InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Tracking ❯ Chapter Eight: Countless Tonights ( Chapter 8 )

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN INUYASHA

 

-TRACKING-

Chapter Eight: Countless Tonights

Author's Note: This chapter is extremely gory. So you've been warned. Anyway, sorry for the delay! Enjoy!

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“So what is your type” he blurted out. “Oh I apologize I mean…”

“No it's fine, well… hmm… he would have to intelligent that is for certain.”

“Definitely”

“And he would have to be ambitious”

“Of course”

“And a little sensitive to when I really need some help, but not too wishy-washy”

“I'd hope not”

“And finally, there would just have to be something special about him…like he wasn't just like any other guy”

Inuyasha couldn't reply to that answer, he knew how badly his inner demon wanted to be that guy, and he knew if he answered her it would most likely end with Kagome being violated in the worst possible nature.

“But that is just silly to think about right? Being different somehow.” she continued.

“So I got to spill my guts how about you get to spill yours now.”

Inuyasha gulped, he didn't like the look she was giving him, but one thing was for sure his inner demon loved it.

***

Inuyasha was definitely in over his head on this one. Here he was stuck in a dark, damp, cold, and abandoned warehouse with his inner demon's obsession. Alone. He just had to open a Pandora's Box, and ask her what her type was. The word idiot was chorusing through his thoughts.

 

“Come on captain. Don't be so shy.”

“Hush...” was the only answer she got. He was looking anywhere but her.

Suddenly there was a man rushing across the screen. The man was dashing as if the devil himself was chasing him down. Apparently Kagome saw the same dashing man and was already getting up from her seat. Inuyasha checked his gun and started running for the exit.

“Kagome let's go.”

“Right”

They sprinted after the strange man that had dashed across the screen. Fortunately, he was actually heading toward them. They ran forward quickly to meet him. Abruptly, the man finally spotted them.

“Oh good lord, HELP, help!”

Finally, they reached the man who practically threw himself into Inuyasha's arms. He was hysterical. At a glance he appeared to be an average fisherman. Dressed in heavy water boots and a jacket. However, anyone who wasn't blind could see he was terribly distraught.

His eyes were wild with pure terror. He was sweating profusely and his face was flushed. He was breathing heavily and appeared to be on the edge of a serious mental breakdown.

“Calm down Sir. Please, what's wrong? We are policemen.” Kagome said.

“OH god, its… it was so…I mean… they...” said the man. He was shaking and screaming violently.

“Sir!” said Inuyasha grabbed him and shook him slightly. “You need to tell us what is wrong. We can help you. Now please calm down.”

The man just sobbed slightly and stuttered, “I-I saw…”

Kagome grabbed the man and turned his face to look at her. “You are safe now okay?” she tried to sooth him. “Just please tell us what happened?!”

He finally seemed to respond. “You must come quickly, over there.” He pointed to another ware house just a several meters away.

“What's in there sir?” said Inuyasha.

The man simply shook his head and sank to the ground.

“Okay, you stay here, we will go check it out okay?” said Kagome

The man nodded his head in acknowledgement, but really just couldn't speak.

Inuyasha and Kagome quickly started walking toward indicated warehouse. From its outer appearance, it looked like any ordinary warehouse, dark, damp, rusty, old, and out of use. Slowly they approached the door that was slightly cracked open. They readied their guns. Inuyasha nodded at Kagome. Together they proceeded to step inside the building.

Immediately, Inuyasha's sensitive nose was flooded with many different scents. He knew exactly what he was going to find when the lights came on, and he was not pleased. Slowly, he made his way over to the light switch, he flicked it on. Inuyasha had had this job for quite a few years. He had killed numerous men, witnessed countless casualties, been held as a hostage for a short time, but nothing in the world could've prepared him for what he saw now.

There were so many bodies. So many of them, and from what Inuyasha could pickup from the smell it was all slightly recent. Probably within the last forty-eight hours. But the worst of it all was they were all women and children. Immediately, Inuyasha whipped out his phone and called Sesshomaru requesting back up and a few ambulances.

