"What do you mean...where is Kohaku?" Sango asked fearfully. "I tied him up and left him in the lobby for the police to find him."
"But Sango we..."
"Did you think I did something far more horrible to him?!" She questioned, advancing closely to Miroku with her fist raised.
"No!" He argued, backing away an inch. "It's just...if you did, I wouldn't have blamed you for it." He consoled, resting his hand on her lower back.
Sango nudged him away and gave him a deadly serious glare. "You have to find him. He is extremely delusional and dangerous."
With those words, Sango rushed off and grabbed her motorcycle.
"Wait!" Miroku called out as she revved away.
He let out a defeated sigh and went back inside the warehouse to gather whatever information he could.
At the precinct...
Sesshomaru was tossed into an interrogation room and the door was slammed so hard the two way glass shook.
Sesshomaru slowly lifted himself up with his hands cuffed behind his back. There was no way in hell he was going to let those humans diminish what remained of his pride.
He forced himself into a chair and huffed and puffed angrily, wondering how his love and unborn child were doing.
Suddenly, a woman entered the room. She was short with black hair and big glasses.
She sat at the table across from Sesshomaru with a stoic look on her face, then a warm smile.
Sesshomaru, unmoved by her tactic to provide a false sense of security, scowled at her fiercely.
"My name is Dr. Kim Suno. I am a forensic psychologist."
"What do you want from me?"
"You know, I was a classmate of Rin's back in graduate school. She was my mentor. I looked up to her. She has a gift. A true knack for knowing the inner workings of the mind...and apparently the heart."
"What are you getting at?"
"If you and Rin truly love one another, I find it hard to believe you are in any way insane, or even evil for that matter. You probably have a serious anger issue." She informed, laughing on the last part.
Upon seeing his still unamused glare, her laughter ceased and her face became more serious.
"You killed all of those members of that organization, right?"
"I won't say anything more without my lawyer."
"Hear me out at least! As a friend of Rin's."
"If you are a friend of Rin's, why aren't you at the hospital with her?"
"Because if she finds out you're going to be locked up again, it'll destroy her!" She shouted.
"Oh? You speak as though you know her so well, yet I have never even heard Rin speak your name!"
The room was tense as angry faces were exchanged. The young doctor had set foot into a blizzard, exposed to Sesshomaru's icy disposition.
Dr. Suno let out a sigh and her scrunched up face loosened. "This does not look good for you, Mr. Taisho." She said, sliding him a phone. "Call your lawyer now."
Sesshomaru took the phone and dialed his aunt, hoping she would be able to come quickly.
At the hospital...
Rin was lying on the bed, attached to an IV, waiting for the nurse to give her a sonogram.
As she waited, Inuyasha showed up. He sat next to her and didn't even say a word.
"Kagome went to the bathroom." He finally spoke up. "She'll be here soon."
Rin turned to him and smiled. "Thank you for coming."
He shrugged. "Somebody had to drive Kagome here." He said with a smirk.
The nurse finally arrived, rolling in her cart.
"Are you alright with me doing the sonogram with this man in here?" The nurse asked.
Rin nodded. "He's my child's uncle."
The nurse smiled and put the cold gel on Rin's stomach and rubbed the wand across the area.
She studied the screen for a moment before gasping. "O-oh my..." The nurse said in a shocked voice.
"What?!" Inuyasha questioned , standing at the nurse's side.
Rin stared at the monitor, trying to understand what had the nurse so concerned.
Back at the precinct...
Inumira swung the door open and pulled Dr. Suno out of the chair.
"Out." She ordered gruffly as she sat across from Sesshomaru and took out a thick folder.
Dr. Suno looked over at Sesshomaru with a disdained look on her face before walking out.
"That stupid wench made a poor attempt to gain my trust by telling me she is one of Rin's former peers." He said.
Inumira shrugged. "I have something for you from your father." She said as she slid a stack of papers towards him.
Sesshomaru skimmed through the papers with his eyes wide. "Why do I not remember any of this?"
"I knew nothing about it until your father gave me the papers. I have no idea how he acquired them, but they will help our case."
Sesshomaru did not want to believe what he was reading. "Why...how could mother..." His eyes turned a bloodshed red and he flung the papers onto the floor.
"You need to calm down!" Inumira shouted.
He breathed heavily and looked into her eyes. "I want you to find out how Rin is."
Inumira nodded and dialed Kagome's phone.
"Yes, how is she? Uh huh...I see...Oh, you're kidding right?... So what now?...Ah. A-alright."
She hung up the phone and gave Sesshomaru a serious look.
"Well? How is she?"
Somewhere far away...
