InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Virulence ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter One

"Chicks Dig Leather"

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha. If I did, there'd be no Rumiko Takahashi. She owns him, sadly.

Drawing the cloth along the blade of his knife, InuYasha watched the twitching body of his latest victim with indifference. This was easy. A bit too easy, not to mention boring. When he was hired for this job, he knew then it would be a no-brainer. The now deceased Takeda-san and his bitch of a wife simply refused to sell their fruit stand and deli business to his current employer Rinko. Obviously they didn't know better than to go against that crazy corporate whore.

InuYasha stood over the body of the dead man, pity marring his cold expression. Oh no, not pity for the fact that they had been killed but pity for the fact that it was not over. He'd been instructed to make it look like a rage killing and the only way to do that would be to almost decimate the body and he absolutely hated that. He always ended up getting blood on his clothes. He drew a knife from his pocket, one he'd stolen from the dead man's kitchen, and began stabbing him in a series of vicious strikes. When he was done, he simply dropped the knife on the body and took a step back to admire his handiwork. Reaching into his black leather jacket, InuYasha pulled out the vial of saliva he'd collected from the man's wife. Grimacing, he stood over the man's bloody skull as he dribbled her saliva over the guy. God, the spit had been a bitch to collect, but it seemed to be worth it. If there was one thing Inuyasha knew, it was how to kill a man. And how to make it look like it had been the work of a frustrated wife and not a stone-cold killer.

Tired and thirsty from his job, InuYasha made his way back into the grocery, retching into one of the coolers and pulling out a large liter of milk. What he really wanted a beer but since he'd decided to go cold-turkey since his last liquor-induced stupor, he decided it was best to keep away from it…at least until next weekend. Opening the backdoor and walking up the stairs to where the home of the Takedas' was, InuYasha held back a snicker as he passes the room of the wife, her snores loud enough to wake the dead. Opening the window of the second story, InuYasha jumped from roof to roof until he was quite a few blocks away and would not be discovered with the mutilated body. He pulled out his disposable cell phone and made a call.

After being forced to listen to No Doubt's Underneath It All for a few brief moments, waiting patiently as he sat on the rooftop ledge, tapping his claws on his metal belt buckle that held up his dark jeans.

The other line was finally picked up with a bit of static and an angry voice saying, "What dog breath?"

"Mangy wolf," InuYasha retorted, sighing as he stood, "Where the fuck are you? I'm done."

"Are you now," Koga replied scathingly, his voice potent with loathing.

"Yes, I am," InuYasha said calmly, his voice betraying no annoyance at Koga's tone. "Do you think you could get your scrawny ass over here so I can leave? My show is on tonight. You know..."

"Yes I know you've got to get home to watch Desperate Housewives. Everyone knows how much you love those gay-ass shows," Koga scoffed. InuYasha laughed as he heard Koga get into a car and turn on the ignition.

"Oy! Did you JUST get into the car?" InuYasha demanded.

"Yea," Koga said innocently, "I was just picking up some smokes and some milk for my girlfriend when your crazy-ass called. You weren't supposed to show up there 'til nine, and now I'm stuck coming up early. Thanks for that."

"An hour early won't kill you," InuYasha replied coldly. "Besides, nine is when my show comes on."

“Ok, Ok,” Koga snorted, "I'll be there in a few moments. Hold your fucking horses. They have DVR nowadays."

InuYasha was about to yell back that he would get the damn DVR if he fucking wanted it, but Koga hung up. "Goddamn wolf," InuYasha fumed, "Sesshomaru KNOWS I can't stand to be in the same room as the bastard, but he partnered us anyway..."

InuYasha sat on the building's ledge, his temper growing slowly as he waited for Koga. The idiot was taking so long that InuYasha could've scanned the death scene himself by now. Besides, InuYasha was sure that one day Koga would deliberately 'forget' a hair or trace of InuYasha and he'd get caught because of Koga's dumbass mistake. But there was the fact that Naraku and Sesshomaru would not let him get away with something like that.

"In fact," InuYasha muttered, "No one could find out what happened to Renkotsu after he forgot to clean up after Ginkotsu…"

Lost in thought, InuYasha stood up and walked along the ridge, his annoyance with Koga forgotten. This job was probably worth at least 50,000 but then he'd have to split with Koga so that meant 25,000 for him. He'd have to start taking solo jobs. This sharing thing was getting on his damn nerves. He had things to do, things to buy…like a DVR…. Maybe… he was still suspicious of that new-fangled device. Perhaps he'd just save up so he could find something a bit better that that shit-hole he was living in now.

