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Continuing Life
By: YamiSakura989
Chapter 4:
A new goal
The night had passed and the morning had come. Kagome slow opened her eyes and blinked at her surroundings. She was shocked to find two girls and a guy wearing her school's uniform, sleeping in Kaede's hut. 'Oh my' she thought as she thought up excess to feed to the new arrivals. She stopped her train of thought and took a good look at the kids and then slowly the memories of last nights events started to come back to her, she had met a girl and that girl and her friends were now going to stay in the Feudal Era. Sigh 'Those kids don't know what they're getting into. I should try and talk them...'
But before she could finish her train of thought, she heard someone being hit against the wall and Inuyasha yell. "Who the hell are you?"
Kagome got up and she saw who Inuyasha was yelling at. It was Yukito. "Tsukishiro-kun.....what are you doing here?"
"Kagome, you know this guy?" Inuyasha said. By this point Sango, Shippo, Miroku were also awake and listening.
"Ohayou, Higurashi-san." Yukito said in his natural happy voice, not even bothered that Inuyasha was holding him inches from the ground by his collar.
"Oh...the snow bunny..." Kero said as he looked up and then went back to sleep, snugging closer to his mistress as he did so.
"Inuyasha! Put him down!" Kagome yelled completely ignoring Inuyasha's question and Kero's weird comment.
"Not until he tells me what I want to know!"
Kagome not stratified with this answer and the rude treat meant of her upper schoolmate yelled "SIT"
Inuyasha let go of Yukito before he felt him self in a way to familiar position.
"Hoe?" came a small voice from the background. Sakura had woken up to a loud 'Thud' and thought it was Kero, that had knocked something over. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and focused her vision onto a girl standing in front of a boy, who was scrawled across the floor. Her gaze slowly traveled up to an another boy with gray hair, when she saw who it was she jumped up and went to greet the boy while shouting "Ohayou! Yukito-san!!"
"Ohayou Sakura-san, Tomoyo-san, Li-kun!" he said back happily.
Sakura turned around and saw that indeed her two friends were awake also, she greeted them as well. She smile, with her energy replenished she was in a better mood and was feeling like her usual cheerful self.
"OK! What the hell is going on here and who the hell are you?" Inuyasha yelled as he recover from the spell.
"Oh....You don't know Yukito do you?" Sakura said with a small frown as she tried to think of a way to explain it. "You remember Yue, right?"
"The guy that looks like he has something shove up his ass,....yeah I remember." Inuyasha as Yukito looked embarrassed and sympathetic.
"Inuyasha!!" Kagome yelled.
"He's...not....Yue is a very complicated person and you shouldn't judge him based on your first meeting, he is a really good person once you get to know him." Sakura defended.
"Feh...whatever you say, what about him" Inuyasha said pointing to Yukito and starting to get impatient.
Suddenly white wings covered Yukito's body and when they parted, there stood a very pissed off Yue. He sent a death glare toward Inuyasha and then turned to face his mistress. "Ohaya Sakura-sama."
"Ohayo Yue-san." Sakura said, feeling bad for him.
"I spoke with Touya and he has agreed to make a cover for you. Hiiragizawa has also agreed to help with that matter. As per your brother request I gathered clothes for the three of you." he said as he handed out the bags.
"Who's that one for?" Sakura said pointing towards that big duffle bag that rested next to Kagome's yellow backpack.
"....For Yukito and Kero...." is all he said when they heard the gleeful yells from Kero.
"CAKE!! PUDDING!! CANDY!!" he shouted with stars in his eyes.
"Ah! Kero-chan!" Sakura cried as she caught him by the tail as he tried to dive into the bag of sweets.
"Ah!!" Tomoyo said causing everyone to look in her direction.
"What's wrong Tomoyo?" Sakura asked as she made her way over to her friend, who's back was turned to her. Tomoyo turned around and in her hand was fabric. "Fabric...." Sakura knew where this was going, and she sighed.
"Sakura your going to look so Kawaii in the new battle costume that I'm going to make for you." Tomoyo said with stars in her eyes.
"Anou...Tomoyo-chan...." Sakura said in vain. She sighed, somehow this day was getting longer and longer by the minute.
