Light of the Sun
Chapter 1
By: Izzy
"Hurry up Kagome!" Eri shouted up the steps.
"Coming!" Kagome shouted back as she ran down the steps to join her three friends. "Made it." She started to walk with them to school.
"I'm so glad you are able to go to school," Yuka said.
"So what's new?" Kagome asked.
"We have history teacher!" Ayumi exclaimed.
"And she's so pretty!" Eri exclaimed. "I wish I could be half as pretty as she is!"
"I know what you mean!" Yuka exclaimed happily.
"Is she really that pretty?" Kagome asked.
"What about you Kagome?" Ayumi asked. "You look like you shouldn't be at school."
"I'm fine," Kagome said. "Just tired." She had a normal day at school until her last period which was English. As soon as she stepped into the room even with her powers sealed she could feel a strong aura, however this aura wasn't demonic nor did it feel like a human's. There was something other worldly about it, yet warm like the love of a mother. Then she saw the source of the aura, a woman of average height and build stood at the front of the classroom. Her warm smile was as bright as the sun. She had long black hair that was pulled back into a loose ponytail, and she wore a long sleeved button up shirt that hung loosely around her top with a pair of brown slacks topped of with black flats. Kagome was spellbound under the intense aura of this woman.
"Miss," the woman said, concern showing in her bright green eyes. Kagome shook her head and smiled. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," she said. "I heard that we had a new teacher I'm just surprised to see that you're so young." Which was true the woman looked like she was only 20.
"Well I am young," she said with another bright smile. "I am Hikaru Kusanagi."
"I'm Kagome Higurashi," Kagome said.
"Yes, Miss Higurashi," Hikaru said. "I had heard that you would be in my class however I also heard that you miss a lot of class."
"Yes, I do," Kagome said.
"After class I would like to speak with you," Hikaru said. "Now please take a seat." Kagome sat down and looked around all the students were just as spellbound as she had been, however it looked like it was worse in the boys. The bell ran. "Well let's get started."
After class she did as she was asked, she stayed behind. Once everyone had left and Hikaru was done grading the last few papers she had. "You wanted to see me, Miss. Kusanagi?" Kagome asked.
"Yes," Hikaru said. "But you don't have to call me Miss. Kusanagi. Outside of class you can call me Hikaru." Kagome nodded.
"Then call me Kagome," she said.
"Very well," Hikaru said. "I wanted to ask if you have a computer."
"I don't," Kagome said. "I don't even have a cell phone. I come from a shrine family."
"Ah," Hikaru said as she nodded in understanding. "Well then." She reached into her desk and pulled out a laptop case. "This is for you."
"What is this?" Kagome asked as she took the case from Hikaru.
"A laptop with everything you need for it," she said with her usual warm smile, but this time under the smile in her eyes Kagome saw a glimmer of sadness or maybe loneliness. "It even has all the notes you would need for my class."
"I can't take this it must have cost a fortune," she said, trying to give the laptop back.
"It's the least I can do," Hikaru said as she grabbed her coat and purse.
"But why?" Kagome asked, as Hikaru stood up.
"Because I know more than what resides in these text books," she said as she walked out of the room.
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked as she followed Hikaru.
"My uncle used to tell me stories and one of them was about a brave woman," she said. "A woman from the future named Kagome. Who fought evil and saved my family many times."
"So you just go around doing nice things for everyone named Kagome?" Kagome asked.
"No," Hikaru said. "I know you are that Kagome." Kagome was so shocked she stopped dead in her tracks. Hikaru stopped and turned around. "Sorry. My uncle always told me I was too blunt for my own good. I would like to help you anyway I can so if you need anything do hesitate to ask."
"Anything?" Kagome asked weakly. Hikaru smiled and nodded. "Do we defeat Naraku?"
"I don't know," she said with a frown. Kagome sighed. "I'm sorry. My uncle told me about you but he didn't mention how the battle ended. He stopped telling me the story after he lost his weapon against Naraku."
"Lost his weapon?" Kagome asked as they started to walk again but this time side by side. "So I know him? How can I know him?" She looked lost in thought.
"Yes," Hikaru said. "Oh, yea! He told me that if I meet you to say; 'Sorry for claiming you'."
