^*A/N: Okay, here is the rewritten first chapter of the Shikon Immortal, I sincerly hope it's not a disappointment, but it was needed to be done.
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Chapter 1:
Betrayal. Why did she feel betrayed? She should've expected this. That he would choose her over herself when the time came. She supposes she feels like this because she never knew that when he did choose her, it would lead to her own ultimate demise.
She could still hear his words ringing in her ears as she fell through the air; could still see the look on his face as the edge of the cliff got further away. The forlorn look that showed he knew exactly what he was doing when he said, "I'm sorry Kagome… but… but I need Kikyo."
She didn't scream, or even cry, only refused to look at Inuyasha as Kikyo was handed to him. Kagome stared at the ground blankly, feeling something inside of her snapping, numbing her whole body. She barely heard Naraku say, "How does it feel Kagome? To know that the one you loved for over two years could so easily fling you aside for this clay replica of the one he used to love?" Naraku ran Kagome through with one of his tentacles, laughing heartily as she cried out.
"Kagome!" This made Kagome vivid. She fought the pain to look up at him, blood trailing down her chin.
"What did you expect? Inuyasha, you chose her, I hope you're happy with that clay bitch." Naraku tore out his tentacle, causing Kagome to clench her eyes and whimper loudly as she felt the miasma spreading, tearing away at her flesh.
"You, miko wench, have been in a pain in my damn side long enough. Good riddance." Naraku chuckled deeply.
"Kagome, no!" Naraku flung her over the edge of the crag. Kagome closed her eyes and quietly awaited the ground to arrive. The wind whipped angrily at her face and she faintly heard the cries of her friends. She focused on that only for a second before there was nothing anymore.
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Peace, serenity, calm. That was the only way to describe this place. Kagome stared straight ahead and the light orange and pink colors that lined the horizon of nothingness.
"Kagome." She snapped her head around, searching for the source, but no one was there.
"Hello?" A strong gust of wind blew past her and Kagome watched apathetically as three beings appeared around her. She was slightly surprised when she recognized one of them.
"Priestess Midoriko?" Kagome quickly gave a bow, making the woman laugh.
"Kagome, no need to bow." Kagome rose, a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Umm, okay. Where am I?" She asked, gesturing towards the area surrounding them.
The being that looked familiar to Kagome stepped forward; his booming voice seemed to fill the space. "You, my dear, are in the transition to the afterlife." Kagome thought for a moment; something was nagging at her: that silver hair, those marks on his cheeks, that crescent moon… Kagome gasped, bowing once again.
"Lord Inutaisho, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you at first." The great Dog General of the West just gave a hearty laugh, patting her on the shoulder.
"As Midoriko said, there is no need to bow here." Kagome sighed.
"Okay, I mean no disrespect, but why have you kept me from moving on?"
Midoriko answered. "It's not your time to die; we need someone to protect the Shikon Jewel. There is no one left on earth that can keep the jewel pure like you can."
Kagome rubbed her forehead; she was really tired of everything. "But why me? Why am I so special all of a sudden? I know I'm being selfish, but I just want to move on, I don't want to go back to that world, back where that bastard is!" Kagome said, raising her voice as she went on.
Midoriko approached her, laying a hand on her shoulder. "Child, we know that you have been through some tragic things, but it's your duty to guard the jewel. You are my reincarnation, it's your destiny."
Kagome let out a dry laugh. "So you're telling me that I'm not even Kikyo's reincarnation… That I've been living these past two years being called her copy and it's not even true?" Midoriko just nodded, making Kagome sigh. "Okay Midoriko, I'll do it… But there is a problem. How am I going to get the jewel? Naraku has most of it." Midoriko smiled some.
"Kagome, you are the jewel; the jewel is a part of you, just call it home."
"What do you mean?"
The stranger spoke now. "You will find out when you get back to the real world. For now Kagome, we will be here for you when you need it." Kagome furrowed her eyebrows, but nodded none-the-less.
Inutaisho spoke up next. "One last thing, I apologize for my son's unforgivable behavior." They started to fade away as he finished. "But not both of my sons are like that…" They vanished, leaving Kagome alone.
"Wait! What?" She felt a tug on her soul. She didn't want to go, the pain, the agony, the complete and utter hatred, all of it was beckoning to her. "No!"
She was thrown back down to reality, back to the excruciating pain. She opened her eyes. The sunlight flooded them and she took a deep breath. Kagome took in her surroundings; she was at the bottom of the bluff, in a pool of what she guessed was her own blood.
A pristine light engulfed her being. She felt her bones snapping back into place, her skin sewing back together. Oddly enough, she felt no pain. Even odder than that, she felt nothing. At all.
Kagome was shaking as she lifted herself from the ground. Her blood was pumping, her senses were overloading. She could hear a squirrel fluttering up a tree about fifty feet away. She could literally feel the unnatural power her body was now teeming with. Her head was pounding, but she knew that she couldn't stay here, she had to get away.
