Year one of university is finally over and done with, so hopefully these updates will come more frequently. I'm sorry you had to wait several months for this chapter, but I hope you enjoy it regardless. Thanks to Chibes, Frentel, Ashe Nightingale, and Ssppuuddzz for the reviews, they're greatly appreciated.
Chibes: Will they switch back? I think that's a major spoiler of the plot so you will just have to keep reading and find out. Sorry.
Frentel: The tree that Inuyasha was bound to is the Goshinbu tree, it is located in the forest in feudalJapan and on Kagome's property in nowadays time. Hope you did well on your exam and thanks for the heads on with the disclaimer. It glitched when I posted it.
Ashe Nightingale: Thanks for the spelling of Goshinbu, but I don't think you were right either. I'm going to keep looking. Also thank you very much for complementing my writing. I know prophecies, body switching, ect have been overdone, but hopefully my story will still be original enough to be interesting. As for Inuyasha sitting Kagome, we'll see. :)
Ssppuuddzz: Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the switching part. It was fun to write.
DISCLAIMER:
"Ah Frenel,"Brisk33 commented well trying to keep up with her jewel detector, "We've been walking for several months, and I still don'town Inuyasha. Let alone some jewel shards."
"Oh Oh!I found it! I found it," Frentel shouted then ran into a near by store.
"What!" shoutedBrisk33 in surprise, "You found a jewel shard." She chased after her sister.
"Ajewel shard?"Frentel puzzled, "NoI foundthe perfect color of yarn for a scarf!" She held up theball of yarn.
"Now I can knit myself up something new to wear!" She said giddily, then sat down and began knitting. Brisk33 tried to hold hercomposer.
"You can never have too many scarves," Frentel commented. Brisk33 pick up several balls of yarn with hands that were vibrating in anger.
"Brisk33?" Frentelwavered with uncertainty. A wicked smile spread acrossBrisk33's face.
Chapter Five: The Shard
Kagome and Inuyasha had ended their argument by the time they reached the tree where the others were waiting. The two were in extremely bad tempers with one another and resultantly, most of the journey from the well had been silent.
"Inuyasha, Kagome," Miroku greeted as they approached the small camp.
"Did you have your questions answered?" Sango tentatively asked. Kagome sighed with frustration.
"They think that all of this is normal," She informed Inuyasha.
"What!" Inuyasha exclaimed, "Me as some weak human is normal. Feh!"
'They're both effected,' Miroku considered, 'I wonder what could be causing this bout of insanity.'
"What's wrong with you?" Shippo rhetorically asked with concern, "You both think you're each other."
"Is this some kind joke?" Miroku decided with a sly smile, "It is, isn't it. You're both trying to fool us."
"That isn't very nice," Shippo pouted.
"Yes,' Sango agreed with a scowl on her face.
"Meow," Kilala added.
"This isn't a joke," Kagome tried to explain, "Inuyasha and I have switched lives somehow and the whole world thinks it's normal."
"Ah huh," Miroku said clearly not believing a word of it, "So you turned into a demon last night, when you're normally a human, and Inuyasha turned into a human, when he's normally a demon."
"Exactly!" Kagome cried.
"When's the sky going to fall in?" Shippo asked in a rhetoric voice.
"How can you think this is normal?" Inuyasha yelled, "I'm only this weak once a month!"
"He, He, He," the tree wheezed, unable to contain himself any longer, and gaining the attention of the group. Inuyasha's hand went for his sword that was no longer there and Kagome pulled herself behind Inuyasha, unsure of what to do.
"Who are you?" Inuyasha asked feeling slightly at a loss.
"He, He, He," the tree continued to laugh, "When the prophecy was spoken I thought it might be entertaining, but this is hilarious."
"You did this," Inuyasha hissed, jumping to conclusions.
"No, you did this," the tree corrected dropping all humor from his voice, "When you freed me, you invoked Hisintu's curse upon yourselves."
"What?" Kagome asked in astonishment.
"Who are you?" Miroku repeated Inuyasha's question while pulling two sacred sutras from inside his robes.
"Hmm," the tree considered aloud, "Should I tell them my tale? Should I inform them what they got mixed into when they removed the Noushoon jewel shard from my trunk?
"The Noushoon jewel," Kagome repeated," I thought it was a Shikon jewel shard."
"An amateur mistake," the tree insulted.
"Who are you calling an amateur?" Inuyasha threatened.
"So when I spoke the prophecy…" Kagome continued ignoring Inuyasha.
"It was no coincidence," the tree explained. There was silence for a moment, then,
"I guess I will tell you my story as penance for freeing my soul," the tree announced. Still, something about the tree didn't sit right with Inuyasha.
"Kagome draw the Tetsusaiga and have it ready, just in case." Kagome silently complied and the tree took no heed of the demon fang being drawn.
