Chapter 14

Kagome always liked bathing. It can give time to think, or just wash away worries. Stepping out of a nice warm bath is always one of the nicest feelings in the world and Kagome probably missed this the most out of all the luxuries of her time.

Drying her hair with a towel, she sat in front of her desk and booted up her computer. Sure the internet wasn't that reliable and it can come up with the most bizarre of stories, but it is a myth she's looking into so might as well look it up there. The closest library was still an hour's travel away anyway.

"Jack Frost? Time travelling? What should I look up?"

"Nee-chan!" Loud banging was heard from the door. Souta came running as soon as he heard his nee-chan was back.

"You're back! Why didn't you tell me you were back? Did Inuyasha come with you?""Missed you too." Kagome ruffled his hair that earned him an adorable glare.

"So, what are you doing back so soon?" Souta entered her room despite her complaints and sat on her bed.

"That makes me feel like you don't want me back" she glared at her room's intruder before sitting back at her desk.

"I'm actually looking up some things. Maybe you'd know about it, it's supposedly a children's fairy tale." She sat back and turned her screen to him. He was a kid after all, maybe he knew.

"Jack Frost? The snow elf?" Souta looked into her search results and choked at a laugh.

"Did that website just say Jack Frost is a girl and seduces people into the forest in the winter to kill them?" At this point, he was practically rolling in her bed, holding his stomach in laughter.

"I take it, you know about him."

"Yeah, Jack Frost who nips at your nose? He used to be a snowman in the stories but a game recently came out where he's a character. My friend has it, was his gift from Santa Claus last year."

"Uhuh and your game is more reliable than the internet." Kagome rolled her eyes.

"It's a game from Santa! Who better to learn about myths from? Let me show you, I actually borrowed it for the night." Before she could say anything, he was out the door.

"Santa, huh?" She smiled at her brother's innocence.

"Here!" He shoved a handheld into her hands and sat next to her, handling the device.

Opening up the character list, Souta pointed at a blue clad white haired boy. While this character had elfish ears and a regal tunic instead of a hoody, the similarities were uncanny. Although she can't quite imagine Jack in regal clothing and a billowing cape.

"You see? He's a snow elf. He's comrades with Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, Cupid, Father Time and others. He's actually pretty strong, but not as strong as Father Time of course, that guy's a beast. He overcame the biggest disadvantage for mages, the cooldown. The game is pretty much broken because of him..." Souta went on and on about the game but Kagome was just staring at the elf, Jack Frost.

He mentioned a Father Time too.

"What's this game called?" Kagome interjected, disrupting her brother's rant on how the game was unbalanced because Santa was a monster tank.

"Hmm? It's called 'Guardians of Childhood', wanna give it a try?"

"I'm sure it would be fun, but it's time for dinner". Kagome chuckled at her brother's disappointed look but ushered her out the door nonetheless.

Taking note of it, she soon followed suit.

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"Hey Kirara, you seem to be familiar with that weirdo. How do you know him?" Jack glanced at Kirara, flying beside him. She had wanted him to ride on her back but Jack refused. Now, she was flying closely, keeping watch of any possible danger.

"Right, only yes or no questions." Jack mentally sighed.

"Is he strong?"

A nod

"Stronger than me?"

Another nod.

"Hey! How can you say that without hesitation? You don't even know how strong I really am. I'm really strong you know!" Jack made a show of flexing his muscles only to receive a bored look from Kirara.

"That strong, huh?" Jack was beginning to worry. That weirdo didn't look like one to joke around. He may really come for him in three days.

"Why are things getting so complicated? I'm not just lost, stuck in the past, and possibly turning into something else, I just have to have a strong weirdo coming after me too?" He sighed again. He's been doing that a lot. He's going to turn into a grump like Bunny if this goes on. What he wouldn't give to freeze that annoying cottontail right now.

"Well, no use getting all sentimental now." Lightly slapping his face to get sad thoughts off his mind, he brightened up.

"What do you say we find some children to play with?" Jack suggested, wiggling his eyebrows at his companion.

Kirara saw the sparkle of mischief in the winter child's eyes and couldn't help but roll her eyes which only made Jack laugh out loud.

"Come on!" Jack sped through the skies bringing with him the sound of laughter and Kirara just shook her head. This was her chosen partner, she wasn't abandoning him over village children and child's play.

Although she did wish the village they found wasn't hostile.

A/N: Posting a little too early :3

inuyasha16451: I'm trying to keep everything platonic, for Jack at least. For everyone else, it's gonna be too hard not to put a little romance here and there :3 It won't be the focus of the story though.

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