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(.....) Is author's note.
"...." Is character speaking.
'.....' Is character thinking.
.... Is telepathy.
........ Is other languages. At the end there should be translations.
Title: Nakama
Scroll 2, Passage 1, Part 1
"Yuko-chan (Kagome)? Eto.. Where is the gym?" Kimiko (Sango) asked as they wandered around the school.
"Ehehe..." Yuko (Kagome) trailed off as she scratched her cheek, "I kinda sorta.... don't know...?" She smiled nervously as Kimiko (Sango) anime fell.
"You mean to tell me that you've been leading us around with no idea as to where we're going!!?" Kimiko (Sango) screamed at Yuko (Kagome).
"Yep. That pretty much sums it up!" Yuko (Kagome) smiled brightly as Kimiko (Sango) anime fell once again with a sweatdrop.
"Great.. Just great.." Kimiko (Sango) muttered underneath her breath as she got up, "I'm lost in a school I just transferred to, with an overly-emotional sister leading me... The gods must be torturing me," she continued to mumble as Yuko (Kagome) appeared at her side.
"Oh, come on.. It's not that bad. And I'm not overly-emotional!!... Anyways, the gods don't torture you, they just like to mock you," Yuko (Kagome) said brightly once again as she patted Kimiko (Sango) on the back in a comforting way, "Besides, someone has to come by soon and when they do they'll show us to our class."
Kimiko (Sango) just stared at Yuko (Kagome) blandly, "You are too optimistic for your own good, Yuko-chan (Kagome)."
"And you're too pessimistic! Brighten up a little!" Yuko (Kagome) scolded Kimiko (Sango) in a friendly way.
Kimiko (Sango) seemed to become sad, "This is my way of dealing with my pain and my scars. Your happiness and optimism is your way of dealing with your pain, Yu-.. Kagome-chan."
"Ki-.. Sango-chan, we can't live in the past forever. We have to move on and live in the present," Yuko (Kagome) said softly to Kimiko (Sango) as she looked her in the eye, "so we can have a future.. We've each sacrificed things dear to us, but we have to get over the pain of losing them.. Everyone else has, so now we have too as well.. My happiness and optimism is how I'm trying to move on.. You should too," Yuko (Kagome) told Kimiko (Sango) as she walked down the hallway in front of them.
Kimiko (Sango) watched Yuko (Kagome) walk with sad eyes, 'You say those things and put on a brave face filled with smiles, but you can't move on, just like I can't. You hurt from losing your family, as do I.. We can't move on because they still live,' Kimiko (Sango) thought as she began to follow Yuko (Kagome), 'you try to smile as often as you can, but am I the only one who sees the truth... The truth that your smiles are just there to hide your pain?'
Yuko (Kagome) shrieked as she fell to the ground. Kimiko (Sango) immediately ran over to her to see what was wrong, but wasn't expecting what she saw. Yuko (Kagome) had fallen on top of a student that had just ran out of the class. It was a young girl around their age with shoulder length brown hair.
"Ahh.. Gomen nasai, I wasn't watching where I was going," the girl said to them as she got up and dusted off her skirt.
"Daijoubu desu. If anything my sister wasn't paying attention," Kimiko (Sango) told the girl.
"Ya-ho! I take that offensively!!" Yuko (Kagome) yelled at Kimiko (Sango) as she got up.
Kimiko (Sango) just looked at her with a look that said 'Deny it, but you know it's true' while the girl began to giggle at how the interacted with each other.
"You two are sisters? I've never seen you two around here before," the girl said to them when they stopped giving each other looks.
"Hai, we are.. And today is our first day here and we're kinda lost," Kimiko (Sango) answer the girl.
"Ah. That explains it.. Well, what class do you have next?" the girl asked them as they began to walk somewhere.
"Physical education," Yuko (Kagome) answered her.
"We have it together, I was just heading there myself since lunch is about to be over," the girl told them.
"What luck to meet up because of Yuko's clumsiness," Kimiko (Sango) said dryly as Yuko (Kagome) glared at her.
