InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Clearly in Denial ❯ What to Believe ( Chapter 5 )
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By: DarkKagome 
The job
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Police / Fantasy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 09.11.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 207 | Status: Work In Progress
The job
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Police / Fantasy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 09.11.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 207 | Status: Work In Progress
Ok chapter five I typed ages ago but clearly had never gotten round to posting it which I apologise for so I posted that and have started on chapter 6. This is purely because of writers block which is my worst enemy and then I read over it and found myself laughing to take the edge of I’m continuing. My main fic right now is called fallen and although its under bey blade its nothing to do with spinning tops or any of that crap. It’s a good plot and deep storyline so please have a read u don’t need to know anything about bey blade, I promise. But since it’s a story I’m very involved in I’m adding to this one as it’s a little more light hearted.
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Clearly in Denial
Chapter 5 - What to believe
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When Monday morning drew near Kagome sighed. The weeks were passing so quickly and suffice to say she hadn’t seen the strange man again.
‘Not that I’m surprised I mean what are the chances, really. Don’t know why I’m even thinking about it. Its daft. Pointless. Oh my god I’m going to be a cat women’
Her head fell against her desk in complete despair though she smiled absently. ‘all I need is a personal ad. It’ll say Need man to satisfy woman’s hunger…is cop.’ She laughed ‘Oh yea I can imagine getting lots of replies there’
Her mobile buzzed signalling a text message and she answered instantly smiling as Sango’s name appeared on the dull screen.
‘Sooo bored. Hws wrk, gd cop or bad cop Kags?emanuel was in asking for u.lol’
She smiled to herself shaking her head as her fingers moved swiftly over the buttons to reply.
‘Oh jst contemplatin personal ads for sex life.unfor gd cop hun.giv him my number.lol’
She wasn’t surprised when the response was instant. Sango was one of those technology people who seemed to know everything and was very fast with phones and computers. It was surprising to Kagome when Sango was a café owner and not doing something in a more technical field.
‘lol.think u need a bad boy, bring out bad cop in u.I wudnt giv ur no even if u were serious’
She smiled absently before closing another case which of course involved paperwork. She had been working her hands to the bones and had taken in some kid who believed he was superhuman earlier that day. She sighed in memory. There was so many screwed up people in the city. The kid had been part of an on going case linked with murders in the city and she had been working on it for a few weeks. In reality she had found him by accident but found nonetheless and thankfully he was now behind bars. There was no doubt that he had been behind the killings. Court was still part of the process though and that thought caused her to bump her head against her desk again. Courts made her paranoid. Sure she was aiming to be a detective but didn’t mean she had to like every aspect of her profession.
“Mrs Higurashi”
Her head flew up from her desk to see her bosses assistant standing in front of her desk.
“Its Miss” she muttered as she stood up.
“The boss wants to see you…Miss”
She didn’t wait as she left her small office to go down the corridor. Her bosses office was at the end of the grey hall and she always felt a little nervous walking down it as if she had done something wrong. A reminder of high school she thought absently of her head teachers office she had been sent to perhaps once or twice in her life as a teenager.
She knocked the door adjusting her shirt out of habit before she heard his voice beckoning her to enter the cold room. She shuddered before he nodded his head.
“Heating is screwed up” he murmured.
“Sit down Miss Higurashi”
She did as she was told.
“I’ve been looking over your records for a while now and your work is…impressive. Your what being a good detective is all about and I admire you for that”
Her face was surprised maybe she had misjudged the man.
“For a women I cant help but be stunned”
‘or not’ she mentally kicked herself.
He laughed briefly at her expression, “Ah don’t take offence missus. I have never said that to another female cop. Your truly an asset here. That’s why I’ve decided to put you on this next case” he frowned a little as if he was having an inner debate over his actions.
Kagome sat up in her chair all ears.
“You must know this is big Higurashi and extremely confidential. I can not stress that enough. It has been a huge decision involving you in this.”
