Close Brothers
By IYandKH4ever
Disclaimer: InuYasha by no means belongs to me. This story is mine though.
Author's note: Just had a sudden idea... be prepared for a pathetic fic!! This is dedicated to my four friends who all are either going to have a birthday soon or already had one: James, Sheila, Justin, and Neko. Chat with me on AIM, my sn is IYandKH4ever, the same as my pen name.
AN 2: I'm putting the chapters together, so it will be easier. This chapter was previously 1-3, and then a little more.
Chapter 1; The Sealed Away Boy
InuYasha ran on top of the rooftops, closely followed by his elder brother Sesshoumaru. "HAHAHAHAHA!!!" InuYasha laughed at the villagers, his red robes flying behind him. InuYasha came to a stop and turned to face his brother.
"Let us leave this pathetic village of humans, little brother." Sesshoumaru said with a cold looking smirk.
"Hai, hai elder brother." With that, the demon brothers took off as the villagers fled for their lives from the flames of the village. "Too bad you guys, I'm taking the Shikon no Tama with me." InuYasha laughed as he followed Sesshoumaru. 'With the power of the Shikon no Tama,' thought InuYasha, 'I can become as powerful as aniki…'
"InuYasha!!"
Sesshoumaru suddenly stops. "NO!! WAIT INU-"
An arrow flies towards InuYasha. He pauses and turns. "Wha-"
The arrow embeds itself into InuYasha's heart. Kikyou suddenly steps out from her hiding place, blood flowing in streams from wounds.
"Ki… Kikyou… Bitch…how dare you…" With that said, InuYasha slumps onto the tree behind him.
"NOOOOO!!! INUYASHA!!!" Sesshoumaru's eyes widen as his little brother's eyes close and his body falls limp, only the arrow keeping him up. He reaches a clawed hand towards him, and is stopped by an arrow planting itself next to his head. Sesshoumaru turns to glare at Kikyou, who has another arrow ready.
"Leave, before you meet the same end as your brother…" Kikyou's voice dripped with acid as Sesshoumaru clenches his fists, tiny rivulets of blood drip from his hands.
"I will return, you can be sure of it bitch." Sesshoumaru ran, and a small trickle of tears follows. He jumps and lands on the roof, before turning to face Kikyou. "You may think us demons bloodthirsty and heartless…" the trickle turns into a stream. "But I loved my brother, and he had loved you. He was willing to give up his humanity for you… it is you humans who are heartless." He turns and flies into the sky.
Kikyou thinks about his words, as she picks up the Shikon no Tama. As she rises, she is overcome by the blood loss and collapses. Her little sister Kaede rushes obediently to her side. Kikyou turns to face her little sister.
"The Shikon no Tama…because of such a thing," Kikyou turns to face the village. Two wounded villagers come towards the two sisters.
"Kikyou-sama…" begins one.
"It's a horrible wound…" states another.
"Onee-sama, quickly get treatment…" Kaede tries to help her sister up. She is pushed away by Kikyou, who brings her around face her and speak to her.
"I'm already too far gone. So, listen carefully, Kaede…" Kikyou holds out the Shikon no Tama to her sister. "…this…must be burnt with my remains. So that it shall never again fall into the hands of evil ones." With that, Kikyou slumped over.
"Onee-sama!!!" Kaede screams.
~~~~~~~
Kikyou's body was cremated, and she took the Shikon no Tama to the other world with her. InuYasha slumbers long, and villagers believe him to be asleep. This is where the legend will begin…
~~~~~~~
The year is 1996 AD, in Tokyo, Japan. It is the birthday of the young Kagome Higurashi. In her family temple, her grandfather is currently selling useless charms to a customer.
"As long as you keep this, your house will be safe and your business will prosper!!" The old grandfather said to a customer.
"I'll take it then!!"
Just as the customer leaves, Kagome steps into the room. "Are you selling more of those glass balls, Jii-chan?" She asks as she holds her cat, Buyo in her arms. The old man smiles.
"Listen carefully Kagome. The Shikon no Tama's history starts with…"
"Apart from that Jii-chan. Do you remember what day is tomorrow?" Kagome asked her grandfather. The old man smiles again. He pulls out a wrapped present and presents it to his granddaughter.
"I have no reason to forget my cute grand-child's birthday."
"Wow, a present Jii-chan?"
