InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Thy Enemy ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

 

Love Thy Enemy

 

Sorry for the late update, had some writer's block. I was also dealing with my first job, which I've now lost…oh well, right?

 

I'm not totally pleased with the way this chapter turned out, as it is it's a little shorter than usual, but here it is. Enjoy.

 

Chapter 6

 

“Where are the stairs?” Inuyasha asked, emerging from the room behind Kagome. Kagome turned her head, and Inuyasha followed her gaze. Five armed men in black uniforms ran down the hall towards them, kneeling and taking aim with five semi-automatic assault rifles. Inuyasha rolled his eyes as their weapons clicked and went ready to fire.

 

“Can you take them?” he muttered dryly.

 

“Watch me work, Inu-chan. I know you love it,” Kagome smirked. Inuyasha nodded and stepped back as the five men opened fire. Bullets whizzed, and Kagome flung out a hand. A rippling pink barrier flashed into place around them, and the bullets clanged against it, flashing as they made contact and fell through the barrier harmlessly. The men stopped firing, and Kagome lowered her hand, the barrier vanishing.

 

“Okay, now that we've established guns don't work against mikos…” she sighed, cracking her neck. The five men looked at each other, and charged forward.

 

Kagome ducked and rolled past them, and Inuyasha swung, slamming his fist into a Kevlar-covered chest. Kagome caught a leg between her ankles and flipped another one of the gunmen into a wall, kicking herself to her feet afterwards. Inuyasha caught a punch and pulled the swinger into his elbow, kneeing him in the chest and flipping him backwards. Turning and trading a couple blows, he head butted the fourth and threw him into the wall.

 

“Freeze hanyou!”

 

Inuyasha turned his head to see the fifth pointing their assault rifle at his head. He was human, how did they know he was a hanyou?

 

“You will proceed to the roof of this building for processing. Do you understand?” the man said. Suddenly, a pair of high heels flung out on either side of his head and locked around his neck. Letting out a strangled cry, he was flung back down the hall as Kagome flipped backwards out of her handstand. Wringing her hair out, she tossed Inuyasha a wink and walked past him.

 

“I don't remember ever seeing you use that move before,” he muttered.

 

“There's a lot of moves I haven't shown you yet,” she called back, walking towards the door to the stairwell. Following her with a scowl, he glared at her as she put her head to the door.

 

“And since when do we work together?” he asked.

 

“Sh,” Kagome hissed, holding up a hand. Crossing his arms, Inuyasha waited as she listened to whatever muffled sounds she was hearing.

 

“They're moving out,” she said after a moment, pulling her head back. “I'm heading to the roof.” The door was tossed open and Kagome entered the stairwell. Considering his options for a moment, Inuyasha rolled his eyes and followed her.

 

“Sesshomaru is gonna have my ass for this, you know that right?” he called up the stairs at her.

 

“Not my problem, as long as he leaves some for me,” came the reply. After ascending several stories, Inuyasha found Kagome leaning against the door outside. It was ajar slightly. She put a finger to her lips and beckoned him forward.

 

“Was it among them?”

 

Inuyasha stepped up to the landing beside Kagome and looked out through the narrow space between the door and the doorframe, giving them a narrow view of two people on the roof. One of them had on a black cloak with an elaborate white and red uniform underneath. The shirt was white with swirls of red and gold along the sides, and pearl buttons, although the cloak had been buttoned up over the upper half of the shirt. A small red, gold and silver badge was pinned on the left side of the uniform. His pants were simple as were his shoes, black and formal. His hair was stark white, and hung straight down to his waist. His eyes were bright red. The man beside him had darker hair and a similar, but much less elaborate uniform.

 

“I'm afraid not sir, but to be fair we may have missed it. Under the circumstances, our analysis of the items was rushed.”

 

“Hn.”

 

The man in the uniform walked forward, leaving the second to follow. Kagome gave Inuyasha a pointed look, and slowly pushed the door open. Inuyasha followed her and slowly closed the door behind them. Kagome pulled the gun she had swiped earlier from her belt.

 

“Our source promised us one of the three was here,” the uniformed man muttered. “Obviously we have been tricked.”

 

“Join the club,” Kagome said aloud, lifting her gun. The man turned his head and looked at her over his shoulder.

 

“Hm. You are the one they send, Ms. Higurashi? How disappointing…”

 

“You know me?” Kagome demanded. The second man stepped back towards the helicopter in the distance as the uniformed man turned full around.

 

“I had hoped the miko would send one of their greatest agents. But I suppose, given their ranks, that that would be you anyway.”

