A/N: This story is Supernatural and Horror as its main genres (as listed) but can also be considered a Tragedy. No one is safe and major character deaths will occur. Even to characters you may love and hate me for killing. (To be fair, in this series I'm killing characters I also love…Actually I can't think of a character I hate)(And on the bright side some people live who originally died). Also, I'm terrible with ratings. If anyone ever thinks this should be rated M tell me and I'll make the change.
Chapter Two
She kept her breathing even as she ran across building to building, trying to spend as little time as possible in the openings between them. Reaching her destination, she climbed up the fire escape to make it on the roof.
Kagome closed her eyes and extended her senses, searching for—"Found you." She opened her eyes and reached for her barely curved long bow, made from a rinkaku. She positioned her ukaku made arrow to the corner of another building. She held her form waiting for the proper release time.
Her target came into view with another. Her eyes narrowed. Hunting time, was it? "I don't think so."
Kagome released her arrow which shot towards the ghoul with a faint pink glow. The arrow hadn't even made it to her target when she jumped off the building in attack position. The bow string retracting into one end. Kagome now could now hold her weapon with ease with two hands. She had barely left the roof when the arrow embedded itself into the ghoul, and the woman whom he was with screamed in horror of the happenings before her.
The ghoul looked down to where the arrow accurately pierce him. The skin blackening around the wound. From fighting instincts he turned around with his ukaku out. Leaving the human, he left to deal with the dove. His ukaku spread and he shot projectiles as he shot forward with the speed well known to his type. His eyes widened as all his projectiles were met with some sort of barrier.
Kagome thrust her weapon forward and the ghoul was in motion to dodge. He managed but just barely. "My speed?!" he thought when he realized his reaction time wasn't as sharp as it should be.
When Kagome's first strike missed, she tossed her weapon lightly back in a horizontal motion to grab the end she originally used to strike. With her grip now on the other end, she quickly used her strength to thrust back.
The ghoul coughed up blood. A sudden burst of sensation washed over him and his vision was blinded by a light. His blood and organs splattered around the immediate vicinity as the ghouls body exploded.
Kagome looked on forward even as she was showered by her opponent's blood and organs not the least phased. She twisted her head to the human who had been too horrified by the scene to run away when she should have. She was on the ground, against a wall, with tears spilling out of her eyes as she was unwilling to blink with her horrified eyes.
Kagome reached for a clean handkerchief that had been tucked away and wiped her hand. It was still stained, but her hand should be clean enough not to taint the hand of the woman. Kagome squatted down and extended her hand forward. A smile in her face that seemed sincere but didn't watch the rest of her facial expression. "Let's get you home."
The woman was quite disturbed by the scene and the state Kagome was in but nodded. She latched to Kagome's hand like a child. Kagome felt like a safe person. With the ghoul investigator she was safe.
Together they walked off.
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After a much needed shower, Kagome headed to the local Commission of Counter Ghouls Headquarters. She walked past the bulletin board and walked up the path to the building. She was only half way when two high school students exited the building and walked quickly away.
Kagome stopped as the two passed her. She hummed. She turned and called after the two. The female much more tense than the male.
"Is there something we can help you with? We're in a hurry you see. We have cram sessions," said the girl.
She could tell the two of them were ghouls but the boy was a bit interesting. There was no doubt he was a ghoul, but something was off. Almost human… "But unlike demons, ghouls don't have half breeds." Kagome's unfaltering gaze rested on the black hair boy.
"I don't want to keep you waiting."
She watched the two continue to rush off, at a faster pace than before. She continued her way into HQ when they were out of sight.
Kagome walked to the front desk to ask about the two, though doubted she would get the information she wanted, when she saw a familiar figure. "Mado-san?"
The familiar middle-ages man with sunken cheeks and long, stringy white hair turned with his ever present grin and one bulging eye as the other was squinted turned to face her. The man beside his, who was quite tall, also turned.
"It is Mado-san. Were you transferred to the 20th Ward as well?"
"We were." He hinted at Amon as he said, "Amon-kun, this is Special Investigator Higurashi Kagome." The statement shocked his partner who thought the girl too young to be labelled Special Investigator. He'd like to think he made good progress through the ranks and both he and Mado were First Class investigators. "Higurashi-san, this is Amon Kōtarō."
Kagome smiled to Mado's partner and bowed quite traditionally. "It's nice to meet you, Amon-san." She brought her attention to the paper in Mado's hands. "What's that?" Actually it was strange that he was at the front desk at all. That desk was really only for public use. Nothing that would be of use to him.
"Just looking over the information of two students who came in to give information."
Kagome thought about the two she encountered outside. "You're instincts are as sharp as ever." She gave the man credit where it was due. Others acknowledged her own incredible instincts too, but her "instincts" were from another origin. Mado's really was just pure instincts. "It was those two high school students, wasn't it? I can't imagine they would be dumb enough to leave their actual information."
"But the alarm didn't go off…"
"For their RC levels?"
Mado brought his hand to his face. "Well the boy at least."
"Interesting…" "I've got to be going. I have a report to write. I guess I'll be seeing you around. Until then…Mado-san…Amon-san…" Kagome handed the sheet back to the white hair man before leaving the two.
I've already started the next chapter and I already know some of you are going to hate me. *sigh* But it's the direction I'm taking.
