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Chapter 20: Demand

Kagome ran to the front of the building and looked out the window with the others. It seemed everyone had their head out the window looking down onto the courtyard below.

The gates were thrown open and cop cars littered the outside, two were even parked inside. The men from inside them, however, were all on the inside. They were walking around, their background the red and blue flashing lights. They were keeping a careful distance from the dorms, warned no doubt by the guards who were even now talking to them.

"What are they doing here?" Kagome asked watching them.

"They arrived only a few seconds ago." A boy one window down told her from across the gap. "They've been running around like aunts."

"They're treating this like a hostage situation." the girl next to him. Kagome trusted her word, she was in here for holding a group of people at gunpoint and she would know best.

"What are they going to do next?" Kagome asked her.

"Well, they'll probably try and negotiate with us. Try and get us to come out." she said.

"Shut the windows. Close all the blinds, all but this one." Kagome ordered.

As if they were only waiting for her word, Kagome heard windows all throughout the building slam shut and the black shades being drawn.

"Back up. Don't give them more of a target." Kagome said. Instantly they walked back into the dorm, leaving Kagome alone at the third story window. "Get some one to guard the whole on the fourth floor and put guards on the first."

"On it." Sango said running back into the building.

Kouga walked to her side but stayed against the wall, out of view from the window. "I don't trust them." He said, his face dark.

"I don't either." Kagome said and felt a moment of surprise. Not even a year ago she would have said they were police and they had her unconditional trust. Now the only people she trusted were the convicts locked in her with her.

"They're starting." Kouga said. "The leader is asking for a bullhorn to contact you."

"You can hear them?" Kagome asked.

He nodded. "I'll tell you what they're really saying."

Kagome nodded her thanks and turned her eyes to the man who walked in front of the others and lifted a bullhorn to his lips.

"This is the police." he said but his voice wasn't harsh.

"As if we couldn't figure that much out." Kagome said looking at him coldly.

"I want you to wave if you can hear me." he said his voice calm and smooth.

"If he thinks I'm waving for them he's crazy." Kagome said still staring.

"You won't wave?" Kouga asked.

"If I follow even one of their directions it gives them the upper hand. I'll come out of this building when I'm good and ready and not when they ask me to." she told him.

The man waited for a reply but when he didn't get one he raised the bullhorn back to his mouth. "We have a briefcase here. It has a phone inside! I want you to take the phone so we can talk!"

"Kouga?"

"It's a phone like he says. Nothing else." he said.

"The first briefcase always has a phone." the girl told her. Kagome believed her name was Saya. "They want to talk. Try and get you to come around."

"We wont." Kagome said backing up from the window.

"You're doing what they say?" Kouga smirked.

"I'm already tired of the bullhorn." she smiled. "Get the briefcase, Kouga."

"On it, boss." he smiled and walking in front of the window. A moment later his arm shot out and when he pulled it back in there was a plastic briefcase in it.

He put it down and opened it just as the phone inside went off.

"Shut the window." Kagome said and was instantly obeyed.

Kagome reached forward and picked it up just as someone pulled the black shade over the now closed window. She pressed 'talk' and held it to her ear but didn't say anything else.

"Can you hear me?" It was the man's voice. "It's alright if you don't want to talk, I can do all the talking. My name is Saguchi, what is yours?" He waited for a moment and when Kagome didn't respond he kept on talking. "The guards down here have told us a very interesting story. They say you revolted a few days ago and locked yourselves inside. Are there any injured in there? You should probably let them out. We can get them medical help. The guards say they may have injured a few of you when you went inside. They're very worried."

Behind her, Kouga snorted.

"Now, we just want to help you. Tell us what we can do. What do you want? Food? Water?"

"Takahashi." Kagome said at last.

"What? I'm sorry, I don't-"

"Inuyasha Takahashi. Find him. Bring him to us."

She hung up and put the phone on the table where the briefcase sat.

"Don't answer that phone again, no matter what." she said. "Are those guards set?"

Sango, who had only recently rejoined the room, nodded.

Saya walked up to her. "Look, we won't have long. They cut the power in situations like these."

"We've lived through worse than no electricity." Kagome reminded. "We have candles and plenty of matches. We'll be fine."

Saya nodded.

"What about Inuyasha?" Kouga spoke up. "Why did you ask for him?"

"He's the only one out there I'll trust." Kagome said. "If he says we can trust them, then we'll talk to them. Until then...Well, we're already comfortable."


"What did they want?" Inutaisho asked as Saguchi hung up the phone. Standing behind him was Sesshomaru.

"Your son, sir." Saguchi said.

"Inuyasha? I don't understand. Why?"

"Well," Saguchi looked at the dorm that had been locked down tight, "he did attend this school right? Then you said he broke out and brought you the pictures?"

"That's right." Inutaisho nodded thinking of the photos which were at the police station now.

"Could be he's the only one they'll listen to." Saguchi sighed as he thought of the photos. He had seen them himself, saw the girl who had been eaten alive. The girl who had been at the window had been covered in bandages, he couldn't help but wonder if they were the same one. "I don't blame them. In their position I wouldn't trust authority either."

"What about the guards?" Inutaisho asked.

"My boys are taking them back to the station now." Saguchi said. "The important thing is finding your son. Do you know where he is?"

Inutaisho shook his head sadly.


Inuyasha was putting his things in a box that he was putting on the side of the road, he wouldn't need them when he went back, when he heard the news flash from the neighbors room.

"I'm standing here in front of the dorm at Hinazuka Institute. Apparently, the students here have staged a revolt and have locked themselves inside, refusing all contact with the police. They have only made one demand and that was to speak with the boy Inuyasha Takahashi...Judge Takahashi's son?...That's right, Miyu. And before the viewers out there start thinking that criminal teenagers have overrun a perfectly good prison center. Take a look at these photos that we got from a police contact. I warn you, some of them are pretty graphic."

Inuyasha didn't need to hear anymore. He was smiling. Somehow, he just knew Kagome was behind this.