“Indeed it has Miss Higurashi”
The new voice caused Kagome to jump slightly as she turned in her seat to see a man enter the room and take the other brown leather seat adjacent to her own.
“This is Mr”
“Just call me Renkotsu” The man appeared to be in his late twenties but already had no hair his tone was cold and he seemed a stoic business man of sorts. Kagome shivered and she was sure it wasn’t the cold room that caused her to do so. Her boss seemed a little put of at being interrupted but he dared not speak up about it.
“This is something that affects the lives of everyone on this earth”
If not for the unpleasant atmosphere this man brought with him and the fact she was being trusted with something big apparently, Kagome would have outwardly laughed. She felt the man was being over dramatic even though she didn’t know quite what he was speaking of.
“I’m listening” she answered trying to convey her confidence as a cop despite her slight worry.
Her boss sighed before looking up, “From now on Kagome you are a full detective. You will receive a raise and such but this is your first case and one I will be involved with”
She frowned this was not exactly how she expected to get her promotion with such an ominous feeling. She didn’t know why but her whole life she had had these feelings and senses. Right now they were not positive. “Thank you sir” she answered hesitantly. A case with the boss meant they would be working together of sorts. Her boss the big guy as her fellow co-workers would put it. Why her?
“You are the top in the whole state Miss Higurashi despite your age which is indeed surprising” it was the other man who spoke now and she couldn’t help but find him quite rude.
“However your miko abilities have worked to your advantage”
She coughed and looked at the strange man brushing strands of black hair from her face. “Sorry what?”
He smirked at her in a cold manner. “Yes I suppose you will need greater explanation of what your getting yourself into. As I was saying full confidentiality is expected, if this gets out it could cause an epidemic of fear and misunderstanding. And we wouldn’t want that would we” he leaned forward slightly as if to intimidate her and for the first time in her life she had to admit it was working. She was however in no mood for all the mysteriousness brought on by this man.
“I fully understand sir however before you go on I don’t think it would be asking to much if I knew whom you worked for exactly?”
Leaning back into the chair he cracked his knuckles absently before replying. “I work for a chain within the fbi it is unknown to the public of course and most in the governments workings also. Miss Higurashi this world is full of more then mere humans and simple animals and we deal with those and there delinquent actions.”
Kagome eyes widening momentarily before she leaned forward and almost whispered, “you mean like…aliens. From outer space”
Her boss coughed and she sat back instantly.
Renkotsu openly laughed at her which caused her to frown. “I’ve heard that one before. No aliens do not exist. This is no mulder and scully.”
Again she felt the need to laugh as though this man had an interest in sci fi television shows.
“I am aware you were brought up at an old shrine in Japan Miss. Your grandfather was the head of that shrine”
She nodded cautiously. It was normal for people to do background checks when working with someone but it didn’t make her feel any less invaded.
“You will then be aware of all the folklore involved with such places.”
“You mean demons, gods and the like. Wait you said miko abilities” she raised her brow in confusion.
“Yes I did. That is what you are whether you have been aware or not. For whenever there are youkai or demons as they can be called there will be miko’s.”
This time she did laugh, quite openly. “Yea okay, is this some practical joke as part of my promotion. Had a feeling it was going a bit strangely. Oh it’s a good one, unusual.” at the stoic expression that was unchanging she turned to her boss whose appearance was solemn and her laughing died down.
“Ok let me get this straight your trying to say that there are youkai that really have abilities, powers and are immortal and I also have strange holy powers”
“Yes” the man smirked again, “Though there is not as many as there once were there is enough to at times cause problems. Problems which my station is to look out for and destroy.”
“Ok. Go on”
“Are you sure you are ready” he asked absently while flicking of something that offended his overly expensive black suit.
