It's DTR again, with a new story for all my dedicated readers! And also, this will be a NarutoxInuyasha crossover.
BTW, you can vote for who you want to pair who with, only Miroku/Sango is a definite yes -shrugs-
I can't wait to see what you all think of it!
Kagome was tired, mentally and physically. She could barely think at some points, and she couldn't remember the last time that she had been to a village. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara and herself had been traveling from place to place for the past six months, never staying in a place more than a day, and she didn't know how much longer that she would be able to keep this up. The exhaustion was catching with her, and her friends could see it. And Kagome could see the exhaustion beginning to creep up on them too.
'If only we hadn't trusted him...'
--Flashback--
Kagome looked up from the glittering, pink jewel in her hand at the carnage of the battle field around her. Demon carcass littered the ground, blood seeping into the soil, destined to be a space were no plants would ever grow again.
She took shaky breaths and felt her numerous, but rather small wounds, throb in pain. She winced, but couldn't keep the goofy smile off her face. She giggled.
It was finally over... Naraku was dead! All of the jewel shards were safe in Kagome's possession and all of her friends were alive! She couldn't ask for more.
Well she could...
Inuyasha was limping over to her with Kikyo standing in the back round. The woman still had her stoic look on her face, but Inuyasha was smiling at her, and her heart lifted to see that smile.
She stood up and hugged Inuyasha tightly. Looking at his face she saw hesitation in his eyes. She saw that he was struggling to say something. She looked down, hiding her own eyes from him. She had finally made her decision.
"Inuyasha," she began, looking back up at him, her happiness mask firmly in place, smiling at him, "Go to Kikyo, she is the one who needs you now..."
Kagome almost sobbed when a look of relief passed over his face. She was being broken into pieces on the inside. She turned from Inuyasha and went to find Shippo, only to stop when she felt something rip into the flesh on her back. Growing pain welled up, coming from her back.
She heard the screams of Sango, and Miroku yelling her name, but couldn't act as she fell to the ground, gasping in pain with the force of the pain that hit her. She turned her head slightly to see Inuyasha behind her with blood on his claws. Behind him, she saw Kikyo, a knowing smirk gracing her lips. Her eyes once again focused on the blood on Inuyasha's claws.
'My blood...', she thought.
She was beginning to become upset at herself for losing her bow, when Inuyasha charged at her, bloody claws raised.
Kagome clenched her eyes shut, waiting for intense pain again,only to feel something lift her up by the scruff of her neck, with a firm grasp on her scarf . She felt herself be dropped into caring arms, and opened her eyes to see Kirara in standing in front of her protectively, and, looking up, she saw that she was in Miroku's arms.
" Lady Kagome? Lady Kagome!?" he said in a worried voice, she wasn't able to answer, however, as she had fallen unconscious.
--Flashback end--
She had woken up later, after her friends had escaped from Inuyasha and Kikyo. After she had woken up, Sango had pulled her to the side and told her all that Inuyasha had said while she was unconscious.
Kikyo and himself had been planning for a long time to betray them. Every time that Kagome saw Inuyasha leave to go see her, it wasn't just to do so. It was also to plot.
Inuyasha was helping Kikyo to kill Kagome so Kikyo could get the rest of her soul back. He just didn't seem to understand that Kagome was her reincarnation, and that Kikyo wasn't supposed to be alive at all.
Kagome had had an epiphany that day. After thinking for a long time, mulling over all that had happened in the past three years, she had decided one thing that she was sure that would help everyone.
It was time to stop going after Inuyasha and understand that he had never felt the same way, heck he had never even cared at all for her. Her feelings for him had brought everyone down. So she decided to get rid of those feelings.
A while afterwards, Kagome found out that Kikyo had permanently sealed the well, so she couldn't escape to her own time. When she heard this, Kagome had thought, 'It's all for nothing though, Kikyo.'
A while before the last battle with Naraku, Kagome had returned home to find her house empty of all life. Literally.
A man had come into the house and had murdered her family. Kagome had seen her mothers body and had broken down, screaming for help. Then she had seen Souta and Grampa, and bolted.
Kagome had rushed back to the past, seeking solace in Inuyasha. She had been so naive then. But the good thing about this, was that when she had emerged on the other side of the well, Inuyasha was nowhere to be found, and Kagome had only told Sango and Miroku what had hapened. Inuyasha hadn't noticed how depressed she was, most likely due to the fact that Kikyo was on his mind.
Sango and Kirara were also grieving. During the battle, Kohaku appeared and battled with Sango. But he couldn't bring himself to keep up the charade that he had been in place since he had regained his memories.
He had apologized to his big sister.
Kohaku had then ripped the jewel shard out of his back of his own accord after seeing what Naraku was doing. He had given Kagome the shard with his last bit of his energy.
Miroku was trying his best to comfort his wife and his friend, and it seemed to be working. The whole group was, slowly but surely, healing.