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In a castle far far away
Although it was day and the sun was now shining over the mountains, the room with it's one occupant was shrouded in shadows. The darkness had a eerie feeling to it, and it made you thing that all there was in the world was evil. But the one occupant of this room was not bothered by that feeling, it warded of unwanted company and the main reason he was not bothered by it was that he had created it. The feeling and extension of his aura wrapped around him and only grew stronger, feeding off of the almost completed Shikon no Tama, which itself was glowing in a dark aura.
"Soon......soon I will have completed the jewel and then I will become the strongest." the one occupant of the room, a man by his voice, gave a twisted smile as he said this. His smile turned into a slight frown. "But still there is one in my way....." he said and then his smile reappeared. "I-nu-ya-sha..." he continued in a disgusted tone of voice as he sounded out the name of his rival. "Kanna!" he called.
Entering the room was a little girl of no more than ten years of age. She was dressed in a white Kimono, and had white hair that was being pushed back slightly by the two flowers at the side of her head. She waked closer to the man, all the while holding on to a mirror.
"Yes, Naraku." she said in an unemotional voice as she stopped right in front of the man.
"Tell me, where are the others."
"Kagura, is in her room, as is Kohaku." she replied.
"Good. I believe it is time to move into our last faze of action. The last jewel shard is close, but I can not find its energy. But yet, I fell another strong presence...." he said the looked out of the window, as a bee type looking creature came in and landed on the ledge. "The Saimyoushou have found that Inuyasha has added three new members to his travailing party. One with strong power, power that might come in handy,.......Tell Kagura to go pay Inuyasha and friends a visit."
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Back at Kaede's
"Sa....sakura,.....why....." said the crying voice of Kero, as he watched his mistress giving out candy to the village kids, it was like she was stabbing him in the heart.
"Kero-chan stop overeating, there no way we could carry all of this candy, and besides...." she said as she gave a chocolate bar to a little boy. "...I'm keeping more than enough to keep you and Yukito...." she stopped, Yukito, although skinny could eat, and sometimes it made people wonder if he had a bottomless hole for a stomach. So, she was sure he could eat all of this, but the fact remained that it was way too much. "Kero!" she said when saw that he was wrestling with a little boy for a pudding cup.
"AH! Demon!" the little boy cried.
"Fine! We'll keep the rest, but you'll have to carry it." she said as she saw the little boy go crying back to his mother. And with that they headed back to Kaede's hut. But before they got there Sakura stopped.
"What wrong?" Kero asked.
"I have a strange feeling that's all....like something bad is going to happen." she said as she stared into the forest. "Ugh...maybe it's just my imagination...let's keep going, the others are waiting." she said then continued on the path.
"Having second thoughts, little girl?" Inuyasha voice asked her as she entered the hut. He looked annoyed that they were still in the village.
Sakura smiled at him and said. "Not at all."
"All right, now that we are all ready, we should leave." Miroku said.
"Alright!" Sakura said and with that Inuyasha and company, with it's four and ½ (Kero's the half, because he's not a person but counts because he talks a lot.) new members left the village.
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Present Time
"Class it has just come to my attention that Higurashi has been in a car accident and is currently in a coma." said the teacher with a sad look on his face.
The class gasped and many of the females of the class cried for their classmate that had such rotten luck. It was only recently that Kagome had gotten over the laryngitis.
"The family has sent her to relatives to recuperate and hopefully she will be rejoining us soon. And with that said please take out you Biology books." the teacher said and then heard the collective groan of the class as he went about writing notes on the board.
Later that day
"Hojo....have you heard what happened to Kagome...." Yuka said sniffing, she, Eri, and Ayume walked up to Hojo and Kinomoto. All three had taken the news really rough and had been crying most of the day.
"No, what?" Hojo asked.
".......She got ran over!!" Eri wailed.
"I heard that it was a hit and run......." Ayume said thought her tears.
".....That's horrible! Do they know who did it?......." Hojo asked.
"Not that we've heard of." Yuka said.
Touya thought that all of this was ridiculous, partly because he knew that it was a lie. Yukito had said that Kagome was in the past as well. And also, he thought that it was really mean for Higurashi to make her friends worry like that. He shrugged and was about to walk away when he heard his name being called. He turned around and immediately regretted it. He was forced to the ground as a person with a lot of hair landed on him.
"Get off me!" he yelled.
"Touya!" the person said as they clung on even tighter. It didn't take a genius to tell who it was. It was Touya's worst nightmare come back to haunt him.
"Akizuki-san.....Get off!"