“Well I don’t think anyone can really be ready for that but please go on”
“We have been following some of the more powerful youkai and noticed that two have recently disappeared as though they never existed. This is something we can obviously not ignore along with this the amount of youki energy in this city alone has doubled recently along with murders and crimes”
Kagome found herself frowning again. That part was making a freaky kinda sense. It was true crime in the city had been increasing. Her latest case had been proof of that. Her thought process haltered momentarily. The boy had claimed he was superhuman. Was he perhaps one of these youkai. She paused ’I’m going insane’.
“If your wondering about your last case the boy has been taken into our custody. His act is a link we cannot ignore.”
“But he has court next week you cant just take him” she replied raising her voice in irritation at the unjust action.
“That is no problem for us. I told you Kagome Higurashi we work for a higher power”
‘there he goes again using my name in that creepy manner’
“We have recently found a possible hanyou in the city who was involved in youkai activity five years ago. He has been gone for five years and we want someone to watch him and report any strange behaviour. He is a possible liability to our latest investigations and “
“Wait let me get this straight you want me to…what baby-sit this guy.. Hanyou…which is a?
“Half demon.” the man almost growled at her, “Believe me miss this is no babysitting job, nor something to be taken lightly. Hanyou’s are not considered trustworthy. We don’t know what they can do or how much control they have. Five years ago twenty men died and there families vanished. That’s a lot of people Miss. Although there was no evidence to suggest it was this hanyou something was going down with him and we want to know what! Who he’s involved with, why he’s back and why the youki energy in this city specifically is fluxuating!”
That indeed had shut her up, “Who is this hanyou then?”
The man stood abruptly before removing a package which also contained some files he handed them to her with a sneer.
“This will explain the last five years along with any other information. I will be in contact with you.“
He paused before leaving the room as though he had an afterthought, “You better not fuck this up” his manner was gruff and he left the room instantly.
Kagome was angry to say the least, how dare he speak to her in such a manner. She sighed and leaned pack in the chair passing the packing from either hand before looking up to her boss. Almost surprised he was still there. “You knew all that?”
“My brother was looking into a linking case five years ago” he sighed and scratched his head, again Kagome noticed the stray hair permanently stuck up and she had to control her hand from patting it down.
“I only know so much though. I’ll be involved but with all the other cases in this precinct.”
“And the youkai thing…”
“Yes I knew, before I became the ‘big-guy’ as you and the boys like to put it I got messed up in a case out of my league which involved some…youkai. That’s pretty much how I came to learn of the truth. But Kagome please be watchful with this information and with this case, be careful.”
“Yes sir.” She nodded briefly and left the office not sure what to believe anymore. She left for the cells quickly to find the one at the end empty. Where the ‘superhuman kid’ had been. She clenched her fists in anger before turning to the cop at the entrance.
“David’s why is cell 4-d empty?”
“Miss Higurashi? It’s been empty for bout a week now.” he replied in confusion.
“What? No I put who you deemed ‘psycho superman’ in this morning.”
“Higurashi? I assure you it’s been empty”
“Higurashi!”
She spun round to find Renkotsu who had been leaving he grabbed her arm and none to gently and pulled her round the corner. She didn’t like being alone with this man the shivers she got were not pleasant at all.
“What’s going on! How come he doesn’t even recognise what was there!” she demanded. She was currently pushed against the wall and had no escape from the much taller and cold man, his grip had not loosened.
“I told you we work for a higher power. People cant know about what else roams the earth”
He spoke expressively. As if everything was huge and worldly. Though she supposed this whole demon thing was. Still, she had her doubts, it was just to much to believe.
She turned to leave pushing him from her however he caught her arm again and pulled her so her back was against his front. She struggled in annoyance aware his face was probably still expressionless. He pulled her two arms behind her before bringing his mouth close to her ear. His voice was smooth yet is caused her to tremble in both disgust and fear. “Kagome have you ever been aware there’s something else. Something you should be doing. Have you ever felt things you couldn’t explain. Done things you couldn’t explain. Embrace that. Use it”
Before she could question him he was gone. She found herself gripping the folder still in her hands before it slipped from her fingers. She stood for a moment trying to get to grips with what had passed before kneeling down to pick up the files. She pulled them into a small pile before her fingers brushed a plain white bit of paper. Her head tilted while her raven hair fell in front of her face and she turned the paper over and gasped. It was a picture. Of the man that had caught her, the man in the café. Inuyasha.
