Inuyasha crossover Iron Man
Ever since Aldrich Killian and the Extremis virus, his nightmares had up till then been a constant reminder of what had happened in New York. It was not something that he could easily forget, and because of it, he would sometimes still have the persisting issues of an anxiety attacks. And every night when he sleeps, Tony's greatest fears would reawaken, showing him of the alternate reality of which he fears the most.
Pepper Potts was the one person that he cherished and still does despite of everything. And in the nights when they slept together, he would still have those nightmares. However there was a time when he was sleeping, Tony felt something akin to a sort of peace that he could not phantom after so many nightmares. He remembered very vividly of the dream, it felt as though he was in it for days, months even as he explored the vast greatness of it. Scenes were ever changing, no temptations or demons lurking in his dreams for a while, until things took a different path when he approached a great old tree.
A lone female with hair as dark as raven stood with her back to him, dressed in a Japanese sailor uniform of forest green and white with a red kerchief like tie. Tony was cautious in approaching her even if he felt no hostility or the shimmer of volcano lightning like effect running under her skin. In fact it was as though she beckons for him to approach her. And when he did, she was not in the least bit surprise or shock to have a companion.
"Nightmares?" she asked, voice soft but firm as though knowing something that he did not, but her eyes looked straight out to the vastness of the great landscape of wild flowers, overlooking towards where mountains were hidden and shrouded with mystery. Some were as though there was a storm brewing around them.
"You're intruding little girl," Tony remarked as he studied her. He had never known that dreams could be so real, nor did he expect that there would be someone out there to share a dream.
There were many times in the past when he was younger that he heard of shared dreams. These were rare and at times it shows of their true soul mate, however, him being Tony Stark, was skeptical of such beliefs and never did give it much thought or even a penny of his thoughts. She shifted a little as thought trying to put her weight onto her other leg, but if this was indeed a dream, how was it that she would even know what pain or tiredness feel like in it. And as if answering his thoughts, she told him the different type of dreams that there are, and the one that he was in.
Tony laughed at her, unbelieving of what she was saying but only to have what she said come true as he was attacked with an arrow that shot straight to his shoulder. She turned sharply towards where she seemed to have spotted their attacker. Her doe brown eyes, turned darker glazed over in what seemed like dark royal honey.
"Kikyo," was her soft acknowledgement towards another female that bares remarkable similarity in appearance to the young teenager before of him, except that what she was wearing seemed more back dated, and formal. "A miko," he finally remembered as he looked between the both of them, pulling the arrow out of his shoulder with a soft cry as he applied pressure onto the wound, moving away from them.
"Naraku," she called out a name, eyes never wavering from the form of the other miko who had her bow and arrow strung and aimed at the teenager who Tony first saw. However, he was instead blocked by another figure, this time wearing period costume from Japan with weird looking armor that seemed to be made out of bones standing in front of him with a sinister smile.
Tony was lucky to be able to deflect and defend himself for a short minute, but was instead held by his neck as he was lifted off the ground by ungodly strength that made him wonder if he was one. Just as he was out of breath and about to black out, Tony was saved by the sound of screaming not from him but by the male that was strangling him as he fell to the ground coughing and trying to breath in air at the same time.
"Let me help you," the female said to him all to calmly as he tried to push her away, but was instead gently urged to lie back down onto the ground as she hovered a hand over to where the arrow had pierced him. There was a glow and then the feeling of warmth that spread through to his body before it dimmed and disappeared.
This was all too real for dreams as Tony sat up taking in deep breaths of air, a hand reaching up to where his shoulder was pierced to see no wound, but just the stain of blood on his shirt to prove of what had happened to be something rather real in this world.
"I'm sorry for what had happened," she told him as the girl took a sit on the ground beside of him.
"What is this place, what the hell is going on here," Tony demanded, his frown deepening as he placed a hand over to where his shoulder was formally injured, as though needing the wet blood stain as some form of assurance that this is really happening in such a place where he had thought to be just a dream.
"You're very much asleep I can assure you that, however I'm sorry that you're in my dreamscape, my nightmares," she told him with all seriousness, a deep wisdom in her eyes as though there were many untold horrors that she had seen and been through that no normal human being should know of at all.
