So this is my first fic ever! Not to mention I decided to jump straight into a multi-chap crossover… so I might be slightly insane?! :D Nah. Anyways I own nothing that you recognize, hopefully you all think that this is an original-ish plot although I know there are A LOT of IY and YYH fics out there!
PS: THIS IS NOT AN INU/KAG FIC!
~~~~I HOPE YOU ENJOY!~~~~
A young woman named Higurashi Kagome climbs out of an old decrepit well known as the Bone Eaters Well. She hauls a giant yellow backpack out with her. She takes a deep breath and then lets out a sigh.
"Tadaima, minna-san"she whispers under her breath.
"Welcome back, miko." She jumps and turns around at the cold voice. Standing there is none other than Lord Sesshōmaru of the Western Lands. "It is time to resume your training with this Sesshōmaru."
Kagome begins to giggle nervously, "B-but Fluffy-kun [Sesshōmaru's eye twitches at the nickname]… I just got back!" He just stares at the young woman blankly. They both silently stared at each other for a few moments when Kagome's eyes widen and she gasps with horror filled eyes as she points behind him, "Sesshōmaru, Rin tied Jaken up and is flying away on Ah-Un!"
The lord's eye twitched again, "Miko," he growled, "you remember that this Sesshōmaru is an inu-taiyoukai that can smell lies correct?" Another twitch. "Not to mention that this one's ward is taking a nap and Jaken is on an errand for me."
Kagome had the decency to blush, as she had forgotten that little fact in her desperation. "Hehehe… YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!" She shouts as she takes off with what she thought was great speed. She got maybe 5 feet before running into a solid chest.
"Miiikkoooo…" She looks up into narrowed amber eyes. "Cease this stupidity and give in with a modicum of dignity."
A waterfall of tears run down said miko's face, puppy-dog eyes on full blast "But Sesshōmaru! Can't we at least wait until tomorrow? It's my 18th birthday today!" She continued to whine, causing a constant twitch to occur with the inu-youkai's eye.
He growled lowly, causing Kagome to stop her incessant complaints. "This Sesshōmaru will-"
"It's just us you can stop using third person ya know…"
"Kagome do not interrupt me!" silence. "Now as thi- as I was saying, I will come retrieve you an hour after daybreak to begin training you, then the monk will train you, followed by the slayer and then the undead miko" This last being said with a grimace on his face, she still couldn't get over the smell of death and graveyard soil that emanated from his brother's chosen mate.
"HAI! ARIGATOU FLUFFY-NII-CHAN!" This time both his eye and hands twitch at the nickname. He then stiffens as Kagome tackles him in a hug, refusing to let go until he pats her back in a semblance of a hug. She leans back with her arms still around him, "will you stay to celebrate with me?"
Damn those puppy-dog eyes the stoic lord thought to himself. "… Hai imouto, I will stay for a little while." Her responding smile, so full of joy and innocence even with all she's been through cause a slight grin to form on Sesshōmaru's lips. The girl then grasps his hand and takes off towards the village of Edo where the rest of her rag-tag family awaited her arrival.
Once she was within sight of the village she heard a shout, "MOMMA! YOU'RE BACK!" she was then pounced upon by a ball of orange hair. She hugged her kit tightly and kissed him on the top of his head.
"Hello Shippō. I missed you!"
"I missed you too Momma! C'mon everyone's waiting!"
The three of them entered Kaede's hut and were greeted with shouts of hellos and happy birthday wishes. "Thanks guys! How has everyone been?" The group then sat and talked for a while about anything and everything. Their entire group was there, including Kikyo.
When Inuyasha had brought her back to the group to join them, the first thing that happened was she had attacked Kagome, who by that time was already being trained by Sesshy, Miroku, and Sango with occasional training from Kaede.
***FLASHBACK***
"Die Incarnation!" the dead miko shouted as she drew her bow back with an arrow already charged with dark energy. She released the arrow but was shocked when the young miko dodged it with ease.
"Now Kikyo-chan, that wasn't very nice." Kagome stated with a cold glare. Then she paused as she realized something that she hadn't seen previous to all of the spiritual training she had been receiving. She has a tainted shard in the back of her neck. No wonder she's been such a bitch, after all that I had heard about her when she was alive something didn't add up. While she was contemplating her next move, Kikyo got over her shock and shot another arrow at the distracted girl.
"HIRAIKOTSU" came a yell before the large boomerang intercepted the arrow.
Before the taijiya could attack the undead miko she heard "Sango-chan." The taijiya paused mid throw. "I need you and Miroku-kun to hold back Inuyasha."
