What Really Happened
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANY ORIGINAL
INUYASHA CHARACTERS, IF I ADD MY OWN CHARACTERS SUCK IT UP THEY ARE
MINE AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE THEM.
Warning: Language. Sex.
Violence. Rape.
Yes, you retards that needed me to write this, I
don't own any characters but the ones who will be posted with some
background info when they enter the chapters. The info on them will
be posted at the end of the chapter they enter in.
Prologue:
Demons, what do you think they are?
Grotesque creatures with large teeth and drool all over the place
looking for human flesh to eat, is that what you think? Sexually
enticing creatures spawned from the devil himself, like those sinful
women on street corners? Small little black devils with pitchforks
and horns, maybe? Do you really want to know what they look like?
Kagome Higurashi could tell you. Oh, the things she could tell! The
stories of her life are unlike any of us.
How, you ask? Simple,
really. She has had demons in her life since she was sixteen years
old. Here is a story of Kagome Higurashi, the truth. Not the romantic
story of her and InuYasha, as told in the anime. Kagome's story is
much more complicated, and amazing. But first, a lesson is to be
learned here.
Look around you. All around. What do you see? People
of all different shapes and sizes. Humans? No. People. See some
fangs? Discoloration? Birthmarks? Even people with three fingers or
toes? Demon blood. The black blood of today's demons has been mixed
with humans so much, it has become part of human society.
There
was a time, long ago, when full blooded demons ruled all. When they
looked down upon us humans as mere mortals who could never live as
long as they, nor be as strong. But that all changed when one simple
girl lived up to a prophecy. What prophecy you ask?
On the day of
the yellow moon
A woman from afar will come
To bring peace
To
all who seek
Her love will surely bloom
Three men will
come
Some women and children too
To kill an evil
That
everyone seeks
Her love will surely bloom
Evil will
rise
And the dead will too
Her power grows
As will all she
knows
Her love will surely bloom
The dead will fall
And
insanity will strike
The evil becomes two
Sorrow grows but she
will too
Her love will surely bloom
A word of caution to
this tale
Should this girl not fight
Evil will prevail
So
the west shall love her dearly for
Her love must bloom
Chapter 1: Meeting the Inu-Brothers-Day One
Kagome blinked. First she
only saw a large amount of green, then some yellows came, reds,
browns, eventually a sea blue came into view and realized she was
lying on the grass. She sat up and thought to how she ended up in a
field of grass surrounded by woods. How did she get here? She thought
back to how Souta was scared to go into the well house after the cat.
Buyo, their cat, had gone down there, meowing as if he couldn't get
back up, and so Kagome went down after him. She had been a little
creeped out and scared, but she did it anyway. Past spider webs and
into the grimy well house she had gone, searching for the darned
animal. She eventually found and picked up the ridiculously fat cat
and was starting up the stairs when she fell backwards, breaking the
sacred seal on the well. The cat had landed on his feet and scampered
up the stairs to Souta. The well opened and Kagome remembered a burst
of purple and blue aura, almost magical it seemed, warming her from
the inside out it seemed, then a woman. But the woman wasn't just
any ordinary woman; Kagome noticed that from the start. Her eyes were
vacant; she had sharp teeth, and a long tongue that looked physically
impossible to fit in her mouth. That disgusting tongue had licked her
face, as if she were a delicious treat just waiting to be devoured.
Then there was just a black nothingness that took over, lulling her
to sleep with its dark yet comforting spell.
Kagome looked down
the well she was sitting by, and noticed there were some old bones
down there. She shivered in disgust and looked around. She stood and
for several minutes she tried to find out where exactly she was. She
sat at the edge of the well then sat on another side of the well,
looking around for several more minutes. Where was she? Then she
looked up, and just like that, right up over the forest canopy, was
the sacred tree. She thought back to when she was young. What she was
taught, and what she knows now.
"You see this big tree? It's
the sacred tree, little one. Remember it, Kagome dear. It will always
lead you home. Our shrine is up on a hill, high above most buildings,
but the tree stands above all the buildings. You'll be able to find
it anywhere within ten miles from the shrine! And if you are ever not
to see it, you can ask someone one question. 'Where is the
Goshinbaku(A/N I don't know the real term for the sacred tree,
someone please tell me!)?'" Kagome remembered her mother's
soft, quiet voice saying before the young Kagome had bombarded her
with questions.
