Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, he's property of Rumiko Takashi
InuYasha's ears flickered. Something was coming and fast too. He jumped off the tree to investigate and smelled out the scent and recognizing it. It was definitely Kagura. Running demon speed, InuYasha jumped tree to tree whenever an obstacle was to be found on the ground. When he finally landed on a tree with a decent view, he peered through the leaves and observed Kagura.
Down the steep hill was Kagura along with Kahna discussing something ever so quietly that even with InuYasha's sensitive dog ears couldn't pick up. After a while, Kagura started to go down even further down the hill to a watering hole where demons and even half demons were lurking.
After a couple of minutes, Kagura arrived to the watering hole where every demon was oblivious to her arrival. InuYasha went down the steep hill even further only to hide once again to see what's going on. InuYasha was never patient, but something in his instincts told him that he should wait and listen.
"I understand," spoke Kagura silently to Kahna. With one swift hand movement in the air, every demon and half there was slaughtered only to be played as puppets as she used her 'Dance of the Dead' on them. "Now we have a miniature army for Naraku," Kahna as emotionless as ever replied. "Do you know why he wants the army?" No response came for Kagura. "Guess not," Kagura answered herself.
Right before leaving, a snarl was heard before the scene. Kagura turned only to be attacked by a demon whom seemed to be very pissed at the turn of events. The demon took out their claws and sliced a good, deep claw mark on the right side of Kagura's face, and right before she was about to defend herself, the demon who attacked her pushed her with great strength against a boulder that was a good thirty feet away. Man, was this demon pissed.
Dust from the impact of when Kagura was pushed against the very old boulder cascaded around the wind in which she decided to manipulate to try to blind the demon. The attempt was in vain, for the demon had dodged it just to deflect it right back at her, blinding her with her own attack. "Damn you!" cried the now helpless Kagura.
"No, damn you!" Spoke the demon. The demon was now concluded as a female from her voice, and InuYasha sniffed the air, and recognizing that the demon was not a demon, but a half demon. The girl had a cut on her knee that she had not yet noticed from the dust cloud impact from Kagura that ever so slightly hit her.
InuYasha comprehended what was happening in his hiding place and was thinking about joining the fight when all of the sudden he heard the girl.
"How dare you slaughter my family! Do you have no heart?!" Kagura was deeply offended with this remark, because… well Kagura didn't have a heart- inside her at least. Naraku still had it in his possession. "What do you know?! You no nothing about me!" With that, Kagura made a huge tornado with her fan that hit the girl and sliced her skin a bit causing her to hiss.
"You'll regret that," the girl merely said with only slight pain in her tone of voice. With that, the girl reached into the sleeves of her kimono and took out a kunai with a extremely sharp tip and a bottle inside it that had a pink liquid inside, and with the stench that clinged on it, it was poisonous. With one swift throw, the kunai was headed towards Kagura whom dodged it, to only reach Kahna instead head first. Kagura gasped and ran towards Kahna who was just a couple meters away to only find her falling backwards and her aura glowing weaker and weaker by the passing second. "Kahna!" Kagura ran towards Kahna's dying body, and within a few second, Kagura took out the feather in her hair and before the girl could realize, the two women were already in the air flying away, leaving the kunai behind. "You'll pay for what you've done woman with the feather in her hair! I'll get you and have revenge for the sake of my family!" With a huge leap into the air, she got out her razor sharp claws and sliced the feather they were on only to be blinded with dusty wind that Kagura had manipulated and the impact of the gust of wind hit the girl very hard. Kagura simply jumped off the torn feather and got on a new one, and with that, the two servants of Naraku were gone.
The impact of the wind hit mainly the half demon girl's head which made her fall down the hundreds of meters in the air unconscious. InuYasha witnessing everything in front of him came out of hiding and running towards where the girl was falling and leaping in the air to scoop her and sprinting to safety. InuYasha knew in the back of his head that if any other demons that were hungry smelt the scent of blood they would come in stampedes towards it thinking its prey.
After running a long time through the forest, he came across a field with a stream not too far from the Bone Eater's well. He set the girl down on a soft pad of grass that wasn't soaked with water from the passing stream. He sat down next to the half demon having a better look at her. He took one of his clawed hands and swiped all the hair that was covering her face. He stared gawking at her. "Kawaii," InuYasha thought. She had ash black hair, a petite face with long full lashes that if she batted she'd make any man fall for her love spell. She had plump lips with a pink tint to them and something he hadn't noticed before. She had black cat ears. She was a neko demon. Neko half demon to be perfectly exact. All of the sudden, InuYasha heard a growl from her, but not from her mouth. It came from her stomach. "She must be hungry… maybe I should go hunt for her. I guess I'll go hunt her some fish, she's a neko after all." With that, InuYasha headed towards the remotely close stream and folded his pants so that it wouldn't get wet and started hunting.