"It might be a day early, but happy birthday Kagome!" Kagome quickly unwraps the present, and pulls out what looks to be the hand of a monster.
"That mummified kappa's hand brings good luck. It's history starts with…"
Kagome holds it in front of her cat. "Eat up Buyo."
"AH!! THAT WAS EXPENSIVE!!!" Jii-chan tries to rescue the hand from the cat, which runs off with the hand in its mouth. "GET BACK HERE!!!" Jii- chan promptly starts chasing the cat. Kagome laughs slightly, as a sweat drop decorates the back of her head.
~~~~~~
'Jii-chan never stops that.' Kagome thought as she walks outside to find her little brother. 'He always tells me the history of our shrine and its things, but…' she smiles sheepishly. 'I always forget!!' She then sees her little brother. "Souta!! You shouldn't play in the hokora!"
"But Buyo, he fell into the well!!"
"Eh?!"
Kagome and her little brother Souta ran into the well house, and crouch down to look around.
"Buyo? Buyo~~?" Souta called. With no success at finding his cat, he turned to his sister. "Uh, Kagome?"
"What is it Souta? Why don't you go down?" Kagome asked.
"This place feels kind of creepy…" Souta whined.
"Be a man Souta, this kind of think shouldn't be scary." Kagome smirked at her little brother. They suddenly hear a scraping noise coming from the covered well. Souta yelps and jumps behind his sister.
"There's something there!!!" he whined from behind his sister's back.
"It's probably Buyo, Souta." Kagome sighed. "I'll go." She walked down the steps hesitantly. She heard more scraping, and began to get nervous. "Uh, Buyo?" Suddenly, she felt something rub her leg.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Kagome screamed, and Buyo ran from her legs. She turns to glare at the cat, and then to her brother, who was holding his thumping heart in an effort to calm it down.
"Ah~~~ that scared me!! Don't shout like that!!"
"Souta, you coward. You…" Kagome began. The scraping became louder, and then out burst the torso of a woman with six arms. "!" Kagome was pulled inside the well with the woman. Inside the well, she sees that 'woman' has a long set of ribs below her stomach.
"How wonderful…My powers are coming back…" Suddenly, the bones of her lower body start growing flesh, making it look very much like the body of a centipede. "My body is coming back." A long tongue comes out of her mouth and licks Kagome's face. "You…have it don't you?"
"Let go!! That's disgusting!!" Kagome thrusts her hand in the woman's face. A flash of light appears, and the woman's arm disintegrates, a part of it still holding Kagome. "AH!!"
The woman falls. "Damn you…I won't let you go…the Shikon no Tama…"
'Shikon no Tama?' Kagome thinks, just as she falls onto the bottom of the well. Kagome looks up to see the sky outside the well. "Am I, inside the well?" She turns to look at a vine growing on the side. As she climbs up, she thinks 'What was that just now…A dream…?' She glances at the part of the arm of the woman at the bottom of the well. 'No, it wasn't… Now where have I heard of the Shikon no Tama before?'
Kagome clambers out of the well, and sees a large forest. 'Eh? This wasn't here before…' "OI!! JII-CHAN!! SOUTA!! KAA-SAN!!" Kagome called out. She turns to see a giant tree. "Ah! The Sacred Tree!! My house is near there!!"
She races up, and then sees InuYasha. His hair streams off with the breeze. He was in such a peaceful sleep; Kagome wondered what he was dreaming about. "Excuse me…" Kagome called out to him. "What are you up to?" She quickly climbed the thick vines towards InuYasha. She suddenly notices his ears. 'Hey, those aren't human ears…' Kagome twiddles his ears. "Hang on, what am I doing?"
"What are you doing over there?!" An arrow buries itself next to Kagome's head.
"EEP!!" Kagome buries her face into InuYasha's chest.
~~~~~~~
"What did you think you were doing?"
"That area is off-limits!! And with good reason!!"
"Are you from a foreign province?"
"She must be a spy!!"
"War again?"
"Maybe she's a kitsune in disguise…"
"She was sure lucky not to have met the demon lord Sesshoumaru…"
"Clear the way!! Priestess Kaede-sama has arrived!!"
An old woman with a patch over her right eye stoops down to look at Kagome. "Who are you? And why were you in the Forest of the Demon Brothers? Especially hanging nears the Tree of InuYasha?" Suddenly, the old woman seems surprised by something. She takes Kagome's head into her hands. "Let me see your face. And try to look more intelligent. Yes, you resemble Kikyou-onee-sama."
