Disclaimer- nope don't own em.
Summary: Naraku brings Bankotsu back to life for the second time, but this time Bankotsu isn't taking orders from the feared half-demon. Why? Find out in the modern era with our hanyou-loving priestess and her new friend. (Ban/Kag)
Credit of this story's plot goes directly to blueeyedchibi, who presented this fantastic idea to us.
AN: This is a story that is being put together and worked on by two minds. My name is Kalei, and my sister, Alex, are both the authors of this story and have been given this opportunity thanks to blueeyedchibi's brilliant idea and encouragement. Anyway, read on, please give us feedback, and hope you enjoy! Here is Chapter 1!
Chapter 1- A Life Changing Transition
"You've disappointed me for the last time!" Naraku's deep, raspy voice yelled.
The castle guards heard the hanyou's yell and went running towards the room that he usually meditated in. Five of them came to a halt and crashed into each other when they arrived at the wide open door to Naraku's usually empty room. One of the guards peeked in and gasped, pulling back again and breathing roughly as he leaned against the wall.
"What is it?" One of the guard's gruff voice asked from behind another guard as he looked at the first guard's terror-stricken face.
"I've never seen him look so angry before. I think he's finally gone off the deep end." The guard replied, his voice full of fear. "Let's get outta here." He said and turned so fast that he banged into another guard. The other guards watched him run out of sight and then followed suit once the same fear hit them.
Naraku heard the footsteps of his guards run away like the cowards that they are, but never took his eyes off of his victim. He held the human up in the air by the throat and sneered sickeningly at the human's hopeless gasps for air.
"Na-ra-ku." The human managed to say through his clinched throat. There was another long silence before the human could finish what he wanted to say. "I...will...k-kill...him...next...t-time." The human said struggling for air. His hope of ever breathing again was becoming thin. He had made his master mad. So mad that his master was finally giving him what he knew he deserved. Death.
"Bankotsu you've ignored my commands. You've wasted my time and your own, and you have failed me one too many times." Naraku said almost too calmly. His eyes had turned to a fiery blaze and his raven black hair swayed and floated in the air as if there was some invisible force surrounding his body.
Naraku's cold voice told him he wasn't getting out of this one. This was it; he would be shown no mercy this night.
"I'm going to make you suffer over and over again for your insolence." Naraku said devilishly and tightened his grip around Bankotsu's throat.
'What does he mean? Does he mean he's going to kill me over and over again?' Bankotsu wondered, wishing his life would just end now and Naraku wouldn't bring him back to life again. He looked at Naraku's disgustingly pleasured face once more before all started to go black and his suffering ended.
Naraku chuckled at how fast the human went limp in his strong hold and his heart slowly stopped beating. "Pathetic." Naraku spat. He hadn't yet got his fill of pleasure. His demon blood was raging and wanted more. He wanted blood. Everything was silent for a moment and he dropped Bankotsu's body on the hard wooded floor.
Smiling inwardly, Naraku put his hand in the pocket of his dark kimono and pulled out a single shard of the Shikon jewel. Rolling the shikon shard around between his thumb and index finger, he bent down by the dead body's side and gazed at him thoughtfully. As he moved his hand down towards the body, the jewel glowed a tainted pink. Looking up and down the human body he chose a place to put the jewel and imbedded it within the skin on the body's arm. Naraku rose and took a few steps back, waiting for the jewel to work its magic.
Naraku watched as the dead body rose off the ground with a shimmering light surrounding it. The light seemed to get brighter and brighter and Naraku started to wonder what was going on. "Yes. Come back to me Bankotsu so that you may serve my growing desire for blood once again." Naraku said as he watched Bankotsu's floating body, impatiently.
'What's happening?' Naraku worried as he shielded his eyes. The light had gotten so bright that Bankotsu's body couldn't be seen. The hanyou closed his eyes and waited for the light to disappear. Once he could see through his eyelids that the light had dulled he opened them and looked to where the body had been. It was gone. "What?" Naraku hollered, his nostrils flaring in tune with his heavy breathing. 'Where is he? What has the jewel done?' He wondered, looking around the room in confusion.
