Amber Eyes 5/7

[Little Green Miko]

Amber Eyes

A.N. Same thing as always. Gets redundant don?t it? Oh-the original character in this chap., Hitorii, I don?t own him either. He belongs to Rem. : )

Chapter 5: Naraku?s Base and A Long Lost Relative Found

Inuyasha had guessed the girl would be true to her word and hightail it when dawn broke, so he'd left her some clothes to run out in that probably would do her more justice than the shirt of his that nearly swallowed her up. Leaving behind a black a form-fitting tank-top like black wife beater with "Boy" scrawled out on the front in white Kanji, an a black plain looking mini skirt with a slit showing just suggestively enough. In truth he was actually well awake, in fact he didn?t get much sleep with his raging-roomie. He took his night out on the apartment complex roof where he could gaze to the hazy stars and keep an ear perked for the soft patter of a young girls feet rushing along on the walkway.

Kagome hadn't slept at all that night. Instead she had sat up all night long trying to figure out where and how she could catch sight of the person who worked for Narcotic but didn't do it because they wanted to ?s attention. That-and swilling sak?, but that was beside the point. Feeling completely restless though, she got up to leave long before dawn actually managed to break, and carried her boots with her when she left the house-having also swiped an over-sized sweater from one of the clean laundry piles in the apartment. Her hair bunched up a little over the collar as she padded out and down the pathway to the street. Licking her lips she peered around the dead street and went out into it. Down the road some there was the place she'd left her clothes, and something else of hers that she'd had for a long time and loved almost as much as her brother.

?Huston, we have our sneaky little girl.? He whispered to himself and lifted his head up just enough to peer over towards the street, as predicted she was fleeing off to who knows where. He sat himself up a little and rubbed at his stomach through the thin mesh holed black shirt that clung to every inch of his lean torso, down to his fingers the sleeves hem was laced around, and only reclined some more. He'd give her a two minute head start, more than enough to give the girl the assurance that she wasn?t being fallowed. Then he'd track her scent and watch his little ticket to baboon-butt from a safe distance back.

The girl took some twisty turns and came to a little house along the street. Looking over her shoulder just for the sake of it, she pressed a few keys on a pad beside the door. The alarm beeped once, and quietly to let her know the door was unlocked and she opened it and slipped inside. Setting her boots down she sighed a bit and rubbed at her face. Well, first thing was first. She went to a yellow locker and pulling out a key opened it. Reaching inside she pulled out a leather jacket, dove gray flat-heeled boots and tight black jeans. Pulling off everything else-save for the shirt she was in she pulled on all that, and then tucked what she'd taken off away in the locker. With a slight smirk she slammed the locker and off of a workbench grabbed a set of keys and went over to a side of the house that was a garage, moving to a thing covered in a black sheet and running her hands along it. ?Well, babe...time to ride again??

Inuyasha had perched on another roof about a block away, his body crouched in a three pointer and his shadowy violet orbs flicking off towards that little house. ?So perhaps she does have a home, or something like it.? He mused to himself, settling into a doggish sit and draping a clawed hand over the hilt of his sword as he calmly watched a squirrel chitchat at him from a branch a few feet away.

To her it was just a garage, and that was all. She pulled the sheet off the thing revealing a beautiful black Kawasaki motorcycle. Picking up riders gloves she slipped them on and took up the helmet shoving that on too. Climbing astride the bike she pressed a button and the front of the garage creaked and opened up. Shoving in the key, she turned the engine, and her bike came to roaring life. Revving the engine a couple times, she flapped the visor down, lifted her feet up and drove out, taking a sharp left turn, back towards the apartment she'd just left.

?I was hoping it was a pink bicycle?? He rubbed his forehead a little and debated his next move, well he had to fallow her but a bike had a definite speed advantage. His thoughts trailed to just hotwiring something parked on the side of the road but...driving was something this little hanyou wasn?t the greatest at. With a huff he rose to his feet, he'd just have to hoof it and hope she hit a busy street, with that in mind he lunged off in pursuit.

