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This is just a story. I don't own Inuyasha or anything Rumiko Takahashi has done. I just wanna write. Just an alternate universe I imagined. I got this idea with the picture on my desktop. It's a really cute looking Inuyasha.
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It all started with a play. A play that had been performed for many centuries. A play of Kagome's journey into the past to help the hanyou Inuyasha gather the Shikon no Kakera.
The year is 2475 A.D. Demons are said to no longer exist, but they do. Under the guise of androgenic life.
Three girls, each wearing a spacey-type school uniform, were standing in the halls of the place they went to school, staring at a roster for a play. One of the girls, who had yellowish hair and brown eyes was running her finger down the roster.
"I wonder who is playing Kagome the priestess?" the green eyed red head of the group said. The one with the blue hair and blue eyes stared at the two.
"I bet it's Mu again. She always gets that part... she's so good at it..."
"No Ashurii," the yellow hair said.
"Then who is it Bonii?"
"The priestess is?" asked the red head.
"Hang on a minute Reicheru." Bonii said, her finger still skimming the page. The other two crowded beside Bonii.
"See Takahashi-Sensei!" all the girls chorused a moment later.
"It means that the future priestess hasn't been chosen yet..." a voice said softly. The three girls turned and frowned upon the new girl, who had silvery hair down past her waist.
"Huh?"the three said.
"Takahashi-Sensei wants to chose the priestess. So if you want the part go see him.." she turned and walked down the hall. The three girls looked at each other and squealed in delight.
"We have a chance! One of us could be Kagome the priestess!" they began jumping up and down in excitement as Takahashi-Sensei stepped from the classroom beside the play roster. His long silver hair tied behind him at the base of his neck. Glasses perched on his nose just in front of a pair of golden eyes.
"You three. I have a part for you." the girls stopped jumping. "Ayame, Eri, and Yuka." he said pointing at the girls in turn. The girls frowned for a moment, but soon began giggling.
"Domo Arigato Takahashi-Sensei," they said as one as they bowed.
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It was now lunch time at the school. Takahashi-Sensei was sitting in his classroom thinking to himself.
'How will I know? I will ask Myouga what Inuyasha said with his dying breath...' it was that very moment that Myouga hopped into the sensei's hand and stuck his nose into the skin of the man's hand. He soon after was slapped.
"Ah... Sesshoumaru-sama... It is truly a great pleasure to see you once agai-."
"Shut up Myouga. I want to know something. What am I looking for in this school?"
"The girl that fits Kagome's description." with that Myouga described Kagome to the letter.
"So I have to find the girl who looks exactly like my brothers wench!" he snatched the flea demon off the desk and began to squeeze.
Not exactly Sesshoumaru-sama," the flea choked out. Sesshoumaru eased up on his grip on him.
"Elaborate or I shall do more than squeeze you flea." he narrowed his eyes menacingly.
"The one who fits the part will play it flawlessly without a script my lord." the flea then took off and the teacher sighed. Why did he have to be cursed to find his brother's true love reincarnated? Hadn't he suffered enough already? The spirits of Inuyasha and Inu no Taisho didn't seem to think so. He stood and walked to the principals office. Once there he knocked upon the door.
"Enter," the female sounding male's voice said from inside. Sesshoumaru entered and looked at the short-haired blonde homosexual, who stood and came towards him
"I need an announcement made." The blonde man stopped.
"What is the announcement?"
"Announce that I will be holding auditions for the priestess in my class room after lunch. All girls in the school must attend." with that he turned and walked form the room.
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After lunch was over all the girls in the school lined up to audition for the part of the priestess Kagome. The girl that went by the name Mu was the very first in line.
"After they see my performance they won't need the rest of you at all!" the short-haired blonde said defiantly, using her hand to flip her green bangs. The silver-haired girl only shook her head.
"Takahashi-Sensei says we must answer the lines as ourselves. It matters not that you know the lines or not. He says we will not be using the priestess's lines this time." something flicked within her hair so slightly that only demons could see it.
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One by one the girls names were called until the silver-haired girl was left. Sesshoumaru stared at the girl with his golden eyes. She returned the stare with amethyst colored eyes.
"You, your name." it was not a request, but an order. One every demon answered.
"Sensei, my name is Hananakaru Amari."
"Not your human name. I know what you are."
"Tsukimaru..." the girl said quietly.
