Disclaimer: I can only wish I owned InuYasha and Yu Yu Hakusho, but (tear) I don't.. So, STOP REMINDING ME ALREADY!! (grumbles about stupid lawyers)
(.....) Is author's note.
"...." Is character speaking.
'.....' Is character thinking.
{....}Is telepathy.
........ Is other languages. At the end there should be translations.
-People:
Yuko: Kagome
Kimiko: Sango
Mariko: Rin
Isamu: InuYasha
Nori: Sesshoumaru
Kiyoshi: Miroku
Ryo: Kouga
Takeshi: Shippou
Title: Nakama
Scroll 4, Passage 1, Part 1
"Gomen ne, Keiko-chan," Kimiko bowed apologetically to Keiko as Yuko and she reached the sidewalk away from their house.
"Daijoubu, Kimiko-chan," Keiko waved it off. "I know it was most likely Yuko-chan's fault you two are running a little late."
"Ya-ho! It is not entirely my fault!" Yuko shouted defensively as Mariko and Takeshi appeared next to them.
"Ah, kawaii!" Keiko squealed as she saw the two kids.
"You haven't met them, ne Keiko-chan?" Kimiko asked her thoughtfully.
"Kono ga Inoue, Mariko desu," Yuko said, pointing to Mariko. "Soushite kono ga Nakamura, Takeshi," this time pointing to Takeshi as each of them bowed slightly at Keiko.
"Haijimete, watashi wa Yukimora, Keiko desu," Keiko said to them as she bowed slightly back to them.
"So this lovely maiden's name is Keiko-san?" Kiyoshi appeared out of no where behind Yuko and Kimiko as Takeshi and Mariko started to snicker.
Keiko looked at the two kids strangely before she saw the annoyed looks on Yuko and Kimiko's faces. 'Why are they annoyed at a houshi? And a cute one at that,' Keiko asked herself before both girls screamed out 'hentai!' and punched the houshi. Keiko appeared even more confused and Mariko walked up to her.
"Kiyoshi-houshi-sama is a pervert and he always gropes Yuko-obasan and Kimiko-obasan," Mariko told Keiko simply.
"A sukebe houshi-sama?" Keiko asked out loud, still confused.
"Yeah, but you'd think he'd learn after a few years that everytime he gropes those two or peeps on them, all he's going to get is a black eye, a few bumps and possibly a concussion," Takeshi sighed slightly at the houshi-sama's denseness.
Kimiko turned around and pointed at the houshi-sama on the ground, "kono ga Nibori, Kiyoshi desu. Stay away from him and his 'cursed' hand."
"I'll keep that in mind," Keiko said as she warily eyed Kiyoshi as he got up.
"Aren't you three lovely maidens going to be late for your classes if you stay here any longer since you also have to take Takeshi and Mariko to school as well?" they were gone by the time Kiyoshi finished asking his question.
Kiyoshi chuckled slightly before walking off to the shrine where he teaches, "works everytime."
Scroll 4, Passage 1, Part 2
'I can't help but feel that something horrible is happening right now...' Yuko thought as the math teacher came into the classroom.
{Is your mind wandering in math again, Kagome-chan?} Kimiko asked Yuko as the teacher continued lecturing about spherical geometry.
{You mean you don't feel the sense of foreboding? Like something horrible is just waiting to happen?} Yuko asked Kimiko as she feigned interest in the classwork.
{I just thought I was feeling things.. But, hai, I do feel it. But I don't know what's causing it,} Kimiko sighed mentally as she absent-mindedly did her work.
{Hmm.. We'll find out soon enough...and what's the answer to number four?} Yuko asked as she began to chew on her pencil, trying to figure out the problem.
{The answer is 'no' and the teacher is coming your way,} Kimiko closed the mind connection and worked even harder on her work considering she sat behind Yuko.
{No as in 'the answer is actually no', or no as in 'no, I'm not telling you'?...Sango?...Damn you, you-...} Yuko was about to finish that colorful remark when the teacher decided to slam down their ruler on her desk.
"Nakamura-san, is there a reason we you appear to not be doing your work?"
"Eto.. Iie, Sensei. I was just trying to solve this problem, it really has me stumped," Yuko looked down apologetically and the teacher was about to say something else when Takanaka stepped into the room.
"Takanaka-san? Is there something wrong?"
"Hai. Will Nakamura-san and Nakamura-san come here," Takanaka said as Yuko and Kimiko went up to him.
