Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho not talented enough to have come
up with it first.
ok some people might have been confused with the ring thing at the end of the last
chapter but it will be explained in this one so that hopefully you'll catch onto the
importance of the rings
Meeting New People
Story by ForestSprite but put up by SmilingKitsune cause she wouldn't hehehe
Another day another battle for ones life
Chapter 4
Kagome shot up in her bed her small frame shook hard. She raised a small hand to her
head wiping off some of the cold sweat as she closed her eyes trying to remember her
dream that she had. She sat there peacefully taking deep even breaths as her dream
slowly came back to her before she shot her eyes open in fear breaking the vision.
She shakily climbed out of her bed careful so as not to waken the small sleeping kitsune
on her bed as she moved carefully in the darkness of the room to find something to wear.
Finally picking out some clean pants and a forest green shirt she pulled on her black
cloak, grabbed her sword belting it to her waist, picked up her bow and arrows strapping
them to her back and stepped lightly out the room softly closing the door behind her. She
moved with a catlike grace down the hallway to a large door. Nodding her head regally at
one of the servants they opened the door for her and she stepped outside into the chilly
morning air shivering as some of the morning fog danced around her.
She smiled softly and made her way toward the large gate and waved hi to the sleepy
looking guards. They waved back to her and opened the gates for her not even
questioning what she was doing out so early in the morning. She passed through the
otherside of the gate and signaled them to close it again as she made her way to the
forest.
Two Days Later
Sesshomaru, Sango, Shippo, Miroku and Krys stood in a large study room. Sango hugged
a red eyed puffy faced Shippo to her as she looked on worried outside a large window
and Miroku sat in a corner by himself not even bothering to look up at anyone as he
nervously pulled at his monk robes or twitched the staff he held so closely to him.
Krys stood close to Sesshomaru looking down lost in thought and Sesshomaru sat looking
increasingly agitated as he waited for one of his servants to come back with some new
news for them.
"Sesshomaru-sama is she ok?" a broken voiced Shippo asked the demon lord.
"I hope so." he replied shortly to which Shippo nodded his head and cuddled closer to
Sango.
From within the room a loud knocking was heard and Sesshomaru answered with a
prompt come in. The door creaked open and in the doorway stood a tall male with sharp
narrowed golden eyes, long black hair that hung freely down his back and was garbed in
all black clothing.
"My lord." he said bowing respectfully to Sesshomaru. "We have not found her yet. We
found her trace hours ago and have been following it, but it stops in the middle of a field
and disappears completely right there....." he paused trying to figure out a way to word
his next few sentences.
"And?" Sesshomaru asked trying to hold his cool.
"My lord." the demon said a bit hesitantly. "Where her tracks disappear we picked up
something in her scent. She was terrified and tired. From what we could gather while
following her trail before she reached that clearing was she had been running from
something. We also found a bunch of blood....." he paused again. "It was hers."
"You are dismissed." the demon lord said calmly to the demon who nodded his head and
took his leave closing the door behind him.
"Who would have wanted to do that to Kagome?" Sango asked quietly as Shippo cried
softly into her shoulder after hearing the news.
"She made many enemies during her time here in the past." Miroku said quietly. "I doubt
they were all going to forget about her and how she had been able to foil their plans so
many times."
"This just doesn't seem right." Sango murmured. "She shouldn't have to go through all
this. She doesn't even belong in this time period yet here she is stuck in the past while no
doubt her family is worried sick about her or even thinks of her as dead."
Krys's ears perked up slightly. So the stories were true. The girl truly wasn't from this
time but from the future and the other tales about her being stuck here also proved to be
true. She shook her head sadly for the poor girl who was god only knows where going
through something most likely terrible.
"What about the Shikon no Tama?" Miroku asked suddenly.
Sango's head shot up in worry as she to had come to the conclusion about her friend.
"She doesn't carry it with her right now. She gave it to me for safe keeping for now while
she was here in the castle." Sesshomaru said to them. Though he too would have been
extremely more worried then he was now if she was carrying it with her.
In the forest somewhere
Four boys traveled through the forest one of the boys one with greased back hair
grumbling something that seemingly sounded like stupid toddler and his stupid missions.
"Couldn't he have at least given us a mission that takes place in our time." the boy
growled out angrily.
"Calm down Yusuke. I'm sure he has his reason for sending us to the feudal era instead
of having us do this within our time." a boy with long red hair said his emerald green
eyes sparkling in amusement at his friends impatient self.
"Of course he has his reasons for sending you guys here Kurama." a blue hair girl said
appearing by the boys side. "He didn't have much time to explain as he was worried
about something else, but in this time there was a battle that took place not to long ago
against an evil demon known as Naraku for the shards of the Shikon no Tama." she said.
"You mean that story is true Botan?" Yusuke asked surprised to the girl.
"You mean you actually know the story?" she asked surprised.
"What's that supposed to mean?" he growled. "Practically everyone knows that story."
A tall dorky looking red head kid nodded his head in agreement. "I'm surprised that story
passed into the human realm." Kurama said as another of the boys with spiky black hair
nodded his head in agreement.
"That is a story well known in the demon realm as well." Kurama explained to the two
humans.
"Hn. So you are telling us this story is true?" the short demon said.
"Never thought you'd ask Hiei." Botan said. "Yes it is real, but what most people didn't
know was after the battle the inu-hanyou demon was killed in a battle as the shard
hunting group tried to gather together the rest of the jewel shards that they didn't have."
"So what does this have to do with us?" Yusuke asked.
"Hold on a sec. silly." Botan said cheerfully. "Ok anyways after his death it somehow
allowed the evil hanyou to come back."
