A/N: Hiya! Kiwi is back! Didn't she say she'd be? Okaykay, listen to this:
I saved this chapter on my disk, but somehow, my disk erased it! So, now,
I'm retyping it, aren't I nice? That wasn't such an evil cliffy, was it
SpaceVixen? Oh, and LavenderValentine, there really was no meaning to that,
but now you give Kiwi ideas . . . SilverTailz, (singing the tune to 'Jingle
Bells') SilverTailz, SilverTailz, review all the way! Ks-Starshine - I
cannot fully answer that, but no it isn't Naraku . . . And lastly, but not
leastlykay, Thank you Gueshoo!!!!!!!!!!! She added me to her fave
list!!!!!!! (you ARE a she right?) I feel so loved!!!!!!! (yes, I went on
your bio and I'm with you with the 'oh that's evil I hate it' thing) Thank
you! I had no idea what you were talking about in your review, but I
appreciate itkay!
I may just start another fic, but not after I finish, or at least come to the end of Alternate Universe, which maybe shorter than I planned it to be. Oh, well, I'm new at this; gradually I'll get betterkay? (I might call it, 'To Be A Queen' - details later)
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Alternate Universe
Chapter 5 -
Caught
"Kagome."
Kagome could do nothing but stare at the stranger who, like so many other people, knew her name.
"Uh, H-Hello. May I help you?"
He smiled and started walking towards her. "In more ways than you know. I heard about your unfortunate . . . accident."
"Really? How 'bout that now?" The stranger was now in front of her making her feel uncomfortable.
"Kagome? What's wrong?"
"You see, that 'accident' I was in, um, made me forget, well, everything."
"Oh?" He looked concerned. "I'm sorry, I must seem so rude, I'm Katen; an old friend of yours. We've known each other ever since high school, and you are still the apple of my eye."
Kagome turned pink. His intense red eyes making her turn an even darker shade.
"Here." Katen pulled out a lavender package wrapped in silver bows.
"Ohh . . . " She took it and went to open it on a bench, Katen following close behind. She carefully opened the gift not wanting to ruin the pretty wrapping paper. A smile lit up her face as she lifted a giant snowglobe out of the box. On the inside of the globe were thousands of glittering, brilliantly colored mini-butterflies floating around a girl who was holding a net out in front of her in the middle of a meadow. Her face was highlighted with a small smile and she wore a soft orange sundress. On the outside of the snowglobe, near the base, was a little golden knob. She turned the knob and a sweet, happy melody filled the air around her. "Thank you, oh, it's so beautiful." Kagome said her voice filled with awe.
"I know something even more beautiful . . . "
Kagome turned pink once again and got up to hug him. "Thank you." She repeated.
"Well," he said hands on her shoulders."Has anyone taken you out yet?"
"Hmm?"
"To see the city, again."
"Oh, no, I just got home today."
"Would you mind if I took you?"
Kagome's blush deepened. "No, not at all, but I would have to tell Sango; she's kind of protective of me now that I don't remember anything."
"Oh . . . " he looked deflated.
"What? What'd I say?"
"Your sister doesn't like me much . . . " he said slowly.
"Doesn't like you?" she echoed."Why not?"
"She mistaked me for someone else one time, a criminal. I was held in custody, but they let me go and, she, well, let's just say she doesn't trust me."
"Oh. Well I told her I was going for a walk . . . so technically, I could still be on my walk, huh?"
Katen smiled and took Kagome's hand."It's decided then."
"But let's try and get back before dark, kay? I'm betting she'll treat me like a child who came in after curfew."
"Right." He said leading her down the steps into the city.
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Inuyasha was wandering aimlessly around downtown - again. His shift was over and he needed something to do, so he went wandering around to try and do just that. He went through the streets staring blankly at the shops he was passing. He passed a place selling gold and jewelry, the squealing of the female shoppers making his ears hurt. He averted his gaze across the road to the ice-cream parlor. He stopped staring pensively at it. 'That's where I first saw Kagome.' He frowned. 'And where she "accidentally" spilled her entire banana split on top of my head.' Someone pushed past him snapping him out of his reverie.
