Chapter 1: Meeting with Someone Familiar
"Oi, Kagome! Detect any jewel shards yet?" Inuyasha asked the Miko.
"Nothing yet. Just like the 20 other times you've asked me!" Kagome and the gang were walking towards a village, where a demon had been said to reside.
"What's the big deal, I'm just curious."
"Well, your curiosity is getting me annoyed. So stop bugging me!" Kagome quickens her pace as she walks past Inuyasha in a fit of rage.
"You should just leave her alone, Inuyasha. Women need their personal space." Miroku attempted to reason with Inuyasha, which obviously never worked. After about an hour of walking, Inuyasha dared to speak up again.
"Uh, Kagome, do you se-"
"SIT BOY!"
"GAH!" Inuyasha plummeted into the ground face first, leaving a body shaped hole in which he lay.
"He should've left her alone." Sango sighed as they saw the sight unfold in front of them.
"I tried to warn him." The monk sighed as his hand began to drift towards Sango. A loud slap echoed and a large red handprint on Miroku's cheek.
"You should take some of your own advice sometimes." Sango glared at the monk. Miroku just laughed nervously.
Inuyasha quickly gets up from his hole, with an angered expression plastered onto his face. "What was that for Kagome!"
"I told you to stop bugging me, but you pushed it!"
"So, you didn't have to pull that damn 'sit' technique on me!"
"Well, maybe I wouldn't have if yo-" Kagome stopped and looked towards the direction they were headed with her eyes widened. She slowly walked forward, her eyes never leaving that direction.
"Kagome-sama? What's wrong?" Miroku asked as the Miko stopped. Kagome turns back to the group as the wait for her answer with curiosity.
"I don't know."
"What do ya mean ya don't know?!" Inuyasha glared back at his friend, who seemed troubled.
"I'm just getting this strange feeling, like something bad is going to happen if we keep going towards the village. And the weird part is that it feels familiar like I know what is causing this unease."
"Well the village is said to have a demon living in it, so maybe that's what you're sensing." Sango tries to ease the Miko for it seemed like she was seriously concerned about something.
"I haven't caught Naraku's scent anywhere, so it's not that bastard."
"And I still haven't caught any sense of Shikon fragment. I wonder what it could be."
"I'm sure it's nothing. And even if something does happen, we're strong enough to fend for ourselves. It'll be fine. Now shall we continue onwards to the village?" Miroku walked towards the village as he was followed by the group.
The group arrives at the village just as the sky begins to dim into darkness. "Can we stay the night in the village. I don't feel like sleeping on the ground again." Kagome wonders.
"You've been sleeping on the ground for months now. One night isn't going to make a difference! Plus we need to keep searching for the Jewel shards before Naraku gets his hands on them." Inuyasha exclaimed.
"You know… I'm also getting a bit tired of sleeping on the ground. Sleeping inside an inn would be a nice change of pace." Sango commented.
"Wha-"
"Plus, we need to recover our strength if we were to fight the demon in this town." Miroku adds.
"Ugh! Fine! We'll stay at an inn tonight."
"YAY!" The group walks around the village, trying to find an inn to stay the night. As they walk around searching, Kagome stops as she thinks she sees someone familiar. No, it can't be… It's not possible… Must be my imagination...
They eventually find and enter the inn, to find someone sitting in the main area. Kagome walks in after Inuyasha and stays close to him as she notices the man sitting down. He stands up and faces the group, causing Kagome to shiver in fright.
"What's wrong, Kagome?" Inuyasha whispers. He feels her trembling against him. Miroku walks up and introduces the group to the man.
"My name is Miroku." He points to everyone. "This is Sango, Shippo, Kilala, Inuyasha and Kagome." The man takes notice of Kagome and walks up to her. The Miko hides behind the hanyou as best as she could.
Inuyasha gets worries about this person. Anything that could make Kagome this scared, has to be dangerous.
"My name is Akito. Nice to meet you." Kagome looks up at Akito as he introduces himself to her. He looks like Him, but that's impossible. He's dead. Kagome thought. "Are you alright, young lady?"
"I-I'm fine. You just remind me of someone I knew long ago."
"Alright then. Well, I'll take my leave then." As the man leaves he puts his hand on Kagome's shoulder causing her to flinch. The man proceeds to leave the group.
"Shall we go to our room?"
"Mm." the group enters their room and prepares to sleep. That man is dead. He can't be alive. It must be his ancestor or something. Kagome falls into a deep sleep as she dreams of something she wishes she could forget.