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Disclaimer: I have Sesshoumaru as a guardian angel! *kuggles her Sesshoumaru guardian* But I don't own Inu-Yasha.
Chapter 2
Quarrel
"So you and Kirrara go way back?" Sango asked Inu-Yasha, sitting down beside him. Kagome glared at her for acting so familiar with her guardian angel, then immediately wondered why she even cared. She ignored Inu-Yasha and sat down beside Sango, still listening to the conversation.
"Yeah, we met one time when the mortals we were guarding happened to get in a fight over a horse or some stupid shit like that." Inu-Yasha was saying. "We started chatting after a while and since we both were always giving assignments in Japan we just met up every once in a while. We were both hoping that you two would meet sometime since you were living close enough, but it looks like you both had to die first."
"Yeah, well, being dead ain't all it's cracked up to be." Sango said, scratching Kirrara under the chin. "How'd you do it, Kagome?" She looked over at the girl in question, who blinked back at her. "How'd you die?"
"Well, uh…" Kagome paused. How did she die? Well, if Inu-Yasha was always there, then maybe… "Inu-Yasha, how'd I die?" She asked, forgetting she was supposed to be ignoring him.
"Car crash." Inu-Yasha said, studying his claws. "A truck swerved and hit you guys on your way to the beach."
"Oh." Kagome said quietly. She wondered if everyone else was okay when Inu-Yasha answered that question for her. "And don't worry, you were the only one who died. You got hit right on, but everyone else escaped with minor injuries." Kagome wondered if she should feel relieved or just get up and hit Inu-Yasha for acting like he didn't even care. She decided to do both.
"Ow!" Inu-Yasha grabbed the back on his head where Kagome had hit him. "The hell was that for?"
"If you're my guardian angel, then you're supposed to care about me!" Kagome said, oh so tempted to hit him again. They had another glaring contest and turned their backs to each other. "Inu-Yasha, just sit down." Kagome said, taking a seat herself.
"No."
"You heard me dog-breath, sit!"
He sat.
Kagome looked over her shoulder to see Inu-Yasha pull himself up from the ground again. Sango was giggling as Inu-Yasha threatened to kill the rosary around his neck and Kagome began to wonder if her guardian was insane.
"Looks like you figured out the secret of the rosary." Sango said, turning Kagome's attention to her. Sango scratched Kirrara just underneath the beaded necklace on the cat's neck. "The rosary's contain most of the angel's wild power, so the mortals have the ability to either increase the power of their angel or, as you've found out, subdue their angel if they're getting out of hand. Kirrara told me that that's because there's often too many of Inu-Yasha's kind around these days." Inu-Yasha glared at Kirrara and the other angel purred.
"So that's what they're for…" Kagome said with understanding, then an evil grin crossed her face. "Inu-Yasha?"
"Yeah wench?"
"Sit."
Sango and Kirrara watched Inu-Yasha spit out another mouthful of concrete then looked up at Kagome who was giggling. Looking back at Inu-Yasha, Sango couldn't help but giggle too. "Except when the rosaries were made, I don't think they had in mind for the mortals to abuse that power." Inu-Yasha pushed himself up, dusted himself off and turned his back on the girls. After a moment he started yanking at the rosary and cursing it to the seven gates of Hell.
"I still can't believe you're my guardian angel." Kagome sighed. "What exactly do you guard me from anyway?"
"Guardian angels are supposed to protect and make sure that demons don't interfere with their assigned mortals life." Sango replied. "Each guardian angel has seven different assignments they have to fulfill before they get their wings and become full-fledged angels. A successful assignment is if the mortal makes it to Heaven." She smiled. "At least, that's what Kirrara told me."
"Oh really?" Kagome looked over at Inu-Yasha who had stopped cursing his rosary and was sulking. His ears turned her way and he looked back at her, grunted, and turned away again. Kagome frowned. "I'm surprised my soul wasn't devoured when I was three then or something. You have to be the most incompetent angel I know." Something Sango had just said ran through her mind. "What number of assignment are you on?" she asked curiously. Inu-Yasha grunted but didn't respond.
Kirrara mewled and Inu-Yasha's ears turned back. Sango looked at her angel in surprise, the looked at Kagome. "Believe it or not, but this is his seventh assignment. If he succeeds," She looked at Inu-Yasha curiously. "He gets his wings."
"Really?" Kagome said, also looking over at Inu-Yasha in interest. Inu-Yasha's ears turned straight and he tried to act like he didn't notice them. Kagome was just trying to picture Inu-Yasha with wings and a halo. Then she stuck him in a frilly white dress and gave him a harp. Ah screw it, little angel babies started flying all over the place too, throwing sakura petals everywhere while cheesy 'angel' music played. Her nose wrinkled at the thought of it and she started giggling.
