Lucky Penny
Summary – Playing a game of poker with Faith and Destiny can be a dangerous task, especially when they control the hands. Two souls, thrown into a world of twists and turns, take their chance in this game against the gods. With so many out to kill the young and talented duo, childhood friends Kagome and Kurama must fight their way through the trials in hopes of making it out alive.
Rated – T – M (Mild Violence) (Medium Sexual Themes) (Mild Language) (Medium Blood and Gore)
Disclaimer: Do you really have to ask? No I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or InuYasha. The prophecy below however, I made that up, pretty well if I do say so myself.
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Chapter One – The Meeting
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Prolog
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Eons ago, a prophecy was made that foretold the future of a single soul.
A female immortal would be placed among the human world, memories erased and body remade until the time of her rebirth.
And so the prophecy goes,
Into the grotto of the
Spring of the peachblossom
Invite the Immortal one.
She who is born on the night of the Beast
Will be tested for the right of her Immortal name,
Redemption
6.6.6
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"Oh dear, Kagome!" A woman with shoulder length black hair and brown eyes called to her daughter who came barreling down the stairs in her blue PJ's. She had black hair like her mothers that came past her shoulders a few inches and dark blue eyes like her fathers.
"Mama, what's wong?" Kagome asked rapidly as she stopped in front of her mother.
"Sweetie, I need you to go get your grandfather and tell him that the baby is coming." Her mother said as she placed her hand on her well rounded stomach and the other on the phone as she dialed for an ambulance. Kagome smiled as she ran outside to the shed where her grandfather would no doubt be cleaning some weird ancient artifact.
"Gampa," She called from outside the shed. She heard shuffling and the sound of things falling off shelves before a bump on the door telling her that he just tripped head first into it. Finally it opened and she cringed slightly at the mess.
"Yes?" He asked as he stood up and dusted his blue Hakama's off. Dust still in his grey hair that was tied back in a dragon's tail at the nape of his neck and his grey beard that was about three inches long itself.
"Mama said the baby is coming." Her grandfather's brown eyes widened a fraction as he ran inside with Kagome right on his trail.
"Rai dear, are you alright, did you call the ambulance yet, should I call them, what about your bag, did you get it, are you thirsty, hungry, tired?" Kagome's mother started laughing, stopping her grandfather in his tirade of questions.
"I'm fine, yes I called the ambulance and also I called Shiori Minamino, that high school friend of mine I told you about that wanted to be there when the baby was born. My bag is right next to you." He looked down and sure enough, leaning against the wall was her hospital bag. "I'm not thirsty, hungry or tired. I do have one thing I need you to do, take Kagome upstairs and get her dressed, the ambulance should be here in a few minutes, Shiori will meet you two there." Kagome took his hand and pulled him up the stairs and into her room.
A few minutes later they came down to the sound of sirens and people talking. Kagome wore a pair of dark blue jeans and a lime green off the shoulder sweater that had sleeves that flared out around her fingers. On her feet she wore a pair of light brown boots and a necklace around her neck of a green stone. A man walked up to them and started talking with her grandfather.
"Mrs. Higurashi is already in the ambulance, if you want we can take the little girl in the front but she can't go in the back." Her grandfather looked hesitant.
"I will be a good gull, Gampa. You don't have to wowwy." She said with a smile.
"Alright, she can go up front." The guy nodded and took her hand and led her inside.
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It was about thirty minutes later that Kagome was sitting in the waiting room swinging her feet back and forth, 7:50 at night that was when Shiori stepped inside with a little boy standing next to her. His hair was short, coming just past his ears in a vibrant red, his eyes were a beautiful shade of green. Kagome had yet to look up as she watched her feet swing back and forth.
"Hi, I'm looking for a Rai Higurashi." Shiori asked, her black hair in a ponytail that went past her shoulders and her brown eyes holding happiness.
"Mrs. Higurashi is currently in the delivery room, her daughter and father should be sitting over there though." The woman behind the counter said without looking up.
"Uh, there's only a little girl." Shiori said.
"Huh?" The woman looked up and let out an annoyed sigh. She got up and left through the doors to the delivery room.
Kagome who had been listening to the conversation started to giggle at the scene.
