The Accident in Chemistry Class
Chapter 2: Kikyou
Disclaimer: I don't and never will be able to own InuYasha. Darn.
A/N: Okay, on the last chapter, you know at the bottom where it said, "The Story Begins – ...6-10-04...", well, that was when I had written this chapter! Funny thing, eh? rubs head nervously Oh and I forgot to mention it, but Kagome escapes from the hospital at night, so it's also night in the Feudal Era.
"Old Lady Kaede...What are you doing here?" InuYasha asked.
"Just...looking for herbs..." the old woman said.
"Yeah, right...in the middle of the night?" InuYasha scowled. "What is your purpose here?"
"If ye really must know..." Kaede sighed. "Kikyou, after being resurrected from Naraku, isn't feeling well. I'm looking for herbs to cure her. She's been having a hard time..."
"Um, excuse me, but...who is Kikyou, and what happened to her?" Kagome interrupted.
"And who might ye be, witch?" Kaede asked, meaning 'witch' in terms of wizardry and sort. The elderly priestess gasped. 'She looks just like the reincarnation of my elder sister, Kikyou! Is it possible that when Kikyou died, part of her spirit was still alive and created this girl? She does look like her, that she does...' she thought.
"I'M NOT A WITCH, I'M A GIRL, A HUMAN GIRL! My name is Kagome! I'm from the future!"
"Hmm...the future, ye say?" The old woman rubbed her chin and sighed. 'That proves it. This girl is the reincarnation of my sister!' "It all began with this hanyou here and my older sister Kikyou. They were in love, these two. Kikyou, since she is a priestess, purified a sacred jewel called the Shikon no Tama. An evil named Naraku was after it, so he made InuYasha and Kikyou betray each other.
"He made InuYasha steal the jewel from Kikyou and attacked InuYasha. She died after that, but Naraku brought her back to life so he could get the jewel. So now my sister hasn't been feeling well and I'm trying to cure her of her illness." With that, Kaede stood up and walked away toward the village to tend to her sick sister.
Kagome looked over at InuYasha, whose face dropped at hearing his Kikyou was ill.
"InuYasha, do you feel guilty about betraying Kikyou? I mean, I know it wasn't your fault, but—" Kagome asked, then realizing she shouldn't have.
InuYasha threw a dirty look at the girl and growled.
"I'm leaving." With that, he stood up and left. What Kagome didn't realize, is that he was going to see Kikyou in her village. Kagome never imagined that Kikyou would be a problem to her with InuYasha...
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InuYasha hurried off in a huff and came to the entrance of the village of Kikyou. He burst through the wooden doors and rushed to Kikyou's lodge.
"Kikyou!" InuYasha hurried through the door and knelt by her futon. He could see her slim figure through the sheets raising up and down with her every delicate breath.
"Kikyou...?"
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Kagome ran through the forest, and shielded her face from slicing tree branches. She had to find where Kikyou and InuYasha were. More importantly: InuYasha. How could she let him go off without her consent? After all, she had no idea where she was! He was her only source of finding her way back to the well! She sniffed angrily and continued to make her way through the forest, and seeing in front of her the old priestess, Kaede. She sprinted to catch up with her.
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InuYasha squeezed Kikyou's wrist to feel for a pulse. It was faint, but still there. He sighed in relief. He buried his face in her inky-black hair. It smelled of lavender and fresh herbs. InuYasha inhaled it deeply.
"Kikyou, I—I'm sorry, about betraying you. You know it was Naraku, and that I love you, right? Well, I don't know if you're awake or not, but—"
"Oh, I'm awake now, InuYasha..." came a soft, aching voice. InuYasha knew it was his Kikyou's. "But I still do not know to this day if it truly was Naraku betraying me, or you..."
"Ki...Kikyou!" InuYasha croaked. "Why don't you believe me??"
"I do believe you, dear InuYasha..." Kikyou sighed.
"Well, then why did you say that?"
"Because I merely wanted to see if you truly cared for me, which you do, by the way how you react, that's all... After all, you do know very well that I am ill... My younger sister, Kaede, is out fetching some curing herbs for me."
"So I've heard..." InuYasha murmured.
"You do not like my sister?" Kikyou queried.
"She's...she's an old hag for cryin' out loud!" InuYasha stated.
