InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ frozen ❯ frozen pt fourteen ( Chapter 14 )

frozen

by kittie le sabre

Part Fourteen

Sango and Miroku were pulling up to the warehouse with the police already outside.

Everything was in chaos when they arrived.

Plainclothes detectives and uniformed cops were arresting the men who were running out of the building. They both looked at one another wondering what the hell was happening.

"Do you see Kikyou anywhere?"

"No strangely enough, but at least it wasn't a false alarm," Miroku dryly quipped. "I think that's Inuyasha's car over there."

"We don't have time to make sure. Nobody is sitting inside of it anyway!" Sango said noticing a great deal of commotion at the entrance of the warehouse.

Just then, they looked over and recognized celebrity actress and talk show hostess Rin Todo with a camera crew interviewing several people. It had become a full fledged circus!

A large van came to a violent halt a few feet away and about twenty people dressed from head to toe in black came rushing out. One man began shouting orders and gesturing wildly.

"Miroku, I wonder who those guys in black are?" Sango queried with a frown on her pretty brow.

Miroku blinked and he didn't know if he had the heart to tell her. He'd seen those men when he'd been assigned to care for casualties at a site where a terrorist had planted grenades with timers inside of a public building. One of the men noticed him and marched over with a greeting.

"Houshi! I just saw you a few months ago!" The man was short but heavily muscled underneath his black clothing and the Kevlar vest he was wearing. His piercing gray eyes missed nothing and he nodded politely over at Sango.

"Hey Takeda! How's it going?" Miroku exclaimed clasping the offered hand.

"Not so good. I hope you're here just in case there are casualties," Lt. Takeda said before adding to Sango, "This guy saved a lot of lives when we had a major disaster back in April!"

"Oh, Lt. Takeda, this is Taija Sango. Sango, Lt. Marcus Takeda." A quick introduction would help him stall for time. In the meantime, he continued to ignore Sango's questioning look.

"Nice to meet you, Lt.," Sango said, shaking Takeda's hand, momentarily distracted.

"A pleasure. Always a pleasure to meet a beautiful woman even if we are here on a bad job."

"What do you do, Lt.? I take it you are in charge of a specialist unit which is how you know Miroku?" She changed the subject to suppress the blush staining her cheeks and Miroku's naughty smirk at her reaction.

"Yes, we're a bomb squad, ma'am."

"Bomb squad?" Sango squeaked aloud and felt like someone had just hit her in the stomach.

"Yeah, someone reported from Mr. Onigumo's office that a bomb had been planted in this building and was about to go off."

"B-but our friends are trapped inside!" Sango exclaimed.

Takeda grimaced. "Damn. Civilians trapped? I better send some men in to scout the upper levels. The building has been locked down and we were assured it was evacuated."

"They lied," Sango informed him.

"Well, some of these men are being arrested because they have warrants. We've been keeping an eye on this Onigumo character for a while now."

Takeda glanced down at his radio and picked it up to listen and talk. He gave them both an apologetic wave and moved off saying, "It was nice meeting you, Miss Taija. Later, Miroku. Stay put, we might need you!"

Sango suppressed her tears but Miroku saw it anyway. He reached over and hugged her and she clung to him, letting the tears soak into his jacket. After a few moments, she felt a warm hand caressing her bottom. Sango reared back and slapped him hard.

"Hentai!" She screeched and stormed away.

Miroku rubbed the inflamed hand print on his face and murmured, "Well, it took her mind off her troubles for a moment. At any rate, it was well worth the pain."

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Kouga and Ginta were trapped inside one of the rooms on the lower level. They had been stuck in the same room for over 20 minutes after losing track of Inuyasha and Dean.

"How in the fuck are we supposed to get out of here?' Kouga snarled, kicking the steel door. He winced at the impact and Ginta wandered around the room for several moments looking for an outlet of some kind.

"Kouga!"

Kouga peered over at him in annoyance and wondered what the hell could be so exciting since they were trapped.

"What the fuck is it now, Ginta?"

"I found an old dumbwaiter!"

"You found a dumb what?"

"C'mon! I'll explain later!" Ginta rolled his eyes thinking, `Man, what a dumb shit!' He should have listened to his older brother Hakkaku and never gotten involved with Kouga again!

Kouga rushed across the room and peered into the closet and at the small elevator with disdain.

"You expect me to climb in there? It's rusted and the fucking thing could break at any moment!"

"If you want, I'll go first," Ginta suggested, all too aware that the building was rigged to blow up. Why else were they trapped and the place had been evacuated? But there was no point to explaining that to a hothead like Kouga.

"You calling me a coward, asshole?" Kouga snarled, and pushed him away from the dumbwaiter. "I'm going!"

Ginta could only watch him as he climb in and the little apparatus began going downward into the dark shaft. He crossed his fingers. If Kouga made it out, then his chances were better than he thought. At least he had found out it was still sturdy!

Maybe he should not mention that they were here to save Kagome? Nah, bad idea. Once they were safely outside where he could run away, then he would tell Kouga that they'd forgotten about Kagome! And of course, Naraku.