Summary: InuYasha/DBZ crossover. Basically a weird alternate InuYasha where the characters are put in the DBZ plot with a few twists. I've had this idea stuck in my head for a while now. It's my first fanfic so all flame will be given to Shippo to power his foxfire attack against Kikyo! Inu/Kag, Sess/San,
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, Rumiko Takahashi does. I don't own DBZ, Akira Toriyama does. I don't own anything except my mind. But I lost that a long time ago.
CH 1: Ten Years Ago
Ten years ago, the war for the Shikon Jewel shards concluded as InuYasha and company locked in a fierce battle with Naraku.
*Flashback: Battleground*
"Die, Naraku, you bastard!" InuYasha spat as he swung the Tetsusaiga.
"Ha, ha, ha, do you really think I would be killed by the likes of you?" Naraku smirked. "I could never be killed by a worthless hanyou like you," dodging the attack.
"You talk as bad as you smell," InuYasha said as he lunged for another attack. Again Naraku dodged. For every attack made by InuYasha, Naraku dodged with ease. Each time a little quicker. The battle was taking its toll on InuYasha.
*Cut to Kagome tending to an injured Sango*
"Come on Sango, hang in there." Kagome pleaded as she tended to the wounds on Sango's back. 'InuYasha will make Naraku pay for all he's done to you. Only a low-life like him would make your own brother attack you from behind,' thought Kagome remembering the sight of Kohaku's hook slicing Sango square in the back. The hook cut Sango pretty deep. She couldn't stand.
"Don't worry, Kagome. That scroll should keep him from moving," said Miroku. He looked back to make sure Kohaku was still under his immobilization spell. "You should help InuYasha and Shippo. Your miko powers should come in handy, especially if Naraku uses one of his miasma attacks. I'll tend to Sango."
"Alright, make sure you stay with her. And don't try anything perverted. Now just isn't the time," Kagome said.
"What? You can trust me," Miroku said with a big perverted grin.
"Yeah. I can trust you, like a rat with cheese," Kagome smirked as she raced to help InuYasha.
*Cut to Battle*
The wooded forest that once stood as the battle site was quickly becoming a large clearing as InuYasha's missed attacks seemed to only knock down trees. By now, InuYasha was showing clear signs of fatigue as Naraku now seemed like he was just playing with him.
'Ugh, damn he's quick. I can't seem to touch him,' InuYasha panted. 'He's got to have a weakness.'
"FOXFIRE!!!" Shippo Screamed as he attacked Naraku in a blaze of fire. Naraku, so focused on InuYasha, didn't have enough time to dodge the flame from out of nowhere, even with his incredible speed. As the blaze died down, Naraku appeared unscathed. He may not have been able to dodge the attack but he could still block it. He now had an evil glare in his eyes as he looked darkly toward the young kitsune. In an instant, Naraku flew toward Shippo and sent a big right hand to the child's chin. Shippo cried out in pain as his body hurled to the ground.
"Foolish child. How dare you stand up against me, the great and powerful Naraku," Naraku stood glaring down hard at Shippo. All Shippo could do was cower in fear and prepare for his demise.
'Shippo distracted him, now's my chance,' thought InuYasha. Without hesitation, he lunged toward Naraku. Naraku turned his head just in the nick of time. InuYasha was but a split-second away from slicing Naraku to pieces, but still made a deep gash in his right arm. Naraku was able to move just enough to the left for the wound not to be fatal. From the wound, lots of toxic poison came. Being left at such close range from his attack left InuYasha with nowhere to run from the toxic. InuYasha took a deep breath as the poison gas neared. Within a few seconds, he was enshrouded in the mist.
Naraku approached, his eyes full of rage. He unleashed his tentacles and they wrapped around InuYasha, squeezing the life out of him. "Damn you, hanyou! You dare cut me?" Naraku said. InuYasha tried desperately to keep hold of his breath, but eventually, the tentacles won. With a scream, InuYasha let out the only word he could think of as the poison slowly made its way through his nose and left him lifeless in Naraku's clutches.
"KAGOME!!!!!"
*Cut to Kagome*
Kagome was running to the clearing to try to get to the battle. When she came, she found Shippo crying in pain. She went toward the kitsune. "Shippo, what happened? Are you hurt?" she asked trying to find out how the gang was holding up?