"Who?"
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"My sister Kikyou was the priestess who protected the village. She died fifty years ago, I was but a child." Kaede glances at Kagome's bowl of soup, which is untouched. "Not hungry?"
"Um…" Kagome shakes her still tied up arms. "I would eat, if I were untied."
"Ah…oops."
~~~~~~~
"Is this Tokyo?" Kagome asks as she eats.
"I haven't heard of it before. Is that your province?" Kaede asks.
"Uh…yeah…I wouldn't mind going home now…" Kagome suddenly realizes something. "How am I supposed to get back anyway?" An audible crash is heard outside.
"What is going on?" Kaede asks as she runs outside, followed by Kagome. Suddenly a wounded horse lands in front of them.
"KYAA!!" Kagome screams. Both women look up to see a centipede woman coming down to the villagers.
"Hand over the Shikon no Tama…" the monster hisses.
"The Shikon no Tama.?!" Kaede's eyes widen in surprise and recognition. "Do you have it?" Kaede asked Kagome.
"I don't even know what that is!!" Kagome suddenly realized something. 'Oh no!! She's after me!!' She turns to address Kaede and the others. "I'll lead it out of the town!!"
"Neither spears nor arrows work." Cries a villager.
"We have to drive it back to the dry well!!" Kaede yells.
"Dry well?" Kagome asks.
"It's in the Forest of the Demon Brothers." Kaede answers.
'That's the well I came out of…' Kagome yells at Kaede. "Which way is the forest?"
"To the East."
"Where that light is coming from right?" With that, Kagome took off with the monster in pursuit.
"What did you say?!" Kaede yelled.
Kaede's eyes widen. "Did she say, that she could see the evil aura of the forest? Normal people cannot see it!!"
Meanwhile, in the forest, the glow is centralized around the sleeping demon. Suddenly, his eyes open. The demon raises his head up. "I can smell her…the girl who killed me. She's coming closer…"
While this was happening, Kagome is racing towards the well in front of the demon's tree. "I'm going to make it!!" Kagome cries as she sees her destination.
AN: that's done…I'm gonna work on the next chapter now.
By IYandKH4ever
Disclaimer: InuYasha by no means belongs to me. This story is mine though.
Author's note: Just had a sudden idea... be prepared for a pathetic fic!! This is dedicated to my four friends who all are either going to have a birthday soon or already had one: James, Sheila, Justin, and Neko. Chat with me on AIM, my sn is IYandKH4ever, the same as my pen name.
AN 2: I'm putting the chapters together, so it will be easier. This chapter was previously 1-3, and then a little more.
Chapter 1; The Sealed Away Boy
InuYasha ran on top of the rooftops, closely followed by his elder brother Sesshoumaru. "HAHAHAHAHA!!!" InuYasha laughed at the villagers, his red robes flying behind him. InuYasha came to a stop and turned to face his brother.
"Let us leave this pathetic village of humans, little brother." Sesshoumaru said with a cold looking smirk.
"Hai, hai elder brother." With that, the demon brothers took off as the villagers fled for their lives from the flames of the village. "Too bad you guys, I'm taking the Shikon no Tama with me." InuYasha laughed as he followed Sesshoumaru. 'With the power of the Shikon no Tama,' thought InuYasha, 'I can become as powerful as aniki…'
"InuYasha!!"
Sesshoumaru suddenly stops. "NO!! WAIT INU-"
An arrow flies towards InuYasha. He pauses and turns. "Wha-"
The arrow embeds itself into InuYasha's heart. Kikyou suddenly steps out from her hiding place, blood flowing in streams from wounds.
"Ki… Kikyou… Bitch…how dare you…" With that said, InuYasha slumps onto the tree behind him.
"NOOOOO!!! INUYASHA!!!" Sesshoumaru's eyes widen as his little brother's eyes close and his body falls limp, only the arrow keeping him up. He reaches a clawed hand towards him, and is stopped by an arrow planting itself next to his head. Sesshoumaru turns to glare at Kikyou, who has another arrow ready.
"Leave, before you meet the same end as your brother…" Kikyou's voice dripped with acid as Sesshoumaru clenches his fists, tiny rivulets of blood drip from his hands.
