Disclaimer: I do not own either Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakasho :) I do own however the plot. I wish that I owned Yu Yu Hakasho because that would me I would own Hiei, yum Hiei, I love that sparky fire/ice demon. Anyway, enjoy!
"Mother," The fire kitsune said to the young miko walking next to him. "People are staring at you," The blue eyes miko started to look around to see that her kit was telling the truth. Of all the things that he could have noticed, she shook her head as she rolled her eyes at the ingrates around her.
"Most likely because I am still in the traditional garbs of a miko. Ningen now a days just don't like to follow the old ways." Kagome said as she started to laugh. "You worry too much my son, just relax some."
The male rolled his eyes at his adoptive mother, "Or you don't worry enough." He just bumped her shoulder with his elbow trying to get something out of her, and he did but it was just a small giggle as she stumbled a little.
"Touché," the 18-year-old said as they continued to the middle school in silence, just enjoying each other's company. For the miko, it was the fact that her son was alive and still loved her even though she left him when he needed her the most. For the kitsune it was the fact that he was with his mother once again for the first time in 500 years, he knew that he was walking on cloud nine for and one of the reasons was his mother the other was because his breed was one of the more needy species of yōkai when it came to family. It wasn't long before the gates of the middle school were in sight, and they could see the flood of students rushing out of the gates.
"Sis, you're home!" A young boy with short black hair and brown eyes called out to his older sister. Once he reached her, he promptly yanked her into the biggest hug that he could manage, his slightly larger frame dwarfing hers.
"Souta, mama sent me to get you." The miko said returning her brother hug with all of her strength. "I'm back for good now," she whispered in his ear. She pulled back from him and the happiness was shining on his face.
"Can we go back now, there is something that is going to happen here and I don't like it." Shippou said as his body stiffened up just enough for his mother to know that something was wrong. With the advantage of both his height and enhanced senses, he could notice strange occurrences before the young miko and younger male.
"Alright come on squirt, Shippou let's go home," Kagome said as she started to walk off with the two males right beside her.
Someone is following us, the miko thought as she was looking around trying to find the person. "Kit, Souta we are being followed." She mumbled so no one else could hear her. Whatever it was, it was setting her nerves on edge and her hair was standing on end. They had to make it look like they were not onto their followers.
"It is a Soul Carrier, sorry Souta but you are going to be dragged into this," The young kitsune said as he led the other two into a close alleyway. He looked at his mother, and when their eyes met, he gave her a clear "you were saying?" look; she returned it with a look that showed that she was clearly not amused by his antics.
"Why are we going in here?" The young teen started to become more panicked as the situation started sink in. Sure, he always dreamed of joining his older sister, but he always thought that it would be on his terms and not just sprung on him like this.
"We have to lead her away from the streets for this confrontation. I agree with him, sorry for dragging you into this." Kagome said as she stepped in front of her younger brother. "Just stay hidden, maybe it won't be that bad." She whispered and sent up a silent pray to Amaterasu in hopes that it would blow over quickly and quietly.
"Don't worry about it. I finally get to do something with you Sis." Souta said with a smile. "I can handle it, I promise. Worry about yourself." He wanted to sound brave but they all could hear the slight trembling of his voice, he was at least uneasy about this, if not terrified out of his wits.
"We have no choice, she's here." Shippou said looking towards the back of the alleyway. He let his yōkai features show as a young woman with long blue hair, which was wrenched into a high ponytail, and purple eyes appeared on an oar in front of them. It was her light-pink kimono that she was wearing, that happened to be the strangest thing about her. Overall, she gave of a happy appearance despite how you could feel death pouring off of the woman in waves.
"Hello there," She said as she jumped to the ground from her flying oar. "Yusuke is she the one that you were talking about?" She asked as she pointed to Kagome.
"It's not nice to point, soul carrier," Kagome said her famous temper starting to show itself. With the clawed hand being placed on her shoulder, she started to calm down. "Thank you Shippou."
"Yeah that is her," Yusuke said from the other side of the group, effetely trapping them in the alleyway. Upon turning around it was reviled that the other three from his little visit to the shire were with him. Kagome started to growl at him again. "You growl at me and I will growl right back lady," he snarled at her. The two continued to growl and glair at each other, not caring about the others in the alleyway.
"So what did you tell the reikai about my mother?" Shippou said while holding back said miko. "Mom you have to stop, please for Souta he doesn't know what is going on," he whispered into her ear.
