Kagome: The Rainbow Mermaid Princess

By: Goddess Kyoko

A/N: Yup, this is really finally Chapter 10! :D I'm so happy that in the end I was able to type this after all despite the trouble of motivation for the time I was gone, and that people are still reading. Thank you all, even the ones who gave me bad reviews, surprisingly not as much as I expected, but made me nonetheless want to improve my story and show what I can still do. And since I have made you wait for quite a while, I think you all more than deserve to read the chapter without any more delay. Hope you enjoy the long-awaited chapter even if it is a filler, and let there be more chapters till the end! ^w^

Last time: Kikyo was pacing back and forth still puzzling over Kagome's power that she had saw a long time ago, 'That girl has for sure changed in some way but still how dare she try to talk to me like that! So...' Kikyo clutched her bow, her knuckles whiter than her already pale skin, and aimed at a tree, 'You think you have what it takes to defeat me? Don't make me laugh, I'll kill you before you can ever possibly hope to kill me and I'll also drag Inuyasha with me to hell where he really belongs and we'll be together forever for eternity. You'll regret ever picking a fight with me!' She released her bow at the tree imagining that it was Kagome, the arrow flew at the tree quickly making the tree fall over with sparks, onto the ground and smoke came up from it as the tree sizzled into nothing but ash. Kikyo laughed loudly with dark delight of the thought of the tree being Kagome, making it the sound of it echo around through the forest. She then ordered two of her soul collectors to get her souls and waited for them to come back. And as she was waiting for them to come back, she carefully thought of a plan to kill Kagome once and for all.

Chapter 10

Kagome woke up from the bright sunlight coming through her window and she yawned widely as she stretched, glancing at the clock as she did so, which read 9:30am. She got up and with her change of clothes that she would wear for the day, showered in her bathroom, changed then as she was making her bed her mom called out from the kitchen, "Kagome, it's time for breakfast!" "Coming mom!" she called back, she quickly finished with her bed and she then walked towards to the kitchen.

Breakfast at first was uneventful and quiet. Sota was still tired from staying up late last night, her Grandpa stayed silent as he ate, and her mother not attempting to break the silence for she seemed to be rather content in it. Kagome ate, thinking to herself, 'I have one more day and then tomorrow morning Inuyasha comes back and gets me. Wonder what I should do today..' Her Grandpa, as if he knew that Kagome didn't have anything in mind to do, he cleared his throat to get Kagome's attention, "Kagome?" She came out of her thoughts and looked at him, "Yes?" He continued on, "Today, you're going to have to help me manage the shrine shop."

Kagome groaned and complained, "Why can't Sota do it?"

Sota, who seemed to come out of his sleepy stupor, grinned at Kagome, "Because I already did it for a while so it's your turn! Hope you have fun doing that while I go and play my video games." He picks up his plate, quickly thanks their mom for the meal, puts it in the sink and runs off to do just that before his big sister can get him for what he said to her.

Kagome sighed but conceded to Grandpa, knowing she was gone for a while. He then went off to sweep the shrine and get ready the gift shop their shrine had. Kagome helped her mom clean up which surprised her mother since afterward her daughter usually just leaves the messes up to her but didn't comment, just beamed at her and then continued to clean. Kagome who was washing the dishes, wasn't trying to evade her duty for the day at all, she was trying to find a way to ask her mom about that day on the beach when she was pulled under the ocean without being so abrupt or sudden about it but had no idea how she would do it successfully.

"Kagome? I'm pretty sure that plate is clean now." "Huh?" Kagome blinked in astonishment. "That dish, you've scrubbed it for five minutes straight now." Kagome blushed in embarrassment and rinsed it off so she could put in their dish rack, picked up another plate and started scrubbing it, this time making sure that she was not so lost in her thoughts to do that again. Kagome's mom, seeing that her daughter was more focused now, finished with cleaning the kitchen and the dining room table, she sat back down onto her chair reading a book, waiting for Kagome to finish.

