Chapter 11: Spells and Surprises
Once in Tokyo, everyone climbed from the car, stretched, then started for the apartment building.
"Ano…Inuyasha, does the disguise spell work when you're in the car as well?" asked Kagome as she started walking faster.
"Hai, once in the car I'm under my parents spell, why?" He caught up to her in the lobby. He managed to get in front of her and he stopped Kagome in her tracks. Inuyasha saw her nudge her head toward the lobby mirror then heard her whisper, "something's wrong." Inuyasha stared at his reflections in the mirror. Silver hair and gold eyes stared back at him. "Oh crap!" He released Kagome and bolted up to his apartment.
Everyone managed to keep up with the hanyou and they were all standing there when he opened his door. They all entered and cautiously looked around for the possible intruder. When the apartment was deemed safe, they all relaxed a bit.
Inuyasha stared at the door side table intensely. "Someone was here, these stones are all wrong. I'm surprised I didn't look like a purple monster or something…Does it look like anything is missing?" he walked into the room further, only to be consumed with a chilling feeling, a feeling he hadn't felt for a long time. "The smell is wrong. He whispered as he walked into his apartment and looked around.
Kirara followed behind Inuyasha, she started growling and hissing, wanting to flare out, but Sango stopped her. "Kirara what's wrong?" Sango held the still growling fire cat in her arms as she looked around the room for the culprit.
"Who ever it was, is gone now, they left several hours ago…I recognize this smell, but why would it be here?" Inuyasha looked over and stared at Kagome, several questions coming to mind.
"What? What did I do?" questioned the miko hastily as she looked around, thinking she had touched something she wasn't suppose to.
Inuyasha waved his hands defensively. "No, no, do you remember what I called you the first time we met and why?"
She crossed her arms in front of her and glared at him. "How can I forget? You kept calling me Kikyo and insisted I smelled like her. Then you tried to kill me. So we had to collar you." Kagome walked up and fiddled with the rosary around his neck while giving him a sinister smile.
He squinted as he glared at her. "Ya funny ha ha. I'm being serious here. The people that were here, I recognize one of them. There were three, all female, but one smelled a lot like you…Kagome…" Inuyasha gave her a very serious look.
"Who is it Inuyasha?" blurted Shippo as he looked between the hanyou and miko.
"Kikyo!"
"KIKYO?!" spoke everyone in unison.
"How is that possible? Kagome is her soul reincarnated." Responded Miroku.
"Not all of it. When Urasue took Kagome's soul and put it into Kikyo, she was driven by her hatred of me. Kagome called her soul back, but part of the soul stayed with Kikyo. It's that soul and her hate for me that she managed to remain. It must be that soul with Kikyo that crossed time. DAMN! I had hoped she died with Naraku." Inuyasha had walked over and looked out the glass door, staring off while he talked.
Kagome walked up and stood behind her fiancé. She hugged him from behind as she spoke. "If it really is Kikyo, what do you plan to do?" She rested her cheek on his back, enjoying the feel of his silky silver hair on her skin.
Inuyasha grasped her hands and held them tightly. "For now, I'll just wait and see what she does. It doesn't seem like anything is missing so for now I'll just up security." He scoffed at everyone's confused and questioning looks reflected in the glass door. "I can create a barrier around my apartment. Letting only those in selected to enter." He walked over to the small table by the door and took out a few stones, herbs and a vial from the drawer. He then walked over and placed everything on the counter. He mixed some of herbs in the vial then looked to everyone present. "I'll need a bit of your blood. This will indicate who is allowed in." He walked up to Miroku first and cut his finger with a knife, letting some of the blood trickle into the vial, he then gave the monk a paper towel for his finger. He did the same to Sango, Kirara, and Shippo. When it was Kagome's turn he hesitated, hating the idea of hurting her.
Realizing his dilemma, Kagome took the knife and pierced her own flesh and squeezed the blood into the glass vial. "You do want me to come in right. "She then placed her finger in her mouth to stop the bleeding.
