Junemama
Inuyasha / Yu Yu Hakusho
A Mournful Romance
Part#1
Chapter 1
The young girl looks up into the night sky, huge gray storm clouds are forming coming from the mountains near the campsite. The girl smiles at the sight of them.
Good. By the time Inuyasha wakes up I'll be long gone and the rain will have wash away my scent. This is the perfect time, she thought happily.
The young girl with hope in her heart goes back into the forest, and towards the campsite where her friends slept. Once there she's met with the sight of familiar figures spread out near the warming fire, all asleep unaware of her as she moves silently between them gathering her things and putting them into her yellow backpack.
She looks around once more to making sure she has everything, a twinge goes through her heart when her eyes come upon Shippo, the young kitsue who she loves like a son. He would take her leaving the hardest, but she knows Sango and Miroku will take good care of him.
Kagome looks at her friends cuddled close together sleeping in each other's arms.
She is happy for them to have found one another and yet she envies their love, something she knew she would never have with the one man she loves: Inuyasha.
Tears come to her eyes, at the thought of the dog-eared half-breed.
"I'll stay by your side forever Inuyasha."
"Thank you Kagome."
Now that she recalls that promise she made all those years ago, Kagome thought she was dumb for making it, crazy for thinking Inuyasha would choose her over Kikyo. Maybe she thought if she stayed around him long enough he would learn to love her and forget about the past. Again, she was wrong. Inuyasha cling to his past life with Kikyo like a frighten child with his teddy bear all alone. All he cares about is Kikyo and he wants is to please her there is no room in his heart for another.
"I love you Kagome."
Liar! Why did he say that? Why did he lie to me? He only wanted her. He always wanted her.
"We can finally be together."
She can feel his presence-golden warmth; he is sleeping on a branch in the tree behind her. Taking a deep breath of the crisp cold air she leaves the campsite never once looking back. By the time she gets to the old bone eater's well it starts to rain, a light spay of water dampening her clothes, she lifts the hood of the black jacket she has on to protect her hair.
Just as she is about to jump off the edge of the well, a strong arm wraps around her suddenly and throws her far from it.
Kagome hits the ground hard on her back, her book bag landing a few feet away from her. Hurting she sits up and sees Inuyasha glaring down at her, his arms crossed, blocking her way to the well. Her eyes widen in surprise, she was sure he was asleep when she left and she knew she put enough sleeping powder in his ramen.
How could he have known she was leaving?
She got up steadily. "Inuyasha, let me explain," she says pleading.
He stares at her accusingly. "Where do you think you were going bitch?" He asks sharply.
Kagome steps backward, but Inuyasha is on her in a flash. Next thing she knows, her back is up against a tree and his hand is fasten around her throat.
She tries to loosen his fingers to no avail.
"Inuyasha …Let…me ...Go..." she says, her voice comes out barely a whisper.
Inuyasha's grip tightens and Kagome wheezes for air, his gold eyes bore into hers and he snarls, "If you ever try to leave me again I'll kill you." Kagome is frighten Inuyasha never look at her so coldly and she knows he is serious.
She nods franticly tears running down her cheeks; she feels the hold on her neck loosen. The half demon lets her fall to the wet grass grasping and coughing for air, Kagome looks up at the man she once loved walking back to the campsite.
"You bet not tell anyone what happen today or I'll kill that pathetic family of yours," threatens Inuyasha. She nods silently, tears like rivers streaming down her face.
She cries the rest of the night in the rain until there are no more tears left.
Chapter#2
The golden sun just starts to rise as Kagome wakes up to the smell of food cooking. She sits up rubbing her eyes, and finds that she is back at the campsite in her sleeping bag. Kagome can't remember coming back here and hopes what happen last night was all a dream. Instantly her hand goes to her neck, feeling the welts on it. It wasn't a dream Inuyasha really did try to… she doesn't finish her thought and only looks around seeing Miroku stirring something in a pot and Sango and Kilala sitting close by. Shippo is still asleep and Inuyasha was nowhere in sight. She knew he is near she could still sense his presence.
Kagome is still in her wet clothes and jacket from last night. She takes off the jacket and grabs her things to wash up and a sack of dry clothes. When Sango and Miroku say Good morning to her, she feigns a smile and greets them cheerfully. After eating breakfast, Kagome heads off to the lake. She dives in head fist into the ice coldness of it no longer caring about its temperature. She swims under water for a while, and when she comes up for air, she senses a demon presence. Quickly Kagome takes a deep breath and dives back down.
Underwater she can see a figure with long white hair and ears on the lakeshore, staring down into the water. "Inuyasha" she thought panicky and swims deeper down into the water; looking back over her shoulder as she goes.