"Hey! Watch it, bud!" he yelled after the person who bumped into him shaking his fist.
'Why am I even thinking about her anyway?'
'Because you love her.' Said another voice in his head.
'I don't love Kagome, I love Kikyo!' he said back.
'Kikyo is as good as gone now that Naraku has her under his control . . . '
'No, I can get Kikyo's mind back, I'll kill Naraku!'
'Kikyo has been under his control for three years now, you really think you can get her back? What if she doesn't want to come back? You've known Kagome ever since before Kikyo got abducted by Naraku, so why not just go to her?'
'But - '
'Besides, you were going to break up with Kikyo anyway, so why continue to deny yourself?'
"I'm not denying myself!"A few people on the street turned to give Inuyasha funny looks.
"What? You never saw a guy argue with himself before?!" The people turned away, and he continued walking around. He figured he should get home to so his homework before Sesshoumaru hounded him for it. 'He should be pretty occupied with that girlfriend of his, Rin, that he thinks I don't know about.' He was about to turn around to go back home when something, or someone, caught his eye. Kagome was in a glass shop admiring glass with Katen looking intently at her. 'Why is she with that creep?' Inuyasha barged into the glass shop, startling most of the other customers, and stared accusingly at Kagome.
"What are you doing out? What are you doing up? Shouldn't you be at home with Sango?"
"Inuyasha! Hi! Katen was showing me around Market Street." She said motioning out the window.
"Do you even know who that is?!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Yeah, Katen."
Inuyasha looked even more incredulously at Kagome."How do you know he wasn't lying?"
"Well," Kagome put a finger to her chin thoughtfully."He knew where I lived, he knew my name, and he knew about Sango, wait, that's still not good, but I got a feeling he wasn't lying."
Inuyasha didn't tell Kagome that usually her instincts about good and bad people were right most of the time, well, ALL of the time, but that was before she got hurt.
He growled in frustration."C'mon!" he took her hand and started to lead her out of the shop.
"Hey! Inuyasha! What are you doing?" she exclaimed trying to pry his strong, clawed hand off of her small, delicate one.
"Taking you home! Trip's over Katen, see you whenever!"
Katen looked disdainfully at Kagome yelling to her,"I'll call you!" while Inuyasha grumbled under his breath,"Oh, no you won't."
Kagome continued to struggle. This got on Inuyasha's nerves, so he slung her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and didn't put her down until she was back at home.
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"I was worried about you Kagome! I don't know what happened to you! You could have gotten hurt in your condition! You're not fully healed you know!" Sango scolded a pissed-looking Kagome glaring at Inuyasha.
"Okay Sango, I know, I know, I won't do it again, okay?"
Sango sighed and turned to Inuyasha."Thank you Inuyasha, but you should be getting home now, or Sesshoumaru will get angry."
"I can take care of myself Sango, and he should be occupied with his girlfriend, okay?" He turned on his heel and walked towards the door opening it. "Oh, and Kagome," she looked up at him."Stay away from that guy, you never liked him. Come to think of it, stay away Hobo, and that wimpy wolf, too. They're pests, you said so yourself." He walked through the door closing it quietly behind him.
Kagome glared at the door. "What do you have against Katen anyway?" Kagome fumed at Sango."He's nice. I don't hear you dissing Koga or Hojo!"
"That is so not the point Kagome! You could have gotten hurt!"
"But I'm not! I'm here aren't I?"
"But you were being irresponsible! Even people with amnesia still have their common sense!"
"Okay, I'm irresponsible, I'm stupid, let's just drop it Sango." Kagome said heading upstairs.
"No, I won't drop it!" Sango retaliated blocking her path to the stairway."You don't understand the dangers out there! You don't know who's dangerous and who's not!"
"Well lock me up why don't you?! I can't have fun? Did I ever have fun, or did you keep me on such a short leash like now?"
"No, but your previous self had a lot more sense than you do now!"
"Well I'm not my 'previous' self, Sango! You sound like my mother! I just wish I lived in my old life, with all my old friends, with my old non- dead family! Maybe if you just get out my life, it would be that much better!"