"Claiming me?" Kagome asked. She thought for a minute then it came to her. "Your uncle is Koga! But how? Demons don't exist here." She sounded so sure of herself but then doubt claimed her eyes. "Do they?"
"We do," Hikaru said and Kagome's eyes went round as saucers. "We're just really good at hiding now."
"But you don't have a demonic aura," she said.
"Concealment seal," Hikaru said. "It hides us from everyone. Even priest and priestess."
"That must be rough," Kagome said feeling sorry for the demons. "Wait, you said we and us, your a demon?"
"Half demon."
"Ah, like Inuyasha. Half wolf demon?"
"Yea, of the black fur clan."
"Whoa. I haven't met a black wolf."
"Normally they live elsewhere but my dad came here on business and stayed for my mother. They got married about 50 years later."
"Wait, 50 years?"
"Yeah."
"How? You said you're half demon!"
"Half demon, half goddess. My mother is Amaterasu."
"The sun goddess. You must be powerful."
"I don't like to brag but I'm no weakling."
"If I can convince Inuyasha will you come with me?"
"I will ask my uncle if I'm suppose to. I don't want to mess with time too badly."
"Good point."
"Come on I think Uncle Koga would love to see you."
"You live with him?"
"More like the other way around. I bring in the money and he stays at my house, but it's my house. My father had it built when I was small." They walked past Kagome's family shrine, to a large two story house. If she hadn't have known better she would have swore that a rich person lived here. "Come on, this way." She hadn't even seen Hikaru type in the code that opened the large gate, but there it was opening for them.
"Kagome!" a male voice shouted, then a gust of wind past Hikaru and she smiled, because there was Koga hugging Kagome like she was going to disappear if he let go.
"Uncle Koga," Hikaru said. She cleared her throat to bring his attention to her. It worked he let go of Kagome and turned to Hikaru. She pointed down signing that he should look down, he did and laughed. He was standing there naked with his tail showing. Kagome blushed and turned away quickly.
"I may want to put some clothes on, huh?" he said rubbing the back of his head with a laugh.
"Ya think?!" Hikaru barked at him. He ran back into the house. "I'm sorry about him. He never really learned any manners."
"It's OK," Kagome said nervously.
"We'll talk with him while you're here," Hikaru said before she turned to walk to the house. Kagome followed cautiously, praying to every god she could think of that she didn't run into a naked Koga again. She noticed that once they were inside the house that their concealment spell weakened and she could feel the demonic auras of them both. But she couldn't see Hikaru anymore. "I'm upstairs." Kagome laughed. "Please wait on the sofa until I'm down."
"I'll keep her company," Koga said as he enter the room with only a pair of jeans on his tail still showing. "So how you been?"
"Fine," she said. "Believe it or not but I just saw you about a week ago."
"So Kikyo just died?" he asked solemnly.
"Yea," she said sadly.
"Take her with you," he said. "My niece is powerful and she can be a great help." She looked at him in confusion. "I mean it. She is a proud warrior. I can handle her job."
"If you're sure," she said. Hikaru came down the stairs with a large smile on her face. She had changed clothes, she wore a short white kimono with red accents and a sun on each sleeve. Though the biggest change was that she now had a black and white tail pointing out from under her kimono, pointed ears, and a setting sun on her forehead with a black strip on each cheek bone just under the eyes. "Beautiful."
"Thanks," Hikaru said.
"I want you to go with Kagome," he said.
"Are you sure, Uncle?" she asked.
"Yes," he said firmly. "As your alpha, I command it." Her eyes went wide.
"You haven't pulled rank on me since Dad died," she said.
"It's important," he said seriously. "And when you met me in the past, hit me up side my head and tell me to grow up." He laughed lightly and hugged her tightly. "I love you, my light."
"I love you too," she said. "But you act as if this is the last we will see each other."
"The well for you is a one way trip," he said as he still held on to her.
"You always knew," she said as she pulled away to look into his eyes.
"Yes," he said sadly as he closed his eyes and lowered his head. "I met you in the past, so that is how I know."
"Oh, Uncle Koga," she said with sadness in her voice and eyes. "I'm so sorry. You were there for me most of my life only to have to let me go."
