*I don't think this one is as long as the others, but it is interesting.
Tell me if you enjoy it or not!*
Disclaimer: Nope. Inuyasha and co. don't belong to me...but then again I begin to wonder if I belong to some anime writer as well... (Disregard me...I'm having a sleepy crazy moment!)
Chapter 34
It took a while for the group to recover after their huge fight with Naraku and their own separate enemies. They spent quite a while discussing how they had met their own foes...and how they had had to fight them in order to get back to help Inuyasha and Kagome. Kagome's tale was the most interesting though...
Because she told them about the girl wearing black that came out of the well house, and how she found all of Naraku's dead bees in the well. Then, how she had fought Kikyo to survive.
She said, that when Kikyo stole most of her soul, they only thing she could think about was all of them, and how she had to live to see them again.
Inuyasha himself had felt the same thing, but he didn't so openly explain it as Kagome did.
Kouga didn't return after he left the battles.
They all suggested that it was because he wasn't the one that had killed Naraku...but secretly, they all knew it was because he hadn't gotten Kagome to be his wife like he had wanted to.
It had been two days since the battle, and Kagome had played the part of nurse, running around, putting bandages on everyone's wounds.
Inuyasha had taken the most, considering that his wounds refused to stop bleeding, and she had had to use quiet a bit of gauze for him.
Strangely enough, even though the shikon was whole again, they hadn't seen a single demon attempting to get it. They didn't know whether they demons saw the battle and were afraid of them, or whether they found it not to be as powerful as it was before.
In any case, they were grateful for the absence of the demons.
The day after the battle, Miroku proposed marriage and Sango had accepted. They were engaged, and talked of having many children and restarting their own demon exterminating village.
Shippo began playing with the village children, and taught them how to fool demons into thinking they were tougher than they really were.
He used a lot of his toys in the process of the teachings.
Kikyo was never seen or heard of again around Kaede's village.
Some figured she had died after Kagome's soul was retrieved...some thought that she was eaten by an angry demon...In any case...she never returned.
The people began thinking of Kagome as a great spirit, and it was worse than when she first came to the village and they found out she was Kikyo's reincarnation.
She receive food in the bundles, and took her, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kirara, and Kaede to eat it all up before it went bad.
Mikoto, although he had been an evil dragon, was buried and prayed for upon the cliff he had fought and died on.
Miroku had done it himself of course...for he felt that no matter what or who you were, you deserved a good burial.
Kagome and Inuyasha became closer after the battle than ever before...
Now they could be found together everywhere...always close...always talking or laughing...happy...
Three days after the battle though, Kagome had to return home to see how her family was.
She was worried about the girl with the black clothing being something evil...and Inuyasha had insisted on coming with her...to see how everything went.
He did not make it through with her...
She climbed out of the well...waiting for Inuyasha to come out...but he never did...
She tried to go back through...to find out what had happened...but the well wouldn't let her through...
It denied her access...
After about an hour of waiting...she burst into tears and cried until her mother found her to comfort her...
Kagome told her of what had happened...and of course...like any caring mother...she felt relieved that her daughter had survived such a brutal attack.
She brought Kagome inside...but for that entire day...she spent her time staring at the well from her bedroom window...waiting for Inuyasha to climb out and greet her...
To tell her that he had been held back for a little while for a reason he had taken care of...but he didn't.
She stayed up all night...staring at the well... hoping he would return.
Finally, by early morning...she gave up waiting by her window and went outside into the cool morning air.
She stood over the well, after trying to get through a few times...and sobbed again...
This time, it wasn't her mother that came out to greet her...
The woman she had seen a few days ago, coming from the well house, stepped in and patted her on the shoulder.
"Follow me..." she whispered when Kagome looked up.
"Who-who are you?" Kagome stuttered, wiping her eyes of the tears.
"I'm sure you don't recognize me...but I'll let you know when we get there." The woman told her.
"Go where?" Kagome asked.
"My mansion."
"You have got to be kidding me! I don't know you and I'm not going to your mansion!" Kagome shouted, stepping back. She nearly fell down the well.
"If you want to see Inuyasha you will." The girl replied, walking away.
Kagome didn't trust the girl, but her heart ached to see Inuyasha again.
She followed the girl away from her house, where her family slept peacefully, and walked behind her down the side walk.
"You can walk with me you know...not behind me." The woman told her when they were close to the mansion.
"Not until you tell me who you are." Kagome replied with a whisper.
