SPOILER ALERT This chapter contains spoilers for Inu Yasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler. This chapter reveals much of Inu Yasha's past.
"Lady Suko, I'm shocked you can still fight after all these years." Takun mocked Suko as she swiped at him with a dagger. He barely avoided her as she lunged at him and tried to hit him with everything she could. Kagome could see a look unfamiliar in her mother's eyes. It was a look of determination that anyone from the group would know that it was the same look Inu Yasha had when he finished off Naraku. She was determined to kill him, at any costs, for the one she loves. Inu Yasha decided to give Suko some support, and drew Tetsusaiga as he ran near Takun and Suko.
Meanwhile, Kagome wasn't idle. She had started to run after her mother, but was stopped when she noticed a dark arrow headed for her. She quickly dodged it before she summoned the sword her father had made for her before she was born. When she was close enough to the evil miko, she drew it quickly, and slashed her as she unsheathed it. It didn't transform, unlike Inu Yasha's, but it was incredibly sharp and Kagome had a plan. Kikyou managed to dodge most of the attack, resulting in a sleeve being ripped off. Kagome smirked as she stabbed at the miko.
"You know, I found out that I'm not your reincarnation after all." Kikyou was slightly shocked at Kagome's words, but didn't show it much. She dodged again as Kagome slashed at her again. "In fact, we're both reincarnations of Midoriko. Her soul wasn't entirely sealed into the Jewel." Kagome continued her relentless assault on Kikyou, never giving her enough space or time to use her arrows, miko energy, or even time to think.
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Mirouku, Sango, Shippou, Kaida, Kirara, and ten unknown demons dressed in black stood back out of the fighting as Inu Yasha and Suko fought against Takun and Kagome battled Kikyou. They were about to jump in and help Kagome when, from out of nowhere, an arrow landed in front of them. They turned and saw about a hundred demons, advancing towards them. Shippou and Kaida paled when they saw them.
"Kaida, go get Sesshoumaru. We'll need him. We can't hold back that many demons for long." Mirouku told Kaida in a hushed voice. She nodded before taking off in a blur towards the setting sun.
"Let's just hope she can make it in time." Sango said quietly as she unstrapped her boomerang.
"Until the calvary shows up, we've got to make do." Mirouku said as he held the staff he got from Tori in a fighting position. Shippou nodded silently as he sat upon Kirara's head. The demons in black prepared their various weapons.
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"Inu Yasha! Back off!" Suko growled at said person as they attacked Takun.
"Not a chance! You weren't there to fight Naraku, you don't know what he's capable of." Inu Yasha yelled back at Suko as he prepared to use his Kaze no Kizu on the evil lord. He was cut off by Suko.
"You two need to work together!" Kagome told them as she leapt back from the evil Kikyou. She had somehow managed to get an arrow and she now held it ready to fire at Kagome. Kagome leapt into the area Suko, Inu Yasha, and Takun were fighting in. She saw Kikyou release her arrow, and took a chance. She grabbed Takun by the arm and threw him in the path of the arrow. Before he knew what was going on, the dark arrow hit him. But, instead of purifying him like Kagome's arrows would, it seemed to strengthen him.
"I was afraid of that!" Kagome said before quickly leaping out of Takun's way as he headed straight towards her. Inu Yasha intercepted him as Kagome leapt away to go after Kikyou again.
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It was a long, hard battle. Sesshoumaru showed up and helped out everyone fighting Takun's army. Kagome managed to defeat Kikyou, and then tried to help out her mother and fiance, but her energy gave out and all she could do was use her bow and arrows to shoot miko-power-less arrows. Suko managed to get Takun's Jewel Shard away from him and wound him severely, thanks to Kagome. Inu Yasha wounded Takun so that he couldn't move and was about to finish him off when Suko stopped him.
"Inu Yasha! Wait! He still hasn't told us where Tori is!" She yelled at him. Inu Yasha nodded before holding his fathers sword to Takun's neck.
"Where is he?" Takun just smirked at him. Suko growled at him and held her own dagger dangerously close to something every guy values. Takun paled a bit as the dagger inched closer and closer.
"One of my castles." He said, almost breathlessly, for the Tetsusaiga was less than an inch from his throat.
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"Lord Inu Yasha! Lady Suko! Lady Kagome! You've returned!" Myouga yelled as he promptly attached himself to Inu Yasha's nose. Inu Yasha's eye twitched before he swatted the flea demon. The gang had been on their way back to the village, and Myouga found them in the forest.
