Code Name: Dark Angel
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6- The note
It had been almost a week since Kagome had summoned Koga to help her and Miroku with their rescue that turned out to be a partial success. Kikyo had been killed, but Naraku had escaped with Sango and the jewel. Fortunately, Kagome had gotten Inuyasha back from Naraku's clutches. He had only sustained a few injuries.
Now, he was going through his healing process. He could walk and fight pretty well. Kagome had brought her punching bag from her home to the Museum and let him work out with it. He hit it so hard that Kagome thought that he would punch a hole in it one day. She told him that one-day and he rolled his eyes and continued punching and kicking it.
Even though they had become allies and had been through bombs, shootouts, and fights, Kagome could tell that Inuyasha was not quite fond of her. She knew that deep down within his soul he was still acrimonious about her sending him to jail.
Now, Kagome was sitting in the lounge, staring at the wall, when Miroku walked in. She looked up at him, her face expressionless.
"Do you have any ideas of where he could be?" He wanted to know.
Kagome shook her head. "No. The warehouse was his last hideout. Remember? He probably figures that since we found him last time, it would be best to find a new hiding place altogether."
"Well," Miroku leaned against the doorframe. "What do you plan to do?"
Kagome pondered for a moment as she sat with her legs stretched out in another chair in front of her. "I'll have to search the city all over again. You know the deal; scout all possible hiding places for crooks."
"You know Inuyasha will not be too happy with that idea." Miroku informed his friend.
"I know," Came her reply. "But, he'll have to deal with it. I'll do this with or without his help. I don't care."
"But, Kagome," He protested, "you cannot possibly fight alone. Naraku is too crafty. He's probably hired more thugs to help him out. He has Sango, thugs, and the jewel. It is too dangerous for you to fight alone."
Kagome turned her brown-eyed gaze toward her concerned friend, "I've been fighting alone all of my life, Miroku. I can handle this. You just have to trust me, all right?"
Miroku sighed in defeat. "Oh, all right."
"What?" Inuyasha shrieked.
Kagome held her calm gaze. "You heard what I said."
He hit the punching bag really hard before shouting, "There is no way that I am going back through this entire city!"
Kagome shrugged, her casual expression unwavering, "Whatever you say. I'll do this with or without you. But remember, if I get a hold of Naraku first, then I'll be the one to kill him. Not you. So, you won't be getting your revenge, now will you?"
Inuyasha growled in frustration as he continued his assault on Kagome's punching bag. "God, I despise you," he told her.
"I know." Kagome said softly, "I can be very convincing when I want to be. I'll see you later. We'll go out tomorrow and look some." Then, she turned and walked away.
Inuyasha beat the heck out of the punching bag some more before sitting down at a table near the front entrance of the museum. Miroku emerged from the personnel lounge and sat down beside of him. After a few uneasy moments of silence, Inuyasha blurted, "I don't understand her! Why can't she just wait for Naraku to come out again? I mean he's got to blow up something sooner or later, right?"
"She feels guilty." Miroku answered coolly.
Inuyasha looked at him, perplexed, "What do you mean?"
"She feels that she should have killed Naraku last week when she saved you. Instead, she killed Kikyo and missed her opportunity to save Sango and get the jewel back." Miroku explained slowly.
"So, in other words, she's a glory hog?" Inuyasha asked.
"No!" Miroku yelled, "Sango is her best friend and she failed to rescue her like she told me she would. She feels horrible about it. She needs all the help she can get. Look at what happened to her last week right before you were taken away by Naraku."
Inuyasha looked down at the floor and mumbled a quiet, "Oh." It was all he could think of to say.
"It's getting late." Miroku said after a while of silence. "You should get some sleep before you and Kagome head off tomorrow."
"I guess you're right." Inuyasha replied. He stood up, said goodnight, and walked off. He stopped at the lounge and found Kagome in there, sitting at the table, her feet propped up in the chair across from her. She was staring at the snack machine.
"Hey," He said, his voice low.
"What do you want?" Kagome demanded, not even turning to look at him. "I thought you despised me, so why are you hanging around me?"
Inuyasha sighed. "I came to say that I'm sorry for telling you that I despised you. I really don't. I just didn't like the idea of you going through the entire city all over again."