Kikyou turned underneath the sheets slightly, and they made a quiet shuffling and crinkly sound. She didn't speak for a moment, and hesitated, before she averted her gray eyes into InuYasha's golden orbs.
"Yes, but I am older than her, you know that. And so are you. Remember, I did die young, and it's been 50 years since I died, until that bastard Naraku resurrected me..."
InuYasha shifted uneasily. He gazed into her pale smooth face and raised his clawed hand to touch her creamy-white cheek.
"You were scared that day, weren't you, Kikyou? Scared that I had might stopped loving you..."
"Yes...I—I was... But all that was inside me was hatred enveloping my love towards my one special hanyou..." Kikyou touched InuYasha's hair and continued to stroke it. "But you do know that I still love you, right, InuYasha? Like your father, Inutaisho, loved your mother, right?"
InuYasha nodded slowly and brought his face to Kikyou's. They closed their eyes as InuYasha sat Kikyou upright and moved closer to the other's face. They were getting closer...
"INUYASHA!"
InuYasha jerked his head curtly in his speaker's direction and his face dropped as he groaned, "Kagome! What...what are you doing here, you stupid wench?! I thought you'd stay with the old hag! Oh, wait, you are with her..."
"Eh-hem..." Kikyou cleared her throat.
"Sorry," InuYasha apologized.
"And...who is this?" Kikyou questioned her reincarnation.
"Huh? Who, me?" Kagome said stupidly.
"Yes," Kikyou nodded and pointed a slender white finger at Kagome. She started to cough and held her chest protectively. InuYasha was immediately at her side.
"Kikyou, ye shouldn't talk too much..." Kaede offered. Kikyou nodded her head curtly and fell to her blankets.
"Girl...I asked you your name..." Kikyou asked again, slowly taking even breaths.
"K-Kagome..." The inu/neko-hanyou stuttered.
"You must be my reincarnation, except you were turned into an inu/neko-hanyou. I am Kikyou, a lover of InuYasha's..."
Kagome frowned at the sick girl. She huffed and, folding her arms, walked over to a corner, and rudely sat herself. InuYasha rolled his eyes and sat down next to Kagome.
"Why are you sitting with me? Why don't you go sit and take care of your future wife, Kikyou, over there??" Kagome growled.
InuYasha flushed and flexed his claws.
"How dare you, bitch! I'm gonna make you pay!" InuYasha's eyes flamed fiercely. Kagome shrieked.
"Girl, ye can use the word of confinement!" Lady Kaede said.
"And what is that?" Kagome asked as InuYasha chased her outside into the village.
"Any word that can control him!" With that, Kaede threw a rosary necklace around the furious hanyou's neck. InuYasha toyed at it a bit, before he continued to pursue Kagome.
'A word of confinement... How should I know??' Kagome thought worriedly as InuYasha made to slash at her leg, missing it from about a centimeter.
"Uh...SIT, BOY!" she suddenly shouted, reminded of a dog because of his ears.
As InuYasha was almost on top of Kagome, his hand raised in the air, fell to the ground as the prayer beads glowed brightly. CRASH! Dust spread everywhere as his face pressed into the dirt. Kagome laughed.
'What the hell...?' he wondered.
Kagome walked back inside and sat down next to Kaede. Neither InuYasha nor Kagome spoke to each other after that. Old Lady Kaede sighed at the two.
"Those two..." she sighed to herself. "When will they learn...?"
"Bad doggy..." Kagome giggled suddenly. "I'm taking you home with me, okay?"
"Whatever." InuYasha mumbled.
"Bye, Lady Kaede!"
"Bye, Kikyou..." InuYasha called suddenly as Kikyou's pale face peered after him, making Kagome frown, although she didn't know she would soon fall for this inu-hanyou...
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"I'm home, Mom!" Kagome cried as she ran inside the Higurashi home and forced InuYasha up the stairs.
"KAGOME?! OH MY GOD, IT'S YOU! YOU'VE RECOVERED FROM THE COMA! LET ME SEE YOU!" her mother exclaimed hysterically.
After Kagome was squeezed to death by her mother, and she explained that she got her cat ears, tail, and claws from the chemical accident, her mother released her to go upstairs and take a shower.
