Summery: Kagome's cousin comes to visit. What connection does he have with
the past? What strange power does he wield? The group goes on a journey to
gain the Five Great Dragon Souls, how will it effect their lives together?
Dedicated to Rain, hey it had to be for someone! Rating: R for lots of
violence, swearing, mild romance and drug and alcohol use Quest for the
Dragon Soul's!
By: Darksevin - Nayr(same person)
Chapter One: Kagome's cousin!
Kagome sat on the steps leading down from the temple where she lived. She had been waiting for over a half-hour for her cousin to arrive. She sighed and put her head on her knees. "Why did mom have to invite him over now, and for two months!" she moaned and closed her eyes. Two whole months, how was she going to tell Inuyasha that she had to stay at or near to home for two months? "He's gonna kill me." Her cousin that she had never met, he was from America, her father's brother's son. She had never met her uncle either and now his son was coming to live with them for two months. Her mother had been optimistic as always. "You two will get along fine Kagome," she had said over dinner the night she had been told. "After all he'll be here for your 19th birthday and your uncle says that he is big on Mythology." Kagome took that as her saying "you can tell him about the Sengoku Jidai and he can laugh at you, or think that you are crazy."
She opened her eyes at the sound of a car coming to a halt in the street in front of the shrine. It was a shuttle van. In the passenger seat was the person she assumed to be her cousin. He stepped out and strode to the back of the van. He was tall and had dark black hair, cut short but with a short pony tail in back. She smiled, it reminded her of Miroku. He had on sunglasses and had earring on his left ear; she couldn't see what it was. He was wearing baggy jeans and a battered red hooded sweatshirt. He opened the back of the van and pulled out a large black bag and dropped it on the sidewalk then he pulled out another bag and a small case, he handed them to the driver and reached into the van again. "Wow." Thought Kagome "he packs more than I do!" he pulled out what looked like a long metal case, it was huge! The case was at least eight feet long and a foot thick. "Wow" she thought again. He stood it up and handed the driver some money. The driver bowed and got back into the van.
Kagome stood and started down the stairs to meat her cousin. As she approached he pulled off his sunglasses and smiled. "Kagome!" he yelled and scooped her up in a very rough hug "Gods it's so good to finally meet you." She smiled; at least he was friendly. "Hello cousin, welcome to Tokyo." He looked confused "didn't you get the letter yet?" he asked. Kagome frowned "what letter?" he slapped his forehead "damn it dad cant you do anything" he sighed then smiled "he told me you guys didn't know my name so I wrote a letter to you as a kind or introduction, oh well." He held out his hand "my dad gave me an odd name so you have to promise not to laugh." She smiled. After hearing Sesshoumaru's nickname (fluffy) she doubted that any name could be funny. "I promise." "On your word now," he winked "I'm Seven Higurashi, or here I guess it would be Higurashi Seven." She smiled "that's not that odd, I've heard much worse" he gave her a thumbs up "great then, shall we go up?" she nodded and grabbed one of his bags. "Careful that's heavy!" Seven said reaching out to steady her "I'm fine" Kagome grunted, crap his bag was heavy!
They reached the top of the stairs when Kagome's mother came out. "Oh Kagome, is this him?" Kagome dropped his bag on the porch "yep, Seven meat my mom, mom, Seven." Seven did an elegant bow and kissed her hand. "It is a pleasure to meet you Higurashi-san." She giggled and put a hand to her neck "oh you'll do just fine here, wont he Kagome?" all three started to laugh. "Come on Seven." Kagome said "we'll show you to your room."