"It was my honor to help raise such a beautiful and powerful woman," he said. "When your mother told me she was with pup, you father, my best friend from the main land, asked me to be your godfather I accepted without hesitation. Then once I saw you I knew this day would come. So, I had time to prepare." She hugged him again. "Don't worry about your teaching job or the house."
"The house is half yours, legally," she said as she let go, she looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"No tears," he said softly as he wiped her tears away. "Go pack. And don't plan for class either." She nodded and ran upstairs. He turned to look at Kagome again and saw that she was full on crying. "What?"
"That was so touching," she said as she sobbed. He gave her a brotherly hug. They stayed like that for a while until they heard Hikaru down the stairs.
"I know you're not going back for another week or so but please take her with you to the shrine," he said as he turned around and smiled at Hikaru. He noticed that she changed her sash to the one her mother used to wear, it was a tied into large red bow with a large yellow bell on each end.
"I thought I would take a piece of mom with me," she said as she stepped the bells jingled. "Well, I guess we'd better leave before he keeps us here forever." The girl giggled lightly as he nodded. They left waving bye to him as they left. As they left the house Hikaru's tail was hidden again as was her markings and pointed ears.
"Is the white from your mother?" Kagome asked as they walked back to the shrine.
"Yes," Hikaru said. "My mother could turn into a white wolf."
"Do you have a true form?"
"Yes, I am a towering black and white wolf that is on fire. Oh and my markings are still there." She pointed to her face.
"Sounds pretty."
"I am told I am but I don't know, I'm just me." Kagome smiled as Hikaru shrugged.
"Here we are. Oh, I should have called."
"Hikaru!" a little boy said as he came running at Hikaru.
"Hey little man, how are you doing?" she asked. He hugged her legs so she picked him up and gave him a real hug.
"I'm great. But what are you doing here?" he asked.
"I'm going to go talk to mom," Kagome said as she dashed in.
"I might be staying here until Kagome leaves for the past," Hikaru said as she carried Souta in.
"Is this Hikaru?" a woman asked as Hikaru walked into the house.
"I am Hikaru Kusanagi," she bowed her head since she was still holding Souta.
"My name is Hitomi Higurashi," Hitomi said. "My daughter said you can help her with her mission in the past."
"That I can," Hikaru said. "After all, I'm half demon-"
"What?!" an old man shouted as he ran out of the sitting room, throwing pieces of paper at her. "Be gone demon!" The papers burned up before even reaching her, she smiled at his confused look.
"I'm also half goddess," she said.
"G-g-goddess?!" he exclaimed.
"My mother is Amaterasu," she said. He bowed to her, and she sighed heavily. "Please don't bow. See this is why I don't tell people." She sat Souta down and pulled Mr. Higurashi up. "Just because my mother is a goddess doesn't mean you have to treat me special. I may have some of mom's abilities but I'm still mortal, well a demon's mortal. So I guess that's not mortal at all." Kagome and Hitomi laughed lightly. "I just mean, run me through and I bleed just as you would. My blood is red just as yours is. We're not that different. I love. I cry. I fear. I can even die."
"Dad," Hitomi said. "Leave the poor girl alone." She ushered him back into the sitting room.
"Sorry, about Grandpa," Kagome said. "Mom said you can stay here until I go back."
"That's great!" Souta shouted.
"I never did ask," Kagome said. "Where'd you two mean?"
"The arcade," he said happily.
"I have a weakness for video games," Hikaru said as she shifted nervously.
"Let's go play!" he exclaimed pulling her into the sitting room.
"Supper will be ready soon," Hitomi said as she past them. "Are you sure about this?" Kagome gave her mother a confused look. "Do get me wrong she seems like a nice person and I doubt she'd lie but are you sure you can trust her."
"My friend Koga does," she said. "And for me that's enough." Hitomi dropped it and finished supper.
The week went by quickly with Hikaru in her humanoid form now, helping around the shrine, helping Kagome with homework, as well as Souta, and even with some physical training for Kagome. It was finally the day of the exams. "You have everything?" Hitomi asked.
"Yep!" Kagome exclaimed. "See you after the exams."
"Good luck!" they all shouted as she left. Hikaru went to Kagome's room and laid on the bed.
