The Last One
An InuYasha Fan Fiction by Kayhera and Rayvn89
SUMMARY/AUTHOR NOTES
Before our fan fic starts, InuYasha and the gang set off the fight Naraku. They found him in Naraku's castle (so it's different then the TV show/manga), and on the way to Naraku InuYasha and Kagome got separated by the others. None of the less, InuYasha was able to defeat Naraku and take the remaining Jewel Shards from him—at a price. Kagome died in the battle and for a month InuYasha is left to deal with the pain of his one true love gone (okay, second true love, but it sounded more dramatic the other way!). Luckily Miroku, Sango and Shippo were safe; Kagura, Kanna and Kikyo died shortly after the battle (Naraku made it to where when he died so did his creations, and Kikyo died because with Kagome dead Kikyo couldn't survive—some technicality based on the fact they sort of share the same soul), and the gang was able to put together the Shikon Jewel and destroy it completely. For reasons unexplained InuYasha didn't use the Shikon Jewel to become a full demon and just left it to Miroku "to deal with it."
Fast-forward a month later. Kagome's family moves away from the house and shrine they lived at and in moves Sueko Kimochi, your basic average sixteen year old who's always been interested in spiritual things. So it's really no surprise that she curiously enters the shrine at her new house, only to fall down the steps because of her clumsiness and fall down the well—and enter a whole new world where an entire destiny awaits her!
My friend, Ravyn89, and I, Kayhera, wrote this fan fic, though I'll be doing all the posting and updating. This may be our first InuYasha fan fic, but not the first fan fic we've ever written—the both of us have written countless Harry Potter ones, but you're not Harry Potter people so I won't go into detail with that. We watch the show on adultswim and have manga 1-11, so we're pretty well informed about the show. I realize the first chapter is a bit slow but I hope you read our fan fic anyways—and please reply so we can get praise/criticism to fix our writing up a bit. Hope you enjoy!
DISCLAIMER
We don't own InuYasha—we're just bored high schoolers who don't want to do our homework so we write fan fiction instead! Hope you don't mind! InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shojen Jump, and whomever else makes/produces the manga, merchandise and show… you get the point.
However, there are a few things we do own. I own Kimochi Sueko (or, in the English way, it's Sueko Kimochi), her respected family members, and friends that show up later on, including Hamasaki Tamika (or, Tamika Hamasaki). First off, I didn't have any information for Japanese last names, so I sort of took them… the last name Hamasaki comes from the singer of "Dearest," an InuYasha end song (Ayumi Hamasaki sings the song). As for Kimochi… well, at first I thought what it said after "Every Heart" was the person who sang it. Turns out the singer is actually BoA and Kimochi is just part of the song title… Kimochi is Japanese for feeling…. Well, I found this when it was too late to change Sueko's last name and I probably wouldn't anyways because I like how the two sound together, so whatever. Anyways, Ravyn has her own character too! Only one major one, however: Yoshiko, a tiger demon that shows up in Chapter Four (so you won't have to wait too long)! Anyways, happy reading, but don't forget that BOTH Ravyn and I are writing this, not just me, and to reply. Replies are really, really nice. I'd do the same for you if I knew you had a fan fic!
NOTEJust to let you know, neko is "cat" in Japanese. Sueko's pet cat's name is Neko, which just goes to show how well she is with naming things.
Chapter One: Trip Down a Well
Again. They were moving again. It was all for "business reasons," too. Kimochi Sueko didn't really mind moving but it kind of was a bummer to finally unpack the last box then find out you have to pack it all up again, move that one out again and then unpack it all… again. Plus Neko really wasn't enjoying being cooped up in a carrier for several long hours. And her mom wasn't enjoying having to take the cat out of the carrier afterwards. Cats have pretty sharp claws.
Smooth driving soon turned into a long gravel driveway. Her mother's smiling face turned to the back seat.
"Excited?"
"I guess," shrugged Sueko, looking out the window.
Slowly the large house came into view. Even after her parents told her about it the enormity of the house only then it impacted her. Plus there was the giant tree growing in the back. The first growing thing that she'd seen since she lain eyes on Tokyo. Well, with the name like "Sunset Shrine" she guessed you have to be a bit organic and spiritual looking. And a giant tree sure did the trick.
"I hear the school here is pretty good," said her father in an attempt to get her talking.
"School is school," said Sueko, her face plastered to the car window. "Who are they?" she said as they pulled in front of the house and saw a kind woman, a little boy and old man come out of the front door.
"Don't stare Sueko! It's rude," said her mother in a reprimanding way.
"Sorry…" said Sueko quietly, looking away.
