kagome!" his voice pierced through the door, and Kagome resisted flinching. Guilt was gnawing away at her stomach, and she wanted to do everything but open that door and let him in. After that night, she couldn't face him, and she didn't want to face the reason why either.

"Kagome!" His voice came at her again like bullets to a target, and she could hear his patience begin to creep away. She didn't dare breathe. Maybe if she pretended nobody was home, he'd leave.

She listened as the pounding on the door got louder, and his voice more persistent. Then suddenly, he stopped. Kagome's ears strained to hear if he was still there, but there was no sound. Breathing a sigh of relief, Kagome prepared to get up and check outside, before a loud pound crashed against her door once again.

She almost squealed and fell on her behind, but she clapped her hands over her mouth with widened eyes. Did he hear her?

"Kagome, I can see your shoes out here! You're home and I know it! Open the door right now… if you don't, I'll break it down I swear!"

Something in his tone made her believe, and with the blink of an eye, she was up on her feet and at the opened door, revealing a weary looking Inuyasha and an angry looking one at that.

"Why didn't you open the door?" his first question was, as he glared at her, confirming her doubts whether he was really angry or not.

Kagome shrugged casually, feigning boredom. "D-didn't hear you." She flinched visibly when a tremor stuck her voice, and Inuyasha caught it.

"You know very well you heard me. What's going on? You know we have to talk…"

Kagome flung her body towards him with fury blazing in her eyes. "Talk about what?! There's nothing we have to talk about, nothing at all! Everything's a dandy, why talk and ruin it all?" Her voice was getting higher and higher, but she couldn't help it. Reality was beginning to surface, and she didn't like it one bit. Not one bit.

The man in front of her looked at her with the same fire burning in his eyes; he clenched his teeth and pointed at her. "You're just trying to hide from it all, and you know it. You know after what we did we have to do something about it!"

"What did we DO, Inuyasha?!" The girl cried, helplessness evident in her voice. She looked at him with a desperate plea in her bright orbs and Inuyasha had to fight giving in.

But yet, the look on pleading face softened him, and the anger rolling around in his gut almost subsided. Almost.

Looking at her as if he hadn't felt a thing, he crossed his arms, showing his biceps and workout results for the world to see. Kagome had to bite back a groan of exasperation, hating him for showing his beauty at a time like this. It would've been a lot easier to hate him if he was ugly.

"You know exactly what we did Kagome! What if something happens after this?! How can you just drop it like it's a regular routine to wake up and brush your teeth? Come on, get real! It isn't and you know it!" he argued as he slapped his hand in his palm, as if it would wake her from her desperate dream. Dream that none of this had ever happened to neither of them.

Suddenly, Kagome got weary. Her body gave in, and she could feel the energy in her system drain. "Inuyasha, please leave." She said quietly, as she began to massage her throbbing temples.

But Inuyasha didn't listen, and went on yelling at her. "LEAVE?! How can I leave when all this is happening! You can't shrink away from your responsibilities, this was part of you too! How can I just lea…"

Closing her eyes, Kagome had to concentrate on standing still. The background was ringing and a vile taste began to rise in her throat. So, without thinking, she blurted out the one thing she should have told him from day one. "Inuyasha, I have a fiancé."

Her eyes snapped open, and her hand immediately went to her mouth. What did she just say? She knew that she had to tell him, but the other half of her was screaming. She didn't know why, but the first thing on her mind was what Inuyasha was thinking.

Quickly looking up, she glanced briefly at his face. It was blank. There was no expression written on his face, and she was sure, she had hurt him. Right?

He opened his mouth to speak, and she was certain another bloody argument would sure ensue. She looked down at her feet, not expecting a simple:

"Really?"

She looked up at him, surprised. His face was blank with a small raise in his brows. But no anger. No frustration, no extreme shock, nothing. Just a simple, 'really?' and a raise of his brows.

Not knowing what to do, she just nodded and kept her eyes at the ground. "Yes."

"Do you love him?"

She nodded quickly to his answer. She wished he would drop the subject. For some reason, she wasn't comfortable talking about Kouga in front of him.

"What's his name?"

It was more of a statement than a fact, and she hesitated to tell him. "K-Kouga."

"Alright then," In his voice, was a hint of challenge. She looked at him slightly, and saw him with the same crossed arms and blank expression. But this time, she was sure she saw a hint of amusement in his eyes.

"His name is Kouga right? Fine. Say 'I love Kouga.'. Come on, say it."

Suddenly, something he said made Kagome angry. Real angry. She didn't know why, but what he was forcing her to do, just made her plain angry.

With a glare, she said through clenched teeth. "Inuyasha, please, can you not?"

"No." was his blunt reply. All it did was increase her temper.

"Leave."

Inuyasha looked at her with surprise evident in his eyes. "What?"

"I said leave." Her voice began to grow hard, and Inuyasha could barely make out her face with her dark bangs covering her eyes. Nevertheless, he felt it was wise to leave. He asked his question, and he got the answer.

Without saying a word, he turned around and stalked out of her door. She could hear him starting up his jeep, and the sound of wheels running down the path disappeared.

When the last roar of his engine faded, Kagome's body immediately gave in and slumped itself against her apartment door. She slid down from it, and when she reached the bottom, she cried.


"Move."

Was the simple word that sent the five officers scurrying into their positions.

Kagome and four other of her colleagues pressed themselves against the apartment walls and glanced at Madam Kaede, a short aged woman. Surprisingly, this plain old looking old lady was leading the pack. You could look at her and not know she was the best police officer that ever lived in Tokyo, arresting over a thousand of criminals and fighting for justice for forty years.

Everybody at the academy looked up onto her, even though she was the shortest of them all. With her small beady eyes, long graying ponytail and an eye patch for a blinded right eye, Madam Kaede would've been the first target for a criminal. That's what she wanted you to think.