By the time he was done, he had about eight fishes and had already gotten a fire started as it started to get dark. After about 20 minutes or so after the sun started setting in and the darkness was at it's peak, the girl had started to wake up, eyes fluttering slowly at first, and then completely alert and took great notice that her location had changed since when she remembered. Examining her surroundings with wide eyes, her eyes had met InuYasha's amber eyes. InuYasha had taken note that her eyes were lime green with a tint of ocean of blue, and then they started to change colors.
"W-who are you?" the girl's tone in almost fear, but mostly anger for Kami knows what reason. She started moving backwards in fear until she hit a tree and there was no where to go. "Don't worry I'm not gonna hurt you lady," the Inu half demon replied. "My name's InuYasha." The girl seeming to become more relaxed that he was sincere to his remark that he wasn't going to hurt her. "Where am I?" "You're safe, that much I can tell you. I found this spot not too far to where I was originally going." InuYasha pointed at the far distance of the Bone Eaters well.
Sniffing the air, the Neko's ears shot up and mouth watering at the sight of the fish. Her black tail flickering in the intriguing invasion of the smell in her nose that InuYasha had not to notice. "Are they ready?" The neko had hopeful eyes and straight out obvious water in her mouth. "Yeah, how many do you want?"
"How many are there?"
"Bout eight."
"Four please!"
"Sure," with that, InuYasha got a stick and punctured the four fishes she wanted so she could eat it without having four fishes stacked up on her lap.
"Arigato gusaimas!" the Neko snatched the stick and ate it hungrily as if she hadn't eaten for days, maybe a week.
InuYasha couldn't help to stare at her because for once, he could witness someone that ate even faster than himself.
After eating all of the fish, the Neko laid down with a satisfied grin on her face. "Thanks for hunting the fish InuYasha!" she said suddenly.
"No problem… um.. what's your name by the way?"
"Kagome," she simply said, getting up from her comfortable position. With that, she started walking away, waving to him and thanking him once again for everything.
"Wait!" InuYasha called out for her. "Hmm?" Kagome turned to look at him. "Where are you headed to?" Kagome started walking back towards him. "Following the scent of those who killed my clan," she answered with a low growl and a very angry aura around herself. "You mean Kagura and Kahna?" With that, all attention was on him. "You know them?" Then, before he could react, Kagome had pinned him against the tree baring her teeth at him. "You're meaning to tell me that you just stood there and watched my clan being slaughtered like a spectator?!" The hatred in her eyes flared and flickered around along with low growls here and there. "I didn't know what was happening!" InuYasha confessed to his defense. With that, he took the advantage of her attention lessening and pinned her down this time. "You bastard! You just stood there and watched as if it were some kind of show! You didn't even try to help!" She tried breaking free from his grasp, but he just held her wrists tighter.
"Listen Kagome!" InuYasha growled right back, not sure how long he could keep his control with the position he was in. "You won't know where to find those two. You can defeat them, sure, but will you be able to defeat Naraku?" Her eyes had confusion in them. "Who's Naraku?"
After explaining who Naraku is, and explaining that him too was seeking revenge for framing him for injuring his first love Kikyo and ultimately killing her, he proved and regained himself the trust that he once lost already from being a 'spectator' at the killing scene.
After walking back and forth and thinking to herself, Kagome finally spoke. "I have a proposal for you," she looked straight at him. He paid attention. " A proposition. My deal is that you take me as my guide to where this Naraku person is, and mainly Kagura and Kahna, and I'll help you seek revenge on Naraku." She put both her hands on her hips and had a smile on her face with confidence and a determined glare on her eyes. "And if I refuse?" InuYasha questioned just out of curiosity. "Simple. I'll have to kill you," She coldly said. "What?! What for?!" She now sat beside him and whispered to his ear. "May I remind you that you watched without a hint of remorse a whole clan being slaughtered without a care in the world of thinking who's clan it was and how sad and angry they would be." With that said, she took hold of his hakamamuch and leaned in really close to his face. "Besides, you can't defeat him on your own. If he's as strong as you say he is, then you'll need backup." She let go of his hakamamuch and got up. "So InuYasha," having a smug look on her face. "You in?"
Looking at her with a tint of blush on his cheek from the closeness they were in that she hadn't noticed, he simply replied with a "Seeing that I have no choice."
