Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha at all. Nor do I own any thing from Evanescence or Seal(the group who sings the song Kiss from a Rose). I also don't own the Moombas from the Final Fantasy Games. The only thing I own is the guitar and my original character, and the drawings of her dolls.
And if you want the summary, Look in chapter one.
This chapter is dedicated to my friend Danielle, since she was the first reviewer! Yay!
Guarzione di Argenta
Chapter Two: Now a New Life
By: Sweet Raptured Light
When the blue light appeared again, Kagome looked into the well. There she saw Velluta appear. Her face had shock written all over it. Once the light faded away Velluta looked up and waved to Kagome.
"What are doing here?" Kagome shrieked.
"It is as my parents say, my fate," Velluta explained calmly.
"Well, come up here and jump back in! You're not supposed to be here!" Kagome said worriedly. Velluta climbed up the vines and placed down what she was carrying.
"Watch," she said, and leaped back in. The blue light didn't appear and she landed like a cat at the bottom of the well. "I can't go back," she said calmly, and climbed back up, picking up her thing once again.
"What? Why not?" Kagome asked.
"Like I said before, 'it is as my parents say, my fate'," she shrugged.
"Well, wait here so I can tell my mom where you are," Kagome said as she dropped her bag, and jumped in the well, and was gone in a flash of blue.
Just as quickly as she sat down on the lip of the well, a wild boar youkai came charging out of the forest. A wild hint of lust and hunger flashed in its crimson orbs.
"Perfect," it snorted and charged.
Velluta jumped up and charged at the boar. She jumped up again and went to land a punch when a blade came out of the metal of the knuckles, landing between his eyes. She tore the bloody blade out of his head and then stabbed his heart. She walked away as it fell down dead, and turned to dust. It blew away in the wind and something pink shimmered on the ground, so Velluta went to pick it up, just as Kagome climbed out of the well.
"Hey Kagome, what's this?" she asked as she handed her the jewel shard, and sliding the blade back into the glove.
"This is a jewel shard! How did you get this?"
"I killed a giant, boar...thing," she said.
"You killed a youkai? How?" Kagome asked incredulously.
"With this," Velluta said, stretching out her arm to the side, she made the blade shoot out again.
"What... is it?" Kagome asked.
"I fused metal knuckle gloves, with Katals," she said, retracting the blade, "And a youkai is a what?"
"A demon! You killed a boar demon. And if it had a jewel shard it could easily killed you!" she said, "Lets go to the village before any others attack," Kagome suggested, picking up her things and walked along the well worn path to Kaede's hut, and Velluta followed suit.
"It's about time you got here Kagome! And who is that?" Inuyasha demanded.
"This... is Velluta. She jumped in the well after me and-" Kagome started.
"Well send her back!" Inuyasha interrupted.
"As I was saying before I was so RUDELY interrupted was... she can't go back. The well won't let her," Kagome explained.
"What? I don't need another weak ningen around to slow us down from our hunt for the shards!" Inuyasha complained.
"If she is weak, then how could she get this?" Kagome asked, showing the jewel shard.
"A sacred jewel shard!" Shippou exclaimed.
"That's right. She defeated a youkai with the shard embedded in it. BY HERSELF!" she exclaimed, mostly yelling at Inuyasha.
"Well, I must say, welcome to our group," Miroku said, taking this opportunity to grope her.
"Watch it monk! You stay with your ways and you will lose what means the most to you; your future wife!" Velluta growled as she slapped the owner of the offending hand. She then shot a knowing stare at Sango and walked to stand on the other side of Kagome.
"And what weapon did you use? You couldn't have killed it with your bare hands," Inuyasha questioned, walking over to her.
She put her fist against his forehead and Kagome instantly paled. In a flash her katal was out and the tip was where her fist was a second ago. A drop of blood landed on his nose as she pierced his skin, but it was no worse than a pinprick.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you," she laughed as she pulled her hand away and sheathed her katal, and Inuyasha answered with his usual "Feh".
"Velluta...was it?" Miroku asked.
"Yes, it was, and it still is," she laughed.
"What did you mean I'll lose my future wife?" he asked.
"I'm not sure," she shrugged.
"What? Then why did you say it?" Sango asked.
