Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Everything belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
Well people this is a new story that came to my mind. This is to celebrate my 100 reviews on Fanfiction. Hope you like it.
I decided to edit this because I founded it kind of rush…I hope this version is better than the last one. Just telling you, it might take a few chapters to introduce our dear Sesshoumaru ;3 Please enjoy.
Sesshoumaru
Chapter 01
Since I was little, my grandpa has always told me story about the pass. A time of peace when magical things existed. A time when demons and miko lived. He would tell me that demons and miko would always fight each other. Since they hated each other, they would always be at each other's neck, but this stopped for a time. I was always so impressed, being the little innocent girl who I was, not knowing anything. He also told me of a time when all this stopped. A great warrior, Inu no Taisho, who was a Dog demon and an unknown warrior, who had just suddenly appeared, stopped this. For a time everyone lived happily, but when the warrior as needed the most, they vanished. A few years later, the Great warrior too fell. The chaos soon started again, leading Japan, and the rest of the world, to destruction. He told me the stories, and what came next… But I have long forgotten those times. That was then, and I now find them ridicules. Now, for me and everyone that hears these stories would say that they are just stories or myth. That they never existed…
"Now listen Kagome, the history of the Shikon no Tama Begins with…" the old priest closed his eyes, face becoming distant, as if he had live those moment she was sure he was about to yet again tell her. She started playing with her old fat cat, Buyo. The fake 'Shikon No Tama' in her hands dangle like a old play thing for the cat who was enjoying himself at the moment.
"Besides that, Jii-Chan…" She stopped playing with her pet cat and turns to the old man happily. "Do you remember what day it is tomorrow?"
"Heh" He says as if her behavior as an everyday thing. Anyways, he was ready for this. "Now how could I forget my adorable grand-child's birthday?" As this left his mouth, he took something from behind him and showed it to her.
"Wow! A present!?"
"I know it's a day's early, but…Happy Birthday, Kagome!" He handed her the present in his hands. She couldn't believe he had actually remembered her birthday this time. AND on top of that, he got her a present! She unwrapped it fast, yet carefully. Her mother has always told her that recycling was always the best.
She opened the box and suddenly her face became as cold as ice.
"That mummified Kappa's hand brings good luck. Its history begins with…" Her Grandfather began but she could not hear him anymore.
"Eat it, Buyo." She said emotionless. God, when will her grandpa stop this 'old, mystical stuff'?
Her grandpa gave a scream of horror. "Ah Hey! That's wasteful!"
My house is a very old Shrine…The four of us…Jii-Chan, Mama, My little brother and me live here.
"The story of these pickles begins with…" her grandfather began as they sat down for breakfast but he was quickly cut off by Kagome. "These were from Ujiko-San weren't they?" Her stare was plain, as if this was an everyday thing. Well, it actually was, but hey, what could she do?
The Gochinboku is 500 years old, and the concealed well behind the house are suppose to have some kind of Legend. Well, all of the stuff in this shrine have their own History but… No matter how often I hear Jii-Chan say 'Its History begins with…' I completely forget. I never even thought about why I couldn't remember…Until the day I turned 15.
"I'm leaving!" Kagome Higurashi yelled behind her back, having just finished putting on her shoes. She exited the front door, making her way to the stairs hopefully she won't be late for school today.
She looks to the side when she noticed something. "Uh…Souta?" Souta, her little brother was at the front of the concealed well's door.
"Nee-Chan…" He said looking back towards her voice.
"You shouldn't play in the shrine." She told him, a warning in her voice. She didn't want her mother, and her grandpa (mostly her grandpa) to be angry at them.
"But Buyo is…" he looked towards the inside of the well house.
"Inside the Concealed Well?" She too looked towards it, and saw the little plate. In it said 'The Bone Eater's Well' and like always a legend told its 'history'.
"Buyo…" Her brother called when they got inside the house. The wood kreek step by the step making them sound older that what they look in her opinion. "I think he's down there but.." He said to her leaning over the reeling. The well was in the middle of the old house, sealed with some kind of talisman. The arounds of the old well look very dark and seemed unnatural to her but she pained no attention to it.
"Then why don't you go and get him?" She answered his unasked question.
"But…This place feels creepy." He said staring at the darkness surrounding the well.
"What are you scared of? Aren't you a man?" There suddenly was a noise making her little brother hid behind her.
"So-Something's down there!" She looked at him with bored eyes. "Like the cat, maybe?" The noise came again. "Geez.." She said, deciding to go and get the cat herself, since it looked like Souta wasn't going to do it. The old wooden stairs creaked as she stepped down them. "Hn?" she noticed the noises getting louder as she stepped closer to the well. 'The sound…is coming from inside the well..?' "No way…" She said doubting herself as the words passed through her mouth.
