Everyone's Dead
Disclaimer I don't own Bleach or Inuyasha, I do own what I am doing with her sword but that's it.
To Flamers hahahaha that was awesome, and the mask will come.
Chapter Eleven
Friday
Kagome lay on her bed, she had slept through dinner last night, and had a late breakfast. She moved slowly, well the constant pain was gone, constraining her aura and power in her body was hard, it fought her every step of the way and made her feel stiff. She knew she had slept more then twelve hours but she still felt exhausted, she knew she need to practice or talk to Shikon, but she didn't want to, she wanted to sleep...
Her eyes flew open, a scream already echoing from her mouth, she stopped screaming, eyes meeting the safe and friendly ceiling of her room. Why had she dreamed of Ichigo's death? And why had she been screaming? Did she really like him so much?
She rolled over on her stomach, the answer was sadly, probably. She laughed a little in to her pillow, here was a crazy half-breed, half in love with the only other of her kind. Life was like that some times. "Hun..." she sighed. Inuyasha would have died laughing had he heard she was a half-breed, hell everyone in the feudal era would have, they would have said that explained why she was so weird.
"Ugh." she sat up on her bed finally ready to go face her sword.
She started to meditate and the moment her mind was settled, she felt something grab her and pull her to her inner world. Her eyes opened and she found she stood in the middle of the clearing next to the well, she smiled everything looked fine, so she began looking for Shikon. Kagome got an evil smirk when she noticed the hollow was still stuck where she had tied it, "Oi! Shikon I know I need to find your form, so get over here!"
"Cocky already... You know sound like him isn't a good thing, think of how hurt he always got."
Kagome turned, it was the first body, the one with the woman's head, "Why does your form change from day to day?"
"Kagome again with the questions... Think about it, what is my name? what's around your neck? Now answer your own question."
Kagome thought about, the jewel was around her neck, her sword was named after the jewel, proving she was the protector of the jewel, and the jewel was constantly at war with it's self even if her presences helped Midoriko. "So your saying your form is in flux because the jewel is in my possession?"
"That is it."
"oh... So do you care about how your form is always changing?"
"No. It is what it is, my sword form is constant, and that is all I need."
"Oh, right, back on track how will I find you?"
"Well, normally you would have to leave your body and be in soul form and then you would have a normal sword and with some fights and practice you would learn to release me, but you aren't normal... You haven't done anything normally, hell your soul has already learned how to leave, but that is not going to help with learning to use me... no I have to start by teaching you how to materialize your soul outside of your body..."
Then Shikon added, after seeing her confused look, "Basically how to turn your body inside out."
"Okay that sounds gross but I know that's not really what you meant. So how am I supposed to do this?"
"Start by expanding your aura, it needs to loosely woven, like a net, then you need to pull it back against your skin and if you do it right you'll be in Shinigami form."
"That sounds simple enough," after she said that and saw the smirk on her sword's face she had a sinking feeling that she had spoken too soon.
With in five minutes she knew this would take awhile. Four hours later she called it quits and headed for the bathroom, she wanted a shower and a break. She sighed, she enjoyed the feeling of hot water beating down on her back, before long she began to think about what she had to be doing wrong. Ever since her sword sent her back to her room to practice, as she couldn't do this in her inner world, she had this half feeling of wrongness. It was like she was over looking something obvious, something that was calling out to her. What was it?
That was when it accrued to her, she was trying too hard, she was weaving it too tightly, she was treating it like she had learning to use her armor at will, she had to trust her power and use it as it used her. She grinned, her hair was washed and now she knew what to do. She climbed out of the tub slowly, her aura was even easier to use, but it still pressed heavily in to her joints and burned hot in her heart, when she was confining it to her body.
Once dressed in clean PJs she headed for her room only to run into her Father, "Kisuke what are you doing?" she asked, because she could see he was trying to open her seal on the door.
"OH! Ha ha ha, Funny thing, I was just wanting to check on you..."