The road was quiet and hardly anyone passed them by...so her whisper seemed loud to the street.
"Not yet...ah...we're here." The woman replied, pushing a button on the tall black gate that stood in front. The gate sprang up tall and wide, with the decoration of little dragon heads flying up from the tops of them.
But what astonished her the most, was when she saw the mansion.
It was tall and old, with fresh green vines clinging to it's old brown brick walls and many windows...each polished to shine cleanly.
The main door was tall, and composed of wood and polished glass. The roof came out and spiked up at the corners, like an old Chinese castle, and the yard in front was breath taking with it's many blooming cherry blossom trees and great standing oaks...
There was a drive way that circled before the front door and in the middle was a flowing waterfall with orange cat fish swimming in it. It was a mansion a girl couldn't help but own.
"Who is here?" asked a deep masculine voice from the intercom.
"It's the mistress of the household...Kira Hinigeshi." The woman said.
"Good morning Kira. I did not realize you had left this morning."
"It's alright Soske. Let me in, I have a visitor." Kira told the intercom.
"Certainly ma'am. Welcome home!" Soske told her, letting her in.
"Thank you Soske."
The gigantic gate opened up, granting them passage.
Kira beckoned them in and they walked up to the front door, in which it swung open instantly to the bowing of many prettily dressed maids and servants.
"Welcome home my lady!" they all said happily.
"Well thank you. I'm surprised you're all up this early." Kira told them.
"We are happy to serve you at any time my lady." One of the servants told her effectionately.
"Why thank you. Come in Kagome...he's inside."
The servants moved out of their way with awe as the woman in black was followed by the other teenage girl.
"How do you know about Inuyasha and me?" Kagome asked when they were in the library of the mansion. "And how do you know my name?"
Kira smiled, and pulled a book out of the bookshelf.
A door opened to the left, allowing them both in.
"I'll tell you when we're inside." Kira told her as she lead Kagome down the old stone passage way. There were torches lit the entire way, and Kira grabbed one, beckoning Kagome to follow her.
Kagome didn't like the fact that they were following a passage way that no one likely knew about...but followed just the same in hopes of seeing Inuyasha.
When they reached the following chamber...her breath caught in her throat.
Inuyasha was laying neatly on a tall cushioned table...his hair was still silver...his hoari still red and hanging loosely to his body...
Kagome ran to him with out another word grabbed his shoulder...trying to wake him up.
She noticed then that his hands were laying on his chest, and sitting between them, was the shikon no tama.
"You see...when you left about five hundred years ago, you forgot to take the shikon no tama with you...so you could no longer come back... Inuyasha himself tried to get to you...but he could not...you see...Midoriko had found her true time and resting place...in the Feudal era, so she prevented passage anymore than one time. So when you went through the well...that became your last time.
"Inuyasha searched for you everywhere...he did everything he could think of to find you...and soon he wore himself out." Kira said...with a smile.
"What happened to him...he's alive and warm...but he won't wake up...How do I wake him up?" Kagome asked, turning to Kira. "What do I have to do to wake him?"
"I can see that you really want to talk to him. Okay...let me tell you something really quick. I'm not surprised that you don't recognize me, but now this...you've known me and you've seen me...and in order to live a life with him with me...I had to take another disguise... Inuyasha came to me about a month after you disappeared and did not return. How he found me I don't know...but he asked me for a favor. He asked that if it were possible, that I could somehow help him to see you...considering that I knew how to use the shikon no tama. I agreed, but I told him that there was a different way...and that although it would take him a longer time...he would remain happy with you forever. I put him to sleep with a dragon spell...this sleep keeps him young and revitalized...similar to when he was pinned to the god tree for those fifty years. I put him to sleep, but he made me promise that I would find you, only after you came through the well the last time. You probably haven't seen me or realized it, but I've been following and watching you for the last year. Since the time you met Inuyasha, 'til now I've been like you're shadow. Now you're here and now that time of watching him has been spent. He also had me promise to keep an eye on all of your friends. Including Kouga for some reason."
"They're all alive?" Kagome asked, astonished.
"Oh yes...very much alive...unlike Kaede and Kikyo...but they passed away because of time."
"Then tell me...who are you?" Kagome asked. * Tell me who the mystery girl in black is and I'll tell you if your right, wrong, or even close. I hope you enjoyed this, because I can't post the next until I at least have one person take a shot at trying to figure out who this mystery person is! And her real name isn't Kira Hinigeshi!*
Disclaimer: Nope. Inuyasha and co. don't belong to me...but then again I begin to wonder if I belong to some anime writer as well... (Disregard me...I'm having a sleepy crazy moment!)