"Step inside the holochamber. You will be using my memories to create what you will see and hear, but the words will be from the play paired with the personalities of those from long lost to time." Tsukimaru nodded and stepped inside.
Once inside the holochamber everything began to change. The walls and floor were replaced by a forest scene. The smells of machinery, replaced by the forest smells. A white-haired man dressed in red appeared beside a well looking down into it longingly. Soon after the scene filled in a salt-and-pepper-haired monk dressed in purple robes wandered behind the white-haired man.
"Inuyasha, it's been far too long. You must learn to let go... Kagome is gone."
"Shut up Miroku." a clawed hand whipped out and swatted at the monk, who ignored it as it only brushed the hem of his robes.
The monk sighed then spoke, "Inuyasha. You shouldn't mope. Kagome wouldn't want you to." Tsukimaru watched as the red-clad one known as Inuyasha stood and turned, amber eyes blazing with an unknown fire.
"Sesshoumaru will-" he stopped and stared at Tsukimaru. "Kagome!" He ran up and gathered her into his arms and hugged her tightly. She reached up after a moment and patted his back.
"Miss Kagome are you alright?" Tsukimaru nodded.
"I'm fine Miroku." Inuyasha pulled back and stared at her.
"Inuyasha... are you ok?" she asked assuming she was Kagome now, "you're acting strangely." he let go and turned around.
"Feh," was his reply. She shook her head and everything faded back into the holochamber.
Takahashi-Sensei walked into the chamber. "You have the part." Tsukimaru stared at him for a few moments before bowing.
"Thank you Takahashi-Sensei.." she then left the room to go prepare for the play that was to happen that night.
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That night the cast of characters were setting behind the curtain ready to begin. Tsukimaru wandered on stage in a black version of Kagome's schoolgirl outfit.
When the curtain raised the setting was a shrine where a girl was running out of a house. She paused by the well house and walked inside.
"What are you doing in here Sota?" the little boy looked up at her.
"Buyo went down there..." the boy pointed near the well.
"Well, go get him."
"But it's so creepy!"
"Fine I'll go.." she walked down the steps and screeched when something crossed her ankle. She looked down to find the fat calico rubbing her leg. She picked him up. "oh Buyo..." she turned and got ready to leave when she looked at her brother's face. "what's wrong Sota?" she turned to see what he was staring at, but didn't get the chance as she was dragged down into the well. The scene shifted with a fuzzy haze and the well remained,but the house and modern world was replaced with the feudal era. Time passed and no 'Kagome' calling from within the well or climbing out. Takahashi-Sensei walked over to the well and to his surprised pleasure and everyone's dismay...
"She's gone..."
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Tsukimaru climbed from the well. This didn't look like the play scenery. This wasn't, it was real. Her youkai eyes could tell. Even from behind brown colored contact lenses. She pulled the black wig from her head, straightened it, and placed it back over her hair. If this was the real sengoku jidai, she would do well to keep that wig over her true ears and keep the fake ones in place at the side of her head. She looked around before slipping off her shoes and heading where her nose told her people were. She was stopped by Inuyasha. He jumped on her back full force from a branch above. Well more like his foot made contact with her back and she fell. When she smacked the ground her fake human ears almost bounced off her head. She slapped her hands over them just on time to stop them from bouncing off.
"Who are you!" his voiced yelled, causing her real ears to flatten more to her head then they already were.
"Y'know, I can hear you even if you whisper from a mile away," she growled. The weight on her back lifted and she was hauled up to look at the golden eyes of Inuyasha. Brown stared into golden.
His hands released the sailor top and she straightened it as he said, "Kagome?" she looked up at him. She was enveloped in his red-clad arms a moment later. "I missed you so much Kagome." that was whispered into the black wig right where her left ear was.
She said nothing and he pulled her back and stared at her.
"Kagome? What's wrong?"
She had been wondering why she wanted to stay in his embrace. She was pulled from her thoughts by his question "Oh... I'm fine..." Inuyasha stared at her strangely.
"Are you sure? You look pale. I'm taking you to Kaede-baba." with that she was scooped up and carted to the village at a quick pace. Once they reached the hut of Kaede, Inuyasha put her down and rushed inside. She took the time to remove the brown contacts and stow them away in her backpack, which she had put on before the play started.
"What is wrong Inuyasha?" The elder Miko's voice sounded from within.
