Potential
By: Lady Camigwen
"A Slayer?"
Giles and Spike glanced at each other and the older-looking man took his glasses off and wiped them before putting them back on and speaking to Kagome. "Why, y-yes. You're a Potential Slayer."
Kagome stared at them blankly for a moment before clutching her sides and bursting out into laughter. These men where insane! A Slayer, a demon hunter...her!? Get real. She wiped the tears from her eyes and let her fit of laughter fade. "You're kidding, right? This is some joke Souta or one of my friends put you up to, right?"
Giles sighed. "No, I'm afraid not." He took Kagome's hands in his own. "Kagome, you have a greater destiny than you allow yourself to believe. Into each generation, there is a chosen one. One girl throughout the world with the power to defeat the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer. Kagome, you are a Potential Slayer. You've been chosen."
She jerked her hands away from his in a quick motion and backed up to the door. Grabbing the handle, she flung it open. "Okay, I've heard enough of this prank. You may leave now."
Spike gave a howl of pain and jumped away from the sunlight shinning threw the doorway. "Bloody Hell!" He made his way behind Kagome and slammed the door shut. He glared at her, and she could've sworn she heard him let out a low growl.
"Look," Kagome said, "I don't know what's going on here, but vampires and demons don't exist! Well... at least demons don't anymore. But, vampires are a figment of imagination! You know, Dracula, that old American show Dark Shadows? Stuff like that. Whatever you two have been smoking--"
The younger-looking blonde interrupted her, even though she didn't understand what he was saying and vice-versa. "Good God, girl! We haven't got time to be sitting about trying to get you to believe us! Do you want proof? Well, here's proof for you."
Kagome's eyes widened as Spike's face twisted and his eyes took on a demonic golden glow. He grinned at her and she could see a sharp pair of fangs in his mouth. He was a vampire... this was real.
She screamed.
+§¤§+
Inuyasha hoisted himself over the rim of the well. Where was that woman? She always took so long. It was always study this, test that, and he was getting tired of it. He didn't see the point in going to this place called school and learning a variety of different...what did Kagome call them?...subjects. It didn't seem logical.
Kagome had once mentioned to him that she wanted to be a doctor or something called a biologist. She should then study medicine and healing alone and whatever a biologist did, and not other things that didn't matter in her future such as this math she always complained about.
Slowly, he made his way out of the shrine and toward her house, knowing fully that he was in for a couple of 'sits' for disturbing her. That's when he heard it that's when he heard her piercing scream.
Instantly, he leapt into a run and dashed through the back door of her house and followed her scent to the main room at the front of the house where Kagome was standing a foot away from a demon. He wasn't sure what kind of demon, but the scent and the demonic glow of the eyes told him he was clearly a demon.
There was a man he'd never seen before standing close to them, shouting at the unfamiliar demon in a language Inuyasha could not comprehend. They didn't seem to notice his presence.
Kagome screamed again as the demon stepped closer and Inuyasha quickly jumped in front of her and drew the Tetsaiga from its sheath and held it threateningly at the demon. "Stay away from Kagome, pal!"
The demon looked shocked and shot a confused, questioning glance at the man, who looked just as stunned. The man regained his composer and fiddled with his glasses, murmuring in the same odd language.
Inuyasha growled in frustration and glanced back at a frightened, shocked, confused, and stunned Kagome. She clung to the material of his kimono, staring at the ground, as if she were trying to sort things out in her mind. "Kagome?"
She tore her gaze from the ground and looked up at him. "Huh?"
The half-demon gestured with his head at the demon and the man.
"Them...well, I-I...I don't know. I'm confused...I don't know what to think, say..." she glanced over at the man, "...or answer."
He blinked, confused. "Huh? What is that supposed to mean!?" He growled and lunged at the demon with the Tetsaiga, but his attack was quickly and easily dodged. What in all Hells?
The demon swung around and stood facing Inuyasha. He said something, but to Inuyasha, it was a jumbled mess of gibberish. When the demon realized Inuyasha didn't get it, he calmed and slowly, and to Inuyasha's surprise, let the demon fade away. A gentle, human face was now in place and blue eyes shown instead of demonic gold ones.
For a moment, Inuyasha stood starring, but quickly snapped out of it and lunged once more.
"Sit!"
He groaned allowed before plummeting face first to the wood floor. He pushed himself up and glared over at Kagome, who had sunk to the floor. What was going on?
Kagome sent him a look of sympathy, then looked to the man. "Why...why did you come to tell me this? From what you've told me, you already have a 'Slayer.' So, if I'm just a potential, why come to me? Why not go to her?"
The man sighed and spoke in Japanese this time. "It's kind of complicated, you see. We, in a sense, work with her. Kagome, we came her from Sunnydale, California--"
"...America..."
"Yes," he continued, "There is a terrible, destructive force about to rise and its minions are killing off potentials. I'm afraid my dear, that if you don't come with us back to Sunnydale, you may be killed as well."
Kagome bolted to her feet and moved closer to Inuyasha. "Giles, this..." she brought both hands to her head as she walked backward, "...this is too much. I've got too much to deal with right now. This, has to wait, it can't be real. It can't!" She threw her hands down to her sides in clenched fists and shook her head. "It's not real! It's not!"
+§¤§+
She emerged from the back door of the house, bound for the well with Inuyasha right behind her with Giles and Spike in close pursuit. Inuyasha asked her what was going on and if she was okay, but she ignored him and marched down the steps of the shrine and sat on the edge of the well with Inuyasha's gaze fixed on her.
Giles and Spike burst through the doors and the older man spoke. "Kagome, honestly, the truth I do speak. I'm not lying to you. This is a serious matter. You could be killed!"
Inuyasha moved to her side and she grabbed his hand. To Giles, she icily said, "If these minions you speak of want to kill me, I'd like to see them try and find me!" She jumped over the edge and into the well, jerking Inuyasha over as well.
Spike jumped down the well after them, but when he hit the bottom, there was nobody but him.
**TBC**
Disclaimer: I do not claim to own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Inuyasha. I am simply a fan with little money to her name.
AN: I know I told some of you that I would have this chapter up...a while ago. I am sorry for that, but the computer I originally had this chapter saved on crashed, and the file was deleted. After many useless attempts to recover it, I gave up and rewrote it. Thus, here you go. ^^;; I'll try to update soon, and this time, save to disk as well.