Revelations part 1
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They kept looking at her as if she was an alien from outer-space or spoken in Japanese. Kagome only stared back she knew they were going to freak out. I mean she did when she found out all of that was true. Her life was a peaceful bliss until that day when all of her life was changed.
"You are telling us you are a miko is the answer?" Fury was seething. He knew the girl was hiding something but the nerve of the girl to deny yet again was irritating. "Tell us who you are before I lose the little patience I have left!" Kagome sighted.
"I am telling you the truth. I am Kagome Higurashi, and I am miko. Now instead of asking the wrong questions ask the correct ones!" They all looked surprise by her outburst. Darcy was having a hard time understanding all this. She knew her sister was something but a miko.
"What is a miko?" the question came out from Loki who was also was very curious of this fact.
Kagome smile secretly. "Correct question, what is a miko?" She sighted because what she was about to say was going to need them to open their minds to the impossible. "Okay, to explain what I am I need to tell you the origins of the miko." Seeing no one was interrupting she continues. "Long ago, the kamis or gods had created man and youkai or demons. The youkai kept humanity from the brink of destruction since it was its nature and humanity kept the youkai from abandoning their more compassionate and peaceful side. Still with me?"
They all nodded. "Okay. This continues until the day some factors from youkai began to see humans as cattle or ants under boots." Kagome heard from someone they are not the only ones. "Anyway, they tried to enslave humanity. The humans began to fear the youkai because they were indeed faster, stronger, and more powerful than they were. So they pray to the kamis for help. The kamis saw into the hearts of these youkai and saw to answer humanity's prayer."
"Why bother? Why not just kill those youkai?" asked Steve.
"Good question, the answer is that the kamis require balance. They saw that youkai had the balance in the favor so the kamis set it to restore that balance without destroying the universe. The goddess of purity granted some humans her ability to purify the youkai or disintegrate their flesh and soul. The men were called holy monks and the women became mikos or holy priestesses." Darcy was very surprise and so where the other.
"In other words, mikos are the creation of this goddess powers on earth?" Fury was trying to make sense of it. Kagome only grinned.
"Technically speaking, I am her daughter." Now that send them into shocked. It is not every day you hear something say such a thing but then again gods walked among them. "To create us she had to, how do I put it, lay down with humanity and with many to create us. If you count that in I am technically speaking a descendant of her. The descendant of the goddess of purity, a miko."
"That is why you are so powerful and do the things you do?" Darcy was shocked to hear her sister was the daughter or descendant of a goddess. Kagome shook her head.
"There are levels of power in mikos. Not all are powerful as I am but then not all had the through go through all I did to accomplish that kind of power or the genetic material to create one as me."
"What did you do," asked Darcy.
Kagome looked down at her hands and she hated to speak of it. "I had to go through pain, loss, torture, heartbreak, soul-search, training, and death."
"What! Death, what do you mean death?" Darcy did not like what she was hearing from Kagome. All of it seem like she being through hell and come back.
"Yes, even death." Kagome was not sure if she should continue with her story they might not understand the journey.
Fury cleared his throat. "How did you know you had you powers?"
"I didn't it was reveal to me on 15th birthday."
"How," asked Fury. They were surprise of how young I had been when I began my journey and that it had not been too far away.
"I was a normal girl okay. All I wanted was to finish middle school and go to high school, then college, and then with the rest of my life. Like anyone else. I was ordinary." Kagome felt a pang in her heart for the loss of the life she had but no regrets. "On my birthday my cat had disappear into my shrines' well house. When I found him I heard the breaking of wood and suddenly was pull into the well by some arms and dragged down. When I turn to look who it was I was paralyzed."
"What was it?" the question came from Jane.
"It was a woman with six arms half naked with the rest of body in form of a centipede."
"Huh? Like a centipede, centipede" asked Steve and she nodded. "Weird" Kagome agreed with him
"You have no idea. I was so scared. She kept telling me, 'where is it? I know you have it! Give it to me little girl! Give it to me!' I did not know what she was demanding so I pulled away my arm and scream to let go. When I did that bright light shot out of my hand and burn her."
"She was a youkai, right?" I nodded at Natasha reasoning. Kagome noticed that she no longer spoke to with a bite to her voice. She was glad and little apprehensive. Natasha is notorious for being possessive of people, just look at Clint.
"The strange thing was that while that was happening I should have drop to the bottom of the well, right?" They all seemed to think this over and agreed. "Well I wasn't I was flooding like in space with no gravitational pull. There was darkness but my body was floating and I could breath."
"You drop into a black whole?" this question came from Jane.
I shrugged. "I don't know. All I knew that once that thing let go of me I drop to the bottom of the well. I looked up and called out my family when no answer I began to climb up the well. When I reach the top the first thought that came to me was, 'Toto I guess we are not a Kansas anymore'."
"Hey I get that reference," said Steve but then blush when everyone just stared at him all weird.
