Throwing his bag onto the ground, Kuro unlatched two straps and unrolled it so it was flat and all the bags contents could be examined properly. In the center, there were two riffles strapped down. One M 203 An M 203 is an M 4 with a grenade launcher under the barrel, and a Spas 12 shot-gun.
Under the two riffles, there were 3 hand guns. One of which was a Colt Python. It fired a nice .45 caliber round that had about as much stopping power as anything else he would be carrying on a normal load out, but it had a kick like a bull. That would end up on his right hip in a holster.
The other two hand guns were both Glock 9mm. Although they didn't have as much punch as the colt, they were automatic and each could hold 16 bullets. Those two would be in a special holder on the back of his belt, side by side in a type of X.
That was all the weapons he had with him, as far as guns went. He also had 15 pounds of C4 with several detonators. "You never knew when that stuff could come in handy" Kuro thought to himself as he set the C4 to the side. He also had 3 Fragmentation grenades. He also had one EMP blast grenade, but it didn't seem that it was going to be needed in this particular situation. The rest was just ammo for his guns. Kuro had a friend who would have gone for more guns, but Kuro liked having lots of ammo instead of lots of choices. He wasn't sure how long he was going to be here, wherever here was, and was glad that he had so much ammo. He did have a survival knife strapped to his leg. But Kuro really hoped it never came down to using it for combat. He'd feel too sorry for whoever was on the other end of it.
With his inventory in check, Kuro dawned his harness and strapped on his combat belt. He put each hand guns in it's proper place, then put on his light weight body armor vest that was traditional black. Carefully yet quickly, he placed the C4 into a pocket near is waist and threw on two strips of cloth lined with shot-gun shells over his chest. He had more shells in several pockets on his vest, but the strips could be gotten to quicker in fight if need. The clips for the M4 ammo had slots already on the vest which were custom made for them. Kuro also had 6 of the M79 grenades for the M203 not counting the one in the gun itself at that moment. Those were placed inside of pockets at about mid chest with slits to hold each one, three on each side. The 9mm ammo has on the back part of his belt next to the guns they were intended for. Finally, Kuro strapped the 3 frag grenades to clips already on the vest. The rest of the ammo just went into pockets in his black and white camo pants and a very slim, long pocket on the back of his vest that in a way acted as a back pack but didn't bulge so he could still put a weapon there. Kuro also wrapped a black and dark gray bandanna around his head. Had to make the look complete.
The load out was by no means light, but Kuro had carried it for years and heavier ones then this before. With his muscular body and being used to the weight, Kuro could still be quite agile.
"Now for the hardest part," Kuro said to no one in particular. Maybe the situation was starting to get to him, either that or he just wanted to hear a voice instead of the jungle noises around him. "Which one should I have on my back and which should I have ready to go?" he asked to, yet again, himself, as he stared down at the only two things remaining from his bag, the M 203 and Spas 12.
Kuro loved guns. He not only loved the power they had, but the craftsmanship that went into them. He would probably would of been president of the Intergalactic Guns Association if weren't for all the taints on his record and the simple fact he was a Bounty Hunter. He had more guns in his ship, one in particular he wished had brought with him. Well, maybe more then one, but that didn't matter now. But even just the little thing of which gun he would carry was a hard decision for him. Then again, it also took his mind of him being in the middle of nowhere, not knowing where he was and aloud him to just concentrate on something. "The Spas has lots of power to it, especially with my modifications to its shells, but doesn't have the range of the M 203." Kuro stated as if he were talking to a crowd of panelists. To anyone else, this would be funny. But to people who knew Kuro, it was normal. "But if I'm in close with a lot of guys the M 203 isn't as good. Although it does have the grenade launcher. But if I use it up close…" Kuro was torn. He loved the Spas 12. It had served him well over the years, more so then his M 203 But it just wasn't the right gun right now. It was almost like he was trying to convince himself that the Spas was the better choice over the M 203, when it was in fact not.
"Ok, that settles it." Kuro announced as he flung the Spas over his shoulder and hefted the M 203 into his arms. It was quite a sight to see. A beautiful forest with no signs of any human interference minus the well, with one man standing in a small clearing, armed to the bone dressed in mostly black camo holding a rather large gun with more covering him.
Examining the immediate area again, Kuro searched for a good direction to head, any possible signs of human life. The clearing he was in ended about a hundred meters to the south and turned into less dense forest. There seemed to be a small foot trail at one part of the line of forest taking it further in. It wasn't entirely cleared, but it was a start. Kuro immediately started to move toward it, gun pointing to the ground, head searching for any signs of threats.
"How screwed am I?" Kuro murmured to himself as he approached the forest line cautiously.
"What were you thinking!" Inuyasha shouted.