Kagome quickly finished up, turned off the water, and looked at her mom, "I'm finished now." After hearing her mom thanking her for doing the dishes, she stood there looking at her sitting down for a bit then decided that she might as well try and ask her now since she still had some time before she had to help Grandpa out with the shrine.

She sat down across from her mom and sighed out, "If only if I didn't have to do shrine duty..." Her mother giggled at her disgruntled daughter, "At least you don't have to do it again tomorrow dear since you'll be back through the well with Inuyasha and back there to look for the jewel shards." Kagome nodded, "Right..." There was a silence then between them again and this time Kagome's mom was the first one to break the silence, "Is something wrong Kagome?"

With a jolt, Kagome looked at her mother again in surprise who smiled just saying, "I definitely know by now when my only daughter is troubled." Kagome took a small breath of relief knowing now that she didn't have to worry so much about it being too sudden of a subject then she got herself to ask the question,"That day when you, me, and Dad were at the beach..what exactly happened that day?" Her mother sighed, a smile still staying on her face, "The strangest thing is, I was actually expecting to hear that question sooner or later from you." "Really?"

Her mom nodded, "Really. Well, me and your father had driven to the beach where the two of us had first met and we took you with us so that you could have a good first time experience there. But.." she paused for a moment then continued, "I guess me and Akio were so distracted in looking because the next thing we heard was your scream and when we turned toward you, you were already being pulled into the ocean by this big wave. We tried to get to you before you could be pulled in any further but this other wave kept us back so you sunk into the ocean and when you didn't float up calling us, we thought the worse had happened to you.

"But when the wave stopped pushing us back and as Akio was about to dive into the water, desperate to get to you before it was too late when a miracle happened. A dolphin came out of the water and was headed right toward us. And guess who was riding on the back of it waving to us happily? " she smiled thinking of the great relief that overwhelmed her to happy tears back at that time. "It was you. We both ran into the water until the water was past up our knees, not being able to believe our luck, and when you and the dolphin reached us, we picked you up and hugged you tight together. Your father was so happy that he even fed the dolphin something to thank it before we ate our lunch. You know what was really strange though?"

Kagome asked, engrossed the story her mother told for she had only remembered a few flickers of it when she had met the others that were now just like her, "What?" "The dolphin..it stayed where it was even when we left the water and sat down at a great distance from it. It only left when we were getting ready to leave at the end of the day and after you petted it goodbye one last time. After that we never saw that dolphin again at the beach whenever we visited it..but of course," her bright smile turned into a sad one, "you remember what happened to your father some time afterward." Kagome nodded remembering that seven years ago, when she was only nine, her father died fighting in a big Japan war and that the deed to the shrine that they all lived at today was given to them by the commander who was in charge of the army...

A young Kagome's mother was just dressed in a simple white cotton dress, just finishing up cooking her husband Akio's favorite lunch while a little Kagome dressed in her favorite light blue dress, helped set up the table and a one year old Sota sitting in his high chair was being content in just banging his plastic spoon against the tray and giggling in delight at the loud sounds.

Kagome laughed out, saying to her mother cheerfully, "You know Mom, Sota just might be a drummer someday." Her mother was putting the food on the table and smiled with amusement at the thought, "Maybe he will Kagome, maybe he will." There was a door knock and Kagome perked up and yelled excitedly,"Momma, Daddy's here!" She smiled warmly down at Kagome and asked her, "Go ahead and open the door for me dear and let him in, I still need to put in some ice in the lemonade pitcher."

She nodded and ran towards the front door and opened it, ready to leap at her dad and give him a hug but the man that was in the doorway wasn't her father. It was an older guy in his early forties that she didn't recognize that wore a military uniform like her father did but there in letters sewn into his jacket read Captain..she couldn't pronounce or read what his last name was. The stranger smiled down at her, "Hi there, could you let your mom know that I'm here?"

