Authors Note: New chappie! Finally! Yay for me! Thankies to my beta reader Hanyou Vixen! Enjoy the chap.!
PYDY
Chapter two:
Inuyasha sat in his office twirling a pencil between his fingers. Work had been non-existent recently at the firm (if you could even call it that). Days went by without a single phone call from the Sources. Inuyasha was getting quite annoyed and decided he would die if there were no clients soon. No one knew if he was serious or not.
He nearly jumped out of his computer chair when his secretary, Malira came dashing into the room.
"Hey, somebody's here" She said, out of breath and leaned against the door way.
"Are you serious?" a shocked Inuyasha said.
Malira nodded, "yeah, she says it's urgent."
He just stared.
Malira snapped her fingers in his face. "C'mon, we need cash!"
Inuyasha sighed. Typical of Malira to focus on the money. "Let's go, then, shall we?"
"What? Don't you want me to send her into your office?"
"Nah., I'll deal with her outside first, she could be one of Naraku's spies."
Malira shrugged and followed Inuyasha outside to the main room. The office was built like a small house. The main room was small and almost empty. With two black leather sofa chairs on opposite sides of an oak desk in the middle and a bookcase to the side (also black), other then a mural of a giant white dog youkai on the west wall, the room showed no personality. The other walls were painted beige.
Kagome Higurashi sat nervously in a sofa chair, twiddling her thumbs, more because she was nervous, not because she was impatient.
"Hi, I'm Inuyasha." He waved and took a seat in the other chair. Kagome's head shot up.
"H-hello . . . I'm Kagome." She muttered quietly and looked back down.
Inuyasha stared at her, waiting for her to say something more. After about a minute, he realized she wasn't going to. "What are you here for?"
"My brother . . ."
He waited.
Her head shot up rapidly again. "You're never going to believe me!" She jumped out the chair and ran toward the door. Before she made it out, Inuyasha grabbed her arm.
She sobbed lightly, "I-I'm sorry . . . I shouldn't . . . I shouldn't have bothered you . . ."
He stared, dumbfounded. Was she crying?
"Hey," he asked softly "what's going on?"
She looked up at him, "my brother, Sota, he's in . . . Trouble."
He sighed "Come on, let's sit down."
Kagome explained that Sota was arrested yesterday for supposedly holding up a boutique and shooting a civilian.
He took this in, she hadn't asked for help or mentioned anything about youkai or even said he was innocent. Maybe she didn't understand who she was talking to. "So is your brother . . . " he didn't want to come out and say 'Youkai' and risk losing the only client he'd had in two weeks.
As if reading his mind, she said "my brother isn't . . . Human" and averted her eyes to the bookcase on her right.
Score.
"So, he is a..."
"...Hanyou" she said.
That surprised him a bit. Hanyou's were rare to come across these days.
"Okay." He said blankly.
"Okay?"
"Okay, I'll help you." He said with dignity.
This shocked her. "Did I ask for your help?" She questioned firmly.
Now, this shocked him. This girl was confusing. "What do you want then?"
She didn't respond.
After a few minutes of silence, he asked ". . . Is he innocent?"
She stared at him with shock and disgust in her eyes. "Of course' he is!" She snapped.
Inuyasha was getting a headache. "So, you do want my help?"
"What?"
"Um . . ."
She stuttered. "Y-you believe me?"
"That he's innocent? I don't know. I need to know everything and meet your brother. But I want justice, if he's innocent, I'll be one step closer to my goal."
"Goal?" She asked expectantly.
"My 'goal' is to protect innocent Youkai and Hanyou's from an organization called People Protecting People Against Youkai, or PPPAY. I'm assuming you already know that Youkai are executed immediately after being decided guilty by a court of law. My associates and I formed an underground organization called People and Youkai Defending Youkai. PYDY. Basically, I defend Youkai and Hanyous in court and spent every waking moment of my life to protect these strangers for the greater good." He explained. "Understand now?"
Kagome stared in silence.
When she noticed Inuyasha was looking at her expectantly, she smartly said "...oh..."
Inuyasha didn't respond to Kagome's neutral answer, but rather, pulled something out of his coat pocket. She glanced at the small white piece of paper in his right hand.
"My card." He handed her the paper.
She took it and saw that it read:
INUYASHA ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone: 453-660-3271
There were also two kanji symbols Kagome didn't bother read at the moment.
"Um . . . " She muttered, wishing he would say something.
"Call me." He said simply.
"...Okay."
---
Two days went by without a call from Kagome.
Inuyasha sat in his office, playing computer solitaire.
Just as he was about to win the game, an email alert popped up onto his screen.
"You have 1 new message" came the sound of the mechanical computer voice.
He cautiously clicked the "Go to mail" button on the bottom of the alert. He didn't want another tracking bug from Naraku.
As his inbox slowly came up, he was half expecting (and hoping) for it to be from Kagome.
But what came up surprised and disappointed him.
The sender was talk2fluffsecure.216641.