"Did you need something Takanaka-san?" Kimiko asked Takanaka in a respectful way.
"Iie, we have just been informed that someone has taken your meisan, an Inoue, Mariko, and your otouto, Nakamura, Takeshi from their school along with another boy," Takanaka informed them.
They both seemed shocked for a moment as the class continued on with another lesson, before Yuko spoke up. "Nan? Do they know who took them?"
"Your nakama, Inoue, Nori, is here to pick you up and to explain in further detail about everything that happened," Takanaka told them before they grabbed their stuff and walked down to the main office with him.
'I wonder if that little boy could be Souta.. Mariko and Takeshi do go to that school to make sure no one harms Souta and no one finds out that he really is Kagome's brother... so I wonder...' Kimiko thought as they walked to the office.
Scroll 4, Passage2, Part 1
Keiko sighed in the hopes that it would relieve her of her anxiety. She walked home alone since Yuko and Kimiko never came back for the last hour of school. Since they didn't come back, she figured something horrible must have happened and she didn't want anything bad to have happened to them. Unconsciously, she sped up her walk so she could get home faster and call the Inoue residence to find out if they were alright. As suddenly as she sped back up, she slowed back down again when that last thought made her think of Yusuke.
'I wonder if he's training very hard and learning much. The same for Kuwabara-kun. I hope they're alright and safe wherever they are training.. But, whenever I think about Yusuke now, why do I see Kiyoshi's face soon after? Could it be that I'm... infatuated with the handsome houshi?' Keiko thought embarrassedly.
Keiko was brought out of her thoughts as she heard the faint sounds of fighting. She slowed to a stop as the sounds of fighting got louder. She moved to the side with an 'eep!' as a still living oni landed where she had just been. Keiko could hear two other people approach, but was too afraid to move to see who it was.
"Keiko-chan!?" a familiar voice shouted, familiar enough that Keiko was beginning to move towards the person.
"Yuko-chan? Kimiko-chan? Wh-what's going on?" Keiko asked them as soon as she saw them.
"We'll explain later because we need some answers from this youkai," Kimiko told Keiko as she stepped on the youkai's throat. "Tell us what you did with Takeshi, Mariko and Souta! Now, before I consider harming you!"
The youkai coughed up a little blood, "I was just following orders... I don't.. know where Souta is because our boss has him.. But, Shippou and Rin are..already free.. They were just used to get you two to come out.."
"So, you're real target was Souta...but why?" Yuko asked no one in particular.
Kimiko pushed down harder with her foot, "tell us, why did you take Souta!? And who is your boss!?"
"I don't know why.. We took the boy.. But he was the last one we had to get..."
"Last one?" Yuko asked him.
"Before him we were told to get.. Kikyou... Kohaku... Kagura.. Ayame.. And Kanna..."
Both Yuko and Kimiko looked extremely shocked at his words, while Keiko was just confused.
"Who is your boss!?" Kimiko yelled at him, hoping that it wasn't who she thought it was.
The youkai appeared to be dying, like someone was killing him for releasing this much information, but he managed to whisper out, "Naraku," before he faded.
"So he's come back..." Yuko said barely above a whisper.
"So it seems," Kimiko said in response to Yuko.
"Eto.. Can you explain what just happened? Dare ga Souta desu? Soushite dare ga Naraku desu?" Keiko asked them.
"Come on, let's go to our house where we can explain everything to you," Yuko said as they began to walk over to the Inoue mansion.
Scroll 4, Passage 2, Part 2
"Okay.. So where do you want us to begin?" Yuko asked Keiko as they sat in Nori's study with the whole gang there.
"Who are all of you really?" Keiko asked.
"I am Sesshoumaru, taiyoukai of the western lands and fourth lord of the makai. I am also Inoure, Nori, owner of the Inoue dojo, and CEO of the world's largest weapon's producer," Nori told her in his trademark, emotionless voice.
"Yo, I'm InuYasha, Sesshoumaru's younger half brother," Isamu told her in a bored manner that reminded her so much of Yusuke.
"And a total moocher," Takeshi muttered under his breath, but everyone heard.
"Say that to my face runt!" Isamu yelled at Takeshi as Takeshi ran over to Yuko who 'osuwari'ed Isamu.
"This is Shippou, my adopted..hm.. Are you a little brother or a son, Shippou?" Yuko asked him.
