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Sleeping Beauty
Ichigo sat in his room staring at the ceiling. Lately its been kind of peaceful, as if Aizen and this Naraku guy were taking a vacation. There were no signs of hollows, arrancars, or any other creatures wandering about. Ichigo had to admit that it was pretty boring. With soul society stuck on finding the whereabouts of Aizen, and Inuyasha not needing his help at the moment, Ichigo was left with nothing to do.
"Hey Mr. Pathetic! I see you're still sitting in the same spot that you were in an hour ago!"
Kon came strolling into the room and climbed onto the bed. Ichigo stared at the stuffed-animal wondering where he could have gone to.
"Where did you go?"
"I ummm…sort of snuck into Orihime's house. I was going to act as if you left me there, so she could return me back here; but it seemed like she wasn't coming home anytime soon so I left."
"She took Yuzu and Karin out shopping a few hours ago."
The stuffed animal jumped up, thinking on whether or not he should punch Ichigo in his face.
"Well why didn't you tell me that before I left? I wasted a whole hour laying in her bed waiting for her to come home!"
"Wait, you were in her bed! If I were to leave something at her house, it wouldn't be in her bedroom!" Ichigo blushed at the thought, then grabbed the closes object near him and threw it at Kon causing him to fall off of the bed.
"Well I guess I'll go try to find something to do, its better than sitting here listening to you all day!" Ichigo sighed then stood up and made his way out of the house.
The weather was nice today. It was sunny and not a cloud was in the sky. The temperature was nice and warm, and the light breeze from the sea kept it from getting too hot. A group of boys were playing a game of baseball, ignoring a little girl who was standing there telling them how much they sucked. An elderly couple sat on a bench, simply enjoying the weather. Ichigo felt like he was the only one with nothing to do today, even all of his friends were busy. Orihime was out with his sisters, Rukia and Renji were in soul society catching up on office work, Chad was at his part time job at the tea shop, and Uryu was somewhere with his father. Everyone but him had something to do.
Ichigo's leisurely walk led him to Kisuke Urahara's shop. With nothing better to do, he made his way in. The door made a creaking noise as he slid it open. The noise alerted the two kids Jinta and Ururu who were busy cleaning the shop. "Hey Ichigo!" Ichigo waved at the two, and continued making his way in the dimly lit shop. Kisuke was over towards the counter filling out an order to a woman who looked very familiar. Ichigo walked up to the counter as the woman was about to leave.
"Hey Kagome! What are you doing here?" The woman looked up at Ichigo and smirked. "Oh I'm sorry, you look just like my friend Kagome." Ichigo felt embarrassed that he had mistaken this woman for Kagome; but it was ridiculous how much she resembled her. The woman touched Ichigo's hand, sending a chill throughout his body, his hair standing on all ends.
"It's ok…I get that a lot." Ichigo watched as the woman made her way out of the shop.
"What was she doing here?"
" I don't know if you've noticed, but this is a shop and shops attract customers." Ichigo rolled his eyes at the man, and eyed the woman's order that was laying on the counter.
"I know that, but this shop usually doesn't attract those type of customers." Ichigo snatched the order off of the counter, ignoring Kisuke's comments about customer privacy.
"Unscented candles and voodoo incenses? What is she a witch?" Kisuke snatched the woman's order back and stuffed it inside of a drawer.
"Maybe she is a witch." Ichigo laughed. "Well she sure doesn't look like one." Ichigo tried picturing the woman doing spells on people and making potions, but it just wasn't right. She looked like a housewife, the type that'll welcome you with open arms and a batch of cookies. "Looks can be deceiving Ichigo." "Yeah I guess so."
Kagome grabbed her things and ran out the door. She had to hurry or she was going to be late, and she couldn't afford being late again. She hopped on her bike and peddled as fast as she could. There was no way she was going to make it. All of that studying she did last night would be for nothing. Her cell phone was going off in her pocket, probably text messages from everyone asking where she was at. Kagome had no time to stop and look at them, not like she cared to anyway.
The sun was no longer beating down on her skin, in fact the sun wasn't even out anymore. It was covered by clouds, dark and puffy looking clouds. Rain clouds. " Oh crap! Please don't rain just yet I'm almost there!" As soon as Kagome finished her sentence it started drizzling and soon after it began pouring. She parked her bike and ran up the stairs to the building.
"Hello Miss how may I help you?" A man in a grey suite came out of the office and into the hallway to meet her. "I'm here to take my college placement exam." Kagome breathed a sigh of relief as she stared at the clock on the wall behind the man. She made it here just in time.
"Haven't you heard? The exam has been rescheduled, they didn't have enough teachers to administer it." Kagome looked at the man in disbelief.
"No this can't be! I studied all night for this exam, and even rushed to get here!" Kagome felt the tears starting to form in her eyes but she didn't dare let them fall. The man could tell she rushed here from how soaked she was from the rain and that she was wearing two different socks. He felt sorry for her and knew she was on the verge of crying. "I'm sorry…How 'bout I give you a ride home." They both glanced outside and seen that the rain wasn't letting up. Thunder shook the sky as flashes of lightening came right after, and strong gusts of wind joined in.
"No It's ok, I came here on my bike so I'll leave on my bike."
Kagome walked out of the building ignoring the pounding rain beating down on her. "Wait, Where's my bike?" Kagome looked around for her bike but it was nowhere around. "I parked it right here!" The man walked up behind Kagome and placed an umbrella over her head.
"Sweetheart let me take you home, I'd feel guilty leaving you here in such weather." Kagome turned her head away from the man and stomped her foot in a big puddle that was forming beside them. She was crying but with it raining no one would know right?