Chapter 34
It took a while for the group to recover after their huge fight with Naraku and their own separate enemies. They spent quite a while discussing how they had met their own foes...and how they had had to fight them in order to get back to help Inuyasha and Kagome. Kagome's tale was the most interesting though...
Because she told them about the girl wearing black that came out of the well house, and how she found all of Naraku's dead bees in the well. Then, how she had fought Kikyo to survive.
She said, that when Kikyo stole most of her soul, they only thing she could think about was all of them, and how she had to live to see them again.
Inuyasha himself had felt the same thing, but he didn't so openly explain it as Kagome did.
Kouga didn't return after he left the battles.
They all suggested that it was because he wasn't the one that had killed Naraku...but secretly, they all knew it was because he hadn't gotten Kagome to be his wife like he had wanted to.
It had been two days since the battle, and Kagome had played the part of nurse, running around, putting bandages on everyone's wounds.
Inuyasha had taken the most, considering that his wounds refused to stop bleeding, and she had had to use quiet a bit of gauze for him.
Strangely enough, even though the shikon was whole again, they hadn't seen a single demon attempting to get it. They didn't know whether they demons saw the battle and were afraid of them, or whether they found it not to be as powerful as it was before.
In any case, they were grateful for the absence of the demons.
The day after the battle, Miroku proposed marriage and Sango had accepted. They were engaged, and talked of having many children and restarting their own demon exterminating village.
Shippo began playing with the village children, and taught them how to fool demons into thinking they were tougher than they really were.
He used a lot of his toys in the process of the teachings.
Kikyo was never seen or heard of again around Kaede's village.
Some figured she had died after Kagome's soul was retrieved...some thought that she was eaten by an angry demon...In any case...she never returned.
The people began thinking of Kagome as a great spirit, and it was worse than when she first came to the village and they found out she was Kikyo's reincarnation.
She receive food in the bundles, and took her, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Kirara, and Kaede to eat it all up before it went bad.
Mikoto, although he had been an evil dragon, was buried and prayed for upon the cliff he had fought and died on.
Miroku had done it himself of course...for he felt that no matter what or who you were, you deserved a good burial.
Kagome and Inuyasha became closer after the battle than ever before...
Now they could be found together everywhere...always close...always talking or laughing...happy...
Three days after the battle though, Kagome had to return home to see how her family was.
She was worried about the girl with the black clothing being something evil...and Inuyasha had insisted on coming with her...to see how everything went.
He did not make it through with her...
She climbed out of the well...waiting for Inuyasha to come out...but he never did...
She tried to go back through...to find out what had happened...but the well wouldn't let her through...
It denied her access...
After about an hour of waiting...she burst into tears and cried until her mother found her to comfort her...
Kagome told her of what had happened...and of course...like any caring mother...she felt relieved that her daughter had survived such a brutal attack.
She brought Kagome inside...but for that entire day...she spent her time staring at the well from her bedroom window...waiting for Inuyasha to climb out and greet her...
To tell her that he had been held back for a little while for a reason he had taken care of...but he didn't.
She stayed up all night...staring at the well... hoping he would return.
Finally, by early morning...she gave up waiting by her window and went outside into the cool morning air.
She stood over the well, after trying to get through a few times...and sobbed again...
This time, it wasn't her mother that came out to greet her...
The woman she had seen a few days ago, coming from the well house, stepped in and patted her on the shoulder.
"Follow me..." she whispered when Kagome looked up.
"Who-who are you?" Kagome stuttered, wiping her eyes of the tears.
"I'm sure you don't recognize me...but I'll let you know when we get there." The woman told her.
"Go where?" Kagome asked.
"My mansion."
"You have got to be kidding me! I don't know you and I'm not going to your mansion!" Kagome shouted, stepping back. She nearly fell down the well.
"If you want to see Inuyasha you will." The girl replied, walking away.
Kagome didn't trust the girl, but her heart ached to see Inuyasha again.
She followed the girl away from her house, where her family slept peacefully, and walked behind her down the side walk.
"You can walk with me you know...not behind me." The woman told her when they were close to the mansion.
"Not until you tell me who you are." Kagome replied with a whisper.
