Chapter 1: Emergency
It's been two years…I still think about her from time to time. Most of the time I keep myself busy with paperwork so I don't have time to think. Thinking leads to reminiscing and reminiscing leads to her face. I shouldn't have left; the look on her face when I told her is scorched at the front of my mind. I've been cooped up here in this dank office for these past two years and all anyone says when they come in from the outside world is how much it has changed. I'm 24 now going on 25 and I live alone in a home/office, every week someone leaves papers and I work on them, not the active job I had in America but Japan isn't all bad, I can have all the Japanese food I want. What I didn't know was that my life was about to change…
Outside Tokyo Complex, a crappy little apartment building there were only two sounds the noisy street not three feet away with it's car horns and the common car crash and the bamming of someone's fist on a particularly moldy looking door. Inside the rathole a man slumped over a desk groaned and sat up.
"Leave the damn papers at the door!" he shouted to the loud intruder. He didn't expect the door to slam open and a young man in a sharp black business suit to walk in. The man at the desk veered around to yell the intruder's ear off, and maybe blow it off with the concealed pistol in the back of his jeans. His eyes widened when they focused on the frowning disgusted man before him. "M-Miroku!"
"It is good to see you again my friend. Come, we must leave right away. There is a situation." Said Miroku waving towards the door. Inuyasha turned back to the desk and laid his head down on it pathetically.
"Sorry Miroku, not this time. I'm not coming back to the FBI. I've taken permanent residence on a desk job here in Japan. Not even the leader at headquarters could get me out of this." Said Inuyasha with a tired voice.
"Oh? Well too bad because headquarters didn't send me the President did, does he have enough authority to bring you back?" asked Miroku sarcastically. Inuyasha sat up and turned to face Miroku suspiciously.
"What does the President want with me?" asked Inuyasha.
"You're the only one that can help his daughter." Said Miroku dramatically as if expecting a big reaction from this news but he didn't get it.
"Which one? Doesn't he have two?" asked Inuyasha perplexed.
Miroku looked at Inuyasha like he just grew a three heads. "Are you kidding me! Inuyasha! Last year was a Presidential Election Year, so Im guessing you don't know that we now have the first President of Japanese decent!" Inuyasha frowned and shook his head no. Miroku heaved a frustrated sigh. "Inuyasha, Senator Higurashi is now President Higurashi!"
Inuyasha blinked for a minute or two then his eyes widened in understanding. "Wait! He wants me to help Kagome! What's happened to her!" demanded Inuyasha and grabbing Miroku by the collar.
Miroku gave Inuyasha a sad smile. "Kagome's run away. Sango and Lain have found her but she's inconsolable you need to come talk some sense into her." Said Miroku forcing Inuyasha to release him.
Inuyasha's eyes went out of focus and he had a sorrowful look on his face. "I can't Miroku. If I see her again I'll—." Miroku gave him a sympathetic look.
"I know but, you need to help her. You see, she's joined the Lo Techs. They are using her and she is letting them. What if…they make her give them the Jewel?" said Miroku and he got the desired reaction this time because Inuyasha got a guilty look on his face. "You had your reasons for giving it to her but…you need to come with me now." Inuyasha paused for a minute and nodded. Inuyasha got on a clean suit and followed Miroku out to the black car.
Inuyasha was brought back to headquarters in America and they went to D Hall and to the room they used to travel to Feudal Web. Inuyasha gasped when he saw that the room was exactly as it was when they were traveling into Feudal Web. Sango and Lain sat at the console and looked over at them. At the sight of Inuyasha Sango jumped from her seat and ran to him, she gave him hug and a smile.
"You look like a mess Inuyasha!" Sango laughed. He didn't look a little shaggy his hair was unruly, he had deep circles under his eyes and he looked a little starved. "Go to your room, it's the same as you left it. Get changed, wash up, and look good because we are meeting at the diner in an hour. We have to catch up!" Sango waved him away and Inuyasha left, knowing where to go. He looked over his shoulder to see Sango and Miroku kiss each other in welcome.