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Sesshomaru was patrolling his lands when he felt a force. He stopped midstride; he hadn't encountered something this powerful since his father was alive. This simply wouldn't do. He had to investigate.
"Jaken, stay here." Sesshomaru walked away without another word and Jaken gulped.
"He looked positively deadly; I better not let anything happen to young Rin." Jaken said to himself as he stopped Ah-Un, careful not to wake the sleeping girl on the dragon as he made a small camp.
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"Inuyasha! You bastard! How could you do that to Kagome?" Sango brought up her secondary sword to strike down the inu-hanyou, but was stopped when Miroku caught her hand. Now Miroku was just as mad as Sango, but he kept a clear head.
"Sango, we don't know his side of the story, we only know what Naraku told us. And we know never to believe what he says." Sango turned an angry glare at the monk.
"Just look down at the bottom of the cliff, Miroku. Kagome's body is there! Her blood is all over the place! How can you think that he is just tricking us?" Miroku glanced down to the bottom of the cliff and back to Sango.
"Sango look, Kagome isn't there anymore." Sango dropped her weapon and ran to where he was standing. It was true; there was only a circle of red, and no sign of Kagome anywhere.
"Bu… But she was just there… She was dead…" Sango stared at the spot as Miroku walked over to where Inuyasha was.
"I'm so sorry… I didn't know… I'm so sorry… Kagome…" Inuyasha gazed down at the ground. Miroku kneeled down by him.
"Inuyasha, I think Kagome is still alive." Inuyasha looked up to him.
"It's impossible, I saw it myself, and she's dead, gone forever."
"No, her body isn't there anymore. She's still alive." Inuyasha just shook his head. He couldn't believe it.
Miroku drug Inuyasha to the side of the cliff with a sigh. "Look for yourself.
Inuyasha stared at the puddle, not comprehending the situation. Sango hit him with her hiraikotsu.
"Don't you get it? She's still alive. In any case we should go search for her." Miroku spoke with a fatherly voice as he hauled Inuyasha to his feet.
"No, she probably doesn't want anything to do with me." Sango snorted.
"Yea, I barely want anything to do with you, but Miroku's right. We need to find her."
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Sesshomaru strode to the base of the rocky overhang. How strange. He could smell the scent of the miko here, the scent of her blood was unmistakable, but at the same time it wasn't her. It was as if she was remade, an odd mixture of demon and priestess. She was definitely no longer a simple miko ningen.
He leapt to the top and took in the scent of the miko's friends, Naraku, and despair. There was no doubting what happened here.
'That stupid hanyou. He has no idea what he has released.' Sesshomaru thought to himself as he went in search of his half-brother.
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Kagome stopped walking; she could feel the presence of Naraku approaching her. She stared at him as he appeared in front of her.
Naraku raised an eyebrow at her. "I see you survived miko."
Kagome crossed her arms over her chest. "And what do you want Naraku?" The baboon pelt moved, slowly circling her. Kagome could tell that it was only a demon puppet, but she could still feel the life of a jewel shard thrumming, it was calling to her. She now knew what they meant when they said to call it home.
"I've come to ask you to join me. I'm sure that you hate Inuyasha now…" Kagome glared at him when he said his name.
"Never speak that hanyou's name around me." Naraku chuckled darkly.
"Just as I thought… So what do you say? Join forces with me, we could find the jewel shards. I'll leave you the pleasure of killing the hanyou when it comes time." Naraku stalked around her, eyeing her like prey.
"I thought you wanted me dead. Hence throwing me off the cliff back there." Naraku stopped in front of her.
"I can sense it. You're no longer human, there is youkai in you… " Kagome's eye brows furrowed.
"What are you talking about?" Naraku rubbed is hands together menacingly.
"No matter that now. What do you say darling?" One of his hands reached to Kagome, trailing a claw down her cheek. She pulled away, shuttering with disgust.
"Naraku, I will tell you this once. If you every, every come around me again… You will not live long enough to run away. Am I clear, spider?" Without another word she reached out her hand and called the jewel shard to her. There was a small burst of light as Naraku's puppet disintegrated and Kagome looked down at her open palm.
'One jewel shard down, hundreds more to go.' She thought to herself as she continued walking, searching for the nearest village.
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The group of 'friends' trekked through the forest. Inuyasha was following the faint scent of Kagome when he caught a whiff of his brother. The stoic taiyoukai stepped out of the trees and onto the dirt path.
Inuyasha took a fighting stance and set his hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga, growling. "What do you want, Sesshomaru?"
Sesshomaru ignored his half-brother and scanned the group. He looked at Miroku. "Monk, where is the miko that usually travels with you?" Miroku stepped forward.
"Lord Sesshomaru, we are searching for her. I see that you felt the power she released as well?" Sesshomaru barely nodded. Inuyasha was getting pretty pissed about being ignored.