"I will return, you can be sure of it bitch." Sesshoumaru ran, and a small trickle of tears follows. He jumps and lands on the roof, before turning to face Kikyou. "You may think us demons bloodthirsty and heartless…" the trickle turns into a stream. "But I loved my brother, and he had loved you. He was willing to give up his humanity for you… it is you humans who are heartless." He turns and flies into the sky.
Kikyou thinks about his words, as she picks up the Shikon no Tama. As she rises, she is overcome by the blood loss and collapses. Her little sister Kaede rushes obediently to her side. Kikyou turns to face her little sister.
"The Shikon no Tama…because of such a thing," Kikyou turns to face the village. Two wounded villagers come towards the two sisters.
"Kikyou-sama…" begins one.
"It's a horrible wound…" states another.
"Onee-sama, quickly get treatment…" Kaede tries to help her sister up. She is pushed away by Kikyou, who brings her around face her and speak to her.
"I'm already too far gone. So, listen carefully, Kaede…" Kikyou holds out the Shikon no Tama to her sister. "…this…must be burnt with my remains. So that it shall never again fall into the hands of evil ones." With that, Kikyou slumped over.
"Onee-sama!!!" Kaede screams.
~~~~~~~
Kikyou's body was cremated, and she took the Shikon no Tama to the other world with her. InuYasha slumbers long, and villagers believe him to be asleep. This is where the legend will begin…
~~~~~~~
The year is 1996 AD, in Tokyo, Japan. It is the birthday of the young Kagome Higurashi. In her family temple, her grandfather is currently selling useless charms to a customer.
"As long as you keep this, your house will be safe and your business will prosper!!" The old grandfather said to a customer.
"I'll take it then!!"
Just as the customer leaves, Kagome steps into the room. "Are you selling more of those glass balls, Jii-chan?" She asks as she holds her cat, Buyo in her arms. The old man smiles.
"Listen carefully Kagome. The Shikon no Tama's history starts with…"
"Apart from that Jii-chan. Do you remember what day is tomorrow?" Kagome asked her grandfather. The old man smiles again. He pulls out a wrapped present and presents it to his granddaughter.
"I have no reason to forget my cute grand-child's birthday."
"Wow, a present Jii-chan?"
"It might be a day early, but happy birthday Kagome!" Kagome quickly unwraps the present, and pulls out what looks to be the hand of a monster.
"That mummified kappa's hand brings good luck. It's history starts with…"
Kagome holds it in front of her cat. "Eat up Buyo."
"AH!! THAT WAS EXPENSIVE!!!" Jii-chan tries to rescue the hand from the cat, which runs off with the hand in its mouth. "GET BACK HERE!!!" Jii- chan promptly starts chasing the cat. Kagome laughs slightly, as a sweat drop decorates the back of her head.
~~~~~~
'Jii-chan never stops that.' Kagome thought as she walks outside to find her little brother. 'He always tells me the history of our shrine and its things, but…' she smiles sheepishly. 'I always forget!!' She then sees her little brother. "Souta!! You shouldn't play in the hokora!"
"But Buyo, he fell into the well!!"
"Eh?!"
Kagome and her little brother Souta ran into the well house, and crouch down to look around.
"Buyo? Buyo~~?" Souta called. With no success at finding his cat, he turned to his sister. "Uh, Kagome?"
"What is it Souta? Why don't you go down?" Kagome asked.
"This place feels kind of creepy…" Souta whined.
"Be a man Souta, this kind of think shouldn't be scary." Kagome smirked at her little brother. They suddenly hear a scraping noise coming from the covered well. Souta yelps and jumps behind his sister.
"There's something there!!!" he whined from behind his sister's back.
"It's probably Buyo, Souta." Kagome sighed. "I'll go." She walked down the steps hesitantly. She heard more scraping, and began to get nervous. "Uh, Buyo?" Suddenly, she felt something rub her leg.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Kagome screamed, and Buyo ran from her legs. She turns to glare at the cat, and then to her brother, who was holding his thumping heart in an effort to calm it down.
"Ah~~~ that scared me!! Don't shout like that!!"
"Souta, you coward. You…" Kagome began. The scraping became louder, and then out burst the torso of a woman with six arms. "!" Kagome was pulled inside the well with the woman. Inside the well, she sees that 'woman' has a long set of ribs below her stomach.
"How wonderful…My powers are coming back…" Suddenly, the bones of her lower body start growing flesh, making it look very much like the body of a centipede. "My body is coming back." A long tongue comes out of her mouth and licks Kagome's face. "You…have it don't you?"