She kept along the road-passing the apartment without a side look at it and rode on to the next intersection, taking a right turn up the road. The nearest Narcotic building was about 20 miles away. On the Kawasaki she'd be there in under five minutes. And she was with no mishap, sliding into the parking lot and swerving to a stop. She plunked her foot down and yanked the helmet off, hair splaying all over as she looked up at the building. ?I hope that bitch is here.? She murmured to herself.

The hanyou though needed a little longer, he stopped home to grab his skates and backpack before taking off after the girl. Taking up an old habit of surfing the bumpers of passing cars to give him a better boost of speed and cutting through back lots to save a little time, but the girl would have a good four minutes before he'd come within sight of the place.

She kicked the kickstand down and stepped off the bike, taking the keys from the bike and pocketing them. She edged her way up to the building, being extra careful because this place was alarmed to the brim. It had surveillance cameras out the ying-yang and guards to boot. Lucky for her being a street-cat she'd learned how to avoid these things.

He arrived a split second later and slumped on a roof top a good sixty feet away, mopping the little sweat from his brow before lounging back and waiting, his gaze drifting over the building as he plotted his next move.

As he sat there Kagome broke into a grate near the base of the building when the camera in that section was looking the other way.-She frowned slightly then, quickly peering over her shoulder. Squinting a little she saw the small figure of a person with white hair. ?He followed me.? She deduced, and sighed shaking her head a little. ?Should I have expected anything else?? She asked herself, slipping into the grate just before the camera swung her way.

Inuyasha decided for now, to sit back and keep watch. The girl had come here willingly making it rather unlikely that his target was within. He rubbed his nose a little and sat himself down to paw through his bag, producing a small pda and idly tapping in the address of the building to see who its belonged to.
~*~

But oh how both of them were so wrong. This morning the great boss and Kingpin himself was overseeing the production at this particular building, making sure personally, as he did once a month, that all the orders were being fulfilled that each and every idiot ningen in all of Tokyo got his or her fill of whatever drug he was sporting on the street that year. And as old as he was also surviving from the same era as his arch nemesis, his senses were just as sharp as they ever were, and he senses the girl creeping in on the lower levels by the sudden spike in the aura feeling around the building and the slow scent of hers that filtered through. He smirked and turned to Kagura. ?Go and fetch her here. I have no doubt that close behind that bloody hanyou also is. We'll have a nice surprise for him when he realizes I'm here.?

Kagura shot him a disdain filled look, but nodded, bowed and exited the Room. She plodded her way down to where the girl would drop from the air ducts and stood there waiting for her with an annoyed look on her face. Get Kagome-bring her to Naraku-then go and see if the hanyou had to have his nose checked for him to realize that Naraku was within the building. Someday she'd kill the bastard.

As said, the girl removed another grate and dropped down into the hall way in a three point crouch-looking behind her first then looking ahead and stopping dead. ?...Uh oh?? Her eyes traveled up to the wind lady's face. ??!?

Kagura let a false short lived grin appear and she grabbed her up and began to haul her off down the hall without a word.

?Uh-um- You-you know...I wanted to talk to you Kagura?? The girl tried, because Kagura was in fact the person she'd been hoping to get hold of-but not like this-being dragged. She tried to slow it down by dragging her feet, grabbing things and even using dead weight-but Kagura wasn't letting up. ?Look- I know you don't like Naraku-I don't either. If you and I put our heads together maybe we could-do something.?

Kagura just looked at her over her shoulder. ?Do you realize how many times in the past 500 years I've tried to do something? A lot. I want to be free, not Naraku-limbs.? And they reached the elevator went up and she lugged her to Naraku-throwing the door open and tossing her in after, shutting it and going to her next assignment.

Kagome fell down onto the carpet and looked up at the man standing against the window, suddenly finding herself shaking all over.

The man only known as Naraku turned to face the girl then wearing a sharp black Armani suit, his long greasy hair pulled into a low pony-tail, scraggly bangs hung over one glimmering red orb, a Cuban cigar held delicately in his left hand, Kanna at his side. He grinned at the felled girl. ?Welcome back Kagome my dear.?