Everyone looked over at her. "What's so funny wench?" Inu-Yasha asked. Kagome glared at him.
"Sit."
"I really don't think you should be abusing that power." Sango said as Inu-Yasha began cursing both his rosary and Kagome. "I mean, after all, he does have to protect you during death."
Kagome stop giggling and looked over at her new dead friend and her angel. "Sango, speaking of death, I've just been wondering; how did you die?"
"Me?" Sango wrinkled her nose and a dark look came over her face. "I was murdered."
"Oh!" Kagome gasped. "Do you know who did it?" Even Inu-Yasha had stopped swearing at his rosary to look at Sango in interest. Kirrara also looked very solemn.
"If I knew who did it," Sango muttered darkly. "I wouldn't be here. I'd be killing that fucking bastard until his great-grandchildren were born dead." She clenched her fists tightly and looked true to her word.
Everyone was silent for a moment, until Inu-Yasha broke the silence, changing the subject quickly. "Hey, Kagome, you're still bleeding."
"What?" Kagome looked down at herself to see blood all over her shirt. "ew.…"
"Change out." Sango said simply. Kagome looked at her in confusion. "Or don't you know how?"
Kagome shook her head. Sango smiled. "Oh, well it's easy then. Just focus on your clothes turning into something else." Kirrara mewed and Sango looked at Kagome. "Are you really a shrine girl?" she asked.
"Huh?" Kagome looked up at a Sango from concentrating on her shirt, trying to will it clean. She looked at Kirrara and felt slightly left out that both Inu-Yasha and Sango knew what the little cat angel was saying, but she didn't. Then she remembered the question. "Oh, yeah, I am. Why?"
"Because that's what Kirrara said Inu-Yasha said you were." Sango grinned mischievously. "So that means you know a bunch of this supernatural stuff and should be a cinch at it!"
"Yeah, sure." Kagome mumbled, going back to her shirt. She tried to envision the blood disappearing from it, then to her amazement she watched as it did. "Hey, cool!"
"See, I told you it would b easy." Sango smiled. Kagome stared at her clean shirt in amazement. She looked at a Sango, glowing. "What else can ghosts do?" she asked excitedly. Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes and mouthed 'Here we go.' Sango giggled and answered Kagome's question.
"As far to my knowledge ghosts can jump high, fly for a short period of time, float about 4 feet above the ground, go through walls and other solid objects, change clothes and the really powerful and experienced ones and shoot ki blasts, move objects and make themselves be heard by mortals. The last three also happen by some ghosts that get a little out of control." She shrugged. "There's probably more, but I've only been dead for a month, so I haven't learned everything yet."
Kagome's eyes glistened. "That sounds great! You are so teaching me everythi-" She was interrupted by a familiar siren noise. She stiffened, then jumped up, and ran over to the edge of the roof to see the ambulance pull into the hospital. "My body!"
"You mean you just died a few hours ago?" Sango asked, coming up beside her. "So that's why you need me to teach you." She looked over at Inu-Yasha. "Since he looks fairly incompetent."
"Hey!" Inu-Yasha snarled at her. Kagome tugged at his sleeve and he looked down. "What wen- " he at the look on her face as she prepared to say the 's' word. "Kagome?"
She smiled. "How do we get inside the hospital?"
Inu-Yasha blinked for a moment at the rapid change in personality. "Uh, just go through I guess."
Sango sighed. "You make a horrible angel, you know that?" She grabbed Kagome's arm. "It's easy. Just think of turning into water and you'll just go right through. It takes a bit of practice at first, but after a while you just sorta do it automatically."
"Alright." Kagome nodded, closed her eyes and began concentrating. She felt her entire body go slightly numbish and when she opened her eyes and was floating downwards in the air. "Hey, cool!"
Sango smiled. "You'll get used to it after a while. Now just try to keep this feeling so that it's faster to head to the morgue." She tugged on Kagome's wrist and pulled her through a wall, Kirrara and Inu-Yasha close behind.
"Morgue?" Kagome said, startled, then remembered. "Oh right." She ran to keep up with Sango, and soon began to enjoy running through the walls. It was like running through jello, and had a tingling sensation and she began jumping back and forth through walls before Inu-Yasha grabbed her with a growl and set her on the right path.
Sango disappeared through a pair of doors and Kagome followed, then skidded to a stop. Inu-Yasha ran right into her and knocked her over, both landed in a tangle.
"Watch where you're going!" Inu-Yasha growled, pulling himself up. He then helped Kagome up, and if Kagome hadn't been so shocked she would have asked him why he would actually do such a nice deed. But right now she was too busy staring at the latest arrival to the morgue.
