Hallo, everyone. Thanks for coming. It's my first fanfic and I hope you'll like it. However, I will warn you now: If you like Kikyou or InuYasha, you might want to leave right now. You have been warned, so don't flame me about it. The rest of you, please carry on and enjoy.
I don't own InuYasha or Naruto, else this wouldn't be a -or at least as much of an- fanfiction.
(thoughts Shikon no Tama talk "talk")
Zansora -Cut the Sky
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Chapter 1:
Light fell through the leaves and illuminated the autumn forest around Goshinboku. The wind made soft sounds as it moved through the ancient tree's branches. A water drop, still left from the rain a few hours earlier and now reflecting the light of the setting sun, fell from one of it's still completely green leaf down on the figure that laid on the base of the tree.
The girl opened her warm hazel eyes slowly half way, before sighing and sitting up, leaning against the tree as she did. Soft raven hair reached till mid-back, falling in soft waves. She wore a pair of of black pants, a black belt and mating combat boots that went up halfway her knee. A green silk haori, that had wide sleeves, was tied on the right side, just below her chest. That left the small, nearly star-shaped scar on her left plain to see. With the new angle, the light purple marble, hanging around her neck on a silver chain, reflected the light in a way that it seemed to glow. Her hands were covered in fingerless, black leather gloves that had a silver star, made up of two squares, with a in a diamond enclosed purple amethyst in the center on the back. Besides her rested a small, yellow back bag on the right, while her left hand rested lazily on a silver bow with dark blue stone-string made of azurite.
Time was a strange thing. She smiled sadly up to the tree's branches when the wind gave them a especially hard stroke. It sounded like whispers. "Ne, Goshinboku-sama, are you trying to say goodbye?" she whispered. "Or is that you, Kagura-chan?" Her smile and sad face vanished and she blinked a few times, then turned with a serious face to her left.
"This tree must be of great important to you, Kagome-chan." The voice sounded before a white-haired woman in a blue royal kimono and pointy ears emerged from between the trees. Her hair was put up and she had a purple stripe on each cheek as well as a purple crescent moon on her forehead. A golden amulet with a black stone, known as Meido Stone, in it's center rested on a white pearl necklace on her shoulders. Golden eyes focused on a the girl under the tree. "Do not worry -I will not ask. I know how difficult it is to not change the future on your travel. After all that was the reason you used to always wear that green and white outfit. Since nothing in history changes as fast as fashion."
"Inukimi-chan." Kagome eyed the older woman hesitantly. "What are you doing here?" So much changed, one shouldn't think only ten months passed by since the raven haired's fifteen birthday. Ten months going from a normal life to this mess. Even more the last five months. Back then she had been still hunting after InuYasha, often played the childish one to cheer up their sometimes with right gloomy group, went to her home time every so often and played with Shippo every day. Untrained. Powers sealed. Naive. To trusty. The weak link. Blind in so many ways.
"Do you not wish to see me?", she smiled, then made a face. "I put up a barrier around the cave. Those human stink. Do you know how long I will need to get that out of my clothes?" But eyes said that the ruthness were an act. She was endless sad.
"What is wrong?",Kagome asked, ignoring that the youkai society wasn't found of this kind of questions. She learned that much, she learned a lot in the last five months. It started when little Ai came from the Horai Island, asking for help against the five evil kami, and InuYasha forbade everyone in the group to help, because they needed to kill Naraku, who had just kidnapped Kikyo. And they listened. Kagome, shocked and not really caring for the nendo ('clay') that tried to kill her two days earlier, put up a 'sit'-record and left with Kirara and Shippo to help Ai and the other children. Although she would have died would Sesshumaru have not shown up, she manage to protect the children, kill two the kami on her own, had the pleasure of taking out a Kikyou-clone and helped the lord of the western lands the boss kami. Kanade, the ghost of the former guardian miko of the island, transferred as thanks a copy of her miko knowledge to the time travel, thus enable her to recognize and break the seal on her powers. That fight also earned her Sesshumaru's respect. Which drew in a deep friend ship after several meetings, where they either fougth along side each other or enjoy some tea ignoring InuYasha's mumbling, and had helped him when Rin woke up one morning -for a month- wondering how babies were made.
Inukimi raised an elegant eyebrow, then sighed and sat down. "I confronted my seer before following my son here."
"Something I should know?" She changed a lot due to her new knowledge. First of all she had left school, used her time in the future instead to secure all of Tokyo against 'supernatural' attacks with seals that would last hundreds of years. In fights she would take then more a leading role, what InuYasha hadn't like. Kagome also gave up on him. Instead she searched and found Shippo's distant relatives, the kitsune clan of the east. The battlefield was no place for a child and there had never been a guarantee that she would have been able to stay in the past to look after him after her travels. Shippo's grandfather had been happy to have him back. Kagura had contacted her shortly after, offered to spy for the miko in exchange for Kagome to free her and Kanna from Naraku.
"It doesn't matter." Seeing that this kind of answer won't be enough, she sighed again. "No deaths on our side, but won't be able to break the spells on the minds of that hanyou and his friends. Kikyou is to strong."
