Note: I made a mistake when I said the parings! Sorry! But I'm not going to say where the mistake was made, you all get to figure that out! So good luck and have fun figuring the couple out. If you think you know then send me a review and the first to get it right I'll either dedicate the chapter to you or you'll get a spot in the story
Second note: I'm out of town and this is the only time I had to update, sorry if it seems rushed!
Last note: just so you all know how to say her name Mari's name is not pronounced like Mary, its pronounced Mare (say the e, and the a makes the a as in apple a so say Mare ok? ) thanks!
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Chapter 1: Kagome's Secret and Mari's Fear
Mari looked at the dog-eared stranger sitting next to Kagome. They were in the Dojo, so there was more room for them to move. She stared at the stranger for several more moments.
"You said it was rude to stare." The creature said to Kagome.
"It is." She replied.
"Then tell her to stop staring." He said pointing to Mari. She gasped when she saw there were claws on his hand.
"You-you have claws!" she yelled.
"You have a sword, but you don't hear me yelling." He retorted.
"Alright, why don't you tell me who you are?" Mari asked.
"Inuyasha" he said.
"Mari Rose" she said.
"Mari, you remember my grandfather talking about my missing so much school?" Kagome asked. Mari nodded. "Well that's because I go into the past to help find the Shikon-no-tama shards that I broke. Inuyasha is a half demon from that time." Kagome told her.
"You go into the past? What is this some elaborate joke to play on the new chick? So where'd you get the claws, and the ears?" she asked Inuyasha. His ear twitched. "Nice, electronic ears." She walked over to him and grabbed his ears. Pulling they didn't come off.
"Oi! Will you stop pulling my ears! That hurts you know." Mari jumped back.
"Oh my God! You do have dog ears!" she said. "I'm sorry for not believing you." She said, bowing to Kagome and her companion.
"Its alright." Kagome said.
"I do have a question though." Mari said. "For Inuyasha."
"What?"
"Can I pet your ears?" she asked. the hanyou grunted, and Mari gleefully scratched his ears. However the moment was short lived and the Inu got to the reason of his coming.
"you need to come back with me Kagome." Inuyasha told her.
"Why?" she asked.
"We need to get the rest of the shards?" he suggested.
"alright, but what about Mari?" she asked. "Grandfather keeps saying I have dieses and some of them are contagious, it would be difficult to explain why Mari doesn't have them." She said. Taking Mari's hand they walked over to Kagome's mother.
Half an hour later found Mari and Kagome gathering things for the journey. As the packed, Kagome described the rest of their group to Mari.
"Miroku is a nice guy, he's a Buddhist priest, but he's cursed and has a wind tunnel in his hand. The only sad part is he's a pervert." Kagome explained. Mari nodded.
"Ok, anyone else I should beware of?"
"No, but there are others you'll meet them once we're there alright?" the two finished packing and walked out to meet Inuyasha. "We're ready!" Kagome said.
"Alright, lets go." The three headed to the well. When they got there, Kagome handed Mari a part of the jewel, allowing her entry to the feudal era. The three jumped in.
Mari landed with a thud and looked around, it felt different, smelling the air she smelt fire, noting the dog demon had grabbed Kagome and jumped out, she took to the available vine and started to climb. When she was there she put her hand over the edge and to her surprise she felt a hand grab hers, shocked she almost let go and dropped back, but the person held tight and helped pull her over. She looked at the person who'd helped her and needed to take a second glance.He was the most attractive guy she'd ever seen! His hair was pulled back into a small pony tail at the base of his neck, he had a glove over one hand and beads around that.
"Thank you." She said, sitting on the well.
"Your very welcome, you must be a good friend of Kagome's am I right?" he asked.
"Actually we just met, I'm living at her house and well, Inuyasha came and here we are." She explained.
"Alright. Oh, I am Miroku by the way."
"Nice to meet you." She replied. "Would we be able to go find everyone else? I think I would like to meet the others." Miroku nodded and they started to the village, chatting along the way. Once they reached Keade's hut they sat and Mari met everyone.
