Ch2
Rin was falling, in the arms of Kagome, who was able to grab hold of her once they were both off the ground. Rin was crying, and Kagome held her tighter, "Rin-chan, do you trust me?" Rin looked up at her sister-figure, and nodded. Kagome smiled and said, "Then, I want you to hold on to me as tight as you can, and don't squirm of struggle."
Rin nodded, and did as she was told. To say that the next events shocked the child would be an understatement. Great white wings came out from Kagome's back, tearing off her shirt. She flapped them, lifting Rin, and herself, to the safety of the cliff they were just on.
Upon seeing Kagome go over the cliff-side, Inuyasha attacked SesshouMaru in a blind rage. He didn't notice that she had come back, but his half-brother did. SesshouMaru stopped for a second when he saw his ward being brought back onto the ground by his brothers human wench. 'How can a human have wings?'
Inuyasha, still not noticing Kagome, took this second to charge SesshouMaru, and was stopped a half-second before, by the prayer beads around his neck pulling him down, and the sound of Kagome's voice yelling, "SIT BOY!".
The first thing out of the henyou's mouth was, "What the hell was that for, bitch!" Then, realization of what just happened struck him, and (as soon as the spell wore off) he got up, and ran to Kagome, "You didn't die!"
Kagome smiled, and put Rin down. The child ran to her guardian, who was still studying Kagome. "Sorry I worried you, Inuyasha." she said, as she covered her chest with her wings. (Miroku was there, enough said about that.)
That's the point in time when Inuyasha noticed said wings, "What in the seven hells are those?! What are you?!"
"Yes, Kagome-sama, I too am curious about the wings you now retain." Miroku said, as he felt one of the feathers.
Unfortunately for the monk, said feather happened to be covering her chest. "HENTAI!" Both Sango, and Kagome, yelled as they hit him in the head. Sango turned to Kagome, "Is there something that you would like to share with the rest of us, Kagome-chan?"
Rin tugged on SesshouMaru's pants, thus getting his attention, "Is Kagome-san an angel?"
"I do not know Rin, why don't you ask her yourself?" In all honesty, SesshouMaru was curious to know, he just didn't show it. (or anything else for that matter.)
Ginta's eyes were the size of frisbees, "Sister? Is that really you."
"Yeah, who else would it be?"
Then the arrogant wolf prince, otherwise known as Kouga, showed up, "Inukurro, what did you do to my woman?!"
Kagome sighed, 'this is going to take a while' "I'm not your woman Kouga." So, Kagome's companions continued to interrogate her about her wings, while Rin, and Shippou, starred on. SesshouMaru decided to stay a while to find some answers.
~*~*~*~
Folken heard Kagome, and a young girl scream. He rushed back to where they were to help. By the time he got there, he saw Kagome flying up with the child. He watched as another person showed up, and they all started to ask her things. 'She looks crowded down there. And nervous. It's not hard to blame her after what happened the last time she showed her wings.'
He was standing on a tree branch, and brought his own wings out, but only enough to pull out a feather, and toss it to Kagome.
She caught it, and looked at him, "Folken-sama?" He nodded, so Kagome jumped/flew (kind of) up to him, and hugged him. "FOLKEN-SAMA! I thought I'd never see you again!" Tears were flowing down her face, "After the blue light, I didn't know where I was, and I got so scared! And I thought that you died, but you didn't! I knew that no dragon could beat you!"
Folken let her hug him, but couldn't reassure her of his victory. He heard growling noises, and looked down to see the man with dog ears, the baby fox, and the wolf-man with the ponytail, snarling at him. He then heard three yells at the same time. It sounded like, "Let go of Kagome!", "Leave my mother alone" , and, "Get away from MY woman."
Kagome ignored them, and waited for him to tell her that he had, indeed, slain the dragon. When none came she looked up at him, "You did slay it, right?" Still no answer, "Folken-sama, please don't tell me that you ran away." He simply looked at her with sorrow-filled eyes. She released him, "Folken-sama, how can you run away from that?! How can you abandon Van and me, or mother. Or................................................or, Fenalia?"
Hitome spoke up from the background, "Fenalia is no more. It burnt down."
"How can that be true?!" Kagome sank to her knees and cried, "It can't be!"