"Gampa snuck off to the delivewy woom again." Shiori smiled and walked toward her with the little boy next to her.
"Hello there, you must be Kagome. Your mother has told me a lot about you." Kagome nodded.
"This my son, Shuichi, Shuichi this is Kagome. Why don't you two go play in the kid zone. It's got to be more fun then sitting here waiting." Kagome smiled before taking Shuichi's hand and pulling him down the hallway. Shiori looked up when she heard shouting.
"WOMAN, YOU MUST BE A CHILD EATING DEMON, THAT'S WHY YOU WON'T LET ME SEE HER, I know your kind, you wait till the child's born then FEAST ON THEM." Shiori let out a sigh.
'Rai wasn't kidding when she said her father was a little bit obsessed with demons.'
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Kagome pulled the surprised Shuichi through the doors to the Kid Zone before sitting on the floor and pulling him down in front of her.
"Let's play a game." He looked at her waiting for her to continue, which she did. "20 questions."
"I know that game, mama played with the guy from the flower house."
"Good then, you go fiwst."
"How old are you?"
"Thwee." He smiled at her lack of R's. "Same question."
"I'm four." "What's your favorite thing to do?"
"Um...DANCING." "What do you like to do?"
"I like making plants grow." "What's your favorite animal?"
"That's hawd, I like...um...OH, the fox, I the like the Awctic Snow Fox." "What's your favowite?"
"The same." He watched as her face lit up with a bright smile.
"Wow, weally."
"Ok, next, are you excited about having a baby brother?"
"Not weally, the gull's at the day cawe that have baby siblings said that thewe mama's and papa's pay mowe attention to the baby's and not as much to them. Mama isn't gonna fowget about me is she?" Shuichi scooted over to her and patted her back lightly as tears started to form in her eyes.
"That won't happen. Your mommy loves you right?" She gave a slight nod. "Then she won't forget about you. Now let's go play." He said as he took her hand in his and pulled her to her feet.
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Four hours later Shiori and Kagome's Grandfather came running into the Kid Zone with worried expressions.
Shiori looked around and let out a sigh, in the corner of the room Shuichi was laying against the wall with Kagome laying against his shoulder, a soft blanket pulled over the two with various toys scattered around them and a couple books. Shiori smiled when she saw Kagome snuggle closer to him and his arm wrap around her. Pulling out her camera she took a picture so that she could show Rai later. She walked up to the two and got down on her knees, gently shaking them awake.
"Shuichi dear, Kagome, it's time to welcome a new member into your family." She watched them stir. Rubbing their eyes before looking up at her, she smiled as her son reached his hand out for her to grab, helping him up she did the same for Kagome who was now wide awake.
"Is mama ok, what about bwothea?"
"Your mama is fine and your brother is waiting to meet you. Let's go."
Kagome didn't need to be told twice, racing down the hall with Shuichi behind her she ran through the delivery room doors and to room 12 where she found her mom lying down on a bed with a nurse next to her, giving her the baby Kagome knew to be her brother.
"Come here Kagome." Kagome did s her mother said and with the help of the kind nurse next to her she was on the bed with her mother.
"You want to help me name him?" Kagome nodded her head happily. Shiori and her grandfather were standing in the doorway. Shuichi was standing next to the bed on a stool he found looking at the baby. He had black hair but had yet to open his eyes.
"Ok then, how about Souma?" Kagome frowned and shook her head no.
"Wyouta."
"Ryouta?" Kagome nodded. Her mother had the same frown. Shuichi watched in amusement, and then thought out loud to himself.
"Why don't you combine the two names?" They looked at him in confusion. He blushed lightly before explaining.
"Take Ryou out of Ryouta, then take ma out of Souma. With the letters you have left you switch them and have the name, Souta." They smiled at him before nodding.
"Souta Higurashi, I like it."
"Souta-Otouto."
Shuichi smiled as the baby's eyes opened to revile the same blue eyes his sister had.
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Two months had passed and Shiori was moving with her son to a house near the Sunset Shrine that Rai and her family owned. It was about 5 or 10 minute walk to get there and Kagome was always happy to see them and play with Shuichi.
At the moment Kagome was sitting down reading a book of prophecies that her grandfather had.