With a frown and a nothing but a bad feeling at why he was here without her dad, she called out to her mother, "Mom, it's not Dad! It's somebody else, somebody that's in the military too!" Mrs. Higarashi called back out to her daughter, "Oh, then let him in Kagome!" She stepped back allowing the Captain past her from the door step and to the kitchen, and after taking a minute to scan around outside the doorway for her father and being disappointed that he wasn't anywhere to be seen yet, she closed the front door but kept it unlocked in hopes that he would come soon and walked back towards the kitchen where everybody was.

"Oh, Captain Izuru," she heard her mom shockingly exclaim as she was continuing to walk on her way to the kitchen, "what an honor and a pleasure for the person who led my husband and everybody else to victory! Please, have a seat and I'll pour you a glass of lemonade. Or would you prefer tea?" She heard the sounds of a chair being moved twice and assumed it was the man sitting down in a seat who politely declined, "Oh no thank you, I'm not very thirsty."

"Well alright then, but go ahead and drink this whenever you are then." A sound of a cup being placed onto the table was heard and his answer, "Ma'am thank you, I appreciate your hospitality but I'm not here to stay long..I have brought some news." "Oh, is Akio's flight running later than expected?" Her mother sighed, "What a pity, me and both my children were looking forward to seeing him at this time but oh well, guess we'll have to wait a couple hours longer until he comes home."

"Mrs. Higarashi, I hate to have to bring these news to your family but...Akio died in the war in a gunfire." There was a crash of glass that made Kagome run faster and in the doorway she saw that her mother had dropped the glass lemonade pitcher and was looking at the Captain with deep pain evident in her face and in her trembling voice as she silently with her eyes, asked him looking as if she was begging him to say he was only jesting with her and her husband would be coming home on a late flight, "...What?" The Captain gazed at her in sympathy but continued his words, "Yes, I'm so sorry ma'am. When the war ended because of their surrender, I guess a couple of their soldiers didn't agree with the others so they tried to shoot a couple times at me doing a last dishonorable attempt to win but..he got right in front of me and took the bullets." Kagome's mom just stood there with the same pained face frozen in her shock and it wasn't until Sota, as if he knew what was said, started to wail when she got over the paralyzing shock and the tears escaped her eyes and she covered her eyes as she did not wanting her children to see her like this.

He then, seen by Kagome's blurry eyesight for she was also crying, having comprehended enough to know that her dad wasn't coming back, put down a large yellow envelope onto the table and stood up, "Mr. Higarashi was truly a good man and I owe it to him to give you a deed to a shrine where you and your family can live without worry of where to move to next-" Kagome's mother then swiftly uncovered her eyes to reveal that her slightly red eyes from crying were full of rare seen rage and sorrow, yelled at him, "Do you really think that this would ever replace my Akio?" Then her rage succumbs again to her sadness and she sobs out brokenly crying again, "He's really gone..Akio.."

The man pushes in his chair, and turns around but not before he says to her,"No, I wouldn't think of that at all. He actually saved enough money himself to buy the shrine for good and asked me to personally before the war was close to ending make sure you got the deed in case he had died including his last letter he wrote for you all to explain further. Please reconsider..." Then he walks out of the kitchen and the front door opens and closes again signaling his departure.

Kagome's mother after he left, slowly calmed herself before seating herself down in her usual chair and after staring at the envelope with deep thought she called out to Kagome for her to come closer and stroked her hand softly over Sota's head who had stopped crying and was looking at it. Then she read the letter out loud to them and as she did, Kagome and Sota were both silent not saying a word as they listened to their father's last words...

Afterward, the funeral that they had for him actually happened on the shrine and his body was buried under the Sacred Tree, which was his last request in his letter, saying that since his name meant "Protector", he wanted to be able even after his death, to protect and guard them all from danger. Kagome and Sota played around the tree which was their favorite place there to be often before. Kagome smiled then, thinking of the happy memories that were spent at the shrine as the years passed on after they had all eventually moved on from his death.