It hurt Folken to see her like this, but he know that she had to know. To not tell her would be the worst thing he had ever done, "She speaks the truth, Kagome-chan. I knew about the attack that demolished it."
She looked up at him, "How?"
He sighed, "I was the one that ordered the attack."
Kagome felt two things start to boil up inside of her, anger and hatred, "How can you do such a thing Folken? That was your homeland! More than that, it was your responsibility to protect it!"
"I gave that up years ago." He said as he flew away. He knew that there was no chance for Kagome to join, and fight with him now. She would try and stop him. Keep Gaea from it's peaceful future.
Kagome just watched him go. She could have flown after him, but she didn't want to. "How can you destroy your own kingdom, Folken-sama?"
~*~*~*~
The others had been watching patiently as Kagome lashed out at the man, now identified as Folken, after hearing the news about the place called Fenalia. SesshouMaru, Kouga, Shippou, Kirara, and Inuyasha were the ones that heard what she said, but only SesshouMaru and Kouga understood how much something like that would pain her, or anyone else.
Rin walked up to the older girl, and tapped her shoulder, "Kagome- sama are you alright?"
"Hai, I'm fine, but why did you call me '-sama'?"
"Because, Kagome-sama, you're an angel, and angels are supposed to be treated with respect."
Kagome laughed a little, "I'm not an angel, Rin-chan."
Inuyasha growled, he had enough of this mushy bull-shit! He wanted answers, and he wanted them now! Needless to say, he wasn't happy when Kagome had ignored him. He grabbed her wrist, sending a glare to ward the others away, and proceeded to pull Kagome into the forest while letting out another growl.
Kagome didn't struggle against Inuyasha's pull. She knew that he had questions, but she also knew that she didn't want to answer them. It shouldn't matter to him that her home was destroyed by the elder brother she had looked up to. So, she wouldn't tell him about it. After all, since when was her personal life any of his business?
SesshouMaru decided to stay, and have HIS questions answered as well. Of coarse, he didn't plan on being so rash as to drag the girl off into the woods as his brother had done, but that didn't mean that he wasn't going to obtain the information he now sought. 'Why dose a human have wings? And where is this 'Fenalia'?'
Kouga, on the other hand, was in no way oppose to following Inuyasha intent on getting 'his woman' back. He was cut short by Ginta and Hakkaku's restraints. They were not as foolish as to take on Inuyasha whilst he was acting as such. The decided it was best to save Kouga the humiliation, and beating, that surly would have insured from letting the wolf-prince go after the half-breed and the miko.
Miroku, and Sango found places to sit, and wait, while Inuyasha interrogated Kagome. Shippou took a spot on Sango's shoulder.
~*~*~*~
After leading her for a while, Inuyasha stopped and turned, "Who was that, and why do you have wings?"
"That's not any of your business." Was Kagome's simple reply.
"Like Hell it isn't! You're my shard detector, I have a right to know."
"Is that all I am to you, Inuyasha? A shard detector? I should have known. I'm sorry, but I just don't feel like talking to anyone. Good-bye for now."
"Where are you going to go?"
"First I'm going to get Hitome, then I'm taking us to her home."
"Her home?"
Kagome sighed, "Inuyasha, I am not of this world. I wasn't born on Earth, but Gaea. I was the third child of the King of Fenalia. If Hitome knows of that place she must have been there. And for her to have been there, she must know a way to get there. I'm going to try to go home."
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's wrist, "If you want to go back there so much, why did you leave?"
"I didn't leave, I was forced out." With that said, Kagome walked back to her friends/foes (SesshouMaru is still there), "Come on Hitome-san, I can get you back to your home."
Hitome took Kagome's hand, and was lifted from the ground. Kagome went strait to the well, and went through to Hitome's time.
~*~*~*~
After informing the others of what Kagome planned to do, leaving out everything else, Inuyasha and his group left to go to Keade's village. Kouga, Ginta, and Hakkaku left to continue their search for Naraku. SesshouMaru, surprisingly, went to the well in Inuyasha's forest. Rin had come with him, and Jaken was sent to make sure that nothing in the castle had gone undone due to slacking servants.