"Then you're someone real as well, like me?" he questioned, perplexed, but slowly digesting whatever information was given to him.
"Yes and no, I'm here yet not here, but I can chose the path on which I decided to take to," however with the look that he gave her, Kagome closed her eyes for a moment before opening them as she tried again.
"You could say that I'm some form of a deity with their abilities to administrate things or beings as to how I would deem fit," Kagome saw a look as though of understanding, but then she saw how there was an almost haunted like look that took over his eyes. He was staring out into the open air as though relieving a horrible memory, and his jaw clenched as he to pull away from it.
"It is about time that you should awaken," Kagome told him, putting a hand upon his shoulder as she gently helped him up by his arm.
"Do not worry, the wound would be but a mere dull ache when you awaken," she told him as Kagome took a few steps away from him, and he saw nothing but blurs of bright lights filtering into his room, awaken by JARVIS. He could remember vividly of what had happened as Tony reached out o feel his shoulder, and true enough when he touched it, there was but a dull ache to it as what the girl in his dreams told him.
It had somewhat unsettled him as Tony made his way down to his newly built lab of his new home in the coastal area of California. His day passed by without aim as he tinkered with his newly created prototype of the few new suits that he had kept. There was a need for he had come to realize, only because he wanted to protect Pepper, the person who is his "heart".
And when night came, Tony was almost fearful of falling asleep, but the medication from his doctor for the wound that was healing from his previous operation to take the remaining shrapnel out, put him right to sleep shortly after. Again he was back in the same dreamscape where he had met the female who had "healed" him from his attack, but was nowhere to be seen and it was good, as he had thought that it was really perhaps part of his strange figment of an imagination.
However whilst he was exploring into what seemed like an ancient untouched forest of many hundreds of years ago, Tony was blocked in his path by someone with white haired and dog ears flickering in irritation above of his head as he growled at Tony. Tony cried out in shock as the other's golden eyes seem to pierce right into his heart, coming closer and closer until he grabbed Tony by the front of his shirt as he inspected the other male closer.
"Inuyasha!" called out the familiar voice of the female that he had never thought to ever be so relieved to hear in this dream world. The dog like male dropped Tony to the ground, his eyes never leaving Tony as the other seemingly waited for the arrival of someone.
"You!" she called out as though shock to see him there again, but walked up to him as she gave him a hand in standing.
"This is rare," she muttered to no one in particular, but instead the dog like male called out to her rather loudly addressing her as a wench but was found soon after in a crate that he had created with a mere word from her lips.
"I'm sorry for his language, Inuyasha can be rather crude at times, but he means no harm," the girl told him, taking his hand as she lead him to the various other parts of the forest.
"This dreamscape, how did you get here," she asked firmly, a worried look upon her face as she waited as patiently as she could for his answer, and when he gave it to her along with his frustration, Kagome kept silent for a moment putting a hand up to silence the male as she thought to herself for a moment.
"Hey, what the hell is going on," he asked her, pointing back to the direction in which they had originally came from, "And what the hell is that dog like boy, is this some kind of fantasy that you fancy?" Tony asked intrigued for a moment at the thought of her interest in sex.
"Please refrain from saying that, and he is a hanyou, a half-demon," she told him before silencing him again with a raise of her hand as she sat down on a particularly thick root on the ground, trying to figure what was going on.
"He looks more like something out from some weird mutation rather than a demon, I have seen things uglier than a demon," Tony commented matter-of-factly, as he leaned against the tree for support, studying the female. Never had he been silenced before and this little girl, a teenager no less is silencing him. And Tony Stark never takes orders or request like this well at all, and more than often does exactly what he wants.
He walked away, further into the forest, unaware of the dangers of being in another's dream or the potential of it. It was until he was far enough as Tony shout out comments and what seemed like orders for a place to rest or her directional information, that Tony realized how alone he was and the echo of his voice in the vast place. It was cold, scary even as things seemed to have darkened quickly. There was a few creeks, the sound of twigs, and branches breaking as Tony froze for a moment in his step, trying to access quickly of the thing that might out there.
