Disclaimer: Kagome's character would probably be different, most of the families will relate to my own, and the Sess/Inu fights would be so much more hilarious.
AN: New chapter!! I really hope I made the deadline I prepared for myself, but... I took some time off to work on my website and check up on some stories I liked. Plus, I found some new fav stories, and got some work done on my little website, though I have got to work on my fansite. I was in a bit of an angsty mood today, but that's over. My parents are really getting on my nerves... got mad at my 9 year old brother for 1 mistake on a worksheet... jeez... Oh man, I AM protective... Okay, now which story am I writing? Oh... right... (scatterbrained) R&R please!
And for you who have watched Escaflowne, Icari looks like those cat sisters (Naria and someone, right?) that follow Folken around. Except, her nose isn't as big, her ears are normal or else smaller, and her eyes aren't like that.
Icari
Chapter 2
A slight shuffling by his side woke Inuyasha up. When his senses came flooding back to him, he realized that he wasn't sleeping in a tree, like he was used to. Something brushed up against his arm and his eyes opened slightly to see Kagome slowly moving away, as silently as a human could. Behind her though, stood a woman he almost didn't reconize.
She growled with her face in a teasing manner, and Shippo, who was already awake, began to laugh a bit. "You were holding her pretty tight, you know?" He looked away, only to spy Sesshomaru on top a tree not far away.
"Kagome? what are you making?" Icari knelt down beside the girl who was cooking over the fire. The younger girl smiled gently and and explained Ramen to the older woman.
"Inuyasha really likes it, so I decided to try making some for you and Sesshomaru, see if you Inu-youkai have similar senses of taste as him. I couldn't think of anything else." She stuck her chopsticks into the pot and stirred a bit before leaving to collect more firewood.
"Sesshomaru can get his own food." Inuyasha grounded out as he stood up. "Icari, on the other hand, is welcome." A smaller log flew at his head, but he caught it deftly.
"Inuyasha, be nice! If Icari is going to be eating, at least let your brother try some. Besides, there's no need to be... insecure around him, he won't hurt us with your sister here." She placed some wood in the fire as she talked, trying to desperately work her way around the word scared. "If you're bad, I'll say the O word and won't let you have any Ramen." He shut up and began brooding by a tree.
"He likes it that much, huh?" Icari sniffed the pot curiously.
"Yep. Besides the rosary, it's the only power I have over him." she continued to stir as the water began to bubble.
"Heh heh, sucker." Kagome giggled as she scouped out the ramen for everybody. She handed one to Icari, Inuyasha, and Rin first. "Sesshy! Get your butt down here!" Golden eyes glared at Icari as her older brother jumped down and sat obediantly by the fire. Everyone else had been served by now.
"Here you are." Kagome began to move over to Sesshomaru when Inuyasha growled. "Inuyasha, don't be a baby, I'll be just fine." she set the bowl infront of the older Inu-youkai and he stared at it questioningly. "Do you want chopsticks?" Instead of waiting, Inuyasha threw a pair at his brother before Kagome could possibly move.
Inuyasha downed the entire thing, and walked off before anyone questioned him, nearly stepping on Jaken on his way out. After sending a few curses Inuyasha's way, he too sat down and stared at the bowl in front of him. Icari looked over at everyone else, while Rin carefully picked up her chopsticks. Slipping a bit into her mouth, she slurped, causing the end of the last noodle to fling up and hit her in the nose.
"Yum! Come on Sesshomaru-sama, Jaken-chan. Try some! It's good." She began to down her food as well, and Sesshomaru watched her. He tried some, as well as Icari, and soon both had downed the entire thing as well. "I told you!" Icari laughed but Sesshomaru just got up and walked away.
"I don't understand it, My lord, can't you see this girl is trying to poison us? My lord! What are yo-" Rin crawled over and dunked the goblin's head into the water. She held it there was twenty seconds before letting go.
"Good, isn't it?" She grinned, still on all fours.
"What were yo- actually, it was." he began to eat as well, splashing the broth all over himself.
