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A/N: This is the final chapter of the week! Sorry guys! Anyways, I hope you enjoy it 'cuz it was a pain to write! -_-" It had me up all night 'cuz it didn't seem right to me. Oh well...
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Any who, on with the story!:
Kagome and Kouga went from roof top to roof top, keeping a close eye on their moving target. This was the perfect day to tail someone. The sky's were a dank grey, casting an endless shadow over the ground. It would be a lot harder for Light to see them, if he were to look up. Their aura's were well hidden and it was virtually impossible for any Shinigami to sense them, which was good for the misfit pair of yokai and miko.
Light walked the distance of the campus, and Kagome couldn't help but be a little jealous. The lucky bastard was accepted to one of the most prestigious schools in the Japan, and it annoyed her to no end. 'Why couldn't I get accepted into one of these schools?' she thought with a pout. 'Oh, that's right. I was found and now work for Sesshoumaru.' She frowned when she noticed Light was so popular with everyone, and received waves and shouts of greetings as he entered the classroom. He was even more popular with the ladies.
'If only they knew he was a murderer,' Kouga thought, frowning at the way they fawned over him.
Ryuk was not with Light at the moment, so Kouga had to watch Kagome's back as she peered in through the window. Perched in a tree, the pair relaxed slightly as Lights class began. The same balding old man from before was teaching the class. If Kagome wasn't supposed to be stalking Light, she would've started messing with the poor teacher. She smirked at the thought, but sobered when she saw Light look around as if he felt he was being watched. Light's attention was on the teacher, and Kagome felt her form flicker slightly.
Kouga frowned at her, knowing going for too long as an Irkiyo will prove to be harmful for the both of them. They needed to rest soon, but not just yet. Missing a moment of this could be crucial, so they had to grin and bare it.
With a huff, they set off again when Light began walking out of the classroom after the bell rang, signaling that the class was finally over. He went through outdoor hallways and only stopped when a blond haired woman glomped him.
Kagome and Kouga glanced at each other. Kagome was not aware there was a woman involved. Well, if you could call her a woman. She was more like an overgrown child and it took Kagome a moment to realize who the woman-child was. "That's Misa-Misa, the model. What is she doing with the likes of Light..." Kagome trailed off, and sensed a dark aura hanging around the tiny model.
"She has a Shinigami tied to her like Light," Kouga said, narrowing his eyes. "A second one?"
"That'd explain it," the onna sighed. "In L's reports, there was a suspected second. However I didn't have enough time to look into it."
Misa kept a tight hold on Light, refusing to let go of her dubbed 'boyfriend'. Something was odd about her though. She kept glancing above everyone's heads.
"Why does she keep doing that?" Kouga asked.
Kagome closed her eyes in realization before looking over at Kouga. "She has the Shinigami Eyes. She can see the persons name and the amount of time they have left living."
"This is getting to be too much. Dealing with two Shinigamis, a human hell bent on resolving all the worlds problems by killing criminals off and a human able to see the names and deaths of others is going to be trouble, and you know it," the ōkami yōkai murmured down to her.
"I know. We may need back-up from Ayame or your bumbling idiots, Hakkaku and Ginta."
"Or we could get Sesshoumaru himself," Kouga suggested.
"Are you crazy? He'd be so pissed off if he came all the way down here for something so trivial," Kagome hissed.
"And if it isn't trivial? What if this is serious?"
"Oh shush! Let's just watch what happens and if we need to, we'll call Sesshoumaru."
"Look, is that hers?" Kouga pointed at a mummified floating Shinigami. It was tall, just like Ryuk, but they looked nothing alike. For instance, Misa's shinigami had an armor of what looked to be like bones. It had bleach white dread locks that looked as if they were dipped into ice blue hair dye and had strange blue markings. Only a single yellow cat eye was visible making it one mean looking shinigami.
Kagome nodded. "I guess so. I've never seen that Shinigami hanging around before."
"So where's Ryuk then? He's been gone for a while."
"I heard he got stuck on an addiction to apples. Maybe he's out finding some."
"An addiction... to apples," Kouga said skeptically.
"Yeah," Kagome answered, amused. "Weird addiction, huh? Hey, maybe we can make a trap using apples as bait."
The ōkami yōkai chuckled softly. "That'd be the day."
Four days passed by slowly for L. Criminals kept dying and he could do nothing to stop it. There was no new proof on Light as of yet, and neither Kagome nor Kouga had shown up since the night they left. Inuyasha had left his side only once since the other two left, said he had to 'check up' with his brother over the phone. He was back now, and L learned the hard way that the inu hanyou was very... vocal.
L sat back, doing nothing while the agents busied themselves with the case, and Watari was gone, probably baking something sweet. He pulled out a pad and pencil, thinking it would be a good time to get a few answers.
'Can I ask you a few things?'
Inuyasha's golden eyes narrowed on the question from across the room, lounging on the couch, shrugging in indifference. "Whatever kid. Shoot."
'What exactly are you?' L wrote.
"Kagome told you before. I'm a half dog demon."
'No, I meant why can you all glow and float? Kagome isn't a demon and she has the same abilities.'
"Oh, that. We just became Irkiyō."
'Explain.'
Inuyasha sighed heavily, obviously irritated. "Irkiyō is basically identified as a disgruntled spirit or a partial spirit that leaves their physical body in order to get revenge on those who made them so vengeful. It's different for us though. We are able to leave as partial spirits to take care of renegade yōkai. It takes a lot of energy to separate ourselves from our body and even more so to travel distances. But since we came out to Tokyo, it's much easier to spirit travel."
'You're in Tokyo?' L asked curiously.
"Yeah. Just a few days ago. We're actually staying in one of these hotel rooms."
'You're in this hotel right now? Why didn't Kagome tell me?'
"Maybe she just thought it didn't matter, I don't know," Inuyasha shrugged.
L sat quietly for a while before writing the next question. 'What was that thing Kagome fought the night I met her? That snake-woman.'
"That's basically what she is: A snake-woman. In yōkai legends she's called a Nure-Onna. She's a snake with the head of a woman and has long beautiful hair. She's usually docile, but once she's bothered by humans or other yōkai, she becomes a formidable enemy. A human must've unknowingly pissed her off, leaving Kagome to clean up the mess."
'Do you do this for a living? Hunting demons and cleaning up the messes?'
"Generally, yes. We have other duties as well, though. Like maintaining borders and assisting the Four Directional Lords."
'What do you mean by Four Directional Lords?'
"You may not know, like most humans but the Four Directional Lords are sectioned in Japan by four Lords. The Lord of the North is a dragon yōkai, the Lord of the East is fox yōkai, the Lord of the South is tiger yōkai and the Lord of the West is dog yōkai," Inuyasha explained.
'Who do you pledge to then?'
"To my older half brother Sesshoumaru, Lord of the West. Kagome, Kouga and I are his main Generals, seeing to the needs of the West. The Southern and Eastern Lands are not as prosperous as the West and the North, and we must aid them in battles with troubling yōkai."
'So there is more... agents like you?'
"Of course. Not many, but we still have considerable numbers."
'I see,' L wrote thoughtfully. The more questions answered, the more questions he seemed to have. He wanted to know it all. He wanted to learn more of this other world, hidden from everyone else. He just wanted to know more of the mysterious onna that was Kagome.
A/N: And there you have it! I hope y'all enjoyed it, even if it practically killed me to write it. Sorry for grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes and OOCness, this fanfic is beta'ed by no one but me! Please review, it makes me a happy author! Ja ne!
-KiriKatana