Okay! I'm up with another chapter because I'm back from vacation! Well you
wanted the next chapter soon, so I'm bringing it to you. Also, I have just
put out a new story if any of you are interested. It's called 'The Last
Page' and it is a crossover.
Enjoy!
**Hiei's POV**
I couldn't believe what I just heard. There must have been a mistake. Wait! He said Kagome Higurashi, right? Well maybe it's not my Kagome. I mean, I don't know her last name. I got to talk to Yusuke. I didn't even wait to here what Koenma said about the whole situation.
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When I found Yusuke, he was sitting with some friend's eating ice cream. When I walked in the parlor, everyone stared at me. Except Yusuke. He was too busy eating Ice cream to notice his friends starring at me.
"Hey Yusuke." One of the boys by Yusuke elbowed him. "Look at that Guy with the funny red eyes."
I could feel myself growing annoyed by that comment. No. I shook my head as though to rid myself of those thoughts. I got to focus on Kagome right now.
"Huh?" Yusuke responded dumbly. "Where?" His eyes searched the room until they landed on me, immediately getting serious.
"Hey guys, I'll be right back. Don't follow me." Yusuke left the table of thugs before they could even say anything on the subject.
*OUTSIDE*
"What do you want Hiei?" Yusuke asked me calmly.
"What is you're Cousin's last name?" I answered with a question very bluntly.
"Huh?" Yusuke looked at me confused. "Why do you want to know?"
"Just answer the question." I growled out getting impatient.
He out up his hands as though he was surrendering. "Alright, alright. No need to get mad Hiei." He sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Now what was her last name again...?"
I sweat dropped. He didn't even know! "Yusuke..." I ground out. He was really making me mad...
"Oh! Now I remember!" He said snapping his fingers as a light bulb lit up over his head. "It was Higurashi. Yeah, I'm sure. She's Kagome Higurashi."
I instantly felt my face drain of any color that I have.
Yusuke must have noticed it because he said," Hey Hiei, whats wrong? You look a little paler than normal."
"I-I'm fine." I said trying to regain control over my fast breathing. "Just fine."
With that I made a run to the Sunset Shrine. I need to know if it was really a flaw or not. Even though I was running to Kagome's house to see if she was really dead, I knew some where deep in my stomach that Kagome would not be there. At least not alive.
**Yusuke's POV**
I knew something must be wrong. Hiei didn't just ask stupid questions like that for no reason. I mean why would he want to know Kagome's last name? Something is up, and I'm going to find out what's going on. I decided to follow Hiei. He looked like he was thinking so hard that he probably won't notice me following him. Hopefully he won't.
As I was following Hiei, he suddenly stopped at Kagome's house. I wonder what he's doing. Hmm...for some reason I felt chills going up and down my spine. I knew something must be wrong but the question was: what?
**Hiei's POV**
When I got to the Sunset shrine I quickly raced inside and checked all the rooms. Except one...Kagome's. I could feel a lump of dread pile up in my throat. This was it. Kagome was either in her alive or...dead. Slowly I started to open the door, when I felt prescience behind me.
"Who's there?" I said loudly. "I know you're there so show your self."
"Guess you caught me." Said a familiar voice, "I only followed you because I knew something was up, so spill it. Why'd you want to know Kagome's last name, and why are you at her house now?" I was Yusuke.
"This is none of you're concern." I said sharply, hoping he would get the message and leave.
"It is if it has to do with Kagome. She is part of my family you know."
I sighed. Looks like I can't get rid of him. "Well, you'll find out soon enough." I mumbled. "What ever lies behind this door will answer every thing and hopefully it won't be what I think."
Yusuke stared at me as though I was some kind of nut, but said nothing.
Slowly, I turned back to the door and started to open it. I little bit of light peaked through the small crack that the door made as I slowly opened it. When I finally did open it all the way, I gasped. There was Kagome lying on the floor as white as a ghost.
"K-Kagome?" Yusuke stuttered. He quickly turned to me; his face was full of anger and shock. "What. Happened?" He ground out.