"But-"
"Please." Sango hesitated before nodding and getting the monk's attention, telling him the plan for restraining the hanyou. As one they grabbed Inuyasha's arms, but they were having trouble holding him still until a giant stone statue landed on his back rendering him immobile. "Thank you Shippō, now be good for mommy and stay with Sango and Miroku."
The fox kit smiled proudly at having helped. "Okay Momma!" he chirped happily.
Slowly the two mikos began to circle each other looking for an opening to attack, one looking to kill, the other looking to heal. Finally Kikyo grew impatient and charged forward with her bow humming with power since arrows were not working. Kagome took advantage of this by spinning on her heel as the other woman got close enough, twirling to the side. Kikyo could not stop her charge in time and went right past Kagome who then delivered a high-kick to the back of her neck, knocking the woman unconscious. Thank you Fluffy for the training. Unkown to said youkai, this is when that infernal nick-name became a habit to the young miko.
Suddenly she was brought out of her heartfelt thanks by a loud yelling, "WENCH WHAT DID YOU DO TO KIKYO! LET ME UP YA BRAT, I NEED TO HELP KIKYO! OI I SAID-"
"Sit boy." *CRASH* "… Ah sweet silence."
The observers still standing guard over the now unconscious Inuyasha each sweat-dropped at the smug miko. After a second of them all staring at each other Kagome snapped her fingers. "Oh right! I guess I should explain!" Nods came from Sango and Miroku while Shippō laughed at his mother's antics. "Well thanks to all the training that the hentai ("Hey I resent that accusation!" *Grope* *SLAP* "Hands to yourself HENTAI HOUSHI") and Kaede have been giving me, I realized that Kikyo has a tainted shard in her neck." Kagome didn't even bat an eye at her friend's by-play.
Sango gasped while Miroku (with a red handprint on his cheek) asked, "why do you think you are only now able to sense it?"
"Well, if I had to guess I would say that her own miko-Ki was covering up the aura of the jewel, or that the jewel was tainting her aura so badly that they became almost, but not quite, identical in feel with the little experience I had before!" Miroku 'hmmm'ed and then nodded satisfied with the answer. "Anyways, I figured that this might be why she has been such a bi- (glances at Shippō) big jerk. So I figured that if I could get her to stay still long enough I could purify it and then we will go from there."
"Sounds like a plan Kagome-chan" stated Sango while Miroku nodded his agreement.
"Alright, let's just hope that I'm done before Inu-baka wakes up again!" They all chuckled before Kagome became serious and sat down by the unconscious miko. She placed her hands over the back of her neck and closed her eyes. Soon her hands began to glow pink and after a couple of minutes she sighed and stood up. "Well now that that's done let's get them back to the hut. Sango will you call for Kirara, I hate to cut her hunting time short though, but I don't think any of us wants to carry them back…?"
"Sure Kag-chan" *WHISTLE* off in the distance they could hear the neko-youkai's answering roar and moments later she flew into the clearing and nuzzled up next to her mistress before meowing cutely.
***END FLASHBACK***
After that they took the two unconscious lovers back to Kaede's and waited for them to wake up. After a few hours Kikyo woke up and there was an immediate change in the way she was acting. She profusely thanked Kagome and told her that it would be okay to take the shard out and that it wouldn't cause her to pass on, not yet. So they had gained yet another shard and Naraku had lost yet another puppet. When Inuyasha woke up it was one of the most heartwarming scenes that the group had ever seen. The two of them went outside and sat talking for hours and fell asleep together under a tree on the edge of the forest with Kikyo setting a barrier around them for protection.
Kagome noticed that without the taint of the shard, Kikyo's miko-Ki was a gentle blue color. They went through with the mating ceremony not long after that, and Kagome could honestly say she was happy for the two of them. Not long after Kikyo's resurrection by Urasue Kagome realized that she didn't love Inuyasha in a romantic sense. She would always think of him as her first hero, but what she had for him was a young girl's crush on an imaginary white knight. They definitely had more of a brother-sister relationship, what with all of the arguing and fighting.
Kagome was abruptly brought out of her reminiscing by a hand on her shoulder. "Miko, I need to leave but I shall be back in the morning… do try to rest some, I would hate for you to not have the proper energy for our training tomorrow." Kagome decided then and there that she did not like the sadistic grin her Aniki was wearing. He squeezed her shoulder and then was gone in the blink of an eye.
Next thing Kagome knew, sake was being passed around since the 'responsible stick-up-the-asses' (Kaede, Kikyo, and Sesshy) were either gone for the night or gone to bed. Kagome had never drank before so she decided to have a little fun… what was the worst thing that could happen?