Kagome refrained from spitting at him, and just sat there staring with a frown.

?Tsk, tsk! What's with the sour face? I have a special surprise for you today-for all your hard work these past years. It'll also surprise your new hanyou friend as well, once he gets here.? He chuckled.

?Don't touch him!? She burst out, though she knew it would do little good.

Naraku smiled at the girl. ?Oh I'm not planning on touching him....yet. But I do need you for something, darling. Kanna take her into the side room.? His grin became malevolent as he looked at his strumpet and turned to face the windows.

Kanna with her chin length white hair and sailor school uniform and he fabled mirror, nodded once, and moved to take the girl by the arm and lead her into a side room.

?What about my brother?! What about Souta!? She called back over her shoulder, trying to stay in the room.

?All in good time, Little Angel. All in good time.? Came his calm and lofty response. He was waiting for the main course before the desert.
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Inuyasha scowled as a long list of names came up under the address, the damned fool either had a counsel that held the property or hid behind eight different names. With a shake of his head he saved the names and began to look up each origin, looking for anything amiss, a dark brow arching after a few moments when none of the names matched the addresses supplied. ?Well...that?s an interesting piece of information?? With a smirk he pawed through his pack and produced his roomies spare cell, punching numbers away.

The hanyou eyed his pdas clock and muttered; ?That girl is taking an awfully long time-She?s too important to loose just yet.? And he set about to repacking his things.

A few moments later a small box baring a piece of scotch tape just below its blinking LED was placed at the corner of the roof. Scribbled along the top was simply "Lazer~blast" it was a small device used to maliciously scramble police radar-guns but served an interesting side purpose for hindering electrical signals sent along network lines, it wouldn?t kill the security systems, but bring their communications down to a snail?s pace. It was a Lag-job that AOL would be proud of!

Setting one more of the devices down and hiding it on the roof the boy casually strode towards the rooftop entrance, plucking the magnets he'd used to scramble the nearby security cameras as he went. Shoving the door open with a crack before shutting it behind him, the sluggish system would no doubt loose and regain its signal a few minutes later.

Just after he slipped in a guard?s boots quietly disappeared around a corner, and there the hanyou crouched beside him and fiddled with a headphone set and walky-talky, muttering sourly how they never quite made these very comfortable to stick in his ears.

With the pieces tucked under his hat and the wires running behind his lithe body and out of his way he set the device on low and listened to the guards yapping back and forth about little problems. Now he had a means of positively knowing what the vocal traffic was between the human-idiots. Yet it wasn?t the little device that tipped him off of something else was coming, it was in truth his nose.

With a little snuff the boy rose to his feet and slipped towards the edge of the halls bend, waiting until the soft patter of the wind yasha?s feet grew near enough before that clawed hand lashed out to seize his prey.

The kaze yasha moved quickly down the halls now, grumbling inwardly at the unfairness of it all, as she searched the place out for the hanyou's scent, and wondered what little thing her "father" had planned to show him. Ah- there his scent was just around that corner...Knowing his tactics through and through after countless centuries of endless epic battles with him, she knew to look before she leapt-and stayed at the far end of the hall wall-peering on down it when she came across it's opening. She had no want of a fight ?...Look-I know your down there. So just come out and come on. You want to see Naraku, he wants to see you. It's all very neat and clean. So if you would, just follow me without trying to rip me up.? She drawled out in a bored tone.

The lovable bits n pieces hanyou though got a curious eyeful of the outside; several white vehicles were parked along the street. He shrugged, and casually stalked around the corner of the hall and flashed Kagura a rather disappointed look. ?So he's finally taking up my invitation for tea eh? Did he remember to bring the cookies?? He chuckled softly as he reached above his head and attached a small magnet to the swiveling camera with a soft click. ?I could sit here and poke fun at you all day Kagura, but I'll instead use you for other purposes since you seem to be awfully professional in being used.? He cantered along the hall towards the wind witch while his fingers roamed through a pocket. ?The fool wants to see me, he can wait a few minutes longer after I've caused him a few billion yen more of damage. Meantime this should keep him occupied.? He drew out a small worn but neatly folded and sealed parchment, casually holding it out to the girl and flashing her a glower that promised far worse to her if she didn?t comply.

