AN: Ok, so I was able to sneak in enough time to finish up this chapter before the summer holidays started.

The pace really picked up in this chapter and it didn't turn out the way I originally thought it would be. I had this whole Naraku confronting them idea going but the timing for those bombs just didn't agree with that. It's funny though, the amount of time I gave them to get out of the building from the third floor down the staircase is possible...though probably harder when you're carrying someone. We used the stairs a lot when we were at Anime North and it never took us more then a minute to get up and down from the fourth floor. (Mostly because we were too lazy to wait for the elevator...would you really call it that lazy though? We were willing to go up and down the stairs which is a lot more exercise. I guess you can just say we were impatient.).

Remember to R&R and please don't kill me for the ending of this chapter, it's the way it had to be! Plus, this isn't the last chapter! There, that should make up for it...kind of... :hides:
-Air Angel


Completely Pure

Chapter 15: If I'm going to die...

"What do you think they're doing?" Ayame said softly to Kouga as they sat outside the building on a nearby park bench.

"I really don't know, but I do hope they don't screw up. As much as they can annoy me, I'd rather not have to go to their funerals anytime soon."

Stretching her hands above her head, Ayame wiggled her shoulders a bit before settling down once again.

"What was that for?" Kouga asked, somewhat confused.

"What? I was stiff." She huffed.

"Whatever you say..."

"Mm..So...What do you think they're doing?"

"How am I supposed to know...and didn't you just ask that?"

"Possibly..."

He sighed, "Now you're making me worried."

"How so?"

"What if Sango or Miroku turned on the detonator prematurely? Maybe we should've given them the one with the cap..."

"We couldn't find it remember? It's not like we had enough time to plan this flawlessly."

"Yeah...still you don't think they'd do something like that do you?"

"No idea, though I think they'd be smart enough to use it as a last resort, or once they've sprung Inuyasha and Kagome out of whatever hell they are in. That was what they had planned wasn't it?"

"Maybe we should give them a call...Just to check up on them."

"Wouldn't calling them be distracting? And what if they found Inuyasha and Kagome and are already on their way out, bombs set to blow any moment. Calling them might just kill off any chance they have of getting out on time."

"Ah I guess you're right..."

"Also, what if they hadn't found them yet, and the ringing of the phone surprised them and they pressed the detonator. That wouldn't be very good, would it?"

"Okay! I get it! Stop!"

"Who told you where Kagome and Inuyasha were anyway?"

"I dunno, my phone didn't track the text message. I really hate them sometimes..."

"Ah..."

"So...What do you think they're doing?"


"Sango, what is that you're holding near my ear?" I said softly, hoping that the expression on Miroku's face and the little, hand-held object poking at my ear wasn't what I thought it was.

She pulled away from me, her hand instantly hiding the object behind her back, "Uh, nothing!"

I looked at her flatly but received no better explanation, "All right then, Miroku how much time do we have?"

"Ten minutes"

Blinking at him, I almost growled in rage, "Ten minutes only!"

"Actually, probably only nine now..."

Resisting the urge to strangle something, I turned to Rei, "The pants, now, we're running out of time."

Nodding, she quickly opened up the box that she had dropped on Sango earlier and pulled out a pair of green pants, the type that you saw doctors and sometimes nurses wear. Taking them, I quickly moved over towards a corner and slipped them on as quickly and discretely as I could. Quickly due to the lack of time, and discretely because I was nude aside from what I was wearing before. Once done, I estimated we had eight minutes left so grabbing Kagome's arm, rush towards the door. Outside in the hallway, I glared back at the unmoving figures of the others

"Aren't you coming? This place is going to blow remember!"

That was all it took for them all to come rushing out the door, Rei scooping up the little boy, Souta, into her arms so we could move faster.

"Which way?" I asked Rei, taking command of our escape. We didn't have time for arguments or distractions.

Rei motioned with her free hand to follow her and took off down the hallway, "I was going to use a different route out so we wouldn't get caught as easily but we just don't have time for it anymore. There is a hidden elevator that'll lead to the third floor, it's rarely ever used so we should get down there with four and a half minutes to spare. After that all we can do is run like crazy, trying to use the main side stairway would take too long because we are so far away from it right now."

Turning a corner, Rei pushed her hand out against a wall and a door shimmered into view, sliding open with a ping. Everyone piled in and Rei quickly pressed the down and close door buttons. Almost instantly the elevator began to move and it was a matter of seconds before the doors opened once more to reveal a hallway with many people milling around.

Miroku got out of the elevator first before shouting, "THERE'S A BOMB IN THE BUILDING"

Everyone stopped to look at him like he was crazy. Rei quickly stepped off the elevator next. "A bomb is about to go off in four minutes, if you value your lives you'll run right now."

Still, no one moved.

Sango pushed past Miroku and Rei and threw the detonator on the floor where it rolled to stop at one of the people's feet. "MOVE DAMN IT!"

In a flurry of motion, people started screaming and running out of the exits, a few grabbing a couple bits of free office supplies along with them. Pulling Kagome along, I tried to exit the elevator but was stopped by a tug on my hand. Glancing back, I saw Kagome trying to pull her hand off the elevator railing.

"What's taking so long?", Sango shouted while waving us over toward the exit.

"My hand won't come off, I-I don't know why!"

I motioned for them to go ahead as I quickly moved back into the elevator to see what was wrong. As soon as I touched her hand the elevator door closed shut and the last thing I saw of the third floor was Sango running over with a panicked look.