When the car finally stopped she was slow in opening the door, not wanting to seem like she was in too much of a rush. It would be kind of mean to just run into the house and take over it. The family that lived there before probably really enjoyed living there. But if that was true, why were they moving? When she finally did make it to the porch her mother was talking to the women who had plastered a pretty fake smile on her face. The little boy hadn't been as thoughtful. He just stood, hunched over, moving his foot along the crease in the porch where the boards came together.
"Did somebody die?" asked Sueko.
"It's funny you should ask that…" said the old man, closing his eyes and putting his arms behind his back. Obviously this was his "story telling" mode. Sueko could just tell.
"Oh, he's just pulling your strings! Trying to scare you away," laughed the women.
"They have a right to know the truth," said the old man, looking at her with one eye.
"Gramps, do you have to?" sighed the boy.
Suddenly Sueko got this brilliant idea to hug the boy. He looked really down and lonely, as if he had lost something really close to him. So she hugged him. Of course, he was a guy so he was all like:
"Ew, gross! Get off me! What are you doing?"
Sueko jumped back looking a little hurt, but she could forgive him. He was a boy and boys don't really like to be hugged or kissed or anything like that, especially young boys. And some older boys like to be hugged and kissed but only by "good looking" girls. Whatever. Like she really cared about older boys. She doubted she would ever fall in love and that was just fine with her. She just wanted to make other people happy.
"I was hugging you. You looked so sad!" said Sueko matter-of-factly.
"Not even my sister hugged me… she normally just tried to strangle me," said the boy sadly.
"You have a sister?" said Sueko excitedly. It would be kind of nice if somebody could give her some tips on the school and the good places to eat.
"Oh yes! And I forgot!" said the old man, walking back into the house. For a minute they just all stood there awkwardly, then he peeked out again. "Well? Are you going to follow or not?"
Everybody just shrugged and followed the old man into the house. Sueko could all ready tell she was going to enjoy living there. There were more than enough rooms. Maybe her white-and-black-spotted cat could have her own room and everything. But then the old man was showing them a couple huge boxes filled with paper.
"These are spell scrolls to ward away evil. And be careful. There's a curse on this shrine that likes to take beautiful young girls!" said the old man matter-of-factly.
Sueko blinked. He was looking right at her. But that made no sense so she looked behind her. Nope, there was nobody behind her. Then she laughed.
"There obviously isn't a curse because I don't see any beautiful young girls here. Really old man, have you been drinking too much Sake?" laughed Sueko.
Suddenly the women started laughing too.
"My father, the big story teller. He likes to scare people. Pay no mind to him!" laughed the women. "Now, Sóta, why don't you and your grandfather go out to the car? I'll be there momentarily."
"Yes mom," said the boy. "It was nice meeting you. Oh, and the room upstairs was my sister's. Bye!"
"That… was… just a little… er… weird, but okay!" said Sueko, shrugging. "I'm going to go check it out, okay mom?"
"All right. But be back down in ten minutes so we can unpack," said her mother.
"Yes mom!" said Sueko, running up the stairs and looking into the first room.
It was the only room in which it looked like nobody had touched. None of the furniture was gone. There was still a bed, a desk, and a little nightstand. So all the major stuff like clothes, alarm clocks and lamps were gone but everything else was still there, including a large yellow backpack that didn't look like it had been unpacked in ages. Sueko just shrugged and started poking around the room to see if she could find anything. Suddenly there was a knock at her door, making her jump.
"Sueko, can I talk to you?" asked her mother quietly.
"Yeah… what's up mom?" said Sueko, turning to see her mother sit down on the bed.
"We just found out from that woman that she had a daughter," started her mother.
"Well, the boy said he has a sister," shrugged Sueko.
"No, honey, had! As in the past tense! Her name was Kagome and she died from leukemia. The woman was hoping that you would take care of her room," said her mother softly.
"She's… dead?" said Sueko quietly. "And they want me to live in a dead girl's room!"
"The women said that you reminded her of Kagome and that there would be no greater honor than for you to take her room. Really, you would be disgracing them if you didn't," said her mother, standing up and leaving.
"But… a dead girl use to live in this room!" cried Sueko. Then she shrugged. "It's not like she died in this room or anything," she said to herself, trying to look at the brighter side of things.
Sueko was always paranoid about her first day of school. She was always afraid of the littlest of things; what if all the kids hated her? What if she did something stupid to embarrass herself? What if she got lost and couldn't find any of her classes?
