To the good folks at FFN: New chapters may apper then dissapper, that's becuase FFN is the only reliable way I have to get new chapters up for editing. Also, the radio transcripts are for something I do with the ICAF ) where we read peoples fan fics aloud. Stop on by anytime.

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Sango looked down on the parking lot from the roof. All clear. She scanned the bushes on the outskirts of the street lights. Nothing. She smiled. She knew her team was there, including her father, and for the first time, her brother. Her smiled widened. It was his first time out on a job, and he was doing fine. She was proud of him.

She let the smile die away and got back to work. There was a space between two penthouses about two feet wide. She entered the small alley and looked up at the walls. Ten feet high maybe.

She jumped at the wall and kicked off. In mid air she jammed her feet on to each wall. She waited a minute to make sure it would hold. When she was sure, she put her back agiast one wall and began to walk, foot over foot, up the other wall.

It wasn't the most glamerous line of work, but it did good for the community, and she was the best at it. As far as the tax payers knew, she was a cop. Technically that was true, but not an oridnary officer.

About ten years ago the PD realized that it would be best for the world if some people just died in their sleep of various ailments. Tonight's objective was going to have massive brain hemmroging. She wished she could say she felt bad about him, but she knew his rap sheet.

She reached the top of the wall and pulled her self over. She was directly above the target. Only problem was getting in.

Sango scanned the roof. She found two entry points. A vent and a skylight. She passed up the vent. This wasn't like the movies. She had no idea where it went, if there was another exit, or if the heating was on. It probably was on. Even if it wasn't on too high there was the coolent to deal with. As her predacessor put it, it was "Enough to freeze the ol' walnuts off."

She looked into the sky light. It lead into a deserted living room. Good. She retrieved her lock picks from her belt and began to work.

She supposed her brother was a little young for his first operation. But he was in a role that didn't demand much of him or put him in danger. Besides, father had said he was getting better.

The lock opened and all thoughts of her family vanished. She lowered her self into the room silently.

She exited the room into a hallway. Silently she treaded over the carpet. She found the bed room. Snores came from with in. She drew the silenced SIG P229 from the holester on her hip. She opened the door.

She walked up to the bed. Her target was sleeping soundly. She placed an extra pilow over his head. With the pillow to muffle it, what ever noise the pistol made was drowned out by the metalic clink of the pistol expelling the spent casing.

Sango lowered her self over the wall and dropped back down into the parking lot. She flashed the all clear and strode into the light. Her father and brother ran out to greet her. The rest of the team wandered over to her a little slower.

Sango leaned close to her brother. She opened her mouth to speak.

Her words were drowned out by the roar of a sub machine gun. Blood splashed across her face. Her brother and father lay on the ground in pools of blood. She looked up in horror in time to see the rest of the officers cut down. Tears mixed with the blood on her face. She stared at a figure in the darkness. There was a flash and a bullet exploded through her chest.

Kagome stared out the window as the snow swirled around the sky, light from the street lights glistning off the flakes in its beam. The snow seemed to block out what little light there was. The motel room seemed small and removed from the rest of the world.

Kagome looked over at InuYasha. He was still on the phone with his usual source of jewel related rumours. She frowned. When InuYasha got a tip usually they had to fight for the jewel.. she sighed.

InuYasha hung up. He walked over to her. "Yeah, we found a shard. Yeah, we gotta fight for it." He somelmnly answeared the question in her eyes. She frowned and looked away. "When?" She asked, quiet acceptance of what must be done in her voice. "Now. Sorry kid, but they move it soon."

They stepped out into the cold. Kagome tried to pull InuYa- well it was hers now, her jacket tighter around her. She tilted her head down in an effort to keep the wind and freezing rain from her face. The cold barely seemed to bother InuYasha as they trudge through the slush.

The snow that came down stuck in wet clumps to her jacket. All background noise was absent. Even the headlights she watched gliding along the freeway produced no noise.

Kagome was glad to climb on the bike. Between the engine under her and by leaning agaist InuYasha she was able to warm up a little. She closed her eyes and just hung on in an effort to force time to pass slower.

Too soon the bike stopped. Kagome looked up to see a warehouse looming in front of them. The sun had completly faded and it was impossble to see anything else in the swirling snow.