“Oh God.” Was all Kagome could say. Abruptly, she began frantically dashing around the room searching for anyone that could possibly be alive. All of the women were laying scattered about the room. The children, however, were lying in a heap in the corner of the room. It was the most ghastly sight Kagome had ever seen.

The strangest part of it all was... most of them appeared only to be sleeping. However, several of the women had long deep incisions upon their necks. Blood was everywhere.

Kagome was slightly going frantic herself. None of them were alive. Not one. She stared to tremble slightly.

“No…” she breathed.

“They're all dead Kagome. Come on, let's wait outside.” He said quietly.

She nodded quickly and found herself dashing outside and ducked on the side of the building and wretched all the contents of her stomach onto the boardwalk. Inuyasha went to grab the man and hauled him over to the side the building to wait for everyone else. It didn't take long for the rest of them to arrive, but seemed like an eternity to Kagome.

She had never seen so much death. It was the children that really got to her. All of those children. She couldn't bare it.

Inuyasha on the other hand was absolutely livid. How could this have happened? He was pacing back and forth; up and down the boardwalk. Pinching the bridge of his nose, he let out an unmistakable growl. He knew Kagome was obviously upset, but he would be no source of comfort right now. It took all of his will power not to go pick up the car itself and throw it straight into the harbor.

Soon the requested back up had arrived. Sango quickly sprinted over to Kagome's side. Miroku on the other hand was by Inuyasha in an instant, trying to access the situation. The ambulance had arrived and all of the staff was trying to find a trace of a living soul. Sesshomaru and Kouga quickly made their way to the warehouse.

Sesshomaru was anything from a happy camper at this point. He, like Inuyasha, was so furious it was showing in his eyes. `How could this have happened?' He was definitely going to be reprimanding the entire squad the moment this night was over. Joining Inuyasha and Miroku, they all started pacing back and forth, muttering incoherent thoughts to themselves.

Ayame decided that instead of acting furious, she was going to do something about it. Ayame told Ginta and Hakkaku to take the man in for questioning and to try to figure out exactly what he saw. Kouga, Ayame, and Shippo, began helping sort the bodies. Soon the entire crew was inside helping. It was a gruesome and horrifying task.

***

After all of the bodies were taken away to the morgue to be identified and examined, the squad was instructed to go home, with the exception of Kouga and Ayame, who were now in the interview room with the man who discovered the bodies. He was fairly shaken up, but eventually they got them to tell them his name. Everyone else was all but ordered to go home by Sesshomaru, who was in his office mulling over the evening's events.

“All right Miroku, tomorrow I want a complete body count and I want every bit of information the corner gives you by noon.”

“Yes Inuyasha, but now I am going home, Sango already is probably in bed by now, and now it's too late to ask if I can possibly meet her for breakfast.” He complained

Inuyasha ignored his ridiculous remark. “Fine fine, has Kagome left already?”

“Well, if I do say so myself captain, I believe you taken a liking to the lovely Kagome. Not that I can blame you, Kagome really is a beautiful creature, much better than that last girl you were with.” Miroku shuttered slightly recalling the girl. By this time Inuyasha was shaking with rage.

“Miroku” he said warningly.

“Oh yes, well Sango drove her home, she seemed really shaken up. She seemed to be shaking quite badly and crying slightly. Poor girl, it really was a horrible thing that the lovely Kagome saw. Anyway, yes, she home.”

Inuyasha nodded, but something was troubling him. “Hm.” He muttered.

“Inuyasha…I know it is not any of my business, but are you being very careful…I mean, I know last time we spoke you were not having the best of luck in suppressing your…urges.”

Inuyasha was quickly snapping at him, “Of course, I fine, I mean I-I. I'm fine.”

“Yes, of course, alright. Well then I suppose I will see you in the morning then. Oh and by the way, Inuyasha, I am sure she is fine. Don't stress yourself too much.”

