I'm going out. I'll be back." InuYasha yelled over his shoulder. "Where to?" "Pick up some smokes, need anything?" "Nope." "Be back in fifteen"
It was late in the night and they had just stopped in at a motel. InuYasha had seen a liquor store on the way in. He could of walked, but decided to drive instead.
InuYasha strode into the liquor store and headed for the back. The cigarettes were at the counter, but his flask was a little light..

"NO BODY FUCKING MOVE!"

InuYasha shook his head. 'How do I attract this shit? Space and time must bend around me just to try and get me killed. True, I do hang out in places where shit tends to happen, but Jesus.. There better be a reason for this'
He stood still. It would be less trouble to stand still, let them rob the register and get the smokes elsewhere than kill them and flee the cops.
There were three of them. Maybe a fourth on the door. One on the register, two working the crowd. InuYasha sighed. 'So organized, and they rob a damn liquor store. Kids today have no ambition'
The robbers had hand guns, but the trouble spot in InuYasha's mind was that they had radios. 'Why do three people in a liquor store need radios'
One of them walked behind InuYasha. His radio squawked to life. "Rouna! Get the fuck to the depot! That fuckin' bitch is here! Fucking Kikyo!"

If InuYasha had thought clearly, he would of let them go, trailed them.

Two gunshots exploded through the liquor store. Two robbers died. The one remaining sprayed fire at InuYasha. Bottles exploded. InuYasha ran behind a self. He swung his arm around the end and fired twice. The door burst in. There had been one on the door. He had a gun in each hand and opened fired. Muzzle flashes light up the display windows. Glass shattered. A body flew backwards out the door.
InuYasha reloaded and picked up one of the radios. "What's the address of the depot again?"

Shit was going down before InuYasha got there. Automatic weapons fire boomed from with in. An explosion rocked the walls. The building was large and sprawling. InuYasha kicked in a door.
Men in suits with rifles were barricaded behind a desk, facing a door that lead farther in the building. Their back was to InuYasha. They went down easily.
A figure flashed by the open door. InuYasha looked up in time to she her. She was running, looking forward, not at him. She still had her trade mark white T shirt on. As she ran, she flicked her wrist.
A grenade bounced into the room. InuYasha dove into a corner and placed his hands over the back of his neck.
The explosion ripped apart the room. InuYasha's hearing became muted. He stood shakily to his feet. Smoke still clung to the walls.
All movement seemed slower. Every object was blurred. InuYasha found one of the dead men's rifles. He slung the AK-47 over his shoulder and searched the remainder of the bodies for spare magazines.
'What are you gonna do when you run into her, huh? Kill her again? Talk? Let her shoot you? Huh asshole? After all the shit that happened? What are you gonna do?' He swore at him self.
'I'll figure that out later.' He concluded bringing the rifle to his left shoulder.

He ran into the hall way, following the sound of the battle. Three people bounded into the hallway in front of him. "Who the hell are you?" InuYasha dropped the rifle to his hip and laid down on the trigger. Brass casings ricocheted off the concrete floor. The hallway ended on a flight of stairs. InuYasha charged up to the landing. He turned around to see someone in a suit charging at him. He brought the rifle to his shoulder and fired. Something moved above him. There was a gunman on the floor above him. InuYasha fired first. Someone yelled "THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE! SHE'S NOT ALONE!" A grenade flew over the railing to land at InuYasha's feet.
InuYasha took the last steps four at a time. He was in mid step when the grenade exploded, sending him and the gunmen flying.
InuYasha was on the ground. Bodies moved all around him. His rifle was gone. He drew his 1911 and began to fire at the forms. InuYasha turned on the ground, firing at anything that moved. Someone were on the floor, some where on their feet. Someone on the ground was arching their back in an attempt to get up. InuYasha fired into his ribs and he hit the deck. InuYasha stuck the gun in front of him and fired at a shape in the dust. Another to his right. Two more shots. InuYasha rolled onto his back and jammed the pistol at a figure standing at his feet.
InuYasha jammed a mag into the pistol as he stood up. As he pulled back the slide he noticed a grenade with the pin still in at his feet. He picked it up along with what looked like his rifle.
He emerged out of the smoke firing at anyone that still moved. Shell casings shot out of the rifle. .
The stairs were nothing but a twisted wreak of metal. he headed down the hall way. It lead to an observation catwalk over looking a large empty room. Chemical tanks lined the walls. InuYasha wasn't interested in them.

