Diverted destiny of four souls
Disclaimer: Let's see, characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer belong to Joss Whedon.
India Cohen, Christopher Bothwell and India's father (name was never given so I gave him one) are from the Buffy novel written by Nancy Holder – The book of fours.
I'm not earning any money either, only amusement, frustration and couple WTF moments I had when I started on this …and anything …
InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
More detailed disclaimers will be given later on…as in, to whom certain character belongs etc. But for the moment this will suffice.
Spoilers: Well, essentially this is an AU (sort of), since Buffy will never be called as The Slayer EVER (and yes, it is still Buffy-centric story. Anyway spoilers: BtVS, AtS, the Book of fours by Nancy Holder (Never mind if you didn't read it; I won't be spoiling too much of it…I'm just giving out a warning that there will be some things from that Buffy novel, and InuYasha Manga and Anime.
Summary: This is a tale of five not-so-ordinary girls and how, with a single unforeseen and unwelcome death of a five year old girl, their fates change forever.
Prologue: Compensation: Two souls become one
Tokyo, Japan - 10th of April, 1985
Spike was having fun. He loved when he was taken on a chase, especially if the 'happy meal with legs' was a spunky one. Normally, he'd leave little kids alone unless he was really hungry, but his Dark Goddess wanted something small before they left Tokyo for good. He honestly didn't get why most vampires and demons avoided Japan and nearby isles like a plague.
But Dru didn't like it here so they going to leave as soon as he catches that spunky kid he was chasing for at least twenty minutes.
"Bloody hell," he muttered when he saw the little raven-haired, blue-eyed girl disappear through the laundry shaft.
"Oh well, plenty of those where this one came from." He muttered, then turned away and strolled toward this business complex's daycare, whistling a happy tune.
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Two uniformed police men stood in the hospital hallway talking to a distraught, heavily-pregnant woman in front of hospital room filled with beeping machines and one single small bed containing a small pale girl.
"Thank you for your time, Mrs. Higurashi," said one of uniformed men and they bowed and left the hallway. Mrs. Higurashi then turned and entered the room behind her, approaching the bed where her daughter lay.
Sitting down, she reached and tucked one raven strand of hair behind her daughter's ear, away from pale cheek, finally letting silent tears fell, while memories of her daughter's five years filtered through her mind, knowing that they will be all she'll ever have, since her child will never again opened her eyes and offered cheerful smiles again. Her prognosis was every mother's nightmare, her child suffered severe trauma to the brain and internal bleeding that doctors were too late to stop. And the doctors said that she wouldn't last the night.
Leaning forward and letting tears drop on the girl's pale – all too pale cheek – she whispered, "Kagome, sweetie, I'm so sorry." Then she finally let her sobs sound through the room that was until then undisturbed, save for the beeping of life support machines.
Couple of hours later, the beeping was replaced by a steady long, painful beep and the girl's pale face was covered with white sheet.
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Right this moment on the higher planes Amaterasu-ōmikami , Japanese sun goddess was not amused. In fact, she was positively livid, not only was the deal between Kami, the PTB and the Senior Partners of Dark broken because of the silly game of Shōgi between the latter two, making them clumsy in their concentration on keeping their leeches away from lands under Kami's protection. Now they had to insult the Kami with their offer of a compensation for the girl that those said leeches killed and offered to give the girl whose soul they wanted to use as a host to the body of a Key. …well, now she'll just have to teach how displeased she was with their disregard for lower beings. And she'll make sure that Kami's influence will reach beyond agreed borders.
"Show me the child again," she commanded. And a female being with violet pupil-less eyes and long, green hair stepped forward and raised her arms, palms apart. Soon a light shined between her palms and an ornate gold mirror appeared. Pink and blue lights swirled on the surface until they calmed down, and an image of a coughing, light-haired girl in a hospital bed appeared.
"Well then, this is the poor child whose soul the PTB wanted to use to inhabit the blood of Key, making sure that their pawn would protect the body that houses the soul she feels connected to?"
Looking at the violet eyes above the rim of the mirror; "Was it done?"
"Yes, My Lady, the Miko's whole soul – along with Shikon no Tama – are safely stored inside the mirror and ready for transfer in to this child."
