Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co...
WARNING: There is a form of suicide in this chapter, if that isn't your thing then please just skip to the bottom, I'll have a brief summary of the chapter for you. This suicide isn't like the other attempted suicide on Kag- chan's part, it's more serious.
70+ reviews!!! TWG is on its way to maybe 100+!! Hee hee!! Can't wait!!
Oh, right, depressing situations. . .
Concerning some questions:
All that was confusing in the last chapter will be resolved in this one. That chapter was sort of like a saga starter, get it?
Anyway, this chapter is pretty dark, based on events that happened in my life as of today (2/27/04).
So please enjoy this chapter with seriousness and I hope people really get into it.
I also wanna apologize for the real long lack of updates!! Gomen nasai!! If it wasn't for Boss-Lady then I would never have posted that chapter yesterday, let alone have been able to write over 1400 words. It was hard, lemme tell you that.
So anyway, enough of my annoying ramblings, onto this depressing chapter!!!
(Inuyasha might appear in this chapter, The mystery of Shippou will be solved in the next chapter, and I wanna know if I should have a little Rumiyo come about, ne? So there's something to look forward to, okay?)
*--*--*
Chapter 14: Wind Against Fire
Tsuyume took in a deep breath before raising the rosary once more and thrusting it forward dropping it into the clear water below. She opened her eyes from its closed determined position and stared at the small, fading ripples the rosary had created.
"Uh-oh. . ."
"What?!" Sango jumped up as she jumped over to the younger girl.
"The directions says: No contact with water or surrounded objects will become positive while intended object becomes negative." Tsuyume stared up from the directions manual she had picked up to read to the angry Taijiya.
"Then. . .that means. . .all the negative energy of the surrounded objects will. . .become Kagome-chan's energy?" Sango asked fearfully.
Tsuyume nodded shakily.
They both turned toward the waterfall. The encasement dispersed, leaving a very negative engeried Kagome standing in the middle.
She held the sword that Schwarzes and Tsuyume had created for her. It had been in her shirt for the remainder of the day.
She opened her eyes and a wave of wind gushed forth, throwing Sango and Tsuyume into a defensive position to keep them on the ground.
As the kept their gaze on Kagome they watched as her eyes slowly opened. Her normal brown eye color turned red and her hair in an upward frenzy, feathers mixed in with her black locks.
"Kagura. . ." Sango whispered, then ducked as a large piece of debris hurtled toward her head.
"What?!" Tsuyume yelled.
"Those eyes have the same coldness as Kagura's!" Sango yelled back. She lifted Hiraikotsu (A/N: she had Hiraikotsu with herself the whole time.) and swatted at the oncoming debris, defending herself and Tsuyume.
"Who's Kagura?" Tsuyume asked loudly.
"A wind sorceress under the power of. . ." she flung Hiraikotsu once again, "an evil youkai!"
"Oh!" Tsuyume realized.
The winds subsided finally, leaving the two girl ruffled and furrowed.
They both automatically snapped their gazes to Kagome.
The waterfall trickled to a complete stop, the water becoming still and everything quiet except for the sounds of nature doing its daily rituals.
Sango immediately rushed forward to her friends aid.
"Kagome-cha. . .n. . ." she drifted off as she came to a stop in the knee high water.
Tsuyume followed and stopped as well.
Kagome still hadn't moved her face, her eyes, her body, her hands. The only thing that moved was her hair was the breeze from the forest.
"Kagome-chan, those scars." Sango whispered, horrified.
Scars, in all shapes and forms.
Finally Kagome's head moved, looking down at her arms. "But of course. Their reminders of such a horrible time I've had with that bastard of a poser-father." Her voice wasn't her own. It was Kagura's.
"Kagome-chan. . ." Sango stepped forward.
Kagome's eyes closed slowly, her body falling limp against the now ankle high water.
*--*--*
"Inuyasha, you must calm down." Miroku tried to push the fuming hanyou back out of Kagome's bedroom.
