Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Inuyasha and characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I'm just borrowing them for my own amusement.
"His name is Isamu," Kagome supplied and Miroku nodded. He had requested the security officers take a clear freeze frame of the young man and send it to him.
As soon as they returned to the conference room they had been in before, Miroku pulled out his laptop and pulled up the image that had been sent through to him. He immediately entered the image into their database along with the name Kagome had given him and started to scan. They had access to the entire city database so anyone with ID in Tokyo was at their fingertips.
It didn't take long for the information Miroku was searching for came up.
"Isamu Nakamura, twenty-four years old, recently got a Masters in Computer Science from Kyoto University. He has an older brother, Satoshi Nakamura who is four years older than him and runs Nakamura Inc." His eyebrows raised at that piece of information, which Kagome understood. They knew that the owner of the Nakamura Foundation was young so hearing that he was only twenty-eight was no huge surprise. Kagome made a mental note to look into that. "He moved to Tokyo three weeks ago after . . ." he leaned back in his chair, letting out a sigh. "After his parents died two months ago."
Kagome bit her lip, feeling a little guilty at hearing that information. They were digging through someone's life when there was no need to just because he had gotten lost and ended up outside their building. Miroku closed his laptop, not going through the rest of the information that she knew had come up on the screen.
It didn't seem right after learning that small piece of information.
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In the extravagant office a short way away, two sets of amber eyes flicked towards the laptop on the desk let out an alert, both smirking slightly at the sound.
"They work fast." The elder of the two muttered, looking towards his younger sibling. He stood from his chair, indicating that his younger brother should take the helm. When it came to computers, Sesshomaru had no qualms about giving way to Inuyasha. The younger Inu had a gift with just about any kind of technology. Sesshomaru wasn't a slouch with a computer but there was no competing with Inuyasha. When it came to that, he was quite happy to let Inuyasha work his magic.
"You expected anything less?" he asked as he took his older brother's place, taking control of the computer.
"Of course not, Inuyasha," he smirked, flicking his brother's ear, earning himself a soft growl as he pulled up the information he knew the humans inside the facility he had been at twenty minutes before were pulling up.
Hitting a few keys on the keyboard in front of him, he could see exactly what they were seeing, smirking to himself as he loaded up the additional files that went along with the front screen, adding bulk to what was an entirely fictional background. Along with that there was a small trojan horse with a pretty nasty virus that could be triggered at any moment.
They wouldn't launch it yet. It would need to wait until the moment was right before doing that.
But what it did do was allow them access to their systems without being detected. Inuyasha's recent 'degree' in Computer Science was a cover. In blunt terms, he was a hacker. He hadn't yet found a system he couldn't get into undetected and it seemed that the internal systems of the Shikon Organisation wouldn't pose much of a challenge either.
He was slightly disappointed.
"You're in?" Sesshomaru asked, leaning over his younger brother, a pleased smile as he saw that he was in fact 'in'.
"You doubted me?" Inuyasha shot back, throwing a smug look at his brother as he plugged the modified external hard-drive into the laptop in front of him, discreetly duplicating the information held by the Shikon Organisation. Based on what he had seen from the few moments he had had to browse through their internal system, there was a lot there. They would need it all to discover exactly what they knew. "It'll take a few minutes." He said softly, leaning back in the chair, watching the transfer.
"Will they be able to detect you?" Sesshomaru asked, sitting on the edge of the desk as Inuyasha kept an eye on the screen in front of him.
He shook his head, resting his head on his hand as he watched the information flash across the screen as it was loaded onto the hard-drive. "I made it too discreet. It's loaded into the information in the file they 'found'," he used quotation marks referencing the information they had planted for Shikon to find, "and they won't be able to detect it. It gives us access to their entire mainframe. I don't want to be too ballsy too quickly or else they will detect something. I want to get all this info as quickly as possible. The longer I hang around the more likely their system is to detect my presence. It's like opening a window. You might not notice to begin with but after a while, you realise that it's getting cold and the window's open."
