Title: Wishes
Chapter: 1
Note: This is a three-way crossover.
Timeline: After the end of YYH, goes slightly AU from the accepted facts. I also change past canon facts sometimes. IY, I'm betting you all know anything I talk about that's canon. BtVS is roughly early to middle season six, though you won't see a lot of them besides Dawn until later chapters.
Warning: Being that this is fanfiction, there is always the possibility, and probability that the characters will be OOC, because I am not the creator of any of these. Please don't whine if you decide that they should have done something different. You aren't the creator of any of these either.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Wishes
Chapter 1 - GrantedA small slender frame was slumped against the God Tree. Anger and bitterness were plain on her face, expressions that her friends never would have expected to see on her face. Kagome eyed the completed Shikon no Tama and almost sobbed. She had told her friends she needed some time to purify the jewel. She had become an awfully good liar.
Like the jewel shards, she could instantly purify the completed jewel, at least as purified as it was going to get without major use of her powers. Unfortunately, she didn't know how to use all of her miko powers. Besides the odd blast of energy she'd get like when she'd first come through the well, the most she could do was use her arrows. At nineteen, she was still too weak to be of much help.
Inside the house, a boy a few years younger than Kagome watched her, biting his lip in indecision. He wanted to go out and talk to his sister. Not only about what was happening in the feudal era, but also about something he had recently discovered when he'd been playing with her bow and arrows. The fifteen-year-old could have sworn he had seen a blue glow around it. Hers was pink, but hadn't she said Miroku's was blue once? After all, he would have died of shame if it had been a pink glow.
The boy finally stepped out, but his sister didn't notice him and he sighed, wishing that his powers heralded an adventure like hers had. 'I wish I could go on an adventure like Kagome's, or at least join her in an adventure! I can help, I really can!'
Kagome heard the door opening but didn't pay attention to it. Inuyasha...she knew he would keep his promise to Kikyou. And she couldn't go back to decide what they were doing with the jewel only to see him go to hell once it was over. 'I wish I was somewhere were I never had to worry about Inuyasha again. And that I could help, that I wouldn't be such a burden.'
Neither expected to hear a voice suddenly chuckle in their mind, and briefly the siblings' eyes' met in horrified realization. 'Wish granted.'
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In another world, another dimension, a fifteen-year-old girl watched her sister struggling home after a day of slaying and working at a fast food restaurant. Bright blue eyes closed, trying to shut out what she saw. If she weren't here, if she had never been made, would Buffy be like this? At least she wouldn't be there to ignore anymore. Heck, she had watched Buffy fight and practiced enough herself that she could fight, and maybe then she could help take at least part of the strain from Buffy.
But no, she wasn't allowed to. She had to be protected, she wasn't allowed to train, and she especially wasn't allowed near magic. Not that it mattered; she still snuck looks in the books. She could do a few spells, as she had proved to her sister when she almost resurrected their mother the year before. Even if she had been a zombie.
Dawn lay back on her bed, remembering all the looks she ever got. Protected, a child, a burden, that's all she ever was. 'I wish I wasn't. That I could be somewhere were the people would actually see me, see that I could be useful, and maybe even dare to let me be hurt.'
Dawn never figured that a single thought could do any harm. After all, it was only when things were said out loud that wishes could be dangerous right? That didn't dispel the sinking feeling she got as she suddenly blacked out, a thought not her own ringing in her mind as a swirling green portal opened beneath her. 'Wish granted.'
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In yet another dimension, four boys eyed their enemy, enraged at the position they had been put in. Four strong fighters were fighting a strong demon, but it was one that usually they could defeat, in fact, Yusuke could have blown it away without a second thought. Unfortunately this demon had learned of a weakness of the Toushin. A childhood friend, one who he had dated and even been engaged to before the two had broken it off, oddly very peacefully and they still chatted like friends. But nothing more, never again something more.
"Damnit, this is stupid. I wish we had someone on our side that the demon hadn't prepared for. Hell, I wish we had a weapon that we could use that couldn't hurt Keiko, too."