Kagome held Shippo in her arms. "I'm OK. Just sore. I tried to sneak up on Naraku. It worked, he turned to me and…" Shippo tried to say before being cut off by…
"KAGOME!!!!!"
All Kagome could do was stand there and watch as InuYasha was slowly losing consciousness. As she watched InuYasha lay in Naraku's tentacles with nowhere to go, she finally mustered enough energy to scream.
"INUYASHAAA!!!!!"
InuYasha was barely conscious. The poison was taking effect. But he did hear the scream from Kagome. With all the strength he had left, InuYasha pulled his hand out of the tentacles and attacked them. "Iron…Reaper…Soul…Stealer…" The attack wasted InuYasha's last bit of strength, but it still served its purpose of destroying the tentacles.
InuYasha was falling faster, faster to the ground below. When he struck, it was as if Kagome's heart fell along with it. She raced quickly to InuYasha. He was unconscious and barely breathing. If they didn't do something soon, he would die.
Just then a white streak came across the sky. It was Kirara. On her back were Miroku and Sango. Sango struggled to stand and balance herself on Kirara. She swung her hiraikotsu with all her might toward Naraku. It sliced through Naraku's right arm to finish the job InuYasha had started. They landed by Kagome.
"Sorry Kagome, but we couldn't let you and InuYasha have all the fun," Miroku said. "Besides, Sango wouldn't stay down to rest." Kagome looked at Miroku and Sango. Both had a smirk on their face and a fire in their eyes. They actually looked a little like InuYasha.
Sango spoke up. "Yeah. Don't worry. I've taken worse hits than that." Sango was still struggling to stay on her feet. She may have taken worse blows than the hook, but it didn't mean it didn't still hurt her.
"FOOLS!!!" Naraku yelled. "Now you will all suffer my wrath." Naraku unleashed his ultimate attack on the group, his miasma attack. They pulled in tightly around each other, trying to avoid the gas. Kirara raced through it to pull Shippo back to the group. The gas began to enclose all around them.
"Sango, you gotta stay strong. Remember, don't breath." Miroku was trying to comfort Sango as the poison neared the group. It finally engulfed the group as they tried desperately to hold their breath.
Kagome looked around in awe of what she was realizing. As she looked, she saw everyone and began to remember all they had been through. She saw Miroku, fighting to relieve the curse of his dreaded Wind Tunnel, which was getting closer to sucking him in. She saw Sango kneeling, remembering her struggles after losing her family and entire village to Naraku. To add insult to injury, she had to fight her brother, which was under Naraku's mind control. She fought for vengeance. She looked to Shippo. The kit was orphaned and his father killed just for a fragment of the jewel shard. Then to Kirara, which saw first hand Sango's village being destroyed.
Then her gaze fell on the fallen InuYasha. No matter how mean he got sometimes, she could always forgive him. True he was a jerk. But that was because of his past. He was finally starting to open his heart to her. She loved him. She knew that for sure. Now it seemed he shared those feelings toward her. Even though he would never admit it to her face, he always protected her, stood up for her to a fault. She looked at them all. Her friends. They had been through too much to lose now. A rage came inside of her. She would not let Naraku beat them, even if she had to battle him herself.
"Come on, Kirara. We have to help them." Kagome jolted up, grabbed her bow and quiver and ran to Kirara. She jumped on and they flew up to face Naraku.
Naraku saw Kagome and Kirara moving toward him and prepared to fight. "So, the miko has come to join the party." Naraku smirked.
"Shut up, Naraku." Kagome said readying an arrow. "I won't let you hurt my friends." She launched the arrow and it landed in Naraku's right leg. She readied another one.
"Gah! She got me." Naraku screamed in pain. Kagome launched another arrow. This one hit his left leg, forcing out two shards embedded in it. "Aah, no not the shards. You will pay for that." Naraku launched a poison attack from the two wounds. Kirara flew away and dodged them. Another arrow came and nailed Naraku in his left arm. Four shards came flying out. Naraku was losing power and fast. The wounds were one thing, but the loss of shards was another.
Soon it was an all out arrow arsenal coming from Kagome. Each arrow struck another shard knocking it loose. Naraku was down. He still had one shard left and was now calling for more demons to try and give him more strength. Kagome was now down to one final arrow and she knew right where it was going, to the final fragment in Naraku's heart.