She rolled her eyes, tapping the side of her head with her fan a look of total ennui on her face. ?Hardly.? Was her curt response to all of it, and snatched the paper from him. ?But, he wishes to see you now, not later. Your new girl friend is waiting up there with him- and she seems to be part of what he wants to show you. Which I have no idea what it is- so don't ask.? She gave him a pointed glare.

This was probably an awkward moment, here Naraku was seeming to try and be civil, call the boy to meet on calm apparently non-violent terms...and the hanyou wasn?t willing. So, he just idly turned and left Kagura standing there like a dip as he rounded the bend in the hall and quietly chuckled. Naraku?s intentions were never clear, there would be a confrontation but the hanyou was more interested on that meeting being on his terms, after he's shifted his odds a little more in his favor.

Though tables never turned easily. As the hanyou rounded the next corner he ran face to face with Bankotsu and Jakotsu who were meandering down the hall he was swerving into at that very moment.

Bankotsu stopped mid-step and lifted his brow-a dark smirk rising on his face as he looked at the hanyou. ?Well, well...look what the dog dragged in.?

Jakotsu, for his part, didn't see the hanyou and instead almost ran right square into him because he hadn't been looking where he was going-but stopped just in the knick of time when Bankotsu-oo-aniki made that comment, his painted face whirling around to look at the boy. ?Ahh....Inuyasha~~a?? He swooned. ?What a wonderful surprise!! This is a lucky start to a day!?

A dark brow arched as Inuyasha flashed the pair a little smirk...Ah...two idiots he'd love to get out of his hair before meeting the monkey man himself. He set his backpack aside on the ground and casually slipped off his roller blades. ?I was hoping to run into you two, and a good place as ever to deal with a couple of idgits.? Nudging his skates along side his backpack he casually slipped into a defensive stance and flashed them a nasty smirk, urging them both forward with a wave of a hand.

Unfortunately for all of them Kagura would have none of it, and came striding right down the hall towards them-snapping her fan open with a smart *clack* as she went. She really didn't want to fight anyone, especially for Naraku-but she had little choice if she was forced too. That and she was curious as to what Narcotic's true intentions for the hanyou and the little ningen girl were. She stepped quickly in between them and grabbed the hanyou by the arm-staring at him sternly-not that that was to fabulous an idea for the wind yasha to do-but using her powers unnecessarily was something she didn't want to do either. ?You can blow up the building later, and fight them later. Naraku is waiting- and you know as well as I he's not that patient.?

Jakotsu scowled at the kaze yasha. ?...I haven't gotten to play with him yet...Can't we just play a little??

The boy cast the wind witch a little annoyed sidelong glance, ?Kagura, you seem to forget something rather important...I'm not here to play guest to Naraku.? A clawed hand lashed out to seize the wench by the throat.

As powerful as the woman?s magic was, her strength would never compare to the hanyou?s bruit force that currently slammed the duty bound youkai violently into the wall. ?....I?m here to kill Naraku....and ?? Wrenching his arm free the boy snatched that fan right from her grasp with a sweeping SNATCH! ? .....You as well.? Carrying the momentum over the boy swung that closed fan like a blunt club for the foolish females skull.

The yasha choked a bit gripping his arm-and wheezed. ?Fool...I realize that...and go the hell ahead-I'm all for it!? She forced her head to bend away from the smack with her own fan, so it just hit the wall above her head with a huge dent, looking up at the hole she grimaced a little bit, shooting her red orbs to him. ?But seriously...What can you do? Set bombs around the place?....You know he'll get out before they go off...You know it.?

Bankotsu was becoming irate and bored by this banter and began to tap his foot on the ground, snorting derisively as he watched the hovering whining Jakotsu.

He brushed off the question with a loud snap, as he broke the fan, shattering to slivers over his knee before he took the wench by her neatly done hair and hauled her form before him. ?Shuddup and do your job... others dirty work.? He muttered softly before thrusting her battered form right for Jakotsu, keeping him occupied while he sunk into a crouch and lunged right for the impatient Bankotsu. The hanyou?s sankontessou hissing viciously as he unleashed it right for the fool?s legs.

