Disclaimer: (mocks Rumiko-chan) I OWN INUYASHA SO BACK OFF! (cough) Not…
I present the magnificent chapter two. I am still waiting for those reviews that tell me what they want the pairings to be. Let's make this a choose-your-own-adventure story. I am going to tell you though, I am not going to do any ridiculous pairings like… Shippou and Naraku. That's out of the question… (shudders)
Kikitoi knew she would regret thinking bad thoughts before she slept, and sure enough her night was plagued by horrendous nightmares. When she woke up the next morning her eyes hurt and she had a headache.
She opened her eyes to notice everyone was still asleep, except for Miroku, who wasn't there. 'Wonder where he went.' She thought. She got up to go to the creek and wash her feet, which were all dirty considering she was only wearing sandals.
When she arrived at the creek she saw Miroku sitting under the waterfall that deposited all of the fresh water into the creek. "Miroku, pardon me for asking, but why are you sitting under a waterfall?" Miroku didn't open his eyes, but responded, "It's a thing us monk's do to calm our souls and spirits. Would you like to join me Lady Kikitoi? It's quite relaxing. There's an extra robe over there."
Kikitoi didn't trust the pervert, but she didn't want to be rude, so she walked quite far away and slipped out of her clothes and put on the white robe. When she returned, Miroku still hadn't moved a muscle. She silently walked over and sat next to him, letting the water of the waterfall rush through her golden hair.
"What's on your mind Lady Kikitoi?" Miroku questioned, a certain serenity evident in his voice. For once Kikitoi thought he wasn't thinking perverted thoughts, like he was actually really cleansing himself.
"Actually… I was thinking about Kagome." She said hesitantly.
"I see. Why?"
"I don't know. I am curious about her I guess." Kikitoi's ear twitched.
"How so?"
"She seems so kind the way everyone speaks of her… And I was curious about how you talked about her being from the future and such."
"She certainly has a kind aura about her, but you don't want to get her angry."
"I'll take your word for it."
Kikitoi was surprised at how soothing the water was. How come she had never tried this?
"Miroku, where is Kagome now?"
"She ran off to her own time. In the future. There is a well in our village that connects the future with our time, but only InuYasha and Kagome can travel through it. Kagome returned there because InuYasha made her angry once again. They're always bickering you know."
"I see." Said Kikitoi, considering what the monk said.
"You were right about the water Miroku, it really does calm the senses."
Miroku just smiled. "Kikitoi, I've been meaning to ask you, would you like to travel with us and help us defeat Naraku?"
Kikitoi was a bit taken a back by the sudden question. It wasn't that she didn't want to… It was just… nothing. Maybe she would find a reason to live if she helped them out. Kikitoi hesitated before answering, "I guess it wouldn't hurt, I don't mind helping out some friends." She smiled.
"Great." Exclaimed Miroku. He got up and left to return to the camp. "See you later Lady Kikitoi."
'Him and his formalities…' Kikitoi thought in her head.
It didn't take long for her to change back in to her blue and green kimono and then return to the village. Once she set foot into the threshold, she was immediately tackled by Shippou. "I am so glad you're staying with us!" He cried.
"Me too Shippou." She said patting him on the head.
Sango walked up behind Kikitoi. "We must return to the village and wait for Kagome's return."
"Okay, when are we leaving?"
"Now." Sango replied climbing onto Kirara's back. Miroku climbed on also. "…Okay." Said Kikitoi, who was shocked by their spur of the moment departure.
Kirara rose into the air, and they began flying with InuYasha running behind them. "You coming bitch?" Yelled InuYasha over his shoulder.
"Yeah, I'm coming moron." She screamed back snapping out of her reverie. She sprinted to catch up with them.
After a few hours of running, and flying in Kirara's case, they arrived at the village Sango spoke of. It was a beautiful village, with many villagers and lakes covering the fields below.