She hadn't really gotten a good look at herself before in the ambulance, but now she could see her body clearly. Half her rib cage seemed broken and blood was covering her entire shirt and she had a blood stream on her face from a gash in her forehead. Kagome unconsciously wrapped an arm around her chest and wiped her forehead, astonished to see blood on her hand.
"Oh Kagome, I'm so sorry." Sango gasped at sight, but Kagome didn't seem to hear her. Trembling, Kagome walked up to her body and put a hand on her forehead. Although she was a ghost now, Kagome could still feel, and her body was still warm. She stood there, staring at herself for a moment before breaking down. Inu-Yasha quickly ran over and caught Kagome as she fell backwards, sobbing. She buried her face in his chest and he uncertainly wrapped his arms around her. "Kagome, please don't cry again." He nearly whimpered, looking forlornly lost. "It'll be okay… really. Just please, stop crying?"
Sango smiled at Inu-Yasha's attempts at consolation, rather poor attempts she added when Kagome kicked him but kept on crying ("All I said was that the funeral's gonna be nice!" Inu-Yasha protested), and mused about how cute the pair of them looked together. Her musings were interrupted by noises and she glance over at the door, walked over and poked her head out to see what it was. Her face paled and she ran back inside, waving frantically to Inu-Yasha. "Guys, someone's coming! We should get out of here!"
"Eh?" Inu-Yasha looked up at her, then saw the door open and who was entering. "Oh shit. C'mon Kagome."
Before she could protest Inu-Yasha grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the room. Sango and Kirrara followed behind as Inu-Yasha jumped from floor to floor until they were back on the roof. Not being a supernatural entity like Inu-Yasha, Sango couldn't jump as fast and by the time she arrived on the roof top the scene was not pretty.
Kagome and Inu-Yasha were facing off, screaming at each other. Sango landed quietly on the roof and watched, wondering if she should get involved. This didn't look like any of the friendly fights Kagome and Inu-Yasha had had earlier. Kagome looked eternally pissed and ready to bite Inu-Yasha's head off.
"… and next time why don't you just go and ruin my funeral, or desecrate my grave you insensitive bastard!" She screeched. Inu-Yasha flattened his ears. He looked as though he had been trying to calm her down, but now his temper took over.
"Listen bitch, I was just trying to help you!"
"Help me like hell!" Kagome interrupted, at a decibel that made even Sango wince. "You just do whatever the hell you feel like, just because you're some damned angel! You can't even give me two minutes alone?!"
"If you had stayed it would have been harder for you!" Inu-Yasha snarled back. "I was trying to keep your best interests in mind and get you out of there before you got seriously hurt!"
"FROM WHAT?! There's just dead bodies there! Like me!"
"Your fucking mother was coming in!" Inu-Yasha roared, and Sango didn't know whether it was the tone of his voice or what he said that silenced Kagome. "If you had stayed in that damn room you would have just made it harder on yourself." He said a little more quietly. "And you might have done something irrational that could have affected both you and her. That's why I had to pull you out."
Kagome stood there silently, trembling and glaring hatred at Inu-Yasha. Sango suddenly remembered to breathe (then remembered she had no breath), and watched as Kagome turned around and began walking away from Inu-Yasha, towards the edge of the hospital roof.
"Hey, where are you going!" Inu-Yasha barked, running after Kagome. The girl stopped and Inu-Yasha slowed down and stopped beside her.
Sango winced as Kagome turned around and slapped Inu-Yasha so hard Sango was sure it would bruise for a week. Inu-Yasha swore, putting a hand to his stinging cheek and looked down at Kagome. The harsh words he was about to say lodged in his throat when he saw the tears streaming down her face. She stood there, shaking and crying, glaring at him with more hatred then Inu-Yasha had ever seen before in this life.
"I hate you." She said quietly, just loud enough for Inu-Yasha' ears to pick up. "I hate you and everything about you. Don't you even have the heart to let me see my mother one last time?!" She shouted the last bit. She balled her hand into a fist and hung her head, watching her tears stain the roof for a second before evaporating. "I never want to see you again. Ever." She turned around and began walking in the other direction. Inu-Yasha stood there, frozen, unsure of what to do. He shook himself free of his fright, and took a step towards the departing girl. "Ka-Kagome!" he shouted after her.
"Sit." Kagome didn't even turn around as Inu-Yasha fell to the ground just as comically as ever. But Sango didn't really feel like laughing as she stepped up beside the confused young angel. They both watched silently as Kagome neared the edge of the roof, paused for a minute, then jumped to another roof. A bit more sure of herself she ran to the edge and began jumping from roof to roof until she was nearly out of sight. Sango was slightly amazed as Kagome's quickness in getting the hang of her ghost abilities when she heard Inu-Yasha get up.