Kurama rolled his eyes. "I agree with your wishes Yusuke, but if we're wishing for that, why don't we just wish for a miko too? Here, I wish we had a miko to purify the demons and help us save Keiko. See how pointless wishes are?"
None of the four boys seemed to notice the air growing slightly darker above the demon's head as they fought off lesser demons while trying to think. Hiei joined in with his own dry comment. "I wish that someone would hurry up and finish this mission."
Kuwabara sighed, and grouchily added, as he thought of the bleak and suddenly darkening surroundings, "I wish there was something pretty here."
Keiko rolled her eyes upon hearing the banter but winced as the demon who was holding her accidentally tightened it's hold. 'I wish I wasn't so weak, that I didn't need rescuing damnit! That there would be someone to teach me to defend myself so these things wouldn't happen!'
Far away, a demon watched the battle, sighing happily. A golden tail sprouted out from its back and it smirked oddly down at them, linking hand with a black haired woman who looked oddly human. 'Wish granted' they chorused to multiple minds, she taking the power of the wish and bending the world to their will, and he taking that will and spreading it through dimensions, linking the wishers together.
The darkening sky finally split open with their power and a black and silver portal opened above the demon, spitting two people out before turning green and dropping another body to the ground. Three people stumbled to their feet and looked around groggily. The five natives were shocked, and a few cries went up, trying to distract the demons from the apparently easy prey. Apparently easy until one girl's eyes went wide with fear and her hands outstretched before her, turning the demons in front of her to ash. Surprisingly, the boy did something similar, causing the older girl's eyes to open in shock. "Souta Higurashi! You never said you could do that!"
Another girl, her hair brown to the other two's black, watched them with slight amusement before looking around. "Um, hey, didn't you two just speak Japanese? Whoa, I'm speaking Japanese! But...I don't know Japanese!"
The black haired woman who had helped grant their wishes shot the man beside her a look. "Do you have to make things perfect all the time?"
"Well...yes. Besides, it makes things easier." He grinned at her and she sighed, letting herself feel the power through their linked hands, and linked spirits.
"Alright. They can figure things out for themselves from here on out. Let's go." The demon male nodded, and then the two of them disappeared, none of the people below who had been granted wishes even knowing they had been there. The demon holding Keiko growled at the newcomers, then pointing at Dawn, who hadn't shot any energy out.
Dawn eyed the pack and saw one of the demons coming towards her holding a sword. The fifteen-year-old grinned and shot forward, grabbing it from the demon's hand and dodging back to the other two newcomers as the demons looked on in surprise. "Think just because I don't have any fancy light show I'm defenseless? Come and try me then."
Kagome and Dawn instinctively formed a circle back to back, Souta joining it as he realized what they were doing. Kagome shot out another blast and growled as the next one didn't come. "Damn, I wish I had my bow and arrows. My energy is so unpredictable."
"Yeah, but we'll do, Kagome. Oh yeah, I'm Souta Higurashi, in case you hadn't heard my sister screaming the name earlier." Souta directed the last statement towards the nervous Dawn. She nodded; feeling adrenaline coursing through her and her sword killed a few demons in front of her before she answered. "Dawn Summers. It's nice to meet you. I can't believe I'm speaking Japanese. I come from California!"
"I'm Kagome Higurashi. Maybe whoever or whatever pulled us through that portal gave you the ability to speak Japanese? Or maybe everything you think is translated to Japanese as you speak it. Hey, did you wish something before you were pulled through?" Kagome ducked under a swipe and felt her miko energy rise to meet the youki emanating from the demons around them. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief and blasted a few more away.
"Yeah, a big old wish. You two too, huh? Um, I don't know about you two, but I can't keep this up for long and they're getting pretty close. Oh look, I think those guys are over their shock of people falling from the sky. They're fighting too now." Dawn relaxed slightly, and that was her mistake as a demon took the chance to swipe down her shoulder. Kagome heard the cry of pain and cursed as not only did Dawn fall back, but Souta turned to protect her.