Well, despite the fact today was her first day of school—in Tokyo, none-of-the-less—Sueko was pretty sure she didn't screw anything up. She even met someone in her Math class. Hamasaki Tamika, though pretty loud-mouthed and bossy to the other kids in her class, was very nice to Sueko—probably because she was new and all. Though it was weird, sitting next to Tamika at lunch that day (Tamika had invited Sueko after class) since all the boys seemed to be staring at their general direction. At first, Sueko thought they were staring at her, and she started becoming worried about her shoulder length messy-brown hair, but it turned out they were staring at Tamika, not Sueko. Apparently Tamika was "good-looking," though Sueko never really paid attention to those sorts of things. With silky, long black hair always put back, a soft face and chocolate-brown eyes, Sueko did have to admit Tamika did look pretty, but she didn't expect it to be that pretty…
None-of-the-less, she was hoping Tamika and her could be friends, despite the fact Tamika laughed when she found out about Sueko's strange addiction to the game, Pokèmon. And the fact Tamika thought Sueko was ditsy—but Sueko wasn't ditsy! She just… forgot things once and a while. Like, twice a day, at the very least.
Sueko shook her head. She better stop daydreaming, otherwise she'd get lost and never find her house! After all, with the direction sense Sueko had, it would be difficult enough to find it with a map—but she didn't even have that! She had been walking home from school, but even though she had just left school, Sueko wasn't wearing her school uniform. She loathed skirts because she looked so horrible in them, so after school she changed her clothes so she wouldn't have to wear it any longer then she had to. It was a rather plain uniform, with a simple schoolgirl-style white shirt with a matching short green skirt, but Sueko wouldn't take any chances! Having changed in the restroom after school, Sueko was now wearing simple jeans and a purple sweater to go with—it may be September, but it was pretty nippy out. Besides, green really didn't match her complexion—no matter how many times her mother said it matched her hazel-green eyes.
However, Sueko would not have to fret too much about getting lost on her way home from school—a few minutes later she stumbled across an important-looking building, which had been next to her new house. She was home! She didn't even get lost once! Must be some sort of a new record…
Speaking of which, Sueko had wanted to check out this building for some time… it made her think. Was it a shrine? Some sort of church? Another sort of sacred building? Not very religious herself, Sueko was still interested in "spiritual" things. They were so mysterious and fascinating, and made her think of the secrets they contained.
Setting down her bag next to a nearby tree, Sueko stepped inside the building. In the vast darkness she knew she had to step gingerly down the stairs, but even with her great care she still found herself losing her balance and flinging out her arms to stop her fall. Sueko closed her eyes, dreading the impact she would make with the ground.
But it never came. She just seemed to be falling and falling… Sueko opened her eyes and only saw a swirl of colors that made her eyes hurt, so she quickly closed them again. Just when she did this, she fell softly on a solid, dirt floor. There wasn't any pain at all.
Sueko sat up and opened her eyes. She seemed to be sitting in… a well? Out of the corner of her eye she saw a vine to her left, so, taking a deep breath—for Sueko really hated climbing, due to being high up and having the possible chance of falling down and dying some God-awful death—she stood up, walked to the ladder, and started to climb.
The well wasn't very deep—at least, it didn't take long for Sueko to get to the surface. Though she didn't have time to look at her surroundings (though she did note that it was very bright here despite the fact that the room had been dark before), for when she popped her head out, she was face-to-face with a young teenage boy who gave a startled cry and jumped up.
He was wearing a red kimono that was quite baggy, which puzzled Sueko. Normal people didn't walk around wearing kimonos and besides, she didn't see this boy in the building before she fell! But the boy continued to puzzle Sueko when she noticed his long silver hair, and… maybe she wasn't seeing correctly, but she could have sworn he had pointy dog-ears on top of his head that were the same color as his hair.
"Erm… hi," said Sueko nervously. "Um…" she paused to look around; she seemed to be near a forest, since there were trees nearby and the floor was covered with green grass. This definitely was not the building she had just been inspecting. "How did I get here?"
'It's been a month already. I should be over it all ready! I shouldn't still feel this way… or think these thoughts,' InuYasha thought depressingly, as he leaned against the well and looked down at its depths, willing Kagome to come out of it. But she wouldn't. She couldn't. Kagome would never come out of that well ever again, because she was dead.
'Why must you be dead, Kagome? Why?' Everyone he had ever loved—his mother, Kikyo, and Kagome—all died. Was everyone he cared about destined to die? Was InuYasha followed by some sort of cruel curse of fate?
InuYasha sighed. He really hated thinking these thoughts, but they had been haunting him for weeks…
He knew the others—Sango, Shippo, and Miroku—were hiding behind a clump of bushes or something, probably talking about him, but trying to be quiet so he wouldn't know. Didn't they know that he was a half dog demon or what? Though, for some strange reason, InuYasha didn't care. They could talk and worry all they wanted. InuYasha didn't care about anything any more… life without Kagome was so very pointless…
One of InuYasha's pointy doggy-ears twitched. There was a noise… was it coming from the well?
