Mission Completed

Sakura's Note: Here's chapter ten. It's shorter than most other chapters, but fighting scenes tire me out. Ha ha, sometimes I feel like I'm the one doing it all. Thank you to everyone who reviewed last chapter, they were all very much appreciated. Next chapter I hope to have a response to all reviews, so if you have any questions, be sure to ask them.

Enjoy this chapter!

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Chapter 10: Gone

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Inuyasha yawned behind his hand, watching lazily with Kagome from the corner of the room.

Sesshoumaru was sniffing the darts, trying to figure out what all was in it. "Who made this?"

The hanyou looked up tiredly, "Shippou."

"Shippou?"

"A kitsune boy." Inuyasha supplied listlessly. "He's an expert at magic and--" He pulled out his cell, which he had put on vibrate. "Yeah? ...Miroku? What is it? Miroku?"

Kagome frowned, leaning in to listen as best she could. She could only make out a few words, but they were panicked.

"We're coming, keep at them till we get there." Inuyasha waited a moment, "Miroku? Miroku?" There wasn't a response. With an angry growl he closed his phone. "Assassins are at the base. Miroku and Sango are the only two people there."

Sesshoumaru looked up from his sleeping wife. "Rin?"

"She's gone, Kohaku too." He grabbed up his jacket. "Come on Kagome."

"Right behind you." She gave an apologetic look to Kagura, even though she was asleep, and darted out of the room. "What did he tell you?"

"He was fighting someone, he couldn't get that many words out." Inuyasha headed down the hall, barely missing running into Jaken. "But he did say everyone was missing."

"Was Sango ok?"

"All I know was that she was there, Miroku didn't have time to tell me anything else." Inuyasha jumped into the car, started the ignition, and pulled out of the driveway. "This is hitting too close. It's not Naraku's style, his kids seem to get smarter all the time."

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"You are not Kagome, but you do look like you could pose a threat..." Musou smirked devilishly. "But I won't be the one to dirty my hands with you. Noh, take care of her."

"I'd be pleased, Musou..." The bulky, bumbling assassin clothed in black hobbled forward. "I will take care of this one. Do not worry..." She cackled from her masked face.

Musou turned with a wave of his hand, "Do as you wish. There are much larger fish to fry." He looked over his shoulder, "Enjoy your battle, woman. And take note of Noh's face, it may very well be the last thing you ever see." With a sickening wink he sauntered down the hall.

Sango glared, Miroku, where are you?

"Such a beautiful girl..." Noh hissed. "A wonderful addition." She lunged forward, her hulking frame preparing to surround the agent in front of her. "A wonderful addition, indeed."

Sango glowered, "Addition to what?"

"My body, of course." Noh shrugged.

There was something odd about it though. It seemed as though she shrugged in multiple places, her arms spread all over her body. Sango gasped once she realized.

This woman was going to absorb her.

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"There's a method to my success father," Hakudoushi looked into the cell with his eyes the color of molten metal with a devious smirk. "The trick is to ask yourself 'what would Naraku do' and do the exact opposite."

Naraku was past jumping up and fighting to get to the demon, instead he just sat in the corner and glared. This monster he had created, hoping it would become his loyalist, most powerful weapon, had been so powerful it had overcome him. It was his biggest mistake, and he would regret it forever.

He could make out Kikyo's sleeping figure in the corner, her breathing steady and her chest rising and falling with each breath. Her stringy hair, which hadn't been washed in weeks, clung to her head. She still looked beautiful. Then he noticed her fingers drumming lightly on the ground. A second later she stopped.

"You can ignore me all you want, but I know you hear me. You're jealous, aren't you? Jealous that I got this far without you, and now you are the one behind bars. I should study you as you did me, but it would be a long and boring process. Don't you think so?" Hakudoushi snickered under his breath. "Naraku, how stupid must you be to realize you should never give so much power to one demon?"

"Sometimes, Hakudoushi, you tend to forget very important things in life."

Hakudoushi turned, looking at the shadowy figure in the back of the room. "Ah, you're awake."

Kikyo's eyes were haunting the darkness with their icy depths. They almost glowed, and were the only things anyone could see clearly in the dark. She just stared...eyes penetrating the two demons. "You both are fools. Fools I should have never involved myself with."

"Kikyo..." Naraku looked up with fire in his eyes. "What are you saying?"

"The jewel is in good hands with Kagome, although she is ignorant to its powers. Only purity will make it work completely, you seem to forget that." Kikyo pointed out matter-of-factly.

Naraku frowned, wasn't she on his side?

"Musou is out finding that Kagome girl," Hakudoushi continued, "So I will be able to make as many wishes I want."

Kikyo continued to peer through the darkness at the two with scrutiny. His plan would fail. No matter what she felt towards Kagome, she would always believe that her sister was not a fool, and could easily defend herself.

Kagome had stolen the one constant thing in her life that wasn't completely shrouded by darkness. They hadn't seen each other for over a decade, and they were reunited by him. The one person Kikyo believed could become hers. Of course, persuasion would be needed. She had killed his parents.

