Hey, peoples! It's me, the esteemed autrhoress!
:chirp chirp: (people reading: o0?)
Maybe not... TT
Okay, really now. I am sooooo sorry. My computer broke and I lost everything, including all the chapters I had written. (Half a chapter. Heh heh heh. XD) We, meaning me and my family had to get a new one, which took my dad a really long time, and it totally sucked. We ended up having to get a mac., and fanfiction doesn't take .cwk files, so I had to learn how to change a .cwk file to a doc. file, learn how to delete stuff, (do you know how fricking long that took!? Of course you don't, but it took me a FREAKING HOUR!!!!! I'm pretty pissed and I miss my old, slow, monkey of a computer. TT Sad, ain't it?), and find out that my friends list doesn't exactly work on mac and I haven't been able to talk to my friend from Egypt in ages. I missssss youuuuu Usamaaaaa! (not that you're gonna see this. TT) :continues ranting about all the woes and misery in her life:
Inuyasha people: 00 meep! (hiding in closet)
Shippo: Why is she acting weirder than usual?
Kagome: shhhhh. Be quiet or she'll find us.
(back to me) mwahahahaha! I shall torture the Inuyasha people! Beware!
Enjoy! (sorry bout the long AU.)
Disclaimer: Gnatz: I own Inuyasha! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! BEWARE MY POWER!
Sazuka (my friends character): Um, hello, I need an exterminator here, to exterminate something. :sigh: Yes, I'll hold. --
No, I don't own Inuyasha, much to my disappointment. On with the fic!
"Moo":speaking
moo: flashbacks/dreams
'moo': thinking
(AN) : authors note
Japanese dictionary
ofudo: demon ward
koinu: puppy
okka-san: mother
youkai: demon
Otou-san: Father
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kagome gasped. "It's you!" She whipped out her katakana, tears clouding her eyes. Inuyasha and Inuyasha stood there looking confused, while Sesshomaru jumped away onto a statue. "You bastards killed my family!"
Kagome's sword pulsed with a red energy, sparks flickering off of it. On her face was an expression of extreme anger, mixed with sorrow and pain. Around her, a barrier shimmered and flashed with even more intensity than her sword.
Inuyasha and Inutaisho joined Sesshomaru on the statue. "What amazing power!" Inutaisho exclaimed. "She wasn't nearly this powerful when she was fighting us!"
"Look out!" Sango yelled from the ground. "She's sending a shock wave at you!"
Kagome smirked. "Looks like you found out a little to late!" She said as she swung her sword down; a blue wave appearing behind it. The wave sped toward the three youkai, who jumped off of the statue just before it exploded.
"Crap!" Inuyasha yelled as he landed right in front of Kagome, on his head none the least.
"Hello, koinu. Begging for mercy, are we? Smart."
Inuyasha jumped up, his face red with fury. "Koinu!? Mercy?! Me!? BEGGING!?!?!?! You wanna fight, girl?!" Inuyasha pulled out Tetsusaiga, his face still red.
"Now now Koinu. If you get to angry," before Inuyasha could blink, she was in front of him. "you won't be able to put up a good fight." She smiled and tweaked his nose cause him to blush violently.
'What the hell is the matter with this girl? She's acting cold and heartless one second, and cute the next!' Inuyasha said as she kept smiling. Suddenly, her face was contorted in pain and she slumped over onto him, reveling Kikyo behind her.
"Kikyo! What the hell did you do to her?!" Inuyasha said as he held Kagomes form by the sholders.
"I put an ofudo on her. It will subdue her spiritual energy so she can't attack. Also, with the correct spell, it can allow the spell caster to control her body, but not her mind." Kikyo said in her regular tone of voice, monotone.
"Control?" Sango said. "Isn't that a little harsh?"
"She is extremely dangerous. We must do all that we can to subdue her." Sesshomaru said as he appeared from apparently nowhere.
"Where did you come from?" Inutaisho said, very confused.
"The balcony. I was watching. Where's Miroku? A villager came earlier asking for him to an excorsisum."
Sango snorted. "Oh, yeah, one of his "Good deeds for the people."
Izouyi covered her mouth, smothering a giggle.
"He's over there. He fell asleep again." Sango pointed towards Miroku's sleeping form, near the doorway, and rolled her eyes.
"How'd he sleep through all this racket?" Inutaisho asked.
"As we all know, Miroku has amazing and fearful powers." Sango replied sarcastically as she watched a maid try and wake him up, to no avail. Suddenly he woke up and grabbed the pour, unknowing (she was new.) maid's hands and was abruptly stopped by a quick smack on the head, courtesy of Sango.
Izouyi yawned. "Well, I'm rather tired. I'm going to bed. Any body else?" Everyone, save Inuyasha and Kagome replied "Yes."
"Wait! What are we going to do with Kagome?" Inuyasha said. "We can't leave her in a room alone. She might try to escape again."
