Chapter 2

The Initiation

Following the briefing, everyone got up and started heading towards the door. Everyone, that is except Kagome who promptly made a fuss.

"What do you mean go to the morgue!" she said loudly.

"Just as I said Kagome, you are to go to the morgue with Inuyasha, and get the pre-lim from the coroner." Was Sesshomaru's calm response.

"What! What no tour, no introduction, nothing?" Kagome responded while slamming her palms down on the table in-front of her.

"Unfortunately, we don't have enough people working the night shift, so there will be no time for a tour, or an introduction. Besides, I would not have hired you if I didn't think you could handle it." Sesshomaru answered truthfully.

The fact was there weren't enough people who where willing to work the night shift at Tokyo "s CSI Lab. They always quite after about a month, something about a heartless boss?

"So you will have to start right away." And with that Sesshomaru left Kagome and Inuyasha to themselves.

Upon arriving at Kykio's apartment, Sango and Koga went to work on processing anything that they could find that could lead them to a suspect.

"So what do you think of the new girl?" Koga asked while searching through some papers on Kykio's desk.

"She seems nice, a little unsure of herself, but otherwise, I think she can handle it." Sango responded while she walked through the kitchen.

That's when she noticed the answering machine light was blinking. With a gloved finger, she pushed the play button.

"Hello. You must be trying to figure out who I am, and why I would do such a horrible thing to such a beautiful young lady. Well good luck." said an unknown voice in the message.

"That bastard! He's toying with us!" Koga started yelling.

"Look, its ok, we'll collect the tape and give it to Shippo for voice analysis." Sango said quietly, trying to calm Koga down.

She took out an evidence bag, and carefully removed the tape with her gloves.

Kykio's apartment was a simple looking place. It had little to no furniture, a couch, a table with chairs, and a few dishes on the kitchen counter. The walls were all painted white, a few unremarkable items hung on them. Very plain really.

"I guess this tells us something about our victim." Sango said looking over the counter to Koga, who was pacing back and forth.

"Did you hear me Koga?" She asked, while tapping her finger on the counter top.

"Oh, ya. She seems really plain." He replied without even looking at her.

"Well let's get what we found over to Miroku."

Kagome had spent the whole trip to the morgue quietly twisting her fingers together. This was her first day, her first real corpse, and she had no idea what she had to do. Not only that, but she still had trouble dealing with female victims, especially those that were raped, or beaten, or both.

"You alright?" Inuyasha asked while watching her from behind the wheel.

"Huh, oh ya, I'm fine. I'm just a little nervous; it's my first crime, that's all. I mean I did well in my studies, but this is real, what if I screw up?" Kagome answered without looking at him.

"Look, if things get rough, let me know. I'll try and help you out." Inuyasha said without taking his eyes of the road.

"But don't think I will help you all the time." He continued with a sour look on his face.

"Thanks" Was all Kagome could say, but she smiled inwardly; "Maybe this won't be so bad" she thought to herself.

The rest of the drive was spent in silence. Once they arrived at the morgue, Inuyasha didn't waste anytime moving through the entrance of the morgue, and headed directly towards the examination room. All Kagome could do was follow quietly as they went to see the coroner.

They entered into a big room filled with what looked like small fridge doors along the walls. In the center of the room, there was a beautiful, young woman with long raven black hair, lying on a long metal table, covered by a white sheet. As they got closer, it seemed to Inuyasha that the victim looked a lot like his current partner, Kagome.

Are you related to our vic?" He asked, looking at Kagome with an eyebrow cocked.

"Nope, never seen her in my life. Why do you ask?" She asked a little confused by Inuyasha's weird question.

"No reason." He said looking away from her. He was a little unnerved by the fact that the victim looked a lot like Kagome.

"I wonder where the doc is." Inuyasha said almost annoyed.

"I'm right behind you." Came a deep male voice from behind, making them both jump.

It always bother Inuyasha that the coroner could sneak up on him, because his sent was covered up by the stench of death that the examination room seemed to have all the time.

"Where were you?" Inuyasha almost screamed.

"Sorry, but I needed to use the rest rooms. I am human you know." Was all the man said before walking towards the body.

"Who is this?" He asked pointing towards Kagome.

"My name is Kagome, and I just started working tonight." She answered.

"Ahh, new meat, Sesshomaru doesn't waste time with initiating the new people. By the way, my name is Kohaku." He replied.

Kohaku was a young, but tall, and handsome. He had medium length black hair the he had tied in a ponytail on top of his head. He looked a lot like Sango.

"We don't have time for pleasantries doc. Just tell us what you know so far." Inuyasha said in a very irritated tone. The morgue always bothered him.

"Well it seems that the woman was treated very badly, by the person who did this." Kohaku responded while turning towards the body.

"First, he struck her in the back of the head with a blunt object, most likely a rock, because the wound was clean." He continued.

"Is that what killed her?" Kagome asked feeling a little light headed, she had never seen a real human corpse this close before.

"No. What killed her was asphyxiation. He killed her after he had knocked her unconscious, she couldn't fight back against him.' Kohaku replied.

"What about a semen sample?" Inuyasha asked hopefully.

"Sorry, the rap kit came back clean. We know that she was raped because of the damage that was done to her genital areas, but we didn't retrieve any D.N.A. There's one more thing, this was found in her genitalia." With that said, Kohaku passed a small piece of paper to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha pulled out his gloves, and read the note out loud.

"You'll never catch me."

"That little…" Inuyasha started, but just then, Kagome ran from the room, with her hands in front of her mouth.

"Oh boy." Inuyasha sighed. "Thanks doc."

"No problem, but you should check on your new partner, and say hi to nee-chan for me." Kohaku said as Inuyasha turned to leave.

"Sure thing."

Sesshomaru was back at the crime scene, searching where the body was found, and the surrounding area. As he walked around, he noticed a small piece of plastic laying on the ground near a garbage can.

He slipped on his gloves, and carefully picked it up. I was a used condom, one that appeared to have been recently used.

Sesshomaru smiled somewhat as he bagged it and returned to the lad to see Miroku; "I have you now." He thought as he walked to the car.

I hope that everyone enjoyed this chapter, please review. This is my first fanfiction ever, and I enjoy hearing what you think of it. Thank you to the people who have already written me a review, this is for you.