Red: I know I shouldn't be writing another story when I've already started two other stories, but eh, I'm going to do it anyway.
I absolutely loved Fullmetal Alchemist years ago, but as time went on, it had lessened over the years. I mean, don't get me wrong, I still loved it, but I wasn't as hyped as when I first watched it.
But that has changed. I'm rewatching Brotherhood with some friends of mine, which is causing me to go through my second hype phase. :P
To celebrate (I guess) I decided to write a crossover with my favorite female character and favorite male character.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Fullmetal Alchemist, if that wasn't obvious enough. They belong to their rightful owners. (I mean, why would the creators be on this website writing fanfics?)
Notice! This is going to follow the story of Brotherhood, but will probably make references back to some things that happened in the first series.
Summary: After the final battle with Naraku, Kagome was sent home...not to the place she had come to know, but instead to the place she had forgotten—Amestris. Many years ago, she had saved her father from having to see Truth by sacrificing herself in his place, causing her to end up in Japan without her memories. But with the final battle done, it was time for her to return.
The World She Forgot
Chapter One: Back Home
Kagome hung onto Inuyasha as he carried the both of them out of the void. With a slash of his sword, he made a rift in the darkness that led to the outside. His arm gripped around her waist tighter as he brought them back to their friends.
Their friends watched them land softly on the ground of the destroyed battlefield. They greeted them with warm smiles and tears of joy. We had finally done it. The battle was finally over and they had won. Kagome gave them a warm, tired smile. She couldn't believe the Jewel was gone. It all seemed too unreal.
'You know you never belonged in the Feudal Era, Kagome. Return… Return to the world where you truly belong.' The words the Shikon Jewel said to her in the void still rang in her head but in a voice similar, yet different from what she had heard before. 'Your job here is done. And now it's time to pay the second part of our wager.'
'Wager?' Kagome looked frightened. 'What wager?' she asked the voice.
'The one you paid in order to know the truth,' the ominous voice told her.
Before anyone could react, a giant door appeared out of nowhere and stood behind Kagome. She turned around slowly, frightened at what she was about to see. The markings on the door looked complex with many strange symbols and words decorating it, forming an elaborate tree-like pattern.
"It's time for you to return home, miko. Or should I say, 'young alchemist.'" The voice appeared to be coming from the other side of the door.
"What's an alchemist?" Miroku asked, very confused about what was going on.
Kagome got a bad feeling from this door. It seemed so familiar to her, yet she couldn't place where she had seen it before. "I-I've read about it in my textbooks, but they're just a myth," she replied as nervous sweat began building on her skin.
"A myth you say?" The voice laughed at her ignorance. "Oh, young alchemist, wouldn't you say many would call your half-demon friend a myth? Or what about your other demon friends, are they myths as well?" The voice paused for effect. "And am I a myth?"
Kagome took a shaky step back. "I-I don't know. I've never met you before."
The voice let out another laugh. "Oh, how laughable for you to think that. I'm the one who sent you to this world, and now you're done with your task, it's time for you to go back. This is the price you shall pay for knowing the truth."
"Bullshit! You're not going to take her away from us!" Inuyasha yelled at the door as he stepped protectively in front of Kagome.
Kagome put a hand on Inuyasha's arm as she gave the door a hard stare. "What price are you talking about?" Kagome tentatively demanded.
"A person cannot gain anything without sacrificing something first. That is the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy," the voice stated. "And what you sacrificed is what you value the most."
"What I value the most?" Kagome took another step back. "I-I don't know what that could possibly be."
Another laugh was heard. "You'll figure it out with time. Now…" The doors began to open, revealing a black void of nothing. "I believe I have delayed your departure long enough…" A giant, ominous eye appeared in the doorway. The sight made Kagome step back again.
"What is that thing?" Sango asked, preparing to fight it if they had too.
"Whatever it is, it doesn't look good," Miroku replied also getting into a fighting stance.
Kagome began shaking with freight. 'I know this feeling…and it's not good,' she thought as she held her shaking body with her arms. "Everyone! Get back! Whatever this thing is, it's dangerous!" Everyone looked at Kagome with worry, but did what she said.
Long, black tendrils shot out of the door and wrapped around Kagome's limbs. "KAGOME!" everyone shouted with concern and freight.
'Come…' the voice beckoned. 'Come, young alchemist… Go back to your own world.'
Kagome struggled against the tendrils. 'My own world?'
"Kagome!" Inuyasha ran up to her and tried to rip off the black, ribbon-like arms of the monster.
Even though she didn't want to, Kagome knew there was nothing she could do. Wherever she came from, she had to go back. Her job here is done. "Inuyasha stop!" she shouted at her lover.
"But, Kagome! You're going to be dragged into that door!" Inuyasha gripped her body close to his into a tight hug.
Kagome gave him a sad look. "I know…but I think it's what I have to do." She let her bangs cover her eyes as she leaned her head against his chest.
"But!" he tried to protest.
Kagome lifted her head to reveal her tear filled eyes. "There's nothing you can do, Inuyasha!" Her voice cracked as she shouted at him. "My time here is done," she said softly. "If I truly don't belong here, then I must go. I knew I would have to leave after the battle was done, but this was not how I pictured it."
"K-Kagome…" Inuyasha began to shed tears for his love. He leaned down and captured her lips with his.
After a few seconds passed, they pulled apart and embraced one last time. "Never forget me, Inuyasha," she whispered softly into his chest.