She suddenly screamed as she felt something in her leg. She looked down to see her old pet cat Buyo petting himself against her leg.
"Ah!" Kagome heard her Brothers voice from the top of the stares. "That scared me! Don't scream like that!" He looked like something had suddenly appeared.
"Now look, you…" She said as she bend down to pick up Buyo. Souta suddenly came closer to the end of the stairs and his face turned to surprise. "Ne-Nee-Chan!" Something suddenly grabbed her by the neck and the arms…? Dragging her back. "Wha..?!"
"Kagome!" She heard her brother yelled. But she couldn't do anything until the thing that was grabbing her turned her around to face it. "You…" The thing said. It was some kind of monster, with scales in it. It looked like a dragon but not so much. But still, it was ugly. Kagome got the shivers. "You got it" it finished. It grabbed her from both side of her face. "Where is it? Where is the Shikon Jewel?" It said to her.
"Let me go!" Kagome screamed. It was really giving her the creeps! And what the heck was this? And where did it come from? She tried to get the hands to let go but she couldn't even make them budge. "Let! Go!" She continued to try to get rid of them, when suddenly some kind of pink light came out of her hands. The monster had to take away his hands fast like it burned. Kagome started to fall down, leaving behind the unknown monster? Behind. Her screams were echoing against the walls around her, but were they walls? Well whatever it was. She continued to fall to some unknown place when suddenly she landed on her rear.
"Ow…" She stood up and cleaned herself. "Ugg! My uniform is dirty now! And Oh no! I'm late for school!" Finishing up, she looks up and open her mouth when she notices that the well has no roof.
"That's odd…" She told herself. 'Shouldn't there be a roof?' She took notice of the walls. Noticing they might be too high for her, she looked around to see if there was some kind of way she could get out of the hole she was in. Seeing nothing but tree vines, she took to the next that came to mind.
"Hello?" Her voice echoed against the wooden walls around her. "Anyone out there?" Her only response were the chipping of birds which she could only guess where outside. "Hello?!" Nothing. She sighed and leaned against the walls. 'Maybe if I wait, Souta will come…' She wasn't so sure about that, but she could think of it, no?
A few Minutes passed and she was getting impatient. Suddenly, there were rustle from up there. Looking up fast, she started calling for help once again. "Anyone out there?!" The rustle got louder and she started hoping. Her hopes crushed when the rustle began to sound distant. "Please! Anyone! Help!?" After nothing, she sighed, giving up.
She looked around the well again. 'How am I going to climb out with only these vines?' She putted her right hand on top of the one nearest to her right and pulled to test its strength. Seeing it might hold, she started climbing slowly, careful not to fall. This though did not help. She slipped various down during the process, her landings not so glorious, but this only made her angrier and more confident to reach her goal.
Finally she made it to the top. She congratulated and cheered for herself and being able to do it, but her finally became wide when she noticed her surroundings. Green around her. The grass and the trees. All of it was green. The trees were tall… Very tall.
"What the..?" He voice finally came out. "Isn't this supposed to be Tokyo?" She asked herself. "Where am I?" She looked around her fully this time. It was like she was in a big forest. Last time she remembered, she was on her way to school…in her house…right in the middle of Tokyo….Right? She couldn't be crazy. She laughed nervously. Yeah, she couldn't be…or was she?
Once again she looked around, leaving the answer at the back or her mind, fearing to answer it. She noticed a newly made path. Getting curious, and not wanting to be all alone in a forest? She walked towards it. A few minutes later, she started to regret that decision. She felt like she was getting nowhere! She sighed, ready to give up. She looked around herself once more while she started to descend to the group when something caught her eyes. She stood up faster than she had possible thought she could and walked towards it. That tree. It looked like the Goshinboku. She went closer to it and putted her hands on it. Yes, it definitely looked like it though, noticed, this tree was more younger looking than the one she is used to see. She inspected it closely. Very Closely and sighted in relief when she didn't find what she was looking for. The Goshinboku has a little mark, some looking like a hole in its old yet strong bark. She remembered what her Jii-Chan had told her about it. Supposedly, a half-demon had once been put asleep in the Goshinboku, because a miko had put the spell on him. She wondered how the whole had actually been made… she looked it over once again and her mind wavered a little. This couldn't actually be the secret tree. She gasped and her face turned dark. Or…?
She turned around and looked over at the path she had been taking. Well it might still take her somewhere, right? She started walking, thinking things over, which, she was not sure of. In the distance, not so far, she could hear birds flying away. She turned alarmed quickly and looked over at the direction she had heard the THUMP. She stayed there for a few seconds, and when nothing else sounded, she left out her breath which she hadn't noticed she had been holding. Once again, 'Hopefully my last' she turned to the newly path and continue walking, this time faster.