"We go to the past tonight," she said as she stared straight up. She rolled over on to her stomach and sighed again. While she was excited to be able to fight again like she used to but she had mixed feelings about going back so far. She sat up and noticed that Kagome's exam ticket was still on her desk. "Awe shit." She dashed down the stairs in to the kitchen. "I have to go to Kagome!" She didn't wait for anyone to reply she just put up her concealment spell and ran as fast as she could to catch up with Kagome. She jumped from phone pole to phone pole praying no one saw her. Her bells jingled as she jumped so she sighed again. They heard her at least.
After about ten minutes of traveling she got to the school, where Kagome stood in front with a man in red with white hair and dog ears. Hikaru was shocked to see the dog ears, but then remembered that Koga has said Inuyasha had dog ears being a half dog demon so she shook her head. "Kagome!" she shouted. Kagome turned around and looked like her world had ended.
"Hikaru," she said.
"You forgot your ticket, silly," Hikaru handed Kagome the ticket with a warmhearted smile.
"Thank you," Kagome said.
"You can thank me by not letting my tutoring go to waste!" Hikaru exclaimed happily.
"Right!" Kagome exclaimed with renewed detonation. Inuyasha started to sniff Hikaru as soon as Kagome was inside the school.
"What?" Hikaru asked.
"You smell weird," he said.
"Look who's talking," she said. "Do you even bathe?" She covered her nose. He looked angry.
"Feh, I bathe!" he said loudly.
"Wanna race back, to the shrine?" she asked.
"Feh, I would beat you," he said boastfully.
"Wanna bet on it?" she asked with a sly smile.
"You have that ninja food called Ramen?" he asked.
"I can buy you some, yes," she said.
"If I win I want Ramen," he said.
"Alright," she said. "And if I win I go with you guys down the well."
"What?" he asked.
"Well since you can beat me so easily it shouldn't be a problem," she said.
"Fine," he said.
"Ready, set," she said as she watched him get into position while she just stood there. "Go!" She dropped her concealment spell and took to the skies. She flew on her fire, the bells jingling in the wind. She smiled as she passed Inuyasha without him even knowing. She flew straight to the shrine and dropped down. She put her concealment spell back up and waited. A few minutes later he finally caught up.
"How?" he asked astonished.
"Let me show you," she said as she took of the concealment spell.
"You're a demon?!" he asked rather loudly.
"Please don't shout," she said. "Wolf demon, sensitive ears." She pouted.
"You're a wolf!" he exclaimed.
"Half yes," she said.
"Your half demon?" he asked a little calmer.
"Yes, my dad was a wolf demon of the black fur clan," she said as he sniffed her again.
"Why do you smell like that bastard, Koga?" he asked. She had to control her temper so she took a deep breath.
"Uncle Koga, raised me for the most part," she said as calmly as she could. His ears went flat on his head because even though she was trying to be calm, her aura wasn't and he felt it. She took another calming breath and let it out. "I'm sure you have questions for me let's go to the God Tree." She nodded her head to the tree, then headed toward it. They both sat under the tree, her on the bench by it and him right under it. "Alright, fire away!"
"When's your human period?" he asked.
"I don't have one," she said.
"How can you be half demon with out having a human night?" he asked.
"Because there is no human blood in me," she stated simply.
"But you said you're half demon!" he exclaimed obliviously getting angry.
"I am," she said. "Half goddess too." His eyes shot open as he looked at her. All anger gone. "I do have a night where I'm full demon and I lose my goddess powers but I'm fine without them. It's just inconvenient." He still looked like a deer in headlights so she continued. "It happens when there's a solar eclipse. But mom's power weakens then too." She shrugged.
"So-lar e-lipse?" he asked trying his best to say it but fail.
"When the moon covers the sun," she said. He nodded in understanding.
"Can you fight?" he asked.
"Yes," she said. "I used to fight a lot. Though I have no formal training or weapon. I rely on my pyrokinesis, and telekinesis." She laughed. "Which are both powers I got from my mother. Well I have hunted for food with my claws but I don't feel confident in using them against the likes of Naraku." He looked at her looking completely lost. She laughed. "Pyrokinesis, is control over fire with your mind, and telekinesis is the control of objects with your mind. Here let me show you." She closed her eyes and concentrated on the kitchen. She boiled water using her fire, and pored it into a cup of ramen she opened up. She put chopsticks in it and then made it float to him.
