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The Switch
Chapter Fourteen: All This Time
Kagome knew Hiei was far away from the biggest clearing at the park but just in case she kept her aura down. She was wearing a black trench coat so it would be harder to see her and underneath it she wore her fighting outfit and her bow and arrows were strapped to her back, ready for use. That presence she felt in the letter could be fake after all.
Approaching the clearing, Kagome could make out three figures, all of them wearing hooded cloaks that made it so that nobody could see any facial features, or any other features for that matter. Kagome walked up to them.
"Are you the ones that wanted to talk to me?" Kagome asked warily. She couldn't feel their aura's either.
"Yes, but we are waiting for another." The smallest one, who was about Souta's height, said, his voice was purposefully raspy. There was a snap behind Kagome and she whirled around.
"Yukina? What are you doing here?" Kagome asked and the ice maiden looked like she was about to ask the same thing. She too, was wearing a black trench coat and most likely had her fighting outfit and mace under it.
"I got a letter...did they send it?" Yukina pointed to the cloaked figures and they nodded. Yukina turned to Kagome. "Did they send you one also?" Kagome nodded, slightly freaked. "Oh..." The tallest figure pointed at the ground and murmured a few incomprehensible words to have a portal opened in between them and the two confused girls.
"Do you trust us to enter through this portal to where we come from?" One of the taller cloaked figures asked. Kagome and Yukina frowned. Why should they trust them? Then, Kagome remembered the presence she felt in the letter.
"I'll go through...but only if one of you goes in before us." Kagome said, still keeping her guard up. The presence could have been fake after all. The figures nodded and the smallest one dove in. Kagome told Yukina she would jump in first and jumped. Yukina was about to jump but noticed that one of the remaining figures held up their hand and jumped in, leaving only Yukina and the last figure that had opened up the portal. The figure nodded to Yukina and Yukina gulped before jumping in, with the last figure following her, with the portal closing as the figure went.
Hiei appeared at the clearing, but saw nothing. He could have sworn he felt Yukina's presence for a second, and a powerful presence before and after Yukina's presence. He inspected the area thoroughly and found nothing. Grumbling, he went back to his tree and fell asleep.
With Kagome and Yukina
Kagome and Yukina were frowning at the figures, still unable to feel their auras. Kagome knew that they were now in Makai, but she had never seen these lands before. They were by a roaring waterfall, and looking down they knew that if they went down they would surely die, for the fall was hundreds of meters. Rocks and a valley full of roses and trees surrounded them, something Kurama would appreciate heavily.
"Who are you, and where are we? I haven't been in this part of Makai." Kagome asked and the figures seemed to look at each other. Kagome was suddenly reminded of the Ringwraiths in LOTR, much to her discomfort. The figures nodded to each other and as one they pulled off their cloaks. Yukina and Kagome stood there, amazed, while tears formed in their eyes.
"Kikyou...Sango...Shippo...what are you doing here? In this era, in this world, alive?" Kagome asked, a lump forming in her throat. It was all she could do to keep from crying, much less sobbing. Yukina took a look at their wrists and was convinced that it was them...the tear gem bracelets were there. Kagome and Yukina looked at their bracelets, which they hadn't taken off and then looked at each other before looking at their friends from five hundred years ago. Sango and Kikyou looked exactly the same; they were even wearing the same outfits that they wore all those years ago.
"You know that wish I told you about, the one that we didn't know?" Kikyou asked, smiling warmly while tears formed in her eyes. "Sango, Miroku, Rin, and I couldn't age until at least one of us came face to face with you again, and I am truly alive, with my own soul."
"That just left all of us Youkai and half-youkai to age as we went." Shippo said, and he was speaking the truth. He looked about five years older than she knew he was. "We would have come to get you two right after you got back from the well...but it would have been too big of a shock...that and we weren't exactly sure when you finished your mission. We just watched you guys for the past week and we knew we could get you because of the bracelets Yukina gave us."
Yukina and Kagome dropped to their knees. This was a lot to take in. Kikyou and Sango walked up to the two girls, resting their hands on their shoulders. Kikyou's hand was on Kagome's and Sango's was on Yukina's. "We missed you." Kikyou and Sango said in unison. Suddenly, both of the stunned girls were hugging their two friends, while Shippo was snapping a few pictures at different angles.
After a few moments, they let go and wiped the tears from their eyes. "Everybody is waiting to see you. Follow us!" Shippo chirped and started to lead the way. Kagome and Yukina looked down and forced their trench coats off.
"I see you haven't used any of your arrows form me, Kagome." Kikyou said, brightening. "That proves how strong you are." Kagome shook her head.
