Red: Thank you for all the reviews, likes, and follows, everyone. :D You guys are all amazing. :3 And an extra thank you to the people who take the time out of their day to leave me a review, it always brings a smile to my face to read them. :)
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HarshCrictic: I understand whatever happens in the webcomic is canon, but this is a fanfic, so basically anything I write becomes canon in my fic (I don't think you would find Kagome making a cameo in the real webcomic :P). But really the reason for the plot holes in the fight with the monster and why it could beat Saitama was all due to my amateur writing and me making shit up. I wanted to get this story out really quickly so I had not put much thought into the fight, which I apologize for. Plus the fact that I haven't really written fighting scenes before. I am sorry if my bad writing makes you want to stop reading, but I would understand your reasoning if you do stop. When I get the time I'll go back and try to make the battle better and have it make more sense. With that out of the way, I want to personally thank you for your review, constructive criticism is always good. :)
BenevolentBizzy: Wait no more, my lovely reader. The update is here. ;)
Scarlatta Rain: Le gasp. :o I can't believe that you would assume just because this fic is listed under rated M that it would have smut in it. I am ashamed of you, my good reader. :o
….Hehe just kidding. ;P I actually did want to add some sexy times in this fic, but I don't really know how to do that. And the fact that I'm not familiar with writing that sort of stuff adds to my hesitation (I've read plenty of it, just never tried writing it xD); but if I end up not adding any in, I hope that's OK. :) I want people to like this story even if I don't write smut. :P I added the M rating just to be safe, but then again, I really don't think putting the M rating stops anyone from reading these kind of stories on this site. xD
finnjake: No, no, trust me I love Saitama and his OP strength and I wouldn't want him to be any weaker either. If you read the earlier comment to a reviewer (HarchCrictic) who asked me about the fight in chapter one, I told him/her I would go back and rewrite parts of the battle to make it a bit better (if I can). And yes, I do plan on Kagome eventually becoming a hero. :)
Audrianne: Thank you! ^^ I'm glad you think the characters are accurate and that the action was good, considering I've never written action before. xD Well, at least I'm practicing now. For the couples, it is likely to be Saitama x Kagome x Genos. :) And there will be some one-sided Sonic x Kagome action probably, so if you wanted to read that, then your wish is most likely going to come true. :P
That Guy: Oh my, a proposal? (o/o) I'm flattered, fellow reader. I don't really understand what made you want to marry me, but thank you for your review. xD
YamiKeitsuki822: Haha, yes! The Saitama x Kagome ship is sailing and I'm taking each and every one of you guys with me. :) Mwahahaha.
CK: No, wonderful person, thank you. ;) And indeed, she does have quite a few new abilities, and some more are going to be introduced in this chapter. For the week I couldn't write because I had to study for final exams (I'm still studying, but I'm taking a break to update this chapter), I actually thought of a lot of interactions and scenarios for later chapters, and it makes me excited to write them. :D Well...that is if I don't get lazy half way and stop writing like a lot of the stories I have. :P (I'll go back to them eventually…)
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Summary: She thought the only way to save everyone from the Jewel was to not make the final wish, and instead, consume it into her body so that she could remain the protector of it forever. But by consuming its limitless power, the Jewel turns her into a monster that controls her and makes her kill the innocent and destroy the world. Now in order to save everyone from what she had become, she must seek out the one person who has the power to kill her—Saitama.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or One Punch Man.
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
Chapter Three: New Discoveries
~The Same Day~
A few hours later, Kagome began to stir in her sleep before slowly opening her eyes. "Oh, you're awake," Saitama said as he took his eyes off his manga to look at the girl. "I thought you would be asleep longer than that."
Kagome sat up and stretched her arms to get the knots out of her muscles. "I did sleep quite a bit last night." Kagome rubbed the sleep from her eyes before looking around and noticing a certain cyborg wasn't around. "Where's Genos?"
Saitama flipped through his manga. "He went out to see someone, he said he would be back before dinner."
Kagome sat up and clapped her hands together. "That's perfect!" Saitama looked at her, wondering why she was so excited. "I can make you guys dinner to repay you back for helping me out."
Saitama looked off in thought. "I'm not sure if we have ingredients. It's been a while since I picked up anything from the market," he told her.