'No,' InuYasha told himself. 'Kagome is gone. She's never coming back. I'm just imagining things…'
But the noise coming from the well became louder. It sounded like someone was climbing up… but that was impossible!
InuYasha poked his head into the well. He didn't see anything… Maybe he was imagining things. Shaking his head, InuYasha choose to look straight ahead and tried to ignore the noise from the well and push the bittersweet memories of the Kagome, the girl he once loved, out of his head. Though it was rather hard to ignore the head that popped out of the well.
"AHH!" cried InuYasha, jumping up and stumbling back a few steps.
The two stayed where they were for a few seconds, analyzing each other's looks. The head was actually a girl—a rather cute looking girl, he had to admit, with a round face, messy brown hair (painfully like Kagome's, though it was a bit shorter) and greenish-hazelish eyes that were quite wide looking, which made her seem so innocent and childish looking.
"Erm… hi," said the girl nervously. "Um…" she paused, looking around, then looked back at InuYasha again. "How did I get here?" she asked, cocking her head to the side with a cute, confused expression on her face.
InuYasha was speechless. Only Kagome and himself could go through the well. How could this girl have gotten through it?
He heard shuffling behind him, and turned around to find Sango and Miroku appear suddenly looking very alert, with Shippo behind them, who just looked confused.
"Who are you?" asked Sango.
By now the brown-haired girl had climbed completely out of the well and stood nervously beside it.
"Um… Kimochi Sueko." Despite her nervousness she said it quite clearly.
"And how did you get here?" continued Sango.
"I fell," said Sueko. "Like, down the well. And came here. Where is here?" she added.
"The forest next to Kaede's village," explained Miroku calmly.
"Oh, how helpful! I've never heard of Kaeda, I'm really confused, I'm in some other world and I'm probably going insane, and there's a guy with doggy ears!" she cried, pointing to InuYasha.
"Feh!" responded InuYasha, rolling his eyes and crossing his arms.
"It's okay," said Sango kindly. "Just calm down…"
"How can I when I'm going insane!" cried Sueko.
"You're not going insane," said Sango. "Just trust me, okay?"
Then Sueko started doing something really weird. She closed her eyes and started taking deep breaths.
"What on earth are you doing?" snapped InuYasha.
Sueko opened her eyes and looked at InuYasha seriously. "Trying to calm down," she responded quietly, then closed her eyes and continued with her breathing. InuYasha rolled his eyes again.
After several seconds of this, Sueko stopped, opened her eyes, gave a fake smile and said in false-cheery tones, "Okay, done!"
"Good…" muttered InuYasha.
"So who are you all?" Sueko asked. If she had heard InuYasha she was doing a good job of ignoring his comment.
"I'm Sango, and this is Miroku, Shippo, and InuYasha," said Sango calmly, pointing out each person as she said their name.
"All right…" said Sueko. "Now WHERE AM I?"
"InuYasha Forest!" snapped InuYasha.
"You have a forest named after you?" Sueko gapped.
"Long story…" said InuYasha.
"Hmm…" said Sueko thoughtfully.
"How did you get here?" Miroku asked again, as though making sure of things.
"I fell in a well and got here!" said Sueko.
"Why were you at Kagome's house?" asked InuYasha, glaring at Sueko.
"Kagome…" said Sueko thoughtfully, as though she had heard the name before but couldn't remember where.
"Do you know her!" InuYasha asked, almost—though he hated to admit—in a desperate way, as his arms dropped to his sides and his "indifferent" expression swiped off to be replaced by a hopeful and hurt look that seemed to show that he doesn't care but, somehow, you know he does, just by looking at his eyes.
"Well…" Sueko heisted, taken aback by InuYasha. But she replied none-of-the-less. "I just moved into her house. Her family moved. I don't know Kagome personally, but they said she died of—oh, what was it?—leukemia, I think."
"Figures," muttered InuYasha, looking away and crossing his arms. His face returned to that "indifferent" look it wore too often.
Shippo, who had been standing there observing, finally spoke up. "Maybe we should take her to Kaede! She's wise! She'll be able to explain it!"
"Good idea," said Miroku, nodding his head once in agreement and showing a small smile.
"So the village is named after her?" said Sueko. "InuYasha Forest, Kaede's Village… is there a Shippo Creek I should worry about?"
Shippo laughed at the sarcasm as Sango lead the way to Kaede's house. InuYasha trailed in the back, lost in his own thoughts.
How on earth did Sueko get here? No one but him and Kagome should be able to go through the well! Sóta and Shippo had both tried before but couldn't get through… was there more to Sueko then what meets the eye?
"InuYasha, are you coming or not?" asked Shippo.
"Feh…" muttered InuYasha, rolling his eyes.
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