"Well, you see, my parents can see anyone's fate, save for their own, but when it comes to me, they are always wrong. They said I was going to die in a car crash... last week. Anyway, I picked up some of this gift, but I have yet to perfect it, so I just randomly give warnings to people of their fate, but I never know the fate myself," she explained.
"But you said that your parents said, here was where your fate was. What if they were wrong?" Kagome asked.
"Well, if I got you another jewel shard, this might just be my fate," Velluta smiled.
"So, you can randomly see a person's fate, but you don't know the fate. And if they heed the warning, their fate will be as it should be?" Miroku asked.
"Yes. My parents say that I am a Fate-Bringer," she said.
"Listen, this is very interesting, but we have to get going in the morning, so everyone go to sleep," Inuyasha grumbled irritably, jumping into a tree he picked out earlier.
"Fine, Velluta, if you don't mind, before you go to sleep, I need to explain some things to you," Kagome said as they unrolled their sleeping bags.
"Oh no, sure go ahead. It'll be interesting!" she said as she sat down across from Kagome.
So all through the night Kagome told Velluta about how Mistress Centipede dragged her into the well, and how she met Inuyasha and everyone. She told about Naraku and his incarnations, and how the Shikon no Tama was taken from her body and she broke it. She told her the meanings of the words youkai and hanyou, and many others she would hear, but probably didn't learn. She also told her the story of Midoriko and how the Shikon came into existence and of Kikyo; how she died protecting it because Naraku made it seem like Inuyasha and Kikyo betrayed each other.
"Wow Kagome. You and the others have been through a lot," Velluta said just as the sun was rising.
"Yeah, almost three and a half years now. We're so close to finishing it," Kagome said, "And once it is complete, as the true guardian, I will make a wish on it and finally rid it from this world."
"Kagome, you are so brave! I am honored to be joining in your quest for the Shikon no Tama," she proclaimed proudly, as the sun was now fully raised.
"Hay, lets make breakfast, since everyone will be waking up soon anyway," Kagome smiled as she rummaged through her bag.
"Sure. What should I do?" she asked.
"Could you get water while I get some fire wood? The stream should be straight that way," Kagome directed as she handed Velluta a pot.
As Velluta walked to the stream, she started to hum and sing a song to herself.
"There used to be a graying tower alone on the sea. You became...the light on the dark side of me," she sand as she knelt on the shore, unaware of someone watching her."And love remained... a drug lasting high enough to fear. But did you know... that when it snows. My eyes become large, and the light that you shine can't be seen. Baby! I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grave," she filled up the pot with the cool stream water and stood but didn't turn around.
"Ooh! The more I get of you, strange how it feels, yeah. And now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grave. There is so much a man can tell you...so much he can say. You remain... my power, my pleasure, my pain, baby!" She sang as she started to walk away from the stream, she was being watched; a set of eyes on her very move, and a set of ears listening to her velvet-like voice.
"To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny. Won't you tell me is that healthy baby? But did you know... that when it snows. My eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen," she walked into the campsite and no one had woken yet, and no sign of Kagome.
"Baby! I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grave. Ooh, the more I get of you, strange how it feels, yeah. Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on a grave," she finished softly as Kagome came out of the woods.
"What song was that? It sounded so familiar," she asked.
"Kiss From A Rose by Seal," Velluta answered as they set up the fire and started to heat the water. Soon Miroku and Sango woke up and Inuyasha joined them from his tree. As they ate, they got to know Velluta.
"After we clean up, would you like to come with Kagome and I to the hot springs?" Sango asked Velluta as they started to finish up breakfast.
"Wait, did you bring spare clothes? 'Cause all you brought was your guitar and dolls," Kagome questioned.
"Oh, don't worry 'bout that, I've got it taken care of," she laughed.
"You sure? You could wear some of my clothes," Kagome insisted.
"Yeah, don't worry about it!" Velluta laughed.
"Well, lets go now. Inuyasha, Shippou, I'm sure you two will keep an eye on Miroku," Sango said, as Kagome gathered her bathing supplies and some towels. When they arrived at the springs, they striped down and lowered themselves into the water.
"Kagome, Velluta, what is a gui...tar?" Sango asked, trying to remember how they pronounced the word.
"It is a wooden instrument with strings on it. And you pluck or strum the strings and them down in different spots, to make different notes," Kagome explained, but Sango still seemed a little confused.
"Kagome, why don't we sing a song for Sango so we could show her a guitar," Velluta suggested.