Just as he was about to take off in another direction, a hand reached out to cover his mouth as he was dragged off into the darker parts of the woods where it was total darkness. Should he still had his arc reactor, Tony might have been able to see in the dark or make out who it was, but instead he jabbed the person in the stomach as he took hold of the hand and swung it around the perpetrator, his arms around the person's neck as he tried to strangle his attacker.
Then came a soft glow of light from the person's hand as his attacker shined it upon her face, her other free hand hitting his arm to let her go as she struggled to take in air. When he did, Tony all but shouted at the poor Kagome for what she had done and how he could have easily killed her.
"And you should not just walked off on your own to explore! You're just like that stupid mutt, one day you're going to end up dead like him!" Kagome told him off, her tone equally as angry as she face the other male.
"What you mean dead," Tony stopped in his rant to face her, confused of what she had just told him.
Kagome shook her head, annoyed at him still as she told him of where he was and the things that she has control of and what she does not have control over. He silently access it, until he felt her hand holding onto his, tugging at his hand for him to follow her as they trekked through the darkness with a mere wisp of a light to guide their path.
"Can I do that light thing you're doing," Tony asked, fascinated for a moment as he looked at his other free hand wondering on it, concentrating for a moment before heard an exasperated sigh from the teenage girl guiding him.
"No, and it would do you well to not go into other people's dreamscape, you could very well end up dead," she told him, tugging at him to hurry in his pace as they reached to where there were streams of light coming through.
"Don't ever come back," Kagome scolded Tony before shoving him into the light, using some of her miko powers as she sent him jolting back awake to where his real body is.
Tony awakened slightly earlier than expected as he sat up in bed, the lights in his room automatically switching on as he noticed the emptiness of the bed.
"Tony? Are you alright?" he heard the sweet voice of Pepper's calling out to him as he turned to her, leaning down to kiss her to assure her that everything was alright and how she should get back to sleep.
Tony however remained awake as he went down to his personal lab where he took the time to do a light work out in the morning as well as to tinker around with a few new designs of prototype trackers that he was working on. Who knows of what others that have the Extremis virus in them survived the ordeal and are out about gathering, plotting their next move. There was always a treat out there and there was nothing much that Tony could do about it but to wait.
Again when night comes and he falls back to sleep, he found himself in the very same dreamscape of which he thought he would not be returning to. With a groan he was greeted with the face of a very annoyed teenage girl looking at him.
"Do you really want to be killed," she demanded at him in a hiss as Tony defended himself on not intending to even setting foot into where it was known to be of her dreamscape.
The girl made a rather impressive growl as she dragged him over to where he thought to be of a safe location or a way out but instead was brought along to a battlefield. There were countless of dead bodies were, some were in the midst of decomposition, but the pungent smell of death clung onto his nose refusing to let go. They were all mutated in the most horrible of manners and most of them were horrible in death by the way they had died. There were many stray body parts everywhere as he was tugged to walk amongst them, or onto them as well.
"We need to move, you're here at a very wrong time," Kagome informed Tony as she dragged him across what he deemed to be the Valley of Death.
It was perhaps one of the most horrible of feeling both waking and sleeping that he was experiencing at the moment as Tony tried to do something similar to the "mind over matter" technique. She must have known as she tugged at his hand urgently and told him to put aside whatever nonsense and disturbing thoughts that he had. It was easier said than done, and she on the other hand, was doing a fantastic job at it and putting him to shame. It was a good thing however that this was between the two of them here in her dreamscape.
Tony was bloodied and covered in sweat and other substances that he could not identify but to classify it as jelly matter. Just as he was about to open his mouth to demand of what she had meant about him being there at the wrong time or moment, Tony was instantly silent as he stared at the monstrosity of being before of them. The male was attached to the body of an arachnid it would seem, but along that, there were many other things as well, tentacles and claws, even other forms of mutation that he thought to be impossible. This was basically a horror of Igor's experiment gone wrong as he tried to figure a way out to help them both.
However before he could do anything or thing of something, he was immediately defended by the teenage girl as she stood in a battle like stance before of him with her bows and arrows that seemingly appeared out of nowhere, strung and fired. She was like a machine gun, on the run as her other weapons consisting of a Japanese katana was drawn and used to attack or block the oncoming attacks of the weird claw like tentacle coming towards her.