"But once you leave, the window closes."
"Mhmm." Inuyasha nodded, his eyes still scanning the information that was flicking across the screen in front of him. He would be able to go through it all properly later but he was picking up the odd fragment as it came. "And now the seed is planted, I can open it at any time."
What he had told Sesshomaru was true, the longer he hung around on their system, the more likely it was that he would be detected. He had managed to encrypt the virus into the file they had put together on him for this express purpose. They had created one for his brother as well in case they decided to dig into him further.
They had known that Inuyasha going to the Shikon Organisation's building that morning would cause some doubt in their mind and that was just what they wanted. Inuyasha smirked as the laptop and external hard-drive beeped, signalling the completion of the data transfer. He disconnected the hard-drive and plugged in a small memory stick that held the information he required to be able to enter their system again. Something he would do whenever he could. He wanted to know that organisation back to front. He wanted to know it better than they did and with the information he now held, he soon would. Syncing the system with the memory stick, he disconnected it and stood up, giving Sesshomaru his seat back.
"You have everything you need?" Sesshomaru asked as he sat down, seeing that his brother had closed down the windows he had had open. He raised an eyebrow at his sibling in question.
"You want them to be led straight here because I didn't close the 'window'?" He asked, raising his own eyebrow in response. Walking over to the safe in the corner, he plugged in the combination, pulling out his own separate laptop, settling onto the couch he had thrown his jacket on.
He plugged the hard drive into the laptop opening the link that popped up when it connected. He took a breath, settling himself in to going through the thousands of documents, reports and other information that he had managed to glean from the databases of the Shikon Organisation.
This was going to be a long day.
Sesshomaru glanced over at his younger brother, feeling slightly sorry for the task he had at hand. Inuyasha had always been the more technologically minded of the two. While he was no slouch himself, he had always been impressed by how easily Inuyasha had always picked up anything to do with electronics and the online world. He had found that there wasn't anywhere Inuyasha couldn't get into which had come in handy a fair few times.
While Inuyasha filtered through the information they had obtained, Sesshomaru continued on with the work he had been completing before Inuyasha had arrived. Both he and Inuyasha owned and ran Nakamura Inc. a technological company made possible by the younger brother's ingenuity when it came to technology. While they held a fifty-fifty share, Sesshomaru was the acting CEO while Inuyasha held the same position but was a silent partner when it came to that aspect. Inuyasha was in charge of tracking all of the company's financial affairs. He had also been the mastermind behind many of the money-makers the company had created and were now sold worldwide.
Sesshomaru sometimes wondered if his brother had a computer in his head rather than a brain.
They had set up the company under their human guises but Inuyasha's alias of 'Isamu' was listed as 'in name only' for the moment. That would change over the next week or so, to make it seem as though he was stepping up since moving from Kyoto to Tokyo.
The two brothers worked in silence, Sesshomaru working through reports and contracts that had been emailed through to him, his assistant, Ayume, bringing in hard copies every so often. By the end of the day, he had a sizeable stack to look through before signing. He would need to have Inuyasha run through them before anything was signed. The younger Inu could always sniff out any issues that may arise from a particular deal.
Inuyasha sighed as he disconnected the hard drive, his head dropping back onto the back of the sofa. Sesshomaru looked over to him, raising an eyebrow and Inuyasha waved him off. "There's a lot of information there," he ran a hand over his face, letting out a small groan. He glanced out of the window across the room and saw that it was close to dusk. "I need a break."
"We need to go over the next stage now that contact has been made with the Organisation." Inuyasha nodded, shutting down and closing the laptop and placing it on the sofa next to him. He let out a groan as he stretched out his muscles, slightly cramped from sitting in the same position for hours on end. "As soon as possible."
He stood up, grabbing his jacket. "Yeah, I get it." He groaned, rolling his neck. "My apartment, tonight. I'll round up the troops. It'll give me a chance to sort out what I managed to read through today and also get some food."