Once she is far enough down, she watches praying Inuyasha could not see her or her things that lay somewhere in the tall grass a few feet away from him. That is when she hears a splash. She turns to see that the person has jump into the lake and is now swimming after her. Scared Kagome swims as fast as she can, but after a few strokes, she is running out of air. She has to come up but Inuyasha is so close she can feel him getting closer and closer "I can't breathe." she thought and races to the surface of the water, breaking the surface she takes deep great breaths of air the other swimmer brakes beside her and without waiting Kagome starts swimming her hardest to the shore.
"Wait!" she hears a voice call, but Kagome continues to swim and when she gets to the grassy shore, she jumps out, and dashes to get her stuff. Suddenly a hand grabs her ankle and she falls…but she doesn't hit the ground; she's in somebody arms, she smells the scent of roses. Inhaling Kagome looks up to see a pair of green eyes and a concern face framed by beautiful red locks. "Are you alright?" she hears the voice asked but she too tired to reply. She's breathing hard and her heart pumping too fast.
"You're not Inuyasha." Kagome says before she faints completely exhausted.
Chapter 3
Kurama has no idea how he's going to explain this to the others; he couldn't even understand it himself. He looks down at the girl he is carrying; noticing all the old scars on her body, he wonders what she has gotten herself into. The beast in him carves for her, her scent drives it wild. Kurama tries to stay calm.
-Mind link-
She smells like cherry blossoms and rain. She would make a perfect mate-Youko
-Mate? She doesn't even know us. Besides how do you know her?-Kurama
-She is the guardian of the jewel I know it. She must be strong to guard such a valuable item. She has to be ours. –Youko
- I doubt she will agree with your plan.-Kurama
-Just wait you will see once she gets to know us she will want to be our mate.-Youko
- What about that Inuyasha fella she mention-Kurama
- Don't worry about that. I could just kill him then we won't have any competition.-Youko
-Hmm.-Kurama
End of conversation-
His teammates and he are on a mission for Koenma, ruler of the Spirit realm to find the guardian of the Shikon Jewel and bring the person to him. Unfortunately, the ruler didn't mention why they had to go back in time to the Feudal Era to find the guardian.
Once they are in the past they disguised them as traveling traders and goes looking for this guardian, after 3 days they have no luck until today.
When Kurama's true demon self emerges and finds this young woman who he claims is the guardian.
So that's how he ends up in this predicament, carrying a girl in only her black underwear that's soaking wet to his campsite filled with his male team mates.
When he gets there all of them except Hiei who is always silent starts asking him a million questions, he ignores them all and grabs a blanket from the packhorse they had and wraps her in it then lays her on a tree.
-Kurama and Hiei mind speaking-
"Who's the girl?"-Hiei
"I don't know. Youko led me to her saying she the person we were looking for."-Kurama
"Really? She's the guardian of the Shikon Jewel?"-Hiei
"Apparently."-Kurama
"Have you tried asking Youko how he's knows this?"-Hiei
"Yes. He told me he just knows."-Kurama
"That's it?"-Hiei
"Yep."-Kurama
"Where did she come from?"-Hiei
"She was at the lake swimming, she was frightened and tried to run then she fainted and I caught her and brought her here."-Kurama
"…"
-End of conversation-
Yusuke speaks first. "Kurama what happen?" Kurama sighs and turns to the black haired fighter and tells him and Kuwabara the whole story that he already told Hiei.
After the story, everybody still had questions unanswered. Yusuke declares they would have to wait until the girl wakes up and talk to her then.
It is late afternoon when Kagome finally wakes up; she can still smell the scent of roses and wonders where the heavenly scent is coming from. She opens her ocean blue orbs to find those familiar green ones staring back at her. Her vision was blurry, but she could feel and see two auras one red the other silver, it is making her dizzy so she closes her eyes and exhales.
"Are you alright Miss?" Kurama asks. His voice so sweet to Kagome's ears she wonders who he is.
"I'm fine," she replies. The young girl rubs her eyes then opens them again. She can see clearly now, and she sees 4 faces staring at her, none that she knows of.
"Who are you?"
"Hey we would like to ask you the same question lady?" shouts Kuwabara
She looks at all 4 of them the only one she recognizes is the guy with the red hair. Two of them are demons the other two are human but their auras are different.
"My name is Kagome."
"Hi, Miss Kagome. I'm Kurama and this is Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara." Says Kurama gently.
"You two are demons," she says looking at Kurama then Hiei.
