The sun came up on the field where InuYasha and Kagome had made camp for the night. They had managed to clear the area around the fire of snow, but the rest of the field and the tree line was covered in snow. Opposite the tree, line the road cut through the snow, and farther on, another forest.

InuYasha woke up and stretched his neck. Kagome stirred and muttered "Good morning" as she got up. InuYasha cocked his thumb towards the tree line. "I gotta piss, start up breakfast." Kagome would of argued, but it was too early to think of a proper response. As he retreated to the forest, the proper response dawned on her.

InuYasha yawned as he emerged from the forest and noted the smell of food cooking. He looked for Kagome to ask her what it was, but after a quick glance around the field, an alarm went off in his head.

Gone. She was no where to be seen. His eyes shot around for any sign of what happened. He spotted foot prints leading away from the fire, immediately he was focused only on those foot prints.

So focused in fact, it took him a moment to realize just what the hell had happened when the snow ball nailed him in the side of the head. He blinked several times in confusion as to why his head was wet, but recovered fast enough to hear the giggle coming from behind a snow pile and see the figure dashing through the trees.

Oh that bitch.. oh she was going down for this.. "I am gonna fucking get you for this! You hear me you treacherous bitch?" He bellowed. "Let's just hope you never have to protect me in a snow ball fight!" Her voice filtered through the trees. Oh she was gonna get it twice as bad for that... He sprinted after her.

The trees flew by as InuYasha followed the trail through the woods. It was easy to find her, she had just sprinted aimlessly in. He caught up with her in a small clearing. She turned and tossed a snowball in pitiful self defense. It splattered harmlessly on his jacket. Kagome shrieked as he bounded off a log at her.

Convinced that he wouldn't be ambushed again, InuYasha stopped rubbing Kagome's face in the snow. "Let that be a lesson to ya." He muttered turning to leave. Kagome didn't stir. He leaned down. "Kagome?" Oh shit.. maybe he held her a bit too long.. shit.. In one fluid motion Kagome shoveled a handful of snow into his eyes and set off running.

InuYasha wiped the snow off his face slowly and stood up. He would of just said fuck it and gone to eat her share of breakfast, but the honor code of young males demanded he avenge this insult in kind.

The pair trudged through the snow back to camp, InuYasha trying to get bits of snow out of his hair, Kagome rubbing some warmth into her face, which was left red from another whitewash.

"You didn't have to push me into the snow you asshole, I really couldn't breath." Kagome grippered bitterly. "You started it, don''t blame me." "Well maybe if you didn't act like you can order me to do breakfast when you feel too lazy to do it yourself I wouldn't of done that!" "You don't let me cook remember? You complainbecause it's over cooked!" "Just because you think a piece of coal on a bun is good food don't make it so!" "Well then stop complaining about me not cooking!" Confident he had won, InuYasha made the mistake of turning his back on the girl.

"OW! FUCK!"

An uneasy truce in place, breakfast was eaten with both sides glaring at each other angrily over the fire. The last scraps of food finished, the staredown continued for several moments before InuYasha stood and headed for the bike. "Aright, enough of that, time to go."

InuYasha climbed on and searched his pockets for the keys. He felt Kagome climb on behind him and hesitantly slip her arms around his waist as he turned the ignition. Well, at least she wasn't THAT mad at him.

By afternoon they had reached a town. An office building stood on the out skirts, the only place of commerce. As they were stopped for a red light InuYasha lit a smoke and Kagome streched her arms, reminding her that she was hungry. She got the boy's attention with a blow to the arm. "I'm hungry." "Already? Fine..."

As usual food was eaten at a greasy spoon. As they waited for thier food to arrive, InuYasha looked over at Kagome over the same cigarette from the red light; he was running low and had to make each one last. She was staring out the window forlornly. Ah shit.. he could guess what was running trough her mind.

"You OK?" He asked. "Yeah.. just..." Kagome trailed off. InuYasha nodded, when ever they had time to think, Kagome's thoughts always turned to the men she had killed. He hated when she grew quiet and reserved like this, but it was better then the first week or two after it had happened. She barely ate, spoke, or slept. and when she did she had nightmares. Jesus. That had been pure hell.
He slid his pack of cigarettes across the table. That seemed to help her before a fight. It was his fault; he had abandoned her and she had to do that. He should at least try and comfort her. She took it and InuYasha couldn't help but notice the slight tremble in her hand. Fuck.

Two figures stood in front of the door to a utility room of the office building. One of them checked a clip board he was holding. "This is the place." Miroku announced, opening his suitcase and removing his guns. "Right, what's the plan?" Sango pulled back the hammer of her pistol. "It's Saturday, only ones who would be in there would be the guys laundering money for Naraku. So we can be sneaky about it, or we could just Rambo the fucking thing." Miroku stated assembling his Tommy Gun. "We kill their leaders, and leave the guards to explain what happened." Miroku hid his smile, damn was this broad a killer.

They took a fire escape up to the top floor. Miroku slowly opened the door a crack and peeked out. He slowly fit the silencer of a Beretta in bewtween the door and the frame. The pistol cracked and Miroku stepped out into the hallway, scanning for any one he missed, a guard dead at his feet. He motioned the all clear to Sango only to find she had followed him out and was already searching for the main room.