"So ye be from Kagome's world?" the priestess asked.
"Hai." Mari nodded. As the meal progressed Sango entered the hut.
"When I heard Kagome was back I came as quickly as I was able to. She said, rushing over to her friend.
"Sango I would like you to meet a friend of mine, she's joining us." Kagome said. "Mari this is my good friend Sango, Sango this is Mari." The two shook hands and go to know each other while they ate.
That night Mari, Kagome and Sango slept in Keade's hut while Miroku and Inuyasha slept just outside. Inuyasha in his Tree, Miroku at the front of the hut. The next morning they ate and started their trek. Kagome and Mari walked next to each other with Sango right behind them, Miroku rode Kagome's bike, and Inuyasha walked next to him. Unbeknownst to the three females their entire conversation was overheard by an eager young kitsune and an inu Youkai, and by night fall the subject of the conversation would know of their discussion.
"Kagome, Miroku doesn't seem like a pervert like you said." Mari said.
"Just because he hasn't yet doesn't mean he won't." Kagome stated.
"I agree with Kagome though Mari, he is a pervert, and just because he hasn't done anything perverted or assumed anything perverted to you yet doesn't mean he won't." Sango agreed.
"But he seems like such a nice guy!" Mari argued.
"But things aren't always what they seem." Sango stated. Their debate lasted until lunch when Mari decided to ignore the two girls and talk to Miroku.
"So, what made you decide to become a monk?" she asked him.
"Well my father was one, as was my grandfather." He told her.
"Alright. Kagome told me about the wind tunnel in your hand, would you care to tell me more about it?" she asked.
"Alright." He smiled. "Naraku, was the half demon beast who cursed my grandfather and his generations with the wind tunnel, in order to rid ourselves of this tunnel, we must destroy Naraku, and if I can't then my children will, if I have any, however they would be cursed with the wind tunnel as well." Mari nodded. "Speaking of children," he stated. Kagome, Sango, Inuyasha and Shippo quickly prepared themselves for the loud slap that would result from the question he would ask Mari. "Do you have any siblings?" he asked. Everyone looked at the priest in shock, why hadn't he don't anything perverted to Mari yet?
Mari nodded her head. "Yes, and older brother and a younger sister."
"Oh really? By how much are you the middle child? How many years?" he asked.
"Minutes actually, we're triplets." She said. Everyone looked at Mari with shock written all over their face, except Kagome who already knew that Mari was a triplet.
"Wow, so you don't mind large families?"
"Nope." Miroku moved closer to the intriguing young woman next to him.
"Would you do me the honor of bearing and raising my children then?" he asked, putting his arm around her waist.
"I don't know you, one and two get your arm off my waist!" she said lifting his arm.
"Oh, you're already taken, I commend your man on getting you, your one attractive lady." 'SLAP'
"I belong to no one, and don't touch my butt again." She said before walking over to Kagome and Mari. Sitting down she sighed. "You're right, he is nothing but a pervert. A good looker, and great guy at first, but a low hentai."
"Sorry." Sango said. Mari smiled and finished her meal in quiet. They continued their travels in silence until Sango couldn't stand the quiet, and decided to break the silence.
"So, Mari, do you know how to fight at all?" she asked.
"Yes."
"What weapons do you enjoy fighting with?"
"Whatever I can get my hands on. Normally bow and arrows or swords, I would love to learn how to fight with a staff, or how to use your boomerang." Mari confessed.
"Well if we have time, I might teach you how to use it a little later." Sango smiled. At that moment however, Kagome started to sense a shard, and all attention was turned to its location. The creature was quickly found, it was desecrating a nearby village, and had managed to manipulate the lord of the area. Sighing, they all got to work, Mari however didn't know what to do, and was shooed to Miroku. On her way to the monk however, she ran into the demon and tried to hide, unfortunately that didn't work out as she'd hoped, the demon found her.
"Hello there human, like what I've don't with my village?" it asked.
"You destroyed it. How can I like it?"
"It's filled with Chaos, that's why."
"And you like chaos why?" she asked.
"Because I'm one of a kind." Was the sharp witted answer.