"When I was in Spirit World, I heard that ogre say that Kagome Higurashi was dead. I went to see if it was true or not." I explained quietly.
Yusuke looked as though he was going to say something but then shut his mouth. He did this a couple times. Finally he left and mumbled something about going to see Koenma.
"Kagome?" I whispered as soon as Yusuke left. "What happened?"
I dropped down on my knees next to her face, and lightly brushed some stray hair off her cheek. This feeling...it felt as though some one was twisting my heart. My lungs didn't seem to have enough air, and I knew I was sweating. The room span for a minuet, but I got control on my sick felling fast before I could faint.
"Kagome?" I asked again. I could feel tears well up in my eyes. "Why?" I could feel my voice about to crack.
I put my shaky hand on her check, but quickly pulled it off when I felt her icy cold skin. This was it. Kagome was dead. I would never see her smile again, laugh again, say she loves me again, and never tell her that I was mad at her that day in Koenma's office. She...Kagome probably thought I was mad at her when I wouldn't talk to her.
"Why?" I said getting mad. "Why did you leave me?"
I closed my eyes and banged my fist into the floor. "You and I still had so much to live for...Kagome...Kagome I love you...you can't leave me yet."
Kagome...
Feudal era
**Inu yasha's POV**
Some thing was wrong. I was dead but now I'm alive again. Miroku says that there is magic used in this but, for some reason, I think that it was demonic witch craft. Like Urasae, the demon who brought back Kikyo. Though it can't be her because Kikyo killed her...Perhaps it happened because of something Kagome did!
"Hey guys." I said to the trio thinking about who could of brought them back to life. "I think we should go to Kagome's time. Maybe it happened there."
Miroku seemed to think on it for a moment. "Yes, that is a good point Inu yasha, but the only one able to travel through the well is you."
"Well then I'll go." I said. "By myself."
"Well...alright." Sango agreed. "While you go see Kagome about this, we think about who could of brought us back to life and why here. Just incase your hunch is wrong."
I nodded. "I'll see you guys later."
With that I jumped into the well to see Kagome about the matter. Miroku did say that she reverted back to normal. I hope he was right. ***************************!
When I came out of the well, I could smell two things that I did not like. One, a demon really close by and two, death. The smell of death hung heavy in the air around Kagome's home.
When I got up to her door way, I saw that demon that I smelt, and Kagome laying on the floor with...the smell of death coming off her. Quickly I opened the window and came into her room.
"Kagome?" I whispered. "Kagome, this is not funny. Wake up."
I could feel the demons cold stare cutting trough me. He's probably the one who killed her. I looked at him with a look just as cold as his.
"What. Did. You. Do?"
The demon just looked at the floor in shame. He said nothing. "What did you do?" I asked again, this time sharper.
"..."
I ran up to him and pushed the small demon against the wall. "What did you do to Kagome?!"
Finally the demon said something. "I don't know. All I know is that Kagome is dead, but I didn't do it." The demon said softly. I could see small tears in his eyes along with all that pain...I knew he was telling the truth.
"This can't be happening...Kagome can't be dead. She just can't."
"Its true." The demon said. "Kagome...is dead."
The way this demon was talking about Kagome's death was really pissing me off. It was like he didn't care about it at all.
"Don't you care?" I asked angrily, voicing my thoughts. "You act like you don't."
"And what if I don't?!" The small demon snapped at me. "What I think and do is none of you're concern!"
"I...I loved Kagome...but before she died, I was cruel to her, and ignored her. I...I was thinking about how she said she had killed someone...when she talked to me...I didn't answer back. She must have been so sad...do you really think I'm not sad?!" The demon said.
"I'm...sorry. I loved her too, but she turned me down." I said with my eyes closed, thinking.
"The only question we really need answered is who killed her, and for what reason?" I said to more to my self than the demon.
"Well, I could tell you." I heard a voice in Kagome's closet say. "I've been waiting for you to ask that question." I saw a pair of red eyes light up in her closet.
"Who are you?" I asked, just as the closet door burst opened.
