Welcome all to the next chapter. I'm thinking of changing the title cause I don't think many people are clicking on the story cause it has the magical letters 'SI' in them. All two or three reviews were positive so I guess if people can find it within themselves to click on the story they might enjoy it. I hope. Anyway, if anyone thinks I claim Inuyasha or any other show and anime I hint at while I write YOU'LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT!
I stalk around the forest around Kaede's village. It's been a few hours since the little altercation between myself and Inuyasha's gang. So far they don't seem to trust me in the slightest, not that I blame them. I'm a stranger and I guess I have a knack for getting caught at the worst possible time in the worst possible circumstances. I need to get a jewel shard to get to modern Tokyo and hopefully find a Goddess to get me out of this nasty little mess. Hmm, it really doesn't feel right just stealing the damn thing. I open my senses. Seems like Kagome has them in a little jar around her neck. I need to see her alone.
Seems something finally is going right for me. Inuyasha said something only he could say and Kagome sat him as only she could. She is walking toward the well in a huff. Hmmm, I have an idea. If she is going to the present Tokyo then maybe I can hitch a ride. I silently creep up on her and gently tap her sleep spot on the back of her neck. I love pressure points. I grab her before she hits the ground and quickly run to the well. I am within sighting distance when I feel another energy closing fast. Damn, Inuyasha! No time for the quick and silent approach. I pour on the speed and dive headfirst into the well. Damn, how does Kagome do it? Going through the well with all these lights and vertigo feeling, damn I feel like I'm going to lose my lunch! We then arrive to the present in a way that's unforgettable. I land headfirst and her sleeping body falls on me in a most suggestive fashion.
I push her skirt out of my face as her head and hair are covering my lower body. I see a little boy blushing and muttering "Sis.." before he dashes off. I sigh, consequently moving the skirt back into my face. I gently disengage myself from her and stand. Why does this always happen to me? I can hear and feel people approach. I jump out of the well and dash away. Hopefully they'll think the boy was seeing things. If not, I look a lot like Yasha, especially in the dark when people can't see my demon lines. Heh, I'm screwing my brother up and it isn't even the right one.
I jump from roof top to roof top and I discover a massive flaw in my perfect plan. I can't read a lick of Japanese! Sure, I can understand it spoken but that's because I lived there for a few decades. I never actually thought of learning how to write since I was too busy trying not to die in a memorable, painful fashion. Damn. Hmm, I need to find a computer. I was pretty good with them before being sent to the Warring States period and I don't think I forgot much of it. I can run a search for Keiichi Morisato since I remember in the anime he won several races. That would have to be in some newspaper article. Where he goes to school would also go hand in hand with that. I look down at myself. Hmm, getting in could be a problem….
I walk into a library a nice man directed me to on the street. Once I told him I was in a play and it took too long to get in and out of costume the man was very helpful and even stopped screaming! Even now I am getting stared at but it's nothing worse than what happened in a few villages I was in. As long as they kept the pitchforks and torches to themselves I'd be happy. I sat down and looked at the computer in mute horror. The keyboard was in Japanese! Crap, I should have thought of that! Damn, now I am stuck in this stupid place and I have absolutely NO clue on how to type on this thing. I use the mouse and see if I can at least change the language options. Aha! I have got English! Hmm, now lemme see.
I start typing using each key and see what shows up on the screen. I get up to get some tape and a few pieces of paper. I sit back down. Whatever key I press I write down the corresponding English letter, lightly tear it off the paper and tape it to that key. Damn, that blue haired girl is looking at me weird. Sheesh, give a hanyou a break lady! Alright, I have pretty much got all the letters down. Now all I need to do is remember what search engines there are. Damn, seventy or eighty years of disuse can really screw up a guy's computer skills! My ears catch a clicking sound. I can't really turn them since I am wearing a baseball cap. I think if my ears were moving no one would buy my costume excuse. People weren't THAT dumb. I look to see the same girl who was staring at me was pointing a blue…calculator, PDA? Whatever it was she seemed to pale when I caught her. I just smiled and waved to show there was no hard feelings. Whatever the hell she was doing.
I look back to my screen. I try typing search into the web browser. Damn, page not found. How can I remember how to change the damn language setting but not know how to do a search? Admittedly it took a good forty five minutes to figure out how to change the language. I had to choose by what I thought those little icon things looked like. Damn it, my legs are cramping up! Maybe I should bite the bullet and ask Kagome for help? Yeah right, she's probably back in the past and I don't thing her family would really trust me. Unless I lied. I could say I'm Inuyasha's brother, not exactly a lie, and ask for help. As I rubbed my chin I see the blue haired girl that was staring at me has come up to me.
"Hello, I'm sorry for earlier, but you are dressed so…" I smile at her. "Weird, disturbing?" She responded to my smile with one of her own. "I would have used unique." I gave her a smirk. "Ah, the P.C. term to use!" She blushed a bit. It was nice to swap modern quips. People in the dark ages just didn't get some of the in jokes.
She looked at the screen as well as what I have done to the keyboard and I blushed a bit in embarrassment. It's hard admitting deficiency at something. Especially when I used to be so good at it. "I kind of wanted to do a search for someone I know, but I can't really read Japanese" She looked at me startled. "You are American? You don't look it and you speak so well!"
