Don't own inuyasha

A/N Hey guys! Hope you're enjoying the fic so far. Just a small warning, Sango, in this chappie, might come off a bit rougher around the edges than she actually is in the series. Though my beta, God bless, totally fixed up Inuyasha's character. Thank you CrimsonShiva.

Well w/o further a due, here's

Chapter 2

Crash! Sango woke up with a start and grabbed her pistol that was always under her pillow for the sake of her paranoid mind. 'Loud noises in my kitchen is not what I should be waken' up to 3:20 in the morning, especially when I live alone,' thought the surprisingly clear minded lieutenant.

As she crept across her living room, that lead into her kitchen, Sango could hear muffled cussing from what sound like a distraught and angry female. While keeping her gun up and cocked, Sango flipped on her kitchen light, located the intruder, and shouted: "Hands up where I can see them! I have a gun, and boy am I itchen' to use it!"

"Wait Sango!" cried the intruder. "It's me!" The intruder straightened herself out from the bending position she was previously in.

Sango stopped and squinted before she asked, "Kagome?" She lowered her gun and sighed a breath of relief. "Holy fucking shit Kags; you scared the hell out of me." The Asian girl gave her friend a watery smile.

"My, my, Sango. I wasn't aware that shit could fornicate, much less be holy."

"What are you doing here? I wasn't supposed to pick you up at the airport till 6:45. Why didn't you call? And what… what are you doing messin' up my cake! I hope you know that was going to be my breakfast. It wasn't meant to end up splattered on my best friend, and my already grimy floor, thank you very much."

Kagome laughed heartily at her friend's ranting as she slid onto the stool standing by the island. "You done yet?"

"No! I haven't even begun to chew you out." Kagome recognized an empty threat when she heard one.

"Well now you are. To answer your questions, I caught an earlier flight. I tried calling you on your cell, but you never picked up. So I grabbed a PTU (public transport unit) and made my way over here. You programmed you security system to accept my voice command, so I let myself in. I didn't want to go into your bedroom and wake you because the last time I did that I got a barrel of a gun shoved down my throat. Seems like I didn't do so hot this time either." Sango chuckled.

"Nope, doesn't look like it. But still, what were you doing with my cake? I was really looking forward to eating that cake you moron. I didn't think you liked lemon cake anyway."

"I don't, but with all the frosting on it, and in perfect form, I just couldn't resist. And moving on, since I'm coated in a layer of white frosting, do you think I'll be able to borrow one you your shirts to sleep in and throw this one in the washer?"

"I don't know Kags," Sango winked and began ticking off on her fingers. "You break into my house, wake me up at a God forsaken hour, and ruin my breakfast. Name one good reason I should let you impinge upon my hospitality."

"Well there is the fact that you offered to let me stay in your flat while I'm here on business… a week ago. But if that doesn't work, I seem to recall an incident involving your mother's brand new Silver-wing 29. Can she still not figure out how it got to the bottom of the lake? Well I would be happy to give her a call and solve that mystery for her."

"Fine! Fine, you can stay the night. Traitor." Kagome shrugged, grinned, and then walked to Sango's room to get a change of clothes.

Now that Sango was alone, something tugged at the back of her mind. Usually she didn't get this feeling unless she was figuring out a case, or when something just didn't add up. 'But why am I having this feeling now? This is Kagome we're talking about. The most honest and righteous alive! Ah get a grip, I'm just exhausted. Lack of sleep that's all… But I had my cell on the whole time… I'll check it later. But why would she lie? And then there was the cake. Kags would never eat it if it hadn't been touched.' Sango's thoughts were interrupted when her friend walked out of her bathroom wearing her overly large Dancing Druid's shirt, a techno-Celtic band that was popular a few years back before they broke up.

"Hey," called Sango.

"Yeah?"

"Where's your luggage?"

"Oh that," Kagome rolled her eyes. "They lost it. They say they'll send it here as soon as they find it. With my luck they'll find after I go home and then you'll have to send it to me and it will get lost in the mail."

Sango chuckled. "Don't say that. Anyway, I have work tomorrow and I want to catch up on some sleep. You know where the extra blankets are, so make yourself comfortable on the couch. Night."