"Well, by human standards, you would be considered a sister.. But by youkai standards you're my mom since you preformed the ritual," Takeshi replied.
"I'm Kouga, leader of the northern wolf pack. But here, I'm Oonishi, Ryo," Ryo said as he inclined his head slightly to Keiko.
"I'm Rin! And my papa is Sesshoumaru!" Mariko told Keiko happily.
"I am known as Miroku, my fair lady," Kiyoshi told her as he got down on one knee and took her hand in his. "Now, I have a very important question to ask you."
Keiko was blushing slightly at his words, 'not even Yusuke is this sweet,' she thought, but said "and what question would that be?"
"Would you bear my child?" Kiyoshi asked and in one second he had been knocked unconscious by Keiko, Yuko and Kimiko.
"Don't mind him, he asks every woman that question. And I'm Sango," Kimiko told her.
"And last but not least, I'm Higurashi, Kagome!" Yuko told Keiko.
"Alright.. now, why do you all have alias's?" Keiko asked them.
"That is because of reikai," Nori answered for everyone else. "They are tracking us because we are guarding Kagome and the tama that she holds inside of her."
"..Inside..of her body?" Keiko asked them, thoroughly confused.
"Hai.. It's the Shikon no Tama. A cursed tama that destroys the lives of those who come in contact with it.. It holds a great power that many want," Yuko answered this time.
"Naruhodo.. So.. How did you all meet? And how did you get to be the center of attention for reikai?" Keiko asked them this time.
"I'll start, since it does start with me," Kagome volunteered. "It was my fifteenth birthday and as I was heading to school I noticed my brother, Souta, looking for our cat, Buyo, near the old well on our shrine grounds. He said he thought that he saw Buyo go into the shed, but he was too afraid to look. So, I went in there and found Buyo, but as I was turned to leave, a centipede oni who called herself Mistress Centipede, dragged me into the well. When I climbed out I noticed that I wasn't in Tokyo anymore, but it was later that I found out I had been dragged back to the Sengoku Jidai. And the first person I met was InuYasha, but he didn't know that because he was in a sacred slumber."
"How was he in a 'sacred slumber?'" Keiko asked.
"InuYasha?" Kagome asked him uncertainly, but he seemed to understand the question she was trying to ask.
"Feh. Fifty years before the time that Kagome arrived in, I had been placed in a slumber I wasn't supposed to awake from for forever by Kagome's previous incarnation, Kikyou. Kikyou was the last one before Kagome to have the Shikon no Tama before it was burned with her body upon her death," InuYasha told Keiko a little fast.
"How did she die? And how did you two know each other?" Keiko asked him.
"We meet when I tried to steal the tama from her, she never killed me for some reason, so I kept coming back hoping to find out why she never did. Somehow we fell in love and agreed that I would wish on the tama to become a human, so that we would both be normal humans and be able to live a normal life," InuYasha continued.
"But.. It didn't go according to your plan, ne?" Keiko asked, but she already knew the answer.
"...feh.. Kikyou tended to a thief with a broken body and he lusted after her. Hearing that me and her were going to use the jewel, he allowed his soul to be devoured by youkai- creating Naraku. And on the day we had arranged to meet, Naraku shape shifted into myself and fatally wounded Kikyou and took the Shikon no Tama. Then, Naraku shape sifted into Kikyou and attacked me with her arrows, so I broke into the village and stole the Shikon no Tama thinking Kikyou betrayed me. I was running off with the tama, but was stopped as Kikyou shot me with her last arrow and pinned me to the Goshinboku. She died soon after that," InuYasha finished his tale, and Keiko was crying slightly by the end of it.
"If she's dead, then how come the oni earlier said that they had taken Kikyou?" Keiko asked after she had collected herself.
"Because Kikyou had been reanimated using part of Kagome's soul and when we completed the tama, it granted her a human life so she could be with InuYasha," Sesshoumaru answered her this time.
"Before you ask anymore questions, let us finish our story," Kagome stopped Keiko from asking another question. "Soon after finding InuYasha pinned to the tree, I was attacked by some villagers and taken back to the village where I was accused of being a kitsune. The old priestess there soon found out I wasn't and that I resembled Kikyou, her older sister. That night Mistress Centipede attacked again, but I somehow awaken InuYasha and soon after freed him, but not before the Shikon no Tama was ripped from my body. After InuYasha killed Mistress Centipede, he tried to kill me so he could have the Shikon no Tama, and that was when Kaede, Kikyou's younger sister, placed the rosary you can see on him, and told me to say a word to subdue him, so I said the first thing that came to mind and you already know it.