"Why the hell should I?! She just passed out under a stupid waterfall and you expect me to calm down?!" Inuyasha yelled back, getting in Miroku's face. "Get outta the way, idiot, or I'll have to knock you outta the way." Without waiting for Miroku to move he pushed him aside and stomped into the room.
"C'mon, Inuyasha. She's tired and hurt!" Sango yelled at him as she tried to block his way.
"And how the hell'd she get this way, huh?!" he all but yelled back.
"Shhh!" Tsuyume growled at him as she turned from her perch on Schwarzes's shoulder as she clothed Kagome's infected wounds and healed her.
He made a few noises through his mouth then turned angrily and left the room, not before kicking Miroku in the side as he left.
Sango went to Miroku's side. "Are you alright, Houshi-sama?" she asked as she pulled him up by one arm.
"Yeah." He winced as he held his side and smiled up at Sango, who smiled back in response.
*
A week later, after the waterfall incident, Kagome returned to normal. Sango and Miroku stayed in the house, learning things about modern Japan and all the appliances and how they worked, every once in a while creating trouble.
Then one very snowy night, one of the nights Mama and Ji-chan went to some committee for the town, the door slammed open, startling Kagome and Sango who were sitting in the living room, watching television.
Kagome jumped up immediately. "Oh no!" she whispered fiercely.
"What?" Sango as, startled by both the loud bang and Kagome's sudden jump.
"He's here! Go! Hide!" she whispered as she pushed Sango toward the door and out toward the stairs to her room.
"But, Kagome-chan! I can fight him for you!" she called down as Kagome pushed her up the stairs.
"No. . .I don't want you to get hurt." Kagome pushed her into the room and closed the door, Sango stayed inside, reluctant to heed her friends' wish.
Kagome took a shaky breath as she descended the stairs.
"Oy! Bitch! Get 'yer fuckin' ass down 'hurr!" he bellowed. Kagome could hear him smashing things, bottles, and such around the kitchen.
'Please, Souta, stay in your room like a good boy' she pleaded silently as she almost reached the foot of the stairs.
Finally something hit her. She felt around her back, lightly clutching the hilt of the katana, Schwarzes and Tsuyume had created from her energy, through the fabric.
She smiled slightly and stepped the last step, physically feeling her aura and his.
He was sitting, almost waiting, in the living room, a porno magazine in hand and his nose as bright as Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.
His head snapped toward Kagome, her courage zapped in an instant by his clumsy gaze.
"Uh. . .w-welcome home." She said, trying to smile.
He stood and immediately grabbed her by the chin, glaring at her.
"Where 'da pregnat' bitch?" he growled.
"At a meeting." Kagome said quietly. His breath stank of cigarettes, alcohol, and blood.
Kagome felt a tinge in her chest and was suddenly out of touch. "But a youkai such as you doesn't need the blood of a pregnant woman to fuel your youki."
He stepped back, his face with a hint of shock. "But how would you know? Your as human as they come, miko-san." He said, narrowing his eyes.
"Oh, but there you are quite wrong. At the moment the miko inside Kagome is gone. Dormant. The Negative engery flowing with in her is me, a youkai." Kagome's red eyes narrowed as well, lifting a hand a touching it to his face. Blue shocks ran through his body, throwing him against the back wall.
"Bi'sh!" he yelled as he pushed himself up from the shattered glass of the picture frame he had knocked his back into. He clenched his fist. Unclenching them he revealed thick black claws.
Kagome flipped her hair and turned. "Drunk men are not the figure of a fair fight. Wait till tomorrow." And she walked out of the room.
But he was already passed out, sobering up.
*--*--*--*
Summary: Kagome appears in the waterfall, things carved into her arms. Sango and Tsuyume talk to her. Sango notices that Kagome's face and voice are completely different, as is her attitude. Probably from the opposite effect of the rosary falling into the water.
Kagome passes out, becoming herself once again. The weekends and the boyfriend/father of Mama's unborn child comes and is as drunk as ever, yelling cuss words and such. He orders Kagome to come out to him and Kagome's hides Sango after much of her protest.