**Yusuke's POV**
I couldn't believe this. I won't believe it. Kagome is not really dead. I'll prove it. That's what was running through my head as I burst through Koenma's doors.
"Koenma, where is Kagome?" I asked as I banged my hands down on his desk.
"Yusuke...I'm sorry, but Kagome is dead..." T he little toddler said.
"Don't give me that fake shit. Tell my where the real Kagome is. I mean, come on. Kagome can't be dead..." I said, though the more I said it the more I knew that Kagome might really be gone from this world forever.
"Yusuke, its al right to be sad, but don't you think that you are over reacting? You still need to catch Shido. If you don't then the human realm will be lost. So stop being a baby and get back to work."Koenma answered me, while going back to stamping papers.
I looked at the prince of Spirit world with shock. How could he just blow off my cousin's death like that? As I thought about this, I could feel a deep anger swell up inside me for the little obnoxious toddler.
"Koenma...sometimes I wish you were a demon so I could kill you..." I said while I left, leaving a very surprised prince behind me.
**Kurama's POV**
I did not just hear what I thought I heard. When I was about to walk into Koenma's office to give him the latest update on Shido, when I heard Yusuke's ranting. But what he was ranting about shocked me.
After Yusuke left I heard him softly say to Koenma that he wished Koenma was a demon so he could exterminate him.
"I have to agree Koenma..." I said to myself. "I have to agree."
Though I was shocked about Kagome's sudden death, I knew that I couldn't go and comfort Yusuke or see if it really was true. I had work to do and Koenma forbidden me to leave the Spirit World.
Damn.
**Hiei's POV**
I was standing with this half breed talking about Kagome, and why some one would kill her, when we heard someone say, "Well, I could tell you. I've been waiting for you to ask that question."
"Who's there?" The half breed asked.
Suddenly, the closet doors burst opened and there was a demon floating there with long black hair and gold eyes. "My name is Shido, and I loved that girl's soul. It was wonderfully delicious."
I could my anger build up. So this was the one and only Shido, also the one who killed Kagome.
"So you think you're tough stuff eh? Well I will get Kagome's revenge!" the half demon yelled pulling out this huge sword.
**Authors POV**
Inu yasha pulled out his tetsuiga and lunged at Shido. Just when his sword was about to hit Shido head on, he put up a barrier that flung Inu yasha a couple feet away from him.
"Inu yasha, do you really think that you're puny tetsuiga can beat me? Fool. Besides, Kagome gave me her soul. I thank her much for that, for now a posses some of her powers." Shido explained.
"But you fooled her into hating us all!" Inu yasha yelled as he lung for Shido again. The same thing happened as last time. Inu yasha was flung into another wall.
"Fool!" Hiei yelled out at Inu yasha. "No matter how many times you try to hit Shido, he'll just put up another spirit barrier!"
Inu yasha looked at Hiei for a moment, then put his sword away. He put his claws into a wound.
"Blades of Blood!" He yelled as he flung the bloody claws at Shido.
Shido, of course out up another barrier, but instead of just stopping the attack, it flung it back at Inu yasha.
He screamed in pain, then blacked out.
"Hmph! Fight me when you are stronger. This is a waste of my time if that's the best you got." Shido announced cockily.
Before Shido disappeared, he looked at Hiei and smirked. "Sad? I can taste it over here." With that weird saying he disappeared.
"Damn that basterd." Inu yasha said as he got up into a sitting position. "He's strong..."
"Of course he is, but just remember this, Inu yasha..." Hiei said while looking at the spot where Shido disappeared at. "All men and demon's have a weakness, and I know his."
With that Hiei ran off into the night, not explaining what he meant.
What do you think? I didn't add the fight in, well I added a little fight. Ugh...now I gotta think up a good weakness for Shido.Oh wait! I just thought of one as I wrote the last sentence! Goody. Well, read more soon, and have
a happy Easter.
Preview: All demons have a weakness. What does that mean? How does Hiei know what Shido's weakness is after just meeting him. Wait, whats this?! Happiness? That's the weakness? Whats that mean? Find out next time on 'Red
Roses and Black Thorns'.
