AN: I held off the whole Kamui and Kagome encounter for a bit, but you get
to find out more about her past in this chapter. And thanks for everyone
whose voting keep them coming. Votes thus far:
Sess/Kag: 14
Inu/Kag: 2
Eiri/Kag: 1
Wow Sess is way in the lead right now. Wonder if he'll stay there.
Sess: Of course I'll stay there pathetic human.
Shichan: Hey you better be nice. It's humans who are voting for you right now.
Sess: Are you sure?
Shichan: Well...actually...no. I'd hope most of them are human.
CH: 3 Finders Keepers
By the time Sesshoumaru, Inu Yasha and the two kami got to the clearing where Sesshoumaru had last saw her, she was as expected no where to be seen. "The wench is probably long gone already." Inu Yasha groaned.
"Baka na hanyou. If you can't take the travel you should have never come." Sesshoumaru stated.
Eiri and Kamui checked the air for any signs of where she had gone. The scent that they found made their eyes widen. "You never said she was in heat." Eiri said.
"Oh so that was the wench you were with the other night." Inu Yasha said.
"Inu Yasha shut your mouth. She was trespassing on my territory. Heat or not I told her to leave." Sesshoumaru stated. He reminded himself that technically he did not lie because he had told her to leave when he first confronted her.
"Eiri, I'm going back. I leave you to deal with them and Kagome." Kamui stated and then took to the sky.
"I guess I don't get much of a choice." Eiri said. "I can sense some energy this way." Eiri pointed and then went of towards the surrounding area.
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'I can never give enough thanks for this.' Kagome thought after she had downed the potion that caused her heat scent to leave her. 'Now no more stupid males attacking, well less any way.'
Kagome and Shippou had traveled to a small village to get the potion after Kagome deemed it necessary since they had been attacked four times that morning. She really wanted to get rid of the smell once Shippou asked her why all those males were attacking them and talking about mating.
'That kit's parents should have told him about things like that. I'm afraid that now I'll have to, eventually.' Kagome and Shippou were at the moment at a small inn resting. She had been impressed with how well the little kit had kept up with her so far. Whenever he had gotten tired she had carried him though that wasn't often. She had promised that could stay the day in the village after they had arrived though.
"Kagome!" She turned to see the small kit come into the room with a whole bunch of fruits. "I thought you might be hungry. You haven't eaten all day." Shippou said.
"Thank you, Shippou. But I'm not very hungry." Kagome answered as the little kit took a seat next to her and began peeling an orange.
"What's wrong Kagome? I know you have to be hungry. Do you want something else to eat?" Shippou asked worried that his new friend wasn't eating.
"Shippou, have you ever heard stories about the kami?" Kagome asked figuring she had to tell the kit sometime if he was going to travel with her.
"Hai. They're supposed to be really powerful, but not very nice to those who aren't kami."
Kagome nodded. "Do you know what they eat?"
Shippou thought for a little bit and then his eyes widened as her remembered the tales. "I heard that they drink the blood of youkai."
Kagome again nodded. "Ummm...Shippou, remember I told you I'm half kami." Kagome admitted and waited for the kit to realize what she meant.
Shippou processed her words for a bit as he ate his orange and then the realization hit him. "You drink the blood of youkai?!" Kagome nodded sadly. She loathed what she needed to stay alive, especially since her life wasn't exactly worth much to begin with. "You're not going to eat me are you?"
"No, of course not!" Kagome said.
"Then okay." Kagome looked at Shippou strangely.
"Okay?"
"Yeah, it's okay. I mean it's not like it's your fault that you have to eat that. So do you just hunt anything?" Shippou said.
"No, usually those that attack me and I always kill them first."
"That's good. I heard stories that some kami just bite their prey and drink from them while they're still alive."
"Hai, some do because they look down on youkai just as youkai look down on ningen." Kagome explained.
"So why aren't you living with them? Shouldn't you be with them in the lap of luxury like I heard they live in?"
At that question Shippou could see Kagome's mood drop and her eyes sadden. "You know how youkai treat hanyou?" Shippou nodded. "Well, I'm only half kami so I'm treated by them the same way a hanyou is treated by youkai."