Kagome huffed and passed right by a stunned Sango. Footsteps and a door slamming could be heard as Sango collapsed onto the floor. 'What happened Kagome? If I don't have you, what family do I have? What hope do I have? . . . ' Sango got to her feet and made her way to the sofa, only to collapse onto that, and started crying. 'I don't care about your memory Kagome, but I at least want your trust . . . '
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Kagome slammed her door and locked it before she sat down by her window. 'How dare Sango just yell at me like I'm a child or something!' Kagome fumed. 'I never wanted to be in this life anyway! This isn't MY fault! What am I supposed to - ' Kagome's next thoughts never came as her window flew open and many demons came through it.
"What the - "
"Remember - " one of the demons stated."Naraku wants her alive."
'Naraku?!' Kagome ran towards her door only to have a tall, ugly blue demon block her from it. She skidded to a halt and turned around. She was surrounded by demons! One of them lunged forward to grab her and Kagome held out her hands in front of her to shield it from her, screaming all the while. When the demon's face came in contact with her hands, it immediately disintegrated. Kagome peeked out of one eye, to see ashes at her feet.
"Whoa . . . Never knew I could do that." Inspiration struck and she darted her hands out at the other demons. They, too, quickly disintegrated. There was only one demon left, but she looked human. Suddenly there was a pounding on her door.
"Kagome! Kagome! Are you all right? Answer me! Unlock the door!" came Sango's pleading cry.
Kagome glanced towards the door and started to move to it. The last demon frowned and waved her fan. Kagome's body all to abruptly met the hard wood of the door before her mind fell into an abyss of nothingness, the demon's chuckling fading with her.
When Sango finally built up enough strength to knock the door down, Kagome and whatever was in there, was long gone.
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Kagome woke up in a large, feathery-soft bed. 'Not again.' She thought sitting up. She was in a large room with something standing on the other side. Someone was standing across the room in a long white baboon pelt. She knew who it was instantly.
'Naraku . . . '
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A/N: Okay SpaceVixen, now I'm evil! Bwahahahahaha(hacks, coughs)! Gotta work on the I'm-evil-left-a-cliffe-laughkay? Well this one was pretty long, no? Well, it's longer than any of my other chappies. I'll only update if I get more reviews from you people! But if the same people review, that's still cool. I'll try when I have no homework, or when I don't' want to do itkay? Well, you know what to do! The flip side, I'll be there, how 'bout you? Like always, Kiwi is outie. ^.^
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Oh, P.S. try to answer this, for funkay?
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What word becomes shorter if you add '-er' to it? ^.^
The winner(s) get an Inu cookie!
I may just start another fic, but not after I finish, or at least come to the end of Alternate Universe, which maybe shorter than I planned it to be. Oh, well, I'm new at this; gradually I'll get betterkay? (I might call it, 'To Be A Queen' - details later)
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Disclaimer: I don't own . . . (long sigh) what's the point? . . .
Alternate Universe
Chapter 5 -
Caught
"Kagome."
Kagome could do nothing but stare at the stranger who, like so many other people, knew her name.
"Uh, H-Hello. May I help you?"
He smiled and started walking towards her. "In more ways than you know. I heard about your unfortunate . . . accident."
"Really? How 'bout that now?" The stranger was now in front of her making her feel uncomfortable.
"Kagome? What's wrong?"
"You see, that 'accident' I was in, um, made me forget, well, everything."
"Oh?" He looked concerned. "I'm sorry, I must seem so rude, I'm Katen; an old friend of yours. We've known each other ever since high school, and you are still the apple of my eye."
Kagome turned pink. His intense red eyes making her turn an even darker shade.
"Here." Katen pulled out a lavender package wrapped in silver bows.
"Ohh . . . " She took it and went to open it on a bench, Katen following close behind. She carefully opened the gift not wanting to ruin the pretty wrapping paper. A smile lit up her face as she lifted a giant snowglobe out of the box. On the inside of the globe were thousands of glittering, brilliantly colored mini-butterflies floating around a girl who was holding a net out in front of her in the middle of a meadow. Her face was highlighted with a small smile and she wore a soft orange sundress. On the outside of the snowglobe, near the base, was a little golden knob. She turned the knob and a sweet, happy melody filled the air around her. "Thank you, oh, it's so beautiful." Kagome said her voice filled with awe.