"Kago-" Sango put up a hand, cutting Inu-Yasha off. She shook her head as the angel looked at her in anger and confusion. "Let her go." She said quietly. "She's going to need some space to steam off."
"But…" Kirrara cut Inu-Yasha off again with a sharp 'meow', and he stared out to where Kagome had disappeared, ears drooping as he felt more lost then he'd ever had in his entire life. "But…" He sat down, wondering what he had done wrong. Sango sat down beside him and pretended that she didn't see the tear Inu-Yasha quickly wiped away from his cheek.
She hated him. Hated him, hated him, hated him. Why on Earth did she have to get such an asshole for a guardian angel? Kagome ran faster, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, running God knows where and not caring. She could feel herself start to get tired but she tried to ignore it. She'd run as far away from that asshole as possible, even if it meant leaving Tokyo, even if it meant leaving Japan. Her tears were starting to blind her vision and she stumbled, falling hard against the roof of an apartment building.
She started to pick herself up and just sat there, sobbing from the tears and sobbing for breath. Maybe she was being to irrational, a little voice in her head thought. After all, she would have probably panicked if she saw her mother and might have caused some damage like Sango had said.
Kagome pushed that thought out of her head and curled up into a ball as she tried to think more clearly. She hated Inu-Yasha, she reminded herself, hated him. She didn't need a guardian angel to survive as a ghost, nothing at all. She was perfectly fine on her own. She could make a ki blast and fly and learn to do everything by herself, without that selfish jerk. He probably wouldn't teach her anyway.
But Sango would have, and you left her behind without even a thought, didn't you? Another sneaky little voice popped up in her head. She pushed that one back too and dimly wondered if all this grief was causing her to go insane.
"Who can blame me though?" She mumbled to herself, wiping at some of her tears. "I just died a few hours ago. You can't exactly expect me to cope with it all nicely and everything." Maybe she should go back and apologize to Inu-Yasha, she thought miserably. Now that she thought about it, the first little voice was right. If she had actually seen her mother, what would she have done? Go berserk, nearly kill Inu-Yasha and probably try to hug her, she figured. And if she was out of hand, would she have knocked her mother over? Maybe even kill her? How could she live with herself then?
So you see, Inu-Yasha was right. The first voice said. Kagome sighed. "I guess so," She muttered, getting up and dusting herself off and wiping the tears from her face. Then she paused and began laughing. Listening to voices in her head! Even better, answering them! Inu-Yasha would really have something to say about that if he were here, she thought bitterly.
Then paused. Where exactly was Inu-Yasha? She couldn't just wander around and try to find him. She frowned as she tried to remember which direction he was in. Then a thought struck her. Maybe, if Inu-Yasha was her guardian angel, if she just concentrated then she could sense where he was. She closed her eyes and concentrated really hard, trying to locate Inu-Yasha. There! A strong feeling, kind of dark and rough, the way Inu-Yasha's energy had felt when she first met him. She turned in the direction that she felt it in, it was really close by, and opened her eyes.
And screamed.
Inu-Yasha's ears picked up that all-too-familiar scream and began running faster, Sango riding Kirrara's true form, a giant tiger with large fangs and flaming feet, behind him. His heart skipped a beat when he heard it a second time, only to be cut off midway through.
"Did you hear that?" Sango asked him as he started swearing at his legs for not being able to carrying him any faster. He looked up at her fearfully and nodded, then stared straight ahead where he sensed Kagome, all the more enforced by the scream.
"It's all my fault." He growled quietly to himself, grinding his fangs together. He clenched his fists. All my fault that Kagome might die too early. He put every ounce of energy he had into running, not even concerned that if he arrived he might not be strong enough to fight the demon. That wouldn't matter if Kagome was dead by the time he got there. He put a clawed hand on his sword and snarled under his breath. Stay there Kagome, he thought. I'm coming.
He, Sango and Kirrara ran at top speed through the rooftops of Tokyo.
End Chapter 2
And that's the end of Chapter 2! I'm gonna try to post up a new chapter ever Tuesday, and Thursday since I already have up to chapter 5 written and see if maybe I can post more up from there.
I don't have high-speed :( so I'm stuck with posting twice weekly. But I'm sure that's fine with everyone! Just gives me more time read your reviews and improve my already written chapters and inspire me to write further ones! *hinthint*
And for those of you who hate cliffhangers and hate waiting this long for the end of the cliffhanger:
PREVIEW OF CHAPTER 3: COMPANIONS
- Miroku and Shippo finally show up
- The plot gets a little bit more of a push (not much, but a little)
- The afterlife gets explained
- Inu-Yasha screws up again (so what else is new?)
That's all for now. New post on Tuesday.
Ciao!
~Ama Koneko~