Dragon Priestess chapter 3
Here's chapter three! Sorry for taking so long! I lost my muse for a little bit, plus I didn't have my meds that helped me focus. Sorry!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha!
Kagome sat on the edge of the well looking at all of the trees. "Toto, I don't think we're in Tokyo anymore..." she said to herself for fun. Then she sighed and got up. "Might as well look around, I guess."
She walked around the woods for a while until she came up to something interesting. A young man with white hair wearing a red kimono-thing was pinned to a tree that looked exactly like the Goshinboku at her home. Also, the man had white dog ears. Kagome, being so fixated on those ears, ran up to him and rubbed those fuzzy appendages, just to see if they were real. They were. As she was doing this, a group of people came up holding bows and arrows and swords and pointed them at her.
"Who are you!? What are you doing here!?" one of the men shouted. Kagome just turned to them and sighed.
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm rubbing this boy's ears." The men were astonished at this, and then came at her with ropes. Tying her up was easy enough, since she didn't struggle. They rushed her to the village, and a woman met them and talked to them. After a bit, she turned to Kagome.
"What have we here? A girl in strange clothes who was in Inuyasha's Forest, eh? Rubbing his ears, too, right? Do you not know who he is, child?" The woman asked Kagome. Then she looked at Kagome closer. Without looking away from Kagome, she called to the villagers. "Leave us. I'm taking her to my home. Don't bother us." To Kagome she said, "Come with me." Turning away from her, the old woman lead Kagome to a hut and the two of them walked inside.
The old woman went to a pot in the middle of the room and said to Kagome, "Would you like some food?" Kagome sighed for the third time since coming to this strange world.
"Can you untie me first?" she asked. The old woman looked a little embarrassed.
"Of course I can. I'm sorry I didn't think of that." Kagome smiled.
"It's okay. I guess this isn't Tokyo, is it?" The old woman looked intrigued.
"Is that your province?" Kagome laughed a little.
"I guess you could call it that. Um, what's your name?" The old woman looked embarrassed again.
"Kaede is my name, child. Kaede. I was sister to the village priestess and when she died I took over her position." Kaede looked at Kagome cautiously before going on. "My sister's name was Kikyo." When she saw Kagome jump a little, Kaede stopped what she had been saying and asked, "Do you recognize Kikyo's name, child?"
Kagome nodded, and then spoke. "I received a gift of a bow and a quiver of arrows on my birthday, which is today. On the bow, it had the name 'Kikyo' carved into it. My grandpa said he had been given it when I was born. My mother told me the story of Kikyo; how she was the keeper of the Shikon no Tama, how she died after sealing a demon who had wanted the jewel for power, and how she was cremated holding the Jewel so that it would be taken with her into the next life. My mother also told me that Kikyo had known the Holy Dragon Seiryu, that she had been given the bow and arrows from him, and that the bow and arrows are imbued with his power. Also..." Kagome paused, reluctant to finish.
"What, child? What else did your mother say?" Kaede asked, eager to hear everything.
Kagome sighed (fourth time!). "Also...that the bow and arrows would have been given to her successor, who would probably have been her child."
Kaede sighed also (she caught the sighing bug). "That is true. All of what you say is true, except for one thing. My sister didn't seal a yokai. She sealed a hanyou, a half demon. He is the one you were playing with. His name is Inuyasha. We call the forest where you came from 'Inuyasha's Forest', because Inuyasha is sealed there. He is sealed in the-"
"Goshinboku." Kagome interrupted. Seeing Kaede's astonished expression, she explained. "I live in a shrine, and we have a tree called the 'Goshinboku'. It has a scar on it, which I guess is where Inuyasha was sealed." Kagome then bit her lip. "Did Kikyo have a child with Seiryu?" she asked, feeling slightly silly.
Kaede looked sad. "Yes and no. She had a child inside of her, but she died before it was born. Seiryu was the father. Kikyo was an exceptional priestess, and he liked her, liked her enough to come to her and impregnate her. She burned alive, with the baby inside her also alive, so that they could both be reincarnated. I never told the villagers about Kikyo's condition. She told me not to, because the villagers would hate the child when it came back, as she knew it would." Kaede looked at Kagome closely, before deciding something. "I think you are the reincarnation of my sister's child. I think my sister was the one who gave your grandfather her bow and arrows, because she knew you were her child. But child, how did you know that Seiryu was the father?"
Kagome looked nervous. "Well, I turn into a dragon hanyou on the...night...of the...full...moon..." Kagome realized as she talked that: "It's the night of the full moon!" She started panicking. "I can't let anybody see me! What am I going to do?!"
Kaede moved to the frantic girl and put her hands on her shoulders. "It will be alright. Just stay in this hut and no one will see you." she said in a soothing voice.
Kagome calmed down and, as the day turned to night, turned into a half-dragon. Kaede gasped at the beautiful sight. Kagome had longer hair that had a tint of blue, a blue scale in the middle of her forehead, claws, rainwater-blue dragon eyes, longer eyelashes, and was two inches talles. (A/N: I may add more details later on, right now I can't think of anything more to say about her appearance.)
After all this was done, the screams started.
There will soon be more! I swear!
Kagome: I don't know if you can keep that promise...
Me: I will. I swear. *fruit being thrown at author* I promise!
Kagome: You better.
Me: Why, do you want to see Inuyasha~?
Kagome: *blush* No! Of course not!
Me: I'll let that be alone for now. See you next chapter!