Kagome gathered energy around her and pushed it out slowly around Souta and Dawn. She gritted her teeth and pushed it all out, giving the demons pause as a large circle of them was purified. Their confidence was renewed when Kagome fell to her knees, barely hearing Souta's cries.
The four Spirit Detectives struggled through the demons, but suddenly were stopped as all the demons stopped moving and a struggling Keiko was lifted in the air. "How interesting these new humans are. Such strong power I can feel from them, yet they barely know how to use it."
Kagome rolled her eyes as the demon started to speak, but narrowed her eyes as the demon came to stand over the three, Souta the only one standing, but even he was panting from the use of his barely there powers. Kagome knew that look on his face. It had been easier for him to call up the power, but like her, he didn't know how to control it very well, and he couldn't call it up at will. It was unpredictable and neither knew when their powers would respond and when they would suddenly give out. Her eyes met his and she raised one slightly glowing hand. The injured Dawn saw the exchange and looked between them in confusion.
The boys' eyes were on the demon as it laughed hysterically over the newcomers, blabbering on about power and how it would suck all of it out of their bodies. Kuwabara clenched one fist. "Stupid demon, the only reason I haven't killed him is because of Keiko."
Yusuke rolled his eyes, but responded to that statement anyway. "I think that's my line. You can barely kill a fly."
"I very much doubt any of us are going to be killing anything, we're in a bind, with all the demons and the way he set this up." Kurama looked disdainfully at the demons around them who were barely even watching them now as they listened to their master.
Hiei's eyes were narrowed as he watched the girls and boy exchange looks. "I don't believe we'll need to," Hiei said simply.
Hiei ignored the confused and slightly angry looks sent his way and watched the scene play out with interest. The girl, a miko by the glow around her and the way the energy felt, lunged awkwardly towards the demon her hands coming in contact with its leg and then the whole demon began to glow pink. A blue glow was soon added to that as the injured girl stood in front of them, holding the sword in one hand to stave off the other demons.
The demon screeched its pain to the heavens and tried to squeeze the life out of the human in its grasp. Its muscles moved too late as it's hand and very body disappeared. Keiko dropped towards the ground with a scream.
Souta caught his sister and they both fell back. He peered at her and sighed. She had used up too much power between protecting him and Dawn when Dawn fell and with purifying the demons. He resisted the urge to close his eyes and looked towards Dawn, who had dropped her sword and pulled someone else to them as the demons stared at the pile of ash that had been their leader. "Souta, you get up. Girl, whoever you are, watch Kagome, she and Souta saved your ass and she saved mine and Souta's earlier. Those boys seem to be doing a good job of cleaning up now that the leaders gone but we might need my sword and Souta's powers anyway."
Keiko nodded and took a girl nearer her own age than the other two and studied her. She had seen what these people had done. The demon might have been right. Perhaps they really were very powerful.
"Hey, all of you people all right?" Yusuke scanned the area and saw the few demons left fleeing. Or attempting to, as Hiei was methodically killing all of them in sight.
Dawn eyed the battle field, and seeing only the four boys left, she let herself kneel down, one hand hanging uselessly at her side while the other dropped the sword with a metallic clang and reached up to hold her bleeding shoulder. "Just peachy. We were just dropped into the middle of a battle, I'm speaking Japanese, that Kagome girl is unconscious, my shoulder's bleeding, and I want to know what the fuck is going on?"
Yusuke looked in surprise at the younger girl and shrugged. "Hell if I know. You three just dropped out of the sky. First them in an almost totally black portal, then you out of a green one. Though there was that strange voice..."
"Let me guess, it said 'Wish granted'. So, what did you demons wish for? Besides the guy with weird orange colored hair, you all are demons aren't you? There's something off about you, and you sort of feel like what we just fought except-"
Yusuke interrupted Souta's babble. "Yeah, we are." Yusuke eyes narrowed as they both tensed slightly, and the boy stepped almost unnoticeable closer to the unconscious girl and Keiko. "Problem?"
