The woman tossed her helmet to the side, the front glass cracking as it bounced along the pavement.
She followed the trail of blood straight to a frightened Kohaku and dragged him out of the boat by his collar.
"Sister...how did you.."
"Dont you dare call me your sister, Kohaku! You left me for dead in our own house! The house we grew up in together! The place I fed and bathed you as a child when our father wasn't home. The only brother I have-no. The only family I had left tried to take my life."
"Please. It was a lapse in judgement I wasn't think-"
"You never think, Kohaku." Sango said viciously as she dropped him on the ground. She unzipped her jacket and showed him the bandages on her neck.
A few weeks earlier...
Miroku had just parked his car in front of Sango's house. The two had just started dating after meeting at a takeout restaurant.
He stepped out, straightened out his clothes and began walking towards the door
"Oops! almost forgot!" He recalled as he turned back towards the car and reached inside for a bouquet of flowers.
By the time he turned around, Kohaku was running out of the house and down the block.
Miroku clearly remembered Sango telling him that her brother was dangerous and capable of horrible things.
He bolted inside the house and found Sango by the staircase leaning against the wall, moaning in agony.
"Sango!" He cried out as he pulled her into his arms, blood oozing out on his shirt.
"Hhelp...me" She pleaded with every breath she had.
Miroku, thinking quickly, removed his shirt and placed it to her neck, applying pressure.
"I won't let you die, Sango. I promise."
"I-if I live, please keep it a secret from anyone that knows me. I-I need to stop Kohaku."
"What?"
"Promise me."
"Then I'll call a private ambulatory service to pick you up and care for you. No records will be kept."
Kohaku reached his hand up to Sango's neck and his fingers were quickly slapped away.
"I am going to beat you like you were my own child."
"Huh? What's happening out there?" Rin asked Sesshomaru.
"That woman said she is about to give Kohaku a beating."
"If she said that, then she isn't joking. In the mean time, can we get out of here?"
"As soon as Ms. Kikyo decides what she wants to do." Sesshomaru said, glancing over at Kikyo who still had her eyes glued to the brooch.
"Perhaps I should-"
Before Kikyo could even finish her thought, Mayu busted through the door, covered in blood.
She huffed, puffed and slowly but weakly raised her sword.
"You. You killed my friends!" She screeched as she pointed a finger at Sesshomaru.
Kikyo stared in horror as the Childs body and sword gave off a terrifying demonic aura. She glanced over at Sesshomaru, who was unmoved by the young girl's threatening stance.
"Yes. What of it?"
"I'll kill you! You bastard! No one kills my friends!" She ran towards him with the sword raised, releasing a high pitched war cry.
She cut her eyes at Rin and in that moment made a split decision to change her target. She swung at the pregnant woman, grazing her collar bone, smirking as the blood oozed out.
Sesshomaru subsequently knocked the young girl into the wall, his eyes glowing with fury and slight desperation to protect his woman and child.
Mayu's back made harsh impact with the wall as her small body slid down and she smirked devilishly.
"You'll have to do better than that to get to someone like me. I may be a kid but after big brother Kohaku, I'm the strongest member of our group!"
Sesshomaru scoffed and cracked his knuckles. "If that is the case, I will not treat you as a child."
In the midst of all the confusion, no one had realized that Kohaku and Sango were both missing from outside. They also had no idea that Sango was about to step out of the elevator-alone.
She dragged her feet and a strange boomerang on her back across the hall. She nonchalantly stepped on the dead bodies, her weapon smacking them in their lifeless limbs.
She walked into the room where the others were and just before Sesshomaru and Mayu's pointless battle could begin, Mayu was cut in half by Sango's weapon.
The demonic aura in her body dissipated and her soul floated into the air.
"Thank you so much. I can finally move to the afterlife and rest." Her soul said sweetly as it faded away.
Sesshomaru shook his head and sighed, then turned to kikyo who appeared to be grimacing in pain.
"Pay me no mind, Sesshomaru. You should all leave this place."
