Can you believe how I felt when I saw his face on the ship? It had been a mistake, it had to be. It couldn't be, and I wished that I would fall out of bed and wake up from this nightmare. But when I blinked, I was still standing there, clutching tightly at my big green bag, staring into his amber orbs which were filled with confusion and surprise. He couldn't be the courier… could he? But why? Why was he doing this?

All I wanted to do was to turn around and run for it. Dock was approaching, and I could've ran off easily and pretended that I never saw him. But it was my job, and I had to arrest him. But maybe he wasn't really the courier, maybe he's just another person with an elephant duffel bag. Maybe we can laugh about this later, and joke over how stupid this all sounded. But for some reason, deep inside, I knew, we wouldn't be.


Kagome's hands were trembling as she struggled to hold the bag still. She could feel the cash inside rolling around on one side, ready to fall out of the partially opened zipper… but she couldn't concentrate. All she could see was that Inuyasha standing right in front of her, holding the elephant duffel bag.

He was the courier.

She couldn't believe it. It wasn't true, was it? But he couldn't be! He can't!

Somebody bumped against her and she blinked, waking up from her confused and terrifying-struck thoughts. Kagome looked around her surroundings, and people were beginning to pick up their belongings and gather towards the railing. But Kagome couldn't move.

She had to make sure he was really who he was, who she thought he was. She prayed that he wasn't the one she had to arrest, because it was like losing something. A part of her.

In a quiet, shaky voice, she managed out, "D-do you know if… it will rain today?"

He looked at her with his beautiful eyes, and she wished that he would never answer her. She wished they could stand here forever, holding the moment for eternity. She was scared. She was. She was afraid of what he would say… and what she would have to do.

But finally, he answered, confirming all her questions… and fear.

He looked at her squarely in the eye and whispered, "No, but tomorrow it will."

After the last words left his mouth, Kagome felt her world crash down onto her. It had to be a joke right? Inuyasha couldn't be the courier… he was rich enough, wasn't he? Why must he continue doing this, even though he was obviously loaded with cash and wealth?

She didn't move, but neither did he. People were boarding off the ship, bumping into both of them, but neither dared to move. Finally, it was he who tore away his gaze from her. He looked at the ground, and then back up again.

"Why're you doing this?" his voice came out in a mere whisper, and Kagome couldn't find the right words to answer him.

She swallowed instead and replied to him in just as hoarse whisper, "W-why are you?"

He didn't answer her but something unexplainably flashed across his auriferous eyes. He looked away with sagged shoulders, as if he was ashamed of being exposed to her. For a second, Kagome wanted to hug him and tell him that everything's going to be alright. But she knew herself, it wasn't going to be.

Without thinking, she reached forward and dropped the heavy load right at his feet. He looked up at her with a tint of surprise in her eyes, but then a painfully blank expression swept over his features. He dropped his bag at her feet, and then grabbed Kagome's and swung it over his shoulders, with the same neutral look plastered over his face.

Kagome picked up her bag with her head down and turned to walk away. She just wanted to keep looking at the ground and just get out of there. But something pulled her back, and the next thing she knew was that she was facing him with unshed tears, shimmering in her eyes. "Inuyasha…"

"Get off the boat." He told her.

His eyes were so empty, so dead… Kagome just wanted to cry. Her heart felt as if it had broken in two, and all she wanted to do was to run into his arms and slap him out of his trance. But in the corner of her eye, she could see the police lights flashing. Her crew was here, and she had to give them the merchandise. So very slowly, she nodded and turned around, walking off the boat… ignoring the bloodcurdling screams erupting from the man behind her, as the policemen brutally forced him down, pinning his face and body onto the ground. Arresting him.


"What do you think you were doing!"

Furious and out of composure, the old woman jerked her heads towards the young woman in the chair with her hands knotted tightly in her lap.

Madam Kaede narrowed her eyes at the woman in the chair and continued to bark, "There are so many dangerous people in Tokyo, and you just happen to pick one of the most dangerous! You can't just pick someone up and decide to be their friend! You could've gotten yourself hurt, and threatened the lives of every other policeman in here!"