Suddenly, InuYasha heard a crash. Ears twitching, he turned and saw a girl running down the street, sobbing. 'Huh,' he thought, watching her. To his surprise, he saw that she was followed by Koga, who swaggered at a normal pace behind her. "What the hell is he doing?"

Furious, InuYasha jumped down from the building, landing quietly on the ground. He watched as Koga continued to advance on the girl, grimacing as the girl let out a high-pitched scream as she tossed a garbage can at Koga. The wolf-demon laughed, dodging the debris that flew out of the garbage can...and then flew straight at Inuyasha. He narrowly missed being hit in the head.

"Goddamn it...KOGA," InuYasha roared, stomping straight over to his partner and smacking him viciously over the head. Koga looked back at Inuyasha in surprise, a scowl forming as the scent of rotten food and wet dog assailed him.

"And I didn't think you could smell any worse dog-face," Koga muttered, glaring darkly at the hanyou.

"This was a new jacket asshole," InuYasha replied, his voice filled with menace. "How are you going to fix this? And what the hell are you doing down here? Chasing little girls instead of cleaning up the mess?"

"Your mess I might add," Koga replied dryly, his own patience running out. "Just so you know, she's part of that mess."

InuYasha turned from Koga, narrowing his eyes at the girl before him. She stood pressed against the brick wall of the building he had just come from. Her face was mostly covered by her long black locks, her brown eyes visible. They shone anger and fearlessness, her crouched stance like that of a tiger ready to pounce on her attackers. Still, InuYasha could smell the fear that poured off her in waves.

InuYasha sighed, realizing what Koga meant by 'part of the mess'. "She saw you, didn't she?"

Koga nodded, his eyes still trained on the girl. "Yea. I guess she was there to buy something and wandered out back when he didn't show up at the counter."

Koga took another step towards the girl, his hand reaching into his jacket. The girl's eyes slid towards his hand, which brought out a small gun and a silencer. "What are you going to do with that?" She whimpered, her tone suspicious.

The wolf-demon looked at her in surprise, scoffing at her as he casually clicked the silencer into place. InuYasha looked on in interest, leaning back against the wall as Koga made his way up to the girl.

"Well," Koga drawled, flipping the gun through his hands, "This is called a gun. It is with this gun that I am going to blow your brains out. It'll only be a moment though. And don't think anyone will come to help you after they hear the shot. That's why I have a silencer on it."

InuYasha rolled his eyes. This is why Koga was a cleaner and not a killer. He didn't know how to go about it. In fact, it was probably because he was so eager to kill that Sesshomaru didn't let him do it at all. The girl should be Inuyasha's work and not Koga's...

The girl shivered as Koga leaned down into her face, pressing the barrel of the gun to the side of her head. Her face screwed up as Koga whispered something in her ear, and InuYasha turned from them, not willing to watch as such a baby-face got blown off.

Then, there was a crack. InuYasha's ears flattened against his head as he whirled around at the sound of Koga's howl, his nose scrunching up as the scent of the wolf's blood crept into his nose. Koga stood where he had been, clutching his head as blood seeping from a wound. InuYasha held back a grin as Koga began screaming curses, grabbing for the girl who had fallen and was trying to crawl away.

"You fucking whore," Koga screamed, his bloodied hand grasping at the girl's short skirt. "I'll fucking kill you!"

Now she looked afraid. Her eyes roamed the ground as she tried to pull herself away from Koga, searching desperately for something to brain him with again. Turning around, her eyes shone as those they'd realized something. Pulling back her leg, the girl kicked, her brown loafers catching the wolf right in the family jewels.

Groaning, Koga dropped to the ground, clutching at himself. InuYasha laughed, his voice startling the girl into jumping back up, grabbing the gun as she stood. She pointed it at him, her face determined as InuYasha stood straight and walked towards her.

"You should just drop it,' InuYasha said, feeling the gun press against his chest. "Odds are I could break your neck before you even pressed the trigger..."

Not that he thought she was even capable of that. The girl's hands shook, and her face was growing pale. "No. If I drop it you'd just kill me anyway. Look just…just let me go," she said, tears in her eyes as her voice trembled, "I don't have anything to do with you guys. I don't even know anything."