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Clearly in Denial
Chapter 5 - What to believe
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When Monday morning drew near Kagome sighed. The weeks were passing so quickly and suffice to say she hadn’t seen the strange man again.
‘Not that I’m surprised I mean what are the chances, really. Don’t know why I’m even thinking about it. Its daft. Pointless. Oh my god I’m going to be a cat women’
Her head fell against her desk in complete despair though she smiled absently. ‘all I need is a personal ad. It’ll say Need man to satisfy woman’s hunger…is cop.’ She laughed ‘Oh yea I can imagine getting lots of replies there’
Her mobile buzzed signalling a text message and she answered instantly smiling as Sango’s name appeared on the dull screen.
‘Sooo bored. Hws wrk, gd cop or bad cop Kags?emanuel was in asking for u.lol’
She smiled to herself shaking her head as her fingers moved swiftly over the buttons to reply.
‘Oh jst contemplatin personal ads for sex life.unfor gd cop hun.giv him my number.lol’
She wasn’t surprised when the response was instant. Sango was one of those technology people who seemed to know everything and was very fast with phones and computers. It was surprising to Kagome when Sango was a café owner and not doing something in a more technical field.
‘lol.think u need a bad boy, bring out bad cop in u.I wudnt giv ur no even if u were serious’
She smiled absently before closing another case which of course involved paperwork. She had been working her hands to the bones and had taken in some kid who believed he was superhuman earlier that day. She sighed in memory. There was so many screwed up people in the city. The kid had been part of an on going case linked with murders in the city and she had been working on it for a few weeks. In reality she had found him by accident but found nonetheless and thankfully he was now behind bars. There was no doubt that he had been behind the killings. Court was still part of the process though and that thought caused her to bump her head against her desk again. Courts made her paranoid. Sure she was aiming to be a detective but didn’t mean she had to like every aspect of her profession.
“Mrs Higurashi”
Her head flew up from her desk to see her bosses assistant standing in front of her desk.
“Its Miss” she muttered as she stood up.
“The boss wants to see you…Miss”
She didn’t wait as she left her small office to go down the corridor. Her bosses office was at the end of the grey hall and she always felt a little nervous walking down it as if she had done something wrong. A reminder of high school she thought absently of her head teachers office she had been sent to perhaps once or twice in her life as a teenager.
She knocked the door adjusting her shirt out of habit before she heard his voice beckoning her to enter the cold room. She shuddered before he nodded his head.
“Heating is screwed up” he murmured.
“Sit down Miss Higurashi”
She did as she was told.
“I’ve been looking over your records for a while now and your work is…impressive. Your what being a good detective is all about and I admire you for that”
Her face was surprised maybe she had misjudged the man.
“For a women I cant help but be stunned”
‘or not’ she mentally kicked herself.
He laughed briefly at her expression, “Ah don’t take offence missus. I have never said that to another female cop. Your truly an asset here. That’s why I’ve decided to put you on this next case” he frowned a little as if he was having an inner debate over his actions.
Kagome sat up in her chair all ears.
“You must know this is big Higurashi and extremely confidential. I can not stress that enough. It has been a huge decision involving you in this.”
“Indeed it has Miss Higurashi”
The new voice caused Kagome to jump slightly as she turned in her seat to see a man enter the room and take the other brown leather seat adjacent to her own.
“This is Mr”
“Just call me Renkotsu” The man appeared to be in his late twenties but already had no hair his tone was cold and he seemed a stoic business man of sorts. Kagome shivered and she was sure it wasn’t the cold room that caused her to do so. Her boss seemed a little put of at being interrupted but he dared not speak up about it.