And just like that Kagome ran off towards the
tree. As she ran, she didn't notice the movement in the grass near
by, nor the odd imp-looking thing that followed her at a close
distance. Then, she didn't realize there was a third presence
behind all the rest, walking at a slow pace. The swishing that all
three made in the grass was too quiet for her to hear over her own
heart and foot steps.
Upon reaching the tree, her ticket home,
Kagome stopped dead in her tracks. There was no shrine. There was no
family. There was just a tree. She looked up at the tree, and was
surprised to find there was a boy pinned to it, an arrow stuck in his
shoulder. Kagome looked up at the boy, who looked so serene there, as
if he was sleeping. She watched him for a moment, looking for some
sign of life. She blinked as she noticed the caked blood on his
shirt. Such an ugly outfit he had on! So old fashioned and bright
red! However, on him it just seemed to fit. She climbed up the tree a
bit, just enough to touch the arrow stuck in the boy, pinning him to
the tree. The least she could do was to give him a proper burial if
he were truly dead. If not then help him clean his wound.
She
wrapped her tiny fingers around it, but before she could pull it out,
it was gone in a burst of pink and purple fairy like lights, and she
cried out in surprise as she fell backwards. Then she heard it. A
heartbeat. She looked up at the boy. Thump thump. The very air around
him vibrated and he glowed with new life as he landed on the ground
on all fours. Thump thump. Thump thump. He looked up at her in
disgust and snarled. His canine teeth looked elongated a bit, and his
eyes were a golden hue, like a wolf's eyes.
"What's the
matter, Kikyo? Havin' second thoughts about keepin' me on that
tree over there? Bitch. You're gonna regret lettin' me go 'cause
I ain't lettin' you go no where!" He snapped and stood. Kagome
blinked and stood as well.
"K-Kikyo? My name is Kagome!"
Kagome asked herself out loud, earning a growl from the boy with dog
ears.
"Feh! Don't go playin' dumb with me, wench! That's
a new look for you, Kikyo, too bad you wont live long enough to get
another!" He suddenly lunged for her, but his claws never made
contact. Instead she was hoisted up into the air by Mistress
Centipede, the woman Kagome had seen earlier that day. The woman had
her arms wrapped around Kagome's waist, running her hand up her
shirt as if searching.
"You have it, give it to me!" She
hissed at Kagome, and Kagome could only look at her with a mix of
shock and fear.
"You have the jewel!" Kagome suddenly became
so frightened she screamed, throwing her hand to Mistress Centipede's
face to push it away, only to send a burst of blue-white light from
her hand dissolving the woman's face. Kagome fell to the ground
with a loud squeal; sniffling a little as she stood up again.
"What's going on!" Kagome asked out loud before looking
around for the boy.
"Like you don't know! Die, bitch!" The
boy yelled and lunged at her from the bushes near by. Kagome, again,
was saved. This time, however, not by the woman, but a man with long
silver hair and golden eyes. The man, whoever he was, stood there
holding the boy's throat.
"Take another sniff, InuYasha, this
is not the same miko, she came from the well not far from the town."
The handsome man said, before throwing InuYasha against a tree. "She
is The One." Kagome blinked.
InuYasha sniffed and got close to
Kagome, who sniffled and huddled close to the man's legs. "Y-you
aren't Kikyo!" InuYasha said and fell backwards. "But why do
you have the jewel?"
"What are you talking about? And, duh! I
told you my name is Kagome! KA-GO-ME! Come on you can say it! And I
don't even where jewelry! Why would I carry around a stupid
jewel?" Kagome snapped then covered her mouth, wrapping an arm
about the man's leg.
"Sesshoumaru! What the hell's goin'
on here!" InuYasha snapped as Sesshoumaru lifted the untrained
miko to stand. He carefully brushed the hair from her face and
straightened her clothes for her. Kagome blushed at the action, but
since he didn't try anything she didn't smack him or scream at
him for touching her in such a way.
"Silence, brother, you are
in the presence of the one from the prophecy. This Sesshoumaru's
oracle told me she would set you free this day, and since she has,
that makes her the one." Sesshoumaru said in a deep, velvety voice.
Kagome hid in front of Sesshoumaru, peeking around to InuYasha, her
eyes wide with fear.
"But that was just a stupid fairy tale!"
InuYasha huffed and crossed his arms. "She looks like Kikyo! A lot
like her! The wench'll be just like that bitch! She'll stab us in
the back!"