The woman in the chair, whose head was dropped to her chest, brought a hand up to her face to cover her tear drenched eyes. She was so disappointed and ashamed at herself. Ashamed that she could let herself slip so easily, disappointed in… something she couldn't place her finger on.

Her chest heaved a shaky sigh, and Kaede stopped pacing and softened her angered look at the young woman silently sobbing in the chair. She made her way slowly towards the younger girl and placed a hand on her shoulder. "It'll be alright, I'm sure. But we'll have to talk to the bureau about this… and then let them decide what they want to do. Besides," The old woman smiled warmly at her broken colleague, "you're the best officer anyone knows; they won't be too hard on you. And don't think I won't try to get you out of it as well."

Kagome looked up gratefully at her captain and nodded timidly, "Thank you Kaede."

"Now," Kaede wiped off her motherly gaze and flicked on her working mode. "The boy's family is probably dead worried about him. Could you tell me all the people in his family?"

Kagome nodded at her senior and wiped the last tear streaks from her cheeks, "He has a father and a brother, I've…met them before," She looked away from her senior, ignoring the surprised look on the elder woman's face. "He doesn't have a mother, I think she's deceased."

Kaede nodded and went towards her desk, picking up the phone. "We should contact them; they must be wondering where he went. So, where do they reside?"


"Who do you work for?"

Silence.

"Why take the fall all by yourself, hm?"

No response.

"You think we won't find out!"

The officers glared warningly at the boy in the chair, but he did nothing but merely turn his head to one side. His face was expressionless, and he didn't even make any effort in getting out of the rope, tying his hands behind his chair.

"Why are you doing this?"

He looked at the ground. Silence.

The three men at the table in front of him leaned back and sighed. This was hopeless. No matter what they did, say, bribe, or threatened, he wouldn't say a word.

Before the questioning could continue, the door opened as an officer stepped in and looking around hesitantly. "Oh, the captain's not here?"

One of them at the table shook his head and pointed his pen towards the wall behind him. "No, she's in the next room with Kago…" Everybody snapped their heads towards him, and the officer had to stutter the rest of his answer out. "…n-number 828."

The four constables took a brief glance at the boy at the chair. To their surprise, his eyes were widened and his brows were knotted in the middle. Kago..? Kagome?

Flashes of Kagome's gentle face on the boat pierced his mind, and in the next second, Inuyasha found himself ripping out of the chair and bolting past the officer at the door. Shouts and yells of 'Stop, don't do it!' were called after him, but everything was a big blur to him, and all he concentrated on was to get to Kagome. Kagome…

How could she do this to him? She was an officer? She can't be. All this time, he had been sticking with the last person he should be anywhere close to. A police officer. Was it all a trap? Did she know all about him already? She wouldn't do that to him. Would she?

Pure rage seeped through his mind, and he found his legs lose its balance and fall to the ground. Hands grabbed him from behind, and a strong force started to pull him back. He jerked his head up, just in time to see Kagome coming out of the room, trailing an old lady in a cops' uniform. To his horror, she was wearing one too.

He struggled and tried to get out of the tons of hands clinging onto his collar, but his attention was really on the woman standing so still in front of him. Her arms were at her sides and her eyes were clouded over, she was staring at him as if she had never seen him in her life. It hurt him, but he couldn't let it show.

He looked back at her, and a silent plea suddenly enveloped his face. "No… No!"

Kagome flinched at the sound of his voice, but didn't budge. She watched as his face began to contort with desperation and inner pain. "No! No!"

"Get back inside! Take him!" Kaede barked at the unmoving officers. Immediately, they tugged at him fiercely, plucking his planted knees off the cement ground.

"No! NO!" He continued to yell, as the officers shouted at him. They began to drag him away, and his voice, slowly faded away. He was gone, but Kagome still didn't move.

She understood him. She understood what he was trying to tell her. He was begging her to not to arrest his family. It was the saddest, most desperate plea Kagome had ever heard. She couldn't imagine it coming from Inuyasha. But he was the one who had said it, and she wished she hadn't heard him… but she had to do it anyway. She also knew that she would soon be throwing the loved ones of who she cared for, behind bars.