Inuyasha had yelled at SesshouMaru the first couple of hours, but SesshouMaru ignored him, and watched Rin play with the fox cub. Finally, SesshouMaru could no longer take it. Inuyasha was being too infuriating for even the Western Lord to put up with for long. He promptly grabbed Inuyasha by the neck, and lifted him a foot off the ground, "Stop your complaining half-breed. Your miko has made me most curious, and I refuse to leave before gaining some answers."
Once dropped Inuyasha shot his half-brother a dirty look, "Feh. I already tried that stupid! What makes you think that she would tell YOU anything when she wont even tell me?!"
Before SesshouMaru could answer, Kagome's voice was heard, "Maybe he wouldn't be mean about it, and actually use some good etiquette!"
Inuyasha turned around to see Kagome glaring at him, "But he's tried to kill you!"
"So have you! Besides, I'm not here to find the jewel. I'm here because Hitome didn't wanna leave the traitor behind when we go to Gaea."
Inuyasha's ears dropped, and he lost his cocky expression, "You're leaving?"
Kagome sighed, "I'm coming back. I just wanted to see if what they said was true about Fenalia, and I have to see Van."
"What dose it matter about some burnt down place? And who's 'Van'? Your boyfriend or something?"
Kagome made a noise akin to a growl, "He's my brother you JERK!"
"Feh. I thought Folken was your brother."
SesshouMaru was getting irked by their senseless bickering, "Did it ever occur to you, brother, that it might be possible for her father to have more than two children?"
Inuyasha snorted and looked away, while crossing his arms. Kagome just sighed, and started to walk in the direction of the place she had been when she last saw Folken. Inuyasha watched out of the corner of his eye, "How are you going to find him?"
"I'm going to look."
SesshouMaru sniffed the air, "I don't think that you'll have to look for much longer."
Inuyasha also smelt the air, sure enough there was the scent of that guy, Folken. Said guy jumped out of the tree he was in, and walked over to Kagome, "So, you plan on going back?"
Kagome didn't answer him, she just looked over at Hitome, "You do know how to get back, right?"
She looked down, "Not really, but I'll try to get us there." She grabbed her necklace, and closed her eyes. She thought about being at Gaea. Apparently, something worked because a great blue light immersed Hitome, Kagome, Folken, and......................................................................... .......Inuyasha and SesshouMaru.
Rin was falling, in the arms of Kagome, who was able to grab hold of her once they were both off the ground. Rin was crying, and Kagome held her tighter, "Rin-chan, do you trust me?" Rin looked up at her sister-figure, and nodded. Kagome smiled and said, "Then, I want you to hold on to me as tight as you can, and don't squirm of struggle."
Rin nodded, and did as she was told. To say that the next events shocked the child would be an understatement. Great white wings came out from Kagome's back, tearing off her shirt. She flapped them, lifting Rin, and herself, to the safety of the cliff they were just on.
Upon seeing Kagome go over the cliff-side, Inuyasha attacked SesshouMaru in a blind rage. He didn't notice that she had come back, but his half-brother did. SesshouMaru stopped for a second when he saw his ward being brought back onto the ground by his brothers human wench. 'How can a human have wings?'
Inuyasha, still not noticing Kagome, took this second to charge SesshouMaru, and was stopped a half-second before, by the prayer beads around his neck pulling him down, and the sound of Kagome's voice yelling, "SIT BOY!".
The first thing out of the henyou's mouth was, "What the hell was that for, bitch!" Then, realization of what just happened struck him, and (as soon as the spell wore off) he got up, and ran to Kagome, "You didn't die!"
Kagome smiled, and put Rin down. The child ran to her guardian, who was still studying Kagome. "Sorry I worried you, Inuyasha." she said, as she covered her chest with her wings. (Miroku was there, enough said about that.)
That's the point in time when Inuyasha noticed said wings, "What in the seven hells are those?! What are you?!"
"Yes, Kagome-sama, I too am curious about the wings you now retain." Miroku said, as he felt one of the feathers.
Unfortunately for the monk, said feather happened to be covering her chest. "HENTAI!" Both Sango, and Kagome, yelled as they hit him in the head. Sango turned to Kagome, "Is there something that you would like to share with the rest of us, Kagome-chan?"
Rin tugged on SesshouMaru's pants, thus getting his attention, "Is Kagome-san an angel?"
"I do not know Rin, why don't you ask her yourself?" In all honesty, SesshouMaru was curious to know, he just didn't show it. (or anything else for that matter.)