They'd been her first target once she heard demons roamed the earth. The thought of a human woman and a youkai man mating to bear a child sickened her. So, she had found a couple that stood for exactly what she hated. And she'd killed them. Until she met Inuyasha and heard how his parents were killed... She didn't know they had already had a child. Nor that it had been Inuyasha -- her Inuyasha.

He seemed like a rough, cold boy of fifteen when she'd met him. After a few months, though, he started to open up. Inuyasha had been reluctant, almost as if he expected her to deceive him at any moment. Guilt still weighed down on her heart; she was the source of it all. Without loving parents he had gone to America alone and become an agent.

Where she had thought he was an assassin, he had been a spy sent to try and kill her. At the last moment she'd saved him...

So why didn't he still love her?

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"People need to learn how to drive." Inuyasha stated sharply, swerving around another row of moving vehicles. "I bet half of these people bribed the DMV to give them their licenses." He ran a red light and entered the highway.

Kagome had never been more thankful for a seatbelt before in her life.

"You alright? You look a little pale." Inuyasha looked over at her.

"KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD!" Kagome screeched, waving frantically.

Inuyasha darted a glance at the road and swerved to the right. "Where did that truck come from?"

"I wouldn't know," Kagome answered the same way she would answer about the weather. As a matter of fact the day was actually quite sunny now that she thought about it. "I've been a little preoccupied..."

The hanyou next to her didn't seem to take the hint. Kagome agreed with the way he was driving, they needed to get to Sango and Miroku, but that didn't make it any less terrifying. It's pretty sad that I'm more terrified of Inuyasha's driving than of murderous demons... She mused with a smile.

"We're almost there..." Inuyasha muttered, cutting clear across the road. "Just five more minutes." He stepped on the accelerator, "Make that four...three..."

"Ok, please slow down..." Kagome requested nervously. "We need to get there in one piece."

"Uh huh, one piece, gotcha."

Kagome gave him a flat look. "You're not listening to me, are you?"

"I'm in a zone right now, Kagome."

"A zone?"

Before she could get an answer, Inuyasha pushed down on the breaks with a serious look on his face. "We're here."

"I'll get Tetsusaiga once we get inside, none of them would have been able to touch it if they're all demons..."

"I'll get my bow, I can fight easiest with that." Kagome nodded to herself, then gave a quick smile to Inuyasha. "Don't go too far without me."

He nodded, then jumped out of the car, running into the building with nonhuman speed.

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Miroku slammed his staff between the demon's eyes, causing it to disintegrate almost instantly. "Must have been a weak one..." he muttered, turning to block another attack. They were everywhere, flooding from every door he could find. Who had sent them, he wasn't sure. Sango was too busy fighting to tell him anything that had happened. They were back-to-back, but the only sounds they made were grunts and gasps for air.

There was a shriek up ahead, then another, and finally a roar. Flashes of light appeared right before each demonic wail. Someone else had come.

"What's going on?" A demon hissed angrily, backing up into a corner. "Who did we forget?"

"Me, you smelly halfwit." The growl was coming from a hill of youkai in the corner. The mystery fighter jumped out of the dog pile, eyes ablaze with anger. "Must be feeling pretty stupid to forget to subdue a hanyou, eh?" He smirked, running forward in a blur.

Another assassin sped forward, almost equal in speed. It roared, hissed, and shrieked, claws slashing empty air. The honey-eyed half demon 'keh'ed' and leapt into the air, aiming for the demon's throat.

He didn't miss.

"Inuyasha!" Sango breathed a sigh of relief.

Some of the assassins began to panic. Fighting a human was one thing, but fighting Inuyasha was a different story entirely.

"Who's next?" Inuyasha stalked forward, Tetsusaiga in his hands. They had been temporarily spooked, but quickly smothered their fears and began to attack.

One demon, who looked much more human than the rest, managed to deliver a kick to his stomach. The two started to duke it out on the spot, any other assassin that came within five yards getting slashed to pieces from both opponents.

Kagome rushed onto the scene, her arrows slung on her back and her bow in his hand. When she got to the hall a breath froze in her throat. There were so many of them! Immediately she released an arrow, knowing it should get at least two down.

There were two cries, then two bodies fell. Blood pooled around them, then one disintegrated. At least she knew she hadn't forgotten her training; she'd been using a gun for so long she'd been worried.

She spotted Inuyasha up ahead to the left, fighting a stronger looking youkai. Sango and Miroku were smack dab in the center of the room, her boomerang and his staff cutting and knocking out as many assassins as possible. Kagome noticed a blob of what looked like random human parts heaped in the corner, a freakish mask splintered next to them. Truthfully, she didn't want to know.

"Kagome!" All three assassins attacking Sango froze. Sango along with them. They knew who Kagome was now. She needed to think fast. "Where's Kagome, Aya?!"

