Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Inuyasha and characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I'm just borrowing them for my own amusement.
Kagome sighed gently as she walked to her apartment. It had been a long and grueling day, running through plans for what would need to happen if Kaede's intuition of a daiyoukai being in the city was correct. While Kagome hoped that it was not, she had not known Kaede to be wrong.
She let herself into her small apartment. She didn't need anything large or fancy, seeing as she spent such a little amount of time there anyway. She didn't even bother turning any lights on, knowing exactly where her furniture was placed. She stripped as she walked, leaving her clothes lying in her wake as she stumbled into bed, in nothing but her underwear. She moaned to herself before rolling over and pulling the covers over herself, not worrying about her pyjama's.
Unfortunately for Kagome, once she was curled up, her brain decided it was going to wake up, running through the day's events. The first thing that popped into her mind was the oni they had been sent to take care of in the early hours of the morning. They had received a report of four oni in the area but once they had gotten there, another three had popped up, seemingly out of nowhere. It had been an easy mission but messy.
After that her mind immediately flicked to the young man she had met outside of the organisations building that morning. While looking slightly stressed, he had looked perfectly poised in doing so.
Isamu Nakamura.
The name rolled around in her mind as his face swam in front of her eyes. She couldn't get the deep violet eyes of his out of her mind as she lay there, wanting to know more about him while simultaneously feeling guilty over what she did know.
She knew that Miroku's searching for him after they had after he had moved on was something they needed to do to ensure the knowledge of the organisation didn't get out but she felt slightly guilty. Maybe it was the fact that he had lost his parents only a few months before and had moved here to do his part with the company he ran with his brother.
They had found that both he and his brother owned Nakamura Inc. equally, with Isamu being a silent partner. They had guessed that that was due to his age. The company had been founded when he was eighteen and would have just been starting college. He had graduated top of his class for both his degree and his masters and apparently, he was a whizz with computers.
They had found more information about the death of his parents but Kagome had left when they started going through that. She didn't want to know, even though it was public record. It just seemed too personal for her.
It didn't even make sense in her own mind.
Find and destroy youkai? No problem.
Examine them to find out their weaknesses to create better weapons to destroy them? Not an issue.
But find out about how a guy she didn't knows parents died? Nope.
Kagome grumbled to herself, turning over and burying her head in her pillow, trying to will herself to sleep. It was her first night in her own bed in almost a week. Anyone would have thought that she would be off right away but no, the one time she was in a comfy bed rather than a cot at the Organisation's headquarters, sleep eluded her.
It was going to be a long night.
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"But why wait two weeks?" Kouga grumbled as Inuyasha sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose at the frustrating Ookami. "You said you made contact, right? And that they now know you work on the next block shouldn't make it too suspicious."
"They ran a search on me as soon as they could." Inuyasha wished that he hadn't put his whiskey away, wanting a glass more than anything, just to deal with Kouga. "We can't run the risk that they'll do a deeper search. The disguises we wear may make us look human but it doesn't make us human. And I'm the only one here that could pass that kind of scrutiny. And only on that night."
"I guess," Kouga sighed, leaning back in his chair. He had just as much to hate the Organisation for as anyone else did. A little over thirty years ago, they had attacked his pack when they had passed a little too close to a city on their annual migration from the where the southern tribes dwelled to meet up with the northern wolves. They had lost a significant number of their pack to the hunters, including Kouga's brother, who had been little more than a pup. He wanted it done as much as Inuyasha and Sesshomaru did.
He just wasn't as patient.
"Inuyasha is the only one that can pull this off." Sesshomaru looked sideways at Inuyasha, smirking slightly. "Who would have thought that it would be your human blood that would be our way in." Inuyasha snarled at his older brother, his ears flattening slightly as his eyes narrowed. Sesshomaru chuckled lightly turning back to the others in the room. "It will need to be in two weeks, there is no way around it."
"It's the most likely way to get inside the building itself." Inuyasha explained and the others looked at him, curious. "We know the layout from the plans I've managed to gather from their systems but actually being inside the building will be intel that we cannot pass up."
"I don't understand why we don't just kill them all now," Haku, another wolf from Kouga's tribe growled and Inuyasha's gaze flicked to him sharply. He had to fight the urge to roll his eyes. Wolves were always impatient, never taking the time to sit and think things through. He knew the wolves wanted a resolution and they wanted it now. Inuyasha wanted the same thing but he also knew there was a time and place for a full-frontal assault. This time would need to be sneaky and they would need to bide their time.
"Because if we do that, the rest of the Organisation will be on the alert and the only thing that will happen is they'll send more of their little hunters to replace the ones we get rid of." Inuyasha explained, rubbing the bridge of his nose again, trying his hardest not to growl. "By getting inside the system and then the building itself means that we can dismantle it. The building here is the main headquarters for every base of the Shikon Organisation. Every single one of them, all around the world, feeds into and is connected into the one right here in Tokyo. If we can dismantle the one here, we can get rid of all of them."
"What if they rebuild?" Ayame, Kouga's mate, asked, sounding slightly nervous. "Who's to say they won't?"
