InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ This Wasn't In The Job Description ❯ InuYasha & Kikyo ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 6

 

InuYasha & Kikyo

 

The Yamaha motorcycle hummed between InuYasha's legs. He turned onto the entrance to the highway, then opened the throttle and gunned the bike's engine as he leaned it to the left. With ease, he weaved the bike through the traffic, pushing the high performance machine to its limits. His long silver hair whipped out behind him from under the helmet, and he growled in annoyance at the situation that Kikyo had once more put him in.

 

`Fucking Kikyo never listens,' InuYasha thought. `I think she calls me just to taunt me with what she may have found. She won't help me and she won't work with me, but she still forces my hand to save her fucking ass every time.'

 

The highway signs were a blur, but that didn't matter to InuYasha. Instinctively, he knew which exit to take, and barely braked his speed to take the turn that would take him into Tokyo, leaning the bike hard until he almost touched the ground. But InuYasha's hanyou strength insured he would not tip over, and he expertly brought the bike back up.

 

Once in the city, InuYasha was forced to slow down. But he knew how to maneuver towards Miroku's office with a minimum of stops for traffic lights. Turning down the street where Miroku's office was, he saw that his friend and agent was just coming out, his staff strapped to his back over his brown leather bomber jacket. InuYasha pulled the bike over to the curb.

 

“Get on quickly!” InuYasha yelled. “She's over at an abandoned warehouse near Odaiba. She told me the address before the phone went dead.”

 

“Naraku?” Miroku asked.

 

“Yeah, she's pretty sure it was one of his illegal labs,” InuYasha said. “Stupid fucking bitch insists on sniffing out Naraku with out my help, but I swear she just has to let me know what she's doing!”

 

“Let's go!” Miroku said after he had fastened on his black helmet and climbed on the bike behind InuYasha.

 

InuYasha gunned the engine and pulled away from the curb, the tires squealing. Miroku held tightly to InuYasha, since he did not have the strength, stamina or endurance of the hanyou and could easily fall off the way InuYasha drove.

 

In twenty minutes, they were at Tokyo Bay, on the outskirts of Odaiba in an area that was obviously under reconstruction. Old warehouses were slowly being either torn down or renovated as luxury condos. InuYasha stopped the bike and sniffed.

 

“This way,” he growled and turned left down a road in a bad state of repair.

 

InuYasha and Miroku pulled up in front of the crumbling wreck of a four-storey warehouse with no windows. Quickly, InuYasha kicked down the kickstand on the bike and jumped off.

 

“This is it,” Inuyasha growled, flexing his claws. “Get ready Miroku - it may seem quiet, but I can smell the fuckers in there.”

 

The doors they came to had already been mostly dismantled. They came off their hinges as InuYasha opened them. He shoved them aside in disgust and Miroku followed him inside. The warehouse was huge, and the first floor was full of debris and partially collapsed walls. There was a stench of mold and decay, and InuYasha wrinkled his sensitive nose in disgust. The hanyou stalked further into the dim warehouse, with Miroku following stealthily behind him. There was a clatter, and Miroku was startled, looking around carefully.

 

“Just rats,” InuYasha growled. “But I smell some even bigger fucking rats in here.”

 

InuYasha stopped and sniffed again, smelling the stench of chemicals and the deadlier scent of something else.

 

“This way!” InuYasha yelled, and leaped over to a stairwell.

 

Miroku had to duck as InuYasha threw debris on the stairs out of his way. Then he joined InuYasha at the foot of the stairs.

 

“Watch out, Miroku,” InuYasha said. “They're close.”

 

The wall next to them suddenly caved in, and they jumped away shouting in surprise. Three slavering demons with yellow eyes and long, dripping fangs were upon them in a moment. InuYasha and Miroku were hard-pressed to defend themselves amongst the debris and tight quarters.

 

“Iron reaver, soul stealer!” InuYasha yelled and shredded a demon that lunged for his throat with his claws.

