By: Patche
Disclaimer: Do not own Inuyasha… only this story.
Kagura's Prediction
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"I don't know why, but I can't shake this feeling like I'm going straight to hell…" Inuyasha muttered to his best male companion. He and Miroku were on a "man-date" while Kagome and Mayu went around town.
Miroku nodded in understanding as they passed a clothing store stocked full of clothes to satisfy any metro-sexual's style needs. He turned to Inuyasha, silently asking if they could go in the store. Inuyasha sighed. He had the feeling Miroku wasn't really interested in what he had to say.
"I mean, I kissed her!" Inuyasha said to try and emphasize his point. "Isn't that some kind of sin? I'm sure making any sexual advances to an angel would be… which means I'm doomed…" Inuyasha held his forehead.
"It's okay. I am, too." Miroku said, looking over very slim tight red button-up shirts. He held one out to Inuyasha. "You think this is nice?"
'I swear, these 'man-dates' make me feel gayer and gayer every time we go on one…'
"It looks like it's a girl's shirt." Inuyasha said flatly. "Kagome could wear that."
Miroku grinned. "You just want to see Kagome in it, don't you Inu-kun?" Inuyasha huffed in response. "Well, listen," Miroku paused to place the shirt back on its rack. "I don't know how these things work, but if you want it then go for it…"
"What do you mean? There is no going for it. She's dead!" Inuyasha felt like shouting at his friend.
Miroku shook his head, still keeping his eyes out for the perfect shirt. It baffled Inuyasha that they could even have this conversation while the person he was talking to was more intent on finding himself a shirt. "I mean, lavish it while you can. She'll be gone soon enough and you don't know when that time will come and neither does she. Her existence is just as fleeting as anyone else's."
Inuyasha nodded, leaning against the wall while Miroku made his way to the rack of purple shirts.
"Tell me, Inuyasha, did she work that tongue?" Miroku turned to him, beaming.
Before Inuyasha could run over to him to punch him in the face, Miroku's smile faltered.
"You know, you mentioned you were concerned about her gaining all these human qualities… You could go see that whacked-out sister-in-law of yours."
"Kagura?" Kagura was the wife of Inuyasha's brother. Inuyasha never knew when they got married. He wasn't exactly on friendly terms with his brother at that point, not that he ever had been. Kagura graduated from one of the most esteemed universities in the country with a major in astronomy. The woman was so extremely intelligent, it was almost scary. Yet, she'd chosen to pursue tarot card reading and paranormal studies as her career.
It still baffled him that his stoic and cold brother with no patience for anything or anyone could be married to a woman that spent her days bullshitting people's money from their pockets.
"That's the one." Miroku said happily. "I'm sure she could perform one of those séances to discover where Kagome's soul currently resides."
Inuyasha shook his head. "Miroku, she's a washed up fortune teller." The few times Inuyasha and Kagura had ever met; things didn't end up so pretty. One reason could have been that he and his brother never got along. Another reason would be that Kagura had a stubborn and very stuck-up view on things… even for a fortune teller.
"And Kagome is an angel that fell from the sky… What's your point?"
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"But daddy! Why can't I come?" Mayu cried as Inuyasha and Kagome dropped her off with Miroku before they headed out to visit Kagura.
"Miroku really wants to see you, honey. He said he's going to take you to see that new cartoon that just came out. The one with the bunnies and the unicorns…"
"I don't want to see that movie… it's for babies! I want to see Action Crash 5!" Mayu whined from her seat in between Inuyasha and Kagome.
Inuyasha scoffed. "Mayu, that movie's PG-13! You're hardly old enough to watch it…"
"But I'm a big girl now!"
"You're six… that's not big!" Inuyasha shouted as they pulled up in Miroku's driveway. Kagome stepped out of the truck and walked Mayu to the door, leaving Inuyasha in the truck.
She knocked twice on the big oak door to his house and heard the shuffling and the sound of the deadbolts turning… all three of them.
Once the door finally opened and Kagome was greeted with Miroku's pleasant, cheerful face, she inquired about the deadbolts.
"After hearing the news of your killer being on the loose, I just can't be too careful, especially with Sango being home from the hospital finally. Who knows who it could have been…"
"Sango's home?" Kagome asked. "How's she doing?"
