A:N: Maa, back to the drawing board or writing board, as it were. ^_~ Heh Well! I'm glad to know that you guys liked Chapter 3—I liked it too. It's one of the biggest points in the story. This chapter might also be just as long, seeing as it's pretty crucial, too. Oh heck, all of the chapters are crucial. If you miss one, you will get plenty confuseded. ((Not a typo)) More replies!! ^___^ Wai!
Sprout: ^______^ Domo arigatou for all the positive feedback!! You make it really easy for me to get a swelled head!! But I don't have one, so everyone's happy.
val m.: Hip hip hooray for cool reviewers like you too! ^__~ OK, that was overly cheesy but oh well. Ano to answer a couple of your questions, Kouga does have a brother in this story (Naraku), and also in the original story, Menelaus (Helen's husband) did have a brother (Agamemnon) (SP?). So there is a constant. Also, it was debatable whether Helen had a child or not in the original version, but in this one, Kagome's not having a kid by Kouga. Hai, I'm pretty much twisting the original version around a smidgen. For example, Paris/Inuyasha isn't going to be quite so cowardly; the characters of Deiphobus (Paris' older brother), Hector (their oldest brother), and Priam (the king of Troy) are being mixed around a little; and Inuyasha isn't as hated as Paris was. In fact, Yash was raised with his siblings, unlike Paris.
bluefuzzyelf: ^___^ Arigatou! And no, I haven't read Firebrand (though my best friend did recommend it to me because we're super-huge fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley). If you like Cassandra, then try reading that book I recommended earlier, Inside the Walls of Troy by Clemence McLaren. It's from the POV of first Helen, then Cassandra. ^_____^ Hai, Cassandra is my favorite character, can'tcha tell??
Also, a shout-out goes to my other reviewers: DespitefulSaint, Chico-chan, and anybody else who I missed. Domo arigatou for reviewing, ai shiteru to you all! ^__^
Disclaimer: I discovered that I own the plot! Wai! Unfortunately, that's all I own T_T The Inu-gumi's not mine, they belong to Takahashi Rumiko-sama, who is the Goddess of All That Is Good. .:bows down to her:. The myth of Helen of Troy also doesn't belong to me, it belongs to those ancient Greek-type people. So go bother at them after reading and reviewing this fic. ^_^
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Kagome of Tokyo
Chapter 4
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Is there no one who can help me out of this nightmare?
Inuyasha awoke with that cry ringing in his head, sweating profusely. He glanced at his thin cotton sheet that draped over his futon and his body. It was soaked through. Chikuso, he swore to himself. This was the third night in a row that he had had that dream.
There was a girl he remembered faintly. A girl who was kidnapped. Her brothers died for her. He frowned, the details of the dream slipping away like sand through his fingers.
One thing he could remember, though. The girl was beautiful. Her long raven hair, cascading past her waist those sable brown eyes, sparkling with laughter everything about her just called to him.
His eyes casually glanced at the calendar then did a double take. The date was heavily circled in red, as if it was incredibly important. However, there was no writing to indicate what! He slammed his fist on the wall. "What the hell was I thinking?!" he roared.
"Onii-chan? Inuyasha?"
He froze. "Ano hai, Sango?" He hadn't meant to wake Sango up. He cursed inwardly. Now she was going to bitch at him.
"What the hell are you doing in there? Iie, wait, I don't want to know," came Sango's curt reply. His sister was sixteen, just a year younger than he was. Inuyasha would be turning eighteen this year, actually, like Sango would turn seventeen in mere months.
"Betsuni, baka!" He angrily threw open the door to reveal a cross Sango, and spread his arms wide as if to say, "Mite." "See?" he said irritably. "Nandemo nai."
She smiled faintly. "Whatever, nii-chan. Just remember that Sesshoumaru won't appreciate it if you wake him."
Inuyasha scowled. "And? Why do I care what that baka thinks of me?"
"He could easily throw you out of here, Yash." Rin suddenly walked up to Sango sleepily. She rubbed her eyes and held out her arms, indicating that Sango should pick her up. Sango smiled and hoisted her up. "I think Rin needs a drink," she said, looking at her. "Come with me to get her ready. You can dress her."
"Feh." Inuyasha rolled his eyes and followed his sister downstairs to their makeshift kitchen. "Naze, isn't Miroku up yet?" he asked lazily.
Sango smiled as her boyfriend's name was mentioned. "Iie. He's so lazy in the mornings. But when it comes to taking care of Rin, he never slacks off." She set Rin down and she whined.
"Mama!" She clung to Sango's leg. Inuyasha couldn't help but smile a little at his three-year-old niece. Miroku hadn't abandoned Sango when he learned she was pregnant; in fact, he was delighted at the news and proposed. The wedding was on hold until Sesshoumaru and Miroku could raise enough money.