"I'm taking a shower, so sit here in my bedroom, and be a good doggy. I don't want my mom finding out I brought you home yet." Kagome chirped as she pulled on a pink bathrobe.
"Feh, take your time..." InuYasha grumbled.
Kagome pouted and stepped out from the bedroom. As soon as InuYasha saw she was gone and that it was safe, he crawled under Kagome's bed and went rummaging through her drawers. When InuYasha opened a certain drawer, he pulled out an odd-looking piece of cloth.
"Wonder what this is..." he mumbled to himself and held it up high.
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As Kagome turned off the relaxing water and smoothed out her damp hair, she heard drawers banging open and being slammed shut.
"What the..." she murmured. She opened the plug and drained the water, pulling on her bathrobe again, and ran to her room, covering herself protectively since she was only wearing her robe. She burst open the door and saw InuYasha holding something of hers.
"InuYasha!" she cried as InuYasha's eyes widened in embarrassment, and his face turned red. "That's my underwear! Put it down! And, oh, yeah...SIT!"
InuYasha crashed to the floor, holding up her belongings while his face pressed hard into the ground.
"Humph!" Kagome snatched the undergarment from him and turned on her heel, disappearing to the bathroom to dress.
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"Why are you taking me here??" InuYasha hissed as Kagome pushed him through two metal doors. People stared at the dog-boy Kagome was forcing inside the school. InuYasha reluctantly followed Kagome to her locker and several girls stopped to look at him. Ogling, ogling, ogling... Kagome growled as they sighed dreamily and played with his ears.
"Oh my gosh, Mimi! Feel his ears! They're so soft!" a senior girl exclaimed as she stood on her tip toes and caressed InuYasha's ears.
"Back off! He's not a play thing!" said Kagome, disgruntled.
She took InuYasha's hand and was about to walk with him down the hallway, when she met up with Hojo, her boyfriend. Kagome stopped dead in her tracks, and her jaw dropped.
"Hi...Higurashi...I—I thought you and I were going out...I thought what we had was special!" he whimpered.
"Hojo, wait! I—Hojo...? I can explain! Hojo..." Kagome stammered embarrassingly as Hojo dashed off, deeply saddened. "...C'mon, I'll show you around more,"
She dragged InuYasha down a corridor and they ran into a tall senior. He had long silver hair, a purplish crescent moon on his forehead, and penetrating golden eyes. He glared down at the two that had run into him.
"You...!" he suddenly growled.
"What are you doing here, brother?!" InuYasha hissed and jabbed his finger in his brother's chest.
"All the ladies adore me and simply insist that I stay here. So I do. But not for their sakes." the older boy said, holding his head high in the air arrogantly.
"No wonder I never saw you walking around in Sengoku Jidai anymore with your face shoved up your—"
"SIT, BOY!" Kagome screeched.
CRASH!
"By the way, who are you?" Kagome asked the older boy.
"I am Sesshoumaru, InuYasha's older brother."
Review Response!
perfect-hair-forever- Thank you! I really appreciate your review!
Tobias- Thank you! I'm really glad you like this story!
Kit-Kat- You think so? Thankies! I don't Hojo will ever get the clue, he's so dense...
Demon-Slayer13- Hello, friend! (LoL sorry, I had just been watching Teen Titans, and Starfire always says that...) I know, it's such a big change from all my other stories with Sango and Miroku as the main pairing, huh?
Writing A Story
Well, 'Kat, the best way how I learned how to write a story - through a scriptwriting class at a summer camp I go to - is first write out a plot. For example, the Situation, Complication, and the Resolution.
Situation: Boy meets girl.
Complication: Boy loses girl.
Resolution: Boy finds girl again.
Then after doing so, write in those three sections your story. Be sure to use a lot of details, but not too much, seeing as how that can be a bad thing, but not necessarily all the time. I sometimes use too many details! But then again, I'm not perfect.
Oh, and it's best if you write the ending first, so that if you start writing and you get stuck in a hole that's hard to get out, you won't have a problem to write yourself out of it because you'd have the ending already written out! It's easier to write the ending first, so then you don't have that problem. Hope that helps! :D
Simple enough? Yup! I thank my scriptwriting teacher for that example, because he always uses it and it has helped me a lot!
Thanks a lot, Dan! :)