"Don't say her name in my present!" Sadly, she had realized to late what Kikyo had been doing at that time. The nendo had put a spell on -controlled the minds of her friends and Kagome had been forced to destroy the future version of the well with a small bomb while abandon her home forever to keep her family safe. When she had arrived in the past, the wells power had been reborn as her silver bow. She had left the group the same day with her last loyal friends there, Kiara and Myouga. It had been then she had met Inukimi -or more like the taiyoukai came to rip her throat out because Sesshumaru had officially declared her, a human and a miko at that, his weapon sister. Apparently, like a mate, youkai choose a weapon brother or sister only once in their life -if at all- and they were valued just as, if not higher, than a mate, even thought they were never mate or even pack.
Kagome sighed. She could sense Sesshumaru and his soldiers wait in Musawa, while the villagers were hiding in the forest. "I sorry."
"I understand -I would do the same if you would say her name." Inukimi frowned at the memory of the woman who stole her mate. It had been the first thing they had connected about, even if the royal was certain that it had been survival instinct, not love, that had attracted Kagome to InuYasha. Now the two woman were best friends. "She is coming.",the taiyoukai sighed and got up, vanishing between the trees. Youkai don't say good byes.
Kagome stood up and put her bag on. Surprised she noticed that Inukimi had left the Meido Stone behind and put it in her bag quickly. Naraku was death. Kagura had brought her the vital information for that goal on the cost of her life. Kanna and Rin were safe at Sesshumaru's castle, guarded by Kohaku, Kirara, Jaken and around fivehundred servants. Shikon was complete and learned some new tricks. And Kikyo -well, the time traveler had spent the last month hunting the woman who had purposely created Naraku and eat souls down and now the nendo had only one option left.
Suddenly, panicked animals shot past Kagome. The horde of youkai under InuYaha's attacking Musawa right now was a division, one Sesshumaru had been willen to take care of. Kikyou real goal was Goshinboku -a time tree spirit and the key for an escape through time. If Kikyo got to so much as to touch the tree, Kagome would never find her. So her goal set, she threw the string of her bow back and a silver arrow appeared in the blink of an second in her hand. Her brown eyes turned ocean blue as she called on her reiki and she took a few steps away from Goshinboku.
With the animals gone, everything fell quiet. The air was tense. Goshinboku's green leaf fell off the branch.
The arrows hit each other. Red and blue reiki exploded against each other, destroying trees left and right. Blue eyes met brown ones, piercing into each other. Kikyou stepped out from between the trees. Both had their next arrow aimed already. "Oh my, look who we have here.",the undead smirked. "Are you happy having condemned those villagers to death to met me?"
"You let me wait.",Kagome smiled. "We expected you this morning. Did you have trouble finding your way?"
"Please, don't act as if your ready for this. Your embarrassing yourself."
"If I'm so weak, then why did you invade my body right after I was born and sealed my powers? Why did you put a seal on the Shikon no Tama? Weren't you running these past months? And why do you talk that much now? Could you be afraid?" Kagome cut her fingers on the bow string and the arrow turned black.
Kikyo suddenly appeared on her left, shooting. Kagome managed to dodge by letting herself fall to the ground, which gave the older one the chance to get past her. She was nearly at the truck, when a reiki whip caught her ankle and she was throw back wards. She hit a rock and were then hit by the back arrow before she could react. The air around her shattered like glass and exploded in a wave of blue, white and black light and dust.
Just before it hit Kagome, the gem around her neck exploded in a violet light. Then she was thrown back and was in immense pain. Just as fast as it came, it was gone. Water hit her, before surrounding her. She crashed on dry forest ground and blacked out.
The faint feeling of the aura of the Shikon no Tama woke Kagome. She gave a strangled grunt and tried to get up. Her whole body was tense and sift. Kagome... she heard a weak and very concered voice and knew it sounded only in her head. Are you alright?
Does she look alright, you fool?,growled another voice, this one male but just as weak.
I'm alive, i guess.,Kagome answered before the hundred eleven souls, that were caged in the Shikon no Tama, start a fight in her head. She already had an headarche. She could barely get on her knees, so she gave up and pulled her back bag off. The water bottle was all the way on top. Just what she needed. Did the plan work?
Yes, child. A woman's voice whispered. Mikodori. All those killed by Naraku or his miniors were brought back to life. But that was all we could do. Meaning everyone else had to stay dead or bewitched. We barely have enough energy to talk to you.
"Then sleep. I stand guard."the raven hair managed to say and took a sip.
How old are you now? Female, very high. Ara.
Hesitatingly, the girl took a small hand mirror out and opened it. She stared at her image for a long time. Even through she had known this would happen and has cast a spell on clothes so they would grow and shrink with her, it was still a shock to see it. A big one. "Six."she chocked out, put the mirror away and curled up on the ground. The spell she used at Kikyo, Shattersoul, had two side effects. This was one.
The other one was that you get banished from your home world. And the pain of it was numbing.
Shattersoul is the only technic that could kill a soul eater. She cried quietly. Rin once told her she was a hero. The spirits of the Shikon no Tama stayed awake as long as they could, not saying a word.
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