Kagome sat staring at the odd display, her own chopsticks halfway to her mouth, with pieces of noodle slipping off. "I wasn't expecting that." The end of the noodle slipped off and splashed some of her food on her. "Darn." She began to eat.
*~*~*~*~*
"Hey, Icari!" Sango and Kagome waved the youkai over, holding Kagome's soaps and towels in their hands. Icari ran over eagerly, wanting to see what else this miko knew of. "You want to bathe with us? There's a small hot spring in a clearing over there."
"I don't know what that is, but I trust you." She let herself be pulled away by the two girls, but a little head ran up to them.
"Can I go too?" Rin's eyes shone brightly as she stood there. Her little ponytail sticking out the side of her head made her too adorable to refuse. Sango and Kagome looked at eachother for the slightest second before agreeing.
"You boys behave yourself!" Icari callled over her shoulder.
"I'll come guard!" Inuyasha ran up to the all too eager monk and held him back.
"Over my dead body."
*~*~*~*~*
"Oh... This is nice." The youkai slipped in the hot spring and leaned back. This was the first time she was seen without the protection of her forest green cloak. Underneath it was a forest green dress, simple and light.
Rin jumped into the spring, splashing them all, and was hurriedly pulled to the side by Icari, her new best friend. Kagome and Sango were already in the spring, and were wetting their hair.
"That dress you have under that cloak is nice, why do you always were that cloak on top of it?" Kagome questioned Inuyasha's sister.
"Makes my seem like a submissive woman. I don't like that. I prefer pants, but not the miko pants or the big ones they all have around here." The youkai played with her hair, which indeed only came down to just below her shoulders.
"Hm... I could probably get you something, you like forest green, right?" Icari perked up, and looked at her questioningly.
"What do you mean?" Kagome looked over at Sango, who shrugged, and began telling Icari of her home, and a lot of the details. The woman listened intently as she told her of the future, delighting in some details. "You mean Inuyasha just burst into your world and told you to come back in front of everyone in your family? Your mother didn't even yell at him?" She grinned as she pulled the little Rin back to the edge absentmindly.
"No, she just felt his ears!" Kagome began to laugh herself at the recollection. "My brother Sota thinks of him as a hero now. He loves to look at Tetsusaiga." She rinsed the bubbles out of her hair.
"I wish I could go over there..." Icari looked into the sky wistfully. "Hey, how come only you and Inuyasha can go over?" She cocked her head to one side like a little puppy and both younger girls giggled.
"It's the rosary around his neck. It connects him to me, so if I have the jewel, we can both come and go as we please, but when he uses the Shikon no Tama to become full demon, we'll both be stuck in our own times." She poured conditioner into her hair. "Unless, of course, we don't fall into the well in the other's time though."
"Aren't you sad?" Icari bowed her haed a bit as she worked some of the "shampoo" into her own hair. "I mean, you and Inuyasha are mates, aren't you?" Since her head was bowed, she didn't see the expression on Kagome's face, but heard her wistful sigh.
"I wish. It'd would never work, I'm from the future, and Inuyasha's from the, I mean, here. After he's youkai, it would probably be too dangerous for me to stay, seeing how he loses his mind during his transformations, and he's still hung over on Kikyo."
"Kikyo seems funny." Rin scrutched up her nose and made an odd face. She swam quickly over to Kagome's side and reached up. Poking her face, and side, she concluded, "You feel normal. Kikyo-sama is cold." she made the face again and Kagome laughed.
"But I thought Kikyo died." Icari, on the other hand, had the most confused expression on her face.
"She did, but she was resurrected with part of my soul. She lives on souls her soulcatchers provide now, and help us every now and then. I don't see much wrong with her, though she did try and drag Inuyasha to hell a few times, and helped Naraku every now and then." She talked as if it was perfectly normal.
"Hold it, who's Naraku?" She made stopping signs with her hands and looked at Kagome and Sango's faces.
"A baboon." Rin said it as if it wasn't anything. She was too busy tending a flower by the spring she had found; feeling the petals and pouring some of the spring water onto it.
