AN: This chapter has been sitting on my desk for quite some time, I just didn't get to type it until today. u.u; This chapter would've been longer but the next scene was to long to match my usual page count. Ah well, that just means that the next chapter has a big chunk finished already.

Once again I'd like to say that QuickEdit has eaten my formating. I'll be playing around with what I can use to replace it for now.

On with the story now!

Condemn me for Eternity

Chapter 4 – The UCS

I was in the car again, this time Miroku and Inuyasha weren't there. Sango told me that Miroku had to report the incident to Keade, who was incharge of Japan's section of Universal Celestial Safety (UCS for short).

UCS is an organization built by two humans, one demon, and one priestess approximately 2000 years ago. The goal was 'life for all' meaning everyone had a chance to live. Of course the goal had since changed over the years to 'protection of the innocent' due to the abuse of the original.

It was still all new to me but I've been known to be very . . . resilient? No, that wasn't the word for it, was it? Well whatever the word was, I just didn't crack under pressure easily.

Ok, that was a lie. I am not good with stress at all.

"Are you ok?"

I turned to face Sango beside me, "I'm fine, absolutely perfect!" I said, my voice rising in pitch so much that it made me wince.

"Then why are you shaking? You look like a time bomb waiting to explode," she replied, seeming not to have noticed the change in my voice.

"Well this is just too much!" I said frantically, "This is just too much to fast. I keep hoping when I blink my eyes I'll wake up and find out this is all just a dream and I can go on in my less then boring life that didn't risk my sanity."

She sighed, "I was wondering when you'd finally cave in."

"This is all like a movie but I suck at acting and when the monster dies, it really dies! I've live my whole life until today thinking my grandfather was a senile old coot and in less then three hours all his stories become true."

"Kagome, you're grandfather isn't registered in our database so he IS a senile old coot, as you so lovingly put it. You are the first in your family line to have enough spiritual energy to actually do any form of damage or healing. Most of your powers at the moment are dormant but the parts that are active could be a danger to not only you, but to our whole society. You were able to see though Inuyasha's concealing spell. Even if you only saw glimpses of his true form, you have to realize that the spells that hide his demon attributes from human eyes is one of the more advanced ones known. Because of this, you could probably walk around and identify every demon wearing a lesser spell when you go down the street soon," she paused for a moment, "The thing is that we usually know the instant a miko or demon is born. They don't have the ability to hide their energy until five hours of being fully exposed to our air. You, as a baby, showed no indication that you held any miko powers."

"What does that have to do with this?"

"It has everything to do with this. If we found you when you were born, you would've grown up knowing that this all existed and you wouldn't have been so surprised."

"Well," I said calming down slightly, "sometimes you make mistakes."

I saw her hands clench tightly on the steering wheel, "No, we can't afford to make mistakes."

The car pulled to a halt outside my apartment building.

"It's too late for you to be introduced to Kaede today, you have classes tomorrow morning anyways. I'll pick you up after you're done and take you to headquarters," Sango said, not once glancing at me nor loosening her grip on the steering wheel.

I nodded slowly and got out of the car. It wasn't until I was changed into my pyjamas and brushing my teeth that I realized that she knew my school schedule.

My first class went by quickly and my lunch consisted of Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi offering new job suggestions.

Then my second, and last, class of the day ended up being cancelled. Apparently my professor had lived in the apartment building that I had so happily visited and watched get somewhat destroyed yesterday. My apartment was too far to walk to and walk back before the usual end of my class so I sat in front of the gates, waiting to get picked up by Sango.

"Higurashi, don't you have a class right now?"

I spun around to face Hojo, a guy that I shared a science class last year with.

"It was cancelled. The teacher called at the last moment and it was to late to get a substitute, what about you?"

"I have a spare right now."

"Oh well, that's nice," I replied blankly. I still had no idea why he was talking to me.

"Higurashi, would you mind going to-"

"Oi, Kagome!"

I blinked at the flustered Hojo before looking over my shoulder to see Inuyasha.

"Hey, you're early...and I thought Sango was picking me up."

"Sango was busy when we heard you class was cancelled so they sent me. Who's this guy?"

