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That chapter wasn't my best.. but the events in that chapter will lead to the ones in this chapter… that last chapter was like… 'I regret doing that because later on somebody will make fun of me for it' not that I don't regret that last chapter.. the funny stuff will come out of what happened in it! haha ok.. well here's the next one!
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BLESSINGS
Their bodies hovered over a pool of light in a white landscape. The tips of their tails touched the bright pool below them, their streaked hair flowing in a warm wind. The two ribbons of power that flowed from their kanji had transformed them, but was left to encircled them. The kitsune's being a deep emerald green while the neko's being a dark crimson red… both girls were in a trance until their animal ears twitched as a beautiful voice called out to them...
"Wake up ladies… I have something to tell you…" the voiced called from the bright light above.
"Come now… open your eyes…" the feminine voice called out again.
Hearing this Kagome and Sango opened their youkai colored eyes and listened from their positions, both looking up to see a maiden dressed in a black and purple fighting kimono with white flowers embroidered along the edges. Long black wavy tresses flowed with the waters that she was suspended by.
Both girls stared at the woman, knowing fully well who it was.
"Midoriko-sama?" Sango asked first, recognizing the woman from the cave beside her village, and by the flashbacks of her time with Kirara.
"Lady Midoriko…" Kagome whispered, recalling Kikyo's memories as her own.
"Yes my darlings… I have waited for you… the Shikon no tama was absorbed into your bodies for a reason." The woman spoke while ascending from what looked to be eternity.
"Why did you want the shikon inside of us?" Kagome asked while trying to sit up from her floating position.
"It is because; I needed to speak with you about concerning matters. You should know this Kagome … I spoke with Kikyo about this, and I see that you have recovered lost memories along with the rest of you soul." Midoriko answered politely while smiling to show that no harm was done.
"Then what is it that you need to tell us?" the neko hanyou asked while maneuvering her body so that she could face the legend herself. Midoriko smiled, though it did not reach her eyes.
"My my Sango, you have inherited all the things I love... my dear neko and my strong will." She said softly to the surprised neko hanyou.
"Hm.. Well first let me explain; the reason why I allowed the jewels to be absorbed into your body was so that I could help you…I had been watching you both through the shards that you carried along your journey before the battle. Beyond that you ladies and I have a connection. I am both miko and taijiya, so our objective is the same; to protect the tama from evil." As she said this flashes of the six travelers went by in the white oblivion that surrounded them. Amazed to say anything, the woman went on.
"Now as you know, the last shard was to be completed with Kikyo's shard being the last. I was to come out and bestow upon you your deepest desires. But I knew that you would only use those wishes to bring back your demon friends so I had told Kikyo to allow your souls to be made as one… I couldn't let you waste your wishes on an action with an alternative." The taijiya-miko explained while placing herself in front of the two girls to get a better look at what the changes had done. But before they could ask questions she went on.
"But one thing I underestimated was the influence of Naraku. I hadn't expected him to be so powerful. Nor did I know about the last shard." After saying this Midoriko held her hand above the hanyou's hearts and raised both halves of the incomplete tama from their bodies to show the small sliver that was missing.
"You see.. I was supposed to be released to grant your wish and protect you, but that shard was so small, it seemed insignificant. I made a mistake and it cost you my security… I didn't know that your friend would be the next inhabitant of that evil!" The maiden cried out softly, tears forming in her eyes over the small mistake that cost so much anguish.
"The dangers you faced that I was to watch over were merely the dangers of the great power you would receive! I was to help you when the shikon was completed! But since that is not the case, I'm sorry to say that you are on your own." Midoriko added while facing a different direction to try and hide her sorrow.
"But I am making up for it now! I am giving you equal halves of this tama and my blessing; please do not let Naraku win again, and I promise you the safe return of your beloved monk, and the inu hanyou…… along with your wishes" The woman finally concluded as the atmosphere around them became dark and quiet, while the image of Lady Midoriko faded away…
The last words they heard before total darkness echoed in their minds…
"in your battle I promise to guide you, but as for your journey, I can only watch."
The girls hardly had a chance to speak before they were sent back from reikai to ningenkai… along with the two halves of the tama inside their hearts.
As they were floating back home… their tired eyes drifted slowly closed… while their forms reverted back to their original human ones.
The next morning in Koenma's office….
"Those two demons again! They were spotted in reikai with a mysterious woman!" The ogre yelled while putting a pound of papers on the prince's desk.