The six of them walked to Kaede's hut. Shippou was the first in, who greeted Kaede with glee. "Kaede, we found a new friend!" He shouted as Kikitoi walked in hesitantly. She wasn't good with strangers. "Come here child." Kaede said with kindness in her tone. Kikitoi bowed and walked over to her. "What be ye name?" Kaede questioned. "Kikitoi." Kikitoi told her. "Ah, well Kikitoi, I am glad to make your acquaintance. At that moment InuYasha walked in.
"Hey Kaede-baba, did Kagome come through here?"
"In fact she did InuYasha, and she seemed pretty angry with ye. You should go fetch her from the well at once."
"KEH! Like hell I would."
Sango and Miroku rolled there eyes. Kikitoi giggled at her new found friends expressions. She decided to get up and walk around the village. They didn't seem to mind hanyou… she had a feeling InuYasha spent a lot of time here. They seemed to be rebuilding from a recent attack from a demon.
While Kikitoi was swimming in her own thoughts, a young girl and her friends ran up to her. She tugged on the bottom of her kimono. "Are you a doggy woman, like that doggy man?"
"Yeah." She said smiling down at the little girl. The little girl smiled and gave her a small flower. "I like dogs." She said before running off with her two other friends.
Kikitoi's soul was touched by the kindness that radiated from this village, and she tucked the flower in the pocket of her kimono. But not before she saw InuYasha sneaking off into the woods. 'Wonder where he's going…' Kikitoi thought, with the strong desire to follow him. So she did. She followed him all the way to a well, careful to stay out of the path of the wind, so he wouldn't smell her. Right when he was about to jump in the well, she blurted out, "Hey InuYasha what'cha doin'?"
He jumped about five feet when he heard her voice right behind him.
He looked at her with big innocent eyes. "Nothing, wench!"
"Ohhh. So I'm guessing this is the well that connects this and Kagome's time?"
"Yeah." He said pouting.
"Why are you so down? If you want her…. Go and get her." Kikitoi said pushing him towards the well.
"Don't push me…" He said pushing her back.
"YOU don't push me." She said pushing him again.
"No, I think YOU need to stop pushing me bitch." He spat while pushing her harder.
"Oh really?" She said pushing him with all her might so that he stumbled backwards.
"YEAH!" He said before pushing her again, but this time she stumbled backwards and fell into the well, but not before grabbing his hand and pulling him down with her.
The next thing she knew a blue light was around her body, and she landed on the floor of the well.
"Why'd you do that for wench?"
Kikitoi looked over at InuYasha who glared at her through the darkness. "Because your being a stubborn bastard that needs to apologize." Kikitoi said with a huff.
She got up and dusted off her kimono with a flourish of her hands. Then she jumped up to land on the lip of the well. "Come on InuYasha, or I'll beat you there. You don't want me to ruin your ego do you?"
InuYasha was immediately up and out of the door.
'Knew it would work, the dumbass.'
InuYasha jumped up onto Kagome's windowsill. And Kikitoi followed suite and was sitting right next to him at the window. It was around dusk now. "Well, go get her tiger, or are you just going to sit here."
"I can't believe I am doing this, especially with you here." He huffed.
She glared at him before she hit him upside the head. "And what's so bad about me being here?" She said kicking the window open, and jumping in the room.
Now you can say Kagome was shocked to see a female inu-hanyou jumped into her room screaming her head off, or you could say she was completely flabbergasted.
InuYasha sluggishly climbed through the window.
Kikitoi walked straight up to Kagome. "Hello! InuYasha's here to apologize to you." She said beaming.
Kagome just stared, but not soon after she reached up and tweaked Kikitoi's ears. Kikitoi's eyes narrowed. "What are you doing?" She said softly and coldly at the same time.
Kagome bowed her head. "I'm so sorry! I couldn't help myself. "
Kikitoi growled before turning away from Kagome. "InuYasha, please apologize so we can go, the air stinks here," commented Kikitoi with irritation in her voice.
