Kagome, Will You Save Me?
This is my first fanfic…. so tell me what ya'll think!! It takes place 2 years after Bankotsu and the Band of Seven died.
Prologue:
Enter Bankotsu
Naraku was in his usual castle, as always thinking of a sinister and cowardly plan that of course his "minions" would do for him. As Naraku was watching from Kanna's mirror,
Kagura was walking along Mt. Hakurei looking for the remains of the Leader of the Band of Seven…
After a short while, Kagura found what she, or rather Naraku was looking for, the remains of the one called Bankotsu. Kagura's deep red eyes looked up as if someone suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said, "Naraku, I found it." 'What does Naraku want with Bankotsu?' she thought to herself.
'Oh well, it doesn't matter what he wants with him, as long as I get this filthy job done here." She thought, she saw the bones that were left here in Mt. Hakurei she doesn't exactly know what had happened here, no one will tell her anything these days!!
Kagura put a Shikon jewel on what she thought is his neck, she watched without flinching, as the skeleton started to get flesh. Long, black hair started to grow from the scalp, after seeing that he indeed was coming back, Kagura left….
The body that contained the Shikon jewel had been complete, the man known as Bankotsu awoke again.
'Where am I? What happened?' He looked around him and saw that he was in a cave of some sort. He looked down and saw that he was naked; suddenly he saw movement in front of him, a man in a white baboon cloak appeared in front of him. 'Wait a minute! I recognize that baboon cloak!!' "Naraku, what the hell are you doing here?" He looked at the man who he thinks brought him back to life. "Now, now Bankotsu is that the way to greet an old friend?" The man took off the top of the baboon cloak, and grinned at Bankotsu. "You bastard!! You killed all of my friends; don't think that I have forgotten!!" Bankotsu looked around, looking for his Banryu, "Where the hell are the others and my Banryu, you bastard?!"
"Well, well I would have never thought that bringing you back to life would give such a hateful welcoming to me." Naraku had in his arms Bankotsu's favorite cloth (his regular clothes of course!) "I came to bring you some clothing and ask of you to do me the task that you didn't finish the last time you were alive." Meanwhile, Bankotsu took the cloth and got dressed, after he finished he said, "What is this time? I would have figured since we… wait… where's Jakotsu and Mukotsu...??" Bankotsu narrowed his eyes at Naraku, "Did you bring back my friends or did you just bring me back?" Again, Naraku just laughed that hideous laugh of his and asked, "Your friends? Wasn't that, what's his name, aw yes Renkotsu the one who betrayed you all and ended up killing almost all of your friends? And as for the others, I can't find where the rest are I only knew where you were." Bankotsu recalled back at what had happened…
Bankotsu was sitting on a rock with one of Naraku's poisonous insects, when Renkotsu appeared behind him. 'Bankotsu has three of the Shikon jewels in his neck, along with those that I took from Jakotsu and Ginkotsu I should have enough to keep alive and powerful,' Renkotsu thought, 'just got do it quickly before he attacks me with his Banryu.'
Yet when Renkotsu was about to attack Bankotsu jumped off the rock and turned to face his "comrade." "Well Renkotsu for a smart guy you sure are dumb!" Bankotsu was holding Jakotsu's hair clip in his hands. Naraku's insect told me what you did Renkotsu." He said quietly. "You made a wrong choice in doing what you did Renkotsu," Bankotsu saw Renkotsu eyeing his Banryu and he smirked and said, "Don't worry I won't use my Banryu, we'll just fight without any sort of weapons."
Bankotsu looked back at Naraku and asked "So you still want me to kill Inuyasha?" Naraku looked at him and said, "No, well at least not now… right now I need you to get me the woman who is with Inuyasha the one called Kagome." Bankotsu frowned and closed his eyes trying to remember who this 'Kagome' was.
As Bankotsu was about to strike at Inuyasha to kill him, an arrow with purple light glowing from it hit him in the arm and destroyed most of his arm. When he looked at her, he couldn't help but notice her beautiful dark, brown eyes, her long blue black hair, and her fair skin. Even though he got distracted, it was only for a sec, but that was all it took to get Inuyasha a chance to get his Tetsuaiga.