"Oi! Lord asshole! I asked you a question!" Inuyasha quickly found himself pinned to a tree.
"You should really watch that insolent mouth before I remove it." Sesshomaru dropped the hanyou to the ground. "Now, half-breed, you have no idea what happened to the miko do you?" Inuyasha shook his head. "She is no longer human. You have unleashed something powerful that must be dealt with." With that Sesshomaru walked away, leaving the group hoping that they would find Kagome before Sesshomaru did.
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Sesshomaru was following the powerful aura of the miko when there was a strong gust of wind. An immensely strong presence appeared behind him. He didn't need to look to know who it was.
"Father, what do you wish?"
"The miko, you will not hurt her." Sesshomaru turned around, lifting an arrogant eyebrow.
"She needs to be destroyed before she is tainted." Inutashio shook his head.
"My apologies, allow me to rephrase. You can't hurt the miko. You underestimate her." Sesshomaru glared at him.
"What do you mean? I can defeat anyone."
"She would kill you before you could even blink." Sesshomaru turned away from him.
"What makes you think such nonsense?" Inutaisho shrugged lightly.
"You're more than welcome to test it out. Just remember son, I warned you." Then he was gone. Sesshomaru glared at the spot that his father had just occupied.
'Such insolence.'
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Kagome wondered how long she could keep going. She also wondered if she even had to eat; she'd been walking for a good six hours and she didn't feel the least bit hungry or tired. At least she had come across a small village a couple hours ago. They had felt so sorry for her that they gave her a new set of clothes for free before she went on her way.
She sat down by a clear pond, contemplating on whether or not she should take a small bath. With her knew enhanced senses she could smell herself and she was getting tired of the scent of crusty blood. She looked at her reflection, but it wasn't what she was expecting. She had more defined cheek bones, the milky white skin of a goddess. Even her eyes were a different color, now a deep blue. She examined the woman in the pond; she still was Kagome undeniably, just more mature. With a sigh she dipped her feet into the cool water, staring up at the night sky.
'So many stars… you can't see these in the modern era.' She felt a twinge of some foreign emotion. She couldn't put a name to it. 'I can probably never go back now without having that hanyou sniff me out …' Kagome shook herself out of her thoughts and decided that she should find a hot spring so she could take a bath. 'Too bad I don't have my bathing supplies…"
She walked for maybe five minutes until she came upon a serene, small hot spring. She quickly rid herself of her tattered clothes and lowered herself into the almost boiling water; not at all thinking about how oddly convenient it was that she found these places.
"So nice…" She said as she sunk down deeper into the water. Kagome got a nice soothing bath in before she felt someone's aura entering the area. She sighed, closed her eyes and decided that she should just stay in the water and allow the being to show them.
After a minute of waiting she realized that they weren't going to come out of the forest anytime soon. She took a deep breath in.
"Lord Sesshomaru, I didn't know you stooped so low as to spy on a lady while she bathes…" That drew him out.
"I would suggest that you hold your tongue, miko." Kagome opened one eye to look at him, shrugging slightly.
"I find that I don't have to take crap from anyone anymore. I don't have to 'hold my tongue'." She said as she rose out the water, ringing out her hair and letting her energy heat the water away. She watched him, not concerned about her nakedness at all.
"What may I ask are you here for?" She grabbed the clothes that the village people had given her and swiftly put them on.
Sesshomaru placed his hand on the hilt of his Tokijin. "You are too great of a threat to let live." He drew his sword as Kagome turned to him. She stared at him. It was a standoff, two sets of emotionless eyes watching each other as they contemplated who was going to make the first move. Kagome spoke after a moment.
"You really think you can defeat me, Sesshomaru? Or are you just hoping that you can?" She disappeared, only to materialize behind Sesshomaru. She held a hand to his throat and let her holy powers flow freely, surrounding the hand in a white glow. "You see? If I wanted to, you could be dead on this forest floor in a second." To emphasize her point she lightly touched her hand to his neck, causing a slight burn to appear. "Now, the only reason I let you live is because I see you as someone that can be useful in the near future…"
She released him, picking up her old clothes before walking to the forest's edge. "You know Sesshomaru; you're very wise, not trying to attack me again. But remember this moment when you think of trying to 'rid the world of me' again… I won't be so forgiving next time." Then she vanished, leaving Sesshomaru to contemplate this newest piece of information.
'So, father was right. This has become much more interesting.' Sesshomaru thought to himself with a slight smirk as he walked back to where his companions were waiting for him.
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"Midoriko? Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, it is needed." The priestess clasped her hands together and said a small prayer. They watched the window as a bright pink light shot out in all directions; leaving remnants of the flight hang in the night air. After a minute everything settled back to normal and the celestial beings looked to each other.
"It is done; the Shikon Jewel has been shattered once again."
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