The bow-carrying agent frowned, "Who's-"

Sango shot her a look that she hoped gave her an answer, then began to attack the distracted youkai. Out of nowhere an arrow flew past Sango and Miroku's shoulders and back into a group of demons preparing to fight. There was a loud thud, then one youkai lie face down in the middle of the rest.

Miroku felt his spirits lift at that moment. Yes, they'd been able to handle at least four dozen assassins themselves, but now the others were here and they would regain control of the base much quicker.

"Kagome, behind you!" He punched a demon, then called out again. Kagome swerved, only getting cut with the tip of its claws. She gasped and kicked his leg out from underneath him, delivering an uppercut to his jaw on his way to the ground.

Inuyasha watched as blood dribbled down her shirt from her side. He swung his sword, causing several demons to disappear or collapse to the ground. Sango and Miroku had the remaining five assassins under control; he ran to Kagome. "Kagome!"

"I'm alright," She smiled, lifting her hand up from the wound. Kagome wasn't surprised that it came up covered in blood.

"You're bleeding!"

"The cut is pretty small, I'm just a bleeder." Kagome gave a light laugh, getting up to stand. "Besides, I think it's slowing down."

"'Cuz you're out of blood!" Inuyasha snapped, lifting her shirt to see for himself. It really was just a small cut, not even near any vital organs, but the thought of someone hurting her sickened him. It had all happened in a second, what if it had been someone else? Musou or Hakudoushi?

He shook his head and put on an angry face. "Be more careful next time!"

Kagome rolled her eyes, "If you want to say you're glad I'm alright and you're mad you weren't here to protect me then just say so." His eyes widened, making his expression quite cute. "Besides, I'm not dying, and its too late to make a big deal of this now." She looked over where the other assassins seemed to have just disappeared.

"They just ran off..." Miroku laughed, leaning on Sango for support. She seemed to be doing the same thing to him, making a weird sort of human triangle. "I guess they had more sense than we gave them credit for."

The hall was bloodied beyond belief, smears all over the floors. It felt as though an evil aura had wrapped around the area.

"What happened to everyone else?" Kagome asked. "How could they all disappear so easily."

"Amazing, isn't it?" A voice from further down the hallway asked. "How easy people fall into my trap." The lights cut off, Kagome screamed, and the lights resumed.

"KAGOME!" Inuyasha looked all around him, "Kagome!"

"Where is she?" Sango asked, panicked, "What happened to her?"

"You have a choice, Inuyasha... Save the agent, or save the agency. As we speak a bomb is ticking beneath this place. All of this agency's staff are lying unconscious there, and they won't awake for two other hours. The bomb is set to go off in ten minutes. Kagome will be outside for five minutes, after times up, whichever you didn't chose will be gone."

A dark figure appeared in the hallway, the colors of his clothing appearing a few seconds later. "Make your choice." Then he was gone.

"Sango, Miroku, go disarm the bomb, I'll go get Kagome."

"Uh, uh, uh... That's cheating." Musou's voice answered smugly. "Inuyasha chooses, and all three of you must go. Otherwise Kagome is dead on the spot."

"We can't let them take Kagome!" Inuyasha hissed, clenching his fists.

"But there are hundreds of people's lives at stake!" Sango argued. "They won't kill her, she's too valuable. We know for a fact she's the only one that can make a wish on the shards."

"She's right, Inuyasha." Miroku agreed sadly, "We need to save the agents first."

Inuyasha looked like a mess, but nodded nonetheless. "Alright." He sped off in the direction of the stairs, not trusting the elevator at a time like this.

He kicked down the door to the basement, entering pitch black darkness. It was silent, not even a heartbeat. Are they all... Inuyasha stopped, sniffing the room carefully. He growled. No one was there! He tried listening for some kind of mechanical device, TNT, anything, but there was nothing.

"DAMN IT!" He roared. With all of his power he pushed himself up the stairs, only a blur to the others who were close to the bottom.

"Inuyasha!"

"There's no bomb!" He growled, disappearing back to garage level. He reached the garage just in time to hear tires screech off in the distance. "Kagome! Kagome!" Inuyasha started to run, but it wasn't any good.

The car was out of sight.

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Kagome kicked at the back door for the tenth time. It wouldn't budge at all. She tried aiming for the glass, but it didn't shatter. The car was separated into two sections; divided by a one-way mirror. All she could see what her face, while she knew they were leering at her from the other side. The thought of her being right scared her the most.

"Let me out of here!" She demanded, banging on the glass. The locks to the door on her right had been melted so that it was impossible to open. The other side was set for child-proof.

She was helpless.

Tears were threatening to fall, but she wouldn't let them. At any moment someone would find her and when they freed her...

She'd kill whoever had kidnapped her.

Kagome sighed, removing her denim jacket. She spread it out, then held it over the mirror. The one-way mirror only covered a third of the partition, the rest was just car fabric and plastic, making it impossible for them to see her at all.

Maybe if she could make them worried she was escaping they'd stop the car?

She heard faint conversation in front of her, it sounded worried. Then she heard what she'd been hoping to hear.

"Stop the car."

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