InuYasha looked at Kikitoi nervously before turning to Kagome. "I'm sorry Kagome…"
Kagome's eye twitched before she replied, "It's okay InuYasha."
"Pardon me for asking, but who are you and how did you get through the well?"
"I already told you, my name is Kikitoi, and I am a new companion of your group. After you left, we crossed paths. As for the second question, SOMEBODY pushed me in." Hissed Kikitoi.
Kagome didn't look surprised. She smiled. "Well, that's okay. Wait here, I'll go get my stuff."
Kikitoi smiled back at Kagome, forgetting she had touched her ears. "Okay."
InuYasha was drifting off listening to their blabbering. Until he heard the door slam as Kagome left the room. He jumped at the slam. Kikitoi didn't miss it. "Haha! You got scared by a door!" She taunted sticking her tongue out at him.
InuYasha growled at her. "You sure are in a good mood." He mumbled.
"Yeah, got a problem with it?"
InuYasha just glared at her, and she glared right back. It ended up in a full blown staring contest. "You're so going to blink first." He said, his golden eyes flickering with amusement.
"Like hell." Kikitoi replied, Her endlessly deep purple eyes brimmed with determination.
Kagome barged in at that moment causing InuYasha to blink and look over at her.
"Loser." Kikitoi gloated.
"Damn bitch." InuYasha mumbled.
"InuYasha, SIT. Do you have any idea how rude you are?" Kagome said while InuYasha crashed to the floor.
Kikitoi looked surprised. "How'd you make him do that?"
"Beads of subjugation."
Kikitoi gave her a confused look before turning to look at the books on Kagome's desk. "Books…?" Kikitoi murmured as she picked one up and began to flip through it. "Trigohnomatree? Trig nommed a tree? Kagome who's trig and why did he eat a tree?"
Kagome just looked at Kikitoi before changing the subject. "Do you care if I call you Kiki?" Kikitoi considered. "Nah, I guess that's fine." She walked over to InuYasha who was fighting against the spell. "InuYasha, get up, Kagome's packed and we need to return to our time."
InuYasha finally jumped up. "YOU shut up! YOU"RE not the one who has to suffer under this damn curse!"
"InuYasha…" Kagome sighed. "Let's go." She said trying to end his dramatics.
"Fine." He said defeated. "Great!" Kagome exclaimed. She climbed on hid back and they jumped out the window, Kikitoi right behind them. 'Miroku was right, she is really nice.' Kikitoi thought as they jumped through the well. The thing was when Kikitoi jumped through the well, she didn't materialize like InuYasha and Kagome had.
"Huh?" Kikitoi stammered, as she was sitting on the ground of the well. "What the hell's going on?" She said angrily.
"This is a bunch of crap!" She screamed as she jumped the 10 feet out of the well. She walked down the steps of the Higurashi shrine, unsure of where she was going. "Damn well. Damn era. Damn stinky air. Damn EVERYTHING." She screamed walking down the sidewalk, until somebody spotted her.
"WOAH! SHE HAS EARS AND HER EYES ARE PURPLE AND OH MY!!!! SHE HAS A TAIL TOO!" Somebody screamed. Immediately people surrounded her from all sides, pulling on her ears and tail and staring at her altogether.
"HEY! KNOCK IT OFF!" She squealed. When all the bystanders had confirmed all of her features were real, they began rounding up a news crew. Kikitoi, not knowing what was happening, ran back to the well with a huge crowd screaming after her. "I gotta ditch these goons…" She said jumping up into the Goshinboku. She stopped when she was on the highest branch. All the people below her caught up to the huge tree and looked around to see where she went. Only when the crowd had dispersed did she notice InuYasha and Kagome walk back out of the well. "KIKI!" Kagome screamed, seeing her up on the branch. "I'm okay it's fine!" Kikitoi yelled down, jumping of the highest branch.