"Why were you trying to brake in to my room?"
"Kagome I am not trying to brake in to your..."
"Save it Kisuke, I can see where you were prying off my sutra."
"Speaking of which, why is there a sutra on your door?"
"Kisuke I grew up on a shrine..." she shook her head pityingly, "And I found putting one up meant Souta couldn't break in to my room without me knowing."
He stared at her, he clearly only half believed her, and she couldn't quite blame him, he was wondering if she hadn't powered them with her spirit energy, how had it zapped his fingers?
She watched him go down the hall, maybe she felt a little bad about lying to him, but it was only a little, besides it was so much fun bewildering him. She broke her seal effortlessly, and went in, putting the barrier back up. She stood relaxed, in the center of her room, she expanded her aura and then pulled it to her body. For a second she saw the black uniform appear over her silky PJs before fading away, "YES!" she pumped her fist in the air, she was close.
With in the next ten tries she had done it and held it for almost a minute. She allowed herself a victory dance, then almost fell over when she got a head rush from using her power so differently.
Then she sat down, and entered her inner world.
"Okay Shikon I've done it, but I didn't have a sword."
"What do you mean you didn't have a sword?"
"I mean I didn't have one," Kagome said, feeling frustrated.
"Hun... Kagome go back out, become a Shinigami, then meditate in that form or try to draw it like it's there, you might be able to call me that way."
"Okay," and Kagome woke up. She stood, stretched and then called her Shinigami form to herself, it worried her how long it took to form around her, she would have to focus on being able to call for it faster, after she found her sword. She slowly sat down, concentrating on keeping her form, once settled got comfortable, and thought about a sword and wear she'd keep it, would she wear on her left hip like Inuyasha kept Tetsusaiga? Or on her right hip? Across her low back? Where would she wear it? What felt natural?
Even as she wondered, half lost in thought she reached for her back and felt a sword grip in her hand, it shocked her out of her half conscious state and she felt the handle dissolve in her hand. At first she felt a thrill she had been so close! But she hadn't done it... but having it across her back shouldn't surprise her, she had taken to wearing the two fangs across her back, she hadn't wanted both of them on her hip, she was afraid of them getting tangled in her legs or something.
She grinned, she could wear all three on her back, this would work. Then she laughed, the only other person she knew of to have three swords was Inuyasha's father, that was a laugh. She could be The Great Priestess. She laughed harder, she would have loved to have told Souta that one, or even Sango or Shippo, her laugher died away, she missed them so.
A knock on her door startled her, she stood and answered it. It was Ururu with her dinner, "Thanks again Ururu-chan."
"Your welcome Kagome-chan." The two girls smiled at the other before Ururu left heading for the dinning room, Kagome smiled a little before closing the door and sealing it. Then it hit her, Dinner? She looked at the clock, it was past seven already. "hun, must have slept through lunch."
She sat down with the tray and dug in, she was starved.
Once she finished she put it back outside the door and went back to work, she would hold the transformation for two minutes this time. It took her another two hours to push it out to ten, it was funny. She had, had so much trouble in the beginning, but now it was natural, it was just coming to her. Kagome fell back limply, on to her bed, once again she was just ready to pass out. She was disappointed she still hadn't been able to see Shikon's form as a sword, but it felt like it was just a normal sword in size, with no strange edges, but the weight was different from any other sword she had felt before, she sighed, she would see it tomorrow.
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Ichigo sighed, he was home, and had two days to do what he wanted, before he was once a slave to system called school. Then his dad attacked, Ichigo back-handed him in to the wall, "Good one my son..."
"What-ever," he continued on his way to his room he need to study, in his six weeks off training, he had fallen behind a bit. But he didn't want to study, he wanted to be out finding Kagome. He sat down at his desk, and banged his head against it, "ouch..."
"Wow, King that was pointless," and then his hollow laughed at him.
""Shut it Horse!""