"Then, a few days after that a crow youkai stole the Shikon no Tama from me and I shattered the tama when I killed the youkai. After that, Kaede told me and InuYasha to work together to find the kakera, but he said a few things to me and I decided to go home, when I was attacked by Sakasagami no Yura. InuYasha came to find me and we acquired another Shikon no Tama no kakera when InuYasha killed her. Then, we met Sesshoumaru who was looking for a katana their father left behind- Tetsuiga. He was using InuYasha's ningen mother to find the location of their father's tomb so he could get the Tetsuiga. The tomb happened to be in InuYasha's right eye, and I was the one who pulled Tetsuiga out when both of them couldn't. InuYasha cut off Sesshoumaru's arm before we left the tomb too.. And I had a run-in with an oni here and a ghost who was going to be dragged into hell.
"Soon after we ran into Shippou, who was looking for kakera to defeat the Thunder Brothers, who had killed and skinned his father. He ended up stealing our kakera and got me kidnaped by them, but InuYasha managed to defeat them and save us. And then, we found out about InuYasha's human night, which is the new moon. And very soon after that, Kikyou was brought back to life by a witch who used my soul to bring her back to life. And InuYasha and my relationship went down from there.
"We met Miroku while searching out a rumor of Shikon no Tama no kakera and he, too, tried to steal our kakera from us. We decided to let him join our group after we learned of his curse," Kagome looked over to, the now conscious, Miroku who took that as his que.
"Around the same time that InuYasha and Kikyou died believing they betrayed each other, Naraku placed a curse on my ojiisan. My ojiisan was given a kazaana that would be passed down to every male descendant until Naraku was killed. The kazaana sucks everything in, including the wielder because each year the kazaana grows larger until it is so large that the rosary cannot seal it in anymore and it begins to suck in it's wielder," Miroku finished and Keiko looked at him with sadness in her eyes. "And although we defeated Naraku back then, I had my curse too long so it wouldn't disappear. But, it is no longer life threatening."
"How horrible for one man to do all these things.." Keiko said with something akin to hate in her voice.
"It gets worse. We met Naraku a few times after that and found out he knew demon puppetry, so we would always face of with a puppet that looked like him. And we also ran into Sesshoumaru a few times. Sesshoumaru has his own reason for going after Naraku- he gave Sesshoumaru a human arm that tried to devour him. Enough of those times... We soon found Sango, who also tried to kill us, well, InuYasha mainly," Kagome looked at Sango this time.
"I came from a village of tayaiji's, and one day the village's best tayaijis, including my brother and I, were called out to a castle on a job. We had no clue this was just part of Naraku's plan. And while we gone, Naraku sent a lot of youkai to our village. Since there were no great tayaijis left, the village was slaughtered. No one was spared. And at the castle, the youkai we were exterminating seemed to die too easily. The next thing I knew, Naraku had taken over my brother's mind, since he was scared and slightly hesitant of to do anything because it was his first exterminating job. Naraku made my otouto kill our comrades and chichiue. He then tried to kill me, but I knocked him down and ran after the lord, trying to get him to release my brother.
"And then, my otouto stabbed me in the back, and that was when Naraku left his hold disappear over my brother. The lord ordered that we be killed, so they shot my otouto first, and then I was shot in the back as I laid over him. Naraku, in the younger lord's disguise, killed the older lord and ordered that I be mended. It was then I learned of my villages destruction as I lay half-dead. I demanded that I go after whoever destroyed my village, whom they told me was InuYasha. On my false quest for revenge, my body was beginning to fail me, so Naraku put a shikon no tama no kakera in my back and I fought InuYasha as an equal before I learned of the truth. They understood completely and even treated my wounds so would live without the kakera," Sango finished her lengthily explanation of her past and Keiko was crying harder by the time she finished.
"We meet Kohaku many times after his death. Since Naraku had reanimated him as well and was using him against us. Eventually Kikyou was also controlled by Naraku and she stole our kakera and gave them to Naraku. Then, with more power, Naraku created incarnations of himself- children, if you will. He created Kanna first, then Kagura, and many others before creating Hakudoushi. We faced many enemies after that before the final battle.. And somewhere in there, we met Kouga and Rin. Well, Sesshoumaru met Rin," Kouga took this chance to tell of his story.