Sango snorted at the little girl's answer. "Actually, he's half demon. Apparently, Kikyo tended to him as a human, or animal, I forget. But he fell in love with Kikyo, and in order to become stronger, he let demons swallow him, and they somehow merged to become Naraku, a powerful enemy who dresses himself up as a baboon. Hence, Rin's comment."
"Doesn't sound like much a villain. I mean, the guy dresses himself as a baboon." She was already washing the conditioner out of her hair, have done the steps between sometime during the conversation.
"Wait until you meet him. You won't think like that anymore, I assure you." Sango sunk a bit into the water, enjoying the sensations, then rising again in regret. "We should go back now. you know how mad Inuyasha gets when we stay here too long. Besides, he's with Sesshomaru and Jaken, trying to keep Miroku away from this."
Kagome agreed, Icari and Rin just shrugged. So they simply got out, dressed, and walked back to the camp.
*~*~*~*~*
"Inuyasha! Osuwari!" A loud thump was heard and an orange furball bounded into Kagome's arms.
"Wench! What did you do that for? That little brat was fnally going to get what he deserved!"
Sango led a worried Icari away as the two fought, and Rin ignored them to run towards Sesshomaru.
"Aren't you worried my brother might hurt that miko? They're practically biting eachother's heads off." More yelling filled the air and a bounding Shippo ran up a tree or two.
"No, this is a regular occurance. Don't worry about it, really, Inuyasha would never hurt Kagome, physically." There was a moment of silence between the two woman, before Sango added, "Well, when he's normal anyway. But he's got Tetsusaiga so, no worries." There was another pause. "Oh! Since Inuyasha and Sesshomaru both have their own swords, did your father leave anything to you? Or did he just think that girls weren't fit to fight or something?"
"Actually, he taught me how to fight, and encouraged me to keep going, no matter what." She reached into the cape she always wore and pulled out her own sword. "Sess-chan has blue, for healing. Inu-chan's is red, for killing, and mine is green, for growing." Grinning, she unsheathed it, and gave it a few test strikes. Then, in a bigger swipe, the sword transformed and she held it out proudly.
"Ummm... see this flower?" she twirled around before settling for a small, not fully bloomed flower, and pointed at it with her sword. "Watch." Concentrating, the sword began to twitch, before glowing. The flower glowed too, before it's leaves began to grow, and the petals opened and the flower was in full bloom. "Nice, eh?"
"Yes, but how does growing affect the battles you use it in?" Sango touched the blade, trailing her finger up and down it until her blood dripped out and slid down the sword, slowly. Miroku came out of nowhere to inspect Icari's work too. Soon, the whole group joined the two woman.
"Growth affects both creatures and plants. If I can find it to my advantage, I'll use it on creatures, but it's mostly used for slowing my predators down. I can grow parts of things, so I could make overhanging branches into logs or something, and, well, those aren't pleasant to run into." She sheathed her blade again. "But usually, I just use it for food."
"But what about that staff I saw you have with you?" Kagome asked as she noticed the sword was nothing like it.
"It's a childhood weapon. My father gave it to me to begin with. I just carry it around since I can't find a better use for it, and it's too nice to just throw away." Icari thought for a moment before turning. "Rin."
The little girl ran up to the youkai as if she were her own mother. "How about you hang onto this for me? I have nothing to use it for." Her hand emerged from her cape with a small, brightly coloured staff, just about the right size for the little girl.
Her face lit up at the gift. "Thank you!" She hugged the weapon and and ran off to show Sesshomaru. But, as usual, the stoic youkai practically ignored the prancing girl and glared at his sister.
"Nothing for me?" there was a small tug at her cape and Icari looked down and saw a little Shippo with huge eyes. She laughed and bent down, whispering in his ear so no one else would hear. At least, not Rin.
"No, but she's just a human girl. You'll grow up to become a big, strong, fox youkai and you won't need a little stick." He grinned and happily pounced away, taking the time to cover some of Inuyasha's robes before continuing along before the hanyou noticed.
Inuyasha cleared his throat. "We should get going now. I think we've travelled enough and should rest back at Kaede-baba's." He turned and began to walk, before his ears twitched a bit.
"About time." It was Kagome.
