When Kagome Higurashi was dragged down the well by a centipede youkai, an echo blasted throughout the realms.
The young girl, a mere fifteen, was not aware of the after effects her arrival had on the lands and when she reluctantly gave into the hanyou, Inuyasha's demands that she collect the shards of the Shikon Jewel with him, she had no idea of what the fates had in store for her.
"Inuyasha, look out!"
The hanyou snarled, "Get back, you stupid wench!"
Kagome stumbled back as the youkai's arm went flying past her, her eyes wide with horror. Blood and death. That was most of what she'd seen in this era. Honestly, it frightened her how accepting the people in this time were of all this gore.
"Where's the shard?!"
Inuyasha's screech had her concentrating and she pointed towards the youkai's neck, "There! It's faint but it's just below its neck!"
Inuyasha grinned savagely and darted forward, decapitating the youkai. As its head lay a few feet away from it's still twitching body, Inuyasha glanced at her, "Take it out, wench."
Kagome stared at him, "I'm not touching that."
"Why the fuck not?! It's dead!"
Kagome backed away and shook her head stubbornly, "No way!"
He gave her an incredulous look, and spluttered, "It's dead. It ain't gonna do anything to ya."
"I am not touching that!" She yelled at him, "It's disgusting!"
Scowling, Inuyasha waded through the blood and guts, and reaching its neck, started digging in his claws, trying to locate the jewel shard.
A triumphant look on his face, he withdrew the shard, covered in blood and then promptly turned around, handing it to her. Queasily, Kagome picked up the shard from the palm of his hand and the shard turned pale, it's evil taint purified.
Feeling filthy, Kagome looked at Inuyasha, "Let's go back to Kaede's. I want to take a bath and get out of these clothes."
Since they were two hours away from the village, it made sense to return as it was getting dark. However, Inuyasha wasn't willing to cooperate.
"You just took a bath, woman!" However, before he could say another word, Kagome gave him a dangerous look and whispered ominously, "Sit, boy."
With him struggling to get up, she glared at him, "This is the third youkai we've dealt with today and I am covered in blood and other things and I need to clean myself or I'll sit your ass to hell, Inuyasha!"
The hanyou scowled at her and jeered, "Kikyou never made a fuss about -"
Kagome rolled her eyes, "Yes, well, Kikyou's dead. And I'm not Kikyou. I'm Kagome. And right now Kagome needs a bath," She shot a shocked Inuyasha a nasty look, "Or Kagome will sit Inuyasha to hell and beyond."
Inuyasha paled at the thought and then stuck his nose in the air, muttering, 'Bitch' under his breath. Kagome caught that and murmured 'sit' under her breath and walked past the fallen Inuyasha, casually.
It was after a change of clothes when Kagome had settled down near a fire and forced Inuyasha to give her company that the strangest thing happened.
They had been sitting in peaceful silence when Kagome hissed in pain and slapped her neck. Withdrawing her hand, she made a face, "That's a really big mosquito."
Curious, Inuyasha peered at what was in her palm and he picked it up. "What the - Aren't you the flea, Myouga?"
However, instead of acknowledging or denying, the flea jumped from his hand onto Kagome's neck and bit down again.
"Oye! Get off her!" Inuyasha plucked the flea off.
This time Myouga did not resist. Instead, ignoring Inuyasha's attempts to squeeze him to death, he looked at the human girl and whispered, fear evident in his gaze, "H-How is it possible?"
Kagome rubbed her neck, wincing whilst Inuyasha gave a suspicious look towards the tiny flea youkai, "Oi, what are you mumbling to yourself about?"
Myouga did not move his gaze from Kagome, "Master, who is she?"
"Keh, this is Kagome. We're travelling together. Why?"
Myouga considered telling him but the young hanyou was a brash lad and his past actions made Myouga keep his mouth shut. So, instead , he spoke up, "Her blood is simply delicious, young Master!"
Inuyasha made a sound of disgust and tossed Myouga away. Mid air, the flea whistled and his crow swooped down, allowing him to settle in his soft feathers. With one last glance at the young girl sitting on the ground, Myouga flew towards the one person who was bound to have the answers to his questions.
"What was that about?" Kagome questioned.
Her hanyou companion shrugged, "Myouga is weird."