She gasped and rolled over, blowing her bangs from her face with a slight growl. Stupid impulsive prig...He'd get up there eventually she knew, but how long till Naraku became bored and took off, knowing the boy would hunt him down to the ends of the earth and back no matter what? ?....Fine... fine...but don't go fucking blaming me if Naraku is no longer here when your done.? She said to him in a calm voice, as she lifted herself up and straightened her rumpled suit.

?Hup!? Bankotsu leapt above the hanyou's sudden abrasive attack as it came at his legs a split second later. ?Finally!? He muttered, landing on the opposite side of the hanyou in a 3-point crouch. ?I thought you'd never stop talking with that bimbo!? He quickly stood up and pulled a few shrunken from his pocket and sent them whizzing at the hanyou at different intervals and different directions, so no matter where he dodged he'd be struck by at least one.
~*~
Up on the top floor Naraku was slowly getting impatient-and was watching the video-cameras, watching what was happening down below with the hanyou. He sighed. Measures would have to be taken now. Standing up he moved to a room off the side of the office-opposite the one where Kagome had been taken by Kanna, and slid a card through a slot and the door slid open. Down inside was dark and dank and lit by neon lights that radiated from a pool of water inside a tube where what looked like a young boy was suspended in animation attached to various wires and lines. He went to a control panel and began pressing some sequence-and the tube began to drain. ?...Time to awaken my boy.?

As the water began to drain form the tube, his knee length mane of white hair streaked gently at the tips with dusky pink hue tumbled down his shoulders, laying over the white garb of feudal era.. red decorations upon his shoulders and the hem of his billowing sleeves. When the water was completely gone, the glass tube slid up and over him, the bed slowly lifting to an inclination before sending him tumbling out on all fours. With a sudden gasp of air, pools of amber were slowly lulled open and his hand came to rub his forehead...Rub a crescent moon.

Naraku turned to the kneeling child and knelt down to him. ?...Listen boy...You know I've told you how your father was killed...well the very person who did it is below us now. I want you to go and bring him to me. Cripple him as much as you please, but I want him alive first. Then I shall let you kill him.?

He brought his eyes up towards Naraku and gave a nod, sitting back and sweeping his legs to bend before his body?one of his claws coming around to scratch a circle around him, which then created a hole in which the floor fell; bringing the young youkai with it to the floor below. Jumping to his feet, he reached up and grabbed a blade, and slipped along the back hallways down to where the battle between Bankotsu and Inuyasha was taking place.

Naraku grinned slyly and stood up, shoving his hands into his slacks pockets-and turned to follow the twisty staircase back to his office. He would check on how Kagome was coming along, Kanna should be nearly done with her cleaning at least by now, and then he'd sit back and watch the fun on his camera's till the boy brought the hanyou into his presence.
~*~
Meanwhile, back with the battlers:
?Don't leave yet Kagura, we need an audience.? He chuckled as he bounded back a few paces and slowly drew the fang from its scabbard. Musing out loud really as he pivoted his form, letting one star graze over his chest. ?after all...your power was focused in that fan...was it not? Now....these two fuckers don't produce enough youkai that I need...on the other hand you standing there...does.? A devilish smile spread over the hanyou?s features as he abruptly switched directions, from a retreat to an advance as the sword lashed out through the limited room the hallway provided. He knew the fang wouldn?t slash through the scars full length, but where could they go? Enough would be tearing down the hall to leave a limb or more scattered in its wake.

?Ha ha.? Kagura scowled and slid off down the opposite hall anyway. ?You broke my only form of Youki idiot....and you just boxed yourself in. Smart.?

Bankotsu grinned as the kaze no kizu came at him and leaving Jakotsu he leapt to the side where Kagura had jumped down and watched with a bored fascination as the lines of the attack ripped the hall to shreds. ?Very good Inuyasha, I commend you?? He drawled. ?Jakotsu, you're up for the moment.?