Sesshoumaru ignored InuYasha's ranting and turned
to Kagome. By now she had stood and looked like she was ready to
flee. He laid his hand on Kagome's head for reassurance and Kagome
looked up at him with a childish innocence. "She's pure, brother;
we have no need to worry. However, we must teach her to defend
herself. She has poor fighting skills, even worse than yours and
that, brother, is highly unacceptable."
InuYasha snorted. "Tch!
Fuckin' bastard."
"Ah, InuYasha, this Sesshoumaru was not
the one who was born out of wedlock, so the bastard, dear brother, is
you." Sesshoumaru said, smirking. Kagome giggled and held on to the
front of Sesshoumaru's shirt, looking around him with one hand to
her mouth at InuYasha, who seemed to be very annoyed.
"Um…where
am I?" Kagome asked a little timidly, looking up at
Sesshoumaru.
Sesshoumaru gently pried her hand from his shirt and
straightened it out, slightly disgruntled that he had let her touch
his person in the first place. "Just outside Edo, in InuYasha's
forest, but that is of no concern to you. You will be coming with
this Sesshoumaru to train at this Sesshoumaru's castle. InuYasha is
merely here because you freed him from a fate that would have been
better for him."
"HEY!" InuYasha snarled, glaring as
Sesshoumaru simply glanced at him before continuing.
"Girl, you
said your name was Kagome?" Sesshoumaru asked, looking down at her
with those golden eyes of his.
"Yes, Kagome Higurashi. I don't
even know how I got here…I was getting the cat out of the well
house for my brother when…Something pulled me into the well…"
Kagome said and shuddered. "It was that…bug lady over there! Ewe
she licked my face! Gross!" She said, pointing to the now dead
Mistress Centipede with one hand and wiping her cheek on her sleeve.
"Then everything went black, maybe she poisoned me or something, I
dunno, but it was gross! Anyway, I woke up by that well back there,
and I saw the tree and came here because my mom said that this tree
would always take me home, but it's suppose to be in my front yard
not in a forest! I mean there was a forest there once, a long time
ago, but not anymore. The trees were cut down mostly, except the few
trees that line our yard for privacy…"
"That 'bug lady'
as you so aptly put it, is Mistress Centipede. She was killed many
years ago by none other than InuYasha himself. She must have been
revived by the jewel." Sesshoumaru explained, sniffing at her a
bit. "I must remove the jewel from you, it may be painful."
"Wait
a minute…Jewel? …Hurt? W-WHAT! DO YOU WISH TO DEFILE ME!"
Kagome squealed out blushing from head to toe, jumping back several
feet, before falling on her rear. "..Ow…"
Sesshoumaru rubbed
his temples. "No, girl, I do not. I do not have a…taste for
humans. My brother, here, however…"
InuYasha let out a loud
growl and a bark before regaining his composure. "That was only for
Kikyo, before she betrayed me! Asshole, you're making the wench
scared of me!"
"This Sesshoumaru thinks you've accomplished
that by trying to kill her for no apparent reason, InuYasha."
Sesshoumaru chuckled and walked back up to the girl, patting her on
the head as if she were a child, and then helping her up. Oddly
enough, InuYasha was startled by this action. Kagome blinked and
looked up and the kind man who was comforting her.
"What do you
mean? Are you not human?" She asked and reached up touching his
face. "You look more human than your brother does though. He's
got dog ears!" She said happily, giggling as InuYasha bared his
teeth.
"Actually, girl, this Sesshoumaru is a full-blooded
demon, dog demon to be exact. InuYasha is a hanyou. He's
not…accepted as a demon, nor a human, so he has been placed in the
area in between the worlds. He mostly raised himself, after his human
mother died. We demons age slower than humans; this Sesshoumaru is
1204 years old. InuYasha is now 103 years old. If we had been human,
at this age this Sesshoumaru would be in my twenties. InuYasha, being
half demon, would be around seventeen or eighteen. Not quiet mature,
this Sesshoumaru knows, but InuYasha is a little lacking in that
area." Sesshoumaru said and quickly grabbed her and jumped into a
tree, InuYasha's claws landing in the ground were they had been
standing.
"Say that to my face, asshole!" InuYasha spat,
growling like a…well…dog.