"Then we have an understanding," she faced him both hands on her hips.
"Yeah, but first," he poked her knee. "Ouch!" Kagome screeched. "We better get you to Kaede's. You don't want that to get infected." "Who's Kaede?" InuYasha had the smug face now. "Seeing that you're not a know-it-all anymore with all the spunk and confidence and 'upper-hand' girl anymore, you'll just have to wait and see."
Kagome only pouted at the remark and InuYasha noticed she had a slight blush on her cheeks and he blushed as well. The cuteness continues.
After walking through the dark forest for several tens of minutes, they finally arrived to the village the InuYasha spoke of. She stared everywhere in shock. A human village, for once she saw a human village up close without all the pitch forks and torches and mobs against a demon or half intruding their civilization. She took it all in, savoring every peaceful moment, as if it were her last. It wasn't too often that she met a village like this. In fact, she's never met a village like this at all in all her life!
After taking everything in during their walk, InuYasha stopped and she accidentally bumped into him. "Well, here we are," InuYasha moved the stick-like door out of the way (I don't know how to describe Kaede's hut's door, but you know what I mean) letting her in.
An old woman in a priestess kimono stood there with her long hair in a loose pony tail that slid down her back. "Oh, and who might ye be?" Questioned the woman whom she assumed was Kaede. "She's Kagome, she's a neko half demon that got hurt pretty bad against Kagura," answered InuYasha for her. "Oh, well, let me tend to ye wounds. Come here, child." Sitting down next to a pot with a fire under it, Kagome sat next to her watching in awe of how the elderly woman got out all her herbs and medicine plants and mixed them together to make a mushy green slime-like medicine that reeked. She placed the mushy green 'moss' on her wounds that were on her arms that had slices through the skin that Kagura had caused and some on her knee that needed most attention. Kaede began opening Kagome's dark blue with flowers all over's kimono which caused InuYasha to blush and turn around and looked at the gash in her stomach. "That's weird… I didn't feel that there," stated Kagome. Kaede stood in awe at how her stomach was simply replenishing itself. "Ye know what ye are child?" Asked Lady Kaede. "What do you mean?" Questioned Kagome. "You're a miko!" "Eh?!" Both InuYasha and Kagome said in unison and Kagome getting up with shock, causing her kimono to fall revealing basically everything except her womanhood which was wrapped in cloth. After realizing that her kimono had fallen and her breasts were exposed and that InuYasha was gawking at them, she simply hit him on the head causing him to fall. "Pervert!" accused Kagome, blushing immensely, even more than InuYasha himself. Putting on her kimono again, still blushing and rewinding the turn of events that happened in the past few minutes, as the same to InuYasha, she began to speak again, flushed as ever still remaining on her cheeks. "Miko? You're telling me I'm a-" "Yes. You're a priestess as well Kagome," cut off Kaede. "You have sacred powers that only few women have." "B-but how do I have it? Was I just born like this or something?" "Precisely. Most of the time you're born in it, so your mother must have been a miko." Kagome comprehended and let everything sink in for a while. "Is there another way to become a miko other than being born in it?" Questioned Kagome. "Well, ye could be a reincarnation of someone that was a priestess. Very rare, however. Also, in order to become a reincarnation, ye have to be in someone else's place. For example, the last priestess to ever die. Which would be my dear sister, Kikyo." answered Kaede. InuYasha's ears flickered once again at the mention of the name 'Kikyo'. "So wait," InuYasha started, both Kaede and Kagome staring at him while he was standing both arms crossed against his chest. "You're meaning to tell me that it's a possibility that Kagome here could be Kikyo's reincarnation?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. However, most likely it's that she is born into a miko, came from someone in her family."
"I never knew my mother nor father though. I'm an orphan." Spoke Kagome, with her eyes being covered by her bangs. "So I wouldn't know if I was born into it."
"I see. Well, we begin training tomorrow," Kaede simply commanded as she got up. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. What training?" Asked Kagome, not sure if she should stay behind to practice it. "Miko training of course. I need to teach ye how to use a bow and arrow-" "I can defend myself just fine." "I need to teach ye spiritual spells and curses and-" "Thanks, but not thanks. I don't want to give up my freedom lifestyle for some dumb, old training." With that said and done, Kagome got up and tugged InuYasha's clothing to indicate it was time to go. "Thanks for everything Lady Kaede," thanked Kagome. "I'll keep that offer up though, if I were you. Maybe when I come back you can teach me." Now was the start of their adventure.
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