Ginta's eyes were the size of frisbees, "Sister? Is that really you."
"Yeah, who else would it be?"
Then the arrogant wolf prince, otherwise known as Kouga, showed up, "Inukurro, what did you do to my woman?!"
Kagome sighed, 'this is going to take a while' "I'm not your woman Kouga." So, Kagome's companions continued to interrogate her about her wings, while Rin, and Shippou, starred on. SesshouMaru decided to stay a while to find some answers.
~*~*~*~
Folken heard Kagome, and a young girl scream. He rushed back to where they were to help. By the time he got there, he saw Kagome flying up with the child. He watched as another person showed up, and they all started to ask her things. 'She looks crowded down there. And nervous. It's not hard to blame her after what happened the last time she showed her wings.'
He was standing on a tree branch, and brought his own wings out, but only enough to pull out a feather, and toss it to Kagome.
She caught it, and looked at him, "Folken-sama?" He nodded, so Kagome jumped/flew (kind of) up to him, and hugged him. "FOLKEN-SAMA! I thought I'd never see you again!" Tears were flowing down her face, "After the blue light, I didn't know where I was, and I got so scared! And I thought that you died, but you didn't! I knew that no dragon could beat you!"
Folken let her hug him, but couldn't reassure her of his victory. He heard growling noises, and looked down to see the man with dog ears, the baby fox, and the wolf-man with the ponytail, snarling at him. He then heard three yells at the same time. It sounded like, "Let go of Kagome!", "Leave my mother alone" , and, "Get away from MY woman."
Kagome ignored them, and waited for him to tell her that he had, indeed, slain the dragon. When none came she looked up at him, "You did slay it, right?" Still no answer, "Folken-sama, please don't tell me that you ran away." He simply looked at her with sorrow-filled eyes. She released him, "Folken-sama, how can you run away from that?! How can you abandon Van and me, or mother. Or................................................or, Fenalia?"
Hitome spoke up from the background, "Fenalia is no more. It burnt down."
"How can that be true?!" Kagome sank to her knees and cried, "It can't be!"
It hurt Folken to see her like this, but he know that she had to know. To not tell her would be the worst thing he had ever done, "She speaks the truth, Kagome-chan. I knew about the attack that demolished it."
She looked up at him, "How?"
He sighed, "I was the one that ordered the attack."
Kagome felt two things start to boil up inside of her, anger and hatred, "How can you do such a thing Folken? That was your homeland! More than that, it was your responsibility to protect it!"
"I gave that up years ago." He said as he flew away. He knew that there was no chance for Kagome to join, and fight with him now. She would try and stop him. Keep Gaea from it's peaceful future.
Kagome just watched him go. She could have flown after him, but she didn't want to. "How can you destroy your own kingdom, Folken-sama?"
~*~*~*~
The others had been watching patiently as Kagome lashed out at the man, now identified as Folken, after hearing the news about the place called Fenalia. SesshouMaru, Kouga, Shippou, Kirara, and Inuyasha were the ones that heard what she said, but only SesshouMaru and Kouga understood how much something like that would pain her, or anyone else.
Rin walked up to the older girl, and tapped her shoulder, "Kagome- sama are you alright?"
"Hai, I'm fine, but why did you call me '-sama'?"
"Because, Kagome-sama, you're an angel, and angels are supposed to be treated with respect."
Kagome laughed a little, "I'm not an angel, Rin-chan."
Inuyasha growled, he had enough of this mushy bull-shit! He wanted answers, and he wanted them now! Needless to say, he wasn't happy when Kagome had ignored him. He grabbed her wrist, sending a glare to ward the others away, and proceeded to pull Kagome into the forest while letting out another growl.
Kagome didn't struggle against Inuyasha's pull. She knew that he had questions, but she also knew that she didn't want to answer them. It shouldn't matter to him that her home was destroyed by the elder brother she had looked up to. So, she wouldn't tell him about it. After all, since when was her personal life any of his business?
SesshouMaru decided to stay, and have HIS questions answered as well. Of coarse, he didn't plan on being so rash as to drag the girl off into the woods as his brother had done, but that didn't mean that he wasn't going to obtain the information he now sought. 'Why dose a human have wings? And where is this 'Fenalia'?'