Miroku smiled and opened the door a little wider. "She's good. She's taking a nap right now. She'll wake up in time for the movie, though."
Kagome nodded and looked down at the child beside her. "Well, Mayu… We'll see you later, okay?" She said sweetly, bending down to give the girl a hug.
Mayu smiled and wrapped her little arms around Kagome's neck, before bolting off into the house.
"Bye, Kagome. Good luck!" Miroku said, closing the door. Kagome let out a breath and turned to walk back to the truck Inuyasha was waiting in.
"So, this is your sister-in-law?" She asked, after opening the door and climbing onto the black leather seat.
Inuyasha nodded, putting the truck in reverse and backing out of the driveway.
"Yeah. She's married to my brother. She got into all this tarot card reading junk when she was in college and claims to have some extraordinary experience with paranormal things. She met him before I ever did, so I wouldn't know."
"You didn't even know your brother?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha shrugged. "My mom had told me I had a half brother, but the guy's almost twenty years older than me and hated my mom. He never came around to see me. I only actually met him a few years back when Kikyou was pregnant and I was desperate for a job. I saw Taisho Construction was hiring, thought it was a little strange that the place had my last name in its title. I went in to apply for a job and was rushed to his office. Some dude named Myouga was my dad's lawyer apparently and said I should own half the company alongside Sesshoumaru because I am his half brother and it was our father's company. There were a lot of legal issues involving the will, though."
"Like what?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha wrinkled his nose before continuing, "Well, my dad was dead before I was born… in fact, my dad had supposedly been dead for several years before I was born. That's a little odd, but I never delved into it. Anyway, because of this, I was not mentioned in the will because when the will was written I didn't even exist. So, in the will it says 'leave the company to my kin.'"
"Well, you are his kin."
"I wasn't when he wrote the will. That was Sesshoumaru's argument." Inuyasha turned to look at her. She blinked, growing a little angry with his story.
"That shouldn't matter, though. He was clearly referring to any kin, elsewise he would've just said Sesshoumaru."
Inuyasha waved off her side of the argument. "Well, I had a lot on my plate at the time, so I told them that I didn't want half the company. I just wanted a job. If they could just give me that, I'd stay out of all the legal shit."
Kagome nodded and pursed her lips for a moment, staring at the dashboard.
"You look like you're thinking about something…" Inuyasha muttered, looking at her. "What's up?"
"I know what happened to your dad." She said quietly, keeping her eyes locked on the dash.
Inuyasha raised his eyebrows in amusement. "You do? How's that?"
"Your mother told me the stories…" She said, trailing off. "It could actually help a lot with whatever I'm going through right now. I never even made the connection before."
"What are you talking about?" Inuyasha asked, stopping his truck at a red light.
Kagome cleared her throat before beginning. "Well, I'm not the first angel to ever fall to earth. In fact, it's actually a procedure the masters perform often. They'll send a different type of angel through the portal and down to earth to either perform a miracle or fulfill a wish of some sort… or just anything that's important enough."
"But not guardian angels? There are certain types of angels?" Inuyasha interrupted slightly mocking her and slightly in curiosity.
Kagome nodded. "Oh yes. We all have certain jobs to do. Anyway, these angels have been coming down to earth, making miracles all behind the scenes. When angels go through the portals, they make sure that once the angel lands on earth it will not be seen by anyone other than fellow angels."
"Why can we all see you, though?"
"I wasn't supposed to fall through. Angels have to be prepared to jump through and they also have to be the right angels to jump through, otherwise problems arise like in my case. I'm stuck here, slowly turning into a human with no was back other than death. The angels that are made to go through the portals don't have this problem. Once their task is complete, they simply go back up to heaven and no one knows they were here."
Inuyasha nodded, feeling a little ridiculous with this story.
"This thing that's happening to me has happened to two other angels so far. One being InuTaisho, your father."
"My dad was… an angel?" Inuyasha asked, quirking his face in disbelief.