"What?"
"Exactly. No one knows about it yet either and with everything that has been going on
here it will affect our time as well soon because the death of the hanyou wasn't supposed
to happen so the past has been altered which will affect our future if we don't kill this
demon."
"Ok so let's find the bastard and kick his ass in." Yusuke said as if it were the easiest
thing in the world.
"It's not that easy. The only one who'd be able to find him would be the miko from the
group. It seems she has some kind of blood bond with the evil demon so she's probably
the only one to know he's still alive but just thinks it's just her imagination that she's
thinking he's still alive."
"This is messed up." Yusuke growled.
"How did this bond form?" Kurama asked curiously.
"Somewhere in the battle the two were both injured had cuts on them and stuff you know
and his blood mixed with her getting into her body."
"Wouldn't it affect her miko abilities?"
"You'd think so but when it got into her, her body purified his blood turning it into
another power for her to wield."
"Which is?" Kuwabara asked.
"The ability to see the future."
"Kami." Yusuke said. "My cousin would love to hear this. She used to tell me the story a
lot but then she disappeared not to long ago."
"You heard this story from your cousin?"
"Yea she would tell me each individual battle that took place and how each member in
the group was met and how they met the demon lord of the west and how the miko was
almost killed when pulling free the demon sword the tetsusaiga and how the demon lord
met the small child that later followed him a lot."
"She told you all that?" Botan asked surprised with Kurama and Hiei looking at him a bit
surprised as well.
"That isn't possible." Hiei said. "No one knows that. Not even the demons know that."
"Yea well she did ok." Yusuke said defending his cousin.
"It isn't possible. She must have been making them up." Botan said agreeing with the
short demon.
"Are you calling my cousin a liar?" Yusuke growled at them. "She wouldn't lie about
stuff like that. She knows a lot."
Botan cocked her head to the side a bit surprised by how much Yusuke was defending his
cousin. "You really care about your cousin don't you?" she asked quietly.
"Why shouldn't I? She's the only one who's believed in me for the longest time until
Keiko." he muttered.
"She wasn't at your funeral though. Wouldn't she have been there at least?" Botan asked
curiously.
"She disappeared somewhere. No one knows where she went to." he said darkly. "Look
my cousin is older then me if she goes somewhere I'm not gonna bug her about it ok?
Besides she showed up not long after and helped me train for awhile working on my
fighting. She's probably a close match for Genkai. Kami knows I can never beat her
when I fight her."
This caught everyone's attention. Someone that could beat Yusuke and he didn't fly off
the handle about it. "What?" he said seeing the looks cast his way. "She's the one who
got me into fighting in the first place. When we were younger we got attacked in a park
and her little brother got injured and she got totally pissed and kicked major ass. She then
later taught me some fighting but after she got into so many fights she was sent away to
another school to get her away from me because they thought I was the bad influence."
he said with a snort of laughter. "Anyways after she left she didn't fight as much but
something happened from what I got from her brother after her fifteenth birthday because
she was soon working out and training again. Hell I was gonna be thirteen soon after that.
Then when I was fourteen she was sixteen. She's old enough to take care of herself."
"You really miss her don't you?" Botan asked softly.
"What's a year and a half between family?" he asked in reply walking off.
The others exchanged quick surprised glances before hurrying to catch up with him when
they found him in a clearing not far ahead standing still.
"Yusuke?" Botan asked.
"Shh. Do you guys hear it?" he asked
Kurama looked at him quizzically but focused his hearing to the surrounding area when
he picked up the sounds of fighting. The next thing he knew a black blur was thrown
against a tree in the clearing. Everyone turned to look at the figure which appeared to be
a female as she slid down to the ground. The girl weakly pulled herself into a standing
position muttering a few choice words as she stumbled a bit.
Into the clearing lumbered a huge bear demon followed closely by a cat demon. "Girl."
the bear rumbled. "Where is it?"
"In a place where you'll never get it you fool." the girl spat out.
"Hold your tongue princess." the cat demon purred softly to her. "We don't want the lord
to come and save you."
"I don't need him to come and save me." she shot back as she held her hands before her
like she was holding a bow. "Celestial arrow." she cried letting her back arm release the
invisible string. Before her a pink energy gathered together forming a pure arrow of
energy that shot right through the cat demon turning it to dust.
"Bastard that was for trying to kidnap me in the first place," she said as she repeated the
same process as before "and this was for making me try to mate with you. See you in
hell. Tell my incarnate I said hello." she said to the bear as she shot at him watching him
turn to dust.
She stumbled a bit leaning against a tree. "Well a new trick I learned today." they could
hear her mutter from their spot.
Kurama turned a curious look toward Botan to find the girl itching to go and heal the
injured girl and was gonna ask her what they were gonna do when the injured girl
suddenly shot up straight on high alert trying to find something.
"What the hell?" she cried out as suddenly a bunch of spikes were thrown at her. She
dodged to the side going into a head dive pulling into a somersault. She quickly leapt to
her feet placing her weight on her left leg when she winced.
Kurama watched interested. It appeared she had sprained her right ankle and the way she
looked right now he wasn't sure she'd last to much longer.
She did a back flip out of the way as more spikes were shot at her then leapt for a tree
branch right above her head pulling herself up into it swinging onto it then letting go she
fell toward the ground slamming her fist into the ground. "Earth shield." she cried out as
the earth rose before her effectively deflecting more spikes away. "Where are you? Show
yourself coward." she shouted as the shield dropped and she dodged more spikes. "Is this
the only attack you know?"
Kurama watched surprised as the girl just kept dodging attacks that came from all over.