"No, this is not the child," said Amaterasu, a small smile playing on her beautiful face. Then she reached out and touched the mirror's surface, making the view widen to include the curtains around the girl's hospital bed. And there, slowly pushing away at the curtains is another girl, a girl with dark blond hair and hazel eyes.
"That is the child; now go."
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Los Angeles, America
A girl was sneaking trough the empty hallways of the LA Memorial Hospital, careful at not being seen by any nurse or a doctor, or spotted by her mom. Carefully peeling back the curtains around her dear cousin's hospital bed.
"Celia?"
The girl on the bed wakes up and looks around. When she spots the other girl, she smiles and exclaims happily, "Buffy. You came. I was soo…"
But she cuts herself off with a terrified scream, holding her hands in front of her, trying to push a scary man with bulging eyes away from her.
Buffy tries to move closer. "What's wrong? Celia! I don't know what to do."
But Celia keeps screaming at the top of her little lungs and pushing at nothing. Buffy runs down the hallway screaming for help, all the way hearing her cousin's terrified screams, "Get it off of me!!!"
Buffy ran through the bright empty hallways, but nobody was coming, despite all the screaming. She turned a corner and ran into someone. The blow was so hard that she was thrown backwards and landed on her butt. Raising her eyes to look up, she saw a strangely dressed green-haired lady.
"Hey lady, please help my cousin…" but the child's rapid words were interrupted when a large mirror that strange lady was holding started to glow and then lights leaped towards her.
Buffy screamed.
Chapter 1: Diary of India Cohen the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid belongs/was directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen.
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Dear diary,
June 29, 1992
My name is India Cohen and I just celebrated my 14th birthday, and this diary was a present from my mom…well, my step-mother.
I suppose that I should write something about myself…don't know, I never had a diary before…and I'm not gonna ask my little sister (step-sister) how to do it, little brat could just prank me…not that I wouldn't deserve it…I did hide her skating boots in the washing machine.
Anyway,Daddy, his name is Marcus, is a captain of one of the biggest ships in the seventh fleet. He and mom (step-mom) were married on 15th November 1987… I still remember the wedding, it was fun to dress up and I was glad that I'm getting my best friend as a sister (little sister).
Daddy was divorced from my mom (since I was 3).Some people are just not for marriage and Sujana - they met in some ball in India, I think. I haven't seen her in years, in person that is, since she is a pretty famous actress in India.
Mom and Daddymet when we were at the ZOO in LA at the Panda bears' cage. My little brother, Ryan, was born 3 years after that. And he is definitely the baby of the family, we all spoil him, but he is not snotty about it.
(Ohh my mom's name is Joyce and her husband Hank died in car crash.)
He usually sleeps in Buffy's room since apparently he can't sleep alone. Buffy is my little sister…who BTWgave me one of the bestest gifts ever, and got yelled at later when Mom thought I can't hear, but I'm glad I can keep Munchkin (my dog, I always wanted a dog, and Buffy said that she was smallest in the store and nobody wanted her. Well, I think that being the runt of the litter is full of you know what, since nothing is wrong with Munchkin) the Samoyed.
Anyway,Mom is antique dealer and currently we all (Daddy, Mom, Buffy, Ryan, me and my grandparents are living in Green Bay, but we (us five) could move any time, really. We move a lot, and we (kids) can't find many friends, just playmates and school mates. We all have some pen pals, but after a while even those things are cooling down…I suppose that old saying I heard somewhere: 'out of sight out of heart' doesn't fit only love, it goes for friendship too…or maybe all of it was bunch of *something* and they weren't really real friends.
May 10, 1993 - Los Angeles
Ryan is copy-catting Buffy and he brought a dog (but for himself).Mom hit the roof, Munchkin treats the puppy like … well, her puppy…it's funny seeing a big fluffy white dog playing with scrawny brown puppy (with floppy bat-like ears and long tail).
And they turned Mom'sdinner in to their playground, but I don't think we really minded that much…since well (and that is also the reason of my absence in writing here…I completely forgot about this diary), Daddy had a accident and he was in hospital for months and now is undergoing rehab, he can't walk,…I'm just glad he is still with us…we all are.
June 29, 1993 - Los Angeles
Something weird happened today. I went outside to walk Max (Ryan's dog) and Munchkin and there was this amazingly cute guy standing across the street. He had black, black hair and big, big green eyes. Not hazel, with green mottled with brown and grey like Buffy's (How do I know?Well, I just spent two hours at staring at Buffy's eyes and she at mine for our French course, we had to describe each other).