Jakotsu had also taken that same side-leap out of the Tetsusaiga's way, and was sitting there half in Indian-style pouting like no one's business until Bankotsu-oo-aniki gave this command- to which he looked up and beamed. ?Really?! You mean it?! Sugoi!? An evil and somewhat lecherous smirk crossed his face now and he stood up grabbing his strange extending blade from his back and stepping into the hall-careful to keep within escape range. ?I wonder what color you bleed?? He giggled softly and with an insane cackle he lifted his blade up and sent it towards the boy's head like a lightning bolt, the blade unwinding to wrap all about the hanyou and his fang-blade.

?Not too long , you heard the feather-brain over there...I'm on a tight schedule.? He muttered as he smashed a fist through a glass fire door, ripping out the red tank of the extinguisher and prying its safety off. The fang swung before him, knowing with the nature of the blade he'd not entirely escape, but the slices and gouges perhaps would be the price for keeping that extinguisher arm free and aimed right for the engrossed Jakotsu...unleashing a cloud of white choking powder rushing in a storm over the fools form. Hoping it would be a distraction enough for him to lunge for the cadaver, and smashing that tank violently into his skull.

The cloud hit him yes, distraction enough to be struck with the tank-no. He rubbed his eyes quickly, cracking one open and leaping back just in time to miss being struck by the extinguisher-finishing wiping his face off he grinned maniacally and yanked on his blade-not only calling it back to him- but striking the boy again in the process as it swerved back into what appeared to be one solid machete again. ?Heh heh heh...You're so cute when you're all bloodied up I-nu-ya-sha?? He cooed, letting the blade fly out again this time to strike the last of the extinguisher and make it explode-because reading on it warned: Contents Under Pressure.

The hanyou really had beat him too it however, when the tank failed to strike he merely dropped it. A clawed hand lightly touching a wound over a shoulder blade, one of many as he sighed softly. ?I told you not to take long, here you are just wasting my time now.?

The fang stabbed to the floor before him, shielding off the chain link sword of the cadavers and slicing the top off the tank. Unleashing the pressure suddenly within and sending it speeding lightening for the fools legs. ?...I hate to break this to you boy...but your Really not my type.? The boy shrugged quickly before prying the fang out of the floor and bolting for the exit. The door flying open to the stairwell with a clatter that shook the structural shaft...a clawed hand probing his pockets for his cell phone, finding it and managing to type a little text message to someone as he fled and beat the powdery white extinguisher against off his black clothes.

Once that door was slammed open and Inuyasha had searched his pockets, an odor, that should have been familiar to him, wafted through the stairwell. Something that mingled his brothers, his brother's mate and a unique scent of someone he?d not seen in forever.

Suddenly a claw raked up Inuyasha?s back, lit heavily with a painful mix of venom that glowed green in the hand it came from and a spark of anti-miko magic which added dusky pink-black swirls to the mass of green. Anyone with any amount human-blood would feel the searing pain and because of it the hanyou was shoved away backwards. When the hand?s owner turned around Inuyasha caught sight of a much younger, perhaps slightly kinder, looking face of Sesshoumaru. But it lacked the stripes and held the hint of a different youkai?s facial features, probably his mother?s.

Jakotsu blinked. ?Oooo! No fair! No fair, no fair!!? He smacked the ground as the hanyou bolted and called his blade back. ?...I always get interrupted some way or other!?

Bankotsu rolled his eyes and sighed melodramatically, coming into the hall to give his brother a hand up. ?Better luck next time then. I'm sure he'll still be around on the morrow. Naroctic doesn't want him dead yet.?

?Keh! Keh, keh, keh and double KEH!? The freeze dried homosexual sadist freak snorted taking Bankotsu-oo-aniki's offered hand and hoisting himself up. ?...I wish Narcotic'd at least let me watch what he's going to do to Inuyasha...I'd be happier then.?

Bankotsu rolled his eyes again. ?Mm. Misery loves company doesn't it. Let's go up to him now and see what we can do.? He led Jakotsu off down the not destroyed hall and to the elevator, Jakotsu mumbling all the way.

