The Assasin by rocker_chic

The job, and him...

She watched him move in the dark trying to find the one object he so desperately needed, he knew some one was watching him. He was getting closer to it but she made no move to stop him, she watched in the shadows as his weak human body fumbled around in the darkness. She had to finish this, it was her job, and she was to do nothing more and nothing less than, kill him.

She raised her gun and pointed it to him, and with no emotion on her face she pulled the trigger. His limp body fell to the floor with a soft thud, and she left. She left him there on the floor dead. She had completed her mission.

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Minutes later on her way back to her room she heard police sirens, she ducked into the nearest ally and continued her way back to her room from there.

She arrived at her room with the feeling that somebody was already there, probably waiting for her. She took out one of her daggers and readied herself. She opened the door carefully and stalked her way in the room like a shadow, no sounds, no visual confirmation of movement by the other person. She felt his presence around the corner in what was the bedroom.

She opened the door and saw a slight shift of light in the corner of her eye, she threw her dagger at it not meaning to kill, or injure, just to trap.

"Ah, Kagome, I see you have returned." Said the man she had managed to pin to the wall with her dagger.

Kagome turned on the lights and pulled the dagger from the man's jacket sleeve.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"I wanted to know if you had compl-"

"Yes" she cut him off.

"How was he? Did he scream in pain?"

"No, clean shot to the head you know me Miroku, I don't care for suffering."

"Your good at your job Kagome but you take it so seriously, loosen up a bit"

"Taking lives is serious, it's not something one does every day"

"With the exception of you"

~sigh~ "What do you want me to do, have fun with it?"

"Not necessarily, look never mind. They have another assignment for you."

"Who is it this time?"

"I asked them not to give this to you but they wouldn't listen."

"Just tell me who it is"

"...Takeuchi"

Kagome tensed "Why do they want him dead?"

"They didn't say"

"We're talking about the same person right?"

"Yes . . . . InuTaisho"

~*~*Kagome's Flashback*~*~

A young teenage Kagome ran through the forests of the Feudal Era of Japan. She was running to the well, where he said he would meet her, she had wonderful news to tell him.

She stopped when she got to the edge of the clearing, she saw him waiting, standing by the well just as he said. Kagome Smiled and made her way closer to him.

He heard her coming closer and cursed himself for what he was about to do. He turned around to meet her; she was smiling which made him despise himself even more.

Kagome sensed his turmoil with in. "What's wrong?"

"I..." he started off in a shaky voice, which made Kagome nervous.

"...M-My father has umm ordered me ...to do... to do something that I do not wish to ever happen."

She took in a deep breath and said "What is it?"

He drew in a shaky breath "He has, ordered me. to...to ban-banish you to your own world"

Kagome was shocked "W-why?"

"He said it wouldn't be fit for me to mate a human"

"But then its ok you see I can become a Youkai"

"Why would you do that?"

"Because I love you and I want to be with you"

"You can't"

"What?? Why not?!"

"I won't let you, Kagome it's too dangerous. The chances of you dying through the process are too great."

"But don't you want us to be together?"

"Yes, I do but I'd rather wait 500 years to see you again then take the chance of you dying just so you could be with me now"

"500 years is a long time"

"Yes, but if it means I get to see you again, I'll wait and I wont change that much I'll still look the human equivalent of 20 when we meet again."

Kagome softly chuckled at this "I still don't want to go"

"I know but you have too"

"What if I talked to your father?"

"NO, you cannot change my mind. I have ordered my son to banish you to our own world and he shall do so, if he fails I will do It." said the stern voice of InuTaisho.

"Milord..." said Kagome with a small bow to the Youkai lord. "...if you would please just listen, I know you don't care much for humans but I don't have to be one" she said.

Sesshoumaru grabbed her hand and made her look at him. "No, don't do this."

"You are correct young miko; you do not have to be a human, but either way I will not accept you two together."

Kagome looked as if she were about to cry 'why is he doing this?' she thought.

"Any One who associates with the demon named Naraku could not bring any honor to a family."

"Sir, I'm trying to kill him, he is my enemy we are not allies."

"But a weak human girl could never defeat him, so your future only holds defeat by the disgusting hanyou which still would not bring honor to a family."

Kagome started taking in and breathing out shaky breaths. She held tighter onto Sesshoumaru's hand.

"You will climb into that well and seal it from the other side"

"I still have shards to collect"

"No you don't, hold out your hand"

Kagome did as she was told and opened her hand, Lord InuTaisho's hand was held over hers and he let the rest of the shards of the Shikon No Tama fall into her open hand.

"How?" was all she asked.

"I killed him and took his shards, it is to my knowledge that you are the keeper of the jewel are you not?"

"I am"

"Then take them, protect them the way you choose to, but protect them in your own time."

Kagome sadly looked at Sesshoumaru. "If I go back the jewel will be safer" she said making up something just to help her deal with the fact she would never de able to come back, but the truth was, the jewel would still be in the same amount of danger if not more in her era. Youkai still existed however few there were, but they still existed and once they felt the presence of the jewel there was no doubt in her mind that they would come after it.

"No it won't and you know it" Said Sesshoumaru.

"I know, but if I say that to myself enough times it may start to sound like a good enough reason to stay in my era." she said to him. She walked over to the well turned to him and smiled at him; it was a sad smile though. Sesshoumaru ran over to her before she jumped in and kissed her passionately, Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his around her waist pulling her closer.

InuTaisho watched 'They will meet again and when that time comes she will be safe.' InuTaisho knew what he was doing, and soon it would make sense to the both of them, it would just take some time for them to see it.

When they finally pulled apart Kagome was crying and Sesshoumaru's eyes were sparkling with his unshed tears.