After ten minutes or so, she could see the blue sky up ahead. She gave a small smile and this time she run to the open in the forest, but stopped abruptly when a cliff came very near where she was running. (Does that even make sense? The last sentence I mean.)
"Wouh…" She said very low. 'That was close…' she looked over the cliff. Well it wasn't that far down, but she didn't want t be hurt! She sighed; her emotions were acting weird today. She felt like today was going to be a weird day on top of that…she raised her eyes to see a field filled with water and other stuff she could only guess were rice. A little distance off the fields were houses…wooden small house, with rocks on top. It looked like they had only started recently to build them. "Are those….Hunts?" You don't see those types of houses in Tokyo…maybe in the country side but not in the cities…could it be…?
Again, she turned away from the idea. It just couldn't be. Her mind and her personality could just not agree with it. Her heart on the other hand…she turned her head to her left, seeing a road that leads to the fields a distance off. She sighed. "More walking…" with that thought, she turned and started walking yet again.
Finally getting to the road, she made her way towards the houses. She couldn't call them hunts…her mind could not say it. Her eyes, though, betrayed her. They looked around, and her poor mind in denial had no other choice but to take everything in. When they (her eyes) saw people not too far, that was when she stopped, and so did they (her eyes). The people had old kimono and Hakama. Where would they were those kinds of clothes in this age and time? 'Well' she thought, 'those that are very traditional. But still…' she looked at them again. 'Not those types of kimono.'
She just stood there, not really knowing what to do. The person, a woman, had her hair in a low bun. Her clothing was of a brownish color and in her hands was a container for flowers and such. The woman, who was coming her way, stopped when she saw her. The container falls down of her hands, hitting the ground louder that it should actually be. The woman takes a step back, this Kagome notices. Then another, and another until she was awkwardly running backwards.
"Demon!" Was all she said, very scared, reason Kagome cold guess was this 'Demon'. But then…Demons didn't exist. Was the woman crazy? Was she calling her a demon? She could only stare at the strange woman as she continued to call for a Demon. 'Demon! A demon have come to our village! Miko-Sama! Miko-Sama!" Kagome could just stare at her as she made a turn and started hiding. She looked around and noticed that the children and women had disappeared, maybe hidden inside their houses. "Miko-Sama!" She could still hear the crazed woman form where she stood. 'She most have wanted the whole village to know.' As soon as she thought this, the men of the village stood infront of her, with farming tools and such. She gulped. 'Those look…very dangerous….'
"Calm yourself people. This girl is not a demon." The crowd parte form the back to front. Kagome stared at the young woman. A girl with short black hair, and brown eyes appeared from in front of her. She was wearing clothes that looked very similar to what her grandpa had shown her at a young age and what she herself has seen a miko wear before. The top was white while the pants were red. Her thoughts were cut short when the woman started talking again.
"Who are you little one?" She stared at her in wonder. Kagome wondered for a moment why she was looking at her with those eyes. 'Am I weird or something?' She mentally smacked herself. 'Of course I am. I look different from them.' She sighed. She suddenly remembered the question. "My name...is Kagome."
The short hair woman gave her a big smile. "Oh" her smile became bigger and her eyes changed. She could have sworn something clicked in the woman in front of her. "Hello Kagome. Why don't you follow me?"
She was surprised and a little suspicious. She didn't know this woman…Why would she tell her to follow her? And even call her like they knew each other? (Noticed I didn't write –Chan, -San or anything like that.) Still… it wasn't like she couldn't follow her…she had nothing…She watched the back of the 'Miko', she could only guess this person was, her back going further and further into the 'Village'. A moment later, she finally registered that the woman was about to disappear from her view and rushed towards her. She finally caught up when she was entering one of the houses. It was bigger than the ones surrounding the other ones.
She entered, taking everything around her. "Please have a seat." Kagome did as she was told slowly. She couldn't be more surprise that she thought she could be.
"Um…" She started, not sure how to say what she wanted. The woman, who had been fixing some tea, putted a cup of something that smelled very delicious to her. It somehow calmed her nerves a little. She thanked her. The lady took a seat herself after putting a cup in front of herself."Where am I?" She stared at the woman who yet he did not know the name of. She only answered her with silence. She could only guess she was surprise by the question and didn't know how to answer. She continued though. "Isn't this supposed to be Tokyo?"
"To...ky…yo? What is that?"
Kagome face fell. "This…is not…Tokyo?" The words came out slower that she had thought.
"Is that the place you come from?" To her surprise, the woman looked very calm, and not surprise at all by her question.
"Who are you?"
"Oh my apologies!" She was embossed and a little blush had appeared I her face. "My name is Midori, and I am the miko of this village" She said. "This village is just being built so there are not so many hunts. But the Lord of these lands have approve that we can built this village" She informed Kagome.