"I just didn't want to part with them. They were my gift from you, after all." Kagome smiled and grabbed one of those power-filled arrows. It was true; she didn't want to part with them. They gave her a calming feeling. The girls soon came to a rather small cave opening, which was actually more like a hole that was around two ½ feet in diameter and it went down into the unknown. Kikyou just told them to slide down it.
"It's safe, I assure you. We made it so that it's as smooth as it could go. We'll go in the same order that we went in going down the portal." Kikyou said, motioning to Shippo who looked eager to go down the hole. He made sure his camera was safe and jumped in the hole. After a minute, Kagome followed him, followed by Sango a minute after Kagome went in, and a minute after Sango was Yukina, with Kikyou a minute after Yukina.
Kagome and Yukina looked around. They had expected something like a cave...or in Kagome's case she expected a den like Kouga's. They were now in what looked like an underground hallway, with everything smoothed down so it was easier to walk on and a carpet was laid down on the ground. Shippo tugged on Kagome's hand and she got the signal to follow him. Yukina walked beside Kagome while Sango and Kikyou stayed back.
"Everyone's at the end of the hallway in the main room! Come on!" Shippo grabbed Kagome's hand and took off; pulling Kagome with him while the rest of them ran to keep up.
"Shippo, you've gotten faster!" Kagome complimented Shippo, who grinned.
"Thanks!" Shippo sped up and Kagome sweat-dropped. Was it her or was Shippo trying to show off? Oh well, she was just glad to see him again, even if she couldn't hold him in her arms anymore. Shippo stopped at the end of a hallway where there was a large blanket covering the entryway to the room ahead and waited for the others to catch up.
When everyone did Shippo took both Kagome and Yukina and shoved them into the room eagerly. Kagome looked around, a lump forming in her throat. Everyone she knew was there. Sesshoumaru was leaning his back against the wall with Kagura standing next to him and Rin was sitting cross-legged in front of him, exactly the same age she had been five hundred years ago. Kouga was sitting by the fire and his three friends surrounded him (what are their names?). Miroku was sitting on a couch in the center of the room and Inuyasha was sitting next to him.
Everyone smiled at Yukina and Kagome and before she knew it, she was surrounded by hugs. Was it her, or did she get a lot of hugs with her feudal era friends? They broke off and Inuyasha glared at her for a second.
"About Yusuke Urameshi..." Inuyasha started and Kagome gulped a little. Oops...maybe she should have stayed and told Inuyasha first-hand instead of leaving it too Sango, Kikyou, and Shippo. "I sure hope you're happy with him." Inuyasha changed his glare into a grin and Kagome looked like she had suffered a heart attack. She felt for sure that Inuyasha would forbid her to see him or yell at her...this was strange. Of course, it had been a little bit over five hundred years for him.
"Thanks, Inuyasha." Kagome smiled and Yukina looked at him gratefully. She had expected the same thing that Kagome had.
"Kagome, why don't you sit over here and rest?" Miroku patted the seat right next to him and then he turned to Yukina. "You can sit on the other side of me if you wish!" Miroku patted the other side of the couch. All of the girls glared at him, even Kagura. "Or you can sit wherever you wish!"
Yukina and Kagome did just that and sat on a two-person couch, away from Miroku's hands. Sango rolled her eyes and sat next to Miroku, pushing him so that only one side of him was available and Kikyou wouldn't be put through any groping. Miroku smiled happily and everybody sweat-dropped. You would think after 500 years he would have learned by now. He didn't even have an excuse anymore.
"We need to tell you two something." Kikyou said, and everyone turned serious. "He isn't gone."
"Umm, who isn't gone?" Yukina asked. Kagome was curious too.
"Naraku." Inuyasha spit out his name like it was poison. Kagome and Yukina froze. But...Naraku had exploded...Kikyou had the whole Shikon no Tama with her! Naraku couldn't regenerate without he?
"But..." Kagome began but Inuyasha cut her off.
"We know. He's been subdued for the past 490 years but...within the last ten he's been building his army." Inuyasha growled. "We have some more youkai and humans with us." Kagome paled immensely. He couldn't still be alive...it was impossible...
"Who are the new youkai and humans?" Yukina asked, her hand shaking. Inuyasha looked at Yukina and sighed.
"They were instructed to stay in their rooms until we signaled them out...this was more of a personal meeting here." Sesshoumaru explained.
"You can meet them now if you want." Kikyou stood up and Kagome and Yukina nodded. If they had to continue fighting Naraku, they had to know who their allies were.
End of Chappie
TYN: I'm done! This is going to be a long story. Looooooooooooooooooong, even if the chapters aren't long.
Yusuke: O.O you're an idiot....
TYN: ..........I know.........
Yusuke: Read and Review!