Pleased that he didn't have to cut Kagome, he then cut his own finger and let a few of the drops fall into the vial. His fingers quickly stopped bleeding as he covered the top of the vial and shook it, mixing the blood and herbs together. He then poured the herb mix evenly over the four stones. When that was done he gathered up the stones and went about placing one in the four main corners of the apartment. One in the living room, one in the bedroom, one in the bathroom and one in the kitchen, making a perfect square. "There now only us six can come and leave…You guys go check your rooms too, ok." He looked at Miroku and Sango as they all left the apartment. "I'm gonna take Shippo and Kagome home. Plus see if her place is ok." They all left and went their own ways. All the way to Kagome's house, Inuyasha kept a tight hold of her hand as she kept a hold of Shippo's.
Kagome was kind of sad when they got home. She didn't want to leave Inuyasha. Even if his apartment was a block away, it seemed like miles to her. They all entered the house and were quickly greeted by her mother.
"Okari minna. Did you all have fun? I hope you behaved yourselves." Kaiyo smiled happily at the three as they entered. "Oh Kagome, one of your friends came by earlier, said they forgot a text book. I think she said her name was…Kuromiko… I'm sure that's what it was." She didn't even get the whole sentence out and all three were up the stairs. Kaiyo merely shrugged then went back into the kitchen.
A few seconds later, Kagome burst into her room and looked around. Inuyasha and Shippo plowed into her back as they tried to enter the room.
Inuyasha stepped forward and sniffed around the room. "She's been here too. DAMN IT! What could she possibly want?" He growled loudly as he watched Kagome search her room.
Kagome turned from her desk abruptly. "She stole my diary. Why would she…." She stared at her fiancé intently. "Oh no…I wrote about our adventures in the Sengoku Jidai." Out of surprise her hands instinctively covered her mouth.
"Do you think your diary made it through the change of realities?" asked Inuyasha as he continued to glance around her room.
She looked from her desk to her bed to her desk again. "It may have. I had a lot of stuff all over my bed that night. Maybe my diary survived."
"Ya maybe. I still don't like this, something bad is gonna happen I know it." Inuyasha crossed his arms as he leaned against the doorway, still highly annoyed. 'What can she be up to?'
Kagome walked up to him and placed her hands on his arms. "Try to be optimistic. We're newly engaged, we love each other, we're going to have a future together, and we haven't told my mom yet." She smiled up at him sweetly as she grasped his hand. "Let's cross the Kikyo bridge when we get to it…Let's go tell my family we're engaged now." She didn't even wait for the dog-boy to respond and she was already pulling him out of her room and down the stairs to the living room.
Inuyasha froze upon seeing Kagome's brother, mother and grandfather seated in the room watching TV. 'What if they say no to our engagement…So we'll elope…'
Upon entering the room, Kagome held Inuyasha's hand tightly, glad that she didn't have to tell them on her own. "Everyone, I have an announcement Inuyasha proposed. We're getting married." She stood waiting for a reply from everyone but all they did was stare.
They were all staring at the raven haired boy next to Kagome, shocked. Then room remained silent for an enormously long period of time, everyone could have heard a pin drop.
Surprisingly it was Kagome's grandfather that spoke up first. "Isn't it kind of sudden? Didn't you two just meet?" He glanced between his granddaughter and the young man, confused about the whole situation.
"We did get engaged this morning but we've known each other for the last three years. We've been through hell and high water together, literally. And we love each other." Kagome smiled happily at their onlookers.
"What about school, work, a home?" continued her grandfather.
"Ji-chan, calm down. It's not like were getting married tomorrow. We both want to finish school. Inuyasha was thinking of going to college and working after high school. I was planning on working here and studying more on being a miko. As for a home…Inuyasha has a cute apartment a block from here." Kagome's smile grew and she tightened her hand around his.
"Oi, cute?" Inuyasha glanced at her for calling his home "cute." 'Of all the words in the world, she had to pick "cute."' He arched an eyebrow when she looked up at him and stuck out her tongue in a comical way. Inuyasha just sighed and let it go, for now.
Kaiyo nodded her head then stood up. "Well let's go get you packed." She then started for the stairs.