Kagome continue smiling because she knew it was difficult for him to understand all the slang spoken around him. "I was freaking out so when I saw Goshinboku, or the Tree of Ages, my family's sacred tree, I knew I was close to home. When I got there I was shock by what was there. "
"Another youkai?" asked Fury.
"No, I saw a guy" answered Kagome.
"A guy," repeated Fury.
"Yeah," Kagome continue. "A boy in red with silver hair pin by an arrow. He looked like he was asleep and had been a while because the tree was growing ravines around him."
"Was he like dead", asked a shocked Darcy.
Shaking her head, Kagome answer her. "Yes and no. I mean I drew near him to speak to him and ask what the hell he was doing there. I even touch his cute dog ears."
"Dog ears, he had dog ears?" Kagome blush at Loki's question and she looked away trying to avoid his stares. "He was not human then."
"No, but I didn't care there were so cute and adorable." Kagome blushed even harder at the sneers but they were going to get used to her being attracted to cute things. "Anyway, I was about to leave when I bombed by arrows all around me and men from a village grab me and tied me up. I was taken to the village's miko and she said that I was harmless that I had something but harmless. Seeing around me I got some clue as what happen. I had traveled 500 years in the past." Everyone just stared at me with open mouths. Kagome did not blame them even time-travel was farfetched to them as super heroes.
"Time-travel?" Fury was surprised but thinking what else did this girl had to say. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I know because I am good in history and recently we were studying Japan's feuding era." Fury motions her to continue. "Kaede, the village's old miko, let me stay with her. During the night, Mistress Centipede, the creature that pulls me in the well, attacked the village during the night in order to get to me. I ran away from the village because I did not want innocent people to die. She follow me and I was scare so I call out, 'please can somebody please help me', really load. At that very moment I heard a load howl coming from the forest of Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha? I've heard you say that name to me before." Kagome grimaced at Darcy. "Who or what is Inuyasha?"
"Inuyasha is the boy that was pin into Goshinboku; he is a hanyou or half demon that was seal to the tree when he attacked the village 50 years ago. Kaede's elder sister died after sealing him to the tree."
"Half-demon, half-demon of what? Does that mean what I think it means? " Tony was disturbed of what Kagome might say about that. Kagome only looked sad.
"Yes, it means a half-demon half-human." Kagome saw in some people the revulsion of the idea. She got defenseless. "Hey, they are some who are okay with this. No all demons are ugly and cruel. Some are gorgeous and kind. Inuyasha's father was full dog demon named the Inutaishou or the great dog general. His mother was a human princess like Romeo and Juliet their love was pure but a tragedy. He was the best of both worlds so do not talk what you do not understand. Besides there is not limits to love."
Tony raised his hands in defeat. "Sorry girlie just making a comment that all don't get you panties in a bunch". Kagome just huff air out and sat back while crossing her arms. She knew he meant no harm but she was sensitive of this subject.
"Let's continue with you story," said Fury. He sent a glare at Tony to keep his mouth shut. Tony only pouted like a child reprimand for being naughty. "Kagome continue."
"Let us see, oh yeah! I was running into the forest when I trip over and landed near Goshinboku. I heard someone say, 'looking graceful there Kikyou, playing with your victims Kikyou, always getting into trouble Kikyou'. I looked up and the boy asleep was not anymore. I stood up and walked toward him very angry. I said to him, 'Kikyou this, Kikyou that, who the heck is that. My name is Kagome, Ka-go-me'. He looked at me skeptical but sniffs me around-"
"Sniff you? What is he a dog?" Darcy was disturbed as was Jane. Thor and Loki only took it the right way. They understood well the actions of the boy since they also had heightened sense of smell.
"He is one, well half-dog demon." Kagome smirked at her weirder out sister. "Anyway he said that I did look but not the same scent. In that moment, that crazy thing caught me by her sharp teeth and flung me into the air. I was toss like rag doll only to see my side explode and a small pink round jewel come out. As I fell down I was totally freak out something like that came out of my body."
"Did you know it was there?" asked Fury.
Kagome answered Fury, "No, but I guess it was what that thing was after since it left me alone after that. Well, not really. She swallows it, turns black, and then pin me next to Inuyasha while trying to squeeze us both to death. I thought I was going to die and then he said, 'hey you want to live. I said, 'yes'. He continued, 'then pull the arrow out and I will kill it before we both die'. Kaede who arrive by horse ride said, 'nay child do not free Inuyasha, he will kill us all'. So I was between a rock and hard place, choices, choices."
"What you do?" asked Darcy.
"I choose lesser of two evils. I broke the arrow that pin Inuyasha to the tree breaking the seal that held him and he did, in fact, kill the youkai."
"Why do I hear but coming along," said Darcy.
"You are right but then he turns to try to kill me! He said he was going to kill the woman who did this to him. I ran but before he could harm me, Kaede grab a rosary put a spell on it and it caught Inuyasha. She then yells for me to say the magic word to bind him. Her request was confusing. When he landed near me he shadow reminded me of a dog and guess what I pick. Sit boy."
"No way!" yelled Darcy. She was laughing her head out. The others were trying to cover their amusement.
