My Best Friends Brother
Summary: Yoh has a best friend...okay, so that's no shock, everyone has a best friend...but his is not who you think. Her name is Kagome, and she was the friend who had him coming to Japan. Kagome Higurashi was the childhood friend his parents hadn't approved of, and when she's noticed by Hao as Yoh's one real weakness, will he be able to save her, or will she be lost to the fires of passion lit by the older twin brother he's never known.
Anime/Manga: Shaman King/InuYasha
Pairing: Kagome/Hao
Genre: Romance/Angst
Rated: M for Mature Content
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T "READ" THE "MANGA"!
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"Beware the spirits of hell, crawling from the fiery pits to grasp at your heels, drawing you into their flames!"
"KAGOME!"
"Knock it off, Kagome!"
'Kagome' laughed at her friends. "I'm just kidding," she brushed her black hair from over her shoulders and smiled, "You guys weren't scared of that little joke, were you?"
The girls surrounding her desk blushed, one of them sighed, "You sound like Manta from my homeroom class. He's always reading these horror stories."
"So you should be used to such silly nonsense if you listen to it in Homeroom. Now...I think I've seen Manta-San before...he's the really small one, right? When I first saw him, I thought that he was a Koropokkuru."
"That sounds familiar, but I'm not quite sure why?"
"Aren't those a type of spirit?"
Kagome smiled sadly, "The Koropokkuru's are a race of small people, they live among the Ainu's in the northern Japanese Islands...they live in pits with roofs and butterbur leaves..."
"That's sounds like a horrible way to live!" One of the girls laughed out at the thought of living in dirt holes with leaves.
"Yes, while I'm sure to others, your living style might be horrible, to them it was not." Kagome stood and walked out of the classroom.
"What's her problem?"
"Drop it Satsuki, you know how she gets in concerns to the 'spirits' and other 'aboriginal unknowns'."
Like she couldn't hear them, the girls continued to talk about her as she finally walked out of hearing range. She really hated Tokyo. It was fun for a while, but really, she missed her friends in Izumo, she didn't know why of all places, she had to move here. Her mother had left with her about five years ago, and she hadn't been to Izumo since. Even after the accident a year back.
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(ONE YEAR AGO)
"I'm home mom~!" Kagome called out, a normal routine she'd become accustomed to after four years of living in Tokyo. Twelve years old now, she was the pride of her mother. Though, not the only child of Rai Higurashi, Kagome was definitely the eldest, with her newborn brother being only a week old as of today. "Mom?" Every step she took brought to life the Shikigami living in the ficus's that were placed strategically along the hall and throughout the house.
She took a step into the living room and found it abnormally quiet. A shuffle upstairs and muffled cry drew her attention and she ran quickly to the source of the stifled noise. Stopping at the door that separated the nursery from the hall, she quietly turned the knob before pushing the door open.
"...mom!" Running forward, she turned her mother over from the fetal position in which she laid on the ground. The muffled cry was coming from the baby in her mother's arms. Pulling the baby from her mom's grip, she shook her mom, but to no avail. Her mother did not wake up from her eternal sleep. She was left alone with her baby...and since no one knew them really, and her mom never left the house to begin with; would anyone notice if she was left alone?
The crying baby in her arms continued to wail as she contemplated her choices. She couldn't call the police, because they would take her and her brother to an orphanage, and then they would be separated. So she waited. She waited till night fell. After looking over her mother, she knew what had taken her moms' life. The bullet hole in the head was enough to tell her it had been a break in, and the trashed bedroom and stolen jewelry told her they got what they wanted. After crying over her loss for nearly seven hours, it was two in the morning. She had a hole dug in the back yard, a grave for her mother, using the Shikigami to do most of the work while she brought her mother out under cover of the nights shadows. It took her nearly two more hours, burying her mother. Atop the new dirt patch, a ficus tree grew with the help of her leaf Shikigami.
Listening to her brother cry in the house, she sat by the newly placed grave, crying until she couldn't cry any longer. Her tears seemed to have run dry as the sun began to peek out over the rooftops of Tokyo. Her brother had long since ceased his crying. She assumed the Shikigami had played some part in that, but didn't go look.
It was one hour later as the sun became glaringly obvious to her, that she walked inside, tired and broken, to find her brother sleeping on the couch with the leaf Shikigami surrounding him to make sure he didn't roll off or start crying again.
"Looks like it'll be just us from now on...please, lend me your strength and help...until I can do this on my own." She bowed to the Shikigami. Yes, she had power over them, having learned from Yohmei years before they left Izumo. He had been kind to her, as she was friends with his grandson and his grandsons fiancé-to-be. Kino had not liked her too much though, said something about her getting in the way of her apprentice, and after voicing said concerns...Rai had taken her and left...
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(Present)
A year later and she was still playing the part of a good daughter, to her deceased mother, as her neighbors assumed her mom was just antisocial. The money supply was never ending in Kagome's case. She had done the grocery shopping for her mom to begin with and the money for a thirteen year old girl and one year old boy was small, she didn't waste it on anything childish. The house was theirs, they owned it, and as for her schooling...it was completely paid off as well. She would finish up her schooling and go from there, but she refused to waste money. She thought about returning to Izumo, but was unsure if that would be okay.
"...Souta, I'm home..." She stepped inside and smiled as she came across her baby brother in the living room trying to catch the Shikigami's playing with him.
"Ka-chi!"
"Hai, hai...I'm here," she smiled and watched as he crawled up to her, "Are you hungry?"
"Na, na ka-chi~"
"Let's go for a brief walk," she nodded her thanks to the Shikigami as they pushed forward a stroller, waving her hand she sighed as she placed her brother in the stroller. "I need a guardian ghost...it would be immensely helpful...especially since I now know you have a sixth sense for ghosts and spirits."
She left with a few of Shikigami's following behind her, hovering over the baby to keep him company as she walked the streets and made her way to the flower shop like she always did. "Maybe tonight, we can pay the graveyard a visit and see if anyone interesting is out roaming the area. Maybe a Ninja or Samurai or Knight." Kagome laughed at the thought, but went ahead and added that to her agenda.
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Me: Here is the first chapter of a story which has been basically collecting dust...well, the summary has been. I just wrote the chapter today. Anyways, I know I should go to sleep, but if I do...I probably won't wake up, lol.