"Oh right," I said as it suddenly dawned on me that I had been talking to Hojo before Inuyasha arrived, "Hojo, I'd like you to meet a new friend of mine, Inuyasha. Inuyasha, this is Hojo, and old classmate."

"Hi."

"Hello."

It was silent for a few seconds (that felt like minutes) before Hojo turned to go, "I'll talk to you another time Higurashi since you seem busy. Bye."

"See ya Hojo"

I looked at Inuyasha who seemed to be staring a hole into Hojo's retreating figure.

"No wonder you have so little friends, you look like you're going to kill him."

"Keh."

"So, let's go or are you really going to just stand there glaring all day."

He shrugged and started to walk away, "This way to the car, wench."

"...What..did you SAY?!"

The car ride was silent but I kept glancing at him to see if I could see his puppy ears as I had completely forgotten about the wench comment as soon as I sat down. I saw them for a brief moment twice but they always disappeared after a second or two.

We stopped and I looked out the window to notice that we have stopped in front of a fitness centre.

I followed Inuyasha inside confused until we went into the back room and walked behind a pile of boxes. There was an elevator door with a card slot.

He pulled out a card, which looked like a membership card for the centre, and pushed it into the slot. The card went in and out quickly and the doors opened.

We went down the elevator to what was said to be floor B5 and stepped out into what seemed like a business company. A few people walked through the halls but I was to busy watching Inuyasha as he sighed in relief as he took down his spell revealing his demon features. "There's a barrier around the centre which will hide my youki so I don't need the spell on."

I looked at him questioningly, "But I thought that was called jyaki."

He shook his head as we walked down the hallway, "Youki is the aura of a demon, jyaki is kind of like the essence of evil that is wrapped in a demon's youki. You probably didn't notice yesterday but normal youki looks like a pale cloud around a demon while jyaki looks darker and gives off a slightly foreboding feeling."

I nodded slowly, letting the information process into my brain.

"I might as well tell you about shouki also now," He said as we continued to walk down the hallway, "Unlike jyaki and youki, there is no definite colour. It can be light or dark. Another difference is that shouki can actually damage or and even possibly kill you. That description might confuse you on how to see the difference between it and the others but it's actually really easy."

"How so?"

"Jyaki and Youki just float around a demon, shouki can be moved like an instant fog or it can even be like the shape of light beams."

"I see...," suddenly another question popped into my mind, "Sango mentioned yesterday that there is more then one spell that conceals what you look like. I don't know now if it's true or not, it's just something I picked out of what she was saying" I said remember when she had said 'Even if you only saw glimpses of his true form, you have to realize that the spells that hide his demon attributes from human eyes is one of the more advanced ones known.'

"I actually use a combination of spells, you noticed the other night how when I took off and put on the spell it seemed like there were thousands of threads right?"

I nodded.

"Well those threads were parts of multiple spells that hold together the four spells that change my features. The main spells are for my eyes, hair, and my ears. I've got two for my ears, one to hide the real ones and one to make it look like I have human ones."

"That's so cool!" I said cutting him off from walking, "Do you know any other spells?"

He pushed past me and continued to walk, "Nothing that would help you."

I pouted but followed after him. We entered a room and I saw Sango typing on a laptop at a desk.

"Inuyasha, your brother wants to see you," she said, not once looking away from the screen in front of her.

He growled and walked back out the door. I started to follow him but was stopped by Sango's voice.

"Don't worry about him, you're suppose to see Kaede in a few minutes so just sit anywhere and wait for the door to open," she said pointing to the door behind her, eyes still trained to the computer screen.

I sat down in one of the three chairs across from Sango and watched her as she continued to type furiously on the laptop. I wanted to ask her about her reaction near the end of our conversation in the car yesterday but was somewhat afraid of what she would say. Instead I tried to make a simple conversation with her to cure the silence in to room.

"So what are you doing?"

"Organizing reports from all of yesterday's incidents including the one we were in for Keade."

"How many is that?"

"About 23."

I looked at her in surprise, "You mean to tell me that there were 23 attacks yesterday?"

"Yup"

"Is there always that many?"

"Sometimes, some days we don't get any and others there are so many that we can't stop them all."

Silenced filled the room, aside from the clicking noises from Sango's laptop. I sighed and looked at the door behind her.

Just what have I gotten myself into now?