The trio walked out to one of the small rooms off of the main house. "This is where you will be staying Seven-kun" said Kagome's mother. He wrinkled his nose "Seven-Kun? Please don't make my name stranger than it already is" Kagome laughed and opened the door he stepped into the dimly lit room. "Dark isn't it?" he asked to nobody in particular. Kagome reached in and flicked the light switch. He smiled "that sure helps." Kagome shook her head. "Are you a goof on purpose or is it a gift?" he caught the joke and looked at her solemnly "Kagome it is a gift and a talent beyond worth" she started to laugh again, maybe this wasn't going to be too bad. Later that evening Kagome sat on her bed putting her bag together. She had to make sure to bring enough to occupy both Shippou and Inuyasha for at least a week. She knew that Shippou would be easy but Inuyasha was another matter. The Chinese finger trap might work but he would probably just rip it in half. She sighed, what could keep him occupied? Someone knocked on her door. "Come in." she closed her bag. Seven stepped in and shut the door behind him. "You guys have a cool house!" he said enthusiastically "all the houses in my town are just like boxes, my dad hates it." "What do you mean Seven" "well a house like this is just. Well. Cool!" he shrugged "it has so many little sections and other neat stuff, have you ever seen the bottom of that well in the back room?" Kagome shot her head up. "The well?" oh no can he know about it? "Yeah it's got some cool bones at the bottom, I went down to look at them, I hope you don't mind." She sighed "no that's fine, it's just an old well" He lowered himself to the floor and sat with his back to the wall. "So where are you going?" The question caught Kagome off guard. "Who says I'm going anywhere?" He shook his head "your bag is screaming week long trip, unless you like to lug bricks around." She thought quickly for an excuse. "Um, well uh, my friend Yuri left it here so her brother wouldn't find it." She moaned, that was a terrible excuse "and um, it's her. brothers, she took some his stuff because he was making her life hell and asked me to hold it." Better but still not one of her finest performances.
Suddenly he jumped up. "Kagome get away from the window!" he looked angry his hand was behind his back. She moved to comply "what's wrong Seven?" with his free hand he pulled out his sun glasses and flipped them on then he growled one word "Youkai!" she looked at him surprised "did you just say Youkai?" she asked. Crap if that's Inuyasha, I told him to stay put! Seven still held his right hand behind his back, under his torn sweatshirt. He slowly crept towards the window. "I don't know what you think about this kind of thing but I smell Youkai blood and its heading right at us." He flattened himself against the wall next to the window, and stood perfectly still. Kagome was frantic, Inuyasha always came in through her window, what was she going to do. Just then she saw his head in the window, he pulled it open and started in. just then Seven moved. He pulled out a wicked looking knife and thrust it towards Inuyasha's head! Kagome did the first thing that came to her mind "SIT BOY!" Inuyasha yelled as the rosary around his neck slammed his face into the windowsill and then into the ground below. Seven unable to stop slammed into the window frame, his knife embedding itself in the wall. "Stupid bitch" Kagome heard Inuyasha yell, "what the HELL was that for!" Seven looked at her "you know him?" he asked confused. Kagome nodded and than ran to the window "sorry Inuyasha." She called down to him "are you ok?" he shook the dirt from his hair "of course I'm ok wench!" Seven pushed her aside and stuck his head out the window. "I don't know who you are Youkai but please refrain from calling Kagome such names." Inuyasha stared up at the new face in. Kagome's room!? "So that's it" he yelled up "you have a guy in there, what's the matter Kagome didn't want me to kill your boyfriend, or did I interrupt a make-out session!" Seven blinked and than started to laugh, after several seconds Kagome pushed him aside. "No Inuyasha this is NOT my boyfriend, he's my cousin, and I sat you to keep him from sticking a knife in your worthless skull." he hollered back. "What the hell is a cousin, and why did he try and kill me?" she stared at the Hanyou "you don't know what a cousin is Inuyasha?" Seven straightened wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes " a cousin is a relative to close to marry and not quite your family, why do you want to know Inu- chan?" he called out from behind Kagome. "WHAT did you call me, listen you jack ass you wanna' piece of me?" Seven pulled the knife out of the wall "no offence meant Inuyasha." He called down "why don't you come up and we can talk like civilized huma... people." Inuyasha grumbled and jumped back up to the window "back off will you." He growled at Seven "I want you where