I put my hand to the back of my head and laughed nervously. "Well, as for the looks you can blame it mostly on the costume. And as to why I speak it so well….I had a good teacher." My thoughts drifted to Inuyasha and my mother. She seemed to delight that I was so into learning Japanese and how to do it properly. She never knew I was more than what I appeared. I don't think she'd have cared but I'll never know. The girl seemed to sense my mood darkening so I flashed her a smile. "Sorry, just thinking of my….teacher. She died when I was very young." She seemed to sympathize and nod.
"Anyway, my name is Tomasaru, pleased to meet you!" She smiled at me. "My name is Ami Mizuno, I am also pleased to meet you." She also bowed a bit. Hmm, name seems kind of familiar. Ah well, it'll come to me. She looked at me and asked "So what do you seem to be looking for Tomasaru-san?" I looked back to the screen. "First, please call me Tomasaru, I'm never really into the honorifics and stuff. And secondly I am searching for someone. Unfortunately I'm not sure where she is so I have to do sort of a third hand search."
She just looked at me in confusion. "Well, I know the sister of the girlfriend of the guy I know." She just blinked. "Ok, I'm looking for Keiichi Morisato. He has a girlfriend. His girlfriend's sister is the one I know. I just lost touch with her so I need to go about this the long way." She just nodded and pushed me out of the seat. She ripped off my makeshift keyboard labels and quickly changed the language setting back to Japanese. Crap. "You HAD to do that?" I whined. She shrugged her slim shoulders. "I work better in Japanese." I shake my head as her fingers fly over the keyboard. I used to be able to do that….
"Hmm, there are several. Do you have anything specific about him?" I thought hard. "I know he goes to college and he is part of a racing or motor club there." She didn't even turn her head as she nodded and she was typing furiously. I was blinking slowly. Damn, ok, I may not have been THAT good…
"Ah, found him!" I looked in shock. "Already?" She smiled up at me. There was something weird about that smile. Didn't really reach her eyes but I was too flabbergasted to really dig too deep into it. "Yes, I have his address, it's printing now." I looked at her stunned. "Waaaaaait a minute. Isn't that illegal or something? I thought you couldn't get private addresses like that?" She just smiled up at me. "He was listed. If he wasn't I'd have only been able to give you the college he goes to." Ok, I can admit it. She's MUCH better than I was. I was looking for his college then figured I'd sniff around for something not human. I just looked at her. I was way closer to getting home then I thought possible. I picked her up out of the chair and gave her a hug. "Thankyou thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" She just squeaked and I remembered myself. I put her down and stepped away.
She was blushing a bit and so was I. Damn, that was embarrassing! "Uhm, sorry, just….well it means a lot to me I can get to see Keiichi and his girlfriend again. I didn't think I'd get to see them so soon, sorry!" I bowed to the waist. Man when something goes right for me it still goes wrong. She just shook her head. "Quite all right. I did not think you would be so….happy about this." I rose and smiled. "Well, they can help me get home." She looked a bit confused but it was laced with suspicion. "Get home, how could they do that?" I gulped. Damn, my mouth is running ahead of me again. "Well, they are…..well traveled! They have been places most people haven't and where I come from is one of them."
She just looked at me curiously. "Where are you from then Tomasaru?" Well, someplace you wouldn't believe. Better stick to the truth more. I'm a bad liar. "I'm from someplace very far away. Not to be rude or anything but can I get that address please?" She just gave me the sheet of paper. It was printed in Japanese but she gave me the English translation. I bowed to her again. "Thank you Ami, you don't know how much this means to me!" I saw a flash of guilt and she smiled and shrugged. "Glad I could help, good luck!" I smile and wave, "Thanks, bye." As soon as I leave the library I jump up on a roof as I look at the address. I hop around until I find a gas station and quickly grab a map. Super speed is great when you want to steal stuff. I usually don't like stealing but it's a map. A cheap one by the looks of it. I don't think one map will break this guy's business.
I look at the map and look at the address and frown. It doesn't sound like where Keiichi should live. In the anime he lived in a temple, or if he didn't meet Belldandy yet in his college dorm. This address doesn't seem to fit the area. Well, I don't have much of a choice. I HAVE to go.
As I roof hop I notice the area getting worse and worse. This isn't a very nice neighborhood. There's no WAY Keiichi could live here. Maybe he's on drugs in this dimension. Maybe that girl didn't give me the right address? She seemed nice. She also seemed very smart so I don't THINK she'd make a mistake this big. I keep on roof hopping until I see I'm getting close to the address. Seems the place is a warehouse. Looks abandoned. I take a sniff. Doesn't smell like anyone is in there nor do I hear much. I hear some scraping of boots behind me. I turn quickly and I facefault into the ground. I look on mute disbelief. There are five girls wearing the skimpiest outfits I have ever seen! They look at me with anger and hate and I can just look at them in disbelief. "What the HELL are you girls WEARING? Jesus, put some clothes on, do you WANT to get raped or something!" All of their faces turn interesting shades of red. They all look like bedroom cheerleaders. Each one with a different color trim. There's blue, green, red, orange and one that is more red and blue. She also had the weirdest hairstyle I have ever seen. And when you live my life you see some STRANGE stuff.
