Hey people. Here's a super short (probably) one-shot that I decided to start like, a year ago, and finally got around to writing. I'd just like to mention that while I know InuYasha quite well, most of my info about Naruto comes from (hundreds of) fanfics. If you see something wonky about it, leave a review and I'll fix it (maybe... if I stop acting like the female version of Nara Shikamaru.) Anywayyyy... On with the story!
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Oh yeah.... Disclaimer.
*clears throat* I (insert real name here/ Cristalake) ABSOLUTELY DO NOT own Naruto (Owned by Masashi Kishimoto, Shounen Jump and other people/companie(s)) AND/OR InuYasha (owned by Rumiko Takahashi and other people/companie(s)).
I hope that's clear enough for you.
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Pillars of fire rose up, smoke ascending from the crumbling remains of the buildings. All around, civilians could be witnessed dashing to and fro in a frenzied manner. Men, women and children ran, abandoning their homes and their belongings without a backwards glance, all united in their overwhelming need to escape from the monstrous beast that was currently ravaging their beloved village. Konohagakure no Sato*, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, stood tall, straining to resist the unstoppable force of nature who was doing its absolute best to bring it to the ground. The crumbling buildings shook ominously, their (admittedly very well done, even for a shinobi* village) barely standing up to the Kyuubi's invasion. Many residences laid in ruins amidst the thick trees of the Fire Country and more were falling every minute.
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Higurashi Kagome was just your average 18 year old high school dropout. Well, if you ignored the fact that she was actually the reincarnation of a long dead priestess, once held a magical jewel of incredible power inside her body without ever realising it, destroyed said jewel accidentally due to an inability to shoot an arrow properly, spent much of her teenage years traipsing about 500 years in the past with two-demons, a half-demon, 1 (perverted) monk and a demon-slayer and possessed supernatural powers of purification capable of incinerating any demon who was unlucky enough to come into contact with it.
Other than that, she was normal enough.
Higurashi Kagome had recently managed to free herself from a heavy bout of depression. When the complete Shikon no Tama* had been completed three years ago and she had found herself sent back to her time period without even a chance of saying goodbye to her friends, she had been heart-broken. She spent year miserable, periodically flinging herself into the Bone Eater's well in a desperate attempt of going back. After three sprained ankles and one broken wrist, she had had no choice but to accept the fact that she wasn't going back.
She then spent the next year of her life depressed, bursting into tears at any reminder of her friends from the past and, only when her mother had been rushed to the hospital for a heart-attack because of the stress caused by seeing her only daughter so despondent, had she finally snapped out of it and painstakingly decided to move on with her life.
That morning, Kagome woke up early (for once) and took a nice steamy fifteen minute shower before dressing in a plain black knee-length dress and heading down for breakfast. "Kagome, can you please sweep up in the well house before you head to work? It's getting a bit dusty" her mother asked. Kagome, having time to spare, agreed and made her way outside of the Sunset Shrine which doubled as her home.
Kagome slid the screen aside and picked up the broom laying against the wall. She began to sweep, the slow monotonous movements leaving her thoughts free to roam. She quirked an absent-minded smile as she thought of her early teenaged years where she would have come into this very same well house, picked up her big yellow backpack which she, even now, kept fully stocked with every essential to surviving life in sengoku jidai. It still struck her as miraculous that the poor thing was still alive after all the hardships it had gone through. Kagome sniffled and felt her eyes prickle ominously. Not again, she thought. I thought that I had finished crying by now. Apparently not.
At that moment, an odd sound seemed to well up from the well. Kagome put her broom down and approached the opening cautiously, hope swelling inside her. It was that same, foolish, hope which made her snag her yellow backpack from where it rested nearby in a patch of upswept dust. As she leaned over the well, a yellow strap strung over her shoulder and peered down, a distant part of her was chanting please, please, please. That part kept chanting, when a sudden bright red light shone from the bottom, enveloped her figure and dragged her down into its depths.
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On the edges of Konohagakure no Sato a strange phenomenon occurred. The nearby trees were suddenly lighted up in red which then rapidly faded to a pale, pure, pink. They rustled ominously and, besides the sound of leaves shifting against one another, naught was heard. Without warning, a young girl was unceremoniously drooped onto the woodland floor from about a foot in the air. She ended on her behind with a muffled THUMP.
Higurashi Kagome slowly stood up, dusted off her skirt and massaged her sore rump as she looked around her. "This isn't Inuyasha's forest" she said then smacked her forehead. "Duh! Captain obvious." Kagome sighed. "OK. I have to find people" Just then, screams rang out, followed by a loud roar. Kagome sweat dropped. "Oook... Over there then." She hitched her backpack up on her shoulders again and set off determinately towards the sounds of chaos, sparing only a short though of regret for her long-lost bow and arrows.