***flashback***
"How could you bring that filthy thing into our home?!" Kagome flinched as heard the woman shriek about her.
"She will stay. She is my blood." Kagome looked up at the man beside her. The man who was supposedly her father. She had just met him and he had basically forced her to come with him.
A boy who looked a couple of years older that her was standing next to the woman who was yelling. He was staring at Kagome with an intense gaze of hatred. Kagome wanted nothing more that to turn away around run, but the hand on her should was not going to let her go anywhere. She already had a bruise forming on her cheek from her father "convincing" her to come with him.
"She will bring nothing, but shame to our family. Her and her filthy blood. I can't believe you would have done something like this to me, your mate. How could you have gone off and done that with a youkai no less?! What will all the others think? She is going to be our middle child." The woman gestured to her swollen stomach. "You won't even be able to tell the others that you did it because I didn't want you anymore or vice versa because in my stomach in the proof that we have still been together after the birth of that-that...that filthy creature!" She ranted and pointed at Kagome in disgust.
***end flashback***
"That's sad Kagome." Shippou's words brought Kagome out of her trance. "Maybe you should go get something to eat. I'll stay here if you're worried about me seeing."
Kagome smiled at the small kit, but shook her head. "Come on Kagome. You need to eat something." Shippou looked at her with pleading eyes.
"Okay, I'll go hunt. You stay here." Kagome said. Shippou nodded and watched her leave.
Shippou sat and ate his fruit. He couldn't believe that Kagome was part kami. 'Then why doesn't she have wings?' He thought. Shippou knew that all kami had long white wings. 'Maybe she doesn't have them because she's only half kami.'
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When Kagome was hunting she heard a scream. Her head turned in the direction it had come from and then she took off towards it. She came into a clearing and saw a three wolf youkai shrouding the terrified figure of a small girl. Kagome sneered when she recognized the scent.
"So you guys couldn't handle a full grown woman so you needed to attack a little girl." Kagome stated. The three youkai turned to look at her and recognized the figure in the blue velvet cloak.
"You?!" The two youkai in the back seemed to cower back a bit, while the one in the middle took a step towards her. "You will not keep us from another meal." The youkai lunged at her.
Kagome dodged to the side and back kicked the youkai into a tree. "Pathetic. Needing to attack a small child to get a meal." The youkai attack a second time. He jumped up and came at Kagome with his claws ready, but Kagome was too fast. The youkai fell to the ground with one of Kagome's swords through his stomach. The other two looked at her in fright and then took off running.
Kagome went over to the already dead youkai and brought her fangs to his neck. She punctured the skin and then drank to her heart's content. Finally satiated, Kagome felt herself rejuvenated. It had been a long time since she had eaten. She wiped the blood from her mouth and pulled out her sword from the corpse. She resheated it and turned to see the little girl still one the forest floor in the fetal position.
'What is this? First I have the kitsune kit and now.' Kagome took a whiff. 'And now a ningen girl.' Kagome sighed. She went over to the girl and picked her up.
The girls eyes widened in fright. Kagome pulled back her hood and gave the child a small smile. "Don't worry I won't hurt you." Kagome said. The child seemed to relax due to Kagome's soft words and sweet smile. "Where's your family, I'll take you to them." Kagome said.
"They were killed by the youkai." The girl said as she sobbed.
"I guess you're just like Shippou." Kagome said.
"Who's Shippou?"
"A little kitsune kit I saved from the same youkai yesterday. I should have killed them then. If I had your family wouldn't have been hurt." Kagome said sadly.
"Not your fault." The little girl said and cuddled into Kagome's embrace. Kagome pulled her hood back on and decided she would take the child to the village. She couldn't just leave her there alone.
"What's your name?" Kagome asked the small girl.
"Rin." The child replied. "What's your name?"
"My name is Kagome."
"Rin thinks Kagome is pretty. Why does she wear a hood?"
"I have my reasons Rin." Kagome said and the child to her delight didn't push the subject. Instead the girl began to talk about random things, but the winced when Kagome had shifted her. "What's wrong?"