"Na-ku-ru. Call me Nakuru." She said as she got up off of him and offered a hand to him. Touya got up by himself and was about to ask what she was doing here but of course they had been causing a scene and the people to witness the scene spoke up.
"Kinomoto-kun, who is this, is she your girl friend?" Hojo asked.
"No!/Yes!" Both Touya and Nakuru answered at the same time. Nakuru clinged on to his arm and said. "There's no need to deny it....."
Touya was shocked, Nakuru was the last person that he had expected to see.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Akizuki-san, I'm Hojo!"
"It's nice to meet you too!" She said with a small bow, all the while still clinging on to Touya, who was still shocked.
"What brings you here?" questioned Yuka, who was a bit disappointed to find out that Kinomoto had a girl friend.
"I'm part of a student exchange program, and they had told me that I would be exchanging with Tsukishiro-kun. And that's why I'm here and he's not."
"Really? I didn't know our school had and exchange program......." Eri said. Nakuru smiled at her nervously and then she continued, "Where are you from?"
"England."
"Wow, that's far." Ayume said. "But what surprises me is how well you speak Japanese, no accent or anything."
"I've studied Japanese all my life. And now, To-ya, if you would be so kind as to show me to the principals office, I'd be really grateful." she said.
Touya pulled his arm away from her and motion for her to follow. He sighed it was going to be a very long year. 'Yuki please come back soon......' he thought.
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"Ah-choo!" Yukito sneezed.
"Bless you!" Sakura said with a smile.
"Thank you, I think some one is taking about me." he said.
It was about noon and the group had walked very far. So far they had passed three villages. But they kept going. 'To Where' Sakura did not know but she was enjoying the scenery. The past look so beautiful, she couldn't help but feel bad that in years to come the humans would be responsible for destroying all that beauty.
"Anou....." She spoke up. "Where exactly are we going?" she asked.
"Huh....um...how can I explain it." Kagome said as she looked back at Sakura.
"We're searching for Naraku!" Inuyasha responded rudely.
"So in other words you don't know where he is and you're blindly searching for him. Like a needle in a haystack." Syaoran said.
Inuyasha spun around and glared at Syaoran, who in turn glared back. "It's not like we're playing card games here. Naraku's hidden himself and I doubt you'll be able to find him."
"I bet we'd have a better shot than you do." Syaoran said back, equally as mean as Inuyasha had spoken to him.
"Syaoran."
"Inuyasha."
Both Kagome and Sakura had moved in front of them to a void a fight.
"They aren't the enemy Inuyasha, you'll have to learn to get along with them." Kagome said.
"She's right, you two will have to learn to get along, no good can be done if we're busy fighting each other." Sakura said.
"I will if he will." Both said at the same time.
"Syaoran....." Sakura said as she looked in to his eyes. He looked back and saw that she was pleading with him to get along, that she really wanted to befriend and help these people. He really never could say no to her but he did have his reputation to uphold. So he walked past her and the others and then called back, "Are we going or what?"
Sakura smiled and went to join him in the front of the group. Inuyasha looked at the two of them as they walked on.
"What are you waiting for lets go, Inuyasha." Kagome said. He started to move but she stopped him by pulling on his sleeve. "Inuyasha, please make an effort to get along with them. I know this inconveniences you, by having to protect others but you'll never know this might turn out for the better. Just promise me that you'll try."
"Feh." was all Inuyasha responded but Kagome took it as I'll try.
They continued the rest of the day with no other incidents and so they stopped for the night.
"Hey, where's Inuyasha?" Tomoyo asked as she helped Kagome, Sango, and Sakura prepare the fire.
".....He's somewhere....." Kagome said then looked up at the now setting sun. It was the beginning of the moon cycle and the there was going to be no moon on this night. It was also the night that Inuyasha lost his powers and became a human and he really didn't want to share that with their new traveling companions.
"I'm sorry we can't offer more food." Sakura said.
"That's alright we have plenty for all of us." Sango said.
"And besides I can always go back and buy more food." Kagome said with as smile.
".......Thank you for every thing......" Sakura said and then she quickly turned around and pointed to her bag. "Kero-Chan!" she walked over to the bag and flipped it over and low and behold Kero was it in, with a rather big tummy. "Mou....You ate the three pudding containers I had in here. You'll ruin your appetite......."
".......Pudding......" Kero responded.
"Mou....."