"I met Kagome and everyone else when my pack was feasting on some ningen village, which happened to be the village Rin lived and Sesshoumaru was near. I soon found out Kagome could see the kakera so I kidnaped her and claimed her as mine when I saw how powerful she was and partly to piss off Inu-kkoro. Then I meet Ayame again, and she reminded me of the promise I made her to become her mate," Kouga's story was simple and it made Keiko smile slightly.
"I tended to Sesshoumaru-sama before the wolves killed me. And then Sesshoumaru-sama used his sword to revive me and I've been traveling with him ever since then," Rin's story has the simplicity only a child could give it.
"Did you kill Naraku?" Keiko asked after a few moments of silence.
"We thought we did, but we just found out today that he lives," Kagome answered her.
"And what of the Shikon no Tama?" Keiko asked once again.
"We wished on it, and it is back in the possession of Kagome-sama," Miroku answered this time.
"So.. Anything you all are doing now?" Keiko asked after a few more moments of silence.
"We're participating in the Dark Tournament to keep our skills sharp and to face Naraku," Kimiko answered.
"I think Yusuke is participating in that," Keiko said thoughtfully.
"He is, but you can't tell him that you know who we are, because I still want to hang out with you instead of being with the guys all the time," Kagome told her.
"I won't..you'll just be Nakamura, Yuko and Kimiko," Keiko told them with a smile.
Japanese words used:
Gomen ne- I'm sorry
-chan- Suffix added to a female name. Used between close friends, lovers, or parents when addressing daughter.
Daijoubu- alright/it's alright
Ya-ho- Hey! (Feminine)
Ah- oh
kawaii- cute, adorable, sweet
ne?- right?/Eh?
Kono ga... desu- This is....
Haijimete- nice to meet you
watashi wa.... desu- my name is... (polite way)
-san- Mister, miss, misses, honorific of respect for a man/woman
houshi(-sama)- monk/priest/man of Buddha
hentai- pervert
-obasan- aunt (when spelled with only one 'a')
sukebe- perverted/dirty
hai- yes
eto- um../err...
Iie- no (strongly)
sensei- teacher
meisan- niece
otouto- younger brother
nan?- what? (Not referring to an object)
nakama- close friend(s)
-kun- Suffix added to a name, used between close friends or a parent when addressing son.
Oni- ogre
(Soushite) dare ga... desu?- (and) who is...?
Taiyoukai- high ranking demon/demon lord
makai- demon realm
dojo- room used for training/place for teaching martial arts
osuwari- command for a dog, translates roughly as 'Sit boy'
papa- dad/daddy
reikai- spirit world/ spirit realm
tama- jewel/ball
Shikon no tama (no kakera)- Base of the Soul Jewel ('s fragments)
Naruhodo- I see
Sengoku Jidai- The Age of Civil War/The Warlord Era
youkai- demon
Goshinboku- Sacred (Old) Tree
kitsune- fox
Sakasagami no Yura- Inverted-Hair Yura (or Yura of the Hair)
ningen- human/humanity
kakera- shard(s)
ojiisan- grandfather
kazaana- air void/air rip
tayaiji- demon exterminator(s)
chichiue- old and extremely honorific way of saying father
Inu-kkoro- dog shit
-sama- honorific of extreme respect for one held in high personal regard
I'm very sorry about the long wait for the update and I hope this long chapter makes up for it. I was busy coming up with my half of the chapter for the Wolf's Rain InuYasha crossover I'm co-writing with my cousin and the half to the first chapter of another co-written story of ours. And next week, my family and I are spending an entire week in Bangkok, so I'll finally have access to a computer that recognizes English words. So I'll actually be the one updating instead of my cousin who has to translate all of my chapters which makes her update slower.
Reviewer responses:
amara- thanks for reviewing!
little sakura- I'm still sorry about the names being confusing, but I promise there's only about three to four more chapters of the different names before I just use their normal names and thanks for reviewing!
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chinadoll27- really? I know it's a kinda popular name in Japan, but I don't personally know anyone who has that name. And thanks for reviewing!
Ssam- I'm sorry that you had to keep on scrolling and I've been trying to keep the Japanese words that don't get translated down to a minium, but I hope you don't have to scroll down that often with this chapter. And I'll be updating much quicker on all of the stories I'm doing next week and thanks for reviewing!
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