"OKASAN?!" yelled Kagome, dumbfounded by her mothers reaction.
"Well you two are engaged now. It's only fitting you live with each other, see how it works out. Besides, you said it yourself, it's only a block away." Kaiyo continued to head for the stairs.
"Oka…okasan…" Kagome was still too shocked to do much of anything.
Kaiyo stopped and turned to her daughter. "Ok, ok, we'll pack you tonight and you can move tomorrow. That gives you both time to get things figured out." Everyone face faulted at her plans.
"Tonight or tomorrow, either's fine with me!" Inuyasha stated calmly.
Kagome thought for a moment before answering. "Considering all that happened today. Let's make the move for tomorrow after school. That way I can pack tonight and rest. Plus Inuyasha might want to make room for me." She winked at her fiancé.
"Well ok. Let's get to work!" Kaiyo clapped her hands together and started for the stairs again.
Kagome leaned over so she could whisper into Inuyasha's ear. "Is it just me or does my mother want me out of the house?"
"It's not just you." Stated Inuyasha as they started to follow Kaiyo up the stairs to Kagome's room.
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"Hey listen to this." Hollered a girl that was seated at a desk.
"Wednesday, November 22, 2000,
We finally completed the jewel. Only took 3 years too. Guess it actually is a long time huh. Anyways, tomorrow I'm giving the Shikon no Tama to Inuyasha so he can become a full youkai. I wish he would stay the same. I love him so much, especially as he is. Silver hair, gold eyes, fuzzy ears, muscled body, protective, caring (at times), Ok enough of that. I've decided to go back to my time. That ay he can be with that dead bi-oops, I can't live with being second in his heart. It will be painful to leave him, and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo. But I need to move on I can't stay around and waste my life waiting for a man I can't have. I just hope he'll understand when I tell him tomorrow. Here's hoping!"
"That's the last entry. That was only a few days ago too."
Another girl walked over and looked out the window. Maybe we can use her diary against her." An evil smiled curled her lips as she thought about the possibilities.
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Once in Tokyo, everyone climbed from the car, stretched, then started for the apartment building.
"Ano…Inuyasha, does the disguise spell work when you're in the car as well?" asked Kagome as she started walking faster.
"Hai, once in the car I'm under my parents spell, why?" He caught up to her in the lobby. He managed to get in front of her and he stopped Kagome in her tracks. Inuyasha saw her nudge her head toward the lobby mirror then heard her whisper, "something's wrong." Inuyasha stared at his reflections in the mirror. Silver hair and gold eyes stared back at him. "Oh crap!" He released Kagome and bolted up to his apartment.
Everyone managed to keep up with the hanyou and they were all standing there when he opened his door. They all entered and cautiously looked around for the possible intruder. When the apartment was deemed safe, they all relaxed a bit.
Inuyasha stared at the door side table intensely. "Someone was here, these stones are all wrong. I'm surprised I didn't look like a purple monster or something…Does it look like anything is missing?" he walked into the room further, only to be consumed with a chilling feeling, a feeling he hadn't felt for a long time. "The smell is wrong. He whispered as he walked into his apartment and looked around.
Kirara followed behind Inuyasha, she started growling and hissing, wanting to flare out, but Sango stopped her. "Kirara what's wrong?" Sango held the still growling fire cat in her arms as she looked around the room for the culprit.
"Who ever it was, is gone now, they left several hours ago…I recognize this smell, but why would it be here?" Inuyasha looked over and stared at Kagome, several questions coming to mind.
"What? What did I do?" questioned the miko hastily as she looked around, thinking she had touched something she wasn't suppose to.
Inuyasha waved his hands defensively. "No, no, do you remember what I called you the first time we met and why?"
She crossed her arms in front of her and glared at him. "How can I forget? You kept calling me Kikyo and insisted I smelled like her. Then you tried to kill me. So we had to collar you." Kagome walked up and fiddled with the rosary around his neck while giving him a sinister smile.