"I beg to differ, "InuYasha drawled, his hands reaching up to drag his claws lightly along the girl's jaw. She shook again, flinching as his finger lay lightly on her lips. The gun wavering in her hands. "You should've just stayed away from the Takedas' tonight..."

Realizing what it was all about, the girl turned up her face, a gasp escaping her lips as her brown eyes met his gold ones. "If it's about that... I can keep my mouth shut. No one has to even know I was there. I didn't really see anything," she rambled, glaring up at him.

Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, InuYasha realized that really, he didn't have to get rid of her. He hadn't been ordered to and he really didn't feel like working overtime with no pay. But they would kill her. Koga would go right back and let them know that she'd been around the store. Not only that, but if she got away from InuYasha he knew he'd be in deep shit. But then...

Opening his eyes, he looked down at the girl again. Her eyes were still searching him, looking for an opening. Her eyes stopped up top his head, growing wide at the sight of his furry triangles called his ears. InuYasha bristled, waiting for some bigoted comment from her.

"Cute," she mumbled to herself, her words barely audible even to his keen hearing.

That was it. He couldn't do it. It wasn't like he was soft, he just didn't want to. Groaning at his own idiocy, InuYasha grabbed the gun from her and hurled it at Koga, suppressing a grin as the wolf groaned and fell unconscious. Turning back to the girl, he backed up and grabbed her arm, jerking on her roughly.

"Where are we going?" she asked, stumbling behind him as he dragged her down the street towards his car, a shitty Toyota from the 80's. "Let me go, asshole," the young woman screamed.

"I don't feel like having a little girl's blood on my hands," InuYasha growled, fishing in his jacket for his keys. "And for your information, I didn't kill those people. I just know Koga is all."

"Really," she replied, her voice dripping in skepticism. " I 'm sure it's all a coincidence. And you're probably the only demon alive who doesn't work for I. Corps. Right?"

Well…he was technically a half-demon. "That's right," he sighed, gritting his teeth in frustration. Having reached the car, InuYasha opened the door and pushed the baby-face into the passenger seat on the left, strapping her in tight while ignoring her hisses of pain and hateful glares as she tried to swat his hands away. "Keh", InuYasha grumbled, walking around to the right side and sliding into his seat, "if you try to get out now, you're just going to get road burn. You can go back if you feel like hanging out with Koga."

Starting the engine, he turned back to the girl on his left, whose eyes were now closed, a frown on her face, as though she was weighing her chances with him or the murderous wolf still unconscious mere yards away from them. Now that she was relaxed, she looked so much older. She had to be at least 17, a few years younger than him.

'Where can I take her...' InuYasha wondered. Knowing there wasn't any place nearby where she would be safe, he opted for just taking her to his house and finding a safe place for her later. The idea sounded too cliché, but he couldn't think of anything else. 'It's not like there's any other place to take her though...'

Driving steadily away from the scene, InuYasha stared off into the distance as he took the long way home. He was so dazed that he didn't even notice as the girl reached out and touched his shoulder, startling him into screeching to a halt.

"What the fuck is your problem?" he snarled, looking furiously down at the girl, "We could've both died, you idiot."

Growling back at him, the girl withdrew her hand. "I just wanted to ask you something, jeez."

"Well can you ask without putting your hands all over me?"

Looking away from him, she propped her chin in her hands.

"I just wanted to know your name, O.K?"

'Oh.' "Yasha." It wasn't a lie but not really the truth either. There was no way he would allow her to know his real name. He didn't know this girl so he didn't know if he could trust her.

She turned back to look at him, her face doubtful. "Really?"

"Yes. Really," he ground out. "My parents had a seriously fucked up sense of humor."

"Well I like it," she replied, a smile turning up her mouth. "It's unique. So unique that the police might be able to find you once I tell them about you."

"Whatever," InuYasha grumbled, looking away as he started the car

"My name's Kagome, just in case you were interested," she ventured. "Higurashi Kagome. P.S: family does NOT have enough money to pay a ransom."

InuYasha glanced at her, a mask of disinterest on his face hiding his thoughts. "Huh," he answered, turning onto the street he lived on. "Guess sex slave is my only other alternative."

Hearing her choked shout of indignation, InuYasha knew two things:

1. She was waaaay to annoying to be a good sex slave.

She was going to be some serious trouble.

A/N: For the people reading this on mediaminer.org, this is a redone version of chapter one.