Kagome watched all this with interest, the way Sakura acted at times would make you think she was years younger than she was actually was but at times like this she acted older than her age, like now and how she was acting like a mother. Kagome had always though that she was the only one to experience these weird things, time travel, magic, etc..... And when she met Sakura she was glad to find out that she was not alone, she didn't really know what had made the other girl grow up so much but she was glad that she and her were friends, at least she could talk to her openly about the past without fear for being sent to a psychiatrist.
"Kagome-san?" Sakura said in a voice that said she had been calling for some time now.
"Ah! Sorry. Just thinking." Kagome said as she started to prepare the Ramen.
Dinner was uneventful with Inuyasha and Yue both missing the group talked about small things like family. At this Sakura be came upset.
"He did that to you brother!" she said in a very upset tone when Sango had told her about Kohaku. "Sango-san, I'll do every thing that I can to help you."
"Ugh.....thank you?" Sango responded, it was a nice offer that Sakura made to help but she didn't want Sakura to get hurt on her part.
"What about you Sakura-sama, any family?" Miroku asked.
Sakura really didn't like the 'sama' part and knew he was only doing it to avoid getting beat up by Kero again, but she answered. "I have my Father, my brother, and Kero-chan." she said pointing to the sleeping stuffed animal on her lap. "Those are the ones I live with but there is also Tomoyo, and a lot of other people." she said with a smile.
"What about your mother?" Shippo asked.
"She passed a way when I was young." Sakura said.
"I'm sorry." Kagome said.
"That's ok."
"Don't fell bad. My mama and papa passed away too but I'm happy because I have friends." Shippo said.
"I feel exactly the same way." Sakura said with a smile.
"Sakura-sama."
"Hoe...." Sakura said as she turned around and saw Yue behind her. She smiled at him. "What's wrong Yue?"
"Inuyasha......" he said. Instantly everyone became worried. Inuyasha was in his human form and was an easy target, but they waited to hear what Yue had to say before they assumed the worst. "....is controlled by the powers of the moon." he said, this confused everyone.
"Hoe.....what does that mean?" she asked the moon guardian.
"The moon's absence has stripped him of his power." He said and waited for his Mistress to make the connection, when she didn't he continued, "He is Human tonight."
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Inuyasha had left the group while the sun was setting. He didn't want any of those new kids finding out his weakness. So for the past couple of hours he had been sitting at the base of a tree, far enough from camp so not to be seen, but close enough to make sure there was no trouble. He sighed. He hated these night, they never seem to want to end and all these stupid human emotion and such, he couldn't wait till he got rid of them. Something snapped him out of his thought, someone had sat next to him, and to his displeasure it was Sakura.
"Konbanwa Inuyasha-kun." She said with a cheerful voice.
"Hn" Inuyasha responded. He was waiting for it for her to ask 'Why is your hair black?' But that question never came. They just stared at the little river that was next to the tree.
"Inuyasha, why don't you come back to camp. The others are worried about you." Sakura said.
"Feh."
"Is it because of us?"
"Feh." he said, although that was part of the reason he was not at camp.
"Inuya...."
"Look, I don't need your sympathy. I can take care of myself. As for you people being there, I don't care." he said then turned his back to her.
"Gomen nasai Inuyasha, but the others told me that you could get hurt like this and weather you think so or not you are my friend and I won't let my friends get hurt. So, please come back, where you'll be safe."
"Feh."
"Gomen nasai Inuyasha." She said and then it was quiet, Inuyasha turned to look at her and regretted that he did because the moment he did she said "Sleep." and he did what she commanded. "Mou.....now what.....I can't leave him here, I gave my word to Kagome-san. I got it." she said as she snapped her fingers. "Float." she called and Inuyasha's body was lying on a pink bubble. She walked back to camp and the bubble followed.
"Sakura-sama, I see you came back alone." Miroku said as Sakura came into camp, the bubble and unconscious Inuyasha still unseen.
"Don't fell bad. Inuyasha's a hard head." Shippo said.
"Shippo...." Kagome said in a disapproving tone. "...But I still wish Inuyasha was here with all of us so that we can make sure he won't get hurt."
"But he is here." Sakura said and then moved over. Inuyasha floated in and was placed next to Kagome before the Float returned to its card form.
"But...." Kagome started
"How did you...." Sango continued.
"Get him to sleep...." Miroku finished.
"He never sleeps on this night." Kagome said. "How did you do it?"