"What did you say, wench?" Icari sighed. This was going to happen a lot.
AN: New chapter!! I really hope I made the deadline I prepared for myself, but... I took some time off to work on my website and check up on some stories I liked. Plus, I found some new fav stories, and got some work done on my little website, though I have got to work on my fansite. I was in a bit of an angsty mood today, but that's over. My parents are really getting on my nerves... got mad at my 9 year old brother for 1 mistake on a worksheet... jeez... Oh man, I AM protective... Okay, now which story am I writing? Oh... right... (scatterbrained) R&R please!
And for you who have watched Escaflowne, Icari looks like those cat sisters (Naria and someone, right?) that follow Folken around. Except, her nose isn't as big, her ears are normal or else smaller, and her eyes aren't like that.
Icari
Chapter 2
A slight shuffling by his side woke Inuyasha up. When his senses came flooding back to him, he realized that he wasn't sleeping in a tree, like he was used to. Something brushed up against his arm and his eyes opened slightly to see Kagome slowly moving away, as silently as a human could. Behind her though, stood a woman he almost didn't reconize.
She growled with her face in a teasing manner, and Shippo, who was already awake, began to laugh a bit. "You were holding her pretty tight, you know?" He looked away, only to spy Sesshomaru on top a tree not far away.
"Kagome? what are you making?" Icari knelt down beside the girl who was cooking over the fire. The younger girl smiled gently and and explained Ramen to the older woman.
"Inuyasha really likes it, so I decided to try making some for you and Sesshomaru, see if you Inu-youkai have similar senses of taste as him. I couldn't think of anything else." She stuck her chopsticks into the pot and stirred a bit before leaving to collect more firewood.
"Sesshomaru can get his own food." Inuyasha grounded out as he stood up. "Icari, on the other hand, is welcome." A smaller log flew at his head, but he caught it deftly.
"Inuyasha, be nice! If Icari is going to be eating, at least let your brother try some. Besides, there's no need to be... insecure around him, he won't hurt us with your sister here." She placed some wood in the fire as she talked, trying to desperately work her way around the word scared. "If you're bad, I'll say the O word and won't let you have any Ramen." He shut up and began brooding by a tree.
"He likes it that much, huh?" Icari sniffed the pot curiously.
"Yep. Besides the rosary, it's the only power I have over him." she continued to stir as the water began to bubble.
"Heh heh, sucker." Kagome giggled as she scouped out the ramen for everybody. She handed one to Icari, Inuyasha, and Rin first. "Sesshy! Get your butt down here!" Golden eyes glared at Icari as her older brother jumped down and sat obediantly by the fire. Everyone else had been served by now.
"Here you are." Kagome began to move over to Sesshomaru when Inuyasha growled. "Inuyasha, don't be a baby, I'll be just fine." she set the bowl infront of the older Inu-youkai and he stared at it questioningly. "Do you want chopsticks?" Instead of waiting, Inuyasha threw a pair at his brother before Kagome could possibly move.
Inuyasha downed the entire thing, and walked off before anyone questioned him, nearly stepping on Jaken on his way out. After sending a few curses Inuyasha's way, he too sat down and stared at the bowl in front of him. Icari looked over at everyone else, while Rin carefully picked up her chopsticks. Slipping a bit into her mouth, she slurped, causing the end of the last noodle to fling up and hit her in the nose.
"Yum! Come on Sesshomaru-sama, Jaken-chan. Try some! It's good." She began to down her food as well, and Sesshomaru watched her. He tried some, as well as Icari, and soon both had downed the entire thing as well. "I told you!" Icari laughed but Sesshomaru just got up and walked away.
"I don't understand it, My lord, can't you see this girl is trying to poison us? My lord! What are yo-" Rin crawled over and dunked the goblin's head into the water. She held it there was twenty seconds before letting go.
"Good, isn't it?" She grinned, still on all fours.
"What were yo- actually, it was." he began to eat as well, splashing the broth all over himself.
Kagome sat staring at the odd display, her own chopsticks halfway to her mouth, with pieces of noodle slipping off. "I wasn't expecting that." The end of the noodle slipped off and splashed some of her food on her. "Darn." She began to eat.