Sesshomaru nodded, turning back to his laptop, starting to wind down for the evening. He would have Inuyasha send his assistant home for the day as he didn't have need of her before he finished.
Folding up his discarded tie and tucking it into his pocket, Inuyasha grabbed the laptop and placed it back in the safe, closing it with a dull thud of the thick metal. He pocketed the memory stick and waved to his brother who nodded in response. Inuyasha told Ayume that she could head home as he left the office, his human façade slipping into place as he entered the elevator.
To the outside human world, Nakamura Inc looked like nothing more than a technologies corporation, developing and marketing the latest technological equipment. Those in the lobby always held a human disguise in case anyone wandered in when they shouldn't do. To get to any of the floors inside the building, a fingerprint scan had to be completed and depending on the level and positions within the company, different floors could be accessed.
There were only four individuals in the company that had the authorisation to enter the top floor. The two Inu brothers and their assistants were the only ones that could enter the top floor unaccompanied.
What the outside world didn't know was that there was a lot of behind the scenes business deals that went on within the youkai world. It wasn't just humans that they sold to but youkai as well. Most of the time the products were the same but there were some that were developed purely for their youkai customers.
Inuyasha inhaled as he exited the building, breathing in the outside air after hours of being inside that stuffy office. His head was swimming with information and he needed to chill for an hour or so before trying to sort it all out. He knew that Sesshomaru often wondered what went on in his head and he smirked to himself as he walked.
He made sure not to look down the next street as he crossed the road, knowing that the cameras the Shikon Organisation had set up for security spread down to the end of the street, able to see the crossing. That little bit of information would play into their hands nicely in the near future.
He found a small restaurant tucked away in a corner of a small street on his way back to his apartment. He stepped inside and was immediately assaulted by the smell of homemade Italian. It reminded him of his mother's kitchen. She had loved to cook and Italian had been one of her favourites. Apparently, his father had discovered this and whisked her away to Italy so she could indulge in authentic Italian cuisine while he was "courting her" as he always put it.
He had always enjoyed the part of the story where she described thwacking him over the head as she realised that they weren't just going to a restaurant but to the country itself.
He was greeted warmly by a teenage girl who showed him to a small table. He glanced through the menu, wanting something simple and quick. He knew that he would have a long night ahead of him if Sesshomaru had his way and he didn't want to do that on an empty stomach.
It had been a long while since Inuyasha had managed to relax even a little. Forty years to be exact. It had been then that he and Sesshomaru had made it their mission to bring down the Shikon Organisation and everyone in it. They had spent that time scouring the world, finding where the headquarters of each major country was and finding those that had been affected by the organisation in some way or another. They had many youkai that had come to their aid and it had only been since the invention of the modern technology gracing the world (much of it at the hands of the Inu's themselves) that they were able to start setting their plans in motion.
It was a long time coming.
The Shikon Organisation wasn't going to know what hit them.
Inuyasha sighed as he finished up his meal, paying the bill and stepping out into the early evening air. He sighed as he turned towards his apartment. It was in one of the buildings he, himself owned, under a different name.
He pulled off his jacket as he stepped inside his spacious apartment, hanging it up on the coat rack just inside the door.
"Inuyasha!" He had only a moment's notice to brace himself before his arms were full of tiny kitsune, grinning up at him with shining turquoise eyes.
"Hey, Shippo." He ruffled the runts hair, allowing him to climb onto his shoulder as his human disguise melted away and he pulled his tie out of his pocket, throwing it and his keys onto the table by the door. "Whatcha been up to?"
"We went to the Hidden Park!" He beamed as though it had been the first time he had been there.