"This Sesshoumaru has, several
times, if you only had the memory space in that incompetent little
brain of yours, you would remember." Sesshoumaru said hauntily and
he jumped back down, Kagome in his arms, gently landing and placing
her on her feet. "However, we have more important things to
discuss. Miko, we shall take you to the village for rest and maybe a
bit of training from the old miko there. Then we shall travel to my
castle where you will be properly trained and taken care of. We shall
leave the jewel in your body; it seems to enhance your dormant
powers. After you learn to defend yourself, we will enhance your
fighting skills. What weapon would you prefer?" The handsome demon
said, keeping an eye on the still fuming InuYasha.
InuYasha's
ears perked up. "She'll use a bow."
"Nani?" Kagome
said, blinking.
InuYasha scowled, crossing his arms over his
chest. "Well, ya look like Kikyo; you can probably do the same
things she did. Being a miko and all, ya should be able to do it
naturally."
Kagome scowled. "Didn't she betray you
though?"
"Tch." Was InuYasha's only reply before hopping
up into a tree, sitting on a branch.
She turned to Sesshoumaru.
"I want to try a sword, then maybe a few others before trying the
bow. If a woman that's terrible enough to stab someone in the back
used a bow, I really don't want to try."
Sesshoumaru nodded
and walked past her, down a dirt path to Edo. Kagome quickly caught
up and latched on to his arm, sending worried glances back at a
shocked InuYasha. Would he come after her again?
Sesshoumaru
patted her hand lightly, before removing it from his person. "Do
not touch this Sesshoumaru, miko. Not many have and lived to see
another day." He said quietly, but patted her head. "This
Sesshoumaru will not kill you but there are things worst than death,
Kagome." He said in an oddly comforting way. Kagome blinked and
shrugged, walking beside him wondering if he was really that nice a
man.
InuYasha stared after them before jumping from tree to tree,
catching up to them before hopping down behind Kagome, who jumped to
Sesshoumaru quickly, scared at the sudden movement. Sesshoumaru
rolled his eyes, removed her from his arm, and then set a glare upon
InuYasha.
"You bring her any pain and you will die, do you
understand, brother?" Sesshoumaru asked, setting a hand on Kagome's
shoulder. InuYasha snorted.
"I won't hurt the bitch; she
ain't the one I wanna kill." InuYasha said and began walking
ahead of them.
Kagome smiled up at Sesshoumaru. "Thank you,
Sesshoumaru. You didn't have to threaten him like that
though…"
"Sama. You shall address this Sesshoumaru as
Sesshoumaru-sama. This Sesshoumaru is lord of this region, therefore
deserving of the title. My brother, InuYasha deserved the threat, and
you were attacking my person in fear of him. This causes problems for
this Sesshoumaru indirectly, and therefore this Sesshoumaru ended the
source of the problem." He said and she nodded, understanding.
"Does that mean I have to call him Sama too?" Kagome asked
and Sesshoumaru shook his head.
"InuYasha has no title. He is
the bastard son of my father and a human. He was never proclaimed to
be an heir of the throne. This forest was gifted to him by this
Sesshoumaru, as his home; for before then he was an untamed beast
that went from village to village pillaging homes for food, and
hiding in random forests or fields at night." Sesshoumaru said, his
face never changing.
"Oh…" Kagome said and scratched her
head. "Why didn't you just let him live with you when he was
young?"
"That, little miko, will be told to you if or when
this Sesshoumaru feels like telling you. Now stop these questions,
they are a nuisance." Sesshoumaru said and they began walking along
the path, following InuYasha.
"Ya know I can hear ya both! Quit
talkin' 'bout me!" InuYasha snapped and slowed down when they
came closer to the village. "I think you should get in there first
and I and Sesshoumaru will go in behind you. The miko hut is the
first hut on the right over there, with the herbs around it."
Kagome
nodded and ran down the hill and towards the hut, feeling awkward as
villagers stopped and stared. They were all dressed traditionally,
making Kagome wonder if a festival had just ended or something. She
saw the farmers stop working and the women and children stop talking
and working. She walked up a little timidly to the miko hut and
knocked on the door frame.
"Ye may enter, stranger." An
elderly voice called out from inside the hut, and so Kagome did.
The
old woman looked shocked. "What is your name, child?" She asked,
wisely not asking if she were Kikyo.
"I'm Kagome…are you the
miko? Sesshoumaru and In-I mean Sesshoumaru-SAMA and InuYasha sent me
to talk to you before entering the village. They say I'm a miko,
and I have some kinda jewel or something, and that I was gonna come
here with them and rest and stuff with you, but I'm just
confused."
