Spellcaster
Reincarnation
Kagome's Heritage
"Go, go, go, go, go!" Kohaku cheered. He was standing besides Miroku's chair while Miroku chugged a bottle of syrup. Sango sat opposite him with several empty bottles in front of her. Several of the servers were gathered around the table cheering Miroku on as well. One of them even had a stopwatch.
The restaurant was a small diner near the edge of town. There was a small horse ranch across the street where you could go horseback riding for ten dollars. Sango remembered thinking, it would be fun to go horseback riding.
Miroku finished the syrup and slammed it down on the table. Kohaku was cheering even louder now and waving his arms about. Miroku gave Sango a grin. Sango returned it.
"He beat Sango by three seconds!" The young female server with the stopwatch said. She looked at Sango with apologetic eyes.
Sango shook her head and stood up. She rolled her eyes and climbed on top of her chair. She then grabbed the last remaining full syrup bottle. She looked at Miroku pleadingly.
"You made the bet Sango, not me, now follow through…" Miroku watched intently.
Yeah, Sango thought. I bet that I could beat you, you pervert. And you said that the loser would have to pour syrup over them selves while standing on their chair. I could have sworn I would beat you.
Sango glared at Miroku and twisted off the top of the syrup bottle. She held it high above her head and took in a deep sigh.
The things I do for men, she thought.
Sango then poured the brown sticky syrup on her head. It ran down her face smoothly but got caught in her hair. It hit her chest and seeped through her shirt into her bra. It slipped down her stomach and ran down the outside of her skirt and dripped onto her thighs. It slowly started to slide to the tips of her raven hair. She could just imagine small droplets falling off her and onto the floor.
All the while she was doing this the entire diner was a cheering mad house. Men where whooping, women where cheering her on and Miroku was howling.
The bottle was empty and Sango threw it at Miroku, "There," she said. "Happy?"
"Very." Miroku drooled.
Everyone in the diner was clapping and congratulating Sango on being such a good sport. Sango smiled shyly at them and bowed lightly. She then hopped off the chair and picked up her jacket that had several drops of syrup on it.
"How does it feel to have syrup poured on you?" Kohaku asked as though he wanted to try.
"Sticky," Sango said. One of the servers handed her a towel and she wiped off her face. "It's going to take an army to get this out." She began to rub the syrup of her chest and legs.
"I know just the place to get you cleaned up!" Miroku stood up after handing yet another server the check. He had paid for the meal, and the mess.
"Oh Miroku you don't have to pay." Sango said.
"No, I insist. Now about this place, it's a day spa." He grabbed Sango's arm and quickly released it. Sango laughed as Miroku wiped his hand off on a napkin sitting on the table.
"Sango." Kohaku said. "I need to get to Sota's remember?"
Sango looked at him puzzled.
"The project we have due!!" Kohaku said.
"Oh!" Sango said. "Oh! Sorry Miroku I'll have to turn you down on your offer, I have to take Kohaku to his friends, and besides it will be nice to see Kagome."
"Very well then." Miroku said.
"But I can drop you off at her house."
Sango looked at him wearily. "I'm covered in syrup. Won't your car seat get ruined?"
"What ever gave you the idea that you were going to sit in the car? I never said that, no, you're going to sit on the roof." Miroku started to walk from the diner. He waved goodbye to all the occupants.
"You better be kidding Miroku." Sango growled. She too waved goodbye to the servers. Kohaku followed close behind and yelled his goodbyes.
"I'm completely serious." He walked outside and they both followed.
Sango stared at him in disbelief for a moment.
"I'm seriously joking!" Miroku finished his sentence and Sango grabbed a glob of syrup off the front of her shirt and rubbed it on his face.
"Mmmm." He said. "Booby syrup."
Sango slapped him. Kohaku only laughed as he climbed into the back seat of Miroku's car.
****
Kagome sat on a wooden park bench that lined the dirt walkway. Trees were randomly arranged about the park and one happened to be directly behind her. She stared slightly sky ward and examined the tip of the leaves and the clouds in the sky.
She wore a blue short sleeve knee high dress that dipped in slightly at he waist. Her hands were in her lap clenching a red dog leash. At the end of that leash was a medium size pure white dog with brilliant golden eyes.
Inuyasha sat next to Kagome on the park bench, only he was on the ground. Unlike her, he looked at the dirt path and not the sky. Neither one spoke as both were lost in their own thoughts.