"Okay! That was fun last time!" Kagome said as they all started to wash their hair. Each dunked under one at a time, and finished washing, then got out and dried off.
"I'll catch up with you, I'm just gonna wash my clothes quickly," Velluta said as the other girls were already dressed and she still had on her undergarments.
"Okay, but hurry, we don't want you at risk of danger," Kagome said as they walked back to the campsite, and not even five minutes later, Velluta emerged dressed in jeans with sharpie marker designs on them and a shirt that said KISS Army.
"Where did you get those clothes?" Kagome asked.
"Oh, it's a secret," Velluta laughed a little.
"So Kagome, where should we start looking for the shards? Do you sense any nearby?" Inuyasha asked as he crossed his arms.
"Well, there are only a few left. The ones from Kouga and Kohaku, and some other demons. And-" Kagome said, as she concentrated to feel where the shard was, "I sense one, from that direction," she said, pointing to the Northwest.
"Well then, lets get started," Inuyasha said as he started to walk along the well-worn path out of the village.
They had been walking for a while and the sun was going to set in about an hour or so as they stopped in a large clearing.
"Kagome! Are you sure the shard is here? We haven't seen it yet," Inuyasha grumbled.
"Yes, an-" Kagome was cut off when the edge of the clearing ahead of them caught her eye, "There!" she shouted as she pointed to the hidden youkai.
"Where?" Velluta asked when she didn't see it.
"There! Hiraikotsu!" Sango shouted as she threw her large boomerang.
The youkai gracefully dodged it and she braced herself for the impact of its return. With the youkai out in the open, everyone could see it resembled a snake.
It had a long, wide body, like an anaconda. Its body was sky blue, and its eyes were a piercing ice color. Its upper body resembled that of a human, though with three arms on each side. Its neck was long as was its head. The nostrils were flaring on the front tip of its head, and the eyes on both sides of the head, and immediately behind them were two holes for its ears. It opened its mouth, which held no teeth, save for four large fangs, two on top, two on bottom. The top two were dripping with green poison venom. Its voice was raspy and laced with malice as it spoke.
"Give me your shards and maybe I'll consider killing you quickly instead of a slow, painful death," it hissed as it lunged at them.
Inuyasha quickly unsheathed his Tetsuiga and slashed at the youkai, but it dodged the attack but lost two of its left arms.
"You're going to pay for that!" It spat as Inuyasha before it lunged at him.
Velluta quickly unsheathed her Katals and landed a few good punches in its torso. Miroku chopped off a few large parts of its tail as Inuyasha chopped off two more of its arms.
"Inuyasha! Watch out!" Kagome shouted as she strung up her sacred arrow. He jumped away just as she let it fly.
The beast was devoured in a pink light. After the light faded the ashes of the youkai blew away with a light passing wind. There on the ground lay a jewel shard and Kagome went to pick it up, purifying it right away.
"That was fun," Velluta said.
"If you think that's fun, then this'll be a joy-ride," Inuyasha growled, as he sniffed the air.
"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
"Sesshoumaru..." he growled as he saw his half-brother land across the clearing.
"Inuyasha..." Sesshoumaru stated coldly.
"What the fuck do you want Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha shouted, as he gripped his already drawn sword in front of him.
"I have come for the Tetsuiga, and this time, I will take it, and kill you along the way!" he stated, unsheathing Toukijin.
"Who is he?" Velluta asked Sango.
"Inuyasha's half-brother, Sesshoumaru," she said, getting her weapon ready.
"You are all so foolish. Falling for the trap to get you here," Sesshoumaru taunted them, mainly Inuyasha.
"What are you talking about you asshole!" Inuyasha yelled.
"The jewel shard; I used it to lure you here. Ah, it seems you have another wench with you, but this one looks nothing like that dead miko bitch you are in love with," he sneered.
"Shut up, you bastard!" Inuyasha shouted as he lunged straight for Sesshoumaru, who easily dodged it.
They fought for a long while, dodging each other's attacks and shouting obscenities and insults at each other. Inuyasha got in one or two lucky hits before the taiyoukai knocked the Tetsuiga out of his hands. Upon seeing this Kagome readied an arrow, but Velluta jumped in front of her with her guitar.
"Now you will die!" Sesshoumaru shouted as he raised Toukijin.
"Hey you! Uh... Sesshoumaru! Prepare to die!" Velluta yelled.
