InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Agent Under Fire ❯ Chapter 13 ( Chapter 14 )

Agent Under Fire

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Chapter 13

Kagome immediately turned a deep shade of scarlet at Sango's exclamation. Her mouth hung open and darted around the room at all the faces staring at her. How had she known? Oh gods, everyone's gonna know now!

"Um… well… you see, Sango," Kagome began but was unable to finish her sentence as Sango dragged her up out of the chair and towards the ladies' room. Making sure no one was actually in the bathroom she turned back to Kagome.

"You mean I was right?" Sango asked her eyes widening.

"What do you mean were you right? I thought you knew!?" Kagome exclaimed.

"Well, I guessed really. You had such a dreamy look on your face and your wearing your power-bitch suit and you only break that out when you're trying to get someone's attention," Sango commented. "So? If you did I better get the low-down!"

"Sango!" Kagome breathed running a hand over her face. "I couldn't… wouldn't… know where to begin!" she said smiling.

"Well, let's start with who," Sango said quietly.

"You know who, Sango," Kagome whispered blushing slightly.

"Kagome! Taisho??" Sango yelled. Kagome was sure anyone in a ten-foot radius from the ladies' room door had heard the shout. She nodded silently and then the tirade of questions began. "Kagome! This is big! He was your first? How did he take it? How was it? Did you like it? Is he… you know?"

Kagome was completely flustered from the questions but answered them in order slowly, "Yes, he was my first. He took it… wonderfully. It was… beautiful. I loved every moment. And he's… I'm NOT TELLING!"

"You're secret's safe with me, Kagome. Besides, you know about me and Miroku," Sango said, a big smile suddenly crossing her face. Kagome wondered what her friend was so excited about.

"So, Sango? You came up to my desk really excited this morning? Not your usual `Don't talk to me till I've had a cup of coffee' self. What's up? You said Miroku asked you something?"

"Oh! That's why I came to you this morning!" Sango said clapping her hands together. "Miroku is feeling much better. Dr. Wolfe says he's on his way to a healthy recovery."

Kagome raised her eyebrows and twirled her hand signaling Sango to continue faster with her news.

"So, I sat with him the whole night in the recovery room. I sort of fell asleep at some point and when I woke up he was staring at me. Asked if I had stayed the whole night. `Of course I did', I told him, `I love you.'"

"Aww, Sango," Kagome said reaching out to take her friend's hand.

"I told him how worried I was for him, that I couldn't live without him, didn't know what I'd do if something worse had happened," Sango remembered, looking saddened. Her face brightened a bit at the next thought, "Then he asked me."

"Asked you what, Sango?" Kagome wondered.

Sango looked at Kagome, tears forming at the corners of her eyes, "To marry him!"

"That's wonderful! Kami, Sango, you said `yes' right?!" Kagome asked hugging her friend tightly.

"How could I say no? I love him!" Sango said, beaming. She wiped away her tears and started laughing, "Now all I have to do is break the news to the lieutenant."

Kagome started laughing too, "Good thing Miroku's injured all ready. Otherwise the lieu would kill him for corrupting one of his best agents."

"Oh, but the way he corrupts," Sango said dreamily.

"Eww! Sango!" Kagome laughed walking out of the bathroom.

They walked back to the office, Sango's outburst moments before forgotten by most, except one agent who kept his silver covered head low. Kagome and Sango moved back to their desks and when Kagome sat down Inuyasha leaned back in his chair and mouthed `Are you ok?' to Kagome. She nodded and returned to the paperwork she was desperately trying to get through the day before.

"Higurashi? Time to go question the old man from the store. I need to find out what the hell's going on here so I can find Rin and protect you," Inuyasha said, stepping into Kagome's cubicle.

"Be careful, Taisho. You were shot yesterday, don't forget, and if you go running after this guy you may be hurt more seriously," she responded, casting her eyes down so he wouldn't see her worry.

"Kagome?" he whispered. She looked at him, tears forming in her eyes. "I could never leave you, you know that. I'll be careful."

She nodded, trying to hold her tears back. "I can go with you for the questioning? I can put off the oh-so-entertaining paperwork for later," Kagome said standing up. "Besides, they should have coffee down in the hold, and after this morning I need a cup."

"Yeah, by the way…" he started to ask about her and Sango's conversation.

"Don't even ask. I'll explain on the way downstairs," Kagome said holding up her hand. They walked out of the office, passing Sango's desk, and catching her smirk.