"What were they doing?" the prince asked hearing the news for the first time.
"I don't know sir, nobody heard what they were talking about, but after it was over the demons returned to ningenkai and weren't found by our demon radar!" the ogre yelled out while pulling some hair to show how out of control the whole situation had been.
"Hmm well we need to check out that shrine still… maybe there will be clues left so that the SD can figure out their motive." Koenma replied.
"Go tell Botan about the news and tell her to inform the whole SD team for full investigation right now!"
It was another hot summer morning; the air around Kagome's room was humid and sticky. Sango had gotten up early like she usually did when traveling with 'the gang' back in the feudal ages. The neko stretched lazily while pushing Kagome off her leg in the process.
Still wearing the atrocious black top Kagome made her wear and the pink pajama pants, she made her way down to the kitchen after checking herself in the mirror and going to the bathroom… for the first time. The latter being more complicated.
Ms. Higurashi was delighted to see her up and about so early, so she made a small breakfast just for her new daughter. Sango was starving so she nearly inhaled everything on the spot. While eating, the neko had caught the attention of the household cat. Before she knew it Buyo as they called him, was on Sango's lap in a second, purring away while cutting off the circulation in her legs.
After removing the death grip Buyo had on Sango, Ms. Higurashi went on with cooking for the rest of the family.
"Make yourself at home, maybe tomorrow ill ask for your help in making breakfast!" the woman smiled cheerfully.
"Thank you... The food was great; it's nice to have a mother again." Sango politely replied while bowing a little.
"OH my how sweet! Go on now before you make me cry!" Ms. Higurashi laughed with one hand over her mouth and the other fanning away the compliments.
"Hey what's going on?" questioned a sleepy Kagome. She had gotten up as early as Sango had, but fell back asleep when she saw it was 6 am. She plopped on the chair closest to her and nodded off again.
"What's for breakfast mom?" chirped a lively youngster with backpack at hand.
"Anything you want… Souta… you get all your books for your classes?" Their mother asked while turning halfway to hear his answer
"Yes mother." Was the stale reply as the young boy petted the fat cat.
"Good. They mailed me your summer schedule… it's on the fridge now don't be late for school now you hear me…"
Watching how Kagome's family made Sango feel lost. She didn't have anybody like her kitsune friend had. Everything that her Kagome had, she didn't; a brother, a mom and a beloved cat. All these things depressed the poor neko.
After that incident the sadden taijiya made her way outside to the well, noticing the mess she made when jumping out. Felling guilty and bored she cleaned everything up and placed it near the opening.
Sweating in the morning sun she walked into the shade of the god tree. She leaped onto the lowest branch and lay there one hand on her stomach and one hand behind her head. The gentle breeze felt good against the heat, so in quiet morning she took a nap, not noticing the demons and ningen approaching the shrine…. From the stairs… again.
"Geeze! This is the way Kazuma found the demons? Through this staircase of hell! the baka probably couldnt find any better way..." Yusuke yelled to nobody in particular while running his hands through his non gelled hair.
"This makes Genkai's stairs look like heaven." He later mentioned, while airing out his red sleeveless shirt.
"It isn't that bad" Kurama politely pointed out.
'It will be all worth it soon… that fox demon is up there... why don't you start running so we can finally greet her?' Youko coaxed while showing images of said demon eating ice cream. Kurama just blushed and looked on, moving a little slower than before, which inevitably angered Youko enough to make the kitsune put more images into his head to drive him on.
"Just for him and that baka it is." Hiei delicately snapped. He was listening in and out of the conversation; The whole time his mind was bent on finding a certain powerful fire neko with his jagan eye. He couldn't sense her but he kept trying; flashbacks of ice cream panties and fire were all that went thought his head, thought his excuse would be to test their powers of course.
"…I'm only human.. And both of them are demons… Hiei shouldn't talk.. heat and walking is what he's made for! Tsh.. Think I can keep up.. beat your asses down if we weren't on stairs… has the gall to compare me to Kuwabaka… KICK HIS ASS TOO!" the boy mumbled, knowing his demon friends could hear perfectly well.
"It's a shame Kuwabara couldn't make it, you should have at least found a marker that didn't say PERMANENT all over it." Kurama interrupted to distract himself from the kitsune's images.
"He had what was coming, and besides… he wont be able to embarrass himself all over the place… again… and plus they might recognize him… with that kind of face.. meaning ugly." The punk laughed while remembering all the scribbles he put on the idiots face. Then before he knew it Hiei spoke again.