I slammed into the elevator door but it was already beginning to fade back into being a wall. Moving my hands every which way across the wall, I tried to find the elevator button somehow. Where had it been approximately when Rei had opened it on the fifth floor?

"Sango, what are you doing!", Miroku rushed over with Kikyo still in his arms.

"Inuyasha and Kagome, they...they're still in the elevator!", my mind was running so fast I could hardly think straight.

"Sango, we have to get out of here!"

"But what about them!" we had just been reunited only five minutes ago and now...

"They'll be fine, but if we don't get out of here now, we won't make it out of the building. Come on!"

"If we can barely make it, do you really think they will!" I practically screamed at him. They couldn't possibly make it. There was no way!

"Stop thinking like that!" He shouted and I quieted, "If you keep thinking like that we'll never get out of here alive. You should think that if we can get out of here, they can as well, no matter the chances!"

I understood what he was saying and I nearly stood there and wondered about why I was being so negative in the first place when he somehow adjusted his hand so that he could hold mine while still carrying Kikyo. He quickly pulled us toward the stairway and I noticed from his shaking hand that he was just as scared and worried as I was.

Picking up my pace to match his, we ran down the stairs as fast as we could and I tried to keep what Miroku had said earlier in my mind so I wouldn't run back up and try to get into that elevator again. There were three things that kept popping in my thoughts no matter what though. If the elevator was moving, it could only go up. Who had made it go back up and did whoever that was know they were in the elevator? More importantly, could they really make it out in just three and a half minutes?


I rubbed my hand while Inuyasha pressed every button that was in the elevator. As soon as the door had closed, my hand had flung off the railing and I had toppled onto Inuyasha.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, all I know is that we're going up when we shouldn't be," he cursed under his breath, "We're running out of time!"

The elevator pulled to a stop back on the fifth floor and the door slid open. There stood a man and a woman who I recognized somewhat.

"Did you really think I would let you get away?" the man seemed to sneer.

"You're Naraku aren't you," Inuyasha said moving to stand in front of me.

"Kagura, move these lightweights"

Stepping forward the woman held her hand above her head and moved it down quickly in a sweeping motion. For a moment I had no idea what was going on until I realized that I was no longer standing in the elevator. In fact, though I was still standing behind Inuyasha, we were now where Naraku and Kagura had stood and they were standing in the elevator.

"As much as it pains me to leave you here to die, I just don't have the time to fight off your little boyfriend for the elevator ride out of here," Naraku said as if he didn't care in the first place, "It's too bad really, all the money I invested in you has gone to waste. Oh well, I must get going. I'll probably have the rest of the evening full with meetings due to the little stunt your friends have pulled. Ta!"

The elevator door shut and we remained stunned for a moment, still unsure how we had switched places. Inuyasha was the first to move and he kicked a wall and then punched the fading elevator door, leaving a dent in both. Suddenly, the power in the building went out and we could hear the elevator jerk to a stop.

"Inuyasha...what just happened? Did you do that?" I asked, somewhat stunned by the sudden change in lighting.

"I don't know..." he trailed off before giving a small laugh, "Looks like they won't be getting out of here anytime soon either."

"Huh?"

"I can hear them in the elevator, sounds like Naraku is pretty pissed," he chuckled.

I strained my ears but heard nothing, "I can't hear anything, are you sure?"

"Of course I am. I can hear it clearly. Look, he just said 'fucking builders, the elevators were supposed to run on a separate power supply from the building!'. What an idiot, builders aren't the ones who set up that kind of stuff..."

"Inuyasha...I really can't hear them at all."

"Well...maybe it's just wishful thinking? Though I can still hear them..."

"How much time do we have now?"

"I don't know, maybe...a minute and a half? Max."

"Oh...we aren't going to be able to get out are we..."

"Not likely"

"Are we even going to try?"

He sighed, "It would be a lot easier if I knew the layout of the building. We were depending on Rei for that earlier."

"Can you see?" I asked, glancing around the darkened hallway.

"Yeah, why?"

"Do you think they have water up here?"

"Probably, are you thirsty?"

"Yeah, I just thought that if I am going to die, I'd like to die hydrated."

He laughed, "Come on, we've got a minute to get you a drink. Think we'll be fast enough?"

"Hopefully, I'm really thirsty."

We walked down the hallway, him leading me once again, "You know, since we're going to die, I'm glad that I'm going to die with you."

I looked at him the best I could in the dark, "Really?"

"Yeah..."

"I'd rather not die at all. We'd miss a lot of things."

"Well, that too...but it seems kind of inevitable now."

"If it makes you happy, I'm glad that I'm going to die with you as well."

"You really don't understand the concept of death do you..."

"It's where you go to sleep for a long time isn't it?"

"That's a coma..."

"Oh..."

We entered a room when suddenly the building shook, Inuyasha smiled sadly towards me.

"Sorry, I couldn't get you any water."


We made it outside with a minute and a half to spare. There we found Ayame and Kouga waving to us a block away from a bench. Now, Kikyo was laid out on the bench and I couldn't help glancing toward the doors of the building we were just in, willing Inuyasha and Kagome to appear any moment.

Maybe I was expecting one of those movie moments, where everyone makes it out safe at the last moment, right before the bombs explode or the building falls down. Maybe because of that thought, I couldn't help but have a mini-countdown to when they would suddenly show up, bursting through the doors.

Maybe it was because that was what I had pictured to happen...that when the building fell and they hadn't run out of the building just in time, where we'd all embrace and cry that we were all so worried...that I stood stunned for a minute while people scattered every way they could to get away from the falling rubble...before falling to my knees crying.

End of Chapter 15