"Ramen!" he exclaimed. "This is great!" He dug straight in like it had been forever since he eaten. She giggled at him. He is truly a dog, but that is part of his charm. She could see why Kagome would love him. He was done faster then Hikaru had expected so when he clapped to signal he was done she jumped, and laughed. "Come on." He stood up and pulled her to stand with him.
"What?" she said as she was pulled to a clearer spot on the shrine grounds.
"Attack me," he said. "Without that mind powers."
"With my claws then?" she asked.
"Feh, yes with your claws!" he exclaimed. She nodded and lunged at him claws forward. He barely dodge it. His eyes went wide as she attacked fast and from the wind coming off her claws he would be hurting if just one landed. He couldn't even counter her. She was too fast for him. "Enough!" She stopped and backed away. "Are you sure you weren't trained?" He stood there trying to catch his breath.
"Uncle Koga taught me to hunt but nothing beyond that," she said. He once again stood there dumbfounded. "But Mother did tell me something I just remembered, my power will only awaken when I 'truly understand myself'."
"Feh," he said. "What does that mean?"
"I don't know," she said. "How can i not know me? I am, me." He shrugged, then looked around confused.
"Shouldn't Kagome be home soon?" he asked.
"Here in the next 10 or 20 minutes," she said. "Wanna go inside?" She smiled. He nodded and visibly swallowed. They walked back inside.
When Kagome got home she found everyone including Inuyasha dancing in the sitting room to Let love you by Ne-yo, and Hikaru singing along with the song. Kagome couldn't believe what she was seeing, Inuyasha smiling. After Kikyo had died again, he shut himself down. Kagome started to cry. "Kagome!" Hikaru shouted and the music stopped. "Are you alright?"
"Just fine," Kagome said. "Thank you, Hikaru. Thank you so much." Hikaru and Inuyasha exchanged confused looks, then shrugged as Kagome went to fix lunch.
After lunch, Inuyasha helped Kagome get ready, while Hikaru stood by the well waiting for them. She was excited, all her fear from that morning had disappeared. She grinned as the urge to fight that she suppressed everyday bubbled to the surface and threatened to consume her. The spar with Inuyasha had reawakened that piece of her she kept buried, but now was the time to let her instincts guild her. Nothing was said as they entered the well house and jumped in.
Once on the other side Inuyasha and Hikaru could smell blood. She was first out of the well and at the source of the blood, she found a demon slayer, she assumed was Sango, and a monk who she assumed was Miroku. Sango drew her blade and stood as defensively as she could. "I mean you no harm, Sango," Hikaru said. Sango looked at her in surprise. "I'm here with Kagome and Inuyasha." Hikaru went to Miroku's side, she opened his robes to see his wound. She could smell the poison in the wound. She sighed.
"Sango!" Kagome shouted as Inuyasha finally caught up.
"Kagome," Sango said. "Is this woman truly with you?"
"Yes this is Hikaru," Kagome said.
"Shh-" Hikaru said as she concentrated. She pulled the poison from his body, it collected in her hand. The others watched in awe at her work. Once she had collected most of the poison she did something that surprised everyone, she ate the poison.
"You ate it!?" Kagome asked. Hikaru jumped up and away from the group for a minute. She howled as she transformed into her true form. "It's just as she said." She stormed off tracing the poison's creator. Miroku was a friend of her family, which to a wolf that means that he was her friend and no one hurts her friends. She was shocked to see the poison came from a young boy, she transformed back so she could speak to the boy.
"You poisoned the monk?!" she asked.
"Who are you to ask questions of me?" he asked.
"I am Hikaru daughter of the sun!" she shouted taking a defensive stance but not moving any closer.
"Why do you hesitate?" he asked.
"Don't kill him!" Kagome shouted as she came up behind Hikaru. "That's-"
"Kohaku, I know," Hikaru said before Kagome could finish.
"Wake up, Kohaku!" Kagome shouted.
"You would wake him," he said. "Do you know what the jewel's been showing him?"
"His past," Hikaru said. "The night he died."