When he arrived at his room he did all the bossy demon slayer said and when he finished he had sometime so he decided to visit Kagome's old room. He walked in and found the room to be dark and there was a thick layer of dust on everything. He looked into the closet and found a single outfit, the plastic overalls she wore when he first saw her. He briefly wondered why she left them and realized she wasn't finished packing when he came in and held her and talked to her.
"Keh! Silly wench. You'd be 19 now." He said softly. He realized he was wasting time so he left to the diner. When he got there he found the others at a table in the back. He now had a chance to get a good look at them. Lain was pretty much the same as ever though she did look a little taller. Her hair look recently cut to the way it was two years ago, she always did have weird style. She didn't give him the chills anymore though so it didn't bother him to sit next to her. Across the table he saw that Sango had cut her hair and no longer wore a ponytail and Miroku looked the same except his bangs were noticeably longer. Inuyasha looked down at Sango's and Miroku's hands to see them holding and there on Sango's left ring finger was a gold band. He looked at Miroku's to see an identical one. Inuyasha's brow furrowed and he glared at Miroku.
"Heh Heh! Sorry that you weren't invited to the wedding we weren't allowed to contact you." Said Miroku nervously.
Inuyasha's eyes softened a little. "Who was your best man?"
"Zach, Lain's boyfriend." Said Miroku. Lain blushed and her shoulder's slumped shyly. Inuyasha smirked, this Zach guy must have caused this change in Lain. "So how have you been my friend?"
"My life hasn't been exciting as yours. So are you guys going to tell me about Kagome or aren't you?" growled Inuyasha.
Sango sighed. "You see… When Kagome graduated from that boarding school in England she thought she would be free of her father's rules but her father ran for President and won. So then she had the secret service around her twenty four seven. She escaped their watch two weeks ago and no one heard from her until she was found on the internet with the Lo Techs. She is one of them now and refuses to leave the internet." Said Sango.
Inuyasha got a confused look on his face. "She refuses to leave the internet? What the hell does that mean!"
"You haven't been very up to speed with the goings on of the outside world have you Inuyasha?" Lain said sarcastically. "The Lo Techs released some highly advanced technology that can allow you to ENTER the internet, like a three D version of the web. It is quite fun actually. That is why we set up the virtual reality equipment, I upgraded it to allow us to enter the internet. The damn higher ups are too cheap to just BUY the normal equipment." Lain grumbled.
"So we are going into the web to find Kagome?" Inuyasha asked. The other three nodded. "So when are we going in?"
"Tomorrow." Said Miroku.
Tomorrow came and the gang all met bright and early in the room where the equipment is set up. Miroku and Inuyasha said they would go in and told Sango and Lain to manage the console. As they laid down on the beds a thought occurred to Inuyasha. "Hey, can we get hurt in here like in Feudal Web?"
Miroku laughed. "No no! Feudal Web's ability to hurt people was because of the Jewel. This is safe even if the Lo Techs made it. Just follow what I do when we get in okay?" Miroku laid down and closed his eyes and Inuyasha followed. Sango and Lain worked the console and the boxlike machines lowered on top of them. Inuyasha felt the same sensation as when he went into Feudal Web but there was a sudden jerk and a stop. He opened his eyes and found himself standing in nothing but darkness. Lights suddenly rushed at him and he felt dizzy. Suddenly the lights came to an abrupt halt and it looked like a world built by tiny pinpricks of light, like stars. He looked around and found the only thing around that was all black with lights for outlines was Miroku who looked normal, just like he left him in the room. "Ready to go my friend?"
A/N: So what do you think of the first chapter. This isn't the main plot of the story this is just how they all meet up again. What do you think of a crossover with the Avatar Aang? Tell me what you think of the first chapter!