"I failed again." He breathed heavily, blood oozing from his wounds. "Rin...oh, Rin. How can I get you back?" He said to himself out loud as he tripped over a pothole, landing face first on the ground.
A driver passing by stopped in the middle of the road and jumped out of his Toyota.
"Hey buddy you alright?" He asked as he crouched next to him.
"I need...to go to the hospital. P-please. I'm going to die." He said weakly as he turned over.
"Okay sure. The hospital isn't too far from here." The man said as he helped Kohaku into his back seat. He quickly proceeded driving, constantly looking back at Kohaku, making sure he was still alive.
When they finally reached the emergency room, he pulled Kohaku inside and towards the nearest doctor.
"I found this kid in the middle of the road. He says he's going to die!"
The doctor called for a few nurses who quickly put him on a bed.
"Thank you." Kohaku said to the man. "You can go now. I'll be fine."
"A-a-are you sure?" The man asked apprehensively. "I'll call my wife and tell her I'll be late. She won't mind."
Kohaku smirked and chuckled slightly. "You're married huh...you should be with your wife. I'm no one important." He told him as the nurses pulled him away.
The man stood there dumbfounded and noticed something interesting on the TV in the waiting room.
Miroku was on the television giving a press conference. "His name is Kohaku Chiba. He is possibly armed and very dangerous. If you see him, call the police immediately."
The man gasped in shock and horror as he ran towards the nearest police officer in the hospital.
"That man Kohaku on the TV. I saw him. I-I helped him." He said in a frenzied voice, body shaking like he was convulsing.
"Alright calm down, sir. Where is he now?"
"The n-the nurses just took him away."
"S-so he's here?"
The man nodded emphatically.
The officer took out his radio. "We need to put this hospital on lockdown immediately. Kohaku Chiba is possibly on the premises."
In Rin's room...
A loud alarm began to go off and startled her as she was eating. Kagome let out a mouse like squeal and held her chest.
Inuyasha stood quickly by their sides. "You alright?" He asked protectively.
A group of officers rushed into their room with automatic weapons in Hans.
"Ma'am, we are under orders to protect you. We have a tip that Kohaku Chiba is somewhere in this hospital. Until we find him, we advise you all to stay in this room."
Kagome's jaw dropped. She quickly took out her phone and sent a mass text to InuNo, her mother and Inumira.
"Kohaku is somewhere in the hospital. Do not let Sesshomaru find out."
At the precinct...
Naturally, Inumira told him anyway.
Sesshomaru flipped the table and cracked the two way glass in the interrogation room.
An officer walked in and let out an irritated sigh. "I know what happened. And because of that we can't let you go."
"And on what grounds?" Inumira asked.
"We need this suspect alive. According to some evidence, Kohaku may be more dangerous than you, but you're probably the only one I can think of that can kill him."
'No. There's one other person.' Sesshomaru thought to himself.
Of course, Sango's tell-tale motorcycle revving was bringing attention to the front entrance of the hospital. She knew about the lockdown and it was time for Plan B.
Sango put down the eye shield on her helmet and revved her motorcycle through the glass doors.
She tossed her helmet to the side again, cracking it entirely.
She pulled out a semi-automatic and shot the first officer that tried to apprehend her.
"I don't care if I go to jail. I have to stop him." She said, stepping on the broken glass as she made her way through the hospital.
When the officers reached the ICU where the doctor ordered his nurses to take Kohaku, he was already gone.
They searched around frantically, calling in more forces to help with their search. Tokyo General Hospital was not a small place, though. And Kohaku was a master at stealth. He was going to give them hell searching for him.
Kohaku knew how to find Rin easily because he could sense that brooch. After having it in his possession for years, he knew how to recognize its aura.
"I'll get to you, Rin. We can finally run away together." He said with a chuckle, followed by a blood-filled cough. He wiped the blood off his mouth and from his nose and snuck into the staircase where someone had been sitting there waiting for him.
He stopped and clutched his chest in surprise and worry. He stared for a moment before finally finding the ability to speak first. "I uh...didn't know you smoked." He said, pointing to the cigarette in Sango's mouth.
"I don't. But I had to kill three innocent people just to make my way to you. I feel like I needed this." She said as she puffed the cigarette.
"Why were you so adamant about finding me?! I don't-"
"You don't what Kohaku?!" She shouted, flicking the cigarette at him. "You don't understand why I want you dead, just like everyone else? You tried to murder me and almost succeeded. All I have is scars, but they'll remind me for the rest of my life of your unholy sins against me, against Rin and the rest of the fucking world!"
Kohaku let out an angry growl and shoved Sango's head into the concrete wall then rushed past her and ascended the steps.