 

“Who are you?” Inuyasha snapped, coming up behind her. The violet gaze turned his way.

 

“Ah, of course, where the miko goes the lap dog is not far behind. I must say Inuyasha, that human guise is quite unfitting of you,” the man said coolly.

 

“How do you know us?” Kagome asked, lifting a finger to pull back the hammer of the gun in her hand.

 

“How indeed…who does not know you two, my dear miko? A select few, no doubt, but I am not among their number.”

 

“Stop speaking in riddles before I shoot you,” Kagome growled.

 

“Oh yes, a bullet against a youkai, how deadly,” the man sneered. “Really, Ms. Higurashi, what are the miko teaching their soldiers these days?”

 

“Purity energy. I can enchant a bullet just as easily I can an arrow.”

 

“And its potency against me will increase?”

 

“Let's find out.”

 

Inuyasha didn't flinch as Kagome let the hammer go. With the sound of a small explosion, the gun flashed pink and fired its bullet at the uniformed man. It lodged itself in the man's chest and flared pink again in a burst of purity energy. The man let out a small sound and lifted a hand to pluck what was left of the slug from his chest.

 

“Amusing.”

 

“How…” Kagome shook her head and lowered her gun.

 

“What are you?” Inuyasha asked. The man turned and walked towards the helicopter.

 

“I am Magatsuhi. Remember the name.”

 

“I'll shoot again,” Kagome said. Magatsuhi ignored her and stepped into the open door of the helicopter.

 

“Master, what shall we do with them?” the pilot asked. Magatsuhi turned and nodded to a man sitting next to him.

 

“Muso. Take care of them.” The man nodded and opened his door, stepping out of the helicopter. The door closed behind him, and flew into the air, leaving the man called Muso on the ground smiling. Muso also wore a uniform of white, red and gold, but he had no cloak and his uniform was much simpler. His badge was also smaller.

 

“What is he?” Inuyasha asked, pulling out his own gun. Kagome narrowed her eyes.

 

“I'm not sure…I'm not sensing any aura from him, miko or youkai,” she replied.

 

“That's all I needed to hear.” Inuyasha opened fire. Muso snarled and leapt up into the air. “What?” Inuyasha cried. Landing on the roof of the complex behind them, Muso stood up as Kagome spun and fired off a shot. Suddenly, Muso leapt into the air again, and his arm shot forward and slam a fist into Kagome's chest. Kagome rolled backwards as Muso landed, recoiling his arm to normal length.

 

“I thought you said he wasn't a youkai!” Inuyasha snapped.

 

“He can't be, there's no aura!” Kagome groaned, climbing to her feet. She looked down and ripped a tear in the sides of her groan, running forward.

 

“Mortals like you could never understand our strength,” Muso sneered.

 

“Then we'll just have to settle for killing you!”

 

Muso's legs stretched and he flipped away as bullets pinged on the ground and wall where he had been a moment later. Landing on all fours, he lunged and tackled Inuyasha to the ground. The two rolled, and Inuyasha brought up a hand to grab Muso's wrist. The appendage turned dark brown, and Muso's hand shot out to fling Inuyasha across the roof. Kagome turned to watch the human hit the wall with a loud grunt.

 

“He's kicking our asses,” she said, aiming and trying to fire at the agile man. Muso effortlessly evaded every shot, and Kagome was soon listening to the click of a hammer against empty metal.

 

“I noticed,” Inuyasha growled, getting up. Muso landed, his limbs retracting to normal size. “Any ideas for surviving the night?”

 

“How long until your youkai powers return?”

 

“Too long.”

 

“Then no, fresh out.”

 

Muso smirked and ran forward, arms shooting out. The two dodged to the sides as Muso's fists shot past them. He grabbed the edge of the walls behind them and flipped up, landing crouching. Inuyasha climbed to his feet, putting a hand on the edge of the roof. He leaned back, and something caught his eye. Turning his head for a better look, he smiled.

 

“Hey shit-fist!” he snarled, turning to face Muso.

 

“Shit-fist? This isn't some B-flick action movie!” Kagome yelled from across the roof. Inuyasha ignored her.

 

“Come on!” Inuyasha tore off the jacket of his suit and began untying his tie. “I can't move properly with all this shit anyway, come on, bring it!” Muso chuckled as Inuyasha rolled up the sleeves of his dress shirt. “I may be a human but I can still kick your ass! Come on!” he demanded. Muso leapt forward and landed, charging across the roof and flinging a hand forward. Inuyasha lashed out and wrapped his arms around Muso's hand and wrist, and fell back.