Enjoy!
**Hiei's POV**
I couldn't believe what I just heard. There must have been a mistake. Wait! He said Kagome Higurashi, right? Well maybe it's not my Kagome. I mean, I don't know her last name. I got to talk to Yusuke. I didn't even wait to here what Koenma said about the whole situation.
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When I found Yusuke, he was sitting with some friend's eating ice cream. When I walked in the parlor, everyone stared at me. Except Yusuke. He was too busy eating Ice cream to notice his friends starring at me.
"Hey Yusuke." One of the boys by Yusuke elbowed him. "Look at that Guy with the funny red eyes."
I could feel myself growing annoyed by that comment. No. I shook my head as though to rid myself of those thoughts. I got to focus on Kagome right now.
"Huh?" Yusuke responded dumbly. "Where?" His eyes searched the room until they landed on me, immediately getting serious.
"Hey guys, I'll be right back. Don't follow me." Yusuke left the table of thugs before they could even say anything on the subject.
*OUTSIDE*
"What do you want Hiei?" Yusuke asked me calmly.
"What is you're Cousin's last name?" I answered with a question very bluntly.
"Huh?" Yusuke looked at me confused. "Why do you want to know?"
"Just answer the question." I growled out getting impatient.
He out up his hands as though he was surrendering. "Alright, alright. No need to get mad Hiei." He sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Now what was her last name again...?"
I sweat dropped. He didn't even know! "Yusuke..." I ground out. He was really making me mad...
"Oh! Now I remember!" He said snapping his fingers as a light bulb lit up over his head. "It was Higurashi. Yeah, I'm sure. She's Kagome Higurashi."
I instantly felt my face drain of any color that I have.
Yusuke must have noticed it because he said," Hey Hiei, whats wrong? You look a little paler than normal."
"I-I'm fine." I said trying to regain control over my fast breathing. "Just fine."
With that I made a run to the Sunset Shrine. I need to know if it was really a flaw or not. Even though I was running to Kagome's house to see if she was really dead, I knew some where deep in my stomach that Kagome would not be there. At least not alive.
**Yusuke's POV**
I knew something must be wrong. Hiei didn't just ask stupid questions like that for no reason. I mean why would he want to know Kagome's last name? Something is up, and I'm going to find out what's going on. I decided to follow Hiei. He looked like he was thinking so hard that he probably won't notice me following him. Hopefully he won't.
As I was following Hiei, he suddenly stopped at Kagome's house. I wonder what he's doing. Hmm...for some reason I felt chills going up and down my spine. I knew something must be wrong but the question was: what?
**Hiei's POV**
When I got to the Sunset shrine I quickly raced inside and checked all the rooms. Except one...Kagome's. I could feel a lump of dread pile up in my throat. This was it. Kagome was either in her alive or...dead. Slowly I started to open the door, when I felt prescience behind me.
"Who's there?" I said loudly. "I know you're there so show your self."
"Guess you caught me." Said a familiar voice, "I only followed you because I knew something was up, so spill it. Why'd you want to know Kagome's last name, and why are you at her house now?" I was Yusuke.
"This is none of you're concern." I said sharply, hoping he would get the message and leave.
"It is if it has to do with Kagome. She is part of my family you know."
I sighed. Looks like I can't get rid of him. "Well, you'll find out soon enough." I mumbled. "What ever lies behind this door will answer every thing and hopefully it won't be what I think."
Yusuke stared at me as though I was some kind of nut, but said nothing.
Slowly, I turned back to the door and started to open it. I little bit of light peaked through the small crack that the door made as I slowly opened it. When I finally did open it all the way, I gasped. There was Kagome lying on the floor as white as a ghost.
"K-Kagome?" Yusuke stuttered. He quickly turned to me; his face was full of anger and shock. "What. Happened?" He ground out.
"When I was in Spirit World, I heard that ogre say that Kagome Higurashi was dead. I went to see if it was true or not." I explained quietly.
