DAY AT THE BEACH
AN: takes place shortly after Quincy war.
"So why were we dragged to this again?" Inuyasha questioned, he stood on the sandy beach wearing only a pair of bright red swimming trunks, his white hair tied back in a loose tail by Kagome. Speaking of her, she stood next to him wearing a black two piece bikini that she bought specifically for this outing.
"We just thought it would be fun for every to relax and have fun after such a violent war", Jushirou Ukitake said. Along with him, Ichigo, Renji, Rukia, Toshiro, Byakuya, Rangiku, Nemu, Chad, Uryu, Orihime, Nanoa, Ikkaku, Yoruichi, Soi Fon, Ichigo's family and human friends, Nel, Grimmjow, Stark, Lilynete, Hallibel and her fraccion, and a couple other soul reapers whom Inuyasha did not know. Everyone was dressed for the beach, even the arrancars.
"We also thought it would be best to invite our new allies the arrancars to mingle", Kisuke said appearing from behind everyone.
"Yeah learn to have some fun for once Inuyasha", Kagome said elbowing him in the side. Nel grabbed Grimmjow and took off with him towards the ocean saying she wanted to see how deep it was, with the blue haired arrancar trying almost desperately to pull back, spouting curses the whole.
"I guess cats really don't like water", Inuyasha commented going over to sit next to Ukitake watching Kagome get dragged off by the soul society women's association.
"If you don't mind me asking how did you and Miss Kagome meet?" Ukitake asked turning towards him, Toshiro also sat down with them curious as well how an arrancar and a human could meet and fall in love.
"So spill it, how did you and him first meet, what's your story with him?" Rangiku asked excitedly with the rest of the women surrounding Kagome waiting for her response.
"It's complicated", Inuyasha and Kagome said simultaneously from their different groups.
"Try and explain it", Renji sat down hearing the conversation and wanted to know himself.
"You see he was alive when we met", Kagome said making the women gasp in surprise.
"That doesn't make sense, Master Mayuri said that he was a five hundred year old arrancar", Nemu spoke up in her emotionless tone.
"Well five hundred years I was a half demon when I first met Kagome", Inuyasha said leaving everyone more confused than ever.
"Ah, yes that was a time when demons and entities roamed the lands", Ukitake supplied gesturing for him to continue.
"You see their was well on my families shrine, that allowed me to travel five hundred years into the past that's where I met him originally", Kagome explained letting everyone soak that in, a magic time traveling well wasn't that hard to believe for soul reapers who were supposed to be beings of myth.
"This sounds very romantic already", Rangiku said giggling.
"I actually tried to kill her; I thought she looked like my first love who I once believed to have betrayed me", Inuyasha scratched the back of his head in embarrassment remembering how foolish he was in the past, he also noticed Byakuya had sat down near them, not saying anything, but listening to his story.
"After that I accidentally shattered this thing called the sacred jewel and we reluctantly had to work together to find all the pieces before evil demons could get their hands on them", Kagome continued the story.
"I heard about that legendary jewel, I think a lot of souls went missing because of it, wasn't it destroyed?" Rukia asked.
"Yes it was", she answered, seeing more women had sat down to hear her story.
"During our journey we made some friends and allies and even powerful enemies, it was during that time I was able to see past her resemblance to my first love and I started seeing as Kagome", Inuyasha smiled to himself those days.
"What about the jewel did you get all the pieces", Toshiro asked sounding more concerned about the actually purpose for the quest.
"Along the way we ran into an evil half demon named Naraku who wanted the jewel for himself", Kagome said explaining who their arch enemy was and all the horrible thing he did to them.
"That guy sounds disgusting", Soi Fon said coming to sit with them along with Yoruichi.
"Naraku was a pathetic bastard, in the end we took him down and Kagome destroyed the jewel along with him", Inuyasha said, Stark was pretending to be asleep, but he too was interested in this story.
"So what happened next", Ichigo asked coming to sit next Renji.
"After that my purpose in the feudal era ended and I couldn't use the well anymore to travel back to his time, it was just after we decided to get married", Kagome thought back on to that sad moment in her life, while it only lasted a day for her, it lasted five hundred years for Inuyasha.
"So how did you reunite with him if you were separated by centuries?" Rukia asked the question on everyone's mind.
"After I lost Kagome to the well, I spent day's trying to make it work again just once, but it never did. Soon after that I died in battle and became a hollow", Inuyasha said everyone except Stark had trouble picturing him as mindless eating machine, the typical hollow.
