Water-Rose: I'm not dead, aren't you people happy? I just found this lying around and decided it was just wasting away on my CD so I might as well post it. If people don't read it obviously I won't consider posting more chapters but you all knew that. Secondly, for those of you who HAVE read the prequel, skip all this summary crap, seriously—it's for your own good. But for you lazy bums who still want to read but are too lazy to read the prequel…enjoy the summary! The summary ends the italics…Enjoy! Any questions send me a message.
When you least expect it…
Reincarnated is the story of Kazuki Kitakawa, a young man with long red hair and violet eyes who becomes acquainted one day with Kagome when he and his family moved next door to the Higarashi Shrine. Kazuki and Kagome first met when they ran into each other while Kazuki and his mother were visiting. Their first encounter wasn't a very pretty one and they didn't get along to well at first. To Kagome's surprise Kazuki had a shard of the jewel with him.
While at school Kagome is forced during history class to do a report about any subject—taking place in the Meiji Era to her disappointment. So while Kagome searches the library for a book on the Meiji Era she discovers a book talking about a manslayer, the Battousi. Kagome is shocked to discover that Kazuki closely resembles the Battousi—in a weird teenager kind of way. She gets different ideas on how this could be possible but settles on one. Kazuki is the Battousi and the jewel has permitted him to live for a long period of time. To Kagome's dismay after a dinner with Mrs. Kitakawa and Kazuki, Sota had invited Kazuki to stay. Even worse now Kazuki is even more suspicious of Kagome. During school he had heard about all her sick escapades and various diseases but while brushing (and flossing) his teeth he discovers the cabinets to be filled with nothing more then usual medicine cabinet contents. So Kagome decides to just let it go until tomorrow…but Inuyasha had other plans.
Inuyasha comes to Kagome's time and discovers and odd presence…he makes his way to Sota's room (where you-know-who was sleeping for the night). Inuyasha sees Kazuki studying a sword and immediately presumes that Kazuki is going to attack Sota—not with Inuyasha around. Inuyasha attacks Kazuki and beats him up pretty bad until Kagome steps in; (Mysteriously Sota hadn't woken up during the whole ordeal) now the cat is out of the bag and Kagome is forced to spill her guts about Inuyasha and the well. How does Kazuki take it? Kazuki blackmails Kagome into taking him with her and he decides he wants to go that very night. But something odd happens when Kazuki uses his jewel shard to go down the well; the group ends up not in Feudal Japan but the Meiji Era!
When Kagome and Inuyasha try to go back down the well nothing happens so the group hits the town! They raise a little money by having Inuyasha as their own personal freak show. So now with a little cash in their pockets the group sets out for food. They come upon a restaurant and decide to eat there. They're not the only ones eating there; Kenshin and his co had stopped for a bite to eat right after the other group. A young waitress notices the resemblance between Kenshin and Kazuki and of course freaks out. Kenshin's group goes over to see the look-alike and that ends up causing a riot. When they finally settle down Kagome realizes Kazuki is Kenshin's reincarnation and she tries to explain everything but no use so she leaves with her companions. With her luck she's kidnapped and Kenshin and Sanosuke try to save her but to their dismay Inuyasha had lost his sword so he was turning demon. Inuyasha kills the kidnappers and is trying to kill everyone else. With a knock to the head Kenshin becomes Battousi and he and Inuyasha duke it out. Inuyasha had managed to severely injure Sanosuke so he's out of the way. So Kazuki gets the idea to use the jewel shard to strengthen himself so he can stop the two. Kazuki does this and manages to stop them but he gets injured too so now the whole group goes to Kaoru's shrine where they heal up.
While at the shrine the group is attacked by ninjas, which they could easily handle. The group talks about getting home and decides Kazuki has to go first for the well to work. But Kazuki doesn't want to leave his newly found incarnation so he grabs Sanosuke and Kenshin sending them back with them. Kagome and Inuyasha return to the present wondering what gave the boy his stupid idea. Kazuki's mother comes into the well shrine and notices the two new people—and passes out. Later on the group explains to her that Kazuki is the reincarnation of Kenshin. Kazuki asks if he can go with the group and she allows him. They go over to Kazuki's for supper and they met Kisho, Kazuki's brother, Mr. Kitakawa, his father, and Temis, Kazuki's chubby husky.