With a snarl he walked out of the room and headed towards the castle gate.
"Ouch, what happened?" Bankotsu asked himself and rubbed the back of his head where it was sore. His fingers got entangled in his hair. "My hair must've come out of the braid." He thought. "Hey, what's wrong with my voice?" He said, listening to himself speak. "It was never this high pitched before." He said, listening to himself again. 'What's going on here?' He wondered and looked all around him. It was dark just like it was in Naraku's castle. 'I thought I died.' He said to himself, remembering how Naraku had slowly killed him. 'He must have brought me back to life again, the bastard.'
Bankotsu got to his feet with a many complaints and groans about his pain and then looked at his surroundings. "Where am I?" All he could see was trees and more trees, but could hear the strangest sounds coming from a distance. Deciding it was best to figure out where he was and what the strange sounds were; he began to walk towards the noise.
After walking for a good while, stumbling over roots, and cursing as branches hit his face, he could see light between the trees ahead. 'That doesn't look like light from a fire.' Bankotsu thought as he walked towards it. 'Why do my clothes feel so baggy? Did I lose weight coming back to life again?' He wondered, noticing that half the reason why he was stumbling so much was because he was tripping over his clothes.
"What the hell?" Bankotsu took a step out of the woods and looked upon something that he had never seen before. Little did he know that the city of Tokyo stood right before him. 'What is this place?' He gazed all around. What seemed to look like high quality houses were placed close together and they were everywhere. The only thing that didn't have houses on it was a narrow piece of gray hard ground that ran between the line of houses.
He looked up at where the light was coming from and blinked at the brightness. 'That's a weird type of fire.' He thought and gazed at what he didn't know was called a street light. Curiously he walked out onto the pavement and looked all around as he walked down the street in the night. 'What is this place?' He was so confused. This didn't seem like the feudal era at all.
No one was around and the entire time Bankotsu walked down the street, it was empty. He stopped when he came to a long hill of stairs, which seemed to lead up to what looked like a shrine. That was the only thing so far that he recognized, he knew what a shrine looked like and this one was similar to the ones he had seen before. Finally, finding something a little familiar, he started to climb the hard stairs.
Once he was half way up the stairs, he could see most of the shrine and close to the roof of the shrine a sign written kanji read, "Higurashi Shrine." 'Never heard of it before.' He said to himself and finally got to the top of the stairs. By the shrine he could see a house that another light on it, just like the lights down the street.
"Where the hell am I?" He said angrily. He was beginning to get really frustrated. Not knowing what he should do, he walked towards the house and found what looked like a tiny hut made of wood, not too far away from the shrine. He walked up to it and opened the doors. "A well?" He said sardonically and shut the door behind him. It became pitch black in the well house and Bankotsu took a seat where he was at so he wouldn't fall or trip over anything.
"I wonder how long it is until the sun rises?" He said to himself as he sat in the dark pondering. He sat awake for the rest of the night until morning finally came.
Opening the door he peered out from where he was sitting. The only thing he could see was the house and it didn't look alive yet. The strange noises that he could hear all during the night hadn't ceased and he wanted to know what they were.
"I look terrible." He said, looking down at his hakamas. What use to be white material now had brown dirt stains all over it. "And what's with my voice. If I wasn't mistaken I would think that it sounded like a girl." He said, rubbing his throat.
After waiting for another hour or so, he watched a girl come out of the house and head towards the stairs. 'That girl looks familiar. I know I've seen her somewhere before.' He thought, watching the girl intently. He saw her suddenly stop and look towards the well house.
"Why are the doors open?" Kagome said, walking towards the well house.
Bankotsu watched her get closer. 'I know that girl. She's the one that is always with InuYasha and always has those weird green and white clothes on.' He thought and turned around to hide. He ran down towards the well and tried hiding behind it.
"Hm." Kagome shut the doors, still confused as to why they were open, and then suddenly heard a crashing sound.
"Damn it!" Bankotsu yelled as he tripped over a wooden bucket and landed on his back.