Just before Sesshomaru could reply, there were loud blaring police sirens outside and helicopters overhead.
"We have the entire area surrounded! Everyone evacuate the building! No exceptions!"
Sesshomaru spun his head towards Sango. "How did they find us?" He asked knowingly in a suspicious tone.
Earlier that day...
"You let Kohaku take Rin hostage?!"
"I'm sorry. It was a slip up. I miscalculated."
"You idiot!" Sango shouted over the phone before sighing. "I will lead you to Kohaku, but I want a 20 minute head start before you send any forces in my direction."
"Why? Aren't you going to need the assistance?"
"No. A hundred men couldn't take down my brother. I need to take..." She paused. Miroku could hear her unsteady breathing over the phone. "Other more severe measures rather than pointless attempts to apprehend him."
"So what would you like me to do?"
"You're the agent!"
"He is your brother."
"Send all the forces you can get. I may be able to handle Kohaku but he has a large group of followers, at least hundreds and I don't know how many will be at the hideout."
"Understood. I'll get as much back up as necessary. Oh, and Sango?"
"Yes?"
"Please be careful."
There was a long drawn out pause once again. "...I'll try."
"Hmm. I see." Sesshomaru responded as he grabbed Rin's hand and pulled her towards the door. "Lets go."
"But-" Rin was dragged out of the door before she could even look back at the other two in the room.
"I suppose we should evacuate as well." Sango said to Kikyo. "I know you were only a hostage here."
"This body is beginning to fail me. I might as well go to my resting place permanently." Kikyo said sadly, clasping her hands together.
"Are you sure? B-because I know someone that would be able to save you."
"Sango. All the dead want is one thing: the chance to live again. Whether I am saved or not, I will be a dead woman and I do not believe that is an existence."
Sango nodded in understanding. She shook the blood off of her weapon and swung it onto her back then left the room quickly without turning around. As she ran down the hallway, she slowed down and looked back at the doorway, shook her head then continued to run and evacuate the building.
Once Sango got downstairs, the police were swarming in the area in packs. SWAT team, military officials with tanks, helicopters, detective cars, police cars, a police bus, ambulances and even a few vigilantes in boats were surrounding the warehouse.
"Is this it?! This is all of you?" a detective asked in a bewildered tone.
"No there's-"
"That's everyone. No one else is in there alive." Sango spoke up, cutting off Rin's sentence.
Rin looked over at Sango wide eyed, but Sango couldn't even look at her. She was too overwhelmed.
Two EMTs brought out a stretcher for Rin and laid her down gently on it.
"Are you still pregnant ma'am?" One of them asked.
"Yes, I'm pretty sure I still am." She replied as they rolled her into the truck.
Sesshomaru followed behind, intent on finding out the exact condition Rin and his unborn were in. But just as he was about to make his way into the truck, at least ten police officers pulled him away.
"What are you doing?!" He growled angrily through his teeth as he tried to fight his way out of their grip.
"Sorry, sir but we saw several dead bodies inside and until this is cleared up you're coming with us."
Rin shouted his name and reached her arms out for him as the doors were closed and she was driven off to the hospital.
He watched in disdain as the ambulance drove away and he was forced into the back of a police car in cuffs.
The police car drove down the same road as the ambulance and Sesshomaru stared it down, hoping to get a small glimpse of Rin.
He could feel his formerly cold heart sink down into his stomach as the ambulance turned down a different road and they were separated once more. The sun was stolen away from him again like a solar eclipse darkening his entire world. When would it end?
That was all he could wonder.
Miroku arrived at the scene not long after and bolted up to Sango, making sure she was alright.
"How are you?" He asked as he hugged her tightly.
"I'm fine." She said sternly, trying to keep it all together.
Miroku hesitantly loosened his grip on her and took a look at her exhausted face.
"Sango?"
"Yes?"
"Where is Kohaku?"
He stood there waiting for an answer. Her long pause, and the fact that she wouldn't even look him in the eye worried him.
'What has she done?'