The one with the strange hairstyle starts posing and moving her arms all over the place. "For trying to stalk and harm innocent college students, we will punish you nega creep!" I just blinked. "Are you coming on to me?" I mutter. Ok, so I had some naughty thoughts on how a cheerleader was going to 'punish' me. At least Kikyo wasn't here to hear me say that. That looked like it really pissed them off and the green one with the brown pony tail had a tiny rod come out of her tiara and I can smell ozone. Crap, I dodge out of the way of a thunder blast and I can sense a strong energy coming near me and I jump up to miss a flying fire bird. I see the one with the strange hairstyle pull a huge scepter out of her….no way. That COULDN'T have fit in there? Shit, these girls are FREAKS! She pointed it at me and a huge…..heart? A HEART! A giant HEART is being thrown at me! I blur out of the way and look at them stunned. They seem to look equally stunned that I dodged their shots.
I point my finger at them. "You girls are SICK! Wearing those clothes, and you! I point to their leader who jumped slightly. "How can you….pull something THAT big from THERE?" Her whole body seemed to turn red and I can feel their feminine anger coming off them in waves. I'm equally pissed. "Shit, what the hell is WRONG with you girls? All I was trying to do is look up a friend and you attack me out of no where! Not to mention attacking me with intent to kill." I turn to the leader again. "Hearts. HEARTS! You fired damn HEARTS at me? God, what a crummy way to die!" She just looked down and grinded her toe in the gravel on the roof. The one in the red seemed to be the only one holding on to whatever reason they had to attack me.
"You're a demon. We have to stop you before you hurt people!" I looked at her. I then blinked. I looked again. She had a miko's energy! "You're a miko?" She seemed to looked surprised but covered it well. Damn, she looks like…no…"Kikyo…" I whispered. She looked at me strangely I just angrily shook my head. Damn, stupid! Kagome was Kikyo's reincarnation. So this girl is a miko and sort of looks like her.
I notice the one in the blue didn't really attack. She was just looking through her blue visor. Hmm, smart. Observe your enemy before committing to an attack. I hope they are reasonable now. "Look, you want to protect people. Fine, I can understand that. I actually do the same. But you can't randomly attack people because you THINK they might be a threat." The weird hairstyle girl seemed to look ashamed. Good! The one in red has her arms crossed in defiance and the one in green seemed to take a more defensive stance. The blonde in orange seems to be neutral as well. The one in the blue is stoic. Great. I have absolutely no clue how to get through to them and looks like I won't be seeing Mr. Morisato for a while. The one in red just glared at me hatefully. "You're a demon, that's enough!" I clench my fists and growl in anger. "You damn Nazi bitch…." I hope there were Nazis in this time so she'd know the insult I just threw at her. From her outraged face I'd say I hit the jackpot.
"So I'm a demon so I have to die? No matter the type of person I am, no matter how I try to help others and not kill? I got demon blood in me so automatically I deserve to be executed? I'm sure you'd have loved Hitler!" She just shook with rage. "How DARE you compare me with.." I cut her off. "Compare you with WHAT? The greatest mass murderer of the century? Well gee, let me see. Just because I look different, have different blood running through me I am a danger to everyone and have to die? Sounds a lot like Nazi Germany's reasoning for rounding up and killing Jews. For the people's own good, ethnic cleansing. I have not made ONE aggressive move and yet because I'm a demon I deserve you rejects from a pedophile's wet dream to try and kill me?" Ok, insulting the magical girls is not a smart move, but I'll be damned if I'll be sniveling to these children who probably have never seen the true horrors that demons are capable of. Even true horrors humans are capable of. Damn, different time, same thing. Humanity is still a bigoted race….
Looks like they are about to start firing their attacks again. Well, not the blonde one with the weird hair. She looks sort of depressed. Hopefully she'll stay out of it. The blue haired one also doesn't look like she is about to get aggressive. The other three on the other hand looks like they are ready to rumble. I shift into a more defensive stance. If they attack again, I might have to take them down. I don't know if I want to kill them. If they are demon hunters their deaths could mean the deaths of a lot of innocents. Damn, I wish I could be self centered for once. "So, since I am using logic against you, you decide you want to fight. You act more like the demons you supposedly fight!" That got them to pause. Great. Maybe I should wipe them all out. If they attack demons like they have with me most wouldn't stand a chance. What if they attacked a demon like Shippo? Shippo wouldn't be able to defend himself and they'd have murdered him and pat themselves on the backs for a job well done! Gods, demon hunters like that made me sick.