She froze. Her hand slowly went over her mouth, as if she had said it out loud. The one she cared for? Did she really care about Inuyasha?

"Kagome, lets go." Kaede's voice reached her, and she blinked and looked at her senior, who was standing at the entrance of the door.

She nodded, and followed her without question. She knew what she would have to do next, would destroy everything she and Inuyasha ever had.


The four police cars screeched in front of the black barred fence and out came a bunch of police officers. They looked at the large brick house behind the huge garden and security and nodded. This was the place.

Madam Kaede pulled out a speaker from the backseat and raised it to her mouth. She looked around the officers and they nodded at her. She looked back at the lighted house and spoke, "You inside, come out. You've been surrounded by the police."

Everybody watched carefully for any movement inside the house, as Kaede lifted the speaker closer to mouth and tried again, "You inside, come out. You've been surrounded by the police."

Suddenly, all the lights inside flickered off and that only indicated that they were there.

The cops moved quickly towards the fence, kicking it open and scurrying inside. But there was one special officer that took extra long to get out of the car, and extra draggy feet towards the fence. She hoped nobody would notice that she was stalling, but out of all the officers her; the high commander had to catch her.

"Kagome," Madam Kaede barked fiercely at the young woman with her gun positioned sloppily in her hands. "Straighten up right this instant."

"Yes ma'am," the said woman replied with her back immediately as stiff as a board. But when Madam Kaede moved in after the others, her back immediately sagged and her composure fell. A headache was brewing and Kagome wished she could go home and just sleep.

She didn't want to be here, it was dark and cold. She sighed. No. That wasn't it. She didn't want to be here because she didn't want to arrest the family. Inuyasha's family.

His cries suddenly appeared in her mind, and the moment was still fresh. She squeezed her eyes shut and tried to block the image out of her head, but Inuyasha's once confident, cocky self had disappeared, and the vulnerable side of him showed, on his knees and his eyes depending every inch of his life on her.

She turned her head and the grip on her gun tightened. She hated herself. She hated herself for meeting Inuyasha, for developing these special feelings for him, for being the one to find out who he was; someone she was never meant to become friends with. Yes, she admitted it. Something about Inuyasha made her happy, but she knew that was it. It had to be anyway.

"Kagome?" a muffled voice called, with static crumpling in the background.

Kagome jumped at the sound of her name, and for a second, she thought it was Inuyasha. But when she found the source of the sound, it was coming from her belt. She pulled out the walkie talkie from her side and shakily raised it to her mouth. "Y-yes?"

"Where are you?"

Suddenly, panic overwhelmed her, and she was unable to speak. She couldn't tell her chief that she didn't want to arrest Inuyasha's family because it would destroy their friendship, no! It was duty before anything else. Instead, she settled for a guilty lie.

"I – um, heard something, so I decided to stay here if they made their getaway."

A pause was sounded on the other end, and Kagome was sure Kaede suspected. She closed her eyes and prepared for a scolding, but to her surprise, Kaede didn't say anything like that.

"Good idea… you stay outside and keep low so they won't know you're out there. Be safe, Kagome."

Kagome nodded into the speaker, and sighed in relief. Kaede must know, but she was just being nice about it. But to follow her chief's tips, Kagome crouched down onto her knees and made her way towards the backyard of the fence. When she reached there and checked for a clear coast, she plopped herself against a tree. She laid her head back and sighed.

So many things were running through her mind, and she wished she could solve them all right now. She rubbed her weary eyes and shook her throbbing head. Maybe if I took a little nap…

CLUNK!

Reflexively, the young officer jumped to the balls of her feet. She tore her gun out of its pouch and wrapped her fingers around it. Slowly standing up, she peered behind the tree and she couldn't believe what she saw.

Two people were climbing over the fence, one holding a large bag. Kagome knew those two were his father and brother. She hated to do this, but she knew she had to.

"Freeze! Move an inch and I'll shoot!" she shouted as she jumped from her hiding spot and aimed her gun towards the two.

The figures immediately froze in their positions and slowly turned with their hands raised. Kagome watched as the one with the bag slowly dropped it to the ground.

Slowly and cautiously, Kagome moved towards the two shadows, ready to defend herself if they attacked.