"Iie, Rin-chan, Mama's busy," he said gently, picking her up. At first, Rin struggled, but when she saw that it was Inuyasha, she smiled brilliantly.
"Demo, Rin wants Mama," she whined half-heartedly. She struggled again to reach her mother when Sango turned and took her from Inuyasha's arms.
"Arigatou, nii-chan," she said, smiling and giving Rin her sippy cup. Rin gratefully sucked on it and Sango let her down. "She's something, isn't my little Rin-chan?" she asked Inuyasha wistfully. Rin had the sparkling personality of her father, but had her mother's pretty looks and smile. "Every day I thank Kami for her," Sango continued.
"Ah, Rin-chan has everyone in an uproar today, eh?"
Inuyasha and Sango spun around to face the speaker of that comment. Rin dropped her sippy cup. "Otou-san!" she screamed joyfully and ran as fast as her little legs would carry her. He laughed and picked her up as she beamed joyfully. "Mama, mama, otou-san's up!" she cried.
Sango smiled and walked over to her fiancé and her daughter. "Miroku, I didn't expect you up so early."
"How could I not get up early," Miroku returned, "when all I could hear was my little girl clattering around the kitchen?" As Sango laughed and Miroku slipped his free arm around her, Inuyasha gazed at them detachedly. They really do make the perfect little family, he thought with a pang—Sango, the loving, young wife; Miroku, the happy, devoted husband; and of course their little princess, Rin.
"I've gotta go," he cut in abruptly. Sango looked up.
"Inuyasha, where are you" He cut her off.
"Call it a hunch. I just need to get out today, alright?" He glanced at her, and she returned the look boldly. For a girl of sixteen, she surely was determined.
"Hai. Just be careful, okay?" Sango came to his side. "I have a bad feeling."
Inuyasha took a sharp intake of breath, and Sango suddenly felt a pang of worry for him. "Sango, having another moment of yours?" She smiled wryly at him. He had a right to think so. Ever since she had been little, she had had dreams of things that happened to various people. Her brothers had dismissed it until Sango foretold the death of the former leader of their gang and Sesshoumaru's takeover. Since then, it was taken extremely seriously if she had a "bad feeling" about something.
She reached for his arm in reassurance. "It's probably nothing, hai?" she said gently. As she touched it, her sight blurred and a clearer, more vivid image took place before her.
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"I'm Higurashi Kagome who are you?"
"Tachikawa Sango." Sango's brother Inuyasha was gazing at the Kagome girl with an expression that was rarely seen on his face affection? Iie, surely not.
Another image slammed into place, and she saw the girl Kagome and Inuyasha kissing?! Demo, that was impossible! Inuyasha had proclaimed long ago that he didn't want a girlfriend, seeing as all of the girls in their gang were more or less "not his style", meaning he viewed them all as snotty bitches.
Yet there they were, plain as day, kissing passionately. He slammed her into the wall, and she began to remove his shirt.
Again, her perspective blurred, and another vision took place. But this one was much, much worse than the last two.
Their warehouse was in flames.
People were fleeing, screaming. Sango herself was running, searching for Sesshoumaru or anybody else. She tried to reel back from her vision-self, but she was frozen She couldn't move
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"NO!!"
Sango had launched herself backwards into Miroku, who had caught her. He looked at her, eyes wide. "Sango?" he whispered.
"Hai?" she managed to croak out. Rin was seated on the couch, eyes wide.
"Did you have a" He made a small gesture.
"Hai." She nodded dazedly, then glanced around. "Where where's Inuyasha?"
"He left right before you passed out. Said something about taking a walk. I volunteered to go with him, but he said that this was something he had to do alone." Miroku cocked his head, his puzzled blue-violet orbs locking onto Sango's dark brown ones. "Do you know what he meant, Sango-chan?"
Despite the dizziness she was feeling, Sango felt a sharp wave of fear hit her, and she immediately put two and two together. That girl would be the cause of that fire! she thought alarmedly. And and Inuyasha will bring her here!
"We have to find him!" she exclaimed, getting to her feet. "We must!"
Before that girl brings destruction to my family and my home, she thought desperately.
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A:N: Ano, this one wasn't quite as long as the last one, but the next one will definitely be pretty long. I wanted to focus on Sango, seeing as she's a major character in this story. If anybody knows the myth, they'll realize that I gave the "Cassandra" character a husband and child. What importance do they have? you may ask. Well, the answer to that is I'm not telling!! ^__^ You'll have to figure it out yourselves. Just know that Miroku has a big part in this, and so does Sango's "real" brother. (By real, I mean the one from the series. **hint hint**) So, have a night, everybody!!
Sayonara,
Akai-Sakura