What was she doing? Shouldn't she be looking for her enemy instead of getting beat?
Then he saw it. As she moved he noticed a faint pink light attached to her hand that
whipped around the clearing.
A cry of pain was heard as the girl spun once again. "Gotcha." she cried leaping into the
trees. A loud crash was heard as she came back down with a hawk demon whom she
pinned to the ground right away.
"Who are you and who do you work for?" she growled at him.
"Why should I tell you that princess?"
"I'm getting real sick of people calling me that. The name's not princess asshole. I'm
you're worst nightmare." she said as her hands that pinned him down began to glow pink.
The demon below her began to writhe in pain as the pink light burned into his skin.
"Damn it. He didn't tell me that you're a miko." the demon gasped out painfully.
"Who?" she prompted.
"You're own worse nightmare miko." he cried as he kicked her off of him throwing her
into a tree. The girl hit it hard slumping to the ground as the demon moved toward her.
"I'm going to finish you off now." he said as he moved to pin her to the tree but she
pulled herself up and leapt at him and they disappeared in a speedy blur that made it
hard to make out what was going on.
"She's fast." Kurama murmured.
Yusuke shook his head in agreement. Not even Hiei was this fast and Hiei himself was
having a hard time keeping up with the battle. All you could make out were crashes and
the sound of metal on metal. They were using weapons it seemed and every now and then
one of them would go through a tree knocking it to the ground.
Finally a loud crash was heard and before them appeared the girl in a crouch her clothes
were torn and hardly hung onto her small frame and the demon was dead with a sword in
his heart.
The girl tried to stand up but only fell back you could make out the hiss of pain as she did
this. At that point and time another demon entered the clearing or it appeared to be a
demon. It was a beautiful girl with long blonde hair that hung freely down her back and
she was outfitted in a black cloak and a long forest green dress with slits up to her thighs
that accented her narrow green eyes. Strapped to her sides was two swords, and in her
hands was a staff. She moved with a sure swiftness that didn't even let her bracelets, she
wore on both her ankles and wrist, make a sound at all. On her right arm you could make
out a rose tattoo. The girl made her way to the injured girl who had turned her attention
to her.
"Are you ok?" the demon girl asked a bit worriedly.
"Who are you?" the injured girl asked confused looking at the girls tattoo.
"Oh!" she exclaimed. "It's me Krys. The dragon tattoo isn't my real symbol I usually try
to hide the rose." she explained watching as the girl pull herself up.
"Krys!" the girl cried out as she reached out to her. The girl Krys rushed to the girl
catching her as she fell.
"Kag-chan you have no idea just how happy I am that I gave you that ring." Krys
explained to the injured girl.
"You mean this thing Krys?" she asked waving her hand in front of the girls face showing
a blue stoned ring.
"It allowed me to trace you but it seemed you had been in a sealed off area earlier then
huh?"
"Oh god it was horrible. They put this necklace on me and it didn't allow me to use my
powers."
"Where is it Kagome?" Krys asked worriedly.
"I think when I forced myself to use my powers it was trying so hard to restrain me by
hurting me that it blew." the girl said fingering around her neck where a line was burnt in
around it.
The other girl hissed in sympathy. "Don't worry. Your brother is coming. You had us all
worried. Shippo especially."
"How's my son?" the girl asked quickly.
"Shh. Don't worry Sango-chan has been taking care of him.
"Thank god. Fluffy-sama must not be too happy with me huh?"
"Not really. He just wants to kill the people who took you."
The other girl chuckled a bit. "Sounds like him." she stopped quickly laughing then as
she cocked her head to the side. "Krys there are five people here. Two humans, two
demons a fire apparition and a kitsune soul in a human body and a deity of death."
The girl nodded as she gently set the injured girl on the ground and unsheathed one of her
swords. "Step out." the girl commanded standing protectively in front of the injured girl.
"Who are you and what do you want with my princess?"
"God damn it if I hear that damn word one more time I'll kill someone." the other girl
muttered weakly.
"Yea well you are. If Sesshomaru were to die then you'll become queen of the Western
Lands so get used to it."
"Yea yea." she muttered. "So who are you five?" the girl asked as she used a tree to hold
her up looking in the direction where they stood as they had yet to show themselves to
her and her friend.
"Kagome you're clothing." the other girl gasped seeing as how the girls clothing barely
hung onto her. "Take this." she said pulling off her cloak and wrapping it around the girl.
"Mind sharing who you people are yet?" the girl asked ignoring the other girl. "Fine if
you want to do this the hard way...." she trailed off as she pointed her hand in the
direction and a pink ball shot in their directions. With a jerk of her hand back to her she
pulled the five toward her whom were all covered in the pink light.
"Nice to see you've finally decided to show yourselves." she said cheerfully. "Now care
to share your names?" she asked.
The five peered at her trying to actually see her but she was so dirty and she was wearing
a cloth that shadowed her eyes.
"Umm. I'm Botan," the blue haired deity of death said. "and this is Yusuke, Kurama,
Kuwabara and Hiei." she said pointing to each person as she named them.
The girl although her eyes were unseen they could feel them looking them over before
they rested on Yusuke for a long time finally irritating him.
"Would you mind staring at someone else?" he asked sarcastically.
"Hold your tongue you." Krys said angrily.
"Do not worry Krys." the girl said as she held her arms out in front of her creating a staff
which she used to support herself as she walked to where she had trapped them in the
light bubble.
"Yusuke Urameshi?" the girl asked surprised as she neared it looking at the punk fighter.
"How do you know that?" he questioned.