"Rin has some cuts." Kagome looked the girl over. She had a few cuts on her legs and arms probably from branches while running. She had also skinned her knees. Kagome sighed and thought it was a good thing she had shown up when she did since the girl didn't seem to have any injuries from the youkai.
"We'll get you all patched up when we get to the village." Kagome said and Rin gave her a big gap toothed smile.
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Eiri was desperately trying to stay calm in the mist of the hanyou. He was bad mouthed and incredibly rude. Eiri had tried to practice the idea that kami were not better than all other creatures, but this hanyou made it difficult for him not to think that at the moment. Eiri looked at the Western Lord. He seemed the complete opposite of his half brother. Sesshoumaru was calm and collected, emotionless, and seemed to have infinite patience to find the girl they were looking for and not kill his brother in the process.
"Well, we're on the right track." Eiri said and looked down at the youkai on the forest floor.
"What are you talking about?" Inu Yasha said and looked around the kami's wings and saw the dead wolf youkai. "What does that have to do with finding this Kagome person?"
Eiri pointed out the fang marks on the neck. "She got hungry." He said obviously.
"Wait, I thought it was just a story that you guys drank youkai blood." Inu Yasha said looking a little sick.
Eiri and Sesshoumaru took in the scent of the area. Both secretly were just taking in Kagome's scent. Then they both noticed the ningen scent. "That way." Eiri said and Sesshoumaru nodded. Inu Yasha just grumbled about wanting to take break and how stupid it was searching for some wench.
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"Yay, you're back." Shippou greeted Kagome and then saw the girl in her arms. "Who's she?"
"Shippou, this is Rin. Rin, this is Shippou." Kagome put down Rin and went to hang up her cloak. "Rin was attacked by the same wolf youkai you were and they killed her family too."
"I hope you chose them as your meal." Shippou said. "They were a bunch of jerks."
"Shippou!"
"Sorry Kagome. But they were." Shippou looked at Rin who was eating one of his apples. "So what are we going to do with her?"
"I don't know what I'm going to do with either of you." Kagome said and sat down.
"But I want to stay with you Kagome." Shippou said.
"Rin wants to stay with Kagome too."
Kagome sighed. "Look little ones. I am not the best person to be following. You'll get yourselves hurt and I don't want that."
"Please Kagome. I promise I won't be trouble." Shippou looked up at her with nig pleading eyes. Kagome tried to keep her decision, but when Rin joined in on the pouting and puppy dog eyes she sighed in defeat.
"Okay." Kagome said and then stiffened.
"What is it Kagome?" Shippou asked. She gestured for them to go hide and then crept up the side of the door.
The door slid open slowly and Kagome stood silent. A figure walked in and she kicked them into the far wall. She was about to do a follow up attack when she recognized who it was. "Eiri?"
Eiri had opened the door slowly expecting Kagome to be sitting around or sleeping since she had just eaten. He hadn't expected to get knocked into a wall. "Jeez Kagome, you still hit harder than any kami." Eiri said and rubbed his head. He sat down on the floor.
Kagome walked over to him. "What are you doing here, Eiri?"
"He wished to invite you to fight on their side." Kagome turned and recognized the Lord of the Western Lands.
"I believe you two have met. Kagome, Sesshoumaru the Western Lord and his half brother Inu Yasha."
"Since when do kami associate with youkai and hanyou?" Kagome asked.
"If they didn't you wouldn't have been born." Eiri responded.
"And the world would be a better place." Kagome added and smirked. "Shippou, Rin it's okay now."
Shippou and Rin walked over to her and hid behind her. "Since when did you become a mother?" Eiri asked.
"Since my last meal made a meal of their parents." Kagome answered.
"So will you join us?" Eiri asked.
"You know I'd do a lot of things for you Eiri. You're one of the few who actually treated me well back there, but going back. No way Eiri." Kagome said. Her tone told everyone that she was dead serious.
"Then I guess you don't want to fight the one person you've ever truly hated in your life." Eiri stated.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked.
"Itami has arisen again." Eiri said and everyone noticed how Kagome seemed to freeze at the mention of the name.
"No, we killed him. Kamui, Ryuuichi and I. He's dead."