Inutaisho frowned. "True. She would have to stay with someone. Not Izouyi and me, that would be awkward. Miroku is out of the question. Sango is hardly ever in her room and wouldn't be able to keep an eye on her. She needs to be under constant surveillance, so that counts out the maids." Inutaisho's frown turned into a grin. "I know! She can stay with you, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha's jaw dropped. "Me!? What about Sesshomaru or or or.... um.... somebody else!?"
Sesshomaru cleared his throat. "I can't. I have Rin to take care of."
Inutaisho's grin turned into a full fledged smile. "See? You're the only person left. It's not like we're making you share a bed with her." He leaned over and whispered into Izouyi's ear "Although it would be funny.", which earned him a bump on the head.
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:In Inuyasha's room:
Inuyasha plopped down on his bed, next to the bed that he, Inutaisho, and Miroku had brought up for Kagome.
"Why'd I have to get stuck with this dumb girl? Couldn't we just bar the door and windows?" he muttered angrily to himself. He looked over at Kagomes sleeping figure, noting that the ofudo had disappeared from her back. He jumped up and ran down the stairs. "Kikyo! Kikyo!" he yelled. "Dammit, where is she?" He slammed open the door to the dining room, to reveal Inutaisho and and Sesshomaru discussing something. "Have you seen Kikyo?"
"Kikyo? Isn't she upstairs in her room?" Inutaisho said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Inuyasha mentally slapped his forehead. 'Dur! She's always in her room!' He slammed the door in a very perplexed Inutaisho's face, rushed up the stairs again, and skidded to a stop in front of a door. He swung it open, to reveal Kikyo practicing barriers.
"Kikyo! The ofudo's disappeared!" Inuyasha said, out of breath from running up the stairs.
Kikyo looked at him. "Are you sure it hasn't just been absorbed?"
Inuyasha looked confused. "Absorbed?"
Kikyo sighed irritably. "This certain kind of ofudo is absorbed by the skin, so that someone other than the controller can't take it off. Also, since it is a long time ofudo, the person is wearing it for a long time. Wouldn't look rather odd to be walking around with an ofudo on your back?"
"Yea, I guess..." Inuyasha's face was suddenly lit with worried expression. "Crud! I left her alone with the door open!" Once again he was sent running to his room, leaving Kikyo shaking her head in his wake.
Inuyasha once again skidded to a stop, this time in front of his own door. There he saw... Kagome still sleeping/unconscious. He breathed a sigh of relief. He sat down on his bed.
'What did she mean when she said that we killed her family? I don't remember ever seeing her before. Wait a sec... she does look kind of familiar...'
:flashback:
An 12 year old Inuyasha sat in a wagon next to a 19 year old Sesshomaru, who's expression was, as usual, unreadable. In the front of the wagon next to the driver, a lizard youkai, sat Inutaisho, who, along with Inuyasha, was obviously extremely bored.
"Otou-san?" Inuyasha asked. "Are we almost to the Castle of the Southern Lands?"
Inutaisho strummed his fingers on the bench seat he was sitting on. "We'll be there in about an hour. Quit asking me."
Sesshomaru sat straight up. "i smell smoke."
Inutaisho shriveled up his nose. "I smell burning bodies. Driver! Pull over now!"
Once wagon had stopped Inuyasha, inutaisho, and Sesshomaru jumped out. Well, Sesshomaru gracefully glided. They rushed over to where they saw a person stumbling out of a burning hut. A girl of about 10 or 11 ran towards the person and caught her, a worried expression on her face. The woman who had come out of the hut was holding a young boy, who she passed to the girl. they seemed to be talking about something. Suddenly the girls worried expression turned into one of hate and extreme sadness. She started shaking and tears started to brimming her eyes. Inuyasha concentrated and stretched his ears to here what they were saying. He finally heard them. A whisper. He concentrated harder.
"I promise."
The older woman smiled and raised her hand to the younger's face. After touching her face, the older woman's hand fell, her body relaxing, eyes closed. He tried to rush forward, but Inutaisho stopped him with his arm. Inuyasha looked at him. he realized what he meant and stepped back. He looked forward and saw the girl raise her head.
"NOOOO!!! OKKA-SAN!!!!!" she screamed , tears coming out in torrents.
Inutaisho started walking towards her. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru followed. Sesshomaru turned to Inutaisho.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to bring her to the castle and give her a warm, welcoming home." Inutaisho said firmly.
A smoke cloud in front of them cleared, revealing the girl clutching her dead mother to her and her unconscious brother. Inutaisho bent down and reached out. The girl backed up. Inutaisho opened his mouth and was about to talk, but she got up and ran away, tears still streaming behind her.
:flashback over:
Inuyasha closed his eyes and paused for a second. 'That girl... she looks just like a younger version of this Kagome person! What if they..."
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MWAHAHAHAHA! Evil cliffy! Okay, I have absolutely no idea when the next update will be. It won't be as long as the wait was for this chapter, but it won't be less than a week. I'm sorry 'bout that, it's just, I've been extremely busy. Please review! Flames are welcome! Be warned... I might flame you back. HA! That was 1,756 words!