Yusuke looked as though he was going to say something but then shut his mouth. He did this a couple times. Finally he left and mumbled something about going to see Koenma.
"Kagome?" I whispered as soon as Yusuke left. "What happened?"
I dropped down on my knees next to her face, and lightly brushed some stray hair off her cheek. This feeling...it felt as though some one was twisting my heart. My lungs didn't seem to have enough air, and I knew I was sweating. The room span for a minuet, but I got control on my sick felling fast before I could faint.
"Kagome?" I asked again. I could feel tears well up in my eyes. "Why?" I could feel my voice about to crack.
I put my shaky hand on her check, but quickly pulled it off when I felt her icy cold skin. This was it. Kagome was dead. I would never see her smile again, laugh again, say she loves me again, and never tell her that I was mad at her that day in Koenma's office. She...Kagome probably thought I was mad at her when I wouldn't talk to her.
"Why?" I said getting mad. "Why did you leave me?"
I closed my eyes and banged my fist into the floor. "You and I still had so much to live for...Kagome...Kagome I love you...you can't leave me yet."
Kagome...
Feudal era
**Inu yasha's POV**
Some thing was wrong. I was dead but now I'm alive again. Miroku says that there is magic used in this but, for some reason, I think that it was demonic witch craft. Like Urasae, the demon who brought back Kikyo. Though it can't be her because Kikyo killed her...Perhaps it happened because of something Kagome did!
"Hey guys." I said to the trio thinking about who could of brought them back to life. "I think we should go to Kagome's time. Maybe it happened there."
Miroku seemed to think on it for a moment. "Yes, that is a good point Inu yasha, but the only one able to travel through the well is you."
"Well then I'll go." I said. "By myself."
"Well...alright." Sango agreed. "While you go see Kagome about this, we think about who could of brought us back to life and why here. Just incase your hunch is wrong."
I nodded. "I'll see you guys later."
With that I jumped into the well to see Kagome about the matter. Miroku did say that she reverted back to normal. I hope he was right. ***************************!
When I came out of the well, I could smell two things that I did not like. One, a demon really close by and two, death. The smell of death hung heavy in the air around Kagome's home.
When I got up to her door way, I saw that demon that I smelt, and Kagome laying on the floor with...the smell of death coming off her. Quickly I opened the window and came into her room.
"Kagome?" I whispered. "Kagome, this is not funny. Wake up."
I could feel the demons cold stare cutting trough me. He's probably the one who killed her. I looked at him with a look just as cold as his.
"What. Did. You. Do?"
The demon just looked at the floor in shame. He said nothing. "What did you do?" I asked again, this time sharper.
"..."
I ran up to him and pushed the small demon against the wall. "What did you do to Kagome?!"
Finally the demon said something. "I don't know. All I know is that Kagome is dead, but I didn't do it." The demon said softly. I could see small tears in his eyes along with all that pain...I knew he was telling the truth.
"This can't be happening...Kagome can't be dead. She just can't."
"Its true." The demon said. "Kagome...is dead."
The way this demon was talking about Kagome's death was really pissing me off. It was like he didn't care about it at all.
"Don't you care?" I asked angrily, voicing my thoughts. "You act like you don't."
"And what if I don't?!" The small demon snapped at me. "What I think and do is none of you're concern!"
"I...I loved Kagome...but before she died, I was cruel to her, and ignored her. I...I was thinking about how she said she had killed someone...when she talked to me...I didn't answer back. She must have been so sad...do you really think I'm not sad?!" The demon said.
"I'm...sorry. I loved her too, but she turned me down." I said with my eyes closed, thinking.
"The only question we really need answered is who killed her, and for what reason?" I said to more to my self than the demon.
"Well, I could tell you." I heard a voice in Kagome's closet say. "I've been waiting for you to ask that question." I saw a pair of red eyes light up in her closet.
"Who are you?" I asked, just as the closet door burst opened.
**Yusuke's POV**
I couldn't believe this. I won't believe it. Kagome is not really dead. I'll prove it. That's what was running through my head as I burst through Koenma's doors.