She faces him, and she becomes the Kagura like youkai she changes into under stressful situations. The boyfriend/father of unborn child shows some of he youkai colors and brandishes black claws. But being too hammered to see much at all, Kagome is able to shock him with miko energy. He passes out, and Kagome becomes herself once again.
A/N: I didn't like this chapter, not at all. I think it was really. . .I don't' know. But you tell me!!
Anyway, I think I left a lot unsaid, so I'll say it here:
The reason why Kagome changes into a Kagura like woman is because of the wind sorceress blood inherited from her mother, who was the daughter of the daughter of Kagura. Kagura's soul was reincarnated into Kagome's mothers' soul, who, intern, passed it down to Rumiyo, who, intern, some how gave it to Kagome. I have to figure out how she did that, but anyway.
The Boyfriend/ father of unborn child is, in fact, the youkai Tsuyume was talking about before. I wasn't really planning on him becoming a youkai, neither Kag-chan, but after much pressing from my friend Boss-Lady I kinda changed my game plan. And anyway, where would the pain and sufferin and such be?
So, this has been quite an A/N so I'll conclude it with a small list of all the reviewers I've had, THANK YOU!!
I won't put them all down, though, so if you're name isn't here, then it will be next time.
Spikesfirstluv
f A t A l-N i T e M a R e
Ks-Starshine
DaVvY jOnEs LoCkEr
Deamon Drama Queen
Fun-KillinReportCard
AkuReiX
Puppkid
Mukyuu Tenshi
WhiteDragon354
Elvin-Godess-Riona
KougasMyMan
fetchboy84
kagome
Defafaeth Mechqua
DemonZora
Inuyashafanaticlmv
animemistress419
Fae Ring
Ryguy5387
Mistress Of Anime
Kawaii-Inu-Inutaishou
And that's it for this week!! Hee hee!!
Until next time!!
Next chapter:
Chapter 15: Underestimating a Hanyou
WARNING: There is a form of suicide in this chapter, if that isn't your thing then please just skip to the bottom, I'll have a brief summary of the chapter for you. This suicide isn't like the other attempted suicide on Kag- chan's part, it's more serious.
70+ reviews!!! TWG is on its way to maybe 100+!! Hee hee!! Can't wait!!
Oh, right, depressing situations. . .
Concerning some questions:
All that was confusing in the last chapter will be resolved in this one. That chapter was sort of like a saga starter, get it?
Anyway, this chapter is pretty dark, based on events that happened in my life as of today (2/27/04).
So please enjoy this chapter with seriousness and I hope people really get into it.
I also wanna apologize for the real long lack of updates!! Gomen nasai!! If it wasn't for Boss-Lady then I would never have posted that chapter yesterday, let alone have been able to write over 1400 words. It was hard, lemme tell you that.
So anyway, enough of my annoying ramblings, onto this depressing chapter!!!
(Inuyasha might appear in this chapter, The mystery of Shippou will be solved in the next chapter, and I wanna know if I should have a little Rumiyo come about, ne? So there's something to look forward to, okay?)
*--*--*
Chapter 14: Wind Against Fire
Tsuyume took in a deep breath before raising the rosary once more and thrusting it forward dropping it into the clear water below. She opened her eyes from its closed determined position and stared at the small, fading ripples the rosary had created.
"Uh-oh. . ."
"What?!" Sango jumped up as she jumped over to the younger girl.
"The directions says: No contact with water or surrounded objects will become positive while intended object becomes negative." Tsuyume stared up from the directions manual she had picked up to read to the angry Taijiya.
"Then. . .that means. . .all the negative energy of the surrounded objects will. . .become Kagome-chan's energy?" Sango asked fearfully.
Tsuyume nodded shakily.
They both turned toward the waterfall. The encasement dispersed, leaving a very negative engeried Kagome standing in the middle.
She held the sword that Schwarzes and Tsuyume had created for her. It had been in her shirt for the remainder of the day.