"Well, it's something that I have to do in order to save people, especially people close to me." Kagome replied, turning to face him, her brown eyes boring into his golden ones.
"Yeah," Inuyasha said, turning his eyes away from her intense stare. He was getting uncomfortable. "I can understand that. Well, goodnight." He then turned and hastened out of the lounge, leaving Kagome in silence. It was all right, though. She was used to the silence.
Inuyasha and Kagome walked around the city in broad daylight; something they had never done while they had been together. Everything was going smoothly, however, because they were dressed in simple street clothes and not crime fighting clothes.
They had been searching for two and a half hours when Inuyasha complained, "There! Can we go back to the museum now? We've looked enough!"
Kagome turned and glowered at him angrily. "No, we can't! I am going to search this city until the sun goes down, do you understand? Remember, I can do this with or without you."
Inuyasha groaned. "Fine! Let's just get this over with."
When the sun finally sank down in the horizon, Inuyasha and Kagome stopped walking at a nearby park to rest their aching and tired feet. "There," Inuyasha said, "nothing."
Kagome just stared up at him. She felt as if she were getting nothing accomplished. It was as if she felt useless. She wanted to scream at herself for being to ignorant and letting Naraku get away. She had hesitated and he escaped.
She glanced away and seen an orange glow off in the distance. "Inuyasha," She murmured through her numb lips. He turned and seen it, too. Instinctively, they turned and raced toward the orange color that continued to get brighter and brighter as they got nearer and nearer.
Kagome made it to the burning building first and seen that it was her apartment building. She slapped a hand over her mouth and watched a smoke billowed out of the top of the building and through the windows. Inuyasha came up beside of her and seen it and noticed her horrified expression. "What is it?" He wanted to know.
"No…" She murmured disbelievingly. "No, not my home!"
"That's your home?" He could not believe that her home was burning down.
"Well, I have to live somewhere!" Kagome shouted, running toward the alley and climbing up the fire escape. Inuyasha was behind her, shouting, "What are you doing? Are you crazy? It's on fire!"
Kagome turned and glared down at him, "I'm going in. Don't like it? Then don't follow me!" Then she spun around and ran up to her bedroom window and dived in. The firemen outside didn't even spot her. Inuyasha growled in frustration and climbed up the stairs after her. He did not want her to get hurt. He went in after her, smoke immediately filling his lungs. "Kagome," He choked out, trying to search for her.
"Over here," He heard her call out. Then he heard her coughing. He raced toward the direction of her voice and found her. She was trying to find her way back to the window.
"Come on!" she shouted. "I've got what I wanted." She began coughing hysterically. He managed to lead her back to the window and he helped her climb out and they practically leapt down the stairs and snuck away so the police did not see them.
They were walking down the street when he asked, "What'd you get?"
She showed him a picture of a woman with short black hair and a man that was cleanly shaved who stood next to her, holding her hand. "My parents." She said softly as she gazed at the picture.
"Oh." He replied. He looked up as they continued to make their way down the sidewalk and seen a note stuck to the side of a brick building. He stopped and nudged Kagome in her side gently with his elbow. She looked up and seen it as well and walked up to it cautiously as if it were a ticking bomb. She picked it up and read it aloud, "Dark Angel, if you want to see your precious Sango alive again, then I suggest you do me a favor. I want you to steal a sword for me. It is at the museum four miles away from where I took the sacred jewel. Steal it and you can have your little friend. Naraku."
Kagome gasped and looked up at Inuyasha, who was looking down at the ground. "What do we…do?"
He shrugged, "Let's just get back, all right?"
"Ok." Kagome replied and they turned and headed off.
Inuyasha walked up to Kagome, who was beating the hell out of her punching bag. She was wearing shorts and a work out belly shirt and her hair was put up in a high ponytail. Her face was red and just by looking at her; he knew that she was really stressed. "How are you doing?"
She turned to give him a look that demanded 'does it look like I'm ok?' She did not even stop hitting the bag.
"Ok, I'm sorry about everything that happened today." He replied. "Do you know what we're going to do next?"
Kagome stopped then and leaned again the bag. Her expression was serious and almost worried, but she said, her voice shaky, "We have to do what Naraku wants."
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