"We're here." Hiei stated while looking around the shrine for any signs of the two demons.
Kagome had seen her friend's sad eyes when she went to her room to change, looking out the window, she saw her working hard as well, so she wanted to cheer her up. After dressing up in a simple white tank top and blue jeans Kagome made her way out with her surprise.
"Hey Sango! Sango! My mom's out buying ice cream right now soo…you want ice instead!" the kitsune yelled to her friend after searching for her human aura.
Waking from her nap she nearly fell off the tree, but caught herself before any fatal damage could be done.
"Yeah sure send some up!" Sango yelled back after propping herself on an elbow.
"OK!" at hearing the neko's reply she took out a small bucket full of ice and threw it to the waiting hanyou. Sango caught it with ease and placed it on a jutting twig by her abdomen.
Happily forgetting her past melancholy, Sango ate the ice nosily while glancing around the shrine for anything interesting to look at.
"HEY! My grandpa's calling me! Ill be back to get some ice for myself kay?" Kagome yelled after a short while.
'hhahaha you waste your energy just speak to me this way.. so I can eat, and you can… stop yelling." The neko smiled while chewing on more ice.
'HA HA very funny." The kitsune so dearly replied; glad to know she could cheer her up so easily. After 'telling' Sango she walked away to where her grandpa was yelling from. On her way she received an ice cube thrown at her back… clenching her fists she walked on though telling Sango she was 'gonna get it'
"Whatever, that was payback for this so called shirt." Sango laughed quietly to herself while accidentally dropping an ice cube on the exposed 'neko.' Dropping it she watched amazed as the ice quickly turned to water on contact.
'Wow… lets see' she thought to herself as she put another ice cube on her kanji.
While the neko was playing with ice, the kitsune went off to meet her grandpa.
"Yeah grandpa what is it?" Kagome huffed, sweating a little from the two second walk. That was when Kagome finally took notice of the strange aura's radiating off of the tree guys standing at the shrine entrance.
One guy looked flushed while the others looked like they walked to the kitchen or something. The tired guy looked to be around Kagome and Sango's age, but maybe a little older. He was wearing a plain red shirt with some jeans on, standing as if he owned the world.
Next to him was a guy wearing all black with a katana strapped to his side, his hair was spiked and his eyes were searching for something. She felt as if he had an aura that was trying to be masked. He seemed about the same age as the first guy.
Next to him was a red head he was slightly taller that the other two. His green shirt and blue jeans brought out his emerald eyes… his aura was trying to becovered uptoo. The only thing that ran through Kagome's head after seeing the red head was…'that's strange, its as if they had fake auras or something.. but that guy is still cute, with or without it'
"These young men would like a tour; so as a shrine maiden you need to show them around properly. I need to go and rest." The old man replied while pointing to the guys standing there.
"And no more jumping around the shrine with your friend, breaking things all over the place!" the old mad yelled on his way into the house.
"Ehe ok grandpa!" Kagome waved sheepishly.
'Might as well just call us youkai on the spot and freak these guys out.' Kagome thought while massaging her temple.
'Hey… people usually come during school… I don't see any chaperones… must have to do with some random pleasure of shrines I guess.' The kitsune thought while walking to the waiting boys, feeling the masked auras as she got closer.
Watching the girl come towards them they could only see little differences from the other girl they had seen on screen. They were some what relieved that the old man wasn't going to show them around, and instead a nice looking girl would.
She had long raven locks that reached her mid back and her eyes were a mixture of blue and grey, her aura was human but she had many similarities with the fox. Since the two demons didn't know that the kitsune's scent was they could only think of her as a typical ningen. Thought Youko still enjoyed the sight of the shrine maiden. Yusuke did too, but didn't think about it as much as Youko did.
"Uh hello, as you already know my name is Kagome… Higurashi, Kagome." The kitsune started off shakily, visibly scared of doing something stupid in front of cute boys. (haha cute boys!)
She averted her gaze on the three, knowing she would just be staring at the red head the whole time.
"Well… since there are only three of you, do you mind telling me your names?" she asked kinda-sorta looking back to the confused guys.
"Not at all, I am Suuichi, (sp?) It is nice to meet you Kagome." Kurama stated politely, trying not to make her feel even more awkward.