Kagome nodded. "After your brother was born, he was in some terrible accident and died and was sent to heaven. Somehow, he slipped through the portal while one of the miracle angels was coming back and landed on earth in a very human form, much like I did…"
It was a cold, rainy night. He opened his eyes to take in the sight before him. He was in grass… green, wet grass. He could feel it. He hadn't felt anything in so long.
He looked up to see he had landed in front of a small cottage in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere. The rain became more noticeable as he felt goose bumps crawl all over his exposed flesh. He watched a light turn on in the room ahead of him and a woman appeared in the window, looking at him.
She could see him?
He saw her gasp, then disappear into another room. He assumed she was calling the police to come arrest the man that had suddenly appeared in her yard. He looked down at the ground once more. The naked man sitting in her yard…
But just as soon as the woman disappeared, she popped back into his line of sight through the front door, opening it to come outside. He noticed a white robe in her arms as she approached him.
"Excuse me?" She called to him from her porch step. "Sir, are you okay?"
He stood slowly from his place on the ground and looked up at her frightened face. She must have seen his yellow eyes or his fangs or his white hair…
He cleared his throat to speak. "Uh…" He looked around to see if he even recognized his surroundings. "I'm afraid I'm a little lost." He chuckled lightly. With that, the woman's frightened face had been replaced with a calm, yet incredulous look.
He took a few steps towards her, but made sure to move slowly as not to frighten the woman.
"Here…" She said, holding the robe out to him. "At least you won't catch your death. Do you… want to come inside?" She asked him. He could see she wasn't even so sure she wanted him inside the house, but something about him obviously made the woman feel like she could trust the man.
He smiled graciously and took the robe from her, pulling the sleeves over his arms and tying it around his waist. The woman moved back and opened the door even wider, inviting him inside.
He took in the surroundings upon entering the cabin. It was a small house with wooden furniture adorning its floor. He noticed a small fire blazing in the fireplace against the wall. The woman sat down at a table and gestured for him to join her.
With the light in the room, they had a much clearer vision of each other.
"My name is Izayoi." The woman said quietly. "Who are you?" She asked, raising an eyebrow at the strange man.
"I am InuTaisho." He started.
"Very well, InuTaisho… What were you doing buck-naked in my lawn at ten o'clock at night?"
InuTaisho smirked at her fiery attitude. "Well, Izayoi-san… I wouldn't know…"
"Yeah, that sounds really familiar…" Inuyasha murmured.
Kagome giggled and playfully punched him. "Anyway, then they spent numerous hours together and eventually fell in love with each other… as expected and one thing led to another and you somehow wound up on this earth." Inuyasha looked over at her, smiling.
"What? No details?" He asked jokingly.
Kagome blushed. "If I knew them, I wouldn't share them with you, sicko!" Inuyasha laughed and dodged her attempt at hitting him for a second time.
"So, then what?" He asked once Kagome's arms had returned to her side.
Kagome cocked her head to the side. "Well, InuTaisho died… again… in another accident. Izayoi was devastated. She kind of lost her presence after that happened, she'd told me once. She felt so horrible because she knew you needed her, but she just couldn't bring herself out anymore."
"Well, they're together now, so all is well…" Inuyasha muttered.
"I don't know if they're together, though. See, InuTaisho is one of the 'big guys'. He's like the boss of all bosses and has complete control over the portal now. I don't know what he did to work up to that ranking, but he managed. Your mother's always lingering around the guardian angels. I don't think the two would ever come in contact with each other… But they might. I don't really know. It's mysterious that your mother still lingers around us even after the child she watched over died…"
"What about the other one?" Inuyasha inquired.
Kagome perked her head up. "The other what?"
"You said there were two angels that had fallen and become human. One was my father, who was the other?"
"Oh." Kagome shrugged. "I don't know who it was or what happened at all with them. I only know that after InuTaisho another angel had fallen through and become human."
Inuyasha sighed, putting the truck in park. Kagome looked up at the building they had parked in front of. It was clear they weren't in the safest area of town. Inuyasha opened his door and stepped out of the tuck as Kagome did the same, taking in the surroundings.
"Wow… Sesshoumaru doesn't care that his wife works out here? She could be in danger after dark. Inuyasha laughed.