Kagome screamed when she saw Kikitoi jump, noticing the huge over 150 foot distance there was to the ground. Even InuYasha looked at her like she was crazy. But she landed with grace in front of Kagome. "I'm sorry, but the well didn't work for me when I tried to go back! Then these crazy people started pulling on my tail and ears and I ran up into that tree."
Kagome's eye twitched. 'Great now all of Tokyo is looking for a dog-girl.'
"Maybe the well didn't work because you weren't touching one of us when you tried to go through." Kagome inquired. "Let's try it. Just keep a hand on my back when we go through."
Kikitoi did as she was told, and sure enough she materialized through the well. The trio landed softly back on the ground of the well.
"Back home!" Kikitoi exclaimed, bounding out of the well. She ran blindly out of the well, anxious to get to food, but not before she hit somebody straight on, causing herself to fall backwards with an amazing amount of force. "Crap." She mumbled as she fell to the ground. She closed her eyes to try to dill the pain of landing on a huge rock. She had a habit of closing her eyes when in pain. Finally she opened her eyes to see who she ran into.
Miroku was laying down on the ground, dazed. Sango smiled. "Kikitoi, you're back! Where is InuYasha?"
"Here." InuYasha said grimly, coming out of the well with Kagome.
Kikitoi was laying on the ground waiting for the pain in her back to go away. Luckily her swords were fine, still attached to her back. "Damn that hurt."
"Gosh, are you okay?" Kagome cried running up to Kikitoi and lifting up the back of her shirt, where a huge break in her skin was bleeding. "Wow, are you okay Kikitoi? That rock was sharp." Kagome noted. "It's fine." Mumbled Kikitoi. But when she tried to get up, her knees wobbled and she landed back on her hands. "Damn, this is going to take overnight to heal." She slowly got back up and began to walk towards the camp. Kagome followed her, worried.
"Kiki, are you sure?"
"I'm positive. It's already stopped bleeding."
"Alright. I'll treat it when we get back anyways."
They reached the camp, or hut, and walked in. Shippou bounded up into Kagome's arms. "Kagome! You're back! Did you bring ninja food?"
"Of course Shippou! How could I forget?" Kagome said as she pulled out a bag of candy for Shippou. "I got something for everyone else too!" Kagome said happily. She pulled out a book from the future for Miroku, chips and ramen for InuYasha, a tazer, (yes a tazer), for Sango, and a beautiful necklace for Kikitoi. "I thought you might like it." She said smiling. It was a green jewel framed with a silver lining, that hung on a small chain. "Thank you so much Kagome! It's beautiful!" Kikitoi said happily.
"Kagome, what exactly is this?" Sango said looking at the tazer in her hands.
"It's very low voltage, but if you point it at somebody and press that button, it'll give them a shock!"
Sango's brown eyes flickered with an evil look. "Miroku…" She said turning around to face him.
He slowly backed up against the wall. "Yes… My de-dear Sango?" He stuttered.
"ZAP!"
"AHHHHHH!!!" Miroku screamed.
"Wow! Thank you Kagome!" She said running out the door chasing after Miroku.
Kikitoi watched her run out with wide eyes. "Kagome, is she going to go do what I think she is?"
"Ye-"
"ZAP."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Kikitoi sighed before laying down on her 'sleeping bag' that Kagome had brought her. "This is going to be a long night."
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"Grandpa! We have to go!" Souta screamed as he and his grandfather ran away from the burning shrine. The shrine had gone up in flames shortly after Kagome, Kikitoi, and InuYasha had left. "Kagome! What about Kagome!" Kagome's mother screamed.
"We must go!" Kagome's grandpa yelled back.
"The well! The well will burn!" She screamed.
"We must go!"
The family narrowly missed a burning rafter that fell beside them as they ran down the steps of the shrine.
Muahahaha, and here is where I shall stop. I bet you're mad now huh? Well don't worry, I'll update faster if you review faster. And remember, I'm waiting on those pairings.