“This is something that affects the lives of everyone on this earth”
If not for the unpleasant atmosphere this man brought with him and the fact she was being trusted with something big apparently, Kagome would have outwardly laughed. She felt the man was being over dramatic even though she didn’t know quite what he was speaking of.
“I’m listening” she answered trying to convey her confidence as a cop despite her slight worry.
Her boss sighed before looking up, “From now on Kagome you are a full detective. You will receive a raise and such but this is your first case and one I will be involved with”
She frowned this was not exactly how she expected to get her promotion with such an ominous feeling. She didn’t know why but her whole life she had had these feelings and senses. Right now they were not positive. “Thank you sir” she answered hesitantly. A case with the boss meant they would be working together of sorts. Her boss the big guy as her fellow co-workers would put it. Why her?
“You are the top in the whole state Miss Higurashi despite your age which is indeed surprising” it was the other man who spoke now and she couldn’t help but find him quite rude.
“However your miko abilities have worked to your advantage”
She coughed and looked at the strange man brushing strands of black hair from her face. “Sorry what?”
He smirked at her in a cold manner. “Yes I suppose you will need greater explanation of what your getting yourself into. As I was saying full confidentiality is expected, if this gets out it could cause an epidemic of fear and misunderstanding. And we wouldn’t want that would we” he leaned forward slightly as if to intimidate her and for the first time in her life she had to admit it was working. She was however in no mood for all the mysteriousness brought on by this man.
“I fully understand sir however before you go on I don’t think it would be asking to much if I knew whom you worked for exactly?”
Leaning back into the chair he cracked his knuckles absently before replying. “I work for a chain within the fbi it is unknown to the public of course and most in the governments workings also. Miss Higurashi this world is full of more then mere humans and simple animals and we deal with those and there delinquent actions.”
Kagome eyes widening momentarily before she leaned forward and almost whispered, “you mean like…aliens. From outer space”
Her boss coughed and she sat back instantly.
Renkotsu openly laughed at her which caused her to frown. “I’ve heard that one before. No aliens do not exist. This is no mulder and scully.”
Again she felt the need to laugh as though this man had an interest in sci fi television shows.
“I am aware you were brought up at an old shrine in Japan Miss. Your grandfather was the head of that shrine”
She nodded cautiously. It was normal for people to do background checks when working with someone but it didn’t make her feel any less invaded.
“You will then be aware of all the folklore involved with such places.”
“You mean demons, gods and the like. Wait you said miko abilities” she raised her brow in confusion.
“Yes I did. That is what you are whether you have been aware or not. For whenever there are youkai or demons as they can be called there will be miko’s.”
This time she did laugh, quite openly. “Yea okay, is this some practical joke as part of my promotion. Had a feeling it was going a bit strangely. Oh it’s a good one, unusual.” at the stoic expression that was unchanging she turned to her boss whose appearance was solemn and her laughing died down.
“Ok let me get this straight your trying to say that there are youkai that really have abilities, powers and are immortal and I also have strange holy powers”
“Yes” the man smirked again, “Though there is not as many as there once were there is enough to at times cause problems. Problems which my station is to look out for and destroy.”
“Ok. Go on”
“Are you sure you are ready” he asked absently while flicking of something that offended his overly expensive black suit.
“Well I don’t think anyone can really be ready for that but please go on”
“We have been following some of the more powerful youkai and noticed that two have recently disappeared as though they never existed. This is something we can obviously not ignore along with this the amount of youki energy in this city alone has doubled recently along with murders and crimes”
Kagome found herself frowning again. That part was making a freaky kinda sense. It was true crime in the city had been increasing. Her latest case had been proof of that. Her thought process haltered momentarily. The boy had claimed he was superhuman. Was he perhaps one of these youkai. She paused ’I’m going insane’.