"Wait how did you retain all your memories of your previous life if you became a hollow?" Toshiro asked.
"I'm not sure myself how that happened nor am I sure why I never felt the emptiness or hunger that the others feel", he said honestly.
"I believe it has something to do with your sword becoming a Zanpakuto when you died, giving you a bit of soul reaper powers to begin with. The only difference was that your blade absorbed the energy of the hollows it cut down allowing you to evolve like them rather than purify the spirit energy like a normal soul reaper would", Kisuke explained referencing all his research he had on Inuyasha.
"I guess that makes sense", Inuyasha continued from there.
"Inuyasha didn't go into detail about his time in Hueco Mundo, I do know that he joined that man Aizen about thirty years before we met again", Kagome noticed that the women recoiled at the name especially Lieutenant Hinamori.
"So why did he join Aizen?" Soi Fon spat the traitor's name.
"So why did you join Aizen?" Shinji asked joining in with the others.
"It wasn't for power; I already had more than enough of that. Aizen promised me a chance to be with Kagome again, to not be hunted by soul reapers just for having a hole where my heart was", Inuyasha thought back to how desperate he was back then that he actually fell for that bastards false promises. "I realize now like I did during the battle over Karakura that he was full of shit", everyone nodded their heads agreeing with him while he told of when he turned against Aizen.
Inuyasha and Kagome finished up their stories with their groups, retelling how Kisuke helped to supply him with a gigai for arrancars, so they could be together again.
"That's a very romantic story, do you mind if we publish it in an article in the soul society women's association magazine?" Nanoa asked politely.
"You'll have to ask Inuyasha if it's okay, I would let you, but he might be against the idea, he's very private about things sometimes", Kagome said taking off to go for a swim in the ocean.
"I think we can get him to agree, but we'll also eventually need a picture of Inuyasha to put on the cover preferably one with both him and Kagome, Lieutenant Matsumoto, you think you can get it?" Rukia asked like they were briefing for a mission.
"Mission accepted I'll get started as soon as we get back the sereite", she said giving a fake salute.
During the day the guys decided to have a volley ball game, arrancars versus soul reapers. It was Inuyasha, Grimmjow and a reluctant Stark versus Ichigo, Renji, and Ikkaku. The game started out simple and somewhat fun, until Grimmjow got cocky after scoring a few points and began to taunt their opponents and that sparked a whirlwind of flash step and sonido, the human spectators, Ichigo's sisters and school friends couldn't even see the ball or the players anymore with how fast they were moving. The game ended in tie after the ball exploded when both Ichigo and Grimmjow attempted to beat the other and spiked the ball at the same time.
Later they had a sand sculpture contest, Inuyasha and Kagome decided to pair up with Yoruichi and Soi Fon, and together they made a huge sand sculpture of a cat. Inuyasha wanted to make a big dog, but being the only man in their group he was out voted by all three women. Inuyasha observed the others and laughed when he saw Hallibel's fraccion had made a sculpture of a huge shark.
"I think we have a winner", Ukitake announced after an hour making sand everyone stopped to turn their heads to see who had one. Surprisingly it was Lilynete who made a perfect life size sand replica of a sleeping Stark.
"Yes I win!" Lilynete shouted holding out a victory sign. Everyone groaned in embarrassment at being beaten single handily by a little girl, but before Ukitake could hand her the prize money her sculpture suddenly came to life revealing the real Stark, rubbing his eyes, yawning and shaking the sand off his skin.
"What I miss, and why am I covered in sand", the former espada said whipping it all away and looking at his guilty partner.
"Hey she cheated!" Ikkaku shouted pointing at Lilynete.
"Hey that white haired old man said I could use whatever I found on the beach along with the sand!" the girl argued back.
"Well she does have a point I did say that", Ukitake said with a smile, "So I guess she should win after all", he handed her the prize money and she ran off with it sticking her tongue out at everyone.
"Well that was fun", Inuyasha said grabbing his Kagome and dragging her into the water.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome laughed getting dunked into the ocean.
"What we need to clean the sand off our bodies", he said lettering her dunk his head under water. The two of them engaged in a splash war and were joined by several others.
The rest of the day was spent hanging out, swimming in the ocean and enjoying a lunch prepared by Ichigo's sister Yuzu. Everyone was having fun until a bunch of weird water melon monsters with tentacle vines, rose up out of the water and began attacking everyone.
"Oh come on, not this again!" Ichigo shouted looking over at a stoic Nemu.
