Chapter 7
It was now dark out, everyone was in bed, Kagome secretly got up, snuck up the stairs to her room. She went to her wardrobe and put on her suit. Then tied her green armor on. Her face was set. She knew what she was going to do. She pulled her mask on. She put her hair up and placed her pins in. She took out her fan. She looked in the mirror one last time, 'I've got to do this. I have no choice.' She jumped out the window to the balcony underneath her where Inuyasha's bedroom was. She landed easily, and opened the sliding door. She took a deep breath, and threw one of her pins right next to his ear, not hitting it, but causing wind to brush it. Inuyasha's ear flicked, slowly his eyes opened. There he saw a lady standing in shadow. She started to walk towards him. Then she suddenly stopped. She held up a piece of paper. She threw it over to him. He caught it with two of his fingers. He looked down at it, when he looked up again, she was gone. He looked back at the paper, it read:
Inuyasha Takahashi,
I realize that what you are about to read sounds crazy, but I need your help. I wish to be free from my boss. But I must find six people before that. I wish to request your help to find these people. I realize that after that you will know who I am, and I am prepared for my punishment. I will accept three times the punishment, as long as you do not hurt Slayer, Treasure, and Iris. They have not done anything wrong. If you agree to help me find these six people, please meet me at your corporation tomorrow night. I will come unarmed, so do not worry about it being a trap. But if you only come to capture me, beware. I will not stop until I have completed my last mission. My three comrades do not know of what I'm doing so please avoid talking about this to anyone accept to your three friends. I trust you. I hope to hear from you.
Arrow
Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. All of it confused him. He knew that the only thing he could do to satisfy his curiosity was to meet her tomorrow. He didn't get though why she wanted it at his corporation. That was his territory, she had a disadvantage there. Was she that desperate? 'I'll bring my friends there, just in case."
The Next Night
Kagome was standing on the roof of the corporation building. After another 3 minutes she saw four figures; Inuyasha, Kouga, Sesshomaru, and Miroku. "Do you really think she's here alone?" Miroku asked. "If she's stupid probably." Kouga replied. "I wasn't asking you." Kouga stuck his tongue out at Miroku. "Honestly, I don't know." Inuyasha said absentmindedly. They stopped right in front of the building. "I don't see her." Sesshomaru stated. Then a figure came flipping down onto the pavement from the rooftop. "It's Arrow!" they all exclaimed. She straightened herself. "So, you've come to help me?" she asked. They all nodded, "but first you have to show us who you are." Inuyasha demanded. "I did promise that, ok." She then took off her mask, when she did so, all four boys gasped. "K-Kagome?" Inuyasha slowly walked up to her, almost as though he was afraid that she'd respond. "As you see." "You were behind it all the time?" Kagome dropped her gaze. "It's not like I had a choice." "Not a choice?! How could you not have a choice to steal and kill?!" Miroku shouted. Kagome glared, "Someone like you couldn't understand." "You're right, we don't understand. But maybe you could help us to." Sesshomaru stepped in. Kagome sighed, "All right, where should I begin?" "How about the very beginning, when it all started." Inuyasha put in.
Flashback
A nine-year-old Kagome was sitting on her father's lap as he read to her, her little five-year-old brother Souta was sleeping in his mother's lap. Everything was peaceful and quiet until… BANG! The front door was knocked to the ground. Her father stopped reading, "How dare you! How dare you fire me! I worked so hard for you! How could you betray me like that!" a man in his twenties shouted. "I didn't betray you Naraku, your conduct was disorderly, you were torturing people instead of trying to heal them." BANG! Her father was silenced. His bloody head dropped onto Kagome's shoulder. She stood there quaking in fear. Her mother screamed though, BANG! Another shot was heard, her mother was dead. Souta woke up, he ran to the corner of the room in fear. Kagome ran over as well and stood in front of her little brother, protecting him. "Step aside girl!" Naraku threw Kagome across the room and BANG! Souta fell to the ground. In just a mere two minutes, Kagome's family was dead. "I have no intention of killing you yet girl, be grateful." With that Naraku walked out of the room.
