Title The Two Kagomes
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Hard Fall
Word Count 645
Warning none
Summary Iniuyasha and Kagome seek out Houjou's aid to stop the Houjou raiding parties
Odawara was a bustling city. Not Tokyo of Kagome's time or even the Kamekura that Inuyasha remembered, but a city fit for a daimyo. Built on a hill with walls and cliffs as defenses. The Hojo made it their capital after taking it by treachery in 1495. The clan itself was only 100 years old.
Inuyasha and Kagome came here to see Akitoki Hojo. Without an introduction they knew that the daiymo would not see them. Their hope was that Akitoki could influence the daiymo into aiding their cause to relief the pressure on the Sunset Village.
The problem was that they has no idea where to start. When Akiktoki first appeared they ran into him on a bridge ad saved him from bandits. The second time he came to sunset Village to obtain their help in getting rid of a cursed weapon.
Inuyasha always thought that Akitoki was more cursed than the objects he was trying to destroy. Unfortunately teh cuse seemed to pass from him to them. They always seemed to get involved in things that caused them a great deal of trouble when they were around Houjou
Kagome insisted. She had a soft spot in her heart for Houjou because he was an ancestor to a person in her class who had been in love with her. Akitoki had so in love with Kagome that he even named his wife ,Kagome when he realized that his Kagome did not love him and would never marry him.
Today they needed to find Houjo. The problem was that they had no idea where he lived or what he did. The only reason they came to Odawara was that the daiymo lived here and they figured that someone named Houjou ought to live in the capitol of the Houjou
Starting up the stairs to the Great Hall, a man came tumbling down on them Inuyasha jumped in front of Kagome as the man slammed into him.. To their surprise Akitoki looked up at them
"Inuyasha Kagaome what are you doing here?"
"We were looking for you"
"Well you found me Shall we go home to Kagome?"
Kagome restrained Inuyasha from killing Houjou Until of course Houjou explained that he named his wife Houjou to make up for Kagome rejecting him. While this might make sense to Houjou, It drove Kagome up a wall until only Inuyasha could restrain her.
As it turned out, Houjou's wife was a good woman who loved Houjou deeply. She laughed when she met the original Kagome. Kagome was relieved to know that she was not the Kagome listed in the Houjou family registry which the modern HOujou destroyed with a coke. They were obviously related sicne they were both klutzes.
Houjou listened to Inuyasha's story. He explained that the Houjous were only distrantly related to him since the first Go-Houjou married one of the original family and took their faimily family was just a side family with only distant ties to the daiymo.
Sunset Village was within the Houjo domain. There should be no reason for Houjou warriors to attack such a small village It never occurred to HOujou that if they attacked Inuyasha might be forced to injure or kill the Houjou samurai.
Kagome talked to her counterpart sharing some of her adventures. She asked if Houjou had ever told her about their adventrure together. HOujou's Kagome shook her and replied that was probably a story for another day.
The two Kagome's agreed to have tea when Houjou visited them in the Sunset Village. As Kagome turned to leave she asked
"Why did you agree to take the name,Kagome?"
Houjou's Kagome smiled " I fell hard for him at first sight If he wanted me to be Kagome,it seemed like the least that I could do."