"You didn't think we wouldn't, did ya?" Kagome asked, mockingly. Myouga just sweat dropped and tried to change the subject.
"Were you successful in beating the Northern lord?"
"Yes. We won't have any more problems from him." Suko replied.
"My Lady, where is Lord Tori?" He asked hesitantly.
"Somewhere in the North. That's all we could get from Takun." Kagome had managed to land a hit with an arrow and it tore the paper with the directions to Tori to shreds.
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"Momma, what do you think of a wedding in the future?" Kagome asked her mother as they looked over a few drawings Kagome had done. The two were planning Kagome's and Inu Yasha's human wedding in Keade's hut. Kagome wanted it to be a mix of her own creation and American customs while Suko wanted a traditional one. "That way we can both win. We'll have a wedding like one from this era here, while we have an American one there."
"That might actually work. What do you think, Inu Yasha?" Inu Yasha was sitting in his corner, as usual, trying to think of someway to get out of helping plan.
"Whatever you two decide." He said quietly.
"If you want out of planning so bad, why didn't you ask? You can go help Mirouku with Keade's errands." Kagome smirked as Inu Yasha breathed a sigh of relief. Little did he know he'd be stuck following the old lady around carrying herbs for her while Mirouku got it easy by patrolling the area. "So, we'll have a wedding here that you get to plan, and we'll have one in the future that I get to plan. Right?" She asked her mother, making sure that's what they were going to do.
"Exactly. But we'll keep both small. Only the people closest to us." Suko agreed. Kagome then smirked.
"That means that Grandpa will have to put up with having four half-demons in the house."
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"Souta! Dad! I'm home!" Suko called out as she, Kagome, Inu Yasha, and Tori entered the backdoor to the house. Kagome, Suko, and Tori all looked human. Souta yelled from the living room and came running out into the hall.
"Mom! You're back!" He hugged his mother before noticing Kagome and Inu Yasha.
"Kagome! Inu Yasha! I didn't think you'd come back!" He hugged both while Suko's dad, Keiji, entered the hallway from his room. He glared at Inu Yasha before turning to the person he didn't recognize.
"Who are you?" Tori looked at the other three before looking at Keiji.
"I'm Tori." He said cooly, although he knew Suko was glaring at him, silently telling him he would pay later. Keiji was about to say something, when Souta interrupted.
"I'm Souta! Would you play video games with me?" He looked at Tori eagerly, hoping he would be more fun than Inu Yasha.
"Sure." Tori lucked out by having Souta there, because Keiji wouldn't do anything to make the truth come out about what he is. Keiji huffed a bit before walking up to the other three after Souta and Tori left to the living room.
"Why did you bring him back here?"
"Grandpa, I'm not about to let my dad miss my wedding." Kagome told him before pulling Inu Yasha into the living room to avoid any shouting and arguments. Keiji stood in shock.
"I'll start fixing supper then." Suko said after a few minutes, breaking the silence between her and her father, before she practically ran off to the kitchen.
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"Let's see, I'm inviting Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi, of course. And..." Kagome sat with a pencil in her mouth staring down at the notebook in front of her. She had written Guest List in big letters across the top of the page, and her three best friends names under it. "Who else?" Kagome was in her room, at her desk, with Inu Yasha sitting on her bed.
"It would crush Houjou, so I don't think I'll let the others tell him until after we've gone back." She chewed on the end of her pencil some more. "Maybe Cousin Yusuke and Aunt Asuko would come." She muttered but then quickly shook her head. "That idiot would ruin it, and neither would probably show up anyways." Neither of the two were actually blood relations to her, but she'd always known them as family.
"Crap! I don't know of anyone else to invite." Kagome said out loud before she dropped her head onto her desk.
"There's not anyone else you know of that would come? Any more family?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Well..." Kagome thought for a moment. "There's Grandmother's side of the family, but we can't exactly invite them."
"Why not?"
"Because, if they found out that you were Sesshoumaru's younger brother, and I'm Tori's daughter, they would flip." Kagome said plainly while looking up at Inu Yasha.
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"Hi. Is Ayumi there?" Kagome spoke into the telephone. "Hey Ayumi. It's Kagome. Listen, will go meet me at the shrine? Yeah, it's important. No, I'm perfectly fine. Listen, I'll explain everything when you get here, but I've got to call Yuka and Eri. No! I mean, don't call Houjou. Just come over, alright? Okay, bye!" Kagome sighed as she hung up the phone. She then picked it back up and called Yuka.