He pulled out his home work and got started, two hours later his sister can to get him, "Ichigo come get dinner!"
He looked up, that went fast, he closed his books went down stairs he sat down, only to be interrogated by his sisters.
"Ichigo are your friends going to join us?" Yuzu asked, at the same time as Karin's "What bit you?"
He sighed, and grabbed his food, and left. He had no desire to take his frustration out on his little sisters, but he was very frustrated, so much so, he was pretty sure if they continued to question him, he would yell something he would regret.
He ate slowly, he returned his dishes down stairs, and then headed up for a shower. An hour later, he got out and went to relax in his room only to find Rukia was back, "Ichigo!"
He was unable to stop his reflexive jump away from her, "God Rukia. Why'd you need to yell?"
"If you had been paying attention, I wouldn't have."
"Well it is my room," he snapped. Then he was taken aback by her worried look, "What?" he asked, well she stared at him.
"Ichigo what's bothering you?"
He sighed, and flung himself on his bed, rolling on to his back to stare at the ceiling, "It doesn't matter."
She hit him, "Of course it does Dumbass!"
"Ouch, and it doesn't matter Rukia, so drop it." He crossed his hands under his head trying not to get mad at her for hitting him, hell it was only bothering him because he was so... Okay he was mad, and not just a little, at the moment he just wanted to be left alone and with her there, there was no way he would get that.
"Ichigo, tell me," she said, raising her hand to hit him again, "Or I'll hit you."
He sat up frustration bubbling up in him, "You can't help, so drop it."
She went to hit him, only for him to catch her hand, "Rukia. Get. Out." He was well aware he was contemplating violence if she didn't go. At the moment it didn't matter they were friends, she was pissing him off, and he was tried of taking her crap. He was pretty sure she could see it in his eyes too, because she backed away after he dropped her hand and she mumbled something about staying with Orihime.
After she was gone, he laid back down, and exhaled sharply. He had just threatened a friend, he snorted, he just might strangle Kagome when he saw her next, she had got him all tangled up, to the point where no one was safe.
"Don't joke about that King."
""Why not?"" he mentally snarled.
"Because we would be forced to fight, I won't let you hurt her."
He was silent, that was strange... his hollow telling him it would protected her? That didn't quite fit with what he knew of hollows, or even inner hollows. Of course he was pretty sure he was the only who's hollow had come back after the fight for who was in charge of the body... It was official, he had no clue what was going on.
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Ichigo sat up, someone had just entered his room, he knew some where in his mind that he should be worried, but it didn't quite seem to matter he just sat on the bed waiting. She came towards him, stepping in to the shadow of light that came in through his window from the street light outside, "Kagome..." Ghosted from his lips, why was she here? Part of his mind wondered even as he accepted her presences.
Then she began to strip, first her shirt, it was thrown to the side, landing by his desk. Then she took her time unbuttoning her jeans, then the rasp of a zipper filled the air. As Ichigo watched her strip for him, he found his mouth was very dry, and he wasn't blinking, he was to afraid if he did, she would disappear.
Then clad in just simple white bra, and panties that rode low on her hips, she stepped over to him, a faint smile on her lips. Ichigo reached for her, he found as he scooted to the very edge of the bed his normally loose PJ bottoms tight and constraining.
She knelt on the floor, and Ichigo found himself grabbing her face and pulling her in for a deep kiss, she hadn't even touched him, and he felt if he didn't touch her now he was shrivel up and die for the want of her.
Their tongues tangling, her hands slid up his arms, where he had grabbed her, then she began tracing his scars on his shoulders. He broke the kiss, hissing a little as her fingernails dug in, then she sat up further, pressing her breasts into his bare chest, both of them moaned a little at the new contact. Then she initiated the kiss, and with a grin he let her take control, only now he was after a little revenge, he slid his hands over her shoulders, his right one stopping to peruse her scar, then he ran both of them down her spine, chuckling as she shivered.