"Oh."
They sat in companionable silence for a while till Kagome started drooping, her head falling on Inuyasha's shoulder. Inuyasha's cheeks turned red and he turned his head away, his expression softening, visibly. She was not Kikyou, he often found himself being reminded. However, she didn't show him the disdain that other humans did and it comforted him in a strange way. Maybe, she was the Kami's gift to him.
The night had barely begun when a familiar aura made Inuyasha's eyes snap open and he pushed Kagome onto the ground, shielding her with his body.
"Seshomaru!" He snarled.
Meanwhile, while Inuyasha's confrontation with his brother wass taking place , Myouga rushed towards his destination. "Hurry up!" He wheezed at the crow.
Back at the clearing, Seshomaru smirked mockingly at Inuyasha, "Oh, well done. It seems you've remembered your elder brother's face."
Hi shifted from his position to let Inuyasha get a better look at his mother's dangling form. He enjoyed the anguish that played on the young hanyou's face till his eye caught the figure standing behind Inuyasha. His eyes widened and then he smirked, "Well, if it isn't a human girl."
As he insulted her quite thoroughly, Kagome couldn't help feeling how familiar that youkai looked. Deja Vu? She wondered.
As Inuyasha rushed to save his mother, her eyes met those of Seshomaru's and she murmured to herself, without thinking, "The eyes are wrong."
The inuyoukai raised a brow at the girl's words. But he did not get a chance to do much as Inuyasha's 'mother' dragged him to the Otherworld and he followed.
The next few minutes were a blur for Kagome as she rushed to save Inuyasha from the woman posing as his mother. However, before Inuyasha could move, Seshomaru showed up, grabbing him by his neck, and looked amused as Inuyasha struggled.
"To think Father would hide it in plain view. He must have been protecting it from being violated."
His murmured words were lost on Inuyasha as he struggled. Kagome's cry faded into the distance against the white hot searing pain of Seshomaru's fingers in his eyes. His limp figure was tossed aside as Seshomaru studied the black pearl in his fingers.
Using the staff his retainer was carrying, Seshomaru opened a portal. He jumped in, and Inuyasha snarled following him. However, Kagome beat him to it. As they jumped inside the portal, the small dagger that Kagome had always carried on her person since she had been a young child, pulsed.
Quite far away, Myouga jumped off his crow, crying out, "Bokuseno! BOKUSENO!"
The tree on which he had landed, shifted and a gravelly voice asked, "Why do you seem so perturbed, old friend?"
Myouga leaned against one of his branches to catch his breath before speaking out, "There is a girl who is travelling with the Inu no Taisho's younger son. I tasted her blood. Her blood spoke of a bond between my Master and her!"
Bokuseno's branches shifted in confusion, "I do not understand, my friend. The Inu no Taisho is dead. How would this girl have a bond with him?"
Myouga jumped from one foot to another in agitation, "I do not know! But there were strong traces of his youki in her blood. I checked twice!"
The ancient tree youkai was silent for a few moments, lost in thought before he spoke, cautiously, "What kind of a bond?"
Myouga shook his head, "I could not understand the nature of it, but it was very strong."
"If this is true." Bokuseno looked at Myouga, "For a bond to still be in place; For that to happen both parties must be alive."
The flee youkai took a step back, his eyes wide, "Are you suggesting my Master is -?"
"If what you are saying is true, then it is not impossible."
"But his remains - "
"Are where he will be reborn again."
In another place which had been hidden for centuries, Kagome fell out of the portal and looked at the remains of one of the most powerful inuyoukai in existence.
"Inuyasha, what is -"
Inuyasha's eyes were wide, "Father's remains."
And as Kagome looked at the largest skeleton she had ever seen, the small dagger she had kept safely hidden away, pulsed wildly and above her realms shifted as a long dead inuyoukai raised his head, sniffing a lost but familiar scent and a savage grin over took his beautiful features.
At last!
A.N: Frankly, I was astonished at the response you guys gave me. I was really flattered. Most of you said that you would read anything as long as it was written by me and I can't begin to tell you how much I blushed. My mother keeps insisting I write a book instead of fanfiction, but she doesn't realize how happy it makes me when I read your reviews. I hope you enjoy the second chapter as much as you enjoyed the first.