"Yup! I did. I said sit boy and he came crashing down like the good puppy he was." Kagome was remembering Inuyasha shocked face when she said that and he fell face forward in the dirt. He should have gotten the idea of future happenings as reference.
"You can do that?" Kagome turn toward Tony and smiled very evilly. He began to feel very uncomfortable. "Yes, I learn that spell while training. I can subdue anyone that is living under that spell." Everyone now looked uncomfortable. Oops, too much I guess. "Okay, just for like a several minutes but it all it takes, right?" Still, no response. Kagome sighted. Tough crowd.
"Anyway, since he could no longer kill me or anything he kept hanging around. He said because I was a clumsy human and the Shikon no Tama was to powerful to be guarded by an untrained and clumsy human."
"Shikon no tama?" asked Fury.
Kagome sighted. "Yes, it means jewel of four souls. It was supposed to be gone from the world a long time ago, but I ended bringing it back."
"How and why you?" Darcy did not like the fact that her story was getting weirder and weirder by the minute.
Kagome sighted even more. She hated what she was about to say. "There is a legend in my family that is passed down called the Legend of the Shikon no Tama. This story began about a thousand years ago." Kagome saw they were very curious about this.
"There was once a miko named Midoriko. She was very powerful if not the most powerful miko ever to exist. She was also very beautiful too. She fought against her enemies, healed the sick, and was all around a very kind human being, a hero you may say." Nobody commented. "She was used to being challenge all the time by youkai who wish to make a name of themselves by saying they defeated the great miko, they all fail in the end. All except one, Kanji."
Kagome took her time to drink water from a glass that they gave her. She continues. "Kanji was an elemental youkai of fire. He was powerful as he name meant and when he heard rumors of this miko he wanted to meet her or even fight her. He did not expect to find a beautiful and deadly female instead." Kagome chuckle at this inner joke because someone special too had called her. "When they met the fought and found that both were in equal power and that made him to challenge even more. So they did this for a while met, fought, draw, and separate. Neither won over the other until one day kanji had been distracted that he slip and trip only to find himself near a very sharp sword. He smile and said you win. Midoriko said nothing then just walked away. He was shocked. She had the chance to kill him and didn't so he became obsessed to the point that he follow her everywhere." Natasha and Clint shared a look which Kagome believe that they understood Midoriko actions.
"He became her shadow. Midoriko knew this but did not say nothing until she was ambushed by several strong youkai that almost killed her had he not intervene. They were both surprise by this because she had called out to him and he had answer her. They understood what they had was love."
"Wait! You are telling me that this whole time they were like fighting in some sort of foreplay and then they fell in love and happy ever after," said Tony. "Damn but that is sexy in a way." Pepper hit him in the head and Tony pouted and rubs it with his hand.
"Well, in some youkai society the female is tested to see how strong she is before they mate but this is not the case. They were natural enemies. This is one of the forbidden things to do. You cannot fall in love with you enemy. It is forbidden and if done both are killed in sight. They kept their affair in secret from both worlds. Yes, they were enemies but love changes that. Until, they were discover by Kanji enemy. He saw the opportunity. Kill his rival and get rid of a powerful miko all at once. He set a trap for them in which Kanji sacrifice his life for her. Midoriko was so heartbroken that she until her full power to encase the youkai army with her."
"Why did she do that?" Jane was sad at the ending of that woman who only wanted to love her guy.
"His enemy had absorbed Kanji's power by eating his flesh." Jane and Thor wince at her words. "And wanted to unleash it on the world. Midoriko knew she little time to live-"
"Why was she dying if the other gives his life for her?" Tony was very disturbed but being in her shoes once he could relate. Kagome only looked at him with softly.
"Elemental, canine, and avian youkai mate for life. He bonded them together so when he died she would die too."
"But why die for her if she was going to die because of him anyway", ask Natasha.
"You got to understand how miko's work." Kagome looked at Natasha. "Our purity comes from our hearts. Hearts that is full of joy, peace, love, generosity, and good. When he died Midoriko realize her heart would turn dark, so instead of become a dark miko she decided to sacrifice herself but in doing so she created the Shikon no Tama."
"That is how it was created," asked Fury.
"Yes, the opposing side of power in a suspended time and space for all eternity. In other words, she created a black hole in time and space with her power."
"How did it end? What happen after that," asked Jane. She was curious for the fact that such thing beings existed and could create a black holes out magic. Her scientific mind just could not comprehend how is possible.
"That is a very good question," replied Kagome.
AN: SO HERE IS MY PT 1 OF REVELATIONS...KAGOME STORY IS GOING TO SHOW HERE...YES I INVENTED THE STORY OF BEGINNINGS AND HOW MIDORIKO CAME ABOUT...IT WAS BETTER CUZ LIFE REPEATS ITSELF OR SO I'VE HEARD *HINT HINT* WELL SEE YOU GUYS LATER ENJOY YOUR THANKSGIVING! EAT A LOT OF TURKEY (THEN REPENT FOR DOING SO ^_^;)