"Koenma, where is Kagome?" I asked as I banged my hands down on his desk.
"Yusuke...I'm sorry, but Kagome is dead..." T he little toddler said.
"Don't give me that fake shit. Tell my where the real Kagome is. I mean, come on. Kagome can't be dead..." I said, though the more I said it the more I knew that Kagome might really be gone from this world forever.
"Yusuke, its al right to be sad, but don't you think that you are over reacting? You still need to catch Shido. If you don't then the human realm will be lost. So stop being a baby and get back to work."Koenma answered me, while going back to stamping papers.
I looked at the prince of Spirit world with shock. How could he just blow off my cousin's death like that? As I thought about this, I could feel a deep anger swell up inside me for the little obnoxious toddler.
"Koenma...sometimes I wish you were a demon so I could kill you..." I said while I left, leaving a very surprised prince behind me.
**Kurama's POV**
I did not just hear what I thought I heard. When I was about to walk into Koenma's office to give him the latest update on Shido, when I heard Yusuke's ranting. But what he was ranting about shocked me.
After Yusuke left I heard him softly say to Koenma that he wished Koenma was a demon so he could exterminate him.
"I have to agree Koenma..." I said to myself. "I have to agree."
Though I was shocked about Kagome's sudden death, I knew that I couldn't go and comfort Yusuke or see if it really was true. I had work to do and Koenma forbidden me to leave the Spirit World.
Damn.
**Hiei's POV**
I was standing with this half breed talking about Kagome, and why some one would kill her, when we heard someone say, "Well, I could tell you. I've been waiting for you to ask that question."
"Who's there?" The half breed asked.
Suddenly, the closet doors burst opened and there was a demon floating there with long black hair and gold eyes. "My name is Shido, and I loved that girl's soul. It was wonderfully delicious."
I could my anger build up. So this was the one and only Shido, also the one who killed Kagome.
"So you think you're tough stuff eh? Well I will get Kagome's revenge!" the half demon yelled pulling out this huge sword.
**Authors POV**
Inu yasha pulled out his tetsuiga and lunged at Shido. Just when his sword was about to hit Shido head on, he put up a barrier that flung Inu yasha a couple feet away from him.
"Inu yasha, do you really think that you're puny tetsuiga can beat me? Fool. Besides, Kagome gave me her soul. I thank her much for that, for now a posses some of her powers." Shido explained.
"But you fooled her into hating us all!" Inu yasha yelled as he lung for Shido again. The same thing happened as last time. Inu yasha was flung into another wall.
"Fool!" Hiei yelled out at Inu yasha. "No matter how many times you try to hit Shido, he'll just put up another spirit barrier!"
Inu yasha looked at Hiei for a moment, then put his sword away. He put his claws into a wound.
"Blades of Blood!" He yelled as he flung the bloody claws at Shido.
Shido, of course out up another barrier, but instead of just stopping the attack, it flung it back at Inu yasha.
He screamed in pain, then blacked out.
"Hmph! Fight me when you are stronger. This is a waste of my time if that's the best you got." Shido announced cockily.
Before Shido disappeared, he looked at Hiei and smirked. "Sad? I can taste it over here." With that weird saying he disappeared.
"Damn that basterd." Inu yasha said as he got up into a sitting position. "He's strong..."
"Of course he is, but just remember this, Inu yasha..." Hiei said while looking at the spot where Shido disappeared at. "All men and demon's have a weakness, and I know his."
With that Hiei ran off into the night, not explaining what he meant.
What do you think? I didn't add the fight in, well I added a little fight. Ugh...now I gotta think up a good weakness for Shido.Oh wait! I just thought of one as I wrote the last sentence! Goody. Well, read more soon, and have
a happy Easter.
Preview: All demons have a weakness. What does that mean? How does Hiei know what Shido's weakness is after just meeting him. Wait, whats this?! Happiness? That's the weakness? Whats that mean? Find out next time on 'Red
Roses and Black Thorns'.