"Hi. Is Yuka there? She isn't? Is she at Eri's? Alright, I'll call over there then. Thank you. Goodbye." She hung up and called Eri's house.
"Hi. Is Eri or Yuka there?" She waited as Eri told Yuka to go pick up the other phone so they could both talk. "Hey. Do you think you can come meet me over here at the shrine? It's really important. Yeah, Ayumi's already on her way. No, don't call him. It's private. Alright, bye you two!" Kagome hung up the phone before going into the living room, where Suko, Tori, Keiji and Inu Yasha were.
"All three are on their way."
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"Hey Kagome!" Eri shouted out a greeting to her friend as she ran up the Higurashi Shrine steps, with Ayumi and Yuka not too far behind her. Kagome was standing next to the well house, waiting on them with Inu Yasha beside her. Kagome had made a disguise for him, so that he looked like the "typical" American goth.
"Hey! With as long as it took you, I thought something bad had happened to you on the way!" Kagome smiled as her friends walked over to her and caught their breaths for a moment.
"You have a lot of explaining!" Yuka started.
"Dropping out of school, all the sicknesses, blowing us off for the past year and a half!" Eri continued.
"And, your grandfather said that you would never be able to leave the hospital again!" Ayumi finished. Kagome sighed.
"Yeah, well, actually, I had planned on telling you all right now why I've had all sorts of crazy illnesses since my 15th birthday." Kagome admitted. Her friends smiled at her.
"Finally, we get to know the truth!"
"Yeah. But, before I tell you anything, you all have to swear that what you here will never be repeated to another person outside of us five. You can't even tell Houjou or your parents." Kagome said with a seriousness in her voice that scared her human friends. "And, you have to promise you won't interrupt until I'm done, alright?" She looked to her friends as each one of them nodded.
"You've known us long enough to know we don't tell important secrets to anyone."
"This goes beyond any high school crush or anything. But, before I begin, let's go in here." Kagome pointed to the well house. The door was opened, and Kagome had her grandfather install a set of small walkway lights around the steps inside and the well, but, it still looked menacing. The girls were a little hesitant.
"But, didn't your grandfather say that it was off-limits?"
"You sure we have to go down into that creepy place?"
"Why can't we stay out here, where it's nice and sunny?"
"Come on, nothing's going to attack you down there. And don't listen to Grandpa. He's a liar." She said before going into the well house. The other four followed her, Inu Yasha last. Kagome set down on the edge of the well and nodded at Inu Yasha when everyone was inside. He slid the doors closed, completing a barely visible symbol in the door on the inside.
"Alright. Now, you know the story of the Shikon Jewel, right?" Kagome waited on her friends to respond.
"Yeah, that's all we studied in Mythology last year."
"Okay. Well, tell me a summarized version of what you learned." The three girls looked to each other before they started.
"Well, there was this miko thousands of years ago. She fought demons all over, but finally found a match in a giant serpent or something."
"They fought for a long time in a cave, but neither side would give up. Finally, the miko, Midoriko was her name, I think, she had enough and used the last of her energy to seal her soul and the demons soul together."
"She and the demon turned to stone, and the Shikon Jewel was created. It could multiply a person's or demon's powers enormously, and could be corrupted or purified. I think that covers it."
"Okay. That's pretty much it. Miko's were the ones who could purify it. Anyways, did you hear about a hanyou named Inu Yasha or another one named Naraku?"
"Yeah. Inu Yasha and a miko girl split the Shikon and went on a quest to finish it. Naraku was the cause of it, but we never really learned why."
"Okay. 500 years ago, Naraku, an evil human-turned-demon, sought after a miko named Kikyou. As a human, he had been burnt badly for his crimes, and even been pushed off a cliff to break his legs. Kikyou found him and took care of him. Soon, he lusted after her. She had possession of the Shikon, to keep it pure. She met a half-demon named Inu Yasha when he came for the Jewel to become a full demon. Naraku was tired of being unable to move or some other crap and invited demons to join their souls within him, granting him their power, long-life, and ability to heal. Well, the demons corrupted his heart, and decided to trick Inu Yasha and Kikyou. Kikyou ended up sealing Inu Yasha in a death-like sleep, while she passed away from wounds given to her by Naraku. Fifty years later, a young miko girl found and released Inu Yasha from his slumber, and after several disastrous events, the Jewel was shattered. Inu Yasha and the miko girl went on a three year long hunt for the Shards, and had to defeat Naraku, who at one point, collected almost all the Shards. The two were aided by a monk who's family had been cursed by Naraku, the last of a great village of demon slayers whose village had been wiped out by Naraku, and a small fox demon child, who's parents had been killed by Shard-hungry demons. That pretty much sums it up, I think." Kagome's friends had payed attention to the story very well, and were disappointed when she stopped.
