A/N: Hi. Just to ley uou know, the beggining may sound alot like the anime, but the plot isn't. Sorry! I just couldn't think of anything else to put in. Wow! I actually have a plot!
Summary: What if Inu Yasha was never pinned to a tree? What if Kagome was?
What if Kikyo didn't betray Inu Yasha? What if Inuko betrayed Kagome?
What if Inu Yasha was from the future? What if Kagome was from feudal Japan?
What if the children of Inutaisho weren't only Kagome and Sesshoumaru?
What if there was another?
Who could it be? Why is their sibling not with them?
What was the horrible fate Kagome's parents endured at their death?
Why does it seem like Sesshoumaru is faking his hatred towards Kagome?
How could it have all gone wrong? I do. Do you?
(Actually, I'm still thinking of how it went all wrong. ;;)
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha. If I did, Kikyou would not exist.
Kagome
Chapter One
The Boy Who Overcame Time,
And The Girl Who Was Just Overcome
"KAGOME!"
"UWAAAAH!"
"OH!"
A smirking silver haired hanyou barged into a small shrine from the roof, where the Shikon Jewel was held. She spotted the jewel on a small case on a small stool. She covered her nose and her mouth with the sleeve of her kimono so the intoxicating smell wouldn't get to her, and make her black out. She quickly darted to the jewel and snatched it up. The doors behind her slammed open, revealing some of the villagers that protected the jewel. She knocked the two oil lamps at both sides of her down, jumped out of the shrine from the hole in the roof just in time to miss the explosion.
"Heh!" she said, jumping from rooftop to rooftop into the forest away from the village. "So there! Finally a way for me to become all demon at last!"
She kept running and running, but was stopped by a male's voice.
"KAAAGOOOMEEE!"
She was just speeding across from a large tree, when an arrow came from the direction the voice came from. It struck her in her heart, and she got pinned to the tree behind her, as the jewel fell out of her grasp. The man who pinned her to the tree had long black hair, brown eyes, and a red kimono. He diddn't take his eyes off her, his eyes filled with anger and betrayal, still holding his bow in the same position from after he shot her.
"Inu- Inuko... How could- I thought-- ugh."
As Kagome closed her eyes, still dangling from the tree, Inuko slowly walked towards the jewel, and staggered down from all the pain coming from his wound. The people from the village ran to him, and gathered around. And a little girl ran as fast as she could to him, and helped Inuko stay up.
"Brother Inuko!"
"Master Inuko! That wound it-"
"You're hurt really badly!"
"I forgot who I-" began Inuko, picking up the jewel. "And now I see what... All for this... The Sacred Jewel which- -ugh-"
"You're in pain! Let someone-"
"I won't feel it much longer. And so I give this to you, Kaede... The Shikon No Tama, which you must burn with my body. It must not fall into the hands of those who might abuse it."
Those were his last words before he closed his eyes, clutched the jewel to his heart, and fell to the ground, dead.
"INUKO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!"
"The Shikon No Tama," he thought, "I shall take it with me, to the other world."
"Shikon No What?"
"Shikon No Tama, my boy: the jewels of the four souls."
"Ya really think tourists are gonna buy these crappy key chains, do you?" asked a teenaged boy named Inu Yasha. He had long black hair, and violet eyes, and was wearing a loose red t-shirt, a pair of baggy black jeans, and a pair of socks since he was indoors.
"It's not just a keychain! It's an exact replica of the Shikon Jew-" said Inu Yasha's grandfather, holding a small keychain with a pink jewel at the end of it.
"Ya do remember it's my birthday tomorrow, don't you?"
"I was planning to wait another day, but-"
"So you did get me some thing! Cough it up!"
Inu Yasha's grandfather reached into a box, and pulled out a small webbed foot. Inu Yasha just stared at it, with a very peeved look.
"That, my boy, is an ancient mummified water imp's foot. It's an antique!" Inu Yasha just sighed.
