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The Assassins
By: darkangelprincess24
Chapter Nine: Kouga Shi And Shippo Miringo
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Last Time:
I love him.
His eyes...his compassion for her...the way he's so overprotective...even the way he acted like he hated her at times. The way he smiled, laughed, talked, walked...The whole package.
And that scared Kagome.
"I-um," She stuttered. "Goodnight." She said before running out of the room.
The only thing that scared her more than actually loving InuYasha entered her mind.
What if he didn't love her back?
InuYasha watched her walk out of the room and sighed. Don't deny it, InuYasha..."You love her, too."
This Time, The Next Day
InuYasha jogged downstairs, into the kitchen, to get something to eat when the phone rang. His baggy green cargo pants swished as he hurried to get it. His grey t-shirt hung loosely on him. It said, "What 'chu lookin' at?"
InuYasha picked up the phone hastily on the third ring. "Hello?"
"Hello, InuYasha, this is Naraku."
InuYasha sighed and leaned on the counter. "Okay, what's our mission?"
"No killing this time," Naraku said, as if reading InuYasha's thoughts. InuYasha grunted for him to continue. "Your pack must recruit two humans…Kouga Shi, an employee for a cremation center, and Shippo Miringo, an orphan." He rattled off the addresses. "By tomorrow morning, InuYasha."
InuYasha clicked the off button and set the phone down. "Kagome is not going to be happy." He muttered to himself. He grabbed a pop-tart (Thank god for food! He thought happily.)and ran upstairs to tell everyone.
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"Kouga Shi?" Kagome asked. "Are you sure it's our Kouga?"
InuYasha snorted. "Yes, for the last time. And he's not our Kouga. He's your boyfriend."
"He is not my boyfriend!" Kagome yelled. InuYasha knew he wasn't, but he had to act like he hated his secret love…and it was funny seeing her mad.
"So by tomorrow morning?" Miroku asked, changing the subject before it got out of hand.
"Yeah." InuYasha replied gruffly.
"Okay, so here's the deal," Sango explained. "Kagome, you probably don't want to get Kouga, right?"
Kagome nodded in response.
"And InuYasha sure as hell doesn't." InuYasha grunted. "So the perv and I will get Kouga while Kagome, you and InuYasha, get Shippo. Got it?"
Everyone nodded and went eat and get prepared for the new mission.
Later That Night
"Ready?" Kagome asked quietly. InuYasha nodded slightly.
The two climbed onto the roof of Kagome's house. Kagome took out the piece of paper with the directions Naraku had given them.
InuYasha kneeled down so Kagome could climb onto his back easier. She got on with a slight blush and flattened the paper on InuYasha's back as he started to jump.
"Okay, apartment building sixteen on Fox Road, apartment three." Kagome read.
InuYasha nodded and sped off in that direction.
Towards the south side of Tokyo.
With Miroku And Sango
"Eighty-six oh nine, Jewels Lane, Wolves Corner." Miroku read. "That's only a few blocks away, I think."
"Well, let's get going, then!" Sango said, running ahead of Miroku playfully.
Miroku smiled and started after her.
5 Minutes Later
"This…is where a guy who works at a cremation center lives?" Miroku asked in disbelief, looking up at the four-story mansion ahead of them.
Sango nodded, in a daze. "And it looks like he's all alone. Only one car."
Miroku looked over to where Sango was indicating to, and his jaw dropped anime style. He sprinted over to it.
"This is a vintage car! Lucky bastard!" He hissed, more to himself than anyone else.
Sango pried his fingers from the car's windows and started climbing up the vines that were growing on the side of the mansion. Miroku followed. A light was on in a room on the third floor.
"Kouga's room," Sango whispered, pulling herself up to the window to see. She could tell it was his room because there was a picture of Kouga and a pretty girl in front of a well, hugging. Wait a second…Sango thought, squinting at the girl in the picture, …That looks a lot like Ayame!