"Kagura can take care of herself. Sesshoumaru knows that." They walked up to the door of the old, run down building, titled "Kagura's Predictions".
Inuyasha pushed open the wooden door and held it for Kagome before letting it fall against its frame. A light chime went off. Kagura appeared at the counter beside the door
"Ah, Inuyasha. You're early…." She murmured, looking Kagome over. "Sesshoumaru said you had a ghost problem… Was it really all that necessary to bring your girlfriend along?"
"She's not my girlfriend. She's the reason we're here…" He said, scratching the back of his neck.
Kagura let out a low 'hmph' before pursing her lips. "Very well, follow me…" She said, leading them to the back of the building and sitting across from them at a large oak table.
"So, what's the deal with her?" Kagura asked, looking bored already with the conversation that hadn't even begun.
"Well, I'm an angel…" Kagome said softly.
One of Kagura's eyebrows twitched in interest, but she maintained her cold and disinterested manner.
"An angel?" She asked with a scoff. "You fell to the ground and what not?"
Kagome nodded.
"Right…" Kagura said.
Inuyasha huffed and slammed his fist on the table. "Listen, Kagura! You work as a psychic telling people that because of the day they were born on, they will make more money than someone else. If you don't want to get paid, that's fucking fine! We can go. We didn't come here to convince you that Kagome fell from the sky. We came here to ask you why she's turning into a human and how we can get her home or keep her here… whatever we have to do!"
Kagome looked up at Inuyasha with wide eyes. Kagura merely snorted.
"Don't get your panties in a twist, Inuyasha. I was just asking the girl what the problem seemed to be."
Inuyasha grumbled and sat back in his chair, crossing his arms.
Kagura let out a sigh then turned to Kagome. "You're becoming human, then?" Kagome nodded in response. "There's no cure, so to speak. She wasn't meant to fall through the portal if she's becoming human. She's just going to live a very short life."
"Why short?" Kagome asked.
"You don't belong here. The god's will call you back the instant you lose your angelic qualities. However, since you were not meant to fall through the portal between our worlds, the portal won't just open up for you. You'll have to die."
Kagome nodded slowly. "So, once my body is fully human again, I'll have to find some way to die? How will I know that I'm completely human, though?"
"It's not in your hands. You'll know because the things that could kill you now that don't… will kill you. They'll keep coming until you're dead." Kagura spoke slowly.
"What kind of things?" Inuyasha asked.
"You plan to protect her?" Kagura asked, laughing pitifully at him. "This is fate, Inuyasha. She can't escape it. It'll be anything all the time. Drowning, car accident, house falling in, earthquake, electrocution… if it can kill someone it will come after her."
Kagome looked over to Inuyasha and noticed his eyes staring blankly at the table before him. She bit her lip before looking up at Kagura.
"Thank you… for all of your help." She smiled as she and Inuyasha stood up.
Kagura didn't smile in return. "Good luck…" She said to them as Inuyasha and Kagome left the building.
"Well that was a waste of time!" Inuyasha shouted once the door was closed behind them. Kagome merely sighed in response.
"She told us a lot, actually."
"Well, I'm just going to have to be careful with you… all the time." Inuyasha said, cracking his knuckles as he spoke and walked to his car.
Kagome gave him a weak smile. "Inuyasha, you can't protect me. This is the way it has to be…"
"Well, you said my dad lived long enough to be with my mom for a while… Who's to say it wouldn't work out even longer? Maybe this transition will take years…"
Kagome shook her head slowly. "Just don't worry about it. I'm not." She looked up and flashed him a weak smile.
"Keh! I don't care what she said. I'm going to at least try." He said as Kagome opened her door.
"Inuyasha!" He heard his name and turned around to face the person calling him.
He gasped at the woman that stood before him.
Her long, black hair was shining in the sun and her dark brown eyes watched him in complete shock.
"Kaede…" Inuyasha breathed.
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A/N
Sorry for the lack of fluff… this chapter was a complete necessity to the plot, though. I wanted to thank everyone that reviewed that God-awful oneshot of mine. It was like two in the morning when I wrote it. Anyway, another update should be coming up soon… a very good update haha. I hope you guys liked this. Thanks for all the reviews thus far!
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Love always
Patche