He squinted as he glared at her. "Ya funny ha ha. I'm being serious here. The people that were here, I recognize one of them. There were three, all female, but one smelled a lot like you…Kagome…" Inuyasha gave her a very serious look.
"Who is it Inuyasha?" blurted Shippo as he looked between the hanyou and miko.
"Kikyo!"
"KIKYO?!" spoke everyone in unison.
"How is that possible? Kagome is her soul reincarnated." Responded Miroku.
"Not all of it. When Urasue took Kagome's soul and put it into Kikyo, she was driven by her hatred of me. Kagome called her soul back, but part of the soul stayed with Kikyo. It's that soul and her hate for me that she managed to remain. It must be that soul with Kikyo that crossed time. DAMN! I had hoped she died with Naraku." Inuyasha had walked over and looked out the glass door, staring off while he talked.
Kagome walked up and stood behind her fiancé. She hugged him from behind as she spoke. "If it really is Kikyo, what do you plan to do?" She rested her cheek on his back, enjoying the feel of his silky silver hair on her skin.
Inuyasha grasped her hands and held them tightly. "For now, I'll just wait and see what she does. It doesn't seem like anything is missing so for now I'll just up security." He scoffed at everyone's confused and questioning looks reflected in the glass door. "I can create a barrier around my apartment. Letting only those in selected to enter." He walked over to the small table by the door and took out a few stones, herbs and a vial from the drawer. He then walked over and placed everything on the counter. He mixed some of herbs in the vial then looked to everyone present. "I'll need a bit of your blood. This will indicate who is allowed in." He walked up to Miroku first and cut his finger with a knife, letting some of the blood trickle into the vial, he then gave the monk a paper towel for his finger. He did the same to Sango, Kirara, and Shippo. When it was Kagome's turn he hesitated, hating the idea of hurting her.
Realizing his dilemma, Kagome took the knife and pierced her own flesh and squeezed the blood into the glass vial. "You do want me to come in right. "She then placed her finger in her mouth to stop the bleeding.
Pleased that he didn't have to cut Kagome, he then cut his own finger and let a few of the drops fall into the vial. His fingers quickly stopped bleeding as he covered the top of the vial and shook it, mixing the blood and herbs together. He then poured the herb mix evenly over the four stones. When that was done he gathered up the stones and went about placing one in the four main corners of the apartment. One in the living room, one in the bedroom, one in the bathroom and one in the kitchen, making a perfect square. "There now only us six can come and leave…You guys go check your rooms too, ok." He looked at Miroku and Sango as they all left the apartment. "I'm gonna take Shippo and Kagome home. Plus see if her place is ok." They all left and went their own ways. All the way to Kagome's house, Inuyasha kept a tight hold of her hand as she kept a hold of Shippo's.
Kagome was kind of sad when they got home. She didn't want to leave Inuyasha. Even if his apartment was a block away, it seemed like miles to her. They all entered the house and were quickly greeted by her mother.
"Okari minna. Did you all have fun? I hope you behaved yourselves." Kaiyo smiled happily at the three as they entered. "Oh Kagome, one of your friends came by earlier, said they forgot a text book. I think she said her name was…Kuromiko… I'm sure that's what it was." She didn't even get the whole sentence out and all three were up the stairs. Kaiyo merely shrugged then went back into the kitchen.
A few seconds later, Kagome burst into her room and looked around. Inuyasha and Shippo plowed into her back as they tried to enter the room.
Inuyasha stepped forward and sniffed around the room. "She's been here too. DAMN IT! What could she possibly want?" He growled loudly as he watched Kagome search her room.
Kagome turned from her desk abruptly. "She stole my diary. Why would she…." She stared at her fiancé intently. "Oh no…I wrote about our adventures in the Sengoku Jidai." Out of surprise her hands instinctively covered her mouth.
"Do you think your diary made it through the change of realities?" asked Inuyasha as he continued to glance around her room.
She looked from her desk to her bed to her desk again. "It may have. I had a lot of stuff all over my bed that night. Maybe my diary survived."
"Ya maybe. I still don't like this, something bad is gonna happen I know it." Inuyasha crossed his arms as he leaned against the doorway, still highly annoyed. 'What can she be up to?'