"Your reign of terror has ended Naraku. Now die." Kagome said to Naraku with a cold-hearted stare worthy of Sesshomaru as she released her final arrow. From the tip was a pink glow of purification. Naraku's eyes got smaller and smaller as he locked his stare to the tip of the arrow. Upon impact, all the demons that had consumed Onigawa through the years left the body. Now, all that stood was the human Onigawa.
Onigawa was struggling to live. Each breath harder than the last. He finally mustered enough energy to say his final words to Kagome. "You.may.have.won.this.fight.miko. But I shall get my REVENGE!!!" With that, Onigawa collapsed dead; the arrow had pierced his heart. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. The poison mist had cleared and everyone was beginning to recover.
*End Flashback*
Yes, the evil Naraku had finally been destroyed and with that, our heroes finally put together the remaining pieces of the Shikon Jewel. Now they were all free to live the lives they wanted, lives in peace.
*Flashback: After the battle*
"What happened?" Miroku asked. He looked around and saw Sango, Shippo, and InuYasha still passed out. "Sango wake up. Sango. Come on Sango!" Miroku shook her until she woke.
"Huh? What happened? Where's Kagome and Kirara?" Sango asked. As she said it, she saw them flying back to the group.
"Is everyone OK?" Kagome asked looking at Sango.
"Yeah we're fine. Where's Naraku"
"Dead." Kagome said.
Miroku's eyes lit up when Kagome said that word. "He's. dead? He's dead." Kagome nodded. Miroku had waited his entire life to hear those two simple words ring true. But he didn't want to chance it. Miroku raced toward the woods so he could see for sure. When he was far enough away. He unwrapped the rosary off his right hand and stuck the palm out expecting the wind tunnel to devour everything in sight. When it didn't, he realized Kagome was speaking the truth. He raced back to the group to tell them his wind tunnel was gone.
*Cut to Sango*
Sango ran to her brother to see if he was still under Naraku's power. When she reached him, she took the scroll off his face and checked if he was alright. Kohaku awoken from the spell to find his big sister seeing if he was alright.
"S-S-San.go?" Kohaku stuttered trying to gain his wits. "W-What happened?" He was clearly confused. Who could blame him?
"It'll be alright, Kohaku. Naraku won't get you anymore." Sango said as she hugged Kohaku. 'He's back! Yes, He's not dead! Finally I have my little brother back' Sango couldn't help think as she held him in her arms.
"Wha-Wait. Who's Naraku?" Kohaku asked curiously.
"Never mind, I'll explain everything to you later. Come on, let's go join the others." Sango said as she walked with Kohaku back to the group.
*Cut to group*
Sango rejoined the group with Kohaku by her side. The first one to come to them was their trusty fire-cat.
"Kirara!" Kohaku yelled excited to see the youkai. Kirara transformed back into her kitten form and jumped into Kohaku's arms. Soon he looked around to the rest of the group to find no one he knew. "Sango, Where's father? And the rest of the exterminators? Who are these people?!?"
"Well, let's start with the last question." Sango began introductions. "This is Kagome, Shippo, over there is InuYasha, and…"
"I'M FREE! I'M FREE! I'M FREE FROM THE CURSE! YAY!!!"
Sango continued. "that's Miroku."
Miroku ran up to Sango, grabbed her shoulders and screamed "HEY SANGO. GUESS WHAT? NARAKU'S DEAD!!! I'M FREE FROM THE CURSE!!!!! YAY!!!!!" Miroku then pulled her close in a huge hug of joy. He runs to Kagome and gives her a hard kiss on the lips. "THANK YOU FOR KILLING NARAKU! I'M FREE!!!"
InuYasha was getting up as he saw the kiss. He then proceeded to knock Miroku out with his hardest punch. "Don't EVER put your hands on MY Kagome again!!!" InuYasha screamed. But he was too weak from the poison to stay standing and InuYasha passes out again.
"Oh no. We have to get him to Kaede's." Kagome said. Kirara left Kohaku's arms and transformed into her youkai form. Sango and Kagome helped InuYasha onto her back and Kagome mounted Kirara. "Hurry, we have to go." Sango, Kohaku, and a now awake Miroku followed. They were lucky. Kaede's village was a days' walk. And maybe a three-hour run.