She approached them carefully, with her gun aimed right in the middle. She squinted to see who they were, though deep inside she knew exactly who they were. She stepped into the moonlight, and dread overwhelmed her.

In front of her, were Inuyasha's brother and father all right, but the expression on his father's face was just too overbearing. He looked at her with such shock and disappointment that Kagome wished she never approached them in the first place. His brother displayed no emotion, but he still had a flicker of hurt in his eyes. Yes, she had met them and thought they were good people, and they even seemed quite fond of her or Inuyasha's father at least… and now she had to go and ruin everything. She hated herself.

Inuyasha's father, a handsome man with thick silver hair, looked at Kagome with uncertainty in his golden eyes, eyes like Inuyasha's. "K-Kagome?"

Kagome wanted to look away, but stood her ground. She grinded her teeth together and didn't respond.

Inuyasha's father continued to look at her, and soon, anger was pouring into her eyes. "H-how could you?"

"I guess she forgot to tell us she was a police officer." Inuyasha's brother, Sesshomaru, an also handsome man with delicate features and long flowing silver hair, said and was also looking at her as well with narrowed amber eyes. But with him, she felt a lot more coldness and icy hatred directed towards her, and she wished he'd stop sending her these vibes. She felt like she was betraying her own family, but she couldn't do anything about it.

"Y-you have the right to remain silent." The young officer grounded out, though it sounded less strong than before. She hoped they hadn't heard the stutter in her tone, but they did.

Sesshomaru replied her in a snotty tone, but didn't lower his arms. "I have the right but I don't want to use it. What makes you think we're going to listen to you after what you did to us?"

"We thought we were…friends…" Inuyasha's father spoke softly. The anger was gone from his eyes, and Kagome could see sadness had replaced it.

Guilt washed over her, and Kagome wanted to drop her gun and apologize a million times at their feet. But the reality was there, and she knew what they were doing was wrong and illegal. They were just trying to make her feel bad…right?

Suddenly, something wrapped around her throat and pushed her to the ground, causing the grip on her gun to loosen and let the weapon fall. The young officer choked out in surprise, and her eyes squeezed shut, feeling shock and pain. Her body was smacked against the ground hard, and a something hard grounded against her stomach. Kagome suddenly found it hard to breathe, and she tried everything to kick off the person on top of her. She opened her eyes to see who it was, and she was devastated to see that it was Sesshomaru.

He looked almost evil, as his golden orbs flashed dangerously with a cunning smile pasted his soft face. He grinned slightly at Kagome under him and tightened his steel-like grasp around her neck.

The young officer choked for air as she slapped her hands against Inuyasha's brother's, but the grip did not loosen. Kagome had no choice but to kick the man off her with all her strength, and she flinched as he grunted and punched her hard in the stomach. But his hand was off her throat and that was all Kagome needed. Flipping backwards, Kagome did a high kick right at the man's chin, sending him flipping upside down and falling onto his stomach. He began to get up and Kagome crouched into fighting stance before…

"You…!" Kagome twirled around just in time to see Inuyasha's father running towards her, and her eyes widened when she saw what was in his hands.

Her gun.

She ducked as he shot at her, and she swung her foot quickly to trip him. He fell, but he pulled the trigger again, and this time, he shot her.

Kagome cried out in pain as blood spurted out of her left shoulder, and she fell onto her back at the force. She bit her lip from screaming, and squeezed her eyes shut at the pain searing through her arm and chest. She struggled to get up, but the pain was too much.

"Think you can get us, can you?"

Kagome jerked her head upwards, and found to her horror, both Inuyasha's father and Sesshomaru were looming over her, with a gun in the father's hands.

Their eyes flashed maliciously, and they advanced onto her. The young woman tried to push herself up and crawl away, but her shoulder gave in on her and she fell back onto her back.

They laughed at her, and Inuyasha's father closed one eye and aimed the pointer right at the middle of Kagome's forehead.

"Die."


Authors Note: Sorry, sorry, I-am-SO-sorry! I know, it's been quite a while since I've updated, but I've been so busy lately! I'm so sorry… but here it is and I hope you're not too disappointed. Don't forget to review…please?