"Eto.. Dare Yuko desu ka," the girl asked them with a confused look on her face.
"Ah! We never introduced ourselves!" Yuko (Kagome) shouted as she mentally slapped herself for forgetting.
Kimiko (Sango) just looked at Yuko (Kagome) like she was crazy because she was in her mind when she slapped herself, "Watashi wa Nakamura, Kimiko desu."
"Ah.. Watashi wa H-.. Nakamura, Yuko desu," Yuko (Kagome) stopped herself before she could say Higurashi and hoped that she wouldn't notice the slip-up.
"Konnichiwa Nakamura-san, Nakamura-san. Watashi wa Yukimora, Keiko desu," Keiko greeted them.
"Konnichiwa Yukimora-san.. Eto.. Could we get to class now?" Kimiko (Sango) asked Keiko as the first bell rang.
"Ah! Of course.. I had forgotten," Keiko said as they ran to the gym.
P.E. passed without anything unusual happening in it, just like the rest of the day. It turned out they had a couple other classes with Keiko, but for the most part they were only with her during lunch, P.E., and for math. The week passed by fairly quickly, and for the first time in a long time, Kimiko (Sango) and Yuko (Kagome) could live a normal life.
Kimiko (Sango) and Yuko (Kagome) became fast friends with Keiko and they told her about their life. Not the life where they fought off youkai, fell in love with the wrong type of guy, and had their lives destroyed. No, they told her the story of their life that they created when they were making new records for themselves. They had to do these things because if they didn't, Reikai would hunt them down to get the Shikon no Tama. And then, youkai would come after them as well, wanting the power that the jewel promises in it's whispers. If that ever happened, everyone they came to know would be hunted as well, just to get to them. Kimiko (Sango) and Yuko (Kagome) had to make sure that never happened. For their friends' sakes, and for their families' sakes.
Scroll 2, Passage 2, Part 1
"Mariko-chan (Rin)! Where is everyone?" Takeshi (Shippou) yelled as he entered the house. His school had just gotten out and everyone should have been home by now.
"Takeshi-kun (Shippou)! Watashi wa shirimasen," Mariko (Rin) answered him from the media room. Everyone lived with Nori (Sesshoumaru) now and he lived in a fairly large house.
"Hmm.. Weird.. Usually Nori-sama (Sesshoumaru) doesn't leave you alone," Takeshi (Shippou) thought out loud.
"Ya-ho, Takeshi-kun (Shippou)! Play with me!" Mariko (Rin) yelled at Takeshi (Shippou) as she pulled out a board game.
Takeshi (Shippou) sighed as he sat down and helped Mariko (Rin) set up the game.
That was how Isamu (InuYasha) and Ryu (Kouga) found them an hour later. Except they were playing cards. The board game had been put up a while ago and they pulled out the cards. Isamu (InuYasha) and Ryu (Kouga) cracked up when they found out what game they were playing and who was winning. Mariko (Rin) had picked the game and it was blackjack. Apparently, Isamu (InuYasha) had taught his favorite niece how to play, and she was now playing Takeshi (Shippou) for his money. And beating him.
Ryu (Kouga) joined in the game, to try and help Takeshi (Shippou) win. But, Isamu (InuYasha) sat out claiming that he isn't stupid enough to join in and would rather watch them get beaten by a girl. By the time Nori (Sesshoumaru) had gotten back, Ryu (Kouga) and Takeshi (Shippou) were broke and Isamu (InuYasha) was rolling on the ground laughing at the two of them. Nori (Sesshoumaru) just looked at them like they were crazy, until he saw Mariko (Rin) sitting on the couch, counting all the money she had won.
Nori (Sesshoumaru) just shook his head at them, "You would have done better by sitting out and never playing cards with her, Takeshi (Shippou) and Ryu (Kouga)."
"How were we supposed to know that she didn't just have beginner's luck!" Ryu (Kouga) yelled at him.
"I would have figured you would have been smart enough to know, ookami," Nori (Sesshoumaru) told him icily.