"Kagome's back and she looks sick." The elderly Miko tottered out of the hut and looked at Tsukimaru on the ground. Tsukimaru kept her gaze away from the older woman and the hanyou who sat in a tree with his arms crossed staring off in the distance, trying to look as if he didn't care.
"Look at me child," the older woman said, pulling the girls head by the chin until it pointed in Kaede's direction. Tsukikage obeyed and stared at the woman. "Come inside and have a bit of stew."
The woman retreated into the house and the demon girl from the 25th century followed. Once inside she sat down.
"Ye are not Kagome."
Tsukimaru nodded. "I am known as Hananakaru Amari." she set her backpack down and looked in it for a small bag. "But my true name Is Kamikage Tsukimaru." Kaede looked up and passed the girl some stew.
"Should I call you Amari then?" Tsukimaru sipped her stew from a crude spoon.
"Well Kaede-sama, it may be simple enough, but what of Inuyasha... what will we tell him... he thinks I'm Kagome..."
"He'll get over it." Tsukimaru drew the wig and fake ears from her head revealing silver hair and doggish ears.
"I have an idea." Kaede looked at her and nodded, then pointed her to the river. Tsukimaru placed the wig ad fake ears on then walked to the door. "I think I will introduce myself as Maru. Good evening Kaede. See you later." she walked to the river and dropped herself into the frigid water. After her short bath she put on a kimono, a white haori patterned with red and purple. And a pair of hakama. Topped it all with a purple sash with red tips. She smiled and stretched out her ears, just as Inuyasha dropped in front of her. He flexed his claws and growled at her.
"What are you doing in this village?"
"Taking a bath?" she wandered up the path towards Kaede's, but Inuyasha grabbed her arm and yanked her back.
"I would leave if I were you..." She pulled her arm free and walked back to the river and quickly gathered and hid her wig, ears, and future clothes in her haori. She then hopped over the river and nestled in a tree for the night.
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The next morning she hopped from the tree and was almost whacked by Sango who was trying to beat up Miroku for something he had done.
"YOU STUPID IDIOT!" Sango yelled, stepping around the demoness to slam her boomerang on Miroku's head.
"Sango please! I didn't do anything!" Miroku cried as the boomerang connected.
"Um... excuse me?" Sango turned from the now unconscious Miroku to look at the silver haired girl. "Um... could you direct me to Kaede-sama's house?" Sango pointed up the hill and walked off to tend to her children muttering about a lecherous husband. Tsukimaru walked up the hill and to Kaede.
"Where were ye last night child?"
"I was kept away by the white-haired one.." an ear flicked upon Tsukimaru's head. "He is so rude.."
"Ah, Inuyasha is as distrusting of other demons as he is of himself." This caused Tsukimaru to sigh.
"Well I'm going to the hot springs I smell." Kaede nodded and Tsukimaru wandered off to the hot spring she smelled 3 miles to the south of the village. She had carried all the cleaning items she needed, but once she reached the spring, her jaw dropped. There in the hot spring was Inuyasha bathing. The water glistening off his back and arms, his hair hanging halfway down his bare legs. She stood there for what seemed like an eternity, but really was only a few seconds, before she dropped her things and ran, just as he turned to her silvery hair bouncing out of view. He shook his head. Female demons always ran at the sight of him. But wait, the smell of embarrassment? She didn't think he was hideous? Especially after the way he had treated her yesterday? But wait... the smell of Kagome also accompanied the smell of embarrassment. The way Kikyo had also smelled before she died. Flowers. And a meadow. The flowery smell of spring. Mating season.
Tsukimaru raced back into the village, through it, and dropped herself; fully clothed into the river. She surfaced and shivered several feet down from Sango, who was looking at her with a brow raised. Tsukimaru stay there shivering for a moment longer before racing into a tree nearby.
"What a strange demon..." a moment later Inuyasha dropped by Sango.
"Where is she?"
"Where is who Inuyasha?"
"That demon girl?"
"Have you finally gotten over Kagome?" Inuyasha looked at her strangely. "Oh come on your chasing that demon I saw jump into the river and shiver for five minutes."
"She did what?"
"Well I was sitting here washing Miroku's robe when something silver dashed right by my vision straight into the water there." She pointed to the exact spot Tsukimaru had plunged into the river. "Then she proceeded to shiver there for a few minutes. Then leapt straight over there." She pointed to the tree the shivering female was sitting in still. Inuyasha leapt into the tree jut above the girl and looked at her.
"Who are you?"