'we can make her feel more than that..' Youko added after hearing his other half think of the moment. Kagome nodded but stepped back a little when his green eyes changed color, for a second.
"Yo, I'm Yusuke." The next boy yelled out while waving one hand to signify who he was.
"Hn." Hiei huffed while looking around the shrine some more.
"I'm sorry, he doesn't like talking much, his name is Hiei" Kurama added; blushing from what Youko had said.
"Well it's nice to meet you all, and… Welcome to the Sunset Shrine."
Kagome had forgotten about Sango, she was too caught up in her own little world, showing them around and talking about the history of everything. That is until they reached the well.
The four stared at the large pile of wood by the side of the well house and the gaping hole on the roof. 'Oh no! How do I explain this?'
"So I'm guessing this is what your grandpa meant by jumping around with your friend breaking stuff." Yusuke asked the miko while staring at the pile of wood and the large hole.
"Though I wonder, how did you two do that?" Kurama asked while glancing sideways at Kagome.
Both guys were looking at her as if she had a butterfly on her face, so before she could explain the quiet one interrupted.
"Where is your other friend? Didn't the old man say you had one here?" Hiei asked while somewhat glaring at girl.
"OH yes that's right! I should introduce you!.. uhmm To her!" Kagome yelled back knowing that she wouldn't have to explain the well house.
"She's still here I think, she might have run off though." The kitsune quickly added while walking to the Goshinboku tree.
"What is she… a cat?" Yusuke asked Kurama while looking around to see if she actually was a cat.
When they heard that it was another girl, their suspicions concerning the neko and kitsune would be complete, but the only thing proving them wrong is the human aura.
Though Youko was happy to hear of another girl, Hiei wondered if it was the neko.
So after a short walk they noticed a fat cat standing under the large tree.
"It IS a cat after all." Yusuke laughed while pointing at the large animal.
"Its not! Just look!" Kagome yelled while looking up.
Following her gaze, the three guys stared. They saw long ebony hair dangling off a large branch with another good looking girl melting ice on what seemed to be a tattoo.
Their eyes went wide as they watched the water drip to the ground.
'I cant even say anything about this!... this is…the culmination of all the things I could ever think up!' Youko stated from the inside of Kurama's head.
"SANGO! What the heck are you doing?" Kagome yelled appalled that her friend was doing something so… unlikely.
"I'm sorry.. I don't think that she realizes there ARE PEOPLE HERE!" Kagome tried to explain while yelling out the last part so that the unfocused neko could hear.
'Though they look alike, it can't be that neko, the one I saw has so focused, and yet this onna is just…' Hiei started but stopped when he saw the nice girl in the tree eating the ice. 'how is she melting that ice… what?..' he couldn't go on so he just stared.
Sango was in her own little world, at first she wanted to test the melting ice on her kanji again, but she got caught up with her thoughts and absentmindedly repeated the process, while chewing alternatively on the cold chunks. She didn't even feel the newcomers arrive at the shrine. At one point in her reverie she DID felt an odd feeling at the back of her mind, but dismissed it as the heat.
"SANGO!" the kitsune yelled up again, knowing somehow that it was point less.
' grrrr… Sango… there are people here… staring at you… and you said that I was trying to seduce that one guy with ice cream… look at what you're doing… its much worse…' Kagome nearly screamed in her head.
Hearing this Sango immediately got up, while accidentally knocking over the bucket of ice water onto the unsuspecting…
HAHAHAHAHHAHA!
Another cliffy HUH! I bet some of you would like to strangle me… ahhahaha that's ok.. I'll let you guys give me an idea who it should fall on.
Kagome in a white tank top! Hahhahhah man that's bad ppl would just stare… then Sango would have to hurry and bring her shocked friend in to change
Buyo the cat in love… who would just run away.. still waiting for Sango… while introductions are made.
Youko Kurama who would go inside then wait for Kurama to dry… then talk a little bit more about how Sango made the ice melt while Kagome helps youko
Yusuke who would just rant on about buckets and girls, then go into the house to dry off… leaving an awkward silence between the 4 demons
Hiei who would blame Sango… then they would fight… then ppl would watch… then they would learn each others names… then fight some more
The grass… which would just be watered then grow
OK NEXT CHAPTER!
it isthe bucket:
That tattoo, it's the same place where the fire erupted on that neko on the video… but I didn't get a good look to see if that tattoo was there.
If that youkai has that tattoo in the same place on Kagome.. then they really are the demons we were looking for.