To Fox Fire: Thanks for pointing that out...I heard they were twins (actually me and my only friend who watches Yuyu Hakusho obsessively thought they were twins). Thanks again! You get a cookie!
The Switch
Chapter Fourteen: All This Time
Kagome knew Hiei was far away from the biggest clearing at the park but just in case she kept her aura down. She was wearing a black trench coat so it would be harder to see her and underneath it she wore her fighting outfit and her bow and arrows were strapped to her back, ready for use. That presence she felt in the letter could be fake after all.
Approaching the clearing, Kagome could make out three figures, all of them wearing hooded cloaks that made it so that nobody could see any facial features, or any other features for that matter. Kagome walked up to them.
"Are you the ones that wanted to talk to me?" Kagome asked warily. She couldn't feel their aura's either.
"Yes, but we are waiting for another." The smallest one, who was about Souta's height, said, his voice was purposefully raspy. There was a snap behind Kagome and she whirled around.
"Yukina? What are you doing here?" Kagome asked and the ice maiden looked like she was about to ask the same thing. She too, was wearing a black trench coat and most likely had her fighting outfit and mace under it.
"I got a letter...did they send it?" Yukina pointed to the cloaked figures and they nodded. Yukina turned to Kagome. "Did they send you one also?" Kagome nodded, slightly freaked. "Oh..." The tallest figure pointed at the ground and murmured a few incomprehensible words to have a portal opened in between them and the two confused girls.
"Do you trust us to enter through this portal to where we come from?" One of the taller cloaked figures asked. Kagome and Yukina frowned. Why should they trust them? Then, Kagome remembered the presence she felt in the letter.
"I'll go through...but only if one of you goes in before us." Kagome said, still keeping her guard up. The presence could have been fake after all. The figures nodded and the smallest one dove in. Kagome told Yukina she would jump in first and jumped. Yukina was about to jump but noticed that one of the remaining figures held up their hand and jumped in, leaving only Yukina and the last figure that had opened up the portal. The figure nodded to Yukina and Yukina gulped before jumping in, with the last figure following her, with the portal closing as the figure went.
Hiei appeared at the clearing, but saw nothing. He could have sworn he felt Yukina's presence for a second, and a powerful presence before and after Yukina's presence. He inspected the area thoroughly and found nothing. Grumbling, he went back to his tree and fell asleep.
With Kagome and Yukina
Kagome and Yukina were frowning at the figures, still unable to feel their auras. Kagome knew that they were now in Makai, but she had never seen these lands before. They were by a roaring waterfall, and looking down they knew that if they went down they would surely die, for the fall was hundreds of meters. Rocks and a valley full of roses and trees surrounded them, something Kurama would appreciate heavily.
"Who are you, and where are we? I haven't been in this part of Makai." Kagome asked and the figures seemed to look at each other. Kagome was suddenly reminded of the Ringwraiths in LOTR, much to her discomfort. The figures nodded to each other and as one they pulled off their cloaks. Yukina and Kagome stood there, amazed, while tears formed in their eyes.
"Kikyou...Sango...Shippo...what are you doing here? In this era, in this world, alive?" Kagome asked, a lump forming in her throat. It was all she could do to keep from crying, much less sobbing. Yukina took a look at their wrists and was convinced that it was them...the tear gem bracelets were there. Kagome and Yukina looked at their bracelets, which they hadn't taken off and then looked at each other before looking at their friends from five hundred years ago. Sango and Kikyou looked exactly the same; they were even wearing the same outfits that they wore all those years ago.
"You know that wish I told you about, the one that we didn't know?" Kikyou asked, smiling warmly while tears formed in her eyes. "Sango, Miroku, Rin, and I couldn't age until at least one of us came face to face with you again, and I am truly alive, with my own soul."
"That just left all of us Youkai and half-youkai to age as we went." Shippo said, and he was speaking the truth. He looked about five years older than she knew he was. "We would have come to get you two right after you got back from the well...but it would have been too big of a shock...that and we weren't exactly sure when you finished your mission. We just watched you guys for the past week and we knew we could get you because of the bracelets Yukina gave us."
Yukina and Kagome dropped to their knees. This was a lot to take in. Kikyou and Sango walked up to the two girls, resting their hands on their shoulders. Kikyou's hand was on Kagome's and Sango's was on Yukina's. "We missed you." Kikyou and Sango said in unison. Suddenly, both of the stunned girls were hugging their two friends, while Shippo was snapping a few pictures at different angles.
After a few moments, they let go and wiped the tears from their eyes. "Everybody is waiting to see you. Follow us!" Shippo chirped and started to lead the way. Kagome and Yukina looked down and forced their trench coats off.
"I see you haven't used any of your arrows form me, Kagome." Kikyou said, brightening. "That proves how strong you are." Kagome shook her head.