Kagome's mother was looking intently at her and then asked her, "Kagome, is there a particular reason why you asked about that time?" Kagome shook her head, not knowing whether she was still unable to tell her of what she was now. "Kagome!" Her grandpa's voice called from the front door, "It's time to open the gift shop! Hurry up and come outside already!" Kagome sighed but called back out to him, "Alright, I'll be right there!" She got up from her chair, pushed it in, and was just leaving the kitchen when her mom called out to her, "Kagome?" She turned back around and saw that her mother had a bit of worry in her face as she asked, "When you're able to, will you tell me why?"

Kagome goes back to her to give her a hug and a genuine smile, "Of course mom." Then she walks off to go and help out her grandpa leaving Mrs. Higarashi to smile contently as she went back to reading her novel.

(At Aqua Regina's Palace)

Aqua Regina sat in her own gold throne with a slight frown on her face as she anxiously waited for Blaze, Kagome's guardian, to arrive and report to her if Kagome so far had the dangerous symptoms of what all the past rainbow mermaid princess rulers had in the past suffered severely from and hoped to herself that Kagome would be the first one that would be different from them all..

(Back with Kagome)

Kagome stood there behind the counter bored and purposely not paying attention to the long tale that her grandpa was going on and on about. She loved him, but sometimes he could just be too much in his beliefs and storytelling.

The bell at the small shrine gift shop's door sounded which to her great relief ended her grandpa's tale, and she looked there to see Hojo, a boy that went to her school, smiling kindly at Kagome and said, "Hey Kagome." She smiled back at him, "Oh, hi Hojo." He was a nice cute boy that she talked to often at the high school before she met Inuyasha and didn't come to school as often as she could before.

But her three good friends Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi often teased or pushed her into thinking of going out with Hojo but she didn't really think that he felt that way about her like they were claiming he was. "You're looking better Kagome, I'm glad to see that. So..if you're able to, want to go hang out and get a hot chocolate?" Kagome smiled at her friend, "Sure, I would love to-" "No she can't." Her grandpa interrupted her.

Kagome asked him with a bit of annoyance in her voice, "Why not?" Her grandpa says back," Because, we're too busy in our shop today, so you can't go." "Grandpa, there's nobody in here but Hojo." All three of them sweatdropped, able to see actual tumbleweeds rolling down the aisles from an unseen or felt wind.

Her stubborn grandpa then cleared his throat and saying with all the rest of his dignity he had left, "Kagome you pick those tumbleweeds up and throw them away. And you, young man. If you're not here to buy anything, then I suggest you leave." Hojo innocently nods looking slightly disappointed, "Alright, well if Kagome's really feeling alright then I'll go now. Looks like I didn't have to take this big medicine gift kit with me after all-" "Wait!" Hojo paused in the doorway looking confused at Kagome's grandpa that stopped him and was walking to him then asked looking intently at what Hojo had in his hands, "You brought her a kit?"

Hojo nodded and her grandpa stood there staring at it a bit more then taking it out of Hojo's hands saying, "Well, she actually just recovered this morning but maybe I have been working her too hard. I'd better keep this just in case it comes back while you and Kagome go and have a long break." He beamed at the old man and then said to Kagome happily, "Did you hear that? C'mon Kagome let's go!" Kagome nodded with a fake smile and walked out, and after she thanked Hojo for being a gentleman for holding the door open for her, she glared back at her grandpa who was looking the kit over with a sly smile and thought before she went on her way, 'Grandpa...you disgust me.'

An hour later, they were walking around the city chatting when suddenly Kagome hears a familiar voice, "Kagome? Oh my god is that really you?" Then another, "Glad to see that you're finally feeling better after all those sicknesses!" And the last girl, "Wait, are you on Hojo on a date?"