He looked about as he tried to think of what could be used as weapons even trying to concentrate his minds on conjuring himself a set of his suit up to try to help her situation, but he was in the end helpless, and useless to her in their current situation. And just as she was pierced through her stomach, blood dripping from the side of her lips, she shot an arrow right through to its head. Tony closed his eyes from reflex to prevent himself from seeing the horror of what he felt like would be should he see Pepper die before of him through the failure of the Extremis and her binding.
When he opened his eyes, she was what seemed to be half dead as Tony tried to run towards her to help her on the battlefield with whatever mediocre skills that he has. It the intensity there was scary enough for him, if this was hell, he sure as hell wish that his suit was with him to help the teenage girl he barely knew. However it shocked him even more was that she seemed to ignore her injury that could mean her death as she pushed him away, using that same light that he saw her used to heal his wound and pushed him back into reality.
Tony awoke with a startle short scream as he sat up promptly in his bed, a light coat of sweat around his body as he soaked part of his shirt. It was a nightmare, but though it may have not been his nightmare or dreamscape, it still scared Tony in how helpless and useless he had felt in helping the girl. When he had tried to go back into the world of the dreamscape again, Tony found himself to be unable to sleep and restless as he paced about in his room. He then remembered the few names that she had mentioned in their first meeting and had rushed down to his lab whilst giving commands and orders to JARVIS to run a check through his system for known people know of "Inuyasha" and "Kikyo" also running through possible images that could be linked to them.
It took a short while to gather the information, but Tony Stark was finally able to get the information that he needed as he track the legend down to the place of origin as well as the myths that were related to it. It was impossible for a person to be able to exist in that time and yet at the same time exist in the very same time as where he came from. However the many incidents and fights that he had been through as well as the thing that had happened in New York, it had changed his perspective almost too drastically and leaves him with nothing but fears and nightmares that Tony had refused to voiced out for anyone until after this Extremis fight.
Then it finally sunk into him that what may have been mere dreams and nightmares, actually bore truth to it and like the many unexplainable things in his life, Tony felt that for once, perhaps he had found someone who would possibly understand his many fears also the many feelings that he had not dared to disclose to even Pepper. This time Tony could not wait to fall asleep when night comes, but to his disappointment, he was sunk right back into his own dreams and nightmares. Just as when he had thought he could find someone to share his thoughts properly and to at least try to communicate properly, he was not able to get back to the teenage girl's dreamscape.
Tony was not one to give up as he tried repeatedly over the next few nights, but was never able to get there, only to his own dreams and nightmares. It was however on one of those rare occurrence, Kagome appeared in his dreams this time, as she walked up towards him, Tony noticed something different about her this time.
"You are a very persistent and stubborn man I would give you that, however I am here to tell you that you alone can face your own demons, those that you have seen in mine are all real, but they are mine alone to face, and responsibilities to bear. Never again will you be able to enter my dreamscape without my permission, and let's not meet in reality," she told him pointedly, obviously annoyed at his last behavior when he was in her dreamscape.
"Wait!" Tony called out, "I need to know, why can't I enter your dreamscape the past few nights, there was a lot of things in which I wanted to asked you," he asked, a certain sense of urgency to know the answer. Kagome told him the reasons that he know very well himself, but had refused to face until then.
"What about your name?" Tony shouted out to her already fading form just as he was absorbing in what she had told him, but got what he wanted as he smiled in an almost goofy manner at the answer.
She was possibly the most interesting of female, but he too realized that this time when he saw her, she was more mature, no longer a teenage but that of a young lady with a body that could bring any guys to heaven, and lips to satisfy anyone's needs. However Tony was already in a stable and steady relationship and he is happy in it.
Perhaps he would personally meet this Higurashi Kagome one day to thank her. Now, he needed to awaken.
A/N:
Hello All.
Having just finished watching Ironman 3, I got a weird idea and thought to try out this story for a different type of twist. And yes there are certain spoilers in this story if you have not watched it yet, and I apologize for it and it's too late too unread what you have read. Meanwhile, ENJOY!
P.S. I'm not sure about continuing this story as a Tony/Kagome pairing, but I might contemplate on it, do let me know on what you think too. Cheers
