Unchangeable
By. Seelin
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and Co., they are just pawns in my stories, lol. But characters that I have made up are not to be used without my permission.
Chapter One:
Deserted Village
Kagome looked at the clock and up straight in her bed. It read 7:51. She took a closer look at the clock and gasped. She jumped out of bed and straight to her dresser. She had nine minutes to get to school and if she didn't she'd fail her trig class. She'd already missed enough school already.
"Oh no, oh no. This can't be happening." Kagome whispered to herself.
She quickly threw her uniform on in under thirty seconds and ran to the bathroom. After she finished brushing her hair and teeth she paused and looked at herself in the mirror, nothing new, just a pair of brown eyes, full lips, and dark brown hair that ran to her shoulders. Speedily she ran downstairs, grabbed her school things, slipped on her shoes and bolted out the door.
When Kagome finally reached the school she was out of breath and exhausted. She looked at the clock, 7:59, she sprinted the rest of the way to her first class.
The bell had just rung when Kagome entered the room so she went over to her seat, flopped down into the chair, and let out a huge sigh of relief. Her friends looked at her and shook their heads.
"Your back, did you get over your ring worm?" one asked.
Kagome looked at her friend confusedly, "What?! Oh yea, I'm fine." Kagome looked around the room, no teacher. "Where's the teach?"
Her friends began to explain the current situation, "Out with some type of flu. We've got a sub today."
Kagome gleamed, "Great, a substitute. Maybe now I can get a little extra studying in."
A woman then walked into the room holding a briefcase and a clipboard. She sat her things down at the desk in the front of the room and picked up a piece of chalk. On the blackboard she wrote her name, Ms. Mika. She then went over to her desk, opened her briefcase, and pulled out some papers. She began to sort through them as the class began to whisper to each other. She wore a dark orange button down blouse, a dark brown skirt, and matching shoes. Her red hair was done neatly into a bun at the back of her head and covered the tips of her ears. She wore slim glasses that made her face look thin. Overall she was very comely.
Ms. Mika looked over the top of her glasses to get a good look at the class. Everyone immediately stopped whispering and looked up at the teacher. The substitute had a somewhat terrible presence.
"As you know your original teacher is out sick," she began, "I am Ms. Mika and will be your substitute teacher for the remainder of the time that your teacher will be out. So, let's get down to business, shall we?"
The class groaned simultaneously and pulled out their workbooks. Ms. Mika spent no time messing around and was all business. At least that's the attitude she put off. Singling out one of the groaners, Ms. Mika instructed the unfortunate student to write out one of the hardest problems in the trigonometry book. She gave a confident glance to the rest of the class who all immediately turned their attention to their own work, not wanting to upset the strict substitute.
Kagome spent the rest of the school day wandering of into space. She had a lot of things on her mind, like about the last shikon shard that she and the others had found. They had to defeat a gigantic rat demon to get it. But that seemed to be the least of her worries. She had finally noticed that the teacher kept staring at her. Not in the ogling kind of way, but a sort of glare, like Kagome had done something to her.
"Ms. Higurashi. Since you seem to have enough time to look out of the window at the lovely scenery. Why don't you come on up here and do this next problem for the class?" Ms. Mika instructed.
Kagome slowly rose out of her seat and walked to the chalkboard. She glanced up at the clock, almost time for school to let out. She opened her book and as slowly as possible she picked up a piece of chalk and began to write the problem down on the board. Ding Ding Ding.
The final bell rang and Kagome hurriedly grabbed her books and sped for the door. As she walked out the door the teacher stopped five students and asked them to stay behind for a moment, one of them being Kagome's friend. Kagome stopped and watched silently for a second but then remembered that her friend did fall asleep during class, the others must have also done so. She decided that it was nothing and headed home to catch up on her well deserved rest.
When Kagome finally got home she walked slowly upstairs and into her room where she collapsed on her bed and fell straight to sleep. Kagome woke up in the middle of the night due to noise outside her window. Her family was all asleep by now so Kagome was the only one up. She walked over to her window and looked outside, only to find Inuyasha staring at her. Kagome groaned and began to pack her things knowing that she had to go back to Feudal Japan. She left a note telling her family where she was going to be and when she should be back. She opened the front door slowly and closed it so no one would hear her leave.
As soon as she stepped outside Inuyasha jumped in front of her, almost startling her.
"Let's get goin," said Inuyasha.
"Why so late at night?" yawned Kagome, putting a hand over her mouth.