"The damage we can do to their systems,"" Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, glancing at his brother, "and by "we" I mean Inuyasha," the Inu in question rolled his eyes, "can cripple them. My little brother has come up with something ingenious," his smirk grew, if that was possible, "however, it relies on Inuyasha getting inside the building."
"And you're not gonna tell us?" Both Inu's grinned and shook their head, looking every inch the brothers they were. "So, two weeks?"
"Two weeks." Inuyasha nodded, his ears swivelling as he heard movement from Shippo's room. He held up a finger, waiting until the movement either continued or died down. Thankfully, it just seemed as though the young youkai was moving in his sleep and wasn't about to wander out into a conversation that was far too advanced for him.
"Two weeks."
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Kagome sighed as she walked down the corridor at the Shikon Organisation towards where Kaede was waiting for her to discuss what was happening within the city.
There had been several more sightings but these had not been the usual oni's and low-level youkai they had been seeing recently. There had been reports of sightings of different types of youkai across the city but none had been found or confirmed. The thought that there were more than just the weaker youkai in the city worried Kagome. It lent credence to Kaede's theory that there was a daiyoukai in the city and they were being drawn towards that power.
She entered the room, seeing more than just Kaede, Sango and Miroku there but other hunters and strategists as well. There were those that had been around a lot longer than she had and Kagome even recognised one of them who had been with the Organisation as long as Kaede.
To see this many people here was worrying. It meant that there was more to be worried about than they had previously thought.
"Kagome," she turned, seeing Kikyo, a hunter from the Organisation's American branch walking over to her. Everyone had always said that Kagome and Kikyo looked like twins. Kikyo, while born to Japanese parents, had been born in the USA and had only been to Japan when she was younger to visit family and since joining the Shikon Organisation's American Branch. "Lots of bigwigs here."
"Hmm," Kagome looked over towards where Kaede was talking with whom Kagome assumed was the head of the American Branch. She could see that there were several others in the large room as well. She could see China, United Kingdom, Germany and the New Zealand branch. She wondered whether any others would be coming and knowing Kaede, there would be many more over the next couple of weeks. "Kaede thinks it's necessary."
"They mentioned a daiyoukai," Kikyo glanced at the other girl who turned to her.
"Kaede thinks that's what it might be. We can't think of anything else."
"No one's come into contact with a daiyoukai since . . ." Kagome nodded, thinking of the same thing. No one had even seen a daiyoukai since the one Kaede had fought when she had lost her eye. The fact that the other branch heads agreed with Kaede enough to travel to Tokyo was enough to make Kagome slightly nervous.
They all turned when the security office phone began to ring. Kaede turned, grabbing it, knowing they wouldn't call up unless there was something serious happening. Kaede's remaining eye widened as she listened and her expression turned grave.
She pulled the phone away from her ear, looking to Kagome. "Kagome, Kikyo, there are two ogres at the end of the street." Their eyes widened as they heard how close they were to the Organisations location. "They have come into contact with a human."
"What's the status on the human?" Kagome asked, turning towards the weapons closet that was present in the room. She was wearing her tactical wear as she usually did when at headquarters but she didn't want to waste time by going to get her own weapons. While she would have preferred them, if there was a human in the path of two ogres, they needed to move as quickly as possible.
She could hear Kaede asking for additional information as she grabbed a radio, clipping it to her belt, before turning back to her, a crossbow and katana strapped to her body, Kikyo doing the same. "The human is down, they lost sight of him." The two of them nodded before Kagome took off out of the door, Kikyo following closely behind.
Leaving through a side entrance, the two of them ran out onto the street, hearing the ogres before they saw them. From what Kagome could see, they were arguing between themselves. Kagome couldn't see the human Kaede had reported and that worried her.
Kikyo took to the other side of the street, sticking to the shadows as the ogres continued to fight each other. Kagome saw Kikyo signal her, making hand motions and pointing out towards the corner. Kagome saw what Kikyo had spotted.
A human arm.
Kagome just hoped that it was still connected to the rest of the person. And that said person was still breathing.
Kagome couldn't sense too much power coming from the two youkai in front of her. She guessed that it would take a couple of arrows from her and Kikyo and that would be that. The only thing they had to ensure was that they remained focused on either themselves or each other and not their victim.
Kagome had been edging down the street towards the hand she had seen, keeping to the shadows, moving slowly enough to remain unnoticed while Kikyo did the same on the other side of the street. Reaching the human, still keeping her eyes on the ogres and Kikyo's position, Kagome slowly crouched down and placed her fingers against his throat, sighing in relief when she felt a strong but racing pulse against her fingers.
She looked towards Kikyo and nodded, signalling that he was still alive and the two of them loaded up their individual crossbows and Kagome snuck around behind one of them, while Kikyo manoeuvred around the other. The most important thing was keeping them away from the human.
The both fired at the same time, their arrows embedding into their targets who let out roars of pain, their attentions being diverted from each other to the hunters attacking them.
Kagome quickly reloaded while moving backwards, leading the ogre away from where their victim lay motionless. If Kagome hadn't just felt his pulse for herself, she would have thought he was dead. She aimed her arrow at the ogre again, still moving away from the corner they had been at, pulling at her spiritual powers and pouring her purification energy into the arrow loaded to her crossbow. She let it fly and the ogre let out another scream as it disintegrated, Kagome immediately moving towards the human, hearing Kikyo's target do the same.