She opened her eyes and a wave of wind gushed forth, throwing Sango and Tsuyume into a defensive position to keep them on the ground.
As the kept their gaze on Kagome they watched as her eyes slowly opened. Her normal brown eye color turned red and her hair in an upward frenzy, feathers mixed in with her black locks.
"Kagura. . ." Sango whispered, then ducked as a large piece of debris hurtled toward her head.
"What?!" Tsuyume yelled.
"Those eyes have the same coldness as Kagura's!" Sango yelled back. She lifted Hiraikotsu (A/N: she had Hiraikotsu with herself the whole time.) and swatted at the oncoming debris, defending herself and Tsuyume.
"Who's Kagura?" Tsuyume asked loudly.
"A wind sorceress under the power of. . ." she flung Hiraikotsu once again, "an evil youkai!"
"Oh!" Tsuyume realized.
The winds subsided finally, leaving the two girl ruffled and furrowed.
They both automatically snapped their gazes to Kagome.
The waterfall trickled to a complete stop, the water becoming still and everything quiet except for the sounds of nature doing its daily rituals.
Sango immediately rushed forward to her friends aid.
"Kagome-cha. . .n. . ." she drifted off as she came to a stop in the knee high water.
Tsuyume followed and stopped as well.
Kagome still hadn't moved her face, her eyes, her body, her hands. The only thing that moved was her hair was the breeze from the forest.
"Kagome-chan, those scars." Sango whispered, horrified.
Scars, in all shapes and forms.
Finally Kagome's head moved, looking down at her arms. "But of course. Their reminders of such a horrible time I've had with that bastard of a poser-father." Her voice wasn't her own. It was Kagura's.
"Kagome-chan. . ." Sango stepped forward.
Kagome's eyes closed slowly, her body falling limp against the now ankle high water.
*--*--*
"Inuyasha, you must calm down." Miroku tried to push the fuming hanyou back out of Kagome's bedroom.
"Why the hell should I?! She just passed out under a stupid waterfall and you expect me to calm down?!" Inuyasha yelled back, getting in Miroku's face. "Get outta the way, idiot, or I'll have to knock you outta the way." Without waiting for Miroku to move he pushed him aside and stomped into the room.
"C'mon, Inuyasha. She's tired and hurt!" Sango yelled at him as she tried to block his way.
"And how the hell'd she get this way, huh?!" he all but yelled back.
"Shhh!" Tsuyume growled at him as she turned from her perch on Schwarzes's shoulder as she clothed Kagome's infected wounds and healed her.
He made a few noises through his mouth then turned angrily and left the room, not before kicking Miroku in the side as he left.
Sango went to Miroku's side. "Are you alright, Houshi-sama?" she asked as she pulled him up by one arm.
"Yeah." He winced as he held his side and smiled up at Sango, who smiled back in response.
*
A week later, after the waterfall incident, Kagome returned to normal. Sango and Miroku stayed in the house, learning things about modern Japan and all the appliances and how they worked, every once in a while creating trouble.
Then one very snowy night, one of the nights Mama and Ji-chan went to some committee for the town, the door slammed open, startling Kagome and Sango who were sitting in the living room, watching television.
Kagome jumped up immediately. "Oh no!" she whispered fiercely.
"What?" Sango as, startled by both the loud bang and Kagome's sudden jump.
"He's here! Go! Hide!" she whispered as she pushed Sango toward the door and out toward the stairs to her room.
"But, Kagome-chan! I can fight him for you!" she called down as Kagome pushed her up the stairs.
"No. . .I don't want you to get hurt." Kagome pushed her into the room and closed the door, Sango stayed inside, reluctant to heed her friends' wish.
Kagome took a shaky breath as she descended the stairs.
"Oy! Bitch! Get 'yer fuckin' ass down 'hurr!" he bellowed. Kagome could hear him smashing things, bottles, and such around the kitchen.
'Please, Souta, stay in your room like a good boy' she pleaded silently as she almost reached the foot of the stairs.