"Oi! My meisan had beginner's luck when I taught her a month ago you baka ookami!" Isamu (InuYasha) yelled at Ryu (Kouga) before they got into another fight.
Kiyoshi (Miroku) sighed as he walked into the house to see Isamu (InuYasha) and Ryu (Kouga) at each other's throats once again. Everyone looked at him to get them to stop.
"Alright you two, that's ENOUGH!" Kiyoshi (Miroku) yelled at them, but they didn't stop, "Fine if you want to play that way... If you two don't stop this, I'll tell Yuko-sama (Kagome)!" this effectively stopped them.
Isamu (InuYasha) was chewing Ryu's (Kouga) hand, while he was hanging on in a dog like manner. And Ryu was pulling one of Isamu's (InuYasha) ears, while his other hand was trying to pry Isamu's (InuYasha) teeth off of his hand. Mariko (Rin) was the first to start laughing at how canine they looked. She was soon joined by Takeshi (Shippou) and Kiyoshi (Miroku). All Nori (Sesshoumaru) did was smirk and chuckle a little at them.
"Oi! What-cha laughin' at!?" Isamu (InuYasha) demanded them.
"You.. Kami-sama, anata wa baka inu!" Takeshi yelled at him.
Ryu (Kouga) began to crack up at the expression on Isamu's (InuYasha) face.
"If only.. Yuko-sama and Kimiko... could see your face.. Isamu," Kiyoshi managed to get out between laughs.
"Say that to my face, houshi, kitsune," Isamu (InuYasha) threatened them before he started chasing them around the room.
Scroll 2, Passage 2, Part 2
"Come on, we're almost at the mall, Yuko-chan (Kagome), Kimiko-chan (Sango)!" Keiko yelled at them as they were walking down the street. It was late Saturday afternoon and they had decided to go to the mall.
"But, my feet hurt! And I'm tired and the sun is too hot!" Yuko (Kagome) whined as both of them just looked at her like she was a baby.
"Yuko-chan (Kagome), you know that you aren't even sweating or breathing hard?" Keiko asked her.
"Ah... eto.. Ehehehehe..." Yuko (Kagome) laughed nervously.
"Yeah, so stop whining when you have nothing to whine about Yuko-chan (Kagome)!" Kimiko (Sango) scolded Yuko (Kagome) as they continued walking.
They walked for a few more minutes, before Yuko (Kagome) stopped behind them. She had felt this energy before, sometime long ago. It was so familiar and comforting. She looked up and saw many stairs, and at the top there was the familiar entrance that she had seen so many times.
'Higurashi Shrine,' Yuko (Kagome) thought, 'How long has it been since I was last here? Ojiisan, do you still tell stories about everything? Mama, do you still have that smile to make everything better?... Souta-otouto, do you still smile?'
Keiko and Kimiko (Sango) stopped and looked back at Yuko (Kagome) when they realized she wasn't following anymore. Kimiko (Sango) immediately knew what she was thinking about, 'Kagome-chan... Onegai, don't start here.'
'Gomen ne, okaasan, ojiisan, otouto.. But, it's better this way.. Where you don't know me.. Gomen ne, but you'll be safe this way,' Yuko (Kagome) thought sadly before bowing slightly and walking off to join Kimiko (Sango) and Keiko.
"Daijoubu Yuko-chan (Kagome)?" Keiko asked her when Yuko (Kagome) walked over to them.
"Hai, daijoubu desu," Yuko (Kagome) answered, while Kimiko (Sango) looked like she didn't believe her.
Kagome-chan? Kimiko (Sango) asked her telepathically when they started walking to the mall again.
Sou, Sango-chan? Yuko (Kagome) asked her back.
You have to let them go. Remember your advice to me and don't be a hypocrite, Kimiko (Sango) told her.
I never imagined it would be this hard, Sango-chan, Yuko (Kagome) said sadly as she listened to what Keiko was saying, It's so hard, since I see them everywhere and nowhere.