He held her tighter. "Never." He then reluctantly let her go.
Kagome looked at the rest of her friends who were also shedding tears for her. "I guess this is goodbye, everyone."
"Kagome…" Shippo cried as he watched the person he began to think of as a mother get taken away from him.
Kagome gave him a sad smile. "Stay strong for me, Shippo," she said before turning to the door with a determined look. "I'm ready…" she stated, no longer bothering to struggle. As if understanding her, the tendrils began to put more force as it began to pull Kagome into its dark abyss.
"Heed my warning, alchemist. Close your eyes as you journey back unless you want to lose more than you already have," the voice warned.
Kagome decided it was best not to question the voice so she did what it said. She felt her body get pulled into the void as the doors closed with a hallowing bang, signaling there was no turning back.
Under her eyelids, she could see that something bright began to light up the abyss, but she resisted the temptation of opening her eyes to see what it was. As she got father to where she was going, she felt her body begin to break down from the unknown force.
'Alchemy is the science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down, then reconstructing it as something else. It is the science that follows the natural laws: to create, something of equal value must be lost. This is the principle of equivalent exchange,' Kagome heard a younger version of her voice recite.
After an indeterminable amount of time had passed, Kagome was thrown out of the door and into a completely white room. "Where am I?" she asked as she began to pick herself up from the ground.
"You are nowhere." Kagome turned around a saw a ghostly outline of a figure sitting a ways away. "Yet everywhere."
"What?" Kagome faced the figure. "Who are you?"
"We already had this conversation, Kagome." The figure smiled. "You already know the answer to that question. Actually, you know the answer to many questions since you've seen the truth."
Kagome gave the figure a confused look, but decided to do the one thing that would allow her to reach further into her mind. She sat down on her knees and placed her hands together as she meditated, trying to search her mind for what she had lost. The figure sat patiently as it waited for the girl to find the answer.
After a few minutes, she opened her eyes. "Well? What is your answer?" it asked her.
Kagome looked at the figure where its eyes would be. "You go by many names: you are the world, the universe, truth, you are all, you are one."
"That's correct, alchemist." Truth smiled at her for getting the answer right, but she felt no comfort in it.
Kagome gave the figure a hard look. "I remember everything. I remember my life in Amestris. I had protected my father from being sent here, so instead of him having to suffer, I decided to sacrifice myself in his place."
"That's correct. Despite the transmutation circle not being your doing, I still had to take away something you valued the most," the figure stated.
Kagome looked down at her lap. "My family and my friends…"
"That's right. If you died, you wouldn't care. But if you lost the people you loved, that's a much heavier price." The figure stood up. "And what makes it even better is that you lost your lover as well."
"Inuyasha…" Tears began to build up in her eyes again.
"No need for any more tears, alchemist. You can finally go home—your real home," Truth pointed out.
"W-wait. What about my father? Is he alright?" Kagome asked, remembering the man she had protected, what seemed so many years ago.
"That's for you to find out. Now, it's time for you to go. I have kept you here far too long." Truth lifted up its hand as Kagome began to fade from its domain. "I shall take away a few years you have lived through, but your memories will stay intact so that you will forever remember those you had to leave behind."
"Wait!" Kagome reaches out to Truth. "How will I know where to find him?"
"The component that you seek will be where everything meets…" Those were the last words Kagome heard before she found herself lying in the middle of a ruined circle in what looked like a collapsed building.
'Where am I?' Kagome looked around and look for anything remotely familiar. The pillars that surrounded her gave her a sense of déjà vu. 'Is this the place where I was last seen in this world?' she thought as she looked at the circle she sat on top of. 'This is where I saved him from having to suffer my fate.'
Kagome picked herself up from the floor and brushed off her clothes, which didn't do much considering how torn and dirty it got during the final battle. 'The component that I seek will be where everything meets…' Kagome grabbed her head in frustration. "What the hell does that mean?!" Kagome walked around to look for an exit. "God damn it. I wish my life for once wasn't filled with riddles. Why can't people just give me straight answers?!"
Kagome saw that there wasn't an obvious open door since the building had collapsed, but there was a pile of rubble she could somewhat easily climb up to get out of the hole she was in. "It seems my life can never be easy," she grumbled as she climbed up the rock pile.
Once she got to the top, she saw that the sun was just rising over the horizon. "I wonder how much has changed since I've been gone." At the bottom was what looked like an abandoned small town with collapsed buildings littering the area. "Well, it looks like this has been left alone for at least a couple of years now."
She jumped down to a lower rock, before jumping one last time to the ground. "It doesn't seem like this place has seen any life in a while."
Kagome continued to explore the ruins of the forgotten town looking for anything she could possibly use. In one building she found some clothes still left in the drawers. Most of the clothes had been eaten away by bugs, but some things could still be used. In a different house, she was able to find a worn, brown, hooded cloak that could come in handy as she journeyed to find her father. Another house contained a medium-sized strap bag that she used to fill with any valuables she could find, which she could possibly sell in the next town. Luckily she was able to find random change dropped on the ground or hidden away in different parts of houses, which should be enough to buy at least a few days worth of food.
After shoving everything she could find in her bag, she adjusted the strap over her shoulder before looking out at the long dirt road she planned to take to get to the next town. "Well, I guess this is it…" She took a deep breath before taking the first step on her new journey.
Red: How was it? Good? Bad? Please let me know what you think in the reviews. :)
(Depending how well this story does and if people even like it will let me know if I should continue or not.)