 

Miroku dispatched another demon with his staff. The third demon decided to make a break for it, and InuYasha bounded after it in hot pursuit, with Miroku not far behind. The stench of chemicals got stronger, and InuYasha veered away from the fleeing demon and towards the smell. With a growl, he also smelled more demons, and another very familiar scent.

 

InuYasha ripped a door off its hinges, and several demons immediately lunged out of the door at them.

 

“Kikyo! Kikyo!” InuYasha yelled, as he and Miroku struggled against this latest onslaught.

 

“In here!” they heard her faint reply.

 

These demons were harder to dispatch - they were obviously guarding something important. Leaping over the shredded mess, InuYasha jumped into the room.

 

Kikyo was in a corner, her bow drawn and breathing hard. Several demons had her pinned there, and she was running out of arrows. Every time she moved to fire one, another demon tried to pounce on her.

 

With a snarl, InuYasha leapt into the fray, claws flashing. As he attacked the demons hemming Kikyo in, she fired off the last of her arrows, and then it was over. InuYasha and Kikyo stood looking at each other for a moment, and InuYasha snarled at her in annoyance and disgust. Kikyo lowered her bow and looked back at him in defiance.

 

That's why they did not notice…

 

A third demon suddenly burst in the room, knocking over Miroku and headed toward InuYasha and Kikyo. The hanyou leapt at it and sliced it into slimy, bloody ribbons.

 

“AAAAAAAHHHHHH!” Miroku screamed in pain.

 

“Miroku!” InuYasha yelled in fright, and spun to see that his friend had been knocked into a table filled with assorted vats, test tubes and powerful microscopes.

 

Miroku clutched at his right hand in pain. There was a sickly smell of burning flesh, and his palm was glowing an ominous green. InuYasha leapt to his side.

 

“What is this shit, Kikyo?” InuYasha growled, as he held Miroku's arm and sniffed.

 

“Nanotech, I think,” said Kikyo. “I'm not sure what kind. I didn't have time to check.”

 

“Well, can you fucking do something for him or what?” InuYasha growled, supporting Miroku, who looked on the verge of passing out from the pain.

 

Kikyo bent over Miroku frowning, and gently and gingerly tried to look at his hand. Then she shook her head sadly, and got up. Hanging on a hook next to some protective gear were some white lab coats. She went over and ripped off a sleeve at the seams. Then she came over and carefully wrapped Miroku's hand. Miroku hissed his face pale from the pain.

 

“Can you stand?” InuYasha said.

 

Miroku nodded, and InuYasha helped him up. Kikyo took Miroku's other side, and they made their way out of the destroyed lab. When they got to the street, Kikyo let go and InuYasha helped Miroku onto the bike, and got his helmet on for him.

“Kikyo?” InuYasha said, turning to see where his ex-girlfriend had gone, but she had left. “Damn that fucking bitch - she's gone again!” growled InuYasha angrily.

 

“The bitch is gone?” gasped Miroku and gave a weak smile.

 

“Yeah,” InuYasha said, and couldn't help but grin back at him a moment.

 

InuYasha got back on the bike and revved it up, then went tearing out of there. Under his breath, while the wind whistled past his helmet, he sang; “The bitch is gone, she's outta my life…thought she was so good, thought she'd be my wife...Now I'm free, and such a sight to see, now I'm free, and I'm gonna be me,…now I'm free, I'm free, I'm free…She said I had to change, my life to rearrange…Thought she was always right, but now she's outta sight… Now I'm free, and such a sight to see, now I'm free, and I'm gonna be me,…now I'm free, I'm free, I'm free…She said it was love, but she was so cold…The bitching and witching, it got fuckin' old… Now I'm free, and such a sight to see, now I'm free, and I'm gonna be me,…now I'm free, I'm free, I'm free…I'm free from the bitch, I'm free from you witch, I'm gonna be me, I'm free, I'm free…”

 

The bike screamed at the punishment as InuYasha leaned forward and pushed it as fast as it would go. He got back on the highway and headed for home.