He kissed her on the forehead and for a moment the symbol of a crescent moon shined but disappeared as soon as it had come. They hugged one more time and then she jumped in the well. Sesshoumaru watched as she disappeared into the darkness of the well never to be seen again for a long time.

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Kagome remembered everything like it had happened just yesterday.

"Kagome, I could always ask them to give you another assignment."

"I thought you said you already asked?"

"I did but I could ask again, if you want?"

"And what would make you think they would change their minds?"

"You know, if I didn't know any better I'd think that you actually wanted this job?"

"I never said I had a problem with it"

"Yes, but you know the target"

"Yes, I do but that is not supposed to stop me."

"But it might"

"So you're saying?"

"They want you to have a partner on this one."

"I don't work with partners"

"I know that but obviously they don't, they are insisting that you have a partner."

"If I did accept this partner thing who would it be?"

"Well first of all there is no IF, you have to accept this partner, and the partner is some one I have no particular problem with"

"Can you just tell me who it is?"

"Sango"

"Well then I have no problem with having a partner anymore."

"Then let's get packing so we can get back sooner"

30 min later they were on a private flight back to the C.I.A Assassinations and Special Operations Unit HQ, in California.

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Kagome and Miroku were sitting at the conference table waiting to get a briefing on the next assignment. Sango arrived in a huff, as she walked in the room out of breath.

"Hey..Kagome..How's it..going?" she said between breaths.

"Fine how about you?"

"Same, so we're partners, sounds fun"

"Yea, so where did you just come from?"

"Actually it was a job right here in Cali."

"Oh nice"

"Look I heard you had a past with the target, do you think there is a chance of him recognizing you?"

"Maybe, I'm not sure actually, it's been a long time but then again he's known for his long memory."

"Ahem, sorry to interrupt but we need to start this briefing. Well as you know this is your target." He said as he clicked a button on a small remote to show a pic of InuTaisho on the screen behind him. "He's been a bad boy lately, selling weapons to the wrong people, no matter how many times we try to put him in jail he always seems to get out. So the only way to fix this problem, is to erase the problem. That's where you two come in. But this is also one of those special missions. We need you guys to find a list of his employers and buyers, and if you can we want you to find where he hides his weapons."

"Sure, so where is he?"

"In Japan, He's lived there ever since he was born."

"Does he have any relatives living with him?"

"I don't see how this has to do wi-"

"Just tell me"

"oh ok, he has his son's living with him?"

"Their names?"

"Youngest is Inuyasha Takeuchi, and the Oldest is-"

"Sesshoumaru" said Kagome with a voice full of longing.

"That's right, how do you-?"

"Its nothing, are we done?"

"Yes, but Kagome ma'am umm the boss-man said he needed to speak with you in his office."

'Oh great I always enjoy my meetings with the boss' thought Kagome. If she had said it out loud her voice would have been dripping with sarcasm.

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Kagome stood there in front of the boss' office. She took in a deep breath and knocked. She heard a "come in" from the other side and opened the door.

"You wanted to talk to me Sir?"

"Ah yes sit down Kagome. I am sure you have been briefed on you assignment so I will just say something. This man has been very bad; selling weapons is not the only thing he has done to have you coming after him. It's like he has been asking specifically for you."

Kagome slightly narrowed her eyes, she didn't know what it was maybe it was the way her boss had said that but she had this feeling that it had a double meaning. She voiced none of her thoughts on the matter and just listened as he continued.

"This man can be very dangerous, be careful." He said before he sent her off to get ready.

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'That's weird; he never usually tells riddles or makes anything have a double meaning. He's a straight forward kind of guy so why do I have this feeling? Oh never mind its probably nothing.' She thought but in the back of her head it was still there.

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"Hey Kagome are you ready?" said Sango who was standing right outside of Kagome's door but no one answered.

Just then Miroku came by "Check the weapons room, I bet you she's in there."

"Oh ok"

Sango walked to the weapons room and sure enough there was Kagome taking apart a gun.

"Come on our plane leaves in a few minutes."

"Just a sec." said Kagome as she set the last piece of the gun down. And then she started putting it back together. It took her only a couple seconds to do this and when she was done she put the gun on safety and put it in her bag.

"Why do you do that?" asked Sango.

"To pass the time" was all Kagome said before they got on the private jet that would take them to Japan.

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It had been about 4 hours since they left California and they had already arrived in Japan at the private air port.

Kagome, Sango and Miroku collected their bags and headed for the car out front that would take them to their hotel. The driver they guessed was probably new because he wouldn't stop trying to talk to them.

"So you guys are assassins right?"

"No, we're tourists who carry guns. Do you know what building in Tokyo Disney Land Mickey mouse lives? He hugged me last year and I'm here to take revenge." Said Kagome.

"Um I don't know what exact building it he is in bu-"

"I was being sarcastic "Kagome said to him with a dull voice.

"Oh, ha ha that's funny" he said. 'I guess they're not very social' the driver thought to him self.

"So who are –"

"Do you ever shut up?" asked Miroku.

"E-excuse me?"

"What are you deaf now? DO YOU EVER SHUT UP?!?" Miroku asked again.

"W-well I can if you wa-"

"Yes, we want"

"O-kay-"

"What do you not understand, STOP TALKING!"

The driver turned around and kept on driving. 'I guess they aren't very friendly either.'

They arrived at the hotel a few minutes later. Kagome, Sango and Miroku got out of the car and took their bags from the trunk. They got to their rooms and dug up as much information on their target as possible.

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ARIGATOU, to the people that read this, please read, rate and review ( i think thats what they are right??) anyway do all those things and tell me if u would like me to continue it for longer than i guess i was planning ( which BTW i was planning on continuing it for like maybe 15-20 chapters) maybe even have a sequil if you all like it.

Your ever beautiful, creative, interesting, and apparently weird (as my muses call me) author,

Jenni