"Family knows everything about family." she replied pulling the cloth up out of her face
revealing herself. The girl had wide beautiful stormy eyes and milky white skin that was
marred with a deep cut on her cheek. Her hair Kurama would bet was really pretty and
silky when it was clean as of right now it was sticky with blood and a big mess.
She released them from the light standing before them. Yusuke took a cautious step
toward her then paused. His hand treacherously reached out to her but he jerked it back.
He looked carefully at her.
"This isn't possible." he murmured looking at her. "You can't be her. She disappeared a
year and a half ago."
The girl before him chuckled. "Do you really think she would have stayed away for so
long Yusuke if she didn't have a reason? No unfortunately it is me ya Big Bear." she said.
Throwing all caution to the wind he closed the distance between them and hugged her.
"No one but you ever called me that Kagome Higurashi. My cousin."
"I would hope not. That was my name for you. Now what in the seven hells are you doing
in the Feudal Era cousin?" she asked releasing him as she stepped back to face him.
"I could ask you the same." he muttered.
"And yet I asked you first." she replied.
"Just answer the princess's question." the other girl who had been forgotten growled out
angrily.
"Krys if I have to tell you one more time about that I will kill you myself. Or should I say
Princess Krys?"
The other girl sputtered. "How did you know?"
"I wasn't sure at first but you just told me." Kagome said completely straight faced "We
will discuss that later. Now Yusuke answer my question before I beat you to a pulp."
Gulping Yusuke recounted his story with her then stopped waiting for her reaction.
What she did was not what he expected. She burst out laughing. "You died? Oh my god
and here I thought it was something serious that had you working as a spirit detective."
she said chuckling.
"How long have you known that I was a spirit detective?"
"After I returned not to long ago after you must have been brought back to life. That was
why I began to train you again." she said laughing again.
"Fine I answered your question and told you why I'm here." he said.
"Do you think maybe she could help us find the miko?" Botan asked him hesitatingly.
"She must have been here long enough to know certain stuff."
Yusuke looked thoughtful at that then nodded his head. "Kagome could you help us look
for the miko that destroyed Naraku?"
Kagome shook her head no.
"Why is that? Do you not know where to find her or who she is?" Botan asked.
"It is because you are looking right at her." a smooth voice intruded into the conversation
breaking off whatever Kagome was going to say.
She only nodded her head. "Yes what Fluffy just said." as she turned to look at a tall
silver haired demon with narrow golden eyes and a purple crescent moon on his forehead
with purple stripes on his cheeks.
"What have I told you about that infuriating name?" he growled at her as he walked up to
her hugging her.
"That you hate it nii-chan (is that brother or is that sister god i can't remember help
correct me if I am wrong.)" she replied as she hugged him back.
"What about those demons that took you?" he asked her.
"Hm. I beat you to them." she said.
"What did they want?"
"The usual. The jewel shards and in this case it was a bit different. They wanted me as
well for a mate. Blech. Gross." she said stepping out of his embrace. "I'd prefer Koga
over them." she muttered.
"I truly hope you don't mean that you'd actually take him though." he replied.
"Of course not. I have nothing but family love for the guy." she said with a silly grin on
her face. "Ok you're here now where is my son?" she said looking around the forest.
"Back at the castle with Sango and Miroku."
"Good. He's safe then. No offense but I don't trust Jaken with them."
"Neither do I." he replied as he looked at her state of clothing.
Noticing she cocked an eyebrow at him. "I was fighting a bunch of lust crazed youkai ya
know."
"Let's get back to the castle then."
"Sure Fluffy." she chirped.
"Kag-san when did you get a son?" an infuriated Yusuke asked.
She turned around to face the group. "Wow I forgot about you guys for a bit there." she
said. "and it's my adopted son. For kami's sake Yusuke I'm 20 and you are 18. Do you
not believe it is possible for me to have found a mate by this time?" she asked with an
evil smile.
"You probably have but I'm gonna have to kill him." Yusuke said in reply.
"Oh you're so evil, but no I'm not married or mated as of yet." she said. "How about you
and Keiko though?" her smile got even wider when he blushed a bit. "Married yet?"
"Not yet." he mumbled.
"He and Keiko aren't planning on getting married until his debt to Koenma is finished."
Botan said.
"I see and when will that be?"
"Right after this case."
Kagome smiled at him. "Will ya look at that. Hey Sessho-san someone gets to leave the
family business of fighting and settle down." she said with a laugh.
The demon lord nodded his head a bit.
"Let's go home then Sesshomaru." she said walking up to him taking his hand.
"Wait Kagome. Aren't you going to help us?" Botan asked.
"I'd love too I assure you, but I have other duties to handle. How about this? You guys
stay at the castle for awhile with us then go back and tell this Koenma person that I
refuse your help and would have purified you all if you tried." she said.
"Hn. I doubt you could do that." Hiei growled.
"Don't test me demon." she said glaring at him.
Suddenly a pink bolt of lightning shot at him hitting him on his arm as he tried to dodge
it.
"What was that?" Kurama asked a little bit worried when his friend growled in pain.
"That was just a small amount of my purifying energy. I assure you that you don't want
to see the rest of it." she said as she turned her back on the group and began to walk away
with the stoic demon lord and the girl Krys.
"If you're coming with us follow. If not then go wherever your heart takes you." she said
simply.
Yusuke looked from his friends to his cousin and with a shrug of his shoulders took off
after her.
"I guess we know where Yusuke is going." Botan said. "Now what about you boys?"