"Here Buyoh," he said, handing his fat cat the water imp's foot, "Eat."
His cat gladly took it and ran out, with the foot in his mouth.
"Uwa! That's an antique!"
Replica this, Authentic that. Here, everything's got a story. The thousand year old sacred tree, the legend of the hidden well. I've heard these stories all my life, and I've never believed a word of them! That is, until today. My sixteenth birthday.
"I'm leaving!" yelled Inu Yasha, as he ran out of the shrine that was his home. He was running towards her school, when he spotted his twerp of a brother, Souta, standing at the entrance of the bone eater's well shrine.
"Hey! What are you-?"
"N-nothing..."
"You're not supposed to play in there!"
"I'm not! It's the cat!"
"Did he go down to the well?" asked Inu Yasha, as he entered the shrine.
"Buuuuyoooooh!"
"I think he's at the bottom."
"So go down."
"But why do I have to go?"
"Cuz you're the one who's lookin' for him."
A tapping noise came from near the well. Souta got frightened and hid behind his brother.
"AHH! Something's down there!"
"Duh! Yeah! The cat!"
Inu Yasha slowly walked down the steps to the well. Another tapping sound came, but this time, from inside the well. That sound. From inside the well. He suddenly felt something brushing against his leg.
"GAAH!"
"Huh? WAA!" said his brother, jumping back onto his rear in surprise. "Buyoh!"
Inu Yasha picked up the cat.
"You make fun of me that I'm scared, and then you're all 'GAAH GAHH'!"
"Look who's talkin! Mister, 'why do I have to go?'!"
The tapping in the well started getting louder, and white smoke started rising from the sides.
"Inu Yasha!"
The smoke acted like hands, and pulled Inuyasha into the well. The thing that pulled him in, was a centipede demon.
"Ahh!" she said sighed. "Oh to be alive once more! Finally, my strength returns!" her body which was just now a bunch of bones, started to reform into a centipede like form. "You have it, don't you? Give it to meeee!"
"What are ya doing? Let GOOOO!" said Inu Yasha, putting his left hand in front of him, as if it was a shield, and that was how it acted. A blast came from it, and repelled Mistress Centipede away from him, but leaving one of her six arms still on him.
"Wretched boy! I must have the sacred jewel!"
"Sacred... jewel?"
Inu Yasha suddenly landed at the bottom of the well, breathing heavily.
"I guess I must have fallen... in the well. Must a hit my head or something." then, he glanced at the arm of Mistress Centipede. "Maybe not!" He looked up towards the top of the well. "HEY! TWERP! Get grandpa!" but there was no response. "Guess he ran away. Chicken." he muttered, as he climbed the walls of the well.
Once he got to the top, he fond himself in a large forest. He walked around, a bit.
"Where am I?"
Then, he noticed a very large tree.
"The sacred tree! That means I'm almost home!"
He went through some bushes to the tree, but when he reached it, he was shocked at what he saw. There, pinned to the tree with an arrow, was a silver haired girl. She had a kimono on, with a white top, and red puffy pants. She had her eyes closed, and Inu Yasha noticed something at the top of her head. Two dog ears were placed there. Then he started noticing some of her other hidden qualities. Like her claws and fangs.
What is she? He thought.
He walked closer to her.
Is she awake?
The girl didn't move an inch. Inu Yasha gently tweaked her right ear. But she didn't move. Then, a thought came to him.
Is she... dead?
He touched her skin.
Nah. Couldn't be. Her skin's still warm. But why won't she open her eyes? I'll find out later.
Inu Yasha looked around, searching for a sign of life. Suddenly, dozens of arrows came zooming out of no where, and all struck the tree around Inu Yasha.
What the hell's going on!
"Get away from that tree!"
"Huh?"
The next thing Inu Yasha knew, was that he was in the middle of a small village, his hands and feet tied up, and the whole village crowded around him.