Miroku pulled himself up next to her with a grunt. Sango opened the window enough for them to crawl through. She went first. Sango was halfway through before-
"Pervert!" Sango hissed angrily, looking back at Miroku. "Now is not the time!"
"Couldn't help myself." Miroku replied, smiling.
Sango shook her head and dropped silently onto the carpeted floor. Miroku landed next to her a moment later.
Sango sat on the bed with dark brown sheets as if she came into Kouga's room every day. Miroku leaned against the desk next to the bed, crossing his arms in a manlike way. They heard a shower turn off and the floor creaking slightly.
A few seconds later, Kouga walked in wearing brown shorts and no shirt (sigh…). His head was cocked to the side, and he had a towel in his hand, drying his hair.
Kouga sniffed and looked up, doubtful that he would find anyone. He took a shocked step back when he saw Miroku and Sango.
"Aren't…Kagome…" He snapped his fingers as if he could put it all together like that. "You were with Kagome! What did you do to her? Take me instead!"
Sango snorted at his ignorance. "Why would I hurt Kagome? She's my best friend. Me and Miroku are here strictly on business. Now, first question: Who is that girl? She looks like someone we work with." She pointed to the Ayame look alike in the picture.
"Oh," Kouga scratched his head, "I don't know. That picture was taken before I got amnesia when I was fifteen. Car accident." He answered Sango's unspoken question. "But I've gotten most of my memories back."
Sango nodded. "Okay, just wondering."
"Second," Miroku said for Sango, sneaking a glance at the picture with Ayame in it. "we don't know what you or your family-"
"I don't have any family." Kouga interrupted.
"Oh. Well, as I was saying was, we don't know what you did to Naraku, but as of now you are working for him. Sango and I are two of your co-workers."
"So, I'm an assassin now?" Kouga asked slowly.
"Yep, just me and Miroku here."
"What about Kagome?"
"What about her?" Sango asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Is she okay? Does she work for Naraku, too?" Kouga asked worriedly.
Miroku sighed and pushed off the desk. "Yes and yes. Now, let us explain the whole story."
For the next five minutes, Miroku and Sango took turns telling Kouga how Kagome and everyone else came to work for Naraku. By the end, Kouga was flat out horrified- not to mention freaked out.
"So…I have to come with you?"
"Yep." Sango said cheerfully.
Kouga busied around his room for a few minutes with a backpack. He slung it over his shoulder and smiled at them.
"Let's go."
With Kagome And InuYasha
"This is the runt's apartment?" InuYasha asked, looking at the one room dump someone liked to call home.
There was a tiny couch, some food, and a couple of clothes lying around the small room. All in the middle of it was a tiny fox demon, sleeping.
Kagome swallowed. "This place gives me the creeps. Does he actually live here all alone?"
InuYasha sniffed the air. "Smells like it. The kid's only about-" He sniffed again- "-only about six or seven."
Kagome nodded and walked over to the kitsune, bending down. A small blue light glowed in the fox's right hand. Kagome didn't see it, but InuYasha did.
"Kagome, he's not sleeping!" InuYasha yelled. Kagome instinctively tried to jump back, but she wasn't quick enough.
The small blue light turned into a big blue light, and the kitsune's eyes opened, throwing the ball of blue light at Kagome. She didn't even have time to scream before she was thrown against a wall and became unconscious.
InuYasha, in a flash, ran over to Kagome and felt her pulse. It was stable. "Stupid wench." He muttered.
He turned to the kitsune and picked him up by his tail before he could get away. InuYasha held him up to his eye level.
"You," InuYasha growled menacingly, "You're coming with us."
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Author's note: Hey, Shippo lovers, there he is (he won't be mean later on, he was just scared!)! Please review!
If you want, I made a new story about Kikyo and how she felt right before she died. It is NOT a bashing Kikyo story, so if you like her, it'll be okay. If you don't like her, give it a shot, there is only a little bit of KikInu, but mostly InuKag. Basically, following the story's original way of doing it.
So, read and review!