"I'll go check." Kagome got up. "If you don't, we can just go out and buy some. It will also give you a chance to give me a tour of your city," she said with a smile about to get up and walk to the kitchen. Before she could even take one step, something tugged at her hair, causing her head to be pulled back and make her lose her balance from the sudden jolt. "Wah!" she called out as she began to fall backward.
When Saitama heard her shout, he acted fast and dropped the manga to his lap in order to catch her in his arms. "You all right?" he asked.
"Yeah. I don't know what I tripped on," Kagome said while looking behind her to see what had made her fall. "Huh?" She picks herself up from Saitama's arms and grabbed the thing that she stepped on. "How did my hair get this long?" Kagome asked as she held her hair that had grown way past its usual length. She looked around her and noticed her hair spread all around the futon.
She carefully got up and noticed her hair had grown past her feet. Even when she was standing at full height, her hair still dragged on the ground. "How long was I in that monster?" she asked herself. 'My hair couldn't have gotten this long unless I was in there for at least a few years, but how is that possible? It didn't feel like I was in there for very long...' Kagome thought, a bit horrified by how much time had passed.
Saitama looked at the flowing locks of hair in front of him, just now noticing how long it really was. When he had saved her, he didn't pay attention to that detail. "Your hair wasn't always this long?"
Kagome began putting her hair in a braid and then wrapping it into a bun to get it out of the way. "No, I would never let it get this long. It's so impractical to have long hair like this," she told him while still working on tying it up.
Saitama shrugged his shoulders. "I wouldn't know."
Once she was done, Kagome began walking to the kitchen again. "OK, now let me check what you have." She opens the refrigerator and noticed he barely had anything to cook with, let alone eat. "Well, it looks like we're going shopping." Saitama appeared behind her and saw how empty his fridge was, besides the cabbage Genos had brought earlier.
"I wasn't really expecting to have more company, so I didn't bother to buy food."
Kagome closed the fridge and went to get cleaned up in the bathroom to get ready to go out. "Well, we're going to go shopping. Plus, I really need a haircut. I don't want to trip on my hair every morning," Kagome replied from the bathroom.
Once she got out, she pulled at Saitama's arm to pull him out the door. "Come on." She turns toward him with a smile. "This would be a great time for you to show me around. I wonder what this world has to offer."
"I guess," Saitama simply replied as he let the woman tug him around.
"So..." Kagome stopped pulling on Saitama's clothes once they got outside of the apartment and she looked around, not knowing where to start first. "I was the one who pulled you out of your apartment, but...where are we going?" she asked him, clearly confused about where everything was.
Saitama gave a small smile at the clueless girl before pointing in a direction. "I usually shop at the stores on that street, but I'm not sure if there's a hairdresser there or not since I never bothered to remember."
"Well, we can go check. Come on," Kagome said as she began walking in the direction he had pointed.
While they were looking for a hairdresser, Saitama lazily pointed to random buildings and told her what he knew about each place, which usually wasn't much, but Kagome enjoyed their time together nonetheless.
Eventually, the two of them did spot a place where she could finally cut her hair. After they went in and got acquainted with the women at the counter, the stylist told her how much it would cost to get the amount of hair she wanted off, which was quite a bit of money. Kagome thought about it and she really didn't want to use the money Saitama had to spend it all on a haircut since they still had to go shopping for food. "Do I get a discount if I donate my hair?" Kagome asked the woman.
"If you donate, then you get your hair washed and cut for free, but it has to be more than one foot long," the woman kindly explained.
"A foot? I can definitely do that." Kagome undid her bun and braid. "Is it possible for you to take off more than a foot?" The woman looked at her hair like she found the Holy Grail. I guess for hair stylists, seeing healthy, long hair to cut however they please is like a dream.
She went and took a lock of Kagome's hair in her hands. "You have amazing hair, are you sure you want to cut it?" she asked with stars in her eyes.
"Thank you, and yes, I don't want my hair to drag everywhere,' Kagome said to the woman.
"That's understandable, come this way, dear." The woman gestured to a chair.
Kagome turned back to the bald man. "This may take some time, I hope you don't mind waiting."
Saitama sat in the waiting chair. "It's fine. I'll wait." He picked up a free magazine from the table and began flipping through it. It was no manga, but the magazine would have to do.
After almost an hour, Kagome was finally done with her haircut. "I'm done, Saitama." She came around the corner of the counter with her newly cut hair, which now reached her lower back instead of the floor. "I feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulders," she said, happy to get all of that hair cut off.