"That's what we thought. But he's back and sine our numbers are still not as high as they once were and the fact that he is turning the kami against each other, we are looking at another massive civil war." Eiri looked down. "There is one more thing." He hated being the bearer of bad news. "He killed Ryuuichi."
"No..." Kagome entire world narrowed into that one thought. 'Ryuuichi...'
***flashback***
"Why can't I play with her?" A little Ryuuichi asked his mother.
"Her blood is dirty. She's not worth your time or affections. Stay away from her Ryuuichi." His mother said, hatred and disgust clear in her voice. She then turned and walked away.
"You don't look dirty." Ryuuichi said after he walked over to a 12 year old Kagome. He looked her over and couldn't see what was wrong with her.
"You'll get in trouble for speaking with me." Kagome said.
"I don't care." Said a 5 year old Ryuuichi, smiling. "Do you want to play?" Kagome looked a bit wary, but then smiled and nodded.
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Kagome doubled over in pain as her father hit her in the stomach. Her father was in another of his drunken rages. She hadn't even known kami got drunk. She wanted to fall over and stay on the ground, but she wasn't about to. She couldn't risk it. Behind her Ryuuichi cowered in the corner, afraid of his father's anger.
Kagome stood before him and wasn't about to let her father get pass her. She was only 13 and no match for her father, but she wouldn't fail her little brother. Kamui was off hiding somewhere. He had been in the situation before as well and had always hidden behind Kagome also. He didn't like her and she didn't particularly care for him, but she wouldn't let him get hurt either.
During her father's rages Kagome became a living punching bag. And a protective wall between him and her siblings.
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Kagome was leaving. The battle had been fought and won at a great price. "Go ahead and leave you stupid half breed." Kamui said and swung his hand at her. Kagome caught his wrist and shook her head. 'No more.' Kagome thought. 'I'm not letting anyone hurt me anymore.'
She turned and walk to the door. Ryuuichi put his hand on her shoulder in a silent request to stay. Kagome lowered her head and put her hand on his. "Gomen," was all she said and then continued on her way. Who knew it would be the last time they would see each other?
***end flashback***
"I'll do it." Everyone turned to look at her as she had come out of her thoughts. "I'll do it to avenge Ryuuichi, not to help the kami." Kagome said.
"Good. You'll probably want to sleep since you ate today." Eiri said and put a hand on her shoulder. Kagome didn't seem to mind and yawned. Sesshoumaru on the other time had to hold back a growl when he saw Eiri touch Kagome.
Inu Yasha was just hanging out on the side, but was definitely finding the girl good scenery. He watched her every move as she had spoken. 'Not bad on the eyes.' He thought. "So we leave in the morning." He said.
Kagome turned and noticed the hanyou for the first time. Everyone nodded and settled down for the day. Kagome lay in the bed with the two children. Sesshoumaru was by the door lying against the wall, his eyes never left her and to his distaste he noticed neither did Eiri's from the other side of the room.
Inu Yasha didn't notice the other two as he was basically passed out in his world of dreams on the floor. Tomorrow would be interesting in deed.
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Well, Kagome's going to fight. But first they need to get to the land of the kami. With a youkai and hanyou with them it might take a while. How will they all interact? What will Kagome say when she sees Kamui? Decided to put that part off for a bit. So many more questions. Please review and tell me what you think and what you want to see happen.
Review Responses:
Tsunami-chan: Well, now you know what she eats. And yeah I like making Kagome able to take care of herself.
Inukamisashi: Here's your update
Airs^o^: You might get what you want since the votes seem to be leaning towards Sess/Kag, but I'll be taking votes for a few more chapters.
The kiit: Thanks, if you want to read more lemons I started a fic on AFF.net and it's Sess/Kag
Ashleekyle: Hope this chappie gave some insights to Kagome's past, but you'll find out more as the story goes. By the end you should be able to decipher her entire past.
Neko-Cryxxy: I guess that means you want to vote for it to be Inu/Kag, better vote more since right now they're not winning
Wicked-lady190: Your vote is counted, but whose the we?
Soudesuka-Shurikens: Sess knows that he can't compete with them, he's thought everything through. He also wants to meet Kagome again.