But once he reached the edge of her undies, he run his hands over her ass lightly, then came back and started to knead her generous ass. She broke the kiss with a moan, head tilting back baring her throat, he laughed delighting in her responses, and began kissing his way down her throat, pulling her closer to him, she embraced him, running a hand through his hair.
"Ichigo... huu!" Her gasp filled his ears as he nibbled her earlobe, "Yes?" he mumbled in her skin.
"More," and using her hands she pulled his hair till he was looking into her dazed eyes, before she mashed her lips with his, their tongues began to struggle for dominance, he pulled her up, making her straddle his straining arousal.
He brought his hands up to her still covered breasts, and just as he was going to slid his hands under the wire, he woke up.
""Damn IT!"" he took a deep breath, damn it!
He was painfully hard, he rolled on his side ignoring his urge to keep swearing, Should he get up and take cold shower?
Na, he wasn't nearly as bad off as he had been Tuesday, he'd just lay here till he was comfortable again, after all, he was almost use to this now... He laughed at himself. Dreams like that and you haven't even kissed her or held hands with her, hell your not even dating.
He sighed, he wished he knew what she tasted like, it was painful to know it was just a fantasy. But what was worse was knowing he would never ever get to go that far with her, hell the moment he told her the truth, she was almost certain to go running for the hills, and he didn't blame her. Hell was he in her shoes, he would run as far and as fast as he could. He lay there dreaming about what might have been if he wasn't who he was, needless to say it would take him a long time to fall asleep
xoxoxoxo Saturday xoxoxoxo
Kagome woke up on time for the first time in more then a week, she smiled, today was the day she could feel it, today she would see Shikon. She got up and for the first time in almost a week ate breakfast with everyone else, all of them were glad to see her looking better, but conversation seemed a little stilted, Kagome figure it had to do with them getting use to talking freely again. As soon as she was done she got up, and left, heading for her room, she couldn't wait to see her sword.
Once there she expanded her aura, and pulled it back, quickly. Even if she still couldn't hold it very long, she could change in less then five seconds now. In her Shinigami from she reached for the handle and called out "Answer my call Shikon No Tama!" in one smooth motion she drew it.
She held the sword out examining it; It was a bastard style sword, but it seemed to be made of crystal, some sort of pink crystal with a faintly purple core, the hilt was wrapped in violet ribbons, but the pommel was strange, it had a small three finger wide hole in the circle of metal, it was wrapped in the same violet ribbons as the hilt, but they tied off, two ends trailing from the pommel. She smiled, the sword was perfect. Then she started to dance, she had found Shikon's form and it was AWESOME!
Then her Shinigami form and her sword faded away, she stopped dancing, she would have to learn to hold it longer then that. She went to work on holding it longer...
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Ichigo sighed, he had no clue how he had gotten suckered in to this, sure he felt bad about how he had treated Rukia in the light of day, but he wasn't really sorry, so how had he ended up being forced to treat everyone to a movie?
He sighed, staring at the screen, and if he had to treat everyone to a movie why did it have to be a stupid kid one?
He looked over at the other guys, Ikkaku and Yumichika both looked bored, but Renji actually seemed into it, it almost made sense too, that was the scary part. All the girls were loving it though, lucky Hitsugaya got to skip out, he would have died of embarrassment, even thought he was the only one who would have fit in.
Ichigo sank lower in his seat, he would die if anyone from school saw him, die. He would rather be looking pointlessly for Kagome, then be here, hell if he was out looking he might actually get some where, here, well he was just wasting his time.
After an hour and half the painful cuteness it was over. The seven of them walked out, the girls were cheerfully talking about the main character and how cute it was, Ichigo still wasn't clear whether it was a boy or girl, but a different sort of conversation was going on with the boys.
"Ichigo what was the point of that movie?" Yumichika asked, before continuing, not waiting for an answer. "I saw many things of beauty but what was the point? Do mortals spend their time watching nothing but beautiful things?"