Saitama looked at it with his usual poker face. "It looks good." He gets up from the chair. "We should hurry, I saw in this magazine that there is a sale at this store a few blocks from here."
Kagome gave the stylist a tip for her service and turned back to the bald man. "Then let's go!" Kagome grabbed his hand and they began walking out of the establishment.
Once they were on the street, Saitama showed her the pamphlet he found in the magazine, which showed a few of the many things they had on sale. Kagome had to stand a bit closer to him to look at the sheet of paper as she pointed to things that they should get, Saitama nodding his head in agreement to her choices.
Onlookers on the street looked at the odd couple as they walked by. The two of them both seemed so out of place for different reasons. The girl had an unearthly beauty to her that seem to almost demand the attention of everyone who looked at her. And next to her was the weird bald guy people have seen walking around occasionally with his usual poker face and that weird outfit of his.
The onlookers thought they were a couple—they sure looked liked it with how close they were standing together—but at the same time, people didn't want to believe that a guy like him was able to get a girl like her to be his significant other with the way he looked and acted.
Kagome looked up from the piece of paper and pointed. "Look, Saitama, that's the store. Let's go before they run out of everything."
The both of them were about to walk to the store when a crash was heard behind them. The two turned and saw a harpy-looking monster crashing into the side of the building of a skyscraper. "What's going on?" Kagome questioned as people began running in the opposite direction away from the falling debris of the ruined building.
[Everyone, please quickly evacuate the shopping district of City Z, there is a Tiger-Level-Threat-Three monster in the area.]
Saitama watched with a bored look. "Monster attacks are common in this world, so a Hero Association was created to fight them."
"Heroes?" Kagome questioned.
"Yeah, Genos and I became official heroes yesterday."
"Monsters and heroes, huh." Kagome looked at the harpy. "It seems I've been brought to yet another crazy world," she muttered to herself, watching as the monster continued to tear the buildings apart with its beak. "Wait..." Kagome pointed to the monster. "If you're a hero, shouldn't you take care of that thing?"
"Yeah." Saitama bent his legs, getting ready to jump. "I'm on it." With no effort at all, he jumps to the height of the harpy flying in the sky and punches it once in the body, completely destroying it and making its guts and blood explode out everywhere.
Kagome watched him fight with amazement. "Whoa." She stood there amazed by his power. 'I would've never guessed a guy who looked like him to have so much power if I didn't have my powers to tell me he was strong already.'
Kagome stood there shocked like every other person on the street when she suddenly heard a woman scream. "Ah! My child!" the woman shouted with alarm, watching with horror as the debris from the monster was about to fall on a little girl who was right underneath the fight.
'Oh no!' Kagome began running toward the kid without thinking about the consequences, her own hero-complex kicking in. 'Will I make it?' she pushed her legs harder. 'I need to be faster! I have to get there in time!' Without even noticing, the jewel on her forehead began to glow faintly before Kagome disappeared in a flash of purple light and appeared next to the crying kid. Once she got to the child, Kagome acted quickly and formed an energy shield around them before the debris fell on top them.
Saitama landed safely on the ground and looked around for the girl. "Kagome?"
The same woman from before pointed to the huge pile of fallen flesh in the middle of the road. "She's under there. She went to save my daughter."
Saitama looked at the debris. "She's under there?" Saitama was about to make his way to the body parts to move it off of them when the area began to hum with energy and the debris from the monster began to float around them to reveal the girl holding a child in her arms under a pink energy shield.
Kagome, who had her eyes closed as she held onto the girl, opened her eyes to see that the two of them were unharmed. "Phew. That could've ended horribly," she said, not even noticing the kind of power she was demonstrating at the moment. She looked down at the girl in her arms. "You're safe now." The girl looked up with tear filled eyes, which Kagome brushed from her cheek and gave the child a kind smile to try to ease her.
Kagome picked up the girl into her arms and walked to the crying mother, who took her child into her arms gratefully. The woman kept thanking Kagome hysterically, not knowing how to show her how grateful she is that Kagome saved her child.
Saitama walked up to the Asian girl. "I never knew you could do that."
Kagome turned to him with a confused expression. "Do what? My energy shield?"
"Well, that. But I was mainly talking about that," he said while pointing behind her.
