Summary
Fighting Naraku at his castle; Kagome and friends, along with Sesshomaru, Jaken and Rin find themselves sucked into an alternate timeline. Will they be able to get back home? Will they be trapped there forever? Or will they kill each other before they ever find out? Mostly adventure, some humor. Read & Review! =D
Disclaimer: I own nothing as usual; everything belongs to its respective owners,
Just so you know, I put a Mature rating on this book for possible later use, and just to be safe.
Introduction
This story takes place in Japan and the States (US) 3000 years after Kagome's time, in an alternate Universe composed of my own characters from some of my original stories. Taking place in the future, slightly* post-apocalyptic view of things; with the exception of a few places, nothing really looks the same.
*Slightly, meaning it is post-apocalyptic, but the subject's never really explored.
As for when this takes place for Kagome and friends; it's sometime after Sesshomaru acquired Tokijin and Tessaiga was repaired.
A/N I've been wanting to do something like this for a time now, to see if I could blend something of my own with someone else's story and how well I could do it, so I guess you can say this is a test, of sorts.
If anything seems to be wrong, such as spelling, time-line inconsistencies, oocness, etc, by all means, tell me! This is also to help define my writing skillz, hehe! =D
Enter! Naraku's Castle and the Demon Portal!
Kagome knocked her arrow into the crook of her bow, as Inuyasha and his brother Sesshomaru flew towards him, swords drawn. "You're going down Naraku!" Inuyasha growled out a battle cry as Sango threw Hiraikotsu over their heads. Miroku stood back, itching to use his Wind Tunnel; hand on the beads that sealed it, but the buzz of the Saimyōshō overhead stopped him from ripping them off.
Kagome closed her eyes for a moment, steadying her aim, and steeling herself. Please let this hit! Her eyes opened and she focused on the target: Naraku's Heart. The bow twanged as she let her arrow fly, and she watched as it arced toward the dark haired yokai.
Please hit!
The yokai brothers stopped their approach as the arrow past them, and dug deep into its target.
"Yes!" Kagome cheered, the second before the blinding light of her purification arrow encompassed Naraku, and half of his body disintegrated.
"Way to go Kagome!" Miroku congratulated her.
"Nice shot!" Sango added, catching Hiraikotsu and coming to stand beside the miko and monk.
Kagome blushed, "Thanks!" she managed.
"Do you really think you can harm me, miko?" The head of Naraku sneered, as miasma poured from him. In seconds, the courtyard of the castle he had been using as a hideout filled with the dark poisonous gas.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted, the cloud of gas obscuring his view and blocking his senses.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin and Jaken yelled their master's name from above, having been watching atop Ah-Un. The Daiyokai easily jumped from the mess and hovered above it.
But something above him caught his silent attention, making him turn and look upward.
The sky, dark and ominous rumbled and cracked with power, the likes of which even he has never seen before.
Down below Kagome, Sango, and Miroku coughed, even as they covered their faces, the gas choked them. Kirara growled, instantly beside Sango and in her true form. Sango and Miroku climbed on as Inuyasha found them.
"We have to get above the cloud! Hurry!"Inuyasha lifted Kagome on his back and jumped free from the gaseous cloud onto the roof of the castle where the cloud had not yet reached, as Kirara flew up to a size-able distance above it.
"Kagome!" Shippo, the little kitsune, leaped from his perch on Ah-un's head to Kirara, using her as another leaping point to jump to Kagome's shoulder. "I was so worried, I thought you were going to die!"
Free from immediate danger, Kagome reflected on Naraku's final words, speaking aloud. "Does this mean… Naraku isn't dead?" She felt sick as her heart sank in her chest.
Inuyasha looked up, the clouds swirling overhead catching his eye. "We can worry about that later; I think we have a bigger problem."
Kagome followed Inuyasha's gaze, finally noticing that Sesshomaru was staring at the sky as well. Intrigued at what could have attracted the ever stoic Daiyokai, she continued to look up, into the massive maelstrom brewing above them.
"What is that?!" She heard Sango exclaim a few yards away. Inuyasha answered, "I have no idea, but it can't be good. Let's get out of here and find a safe place."
As if in retaliation of his suggestion that they leave, a huge gust of wind nearly blew them off the roof, and those in the sky were barely able to hold onto their mounts. Even Sesshomaru seemed to have trouble staying in place, his mane of silver hair flowing over his shoulders and into his face.
Instead of dying down, the wind worsened, conversation was lost in the sheer force of will it took not be blown away.
There was a deafening crack, similar in sound to hitting something flat on the surface of water, only multiplied by many.
The sound made Kagome look up from the huddled position she had taken on Inuyasha's back.
There, high in the sky, in the middle of the maelstrom, was a small object, light in color against its dark backdrop.
What is that? Kagome repeated Sango's earlier question in her mind. She squinted against the wind and altitude the object hovered at, in an attempt to distinguish what it was. She couldn't, but she was sure that was what was causing the clouds to swirl and this wind.
The wind… "It's trying to pull us towards it!" The realization hit her hard enough that she spoke out loud.
"No shit!" Inuyasha growled, unsheathing Tessaiga and jamming it into the roof for an extra hold, as the wind picked up enough to make him slide down the roof. All around, the Miasma swirled, the storm above sucking it into its depths.