Thanks to everyone else who reviewed and voted.
~*Shichan
Sess/Kag: 14
Inu/Kag: 2
Eiri/Kag: 1
Wow Sess is way in the lead right now. Wonder if he'll stay there.
Sess: Of course I'll stay there pathetic human.
Shichan: Hey you better be nice. It's humans who are voting for you right now.
Sess: Are you sure?
Shichan: Well...actually...no. I'd hope most of them are human.
CH: 3 Finders Keepers
By the time Sesshoumaru, Inu Yasha and the two kami got to the clearing where Sesshoumaru had last saw her, she was as expected no where to be seen. "The wench is probably long gone already." Inu Yasha groaned.
"Baka na hanyou. If you can't take the travel you should have never come." Sesshoumaru stated.
Eiri and Kamui checked the air for any signs of where she had gone. The scent that they found made their eyes widen. "You never said she was in heat." Eiri said.
"Oh so that was the wench you were with the other night." Inu Yasha said.
"Inu Yasha shut your mouth. She was trespassing on my territory. Heat or not I told her to leave." Sesshoumaru stated. He reminded himself that technically he did not lie because he had told her to leave when he first confronted her.
"Eiri, I'm going back. I leave you to deal with them and Kagome." Kamui stated and then took to the sky.
"I guess I don't get much of a choice." Eiri said. "I can sense some energy this way." Eiri pointed and then went of towards the surrounding area.
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'I can never give enough thanks for this.' Kagome thought after she had downed the potion that caused her heat scent to leave her. 'Now no more stupid males attacking, well less any way.'
Kagome and Shippou had traveled to a small village to get the potion after Kagome deemed it necessary since they had been attacked four times that morning. She really wanted to get rid of the smell once Shippou asked her why all those males were attacking them and talking about mating.
'That kit's parents should have told him about things like that. I'm afraid that now I'll have to, eventually.' Kagome and Shippou were at the moment at a small inn resting. She had been impressed with how well the little kit had kept up with her so far. Whenever he had gotten tired she had carried him though that wasn't often. She had promised that could stay the day in the village after they had arrived though.
"Kagome!" She turned to see the small kit come into the room with a whole bunch of fruits. "I thought you might be hungry. You haven't eaten all day." Shippou said.
"Thank you, Shippou. But I'm not very hungry." Kagome answered as the little kit took a seat next to her and began peeling an orange.
"What's wrong Kagome? I know you have to be hungry. Do you want something else to eat?" Shippou asked worried that his new friend wasn't eating.
"Shippou, have you ever heard stories about the kami?" Kagome asked figuring she had to tell the kit sometime if he was going to travel with her.
"Hai. They're supposed to be really powerful, but not very nice to those who aren't kami."
Kagome nodded. "Do you know what they eat?"
Shippou thought for a little bit and then his eyes widened as her remembered the tales. "I heard that they drink the blood of youkai."
Kagome again nodded. "Ummm...Shippou, remember I told you I'm half kami." Kagome admitted and waited for the kit to realize what she meant.
Shippou processed her words for a bit as he ate his orange and then the realization hit him. "You drink the blood of youkai?!" Kagome nodded sadly. She loathed what she needed to stay alive, especially since her life wasn't exactly worth much to begin with. "You're not going to eat me are you?"
"No, of course not!" Kagome said.
"Then okay." Kagome looked at Shippou strangely.
"Okay?"
"Yeah, it's okay. I mean it's not like it's your fault that you have to eat that. So do you just hunt anything?" Shippou said.
"No, usually those that attack me and I always kill them first."
"That's good. I heard stories that some kami just bite their prey and drink from them while they're still alive."
"Hai, some do because they look down on youkai just as youkai look down on ningen." Kagome explained.
"So why aren't you living with them? Shouldn't you be with them in the lap of luxury like I heard they live in?"
At that question Shippou could see Kagome's mood drop and her eyes sadden. "You know how youkai treat hanyou?" Shippou nodded. "Well, I'm only half kami so I'm treated by them the same way a hanyou is treated by youkai."
***flashback***
"How could you bring that filthy thing into our home?!" Kagome flinched as heard the woman shriek about her.