Yet, Bankotsu was able to respond quickly and countered by locking his Banryu with Tetsuaiga. Suddenly, this orbing relic came out of nowhere and fixing his damaged arm, transported him to Mt. Hakurei.
Opening his eyes and looking back at Naraku he said, "And why should I go for this woman? We…I mean, I do not take tasks like these…" Naraku said, "I'll make a deal with you, if you get me the woman, then I'll give you back your friends." Bankotsu thought about it for a little bit… "And if I refuse?" Naraku laughed and said, "Well if you refuse then I could just as easily take the shard that is keeping you alive."
"Alright I do it, if you of course keep YOUR word and bring back my friends after I finish this stupid 'mission.'" Bankotsu looked around the cave that they were in and remembered about his Banryu. "By the way, where is my Banryu?" Looking at where Naraku was standing, he saw that Naraku had already left, yet he heard his voice say, "It's in the village where the woman is at." Bankotsu just looked off into the darkness 'Great where the hell is that? Oh well I can sense for my Banryu without him.' Bankotsu made his way to where Naraku was, while making a braid with his long blue black hair.
After wandering around in the village near Mt. Hakurei, Bankotsu knew that he was heading in the right direction… He knew that by sensing for his Banryu he would find the village where the woman named Kagome was at.
Meanwhile…. Along came Kagome…
Kagome was in Kaede's hut, trying to tell her about Inuyasha, "I know that Inuyasha loves me and Kikyo, but know it seems that he is using me as a way to bring her back Kaede." Kaede looked at the young miko before her, "What do ye mean Kagome?"
"I mean that Inuyasha has been confusing me a lot lately, calling me Kikyo and all that sort of stuff. I know that I might not be as good as Kikyo, I just want to help him get through this tough time." Kaede once again looked at Kagome, 'She has changed in both her physical and emotional states' Kagome had let her hair grown, and has dropped the "school girl look" whatever that meant and now wears a kimono. The white with blue wheat like designed kimono looked really nice on Kagome, her hair having grown so long that it rivaled that of Sesshoumaru.
Kagome had barely gotten out of Kaede's hut, when Inuyasha came up to her out of nowhere and said, "About time you get out! What the hell where you doing in there?" Kagome looked at him in annoyance and walked past without so much of an 'Hmf!' and kept walking a few more feet and then without turing she said, "Sit boy!" Inuyasha fell down to the ground, and laid there for a bit before getting up and saying, "What the hell was tha-!" "Sit boy!!" and again Inuyasha hit the floor with a thud.
Kagome kept on walking without looking about him; it has been almost a year since getting almost all the jewel shards, and Sango and Miroku took off to start a life of their own. They haven't yet defeated Naraku, and he could still be a potential threat to all of them. Yet, for what it's worth they don't have to worry much about him, Miroku had on the day they beat Naraku they got rid of Miroku's Wind Tunnel. Shippou has stayed with Kagome since they have saved him from the Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Manten.
It has been almost two years since Naraku killed Kikyo, and still Inuyasha could not get her out of his mind. She doesn't want him to forget her; it's just that it hurts her that he almost always calls her Kikyo. She hasn't forgotten when he had left her to go search Kikyo, and Naraku's 'son' Hakudoshi had took advantage of that and found the darkness of her, due to Inuyasha.
She however did not blame Inuyasha; Kagome was walking towards the forest to find the spring, "Shippou!?" the little fox demon appeared at the sound of Kagome's voice. "Let's go take a bath!!" Kagome gave the little fox a small smile. "Ok Kagome." 'What is wrong with Kagome?' Shippou thought, 'She has been acting weird, ever since Inuyasha started calling her Kikyo. I can't believe Inuyasha could confuse her like that! '
Kagome took out some shampoo, soap, and two towels, and took out a beach ball for Shippou to enjoy in the water. While Shippou, Kagome leaned against a rock just looking up at the cerulean sky, the color of the sky reminded her of a pair of eyes she had seen in one of her many adventures.
She couldn't understand why Inuyasha could not get over Kikyo. 'He has me, I can relieve his pain, and yet… he still chooses her over me.' Kagome had to fight back the tears that threatened to fall, she didn't want Shippou to worry about her. She looked at him and giggled when she saw him twirling the ball around and around with his little feet…..