I can see you." Seven waved his hands defensively; "come on now it was an honest mistake, how was I to know that you and Kagome were friends." He backed away from the window but he still kept his eyes on Inuyasha. The grumpy Hanyou climbed into the room and sat cross-legged on the floor. Kagome flopped onto the bed, how was she going to handle this one. Seven resumed his former seat; witch was exact opposite of Inuyasha. Kagome was still trying to figure out how to explain to each of them who the other was. Seven beat her to the punch. "So Kagome, do you want to tell me why there was a Youkai outside your window?" she shook her head; there was no easy solution. "Seven meet Inuyasha, he's a Hanyou, not a Youkai, Inuyasha, this is my cousin Seven." Inuyasha growled and turned his head away from Seven. Seven scratched his head "friendly fella' you got there Kagome, does he talk, other than swearing that is," he lowered his voice and smiled at Kagome "he's very good at that!" Inuyasha snapped his head forward "hey buddy you through insulting me or do I need to shut you up by ramming my fist down your skinny throat!" Kagome jumped between the two. "Come on guys, calm down." She was starting to get worried that Inuyasha would go after Seven. "Now I want you two to shake hands and make up!" she crossed her arms and shifted her glare from one to the other. Seven smiled and extended his hand. "Feh, you expect me to just forgive him just like that, no way Kagome!" Inuyasha turned and started out of the window. "Inuyasha." She said clenching her fists "if you don't shake his hand I'm going to you know what." Inuyasha grumbled and climbed back in. he was in no hurry to be sat again "fine" he put out his hand and grabbed Seven's, if he had to shake his hand then he was going to crush it. Surprisingly Inuyasha found himself fighting for dominance. He squeezed harder only to have the grip on his hand tightens as well. Seven smiled drops of sweat forming on his brow. "That's a nice hand shake you got their Inuyasha." He said trying to keep a steady voice "never did like a weak hand shake myself!" Inuyasha countered.
Kagome shook her head, "only you could turn something like a handshake into a contest Inuyasha." Seven and Inuyasha both let go and took a step back. "Alright Inuyasha, its time to explain to Seven about you." Inuyasha looked offended. "Explain about me to him?.. Hey I still want to know why he wanted to kill me!" Seven managed to look embarrassed and calm as he pulled on his earring. "Well" he started "you could say it was a simple misunderstanding really, I smelt a Youkai coming towards Kagome's window and assumed it was unfriendly." He shrugged "how was I to know she had a tame Hanyou in her backyard." Kagome slapped him upside the head "Seven be polite, Inuyasha is most certainly not tame and he does not live in my backyard." Inuyasha looked surprised, had Kagome just defended him? This was going to take a while.
By: Darksevin - Nayr(same person)
Chapter One: Kagome's cousin!
Kagome sat on the steps leading down from the temple where she lived. She had been waiting for over a half-hour for her cousin to arrive. She sighed and put her head on her knees. "Why did mom have to invite him over now, and for two months!" she moaned and closed her eyes. Two whole months, how was she going to tell Inuyasha that she had to stay at or near to home for two months? "He's gonna kill me." Her cousin that she had never met, he was from America, her father's brother's son. She had never met her uncle either and now his son was coming to live with them for two months. Her mother had been optimistic as always. "You two will get along fine Kagome," she had said over dinner the night she had been told. "After all he'll be here for your 19th birthday and your uncle says that he is big on Mythology." Kagome took that as her saying "you can tell him about the Sengoku Jidai and he can laugh at you, or think that you are crazy."
She opened her eyes at the sound of a car coming to a halt in the street in front of the shrine. It was a shuttle van. In the passenger seat was the person she assumed to be her cousin. He stepped out and strode to the back of the van. He was tall and had dark black hair, cut short but with a short pony tail in back. She smiled, it reminded her of Miroku. He had on sunglasses and had earring on his left ear; she couldn't see what it was. He was wearing baggy jeans and a battered red hooded sweatshirt. He opened the back of the van and pulled out a large black bag and dropped it on the sidewalk then he pulled out another bag and a small case, he handed them to the driver and reached into the van again. "Wow." Thought Kagome "he packs more than I do!" he pulled out what looked like a long metal case, it was huge! The case was at least eight feet long and a foot thick. "Wow" she thought again. He stood it up and handed the driver some money. The driver bowed and got back into the van.