Kagome flung open the doors again and walked inside. "Oh no, are you okay?" Kagome asked, running down towards the person's side. She could see someone laying on their back by the well.
"Um…I'm fine." Bankotsu replied, not sure what to say.
"Here let me help you." Kagome said, bending down to grab the person's arm and help them up.
'Doesn't she recognize me? Shouldn't she be scared and running for her life because I'm Bankotsu?' He wondered, looking up at her. He let her help him up and then he brushed himself off.
"Are you okay? What are you doing in here?" Kagome asked. She had never came across a person in her well house before unless it was InuYasha.
"I'm alright. Um…I'm not sure what I am doing here. I'm kind of lost." Bankotsu replied, still staring at her like she was crazy.
"You look terrible, let me help you. I can take you in the house and help you get some clean clothes on." Kagome offered, thinking that she probably had no home. She felt really bad for this person and wanted to help as much as she could.
"No, I'm fine really. I don't think your clothes will fit me anyway." Bankotsu said, a smirk across his face when he looked at the size of her clothes. 'Does she really think I could fit into those?'
"Please, let me help you." Kagome said, smiling.
'Why is she smiling at me? Why does she want to help me so bad?' He wondered and decided to just give in. It didn't seem like she was going to leave him alone even if he did say no. "Alright."
"You look like you might be hungry too, my mother is a great cook, she can make you something." Kagome said cheerfully as she walked towards the house with the strange person following behind her.
Bankotsu followed her, looking all around. Everything looked different in daylight and now he was even more confused as to where he was. They arrived in the house and Kagome's mother came running to the door.
"Oh you poor thing." Her mother said, taking a look at the strange person that now stood on their doorstep. "Do you like toast?" Her mother asked.
"Um…sure." 'Whatever toast is.' He thought, just going with what they said. He still wasn't sure why the girl wasn't recognizing him.
"Here I'll take you too the bathroom and you can wash up." Kagome said, leading the person to the bathroom. "Here it is." Kagome said, moving to let the person go in.
"Um…thanks." Bankotsu said and walked into the 'bathroom,' as they called it. It didn't look like a bathroom at all, compared to the ones he was used to. Walking in he looked around and recognized a bath tub. "Okay what happened to me? Naraku killed me, obviously brought me back to life again, but what is this place?" He talked to himself.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" He screamed. He looked closely at his reflection in the mirror on the wall. "WHAT!" He yelled. 'I'm a girl. Aahh! I can't be a girl. This isn't right!' He felt himself going cold. How could he be a girl?
"Are you okay?" Kagome asked, knocking on the door.
"I'm fine." He answered back. He moved closer to the mirror and examined himself. His face was extremely feminine and his hair was thick and silky. "Oh no, this can't mean…" He looked down at himself and wondered. Hands shaking, he closed his eyes and quickly pulled down his hakamas. "Oh man!" He said, opening his eyes. 'I am a girl! No! How could this happen?' He panicked and pulled his clothing back up. 'Naraku I'm going to kill you, if this is another one of your sick games.' He seethed with anger, his fists clinched and blood boiling. 'I guess that explains why my clothes are so baggy and my voice is high.' Looking all around he didn't know what to do. After a little while he regained himself and went back out of the bathroom.
"What's your name?"
He turned to see Kagome holding a tray with toast and what looked like milk on it. 'Quick Bankotsu, a girl's name, you need to think of a girl's name.' He told himself, trying to think of a girl's name. 'Umm….umm…' He hadn't been around a lot of girls in his lifetime and the ones he had been with before, well he didn't remember their names. He didn't remember one girl's name though. "Kagura." He replied, it being the first girl's name that came to mind.
"Kagura. I know a woman whose name is Kagura." Kagome said and motioned for her to sit. "Here, eat it and you might feel better." Kagome said placing the tray on her lap.
Bankotsu looked down at the food. It smelled good, and his stomach was rumbling so he decided to eat it.
"Kami, I'm late for school now." Kagome sighed. She hardly got to get to school as it was let alone being late when she actually got to go.
"It's okay honey, I'll call the school and tell them you're going to be late." Her mother said from in the kitchen.
"Thanks mom."
