Chapter Two: Street War

Kagome heard the mans crys. "Demon! DEMON!" it shouted. she could hear people running inside, most likely hiding from whatever monstrosity had shown itself this time. She had been walking home after spending the day moving into her apartment. she knew she had a roommate, but they had not show up yet. Being trained as a priestess at home, due to the fact that her family came from a line of priests and maintained the holy shrine in downtown Tokyo, she had stopped many demons before. Origionally she had only used her hands, but as she encountered more difficult beasts, she chose to use a small dart gun instead. Real guns were too loud for her, and power-enhanced darts did the job just fine anyway.

She heard gunshots and ran faster. Kagome rounded the corner and came upon the scene. There were a few men standing around, holding various handguns all seemingly pointing in the same direction. It was toward the direction of another person in a coat. 'thats odd, its still pretty warm out tonight, why would they wear a jacket in the summer time?' she thought to herself. She glanced around again, 'But where is the demon?'

"Filthy demon!" A man shouted, "How dare you try and defile this girl!"

"ME!" The man in the trenchcoat shouted back, "you should look over to your drunken buddy there, he was the one trying to rape her!" 'but that guy doesnt look like a demon, he looks.. human' The man he indicated to looked shocked, the other men took his act as truth.

"And how dare you try to get away with your plan by taking advantage of my friends current status!" The first man retaliated, "You'll pay for your tricks!" He aimed his gun and fired at the man in the jacket. With astonishing speed, the 'demon' jumped off the wall behind him and landed between Kagome and the men. And seemingly, the men noticed. "Oh no you dont, your not making off with that one either!" the main turned and aimed again.

Inuharu looked behind him, seeing another young woman there. 'damn it! if i move she'll be shot!' he stood in place long enough and prepared for the pain. A moment later, the bullet hit and he screamed out in pain, falling to his knees. The other men chuckled and took up aim as well.

"Stop!" someone yelled out, and the men froze in place. Kagome stood angrily and glared toward them, but spoke calmly. "Please return to your homes, I will take care of him" she pulled out her dart gun, glowing with spiritual energy to make her point.

"As you wish priestess" a man spoke after a moment of hesitation and ushered the others back toward their homes. The girl, who was being violated only moments before quickly scampered away from the scene, taking advantage of being forgotten. Kagome watched them go and took aim at the creature before her. She could tell now, he really was a demon. Two dog ears perched on his head drooped slightly as he struggled to remain concious. Inuharu staw her aim and squeezed his eyes shut. 'I have to cast a concealing spell before i pass out' he thought to himself. Quickly murmering through the encantation, he felt the spell take effect and feel into darkness.

'What the heck is going on?' Kagome thought, 'A second ago i could swear i saw dog ears on his head but now he looks normal' Indeed, he did look normal. Inuharu's spell had taken its desired effect before he passed out. becides his unusual hair color, he looks pretty much normal. 'he looks normal, but i can feel his aura. he is a demon.' Kagome let the dart gun fall slightly 'but hes hiding himself, why would he want to hide amongst us? does he not want to attack humans?'. Quickly placing the gun back in her pack, she ran over to the fallen hanyou. 'the gun wounds are serious, i should take him back home to heal him' Suprising even herself with her own strength, she carefully lifted the limp body and dragged it toward the street corner, maybe she could move him 50 feet, but she sure as hell couldnt carry him home.

1 hour later

By the time Kagome had hailed a cab, and reached her home on the shrine grounds, it had started to rain. 'damn weather' Kagome grumbled to her self as she dragged the still unconcious body of the boy up the shrine steps. Step after endless step, it seemed like they would go on forever in the empty haze of the pouring rain. Finally reaching the top step, she continued moving him one sluggish movement at a time, until she reached the front door.

Sighing from her exertion, she moved him into the living room. Glad that the door was unlocked so she hadnt needed to fumble with her keys, however to her suprise her family was not present. There was a note on the counter, mentioning something about being gone for a week and there was food in the pantry. She didnt take much notice to it, Kagome was too busy studying the limp figure that now occupied her living room floor.

Thanks to the jacket he wore, most of his torso remained dry. But his head, and lower body were all soaked. His face was held taunt in pain, even after losing conciousness he still felt it. She started feeling sorry for the guy, which was not the first time tonight she had. He had been shot probably more then once, and the first thing she did is take out her own gun and aim it at him. No wonder he had been in such a hurry to cast that concealing spell of his. She was suprised it still held, even with him been out cold. It was a strong spell, but she could tell it was there. She couldnt, however see through it. This was something that puzzled Kagome, normally she could see through any concealing spell.

Her grandfather had taught her how to, and had even hidden things with the most powerful spells, it an attempt to fool her. But no matter how hard he tried, after she had mastered the difficult technique, she was able to see through all of them. Exept this one, the one this boy used was different. Then again he was different too, she had never seen anyone like him. Sure she had seen boys before, many of them sporting the altered color look his hair adorned him with. However his seemed different, almost as if it had grown that way naturally. He certainly was a strange one alright. And simply because of that fact she had convinced herself she had not imagined the dog ears she saw earlier and that he truely was a demon. Though she could tell he wasnt anything like the demons she had encountered before. They were vicous and bloodthirsty, not bothering to stop and tend to their wounds when they had been hit. They would just continue to attack, giving Kagome no choice but to purify them.

Yes, the boy in front of her was different. But she couldnt exactly tell why. He had shown no agression toward her, or toward anyone else for that matter. Becides his raised voice, she most likely wouldnt have noticed him on the street. She glanced at him again. 'ok so maybe thats not entirely true' she thought with a blush. Gods he was handsome. And cute too, his almost boyish features partally relaxed in sleep. she could only imagine how he would look with those two adroable triangles of furr on his head