I ready myself, looked like the Kikyo look a like is going to start with the fire again. I stand on the balls of my feet ready to move on a moment's notice when a soft voice whispers "stop." I, along with everyone else on the roof, look toward pig tails. Well, either that or meatball head. Damn if that wasn't the most hideous hair job I have ever seen! "He's right. We had no reason to attack him. We should have just observed to see if he was a threat." All right, you may look like a dumb blonde but you got something between those dumb looking pig tails, pony tails…whatever the hell you call that hair! "Thank you! Sheesh, I know I don't exactly blend in but please keep the ordinance to a minimum. If I wasn't as good as I am you'd have killed me and not thought twice about it!" They all looked a bit shame faced at that. Good. If it stops them from killing a peaceful demon that's for the best! "Now if you don't mind. I have to go back to the library and find my friend. I thought that girl in the library was nice, but I guess not if she just had you guys ambush me for no reason!" The one and blue looked down at that. Hmm, she seems familiar. I can't really catch her scent. The smell of strong magic is blocking out their scents. They all look strange now that I think about it. Like there is something overlapping their bodies and faces. Oh well, not like I care. I need to get out of this dimension as soon as I can.
The one in blue looked up at me. I can see determination in her eyes. Crap, she wants to fight? I get a little edgy but she just walks up to me. I little confused I just let her. When she gets to a few feet she hands me a piece of paper. I looked at her curiously. "Your friend lives there. The woman at the library….she had to make sure that you weren't out to harm those people." I nod. I don't care, gimme the paper! I calmly take the offered paper from her hands and bowed. "Thanks a lot, I really appreciate the help." I rise and look at the remaining girls. "I need to head out now and find my friend. Can I trust you girls have learned your lesson and won't attack people out of the blue?" I got a few non committal shrugs. Ugh! Damn school girls! Before I leap to the next rooftop I turn my head but keep my back to them. "Also put some clothes on! I doubt you want to face a boner horde or something!" I smile as I hear their squawks of outrage as I make my way far from them.
I'm looking at my nice stolen map again. Damn, stupid cheerleaders! They seemed familiar. Maybe I should have asked for their names. NAH! Last thing I want to do is get involved with underage girls prancing around in skimpy outfits. I don't know if they'd arrest hanyous for endangering the welfare of minors or something like that but I have no desire to find out. Not to mention what Kikyo would do. Shudder
Alright. I'm on my way and making good time. I am running on the roads since they don't seem to be near any buildings. Ah well, that's fine. I'm close to getting back. I can FEEL it! I stop by the front of the temple. Looks about right from what I can remember. Oh hell, I can't remember almost anything from the anime other than he lived in a temple. How many college going guys in motor clubs named Keiichi Morisato live in a temple anyway? I step in and feel the brush of magic on me. Hmm, must be wards. Probably detection. Guess I don't have to ring the doorbell. I see a child with black hair and Goddess markings looking at me with anger. I just wave. "Hi, I need to talk to Belldandy or Urd, they in?"
She looked at me petulantly. "Why should I tell you, demon!" I blinked. Sure, I'm Youkai, but not really a DEMON demon. I'm nothing like Mara, nor do I have anything close to her kind of powers. "Well, because I asked nicely and I could really use the help." She was just about to scream at me again when a platinum haired beauty stepped out. Long legs, check. Smooth tanned skin, check. Ample che….ok its her. I wave. "Long time no see Urd!"
She just looked at me. "Ok, who the hell are you?" I smile. "Remember me, you granted my wish, I wanted to be in the Inuyasha universe…." She still looked at me clueless. She pinched the bridge of her nose. "Do you KNOW how many wishes I grant a dimension? Much less SEVERAL! What makes you think I remember you?" My ears dropped a bit. "Way to make a guy feel special there! I don't really care if you remember me or not, but I had a wish and some demon kicked me out of the dimension I was in. I need help to get back." She shook her head. "Sorry, one wish per customer. Buh bye!" with that she pointed her finger at me and I was blasted out of the temple. That BITCH! I didn't like her when I got my wish, she's just reinforcing the dislike. Well, my only chance now is Belldandy. She is like, the ultimate nice person in the universe. I wait outside the front gate. I'm still slightly smoking but I'm going to wait until Keiichi comes back with Belldandy so I can get some help.
I hear a motorcycle. I try to get up to wave them down but they come flying right out of the corner of the road and right over me! I let out a little girly shriek as I was run over. Fortunately he stopped right afterwards to see what he ran over. I was just laying on the ground dazed when I heard "Oh my god!" and an "Oh dear!" I groan. Can someone PLEASE stop the violence! I see a a man with light brown hair looking at me in concern. Wow. He doesn't seem to care about the dog ears and claws. Really nice guy. I can see his companion. Wow. The anime version doesn't do the real one justice! She's hot! Ok, enough of getting sidetracked. Keiichi helps me to my feet.
I turn to him. "Thanks a lot. You should watch your speed. If I was human I'd be dead right now." He paled at the thought and nodded. I looked at Belldandy. I bow. "Sorry to trouble you, but I really have a problem and I need your help." She looked at me with kind eyes. "Of course, please come inside and tell me what you need." I nod. Wow, she is really nice! As we walk inside I can feel the brush of the wards and turn to face her. "Can you tell your sisters not to blast me? I came earlier and Urd was….less than sympathetic and not too helpful." She brought a dainty hand to her mouth "Oh my, she didn't do anything rash did she?" I didn't want to badmouth her sister so I responded "Well, she did electrocute me and flung me out to the street, but it wasn't too bad." Damn brain, I'm going to stab you with a Q Tip!