"School?" Bankotsu asked curiously.
"You look close to my age, you must go to school?" Kagome asked, taking a seat by Kagura.
'What should I say?' Thinking quick he just answered, "Um…yeah, of course."
"Good we can go to school together." Kagome said, smiling.
After Bankotsu finished eating and got into a change of clothing, which to his disappointment he had to wear the same clothes as Kagome. He felt too exposed and wanted to cover his legs, but then he remembered he was a girl and probably looked normal in it. They left the house together and walked down the street towards the school.
'Great, I wonder what this 'school' is.' He thought.
"You look as if you've never been in a city before." Kagome said. She had noticed her constantly looking all around like it was the strangest place she had ever been to.
Bankotsu ignored that remark and stopped looking around so she wouldn't think he was weird anymore. He didn't want to ask where he was because then she would think he was crazy.
They arrived at the school a few minutes later and to Kagome's surprise, Kagura wasn't registered at their school. In fact when she asked, she said she wasn't registered at any school. Kagome told the school Principle what had happened in the morning and how she had found Kagura in her well house and then the teacher got a look of pity on her face.
"This is really sad; it sounds like Kagura doesn't even have a home right now." The Principle said, talking to Kagome. They didn't bother talking to Kagura, seeing as all she was doing was looking around and looking clueless.
"What should I do?" Kagome asked. She didn't want to leave Kagura with no where to go.
"Well, we can allow her to be registered at this school and take classes with you as long as she is under your roof and your parent or guardian signs out this form." The Principle replied, handing her a form. "Since you are already here, we will allow Kagura to go to classes with you, but you will need to have this form signed for tomorrow."
"Thank you very much!" Kagome said. She didn't know what to think. Would her mom and grandpa even let her have Kagura in the house? Would Kagura be able to live with them? And what about the feudal era? 'I wonder what InuYasha will think of this?' She imagined InuYasha coming back with her and sniffing all over Kagura and making sure that she wouldn't harm her. 'Until school is over, I guess I can't do anything.'
"I will escort you to class so I can announce to your teacher that there is a new student in his class." The Principle said, walking towards the door.
Kagome and Kagura followed until they came to the classroom door. "This is a new student in your class, her name is Kagura and I expect that you will all give her a warm welcome." The Principle said, taking a hand and pushing Kagura into the doorway.
'Ah, what is this? I don't want to be in here will all these people.' Bankotsu turned around, but the principle stood in his way.
"Come in Kagura." The teacher smiled warmly. "Take a seat by Kagome if it makes you more comfortable."
'What is this 'school?' He wondered and followed Kagome to one of the desks in the back of the classroom. He was beginning to want to just run away and find his brothers, find Naraku and kill him for turning him into a girl, and get away from this weird place. Since he had no clue where he was and what happened, he thought it would be best to stay with Kagome. She at least seemed to care about him and he also knew her slightly from the times he had fought with InuYasha. Maybe later she could tell him where he was.
"Here, all you have to do is copy down the notes from the board." Kagome said, slipping a piece of paper onto Kagura's desk with a pen included.
Bankotsu studied the pen and then tried marking with it on the piece of paper in front of him. 'It worked.'
'I'm starting to wonder about this girl. She acts as if she has just been born into a foreign world. Did she lose her memory or something?' Kagome wondered, watching how the girl was looking at the pen like they had never seen one before.
An hour went past and it was time to switch classes. All class Kagome noticed that Kagura hadn't taken any notes at all, and she mainly just looked around and then would gaze out the window. Once they got into the hallway, Kagura asked her a question that she hadn't been expecting.
"Umm…I need to pee." Bankotsu asked. He hadn't used the washroom since, well, he couldn't remember. He hadn't used the washroom when he was at Kagome's in the morning. He had been pre-occupied with staring at his feminine face and finding out that he was a female.
"Um..okay, I'll take you too the girls washroom." Kagome said and began to walk down the hall towards the girl's washroom. 'I hope she doesn't ask me what a toilet is. That would mean there is really something wrong with this girl. It's like she came from a whole different age.'
AN: Well, there is the first chapter!