Heh, can't believe he hasn't changed that," he muttered "lazy bum."
Inuyasha had set up secure email addresses for every member of his team (PYDY).
He had decided to have some fun when creating Sesshomaru's. Thus, the name 'talk2fluff'.
He opened the email.
To: inu22yashasecure.216641
From: talk2fluffsecure.216641
Subject: New case
Inuyasha, I have a new case for you. Word on the street is that the cops picked up a hanyou. No one knows much about it, but you might consider looking into it.
-Sesshomaru
Inuyasha closed the email window and picked up the phone. He dialed a number and waited; twirling a pencil in his right hand.
"Code Bird 01" Came a voice on the other side of the phone.
"I'm on a new case. You know what to do." Inuyasha stated into the phone.
"Yes sir." There was a beep.
Inuyasha put the phone down and walked into the main office.
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"Hey," He muttered as he slumped into a leather chair.
Inuyasha's colleague Miroku, glanced at his friend's disheveled state.
Inuyasha noticed this. "What?" He asked.
Before Miroku had a chance to answer, Sango walked in and threw a stack of papers on the oak desk, "here ya go." She said and attempted to leave but was stopped by Inuyasha. "What the hell is this?" He asked while going through the papers Sango had dropped on the table.
Sango turned around to face Inuyasha, "He didn't tell you?" she asked, a bit confused.
"Who didn't tell me what?" Inuyasha asked, extremely confused.
"Sesshomaru asked me to pull the files of every Hanyou citizen residing in Tokyo." She explained, "For a new case you're working on he said, I thought you two had discussed this . . ."
"Oh yeah, but I didn't tell him to pull the files." He said while rummaging through the files with newly found interest. "Get me some coffee, would ya?"
"You're welcome master." She muttered sarcastically and went to retrieve coffee.
"Mm." He mumbled.
---
Five cups of coffee and 64 files later, Inuyasha had narrowed it down to a pile of five.
'Guess Hanyous aren't that rare after all." He thought tiredly.
He went through the selected five for what seemed like the 100th time.
This time though, he came across what he had unknowingly been looking for the whole time.
Sota Higurashi
Age: 17
Occupation: Highschool student
Immediate Family: Yuri Higurashi (Mother), Kagome Higurashi (Sister), Taio Higurashi (Father, deceased)
Inuyasha re-read this information several times. 'Could it be her?' he silently asked himself. If he remembered correctly, the girl 'Kagome' had never mentioned her last name during their 'meeting'.
He rushed into his office, carrying Sota's folder with him.
He sat at his computer, briefly noticing the digital computer clock at the bottom far right of the screen that read 4:55 A.M.
Opening a search engine page he typed 'Taio Higurashi' into the search bar and hit the 'Enter' key.
He browsed through the pointless results until something caught his eye.
"Higurashi Takeshi Enterprises" read the hyperlink. He clicked on it.
The main page read:
Dear faithful customers, we are sorry to announce that due to the death of my partner, Mr. Taio Higurashi, our company will be permanently closed. Please respect that me and my colleagues are no longer able to continue this company without Mr. Higurashi.
Sincerely,
Mr. Tohru Takeshi
Inuyasha quickly went to the Tokyo News website. He went to the archives section and searched for Taio Higurashi.
He browsed past a few articles involving Higurashi Takeshi Enterprises. If he could just find something on his death, this new case could get interesting.
After five minutes of nothing but 'H&T enterprises break a new record this week!', etc. he had finally found it.
HIGHLY RESPECTED BUSINESSMAN SHOT DEAD LAST NIGHT BY OFFICER OF THE POLICE FORCE.
Mr. Higurashi had been suspected of selling and using crack cocaine. The police force and PPPAY state that this was proven last night when Higurashi had supposedly gone 'Psycho' and attacked officer Koda Ariyama, who then fired the shot that led to Higurashi's death. All charges against Ariyama have been dropped and the case has been closed, labeling Higurashi's death as an act of self-defense. There were no witnesses so the case remains a mystery.
'The police force and PPPAY' he read again.
If Inuyasha assumed right and this kid Sota was Kagome's brother and accused of shooting a kid and PPPAY was involved, this case could become very interesting.
END.
Auther's note: Forgive the suckiness, I know I could do better, but I just want to post this. Please review if you want the fic to continue, because I am honestly having doubts about it. I started this with no real plot, and I'm figuring out where to go from here. I started the third chapter, and I will hopefully finish it sometime. Right now I'm consintrating on writing an original shounen-ai fic that I hope some of you will read when it's posted. I've still got awhile to go til' I get it posted, but if any of you are intrested, it will be posted on fictionpress dot com. Here's a brief summary if you're intrested:
Michael, 16, homeless and living on the streets, has taken up pick-pocketing to get money. One night, he pick-pockets a man, and assumed he got away with it. But when this man keeps reappearing in his life, what is Michael to do? And what if this man also happens to be really hot?
I will probably be spending more time on that then anything, but this fic is my second priorty. I hope I still have some reviewers after not updating for so long.
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