Kagome stumbled through the clearing of trees, twigs sticking out in odd directions out of her hair, and looked around her, mouth wide opened. "What happened?" she asked. Only rarely had she seen such rampant destruction and, even the, only when many powerful demons decided to attack a village simultaneously.
Distant screams made her head rise up only to see smoke spiralling upwards, entwined with ash floating on the wind of a burning city. Kagome squared her shoulders and began to run. She'd just barely stepped foot into the burning town when a young oddly dressed boy with gravity-defying silver hair and only one exposed eye grabbed her by the arm and spun her around. "The civilian barracks are that way" he said, pointing in the direction opposite to where she was going. Kagome was about to reply when she felt it. The heavy killing intent that accompanied all strong youkai's*auras which made her miko* aura crackle in response directly under her skin.
Kagome gasped. "That aura" she said. "I'd know that aura anywhere!" Ignoring the boy prodding her westwards, she ripped her arm from his grasps and ran as fast as her legs could carry her towards its source. Muttered curses and hurried steps let her know that the boy was following her. Soon, Kagome reached what seems to have once been a town square but which was now mostly razed to the ground. Only a few buildings were left standing. Amidst them, a giant 300-foot tall demon fox stood, nine long tails thrashing gracefully behind it, destroying whatever they happened to touch.
Kagome cast her gaze around and saw a fire ladder on one of the mostly unmarked buildings. She quickly headed for it and began to climb. The hot metal scorched her hands but she persevered and, in no time, found herself on the room of a 20 story edifice, accompanied by the silver-haired boy. She looked around for something she could use and caught sight of a half-destroyed brick. It was bigger than her admittedly small hands but was not to heavy. She could probably throw it far enough using both hands, Kagome knew.
She let her heavy backpack fall to her feet, picked up her projectile and closed her eyes briefly to better channel her purification powers into the unorthodox weapon. Kaede, the elderly priestess, had taught her how to channel her powers into just about anything but she would be the first to admit that she lacked practice. Her eyes popped open, glowing with determination as the brick shone a soft pink between her dainty fingers. "Hit the mark!" Kagome prayed as she threw the projectile with all her strength at her huge target.
The brick hid the back of the beast's hind left leg and it roared in pain as a small (considering its size) blister immediately formed. At her side, Kagome could hear the boy gasp in shock. "How..." he began, but she paid him no mind. Her tactic had worked and the demon fox was turning away from the man perched on the head of a GIANT TOAD!?!? to come towards her. It foamed angrily at the mouth and roared at the pesky human who dared to harm it.
Kagome swallowed but squared her shoulders and gathered her courage. Besides her, she could see the boy lift an odd looking knife and begin to tremble inconspicuously. She licked her dry lips and, using her sternest voice, placed a hand on her hip, stretched the other out in front of her and yelled as loudly as she could.
"SHIPPO! OSUWARI*!"
To the surrounding people's shock (Kagome only vaguely noticed that over a hundred people seemed to be gathered at the fox's feet, most holding the same strange weapons as her companion's) The demon fox slowed down. It stopped in front of the building and tilted its head curiously, acidic foam now falling from its jaw at a much slower speed.
"I said SIT!!!!!"
The fox obeyed. It set down its front paws on the building, the roof crumbling a bit beneath their weight, and rested its head gently on top. The madness in its red eyes seemed to dim.
"Shippo" Kagome began. "If you know what's good for you, you're going to change back into you human force RIGHT NOW!" The fox seemed not to take well to her threatening tone and growled. To the witness's utter horror, Kagome not only stood her ground, she approached the beast, lifted her hand high in the air and delivered a stinging slap (amplified by just a touch of purification powers) to the beast's snout.
The Kyuubi whimpered and placed its fronts paws on the abused limb. "Don't you growl at ME young man!" Kagome shouted. "You may be a 300 foot tall demon but I'M STILL YOU'RE MOTHER and I'm NOT afraid to bend you over my knee and give you a firm spanking like you deserve!"
Everyone's eyes widened. As they watched, the Kyuubi was enveloped in a swirl of red youki* and, when it cleared, a young boy, maybe 12 at the most stood at barely a few inches over the diminutive woman. His waist length red hair was tied back in a ponytail, held by a green bow and he wore traditional brown hakama* pants and a green vest with orange and red leaves sewed onto the garment. He would have looked like any other (particularly handsome) young man, were it not for the nine fluffy auburnish-red tails swaying behind him.
Kagome approached the sheepishly grinning, slouched youth and grabbed a delicately pointed ear. She twisted viciously, knowing from experience how sensitive demon ears were, and ignoring the yelps of pain coming from said ears abused owner. "WHAT were you thinking! Attacking a town like this for no good reason! I've taught you better than this!"
At that moment, a young blond man, the same one who'd been standing on the giant toad's head earlier, leapt from his previous perch onto the building's roof where Kagome was still ferociously chewing out her adoptive son.
"Not to be rude but who the HELL are you?"