Kouga, on the other hand, was in no way oppose to following Inuyasha intent on getting 'his woman' back. He was cut short by Ginta and Hakkaku's restraints. They were not as foolish as to take on Inuyasha whilst he was acting as such. The decided it was best to save Kouga the humiliation, and beating, that surly would have insured from letting the wolf-prince go after the half-breed and the miko.
Miroku, and Sango found places to sit, and wait, while Inuyasha interrogated Kagome. Shippou took a spot on Sango's shoulder.
~*~*~*~
After leading her for a while, Inuyasha stopped and turned, "Who was that, and why do you have wings?"
"That's not any of your business." Was Kagome's simple reply.
"Like Hell it isn't! You're my shard detector, I have a right to know."
"Is that all I am to you, Inuyasha? A shard detector? I should have known. I'm sorry, but I just don't feel like talking to anyone. Good-bye for now."
"Where are you going to go?"
"First I'm going to get Hitome, then I'm taking us to her home."
"Her home?"
Kagome sighed, "Inuyasha, I am not of this world. I wasn't born on Earth, but Gaea. I was the third child of the King of Fenalia. If Hitome knows of that place she must have been there. And for her to have been there, she must know a way to get there. I'm going to try to go home."
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's wrist, "If you want to go back there so much, why did you leave?"
"I didn't leave, I was forced out." With that said, Kagome walked back to her friends/foes (SesshouMaru is still there), "Come on Hitome-san, I can get you back to your home."
Hitome took Kagome's hand, and was lifted from the ground. Kagome went strait to the well, and went through to Hitome's time.
~*~*~*~
After informing the others of what Kagome planned to do, leaving out everything else, Inuyasha and his group left to go to Keade's village. Kouga, Ginta, and Hakkaku left to continue their search for Naraku. SesshouMaru, surprisingly, went to the well in Inuyasha's forest. Rin had come with him, and Jaken was sent to make sure that nothing in the castle had gone undone due to slacking servants.
Inuyasha had yelled at SesshouMaru the first couple of hours, but SesshouMaru ignored him, and watched Rin play with the fox cub. Finally, SesshouMaru could no longer take it. Inuyasha was being too infuriating for even the Western Lord to put up with for long. He promptly grabbed Inuyasha by the neck, and lifted him a foot off the ground, "Stop your complaining half-breed. Your miko has made me most curious, and I refuse to leave before gaining some answers."
Once dropped Inuyasha shot his half-brother a dirty look, "Feh. I already tried that stupid! What makes you think that she would tell YOU anything when she wont even tell me?!"
Before SesshouMaru could answer, Kagome's voice was heard, "Maybe he wouldn't be mean about it, and actually use some good etiquette!"
Inuyasha turned around to see Kagome glaring at him, "But he's tried to kill you!"
"So have you! Besides, I'm not here to find the jewel. I'm here because Hitome didn't wanna leave the traitor behind when we go to Gaea."
Inuyasha's ears dropped, and he lost his cocky expression, "You're leaving?"
Kagome sighed, "I'm coming back. I just wanted to see if what they said was true about Fenalia, and I have to see Van."
"What dose it matter about some burnt down place? And who's 'Van'? Your boyfriend or something?"
Kagome made a noise akin to a growl, "He's my brother you JERK!"
"Feh. I thought Folken was your brother."
SesshouMaru was getting irked by their senseless bickering, "Did it ever occur to you, brother, that it might be possible for her father to have more than two children?"
Inuyasha snorted and looked away, while crossing his arms. Kagome just sighed, and started to walk in the direction of the place she had been when she last saw Folken. Inuyasha watched out of the corner of his eye, "How are you going to find him?"
"I'm going to look."
SesshouMaru sniffed the air, "I don't think that you'll have to look for much longer."
Inuyasha also smelt the air, sure enough there was the scent of that guy, Folken. Said guy jumped out of the tree he was in, and walked over to Kagome, "So, you plan on going back?"
Kagome didn't answer him, she just looked over at Hitome, "You do know how to get back, right?"
She looked down, "Not really, but I'll try to get us there." She grabbed her necklace, and closed her eyes. She thought about being at Gaea. Apparently, something worked because a great blue light immersed Hitome, Kagome, Folken, and......................................................................... .......Inuyasha and SesshouMaru.