"Here?" Kagome asked. "Yeah." Inuyasha muttered as they walked towards the warehouse. Kagome was anxious, much more anxious than usual. Some how breaking with the tradtion of having a smoke before a fight set her on edge. She had a bad feeling about this one, if they had had time to stop for the pre-fight smoke she might of felt better about this, or it would of deylayed it five minutes. She looked around for a way out, but she knew she wouldn't find it. Even if she found it, she couldn't back out, she had a duty to do this.

InuYasha reached a back door. Kagome readied her self. She realized something. "InuYasha, I don't sense a jewel!" She tried to tell him, but it was too late, he had kicked the door open.

Miroku looked across the table at Hachii. Something big was going on. He could tell from the lack of profanity on the old man's part.

"What do you got for me?" He asked. "It's about.. that." Hachii gestured at Miroku's right hand. All humor left Miroku's eyes. "You have my attention." "I know who." Miroku stared at him. "The guy who tried to buy the shard last time. Naraku." Miroku stood up. "Where is he?" Hachii nodded sadly. "No one knows"
"Then I'll find this fucker."

Naraku reviewed the video of what went wrong at the last buy. Flashes, gun fire, figures moving in the dark. Nothing to identify the gunmen. The shooting stopped. Naraku frowned. This tape was worthless.

He left the tape running and reached for a letter he had received from one of his agents. He smiled, the assassian working for the police had been taken care of. Good, no one kills one of his agents and lives.

He turned to shut off the video. He stopped. Two figures had wandered into the headlights. A young man and a girl who probably couldn't drive yet. There was something familiar about the man.. the girl reached up and pushed his head to the side, and Naraku stared at a familiar face.

Well, well, well.. InuYasha was still alive was he? Hmm.. well this didn't complicate matters much, but he would be dealt with in time.. Naraku turned to more pressing matters.

The door flew open. InuYasha was faced with a wall of crates. He ran to the end, looked to make sure Kagome was still behind him and stuck his head out to look at the inside of the ware house.

A cat walk ran along the wall about fifteen feet above the floor. A road outside lead right into the warehouse, coming in at a large door directly in front of them. Most of the guards were clustered around a control room on the same level as the catwalk. InuYasha spotted a door way with an up arrow painted on the wall nearby. About 15 feet further down the wall another doorway opened up at the catwalk.

There were two guards on the floor between him and the shelter of the door. Several others on the catwalk. Shit. This all depended on luck.

He turned back to Kagome. "Okay, follow me and run for that door, what ever happens, keep moving." he paused for a second, "Ready?" She nodded.

He took aim at the first gaurd on the floor. The gun leaped on his hand and he sprinted towards the door. Gunfire erupted from the catwalk, concrete flew up all around him. He fired twice more on the move. One of the guards went down. He reached the door and turned around. He reached out and pulled Kagome to saftey before returning to the door way to dispatch the gun man on the floor.

InuYasha watched the top of the ramp to the catwalk and willed no one to show their face as he reloaded. Before he could move Kagome spoke. "InuYasha.. there's no jewel here.. it's gone already." He stared at her. "SHIT! We can't leave now, we gotta finish this!" "Yes we can! We can make it back out!" "No! I'm not running away! I started it, I'm gonna finish it!" He yelled charging up the ramp.

A guard rounded the corner. InuYasha cut him down as he ran. He whipped the .45 around the corner and looked down the cat walk.

They had all ran towards the ramp at the same time. They had made it easy for him. All lined up in a row like that. When he finished reloading he looked back over the catwalk. Nothing stirred.

From the shelter of the door way Kagome watched InuYasha advance on the control room. He ducked in. She held her breath. A shot came from with in. A second passed. Then another. InuYasha walked out and gave her the OK. She let her breath out.

She stepped into the control room. InuYasha was standing in the middle of the room. A body was slumped agaist the console. He scowled. "No jewel.. all this" he gestured at the body "for nothing!" he spat.

Kagome couldn't argue. She looked away. A paper on the floor caught her attention. She picked it up and read it.

"InuYasha! I know where they took the jewel!"

Sango woke up. Where was she? A hospital.. why? Why was her chest bandaged? An IV ran into her arm. Morphine. Her clothes lay on a table. Where was her family...