She walked from under the umbrella and followed the man to his car, letting the rain pour down on her face washing her tears away. Kagome gave the man directions to her house, and as he began to drive, she decided to check her phone. There right in her face were text messages from all of her friends telling her that the exam was rescheduled. Some even called and left voice messages. If only she had checked her phone, she wouldn't be in this predicament. Kagome turned off her phone and stared out the window as the man neared her house. This had to be the worst day of her life.
"What the hell is wrong with her! And where's Shippo!" Inuyasha was pacing back and forth trying to figure out what was going on. How could all of this have happened overnight? And where was he? Inuyasha couldn't recall anything that occurred last night, it was like someone erased part of his memory.
"Calm down Inuyasha, getting worked up won't solve anything." Miroku walked in with all sorts of herbs that he collected around the village.
"There was no sign of Shippo around the village..I wonder where he could have gone to." Inuyasha snatched the basket of herbs from the monk and handed it to Lady Kaede.
"How could he just leave Kagome alone in the middle of the night!"
"Relax, knowing Shippo it had to be something important."
Lady Kaede tried reassuring Inuyasha but he was having none of it.
"What's more important than Kagome!" Everyone looked at Inuyasha amazed that he would say something like that. He blushed realizing what he said.
"I mean without her how are we going to defeat Naraku again?"
Everyone rolled their eyes at him and went back to helping Lady Kaede. Inuyasha couldn't take standing there all day looking at Kagome's lifeless body. Why wouldn't she wake up? What was wrong with her? How long would she be like this? What if she never woke up? That last thought made Inuyasha angry, he couldn't believe he would even think that. Of course she would wake up, she's Kagome, she can get through anything.
"I'm gonna go look for Shippo again, when she wakes up…tell her I'll be back soon." Inuyasha left out running as fast as he could. The wind hitting against his face brought him back to reality. This was all real. Shippo was missing and Kagome wasn't waking up. How could he have let all of this happen? He felt so guilty, he knew he should have slept in the same room with Kagome but she insisted he sleep with Kikyo. Inuyasha began wondering where Kikyo was at. No one even mentioned her name. She was probably out helping some of the sick villagers. Maybe she knew what was wrong with Kagome. "That's it, I'll just go find Kikyo and ask her to help Kagome."
Lady Kaede mixed up the herbs in a kettle as the aroma became stronger. "Ok he's gone."
Sango closed the door and grabbed a bowl of one of Kaede's older brews and held it under Kagome's nose. "If this doesn't wake her up, I'm sure that will." Sango watched Kagome closely to see if the smell had any reaction.
"This one doesn't work either, we need something stronger." Miroku sighed and placed a wet rag on Kagome's head.
"Lady Kaede…what if we can't wake her up?"
No one wanted to face that it was a real possibility that Kagome might never wake up. "I'm working as best as I can, but whoever snuck into her room last night put a very powerful seal on her. I've never experienced something like this before. If none of these can wake her up, then I don't know what will."
" I just hope she wakes up before Inuyasha finds out that someone put a seal on her."
"Indeed, we can't have him running off starting more problems than we already have."
"Well since you're here, I'm guessing that everything went well."
Kikyo eyed the handsome man. Everything about him turned her on. Besides his looks, he was powerful, intelligent, and had the most creative ideas when it came to tormenting people.
"Yes master Aizen everything went well."
"So she's dead?" Naraku walked into the room and took a seat next to Aizen. Kikyo rolled her eyes at the man, angry that he had interrupted her private conversation with master Aizen.
"No…she isn't dead yet!"
"I asked you to do one little job and you couldn't do it! I knew we should have had someone else do it!" Naraku was next to Kikyo in a flash and grabbed her by her hair yanking her head down.
"If that girl doesn't die, then all of our plans will be ruined!" Aizen stood up and gently removed Naraku's hand from Kikyo's head.
"Nonsense, I don't believe that girl is as strong as you make her out to be. Let the girl have some fun with her."
Kikyo smiled at Aizen and nodded in agreement.
"Yes this is quite fun. Who would have known that this Kikyo woman associated with such handsome guys." Naraku grunted in disgust knowing that she was referring to Inuyasha.
"The little school girl won't be getting in the way of anything. I put a seal on her, an unbreakable seal." Aizen eyed Kikyo in amazement.
"Oh is that so? Please tell me more." Kikyo blushed and continued talking. "Her incident with Inuyasha the other night left her in so much despair that it was easy to put the seal on her. Kagome was such a confident and strong-willed little girl, I just had to think of something that would bring her down and devastate her to the point where she would become not only mentally unstable, but physically too. The seal I put on her is the seal of memories. Kagome will relive some of the most worst and depressing moments of her life. But first I had to get rid of all of her memories with Inuyasha. It seems that once she met Inuyasha, everything bad in her life vanished. I couldn't find any bad memories."
"So she has no idea who Inuyasha is?"
"Nope not a clue, not that it matters anyway. Every memory Kagome relives will deal an emotional blow to her heart, taking away from her life. She will soon lose her will to live and dying will seem as her only way out."
"Well done, I didn't know you had such potential."
Aizen applauded Kikyo and gave her one of his signature smiles. Naraku knew how strong Kagome was, and was displeased with knowing that she wasn't dead yet.
"It would have been easier to stab her or even poison her, instead of wasting such time casting spells. The next time you walk in here, I want to hear that she's dead and not fucking sleeping!" Kikyo nodded and walked out of the room. Aizen eyed the items he saw in her bag and smiled.
"Don't worry, she knows exactly what she's doing."
Sorry for the late update! I've been busy lately but I'll be sure to update more often. Hope you liked this chapter, and don't worry I've already started writing the next chapter!
This story is far from being over, and I would like to thank all of you who have read my story, reviewed, and even added it to your favorites. It's because of you all that I continue writing! XOXOXO