"You think you can defeat this Sesshoumaru, wench? I am the taiyoukai of the Western Lands, and you're nothing but a lowly ningen. Weak and worthless," he smirked. He would truly enjoy killing her.
"That's what you think," she whispered and he heard her. She started humming and chanting something in a low whisper and it gradually got louder. As she shouted the chant, she strummed her guitar and pointed it at Sesshoumaru. As she finished the last word in the chant there was an array of lights shooting out of the tip of the neck of the guitar. Red, blue, green, white, and black lights shot straight for the taiyoukai.
The lights were piercing his skin all over the place and he was starting to bleed profusely.
"How could this have happened?" he yelled in his mind. Tensaiga pulsed as it protected his master. It engulfed the Lord in a black light and transported him somewhere else.
With Sesshoumaru:
'She was neither youkai nor miko, but she could do magic. I don't know why, but I must find out more,' he thought to himself as he laid down to heal, "But why do I even care?" he asked out loud, but growled when no answer came.
With Inuyasha and the Gang:
"Velluta, what did you do?" A shocked Kagome asked her.
"I think I should confess now," she said as she took the guitar strap from around her neck, and placed the instrument back in its case.
"Confess?" Sango asked, confusedly.
"Yes. You see, back in Italy, my parents and I are wiccans. We do magick, magic with a 'k'. That is how they see fates, and why I am a Fate-Bringer. I can do all sorts of things, look, I'll demonstrate," she said as she grabbed her two dolls.
"Crescere, crescere, crescere," she mumbled over and over again, as she stepped away from the dolls, and wiggled her fingers. A yellow light came out of each finger, five to the dragon, and five to the feline thing.
They both grew and became alive, the dragon as tall as the dragon youkai that Sesshoumaru sometimes had with him, and the feline grew to stand a little taller than Kagome's younger brother Souta, and his hair turned to real flames as did the tip of his tail and the tips of the dragons' two tails.
"How did you do that?" Shippou asked and he seemed a little frightened at the sight of the large two-headed dragon. In their new larger forms, their details enhanced.
The dragons two heads grew ears that resembled ducks feet; only they were gray and gold. Their eyes looked like an Egyptian's eyes in a painting, only they were piercing bright green and outlined with black, and lines extending from the corner of their eyes. Their teeth were silver and they had red forked tongues like a snake's.
Their necks and heads were still red with silver swirls on them, but the scales on their necks were now outlined in black. They now had gold collars, which had a pendant on each of them. The right head had a gold pentacle and the left head had a dark violet crescent moon.
Their bodies were still a tan color and the front paws still looked like a lions paw, but the back paws changed to large three-toed paws, like a guinea pigs' back paw. The claws were silver and had a silver design going up the long foot and ending at their ankles. Their tail was long and split into two a quarter of the way up and at the end of each was a flame.
The cat doll now looked exactly like a Moomba from her favorite game. Its hair was one be flame and its ears each had a flame behind them. Its eyes were red, but instead of being surrounded by white, the red was surround by silver, and its teethe were silver as well. Its paws were bigger than Kirara's when she was in her large cat form and its whole body was fire-orange, save for the large white oval along its upper and lower body. Its tail was long, like the dragons, and it too had a flame at the end.
"This is my Moomba, Imhotep, and my two-headed dragon, Anuksunamun," Velluta said as she walked over to them.
"Why do those names sound familiar?" Kagome asked.
"I named them after my two favorite characters from the movies The Mummy and The Mummy Returns," she laughed.
"Oy, how did you do that?" Inuyasha asked.
"Like I said before if you were paying attention, I'm a wiccans," she answered plainly.
"A what?" Sango asked.
"A witch," she smiled.
"So that's how you changed your clothes without any with you," Kagome said.
"Yeah," Velluta smiled wider.
"So what was that weapon you used?" Inuyasha asked.
"My guitar. I channeled my magick through it," she said, then something clicked in her and she remembered something from earlier, "Hey Kags, lets sing for them, we still have to show Sango what a guitar is," she laughed as she ran to get it before Kagome could answer.
"What song?" she asked as Velluta came back.
"Uh... how about Imaginary by Evanescence?" she asked, quickly tuning her guitar.
"Sure," Kagome smiled.
"Okay, but first..." Velluta turned to Sango, "This... is a guitar," she told her, holding it out to show her.
