Chapter Nine

Hello every one! I hope you all had a good Christmas if you celebrate it. I did! Got exactly what I wanted nifty huh? Any who it seems that Draechaeli said something sensible again. I made Inuyasha give into Mrs. H a little too fast huh? A little OOC it seems but, once again Draechaeli kudos. Anyway I fixed the mistake that the said person pointed out last time so that's one problem fixed now I need to work on updating faster, and with school about to start up next week or so the updating will be kept to only once a week on Saturday usually, so I'm sorry about that. But without me whining anymore here is chapter nine. (Like you couldn't tell from the giant bold lettering above this.)

It had been awhile since his 'interrogation' from Mrs.H, which had happened at around Eight o'clock. It was now noon; standing up in a tree he had been told was called the Goshinboku (Did I spell that right?) Was Inuyasha busy watching anybody who walked by, without his or her knowledge of course, he had been there for the better part of two hours since he had nothing better to do. All was peaceful until something came into contact with his head, and since he was standing he lost his balance. Which happened to be a very bad thing to do when that high up. So down he went upside down, which was something else bad. Normally he would have caught himself or landed on his feet but he was out of it at the moment so he just managed to turn to the side. Then he hit the ground and a wet sounding crack was heard as his arm hit the ground with his body weight on it.

Souta, which had hit the hard thing that was a baseball in the back of Inuyasha's head, ran inside the house to get Kagome. Who then came out in a rush to see what had happened saw Inuyasha walking towards them with his arm hanging limply and at an odd angle. But if he was in pain from this he wasn't showing it. After walking up to them he stopped in front of them and produced a baseball from seemingly nowhere and handed it to Souta.

"You need to watch where you hit that thing kid." He said as he ruffled his hair with his good arm.

"Are you okay Inuyasha?" They both asked in unison.

"Yeah I'm fine no big deal. It'll be healed in a few hours…although I do have to put it back to its proper place." He then grabbed his arm and pulled on it hard. Another wet like crack was heard as he put the bone back in place. "Ow…damn that hurt, but it was kinda expected…"

"You sure you're okay?" Kagome asked one last time.

"Yeah I told you woman I'm fine it'll take more than that to hurt…" He was stopped when a loud sound rang out and a small hole appeared in his shoulder.

But as before he didn't really show any signs of pain. Instead he looked at them both. "Get inside, remember the thing I told you about other assassins? Well here's one of 'em." With that he turned around and ran at blindingly fast speeds towards one of the near buildings. You could hear a couple more gunshots that rang out again but to no avail on hitting him. Even though he told them to go inside they stood there and watched him. After jumping down the stairs they saw him jump up from balcony to balcony on a distant building. They lost sight of him there. Hearing a couple more gunshots they decided to see what happened. Running the entire way there took about five minuets so they had no clue how he got there in twenty seconds flat. Finally reaching the side of the building they were about to go inside when they saw him on the roof just about to jump off. He did so and landed with an unusually ungraceful thud.

Kagome gasped as she saw more than just the one hole in his shirt with large red bloodstains under them six in total.

"Lucky bastard got a few rounds in before I got to him." He said with a somewhat pained smirk in place. "I was wondering why they would send some kid after me. He is…was a damn good shot." With that he coughed a little bit and some blood came out of his mouth and collapsed on the ground unconscious.

(A/N I could so stop here but I said my chaps would be longer and this in only about 800 words and I said around 1500ish so I'll keep going.)

When he came to he was laying on Kagome's bed. Having no clue as to why he was there he attempted to sit up. That is until his whole torso started to hurt, and with that he remembered what happened. That damn kid! Thinking he could kill him. He was only the best around, why the hell did they think he could kill him? They must've been testing him. He took a look down at his body; it was covered in quite a few bandages. From what he could tell he failed their little test, he failed it miserably.

Ignoring the pain he stood anyway. Grabbed his bloodstained shirt, threw it on and walked out of the room. After doing so he walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. Seeing no one there he started looking around the house since he never really had the chance to look around before. Finding what he assumed to be the living room he sat down on the couch and stared at the still on TV. He wasn't really watching it just thinking as he always did when he had nothing better to do.

He didn't get far however because that's when he heard the door open. Hence Kagome and her mother walked in. After seeing him they sped up there pace a bit and one sat down on either side of him. A little bit confuse by their antics, he just stared at them quizzically.

"Uh…what?" He asked still as confused as ever.

"What do you mean what?" The both said in unison.

"Uh I mean why are you both staring at me like I killed someone."

"Okay, first of all you DID kill someone from what Kagome told me…" Said Mrs.H

"…And now you're down here as if nothing happened." Kagome said finishing her mother's sentence. Had they practiced this or something? Might as well ask them that seeing as how he had nothing better to say.

"Did you guys practice asking me questions al the while finishing each others sentences?" He asked

"Yes we did…" Said Mrs.H

"…Because we knew you would be up by now." Kagome finished. This was getting scary.

"…Okay then…can I get up now?" He asked getting nervous for some odd reason.

"NO!" They said in unison again.

"Why not…?" He was just downright scared now.

"You had a grand total of seven bullets in your body." Mrs.H said.

"So…?" He was calming down now that they weren't freaking out now.

"Are they still in there?" He asked.

"No thanks to the fact the mama was a nurse a while ago she took them out for you." Kagome said.

"Ok…thanks for that. I could have taken them out myself but oh well. Now stop worrying I'll be fine in a few hours." With that he stood up and walked out of the room.

"He's not fine is he?" Mrs.H asked

"Of course not it takes longer than this from what he's told me. He just need to keep what's left of his male ego intact."

"I figured that."

Outside Inuyasha was busy reprimanding himself over getting his ass almost killed. He was acting sluggishly when he went after the other assassin. Normally he could have dodged those bullets very easily by listening to the air around him. By listening to that he could have heard the very miniscule sound that bullets make and gotten around them. But instead he got hit. Several times to add to that.

All the while he had kept thinking about only one person. (Do I have to tell you who?) He had no clue why. This was like before, he had grown fond of her yet, and he didn't want to get too close he hadn't trusted anyone for such along time. Since that one other woman who he still didn't get that close to, about forty years ago…god had it really been that long? He had stopped keeping track of how old he was a while ago.

"Aw hell, this woman will probably be the death of me." He walked back inside the house shutting the door softly behind him.

A/N Okay, can you guess who the other 'woman' was? Take a guess c'mon you know you wanna. Anyway I made it longer like I said I would now can you review please? I still as always want to know what you people think.