"Inu-InuYasha? He has been released from the tree?
Aye, I'm that miko, but how did he get free?" The old miko asked
and Kagome winced.
"I accidentally freed him. I didn't mean
to! Well, I did 'cause I thought he was dead and I was gonna bury
him or something, but he was alive! Then he attacked me, them this
bug lady, um…what did Sesshoumaru-sama say her name was? Oh yeah!
Mistress Centipede! Yeah, she attacked me, but saved me from
InuYasha, who thought I was some girl named Kikyo. Then I
accidentally killed her, apparently, by pushing her away, but her
face melted! Anyway! Sesshoumaru-sama saves me from InuYasha and
tells him I'm not Kikyo and-"Kagome paused for a breath. "- And
now I'm here talking to you 'cause they said that I was gonna
come here and rest and stuff!"
Sesshoumaru pushed open the
straw door and walked in, sitting in the corner by the door as if he
owned the place, followed by InuYasha who promptly yelled out the
door.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP I'M NOT GONNA HURT THE DAMNED WOMAN!"
Sesshoumaru smirked and InuYasha let out a snort before sitting
in the other corner near the door.
"InuYasha, are these old
eyes deceiving me or is that truly you?" The elderly woman asked,
walking to InuYasha and grabbing his face, turning his face back and
forth.
"Leave me alone you old hag!" He snapped and sniffed.
"K-Kaede? What the hell? You're older than that old hag Kikyo
took care of that one time!"
Kaede snorted. "You've been on
that tree for fifty years, hanyou; don't take such a tone with me.
Ye should be looking at me with respect, not disgust!" She said,
smacking him on top of the head.
"Fi-fifty years! Sesshoumaru!
You said I was 103 years old! I'm 153 years now!" InuYasha
snarled.
"No, InuYasha, you were under a spell that kept you in
a timeless state for all these years, therefore you have not aged at
all. You haven't matured at all since you were in your thirties so
maybe I should say you are but 34 years old, InuYasha." Sesshoumaru
said as Kagome settled down beside him.
"You son of a
bitch!"
"Quite right, InuYasha, my mother was a female
dog. Your's however, was a human."
"So! You're the one
that brings this strange miko to our lands, Sesshoumaru?" Kaede
asked, butting in before a fight began, and Sesshoumaru shook his
head.
"She is the prophesized miko. She came from the well,
accidentally resurrecting Mistress Centipede." He said and Kagome
yawned, leaning on him to rest. Sesshoumaru wrapped his tail around
her and gently repositioned her so she lay on her side using his tail
both as a pillow and a blanket. Kaede watched this with a slight
smile. So, the lord of the west has found himself a woman? The
prophecy must already be in effect, truly, for Sesshoumaru to allow a
woman, a human woman at that, to touch his prized tail at all. Kaede
reached out to touch the child when Sesshoumaru growled at her, she
wisely kept her distance.
"What is the child to ye, Lord of the
West?"
"The woman who shall save all from the new evil that
is to arise. The miko of unfathomable power and kindness."
Sesshoumaru said and the end of his tail twitched as she snuggled
into it. He scowled as his brother snickered and had the grace to
blush. The miko was having an effect on him. "Miko, do you have
blankets for the girl?"
"Aye."
"Retrieve them at once.
This Sesshoumaru does not want her on my person any longer." He
said as he glared at the girl wrapped up in his tail until the old
woman spread the mats and blankets for her. Sesshoumaru lifted the
girl into his arms, careful so she didn't become harmed by his
armor, and placed her on them and placed a blanket over her. Kagome
whimpered a little bit, and her face scrunched up into an
uncomfortable look, before she tossed and turned until she finally
got into a comfortable position, dangerously close to the fire.
Sesshoumaru sighed. She needed warmth. He picked her up and lay her
on the mat once more, this time sitting up behind her, up against the
wall, so she could use him as a pillow and a source of heat.
InuYasha laughed. "So now we know which of the west get the
savior of the world-a human girl!" He said and laughed some more.
Sesshoumaru took off his shoulder armor and hurled it at
InuYasha, who caught it, awkwardly, without getting hurt too much.
"This Sesshoumaru will not bed a human woman."
Kaede didn't
want to become part of the argument so she went to stirring her pot
of stew, luckily she made beef stew tonight. It was InuYasha's
favorite if she recalled right. She smiled at the human and the demon
that looked actually very comfortable together.
For once, InuYasha
may actually be right!
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