Kagome was thinking of random things. It would start off as, hey that cloud looks like my teacher, then that would lead to school, school would lead to homework, homework would lead to home, home would lead to parents, parents would lead to brothers and brothers would lead to buying unwanted white dogs…
I shouldn't be mean. Kagome thought. I mean I can only imagine all the pain he's been through. He was turned into a dog who knows how long ago and has to do good deeds. Besides he can't even talk to his family. He can only talk to me, and what use have I been to him?
None. I've just been a nuisance. That Kikyo character is more useful than me. Speaking of that. She looks just like me…it's almost like we're twins. I wonder if Inuyasha has noticed.
Kagome sighed deeply and looked down at Inuyasha.
Poor Inuyasha, I wonder how long he's…
"Inuyasha." Kagome said. She looked around her and saw no one coming and decided it would be safe to speak to him without looking crazy.
"What?" he said rudely. He seemed to have been deep in thought.
"How old are you?" she asked.
There was a slight pause and Inuyasha stood up. His tail wasn't waging and he did not look at her. "Why do you care?" he said rudely again.
"Why would I not care?" Kagome answered his question with another question.
Inuyasha did not answer but started to walk forward. "It's none of your business cause after I finish my last 18 good deeds we'll never see each other again."
Kagome lowered her eyes, "Oh I see, so you really do hate me."
"I didn't say I hated you!" he yelled. He turned around and put his paws on her knees so her face was level with hers. Kagome was slightly startled because he had never willingly gotten so close to her. "I didn't say that at all!"
"So you like me?" Kagome asked.
"I didn't say that either."
But, Inuyasha thought. I don't see how I can't. You are said to be my soul mate. How long will I be able to deny my feelings…how long can I protect you?
Kagome smiled and stood up. Inuyasha returned all four paws to the ground. Kagome walked past him and stopped. She turned her head slightly with her back to him so she could still see him. "But you didn't say you hated me."
"Are you talking to that dog?" A man wearing a blue jogging out fit asked.
Kagome started to sweat. "Uh…um…actually." She put her hands behind her back and faced the man. Inuyasha's leash was clenched tightly between her fingers. "Actually I'm talking to my friend here, Caran." Kagome made up some random name. She put her arm out to her side as if she were putting it around someone's shoulders.
"Say hello to the nice man, Caran." Kagome said.
The man looked at Kagome oddly before quickly jogging away.
"Tell me which do you think is better." Inuyasha started. "Talking to dogs, or having imaginary friends?"
"Shut up." Kagome said and started to stalk off down the path in the opposite direction the runner had taken. Inuyasha trailed after, laughing.
****
Kikyo stood by her cave on the edge of the cliff outside it. Her toes were dangling over the edge and the wind wiped around her trying to push her the several more inches off the edge. She wore shorts and a white tank top. Her hair was crudely tied back into a single high ponytail.
She was completely alone with her thoughts and nature. She took in a deep breath and fanned out her hands so she could feel the cool wind traveling through her fingers.
She opened her eyes.
"Planning on jumping?" Came Naraku's voice.
Kikyo turned her head so she could see him but her body remained planted to the same spot, "Only if you join me."
He did not respond. He wore a blue jogging out fit.
Kikyo eyed it curiously, "what happened to all the fancy attire?" she asked.
"I could ask you the same thing." He said.
Kikyo stepped back from the edge and turned her body towards him, he was a clean three yards away and she did not step closer. "Did you discover anything?"
"I did more than that." He said. He held his hand flat in front of him with the palm facing up. In the blink of an eye a rolled up scroll appeared in his palm where air had once been. "I found this."
Kikyo held her arm out as if she were reaching for it. Instead of walking over to him to retrieve it, the parchment began to float towards her. Naraku smiled wickedly as he watched the floating paper make it's way towards the Spellcaster.
Kikyo grabbed the paper and unrolled it. A large tree with no leaves was drawn on the paper. On the third to uppermost branch was the girl that Inuyasha was with. Kagome.
"It is the family tree of reincarnations." Naraku said. "There are two spaces left above the girl because there will be two more before the soul finally remains in the after life."
Kikyo looked further down the tree and spotted a familiar girl who had been suspected to be…
"Yes." Naraku said. "The reincarnation of the original."
Kikyo glanced at him before she worked further down the tree. That's when she discovered that it was actually two trees that worked into one. Kikyo's own picture was at the base of one, and…
"The original Spellcaster." Kikyo said. "Are you saying that…"
"That Kagome is the reincarnation of you and Midoriko, the first Spellcaster? Why, yes I am." Naraku smiled sinisterly.