Kagome stood and started down the stairs to meat her cousin. As she approached he pulled off his sunglasses and smiled. "Kagome!" he yelled and scooped her up in a very rough hug "Gods it's so good to finally meet you." She smiled; at least he was friendly. "Hello cousin, welcome to Tokyo." He looked confused "didn't you get the letter yet?" he asked. Kagome frowned "what letter?" he slapped his forehead "damn it dad cant you do anything" he sighed then smiled "he told me you guys didn't know my name so I wrote a letter to you as a kind or introduction, oh well." He held out his hand "my dad gave me an odd name so you have to promise not to laugh." She smiled. After hearing Sesshoumaru's nickname (fluffy) she doubted that any name could be funny. "I promise." "On your word now," he winked "I'm Seven Higurashi, or here I guess it would be Higurashi Seven." She smiled "that's not that odd, I've heard much worse" he gave her a thumbs up "great then, shall we go up?" she nodded and grabbed one of his bags. "Careful that's heavy!" Seven said reaching out to steady her "I'm fine" Kagome grunted, crap his bag was heavy!
They reached the top of the stairs when Kagome's mother came out. "Oh Kagome, is this him?" Kagome dropped his bag on the porch "yep, Seven meat my mom, mom, Seven." Seven did an elegant bow and kissed her hand. "It is a pleasure to meet you Higurashi-san." She giggled and put a hand to her neck "oh you'll do just fine here, wont he Kagome?" all three started to laugh. "Come on Seven." Kagome said "we'll show you to your room."
The trio walked out to one of the small rooms off of the main house. "This is where you will be staying Seven-kun" said Kagome's mother. He wrinkled his nose "Seven-Kun? Please don't make my name stranger than it already is" Kagome laughed and opened the door he stepped into the dimly lit room. "Dark isn't it?" he asked to nobody in particular. Kagome reached in and flicked the light switch. He smiled "that sure helps." Kagome shook her head. "Are you a goof on purpose or is it a gift?" he caught the joke and looked at her solemnly "Kagome it is a gift and a talent beyond worth" she started to laugh again, maybe this wasn't going to be too bad. Later that evening Kagome sat on her bed putting her bag together. She had to make sure to bring enough to occupy both Shippou and Inuyasha for at least a week. She knew that Shippou would be easy but Inuyasha was another matter. The Chinese finger trap might work but he would probably just rip it in half. She sighed, what could keep him occupied? Someone knocked on her door. "Come in." she closed her bag. Seven stepped in and shut the door behind him. "You guys have a cool house!" he said enthusiastically "all the houses in my town are just like boxes, my dad hates it." "What do you mean Seven" "well a house like this is just. Well. Cool!" he shrugged "it has so many little sections and other neat stuff, have you ever seen the bottom of that well in the back room?" Kagome shot her head up. "The well?" oh no can he know about it? "Yeah it's got some cool bones at the bottom, I went down to look at them, I hope you don't mind." She sighed "no that's fine, it's just an old well" He lowered himself to the floor and sat with his back to the wall. "So where are you going?" The question caught Kagome off guard. "Who says I'm going anywhere?" He shook his head "your bag is screaming week long trip, unless you like to lug bricks around." She thought quickly for an excuse. "Um, well uh, my friend Yuri left it here so her brother wouldn't find it." She moaned, that was a terrible excuse "and um, it's her. brothers, she took some his stuff because he was making her life hell and asked me to hold it." Better but still not one of her finest performances.