Kagome froze where she was and slowly turned around to see her three high school friends, "Eri, Yuka, Ayumi!" All three of them waved when they were in Kagome's sight and walked over to her and Hojo. He to the last question blushed slightly and asked them with a bit of a happy tone, "Is that really what you three think?" Kagome sighed and put a hand to her forehead thinking that this would be a longer day than she thought it would be.

(Meanwhile back to Aqua Regina's place)

Blaze in her normal dolphin form, arrived and bowed her head to the sea goddess showing her respect, "I'm sorry if I kept you waiting long Aqua Regina-sama." Aqua Regina sat herself up more on her chair and waved her hand dismissing her guards to the other room so that they could talk in privacy, "Never mind that, Blaze tell me..is Kagome so far turning out like the others did?"

Blaze hesitated but answered her goddess honestly, "She did get out of control the night before the New Years party we all had but I was luckily able to talk her back to normal before things really went for the worse." The goddess nodded, "Did it happen again ever since then?" Blaze shook her head, "No Aqua Regina-sama, it hasn't." Aqua Regina then smiled with relief, "Good, then we still have at least some time to try and stop her from dying like all the others had to."

Blaze nodded her agreement and bid her goddess farewell, swimming out of the majestic throne room and back to where she had come from.

(The Higarashi Shrine)

After confronting her three good but nosy friends and they had finally left after asking her questions that were answered and chatting a bit, her and Hojo went up the shrine steps and were at Kagome's front door, the sun in the sky close to going all the way down. "Thank you Hojo, I had a great time with you today." He grinned, "So did I Kagome.." he paused then looked serious, "Kagome..if you like our time together so much like I do, then..can't we just be more than friend-"

Kagome not quite hearing his last words opened the door and closed it right in his face saying, "Yeah, well I gotta go, it's time for dinner. Bye Hojo! Thanks again for everything!" Hojo just stood there and then sighed and walked away, his head down in devastation.

"Mom, Grandpa, Sota, I'm back!" Her mother called back from the kitchen, "Welcome back dear, we're all in the dining room!" She walked to the dining table but glared at her grandpa still mad for what he did earlier, "Grandpa!" Her grandpa blinked innocently from here he was sitting, "Huh? What did I do?" "You practically traded me for that medicine kit!" He retorted, "Well somebody had to continue acting that you would be sick for when it's Monday and you're back at the feudal era for who knows how long!"

Kagome's mother with a small laugh, "Alright you two calm down, dinner's ready." She put their plates in front of them before she sat herself down and they all ate.

After dinnertime, Kagome headed to her room to brush her teeth and put on a pair of her comfortable pajamas before she went to sit at her desk with her small laptop and managed to barely finish the work she had on her online course of high school her mom had requested from her school because Kagome was supposed to be ill stuck at home while she was at the feudal era battling demons that were trying to get the Shikon Jewel shards. Sometimes it was hard for her to live a double life but she managed just fine. She got up from her chair, turned off the desk light and collapsed onto her bed, got under her covers and fell into a dreamless sleep..

The alarm clock sounded no later than eight thirty in the morning and she rushed to turn it off, before groaning and reluctantly getting herself up from her bed to take a nice shower and into her school uniform that she usually wore when she was with Inuyasha and the others. She made sure her room was tidy before she left her room, and into the kitchen to see her mom putting the last couple of items into her big backpack.

"Good morning mom." Mrs. Higarashi turned around and smiled at her daughter, "Oh, good morning Kagome! Did you have a good sleep?" Kagome nodded," Yes, I had a good sleep and I got all my school work done somehow." "Good job Kagome," she gave Kagome a hug, "I'm so proud of you." After a minute had passed, she let go of her and zipped up the backpack, and handed it to her, "Your backpack is ready dear, and everything you need should be in there including Inuyasha's favorite ramen and Shippo's candy." "Thanks mom." She went to go look outside the window of the front of the house and it was bright outside, 'Inuyasha will probably be here soon.'

