Baby Boom!
Summary: After escaping from Lina Inverse, during one of her heated attacks, Xellos is sitting in a tree silently pondering what to do next. When the shuffling of leaves and the snapping of a branch brings him out of his thoughts as he opens his eyes and looks down only to find a normal looking child...but is this child as normal as she looks? He thinks not...With power radiating off of her, he finds himself soon letting the girl tag along with him on his missions...But what will come of this newly formed apprenticeship, and...who is this child really?
Anime: InuYasha/Slayers
Pairing: Kagome/?
Genre: Romance/Adventure/Angst
Rated: M
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Blind!
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"Where am I...?"
'Kagome...close your eyes...'
"Aren't they already?"
All around, no matter where she turned, darkness...
'No child...not yet...'
She felt a soft and warm touch glide over her eyes, sealing them.
"What...what did you do!?"
'You have always seen things from an interesting point of view. No matter the wrong doing, you believed everyone should be given a second chance. However, some above believe...that is purely based on what you see. Kagome Higurashi, high priestess of the time well, and protector of the Shikon Jewel; you are being sent to an alternate world, a different time, another place...where you will learn to see with something else. Your sight will return...when you can see.'
"What! How will I see without my eyes?!"
'Perhaps, the innocent outlook of a child would help.'
'Innocent...child...what?'
'Good luck...'
"Wait!" Warmth surrounded her and she felt herself losing consciousness. "No! No, wait!" She called, 'Wait...'
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(A Day Later)
(Location Unknown)
(Time Not Important)
'...' She hadn't moved from her spot since she had arrived except to fix her shrunken clothes. She hated this. She had once worn her priestess clothing, a white Haori, red Hakama's and a royal blue kimono like robe with the ancient scripts of the past Shikon protectors lining the hem; but now, she wore her white Haori as a Yukata of sorts, her robe keeping her warm at night and her Hakama's just there...she didn't know what to do with them, or herself for that matter. She couldn't see, and the sounds scared her. At seventeen years old, she had never expected that she would have another adventure after Naraku. In fact, she had just said goodbye to those in the past for the last time when she jumped down the well to return home, only to find herself in blackness, with an unknown voice.
Now...here she was...in the dark. Her location was unknown, even to herself, and since she couldn't see, she had trouble finding her step. Shoot, when she first arrived, after fixing her clothes to the best she could, she walked right into a tree, then stubbed her toe on a rock, stepped on a jagged stick, and tripped over a root. No, sitting was safe, walking wasn't.
She had never felt so helpless...or vulnerable...
'I can't stay here forever though...'
Kagome stood up, the cool breeze brushing beneath the Haori that was tied tightly around her, reminding her that no longer did she wear undergarments. She would have to find clothes that fit...but that in its self would be hard.
Taking a step, she kicked a tree and sighed, 'Someone...help...'
The sudden sound of something falling caught her attention and she moved towards it with a great deal of difficulty. She felt around and found the object to be a long branch. It had a bunch of twigs sticking out on it, and a few leaves, but other than that, it was perfect as a walking stick. Sitting down, she took to removing the smaller sticks carefully, running her fingers down the branch to make sure she got them all. "That will have to do."
Standing once more, Kagome started walking again, this time she would swing her newly acquired stick back and forth low to the ground, tapping it every once in a while to make sure she didn't walk off a cliff or hit a stone again.
Kagome continued walking for what she could only think to be hours until she jumped at the feel of a twig snapping beneath her foot.
Suddenly, the feel of eyes on her kept her from moving.
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(Three Hours Ago)
(Elsewhere)
"Darkness from twilight," Xellos looked up at the chanting, "crimson from blood that flows;" He opened his closed eyes at the enraged sight of Lina Inverse as she readied the Dragon Slave. "buried in the flow of time;" He stood with a few of the scrolls he'd come for, having of course, used Lina and her friends to get it. "in Thy great name," Xellos levitated off the ground, noting Amelia, Gourry and Zelgadis a mile and more away. "I pledge myself to Darkness!"
"Lina, isn't this a little dramatic?"
"Those who oppose us shall be destroyed by the power you and I possess!"
"This is where I take my leave, we will meet again Lina!"
She turned a glare on him, her garnet red eyes burning with hatred. "DRAGON SLAVE!"
The blast took with it the abandoned castle, any surviving bandits and all of the surrounding land in a half mile radius.
"...DAMN HIM!"
"Lina, calm down..."
She turned a cold glare on Zelgadis who stepped back.