The Hidden Park was something that had been set up by the more powerful youkai in the city. It had been Sesshomaru that had put the most power into it. They had created it as a place for young youkai like Shippo who didn't have the power or strength to hold their human disguises for long periods of time to go and be outside without worrying. They didn't need to worry about humans wandering into the park for as soon as they came within a certain distance, they suddenly remembered inconsequential things that, in that moment, meant the world to them and had to be dealt with either way.
The park had been there for twenty years now and not even the "all-powerful" Shikon Organisation had found it.
Inuyasha couldn't help but smile as Shippo bounded off his shoulder and acted out what he had done and who he had seen at the park that afternoon. He glanced up as his nanny Hana, a hyena youkai walked out of the bathroom, shaking her head at the young kitsune's exuberance. He was exactly the same way whenever Inuyasha came home, always excited to see him.
"You eaten, kid?" Inuyasha asked as Shippo finished his tale with a large flail of his arms, stopping in front of his guardian, nodding.
"Yuh-huh," he grinned, "we had pizza!"
"There's some left in the fridge if you want some." Hana nodded towards the large kitchen as she grabbed her jacket, her human features slipping into place. "I'll leave you with the ball of energy."
"Thanks," he rolled his eyes, smirking as she laughed, letting herself out.
"Come on, kiddo," he grabbed Shippo round the waist, tickling him as the tiny youkai shrieked with giggles, heading towards his bedroom. "Time for bed."
"I don't wanna," he whined as Inuyasha placed him down.
"I don't care," Inuyasha shot back in the same tone, grabbing Shippo's pyjama's, having to practically force them onto him. "Come on, kid, you've gotta stop doing this."
"But you just got home." He whined, crawling into Inuyasha's lap.
"I know," he sighed, running his fingers through the young youkai's hair. "Unfortunately, it's gonna be like this for a while, kiddo. Sess and I have a lot of work to do and it means I'm gonna be out later than usual. But I need you to be grown up and behave okay. And if you do, once Sess and I are done with all our work, we'll go away somewhere nice. Just you an' me, okay?"
"Really?" Shippo's eyes lit up and Inuyasha nodded. "Yay!"
"But . . . the first part of that is going to bed. Now." He grumbled again but a raised eyebrow from the Inu got him under the covers without much more of a fuss. Inuyasha waited until he was settled against his pillow before tucking him in, running a hand through his hair and turning on the small light he had beside his bed.
He quietly turned off the light and closed the door, marvelling at how the kid could go from one hundred to zero with the same speed he could go in the other direction.
Inuyasha sighed to himself as he grabbed a bottle of whiskey and a glass, settling on the sofa and pouring himself a generous glass, leaning back against the soft leather. There were times when he had to take a step back and remind himself that no matter what Shippo had seen or been through, he was still just a child.
Inuyasha remembered the night he had found the tiny kitsune, barely out of infancy fifteen years ago. He had immediately wondered where the pup's parents were but then he caught the scent of blood, humans and had felt the purification energy permeating the area not too far away and had known what had happened.
They had been attacked.
Inuyasha had bundled the little guy up and taken him home. Since then, he had become Shippo's adopted father, ensuring he had everything he needed. He knew the pain of losing loved ones and he didn't want Shippo to have to go through anything like that again.
It hadn't taken him long to find out what had happened. Apparently the Shikon Organisation had gotten word that there was a pair of kitsune's in the area and had attacked. No word of warning. Shippo's parents had been peaceful and kind. He had spoken to other youkai that had been friends with them and were greatly saddened by their loss, fearful for what would happen to their infant son. Inuyasha had set their minds at ease, telling them he had taken him in and he would want for nothing.
Apparently having an Inu, even an Inu-hanyou, giving his word that the child would be taken care of was a great comfort.
It had brought even more youkai to their cause of bringing the Shikon Organisation down.
Inuyasha growled lightly to himself as he thought about the humans in that organisation, thinking they had the right to determine whether or not youkai could live or not. They had no right. Inuyasha had been alive for longer than anyone in that place and yet they would feel they had the right to claim his life if they found out about him.
He would not let that happen.