*~*~*~*~*
"Hey, Icari!" Sango and Kagome waved the youkai over, holding Kagome's soaps and towels in their hands. Icari ran over eagerly, wanting to see what else this miko knew of. "You want to bathe with us? There's a small hot spring in a clearing over there."
"I don't know what that is, but I trust you." She let herself be pulled away by the two girls, but a little head ran up to them.
"Can I go too?" Rin's eyes shone brightly as she stood there. Her little ponytail sticking out the side of her head made her too adorable to refuse. Sango and Kagome looked at eachother for the slightest second before agreeing.
"You boys behave yourself!" Icari callled over her shoulder.
"I'll come guard!" Inuyasha ran up to the all too eager monk and held him back.
"Over my dead body."
*~*~*~*~*
"Oh... This is nice." The youkai slipped in the hot spring and leaned back. This was the first time she was seen without the protection of her forest green cloak. Underneath it was a forest green dress, simple and light.
Rin jumped into the spring, splashing them all, and was hurriedly pulled to the side by Icari, her new best friend. Kagome and Sango were already in the spring, and were wetting their hair.
"That dress you have under that cloak is nice, why do you always were that cloak on top of it?" Kagome questioned Inuyasha's sister.
"Makes my seem like a submissive woman. I don't like that. I prefer pants, but not the miko pants or the big ones they all have around here." The youkai played with her hair, which indeed only came down to just below her shoulders.
"Hm... I could probably get you something, you like forest green, right?" Icari perked up, and looked at her questioningly.
"What do you mean?" Kagome looked over at Sango, who shrugged, and began telling Icari of her home, and a lot of the details. The woman listened intently as she told her of the future, delighting in some details. "You mean Inuyasha just burst into your world and told you to come back in front of everyone in your family? Your mother didn't even yell at him?" She grinned as she pulled the little Rin back to the edge absentmindly.
"No, she just felt his ears!" Kagome began to laugh herself at the recollection. "My brother Sota thinks of him as a hero now. He loves to look at Tetsusaiga." She rinsed the bubbles out of her hair.
"I wish I could go over there..." Icari looked into the sky wistfully. "Hey, how come only you and Inuyasha can go over?" She cocked her head to one side like a little puppy and both younger girls giggled.
"It's the rosary around his neck. It connects him to me, so if I have the jewel, we can both come and go as we please, but when he uses the Shikon no Tama to become full demon, we'll both be stuck in our own times." She poured conditioner into her hair. "Unless, of course, we don't fall into the well in the other's time though."
"Aren't you sad?" Icari bowed her haed a bit as she worked some of the "shampoo" into her own hair. "I mean, you and Inuyasha are mates, aren't you?" Since her head was bowed, she didn't see the expression on Kagome's face, but heard her wistful sigh.
"I wish. It'd would never work, I'm from the future, and Inuyasha's from the, I mean, here. After he's youkai, it would probably be too dangerous for me to stay, seeing how he loses his mind during his transformations, and he's still hung over on Kikyo."
"Kikyo seems funny." Rin scrutched up her nose and made an odd face. She swam quickly over to Kagome's side and reached up. Poking her face, and side, she concluded, "You feel normal. Kikyo-sama is cold." she made the face again and Kagome laughed.
"But I thought Kikyo died." Icari, on the other hand, had the most confused expression on her face.
"She did, but she was resurrected with part of my soul. She lives on souls her soulcatchers provide now, and help us every now and then. I don't see much wrong with her, though she did try and drag Inuyasha to hell a few times, and helped Naraku every now and then." She talked as if it was perfectly normal.
"Hold it, who's Naraku?" She made stopping signs with her hands and looked at Kagome and Sango's faces.
"A baboon." Rin said it as if it wasn't anything. She was too busy tending a flower by the spring she had found; feeling the petals and pouring some of the spring water onto it.
Sango snorted at the little girl's answer. "Actually, he's half demon. Apparently, Kikyo tended to him as a human, or animal, I forget. But he fell in love with Kikyo, and in order to become stronger, he let demons swallow him, and they somehow merged to become Naraku, a powerful enemy who dresses himself up as a baboon. Hence, Rin's comment."