The next day when they head out to the Feudal Era, even Kenshin and Sanosuke who wish to help protect Kazuki, they get to met Inuyasha's group. Miroku is rather disappointed because Kagome only brought back men. While traveling together Inuyasha becomes mysteriously sick by the bite of a rodent and ends up having a crazy dream about the whole group dying—except Kazuki. After the weird dream Inuyasha becomes suspicious of Kazuki but not long after Akako, a princess from a nearby village, kidnaps the human males of the group. At the village Akako introduces them to her sisters: Chika, Toyo, and Meia. These are the girls that there are soon to marry, whether they like it or not. While nearly being raped by Toyo, Sanosuke figures out much of the girl's plan. They planned on marrying them so they could inherit their grandfather's land. Lucky for them the rest of the group comes to the rescue and unlucky for the sisters their father dies so they can't inherit the land do to some rules set by their grandfather. The villagers didn't like the sisters because they weren't the ruler's true daughters, they had only been adopted, so they were banished. Because Kazuki had become fond of Meia the group allows for them to come with temporary until they find a village for them to stay.
When they arrive at a small village the villagers willingly let them stay; it turns out that the sisters once came from that village, but their parents were slain so their adopted mother could have daughters. Wanting to learn how to properly use a sword and enhance his ability Kazuki and Kenshin go out to the fields to train where they met Inuyasha's brother, Sesshomaru. Kenshin and Sesshomaru end up fighting because Kenshin won't let him pass because he is trying to harm Inuyasha. In the end of the fight Sesshomaru realizes that Kenshin is only trying to wear him out so that he wouldn't have the strength to fight his brother. So Sesshomaru takes his leave and waits for another day to attack. Meanwhile Kenshin falls unconscious and poor Kazuki must carry him back to the village. When he arrives Inuyasha automatically accuses Kazuki of attacking Kenshin and gets angry so now Inuyasha's trust for Kazuki is slowly decreasing. Later that night while Kazuki and Kagome are sleeping in the same hut Koga appears and sees that his woman was with Kazuki. They were only having a pillow fight but Koga still gets pretty pissed. He stays the night to insure that his woman is safe…which results in him sleeping between the two.
The next day the group leaves the village and gets attacked by a—giant rat. The group fights the rat in hope of killing it before it kills them. Meia ends up coming with the group and is nearly eaten by the rat until Kazuki pushes her out of the way and he ends up in the gigantic jaws. The group manages to free him but he won't wake up. The only option is to take him back to the village and see if he'll wake up the next day.
After Kazuki doesn't wake up for a while the group heads on ahead without him. They're depressed by the fact that Kazuki is not with them but they agreed in his condition he wouldn't have been able to travel with them. Back at the village Kazuki wakes up but not as himself. Meia comes into the hut where they had him rest and confesses her feelings to him—he kills her. At the campsite Kagura appears and warns the group to go back to the village. When they head back to the village it's too late. Kazuki had killed everyone. Kazuki fights the group until Naraku appears. Naraku tells them that he had originally planned to take over Kagome's body but Kazuki would have to do. He leaves and Kazuki soon leaves after.
The group goes to find Kazuki but he comes to them trying to kill Kenshin. Kagome tries to stop him and successfully does so when she explains to him that if she kills Kenshin he may never be born. Kazuki leaves and arrives at one of Naraku's many fortresses. There he meets Kohaku, his new training partner. He also gets to see his true master for the first time, Salali, a demon woman with the wonderful and very useful ability to control rats, and various other things when she manages to infect them with her blood. Kazuki and Kohaku return to the village after finishing training early to find Kazuki's backpack. He manages to find it and Kohaku heads back to the castle. Kazuki stays and runs into Sesshomaru. The dog demon was looking for Kenshin but is shocked when Kazuki attacks him. Sesshomaru manages to beat the living crap out of him and leaves him to die. Lucky for Kazuki a priestess finds him and heals his wounds.