Where once stood a confident young man, now at just one look at the young boy and anyone would notice that he was nervous and confused. The now calmer, though still irate, miko pulled her younger brother to her. "Souta," was all that she could say.
"Why didn't you four tell me that there would have a little boy with them, what are we going to do now? Prince Koenma is going to kill me!" The blue haired woman whined as she watched the embracing siblings. She was not looking forward to what the demigod would come up with for a punishment.
"We didn't think that they would catch on so fast to us following them," the smooth reply came from Kurama in a composed tone, though it did have underlying qualities of shock and confusion.
"Wow they really don't who we are mother. Maybe the gods are smiling down upon us for once," Shippou said as he was starting to laugh. A small chuckle and a hit on the back of his head was all that he got back. "You really need to stop hitting me on my head," he started to rub his head.
"Oh hush you; it isn't like I can hurt you that much, so not going to happen anytime soon." She scalded her son before looking at her brother, "Souta, please try not to draw any attention to yourself. Three of them are yōkai of some type, and according to Shippou one of them has no problems killing, and one is a trickster." Kagome said as she pushed her little brother behind her and up against the brick wall. "I'm not trying to scare you, just trying to make sure that you get back to mama safely."
"What do you want with us?" Shippou said to the Spirit Detectives trying to gain control of this confrontation. "We haven't done anything to you!" At least not yet, he thought as he showed his teeth and growled towards the threat to his family.
"You have nothing to fear." The blue hair woman said with a chipper attitude, "we won't hurt you, any of you." She tried to assure the three strangers.
"Honestly this isn't working Botan!" Yusuke yelled. "Let's just take all three of them to the toddler and let him sort this out."
"Very well Yusuke." The grim reaper now known as Botan said as got back onto her flaying oar, and a black hole appeared behind her. "Into the portal now, please just walk straight ahead and you will not get lost!" She said with a smile on her face.
The miko looked at the man that she calls her son, "Should we go?" She asked. Shippou started to walk towards the cheerful reaper. Looks like we don't have a choice, Kagome thought as she started to led her younger brother into a meeting that would change is life. "Souta, it will be ok," I hope she thought. The brave face that she had put on faltered when the darkness started to surround them. Darkness that reminded her of the taint that Hakudoshi found in her because of her.
The darkness of the portal was soon replaced with a bright light. The miko looked around at the room and saw a blue ogre who had long blond hair with a noticeable bald spot. He also had one horn on his head and was wearing a brown loin-cloth with black stripes around his waist. The ogre was standing beside a desk that was piled high with papers on both sides and had a chair in the middle.
Though the strangest sight was that of a toddler with a red obi sash tied at the waist of a pink-trimmed blue robe over brown pants and black shoes, the toddler also had 'Jr' on the hat above his forehead as well as a blue pacifier in his mouth. He was sitting on the chair complaining about all the paper work that his father was making him do.
"Ah Sir, Koenma Sir." The ogre said to the toddler, ah so the toddler is Enma's kid Kagome thought. "Botan is back sir."
The demigod looked up from stamping the papers to look at those that were standing in his office. Nice brown eyes, Kagome thought. "Can't you do anything right Botan. I sent you after one woman and one male, but you bring a boy with them as well!" Someone is spoiled, the miko thought as an image of her taking the toddler over knee and giving him a few smacks went through her mind. She had to fight the smile that threated to overtake her face, but she couldn't keep the amusement from showing in her eyes.
"Sorry Sir," the grim reaper said trying to hide her blush from her boss. "They caught on before we thought they would."
The 700-year-old prince looked at the young grim reaper with a disbelieving look. "You do know that this is Lady Kagome and Lord Shippou, two of the fighters that destroyed that bastard of a fake hanyou Naraku, right?" The demigod said as he bowed to the two before him, "Though I don't know who the boy is."
"My brother has nothing to do with this, you make him do anything, and you will regret it! He is just thirteen for Amaterasu's sake!" The miko snapped at Koenma. "I am a Miko, and I will not stop fighting for those that cannot fight on their own, even if it is against the gods themselves." She was currently glaring at the child god, who was now standing on his desk.
"I will not make him do anything, but because he was with you and Shippou he had to come with you two," Koenma said. "I have asked them to get the two of you here because I had a hunch, when Yusuke told me about you, that you were the Shikon no Miko." The others that were in the room looked at the raven hair woman with shock, awe or confusion, "I would like a favor from the two of you."