Kirara growled and Ah-un hissed as its heads spat lightning, both visibly tiring from the strain of fighting the wind.
"The wind, it's too much!" Miroku held tightly to Sango's waist, forgetting or restraining himself in such a time to take advantage of the close touch. He noticed Sango's knuckles turning white from holding onto Kirara and knew the Demon Slayer, already exhausted from the previous fight, would not be able to hold on much longer.
He was right, and Sango's hold slipped just enough for the wind to carry her off the cat demon's back.
"Sango!" He reached out to her with his shakujou staff, hoping she had strength enough to grab it. She did, but the wind whipped her around violently, causing her legs to dangle above her. "Sango! Please hold on!" Her hand slipped and there was a slight movement of her head. "I-I can't!" Her hand slipped more before she lost her grip and the wind swept her upward towards the middle of the maelstrom.
"Sango!" The monk forgot his own preservation and jumped off the cat demon and was pushed by the wind up, following Sango. Kirara growled, and gave chase after her fallen passengers.
"Sango, Miroku! Kirara!" Kagome screamed as she watched her friends growing smaller and smaller the higher they flew. Shippo mirrored Kagome's exclamation as he hung desperately from her shoulder.
Finally realizing he had been clinging to her, she slid her hand from Inuyasha's shoulder to encircle the little kitsune, pressing him between her body and inuyasha's protectively. He curled up in her embrace and she heard a soft whimper come from him, slightly muffled by his face pressed into her shoulder.
She fought against her own tears as she looked back to find she couldn't see her friends anywhere in the sky.
As if sensing she was looking for them, Inuyasha spoke, through clinched teeth. "They went through that portal. Keh, I bet that's what is causing this mess."
Kagome blinked, "So that's what that thing is up there? A portal?"
A scream came from far off, And Kagome's head snapped up to see that Ah-un, finally exhausted from fighting the wind currents, was picked up in a particularly large gust of wind and was swiftly being pulled toward the sky and the ominous clouds.
The scream had come from Rin, who was barely holding on to Ah-Un's saddle. Jaken, too, was beside her, waving about like a fish out of water and yelling for Sesshomaru to save him.
Surprisingly enough, Sesshomaru put aside his battle to stay in one position to grab the reins of his beast of burden, holding the beast in place by sheer force of will and remarkable strength.
There was a brief moment where Kagome questioned the obvious concern Sesshomaru seem to have for his charges, something she had done a number of times before. But the moment was short, as Jaken finally lost his grip and scrambled for something else to hold on to.
Sadly, what he found was the back of Rin's kimono, and the sudden jerk of something grappling her made the little human lose her own grip. And both child and yokai flew off, carried by the wind.
Sesshomaru showed no hint of emotion save a slight drop of his eyelids; letting go of the reins and allowed the wind to take him up; adding his momentum to that of the wind's so that he easily caught up to his two similar companions, catching them with his remaining arm.
His face darkened when he realized too late that the wind farther up was worse than that which was below, and its viciousness coupled with the momentum that it took to save the young human and his servant was enough to send them flying through that portal above. There was nothing he could do but look towards what lay ahead as they approached it.
"Keh," Inuyasha spat out, as he watched his half-brother disappear through the swirling mass above. He gripped Tessaiga tighter. "Shit! There's no end to this is there?" He asked no one in particular.
Kagome looked down in horror, realizing that they were the only ones left."Our friends…"
"They're all gone."
Tears started to well up in her eyes again, and a soft sob escaped her.
"Keh, don't go and start crying on me." Inuyasha looked over his shoulder at her, then up to the distant portal in the sky. "Fine, you want to suck us up? I'll give you something to suck up!"
He looked back at her again, briefly, "You better hold on, Kagome."
She nodded even though she knew he wouldn't see it, and wrapped her arms around his neck, careful not to squish the fox kit in-between them. Inuyasha lifted out his sword from the roof and, before he could lose his footing, jumped; heading straight for the center, the portal opening.
Their hair whipped around them, making it difficult to see really anything, but as they approached she could finally make out the portal itself. It looks like a Greek-made archway, with sandstone as its base component; it even had a platform it stood upon with steps leading up to it.
In the middle of the tall pillars, a purple substance swirled, nearly invisible due to that it was the same color and swirled in the same way as the clouds circling it.
It was difficult for her mind to register such a sight, of an archway hovering horizontally to the ground, but it was there, and they traveling towards it at an amazing speed.
"Get ready!" Inuyasha shouted to be heard, as he flung himself back to stop his rapid ascent. His muscles tensed under her as he drew back the Tessaiga.
"WIND SCAR!"
The golden light flung out of the blade and towards the odd device in the sky, but to their shock it didn't destroy it. In fact, it was swallowed up in the same way as their friends had been.
"What?!" Inuyasha growled at his failed attack, but that was all he could do, they were too close to the storm now and there was no way for him to move away, nor to attack, for fear of being caught up in the blast.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed as they both found themselves sucked into the swirling, dark depths of whatever Hell this was, ripped from each other in it's violence.
"Kagome!!!"
A/N (Continued) The beginning's a bit ify because I can't really remember a time when Kagome and her friends, Sesshomaru AND Jaken and Rin were at Naraku's castle all at once, so hopefully it's not too far off into a time-line inconsistency or at least unbelievable.
Anyway, thanks for reading!
Next chapter: It's a Strange New World.