Kagura blinked and frowned as she watched them pass, once they did and were out of sight she slid off to follow the hanyou and his new assailant. She knew Naraku had things up his sleeve again.
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Miroku had arrived just outside the building, and stood waiting for the signal. Suddenly with his pocket ringing telling him that now was the time, he plucked up the metal and plastic doodad.. skirted over and grabbed the lever, slamming it down and knocking out the lights, then moved to grab a sledgehammer, slamming it into the backup generator. After this was accomplished he grabbed a gun and swung around to bust into the building-but stopped short as he was faced up with the rest of the Shichinintai. ?Heh, time for a little fun then ne??

Rankotsu smiled wanly at the once proclaimed houshi. ?Let?s rumble then, monk.?

?You first??
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And a screamed curse rang out echoing through the halls from the gay-bourei.

Followed by Bankotsu's hand walloping the guy's back and practically yelling. ?The stairs Jakotsu! They don't use power!?

?Hmm...Hitorii. My long lost nephew! Of all youkai to run into in here...Naraku must really love sifting through other peoples trash to find any kind of blackmail.? Came the hanyou?s response from the blood splattered stairs, a moment later with Miroku?s handiwork, the building plunged into a blackout, the orange glow of the emergency lights flaring to life for only a few seconds before even they too faded to a useless dim. He knew that wouldn?t slow down Hitorii since most youkai had excellent night vision, but that would leave the fools stuck on the lower floors busy for a while. Not to mention stall whatever Naraku had cooking in his labs, one trump card down. He spun onto his feet and bolted up the stairs in a flurry, furiously typing another text message: "Fnd Hitorii, boa-lter" Unknowing that at the moment it wouldn?t be received.

Hitorii looked up and around at the plunged darkness, his left hand took hold of the hilt of his blade, his right fingers flexing and glowing, as he ran their very tips along the edge to inject it with anti-miko magic he?d most likely inherited from his late mother, who ever she was. He sped up after the hanyou, quickly closing the gap between them, sweeping the blade up from Inuyasha?s left hip to right shoulder on his back again.

Kagura moseying on down the hall after them, gazed about quickly as all the lights went dead-and the back-up generators failed as well. ?Hm. The hanyou has a nice little beginnings to a plan started here...? She thought, licking her lips she moved off down the hall and entered the stairwell where the two youkai had disappeared up into-listening to the growling and clanks that reverberated slightly from them bounding up. Sadly she knew that in the end Naraku still wouldn't be dead. After all- the freak had killed the greatest miko of their time without fear- what made the hanyou think he'd be able to kill him? Even so, she wished him the best of luck as she followed them up.
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Up in the upper floors, Naraku had been watching the hidden cameras till the power failed. He growled knowing just who to blame.

?Damn that houshi!? He slammed his fist into his desk as the power died. ?I should have disposed of him when I had the bloody chance. Gah! I hope Rankotsu caught him and is maki8ng flamed mince meat of him like I ordered.? He sauntered around; pacing his office back and forth a bit. ?...Oh well. At least the most important thing that was on the electrical grid is now out and hunting the hanyou-and Kagome need not have electricity for what Kanna is doing.? He sighed, rubbed his face and sat in his chair.
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He heard the hair-raising whistle of a blade arching for him, the hanyou desperately turning and lashing out with the fang to parry the incoming blade and drive it down into the metal stairs. The hanyou?s gaze now becoming characteristically angry for the first time in a while and he snarled. ?Hitorri! I don't have time to play damn it---eh?? Amber hues widened a little as he felt the steps he stood upon lurch down a foot, his gaze drifting down to where the blades met in sparkling destructive beauty. The light that illuminated the blades? tips gouging into the wall and through the bolts that held the suspended stairs in place. He blinked back up to the enraged youkai a moment before plucking off his hat and plopping it over the probably oblivious pup?s face before wrenching the fang free and lunging back! The stairs gave another violent shudder before they broke off the wall entirely and slammed down through the shaft below, knocking the rest free as it went.