"This can't be." Kikyo said.
"There are two girls in between you and Kagome. The first had only a small part of your soul…"
"But I'm not dead, how could this girl have my soul?" Kikyo seemed outraged.
"Ah, but do you not remember nearly 400 years ago that day your dog saved you?"
"Inuyasha?"
***Flashback***
Kikyo walked calmly down a dirt path in the center of a deserted village. She wore her normal red pants and white shirt kimono. She was minding her own business trying to think of mean things to make Inuyasha do when…
…someone stepped in front of her. It was a small girl who was wearing all white and had white hair. She carried a strange mirror that gave off a weird wave of energy.
"Who are you?" Kikyo asked. She stopped walking and stared at the girl.
"Kanna." The girls voice sounded ghostly. "Give me you're soul Kikyo."
The girl turned the mirror slightly and Kikyo saw her reflection in it. Immediantly she felt her life force leaving her. She collapsed to her knees and clenched her chest as if to stop her soul from leaving her body.
"Stop." Kikyo muttered as her eyes started to water. She was getting weaker and it was becoming harder for her to stay conscious.
"Stop that!" Inuyasha as a dog yelled and came bounding out of nowhere. He took Kanna by surprise and tackled her to the ground. Kanna dropped her mirror and it broke as it collided with the hard ground.
"The souls…" Kanna said.
Bright lights erupted from the mirror, some traveled high into sky, others shot across the landscape. One flew high into the air and came down on top of Kikyo.
Kikyo felt her strength return. She stood up slowly and Inuyasha stood by her side, a deep threatening growl emitting from deep inside his throat.
Kanna quickly gathered her mirror, stood and stared at Kikyo with a blank expression.
Kikyo held out her hand and spread her fingers apart with the palm facing Kanna. "How dare you attack me!" Kikyo yelled.
A bright light surrounded Kanna and when it faded the only thing that remained was the mirror, which lay unbroken on the ground. Kikyo had a half smirk on her face as she walked towards the mirror and picked it up.
She saw her own reflection at first then she turned the mirror slightly and Kanna's face appeared staring back at her. Kanna was trapped in the mirror.
"What have you done?" the same ghostly voice spoke back, unafraid.
"Given you a taste of your own medicine and played out part of one of my favorite fairy tales." Kikyo grinned evilly back at Kanna.
"I'm trapped…" Kanna spoke. "Forever."
"Forever." Kikyo spoke. "Unless you're creator comes to free you." Of course if you believed in a god, that was the creator, and why would he come down just to free her?
"Very well." Kanna said, her voice was still monotone.
Kikyo frowned. She then held the mirror out flat so that the reflective side pointed towards the sky. With a heavy sigh the mirror vanished, only to reappear hanging on the wall in Kikyo's cave.
"What no thank you?" Inuyasha said as Kikyo started to walk away.
She had forgotten that he was there. She looked at him, "Take away two good deeds." She turned around once more and started to walk.
"Kikyo!" Inuyasha yelled.
"You do still love me, don't you?" Kikyo laughed and turned around. "Even though I've put you through this misery you still remain loyal. This is why you do not find your soul mate, Inuyasha. You still love me."
Inuyasha did not answer, he only grunted.
***End of Flashback***
"Kikyo, this girl is the prodigy." Naraku said. "She will be the one who judges us."
"Don't tell me you believe in the prophecy?" Kikyo asked.
"How can I not? When the proof to it is right there in your hands?" He was sitting on her velvet couch inside her cave.
Kikyo was standing in front of a mirror on the wall. "So you believe that this girl will be the one who will judge every single Spellcaster?"
"Yes," Naraku said. "She will turn the good ones into humans, and the evil ones…" Naraku paused. "She will banish to the darkest depths of hell."
Kikyo was slow to believe. "Tell me…"
"Kikyo." Naraku said. He stood up. "We must destroy her before she learns of her powers. Just as you destroyed the reincarnation before her."
"She didn't matter though! Her soul was not powerful enough, it did not have enough of my essence."
"Neither did it have much of the original, that is why you defeated her so easily. And the other, the one before her and after you, had a very weak soul and she died on her own at the age of three-"
"I know all of this!" Kikyo yelled. "So Kagome has more of the original?"
"Listen…" Naraku said, "The original is not even the original, many years ago she too destroyed all the Spellcasters or turned them human. She was the only one that remained and she rebuilt the race."
"This has happened before?"
