Well, I've adopted another story. This one is from Itoma the God of Water. A half of this chapter, and the idea, belongs to Itoma.
Disclaimer: I, nor Itoma, own Kingdom Hearts or Inuyasha. They belong to there respective owners.
THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN EDITED (4-21-09) As I forgot to mention the pairing is KagomexXeahnort's Heartless. You'll see him in Chapter Two ;)
Chapter 1- Heartless?
It was about twilight time in Kaede's village, as a young woman walked through the rice fields. She had flowing black hair, a shapely figure, and sapphire eyes that seemed to glow. She was dressed very differently than anyone in the village. She was wearing a loose fitting, black, long sleeved shirt, and a white skirt. Around her neck was a white silk scarf. The suns bright orange glow seemed to radiate off the pale skin of her heart-shaped face, making her glow. 'That last uniform got ripped up so much... I'm glad Mom packed an extra outfit for me.'
The woman began walking toward the forest.
She walked for several minutes until she reached the forests edge. Looked into the trees, she notice how the ones on the edge had a urethral glow to them, the shadows of the leaves creating crisscrossing patterns. She was the only one able to see this glow, including her old crush who had spent fifty years in it, albeit asleep. As the young woman stood there and gazed at the trees, a young child was making his way up to her from behind. The woman noticed the child, and as he shot toward her, the young woman spun around, catching the child in her arms. Her hair whipped around her from the force and speed of her turn.
"Shippou, what are you doing out here?" the woman questioned, as her hair waved as a small breeze blew past her and Shippou.
The young fox kit looked down, almost ashamed, and replied, "I was worried, cause Inuyasha and Kikyou are in hell...and the jewels done...when I saw you leaving...I... I didn't want you to leave me alone... !" Shippou said, welling up in tears. Shippou had been having these fears since the time of Inuyasha and Kikyo's death. The groups situation would change in the slightest and he would begin to have doubts about it all.
"Shippou", the girl said while comforting the child, "You know that I would never leave you here alone. I was just going for a walk to Inuyasha and Kikyo's graves to say good bye to them…then I was going to come and get you then we, meaning you and me, were going to go to our new home in the future to visit my grand father, my brother, and my mother.", she finished hugging the Shippou closely to her self stroking his rust-colored hair, in an attempt to sooth him.
"Really...mama?", Shippou said, sniffing, while his sand-colored tail twitched slightly.
"Yes, really...", Kagome said as she walked into the forest with Shippou in her arms, giggling slightly when Shippou cuddled into her blouse clutching her white scarf, and burying his face into the soft material.
Sacred tree/Inu's grave sight
Kagome silently walked up to the sacred tree with Shippou in her arms.
"This is were it all started. Did you know that Shippou?" Shippou did know. His mother had told him this story time and time again, and it was his favorite. His mother had told him everything she had felt on her journey. Things she had never even told Sango. Every tinge of pain, every feeling of regret and all of the feelings of peace and accomplishment that Kagome felt from helping others, protecting them and there lives.
Kagome smiled as she reached up to trace a shape in the tree, the mark Kikyo's arrow left in the bark. But something had changed. "Hmmm…that wasn't there before" she thought.
Shippou looked up at his mother as she traced a shape in the tree with her index finger. "What is that shape she's making?" he thought to himself, "…it looks like a triangle with a circle on top….what's it called?
Flash back
"Shippou, come here and look at this." Kagome said, motioning for her adopted child to come to her.
"What are we doing today, Kagome?" Shippou questioned enthusiastically. His mother had been teaching him about things from her world. He had learned how to do math and a little reading. It was time for the next lesson.
"I'm going to teach you a how to draw better." Kagome said. She knew Shippou had been working hard in his studies, so she was giving him a treat.
"Really? Yay! Kagome's gonna teach me how to draw better!" Shippou said jumping up and down.
"Ready, Shippou?" Kagome said, getting out a piece of paper.
"Yeah!", he said, pulling his pencils from the inside of his pelt.
"Lets start with the basics" she said, drawing several shapes on the paper.
"What are those?" Shippou asked.
"These are shapes, Shippou. Everything you see is made of shapes." Shippou listened attentively while watching his mother draw things on the paper.
"This one is a circle, this one is a triangle, and this one is a square", Kagome said, while pointing to each shape as she named them.
"And this one?" Shippou said pointing to a fourth shape.
"That shape is a key hole.", Kagome said.
"Whats a keyhole?" he asked. Kagome then began to explain about the modern convenience that is keys and keyholes.
End flashback
"Hey Mamma, why are you drawing a key hole with your finger." Shippou asked innocently.
Kagome looked at Shippou, startled out of her thoughts, and when she looked back to the tree, the keyhole shape she had seen was gone. "Hmm...I don't know really, I just kind of did." she said. She quickly forgot about it as she knelt down by the two graves sitting at the base of the tree.
"Hello, Inuyasha, Kikyou." Shippou sat next to her and listened to his mother speak. This was only the second time Kagome had ever visited these two graves in the time they had been erected. The first time lasted five hours and was spent in total silence...
"It's been quiet without you two. Who knew that after all that happened, you would change so much Kikyou. It was comforting, almost like having a sister when you were around. I really do miss you..."
"Inuyasha, I miss you so much, along with Kikyou. It was hard for me to accept your death after accepting that I loved you. But now that's over. We never told you, but Kikyou and I had come to a standstill. I was going to let her be the object of your affections. I realised that I didn't want to lose what we had."
It was true. After Kikyou had been freed of the burden of Naraku, she had softened up and the two miko's had bonded as only two who shared souls could. At the heart. They had spent time together, and Kagome saw that Kikyo was different than she seemed upon their first meeting.