She knelt down towards him again, turning him slightly, seeing his face for the first time. She let out a small gasp when she saw who it was.
"You know this guy?" Kikyo knelt down on the other side of him, moving his head and Kagome saw the blood running down his face from what looked to be a large gash on his head.
"His name is Isamu Nakamura," Kagome sighed, grabbing her radio. "I'll explain when we get him inside." Kikyo nodded, checking him for any further injuries as Kagome radioed into the Organisation. She found another cut on his left forearm and a nasty gash on his chest. He would definitely need medical attention.
Miroku appeared next to Kagome and his eyebrows shot up when he saw who it was. She shrugged, not knowing why he was there either.
"Any other wounds other than the head wound?" He asked, gently moving his head to see the gash.
"One on his left forearm, right calf and across his chest. The arm wound looks superficial but the chest and calf wounds may need stitches." Miroku nodded, waving down the street and two of the medical staff with a stretcher appeared, bundling Isamu onto it before taking off towards the Organisation.
Miroku, as well as being one of the top hunters in the Organisation, was the head of the medical staff at headquarters. While he may have been a sweet talker and a bit of a lecher at times (especially when it came to Sango) he was incredibly smart. He had been put ahead in school and had breezed through college to graduate at twenty and complete medical school at twenty-four. At twenty-nine he had completed his residency and had worked his way up to the head of the Shikon Organisations medical staff. He had been taken on by the Organisation while completing medical school and his residency and had forged ahead whilst doing so.
Kagome and Kikyo followed them back into the building, watching as Miroku judged the more severe of Isamu's injuries. The two girls marvelled at how quickly he had gotten himself sterilised and everything set up.
They watched as Miroku quickly stitched up the wounds that needed it. Kikyo had been correct when she had thought the chest and calf wounds he had would need stitches. Miroku stood back and the nurse that had been working with him wiped off the wounds and bandaged the young man up. They started to remove the suit had had been ruined in the attack and Miroku's need to get to his injuries. It seemed that they had found him some clothes and were changing him. At least he wouldn't be covered in his own blood when he woke up.
Kagome entered the room, watching as the nurse worked, walking over to Miroku. "He gonna be okay?"
"Yeah," Miroku pulled off the gloves, throwing them into the medical waste bin. "He's gonna have a headache when he wakes up but he'll be okay."
"Concussion?"
"Most likely," he nodded, crossing his arms, "we'll need to keep an eye on him for a little while. He's sedated right now so he should be out for a couple of hours."
"Sedation?" Why would Miroku give a sedative to someone who was already unconscious.
"I couldn't risk that he was going to wake up while I was stitching him up. The head and chest wound needed to be stitched and if he had woken up he could have hurt himself even more."
They both turned as they heard the door open and Kaede walked in, looking surprised to see the young man in the bed in front of her. "Tis this young man, again?" Both Kagome and Miroku nodded, wondering what was going through Kaede's head. "Miroku, I want you to test his blood."
"What?"
"Why?"
She held up a hand to the two young hunters in front of her. "Tis merely a precaution. First, this young man appears outside the Organisation, seemingly lost and now he just happens to be attacked mere meters away from the headquarters. I want to be sure he is not something else."
"So, because he got lost and attacked, you think that he's something to be worried about?" Kagome asked as Miroku, reluctantly drew blood from the young man.
"Like I said, child, it's just a precaution. We can't be too careful right now." Kaede motioned for the two of them to follow her as she clearly wanted the results now.
Kagome could see where she was coming from but looking back as the nurse covered Isamu with a blanket and checked the IV that had been attached while she had been speaking with Kaede, she didn't see why Kaede would be so worried.
But Kaede was the head of the Shikon Organisation so Kagome couldn't really argue.
It didn't take long for Miroku to test Isamu's blood, using the machine that would determine whether there were any youkai cells within the sample. It came back as human and Miroku, at Kaede's request, placed a small amount in a petri dish and handed it to Kagome. She filled her hands with purification energy, pleased when there was no response. Kaede nodded, a small smile on her face as they had determined the young man in their hospital ward was indeed human.
They now just had to wait for him to wake up and tell them what the hell had happened.
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Inuyasha was pulled out of his artificial sleep as he felt the pulse of his youki flow through him and knew the sun was rising. He managed to supress the force, feeling his youkai side coming back to him. He made a mental note of the injuries he had, pulling energy away from them so they didn't instantly heal. He ensured that his human disguise was still in place as his senses returned. He could smell bleach and antiseptic and slowly opened his eyes, everything becoming clearer as he laid there, registering that he was in what appeared to be a hospital room. He turned his head, looking around, seeing other hospital equipment around.
He closed his eyes again, focusing his hearing on the surrounding area. He had to supress a smile as he registered voices and a conversation surrounding the attack that had just happened and what it meant and what they would have to do with the "human" they had in the hospital wing.
Inuyasha's plan had worked.
He was inside the Shikon Organisation.