The suited gunmen filled the center of the floor. Kikyo was in their midst, ducking and weaving with the grace of a dancer. She held her pistol parallel to her stomach, firing into a gunman's gut. He bent over, and Kikyo gracefully rolled over his back, landing on her feet with her gun to someone's head.
As soon as she fired, another one appeared behind her. She turned her body as she jumped a few inches, coming down facing him on her right foot. Her left was already in the air, headed for his jaw. As her foot collided with his head, she pointed the gun sideways a couple inches from his chest, firing twice.
She dropped to the deck, using her hand to support her whole body, she pushed off with her foot, swinging her legs around and knocking someone to the floor. She shot him before her feet touched ground.
She leapt to her feet to find someone behind and in front of her. She bounced on her feet and brought her arms to a good fighting position in front of her chest.
The one in front dived at her middle. She put a hand on his back and flipped over him, sending him flying into the guy behind her. She grabbed hold of his suit and pulled him up right before shooting both of them.
'What are you gonna do huh slick? I'm gonna help her.' InuYasha planted a boot on the railing and pushed off toward the fight.
He came down on someone's back and rolled forward, coming up almost kneeling. He fired four rounds at two people. He spun around to face Kikyo and sent a bullet whistling past her cheek into someone's forehead. She didn't seem surprised to see him and didn't even glance at him before doubling someone over with a gunshot and bringing her foot down on the back of their neck. One man left. InuYasha back pedaled toward Kikyo and fired two rounds at him. He went down with a howl.
InuYasha spun around to find himself three feet from Kikyo. Both brought their pistols up to each other's head. Both pistols were locked open on an empty chamber.
Their thumbs flew to the realize. Two magazines hit the ground ominously loud. The two stopped there.
InuYasha and Kikyo stared at each, both panting, both sweaty. InuYasha counted back how long it had been since he had seen her. He wondered what was going on through her head. Hell, we wondered what was going through his head. All the old feelings boiled up, but everything he did would depend on one thing. What Kikyo felt. What she would do. They continued to stare. Foot steps grew louder. In an instant they were surrounded by a ring of thugs. They ignored them and continued to stare into each other's eyes. InuYasha could smell the oil from the FN Forty-Nine five inches from his face. He couldn't read her. He engraved the look in her eyes to figure out later. Suddenly InuYasha remembered they were surrounded. He smirked. "How about one more song? Just like the old days.."

InuYasha and Kikyo both grabbed a new magazine. The two spun three hundred and sixty degrees and stepped forward, coming up back to back, pistols loaded.
The henchmen surrounded them on all sides. The two gunslingers slowly began to circle, keeping there backs together. They all had there hand guns raised. No one dared move.
Memories came flooding back to InuYasha. There life on the road. The battles they had faced. Shoulder to shoulder. Side by side. The feeling of freedom. The urge for revenge. Sweet satisfaction. The bitter pain of betrayal. His days running from the law. Finding Kikyo again. The bullet in his chest. His life in the Caribbean. How that went to hell. All for this woman. And here they were again. Back to back. Shoulder to shoulder. Comrades. It came back to him. The feelings of invincibility, pride and conviction he held during that summer on the road with her. InuYasha's left hand began to slowly began to move from the pistol to his front jacket pocket. He glared at each of the gunmen as they slowly rotated around him. He showed them no emotion. Not even coldness. They stared back. Most over a pistol. His hand slipped inside his pocket. Ever so slowly he eased the pin out of the grenade. It jerked free. He let it drop in his pocket. Arms began to straighten out, preparing to fire. InuYasha maneuvered the grenade around to carefully remove the spoon and start the fuse. Fingers began to slowly tighten on triggers. 'One.. Two..' InuYasha arm tensed up.

The grenade flew out of his pocket, exploding a split second after landing behind the circle, shielding the two figures in the center from the shrapnel. Kikyo fired behind him, the weight on his back disappeared as Kikyo rushed her side of the circle. InuYasha made short work of the survivors of the blast. He turned to help Kikyo. He fired as Kikyo decimated them, never keeping still.

The last body fell. The last gun shot echoed through the room. InuYasha and Kikyo stared at each other from ten feet away. Both were once again out of ammo. InuYasha looked for the right thing to say. Kikyo spoke first however. "There are more coming." 'God, how I missed that voice.' InuYasha allowed him self a smile. "How are you alive?" "How are you?" "They gave me three shots of adrenaline straight to the heart. Brought me back." "So why do you wonder about me?" "I took a small round above the heart. You took a .44 slug to the heart." "There are other powers in the this world beside the jewel InuYasha"
They stared at each other again. 'Goddamn, it's been to long since I've seen her..' InuYasha thought. "Your bleeding." Kikyo observed. "Not as bad as you." InuYasha gestured to Kikyo's arm. "You can't fight, not like you do, with that arm. Get outta here. I'll handle them." "It's a lot of people." "I don't care. Like you said, other powers in this world"
InuYasha reloaded and turned to the large truck door he figure they would pour in from. "Get outta here." He heard Kikyo run behind him toward the exit. "I'll see you again." He said as she passed. "Count on it.
The truck door began to fill up. InuYasha hid among the bodies and took aim at it. The familiar lines began to form. Then the bright light appeared. "Let's hope this works."

The windscar ripped through their ranks. In two shots InuYasha killed them all. "I'll be Goddamned.."

"That was some Goddamn fifteen minutes InuYasha." Kagome noticed as he finally made his way back. She was sitting a chair reading. "Yeah yeah. It's 3 AM. Why aren't you asleep?" "Eh, couldn't sleep so I decided to sit up." "What ever, guess you'll wanna sleep in then"
Kagome stared at him. "Wha?" "Why the hell are you so happy?" "Me?" "Yes you! Your almost smiling and everything." "Eh, had a good night." "What did you do?" "Oh, nothing." InuYasha said pulling his hands from his pockets. The pin and spoon fell to the floor. Kagome stared at him wide eyed. InuYasha grinned sheepishly. "Well, let's get to bed shall we?" "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?"