Kagome looked at her dead family, she couldn't take it anymore, she ran out of the room into the streets. Only two days of living on the streets she was found. But not by people who were searching for her, no, most people had forgotten about her. No, she was found by two men in black suits. They grabbed her and dragged her with them into a van. Shoving her in it, they drove away. When they pulled her out of the van they dragged her to a room. They dropped her into a tank filled with water. She could see the men in black suits talking to someone who looked like a doctor. She could just hear, "yes, she'll do. Let's see if she will survive to become a human super weapon. Now, let's test it out." The doctor pressed a button, all of a sudden the pressure in the tank started to increase. Eventually after four minutes it started to hurt, then it became excruciating, she started to scream under the water. It stopped. The doctor was nodding, "Good, she actually survived. I'm surprised." This was the beginning of her four years of pain and torture. The doctor did tons of different experiments. She was able to adapt, but that didn't make it any less painful. One day she decided that she was done. She broke the door down, easily knocked the guards out and ran away from the building.
Four months later, she was starving, she had to get something to eat. She walked past a tall woman, with short dark red hair, and marvelous green eyes. She quickly sneaked her hand into the woman's pocket and grabbed her wallet. The woman instantly whirled around and grabbed Kagome's wrist. When she saw who did it her eyes softened. She kneeled down and looked right into Kagome's eyes. "Why hello. Where are your parents?" "Dead." "Oh, you interest me dear, you see, you were the first person I've known to even be able to get close to me without my knowing it. Do you want to come live with me?" Kagome had nowhere else to go, and this lady seemed nice. So she agreed. When she got to the lady's mansion she found out that the lady was actually the legendary thief, Shadow. Shadow started to train Kagome to be a thief for the good of the common people, really just like a female Robin Hood.
It went on like this for two years. One day Shadow approached Kagome, "Kagome, I was wondering if you would like to start a team and come with me on missions?" Kagome beamed. "yeah!" "Ok then, why don't you go find yourself a team." Kagome ended up finding three girls, Ayame, Sango, and Rin. When she showed them to Shadow she loved it. From then on she started to train the four girls. She gave them the nicknames Arrow for her accuracy; Iris for her love of flowers; Slayer for her aggressiveness at destroying enemies; and Treasure because everything in life to her was a treasure.
They started to go out on missions, retrieving stolen items and returning them to their owners. Ayame, Sango, and Rin also had to juggle their normal civilian life with their thieving life. It was a challenge for them, but they never complained. Then was the day where everything changed. They were out on another mission. This time they were retrieving a stolen item from the Onigumo Corportation. Kagome was caught. Shadow went to save her, but was killed. From then on, they were forced to work there; they worked for the same guy who killed Kagome's family, the same guy who tortured her, Menomaru. Menomaru had captured Treasure's, Iris's, and Slayer's parents. He told them that if they refused to obey him then their parents and more would be killed.
Present
"So that's why? You're just protecting more people?" Kouga asked. A tear slid down Kagome's cheek. "He just wanted to torture me. He knew that I wouldn't let my comrades doing any killing or stealing. He knew that I couldn't win either way." "Why won't you let the three steal and actually kill?" Sesshomaru asked. "How could I just let them do this. It's my fault that they are in this predicament! I led them into this!" Kagome fell to the ground. Her hands up to her mouth, her eyes wide with fear and anguish. Then her breathing started to get labored. She started coughing. "Kagome what's wrong?" Kouga asked. "You're not yet healed are you?" Inuyasha asked. "You shouldn't even out of bed." "I'm ok," Kagome's used Inuyasha to help her up. "You should rest though." Inuyasha tried to persuade her. "No, I won't, I can't rest until I find their parents. I got them into this mess, I'm going to get them out of it." Inuyasha put a hand on her shoulder, "Ok, don't worry we'll help you, but…" just as he was saying that, Kagome fainted.