"Doesn't sound like much a villain. I mean, the guy dresses himself as a baboon." She was already washing the conditioner out of her hair, have done the steps between sometime during the conversation.
"Wait until you meet him. You won't think like that anymore, I assure you." Sango sunk a bit into the water, enjoying the sensations, then rising again in regret. "We should go back now. you know how mad Inuyasha gets when we stay here too long. Besides, he's with Sesshomaru and Jaken, trying to keep Miroku away from this."
Kagome agreed, Icari and Rin just shrugged. So they simply got out, dressed, and walked back to the camp.
*~*~*~*~*
"Inuyasha! Osuwari!" A loud thump was heard and an orange furball bounded into Kagome's arms.
"Wench! What did you do that for? That little brat was fnally going to get what he deserved!"
Sango led a worried Icari away as the two fought, and Rin ignored them to run towards Sesshomaru.
"Aren't you worried my brother might hurt that miko? They're practically biting eachother's heads off." More yelling filled the air and a bounding Shippo ran up a tree or two.
"No, this is a regular occurance. Don't worry about it, really, Inuyasha would never hurt Kagome, physically." There was a moment of silence between the two woman, before Sango added, "Well, when he's normal anyway. But he's got Tetsusaiga so, no worries." There was another pause. "Oh! Since Inuyasha and Sesshomaru both have their own swords, did your father leave anything to you? Or did he just think that girls weren't fit to fight or something?"
"Actually, he taught me how to fight, and encouraged me to keep going, no matter what." She reached into the cape she always wore and pulled out her own sword. "Sess-chan has blue, for healing. Inu-chan's is red, for killing, and mine is green, for growing." Grinning, she unsheathed it, and gave it a few test strikes. Then, in a bigger swipe, the sword transformed and she held it out proudly.
"Ummm... see this flower?" she twirled around before settling for a small, not fully bloomed flower, and pointed at it with her sword. "Watch." Concentrating, the sword began to twitch, before glowing. The flower glowed too, before it's leaves began to grow, and the petals opened and the flower was in full bloom. "Nice, eh?"
"Yes, but how does growing affect the battles you use it in?" Sango touched the blade, trailing her finger up and down it until her blood dripped out and slid down the sword, slowly. Miroku came out of nowhere to inspect Icari's work too. Soon, the whole group joined the two woman.
"Growth affects both creatures and plants. If I can find it to my advantage, I'll use it on creatures, but it's mostly used for slowing my predators down. I can grow parts of things, so I could make overhanging branches into logs or something, and, well, those aren't pleasant to run into." She sheathed her blade again. "But usually, I just use it for food."
"But what about that staff I saw you have with you?" Kagome asked as she noticed the sword was nothing like it.
"It's a childhood weapon. My father gave it to me to begin with. I just carry it around since I can't find a better use for it, and it's too nice to just throw away." Icari thought for a moment before turning. "Rin."
The little girl ran up to the youkai as if she were her own mother. "How about you hang onto this for me? I have nothing to use it for." Her hand emerged from her cape with a small, brightly coloured staff, just about the right size for the little girl.
Her face lit up at the gift. "Thank you!" She hugged the weapon and and ran off to show Sesshomaru. But, as usual, the stoic youkai practically ignored the prancing girl and glared at his sister.
"Nothing for me?" there was a small tug at her cape and Icari looked down and saw a little Shippo with huge eyes. She laughed and bent down, whispering in his ear so no one else would hear. At least, not Rin.
"No, but she's just a human girl. You'll grow up to become a big, strong, fox youkai and you won't need a little stick." He grinned and happily pounced away, taking the time to cover some of Inuyasha's robes before continuing along before the hanyou noticed.
Inuyasha cleared his throat. "We should get going now. I think we've travelled enough and should rest back at Kaede-baba's." He turned and began to walk, before his ears twitched a bit.
"About time." It was Kagome.
"What did you say, wench?" Icari sighed. This was going to happen a lot.