Kimiko (Sango) looked over at her sympathetically, Watashi wa shirimasu, Kagome-chan. In every little boy I see my younger brother, yet when I look hard enough, he's not there anymore... It's painful to live like this.. But like you said, everyone else has moved on and now so must we.
Arigatou, Sango-chan, Yuko (Kagome) flashed Kimiko (Sango) a grateful smile before putting her full attention on Keiko.
'You see Fate, even though you've toyed with us... We still find reasons to smile and to keep on living,' Kimiko (Sango) said to the heavens, before smiling her first true smile in a long time.
Scroll 2, Passage 3, Part 1
Somewhere far away from Kimiko (Sango) and Yuko (Kagome), in a room shrouded in darkness, a figure stood watching them. The only light in the room came from the mirror he was looking in. In it, was the Kimiko's (Sango) face as she smiled.
"Enjoy what time you have left to smile, my dearest Kagome and Sango. You and your families will suffer for what you did to me," the figure chuckled evilly as his red eyes could be seen.
"I will destroy everything you and your families have for destroying my body and taking away my incarnations. InuYasha and Kikyou will betray each other again, and Sesshoumaru will know pain when I kill his mate, Kagura. And you two will lose your brothers, your mother and your grandfather. And then, how will you take losing your son and little Rin.. Hmm.. What's this?" He asked himself as he saw Keiko.
"Looks like I'll be killing two birds with one stone. I'll get my revenge on you two and get rid of those damned Reikai tantei.. In one month, I'll be at my full power once again. And the world will know and fear Naraku once again!" he laughed evilly as the image in the mirror disappeared.
-chan: suffix used mainly between females and children to show familiarity.
Eto: um, or hm
Kimiko: Noble child
Yuko: Gracious child
Ah: Oh
Gomen nasai: I'm very sorry (polite)
Daijoubu desu: It's alright, or I'm all right (casual)
Ya-ho!: Hey! (Female)
Hai: Yes
Dare Yuko desu ka: Who is Yuko?
Watashi wa Nakamura, Kimiko desu: I am Kimiko Nakamura
Watashi wa Nakamura, Yuko desu: I am Yuko Nakamura
Konnichiwa: Hello, Good afternoon
-san: polite ending for other's names (Mr. Mrs. Ms.)
Watashi wa Yukimora, Keiko desu: I am Keiko Yukimora
youkai: demon
Reikai: Spirit World, Spirit Realm
Shikon no Tama: Jewel of Four Souls, Four Soul's Jewel
Mariko: True Reason child
Takeshi: Brave
-kun: ending for boys' names, same as -chan.
Watashi wa shirimasen: I don't know
Nori: Rule, law
-sama: honorific name ending, has same meaning as lord or lady
Isamu: Bravery
Ryu: Excellent
Ookami: wolf
Oi!: Hey! (Male)
Meisan: niece
baka (ookami): stupid, idiot, dumb (wolf)
Kiyoshi: Purity
Kami-sama, anata wa baka inu!: Gods, you are a stupid dog!
Houshi: Priest, holy man
Kitsune: fox
Higurashi: Sunset, also Yuko's (Kagome's) real last name
Ojiisan: (honorific) grandfather
otouto: younger brother (not polite)
Onegai: Please (asking for something/pleading)
Gomen ne: (casual) I'm sorry
okaasan: (honorific) mother
Daijoubu: Are you all right?
Sou: Yes
Watashi wa shirimasu: I know
Arigatou: Thank you (casual)
Reikai tantei: Spirit detective(s)
Whoa.. Long list, ne? Anyways, sorry about the long update, but I did move back to Thailand away from my cousin Kurai Mori, so you can only contact me through email because I no longer have a s/n I can use. Now, for reviewer responses!
weird0- Thanks for reviewing and I hope you enjoy this chapter!
DreamVixen- The main pairings are KagYus and SanHie. The lesser pairings and the ones at the beginning of the story are KeiYus (only in beginning), InuKik, SesKag (as in Kagura, not Kagome), KouAya (not really shown) and MirKei (at end). And thanks for reviewing and this was as fast as I could update!
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