Standard Disclaimer Apply. [There's really no point in putting this, since this is a FANfiction you're reading... but just for precautions in case somebody decide to sue me... ^_^]
True Identity
By Sunflowerobi
Chapter One: Omens
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What...?
　...Flowing silver-white hair in the light breeze... Children laughing and playing...
　Where...?
　...Dark-green forest... Huge mountain... Endless field... Somewhere rural, countrified...
When...?
　
...Bright blazing sun...Puffs of fluffy-looking clouds...Blue sky...Probably afternoon...
　Who...?
　...A young boy with silver-white hair runs toward her-
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　Kagome sat up in her sleeping bag with a small gasp. Her head felt like it was going to split open right then and there. She was completely covered with...ew, sweat. Looking around, she found her companions all asleep. Kagome decided that there was no point in going back while she was covered with sweat, so she went to her bag and took some clothes and accessories for a good bath. Pivoting on her heels, she headed for a nearby hot spring.
　***
　Inuyasha's eyes snapped open. He could feel a very, VERY faint trace of youki near the campsite if he concentrated enough, but it was gradually retreating.
　Well, no point in chasing after trouble, he thought.
　Looking around to make sure that everyone was there, Inuyasha suddenly noticed that Kagome's missing.
　Shit. Where's the stupid wench? Inuyasha sniffed the air out of habit. ...sweat...Shit. Probably the youkai captured her... Damn girl.
　Leaping down silently from the tree branch he was perched on, Inuyasha ran toward where he could detect the faint trace of youki.
　Hold on, Kagome! I'm coming! was Inuyasha's thought as he bounced from tree to tree towards where he thought she was.
　***
　Kagome looked intently at the hot spring. Quickly snapping out of her dreamy state, she shed her clothes and dove in. Sighing contentedly, Kagome soaked herself totally wet, and was about to fall asleep when she heard a shout.
　"KAGOME!" Inuyasha leaped from the woods, looking alarmed and ready for battle.
　Kagome stared at Inuyasha, her eyes on the verge of bugging out. "...I-Inu...ya-yasha...?" She mumbled dumbly -- obviously, from shock -- before she came back to her senses, blushing scarlet.
　After he caught himself gawking at Kagome bathing, Inuyasha, too, turned a wonderfully deep shade of red. He froze, knowing what would come.
　"O-Osuwari!" Frantically, Kagome used her advantage of the word against Inuyasha.
　*splash*
Inuyasha dove face-first into the hot water, almost drowning himself.
Quickly, in the blink of an eye, Kagome scrambled out of the water, dried herself, and got dressed. Sitting down, she waited for Inuyasha to come out of the water. FINALLY, after what seemed like centuries to Inuyasha, but in reality and to Kagome only a minute, Inuyasha surfaced, sputtering hot water and muttering curses.
　"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR, KAGOME?!" Inuyasha shouted and glared daggers at Kagome.
　"The question was, WHAT were YOU doing HERE?" Kagome crossed her arms, also glaring daggers at Inuyasha.
　***
　"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR, KAGOME?!"
　Suddenly, Miroku, Sango, Shippou, and Kirara all woke up from what seems to be Inuyasha's shouting. Miroku and Sango traded worried glances before they and Shippou ran toward the other two, with Sango instructing Kirara to stay and watch their campsite and belongings.
　"I wonder what's the racket in the midnight about?" Sango mumbled as they raced through the forest.
　"Who knows? Maybe another one of their fights." Shippou hung onto Miroku as the houshi sped up.
　"Any idea what the fight's about?" Miroku asked curiously.
　"Nope."
　Halting as they neared a clearing, the trio went to hide behind bushes near the clearing, eaves-dropping.
　***
　"The question was, WHAT were YOU doing HERE?" Kagome crossed her arms and glared daggers at Inuyasha.
　Grumbling, Inuyasha waded out of the hot spring. "The things I do for YOU." He said unhappily as he tried to wring his clothes and hair dry.
　"Huh?" Kagome blinked at him.
　"I said, THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU!" Frustrated, Inuyasha almost screamed at Kagome.
"I KNOW what you said." Also frustrated, Kagome turned away from him completely, pouting.
"Then WHAT do you mean by, 'huh', huh?" Impatiently, Inuyasha growled at her.
　"NOTHING!" She screamed.
　"FINE, THEN!" Because there's another problem now, with his ears ringing, Inuyasha screamed with twice as much force as Kagome.
　"Hmph!" Both fuming, they turned away from each other.
　"...and I can't believe I was ever worried about you..." Kagome heard Inuyasha mumbled behind her.
　"EH~?" Most of the red color are gone from Kagome's cheeks now, as she turned to Inuyasha, surprised.
　"NOTHING!" Inuyasha's cheeks suddenly burned red with embarrassment. He didn't think she could heard that! Even if so close together!
　"Fine..." Kagome sounded a little disappointed, but suddenly she had this little devil grin on her face.
　Inuyasha was suddenly afraid, VERY afraid, more afraid than he'll ever admitted to. This is a bad omen.
　"Fine, then, Inuyasha-"
　***
　"Let us leave them now." Miroku suggested.
　It seems like the arguments are ending, anyway, and they wouldn't wanted to be found eaves-dropping the two. Approving, Sango nodded and agreed. "Very true."
　Following the tracks they made when they sped through the forest, the trio made their way back toward the campsite, where Kirara is waiting for them.
