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Chapter 3

Putting the Plan Into Action

A guard walked across the casino floor dragging along a caged vault that contained millions of dollars. He walked past the bar and opened the staff doors using an ID card. Koga and Ayame were sitting at the very end of the bar closest to the doors. Koga looked at his watch and it read 10:00 pm. He scribbled down the time in a notebook. It contained all the times the money was taken in. So far, every two hours the money was taken inside.

"Look alive Ayame." He said. His fiancée was resting her head on the cold tile top. She mumbled some words that were only audible to him. "I don't care if you're tired. We're going to pull an all nighter if we have to."

"You suck." Ayame responded. She took another sip of her drink and rested her face on her hands.

"You volunteered to help me do this so please show a little effort." Koga scolded.

"I should have gone with Kagura with buy the Solaras…" the woman whined.

"Hi. I'd like to buy two cars today." Kagura said to a car salesman. She was wearing her best outfit to make a good impression. The man was a small midget with a long mustache and pointy nose. Kagura felt the need to whack him away as if he were a pestering flea.

"Really? And what kind of cars would you like to drive today?" the man asked.

"I'd like a black and red Solara please."

"Well! That will cost a lot! How about 10,000 a piece?" the man bargained.

Kagura shook her head. "No. 5,000 a piece." She haggled. Her hand enclosed around the end of her fan.

"7000."

"5000."

Sesshomaru came up to his wife. "Kagura, are you done yet? I have a meeting with an old friend to get to." He asked. The salesman's eyes widened with shock.

"Lord Sesshomaru! How nice to see you again!" the salesman yelled.

Kagura raised her eyebrow. "You know this pest…I mean flea?" she asked her husband.

"Oh. Myoga. Nice to see you too. I guess." Sesshomaru greeted stiffly. "Kagura, Myoga is an old family friend of my father." His wife nodded.

"How is Lord Inuyasha, my Lord?"

"Just fine. So will you give us the Solaras now? For say, 5000 for each one?" the youkai bargained.

"Yes! Yes! Anything for the Taisho Family!" Myoga exclaimed. He scurried off to get the paperwork.

"Buying these cars for 10000 total was a freaking steal…" Kagura muttered. "I'll take one back to Inuyasha. You can take the other to that contact of yours at the airport."

"Lord Sesshomaru! It's so wonderful that that you're here again! What can I do for you!" a short man greeted. He was short but not as short as Myoga. He looked green in the face as if he had to puke or something. He carried around a staff, which he used more like a cane.

"There is something you can do for me Jaken. I need a cargo airplane that can carry 10 people, millions of dollars in cash, and three Solara cars. Can you get me such a thing?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Well, I'm not so sure My Lord…" Jaken replied.

Sesshomaru hit his contact on the head with his fist angrily. "You still owe me a whole bunch of shit you disgusting toad. Do you not remember? Now can you give me the plane or not!"

"Of course! Of course I remember! I'll see what I can do." He promised.

"Good. Have it ready on the night of the Nascar Races." Sesshomaru ordered. He turned his back and walked out the door.

Kanna hooked up her computer equipment in the living room of the hotel suite. She fixed a speaker and earpiece to her right ear. "Alright. I'm nearly done with hacking into this place." She said quietly.

"That quick? How did you get in?" Inuyasha asked. He sat at the private bar behind Kanna's equipment.

"Inuyasha, you have a 17 year-old expert hacker on your side. Of course I can get in so quickly. I came up with a good plan to hack into the security systems. I just came up with a new password and changed a few settings of my own. I had my own computers synchronize at the same speed of Naraku's. When the guards logged into their post, I snuck in. They think it's just another one of their people who has logged in but really, I'm like a deadly virus who can cut off heir usage with the touch of a button. Now I have access to all their files, the codes, and everything about every employee." Kanna explained. "Since the Sengoku Spider is the most successful casino on the Strip, it also has connection to the entire Strip. And now that I have admission to everything, that means I have control of the main attraction of America's playground."

"You're very good."

"Thank you. Years of practice always pay off." Kanna brushed some of her white hair from her face. "The only thing I don't have access to is video footage of the entire casino. Miroku is going to sneak in to the room with all the wire connections. Then he's going to redirect the power and the last of the information to me."

Inuyasha took another sip of his coffee. "Excellent. We should be able to get everything else done soon." He said.

"Kohaku and Rin. Steal that ID card now." Kanna said into her speaker.

"We're on it." Kohaku muttered into his own hidden speaker.

Rin came from the opposite way of Kohaku. She was crying throughout the casino. Kohaku grinned when she saw that she was a good actress. The sentry in front of the doors came forward and stopped Rin. "What's the matter little girl?" he asked. Rin wailed a little more and mumbled some choking words. "Say that again please."

"I can't find my older brother!" she wailed. She said a little more under her breath.

"Alright. We'll try and find him. How does he look?" the man asked. He obviously had no patience for little kids.

Right on cue, Kohaku ran over to Rin. As he passed the guard, he swiped the ID card and stuck it into his pocket. "Rin! There you are! I've been looking all over for you!" he yelled happily.

"Kohaku!" Rin said joyously like a little kid. "Yay! My brother."