 

“Inuyasha!”

 

Kagome screamed and ran forward as Inuyasha fell off the edge of the roof. Muso's eyes went wide as he was pulled over, and the two plummeted, Inuyasha pulling Muso closer and rolling on top of him as they went down. Above them, Kagome ran to the edge of the roof and looked down.

 

- - - - - - - - - -

 

“WHO let the dogs out? Woof, woof woof woof! Who let the-”

 

CRASH

 

Kouga sat forward in his seat and turned off the radio at the sound of something landing heavily in the back of the pickup truck. Cursing and pushing open the door, he climbed out and leaned up on the edge of the door to peer into the back.

 

“What the hell are you doing Inuyasha?” he muttered. Inuyasha rolled off of Muso, groaning. “And who the hell is that?”

 

“Watch him, he's a tough shit,” he advised. Kouga shrugged and reached into the car, opening the glove compartment and pulling out a handgun. He swung his hand out and pressed the metal to Muso's hand as he opened his eyes weakly. Kouga fired, and Muso's head snapped back.

 

“Was,” Kouga corrected, making sure Muso was dead. Inuyasha coughed, and Kouga lifted his eyes to look down at him. “How about you, you took a pretty big fall as a human.”

 

“I'll be fine, he broke my fall” Inuyasha promised. “There was a bomb…someone got the mayor's daughter, and someone else, we didn't find out who…called himself Magatsuhi.”

 

“Doesn't ring a bell,” Kouga mused aloud, pursing his lip. “So we pulling out?”

 

“Cops are probably coming, if they aren't already here,” Inuyasha nodded.

 

“Alright, let's go.” Kouga tossed the gun back in the truck as Inuyasha looked up. A vaguely blue and black figure was hunched over the edge of the roof, and Inuyasha focused on them for a moment.

 

“Hey…hey!” he called.

 

“What?” Kouga replied, stepping back out of the truck. Inuyasha gestured upwards with his eyes, and Kouga followed his gaze. Nodding, he cupped his hands around his mouth. “He's fine! Just a little banged up!” he shouted up.

 

“And I may have cracked and dislocated a few things,” Inuyasha added, turning his eyes to the wolf. “Can't move my left leg…”

 

“You'll be youkai before we get back to the camp, you'll be fine. Now lay back, we're hightailing it out of here.” Kouga closed the door of the truck and revved the engine. Inuyasha turned his gaze up to the alley roofs again. She was gone.

 

“Hold on,” Kouga called out the window, pulling down the alley. The truck bounced a bit as they pulled out onto the street, and Inuyasha let out a grunt.

 

“When I fell…she called my name…” he thought as they drove towards the city exit. “Haven't heard her say my full name since…” he let out a sigh. The night he had walked out…she'd all but begged him to come with her, to reconsider their options. In hindsight, he probably should have listened.

 

“I know people, I can talk to them. You don't have to do this…”

 

“Yes I do. You have your cause…I have mine. I can't betray my people, anymore than I can expect you to betray yours.”

 

“Inuyasha…please.”

 

“I…I'm sorry…I…”

 

The hanyou-turned human closed his eyes and pushed away the memory as Kouga turned the corner. There'd be time for painful nostalgia once he got back and Sesshomaru had finished putting him through a painful present. He shifted his position slightly, and scowled as he felt something dig into his hip. He reached down and pulled it out.

 

It was the badge that had been on Muso's uniform, although close-up it was more of a medal than a badge. Inuyasha lifted it to eye level and studied it. It was a small, eight-pointed silver star with a white and yellow sash to connect it to the uniform. A small raised circle lay in the middle of the medal, and sixteen smaller raised circles marked the eight to the points of the star, and the eight to the points where they connected. Inuyasha frowned and turned the medal over. Something had been etched in the back of the medal, and he squinted to read it in the shifting light of streetlamps as Kouga drove. It was Japanese.

 

“Kun-ko ki-sho…” he read aloud. He thought for a moment and mentally translated. It didn't ring a bell. “Hey Kouga!”

 

“I'm driving here!” came the response.

 

“Just look in the rearview mirror!” Inuyasha held up the medal so Kouga could see it. “What do you make of this?”

 

“What is it?”

 

“A medal, this Muso guy was wearing it. It says kun-ko ki-sho. That mean anything to you?”

 

“Not a thing. Hold onto it, we'll show it to Sesshomaru.”

 

Inuyasha nodded and took his hand down. Looking at the medal once more, he pocketed it and leaned back for the ride back to camp.