Kagome turned around with shock eyes as she saw the debris floating in the air around them. "What?" Kagome started panicking at the random floating pieces of the body parts of the harpy. She grabbed onto Saitama's sleeve with worry. "What do I do, Saitama?" she asked frantically. "I didn't mean to do this. I didn't even know I could do this." She couldn't just drop the debris onto the ground, there were people still around and it could hurt them.
Saitama shrugged. "I don't know. I'm just a normal human. I can't do these sort of things."
"I'm human too, or at least I was... I hope I still am..." Kagome muttered the last part. She turned to the debris still floating in the air, unsure about what to do about it. "Um... disappear?" she half-heartedly commanded, hoping it would do something. The jewel on her head glowed yet again and before everyone's eyes, the blood and body parts disappeared, leaving only the destruction from the fight. Kagome's eyes were wide with shock. "Well, that's something..." she stated softly, finally letting go of Saitama's outfit.
Saitama nodded his head in agreement. "Ah," he exclaimed, catching Kagome's attention. "You said you weren't sure if you could fix stuff like you did with my clothes, right?" She nodded. "Well, you could try again on the broken buildings," he pointed out.
"Buildings are bigger than clothes, so even if I could do it, I don't know if I can do it to this scale." Kagome looked at all of the destruction. "But I can try, I guess." She held up a hand and pointed it in the general direction of the damage and began focusing her energy. The power began to build up around her as the jewel on her forehead along with her eyes started to glow a bright purple color. The energy made her hair flow wisp around her, her bangs parting to show the glowing jewel in the middle.
As her eyes continued to glow, she put power into her voice with her arm still outstretched. "Repair," she commanded, her voice vibrating with power. The air hummed around them and before their eyes, the buildings and the broken street began to piece back together. Each slab of concrete and each broken window were being put back together, the chips and cracks being filled in by magic.
When everything was fixed, the power died down as the light began to fade from her eyes and the Jewel. Without the power supporting her anymore, Kagome began to sway on her feet and fall forward from the lack of energy, but before she fell on the ground, Saitama caught her with one of his arms.
"Good work," he said softly to the girl. Kagome was still conscious so she was able to give him a weak smile from her position.
After everyone got out of their shock, everyone began to cheer at what they had just seen. While everyone was cheering, Saitama helped her steady herself on her feet.
Not even ten seconds on her feet, people began crowding around her, asking her if she was a hero and what her hero name was. All the attention made her flustered. People began to hand her free things to show her their gratitude. Many of the people who were at the scene were shop owners and they were incredibly grateful to her for not just saving them (even though Saitama was the one who did it) but also fixing their shops.
She couldn't carry everything so she started handing some of the food and objects to Saitama who began to eat the food handed to him, not even paying attention to the crowd around them or what they were saying.
Kagome's head began to get dizzy from all the shouting and pushing everyone was doing. "Ah, thank you, everyone, but we really should make our leave," Kagome said, trying her hardest to make her way through the crowd while tugging Saitama behind her, who was still enjoying his food. "Come on, Saitama, we have to leave. It's getting too crazy around here."
After swallowing the food, Saitama handed Kagome the rest of the things he was carrying and quickly picked her up bridal-style and began running down the street, leaving dust and stunned civilians in his wake. Kagome held onto the food with all her might as Saitama ran down the street like a madman. 'And he said he was human?' she thought as she saw the buildings flying past her. 'Pretty sure humans can't run at the speed of sound.'
What amazed her more than just how fast he was going was the fact she could follow her surroundings perfectly, it was as if everything was passing them in slow motion. Despite how fast they were going, she could make out every little detail of the signs, the buildings, and the people they were passing.
'This is the kind of power I gained from the Jewel?' she thought as she looked around with curiosity. 'It did say I became the strongest back when we had first joined together, but this is something else.' She has never felt so much power surging through her before.
After getting over her initial excitement, there was something that worried her. She was a rational person, so she knew there was no way she could have so much power without paying a price, and what worried her was what that price was.
'You don't gain anything in this world for free, so what are you playing at, Jewel?' she thought. 'What do you have in stored for me this time?'
Red: Well, that's it for now, everyone. :) Please tell me what you think in the reviews.
(I'm sorry if I have to make Kagome a bit overpowered, but how else can I have her match up to Saitama, who is the epitome for being overpowered. xD)