"Good night Sango. Thanks again for letting me stay."

Sango yawned, waved her hand while walking toward her bedroom and mumbled, "Don't mention it."

Kagome walked briskly to a little coffee shop near Sango's work place, where she was to meet up with an old friend. Kagome liked the city, but preferred her remote rural area more so. Cities were just so automated. She did like the fact that the roads in cities were mostly underground. Now there was only a 3 chance that a pedestrian would get hit by a TP (transport unit). The old roads of the past are used for walkers, joggers, and even some roads were torn up (mostly the roads on the outskirts of the city) and rows of trees were planted in their place to make peace with the environmentalists, tree-huggers and the like. Even with this though, Kagome still felt that there wasn't enough green or other earthy tones. In her heart of hearts, she would always be a country girl, even though she was conceived and born in the city.

Kagome then turned her thoughts to her mother's shrine, where she grew up with her family. The war killed her father and devastated her mother, but she was only six when he died, so she only had vague memories of warmth and safety. Kagome's mother hated the war, so in her own way, she tried to fight against the destruction it caused. So when Kagome was eight, her mother adopted an orphaned one year old baby, his name was Inuyasha.

Inuyasha's mother died a few hours after birth for unknown reasons, though his birth had gone smoothly. The doctor attended her was a good friend of Inuyasha's mother, and had been able to the hide the child for a while after his mother had died because of his… unusual physical features. On top of the babe's head were two white puppy dog ears and in his mouth were already growing small canine teeth. The doctor could only assume the father was a dog cross. Fortunately holographic technology had advanced a lot and the doctor, as a favor to his dead friend, had been able to get a hold of a small wearable holographic generator. The device was able to make the child look fully human by placing a tight holographic image around the babe, almost like a second skin. This alone saved the child from being sent to a lab for a life of misery and tests.

Kagome's mother knew how "special" Inuyasha was, but still loved him and supported him. Kagome was on her way to meet her brother who was now going to Tokyo University on an athletic scholarship.

The Asian girl stepped into the small personal coffee shop and was struck with a wave of nostalgia of her own college days. She, however, was pulled short of her reminiscences when a crude, but friendly voice called out to her.

"Kagome!" A grinning black haired teen, dressed in baggy kaki pants and a bright red shirt, waved to her.

"Inuyasha!" She strolled over to her brother and gave him an excited hug before sitting down on the stool next to his.

"I ordered you your fave, white chocolate mocha with cream."

"Now I know you love me."

"Feh," he brushed it off and took a sip of his coconut flavored Italian soda. He had missed Kagome's presence, her laugh, her scent: jasmine and a faint hint of thunderstorm.

"So how's it going Inu? College life everything you ever dreamed of?" Inuyasha snapped back from his reveries of childhood.

He snorted at that comment. "The sports are ok, but I hate having to pretend to be something I'm not."

Kagome sighed. She knew full well of her brother's frustrations at having to hide his true nature all the time. He had explained it once as claustrophobia. With his father's genes, he was able to jump several yards in the air without really trying, run incredibly fast, hear things normal humans couldn't, and see better than any human could hope to see. But in society, he was expected to give up those abilities. He was confined to the narrowness and limitations of society. The human skin he was forced to wear choked him so he couldn't breath. "I won't pretend to understand how you feel, but you know I will do anything I can to help you. After all, I am your big sister. Gotta watch over my one and only little brother." She poked him playfully.

"Kick your ass," he smirked at that last comment.

"So, how is the school part of university?"

"Keh, you're worse than mother." She stared at him waiting for an answer. He reclined in his seat with an exhausted sigh. "They are good enough to keep the scholarships. You know how I feel about all that useless shit they teach in school." Kagome sighed and shook her head slightly. No matter what, Inuyasha would never belong to human society. In his heart of hearts, he belonged to nature and the adventures it would bring.

Nearby a tall man in a black suede trench coat and sharp new Xenon sunglasses stopped thumbing through the newspaper to slurp his plain black coffee. He brushed a hand through his thick bangs, and briefly glanced at the newborn merriment of siblings reunited. He let out a breath, slipped on his leather gloves, and slid a cartridge into his semi-automatic RS478 patented rifle, with a click.