"Why in the hell would we do anything for you?" Shippou demanded, he did not care that he was talking to the prince of the reikai; he would not let his mother go through anything so dangerous. It has only been a couple of hours for her since they had defeated the evil hanyou for fucks sake, well for her anyway, for him it was centuries.
"Well I would make sure that her going to the past and messing it up-" Koenma started but was soon cut off by an fuming hiss.
"You jerk of a toddler, if you knew anything then you would know that I was pulled down the well, and had no choice in the matter! You would also know that the Shikon was broken because I was trying to get it back from a Karasu yōkai! Also let's not forget that I was 15, and had no way of connecting to my energy!" If the spirit detectives were not shocked with her before, they were now amazed that she would yell at their boss. "You know nothing and I can tell that you are old enough to know what was happening during that time period! I may have caused a mess in the Sengoku Jidai, but I made sure that I fixed it; I was even kicked out of school because of how much time it took." The young miko was finished her rant but she was not anywhere near calm.
"Your mistake Koenma was thinking that the miko was a criminal," came a cold voice from the door. Turning to see whom it was the miko was shocked to see Sesshomaru standing in the doorway with Rin right beside him.
"Mama," Rin said in a whisper before running up to the younger female and jumped into her arm with a force so strong that knocked them both down to the floor laughing. The daiyōkai just rolled his eyes at the females as they started to catch up, well Rin was telling Kagome all about her and her pup while the miko listed.
"Jorge, I told you to tell me if Lord Sesshomaru was nearby!" Koenma yelled at the ogre that was standing beside him looking at the daiyōkai in fear.
"Koenma, I have told both you and your father what happened on multiple occasions; we have also had Kouga and Ayame in audience a few times, as well as Inu Yasha's soul on one. We have told you time and time again that she did nothing wrong. If you think you can take the Tama from her then you are mistaken, yōkai and ningen alike would want it for themselves and they would lose their minds in their greed." The yōkai was starting to show the others in the room why he was known as the 'Icicle Lord'. "Your father has forgiven her so why have you not?"
"Fluffy stop trying to scare the young demigod," Shippou said smiling as he watched his adoptive mother laughing at what the other female said. "Listen well toddler, my mother has never and will never leave someone to their fate if she can change something. Anyway, the way I see it she has cleaned her record of any mistakes when she helped destroy Naraku. Do you want another fight with the yōkai race?" Shippou talked to the prince as if he was talking to a child. "We will fight for her because she has saved us all from a terrible fate, even though the ningen don't remember it doesn't mean the yōkai don't."
"There are still many of us that love the miko," Sesshomaru stated. "We will fight on her behalf to just make sure she doesn't end up in a cell and you will not take the tama away from her. You imiko," the lord said to the forbidden child in the room, "You were with the kit after she came back to this time. You know what she is like even though you don't know her."
"With my mama back, Koenma, the world will change," Rin said with Kagome standing by her side. "There will be those that will want to see her in the makai. They will want the barrier down, young prince."
"There are few that have not heard of her kindness and you will not stop them from wanting to meet her," Shippou added in his two sense.
"This is the way I see it, Koenma-sama" The young woman said with a sharp edge to the honorific "As long as the tama stays in my possession then no one will suffer the insanity that comes with the greed of wanting to own it. It is kind of like the 'one ring' from The Lord of The Rings, if you have read it." There was a soft chuckle coming from the red kitsune demon at the mention of that book. "There is no way that you can keep the tama pure and untainted so that no one knows that it is here."
"Wait a minute," Yusuke said sounding confused. "You mean to tell me that what the lady told us was not just a story but real? I'm confused."
"Doesn't shock me baka," Hiei said. "Of course it is real, and you are looking at the one that destroyed the Shikon."
"Listen I don't care what you want me to do, just let me and my brother go home. I just got home today from killing Naraku and about two months away from home. I have missed my family, and I want to know more about what has been happening in this time since I have last been home." Kagome said looking at her brother. "Please open up the portal to my home. Let us go." She begged the young prince before her.
"Very well, Botan if you please open one to Higurashi Shrine." Koenma said. "We will stay in touch, Lady Miko."
"Into the portal now my lady," Botan said in front of the black hole.
"Please stop calling me Lady," the miko told the toddler before her. "I am not a lady, not anymore." She whispered before she started to make her way to the portal with her kit and preteen brother following her.
AN-Did you know that Jeorge's last name is Saotome and he lives with his mom? I sure did not until I started to type this chapter. Sorry I was watching The Lord of The Rings while typing this. XD Tell me what you think. I need a beta reader, if you know a good one please let me know.
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