"I know something even more beautiful . . . "
Kagome turned pink once again and got up to hug him. "Thank you." She repeated.
"Well," he said hands on her shoulders."Has anyone taken you out yet?"
"Hmm?"
"To see the city, again."
"Oh, no, I just got home today."
"Would you mind if I took you?"
Kagome's blush deepened. "No, not at all, but I would have to tell Sango; she's kind of protective of me now that I don't remember anything."
"Oh . . . " he looked deflated.
"What? What'd I say?"
"Your sister doesn't like me much . . . " he said slowly.
"Doesn't like you?" she echoed."Why not?"
"She mistaked me for someone else one time, a criminal. I was held in custody, but they let me go and, she, well, let's just say she doesn't trust me."
"Oh. Well I told her I was going for a walk . . . so technically, I could still be on my walk, huh?"
Katen smiled and took Kagome's hand."It's decided then."
"But let's try and get back before dark, kay? I'm betting she'll treat me like a child who came in after curfew."
"Right." He said leading her down the steps into the city.
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Inuyasha was wandering aimlessly around downtown - again. His shift was over and he needed something to do, so he went wandering around to try and do just that. He went through the streets staring blankly at the shops he was passing. He passed a place selling gold and jewelry, the squealing of the female shoppers making his ears hurt. He averted his gaze across the road to the ice-cream parlor. He stopped staring pensively at it. 'That's where I first saw Kagome.' He frowned. 'And where she "accidentally" spilled her entire banana split on top of my head.' Someone pushed past him snapping him out of his reverie.
"Hey! Watch it, bud!" he yelled after the person who bumped into him shaking his fist.
'Why am I even thinking about her anyway?'
'Because you love her.' Said another voice in his head.
'I don't love Kagome, I love Kikyo!' he said back.
'Kikyo is as good as gone now that Naraku has her under his control . . . '
'No, I can get Kikyo's mind back, I'll kill Naraku!'
'Kikyo has been under his control for three years now, you really think you can get her back? What if she doesn't want to come back? You've known Kagome ever since before Kikyo got abducted by Naraku, so why not just go to her?'
'But - '
'Besides, you were going to break up with Kikyo anyway, so why continue to deny yourself?'
"I'm not denying myself!"A few people on the street turned to give Inuyasha funny looks.
"What? You never saw a guy argue with himself before?!" The people turned away, and he continued walking around. He figured he should get home to so his homework before Sesshoumaru hounded him for it. 'He should be pretty occupied with that girlfriend of his, Rin, that he thinks I don't know about.' He was about to turn around to go back home when something, or someone, caught his eye. Kagome was in a glass shop admiring glass with Katen looking intently at her. 'Why is she with that creep?' Inuyasha barged into the glass shop, startling most of the other customers, and stared accusingly at Kagome.
"What are you doing out? What are you doing up? Shouldn't you be at home with Sango?"
"Inuyasha! Hi! Katen was showing me around Market Street." She said motioning out the window.
"Do you even know who that is?!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Yeah, Katen."
Inuyasha looked even more incredulously at Kagome."How do you know he wasn't lying?"
"Well," Kagome put a finger to her chin thoughtfully."He knew where I lived, he knew my name, and he knew about Sango, wait, that's still not good, but I got a feeling he wasn't lying."
Inuyasha didn't tell Kagome that usually her instincts about good and bad people were right most of the time, well, ALL of the time, but that was before she got hurt.
He growled in frustration."C'mon!" he took her hand and started to lead her out of the shop.
"Hey! Inuyasha! What are you doing?" she exclaimed trying to pry his strong, clawed hand off of her small, delicate one.
"Taking you home! Trip's over Katen, see you whenever!"
Katen looked disdainfully at Kagome yelling to her,"I'll call you!" while Inuyasha grumbled under his breath,"Oh, no you won't."
Kagome continued to struggle. This got on Inuyasha's nerves, so he slung her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and didn't put her down until she was back at home.
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"I was worried about you Kagome! I don't know what happened to you! You could have gotten hurt in your condition! You're not fully healed you know!" Sango scolded a pissed-looking Kagome glaring at Inuyasha.