Kurama casting his glance at Hiei who nodded went the same way as Yusuke with
Kuwabara and Botan following.
end chappy
yay i'm done that was kind of long hope you all enjoyed it ForestSprite
hey guyz ya know the routine r&r this was kind of a long chapter but it was neat
SmilingKitsune
up with it first.
ok some people might have been confused with the ring thing at the end of the last
chapter but it will be explained in this one so that hopefully you'll catch onto the
importance of the rings
Meeting New People
Story by ForestSprite but put up by SmilingKitsune cause she wouldn't hehehe
Another day another battle for ones life
Chapter 4
Kagome shot up in her bed her small frame shook hard. She raised a small hand to her
head wiping off some of the cold sweat as she closed her eyes trying to remember her
dream that she had. She sat there peacefully taking deep even breaths as her dream
slowly came back to her before she shot her eyes open in fear breaking the vision.
She shakily climbed out of her bed careful so as not to waken the small sleeping kitsune
on her bed as she moved carefully in the darkness of the room to find something to wear.
Finally picking out some clean pants and a forest green shirt she pulled on her black
cloak, grabbed her sword belting it to her waist, picked up her bow and arrows strapping
them to her back and stepped lightly out the room softly closing the door behind her. She
moved with a catlike grace down the hallway to a large door. Nodding her head regally at
one of the servants they opened the door for her and she stepped outside into the chilly
morning air shivering as some of the morning fog danced around her.
She smiled softly and made her way toward the large gate and waved hi to the sleepy
looking guards. They waved back to her and opened the gates for her not even
questioning what she was doing out so early in the morning. She passed through the
otherside of the gate and signaled them to close it again as she made her way to the
forest.
Two Days Later
Sesshomaru, Sango, Shippo, Miroku and Krys stood in a large study room. Sango hugged
a red eyed puffy faced Shippo to her as she looked on worried outside a large window
and Miroku sat in a corner by himself not even bothering to look up at anyone as he
nervously pulled at his monk robes or twitched the staff he held so closely to him.
Krys stood close to Sesshomaru looking down lost in thought and Sesshomaru sat looking
increasingly agitated as he waited for one of his servants to come back with some new
news for them.
"Sesshomaru-sama is she ok?" a broken voiced Shippo asked the demon lord.
"I hope so." he replied shortly to which Shippo nodded his head and cuddled closer to
Sango.
From within the room a loud knocking was heard and Sesshomaru answered with a
prompt come in. The door creaked open and in the doorway stood a tall male with sharp
narrowed golden eyes, long black hair that hung freely down his back and was garbed in
all black clothing.
"My lord." he said bowing respectfully to Sesshomaru. "We have not found her yet. We
found her trace hours ago and have been following it, but it stops in the middle of a field
and disappears completely right there....." he paused trying to figure out a way to word
his next few sentences.
"And?" Sesshomaru asked trying to hold his cool.
"My lord." the demon said a bit hesitantly. "Where her tracks disappear we picked up
something in her scent. She was terrified and tired. From what we could gather while
following her trail before she reached that clearing was she had been running from
something. We also found a bunch of blood....." he paused again. "It was hers."
"You are dismissed." the demon lord said calmly to the demon who nodded his head and
took his leave closing the door behind him.
"Who would have wanted to do that to Kagome?" Sango asked quietly as Shippo cried
softly into her shoulder after hearing the news.
"She made many enemies during her time here in the past." Miroku said quietly. "I doubt
they were all going to forget about her and how she had been able to foil their plans so
many times."
"This just doesn't seem right." Sango murmured. "She shouldn't have to go through all
this. She doesn't even belong in this time period yet here she is stuck in the past while no
doubt her family is worried sick about her or even thinks of her as dead."
Krys's ears perked up slightly. So the stories were true. The girl truly wasn't from this
time but from the future and the other tales about her being stuck here also proved to be
true. She shook her head sadly for the poor girl who was god only knows where going
through something most likely terrible.
"What about the Shikon no Tama?" Miroku asked suddenly.
Sango's head shot up in worry as she to had come to the conclusion about her friend.
"She doesn't carry it with her right now. She gave it to me for safe keeping for now while
she was here in the castle." Sesshomaru said to them. Though he too would have been
extremely more worried then he was now if she was carrying it with her.
In the forest somewhere
Four boys traveled through the forest one of the boys one with greased back hair
grumbling something that seemingly sounded like stupid toddler and his stupid missions.
"Couldn't he have at least given us a mission that takes place in our time." the boy
growled out angrily.
"Calm down Yusuke. I'm sure he has his reason for sending us to the feudal era instead
of having us do this within our time." a boy with long red hair said his emerald green
eyes sparkling in amusement at his friends impatient self.
"Of course he has his reasons for sending you guys here Kurama." a blue hair girl said
appearing by the boys side. "He didn't have much time to explain as he was worried
about something else, but in this time there was a battle that took place not to long ago
against an evil demon known as Naraku for the shards of the Shikon no Tama." she said.
"You mean that story is true Botan?" Yusuke asked surprised to the girl.
"You mean you actually know the story?" she asked surprised.
"What's that supposed to mean?" he growled. "Practically everyone knows that story."
A tall dorky looking red head kid nodded his head in agreement. "I'm surprised that story
passed into the human realm." Kurama said as another of the boys with spiky black hair
nodded his head in agreement.
"That is a story well known in the demon realm as well." Kurama explained to the two
humans.
"Hn. So you are telling us this story is true?" the short demon said.
"Never thought you'd ask Hiei." Botan said. "Yes it is real, but what most people didn't
know was after the battle the inu-hanyou demon was killed in a battle as the shard
hunting group tried to gather together the rest of the jewel shards that they didn't have."
"So what does this have to do with us?" Yusuke asked.
"Hold on a sec. silly." Botan said cheerfully. "Ok anyways after his death it somehow
allowed the evil hanyou to come back."