The friends now shared a bond, and for that Kagome had to thank Inuyasha. If he had not attacked her, Miroku, Sango and herself wouldn't have become as close as they were. She might still be living in a fantasy of love from the one she thought she cared for.
But now, the two were her siblings and Shippo was her son.
Speaking of Shippo, in all the time she had spent with him, he had grown. He now looked to be four or five years old by human standards. Kagome had also found out that at a certain age, full-blooded fox demons were able to change into a human form or a kitsune form.
She had her new family, and she wasn't about to let them be taken away from her.
Sesshomaru could be a very patient person depending on what mood he was in, and right now, he was about ready to go postal on the fist thing to cross his path. Even if he was the Lord of the Western Lands, he had a soft spot for anyone he truly cared about, especially Kagome, who he had dubbed his 'Imouto'. The fact that the problem in question involved her made him all the more furious.
He had just learned that his dumb ass little brother had disappeared, and that he was said to have killed his group that he was traveling with.
He immediately set out to find his brother, and kill him.
Sesshomaru was once a cruel, brutal and all around mean person. That was before he had seen his brother after fifty years, meeting his adoptive daughter, Rin, and to top it all of, finding a little sister in Kagome.
It was as if he had done a one-eighty. Hearing that his younger brother had killed her made Sesshomaru very, very unstable.
So without further adieu, Sesshomaru left Rin in the care of Jaken and Ah-un and sat himself on top of the highest tree in the forest to search for his Imouto's scent.
Ten minutes later, Sesshomaru was speeding toward the north-east with his daughter, retainer, and steed at his side.
The crackling of the fire awoke Kagome that night. She had been given a few hours off of watch when Miroku had insisted that she take a break and sleep some of her weariness off. When she awoke however she was met with a sight that surprised her.
She saw Sango and Miroku asleep as well and saw Kirara in her large form standing watch.
She slipped out of her sleeping bag slowly, not wanting to awake Shippou from his well deserved rest. Silently she walked over to Kirara and sat down. Lifting up her hand and, she petted Kirara on her head.
"Kirara, I think we will soon have to stop all of this traveling and do something other than run. With Kikyo giving Inuyasha power, we won't be able to fight him and Kikyo without one or all of us dying... What should I do?", after she said all this she buried her head into Kirara's fur.
Kirara whined in sadness at her, knowing how much confusion and sadness her other master was feeling.
Then Kirara nudged Kagome's head, and when Kagome lifted her face out of Kirara's fur, the fire Neko turned her head to the north-eastern part of the ocean that was not to far from where they were camping.
Kagome looked out that way and began to think. She had never seen the ocean before coming to the past and she loved the sounds. The waves rushing up the sand to splash against the rocks, the smell of salt spray erupting from the waves. She loved the ocean and wished she could have gone to it in her time...and that's when it came to her!
In her world their were different continents, so why shouldn't there be any here!
That's it! Miroku had mentioned a 'mainland' a while ago, so the people in this time knew about it. If those continents had been discovered in the past fifty years, Kikyo and Inuyasha wouldn't know about it! Kikyo had been dead and Inuyasha was stuck to a tree!
Now she had to make a plan. She would have to find some sort of raft or something, and food! She couldn't forget anything, bandages, clothes, provisions. Kagome was elated at finally having a plan.
She turned to Kirara and wrapped her arms around the Neko's neck. "Thanks Kirara!", she said affectionately.
Standing up she walked back to were Sango and Miroku were sleeping, seeing that the first rays of light were peeking over the ocean's shore and that the couple was waking up.
She began to roll up her sleeping bag while waiting for her companions to wake up enough to hear her plan.
The next few days were going to be crazy...
I hope that the first chapter was to your liking. I love writing now! The length of my chapters is getting so much more awesome! This is defiantly my longest chapter in all of mine.
As I said you can vote for the pairings, except that Miroku ans Sango is already a sure fire pairing. The votes for who Kagome can be with are,
Kakashi, Kouga, Asuma, Itachi, MAYBE Sasori, but defiantly NOT Sesshomaru. They are brother/sister in this fic. You can choose them or another guy that I can't remember. They must be a respective age, so no Jiraiya and Orochimaru or anyone that much younger than her. My favorite right now is ZabuzaxKagome. Remember, Zabuza was like thirty in the Manga/Anime so when Naruto was the age when Kagome finds him, Zabuza's like twenty, only 2 years older than Kagome. If you choose Zabuza it won't happen until the wave arc and Zabuza will have to be loyal to Konoha, got it?
You may also choose who Naruto is paired with. The only thing is that there is no Naruto with an older woman, like Kurenai or Anko. He must be with any one of these girls:
Hinata, Temari, TenTen, Ino, or FemHaku if you want. I could do a harem only if its two girls, though, so you can give me your first two choices.
Please use constructive criticism when you review as well. If you don't like it at least tell me why you don't and it can't be just an opinion, you have to have facts, please?
R&R