Ichigo sighed, "Yumichika that was a kid's movie, there are far better movies."
"But that was a good movie," Renji half heartedly said, as the other three guys stared at him.
"Ichigo when you say kid's movie, you mean there are Adult movies?" Ikkaku asked sounding interested for the first time all day.
Ichigo blushed, brushing off the idea of porn, he answered; "Yeah I know I like to go see the action movies..." or I did, he added to himself. When was the last time he had gone to see a movie because he wanted to? The answer was it had almost been a year, he had gone to see an action movie with his dad shortly after rescuing Rukia, then soon after Bount showed up, and then he had gotten busy training for the war. Wow, it had been a long time since he had just had fun, of course this didn't count.
"ICHIGO Let's see it again!" Rukia called.
"No," he had payed once, he wouldn't again, besides if he was going to watch another movie it would be action.
"Come on Ichigo!" she whined again.
He rolled his eyes, "Rukia the answer is no, if you want to see it again pay for yourself, mean while I'm going to watch... That." he said, pointing to a movie poster on the wall. It looked promising, the poster showed a high speed car chase, and two different explosions, and a pretty girl lead.
"Not as pretty as our girl," his hollow growled.
Ichigo didn't even bother answering, he, Ikkaku, and Yumichika all left to get in line to buy tickets, Ichigo forced himself to ignore what he heard while walking away.
"What has gotten into Ichigo?" Orihime asked.
"Yeah what did you do to piss him off Rukia?" Matsumoto chipped in.
"I Don't Know! Thats why he kicked me out last night, is I asked and when he didn't answer I asked again, and then he just kicked me out. But I have no clue, nothing has change recently to make him act like this." Rukia said loudly.
Ichigo snorted to himself, honestly they made it sound like he was dating her, like that would ever happen. Not to mention she was trying to make him sound like the bad guy, she threatened him, he just had, had enough. He paused, that really summed up how he was feeling, he didn't want to watch some dumb movie again to make them happy, he wasn't going to take Rukia's crap, and he wanted to see the damn action movie, which if you thought about it was funny, he wanted to watch a movie that was kinda like his life, for fun.
He shook his head, as he bought the tickets, he would do this for himself, he wouldn't think about anything but the movie.
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Kagome rocked back on her heels, panting. She was in her inner world because, when she had gone to train trying hold the transformation longer, Shikon had mention training with her here, would help with that. Kagome had to say she almost regretted it, her sword was pommelling her, training sessions with Tetsusaiga not with standing.
"You know it's because I'm part of you," Shikon said answering her thoughts.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I know your weaknesses, I am doing this so you use me as you should."
"Oh..." Kagome figured as reason for beating her up it was a good one, "Hey Shikon, will my injuries show up in the real world?"
"In this case no... there will be times, when I believe they will, but for this time no."
Kagome was unable to stop her shiver, it was creepy the way her normal face and neck just blended into the demon horde, it was down right disturbing to watch her gesture as she talked, a tentacle here, a spider's leg here.
"Kagome, you are not paying attention to me."
Kagome blushed, "Sorry..."
Her sword sighed, "Kagome I... you know how Tetsusaiga is, he will want you to use him when you fight, and I won't be left behind, so you need to learn to fight with two swords."
Kagome gaped at her, one sword was hard enough but two? Then as she really thought about it, even if it would take a lot of work she liked the idea, "How are the two of you going to train me when I can only talk to one of you a time?"
"Make a replica, and I'll work with you for now, next time your out with him, try holding your form well you work with him."
Kagome grinned, there was a plan! Then her shoulders drooped, "More homework... ughn..." then her head shot up, when the sounds of bell like laughter surrounded her, "Shut it! It isn't funny!" at the complaint her sword actually fell over she was laughing so hard.
Kagome got an evil glint in her eyes, "Fine..." and she attacked, slashing at Shikon, who barely rolled out of the way.