"Okay Sango, I know, I know, I won't do it again, okay?"
Sango sighed and turned to Inuyasha."Thank you Inuyasha, but you should be getting home now, or Sesshoumaru will get angry."
"I can take care of myself Sango, and he should be occupied with his girlfriend, okay?" He turned on his heel and walked towards the door opening it. "Oh, and Kagome," she looked up at him."Stay away from that guy, you never liked him. Come to think of it, stay away Hobo, and that wimpy wolf, too. They're pests, you said so yourself." He walked through the door closing it quietly behind him.
Kagome glared at the door. "What do you have against Katen anyway?" Kagome fumed at Sango."He's nice. I don't hear you dissing Koga or Hojo!"
"That is so not the point Kagome! You could have gotten hurt!"
"But I'm not! I'm here aren't I?"
"But you were being irresponsible! Even people with amnesia still have their common sense!"
"Okay, I'm irresponsible, I'm stupid, let's just drop it Sango." Kagome said heading upstairs.
"No, I won't drop it!" Sango retaliated blocking her path to the stairway."You don't understand the dangers out there! You don't know who's dangerous and who's not!"
"Well lock me up why don't you?! I can't have fun? Did I ever have fun, or did you keep me on such a short leash like now?"
"No, but your previous self had a lot more sense than you do now!"
"Well I'm not my 'previous' self, Sango! You sound like my mother! I just wish I lived in my old life, with all my old friends, with my old non- dead family! Maybe if you just get out my life, it would be that much better!"
Kagome huffed and passed right by a stunned Sango. Footsteps and a door slamming could be heard as Sango collapsed onto the floor. 'What happened Kagome? If I don't have you, what family do I have? What hope do I have? . . . ' Sango got to her feet and made her way to the sofa, only to collapse onto that, and started crying. 'I don't care about your memory Kagome, but I at least want your trust . . . '
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Kagome slammed her door and locked it before she sat down by her window. 'How dare Sango just yell at me like I'm a child or something!' Kagome fumed. 'I never wanted to be in this life anyway! This isn't MY fault! What am I supposed to - ' Kagome's next thoughts never came as her window flew open and many demons came through it.
"What the - "
"Remember - " one of the demons stated."Naraku wants her alive."
'Naraku?!' Kagome ran towards her door only to have a tall, ugly blue demon block her from it. She skidded to a halt and turned around. She was surrounded by demons! One of them lunged forward to grab her and Kagome held out her hands in front of her to shield it from her, screaming all the while. When the demon's face came in contact with her hands, it immediately disintegrated. Kagome peeked out of one eye, to see ashes at her feet.
"Whoa . . . Never knew I could do that." Inspiration struck and she darted her hands out at the other demons. They, too, quickly disintegrated. There was only one demon left, but she looked human. Suddenly there was a pounding on her door.
"Kagome! Kagome! Are you all right? Answer me! Unlock the door!" came Sango's pleading cry.
Kagome glanced towards the door and started to move to it. The last demon frowned and waved her fan. Kagome's body all to abruptly met the hard wood of the door before her mind fell into an abyss of nothingness, the demon's chuckling fading with her.
When Sango finally built up enough strength to knock the door down, Kagome and whatever was in there, was long gone.
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Kagome woke up in a large, feathery-soft bed. 'Not again.' She thought sitting up. She was in a large room with something standing on the other side. Someone was standing across the room in a long white baboon pelt. She knew who it was instantly.
'Naraku . . . '
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A/N: Okay SpaceVixen, now I'm evil! Bwahahahahaha(hacks, coughs)! Gotta work on the I'm-evil-left-a-cliffe-laughkay? Well this one was pretty long, no? Well, it's longer than any of my other chappies. I'll only update if I get more reviews from you people! But if the same people review, that's still cool. I'll try when I have no homework, or when I don't' want to do itkay? Well, you know what to do! The flip side, I'll be there, how 'bout you? Like always, Kiwi is outie. ^.^
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Oh, P.S. try to answer this, for funkay?
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What word becomes shorter if you add '-er' to it? ^.^
The winner(s) get an Inu cookie!