"Every 1000 years." Naraku said.
"That explains why there are so few of us." Kikyo said.
"And if Kagome succeeds there will be even fewer this time around…and if my prophet is correct."
"Your prophet?" Kikyo asked.
"Yes, my prophet. As I was saying if my prophet is correct she will have a very valiant protector…someone who will be invincible."
Kikyo bit her bottom lip. "Rotting in hell for all of eternity or being human…" Kikyo walked over the velvet couch and sat down in it. She rested her face in her hands. "I'd rather rot in hell any day, but it isn't much a choice."
"This is exactly why we must kill Kagome." Naraku took a step towards Kikyo.
"Yes." Kikyo said.
"But we must be careful, her protector may already be with her." Naraku said.
Kikyo looked up, "I'm always careful."
Naraku nodded and vanished.
"He is not to be trusted." A ghostly monotone female voice said.
"Shut up Kanna." Kikyo said. "Who care's what you think you're just a mirror." Kikyo stood up and left the room.
"I may be a mirror." Kanna said. "But I was created from one of your favorite fairy tales, and that mirror, knows only the truth." Her face in the mirror vanished.
****
Sesshomaru was at the library flipping through the public records. He had been searching all day with out any luck…
I have to find him I just have to! Sesshomaru thought.
Sesshomaru's short black hair was turning silver at the roots.
"Hey girl!" a masculine voice yelled.
Sesshomaru looked behind him and saw two teenage boys picking on a girl. She had shoulder length raven hair and she wore an orange sleeveless dress that rested just above her knees. She was sitting in a large light blue chair in the reading a book.
"We're talking to you cutie!" One of the men said.
She looked up from her book.
"Yeah. Do you want to come with us baby? Have some fun?"
She didn't speak, but she stood up and walked away from them.
Sesshomaru felt like clapping it was that good.
"Hey wench! I wasn't asking I was telling?"
"Sorry," She spoke. "It's just usually when someone started a sentence with 'do' that sentence is a question." Her voice sounded soft and frightened.
"Aw, we got ourselves a smart ass here."
"Yeah a real Elmertin."
"It's Einstein." The girl said.
"That's it! You're not making fun of us any more!"
"Shhh!" The old librarian said.
"Yeah!" the boy whispered.
She rolled her eyes and walked to the book shelves. The boys followed. Several minutes later when Sesshomaru thought he had almost found what he was looking for he heard some strange noises coming from the far corner of the library.
"No stop…don't…ah…" They were very faint and sounded muffled. If not for Sesshomaru's demon ears he would not have been able to hear them.
He power walked to the origin point of the noises. In the far corner of the library in an area where no one goes, he saw one of the two boys from earlier on top of the poor girl, her dress had been pulled up and her underwear was lying discarded several inches away. The boy was about to undo his pants.
"Stop that!" Sesshomaru yelled. Both the boys turned and looked at him.
"Ah he won't do nothing, go on keep going I wanna be next."
Why am I trying to help? Sesshomaru thought. It won't bother me if she gets rapped.
The boy who was not undoing his pants was covering her mouth with his hand and was sitting on her arms. His other free hand was caressing her breast.
For some reason this anger Sesshomaru.
"Help…" he heard her muffled plea. "Please help me…"
Sesshomaru grabbed the back of the boy's collar about to rap her and threw him into the shelf. The other boy released her in surprise. Sesshomaru took this opportunity to grab her and pull her behind him so they could not get to her.
"Come on man…"
"Rape!" The girl yelled. She clenched Sesshomaru's arm. "Rape, someone come quick. Tony and Jesse are trying to rape me!"
At the name Tony and Jesse at least five people came. They only needed to see the half unbuttoned pants one of them wore and the underwear on the floor.
"Come with me." And officer said. And the two boys were escorted out.
"You poor dear." An old man spoke to the young girl. She cowered behind Sesshomaru. The man frowned. "I guess it's a lucky thing you turned up to save her." He said to Sesshomaru.
"Yeah…" Sesshomaru said. He looked at the girl who seemed to trust him so readily.
"Or perhaps." The old man spoke. "It's fate."
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Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry and sorry one more time. Why am I apologizing? Cause I started a new story and haven't updated this one in more than a month.
Here's the chapter though. And another will be here the week of October 19th I promise. If there isn't I swear to you I will not update my story Unstable for a month. Why so far away? because I will be out of town from the 6th to the 15th.
Now that all that is out of the way I hope you enjoyed this chapter…
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