Kagome woke up the next morning with a pounding headache, wondering what had woken her up. Ahhh… Inuyasha had kicked her in the side… it was then she realized that her, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippō, and Kirara were all in a jumble on the floor, the teens having finally passed out after having too much to drink. She tried to remember what had happened the night before while gathering her bathing items, noticing that it was just past dawn she wanted to soak for a while before Sesshy came for their session. As she relaxed in a nearby hot spring images from last night began to come forth until she had a solid memory.
***FLASHBACK***
The teens were outside, wasted beyond belief, when they decided to play hide-n-go-seek. Kagome was it and was currently wading through tall grass looking for her best hanyou friend, as she had already found the others who were back at the hut drinking yet more alcohol. She slowly crept through the waist high grass when she saw two fluffy ears sticking out above the top of the grass. In a moment of drunken clarity… *cough cough* she picked up a fist sized rock and sang to herself "Gotta catch 'em alllll…. POK-E-MON!" and threw the rock right between the middle of the ears. *THUNK* *CRASH* "I caught a doggy Pokémon! YAY!" and proceeded to drag the now unconscious Inuyasha back to the hut by his legs, a large bump forming on his head, all the while giggling obscenely. Once she made it back inside she dropped his legs and joined with the others finishing off what was left of the sake. A few slaps to an extremely drunk hentai monk later and they all passed out where they were sitting, the children coming back from playing outside snuggling up with the older teens.
***END FLASHBACK***
She groaned, hoping that none of the others would realized how Inu got the head injury… *sigh*
She finished washing up, feeling much better by the end of her bath. She got out and dried off before getting dressed in the clothes she was going to train in, and headed back to the hut, knowing Sesshōmaru would show up soon.
Not thirty some-odd minutes later, Lord Fluffy did indeed show up, raising one of his perfect eyebrows at the rest of the still unconscious group, the two children already having woken up and eating their breakfast. He gave an inelegant snort that he still managed to make look like the most sophisticated action. How does he do that? Was Kagome's random thought for the morning.
"Ready Miko?"
"Hai Fluffy-kun." He sighed and Kagome would have sworn that she saw him roll his eyes. Shaking her head she turned to the two children and told them that once they finished eating they should go find Kikyo or Kaede.
"Can we come watch you train Momma?" She looked at Sesshy to see what he thought about it. He thought for a moment before deciding that since they were only working on the physical part of fighting, with the focus on close range combat with swords, the children shouldn't be at any risk of his poison or her miko powers getting out of control.
He nodded. They waited for Shippō and Rin to finish eating before going to a clearing nearby.
"Don't hold back Aniki." Kagome stated seriously. He nodded with a grim smile and attacked without warning.
They practiced for a couple of hours until Sesshōmaru was satisfied with the progress that Kagome had made. He allowed her a 15 minute break before passing her off to the monk who then spent the next couple of hours helping her focus by meditating and learning how to perfect her o-fudas, o-mamoris, and sacred sutras in general. After he approved of her work, he let Sango take over. Sango let her have another 10 reprieve before training her in long range combat using weapons such as the hiraikotsu, throwing knives, a chain scythe, these being the main focus. The last session of her day was done with Kikyo. The undead miko helped her learn new ways to use her miko-ki to their full extent, helping her with her barrier creating, forming her Ki into a ball of energy that she can shoot out and have explode on demand, pushing the Ki into certain muscles to temporarily increase strength or speed, and even her healing abilities. She had already learned all she could about herbs from Kaede.
Her days repeated this schedule for weeks until Shippō realized something. "Momma, why haven't you gone home recently?"
"Well sweetheart, I told my family that I wouldn't be able to come back until after we finished this for good."
"Oh. Okay, I was just curious Momma."
"That's alright kit, I understand." She smiled and took the brief interlude between training sessions to tell Shippō, and Rin when she was there, all about her family and time.
Never once did she or any of her companions sense the gold eyes watching from the surrounding trees, nor did they notice when a pair of black eyes joined the other ones.
So what did you all think? I will take any kind of review, even flames though I may not respond back to you, but what I really look forward to is CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM! Even if you think you are being harsh, send it my way!
My posting is NOT DEPENDENT ON REVIEWS, although they would be greatly appreciated! I have quite a few chapters planned/plotted as of right now, but who knows how many chapters ill end up with out of those alone, considering I was planning A LOT more for this chap, but alas my fingers got carried away! They will be put up as I finish them!
Can't Wait to hear from you!
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