"Miss. Lina, what's wrong? Xellos is annoying and always makes us do his work, but he didn't do anything more than what he normally does. I mean, you didn't even give him the chance to say 'That...is a secret,'..." Amelia said, placing a hand on Lina's arm.
"You really didn't notice?" She asked as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
Gourry looked confused, "Notice what?"
"...where are we?"
The three looked around, Amelia and Zelgadis immediately knew what was wrong.
"In a dessert?" Gourry asked, making sure he was right.
"...yes Gourry; very good." She said irritably, "Now, here is a new question. How many restaurants or inns did you see on the way here, in the three days we spent walking here?"
"...none?"
"EXACTLY! HE LED US HERE, KNOWING FULL WELL THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO EAT FOR MILES AND MILES AND MILES!"
"So she tried killing him because she was hungry?" Amelia asked.
Zelgadis nodded. "Yeah, that sounds about right."
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAH~!"
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Xellos opened his eyes and looked down at the scene before him. Lina had tried to kill him...for food... He sighed, but then smiled coldly. 'She's so much fun...' He frowned, "But I should tread lightly; next time...I might not be so lucky as to escape with just a singed cloak." He looked at the corner of his black cloak where there was...sadly...no more corner. Closing his eyes, he morphed his cloak into a new one. "That's better, now, before she notices I'm still here." He vanished in thin air before reappearing in an opaque forest with a nearby cave sheltered from any source of light. He sat in a large tree on a wide branch, making sure he had some sort of coverage by the leaves before resting.
He had gone in search of the Clair Bible, again, and no surprise, it was a false lead, and worse, Lina wanted him on a stick over a fire for dinner after he had dragged them on another one of his wild goose chases.
'Zelas is asking questions...' He sighed, "And I keep the answers of course to myself. Really, only two women in the world can scare me to the point that all I can do is tremble; one with an itch to cook me, the other with the ability to kill me." He smiled, "How fun..." He stayed there in the tree for a couple of hours, just relaxing as the sun began to set. He contemplated returning to the group...but decided better of it. 'Probably would be best to wait it out a while.'
Xellos's attention snapped down the tree he was sitting on and to a broken branch that lay beneath a little girls' foot. His eyes were wide open in surprise, having not felt her anywhere near him, or heard her until just then. She didn't move, remained perfectly still. He watched her curiously and noticed the stick in her hand and her eyes sealed tight. The larger, royal blue robe with unknown characters lining the hem in silver caught his attention too, seeing as how what she wore was a small white Yukata tied with the tie for the robe, and as it was, the Yukata was covered in dirt and was slightly damp at the edges from what he assumed was water, or stepping in a pond.
"...Wh-who's there?"
Her voice held the familiar hum of fear, though...he wasn't exactly sure why, he still embraced the feeling.
"I know you're out there, I can feel you now!"
A sudden pink glow surrounded him and the part of the forest he and she were in. 'Well now, that's new.' He jumped down in front of her and she stumbled back. He glanced her over; taking note of the lack of clothes beneath the Yukata. "How long have you been out here? Where are your parents? Do you have any?"
"...not exactly the kind of questions you ask a child, are they?"
"Oh? I thought they were pretty good questions. Did I word one wrong? Should I have asked differently?"
The girl frowned, "You're strange...you sound human enough but..."
"Eh? What is that supposed to mean." His eyes opened as he stared at her, crouching down before her to look into her eyes, only to find them still closed. "Hey, open your eyes when talking to me."
"...I...I can't. They won't open, so I can't see. I'll answer your questions. I've been out here for about two days now, and I don't know where I am...I was...kind of sent here. My parents are nowhere near here or anyplace around here, but yes, I have parents, one to be exact; my mother. I have a brother and grandfather too though."
"...I see. Come on, you are covered in dirt. I'll take you somewhere I can get some clean clothes for you and you can take a bath and sleep in a bed."
"I have no money."
"You need none, I have plenty. Let's go, if we leave now, we can get there before the moon comes up. Take my hand."
"..." She hesitated, but finally, she gave her hand.
"Ray Wing!"
The two were lifted into the air and he flew off in the direction of a nearby village; her grip having tightened dramatically around his hand.
'Looks like I have a new toy to play with while I wait out Lina's temper.'
Xellos smiled at the thought, watching as the little girl of four or five clung tightly to his arm. Her wavy black hair whipped violently about her back.
'Yes, this should prove to be...amusing...'
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Me: Hope everyone enjoyed! ^_^''