"So we are going to play the song for you like we promised," Kagome said
"We don't have time," Inuyasha protested.
"We have plenty of time, besides I would like to hear Kagome-sama and Velluta-chan sing," Miroku said.
"Thank you Miroku-chan," Velluta said.
"We are going to play a song from my era; it is called Imaginary by a group who sings it called Evanescence," Kagome told her friends.
Velluta began to strum the first few bars, her guitar sounding loud and angelic and exceptionally soothing to the hanyou's sensitive ears, and it soothed everyone's ears as Kagome and Velluta started to vocalize in perfect harmony.
"I linger in the doorway. Of alarm clocks screaming, monsters calling my name; let me stay. Where the wind will whisper to me. Where the raindrops, as they're falling, tell a story," Kagome sand as Velluta joined her for the chorus.
"In my field of paper flowers, and candy clouds of lullaby. I lie inside myself for hours, and watch my purple sky fly over me," they sang out.
"Don't say I'm out of touch. With this rampant chaos- your reality. I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge. The nightmare, I built my own world to escape," Velluta sang by herself.
"In my field of paper flowers, and candy clouds of lullaby. I lie inside myself for hours, and watch my purple sky fly over me," they both sang, captivating their friends with their voices, as Velluta had a short guitar solo.
"Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming; cannot cease for the fear of silent nights," Kagome sang.
"Oh, how I long for the deep sleep dreaming. The Goddess of Imaginary Light," Velluta sang, as she played a longer guitar solo.
"In my field of paper flowers, and candy clouds of lullaby. I lie inside myself for hours, and watch my purple sky fly over me," they both sang loudly, with all of their heart, and Velluta continued to play her guitar as their song ended.
"That was amazing momma! You and Velluta-chan have such beautiful voices!" Shippou shouted as he jumped in Kagome's arms and she hugged him tight.
As Velluta put her guitar away, she noticed Kirara had transformed and was over by Imhotep, and both were purring loudly.
"They've taken a liking to each other," Velluta said to Sango.
"Yes. Ironic how both of them are fire cats," she said back.
"That's not ironic, that's just coincidental. He is actually a Moomba, but he does always act like a cat. But in time, if they get any friendlier, we might be expecting kittens; if you want them to mate," she smiled to Sango.
"That would be fun. Hopefully after Naraku is defeated," Sango smiled back.
"Inuyasha, why don't we make camp here tonight?" Miroku asked. He responded with his usual 'Feh,' and nodded.
Kagome got her bag and proceeded to unpack the sleeping bags and the cookware for dinner.
"I'll go get the water," Velluta volunteered and she grabbed the pot and walked from the camp.
After a dinner of Ramen, Kagome, Sango and Miroku set up the sleeping bags as Velluta snuggled close to her dragon and Moomba. Shippou snuggled close to Kagome, as she laid down, Sango and Miroku slept a little closer than usually; only about a foot apart, and Inuyasha watched over them from a tree branch he jumped onto and settled in.
Hi everyone! I finally got this chapter up! I hope you like it.
Velluta's Translations: bold-italian italics-translation.
Crescere
To grow
It means to grow, but she's saying it without the to so it's just grow.
Notes:
The Katals she uses, if you have ever seen the character Kiros from Final Fantasy VIII that's his weapon. And I just made it so they can shoot in and out of her knuckle gloves, similar like how a cat's claws work. Yeah, I'm not sure how the long blade fits (It's as long as the Sais Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has, but wider...) but it fits in her glove, and that's all you need to know.
With her clothes, since she is a wiccan, she just magically cleans them and changes them. Yes, she can do all kinds of magic like black magic, white magic, and the magic that they do in Harry Potter, only without those silly incantations, but sometimes she will say a silly incantation of her own. Hehe.
Kagome forgot to tell her about Sesshoumaru (this is going to help with the flow of the plot, because if she did tell her, there would be no more story after this...) And there are some hidden hints in here, like the collars, and they help the flow of the story.
That's about it for my ramblings. I apologize for any spelling or grammer errors in this chapter of the previous chapter. I also apologize for any words I repeated or a word I wrote but meant to write a different word.
Well, hope I didn't take up too much of your time. If I get five reviews or more, I'll update sooner, but if not, I'll just update as soon as I get the chapter done.
Until next time---Bye!!