Miroku left the main room to her and looked through the smaller offices. The second room he tried had a man sitting behind a desk in it. As he looked up Miroku hid his guns behind the door. "Who are you?" "You work for Naraku?" "Yes are yo-" his question was cut off as Miroku popped him in the chest and continued on his search.

As they made their way out of town Kagome leaned against InuYasha's back. Everytime she thought about what had happened, what she remembered most clearly was the fact that InuYasha had hugged her. That had made no sense, sure it had helped her get over it, and, okay, maybe she stayed there a little longer then necessary, but still, most of the time he treated her like an unwelcome child that tagged along. Why had he suddenly decided to be friendly?

Her thoughts were interrupted as they passed the office building. "InuYasha! There's a shard in that building!"

Sango and Miroku met up at two sliding doors. They each slid a door open. Armed men in the corners, they stared in shock and reached for thier guns. Miroku was faster. Two shots. Sango nailed two buisness men in the head before they could yell.

InuYasha and Kagome walked through the lobby doors. A guard stopped them immediately. "The building is closed, I suggest you come back later." He suggested with the barrel of his sub-machine gun. InuYasha looked around, at least 6 guards in the room. Fuck.

His life leaking out from a bullet hole in his chest, one of the guards raised his pistol into the air. Miroku frantically tried to bring his gun to bare. To late. The pistol roared through the building, announcing their presence.

The head of everyone in the lobby to the sound of the gun shot.
The guard turned to the pair. "FUCK!" InuYasha yelled drawing his 1911 and shooting him in the gut. He and Kagome took cover behind one of the Xray machines as a torrent of bullets slammed into the space they had previously occupied.

"What the fuck?" Miroku wondered aloud. There was a serious fucking shoot out going on down there. He turned to Sango. "You find what information you can. I'm going to take care of the trouble downstairs." He picked up the Tommy Gun from where he had left it leaning against the wall and hit the call button on an elevator. As he stepped in he heard Sango call "You sure you can handle this?" Miroku turned around and flashed a cocky smile "Handle it? I live for this shit!" He exclaimed as the door closed.

The doors closed, Miroku leaned agaist the wall and set the Tommy Gun down, heavy piece of shit. As the elevator went down he unrolled the sleeve of his T shirt to get at the pack of cigarettes. The elevator slowed. He scowled and clenched the unlit cigarette in his teeth. The doors opened and Miroku picked up the Tommy Gun.

InuYasha fired a round and ducked behind cover. Fuck, they were not in a good position, and they knew that. The guards began to advance on them. FUCK!

An explosion, followed by what seemed like thousands more filled the air. In between the explosions InuYasha could pick up the mechanical cha-chank of an round being loaded into the chamber. The explosions died down.

A pair of boots stepped over empty shells and dead bodies. InuYasha looked at the scene before him. Through the gun smoke a figure emerged, it stopped and reached a hand to its mouth. A brief yellow light was visible through the smoke. The figure raised the gun in it's left hand and shot a guard crawling along the floor.

"Who the fuck are you?" InuYasha challanged. The figure stopped and stared at the direction of his voice. "InuYasha? Shoulda figured. Always getting me into shit like this." "Well, Miroku, maybe if some one hadn't tipped off the gaurds by fucking shooting we wouldn't have this fucking problem!" "Bitch bitch bitch, remind me who just saved your ass?" "Fuck you, I had 'em right where I wanted 'em!" "Yeah whatever, if you're done being in denial, the guys from the other floors are coming, and we have a job to do."

InuYasha and Kagome sprinted towards the stairwell as feet thundered down it. At the same time the elevator began to hum. "You handle the elevator, we'll head up the stairs!" InuYasha yelled, "Right, but one thing." "Yeah?" "I'm working with some one, her's names Sango, wearing a jean jacket and maroon shirt, brown hair, nice ass, good" "FOCUS!" "Huh? Where was I? Oh yeah. Don't shoot her." InuYasha mumbled to him self as he charged up the stiars. "Fucking perv..."

The landing above InuYasha filled with Naraku's guards. InuYasha fired his automatic into the mess of bodies, some men went down, some returned fire. Kagome stayed on stairs, out of harm's way. InuYasha couldn't help but notice she hadn't drawn her gun.

InuYasha kept firing. The .45's slide locked open on an empty chamber. One guard remained standing. InuYasha ducked to reload. He racked the slide and stood up in one motion, but the man was dead, hanging over the railing with the back of his head blown out. What the hell?

A shadow appeared on the wall of the stair well leading to the landing directly above InuYasha. His hearing was bad from all the shooting, but he couldn't hear a single sound from the figure moving down the stairs. From the shadow it looked to be a woman.. wait a minute..

"Hey! Are you Sango?" The figure stopped. "Who the hell?" Yeah it was her. "We're with the idiot in the sunglasses, c'mon we gotta get the fuck outta here!"

Sango followed the man down the stairs warily, she didn't trust him, but it was better than getting shot at.

The three returned to the lobby to find Miroku leaning against the wall, casually smoking, guns in holsters, at least 10 dead men surrounding him. At least he took those damn sunglasses off. "About time, I was getting bored." He stated standing up and grabbing his suitcase.

"Yeah well some of us actually found someinformation out, instead of posing." Sango quipped. "Yeah? Whatdaya got?" "Later" InuYasha interjected. "We'll discuss this later, we gotta split before the cops show."

-END PART ONE-