Sure enough, she caught a glimpse of him running towards the house from the small building that had the well and she grinned, 'He sure doesn't waste any time now does he?' She went to go open the door for him and just as she opened it, Inuyasha was there about to open it himself then blinked in surprise, "Oh, Kagome you're already ready to go?" Kagome nodded, "Yeah, just let me say goodbye to my family first alright?" He agreed and she said her final goodbyes to her mom, Sota, and grandpa and they headed outside but Kagome stopped him from going to the well, "Can we go to the Sacred Tree for a minute? Please?"

Inuyasha looking as if he wanted to argue stopped himself as he studied her closer and sensing that this was very important to her for a reason he couldn't understand yet, he simply nodded which made Kagome thank him and go quickly towards it with him following her carrying the backpack.

When she reached it, she touched where she remembered the place where Inuyasha had been shot by one of Kikyo's sacred arrows when they both believed they had betrayed each other and died (not Inuyasha for he was just put into some really deep sleep) when Naraku was the one pulling the strings all along in the background. "This was..where I first met you. I was all alone and confused of where I had somehow ended up, even scared but I saw you with your eyes closed, unmoving, with an arrow embedded in you but it didn't look like you had died it looked as if you were asleep waiting for somebody, just anybody that would free you."

She turned around toward him and said with a warm smile, "You know, in the beginning I have to admit I was doubting that I shouldn't have set you free but Inuyasha, you proved me wrong. I'm glad I did. It started one of the most exciting adventures in my life. Thank you." Inuyasha blushed a bit at her kind words and tried to hide it with one of his famous scoffs and brash sounding words, "No need to thank me..." he then mumbled under his breath with a softer tone, "if anything I need to thank you."

Kagome who heard that even if he hadn't meant to say it aloud to her smiled with a pink blush of her own, "I'm sorry Inuyasha, I didn't quite hear that could you say that again?" Inuyasha shook his head, "No!"

"Aww.. why not?" "Because," he stood there stubbornly crossing his arms in front of his chest, "for one thing I know you heard me the first time so I shouldn't have to repeat that." Kagome laughed and said, "Alright, alright."

She then knelt down much to his confusion and as she did so, her hand left the heart of the tree to the ground where her father was buried under and said softly to Inuyasha, "This was also where my dad was buried." He asked, "He was?" Kagome nodded, "He died in a war protecting someone and his last wish was to be buried underneath this tree to protect us all even in his death since his first name means Protector."

"What was his name?"

"Akio...Akio Higarashi."

Inuyasha to her astonishment then without another word as he did this, came closer to kneel down too beside her and slowly put his hand over hers that still remained on the ground lightly and spoke solemnly, looking at the ground, "You've done a good job in protecting everyone Akio, your parents must be proud and so is your family. But, I just wanted to let you know in case you could hear me, I promise to protect Kagome with all I can with my sword like my own father told me what my sword was meant for. She helped me realize that it wasn't useless at all, and that she was the one I'm meant to protect. So don't worry, I'll bring her back safely and so um," his cheeks started to get red from Kagome staring at him with amazed eyes, "you just wait where you are, not that you can really move even if you wanted to.." he stopped rambling, feeling like hitting his own head hard from looking stupid in front of her and not to mention her dad.

Kagome laughs lightly feeling alot better thanks to him, "Thank you Inuyasha, I'm sure he appreciated all that." Growling slightly from his embarrassment, he got himself up pulling her by the hand and said, "Alright, you told all your family your goodbyes now let's go before that little runt complains too much about you being late." She smiled happily and replied, "Okay!"

They headed to the well hand in hand and when they jumped into it, neither of them felt the need to take their hands away from one another's as they fell through the bright blue glows of the time jump to the feudal era, continuing on with their adventure together once again.

To be continued next time, this time though I'm not promising a certain date if I can't keep my promise. Btw I know the name Akio doesn't really mean "Protector" but I thought it was a good name to use for Kagome's dad, didn't know what to name her mom though.

Again, hope you liked. Love you guys. :3