Anyway, he was so cute, and he was leaning on the wall and smoking a cigarette. And when he saw me, he looked kinda startled and said:India?
And he even pronounced correctly (Nobody gets it right; at the beginning it's In-DEE-a and not like the country…though the little brat of a sister called me Indy, and she was only doing it to annoy me…but I annoy her back and call her little Annie Bee).
Oh and I know you'll read this, you little brat…and I do not appreciate being called nosybig sister…I needed to know what all the secrecy was about…but seriously, cheerleading?
Anyway, brownie points for the cutie guy, so I racked the brains to try to remember if I knew him, or if my family does.
So I say: Yeah?
And he is all:I'm your Watcher.
I was freaked out, cuz what does that mean, that he's my stalker or something? So wanting to get what he's on about and being cool about it I said: Really. How about that?
And he looked at me like I should know what hemeans: It's happened.
At the time I was all 'huh, what happened and why does the cute guy looked so proud of whatever happened?'Then he said (AndI knew it better not something perverted, otherwise I'd have to use some of the moves Mr. Miyagi taught my sister and me and send him packing. He is friends with Daddy.Apparently,Daddy and some other guy saved the man somewhere.Mom didn't like the idea of her little girls fighting, but Miyagi said that parents tell little girls to be pretty and good and not fight, but when the trouble comes, the girl is helpless or something like that…and so Mom relented and we both learned a lot…karate and how to polish cars and paint the fences).
You've been called, you're the ChosenOne.
And then I was like:Say what?
He put a hand on my shoulder and there was where I drew the line…I gave him a quick jab in the face and then kicked his legs under him so he landed on his butt and when he looked up, he was immediately greeted with two overprotective guard dogs with sharp teeth sneering at him.
And then I demanded answers, and boy did I get them…vampires exist and so do the other things…and I'm wondering if Buffy's weird lady with the mirror was something other than human.
And the cute guy…
He is a Watcher and I was called as a Slayer, its supposed to be all this sacred destiny/ duty thing to slay vampires...I'm the Chosen One…until some vamp gets a lucky shot and kills me and my death screws with another girl's life (literally – it's not special gift as Kit calls it, it doesn't make me special…it's my death sentence, but if I don't do something, people die when I could prevent their death).
April 2, 1994 - San Francisco
I think I love him. But he doesn't show any interest in me…and there are 4 possibilities for that:
One,it's against the rules… (Buffy thinks if that is his reason for staying away,he is biggest dope on Earth – and yes, my family knows of my calling…Hey, if a bunch of vamps attack you, and then yours truly tosses Daddy a stake and a cross to my mother and they go poof and all grr on you…and Buffy fried them. I mean, a vamp grabbed her, she put a palm between herself and the vamp and the pinkish light-force emerged from the palm and he went poof…Kit is still looking it up…but he found some references on the powers like this…this is Miko power…I don't know what that means).
Two, he is not interested…pity that since he is really cute.
Three, he is interested, but shy (or scared of dad, since he was glaring at him the other day).
Four, he is gay...not much I can do if he is.
April 11, 1996
He loves me! He finally said it…yey!!
Dad's gonna kill him.
But he loves me!
To be continued….next time Good bye LA and welcome to Sunnydale
Mrs. Higurashi is a mother of Kagome Higurashi one of centralcharacters in Manga/ Anime -InuYasha
India Cohen :a fictional character featured in BTVS. tie-in novels, was the Slayerthat preceded Buffy Summers. Parents names were never given so I gave them.
Amaterasu-ōmikami in Japanese myth a sun goddess and one of the principal Shinto deities or Kami., Her name, Amaterasu, means literally "(that which) illuminates Heaven".
Kami are the central objects of worship for the Shinto faith., the nature of what can be called "kami" is very broad and encompasses many different concepts and phenomena.
Shōgi Shogi (将棋, shōgi?, generals' chess) also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game.
Miko (literally "shaman woman") is a Japanese term that anciently meant a "female shaman, spirit medium" who conveyed oracles from kami("spirits; gods"). English has diverse translation equivalents for Japanese miko. While "shrine maiden" is frequently used, other equivalents are "female shaman" (aka "shamaness" or "shamanka"), "(spirit) medium", "prophet", "priestess", "witch", or "sorceress".