"I just went back to get some food and more homework…not that it is any of your concern you heartless prick." Kagome fumed back at Inuyasha.
"What do you mean? You were gone for 2 whole days! We could of found Naraku by now!" Inuyasha shot back. He knew that wasn't true, but it wasn't like he was going to say that out loud.
"Look! I came back, alright. Besides, I brought your favorite." Kagome warmed, reaching over to her large back pack and shuffling through it.
"Oh no. Your not getting off that easy. You honestly think you can bribe…me…with…" Inuyasha slowed as he saw what Kagome had pulled from her bag. It was instant Ramón. Not only that, it was chicken instant Ramón.
"What was that?" Kagome toyed as she hung the bag in front of his face.
"Kagome sure can be ruthless." Shippo stated from Sango's shoulder.
Miroku, Sango, and Shippo had been watching the fight with their usual interest of shock, humor, fear, thinking when they were going to give it up and just admit they loved each other, or just waiting for the almost unavoidable loud crash following the words "SIT".
Inuyasha hadn't said anything and his mouth just hung open as he stared at the food, almost like he was hypnotized or something. Shaking himself free of the spell, he snatched the bag from Kagome and immediately started to eat.
There were times Kagome would have schooled Inuyasha for his bad manors, but this time she only gave a warm smile. Turning to look at her other friends, Kagome tried to ignore them suddenly make it look like they weren't paying attention and grabbed some candy from her bag.
"Here Shippo, it's called reeses pieces. Their really good."
Shippo didn't need to be asked twice when it came to food, and jumped from Sango's shoulder running to Kagome to get the treat.
"Any signs of Naraku or any jewel shards?" Kagome asked Sango.
"Nothing. We haven't found a trace of him in so long. I'm beginning to think we'll never find him." Sango answered, slapping away Miroku's hand that was…drifting without even thinking about it.
"Well, we'll just have to keep looking." Kagome proclaimed, feeling confident.
Kagome tried as hard as she could to ignore the sounds of fighting between Inuyasha and Shippo behind her. Shippo wanted some of Inuyasha's food but Inuyasha wasn't giving up anything and threw Shippo away from him. Just when Inuyasha was about to follow up, he heard the words that he couldn't help but hate every moment of his life.
"Inuyasha, SIT!"
As the dust cleared, Kagome got to her feet, threw her back pack over her shoulder, and let a sigh out.
"Come on, lets get moving." she announced to Miroku and Sango, walking past them leaving Inuyasha to regain himself on in his newly formed hole.
Kuro had made his way well into the forest and found nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
No signs of civilized life.
The only thing he had "Found" besides a hell of a lot of trees and bushes was an increasing amount of wired noises around. From growls, to creeks, groans, moans, and what Kuro could have sworn was laughter. But whenever he went to investigate, he always found the same thing.
Nothing.
It would have been annoying to anyone that hadn't had the years of experience Kuro had. This wasn't new to him, just it was completely different from anything he had done or been through before.
Kuro loved it how he could always find the irony in a situation.
As he came up to what looked like a clearing, Kuro slowed so he could get a better outlook of what was around him. Not seeing any signs of a threat, Kuro walked toward the clearing. Once he got there, he took another second to look at his surroundings.
To his back, there was the forest he had just gotten finished come from, making sure he remembered his steps in case he had to back track. The clearing was more of a dirt road with more woods that were in front of him. The road was nearly 40 meters wide. Making note of anything normal land marks, Kuro quickly pulled out his knife and cut a long slit in the nearest tree to him so he could retrace his steps. Sheathing the knife, Kuro took hold of his M 203 again and began to make his way to the "south" pathway of the road.
He hadn't gone but 5 steps when he heard a large roar come from the woods to his right and a large…thing jumped out in front of him, snarling its teeth and looking down at his pitiful prey with deep red eyes.
Kuro's eyes widened at the site of the beast that must have been well above 10 feet tall.
"I don't have an idea in hell what the heck you are, but you caught me on a bad day." Kuro stated with a little more adrenaline then he wanted, but didn't really care about keeping his calm appearance at that moment, bringing his M 203 smoothly up to his shoulder and beginning to take aim and the thing, that was raising it's claws in attack.
Author notes.
Well, that is a good amount for this post, don't you think? O.k., so I wanted a little cliff hanger. Big deal. I don't do them much so sue me.
Ok, look. If you want an image of any of the weapons, you'll just have to go to and do an image search since I'm too lazy to make a site with the images on there. And seriously, you should get a look at them before you read much more so you get a good idea of what they look like.
I've got a lot happening in the next chapter so this is good enough for now. Again, I like this fic. And you should to. :P
Plez RR.
Till next time.