"That's it. No mercy!" her sword growled rolling to her feet."Don't give them time to out think you attack! Don't hesitate!"
They locked swords, Shikon smirking, the glow of violence in her eyes, Kagome's face merely reflected determination to win. Kagome bore other wounds from earlier, a slice on her shoulder, a cut across her forehead, a gash running from her elbow to the back of her hand, a torn pant leg where she had dodged, stopping Shikon from crippling her.
As both of them pushed trying to force the other back, Shikon let go of her version of the sword, to punch Kagome back. Kagome reeled, allowing Shikon the upper hand, the fight ended for a moment with Shikon's sword along Kagome's throat.
"Okay, you win, let me up so I can make that replica." Kagome said.
"Kagome," Shikon sighed, before pulling her up, "Kagome you said you wanted Keigo to be firmer in his determination to win a fight, and I must say the same of you. Don't let your doubts cross your mind for a moment. Don't even blink when your hurt. I gave you a slim opening when I punched you but you didn't move fast enough to win with it, never hesitate again!"
Kagome scowled, "Don't boss me around sword, I will learn."
Shikon grinned, "You'd better, or I'll help her," she jerked her head towards Kikyo, "Escape."
Kagome attacked, "I Don't Like THREATS!" her voice gaining volume, as they parried and blocked. But this time she didn't give, she pinned Shikon to a tree before knocking the sword aside, and leveling hers at her heart. Then she let her up, "Better." Shikon applauded.
"Now make a Tetsusaiga."
Kagome sat down, a crossed her legs, a held out her hand, then she closed her eyes picturing Tetsusaiga. She started with Tetsusaiga's hilt, she felt it materialize in her hand, she clenched her fist around it, and started crafting the blade. When she thought she was done she opened her eyes to find a perfect replica of the sword, she grinned up at Shikon, who merely looked at the sword, her nose wrinkled.
Kagome laughed, "You are possessive aren't you?"
Shikon stiffened, "You would be too, if you were me."
"Well luckily I'm not!"
"Back on your feet, we start your training with two swords now."
Kagome groaned at the smirk her sword shot her, "Your going to make me sorry aren't you."
Shikon didn't bother answering, and they started. Kagome found it hard, she was used to using both hands well fighting on one sword, and well this hurt her style, she quickly figured out how to brace both swords against Shikon's one, and when she thought she was pinned, she lashed out with Tetsusaiga.
They broke apart, "Good you have quickly grasped the advantage and the problem of having two different swords," Shikon said, panting just a little.
Kagome nodded, she didn't have the breath to talk back.
"Again."
They flew at the other, sparring continuing.
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Finally Kagome could no longer fight, Shikon sent her to the real world for dinner, once there, back in her room. Kagome fell over, she wasn't sure she had the strength to eat dinner. She rolled over to look at her clock, it was seven thirty, she had spent almost all day in her inner world.
And the moment she realized this, she realized she need to pee, badly. She jumped to her feet, pulled her aura in, and then paused. It wasn't the fight it had been for the last week, it was still harder then it should be, but it was really close to what she said it had to be, for her to go back to school. "Cool." I'll have to check how long I can hold my Shinigami form, now. And then she dashed out of her room running for the bathroom, she breezed past her Father who was poised to knock on the door, he barley dodged when she ran past and he called after her, "Kagome dinner's done!"
"I'll be there in a minute!" she answered, before slamming the door behind herself. After she done in the bathroom she blushed, talk about embarrassing, she walked in the dinning room and apologized. Her Father brushed it off, "We were a little concerned when you didn't answer your door for lunch."
"Sorry, I slept through your knocks, I only woke up five minutes ago."
They nodded and the rest of dinner was silent, once she finished she left them she needed to sleep so she would be ready for tomorrow's training. She had a shower and brushed her teeth, and headed to her room locking it up again, the moment she fell on her bed, she was asleep.