Moving swiftly up to a door marked 315, the chief nodded at Kagome to knock on the door. Each officer had a gun out and was crouched down, ready to attack their target: Kagura Kamikaze – drug courier wanted for years.

Knocking lightly onto the wooden door, Kagome cleared her throat, "Housekeeping.

There was a loud crash inside and an incoherent curse, before somebody yelled out in a muffled voice, "What is it?!"

"Housekeeping." Kagome repeated as she clutched onto her gun a little tighter. Something in the woman's voice warned her to be cautious. She sounded like a feisty one.

Suddenly, the door swung open, and a woman covering a yawn stood before them. Kagome sucked in her breath when she saw her face. She was utterly beautiful. With perfectly pinned up dark hair and crimson eyes, heart-faced shape and hourglass figure, Kagome knew she would be the spotlight in a crowd. But that wasn't her duty to analyze her targets out. It was to catch them.

"Police!" She shouted as she pointed her gun at the courier.

Gasping, the woman snapped up from her sleepiness and slammed the door behind her. Kagome fired, but there was no sound, indicating that she had missed. She kicked the door open, and when it was, she found the woman running out of the room with a large green bag clutched in her hands.

"Kagura! Freeze!" She yelled as she chased after the fleeting woman with her gun poised in the air.

Kagome watched as Kagura's figure disappeared inside the kitchen and quickly, she backed against the wall and listened attentively.

There was no sound, and Kagome knew Kagura was hiding.

She took a peek, as her workers rushed up to her and crouched behind her. There was nothing in sight, and so carefully, she stepped inside the kitchen with her gun locked, her finger brushing against the trigger.

Slowly, her lone footsteps made her way across the kitchen, and she glanced back at her colleagues who were stooping at the entrance of the door. And when she turned, something hard and cold slammed against her face.

Pain pierced through her head as she felt herself fall backwards with a surprised cry. The back of her head made contact with the tiled floor, and she could feel blood spurting out of her forehead. A loud commotion sounded behind her as the sound of something metal clanked against the ground.

"Freeze!" she heard Kaede order, and a gasp was heard.

"Drop the bag now!" Kaede's voice continued through her throbbing head. Something soft dropped to the ground, and she breathed a sigh of relief on the floor, knowing that Kagura had been cornered.

"Kagome, are you alright?" One of her officer friend's said to her through all the haze. She struggled to stand, and she felt a hand pull her to her feet. She stood up, wobbly but standing, and nodded, holding her bleeding forehead. In the corner of her eye, she could see a metal garbage bin sitting nicely at the bottom of Kagura's feet. She glanced up at woman, flinching as blood got in her eyes. And just that action caused her to miss Kagura narrow her eyes, and mouth: 'You will pay.'


"Why should I speak?" a velvety voice echoed through the dark room.

"It'll keep you alive, for one thing." Another spoke, wise and calm sounding.

"For how many years?"

The old woman leaned forward towards the handcuffed criminal across the table from her. "No more than ten. 20 kilos of pure heroin is not a small crime."

She watched as a flash of regret passed through her eyes, and continued to watch as they hardened once again. After a long period of silence, Kagura's shoulders sagged, and her composure just left itself. Kaede gave a small smile. Kagura had given up.

"At the Taiheiyo Enkai Ferry."

"Be more specific."

"Tomorrow at the Taiheiyo Enkai Ferry 7:30pm sharp, there will be a man."

"Who is he?"

"I don't know. He'll be carrying an elephant duffel bag, and I will say to him: "Do you know if it will rain today?" and he will answer: "No, but tomorrow it will." Then we exchange bags after said signals."

"Thank you, Kagura." Madam Kaede wrote the last detail down on her pad, and nodded at the two officers. As they stood Kagura up and took her away, Kaede reached across to the phone and dialed a number. "Kagome? We have a job for you."


Kagome pulled her jeans jacket tighter on her body, as the wind seeped between the smallest cracks of her clothing. She squinted to see ahead of her and stumbled upon the ferry with the oversized green bag Kagura had been carrying yesterday. It contained approximately $90,000 and Kagome wondered where Kagura had gotten all that money for so much heroin. Oh right, she must've sold as well.

The boat unexpectedly rocked, and Kagome had to struggle to stay on her feet without exposing her gun at her side. She wrapped the hem of her jacket tighter around her weapon and swallowed. She looked around, noticing everybody was paying attention to their own thing. Then she began to walk around, trying to spot a man with an elephant duffel bag.

It was nearing the end of the ferry trip, and Kagome was starting to get desperate. Where was the man? Did he bail out on her?

"It's going to rain today."

Kagome jerked around at the sound of the voice, only to find a man speaking to a young child in his arms. "So mommy doesn't want you to go near the edge of the boat, okay?"

She sighed in relief, but began to tense when she realized the dock was approaching and she had yet to find the dealer she must catch. She walked through the crowds, looking at every bag, and then, she saw it.

A man bent down and unzipped a large canvas bag. He looked around for a second, and then took out a second bag. It had an elephant on it.

Kagome's heart began to race, this must be him! She approached cautiously, ready to defend herself it needed, and then he turned.

Her hand immediately flew to her mouth, and the bag dropped from her hands.

"I-Inuyasha?"


Authors Note: Holy moly, I am so sorry for the long delay! But here it is and I'm not so happy with it. Like dude, it's only the third chapter and I'm already slacking off. But I promise, I will work harder on the next chapters, really! But I'll warn you now, my updates might take longer than before, because I have to juggle with schoolwork, exams and other extracurricular activities that I've joined. But I won't forget you guys! Don't worry : ) So, same old drill by the way, simply review me to make me smile! And thanks to RedxRain for editing, she's the best !

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