2. I Left This Morning...
Prompt: Mirage
En route to the precinct, InuYasha's smile faded, replaced by feelings of anxiety. The cause for it eluded him. As far as he knew, he was in no trouble with his ball-buster of a Lieutenant, Sango Hiraikotsu, at work. His Sergeant and best friend, Miroku Houshi, usually made sure of that. As far as his home life went, well...
Kagome was his home, and everything there seemed perfect, too.
"I'm just being paranoid," InuYasha mumbled, but as he spoke the words aloud, he maneuvered his car into a sharp u-turn.
~*~
"Kagome?" InuYasha called, knocking on the door to their apartment. When his girlfriend let him in, she looked concerned.
"Did you forget something?"
He looked around. Embarrassed, he saw that everything was fine. She, too, seemed unharmed, though in the middle of getting dressed. She worked afternoons at a local daycare and had to be there soon.
"I thought I did," InuYasha mumbled, flushing red.
"You look a little heated. Are you sick?"
Kagome brought a hand up to his forehead, feeling for any signs of fever. "Maybe you shouldn't go in today. You've been working so hard and—"
"No it's fine," InuYasha said, attempting to smile. He felt idiotic for running back home when there was nothing there to worry about. Everything was perfect and in order.
...but the feeling in his gut—perhaps his own detective's instincts—spoke otherwise, warning of awful things to come.
~*~
"InuYasha?"
When Kagome heard another knock on the door, she opened it expecting to see her harried-looking boyfriend again. Instead, a man she didn't recognize stood there.
"Can I help you?" she stammered out, alarmed by the suspicious looking stranger.
"Yes," she heard him cackle before her world exploded in noxious purple gas that made her crumple where she stood.