The inside of the temple was very nice. Well, it would have been if I didn't have two angry Goddess glaring death rays at me. Belldandy smiled like nothing was amiss and said "Well, please tell us what your problem is." I sigh and nod. "Alright, you see, I got granted a wish by Urd here." I nod toward the Goddess. "I wished to….well change things for the better. Be in a position to make someone's life easier. There was an anime in my dimension called Inuyasha so I decided that if I was going to wish for anything, it'd be to help someone. Since Urd here said wishing for something that doesn't specifically involve me was a no no, I decided I'd help someone myself. I chose that dimension. It wasn't the best life, nor the easiest. I did, however, thought I was making a positive impact. Then, one night when I went to sleep I woke up in a white room stinking of sulfur and a Demoness called Mara was trying to get me to renounce my wish. When that and blasting me failed she sent me to an alternate world. I want to go back to mine. Can you help?"
Belldandy looked pensive and so did the rest of the Goddesses. Belldandy stood. "I will go call Father and ask." I nodded gratefully to her. The other two Goddesses looked at me sadly. "Your stuck here kiddo." Urd said in a moment of total seriousness. I blinked at her. "What do you mean? I was supposed to be somewhere else. It was in my wish! I thought that Ultimate Force thing was supposed to protect a person's wish?" She sighed. Skuld answered for her. "You big dummy. You asked to be put someplace you can make a difference. That can be ANYWHERE! And if you being here is a result of a wish granted by a Demon we can't interfere with it."
I can feel myself getting angry. "You mean that Demons can screw with YOUR wishes and YOU can't screw with THEIRS?" Urd just shook her head. "Loopholes kiddo. You have to be VERY specific when wording a wish." I shake my head in disbelief. "So the spirit of the wish is meaningless? Just because I didn't word it right my wish is downgraded and I lose my entire LIFE!" Just then Belldandy came in looking a bit disappointed. No, come on, NO!
Seemly reading my thoughts she shook her head sadly at me. "I'm so sorry, Father said the Demon's wish and yours are not in conflict, therefore you must stay here." No. Kikyo. Inuyasha. Sango, Miroku, Kagome, Shippo. All my friends. I have to get back to them! I stand up. "There must be a way! There HAS to be a way. I don't think your creator would make something that would give happiness just to take it away!" They all looked at me sadly. Damn, I don't need their pity I need their HELP!
Belldandy just looked at me. "I'm sorry. Nothing can break the Ultimate Force. Even if you did return you'd be dragged back here." I slump down. I look into my lap. "So this….is my destiny? Separated from all I hold dear. Everything I fought so hard to protect? There really is no way to break the chains of fate that binds me?" I look up at them. "I can't accept that. I WON'T accept that!" They just looked at me in pity. "You cannot stop the Ultimate force." I look down. I may not be able to STOP it, but I can bend it, survive it. "How about if I cancel and change my wish. Make it specific to the dimension I was in?" Urd shook her head. "That will never work. The Demon's contract would then have priority since it is a longer standing contract." I grip the hilt of my sword. I have an idea. By all that is holy it's probably the dumbest idea a person can think of. Not to mention if it works I don't think I can count on going to heaven. Thinking back to Kikyo and my friends, I make up my mind. I'm not going to let those demon bastards win!
"I want to see the Creator." They all look at me like I am insane. Well, maybe I am. "I need to talk to her. I need to plead my case." Belldandy looked a bit worried. "I don't think you should go to that extreme. You can make a good life here, a new one." I shook my head. I was resolute in this. "I can't abandon all my friends without a fight. I need to fix this and the only one that can is the Creator. Please. Help me at least in THAT way." Belldandy just shook her head and left for the phone. I breathed deeply. If the creator didn't help me and I had to go through what I planned my soul is probably worse than damned. I mentally shrug. I have to do this. For all the people who ever believed in me. That's something special. To have someone count on you. It might cost me everything but I'm going to prove worthy to that belief.
Belldandy returned looking somber. "Please, this way." She gestures towards a mirror in their living room. She holds out her hand. "Please take my hand and do not let go until we are to the other side." I nod and she starts entering the mirror. I keep my senses open. I need to know every sliver that I can.
After a bit of a tour we arrive in what looks like a waiting room. I can feel awesome power all around me. Damn, if this interview doesn't go well this is going to be harder than I thought. I see a pretty blonde that looks to be chewing bubble gum. She looks at me through thick glasses and says "Next!". I look around and see I'm the only one. I shrug and head toward the door that was emblazed with a large, glowing blue "C". I enter and see a huge sky blue desk. And behind that desk is….
"The Creator is just a light bulb?" I hear chuckling in my mind and the bright light changes its shape to become a person. I look on in bewilderment. "Judge Judy?" She just smiles at me. "Only an image. Who says I can't have fun?" I just shake my head. Whatever the omnipotent lady wanted, the omnipotent lady got. "I take it you know why I'm here?" She nodded. "Yup, reading minds is pretty easy. You think that back up plan will work?" I shrug. "I don't know. Probably not. But I owe it to everyone to try." Her face looked deadly serious. "Do you know the consequences of that action, even if you succeed?" I shook my head. "I know it probably wouldn't be good for me."