"Do you think it could be a kitsune in disguise?" asked one villager.
"Nah. Those shape changing foxes are much trickier!" answered another.
"Make way for the high priestess Kaede!"
Now what! Thought Inu Yasha with a very annoyed look.
The lady known as Kaede was an old woman, probably in her sixties, with grayish hair, and a kimono that was very similar to the one the girl in the forest was wearing. She took out a small pouch from her kimono, put her hand in it, and brought out some dust and threw it over Inu Yasha.
"Demon be gone!" she said.
"Hey! HEY! I'm not a demon, okay!" yelled Inu Yasha at her.
"Oh really? Then why were ye found in the forest of Kagome?"
Inu Yasha just glared at her. Then, Kaede's expression somewhat softened, and stepped closer to him. She took his head in her hand.
"Look clever boy, or be ye a half wit?"
Why you!
"Huh?" said Kaede, with a shocked expression. The she stepped back, and commanded the men around her, "Release him!"
Once Inu Yasha was released, Kaede brought him to her house.
Where am I? Some kind of feudal Japan?
Once they got inside Kaede's hut, it was dark outside, and Kaede motioned for Inu Yasha to sit down, as she did too. She started cooking something on the pot over the fire. They were silent for a while, until Kaede spoke up.
"Pay no heed to the villagers. They meant no harm."
Bout time the old hag said something! I was just about pull my hair out!
"..." was his oh so smart response.
"Here. Eat."
Kaede handed Inu Yasha a bowl of soup.
"Oh Boy!" SLUUURP! "Wow! Real food!"
Kaede just watched him gobble up the bowl, as if waiting for something strange to happen.
"Where do ye come from, child?"
"Oh, I live in Tokyo."
"To- Key- Oh?"
"Close enough. I better get heading back." But I have no idea how to get back! Thought Inu Yasha, eating the soup again.
BANG!
"Huh?"
"What was that?"
Inu Yasha and Kaede both ran out of the house, only to find that Mistress Centipede was back, attacking the village.
"Give me the Sacred Jewel, boy!"
So she's after me! I'll lure her into the forest! I'm sure the villagers will follow me!
Inu Yasha ran into the forest where he found the girl pinned to the tree, with Mistress Centipede, close at his tail.
Kagome's heart pulsed, finally, for the first time after 50 years, and she raised her claw in front of herself.
"He's here! Inuko's alive! And he's coming towards me!"
As if on cue, Inu Yasha came tumbling into the forest, and landed in front of Kagome.
"Inuko!" Inu Yasha looked up into the golden orbs of the girl he saw earlier.
She's... alive?
"Huh?" Inu Yasha got up and walked in front of her. She had a beautiful smile on her face, and her eyes filled with love. She tried to walk forward, but something stopped her. She notice that she was pinned to a tree with a arrow, and remembered that Inuko pinned her there. Her smile was immediately replaced with a glare, and her eyes were filled with hatred.
"How could you do this to me, Inuko!"
"That's it! Inuko, Inuko, Inuko, who ever he is, that's not me, cuz my name is-"
"She's heeeeeere!"
"Huh?" Mistress Centipede came charging at Inu Yasha, took him by his waist, and tried to pull him away, but he grabbed Kagome's hair.
"Let GO!" yelled Inu Yasha.
"No! You let go!"
"Give me the sacred jewel boy!"
Sacred Jewel? Flashed in Kagome's mind.
"Let go!" yelled Inu Yasha, and he put a hand in front of him, and a blast came from it, and Mistress Centipede when flying backwards as he fell down to the ground.
"Hey! Inuko! Where's the jewel!"
"Huh?"
"The Sacred Jewel!"
"How am I supposed to know!"
"Ahh. I heard there was a half demon that wanted the jewel to become a full demon. That's you, isn't it. Hah! You're so pathetic you half breed!"