"We loved you... Actually, I guess she still does... That's something I wanted to tell you.... I've tried to move on, but it's hard. I miss you both so much... But Shippou here," She patted his head, "has been helping me and I think I may be able to learn from all this."
Kagome stood up, pulling Shippou to his feet as well. "I just wanted to say... I love you, and I'll miss you, but I'll never forget you..."
Kagome turned and tried not to look back as they walked to wards the well. Her heart ached slightly, but walking away from those thoughts with Shippou at her side gave her hope...
Startled out of her thoughts, Kagome tried to direct her thoughts to another subject, abruptly remembering the keyhole... She must have been imagining it.
"Where are we going okaa-san?" Shippou asked.
"I told you already, silly, we're going to go home for a little bit."
"But what about saying good bye to Sango and Miroku? And what about the others?"
"I don't want any tears so we are leaving early, and I left them a note, saying we'll be back soon.", she said as she stopped at the edge of the clearing and looked down at the well.
"Somethings wrong" she said drawing Shippou back from the well and picking him up.
"Mamma!" Shippou shouted.
Kagome looked around to see what Shippou was yelling about, only to find strange dark creatures that had skin as black as darkness it self, with dull yellow eyes.
"What are these things! They're not human.... or demon! They have no hearts!", she observed, having used her senses to try and gain an upper hand.
"Shippou hold on tight ok…..we're going to make a run for it…I have no clue how I can defeat them and I don't want to sit around to find out how long it takes me. Cause there's no way I can fight all of these things by myself..."
"Ok, mamma." the young fox kit stated, and without further adieu, his mother dashed off from the well in the direction of the sacred tree, seeking a safe refuge.
"Hiraikotsu!"
Sango swung her weapon wildly, destroying the black creatures that had somehow invaded the village. She heared roars and knew that Kirara had joined the fray.
Sango was in the village when she heard panicked voices calling out, saying demons were invading the village.
When she had arrived on the scene, she was shocked to see small black creatures attacking the villagers and seemingly making them disappear. She had rushed into the battle with Miroku and Kirara not far behind her.
As she hacked away at the creatures, Sango noticed the entry of two demons.
Kouga sent a flying kick at one of the larger creatures and quickly went down upon the others that had began swarming. Sesshomaru followed not far behind, his acid whip striking the creatures in hoards.
Ah-Uh was seen from the air, Jaken and Rin on his back. Jaken's staff shot fire at any who tried to approach, but they stayed away from the fighting. The Demons and humans fought together, the same way they had for many months now, and slowly but steadily knocked the hoard back.
Suddenly all of the creatures just disappeared, along with any villager that had been left on the battlefield. Sango was back-to-back with Miroku, Kirara across from them ready to help defend, but no enemies were left on the field. Only the wisps of darkness that the things had left behind indicated that they were even there in the first place.
And the land was barren.
The villagers were gone and Sango flushed in anger. The ones they had been trying to protect had dissapeared! It was all for naught.
Sesshomaru looked around, eyes darting back and forth, "I can't sense them any more. Wolf?"
Kouga sniffed the air apprehensively. "Their smell is overwhelming my nose. I can't tell if they've gone or not, but it looks like it, Fluffy." Sesshomaru didn't even twitch, used to the nickname, although not liking it.
The tension in the air slowly drained away, along with the adrenaline rush that had accompanied the battle. Sango relaxed and said, albeit quietly, "What in the world were those things?"
The second that Sango's voice faded away was when the sun finally set in the village. But as if talking had opened a floodgate, the darkening of the sky didn't stop and soon the entire sky was black. Suddenly, a shape darker than the sky, if it was even possible, ripped open the sky and begun to move slowly in circles. At the same moment the earth began to quake. Sango fell to the ground, Miroku quickly dropping to her side in case she was hurt. Kirara transformed back into her small form as the vortex in the sky seemingly began to spin like the inside of a tornado, and things began to get pulled into the void. Huts became splintered wood, and trees began to be uprooted. Rin's shrieks of horror and yells of the others filled the air. Sango hung on to Miroku with all of her strength, knowing that she couldn't stop the catastrophe that was unfolding on her home.
The winds came harder and harder, and Sango was soon unable to see in front of her. She reached forward and gripped Kirara tightly, holding on for dear life.
Kagome's legs worked like pistons to carry herself and Shippou to the god tree as fast as was physically possible. She could feel the black as night creatures following them, and was relieved to finally see the god tree in sight.
But something was not right.
Darkness poured out of the holy tree like sap, tendrils of the wispy darkness running to the ground and bringing more of the creatures. Kagome backed up against another tree and made sure Shippou was hidden between her neck and scarf before seemingly miming the movement of pulling back a bow, and materialising in the air before her was a bow and arrow set made of the glowing energy she harnessed. She began to shoot her pure colored arrows at the things. The creatures began coming in closer, making her have to use the bow as a weapon to make them pull back. They flinched back, as if burning, the light from her bow too much for the shadow creatures to handle.
And finally, after what seemed like endless hours of fighting off the creatures, they all suddenly disappeared, and Kagome dropped to her knees in relief. With how weary she was, Kagome never noticed the shadow of a person sneaking up behind her. She barely felt the pain off herself being knocked to the ground, and the last thing registering in her mind was the yell of her son and a flash of black and green...
The first scene with Kagome and Shippou and the one at the god tree are from Itoma the God of Water, edited by me. The last are all mine.
And I'm deathly afraid that I made Kagome into a Mary-Sue.
R&R, please!