　"OSUWARI!" They heard a shout from behind them, which made Sango and Miroku, the older ones, sighed, and Shippou, as the kid, snickered.
　Suddenly, Miroku stopped in his tracks, so suddenly that made the nimble Sango bumped into him without cautions.
　"What the hell?!" Sango whined as she rubbed her pink nose.
　[Very OOCness of Sango, I know, but it just HAVE to be there... -_-;;]
　"...San-Sango...Did you sense any youki around...?" Miroku asked, tightening his grip on his staff.
　"You-Youki...?" Sango gulped. She's not ready for this, not right now, but as a taijiya, it's her duty. Concentrating hard with all her senses, Sango scanned the area around them. There's the youki emitting from Inuyasha, and a tiny bit from Shippou, but...there's a very, very faint youki from behind them. Sango gasped.
　Miroku narrowed his eyes. "So you can sense it, too?"
　Numbly, Sango nodded. "I think it's from there..." She pointed at the direction which they had came before - where Inuyasha and Kagome was fighting.
　Quickly stepping back toward the clearing, the trio broke into the clearing, to see Inuyasha spitting out dirt from his mouth.
　"Pleh! Pleh! Ugh! Disgusting! Yuck!" Inuyasha chanted as he kept on spitting out the unwelcome particle in his mouth.
　Miroku scanned the area around them this time. It's not from around them, but right IN the clearing. The problem is, he can't see any strangers or anything out of sort in the clearing, except their own little rag-tag group. Sango noticed the odds, too. She and Miroku exchanged a worried glance.
　At last, Inuyasha seem to spit out all the dirt as he sat down on the ground crossed-legs-and-arms [you know, Inuyasha style! ^_^] in exhaustion, due to his little 'exercise'. "Can't you sense the faint trace of youki, Kagome?" He asked, curious as to why Kagome had not notice anything yet. "That's why I followed you, you should know." He shrugged.
　"You-Youki...?" Kagome sounded surprised, but then she closed her eyes and concentrated, trying to sense the 'faint trace of youki' that Inuyasha said. Finally, Kagome opened her eyes, looking as confused as ever. "...Youki? I don't sense any."
　Now everyone else in the clearing other than Kagome exchanged some worried glance.
　"Kagome-chan?" Sango asked as Kagome turned to her. "You sure you can't sense any?" Kagome shook her head no. "But...even I can..." Sango stared at the ground, suddenly as confused as Kagome might be at the moment.
　"Are you sure, Kagome-sama?" Miroku pressed.
　"Are you saying that I'm the one who's lying?" Kagome glared at the houshi.
　"N-No." Miroku swallowed hard.
"Hmph." Turning, Kagome headed back to the campsite with her bathing accessories.
　
"Boy. Kagome sure is on the edge tonight. I wonder what's wrong with her?" Shippou voiced everyone's thoughts as they all followed Kagome.
　***The Next Morning...***
　*YAWN~*
　"Come on, wench. The sun's already up several hours ago!" Came Inuyasha's voice from the tree above her.
　"Shut up! No thanks to you, I didn't get any real sleep last night!" Kagome shouted at Inuyasha, throwing the thing next to her at Inuyasha.
　*clonk*
The object hit right on the target.
　
"OW!!"
　"SH*T!"
　"Eh~?" Suddenly out of her sleeping state, Kagome looked at the 'object' that she threw at Inuyasha as it fell down. "Ah! Shippou-chan! I'm so terribly sorry!!!"
　"I-It's alright, Kagome- KYAAA~!!!!" Suddenly, Shippou screamed so loud, he almost broke Inuyasha's eardrums.
　"SH*T! Shut up, you little brat!" Inuyasha broke off a medium-size tree branch over his
head and threw it at the poor Shippou.
"KYAAA~!" Shippou screamed yet again as he got pounded into the ground by the tree branch.
　"Inuyasha- OSUWARI!" Kagome commanded, fed up of the dog-ear jerk.
　"Chikusho..." Inuyasha, UN-surprisingly, cursed.
　After the pain subsided, Inuyasha sat up and -- unfortunately, for him -- he looked into Kagome's eyes.
　"GAH!" Inuyasha yelped in surprise.
　"INUYASHA!"
　"-Kagome-sama!"
　"-Kagome-chan!"
　Miroku broke into the clearing, with Sango in tow. They bend down to catch their breath.
　"W-we suddenly felt the you-youki...AGAIN! and...and..." When Sango looked up, she gasped and put her hands to cover her mouth, the normal narrow eyes widening. "...Ka-Kagome-chan...?"
　*whoosh*
　A light breeze passed through the clearing, catching Kagome's, Inuyasha's, and Sango's long hair.
　It was Miroku who recovered and regained his composure first.
　"Really, Kagome-sama, I can't believe you have blood-red shot eyes like a youkai's. Have you been sleeping well?"
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END OF CHAPTER ONE: OMENS
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NEXT TIME, ON TRUE IDENTITY:
Chapter Two: Abduction
As the title said, kidnapping. Sesshoumaru appears and some important flashbacks. and WHAT?! There's a girl before even KIKYO?! Who's SHE????
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TRANSLATIONS:
　-youki: demon aura
-youkai: demon
-osuwari: sit
-houshi: {Buddhist} lower ranked level priest/monk
-taijiya: demon exterminator
-chikusho: um, a curse, one such as "shit" or "damn" [I'm not exactly sure if I spelled this right...]