Kagome walked up to him and placed her hands on his arms. "Try to be optimistic. We're newly engaged, we love each other, we're going to have a future together, and we haven't told my mom yet." She smiled up at him sweetly as she grasped his hand. "Let's cross the Kikyo bridge when we get to it…Let's go tell my family we're engaged now." She didn't even wait for the dog-boy to respond and she was already pulling him out of her room and down the stairs to the living room.
Inuyasha froze upon seeing Kagome's brother, mother and grandfather seated in the room watching TV. 'What if they say no to our engagement…So we'll elope…'
Upon entering the room, Kagome held Inuyasha's hand tightly, glad that she didn't have to tell them on her own. "Everyone, I have an announcement Inuyasha proposed. We're getting married." She stood waiting for a reply from everyone but all they did was stare.
They were all staring at the raven haired boy next to Kagome, shocked. Then room remained silent for an enormously long period of time, everyone could have heard a pin drop.
Surprisingly it was Kagome's grandfather that spoke up first. "Isn't it kind of sudden? Didn't you two just meet?" He glanced between his granddaughter and the young man, confused about the whole situation.
"We did get engaged this morning but we've known each other for the last three years. We've been through hell and high water together, literally. And we love each other." Kagome smiled happily at their onlookers.
"What about school, work, a home?" continued her grandfather.
"Ji-chan, calm down. It's not like were getting married tomorrow. We both want to finish school. Inuyasha was thinking of going to college and working after high school. I was planning on working here and studying more on being a miko. As for a home…Inuyasha has a cute apartment a block from here." Kagome's smile grew and she tightened her hand around his.
"Oi, cute?" Inuyasha glanced at her for calling his home "cute." 'Of all the words in the world, she had to pick "cute."' He arched an eyebrow when she looked up at him and stuck out her tongue in a comical way. Inuyasha just sighed and let it go, for now.
Kaiyo nodded her head then stood up. "Well let's go get you packed." She then started for the stairs.
"OKASAN?!" yelled Kagome, dumbfounded by her mothers reaction.
"Well you two are engaged now. It's only fitting you live with each other, see how it works out. Besides, you said it yourself, it's only a block away." Kaiyo continued to head for the stairs.
"Oka…okasan…" Kagome was still too shocked to do much of anything.
Kaiyo stopped and turned to her daughter. "Ok, ok, we'll pack you tonight and you can move tomorrow. That gives you both time to get things figured out." Everyone face faulted at her plans.
"Tonight or tomorrow, either's fine with me!" Inuyasha stated calmly.
Kagome thought for a moment before answering. "Considering all that happened today. Let's make the move for tomorrow after school. That way I can pack tonight and rest. Plus Inuyasha might want to make room for me." She winked at her fiancé.
"Well ok. Let's get to work!" Kaiyo clapped her hands together and started for the stairs again.
Kagome leaned over so she could whisper into Inuyasha's ear. "Is it just me or does my mother want me out of the house?"
"It's not just you." Stated Inuyasha as they started to follow Kaiyo up the stairs to Kagome's room.
~***~
"Hey listen to this." Hollered a girl that was seated at a desk.
"Wednesday, November 22, 2000,
We finally completed the jewel. Only took 3 years too. Guess it actually is a long time huh. Anyways, tomorrow I'm giving the Shikon no Tama to Inuyasha so he can become a full youkai. I wish he would stay the same. I love him so much, especially as he is. Silver hair, gold eyes, fuzzy ears, muscled body, protective, caring (at times), Ok enough of that. I've decided to go back to my time. That ay he can be with that dead bi-oops, I can't live with being second in his heart. It will be painful to leave him, and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo. But I need to move on I can't stay around and waste my life waiting for a man I can't have. I just hope he'll understand when I tell him tomorrow. Here's hoping!"
"That's the last entry. That was only a few days ago too."
Another girl walked over and looked out the window. Maybe we can use her diary against her." An evil smiled curled her lips as she thought about the possibilities.
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