"Meaning what exactly?" Mari asked.
"I'm the one and only Chaos Demon." The demon stepped out of the trees to reveal itself. the demon was around five and a half feet tall with black hair to its elbows with several blue streaks running throughout the length of her hair; and brilliant jade green eyes. it was clothed in a light pink kimono with cherry blossoms spread throughout the garment. There was a small portion of armor covering her chest and part of her mid section, that branched out over her left arm to cover half of her upper arm. The armor was delicate looking and very ornate, at the demons side a sword was strapped. "So, now that you know who I am, who would you be?" she asked.
"Mari."
"Mari eh? Well my name is Kairi. What brings you here?" she asked.
"Well I'm here with several others and we're hunting shards of the Shikon-no- Tama." Mari explained.
"Oh you mean this thing? That's what it is?"
"Yes."
"Well, well, well, what do you know the rumors were true. That's what he gave me. Honestly, I don't see the point of this thing; only those who don't believe in themselves want it, who give a crap about half demons they should be the ones full blooded youkai look out for. Oh well, here if you want it, take it." Kairi flipped the shard to Mari and disappeared. Moments later Inuyasha, Miroku and Kagome appeared, Sango and Shippo seconds after them.
"You got the shard?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes."
"How'd that work?"
"The demon mentioned not wanting it and tossed the shard to me." Mari said. She looked at the hanyou closely.
"What was the demons name?" he asked.
"Kairi." She replied.
"The Chaos Demon?" Miroku questioned.
"Chaos Demon?" Kagome looked at the three closely.
"Would you tell us what that is?" Mari asked.
"Inuyasha, do you know about her or do you want me to tell the story?"
"You. I don't know it all. I was asleep for the past fifty years you would know more."
"Alright, I'll tell it, but why don't we wait until we get to our campfire. Its getting late." Everyone agreed, and started to head off, Mari walked over to Kagome and handed her the shard. Kagome put it in a small jar, put the cork in and handed it back to Mari. Mari looked back at her in shock.
"Why do you want me to take this?" Mari asked.
"I didn't find that one, you did, and if both of us have parts of the shards, if one of us have our shards stolen we still have some." She explained.
"Alright, I get you." Mari told her. They continued walking until they found a good site in the woods. Inuyasha and Miroku went to get firewood, Kagome and Sango set up camp, and when Inuyasha came back, he and Mari went hunting. They came back with several small animals, and gave them to Kagome and Sango to skin and prepare.
Once the food was cooked, and when they had finished Miroku started his story.
"Kairi is one of a kind, a Chaos demon. There were more, her brothers and sisters, however they were all killed, fighting each other. No one knows what her parents were, but rumor says they were both half demons, not half human though, half wolf, cat, water spirit, and bird, are the rumors, though."
Mari fell off her stump at that point. "Is that possible?" she asked.
"Apparently. She just roams around, and causes mischief, she loves that. No one really knows what she looks like, she's hardly ever been seen, and if she is she's never looked the same twice. Some say she has wings, others a tail, no one really knows. She strives to be really elusive." Miroku said. "So that's all I know." He said. Mari looked over and saw Kagome asleep, and leaning back on Inuyasha's lap, he was asleep as well, only Mari was completely awake.
"I guess they found out all they wanted to know." She said.
"I guess so."
"I'm going to go to sleep too, see you in the morning." Mari said.
"Nite."
"Are you going to stay up all night?"
"Probably. If anything happens I'll wake Inuyasha up." Mari nodded and went to sleep. She woke up an hour later to discover there was something in her bed. Pausing a moment she noted that there was something around her waist and what felt like a leg was rested on her legs, her head was nestled on the crook of a shoulder. Moving her head she looked up and saw Miroku.
"OUT!" she shrieked, pushing him. He woke grudgingly.
"Good morning Mari." He said.
"Its not morning, and get out of my sleeping bag you PERVERT!" a loud resounding slap filled the air.