"These pwophecies have funny names. Hymn of Ishtaw, Of Life in Tents, The Mahabhawata, The Book of the Beginning, The Immowtal One. Hmm..." She turned the pages and was about to start reading the passage in front of her when hands covered her eyes.
"Guess who?" She laughed at her older friends antics.
"Shuichi," She put the book down and uncovered her eyes before turning around to face the smiling red head. "When did you get hewe?"
"A couple minutes ago. You want to go outside and play, your brothers outside, he does not wish to come in but your mother and mine said they need to get dinner going."
"Ok," she said as she stood and raced him outside, he won of course. They stopped at a blanket that her little laid on. He was looking a patch of flowers that were swaying back and forth with a look of wonder on his face. Kagome picked one of the flowers and handed it to him, watching as he waved the flower back and forth in front of him.
"Hey Kagome, when is your birthday?" Kurama asked next to the girl.
"My biwthday is on June, 6th." She said with a laugh as a butterfly landed on Souta's nose.
"So you were born June, 6th of 1996, that's odd?" She frowned at that.
"Why is it odd?" He looked up gave a small chuckle.
"Just the numbers, 6.6.6. It's just odd to have all of them the same."
"Oh."
They stayed outside for awhile until their mothers called them in for lunch, Shuichi got Souta because he was more careful and a little older then she was. Everyone sat down at the table and started to eat.
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"Well, it's time for us to go." Shiori said.
"Aw, do ya have too?" Kagome asked sadly.
"We only live a few blocks away." Shiori said with a smile.
"Then why don't we have a sleep ova." Kagome said with a hopeful smile and puppy dog eyes.
"Well, I...don't see a problem with it, if it's alright with Shuichi's mom."
"Please Miss. Minamino, please, please, pleeease." Shiori laughed at the child's antics before nodding.
"I will go get his night clothes. Shuichi, do you want to o with me, or stay here?"
"I have to pack for the night so I'll go with you." She nodded and the two left while Kagome pulled the bottom part of her bed out to make it bigger, her and her mother made it up. Souta was already fast asleep in the room down the hall from hers. When the doorbell rang she took off and answered it. Shiori waved goodbye as Shuichi went in.
"Before you play, I want both of you to take a bath, Kagome, my bathroom, Shuichi, Kagome's bathroom." They both nodded and left to the appropriate bathrooms, Kagome stopped to get clothes first.
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Kagome entered her room in a blue flannel pajama top and pants, the top had two chibi white foxes playing and the bottoms had the same picture just smaller and repeated all over them. She saw Shuichi sitting on her window seal with a pair of green pajama pants that ha a rose stitched at the bottom and a regular white t-shirt. He looked up with a smile as she entered.
"Shuichi, do you want to see if mama has ice cweam?" His eyes widened and he nodded. She ran downstairs with him and walked up to her mother.
"Mama, do we have Ice Cweam?" Her mother moved to the fridge and pulled a Carton of strawberry and chocolate ice cream out and placed them on the counter.
"What flavor do you two want?"
"Chocolate Mama."
"Strawberry, please."
"Alright. Sit down and I'll get it for you."
"Thanks Mama." Kagome said as both she and Shuichi sat down at the counter. A couple minutes later and two bowls of ice cream were placed in front of the two kids.
Rai looked over at the two and smiled. Just looking at the two interact together she knew that they would be together for a long time.
'And hopefully they will be together in more the one way, in the future.' She thought to herself as she watched the two say thank you before running back upstairs.
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It was Eleven O'clock when Rai checked on the kids, lying in Kagome's bed was both Shuichi and Kagome. Shuichi was lying with her in his arms and her with her head on his chest. Both were fast asleep. With a smile Rai shut the door and turned off the hall light before heading to bed herself after she checked once more on Souta.
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The next morning had been a cheerful one, eating breakfast with the two children then playing with her newest love. Rai looked at a picture of a man that sat on her fire place. A soft smile graced her lips before she heard a knock.
A few minutes later she and Kagome were waving goodbye to their new friends. Friends that Rai just knew would be around for a long time.
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Me: Hehe, I am already done with this story, so it won't be too hard to wait. Unless I just forget to upload. Lol.
Envy: Heh, she has been working on my story a lot, so she just might. ; P