Kagome blushed and, still without letting go of Shippo's ear, bowed forcing the demon into following her action or risk the loss of a hearing appendage.
"I'm very sorry for my rudeness. I am Higurashi Kagome and this is my adopted son Shippo. I don't know what came into him. Shippo is normally a very kind boy. Wouldn't hurt a fly! Honestly! I would like to extend my sincerest apologies for his behaviour and extend our services to you in order to make up for any damage caused. I'm a decent medic and can help with any wounded you have and Shippo is very strong and is willing to help with the reconstruction of whatever he may have broken. Right Shippo?" she finished her rant by sending an evil, dark glare at the boy who's ear had still not been released.
"Of course." he said. "I'm very sorry for all the trouble I've caused" Shippo bowed deeply at the Yondaime Hokage*.
The man sweatdropped and gazed around at his incredulous shinobi. "Right... Why don't we go and discuss this further in my office."
Both Kagome and Shippo agreed. The young woman finally released her son's ear and he picked her up as well as her backpack to leap from the building towards the Hokage Tower* after the blond man, a large patrol of ANBU* taking up the rear.
In front of the demon-boy and his kin, Namikaze Minato hugged his newborn son tightly to his chest. Partially to protect him form the rushing winds which accompanied the speed of travel they were using but mostly out of relief. He heaved a sigh and looked up momentarily at the sky as he thanked whatever God had seen fit to set this most unexpected development in his path and save both his, and his son's life. I'm so grateful, I won't even complain about the paperwork that this is bound to cause, he thought.
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Aaaaaand that's about it. This will probably be a one-shot, I may consider making it into a two-shot or more depending on the number of people who show an interest for it. Note however that this has no real plot so if you want to see something epic come from this, then you better be prepared to give me a plot... Or you can just take the idea and run with it, as long as I get some credit (even if it's just a Kudos to Cristalake!)
I know this isn't exactly my best work and I've got a million and one excuses. One of them being that it's 1 AM as I'm writing this and, unlike some, I DO NOT write well at night. The other being that I don't have a Beta. Another reason is that I barely spell-checked this, I didn't have (or didn't feel like tacking) all the time necessary to make this be truly and lastly, I'm just plain lazy (as indicated in my above AN) HOWEVER I WILL re-edit this one day (soon) and modify it so it's a bit better since it's basically a rough draft. For now though.... deal.
Cristalake out! :-)
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p.s Japenese lexicon (I try not to use too much cuz this isn't Japanese 101 but if something is originally in Japanese in the manga/anime, was learned by yours truly in Japanese or sounds just plain stupid in English, I'll gladly use the language to the best of my capacities and will try to always put a lexicon at the end cuz I know how frustrating it is to not have one.):
Konoha gakure no Sato
Litterally The Village Hidden in the Leaf. Konoha gakure means "Hidden Leaf" and just plain Konoha simply means "Leaf". This is Naruto's hometown and is, if I'm not mistaken (cuz I suck in geograpgy as much in real life as I do in anime) smack dab in the middle of Fire Country.
Shinobi
Means ninja. A kunoichi is a female ninja and while shinobi technically refers only to males, it's often used for both sexes.
Shikon no Tama
Proper to the Inuyasha-verse. It means Jewel of four Souls and is the magic gem around which the whole series is based.
Youkai
Means something along the lines of demon. Technically, it's a malignant spirit or something like that but it's more often translated to as being "demon" so I'll stick with that.
Youki
It's the aforementioned evil energy demons are all supposedly made of. It'S also used to represent the aura they exude.
Miko
Means priestess, which in Inuyasha, is a woman with powers of purification that can "purify a demon" and since they are technically made of an evil essence (in theory) it kills them.
Osuwari
The command used by Kagome to subdue Inuyasha. It means SIT! but you couldn't ask a person to please kindly osuwari on a chair since it's a command used for dog training and would be highly offensive used in context with a person.
Hakama
Traditional japenese pants that look kinda like a skirt. Inuyasha wears them.
Yondaime Hokage
Literally means 4th Fire Shadow. A Kage is the leader of a ninja village and the title means "shadow"
Examples: Kazekage (Wind + Shadow = Windshadow), Raikage (Lightning + shadow = Lighting Shadow) etch...
Yondaime is a number placed in front of the title to represent the number of leader who've come before. Examples: GOdaime = 5th, YONdaime = 4th, SANdaime = 3rd, NIdaime = 2nd etch...
Hokage Tower
Administrative center of Konoha, possibly where the Hokage lives (Though that's, as far as I know, not confirmed. Though with the mount of paperwork the job entails, they might as well.)
ANBU
Dunno what the individual letters mean but they're the elite and highly trained assassins who take on the most dangerous missions and also serve as the Hokage's personal bodyguards should the need arise.
Sengoku jidai
Feudal era, roughly 500 years in the past from now. The time period where (or is it when) Kagome goes when she jumps down her magic well. It's called that way because of the numerous civil wars that went on during that period.