The road was quiet and hardly anyone passed them by...so her whisper seemed loud to the street.
"Not yet...ah...we're here." The woman replied, pushing a button on the tall black gate that stood in front. The gate sprang up tall and wide, with the decoration of little dragon heads flying up from the tops of them.
But what astonished her the most, was when she saw the mansion.
It was tall and old, with fresh green vines clinging to it's old brown brick walls and many windows...each polished to shine cleanly.
The main door was tall, and composed of wood and polished glass. The roof came out and spiked up at the corners, like an old Chinese castle, and the yard in front was breath taking with it's many blooming cherry blossom trees and great standing oaks...
There was a drive way that circled before the front door and in the middle was a flowing waterfall with orange cat fish swimming in it. It was a mansion a girl couldn't help but own.
"Who is here?" asked a deep masculine voice from the intercom.
"It's the mistress of the household...Kira Hinigeshi." The woman said.
"Good morning Kira. I did not realize you had left this morning."
"It's alright Soske. Let me in, I have a visitor." Kira told the intercom.
"Certainly ma'am. Welcome home!" Soske told her, letting her in.
"Thank you Soske."
The gigantic gate opened up, granting them passage.
Kira beckoned them in and they walked up to the front door, in which it swung open instantly to the bowing of many prettily dressed maids and servants.
"Welcome home my lady!" they all said happily.
"Well thank you. I'm surprised you're all up this early." Kira told them.
"We are happy to serve you at any time my lady." One of the servants told her effectionately.
"Why thank you. Come in Kagome...he's inside."
The servants moved out of their way with awe as the woman in black was followed by the other teenage girl.
"How do you know about Inuyasha and me?" Kagome asked when they were in the library of the mansion. "And how do you know my name?"
Kira smiled, and pulled a book out of the bookshelf.
A door opened to the left, allowing them both in.
"I'll tell you when we're inside." Kira told her as she lead Kagome down the old stone passage way. There were torches lit the entire way, and Kira grabbed one, beckoning Kagome to follow her.
Kagome didn't like the fact that they were following a passage way that no one likely knew about...but followed just the same in hopes of seeing Inuyasha.
When they reached the following chamber...her breath caught in her throat.
Inuyasha was laying neatly on a tall cushioned table...his hair was still silver...his hoari still red and hanging loosely to his body...
Kagome ran to him with out another word grabbed his shoulder...trying to wake him up.
She noticed then that his hands were laying on his chest, and sitting between them, was the shikon no tama.
"You see...when you left about five hundred years ago, you forgot to take the shikon no tama with you...so you could no longer come back... Inuyasha himself tried to get to you...but he could not...you see...Midoriko had found her true time and resting place...in the Feudal era, so she prevented passage anymore than one time. So when you went through the well...that became your last time.
"Inuyasha searched for you everywhere...he did everything he could think of to find you...and soon he wore himself out." Kira said...with a smile.
"What happened to him...he's alive and warm...but he won't wake up...How do I wake him up?" Kagome asked, turning to Kira. "What do I have to do to wake him?"
"I can see that you really want to talk to him. Okay...let me tell you something really quick. I'm not surprised that you don't recognize me, but now this...you've known me and you've seen me...and in order to live a life with him with me...I had to take another disguise... Inuyasha came to me about a month after you disappeared and did not return. How he found me I don't know...but he asked me for a favor. He asked that if it were possible, that I could somehow help him to see you...considering that I knew how to use the shikon no tama. I agreed, but I told him that there was a different way...and that although it would take him a longer time...he would remain happy with you forever. I put him to sleep with a dragon spell...this sleep keeps him young and revitalized...similar to when he was pinned to the god tree for those fifty years. I put him to sleep, but he made me promise that I would find you, only after you came through the well the last time. You probably haven't seen me or realized it, but I've been following and watching you for the last year. Since the time you met Inuyasha, 'til now I've been like you're shadow. Now you're here and now that time of watching him has been spent. He also had me promise to keep an eye on all of your friends. Including Kouga for some reason."
"They're all alive?" Kagome asked, astonished.
"Oh yes...very much alive...unlike Kaede and Kikyo...but they passed away because of time."
"Then tell me...who are you?" Kagome asked. * Tell me who the mystery girl in black is and I'll tell you if your right, wrong, or even close. I hope you enjoyed this, because I can't post the next until I at least have one person take a shot at trying to figure out who this mystery person is! And her real name isn't Kira Hinigeshi!*