*Cut to Kaede's Hut*
Kirara got to Kaede's in a little under an hour. She flew into the hut to find Kaede experimenting with a new herbal remedy. She takes one look at InuYasha passed out and says to Kagome "Quickly child, we haven't got much time, ye needs to find some roots for this. I'll prepare the rest of the ingredients." Kagome listened and ran into the forest. She had a good idea which root to find but didn't know where. After fifteen minutes of searching, she finally found the wolfbane she was looking for. She ran back to Kaede's to give her the root.
When Kagome returned, Kaede had the potion ready and was awaiting the root. "Put it in." Kaede said. In minutes, the potion was ready and they forced InuYasha to drink. "This should counteract the poison. Mehopes this works." InuYasha drank the potion and went right to sleep. "Good, the potion should help him heal while he sleeps. Now we'd better start fixing some ramen. He'll be very weak when he wakes up. And very hungry."
Hours later, Sango, Miroku, and Kohaku made it to the hut. They found InuYasha asleep, and Kirara watching as Kaede and Kagome made what seemed like fifty fresh bowls of ramen. "Hey guys." Kagome said. "Help yourself to some ramen. Oh how silly, here you go Kirara." Kagome set a bowl down on the ground for Kirara. As they made their way to some of the bowls, the group began to hear a soft clicking sound.
"K-K-K-K-Kag-ome?" InuYasha stuttered still weak from the poison.
"InuYasha, you're up. Good. You need to eat something." Kagome said as InuYasha tried to pull himself up. But he couldn't even sit up on his elbows before collapsing. Kagome couldn't help feel sorry for him. She grabbed one of the bowls of ramen and knelt down beside InuYasha. She helped InuYasha lean up against a wall in the hut and fed him some ramen. Kagome sat through ten bowls of ramen before InuYasha passed out. "Hmm, he still must be tired. He would've been on his 30th bowl by now."
"Don't worry child. Ye need to rest." Kaede said. "Ye all look like ye needs it." They all took a place on the hut floor for the night.
*Cut to Sango*
In the middle of the night, Sango was awoken by someone leaving the hut. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and went out to follow who left. As she peeked to see who it was, she saw Miroku. She followed Miroku until he stopped at the god tree. Miroku sat down next to it and began to meditate. Sango approached him and sat next to him. She whispered. "Miroku?"
"Sango? What are you doing here so late at night?" Miroku asked.
"I can ask you the same thing." Sango said. "You woke me up as you were leaving so I followed you."
"You should get some sleep. Please, go back to Kaede's."
"No! Not until I get some answers."
Miroku paused at these words. He had wanted to tell someone what he had been thinking but always found the group preoccupied with Naraku to care. "Very well, Sango. I shall tell you." Sango became very worried. She didn't know why but she felt very uneasy about what she might hear. "I've been thinking a lot about what's going to happen next. With Naraku out of the way, the group has no other reason to venture together. What's going to happen to the Jewel? Will Kagome stay or go back to her time? And what will become of Shippo? You now have Kohaku back so all that's needed for you is to settle down. But I have no idea what I'm going to do. All my life I've trained to fight and kill Naraku. Now that's done. I have nowhere to go."
Sango listened to him pour his soul to her. Finally she responded. "I have been talking to Kagome and we've decided to go to the future together. I'm taking Kiraka and Kohaku. It will be safer for us to go. We'll all get a fresh start. She has agreed to allow me to stay with her family until I can get settled. Kohaku will have schooling with her brother Sota. I think InuYasha and Shippo may come along. You should too. I don't want to see the group break up either. All of you have become like a family to me. All of you have been there since my village was destroyed. And I needed that."
Once she realized what she said, she knew she couldn't take it back. She looked over to Miroku to find he had a smile on his face. Not a grin when he's being perverted. Not a smirk when he says something clever. But a happy, sincere smile. Sango smiled back. 'It had been a long time since he's been happy like this,' she thought. "Let's talk about it in the morning. Kaede is right. We all need our sleep." Sango said.
As they got up, Miroku came closer toward Sango. Sango looked at him with a suspicious look half ready to smack him if he tried to do something perverted. Instead, Miroku hugged her. He HUGGED her. His head went to her ear as he politely whispered "Thank you." Sango didn't know how to react to the hug or anything that had went on that night, for that matter. But she did know how to react to the next thing he did.