"Wait… Miko? Village? Hunts? Lord of these Lands? What are you talking about? I don't understand this." Kagome said getting very nervous. The thought that she had dug into her mind was surfacing once again and she prayed to God it wasn't true.
"A miko is a priestess. We, miko fight demons and purify them. But you must know what a village and a hunt is. Also tell me that you know who the Lord of the Lands is." She said looking at Kagome seriously.
She could only give her a shake of her head, indicating that she didn't know. Well…if what she said indicated what she thought it was, then she kind of did thanks to her grandpa, but she wanted to make sure.
"What? You don't know? You at least must have heard of him." Again Kagome shook her head. "The Lord of these Lands is the great Inu Youkai, Inu no Taishou. He is the strongest demon, of all the demons in the four lands, and the most caring one. He cares about his people, demon or human. He is the Lord of these Lands-the Western Lands-"
'OMG!' Kagome screamed in her mind. 'He….He….Oh no!' "I've heard of him." She told the miko know as Midori.
"Good" She gave her a nod.
Kagome couldn't believe it...somehow…someway…the well had brought her back in time. She wasn't sure exactly what time but Inu no Taisho had ruled for a long, but looong time. She could be somewhere before 1300 or so. Not good…that's more or so 700 years in the past! Don't ask her how she knew…she didn't…maybe…thank her grandpa.
She looked at Midori, she could feel her eyes on her. She stared back at her.
"May I have the honor of training you?"
"Eh?" She was perplexed…Midori…didn't really know her, or did she her, so why train her? And I what? "Train me in what?" she was kind of curious, she didn't had anything special, not that she knew anyways.
"Yes, I can feel that you are a Miko and from your answer I guess that you didn't know. I would like to teach you how to control your powers…" Her voice kind of faded out at the end, though her voice was very sincere. She wondered if something was wrong.
After a long moment of her pondering, she answered her. "Sorry," She said waving her hands in front of her, "But I got to return to my t-home."
"Oh" Midori said. "I see. That is a shame."
Kagome stood up. "Well, I...have to go." She headed for the door. 'I should go back to the well. It should take me back to my time. I hope.' As she was exiting the door, Midori stood herself.
"If you ever need help, or want me to teach you, you can always come back here and I would gladly help you and teach you." Everything came out in a rush.
Kagome stopped for a second. She gave her a smile and continued out of the hunt.
The well finally came to her view. She was tired from that entire walk. On her way to the well, she had gotten lost and she had though she was never going to find it. It shouldn't have take that long to find it, but all the trees covered her view and if it wasn't for her finding the young Goshinboku, she would have still been lost.
She looked around her. She still couldn't get used to the greenness. In her time, you would only see green if you were in a forest or in a park but not this much green. She sat down next to the well, her back supported by the strong walls of it. She should rest for whatever it was that was awaiting her in the well.
'Will it work though?' The thought was so sudden that she wasn't even surprise by it. She really did have that doubt in her head while she was making her way here.
'What if it doesn't work?' her face fell. What will she do then? What if…? She shook her head, not wanting to think of the worst possible outcome. She stood up suddenly, determination on her face. 'The well will work!' She nod to herself. At least...she hoped. The determination left her as she turned and looked down the hole that was the well.
She gulped. "I hope you work." She told the well as she climbed the alls to make her way down. She used the vines that surrounded the hole like last time. It was a struggle. She slipped a few times and she thought that might had been the end of her. Finally she made it almost to the bottom, and when she knew she couldn't break a leg by jumping down she let go of the vines. She waited for a second.
Nothing had happened… No light… No anything like last time. She looked up as her eyes started to become watery. The blue sky and the birds surrounding her taunt her, telling her that she was still in the past. The tears came out fast and she lowered her head. There was nothing she could do now. She didn't even bother to wipe them off her face, she was too sad to do it. Her knees gave away and she went down to the floor. As she hit it, she let out a cry sadder than any you've had heard. The surrounding could hear it and felt sorry for her too. A few minutes later she was asleep, too tired to even think.
She woke up suddenly and looked at her surroundings. And her eyes became hallowed as everything came back to her. She looked up. The sky looked orangey, and she could only guess the sun was setting. She didn't know what she was going to do now. She decided she should first get out of the well. It would be night soon and there might be demons around the area.
'Demons…'
She started climbing the walls and this time it wasn't as hard as last time, though she slipped a few times. She climbed over and her feet touched the grass. She looked round and made her way towards the only direction she knew.
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Edited: October 16, 2012 Published: February 4, 2010. Yeah….A long time LOL and still no Second chapter. I should have it soon though. SOOON! REVIEW~ its right below this! Come on~! It feed my hungry mind!