Finally something hit her. She felt around her back, lightly clutching the hilt of the katana, Schwarzes and Tsuyume had created from her energy, through the fabric.
She smiled slightly and stepped the last step, physically feeling her aura and his.
He was sitting, almost waiting, in the living room, a porno magazine in hand and his nose as bright as Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.
His head snapped toward Kagome, her courage zapped in an instant by his clumsy gaze.
"Uh. . .w-welcome home." She said, trying to smile.
He stood and immediately grabbed her by the chin, glaring at her.
"Where 'da pregnat' bitch?" he growled.
"At a meeting." Kagome said quietly. His breath stank of cigarettes, alcohol, and blood.
Kagome felt a tinge in her chest and was suddenly out of touch. "But a youkai such as you doesn't need the blood of a pregnant woman to fuel your youki."
He stepped back, his face with a hint of shock. "But how would you know? Your as human as they come, miko-san." He said, narrowing his eyes.
"Oh, but there you are quite wrong. At the moment the miko inside Kagome is gone. Dormant. The Negative engery flowing with in her is me, a youkai." Kagome's red eyes narrowed as well, lifting a hand a touching it to his face. Blue shocks ran through his body, throwing him against the back wall.
"Bi'sh!" he yelled as he pushed himself up from the shattered glass of the picture frame he had knocked his back into. He clenched his fist. Unclenching them he revealed thick black claws.
Kagome flipped her hair and turned. "Drunk men are not the figure of a fair fight. Wait till tomorrow." And she walked out of the room.
But he was already passed out, sobering up.
*--*--*--*
Summary: Kagome appears in the waterfall, things carved into her arms. Sango and Tsuyume talk to her. Sango notices that Kagome's face and voice are completely different, as is her attitude. Probably from the opposite effect of the rosary falling into the water.
Kagome passes out, becoming herself once again. The weekends and the boyfriend/father of Mama's unborn child comes and is as drunk as ever, yelling cuss words and such. He orders Kagome to come out to him and Kagome's hides Sango after much of her protest.
She faces him, and she becomes the Kagura like youkai she changes into under stressful situations. The boyfriend/father of unborn child shows some of he youkai colors and brandishes black claws. But being too hammered to see much at all, Kagome is able to shock him with miko energy. He passes out, and Kagome becomes herself once again.
A/N: I didn't like this chapter, not at all. I think it was really. . .I don't' know. But you tell me!!
Anyway, I think I left a lot unsaid, so I'll say it here:
The reason why Kagome changes into a Kagura like woman is because of the wind sorceress blood inherited from her mother, who was the daughter of the daughter of Kagura. Kagura's soul was reincarnated into Kagome's mothers' soul, who, intern, passed it down to Rumiyo, who, intern, some how gave it to Kagome. I have to figure out how she did that, but anyway.
The Boyfriend/ father of unborn child is, in fact, the youkai Tsuyume was talking about before. I wasn't really planning on him becoming a youkai, neither Kag-chan, but after much pressing from my friend Boss-Lady I kinda changed my game plan. And anyway, where would the pain and sufferin and such be?
So, this has been quite an A/N so I'll conclude it with a small list of all the reviewers I've had, THANK YOU!!
I won't put them all down, though, so if you're name isn't here, then it will be next time.
Spikesfirstluv
f A t A l-N i T e M a R e
Ks-Starshine
DaVvY jOnEs LoCkEr
Deamon Drama Queen
Fun-KillinReportCard
AkuReiX
Puppkid
Mukyuu Tenshi
WhiteDragon354
Elvin-Godess-Riona
KougasMyMan
fetchboy84
kagome
Defafaeth Mechqua
DemonZora
Inuyashafanaticlmv
animemistress419
Fae Ring
Ryguy5387
Mistress Of Anime
Kawaii-Inu-Inutaishou
And that's it for this week!! Hee hee!!
Until next time!!
Next chapter:
Chapter 15: Underestimating a Hanyou