Inuyasha looked down from his perch in a tree, seeing Miroku being thrown from the sleeping bag he was in. Smirking he watched as Miroku received Mari's wrath. His attention shifted at he noticed Kagome was awake. She and Sango were watching Mari abuse Miroku. The event was short lived as Mari walked off over to a near by stream.
Kagome went to follow, however Sango stopped her. "I think she wants to be alone for a moment, then we'll go and talk to her alright, or we could send Miroku to go and talk to her?" Sango asked. Kagome nodded and they started the fire again. Miroku sat and wondered what he did to offend her so much.
Mari found a rock in the middle of the stream, and went out to go and sit on it. Once she was there she folded her legs up and wrapped her arms around them, and letting her thoughts surround her. She had hoped that he wouldn't be as much of a pervert as Sango and Kagome had made him out to be. But sadly he was, he was worse. Sitting there she didn't notice another presence until they touched her shoulder.
"Mari, what's wrong? Why are you crying." A female voice asked. Mari hadn't noticed the tears until the woman pointed them out to her. Turning she looked at who was walking to her. She was surprised to see the youkai from before standing there.
"Why are you here?"
"Because you interest me human." Kairi told her. "You don't smell like a human from this time, and I don't know why you have an interest in that jewel." She added.
"I'm here with Kagome."
"Aw I see the miko's reincarnation. So you're here to help her fix her mistake?"
"I guess. I came from a different country and when I got here Inuyasha came and things happened and next I know I'm here." She explained.
"But that wouldn't make you cry. Why are you?"
"Well, the monk I was supposed to find when I saw you earlier today, he's a pervert, and when I tried to go to sleep, and I do and when I wake up there he is; in my sleeping bag, wrapped around me." Mari said.
"That's not right. Is this monk's name Miroku by any chance?"
"Yes it is."
"Well I pity you, that guy is relentless." There was a rustling in the bushes a little way off. "Your friends are coming, before I go, I would like to give you this, so your not as defenseless, here, take it." The youkai lay two swords on the rock in front of her, both of them the same length.
"Why are you giving these to me?"
"Because you look like your defenseless, and I like you. Don't worry I'll see you around, and if I want those back I'll take them." She said, she stepped back and ran off into the forest, seconds after Kairi ran off Inuyasha left the bushes.
Mari looked at the two swords laying on the rock, they were beautiful, green sheaths, with silver and green wrapped around the hilt of both. She didn't notice the hanyou's presence until he lay his hand on the hilt of one of them. "What do you want?" she asked.
"You had a bad reaction to Miroku, not even Kagome or Sango reacted as badly. Come to think of it, no one ever has. Why did you?" he asked, lifting one and taking it out of its sheath.
"Almost a year ago a guy I liked tried to rape me, my brother came in and saved me. But I've been scared of that ever since. So when I woke up, and he was there, I got terrified, I started to relive the moment again." She confessed, thinking of the moment she started to cry again.
"Don't cry!" he said, Inuyasha couldn't stand seeing girls cry, and when Mari started there was little he could do to stop them. "These are nice swords! Where'd you come across these?" he asked, thinking changing the subject would help.
"Kairi gave them to me. Said she didn't want to see me defenseless." Mari sniffed.
"She did eh? I knew her once, before I was pinned to that damn tree. Interesting girl I'll tell you that, she loves starting things. Wonder why she's so interested in you?" he said. Mari shivered, and Inuyasha took his outer haori off, handing it to her. "Here, it should keep you warm."
"Thanks."
"Why don't we head back to camp, you get some sleep." He handed her the two swords and they walked back to the camp. Before the reached camp, Mari handed the haori back to him.
"Thank you again." She smiled at him and walked back into camp, "Sorry I reacted the way I did." She sat between Kagome and Sango and smiled.
"Where'd you get those fancy things?" Sango asked.
"Kairi."
"Wow? She came back? Why?" Kagome asked.
"Something about me being defenseless."
"Well what do you know, she is one original girl." Miroku said.
"I'm going to sleep, I'll see you in the morning alright?" Mari stood up and went over to her sleeping bag, where she lay down and went to sleep.
Authors note
Well its been awhile, and I hope you like this chapter! More will come soon hopefully I promise!