"What?"
"Exactly. No one knows about it yet either and with everything that has been going on
here it will affect our time as well soon because the death of the hanyou wasn't supposed
to happen so the past has been altered which will affect our future if we don't kill this
demon."
"Ok so let's find the bastard and kick his ass in." Yusuke said as if it were the easiest
thing in the world.
"It's not that easy. The only one who'd be able to find him would be the miko from the
group. It seems she has some kind of blood bond with the evil demon so she's probably
the only one to know he's still alive but just thinks it's just her imagination that she's
thinking he's still alive."
"This is messed up." Yusuke growled.
"How did this bond form?" Kurama asked curiously.
"Somewhere in the battle the two were both injured had cuts on them and stuff you know
and his blood mixed with her getting into her body."
"Wouldn't it affect her miko abilities?"
"You'd think so but when it got into her, her body purified his blood turning it into
another power for her to wield."
"Which is?" Kuwabara asked.
"The ability to see the future."
"Kami." Yusuke said. "My cousin would love to hear this. She used to tell me the story a
lot but then she disappeared not to long ago."
"You heard this story from your cousin?"
"Yea she would tell me each individual battle that took place and how each member in
the group was met and how they met the demon lord of the west and how the miko was
almost killed when pulling free the demon sword the tetsusaiga and how the demon lord
met the small child that later followed him a lot."
"She told you all that?" Botan asked surprised with Kurama and Hiei looking at him a bit
surprised as well.
"That isn't possible." Hiei said. "No one knows that. Not even the demons know that."
"Yea well she did ok." Yusuke said defending his cousin.
"It isn't possible. She must have been making them up." Botan said agreeing with the
short demon.
"Are you calling my cousin a liar?" Yusuke growled at them. "She wouldn't lie about
stuff like that. She knows a lot."
Botan cocked her head to the side a bit surprised by how much Yusuke was defending his
cousin. "You really care about your cousin don't you?" she asked quietly.
"Why shouldn't I? She's the only one who's believed in me for the longest time until
Keiko." he muttered.
"She wasn't at your funeral though. Wouldn't she have been there at least?" Botan asked
curiously.
"She disappeared somewhere. No one knows where she went to." he said darkly. "Look
my cousin is older then me if she goes somewhere I'm not gonna bug her about it ok?
Besides she showed up not long after and helped me train for awhile working on my
fighting. She's probably a close match for Genkai. Kami knows I can never beat her
when I fight her."
This caught everyone's attention. Someone that could beat Yusuke and he didn't fly off
the handle about it. "What?" he said seeing the looks cast his way. "She's the one who
got me into fighting in the first place. When we were younger we got attacked in a park
and her little brother got injured and she got totally pissed and kicked major ass. She then
later taught me some fighting but after she got into so many fights she was sent away to
another school to get her away from me because they thought I was the bad influence."
he said with a snort of laughter. "Anyways after she left she didn't fight as much but
something happened from what I got from her brother after her fifteenth birthday because
she was soon working out and training again. Hell I was gonna be thirteen soon after that.
Then when I was fourteen she was sixteen. She's old enough to take care of herself."
"You really miss her don't you?" Botan asked softly.
"What's a year and a half between family?" he asked in reply walking off.
The others exchanged quick surprised glances before hurrying to catch up with him when
they found him in a clearing not far ahead standing still.
"Yusuke?" Botan asked.
"Shh. Do you guys hear it?" he asked
Kurama looked at him quizzically but focused his hearing to the surrounding area when
he picked up the sounds of fighting. The next thing he knew a black blur was thrown
against a tree in the clearing. Everyone turned to look at the figure which appeared to be
a female as she slid down to the ground. The girl weakly pulled herself into a standing
position muttering a few choice words as she stumbled a bit.
Into the clearing lumbered a huge bear demon followed closely by a cat demon. "Girl."
the bear rumbled. "Where is it?"
"In a place where you'll never get it you fool." the girl spat out.
"Hold your tongue princess." the cat demon purred softly to her. "We don't want the lord
to come and save you."
"I don't need him to come and save me." she shot back as she held her hands before her
like she was holding a bow. "Celestial arrow." she cried letting her back arm release the
invisible string. Before her a pink energy gathered together forming a pure arrow of
energy that shot right through the cat demon turning it to dust.
"Bastard that was for trying to kidnap me in the first place," she said as she repeated the
same process as before "and this was for making me try to mate with you. See you in
hell. Tell my incarnate I said hello." she said to the bear as she shot at him watching him
turn to dust.
She stumbled a bit leaning against a tree. "Well a new trick I learned today." they could
hear her mutter from their spot.
Kurama turned a curious look toward Botan to find the girl itching to go and heal the
injured girl and was gonna ask her what they were gonna do when the injured girl
suddenly shot up straight on high alert trying to find something.
"What the hell?" she cried out as suddenly a bunch of spikes were thrown at her. She
dodged to the side going into a head dive pulling into a somersault. She quickly leapt to
her feet placing her weight on her left leg when she winced.
Kurama watched interested. It appeared she had sprained her right ankle and the way she
looked right now he wasn't sure she'd last to much longer.
She did a back flip out of the way as more spikes were shot at her then leapt for a tree
branch right above her head pulling herself up into it swinging onto it then letting go she
fell toward the ground slamming her fist into the ground. "Earth shield." she cried out as
the earth rose before her effectively deflecting more spikes away. "Where are you? Show
yourself coward." she shouted as the shield dropped and she dodged more spikes. "Is this
the only attack you know?"
Kurama watched surprised as the girl just kept dodging attacks that came from all over.
What was she doing? Shouldn't she be looking for her enemy instead of getting beat?
