Mangetsu no Ochiru Tenshi
In the dead of night during a full moon, an angel falls from the heavens. She lands next to the Higurashi Shrine.
"What was that?!" a woman asks, as she runs outside and sees the young angel. "Oh, my god! She's hurt!" an older man comes up to her.
"Is she an angel?! She has wings!" almost as soon as he spoke, her wings began to glow then slowly retract.
"Mama?! What's going on?! a young boy said, rubbing his tired eyes. The woman turns to him.
"Souta! Go get some of my pajamas and some blankets! Quick!"
"Uh! Right!" he ran into the house.
"Tou-san! Help me carry her inside!"
"Hai!"
They both carried the naked girl into the house and dressed her, they laid her on the couch. "I'll stay up with her! You guys can go back to sleep!..."
They walked upstairs. Not too much later, she stirred. She sat up quickly, looking at her with a terrified look. "...Who-.. Who are you?!..." the woman put a comforting hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"It's alright dear! My name is Harumi Higurashi! Calm down! You were in my yard! Do you have any idea why?!" the girl brought a hand to her forehead and got a pained look on her face with closed eyes.
"Uh!!... n-..no!... I don't remember... anything!!...." she said. Mrs. Higurashi smiled.
"Alright! well, then you'll stay here with us! What is you're name, dear?!..." she looked at the older woman.
"Nnname?!...." She sighed.
"Alright! We'll just call you Kagome then! Kagome Higurashi; how's that sound?!" she nods. "Now you lay back down and go to sleep! You'll need your rest!..." she said, pushing her back down onto the bed. She smiled as 'Kagome' fell asleep. 'I finally have a daughter!!!...' she thought happily.
2 years later....
"Mom! I'm heading out to meet Inuyasha!"
"Alright, Kagome! We'll see you in a few weeks!"
She jumped into the well. (To make a long story short, she saw Inuyasha and Kikyou together.)
Since he hadn't smelled her, she ran far away from where they were, tears streaming down her face. She tripped on a root and fell in a clearing. She hugged herself, still sitting on her knees and cried.
"I will never love again......"
Meanwhile, Sesshomaru was wondering around when his sensitive ears picked up a woman's voice. "I will never love again......" it said. He followed the voice and the familiar scent of lilacs and lavender mixed with nothingness and arrived in a clearing. His eyes widened a bit.
He saw a girl-Kagome-glowing and in the breeze, her wings blowing behind her, feathers flying every where as tears fell to the ground. He closed his eyes and shook his head. When he opened his eyes and looked at her again, she looked like a normal human, no wings and no glow. He walked up to her and she looked up at him, a surprised/frightened look on her face. 'Hm. This is Inuyasha's wench. But what was that I saw and smelled of her before?' he asked himself. "Wench. What are you? And where is Inuyasha? Is he not here to protect you?" She scoffs and smirks.
"First of all, my name is Kagome! And why would he want to protect me?!... he doesn't love me!..." she looks up at him, her tear filled angry. "And what do you mean, 'what am I'?! I'm a human!" his eyes narrowed at her comment.
"Can you yourself not even see that which you are?" he asked her, earning another surprised look from her.
"What are you talking about?! I told you! I'm human!" he turns his head a bit, closes his eyes and gives a light smile, one she's seen on his beautiful face many times.
"Heh. I see. Well, then." he looks at her again. "If you wish to find out who or what you really are... please accompany me to my castle." he says turning.
She looks at his back, confused. "Wh-why do you wanna help me?!" she asked.
"You have aroused my curiosity. That, and I have other questions that I wish to ask you, as a human."
She thinks about it for a while. "...how far is your castle from here?..." he stopped and turned to her.
"It matters not."
"Alright, Sesshomaru! I'll come wish you on 2 conditions!" he turns to her completely. "You can't kill me, and you have to protect me!"
"Can you not defend yourself? I have seen you do it on more than one occasion in battle."
"Yes, but against stronger demons, I am... not the strongest miko, and my powers aren't always enough!..." she admitted.
"Agreed. Now, let's go." He reached down to help her up. She looked at his hand and then up at him. She smiled and then took his hand and he pulled her up. He pulled her close to him and then created his little cloud thingy and they were off to his castle.
back with Inuyasha
"Hey! Did Kagome get back yet?!" Inuyasha growled, coming back from the woods.
"We think so! Cuz we found her back by the well, but we couldn't find Kagome any where!" Sango informed him. Just then, Inuyasha's nose picked up his scent.
"Rrr!!.... Sesshomaru was here!...." then, Kagome's sweet scent mixed with his and Inuyasha's eyes widened. "He has Kagome!!..." He growled.
Miroku brought a hand to his chin and his face gained a thoughtful look. "What could Sesshomaru-sama want with Kagome?!"
"Sesshomaru has Kagome?!?!?!! oh, no!! We have to get her back!! What if he hurts her!?!!!!" Shippo yells hysterically, tears brimming in his tiny eyes.
"Don't you dare cry, runt! He won't hurt Kagome!!" he jumps off while saying. "I'll bet my life on it!!....."
With Sess & Kag
She had fallen asleep a while ago. She was laying against him, her head on his tail. He couldn't figure out why he didn't push her away and why he was not disgusted by this human lying on him in such a way. She put a hand on top of his armor and snuggled closer to him and sighed. He growled at his own inability to push her away.
'What is she?...' he asked himself, angrily. Thankfully for him, they arrived at his castle soon after. He pushed her away and shook her a bit, holding her shoulders. She opened her eyes and rubbed one with her fist.
"Are we here already?!...." she moaned in protest, even tho it had really taken all night to get to the castle and it was now morning. He jumps off of the cloud and reaches out his hand to her. She took it and he helped her jump down off the cloud and then it disappeared.
"Why do I feel as if I'm... obligated, to act this way towards her?... To care for her and protect her?...' he led her into his castle as she stared at it in awe. He came up to a young youkai girl and told her to bring Kagome to a room and give her a modest Kimono. She bowed and said "Yes, My Lord!" and led Kagome off. He went to his study and took out the book that his mother always kept and left to him at her time of death.
'It seems as if I was destined to meet this girl... but I have never noticed this of her before.' he looked in the book at his mother's writings, and then her drawings. He flipped thru the drawings and when he came to a certain picture, his eyes widened. It was a girl with wings, flying towards the heavens. He got a vision of Kagome in the forest and he held his head. 'What is going on here?!...' He looked thru the book once more and came to the writings his mother had on the reasons for drawing that picture.
He read it silently to himself:
'This vision has come to me many times in my dreams. I had not been able to figure out what it was, but... it came to me the other night. She spoke to me in my dreams and told me that she is an angel named Natsumi. A strange breed of angel, that has all of the characteristics of a inuyoukai, except for fangs.
She informed me that she was not going to stay in heaven much longer. When I asked her why, she told me that she was coming down to earth. But in the future. Why was she coming to me in my dreams, then? I asked. She said that we would never meet in my lifetime...
But you, my son, as I know you are reading this now, she told me that she would meet you. She would come to you in the form of a human girl from the future. She would appear in her true form only on certain nights. She did not know when or how she would, but she assured me that she would and that you two were betrothed.
She knew that you would never accept her as a human, so she would grant her human host one wish. The wish would be her choice, but know this... it will have to be'
Jap Translations:
Mangetsu No Ochiru Tenshi: Full Moon and Falling Angels
tou-san: informal way of saying "father"
hai: yes
miko: priestess
youkai: demon
inuyoukai: dog demon
yay! that's the end of my first chapter! i hope you enjoyed it! more to come soon!