"Kagome, why'd you tell us that?"
"And how do you even know all that?" Her friends questioned her.
"I told you that story to tell you this one." Her friends quieted down as Kagome stood up and walked to backside of the Well and sat on it, facing her friends.
"About 700 years ago, I think, there was a great and powerful dog demon. He was so powerful, he became Lord of the Western Lands of Japan. He was a wonderful person, and soon befriended the son of the Lord of the South, Tori. Tori and Inutaisho, the Western Lord, soon became like brothers. Inutaisho had a son, Sesshoumaru, but found another wife, a human Lady named Izayoi, and had a half-demon son, who he named Inu Yasha, and Tori, who was part human, found a half-demon wife. On the night of Inu Yasha's birth, the humans in the castle that Izayoi lived in attacked Inutaisho. He made a valiant rescue of his wife and son, but perished in a fire that night. Tori, who had made a vow to Inutaisho before his death, promised to arrange a marriage to his daughter, if his wife had a girl, to Inu Yasha. Nearly a year later, Tori's wife gave birth to a half-demon girl. Soon, Inu Yasha and Tori's daughter were hardly out of each other's sight, and got into some trouble, like rowdy kids do. When Inu Yasha was about five, a rouge demon from the Northern Lands attacked Tori and his family soon after Tori's second child was born. Tori's family escaped into this well," Kagome paused while looking at said well, "and disappeared for 200 years. Tori managed to defeat the demon, but he couldn't get to his family. A week later, he burned down his house that was in this area, and left. He settled down in a small village by the sea, and helped protect innocents there." Kagome stopped and looked up to Inu Yasha, who nodded and sat down in front of the doors.
"How did they escape?"
"Why couldn't Tori find them?"
"Is Inutaisho's son Inu Yasha the same Inu Yasha that defeated Naraku?"
"First, yes, Inutaisho's son is the same Inu Yasha that defeated Naraku. Now, what I'm about to tell you next, you probably won't believe, will think I've gone insane, and you cannot tell anyone else." Kagome looked at her friends, who nodded in understanding, and all three sat down on the steps.
"Alright. Tori's family escaped by going 500 years into the future, about 10 years ago. Tori's wife was named Suko Higurashi, his children, Kagome and Souta Higurashi." Kagome paused waiting to see her friends reactions. What she saw didn't surprise her much.
"So...," Ayumi started, getting over the shock quicker than the others. "What you're telling us, is that your dad is Tori, and that you, your mom, and Souta are all half-demon?" Kagome nodded.
"No...way." Kagome smiled at them.
"Now, you guys, please don't freak out, okay? I'm also the miko that helped Inu Yasha defeat Naraku." That was it.
"There's no way you could be here now, and 500 years in the past!"
"Actually, there is. The Bone Eater's Well, the name given to this well in Inu Yasha's time. It can transport me, Inu Yasha, Momma, and Tori to the past, and to here. All we have to do it jump down." Kagome said as she stood up on the edge of the well. She waited on her friends. It took them a few minutes to digest this new information before she spoke again. They talked amongst themselves, even though Kagome and Inu Yasha heard every word.
"So, have you found Inu Yasha yet?" Kagome was amazed at their question.
"You guys don't think I'm insane?"
"Not really. We know you better than that, Kagome. You wouldn't do something this elaborate just to prank us."
"Okay, well, see the gothic guy behind you?" All three turned to look at the guy. He smirked as Kagome undid his disguise.
End Chapter
Well, there's officially only one more chapter left. It also includes the epilouge, but in reverse order. The epiloge comes before the actual chapter, but I think it has a nice overall effect. I've just got to finish up the rest of the epilouge before I can post it though, so it might take a few days. I've got a small AU side story that I'm working on, after the idea hit me, but I don't know if I'll finish it.
Also, I had almost forgotten about Kagome being Kikyou's reincarnation. That is, until I got a review asking how it worked out. Sorry about taking so long to respond about it, but I couldn't fit it in anywhere except here, second to last chapter.
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