Then he saw it. As she moved he noticed a faint pink light attached to her hand that
whipped around the clearing.
A cry of pain was heard as the girl spun once again. "Gotcha." she cried leaping into the
trees. A loud crash was heard as she came back down with a hawk demon whom she
pinned to the ground right away.
"Who are you and who do you work for?" she growled at him.
"Why should I tell you that princess?"
"I'm getting real sick of people calling me that. The name's not princess asshole. I'm
you're worst nightmare." she said as her hands that pinned him down began to glow pink.
The demon below her began to writhe in pain as the pink light burned into his skin.
"Damn it. He didn't tell me that you're a miko." the demon gasped out painfully.
"Who?" she prompted.
"You're own worse nightmare miko." he cried as he kicked her off of him throwing her
into a tree. The girl hit it hard slumping to the ground as the demon moved toward her.
"I'm going to finish you off now." he said as he moved to pin her to the tree but she
pulled herself up and leapt at him and they disappeared in a speedy blur that made it
hard to make out what was going on.
"She's fast." Kurama murmured.
Yusuke shook his head in agreement. Not even Hiei was this fast and Hiei himself was
having a hard time keeping up with the battle. All you could make out were crashes and
the sound of metal on metal. They were using weapons it seemed and every now and then
one of them would go through a tree knocking it to the ground.
Finally a loud crash was heard and before them appeared the girl in a crouch her clothes
were torn and hardly hung onto her small frame and the demon was dead with a sword in
his heart.
The girl tried to stand up but only fell back you could make out the hiss of pain as she did
this. At that point and time another demon entered the clearing or it appeared to be a
demon. It was a beautiful girl with long blonde hair that hung freely down her back and
she was outfitted in a black cloak and a long forest green dress with slits up to her thighs
that accented her narrow green eyes. Strapped to her sides was two swords, and in her
hands was a staff. She moved with a sure swiftness that didn't even let her bracelets, she
wore on both her ankles and wrist, make a sound at all. On her right arm you could make
out a rose tattoo. The girl made her way to the injured girl who had turned her attention
to her.
"Are you ok?" the demon girl asked a bit worriedly.
"Who are you?" the injured girl asked confused looking at the girls tattoo.
"Oh!" she exclaimed. "It's me Krys. The dragon tattoo isn't my real symbol I usually try
to hide the rose." she explained watching as the girl pull herself up.
"Krys!" the girl cried out as she reached out to her. The girl Krys rushed to the girl
catching her as she fell.
"Kag-chan you have no idea just how happy I am that I gave you that ring." Krys
explained to the injured girl.
"You mean this thing Krys?" she asked waving her hand in front of the girls face showing
a blue stoned ring.
"It allowed me to trace you but it seemed you had been in a sealed off area earlier then
huh?"
"Oh god it was horrible. They put this necklace on me and it didn't allow me to use my
powers."
"Where is it Kagome?" Krys asked worriedly.
"I think when I forced myself to use my powers it was trying so hard to restrain me by
hurting me that it blew." the girl said fingering around her neck where a line was burnt in
around it.
The other girl hissed in sympathy. "Don't worry. Your brother is coming. You had us all
worried. Shippo especially."
"How's my son?" the girl asked quickly.
"Shh. Don't worry Sango-chan has been taking care of him.
"Thank god. Fluffy-sama must not be too happy with me huh?"
"Not really. He just wants to kill the people who took you."
The other girl chuckled a bit. "Sounds like him." she stopped quickly laughing then as
she cocked her head to the side. "Krys there are five people here. Two humans, two
demons a fire apparition and a kitsune soul in a human body and a deity of death."
The girl nodded as she gently set the injured girl on the ground and unsheathed one of her
swords. "Step out." the girl commanded standing protectively in front of the injured girl.
"Who are you and what do you want with my princess?"
"God damn it if I hear that damn word one more time I'll kill someone." the other girl
muttered weakly.
"Yea well you are. If Sesshomaru were to die then you'll become queen of the Western
Lands so get used to it."
"Yea yea." she muttered. "So who are you five?" the girl asked as she used a tree to hold
her up looking in the direction where they stood as they had yet to show themselves to
her and her friend.
"Kagome you're clothing." the other girl gasped seeing as how the girls clothing barely
hung onto her. "Take this." she said pulling off her cloak and wrapping it around the girl.
"Mind sharing who you people are yet?" the girl asked ignoring the other girl. "Fine if
you want to do this the hard way...." she trailed off as she pointed her hand in the
direction and a pink ball shot in their directions. With a jerk of her hand back to her she
pulled the five toward her whom were all covered in the pink light.
"Nice to see you've finally decided to show yourselves." she said cheerfully. "Now care
to share your names?" she asked.
The five peered at her trying to actually see her but she was so dirty and she was wearing
a cloth that shadowed her eyes.
"Umm. I'm Botan," the blue haired deity of death said. "and this is Yusuke, Kurama,
Kuwabara and Hiei." she said pointing to each person as she named them.
The girl although her eyes were unseen they could feel them looking them over before
they rested on Yusuke for a long time finally irritating him.
"Would you mind staring at someone else?" he asked sarcastically.
"Hold your tongue you." Krys said angrily.
"Do not worry Krys." the girl said as she held her arms out in front of her creating a staff
which she used to support herself as she walked to where she had trapped them in the
light bubble.
"Yusuke Urameshi?" the girl asked surprised as she neared it looking at the punk fighter.
"How do you know that?" he questioned.
