The two Wei's traced the jyaki of Sesshoumaru to the fourth floor where they separated, one of them rushing up the next flight of stairs to the 5th floor landing until he was directly above his 4th floor counterpart. Acting in perfect unison, they both opened the landing doors to their respective floors and proceeded forward. Tracing identical paths to the northeastern room of each floor, they both stopped in front of the doors to said rooms. One reached out to knock on the target's door while the other summoned their blade and prepared himself to strike from above.
For Sesshoumaru and Kagome, the few moments would be a blur of confusion, horror, and pain.
Not bothering to remove his swords, Sesshoumaru opened the door to face the future he'd been trying to avoid. At the door's threshold, a sharply dressed Chinese male awaited.
Although nothing was noticeably threatening about him, a silent alarm was sounding in the inuyoukai's mind. It was the same primal warning that every animal to a greater or lesser extent possessed; the same untraceable fear that an antelope would feel when a lion stalked them unseen.
Kagome heard the door swoosh open, and the voice she heard next made darkness rush at her like a freight train causing her to lean against the wall to keep from collapsing. It was the same voice from her dream, the voice of the future, the voice of her death. Dread filled her heart as a raging blackness began to eat away at her mind.
"Hello, my name is Wei Cheng," Dark brown eyes locked with golden ones. Staring into their depths, Sesshoumaru was unaware of his muscles tensing for an attack. "And I'd like to ask you a question. Do the Japanese honestly think they won't have to pay for their crimes against China?"
Before Sesshoumaru could fully understand the meaning of those calmly spoken words, a blazing red pillar of fire crashed down on him from above and smashed him through the floor like it was made of match sticks.
From her place, Kagome could not witness all that happened but rather only bits and pieces. One moment Death was talking to Sesshoumaru, the next a roar filled her ears as the hallway belched fire and brimstone. And stepping through those hungry orange flames, Kagome saw the face of her executioner.
It was his eyes that immediately captured hers and from which she was powerless to look away. Eyes that brimmed with a hatred so deep, they could have been dark oceans of infinity in which she was drowning.
Wei wasted no time in surging forward to seize Kagome who looked at him in muted shock. The expression on her face suggested that she had seen him before somewhere, but Wei was positive that such was impossible. He would have remembered someone like her more clearly. He almost put the question to her, but instead slammed a reverse hook kick into her temple, leaving Kagome on the edge of unconsciousness.
Across a vast gulf she heard his harsh voice. "No time to play with your dog anymore today."
Life is filled with surprises. Today that particular truth would take on new meaning to several people. Wen Ho was one of them. While walking to the Makoto apartment buildings and wondering how she was going to complete a 12 page paper in 6 days, she snapped her head up as an explosion sounded somewhere nearby and she tried to search for its source. Around her others did the same and all exchanged perplexed looks as the source of the explosion eluded them. The next second and an answer would make itself violently known. Wen Ho stared in silent horror as almost an entire side of her apartment building was vaporized in furious maelstrom of fire. Leaping out from the twisted and smoldering remains, she could just make out someone with another person on their shoulder and one more following them with an object that glinted in the light. An object that looked like a sword.
Trapped in the shock at the unreality of the situation, she barely registered the fact that the figures were making inhuman leaps away from the building toward an unknown destination.
The frail works of man didn't even slow Sesshoumaru as, under the weight of shimmering flames, he crashed through four floors to make a smoking man-sized crater in the imitation Italian marbled floor on the ground level of his building. Fierce rage and unbridled terror ripped away at the insides of Sesshoumaru, while his charred and flaking skin repaired itself. SHIT! He's the one! And he has Kagome!
Regaining himself, Sesshoumaru whipped out the Toukijin and blasted his own exit in a burst of turquoise ribbons of energy. Leaping high off the ground he became a blur of motion in pursuit of the one called Wei.
With Kagome in hand, the Wei twins abandoned all attempts at stealth and leapt building to building not caring if anyone saw him exhibit his power. An unmistakable aura radiating murderous intentions appeared behind them. Wind still whipping through his black hair, the rearmost Wei turned his head momentarily to take in the sight of the enraged Sesshoumaru following them. Even from the distance they had between them, the expression on his face was unmistakably that of one who was out for blood. Slowing down to buy his counterpart time against the swiftly gaining Sesshoumaru, the rear Wei alighted on a business building and set himself for battle.