It all came crashing back to her. Everything. She wanted to cry, she wanted to scream. She couldn't. She felt nothing. Just emptyness.

She got up, got dressed. Something told her just moving should hurt. She grabbed the morhpine, it was probably the only thing keeping her alive at this point, and opened the window. She slipped out into the night to find the man responsible.

"It's right here on this piece of paper!" Kagome exclaimed. "They're taking it to another warehouse." InuYasha snatched the piece of paper from her hand and looked it over. "Alright come on." "Were going now?" Kagome asked, her relief at having made it through another fight falling away. "Sorry."

They stepped out the door and headed towards the bike. Kagome wordlessly stopped InuYasha. "Something wrong kid?" Kagome gestured. InuYasha nodded. He reached in his pocket and handed her a pack of cigarettes. She took them silently, they may not help, but anything was worth a shot at this point.

"Nervous?" InuYasha asked quietly. "Yeah, a little.." She managed to respond.
Twenty minutes later they were out side the address written on that piece of paper. InuYasha looked to Kagome. She nodded. "Yeah it's in here."

InuYasha opened the door slowly and looked in. The warehouse was dark. Stacks of crate and metal shelves 20 feet tall made the place seem like a maze. Shadows made it impossible to see more than five feet ahead.

Motioning for Kagome to stay close he began to search for the jewel. Nothing moved, not a sound came from anywhere. They reached a turn in the maze, InuYasha looked to Kagome to point the way. Silently she pointed the correct direction. The sound of thier footsteps was the only noise.

Something was wrong here. Too quiet. A growing suspicion in InuYasha's mind told him. It was an ambush or some sort of trap. Where were the guards? He didn't want to continue towards the jewel like this, but dammit, what choice did he have?

They came to a clearing in the boxes and the question of where the guards were was answeared. The jewel shard was there on a table, lit from high above, and around were the guards. All dead.

"Damn.. what happened?" InuYasha wondered out loud. He picked up a shell casing on the floor. It was cold. "Well, who ever did this, they're long gone.."

Kagome picked up the shard. She turned around. InuYasha was staring upwards. Kagome followed his gaze to a red light hanging in the darkness.

"Security camera. How much you wanna bet it caught what happened here?" InuYasha set off to find the security room and Kagome quickly followed so as not to lose him in the darkness.

When they finally found the security console InuYasha waisted no time in rewinding it. There was a flurry of activity and then the guards were all standing there again, InuYasha hit play.

Kagome watched the guards mill around for several seconds. Then one dropped dead. The rest scrambled for thier guns. None of them made it. A figure strode into frame. It was a woman a little taller than herself. She turned to face the camera. Her gaze was so cold...

Kagome turned to ask InuYasha if he knew who it was, but he had already fled out the door.

Fuck! Fuck! InuYasha stumbled out into the snow. She was alive! Damn it! DAMN IT! Pictures flooded into his brain. Old memories, old feelings, old demons. Fuck, fuck, fuck! Dammit, how can she be alive damn it! He fought down a wave of an old feeling he hated. GOD FUCKING DAMN IT! Snap the fuck out of it! Get it together! Fuck! She was alive! FUCK! Godamnit, that changes nothing! Get up!

He striaghtened up and took a moment to compose him self. Shit. He can't go in like this, he was a fucking mess.. No, he couldn't go back in yet. Kagome can't see him come apart like this. He was the man, he was supposed to be, had to be the strong one, he should be in control of himself! Damn it! How could Kikyo be alive?

Kagome worked her way through the darkness. She felt like crap. He had ditched her. Up and left her alone with no idea how to get out or what was going on. That asshole. He had always helped her survive firefights, physically and mentally, and now, when he knew she was feeling especially scared and on edge he fucking left her alone in a dark maze! That insensitive asshole. Now she had no choice but to find her own way out and wait for him. That asshole.

She bumped into something. Damn it, that hurt. She looked down at it. It was a table and there was a knife on it. She made a face. She turned towards an espically dark alley between crates. At the end an exit light. She smiled a little. Well one problem down, now only for that asshole.. from the direction of an exit sign she heard a footstep.

Kagome stared in fear and the darkness. She had an understandable fear of noises in the dark. She breathed more rapidly. She dared to give voice to a hope. "InuYasha?"