Now with Kazuki gone and possessed the group is forced to find him. Kenshin and Sanosuke separate themselves from the group and meet up with Sesshomaru, who tells them of their friends demise, or so they thought. They find Kazuki and chase him to Inuyasha and his group where there are hordes of demons. Inuyasha leaves the group to find Naraku and Kagome along with Shippo and Kirara follow. After the rest of the group kills the hordes of demon now comes for them to fight Kazuki. The blood that Salali uses on her victims to control them also increases their power overtime. Kazuki manages to cripple Miroku, Sango, and Sanosuke temporarily so now he must fight Kenshin. If it came to it Kenshin would end Kazuki's life. Back at the castle Inuyasha is fighting Naraku and losing. Inuyasha gets caught on a board and Naraku tries to finish him off. Kagome seeing this sends an arrow straight for him—Salali jumps in the way trying to save Naraku's life and succeeds but then sacrifices her own life. Kenshin then knocks out Kazuki and everything goes blank for him.
While asleep Kazuki's life flashes before him. He remembers different life altering events from him being adopted by his original adopted father to his original adopted father being killed. He wakes up to find himself in a hospital bed. The group comes in and are at first cautious but realize that he is back to normal, except for the physical and emotional scars that the group's adventure left him. His family is more then happy to see him. Mrs. Kitakawa finds it best that Kazuki is away from the well and Kagome so he won't have any more problems. So Kazuki was forced to leave his new friends; he and his family would be moving elsewhere and Kazuki would be home schooled until his mother found it suitable for him to go back to a regular school, any school other then Kagome's, if that time was ever.
Now months have passed. Naraku has begun his search for the final jewel shard and Kagome and her group are on hot pursuit to find it first but have found no luck. Kagome has to go back for supplies…
"Mom!" Kagome shouted while coming through the door. Her clothes were dirty and her hair was a mess. The demons had been much thicker since Naraku disappeared. "I think I need a nice bath—maybe even two?" She walked into the kitchen and set her yellow bag down on one of the dining room chairs. "Mom?"
Kagome's mother walked out of the kitchen and gave her a warm smile. "I'm in the kitchen, you had a phone message earlier this morning. I think you should listen to it."
Kagome let out a deep sigh. "Maybe later mother. I'm bushed. I need a bath." She sighed. She could probably list off plenty of more things she would rather do then waste her time listening to a stupid phone message. It was probably one of her friends asking if she asked Hojo out on a date or if she was too sick. Or it was Hojo and he was asking if she was still sick and giving her peculiar remedies to her ailments. "I think I'll just take a bath and go to sleep."
Kagome took a long bath. She could've stayed in there forever if she didn't start looking like a raison. She grabbed her towel and wrapped it around herself. She then walked into her bedroom to change. When she finished changing she heard a slight growl from her stomach and decided that she had better get something to eat before going to bed.
Downstairs the house was quiet. She had stayed in the bathtub longer then she had expected. Everyone else had already gone to bed. She opened up one of the cupboards and grabbed a bag of cookies. Her mother wouldn't mind if she had a few—or the whole bag…She started plopping them into her mouth one by one. She noticed a faint red bleeping light coming from across the room. It was the phone. She decided that she might as well check. Her friends might actually be telling her something useful; like telling her she had a big test tomorrow. She stuffed her face with two more cookies and put the bag away. She walked over to the phone and pushed the button to listen to the message. She nearly fainted when she heard the voice:
Hey Kagome, it's me, I just thought maybe you'd be home right now…I finally managed to find your number. I was on my way to school but decided against it. Instead I'm here at a pay phone…rambling…into a phone…with people watching—HEY! YOU'LL GET YOUR TURN BUDDY JUST WAIT A FRICKEN MINUTE! I DON'T CARE IF YOUR MISTRESS WAS PREGANT AND YOU NEEDED TO CALL AND ABORTION CLINIC YOU CAN WAIT YOUR FRICKEN TURN! Hello? Wait…I talking to an answering machine…duh…wait else was I gonna say? Oh ya, I was gonna stop over today but you're gone and it's too late for me to go to school. Ya, my Mom's letting me go back to public school. Anyways, I might stop over tomorrow. Maybe we can visit some old friends…naw, never mind. Pretend I never said that. Well, talk to you later Kagome. Bye. This message will self-destruct in three seconds. Three, two, one…
After a minute of obnoxious exploding noises Kagome deleted the message. She hadn't heard from him in a few months—had it been that long? Since he had called at a payphone she couldn't call him back. She stared at the phone for a minute then headed upstairs to her bedroom. She crawled under her sheets and smiled to herself.
"Kazuki…you said your Mom said you couldn't call me until pigs flied…I guess I'll see you tomorrow." She yawned, turned out her light, and fell into a deep, relaxing sleep.