"Family knows everything about family." she replied pulling the cloth up out of her face
revealing herself. The girl had wide beautiful stormy eyes and milky white skin that was
marred with a deep cut on her cheek. Her hair Kurama would bet was really pretty and
silky when it was clean as of right now it was sticky with blood and a big mess.
She released them from the light standing before them. Yusuke took a cautious step
toward her then paused. His hand treacherously reached out to her but he jerked it back.
He looked carefully at her.
"This isn't possible." he murmured looking at her. "You can't be her. She disappeared a
year and a half ago."
The girl before him chuckled. "Do you really think she would have stayed away for so
long Yusuke if she didn't have a reason? No unfortunately it is me ya Big Bear." she said.
Throwing all caution to the wind he closed the distance between them and hugged her.
"No one but you ever called me that Kagome Higurashi. My cousin."
"I would hope not. That was my name for you. Now what in the seven hells are you doing
in the Feudal Era cousin?" she asked releasing him as she stepped back to face him.
"I could ask you the same." he muttered.
"And yet I asked you first." she replied.
"Just answer the princess's question." the other girl who had been forgotten growled out
angrily.
"Krys if I have to tell you one more time about that I will kill you myself. Or should I say
Princess Krys?"
The other girl sputtered. "How did you know?"
"I wasn't sure at first but you just told me." Kagome said completely straight faced "We
will discuss that later. Now Yusuke answer my question before I beat you to a pulp."
Gulping Yusuke recounted his story with her then stopped waiting for her reaction.
What she did was not what he expected. She burst out laughing. "You died? Oh my god
and here I thought it was something serious that had you working as a spirit detective."
she said chuckling.
"How long have you known that I was a spirit detective?"
"After I returned not to long ago after you must have been brought back to life. That was
why I began to train you again." she said laughing again.
"Fine I answered your question and told you why I'm here." he said.
"Do you think maybe she could help us find the miko?" Botan asked him hesitatingly.
"She must have been here long enough to know certain stuff."
Yusuke looked thoughtful at that then nodded his head. "Kagome could you help us look
for the miko that destroyed Naraku?"
Kagome shook her head no.
"Why is that? Do you not know where to find her or who she is?" Botan asked.
"It is because you are looking right at her." a smooth voice intruded into the conversation
breaking off whatever Kagome was going to say.
She only nodded her head. "Yes what Fluffy just said." as she turned to look at a tall
silver haired demon with narrow golden eyes and a purple crescent moon on his forehead
with purple stripes on his cheeks.
"What have I told you about that infuriating name?" he growled at her as he walked up to
her hugging her.
"That you hate it nii-chan (is that brother or is that sister god i can't remember help
correct me if I am wrong.)" she replied as she hugged him back.
"What about those demons that took you?" he asked her.
"Hm. I beat you to them." she said.
"What did they want?"
"The usual. The jewel shards and in this case it was a bit different. They wanted me as
well for a mate. Blech. Gross." she said stepping out of his embrace. "I'd prefer Koga
over them." she muttered.
"I truly hope you don't mean that you'd actually take him though." he replied.
"Of course not. I have nothing but family love for the guy." she said with a silly grin on
her face. "Ok you're here now where is my son?" she said looking around the forest.
"Back at the castle with Sango and Miroku."
"Good. He's safe then. No offense but I don't trust Jaken with them."
"Neither do I." he replied as he looked at her state of clothing.
Noticing she cocked an eyebrow at him. "I was fighting a bunch of lust crazed youkai ya
know."
"Let's get back to the castle then."
"Sure Fluffy." she chirped.
"Kag-san when did you get a son?" an infuriated Yusuke asked.
She turned around to face the group. "Wow I forgot about you guys for a bit there." she
said. "and it's my adopted son. For kami's sake Yusuke I'm 20 and you are 18. Do you
not believe it is possible for me to have found a mate by this time?" she asked with an
evil smile.
"You probably have but I'm gonna have to kill him." Yusuke said in reply.
"Oh you're so evil, but no I'm not married or mated as of yet." she said. "How about you
and Keiko though?" her smile got even wider when he blushed a bit. "Married yet?"
"Not yet." he mumbled.
"He and Keiko aren't planning on getting married until his debt to Koenma is finished."
Botan said.
"I see and when will that be?"
"Right after this case."
Kagome smiled at him. "Will ya look at that. Hey Sessho-san someone gets to leave the
family business of fighting and settle down." she said with a laugh.
The demon lord nodded his head a bit.
"Let's go home then Sesshomaru." she said walking up to him taking his hand.
"Wait Kagome. Aren't you going to help us?" Botan asked.
"I'd love too I assure you, but I have other duties to handle. How about this? You guys
stay at the castle for awhile with us then go back and tell this Koenma person that I
refuse your help and would have purified you all if you tried." she said.
"Hn. I doubt you could do that." Hiei growled.
"Don't test me demon." she said glaring at him.
Suddenly a pink bolt of lightning shot at him hitting him on his arm as he tried to dodge
it.
"What was that?" Kurama asked a little bit worried when his friend growled in pain.
"That was just a small amount of my purifying energy. I assure you that you don't want
to see the rest of it." she said as she turned her back on the group and began to walk away
with the stoic demon lord and the girl Krys.
"If you're coming with us follow. If not then go wherever your heart takes you." she said
simply.
Yusuke looked from his friends to his cousin and with a shrug of his shoulders took off
after her.
"I guess we know where Yusuke is going." Botan said. "Now what about you boys?"
Kurama casting his glance at Hiei who nodded went the same way as Yusuke with
Kuwabara and Botan following.
end chappy
yay i'm done that was kind of long hope you all enjoyed it ForestSprite
hey guyz ya know the routine r&r this was kind of a long chapter but it was neat
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