"She will stay. She is my blood." Kagome looked up at the man beside her. The man who was supposedly her father. She had just met him and he had basically forced her to come with him.
A boy who looked a couple of years older that her was standing next to the woman who was yelling. He was staring at Kagome with an intense gaze of hatred. Kagome wanted nothing more that to turn away around run, but the hand on her should was not going to let her go anywhere. She already had a bruise forming on her cheek from her father "convincing" her to come with him.
"She will bring nothing, but shame to our family. Her and her filthy blood. I can't believe you would have done something like this to me, your mate. How could you have gone off and done that with a youkai no less?! What will all the others think? She is going to be our middle child." The woman gestured to her swollen stomach. "You won't even be able to tell the others that you did it because I didn't want you anymore or vice versa because in my stomach in the proof that we have still been together after the birth of that-that...that filthy creature!" She ranted and pointed at Kagome in disgust.
***end flashback***
"That's sad Kagome." Shippou's words brought Kagome out of her trance. "Maybe you should go get something to eat. I'll stay here if you're worried about me seeing."
Kagome smiled at the small kit, but shook her head. "Come on Kagome. You need to eat something." Shippou looked at her with pleading eyes.
"Okay, I'll go hunt. You stay here." Kagome said. Shippou nodded and watched her leave.
Shippou sat and ate his fruit. He couldn't believe that Kagome was part kami. 'Then why doesn't she have wings?' He thought. Shippou knew that all kami had long white wings. 'Maybe she doesn't have them because she's only half kami.'
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When Kagome was hunting she heard a scream. Her head turned in the direction it had come from and then she took off towards it. She came into a clearing and saw a three wolf youkai shrouding the terrified figure of a small girl. Kagome sneered when she recognized the scent.
"So you guys couldn't handle a full grown woman so you needed to attack a little girl." Kagome stated. The three youkai turned to look at her and recognized the figure in the blue velvet cloak.
"You?!" The two youkai in the back seemed to cower back a bit, while the one in the middle took a step towards her. "You will not keep us from another meal." The youkai lunged at her.
Kagome dodged to the side and back kicked the youkai into a tree. "Pathetic. Needing to attack a small child to get a meal." The youkai attack a second time. He jumped up and came at Kagome with his claws ready, but Kagome was too fast. The youkai fell to the ground with one of Kagome's swords through his stomach. The other two looked at her in fright and then took off running.
Kagome went over to the already dead youkai and brought her fangs to his neck. She punctured the skin and then drank to her heart's content. Finally satiated, Kagome felt herself rejuvenated. It had been a long time since she had eaten. She wiped the blood from her mouth and pulled out her sword from the corpse. She resheated it and turned to see the little girl still one the forest floor in the fetal position.
'What is this? First I have the kitsune kit and now.' Kagome took a whiff. 'And now a ningen girl.' Kagome sighed. She went over to the girl and picked her up.
The girls eyes widened in fright. Kagome pulled back her hood and gave the child a small smile. "Don't worry I won't hurt you." Kagome said. The child seemed to relax due to Kagome's soft words and sweet smile. "Where's your family, I'll take you to them." Kagome said.
"They were killed by the youkai." The girl said as she sobbed.
"I guess you're just like Shippou." Kagome said.
"Who's Shippou?"
"A little kitsune kit I saved from the same youkai yesterday. I should have killed them then. If I had your family wouldn't have been hurt." Kagome said sadly.
"Not your fault." The little girl said and cuddled into Kagome's embrace. Kagome pulled her hood back on and decided she would take the child to the village. She couldn't just leave her there alone.
"What's your name?" Kagome asked the small girl.
"Rin." The child replied. "What's your name?"
"My name is Kagome."
"Rin thinks Kagome is pretty. Why does she wear a hood?"
"I have my reasons Rin." Kagome said and the child to her delight didn't push the subject. Instead the girl began to talk about random things, but the winced when Kagome had shifted her. "What's wrong?"
"Rin has some cuts." Kagome looked the girl over. She had a few cuts on her legs and arms probably from branches while running. She had also skinned her knees. Kagome sighed and thought it was a good thing she had shown up when she did since the girl didn't seem to have any injuries from the youkai.