She looked at me coldly and I can feel the weight of the room increase. "You'd be facing you're soul's destruction. Not just damnation. You at least have a chance for redemption no matter how evil you are. Through reincarnation and various other means. Your soul would be utterly destroyed. And I am the only being in existence that could do it since I created you." I kept my gaze steady. "Then I hope I won't have to use my backup plan." She sighed and looked down toward her desk. "I cannot break the Demon's wish, nor can I manipulate yours to return you. I can make it so it does not happen again, but that dimension is forever out of your reach." I sigh. "You know I won't accept that." She looked at me in almost shock. "You are actually willing to go ahead with that crazy idea?" I smile at her. "You know me best, you should know!" She looked like she was about to weep. "You'll destroy yourself, you know that." I looked at her sadly. "Hopefully not until my friends are all safe. Are you going to warn everyone and stop me?" She shook her head in profound sadness. "I created the Gods and Demons with a purpose, and swore not to interfere. To warn them would be to interfere but I beg you, do not go through with this!"
I smiled. At that moment, so looked and sounded just like my mother when she was telling Yasha and me not to do something supremely dangerous and very stupid. I remembered all the times with my brother. Some good, mostly bad. And I knew if I did not get back it'd be all bad. Not to mention what Naraku would do to Kikyo. I had to try. I'm probably going to fail. I know that, and I accept that. But I can't live with the knowledge I left them to die. I looked right at her. "Sorry, but I can't let the people I love down. When it comes time for you to….well blast me or whatever, no hard feelings! Bye….mom" with that I turned and left.
As soon as I left the door I wrapped myself in my energy, cloaking myself. I spent a lot of time perfecting this technique. So far no one could tell where I was. I'm not going to let that make me arrogant since I am in a place that has different rules and I know nothing about. Belldandy gave me the nickel tour, but the one place I made SURE she showed me was the computer mainframe. Yggdrisil, or something like that. I asked a few questions and Belldandy was very forthcoming in her answers. I felt kind of bad for tricking her like this but I need to get back. Since I know a little about computer, though no where near the level of the Goddesses I know about what I have to do. Seems like all the wishes of both Gods and Demons are stored in Ygg….well the big damn computer. Anyway, they are in sort of a priority queue. Meaning the older the wish, the higher the priority. Now I won't even attempt to try to do something like reprogramming. Also looking for my wish is like a needle in a haystack. At least it would be if wishes didn't contain the essence of the person who made the wish. I just need to follow my nose to what smells like myself, change my wish a bit and crash the system so all wishes AFTER mine are gone. This way my new, revised wish has higher priority than anything coming after it.
Gee, simple. Now all I have to do is bust my way into the computer and run like hell to my wish file. Oh yeah, and hope no Goddess debuggers stop me before it. The best part is if I succeed, as soon as I die my soul is probably going to be blown up by the Creator for screwing up her system. No, my life is not too complicated in the least!
Getting into the computer was relatively easy. I just found a hatch and down I went. Unfortunately, the place is HUGE. In fact, the word huge is probably the biggest understatement I can make. I guess a computer controlling every universe in existence had to be pretty big, but right now I am flying blind. Once I can feel for my essence it'll be easy, but I only have a certain range and this place is HUGE! I know I said that before but it bears multiple repetitions! Damn, I don't even have a map. Hmm, I draw my sword. The sword is made from my fang, my essence. Hopefully it can point me in the right direction. I relax my arm. Please sword, please point me in the right direction. I feel a tug. I allow my arm to move and it stops once it points to a direction to my right. Thank you sword! One of these days I'm going to name you!
I run in the direction my sword pointed to. I keep my energy carefully folded into myself but I don't believe for a second that they won't find a way to zero in on me. I can only hope they don't think I'm stupid enough to be inside their computer system.
I've been running for two hours and NOTHING. Damn, now I think I know how Goku felt running on Snake Way. Is there an END to this? I pull out my sword again. The pull is stronger than before. I'm getting closer. Good. I hope the creator doesn't spill the beans to the Gods about what I'm doing. I'm sure they can just pull up a file where my wish is and just have a nice bunch of armed War Gods waiting for me. I continue on for another hour or so when I come up to a….well it looked like a bunch of boxes connected to each other by strings. Must be the queue. I look and see there are A LOT of boxes. They are all almost interwoven. I draw my sword and allow it to guide me. It takes me to a particular box where I can feel a part of myself coming from it. I touch it and am surprised to see the wording of my wish displayed in plain text. I think about editing it and I see a blinking icon appear. Cool! My kind of computer.
I just add to the bottom of the wish that the dimension I would be reborn in would be my home and I could not be taken away from it. Before I hit save I look at the box right after it. All the one's after mine have to be destroyed totally or they can be restored and I'm right back into the mess I started from. I transform my sword and cut the line connecting my wish to the wishes after. I hit save on my box and gather all the power around me. I release an attack I was always hesitant to use. I call it my Piggy Back Attack! It's more impressive than it sounds. Basically I use the energy from one target to flow into the next target, always gathering and increasing energy from target to target. It worked great for large groups of demons but if it got too powerful it can do A LOT of damage. It also doesn't start out too powerful so it's not too useful for one on one combat. I release the power of my attack and watch in satisfaction as the wishes are destroyed one after another. I would have preferred to just find the Demon's wish but that would definitely be impossible.