Suddenly he jumped up. "Kagome get away from the window!" he looked angry his hand was behind his back. She moved to comply "what's wrong Seven?" with his free hand he pulled out his sun glasses and flipped them on then he growled one word "Youkai!" she looked at him surprised "did you just say Youkai?" she asked. Crap if that's Inuyasha, I told him to stay put! Seven still held his right hand behind his back, under his torn sweatshirt. He slowly crept towards the window. "I don't know what you think about this kind of thing but I smell Youkai blood and its heading right at us." He flattened himself against the wall next to the window, and stood perfectly still. Kagome was frantic, Inuyasha always came in through her window, what was she going to do. Just then she saw his head in the window, he pulled it open and started in. just then Seven moved. He pulled out a wicked looking knife and thrust it towards Inuyasha's head! Kagome did the first thing that came to her mind "SIT BOY!" Inuyasha yelled as the rosary around his neck slammed his face into the windowsill and then into the ground below. Seven unable to stop slammed into the window frame, his knife embedding itself in the wall. "Stupid bitch" Kagome heard Inuyasha yell, "what the HELL was that for!" Seven looked at her "you know him?" he asked confused. Kagome nodded and than ran to the window "sorry Inuyasha." She called down to him "are you ok?" he shook the dirt from his hair "of course I'm ok wench!" Seven pushed her aside and stuck his head out the window. "I don't know who you are Youkai but please refrain from calling Kagome such names." Inuyasha stared up at the new face in. Kagome's room!? "So that's it" he yelled up "you have a guy in there, what's the matter Kagome didn't want me to kill your boyfriend, or did I interrupt a make-out session!" Seven blinked and than started to laugh, after several seconds Kagome pushed him aside. "No Inuyasha this is NOT my boyfriend, he's my cousin, and I sat you to keep him from sticking a knife in your worthless skull." he hollered back. "What the hell is a cousin, and why did he try and kill me?" she stared at the Hanyou "you don't know what a cousin is Inuyasha?" Seven straightened wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes " a cousin is a relative to close to marry and not quite your family, why do you want to know Inu- chan?" he called out from behind Kagome. "WHAT did you call me, listen you jack ass you wanna' piece of me?" Seven pulled the knife out of the wall "no offence meant Inuyasha." He called down "why don't you come up and we can talk like civilized huma... people." Inuyasha grumbled and jumped back up to the window "back off will you." He growled at Seven "I want you where I can see you." Seven waved his hands defensively; "come on now it was an honest mistake, how was I to know that you and Kagome were friends." He backed away from the window but he still kept his eyes on Inuyasha. The grumpy Hanyou climbed into the room and sat cross-legged on the floor. Kagome flopped onto the bed, how was she going to handle this one. Seven resumed his former seat; witch was exact opposite of Inuyasha. Kagome was still trying to figure out how to explain to each of them who the other was. Seven beat her to the punch. "So Kagome, do you want to tell me why there was a Youkai outside your window?" she shook her head; there was no easy solution. "Seven meet Inuyasha, he's a Hanyou, not a Youkai, Inuyasha, this is my cousin Seven." Inuyasha growled and turned his head away from Seven. Seven scratched his head "friendly fella' you got there Kagome, does he talk, other than swearing that is," he lowered his voice and smiled at Kagome "he's very good at that!" Inuyasha snapped his head forward "hey buddy you through insulting me or do I need to shut you up by ramming my fist down your skinny throat!" Kagome jumped between the two. "Come on guys, calm down." She was starting to get worried that Inuyasha would go after Seven. "Now I want you two to shake hands and make up!" she crossed her arms and shifted her glare from one to the other. Seven smiled and extended his hand. "Feh, you expect me to just forgive him just like that, no way Kagome!" Inuyasha turned and started out of the window. "Inuyasha." She said clenching her fists "if you don't shake his hand I'm going to you know what." Inuyasha grumbled and climbed back in. he was in no hurry to be sat again "fine" he put out his hand and grabbed Seven's, if he had to shake his hand then he was going to crush it. Surprisingly Inuyasha found himself fighting for dominance. He squeezed harder only to have the grip on his hand tightens as well. Seven smiled drops of sweat forming on his brow. "That's a nice hand shake you got their Inuyasha." He said trying to keep a steady voice "never did like a weak hand shake myself!" Inuyasha countered.
Kagome shook her head, "only you could turn something like a handshake into a contest Inuyasha." Seven and Inuyasha both let go and took a step back. "Alright Inuyasha, its time to explain to Seven about you." Inuyasha looked offended. "Explain about me to him?.. Hey I still want to know why he wanted to kill me!" Seven managed to look embarrassed and calm as he pulled on his earring. "Well" he started "you could say it was a simple misunderstanding really, I smelt a Youkai coming towards Kagome's window and assumed it was unfriendly." He shrugged "how was I to know she had a tame Hanyou in her backyard." Kagome slapped him upside the head "Seven be polite, Inuyasha is most certainly not tame and he does not live in my backyard." Inuyasha looked surprised, had Kagome just defended him? This was going to take a while.