Back to Bankotsu….
Bankotsu looked around in the village that he has stumbled upon, this village had a couple of people here and there. Of course, no one knew who he was, and since he did not look demonic, they had no reason to believe that he had come to harm them. Bankotsu did not have time to go killing anyone… not now anyways.
As he kept walking on, he could feel his Banryu really close, he has been walking from village to village for at least 3 days now. His patience was getting thinner every day, it wasn't until he decided to stop in a hotel that he heard a woman speak saying, "Kagome? Where are ye? Miroku and Sango are here to visit ye and Inuyasha!!" Bankotsu turned around to see a woman or an old hag with a eye patch call out to a younger woman who he assumed was Kagome. The woman looked different than he remembered her, 'If they see me then they'll come after me, I can't let them spot me or that mutt will come after me.'
So instead of going into the hotel he set off to the nearby forest and decided to find a suitable spot to rest at. 'So this is where my Banryu is, huh? Damn these people!' Bankotsu smirked, 'I wonder how many weak men it took to carry my Banryu.'
After finding a clearing ahead, he decided to sleep and then get something to eat, a rabbit maybe… 'Damn there better be something to eat here!!' Bankotsu closed his eyes and went into a deep slumber…
Miroku and Sango arrive…
Miroku looked around the hut, looking for either Kagome, Inuyasha or Kaede; but they weren't anywhere near here. A pregnant Sango and Kirara appeared next to Miroku, also looking around to see were their fellow comrades were at. Kagome was the first to appear, "Sango, Miroku!! How are you guys?"
Stopping to take a deep breath from all the running, Kagome hadn't seen Sango's belly until she looked up at her, "EEK!!! Sango your preg—pregnant!! I can't believe it!!" She hugged the happy and confused Sango. Shippou appeared with Inuyasha and Kaede close behind, Shippou jumped into Sango's arms, "Hi ya Sango!! How ya been?"
Looking down at Sango's belly, Shippou's eyes got bigger and said, "Miroku what did you do to Sango?!? Why does she have a big bruise on her belly?" Everyone around Shippou looked at each other kind of uncomfortably, and Kirara called to Shippou, who immediately forgot what he asked and jumped onto Kirara, "Kirara do you want to see the toy that Kagome brought me?" Kirara nodded and they headed to the springs to get his toy, the beach ball.
"Ha, I knew that Miroku was fast but I didn't know he was that fast at it!" Inuyasha said looking at both Sango and Miroku, Sango blushing while Miroku looking at Inuyasha innocently….
About Banryu….
"Hey Inuyasha? Why does the aura of that mercenary, hmm… Bankotsu? Yea him, why does the aura of his Banryu here?" Inuyasha looked at Miroku and walked inside the hut, it was getting late, and the sun cast a beautiful display of colors from hot pink to blue-violet color. The others followed in suit, Kagome helped Sango sit down, while everyone got comfortable sitting around the warmth of the fire.
Miroku looked at Inuyasha, waiting for a reply of his question, "Well when Kagome, Shippou and I were walking back I felt the strong aura of something demonic, and Kagome felt Shikon jewels in the area. We decided to search for whatever had such a strong aura, and then we stumbled upon Bankotsu's Banryu. So we tried to take the jewel shards, but some how we couldn't, in the end we brought it back, that thing is pretty heavy, luckily my demonic side enabled me to carry the thing with at least both my hands." Inuyasha looked at Kagome, who seemed deep in thought, 'What is wrong with Kagome?'
"I see so have you been able to do anything about the jewel shards that are embedded inside Banryu?" Kagome and Inuyasha shook their heads; Kagome suddenly stood up and walked outside, Miroku and Sango both stared at her in surprise. Inuyasha ignored her as if no one was here; Kagome went to sit on a boulder near the hot springs were. Kagome had the sudden urge to yell at Inuyasha, getting a white ribbon; she made her hair into a braid, while she did this, she watched as little Kirara and Shippou were having fun in the hot spring by passing the ball back and forth...
In the Middle of the Night…
Bankotsu awoke to the sound of crickets far off into the distance, 'It must be past judging by the sound of those damn insects.' Deciding to get something to eat before getting his Banryu, Bankotsu started looking for some edible food to eat…..