“What's that suppose to mean?” Inuyasha demanded

“What I mean is I know you are going to check up on her. Anyway, I am going home now, see you in the morning.”

Inuyasha shifted slightly, he started muttering incoherent things again. He was about to retaliate with a quick-witted comment, but then before he muttered a syllable, Miroku had already gone. He was not pleased what so ever.

“Dammit…” he muttered. He didn't need to go off and check up on her. She was a grown woman and she could take care of herself right? Right! There was no reason. No reason whatsoever. But she was shaking…and crying.

“Aww shit.”

He hopped on his motorcycle without a second thought and head off toward Kagome's apartment.

***

 

Inuyasha was growing slightly more nervous in the elevator of Kagome's apartment building. `Man, I really should have just called her,' he thought. He shook his head. It wasn't really that bad to go and check on a colleague after a horrible day. Yes, this was perfectly within his rights as a co-worker. I mean a few hours ago he would've have given anything to be away from her in the warehouse. He could still feel his demon blood aroused by the mere presence of her.

“Insufferable wench” he muttered midly. But all thoughts were thrown aside when he remembered Miroku say she was crying.

` Shit! Okay, I will just knock on her door. She will answer, and tell me everything is alright and then I can go home and sleep. Yes. Okay, I can do this….I am such a fool' he thought reluctantly.

Inuyasha exited the elevator the moment it reached the eleventh floor. He carefully walked over to Kagome's door. 638. He took a deep breath and carefully knocked on the door.

He waited. There was no answer. He knocked again. He waited. Still no answer. `Maybe she is asleep. Yes, of course she is asleep.' He thought. But he couldn't shake the feeling that something just wasn't right. No, he just couldn't shake the feeling.

He tested the door, and oddly, it was open. Without much resistance, he slowly opened the door. The light was on. He crept into the room in search of Kagome, just to check on her and leave. Otherwise he would never be able to sleep.

He slowly looked around. There was a shattered glass on the kitchen floor and a slight blood stain next to it. Now he was worried. He immediately, began a mad search for the girl. Suddenly, he heard the sound of running water.

“Kagome…Kagome!” he called. He ran toward the bathroom. The door was slightly ajar. He considered her privacy, but then he heard it. Whimpering. Kagome was whimpering on the other side of the door. He pushed the door open all of the way.

There was Kagome sitting at the bottom of the shower, crying. Her knees were pulled up tight to her chest, while her head rested between her knees. She was shaking terribly. She was still dressed in her work clothes, and the mascara was running down her cheeks. Her eyes were slightly puffy and weary. She looked up at him, misery in her blue eyes.

“Kagome.” He breathed. Swiftly, he walked over to her, and crouched down and sat next to her in the shower. The water was now drenching him too. She leaned her head against his shoulder, and began shaking harder. Surprised by her action, but not wishing to upset her further, he remained still.

“I'm cold” she whispered.

Inuyasha reached up above him and turned the water to hot. He wrapped his arms around her body. She turned and sobbed silently into his shoulder. He tucked her head underneath his chin and softly brushed her wet hair and back. Surprisingly, his inner demon was completely silent. That part of him also seemed content with just remaining by her side this evening.

No more words needed to be said. They both new exactly what they saw tonight, and they both they would never forget it. They both knew that tomorrow they would have a bigger mess on their hands then anyone ever could have foreseen. Tomorrow they would have countless families to talk to, countless reports to fill out, countless bodies to examine, countless authorities to answer to, and countless searches to begin.

But right now, tonight, all of that could wait for tomorrow. Right now, tonight, it was only them. And right now, tonight, they would sit in the hot waters; and could only hope in futile attempts, that it would wash away their pain.

***

 

 

Author's Note: Hello, well everything this week it going much better than originally planned! That is always a surprise! I know the chapter is a bit short, my apologies. Anyway, so I hope everyone is doing wonderful! And as always I would love reviews to hear what you think! Thanks again.

Yours in the sweetest of dreams,

-Lunar Vixen