"We'll get you all patched up when we get to the village." Kagome said and Rin gave her a big gap toothed smile.
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Eiri was desperately trying to stay calm in the mist of the hanyou. He was bad mouthed and incredibly rude. Eiri had tried to practice the idea that kami were not better than all other creatures, but this hanyou made it difficult for him not to think that at the moment. Eiri looked at the Western Lord. He seemed the complete opposite of his half brother. Sesshoumaru was calm and collected, emotionless, and seemed to have infinite patience to find the girl they were looking for and not kill his brother in the process.
"Well, we're on the right track." Eiri said and looked down at the youkai on the forest floor.
"What are you talking about?" Inu Yasha said and looked around the kami's wings and saw the dead wolf youkai. "What does that have to do with finding this Kagome person?"
Eiri pointed out the fang marks on the neck. "She got hungry." He said obviously.
"Wait, I thought it was just a story that you guys drank youkai blood." Inu Yasha said looking a little sick.
Eiri and Sesshoumaru took in the scent of the area. Both secretly were just taking in Kagome's scent. Then they both noticed the ningen scent. "That way." Eiri said and Sesshoumaru nodded. Inu Yasha just grumbled about wanting to take break and how stupid it was searching for some wench.
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"Yay, you're back." Shippou greeted Kagome and then saw the girl in her arms. "Who's she?"
"Shippou, this is Rin. Rin, this is Shippou." Kagome put down Rin and went to hang up her cloak. "Rin was attacked by the same wolf youkai you were and they killed her family too."
"I hope you chose them as your meal." Shippou said. "They were a bunch of jerks."
"Shippou!"
"Sorry Kagome. But they were." Shippou looked at Rin who was eating one of his apples. "So what are we going to do with her?"
"I don't know what I'm going to do with either of you." Kagome said and sat down.
"But I want to stay with you Kagome." Shippou said.
"Rin wants to stay with Kagome too."
Kagome sighed. "Look little ones. I am not the best person to be following. You'll get yourselves hurt and I don't want that."
"Please Kagome. I promise I won't be trouble." Shippou looked up at her with nig pleading eyes. Kagome tried to keep her decision, but when Rin joined in on the pouting and puppy dog eyes she sighed in defeat.
"Okay." Kagome said and then stiffened.
"What is it Kagome?" Shippou asked. She gestured for them to go hide and then crept up the side of the door.
The door slid open slowly and Kagome stood silent. A figure walked in and she kicked them into the far wall. She was about to do a follow up attack when she recognized who it was. "Eiri?"
Eiri had opened the door slowly expecting Kagome to be sitting around or sleeping since she had just eaten. He hadn't expected to get knocked into a wall. "Jeez Kagome, you still hit harder than any kami." Eiri said and rubbed his head. He sat down on the floor.
Kagome walked over to him. "What are you doing here, Eiri?"
"He wished to invite you to fight on their side." Kagome turned and recognized the Lord of the Western Lands.
"I believe you two have met. Kagome, Sesshoumaru the Western Lord and his half brother Inu Yasha."
"Since when do kami associate with youkai and hanyou?" Kagome asked.
"If they didn't you wouldn't have been born." Eiri responded.
"And the world would be a better place." Kagome added and smirked. "Shippou, Rin it's okay now."
Shippou and Rin walked over to her and hid behind her. "Since when did you become a mother?" Eiri asked.
"Since my last meal made a meal of their parents." Kagome answered.
"So will you join us?" Eiri asked.
"You know I'd do a lot of things for you Eiri. You're one of the few who actually treated me well back there, but going back. No way Eiri." Kagome said. Her tone told everyone that she was dead serious.
"Then I guess you don't want to fight the one person you've ever truly hated in your life." Eiri stated.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked.
"Itami has arisen again." Eiri said and everyone noticed how Kagome seemed to freeze at the mention of the name.
"No, we killed him. Kamui, Ryuuichi and I. He's dead."