"Let go!! That's disgusting!!" Kagome thrusts her hand in the woman's face. A flash of light appears, and the woman's arm disintegrates, a part of it still holding Kagome. "AH!!"
The woman falls. "Damn you…I won't let you go…the Shikon no Tama…"
'Shikon no Tama?' Kagome thinks, just as she falls onto the bottom of the well. Kagome looks up to see the sky outside the well. "Am I, inside the well?" She turns to look at a vine growing on the side. As she climbs up, she thinks 'What was that just now…A dream…?' She glances at the part of the arm of the woman at the bottom of the well. 'No, it wasn't… Now where have I heard of the Shikon no Tama before?'
Kagome clambers out of the well, and sees a large forest. 'Eh? This wasn't here before…' "OI!! JII-CHAN!! SOUTA!! KAA-SAN!!" Kagome called out. She turns to see a giant tree. "Ah! The Sacred Tree!! My house is near there!!"
She races up, and then sees InuYasha. His hair streams off with the breeze. He was in such a peaceful sleep; Kagome wondered what he was dreaming about. "Excuse me…" Kagome called out to him. "What are you up to?" She quickly climbed the thick vines towards InuYasha. She suddenly notices his ears. 'Hey, those aren't human ears…' Kagome twiddles his ears. "Hang on, what am I doing?"
"What are you doing over there?!" An arrow buries itself next to Kagome's head.
"EEP!!" Kagome buries her face into InuYasha's chest.
~~~~~~~
"What did you think you were doing?"
"That area is off-limits!! And with good reason!!"
"Are you from a foreign province?"
"She must be a spy!!"
"War again?"
"Maybe she's a kitsune in disguise…"
"She was sure lucky not to have met the demon lord Sesshoumaru…"
"Clear the way!! Priestess Kaede-sama has arrived!!"
An old woman with a patch over her right eye stoops down to look at Kagome. "Who are you? And why were you in the Forest of the Demon Brothers? Especially hanging nears the Tree of InuYasha?" Suddenly, the old woman seems surprised by something. She takes Kagome's head into her hands. "Let me see your face. And try to look more intelligent. Yes, you resemble Kikyou-onee-sama."
"Who?"
~~~~~~~
"My sister Kikyou was the priestess who protected the village. She died fifty years ago, I was but a child." Kaede glances at Kagome's bowl of soup, which is untouched. "Not hungry?"
"Um…" Kagome shakes her still tied up arms. "I would eat, if I were untied."
"Ah…oops."
~~~~~~~
"Is this Tokyo?" Kagome asks as she eats.
"I haven't heard of it before. Is that your province?" Kaede asks.
"Uh…yeah…I wouldn't mind going home now…" Kagome suddenly realizes something. "How am I supposed to get back anyway?" An audible crash is heard outside.
"What is going on?" Kaede asks as she runs outside, followed by Kagome. Suddenly a wounded horse lands in front of them.
"KYAA!!" Kagome screams. Both women look up to see a centipede woman coming down to the villagers.
"Hand over the Shikon no Tama…" the monster hisses.
"The Shikon no Tama.?!" Kaede's eyes widen in surprise and recognition. "Do you have it?" Kaede asked Kagome.
"I don't even know what that is!!" Kagome suddenly realized something. 'Oh no!! She's after me!!' She turns to address Kaede and the others. "I'll lead it out of the town!!"
"Neither spears nor arrows work." Cries a villager.
"We have to drive it back to the dry well!!" Kaede yells.
"Dry well?" Kagome asks.
"It's in the Forest of the Demon Brothers." Kaede answers.
'That's the well I came out of…' Kagome yells at Kaede. "Which way is the forest?"
"To the East."
"Where that light is coming from right?" With that, Kagome took off with the monster in pursuit.
"What did you say?!" Kaede yelled.
Kaede's eyes widen. "Did she say, that she could see the evil aura of the forest? Normal people cannot see it!!"
Meanwhile, in the forest, the glow is centralized around the sleeping demon. Suddenly, his eyes open. The demon raises his head up. "I can smell her…the girl who killed me. She's coming closer…"
While this was happening, Kagome is racing towards the well in front of the demon's tree. "I'm going to make it!!" Kagome cries as she sees her destination.
AN: that's done…I'm gonna work on the next chapter now.