"PERVERT!!!" she screamed and stormed off.
Miroku got up with a handprint on his face; the usual treatment from Sango after a groping. 'Anytime Sango. Anytime.'
The next morning, InuYasha was well, as the potion had healed him. Kagome asked if she could talk to him alone. After breakfast, they went walking in the forest. After a long silence, Kagome spoke up. "Um…InuYasha. Well, I know that, um, now that we have all the shards, there isn't need for me to be around. And, um, I want you to have it." She stuttered as she handed the fragments to InuYasha. "I got the last piece out of Kohaku's back last night. Now you can do whatever you want with it."
InuYasha stood there not knowing what to say next. "Uh, thanks Kagome. Really? It's mine?"
"Yes, InuYasha, you keep it. I've decided to go home. I've talked with Sango and she agreed to come with Kirara, Kohaku and Miroku. Shippo's coming too. Now he'll have a home again. Um. I guess this is goodbye, InuYasha." Kagome said waiting for a response from InuYasha.
"I guess so, Kagome." InuYasha was still confused by everything that happened. Kagome leaned in to hug him goodbye and planted a quick kiss on his cheek. As soon as she embraced InuYasha, she had let go and raced to the well, where the others were meeting to go to her time.
Finally it hit him like a ton of bricks, 'Wait, did she say she was leaving?' "Feh, whatever," He muttered to himself and jumped into the God tree to think. When he found his favorite branch, he sat and held the shards of the jewel.
'Great. Now what. Should I wish to go full demon or not.' He thought about what to do when he began to hear another voice in his head.
'What about Kagome?' the voice asked.
'Feh, what about her? And who are you?' the first voice asked.
'I'm just another part of you. I guess I'm your soul or something.'
(AN: OK, I feel all creatures have 2 voices of reason, the mind and the soul. When your mind thinks one thing and the soul feels another, they seem to argue in your head. That happens to me sometimes, does it you? Or am I just crazy?)
'Great you're my soul, so what does that make me? His Mind?'
'I guess, but I thought he lost you a long time ago,' the soul said
'Shut up,' the mind said.
'No you shut up,' the soul said.
After about an hour filled with the arguing of his two parts, InuYasha's mind and soul were still arguing. InuYasha was now as confused as ever. He didn't know what to do.
'Without the jewel, you can never see Kagome again,' the soul said.
'Why should I care about Kagome?' the mind asked.
'Because you love her.'
'I do not!'
'Oh really? Well, if you don't, then why do you always protect her? Huh, tough guy? Answer me that.'
'Because I needed her to find the shards.'
'And now you have them all. What's stopping you from wishing already?'
'…I don't know…. you started arguing with me.' His mind was trying desperately to put up an argument but he was quickly losing excuses.
'You could've wished before you came up into the tree. Face it; everything you do revolves around her. You worry about her when she goes back to her time. You're worried right now. You don't want her to get hurt in battle so you always try and take everyone on by yourself. You take up for her in everything.' His soul was cut off.
'Yeah, but…'
'BUT NOTHING. If you don't love her, you wouldn't have spent an hour arguing within yourself about what to do next. You don't know whether to go after her or not. Remember, I know everything about you since I am you. I know you think about her day and night. I know you've been dreading this day for a while now. You don't know if you should go with her or not. You were hoping she would stay so you wouldn't have to make a choice like this but now it's true you have to choose. And I know you want to choose to be with her.'
"You're right." InuYasha said not realizing he was speaking out loud. "I do choose to go with Kagome. Damn it, I DO love her."
'Well? What are you waiting for you baka? Go to her already.' Said the soul.
"Damn it, I will." InuYasha said as he jumped out of the tree and raced toward the well. When he found it. InuYasha dove head first screaming "KAGOMEEEEE!!!!!" as he went through the vortex and into the future.
*End Flashback*
InuYasha dove into the well, uncertain of his own future as he went to join Kagome in her time.
Well, what did you think? I thought it sucked. But I'm my own toughest critic. This was just to set up what's going to happen. It's going to get better. Review if you want. I don't care. Flamers welcome. If I get enough flames, I'm making smores. I don't know when I'll get a chance to update. Next CH: Here and Now.
This is Night Shade V1, Peace