"Some of them must have got left behind on our last trip here", she said. One of the large watermelon beasts wrapped it's vines around Kagome and lifted her up in the air. Before Inuyasha could kill it someone else did it for him.
"Ola Azul!" A large flat yellow beam cut the thing in half and Inuyasha caught Kagome from falling, both of them getting drenched in watermelon juice. Hallibel held her sword ready to strike again not sure what was going on here.
"Hey this stuff tastes pretty good", Kagome said licking it off Inuyasha's cheek.
"It's just super watermelons basically", Byakuya said laying their worries to rest. The rest of them joined in the melon smashing, Grimmjow and Neliel having way too much fun smashing the fruits with their bare hands. One tried to sneak up on Inuyasha, but he saw it coming a mile away.
"Cero!" the red beam fired from his finger tip and destroyed the fruit creature splashing more pink juice on everyone.
THREE HOURS LATER
"Hot dogs are ready!" Inuyasha called, he discovered this American delicacy during his seventeen months he watched over Ichigo and decided to make it for everyone.
"Oh wow this really good!" Rangiku said consuming the whole thing in a few bites.
"Chew it please, don't swallow", Inuyasha noticed that some of the men couldn't help but snicker at the innuendo. "Grow up guys"
"What, you're the one who said it" Grimmjow argued with his usual wide grin.
"Hey pussy cat be quiet and eat your hot dog!" Lilynete yelled devouring her own, Stark and Hallibel examined theirs with confusion before taking an experimental bite and then promptly consuming the rest in a frenzy.
"Not bad", Stark said wiping the ketchup off his mouth. The soul reapers seemed to have enjoyed the food as well, giving him compliments. Yuzu kept asking how he made it and he promised her to send her the recipe for making hot dogs from scratch, the same that he discovered.
At the end of the day, the soul reapers went back to soul society, the arrancars returned giving their regards to their new allies and the humans returned to Karakura. Inuyasha used his garganta to travel almost instantly to Karakura. After the war they decided to move there to a large house with the money Inuyasha saved up, since they worked with soul society now, and Karakura is the place that the soul reapers frequently visited. Coincidentally they ended up a few doors down from the Kurosaki clinic; the house was the only one closest to the high school where Inuyasha worked that was for sale. Arriving at their house Kagome and Inuyasha hopped in the shower together to wash off all the sand, salt and melon juice.
"Hey Kagome", Inuyasha lay behind her in bed with his arms wrapped around her waist, they choose to just go to bed without any clothes on after the shower. "Does it bother you that we can't have any kids?"
"To be honest, I always wanted to have children of my own, so it does bother me, but I still love you no matter what", she said snuggling closer to her husband. Inuyasha sighed and buried his face in the back of her hair.
"Yeah it bothers me too. Arrancars and hollows, reproduction is part of the cycle of life, but we are creatures born out of death, it's unnecessary to our survival in Hueco Mundo. Even though I lack that capability you know if there was anything I could do about I would", his gigai was just an artificial body to him, his true arrancar self underneath, lacked the ability to create offspring, not that he hasn't tried with her or stopped engaging in the act of mating, almost every night.
"It's alright your love is all I need", Kagome said, Inuyasha turned her around so he could make love to her once again, he would prove to her how much love he could give even if he couldn't give her children. What neither of them didn't know, was that Kisuke Urarara made Inuyasha's gigai a special unique model. It had all the natural functions of a human body, physical and biological. All Inuyasha had to do was infuse some of his spirit energy into it, and all the genes necessary were created with Inuyasha's very own imprint like any normal child would be sired. Except any child they produce would be anything but normal, within it would be the power of an arrancar, and the purification abilities of Kagome. Kisuke decided not to tell them for three reasons; one he wanted to see what kind of hybrid would be made, two it was his wedding present to them, and three which was the biggest reason, he wanted the couple to be happy, after everything they did for soul society they deserved that much at least.
This is the third installment for Eclipse, it's just going to be a series of oneshots telling stories of events that went on in Eclipse and Eclipse 2, mostly stuff I wanted to add into those stories but couldn't find a place for it.
I would like to thank unicornmeat3 for giving me the idea for the first part of this story, where Inu and Kagome tell the story of how the met and fell in love. I also thought it would be fun to have everyone at the beach; I kind of enjoyed that filler episode.
I'm still coming up with ideas for these oneshots and I'm open to ideas from the readers, can't promise I'll do all of them though.
Thank you for reading, until next time.