"You know a lot for someone not even Naraku knows," he said.
"Well I like to be up to date on current events," she said.
"Kohaku, wake up!" Inuyasha shouted as he ran up the weapon but was stopped by the weapon morphing into a cage.
"Kohaku!" Sango shouted as she rode Kirara into battle. "Wake up!" Hikaru bit her lip because for all her power she was powerless to help this boy that had been taken over by evil. Helpless. Powerless. Useless. Suddenly a bright light came from his shard of the jewel.
"You may feel powerless, but you are not," a voice spoke straight into her mind.
"How can you say that?" Hikaru thought back.
"Because you are the daughter of the universe not just the sun," the voice finally took shape in her mind. It was a woman that looked like Kagome but older in priestess garb. Koga had told her about a woman that looked like Kagome but wasn't. Kikyo was the name.
"Kikyo?" Hikaru thought.
"Yes. You mother is a smart woman. Your power will come alive soon. Be prepared, protect Kohaku's light." Kikyo gave a small smile as she faded in. By the time she could see again she saw a man in white standing before a face with no body or head. It was a face of pure evil. Her blood boiled in her as she watched the man in white destroy much of the face and parts of Naraku's body. She gripped her heart as she felt it speed up.
"Mine!" shouted a voice in her head that wasn't Kikyo. The voice sounded like her own but more primal. Her body was suddenly consumed by fire. She fought for control of her body with an unknown force.
"Hikaru!" Kagome shouted.
"What's wrong with her?" Sango asked.
"What is this!?" the face asked. The man in white turned to see what everyone was talking about. When the man and Hikaru's eyes met the flames grew brighter then disappeared, she looked different. Her hair now had white strips in it, her aura radiated power and command.
"Die," she said with no emotion in her voice. Suddenly the face screamed then was destroyed, no not destroyed, obliterated. Everyone looked at her in awe and shock. Naraku sent tentacles after Kohaku who was on Kirara, with Sango. "No." The tentacles were vaporized like water on a hot day.
While everyone was focused on Hikaru, so Naraku took that moment to capture Kagome. She screamed in surprise. "Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted.
"I said NO!" Hikaru shouted as she switched places with Kagome, though Hikaru was facing Naraku. She looked dead at him with death in her eyes. His eyes widened at the switch.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"Your worst nightmare," she said calmly as she put her hand on his right shoulder and melted through the armor. She took hold of the jewel but then he tried to use absorb her. She flared her power and destroyed his body but the jewel slipped out of her hand as he escaped. She growled at him as she collapsed from exhaustion.
"Woman," a strong male voice broke through her dreams. Or was it in her dreams, she could no longer tell. It was a voice she could get lost in forever, she sighed happily as she snuggled into something soft and warm. "Woman, unhand this Sesshoumaru, at once!" She finally came out of her dreams full only to be face to face with an angry great dog demon. She sat up quickly, nearly hitting him in the process, then backed away.
"I'm so sorry!" she said quickly as she moved to bow to him.
"How did you do that?" he asked.
"Do what?" she asked.
"Wield the fires of the sun," he said.
"Oh, I'm half goddess," she stated simply without thinking.
"You looked like you were in a trance."
"Was I? I don't remember."
"Yes." A moment of silence claimed the hut.
"Hikaru." He gave her a confused look. "That's my name. Hikaru Kusanagi."
"Lord Sesshoumaru Taisho of the Western Lands." She giggled.
"I'm from the east. My uncle is the ruler of the East honestly. Well he wouldn't be now, he is just the prince but he will one day."
"If you are well I will leave."
"Why do you have to leave so soon?"
"While you killed Magatsuhi, Naraku is still alive." He walked out. She followed him with bells ringing behind her. She smiled as she followed him. She could tell he was trying not to look at her, and that thought made her smile brighter. "Why do you smile so?"
"Why don't you smile?"
"This Sesshoumaru, doesn't have to answer to you."
"Just wondering." Suddenly a dark cloud appeared over a nearby village, with Naraku's scent heavy within it.
Notes: I woke up with this story stuck in my head and had to put it to paper! Or word doc whatever. Any who tell me what you think! R&R please love ya! Also I have art that is in the work for this so just give me time and my friend will have it for me.