I look at the wishes being blasted and hope deep in my heart that the good people who's wishes I destroyed would be granted the chance for another wish after this mess is sorted. I see a few Goddesses swearing and carrying hammers. They fire at the huge energy wave eating up the wishes of trillions upon trillions of people and I see the blast absorbs their attack and starts spilling over to other areas. Uhm…uh ohh…..
The attack is growing wild and spreads towards other systems. Fortunately the blast is heading in a direction opposite of the remaining wishes but still, I didn't want to blow up half the computer! I see one of the boxes destroyed releases a dark cloud that dissipates. I can feel a wrenching pain deep inside me and fall to my knees, using my sword as a crutch keeping me upright. Damn, guess that was the one. I can see through my hand. I hope these means I am going back. I can feel myself fading, losing consciousness. My last thoughts were of Kikyo's smiling face.
I woke up with a groan. Damn. I am not a morning person nowadays! Every time I wake up it's in extreme pain. I can smell the sweet scents of the forest. I look around to see myself in a familiar clearing. I look around and I am happy to see that someone built a fire here not too long ago and the tracks look a lot like Inuyasha and the others. Did I make it back? I hope to everything holy I did. I rethink my statement in my head. Well, I don' think all that is holy likes me very much. And seeing as I screwed up the Demon's wish I don't think the other side likes me too much either. I get up and smell for the others. May as well enjoy life, since I don't think I'll have any after life. I get a whiff of Kikyo and I run off in that direction. I wonder how long it's been since I was gone. For me it's been a few days, but it might not be that for everyone else. I am getting close to Kikyo's scent.
BLOOD! Kikyo's scent is mixed with blood. She's injured! I redouble my efforts. Kikyo can't die, not yet…
I emerge from the forest into a field and I see a scene that chills my blood. Kikyo is trying to stand with numerous wounds lining her body. Kagome is either dead or unconscious and she smells like she lost a lot of blood. Sango and Miroku are doing their best to keep a horde of demons away from the two injured mikos. Shippo is right by Kagome's side shooting out his foxfire to those who got to close. Inuyasha…..he's badly wounded facing Kagura. I can hear Kagura's hateful laugh. "Look at you, pitiful half breed! Your brother couldn't stand to be with a weakling like you which is why he left your pitiful group. Now, your life is forfeit!" As she raised her fan to strike a probable killing blow I growled out. "You can say that again…"
The whole fields attention was on me but I didn't care. Kagura….she KNEW I was taken. That means Naraku knew, probably made the deal to get rid of me. Once I was gone they wasted little time trying to kill off everyone. I draw my sword. I let it transform. It's time I stopped holding back. No more games. I swiped my sword into the large group Miroku and Sango were fighting with negligible effort and saw with grim satisfaction how my blast disintegrated most of them. I hefted my huge blade on my shoulder as I walked towards Kagura and my brother. Kagura looked suitable stunned.
"This isn't possible. There's no WAY you could have returned!" I smile grimly at her. "Oh I'm back. I paid probably the heaviest price a person can but I'm back. Now….Kagura…" I put my sword right out in front of me as I gathered power. I look at her coldly. I always thought maybe I could get her heart back and free her from Naraku. But now? She's gone WAY too far. I'll release her all right. She raises her fan and swipes at me. I can see her deadly blades as they make their way toward me with a cold expression on my face. Once I release my attack they won't matter. "Kagura….your life is FORFEIT!" I swung my blade down, unleashing a Progressive Backlash Wave. Unlike a normal one that is as powerful as you release it, this one eats up the energy around it and what's thrown INTO it. Once it hits the target it sucks the energy right out of the target and uses that energy to rip them to shreds! Her attack is greedily swallowed by mine as it makes its way towards her. She makes a frightful shriek before my attack consumes her. She releases a small cry of pain before being torn asunder.
When I look I see Kikyo stumbling toward me. I make a large swipe with my sword, healing her and the others. With no injuries hampering her she runs right into my arms. I hold her as I watch Inuyasha and Shippo help Kagome while Sango picks up a tired Kirara in her arms and Miroku looks at her with a sad expression. I feel Kikyo's tears line my kimono. I look down at her. It was worth it. Whatever price I pay it was worth it. For her. For them. She looks up at me through tearful eyes. "Tomas…" I lean down and look deep into her eyes.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" She's got my right ear and she's pulling me down to her eye level! "Tomas! Where the HELL have you been? We have been SO worried, we've been searching EVERYWHERE for you! What was the big idea? Leaving in the middle of the night like a damn THEIF! Why of all the stupid…." I had tears in my eyes as the others just looked on amused at my plight. This is NOT worth it!
After Kikyo finished robbing me of whatever masculinity I've managed to garner the last fifty or so years we traveled toward Kaede's Village. Kagome needed to go back home for a while and we all needed a rest. I most certainly. We set up camp and unlike before everyone gathered around the fire. Kikyo was the first to break the silence. "Well Tomas, you want to tell us where you have been for the past few days?" She's been rather cold to me after her tearful hug. They want answers. They deserve them but I'm not sure how to give them. This can and will change how they see me. Kikyo knows most of it since Naraku tried to use it to split us up. Everyone else will feel betrayed. I can't lie to them though.
