Potential
By: Camigwen
-Chapter 6-
"We don't want to fight you, Kagome. We simply want you to hear us out," Giles said in Japanese.
Spike scoffed at the foreign language, a bit irked at its use since he couldn't understand it. "Tell her we want her to hear what we have to say."
Giles smirked, "I just did." He switched into Japanese and turned to Kagome. "I'm sorry we frightened you and followed you into this, er, time, but it is of great importance that you hear what we have to say."
"I'm listening," Kagome said as she glared back at Inuyasha, warning him not to pull anything stupid. "Talk."
The watched smiled somewhat and sat down on a nearby tree stump, removing his glasses so he could clean them with his shirt. "I can see why the Bringers haven't found you."
"Bringers?"
That word, in Japanese or not, Spike understood. "Nasty fellows with no mouths or eyes. Sent by the big bad Firsty to take you life so that you'll never have the chance to be a Slayer; to end the Slayer line."
Giles glared back at Spike and told him to shut up since Kagome probably couldn't understand him. The vampire rolled his eyes and pulled out a cigarette despite Giles's look of disapproval. He was at least going to do something he enjoyed while in this miserable time period…
"As I was saying, " the watcher turned back to the slightly confused Japanese Potential, "the Bringers are sent by the First Evil—the 'ultimate' villain, I guess you could say, whom lives within the Hellmouth—to kill all Potential Slayers. You, as I previously explained, are a Potential Slayer. In fact, you're the only one left in Japan. There were about a dozen or so of you, but the Bringers got to the rest of them. You, however, weren't do to you're being here."
"So…" Kagome said slowly, "as long as I stay here, the Bringers can't get me?"
Giles nodded and shrugged. "Well, yes. But, Spike and I were able to pass through the portal using a simple incantation. They might be able to as well."
Kagome sighed. "Great, just great. Another thing to make my life more interesting and to add to my list of people who're trying to kill me. If these Bringers can pass through the well without a shard of the Shikon no Tama, then there's no telling what'll happen."
"Speaking of things related to the subject of the Shikon no Tama," Giles said, standing up and putting his glasses back on, "where's that Inuyasha who came to you 'rescue' earlier."
The Potential Slayer bit her lip. "Um, well, he's…"
"Right over here!" Human Inuyasha chimed in from behind Kagome, sitting Indian-style with his arms folded and an annoyed look set into his face. "Geez, I swear, people are blind sometimes," he muttered.
Kagome gave him a look of surprise as Giles strode past her and squinted at him through his glasses.
"Odd," he remarked, "I thought Inuyasha to be a half-demon."
Inuyasha angrily jumped to his feet. "I am a half-demon!"
Giles raised an eyebrow at him. "Apparently not," he said, gesturing to his hair. "According to the accounts found my Will—a friend of mine, Inuyasha has silver hair, dog ears, silted irises with a golden hue, fangs, and claws. You, do not."
"It's 'cause of the new moon, genius! Since I'm a half-breed, I turn human on the nights of a new moon! …Oops…"
Kagome shook her head as Inuyasha let his 'secret' out. "Smooth one," she remarked.
"Oh, shut up wench," he retorted. He turned back to Giles to find him scribbling something in odd characters in something resembling a book. "Hey—what're you doing, geezer!?"
Ignoring the geezer comment, he replied: "Taking note on this unusual change of yours. Apparently the council had no record of this. Or, they did and it was destroyed along with the council itself. I find this quiet fascinating and would be intriguing to some of my colleagues."
He didn't understand half of that, but decided it was a bad thing and lunged for the book, only to have Giles jump away from him and return the book to his inner coat pocket.
Giles turned from Mr. Grumpy to Kagome who was looking pensive. "Kagome, dear, I have a preposition for you." He paused, making sure he had her full attention. "Come back with Spike and I to California. There, two Slayers—ask later, long story—await, training the remaining Potential Slayers to protect themselves upon the rising of the First Evil. You'd be both protected and knowledgeable on how to defend yourself from the First Evil."
Kagome contemplated this, knowing that both Giles and Inuyasha's eyes were staring at her. If she were to go, she'd be leaving her home, family, friends, and duties in the feudal era behind… But, then again, if she were to stay, she'd be putting them all in danger if the Bringers were to come for her. If she were in California, at least they'd be safe.
With a long, heavy sigh, she nodded. "I'll go."
Giles smiled, "Good. Now, we'll ha—"
"Only if Inuyasha comes with me."
"What!?" Both Giles and Inuyasha chimed in unison.
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"Oh Kami-sama, I think I'm gonna be sick."
Kagome frowned at Inuyasha, sitting in the seat beside her next to the window. She reached over and pulled the shutter down over it. "Hush," she said, "the plane hasn't even taken off."
"Yeah," he said in a trembling voice, "but the rumbling beneath me—"
"The engine?"
"Whatever you call it, is making me nauseous." He put his head between his legs and shut his eyes as Kagome patted his back.
"I wonder what's taking Giles and Spike so long…"
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"An antique sword, you say?"
"Yes," Giles replied to the guard inspecting Inuyasha's Tetsaiga, which he insisted be brought along. Giles didn't quite understand why, the sword was a pathetic looking, but didn't argue. He pulled out a document he'd gotten from the council when he'd returned to England prior to his return to Sunnydale upon hearing that Buffy was alive again that allowed him to transport weapons—under the guise that he was a museum curator.
The guard read over the document. "I see… Well, sorry for the hold up, sir." He returned both the sword and the document to him and allowed him and Spike to pass.
The two entered the plane and took their seats across from Kagome and Inuyasha. Soon after, the plane took flight.
Spike opened his mouth to ask something, but remembered that he didn't speak Japanese and instead gestured to Inuyasha with a puzzled look.
"Not used to planes," she said plainly and jumped as Inuyasha gagged and vomited on the floor beside her feet.
Spike laughed. This was going to be a long trip.
+TBC+
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, plain as that.
AN: Thanks for all the reviews! =D Quick enough update for ya?
10/26/03