"I just didn't want to part with them. They were my gift from you, after all." Kagome smiled and grabbed one of those power-filled arrows. It was true; she didn't want to part with them. They gave her a calming feeling. The girls soon came to a rather small cave opening, which was actually more like a hole that was around two ½ feet in diameter and it went down into the unknown. Kikyou just told them to slide down it.
"It's safe, I assure you. We made it so that it's as smooth as it could go. We'll go in the same order that we went in going down the portal." Kikyou said, motioning to Shippo who looked eager to go down the hole. He made sure his camera was safe and jumped in the hole. After a minute, Kagome followed him, followed by Sango a minute after Kagome went in, and a minute after Sango was Yukina, with Kikyou a minute after Yukina.
Kagome and Yukina looked around. They had expected something like a cave...or in Kagome's case she expected a den like Kouga's. They were now in what looked like an underground hallway, with everything smoothed down so it was easier to walk on and a carpet was laid down on the ground. Shippo tugged on Kagome's hand and she got the signal to follow him. Yukina walked beside Kagome while Sango and Kikyou stayed back.
"Everyone's at the end of the hallway in the main room! Come on!" Shippo grabbed Kagome's hand and took off; pulling Kagome with him while the rest of them ran to keep up.
"Shippo, you've gotten faster!" Kagome complimented Shippo, who grinned.
"Thanks!" Shippo sped up and Kagome sweat-dropped. Was it her or was Shippo trying to show off? Oh well, she was just glad to see him again, even if she couldn't hold him in her arms anymore. Shippo stopped at the end of a hallway where there was a large blanket covering the entryway to the room ahead and waited for the others to catch up.
When everyone did Shippo took both Kagome and Yukina and shoved them into the room eagerly. Kagome looked around, a lump forming in her throat. Everyone she knew was there. Sesshoumaru was leaning his back against the wall with Kagura standing next to him and Rin was sitting cross-legged in front of him, exactly the same age she had been five hundred years ago. Kouga was sitting by the fire and his three friends surrounded him (what are their names?). Miroku was sitting on a couch in the center of the room and Inuyasha was sitting next to him.
Everyone smiled at Yukina and Kagome and before she knew it, she was surrounded by hugs. Was it her, or did she get a lot of hugs with her feudal era friends? They broke off and Inuyasha glared at her for a second.
"About Yusuke Urameshi..." Inuyasha started and Kagome gulped a little. Oops...maybe she should have stayed and told Inuyasha first-hand instead of leaving it too Sango, Kikyou, and Shippo. "I sure hope you're happy with him." Inuyasha changed his glare into a grin and Kagome looked like she had suffered a heart attack. She felt for sure that Inuyasha would forbid her to see him or yell at her...this was strange. Of course, it had been a little bit over five hundred years for him.
"Thanks, Inuyasha." Kagome smiled and Yukina looked at him gratefully. She had expected the same thing that Kagome had.
"Kagome, why don't you sit over here and rest?" Miroku patted the seat right next to him and then he turned to Yukina. "You can sit on the other side of me if you wish!" Miroku patted the other side of the couch. All of the girls glared at him, even Kagura. "Or you can sit wherever you wish!"
Yukina and Kagome did just that and sat on a two-person couch, away from Miroku's hands. Sango rolled her eyes and sat next to Miroku, pushing him so that only one side of him was available and Kikyou wouldn't be put through any groping. Miroku smiled happily and everybody sweat-dropped. You would think after 500 years he would have learned by now. He didn't even have an excuse anymore.
"We need to tell you two something." Kikyou said, and everyone turned serious. "He isn't gone."
"Umm, who isn't gone?" Yukina asked. Kagome was curious too.
"Naraku." Inuyasha spit out his name like it was poison. Kagome and Yukina froze. But...Naraku had exploded...Kikyou had the whole Shikon no Tama with her! Naraku couldn't regenerate without he?
"But..." Kagome began but Inuyasha cut her off.
"We know. He's been subdued for the past 490 years but...within the last ten he's been building his army." Inuyasha growled. "We have some more youkai and humans with us." Kagome paled immensely. He couldn't still be alive...it was impossible...
"Who are the new youkai and humans?" Yukina asked, her hand shaking. Inuyasha looked at Yukina and sighed.
"They were instructed to stay in their rooms until we signaled them out...this was more of a personal meeting here." Sesshoumaru explained.
"You can meet them now if you want." Kikyou stood up and Kagome and Yukina nodded. If they had to continue fighting Naraku, they had to know who their allies were.
End of Chappie
TYN: I'm done! This is going to be a long story. Looooooooooooooooooong, even if the chapters aren't long.
Yusuke: O.O you're an idiot....
TYN: ..........I know.........
Yusuke: Read and Review!