"Many year ago," the tree began, "I was a human named Seuoti. The keeper of the jewel of the dark, but I was not content with guarding my jewel only. I wished to possess both the Laceron and Noushoon jewel, because together they are more powerful than the Shikon no Tama…
"This ends here Seuoti," Hisintu called, the jewel of light glittering on a chain around his neck and his staff in hand. He stood in a small clearing surrounded by woods. One majestic tree hovered over the potential battle and the sound of wind in her branches was the only non-human noise to escape the foliage.
"This should have ended long ago, keeper of the light," Seouti responded tightening his grip on his own staff, "Hand the Noushoon jewel over to me and perhaps I will let you live." A wicked grin spread across his face.
"And let you bring destruction and death to the earth," Hisintu exclaimed, "I think not."
"We'll fight to the death then?" Seouti asked, "Winner takes all."
"I have no desire to touch that foul jewel," Hisintu said, "With your death no keeper of the dark will be born, as long as my soul resides upon this earth."
"That works both ways Hisintu and with both jewels I will be immortal," Seouti informed, "So, I guess you will die." Seouti charged at Hisintu with his staff raised in an offensive position. He attempted to strike Hisintu's head, but Hisintu dodged the blow and his Seouti in the stomach with his own staff.
"Oohfff," Seouti huffed as all the air escaped his lungs. He fell to the ground and desperately tried to pull oxygen into himself. Meanwhile, Hisintu had recovered from Seouti's charge and was readying himself for his own offense. Seuoti only just rolled out of the way as Hisintu struck the ground with his staff where his head had just been. Hisintu repeated the tactic, each time missing by only a hair. By the fourth try, Seouti was ready for the attack. He struck out, slicing Hisintu's stomach open with the bladed head of his staff. Hisintu fell back trying to hold his insides in.
"I've won," Seouti boasted. Realizing his death was inevitably, Hisintu came up with one desperate plan.
"Not if I can help it," He stammered and threw his staff like a spear, penetrating Seouti's right shoulder and pinning him to the large tree in their battlefield.
"What?" Seuoti gasped as fiery pain shot through his shoulder. Hisintu pulled the Noushoon jewel from the chain around his neck.
"I seal you to this tree," he called, and then threw the jewel at the ground. It shattered into a thousand pieces.
"NOOOO!" Seouti cried as a shard wedged itself into the bark of the tree and Hisintu's staff and the jewel of dark fell to the ground.
"Your soul will remain trapped here for all eternity," Hisintu explained, "and as long as one of our souls remains on earth no new keepers will be born. The jewels are safe and any who free you will be cursed."
With those final words Hisintu collapsed, dead, to the ground and the remaining Noushoon jewel shards dissolved into dust with his body, only to be reform within the new keeper of the light. I've been trapped here ever since, but now you've freed me. So, I think I'll be on my way."
"Wait," Kagome cried, "How do we reverse the curse?"
"He, He, He,' the tree cruelly laughed, "Why should I tell you?"
"Because we'll seal you backup," Miroku interjected while showing the sutras he held in his hand. The tree huffed in annoyance,
"The answer is in the prophecy. 'The child, unborn, may reverse ebony night.'"
"So this child can reverse the curse?" Sango asked.
"Who is he?" Shippo wondered.
"The keeper of the light,' Miroku answered, "The curse was lain by a keeper, it makes sense that it will have to be reversed by one."
"Where do we find him?" Sango asked.
"Only a prophet could know and at that only the most powerful," the tree responded, then fled his pervious prison before anyone could react.
"A prophet," Inuyasha repeated.
"Anyone know a prophet?" Kagome asked hopefully while sheathing the Tetsusaiga.
"Lady Tayeso is the most powerful seer I know,' Miroku quickly responded quietly adding, "and she is quiet a beauty.'
"Any how do you know her?" Sango asked with anger creeping in her voice as she had heard Miroku's addition.
"She told my my son would be a very powerful monk and his mother a very beautiful and powerful women," Miroku explained, "Then after a small altercation, she added that that the beauty was not herself." Miroku shrugged as if this were a strange mystery and began walking off in a westerly direction leaving the rest of the dumbfounded group behind.
"He is such a lecher,' Sango mumbled, then followed in suit with the rest of the group in tow.
Lady Tayeso sat crying in the back of her mind. It had been three days since he had left and still the darkness coursed through her veins, controlling her every move. When Dihiro, her friend and companion, had come to visit the day before, She had killed her, unable to control her own body. Tayeso knew the Laceron jewel now, controlled her every move.
'The child's birth is forthcoming,' She thought, 'He will die before he lives if not united with his protectors and I can not help the light for I have become a servant of the dark.'
Alright, so there is chapter five. Review? PLEASE!