"That's what we thought. But he's back and sine our numbers are still not as high as they once were and the fact that he is turning the kami against each other, we are looking at another massive civil war." Eiri looked down. "There is one more thing." He hated being the bearer of bad news. "He killed Ryuuichi."
"No..." Kagome entire world narrowed into that one thought. 'Ryuuichi...'
***flashback***
"Why can't I play with her?" A little Ryuuichi asked his mother.
"Her blood is dirty. She's not worth your time or affections. Stay away from her Ryuuichi." His mother said, hatred and disgust clear in her voice. She then turned and walked away.
"You don't look dirty." Ryuuichi said after he walked over to a 12 year old Kagome. He looked her over and couldn't see what was wrong with her.
"You'll get in trouble for speaking with me." Kagome said.
"I don't care." Said a 5 year old Ryuuichi, smiling. "Do you want to play?" Kagome looked a bit wary, but then smiled and nodded.
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Kagome doubled over in pain as her father hit her in the stomach. Her father was in another of his drunken rages. She hadn't even known kami got drunk. She wanted to fall over and stay on the ground, but she wasn't about to. She couldn't risk it. Behind her Ryuuichi cowered in the corner, afraid of his father's anger.
Kagome stood before him and wasn't about to let her father get pass her. She was only 13 and no match for her father, but she wouldn't fail her little brother. Kamui was off hiding somewhere. He had been in the situation before as well and had always hidden behind Kagome also. He didn't like her and she didn't particularly care for him, but she wouldn't let him get hurt either.
During her father's rages Kagome became a living punching bag. And a protective wall between him and her siblings.
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Kagome was leaving. The battle had been fought and won at a great price. "Go ahead and leave you stupid half breed." Kamui said and swung his hand at her. Kagome caught his wrist and shook her head. 'No more.' Kagome thought. 'I'm not letting anyone hurt me anymore.'
She turned and walk to the door. Ryuuichi put his hand on her shoulder in a silent request to stay. Kagome lowered her head and put her hand on his. "Gomen," was all she said and then continued on her way. Who knew it would be the last time they would see each other?
***end flashback***
"I'll do it." Everyone turned to look at her as she had come out of her thoughts. "I'll do it to avenge Ryuuichi, not to help the kami." Kagome said.
"Good. You'll probably want to sleep since you ate today." Eiri said and put a hand on her shoulder. Kagome didn't seem to mind and yawned. Sesshoumaru on the other time had to hold back a growl when he saw Eiri touch Kagome.
Inu Yasha was just hanging out on the side, but was definitely finding the girl good scenery. He watched her every move as she had spoken. 'Not bad on the eyes.' He thought. "So we leave in the morning." He said.
Kagome turned and noticed the hanyou for the first time. Everyone nodded and settled down for the day. Kagome lay in the bed with the two children. Sesshoumaru was by the door lying against the wall, his eyes never left her and to his distaste he noticed neither did Eiri's from the other side of the room.
Inu Yasha didn't notice the other two as he was basically passed out in his world of dreams on the floor. Tomorrow would be interesting in deed.
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Well, Kagome's going to fight. But first they need to get to the land of the kami. With a youkai and hanyou with them it might take a while. How will they all interact? What will Kagome say when she sees Kamui? Decided to put that part off for a bit. So many more questions. Please review and tell me what you think and what you want to see happen.
Review Responses:
Tsunami-chan: Well, now you know what she eats. And yeah I like making Kagome able to take care of herself.
Inukamisashi: Here's your update
Airs^o^: You might get what you want since the votes seem to be leaning towards Sess/Kag, but I'll be taking votes for a few more chapters.
The kiit: Thanks, if you want to read more lemons I started a fic on AFF.net and it's Sess/Kag
Ashleekyle: Hope this chappie gave some insights to Kagome's past, but you'll find out more as the story goes. By the end you should be able to decipher her entire past.
Neko-Cryxxy: I guess that means you want to vote for it to be Inu/Kag, better vote more since right now they're not winning
Wicked-lady190: Your vote is counted, but whose the we?
Soudesuka-Shurikens: Sess knows that he can't compete with them, he's thought everything through. He also wants to meet Kagome again.
Thanks to everyone else who reviewed and voted.
~*Shichan