Kurama swallows (Youko-I told you she has powers; spiritual powers-) He was too close to Kagome; her scent is getting to him. Kurama nods slowly, he wonders if she will scream or be disgusted by him like his mother was all those many years ago. However, she only nods and a light grin plays on her face, as if he being a demon was a small matter.
"You smell like roses young fox, I like that." She smiles while Kurama blushes trying to contain Youko from coming out.
Hiei'-Calm yourself fox-
Youko'-Don't tell me what to do-
Kurama-Hiei right Miss Kagome is not feeling her best right now.-
Youko-Don't worry I'll make her feel better-
Kagome senses it, Kurama's aura changing (silver v. red) he is fighting the beast inside him, Kagome touches his hand and pours a little of her power into him.
Please stop fighting. Stay calm.-Kagome
Youko reacts immediately to her touch and relaxes, falling into a deep sleep.
When both Kurama and Kagome come back to their senses, they are both smiling and Kagome releases his hand blushing slightly.
The two humans stare at them both confuse.
"What just happen?'
Kagome responds first. "It was nothing."
Noticing she has nothing on but her underwear, underneath the blanket. She asks for her clothing and they give her the only dry clothes in her sack that Kurama brought with him: Her priestess robes. After changing behind some trees, she is ready to leave.
Coming out of the bushes, she looks at Kurama and bows.
"You're a priestess?" asks Kurama surprised.
"Yes. And thank you." Kurama nods and smiles.
She then grabs her bag and turns to leave. "Wait," says Yusuke "You can't leave."
Kagome turns back to the stranger and asks "Why not?"
"Please let me explain Miss Kagome why we are here. I think we came here to find you and the jewel.' He says.
Kurama thought- No!
Hiei (rolled his eyes) -idiot
Kagome's eyes widen. They're after the jewel.
Kagome runs off, jumps on their horse and rides off before anyone can stop her.
Yusuke and Kuwabara run after her.
"Wait Miss Kagome wait! We're spirit detectives we mean you no harm."
"Hold on! Wait!" Yells Kuwabara
They are running far and fast.
After a while, Kurama looks at Hiei and says, "We better follow them."
Hiei nods and they both walk out of the forest and down the trail, when they finally met up with Yusuke and Kuwabara; the two are on the ground out of breath.
"Damn that girl can ride fast." Says Kuwabara, breathing hard as he gets up off the ground
"Yeah. I can't believe we found her. The guardian of the Shikon Jewel and it's a girl," says Yusuke as he gets up. "Yeah and a hot babe at that!" exclaims Kuwabara.
Hiei shakes his head. "Well it looks like you idiots chased her off.'
Kurama looks down the dirt road and replies "Poor girl. She must be terribly confuse right now. Come on we better go find her." He walks on down the dirt path with the others following right behind him.
Chapter#4
Kagome doesn't stop the horse until she is sure she couldn't sense the demons' or their human companions' auras anymore. She is far from them and even farther from Inuyasha, she looks around the grassy plain she now in and does not know where to go. I should go back, Inuyasha threaten to kill my family if I ever left him, but those other strangers they must still be looking for the jewel and me.
Kagome sighs "Too bad the cute one with the green eyes is one of them." She thought disappointed. The young priestess feels a bad aura in the air and the sky darkens suddenly with dark storm clouds. Kagome looks closer them and finds out they are demons, thousands and thousands of demons heading towards the village to the east.
"That's where Kaeade' village is. This has to be the work of Naraku." says Kagome. With that, she kicks the horse into a gallop following the clouds of demons, at the very moment Inuyasha and the others are searching for Kagome who hasn't returned since she left this morning. Inuyasha vows to teach her a lesson the minute he finds her. When the demons finally reached Kaedae's village Sango, Miroku, Kilala, and Shippo are too busy fighting to notice that Inuyasha has snuck off to search for Kagome on his own.
He jumps from tree to tree sniffing for her scent anywhere, then a few miles north he finds it covered in the scent of roses, Inuyasha growls and goes into hot pursuit. Hiei stops walking and looks to back into the distance.
"It's seems we have company coming, and it's not friendly."
Kurama and the rest of them stop walking and sure enough a demon lands in front of them from the sky all in red and a huge fang sword in his hand, swinging it down. Kurama eyes widens suddenly "Everybody move." They jump into the air, just missing the blast of energy that splits the path they were just standing on. Inuyasha finds Kagome's scent and glares at the human with the green eyes, without hesitating he jumps into the air and attacks over and over again with his sword.
Kurama dodges them gracefully and lands on his feet.
He takes out his rose whip and slashes at Inuyasha who jumps back.
'Why are you fighting me?" asks Kurama.