“If your wondering about your last case the boy has been taken into our custody. His act is a link we cannot ignore.”
“But he has court next week you cant just take him” she replied raising her voice in irritation at the unjust action.
“That is no problem for us. I told you Kagome Higurashi we work for a higher power”
‘there he goes again using my name in that creepy manner’
“We have recently found a possible hanyou in the city who was involved in youkai activity five years ago. He has been gone for five years and we want someone to watch him and report any strange behaviour. He is a possible liability to our latest investigations and “
“Wait let me get this straight you want me to…what baby-sit this guy.. Hanyou…which is a?
“Half demon.” the man almost growled at her, “Believe me miss this is no babysitting job, nor something to be taken lightly. Hanyou’s are not considered trustworthy. We don’t know what they can do or how much control they have. Five years ago twenty men died and there families vanished. That’s a lot of people Miss. Although there was no evidence to suggest it was this hanyou something was going down with him and we want to know what! Who he’s involved with, why he’s back and why the youki energy in this city specifically is fluxuating!”
That indeed had shut her up, “Who is this hanyou then?”
The man stood abruptly before removing a package which also contained some files he handed them to her with a sneer.
“This will explain the last five years along with any other information. I will be in contact with you.“
He paused before leaving the room as though he had an afterthought, “You better not fuck this up” his manner was gruff and he left the room instantly.
Kagome was angry to say the least, how dare he speak to her in such a manner. She sighed and leaned pack in the chair passing the packing from either hand before looking up to her boss. Almost surprised he was still there. “You knew all that?”
“My brother was looking into a linking case five years ago” he sighed and scratched his head, again Kagome noticed the stray hair permanently stuck up and she had to control her hand from patting it down.
“I only know so much though. I’ll be involved but with all the other cases in this precinct.”
“And the youkai thing…”
“Yes I knew, before I became the ‘big-guy’ as you and the boys like to put it I got messed up in a case out of my league which involved some…youkai. That’s pretty much how I came to learn of the truth. But Kagome please be watchful with this information and with this case, be careful.”
“Yes sir.” She nodded briefly and left the office not sure what to believe anymore. She left for the cells quickly to find the one at the end empty. Where the ‘superhuman kid’ had been. She clenched her fists in anger before turning to the cop at the entrance.
“David’s why is cell 4-d empty?”
“Miss Higurashi? It’s been empty for bout a week now.” he replied in confusion.
“What? No I put who you deemed ‘psycho superman’ in this morning.”
“Higurashi? I assure you it’s been empty”
“Higurashi!”
She spun round to find Renkotsu who had been leaving he grabbed her arm and none to gently and pulled her round the corner. She didn’t like being alone with this man the shivers she got were not pleasant at all.
“What’s going on! How come he doesn’t even recognise what was there!” she demanded. She was currently pushed against the wall and had no escape from the much taller and cold man, his grip had not loosened.
“I told you we work for a higher power. People cant know about what else roams the earth”
He spoke expressively. As if everything was huge and worldly. Though she supposed this whole demon thing was. Still, she had her doubts, it was just to much to believe.
She turned to leave pushing him from her however he caught her arm again and pulled her so her back was against his front. She struggled in annoyance aware his face was probably still expressionless. He pulled her two arms behind her before bringing his mouth close to her ear. His voice was smooth yet is caused her to tremble in both disgust and fear. “Kagome have you ever been aware there’s something else. Something you should be doing. Have you ever felt things you couldn’t explain. Done things you couldn’t explain. Embrace that. Use it”
Before she could question him he was gone. She found herself gripping the folder still in her hands before it slipped from her fingers. She stood for a moment trying to get to grips with what had passed before kneeling down to pick up the files. She pulled them into a small pile before her fingers brushed a plain white bit of paper. Her head tilted while her raven hair fell in front of her face and she turned the paper over and gasped. It was a picture. Of the man that had caught her, the man in the café. Inuyasha.