Souta narrowed his eyes and his gaze darted to Kagome. He bit his lip and looked around the battlefield. Finally he caught Dawn's eye and an understanding passed between them. In unison they visibly relaxed and Dawn answered cheerily, "Nope, no problem. We're just jittery from the portal travel."
The Spirit Detectives had no chance to respond as a more normal portal opened and a blue-haired girl came out floating on an oar. "Hello everyone and-- Oh my! That's one strong miko! And you, you're the Key!"
Dawn tensed up and in an instant she was on her feet, the steady way she held the sword belying her injured state. "Who are you and how do you know about the Key?"
Botan's eyes widened, but the boys all got into more battle ready stances. "Girl, I suggest you put down that sword," Hiei said coldly.
"Maybe when she answers the questions," the teenager said in a level voice, her attention focused on Botan. Souta came to stand next to her, looking between the natives and Dawn. "What's a Key?"
"It's the Key. It is the key of dimensions. It can break them; people have used it to transport through them, even destroy and create them once in awhile, those with the proper knowledge. But, because of that, it is a source of great energy, and many have looked for it. For spells, to use it to dominate worlds, many things came up. It... Over a year ago it disappeared, seemingly flowing into one single dimension, where its keepers were. Usually, though it was in that dimension, it's powers leaked through and Reikai could usually trace it. Now, I see what they did to protect it. You are the Key, they put the Key into human form." As Botan spoke she was staring in awe at the bleeding girl.
Dawn looked at Botan suspiciously. "And was this Reikai one of those who wanted to use it to dominate a world?"
Kurama sighed and began to slip around the girl to Keiko. Dawn narrowed her eyes and attempted to turn to stop him. Suddenly she was on the ground, Hiei snorting as he crossed his arms after tripping her. "Don't pick up a sword if you don't know how to use it."
Hiei never expected the boy to defend the girl, and jumped backwards with a pained hiss as the strange blue glow that defined Souta's powers lit up around him. The fire apparition's eyes narrowed. "Boy, prepare to die."
"No, Hiei, STOP!" Botan breathed a sigh of relief as her shout worked just in time, Hiei sword stopping millimeters from Souta's neck. The boy's eyes were wide with fear and he was trembling. His eyes flickered to his unconscious sister and his back straightened under the sword and he glared back at the demon. His sister was unconscious in the hands of a strange girl. The only other one in a similar situation was the new girl Dawn, and he wasn't going to let any demons push any of them around.
"Please, everyone just step away from each other." When neither the fire apparition nor the younger teen moved, she took in the two wounded girls and the energy vibrating about the boy. She doubted the boy would be conscious much long himself, he seemed to be almost drained. "Please, we're not here to take power, not the power of the key, nor your purifying powers. We can on the other hand, give you sanctuary. Just take one step back."
Yusuke raised an eyebrow at Botan curiously. These people seemed violent, willing to fight, and had apparently uncontrolled powers. Reikai didn't offer people like that sanctuary for no reason. Botan shook her head, trying to indicate she would explain later.
Souta and Dawn were gazing at each other. The boy looked towards his unconscious sister and looked down at the ground. Dawn winced at the pain in her shoulder in sighed. "Before you ask us questions and all that, can I have some bandages and can the glowy siblings over here get a place to rest? Because I think he's just about to go the way of his sister."
"I am not," Souta muttered, but he heard the red-eyed demon snort and heard a sigh from the brown eyed one. "Great. Two kids and a girl."
"They're only a few years younger than you. Now come along now, everyone through, Keiko, why don't you come too, we should make sure there were no ill effects of the demon. Yusuke pick up the unconscious girl won't you? If she wakes up and starts purifying things, you're the one who will probably be hurt the least besides Kuwabara." Botan glared when Yusuke tried to object and calmly opened a portal for all of them to step through. The younger girl and boy moved slowly and eventually Keiko and Kurama walk along side them and supported them past the portal.
Botan paused after everyone had gone through the portal and looked towards where the two strange beings that granted wishes had stood. She felt the left over energy and grinned. "Nice to know those two are still around. Time to tell Koenma. The Travelers are back."
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