Inuyasha growls and slashes down with his sword yelling "wind scar".
Kurama ready to defend himself when suddenly a piercing pink light cuts through the wind scar and hits the ground right next to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha looks up surprised, and says "Kagome"; everybody turns to see Kagome now off the horse with a bow in her hands, an arrow draw glowing with miko power aim right at him. She glares at half-breed, and then releases another purifying arrow; Inuyasha dodges it just in time. Yusuke looks around saying what is going on. Kuwabara has his spirit sword out ready to fight.
Kagome's eyes are hard as ice as she stares at Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha you betrayed me. I thought you were different. I thought you love me."
Kurama never seen so much pain in her eyes before never so much angry she seems so kind when she smiled at him.
Inuyasha smirks." I could never love a weak, filthy human like you, you're nothing but a shard detector and when I killed you I'll gladly gave your soul to Kikyo so she can truly live with me." Kurama scowls at his words and Youko is screaming with rage within him.
-That's low life half breed who he thinks he is talking to my mate like that-
- We should kill him ripped him to sheds-
-Make him beg for mercy-
-No, Kurama let Lady Kagome handle this, said Hiei. This is her fight.-
Kurama looks at Kagome, she is a pure vision of power and strength, and nothing can hold her back.
Kagome grips her bow tight. "Die Inuyasha!" She fires her arrow and it hits his sword Tenseiga. It retransforms and becomes a rusty sword again, sheathing it; Inuyasha cracks his claws grinning wickedly.
"Looks like you have no more arrows bitch." He yells at her.
Kagome grins, "Who's said I need arrows to kill you."
She drops her empty quiver and long bow, and then takes out two long daggers from her wrist sheaths. Inuyasha smirks again "You won't win Kagome I'll kill you in a heartbeat."
Kagome glares. "See if you can dog breath."
Inuyasha charges first slashing Kagome with his claws she dodges and kicks him in the head then stabs him with a miko powered blade. Inuyasha screaming in pain grabs her and throws her to the ground. She rolls and flips back on her feet, she attacks double time slashing up, down, across and Inuyasha using all his speed, blocks them all and jumps into the air.
Inuyasha dips his claws into the wound Kagome inflicted earlier and yells "BLADES OF BLOOD." Kagome prepared jumps back and does a back flip dodging the attack, a cloud of dust forms, hiding her. Then out of nowhere a blast of energy hits Inuyasha knocking him hard into the ground.
The dust clears and Kagome is breathing hard holding a sword of her own pulsing with a huge powerful aura surrounding both her and the sword.
"Get up Inuyasha and faced your death," she shouts at him.
Inuyasha lays face down inside of a huge crater weakly gets up no longer grinning, and holding his bleeding side. "When did you become so strong?"he asks.
Kagome burns with hatred inside her and charges at him sword raise, he blocks her first attack but the second one pierce his heart. Kagome stands in front of him, her blade going through his body. She bends down and whispers in Inuyasha's ear.
"The day you broke my heart, the day you betrayed me."
She swiftly removes the sword from him and he falls down dead, Kagome sighs and wipes his blood off her sword with her white sleeve. She looks at the people who are still there watching but her main focus is on Kurama, the hate in her eyes is gone only now replace by sadness.
"Please don't follow me." She walks away and gets back on the horse that surprisingly stayed during the whole thing, and rides off toward Kaedae's Village to help anyway she can. Kurama cannot help but feel like a part of his heart is ripping out as he watches her ride away.
Chapter#5
It takes weeks to restore the village again, after the horrible battle against Naraku and his demons, but soon the huts are built and all the dead properly buried. Kagome is now the new priestess of the village and true guardian of the Shikon Jewel, which is now complete after the defeat of Naraku. Even after all this, guilt plays at Kagome's heart and finally she sits everybody down and tells her friends the truth that Inuyasha's dead and she is the one who killed him.
They are all shock at first but when she explains Inuyasha change in attitude and his threats and beatings on her they finally understand and hugs her.
She also tells them that the day after the great battle she went back and buried his body herself; she gave them the location of his grave: the God Tree where they first met. In case they want to put flowers on, his grave and pay their respects to an old friend.
Afterwards Kagome decides the live in the Feudal Era as a village priestess and guardian of the jewel and feels she couldn't face her normal family with such a bloody past. Sango and Miroku get married and now live in the slayers' village with Kilala. Shippo decides to stay with his mother and provides family comfort. Kagome is as content as the guardian of the Shikon Jewel could ever be. With the burden of the Shikon Jewel Kagome knows she has chosen to live a lonely life.
End of part 1