"To know what happened to me, you guys first have to know something about me. A secret I've never told anyone, except for Kikyo here." Kikyo's breath sucked in a bit. She knows I wouldn't bring this up if I didn't have to. This is going to be a doozy…
"We all know Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyo. Kagome could probably remember bits and pieces of Kikyo's life. Well, what if someone was born and remembered EVERYTHING from their past life? As soon as they were born they remembered their old life. And their old life was not somewhere in the past, but in a totally other place and time." I looked up from the fire to see that most of them were confused. "Ok, lets say we saw a play. It was totally new, something you never could have imagined. Now. Think if you died at that moment and you were reborn into someone from that play. Even if the play was made up, there is some place and time where that play is REAL, and you are THERE and part of it." I can see dawning understanding so I continued.
"Now the reason I am here, is because I wished I could be somewhere and make a difference to people. There was a…..story of Inuyasha and all the trials and hardships he and his companions had to face. I figured if I wanted to make a difference I may as well do so in an environment I knew pretty much what to do." Miroku cut me off in an angry voice. "Are you saying you KNEW all this was to happen? "I shook my head. "No, let me finish and I'll answer all your questions."
I sighed. "So I asked for a wish and I got it. I became Inuyasha's twin brother. And I am his brother. I did my best to help him as the years went by but knowing something and being able to change it are two different things. I was very weak. I couldn't help Inuyasha as I was. I had to get stronger." Now Inuyasha cut me off. "That's why you trained with that human!" I looked at Yasha like he was retarded. The jury is still out on THAT decision. "Bro, you just realized that NOW? I told you as much when I left to train!" He just blushed and looked down. Argh, stupid sidetracking!
"ANYWAY! I trained as best I could and when I felt ready I went to help my brother. I knew of Naraku and I knew of how he would try to set him and Kikyo up. I had hoped to reach him before that happened but….I failed. I healed Kikyo and hoped that there could be reconciliation with her and my brother. Unfortunately Naraku took the jewel. You guys all know THAT story of chasing and defeating him for it. In any case, I pretty much forgot my origins. I was here, I was me, and that's all that mattered. But…somehow, Naraku KNEW who I was. He knew how I got here. He tried to use that knowledge to destroy the trust I've built with Kikyo." Kagome was looking at me in wonder but Sango and Inuyasha were looking at me like I had impaled them with my claws. "Wow, one wish and you wished to help people, that's so cool!" I smiled at Kagome's enthusiasm. It has some ups but a whole lot of downs….
Miroku looked at me with his expression blank. "While an entertaining tale, that still does not answer the original question of where you were." I shake my head. "Remember when I said my wish was granted? Well it was granted by a Goddess. There seems to be a flip side as well. There are Demons who grant wishes. I guess one of them got a wish to get rid of me. I was sent to a different world. Similar to this only I didn't exist. To make a long story short I had to find a way to get back here and I did."
Kikyo looked at me in contemplation. "How did you return if it was a wish? Could you not be taken again?" She looked a bit worried at that thought. I put my arm around her. "I made sure I couldn't be taken away like that again. I'm here by your side till the day I die." Just not after. Inuyasha looked at me with distrust but it was Shippo who asked the question innocently. "So how'd you get back? What did you do?" They all looked at me in interest. I couldn't tell them the price I was going to pay for what I did to get back. I gently disengaged myself from Kikyo and walked to get some privacy. I answered as I walked away. "I did what I had to. I just did what I had to."
After I got a good length away I jumped into a tree and looked at the stars. I tried to burn them into my mind as well as all the happy moments in my life. I remember the Creator's sad face when she told me of what the punishment would be. Total destruction. Never to know heaven or hell, never to be reincarnated. I'll just simply not exist. I can feel that's going to be my punishment. Especially when my attack got out of control in their computer systems. I really hope they fix everything ok. Except the damn Demon's wish. I'm also hoping they don't play around with the queue and somehow restore the order of the wishes. Then I'm right back where I started and I doubt I'll be let back into heaven for another audience. I hope we destroy Naraku before that. Once he and that damn jewel is gone, I'm sure Yasha and the others can get along without me. That won't mean I won't miss them. Especially Kikyo. I don't think there's anything I won't do for her.
I think back to my thoughts and laugh a bit before I start crying. I pretty much worse than damned myself for her. I just hope she doesn't do anything stupid when she dies and goes to heaven. I have NO doubt she's going there despite what that Kami said. She's a good person. Everyday I can see her aura and it's as bright now as it was fifty years ago. I just hope that she can forgive me. I destroyed a lot of good people's happiness for my selfishness. Most of those wishes were from good people who deserved them and the happiness they got from them. I destroyed their happiness just because I needed to get ONE bad wish. Thousands, probably an extreme amount more, of wishes, gone. I guess the people calling me a monster weren't so far off….
Another chapter DONE! I really hope people can guess the animes I talked about in this chapter. If you can't…..what's WRONG with you people? Anyway, the five cheerleading girls were from Sailor Moon, of COURSE! And the rest is Oh My Goddess. And once again, no reviews. Is anyone out there? ANYBODY?