When they were safely out of hearing range from anyone in the office Kagome whispered, "They're engaged."

"No shit! Really?" Inuyasha asked and Kagome nodded.

"And she knows about us," Kagome said looking away from him.

"How much?" Inuyasha asked smirking at her.

"Just enough," Kagome answered throwing his smirk back at him. She headed off down the hall leaving him to contemplate her answer.

" `Just enough?' What is that supposed to mean, Higurashi?" he called to her back.

They got down to the hold a few minutes later. The suspect was uncooperative and had suddenly suffered a mild case of amnesia. Inuyasha had been in a rage questioning the old man, but he simply sat there with a vacant expression on his face trying his damndest to remember the events of the day before.

Kagome tried to play good cop, asking the old man nicely if he knew anything of Rin's disappearance or how it was connected to his shop, but the man swore up and down that he didn't know of the girl's disappearance. That's when Kagome got mad.

"You sick sonofabitch!" she yelled at him. "A little girl will be killed unless you open your mouth and say something! Do you know what that's like? What if it were your granddaughter?"

Something flashed in the old man's eyes when she said this, "She will not die," he said barely above a whisper. Inuyasha grabbed the man by his shirt, bringing him close to his face. His eyes burned with pure hatred and rage for this man who had been toying with them.

"What did you say, old man?" Inuyasha said through gritted teeth.

"She will not die. He wants something. From both of you," Inuyasha let the man go. Wants something? From both of us? He looked at Kagome.

"What could he want from the two of us?" Kagome asked tentatively.

"Not you two. The brothers," he said quietly looking around him, as though someone could be listening.

Inuyasha knew he was talking about he and Sesshoumaru. But what could he want?

"What does he want?" Inuyasha asked.

"Power," the old man responded.

Inuyasha had had enough. This man wasn't helping. Running them around in circles, really.

"Higurashi. We're done here," Inuyasha said coldly, causing Kagome to look at him in surprise. She followed him out of the room and into another where they could see the old man sitting in the room through a two-way mirror.

"Inuyasha?" she asked softly.

"How can I give him power? Sesshoumaru I can understand he has power in the Senate. But what can I give him?" he asked more to himself than to Kagome. He placed a hand over his eyes and then growled loudly, "What can I do Kagome?!" he yelled.

She reached a hand out to touch his shoulder, "The best you can do, Inuyasha. He said she'd be safe. We can get to her. We'll contain him for another day. I'm sure he'll talk once he sees that he's safe from that bastard."

Inuyasha sighed and looked at her, fear, anger, and hatred swimming in his eyes, "I'm gonna kill this motherfucker when we find him. Rip his heart out through his throat and squeeze it in front of his face."

"Inuyasha…" Kagome said reaching for him, wrapping her arms around his waist and hugging tightly. "I'll be with you when you do." She smiled against his chest.

He chuckled slightly, "Thanks, Kagome. I'll let you get a squeeze in too if you want?"

She smiled up at him and placed a light kiss on his cheek, "You have to calm down though, Taisho. Cool heads solve cases."

"Yeah, yeah," he said pulling away from her. "Come on. Maybe we can find something else in the files. Maybe this isn't the first time this guy has been doing this."

They walked out of the small observation room, signaling to the guard to escort the man back to his containment cell. The guard opened the door, signaling for the man to leave the room. The old man shuffled out and down the hallway with the guard following close behind.

There were very few surveillance cameras in this area, for those special individuals who needed the truth beat out of them. If there had been cameras set up near the cells they would have seen a guard pulling a syringe from his pocket and stabbing the old man in front of him. As it was, it looked to the guard keeping watch like the old man had fainted, probably from an intense questioning.

The guard escorting the old man dragged him into his cell and shut the door. The guard walked down the hallway and passed the guard keeping watch that day, saying goodbye for he was now off duty. The guard changed out of his uniform in a nearby locker room, discarded the used clothes in a trash receptacle, and walked out of headquarters. No one glanced his way; no one said goodbye as he left for the day, and it wasn't until many hours later that anyone realized the old man was dead.

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Hey y'all! I'm sorry this is so short but I'm headed to Florida in an hour. Didn't want to leave you guys with absolutely nothing for a week. Anyways, like I said before I'll be writing during my free time down there, if there's free time. Anyhoo! R&R I really love your comments! Constructive ones too! I try to answer as many of your questions in the story as quickly as possible but I couldn't give it all away! Well, be back in a week y'all! Enjoy! BakaInuGirl