"M-m-maru..." her amethyst eyes looked into his golden hued ones. His eyes narrowed a moment before he dragged her from the tree and dropped her into the water. She shrieked as she plunged in and he laughed. She surfaced, looking very much like a wet dog. She scrambled her way out and flopped on the bank. Miroku was now with Sango and they were talking.
"It looks as though he likes her in some way. Otherwise he would have ignored her," Sango observed. Miroku just nodded and looked at Tsukimaru who was now staring at Inuyasha angrily, her ears back, her tail now visible and bristled as much as wet fur can get. She spied the beads upon his neck and screamed at the top of her lungs,
"OSUWARI!" the beads glowed and Inuyasha fell. Tsukimaru's eyes went wide as she bolted off. She hadn't expected the beads of subjugation to work. Sango and Miroku just looked at each other as Inuyasha pried himself off the ground.
"I wish Kagome had taken these things off before she had to disappear.." He then surged off to talk with Kaede.
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Tsukimaru paused just outside the village. "They worked for me? No way... Maybe I should go take them off... as a sign of no ill will."
"I wouldn't if I were you." Tsukimaru whipped around to face a girl about 16 who was looking at her with sad eyes. She was wearing a green schoolgirl's outfit and brown loafers.
"Priestess Kagome?" Tsukimaru's amethyst eyes grew larger in amazement. The young schoolgirl looked at Tsukimaru.
"You could say I once was called that..." Tsukimaru blinked. The schoolgirl continued. "I was brought here from the year 2003 to protect the Shikon no Tama."
"What happened to you? How come you're not with Inuyasha any longer?"
"Why be with a man who doesn't love me? I left to go home, but was killed on my way towards the well. If you wish I will let you scent the spot where I am buried." Tsukimaru nodded.
"But he does love you Priestess..." Kagome shook her head and waved her hand before Tsukimaru.
"It's been 12 years. I will not accept any deterrent to what I believe. If he really did I wouldn't know, but I loved him so much... Go find my resting place. Give that poor Hanyou some peace of mind... Take care of him too, no matter how badly he treats you." Tsukimaru nodded and followed her nose to the well and past it to an area covered in dense underbrush. She sniffed the air and dug through a particularly dense patch. There she found a tattered schoolgirl's uniform on a female skeleton.
"I suppose I should show him..." she covered the skeleton back up and went to find the hanyou. "Inuyasha!"
"What do you want Wench!" He dropped from the tree and glared at her.
"Come with me Inuyasha." she turned around and walked back to the dense underbrush. Inuyasha stay where he was at until his curiosity got the better of him several hours later. He found the female dog settled just past the well near some forest debris.
"Why did you want me here," he demanded. His only reply was a clawed thumb in the direction of the brush. He dug around for a couple of minutes before he uncovered the green skirt. "Kagome!" He dug franticly until he uncovered the skeleton. Tsukimaru walked back to the village as Inuyasha wept silently over Kagome. It would do the Hanyou good to be alone for a little while.
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Several months would pass before Inuyasha was seen in Edo again. During the time he had been gone Tsukimaru had protected the town from other demons and had come to be accepted in the town. She had made good friends with Sango and would be found often helping Sango with a five year old child. She also taught the farmers a few useful tricks on growing their crops. This year the harvest was plentiful and the town made more money than ever. Now today, Maru, as she was called, was collecting herbs and plant remedies for Kaede, when she scented the mountain forest mixed with river water. She raised her lip in warning as Kouga appeared before her.
"Where's Kagome, Mutt-face!" Maru's ears lay flat upon her head.
Maru snarled at him in warning. She wanted him to leave.
"What still can't talk to a superior Mutt-face? It's a good thing Kagome left you Dog breath!" It was then that the scent of autumn's forest floor hit her nose. Inuyasha.
"Haven't you gotten it yet stupid wolf! That dog isn't me! And 'SHE' is a girl!" Kouga stared wide-eyed at the red-clad dog brandishing it's claws at him. Her eyes were slightly red and she still was snarling at him.
"I'll be back Dog-turds!" with that, Kouga took off. The snarling stopped until her eyes focused upon Inuyasha who was just standing. She snapped in his direction as if she thought he were a threat.
This is the first five pages. if you don't like my story, just submit 3 words. "Don't Like It." simple neh? do not crack into me about my spelling errors. i'll fix them later. just tell me if you like it or not. that's all i want. also no flaming. i do this for fun. not to make a living. just for fun...