Silence. More feet moving. Oh God, there was more than one person.. her hand found her gun. She aimed at the darkness and waited.

The lights were switched on. Three men stood in front of the door looking at her. They reached for thier guns. Kagome pulled the trigger.

She kept firing thoughtlessly. Again and again the gun leapt in her hand. Again and again it's roar filled her ears.

The rhythem of the recoil stopped. The roar stopped. The slide locked back. Kagome stared in horror over her empty pistol at the man still standing. He slowly drew a knife and smiled evily. He knew there was no rush.

Kagome dropped the gun and stumbled backwards. She bumped into the table again. Her hands pressed agaist the top of the table in an effort to keep her on her feet.

Cold terror filled her. Not a thought passed through her head as he rushed her. He raised the knife.

Her hand closed around something plastic on the table. With out thought she swung it brutally into her attacker's belly.

Warm blood gushed over her hands. Bile rose in her throat. She looked up at the man's face. He stared back at her in suprise. Blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth. He let out a gurgle and Kagome let the knife slip from her hand as he fell to the ground.

She stared at the dead man. The man she had killed. Her eyes widened in horror. Oh God.. she had just.. oh God.. oh God.. oh God.. she stared at her hands, covered in blood past her wrists. She doubled over and vomited.

The room was getting smaller, the walls closing in. She had to get out. Had to run. She tried to walk towards the door. Her head swam. She had killed them, oh God she had killed them! Guilt crashed in on her and she stumbled agiast the crates. She stared down at the two men she ahd shot. One stared back at her, smile frozen on his face, one eye was there, the other was.. Oh God! It's hand grasped a gun, and on it.. Kagome choked back a sob at the sight of the wedding ring.

She threw her self agaist the door and fell out on to the hard gravel. She almost vomited again at the sudden movement.

InuYasha sprinted towards Kagome. She was pushing her self up weakly. Oh shit.. he wasn't sure but it looked like she was hurt.. Oh fuck..

He reached her as she managed to push her self up to her knees. He dropped to his knees in front of her. She looked at him. Shit.. something was wrong, damn it! Her face was pale. That look in her eyes..she was hurt, something was wrong with her! She didn't know what was going on, she was dazed and confused. Damn it! Damn it! He shouldn't of left her! Her head dropped down and InuYasha followed her gaze.

Oh.. fuck.. she was clutching her stomach. Her hands were covered in blood. A chill hand grasped his chest. DAMN IT! It was his fualt! Damn it! He shouldn't of left her alone, he shouldn't of ran at the communication breakdown, he should of been there to protect her! He pried her hands from her stomach, her shirt was stained with blood too. Fuck! God fucking.. DAMN it! He pushed up her shirt enough to look at her wound.

He looked at her, puzzled then looked her over once more. She had no wounds, she was fine, then what.
He gripped her shoulders and pushed her upright to look at her.

Grief filled her eyes. Her mouth hung open as a sob tried to escape. She stared at him in fear, in sadness.. oh fuck.. something was wrong with her. Tears welled up in her eyes.. a thought occured to InuYasha, a glance in through the out door confirmed his fears. The worry fell away, but not the anger at himself. He knew what was wrong, he had been through this before him self..

He sighed and turned his gaze back to Kagome. Tears were beging to fall now. He pulled her close to him and wrapped his arms around her protectivly. He had to be the strong one, through good times, bad times. Her body racked as she sobbed into his shoulder. She felt so frail.. She threw her arms around him and he felt her grip his jacket tightly when the leeve breaks and she begins to cry out right. Damn it! He was NEVER going to leave her alone again.

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Sorry it' shorter than normal, but with the holidays and all.. wait, why am I apoligizing? What do I owe you people?

Damn, what the FUCK is with me and warehouses? That's like the third one right there. Simply, warehouses come in many shapes and sizes, tend to be in places far from pesky cop-calling pedestrians, and the size offers alot of sound dampering, as well as a large open space that still can be hidden from the public. So, yeah, warehouse is an easy way out for me. Yeah, I suck. I know.

Also my Hatias from drawning bad pictures is over, don't go to
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if you value your eyes.

DUDE! What the fuck is with all the lovey doovey shit? Don't worry, I'll get back to indiscrimatly killing shitloads of people next time.

Yay indistriminate killing!