Inuyasha didn?t stop to watch the accordion style destruction as he scrambled up the remaining stairs and flinching at the threatening creaks and groans. Next stop the top floor, where the Narcotic?s scent was the strongest.

Hitorii gave a gasp once as he too felt the floor dropped from under him, his body following with billowing of hair and sleeves, and Inuyasha?s hat fluttering off in the velocity. He caught himself and there were sudden sparks as his claws ran along metal, wood and concrete to slow his decent. Suddenly he shot through the blackened air on a cloud of invisible youkai energy to overcome the hanyou, dropping down soundless in front him and cutting him off. His hand extended out with a cloud of poison and dusky pink anti-miko blast, that illuminated his face.

?Whoops!? Kagura yelped in her head as she was forced to yank one of her feathers out and leap upon it when the staircase decided to descend itself-coming down with a monumental crash...She peered over the edge of the feather and wondered wanly if this building had insurance on it, and if so how high it's rates were. She looked back up and made the feather float on higher-keeping her distance but still following. This would prove an interesting show all around.

Meanwhile, just down the hall from where the two youkai were locked in battle, from within the confines of Naraku's office and within the small room off to the side a sudden bone-rattling, ear-splitting, glass-shattering shriek of horror-or something akin to it anyway-rose out of the blackness of the room-followed by articulated words. ?WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY HAIR YOU LITTLE WHITE WRETCH?!?

Naraku sighed, and lifted his hand from his face looking up. Oh good- that must mean Kagome was nearly finished Right on time too, the hanyou's scent was edging ever closer to his office. Despite it all he smirked and hoped that Inuyasha liked his little mind-twisting surprise.

The hanyou looked up with that scream a brow lifting just a little but his attention was quickly redirected as he just barely managed to save his eyes from the burning onslaught from Hitorii. He was forced to reel back and bring up that blade up to shield his already seared face from anymore punishment. ?Damn you bastard-understand.? A hand slipped down into a pocket, and drew something small and green out. ?When I tell you ?NO?-? He hissed furiously as he flipped that small item up...a lighter. His fingers moved quick and sparked it?s flame and jammed the lock trigger down he threw the lighter straight up above him; the plastic hit the ceiling with a POP and unleashed the napthine in a tiny cloud that only lit in a spark for a moment but it was enough to melt the wick of a sprinkler overhead. The next moment it buzzed to life, unleashing a torrent of water that was quickly fallowed by the next spouting sprinkler...then the next. While the sprinklers systematically began to pop up through the building the hanyou swung the fang out to force the youkai further up the stairs towards the roof, providing Inuyasha just enough time to duck fast through a door and into the deluge-filled halls. ?Heh...I always wanted to make a T-rex entrance, now if only I could make the building shudder with each step?? He said to himself dryly.

But Hitorii was resilient, and came back at the boy front on, The venom fizzing out and replaced by the thick dusky pink cloud around his right claw which lashed out, grabbing a hold of the blade. His left hand came around and gave the hanyou a fierce sucker punch to his cheek bone. The fingers that were curled around the blade began to saturate it with the anti-miko magic.

Kagura surged upward on her called forth winds, making haste to follow the boy as he made his way out of the empty silo that had once been the stairwell-and finally catching sight of the ace up Naraku's sleeve. A Sesshoumaru look-a-like...How odd.

He staggered back a step with the blow, his head turned to the side as he basked for a moment in the cooling water that showered down from above. Spitting out a little blood he hissed furiously. ?Enough.? His body pivoted around giving him momentum and room to deliver a swift high kick right into the skull of the young youkai. Carrying on through the velocity he ripped that untransformed sword out of his hand with a violent wrench and buried the blade right into the fools stomach up to the hilt.

Hitorii was thrust back against the wall with that kick and he dropped down to the ground, flat on his stomach to avoid the plunge of the blade into his belly. ?You killed my otou, so you're going to take me out as well?!? He rolled forward and grabbed the hanyou's arms, side stepping and thrusting their forms to the side and over the railing to plunge down into the darkness? ?Never. My revenge is fulfilled.? With that he bounded off down the hall.

~End Chap. 5~