"Well gee, it's actually early morning, I want to get an early start. We need it if we're ever gonna find any more shards," Inuyasha said carelessly. "I've got a lead on a shard right now, but we have to hurry."
Kagome followed him into the well and then to Kaede's hut where the others sat waiting for Inuyasha to return with Kagome.
Miroku was the first to greet her, "Ahhh, Lady Kagome, it has been to long."
Everyone gave him a strange look as Kagome replied, "I've only been gone for a day."
Shippo ran over and jumped into Kagome's arms giving her a huge hug. Kaede walked into the room and greeted Kagome.
"Lady Kagome, I see Inuyasha is eager to continue on this journey. How are you?"
Kagome turned and glared at Inuyasha who glared back, "I'm fine, other than the fact that I was dragged out of bed." Turning around she added, "And on a weekend too!"
Inuyasha snarled at this and grunted, "Let's hurry and get out of here before the old hag gets older."
The group began to leave but Kaede stopped them, "Be warned, there are ferocious demons about. I would be on my guard if I were you."
Inu-Yasha's only reply was, "Feh."
"Um, Inuyasha?"
"What Shippo?"
"Ya think you could at least tell us where we're going?"
"Keep moving," Inuyasha instructed, "I'll tell ya on the way. That way we won't loose any time." The group moved onward as Inuyasha related his information to them. "Well, before we got into the fight with that rat demon I got this strange feeling that someone or something was watching us. So I stopped to find out whatever the hell it was. It ran away but it left behind the tracks of some kind of cat demon. They were small so we're looking for a small demon that travels in a pack. There's one in the area surrounding that town in the distance. But the pack moves quick so we have to hurry before they go off to find a new nesting ground."
It had been two nights and they had found nothing, not even a trace of any shards or even a single cat demon. Inuyasha started to grow suspicious about this.
"What the hell is goin on here?! There isn't anything," he began saying but was interrupted by Miroku, "Lady Kaede warned us of ferocious demons roaming about, I think that all other demons are frightened of."
"I fear Miroku's right, we must stay on our guards," added Sango.
They continued walking in the waning sunlight and before the sun finally set they came upon a fairly large village. Kagome stopped and took a good look around. There was no one in the village; it seemed to be empty, deserted. When they arrived in the village Inuyasha began sniffing around, searching for any sign of life.
"Aww, We really needed to stock up supplies to," said Kagome, "I guess we should stay here for the night, I don't think anybody will mind."
Shippo sat down on the ground holding his stomach, "I'm hungry. Can we eat now?"
"No sign of anything, nobody's been here for weeks," reported Inuyasha.
Sango yelled for the group to come into an abandoned hut she found. "There's plenty of food in this one, I wonder why these people left in such a hurry as to not take any of their belongings with them."
Everyone followed Sango into the hut, ready to fill his or her stomachs. Sango prepared dinner while everyone tried to explain this unnatural phenomenon. There was talk of Naraku and Sesshomaru but the subject was quickly dropped when Sango yelled for everybody to come and look. She was out in a food storage shed when she found it. Every one crowded around to see what it was.
Kagome gasped, "It!...It's...so cute."
She quickly ran over to it and picked it up scratching its head. Inuyasha eyed it with disgust.
"A tiger demon cub. Kagome put it down now," commanded Inuyasha.
"No," said Kagome protectively, "Its just a baby. We can't just leave it here all by itself. "
Inuyasha glared at Kagome, "Listen! Put it down slowly and step away. Trust me, it's not alone."
Kagome then realized, as did the others, that there was a huge, full-grown, female tiger demon standing just outside the shed snarling at them threateningly. Kagome slowly put the cub down and backed away from it, "So, this is what scared the villagers away."
Miroku shook his head and pointed outside, "No, this is one of the things that scared the villagers away."
Outside, behind the female tiger demon stood a dozen more waiting to strike. Inuyasha drew his sword; the others slowly moved behind him, their weapons were inside the hut. Kirara jumped from Sango's shoulder where she was perched. She immediately transformed into her larger self, ready to attack. The small cub ran out of the shed and into the darkness. The demons began to draw closer and closer, until finally the female tiger pounced.
Sry to leave ya there...hanging off a cliff and all but...I...must...know...How am I doing??? Just leave a lil review letting me know what you think, whether or not it sucked. Hopefully not sucky...After I get a few reviews I'll post the next chappie...but I prob won't be able to wait.