"Mou....." came another voice. "I missed Sakura-chan using sleep.....and another card......power perhaps?" Tomoyo questioned as she woke from her sleep.
"Nope. Float." Sakura said and then started to dig in her pocket. "Mou....I must've of left it there." she said to herself and then looked back at her friends. "My phone must have slipped out of my pocket, I'll be right back." And the she left.
Her phone was right where she had been sitting. The thing didn't work here but it had been a gift from Tomoyo and she didn't want to loose it. She picked it up and smiled. She was about to walk back when she heard something in the bush move. She ignored it, it was probably a squirrel or something. But when the wind started to pick up at her feet and she knew it wasn't a squirrel. "Who's there! Come out!" She said. Nothing happed but she was going to be prepared just in case.
"The Key that hides the powers of the stars,
Reveal your true form before me.
I, Sakura, command you under contract!
Release!"
She looked around, with her staff in position. She had learned to use some of the card without the staff but she found that with it the cards were always stronger, and if worse came to worse she could always hit someone with it.
"Very impressive. Now lets see what else you can do." came a voice from the shadows. "Fujin no mai!" the voice called. And suddenly the wind picked up and was rushing toward Sakura. If she didn't know any better she could had sworn that they were blades of some sort. No matter what it was, Sakura knew she didn't want to get it by it, so she jumped out of their way.
'She's fighting with the wind....so maybe if I.....' Sakura thought and the she called out "Windy!" Windy came out and sent the wind blades back to their owner who was lucky enough to get out of their way in time.
"Clever..." The shadow, who know was revealed to be a girl with red eyes, said as she snapped her fan up and brought it down, For seconds nothing happened, but then what Sakura saw made her scream, it was men, but they had swords stuck in them and they were still moving! Moving towards her!
"KYAAA!!!!" Sakura yelled. "GHOST!!!!" she got up and started to run.
"Wow, she runs fast......" Kagura said as her opponent vaulted over a fallen tree.
Sakura ran and ran fast she didn't want to be touched buy those things. Wait, if they could touch her were they really ghost? Sakura didn't have any more time to think about this as she ran into someone.
"Gomen, demo, we have to get out of here! There are ghost and...and" she lost all word as she looked at who she bumped into. It was a girl, about the age of 10 or 11, she was all dressed in white. But what struck Sakura as odd was her eyes, they were empty as if there was no soul in this girl. Sakura slowly started to back away, her senses were going crazy, she felt like she just left one bad pace and walked into another. "W..who a-are you? What do you want?"
"Kanna, of the void."
'Void.....this is not good.' Sakura thought.
"Naraku wants your power." And with that the girl turned over the mirror that she had been holding the whole time and it started to glow.
Sakura could feel her self growing weaker, her magic, her very soul, was being drawn into that mirror. She fought to stay standing, but that was a losing battle, she went down on her knees. Just as she thought she was about to pass out all of her cards came out and made a circle around her, containing her soul, and blocking out the mirrors power.
"Cards, the cards contain the magic." Kanna said as she made her mirror stronger.
Sakura knew this was bad, if she passed out her cards would be taken and be used for evil. "Minna....run." she said weakly. All of her cards heard her and through their link with her, express that, that was not an option. She was slowly losing focus and she need her cards to be safe. "Please leave! I'll be fine! But I have to make sure you're alright first!" She said desperately. But none of them listened, they were intent on staying by their Mistress side. "Please.......I command you as the Card Mistress!" She said with pleading in her voice rather than authority. But the card did as she said and scattered. And with that Sakura blacked out.
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(AN) Hello -dodges various sharp objects- I'm sooo sorry I haven't updated. But I have excuses, after all that's what they where made for. School, those people are evil!!!! Thank God that that's over with for a while. They gave us a lot of work. Computer problems, my CD exploded in the CD drive! (What does that have to do with anything?) And my favorite excuse of all! I was lazy! Sorry! The truth is I've been thinking about this story and that's good I don't want to wright my self in to a plot hole. If you see those, tell me right away!!
As always I thank all that have review and I hope that this chapter was too your liking. Please review and give any comments and suggestion. I really appreciate that.
Also please forgive any spelling mistakes you might see. I suck at spelling.
Umm...can any of you tell me why ff.net isn't accepting the stars and arrows and other stuff I usually use? (I had to upload this twice because of that.)
Anyway, I will do my best to update this as soon as possible! And with that said See ya' later!