"Half is all I need to kick your scaly hide! Any more, and I'd be waistin' my time!"
"Hey, ya talk big, but can ya back it up?"
Kagome gave Inu Yasha a confused look. Then she just ignored him, and looked up to Mistress Centipede as she started talking again.
"What can she do? Pinned to that tree like that! Now... give me the Sacred Jewel!"
Mistress Centipede quickly glided to Inu Yasha, fangs bared. She bit into his side, and threw him into the air when blood splattered out, and a small pinkish-purple ball came out.
Is that... the jewel? Thought Inu Yasha as he landed on the ground in front of Kagome.
"Quick! Give me the jewel!"
"Huh?"
"Hurry!"
But before he could do anything, Mistress Centipede's body had already coiled around Inu Yasha and pinned him to the tree with Kagome. She then slithered to the jewel, her tongue snaked around the jewel, and swallowed it. Cackling, her pale white skin peeled off, to show some brownish skin with red blotched all over it. She kept on cackling , and tightened her hold to Inu Yasha, Kagome and the tree.
"It's crushing me!" whined Inu Yasha.
"Hey..."
"Huh?" Inu Yasha looked up at Kagome, who was looking away, not wanting to meet his gaze.
"Can you... pull this arrow out?"
"Eh?"
"Listen, can you, or cant you not!"
"I guess it's worth a try..."
"Nay child!" yelled Kaede, for she had come a while ago. "If ye releases Kagome, she will bring havoc among us all!"
"Shut up ya old hag! At least with me you've got a chance! Cuz that thing is gonna eat you!" the Kagome looked down to Inu Yasha. "What about you? Are you ready to die yet?"
"I dunno what to do... but given the choice..." Inu Yasha reached for the arrow in Kagome's chest "I choose to..." Inu Yasha grasped the arrow tightly "LIVE!"
And with that, the arrow disappeared in a blue flash. Inu Yasha looked up to Kagome, who had an unreadable expression.
"Huhuhuhuhu."
"Uh... Ka... Kagome?"
"HYAA AAHA!"
Then, a blinding pink light came from Kagome, making Mistress Centipede fly back, along with Inu Yasha. Kagome quickly got into fighting stance with Mistress Centipede.
"Wicked child!"
"Nasty hag!"
They both lunged for each other, but Kagome was faster.
"IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!"
Kagome raised a hand above her, and brought it down, as if she was slashing Mistress Centipede, and that was exactly what had happened. A pinkish lighting-like beam slashed it's way through her body, and then blasted all of it into many pieces as a smirking Kagome came out, and stood with her head held up high from pride. She had finally enjoyed using her super natural powers after 50 years.
Wow. Thought Inu Yasha She really is strong!
Then, Inu Yasha saw a leg of Mistress Centipede twitch.
"Uh.. It's still moving!" she said as the villagers gathered around him.
"Quickly child," said Kaede. "Look for the glowing flesh. That is where the jewel resides. If ye don't find it, Mistress Centipede's body shall revive."
"You cant be serious!"
Inu Yasha looked around for a while, and he spotted a piece of Mistress Centipede's flesh at had a glowing pinkish-purple spot.
"There it is!" he said as they all ran to it.
Kaede stuck her hand in it, and pulled out the Shikon Jewel.
"Ahh. Here it is." she walked up to Inu Yasha, and dropped it in his hands. "Take this."
"Huh? But-"
"Only ye must possess the jewel."
Ye who so resembles the dead Inuko.
"But how'd I get it inside my body? Why'd I have a jewel wanted by demons?"
"Exactly." said Kagome, stepping on some of Mistress Centipede's bones and crushing them. "Humans can't use it, so why bother to keep it?" She had a smirk, tugging at the end of her mouth. "If you give me the jewel right now, I won't have to start sharpenin' my claws on you!"
"What?" said Inu Yasha, as he and Kaede stared at Kagome. "What!"
What! You mean she's not the hero!