Kohaku turned to the older man and said, "Thank you very much for finding my little sister."

"Um…No problem!"

"Come on Rin. Mom and dad are waiting for us." Kohaku replied with a grin. He took the girl's hand and led her back into the crowd.

"Did you get the card?" Rin asked. She had dried off her fake tears and was back to normal.

"It's in my pocket now. Inuyasha is going to be so happy!" Both kids laughed and ran back to the elevator.

"Now make a left at the next corridor." Kanna ordered. Miroku did as he was told. He had used the ID card Kohaku stole to get in. Since the layout beyond the doors was so confusing, Kanna was the one instructing him where to go.

"Alright. Where do I go now?" Miroku asked.

"Do you see a long corridor with spaced out doors?"

"Yes."

"It's the third door to the left." She said. "Afterwards, you know what to do."

Miroku located the specific door and entered it. There were two rows just filled with wires. The light was dim but good enough to see. Miroku found the right spot in the rows of wires and began to attach a transmitting device that would re-wire to Kanna's. About after 30 minutes Inuyasha's best friend wiped sweat from his face.

"Kanna, does the video footage show up on the computer?" he asked.

"Yes. Thank you. Go back out the same way. Rin and Kohaku are in position and ready to return it." The computer genius ordered. "Then you can go and find the Strip's main power box wherever the hell it is."

"Good because this place is has hot as the flames of hell." Miroku commented.

"Shut up and let's get this done." Inuyasha ordered.

"You are so touchy…" his best friend muttered as he took the same route out.

Once Miroku was back out in the casino, he turned right and spotted Rin and Kohaku leaning on the wall. They spotted the older man and began walking towards him. As they passed, Miroku bumped into him on purpose. As quick as it happened, Miroku placed the ID card in his hands.

"Oh. I'm so sorry sir." Kohaku said politely.

"Oh no. It's all my fault." Miroku replied. He nodded at both kids and walked off.

Kohaku handed the card to Rin and they walked back to the staff doors. A different man was on patrol this time. "Excuse me mister!" Rin said in her cutest and most innocent voice. The man looked down on both kids.

"What can I do for you? Did you lose your parents in the crowd?" he asked.

"No sir. It's just that we found this card thingy on the ground. My mommy and daddy said we should give it back." She replied in the same cute voice again. The guard took the ID card.

"Thank you little girl."

"No problem!" Rin grinned as Kohaku took Rin back to the elevator leading to Inuyasha's huge suite.

"Great job Rin." The older boy praised.

"Thank you Kohaku! I'm sure mommy and daddy will be happy with my work!" she giggled just as the elevator door closed.

"What the hell is this! Move already!" Sango yelled at traffic. She was in her Solara and still on the Strip. She was trying to find the fastest ways to get from the casino to the airport. She checked her stopwatch to find that she's been on the road for an hour already. Although the traffic wasn't as bad as the ones in Los Angeles, it was still bad. The day was hot and the air conditioning was blasting throughout the silver Solara.

As soon as Sango found the exit to the airport, she raced out of there like she was back on the racetrack of an illegal drag race. She pushed her car to the limits of the speed limit. Sango finally slowed down when she got to the parking lot. She checked her watch to find that it took an hour and ten minutes to get to the airport.

She grabbed her cell phone and called Inuyasha. "Hello?" the hanyou greeted.

"I have the time from when it takes from the casino to the airport." Sango replied.

"How long is it?" Inuyasha asked.

"And hour and ten minutes. If we had all green lights then we could do it in about twenty minutes at the least." Sango summed up.

"Kanna." Inuyasha called in the background.

"What?"

"Can you hack into the Las Vegas Traffic Center?" he asked.

"Give me three hours and I should be able to get it through by then." Kanna answered quietly. In the background, Sango could hear Kagura's younger sister already working hard to hack into the Traffic Center.

"We're going to work on it. You can come back now." Inuyasha ordered.

"Great. The heat of this damn place is making me want to hurl." Sango replied coldly.

"Sango, with that tone, you can freeze Las Vegas and maybe also hell." Inuyasha said laughing.

"Shut up!"

"I'm only joking. Oh, by the way, Miroku found the power box to the Strip." Inuyasha reported.

"At least my husband is good for something." Sango joked. "You know, since we are going to be pushing these Solaras a lot, we can also have Miroku give us a little more horsepower." She mentioned.

"Good idea. When he comes back, I'll have him go over to the mechanical garage where the other cars are hiding." Inuyasha said.

"Great! I'll head over there now."

"Hey Kohaku, I have a job you." Sesshomaru said. Kohaku walked over to Inuyasha's older brother.

"What is it?"

"Don't tell anyone else about this special job. Inuyasha already knows though." Sesshomaru ordered. The boy nodded. "I want you to follow Naraku throughout his casino and act as his shadow. I want to find out about what he does at his casino. Keep a low profile though. Can you do it?"

"Sure! I'll do it!" Kohaku replied. He grinned.

"Good. Start tomorrow." Sesshomaru demanded. "And also…" He brought his voice down to a whisper. "Can you keep an eye on Inuyasha? I feel like there might be a little more to this heist."

Sango's little brother nodded eagerly. "Leave it to me."

"Excellent."