A/N: Sorry for taking so long to update. Enjoy!

The team watched the live broadcast of Kikyo's press conference from the station. As they watched Sesshomaru looked at Inuyasha and Kagome. "I want you two to go to the last victim's hair salon. Look around. See if there's anything pointing to the unsub and question the hairdressers."

They nodded and left the station. As they drove Inuyasha glanced over at his colleague from the driver's seat. "So how's your first major case going?" he asked her.

"Not quite what I was expecting," Kagome answered honestly.

Inuyasha grinned sardonically. "It never is."

"Do you ever get used to it?"

Inuyasha frowned. "If you ever do, you need to get out of the job." He grinned again at her solemn face. "Don't worry, you'll be fine. You're doing well so far. Sesshomaru certainly thinks so."

Kagome blushed. "Really? He seems to just always be judging me."

"Oh he is," Inuyasha confirmed. "But if you weren't doing a good job, he would let you know, trust me."

Kagome nodded as they pulled up in front of the hair salon. It was a small building with large glass windows. It wasn't busy but it wasn't surprising. Even without the press conference, women had started to become cautious of hair salons.

There was one client and three stylists when the two agents walked in. One of the stylists walked up to them with a questioning look on her face. "Can I help you?"

They flashed their badges. "Can we ask you a few questions?" Inuyasha asked.

The woman grimaced. "Is this about that woman who's been killing other women and taking their hair?"

"Do you know anything about it?" Kagome inquired.

She shook her head. "Only that it's ruining our business. No one wants to come get their hair done out of fear that one of the stylists is going to chop their heads off."

Inuyasha looked around the nearly empty station. "Have you ever had any problems stylists in the past?"

She shook her head again. "Our stylists have all been great. We've never had any issues."

"What about any strange people hanging around the salon?"

"No one we've ever really noticed." She paused. "Actually, now that you mention it, there was a woman about a month ago who was hanging around here for a while. She seemed to be watching the place but she never came in."

"Can you describe her?" Kagome asked.

The stylist shrugged. "Um, thin, petite, Asian, and I think she was bald. She was wearing a wool cap."

"Have you seen her recently?" She shook her head. "Okay, thank you for your time," Inuyasha said. "If you happen to see her or remember anything, feel free to give us a call," he added handing her his business card.

They left the salon with not much more than they had to begin with. "Well, we have a potential suspect," Kagome said optimistically.

Inuyasha smirked. "Yeah, a small and bald Asian woman in San Francisco."

Kagome was about to mention that there couldn't be many bald Asian women in the city when she noticed a piece of paper a few feet from the salon entrance. "We said that the unsub was most likely unemployed, right?" Inuyasha nodded and watched curiously as Kagome walked over to the piece of paper. She indicated for him to follow her. "I think I found out how she's getting her customers. We were right about the advertisements." Tacked up on the wall was an advertisement for cheaper hair services, much cheaper than a salon, with slits of paper at the bottom with a phone number on each. Several of the slits had already been ripped off.

Inuyasha and Kagome returned to the station with the paper in hand. "We might've found something!" Inuyasha announced excitedly.

"What?" Sesshomaru asked.

Inuyasha placed the sheet of paper on the table. "Kagome found this near the salon entrance. This is how the unsub is getting her victims. She probably has them call ahead to schedule an appointment and gives them her address. There's probably a flyer by every salon that a victim went to."

Sesshomaru nodded. "Good work you two." He pulled out his phone. "Shippo? I need you to trace a phone number." He read the number from the paper and waited. "Okay, I'm putting you on speaker."

Sesshomaru pushed a button on his phone and Shippo's voice flooded the room. "The number belongs to Yura Ke. She was a hair stylist at Cady's Hair Salon, the first victim's salon, up until six months ago when she was fired after a customer complained about her being too "touchy" while doing her hair. That wasn't the first complaint that Yura received. Her father was also a master wig maker."

That covers almost everything," Inuyasha said, "but the stylist we talked to said that the women she saw was bald. Why would someone obsessed with hair shave her own off?"

"That also can't be the stresser," Kouga added. "She only started killing three months ago so there must be something else."

"Guys," Shippo cut in. "She was diagnosed with cancer and started chemotherapy three months ago."