Kagome
Chapter 3
Down The Rabbit Hole,
And Back Again
"What did you do to it!" yelled Kagome at Inu Yasha while he examined his shard of the Shikon Jewel.
"Stop barking, Kagome." said Kaede, calmly.
"Leave it to him to wind up breaking it!" continued Kagome, ignoring Kaede.
"Technically, it wasn't Inu Yasha that broke it, but the crow's foot that he attached to his arrow actually caused it."
"But even I could have shot it without breaking it!"
"As ye saw," continued Kaede, "the jewel had been scattered into many pieces. A hundred, a thousand, who knows. Yet, however many shards there may be, all it would take is one. In the wrong hands, it could bring disaster."
"I'm so sorry!" apologized Inu Yasha. "I had no idea!"
'It's all my fault!' he thought.
"Kagome, Inu Yasha. Only by working together, can the two of ye be able the shards of the sacred jewel.
"Huh?"
"Hm. You won't catch me complaining! I'm one of those wrong hands you were talking about!"
"Oh aye. That I know too well."
'But...' thought Inu Yasha 'But I wanna go back home! But how am I supposed to do that, anyways? Kagome's help? As if!'
Before anyone knew what was happening, Kagome was running around the room, looking franticly for something. Under pots, in pans, under an old bed, and in a pile of clothes.
Inu Yasha was confused by this, and he looked over to Kaede. She had her eyes closed, but an eyebrow twitching.
"Hey Kaede!" came Kagome's muffled voice from the corner of the hut.
"Yes child?"
"Do ya know where my kimono is?"
"Ye are wearing it, Kagome."
"No! My fire rat one!"
"We burned it with Inuko's body."
"WHAT! His body out of a million people! It could have been anyone, but it just had to be HIM!" Kagome stormed out of the hut, her fists clenched at her side.
"Great! Just great! Now I gotta go get a new one!"
"What's her problem?" asked Inu Yasha, confused by the whole situation.
"When Kagome first came here, all the arrows Inuko shot at her had torn her kimono. So, we gave her an ordinary one from the village.
"What's so special about the first one? You said it was all torn up."
"It was made from the fur of the fire rats. Also, maybe because she and her brother had made it themselves."
"Her brother?"
"Aye. She and her brother were very close, but something had torn them apart, and one to hate the other. Ever since then, Kagome had never spoken of him."
"Okay..."
'That's so sad!' thought Inu Yasha. 'How can they hate each other!"
Inu Yasha's thoughts were quickly replaced with others.
"Do you know any way to get back home?"
"Ye did say ye fell through a well, did ye?"
"Mm Hm."
"Aye. Then that is the only way to get back. But ye must come back."
"Yeah yeah. Whatever." said Inu Yasha, hurrying out to the well.
He got to the well in a few minutes, and stopped in front of it, looking down into the well, uncertainly.
"If the old hag's lying, she's dead."
He swung his legs over the side, and jumped in.
A brought blue light immediately surrounded him as he went through, and disappeared when he landed at the bottom.
"Are you sure he fell down here?" asked Inu Yasha's grandpa's wheezy voice from the top of the well.
"I'm sure! I saw him!" protested Souta's childish voice.
Inu Yasha just sat there, shocked that he was back home.
A bright light from a flashlight shone down onto Inu Yasha.
"Grandpa? S- Souta!"
Later on it the day, near sunset, Kagome arrived back at Kaede's hut. Instead of her old red and white kimono, she was wearing a new one. It had a red long sleeve shirt, and a red skirt that stopped s bit above her knees, with no socks, so she was bare foot. She had a giddy smile plastered onto her face, and another kimono folded up neatly in her arms.
When she got inside the hut, she looked around for Inu Yasha, but the only person there, was Kaede.
"Hey, Kaede, do you know where Inu Yasha is?
"Oh Inu Yasha? He went home."
"WHAT!" screamed Kagome at the top of her lungs. She turned on her heel, and stormed out of the hut, once again, and towards the hidden well, while cursing under her breath.
She stopped in front of the well in a minute, because of her demonic powers, so she got there pretty fast.
"How could he have gone home with out telling me!"
She peered into the well, and jumped in while saying, "Through here, was it!"
"Come on! Don't tell me you believe his story!" said Inu Yasha's mother, Ms. Higurashi. She has short brown hair, and dark brown eyes.
She, grandpa and Souta were sitting at the kitchen table, discussing the story Inu Yasha told them after he got back from the well.
"Hmm." growled Grandpa, folding his arms across his chest, with his eyes closed.
"But it's true! Inu Yasha fell down the well, and then a monster came up and kidnapped him!" protested Souta, banging his hands on the table.
"There is a certain legend of the bone eaters well." began Grandpa, "Since ancient days, what is inside has consumed the corpses of monsters. But what if the continual time and space disrupted!" Grandpa stood up, and held his hand up in a fist.
Grandpa nailed the top of the well down onto the well itself, and covered it with dozens of sutras.
"That ought to stop ya." he chuckled in content.
Inu Yasha sat at the kitchen table, holding a hair dryer, and obviously, drying his hair. He had changed into a long white t-shirt, and blue pants.
"You closed it off?" he asked his grandpa.
"We needn't worry about anymore visitors from there. I used special spirit wards to seal it off." Replied Inu Yasha's grandpa. "Just in case."
Inu Yasha lay on his bed, thinking of the past events.
"Ahh. So good to be back home in bed." he said to himself, as he sat up on his bed. "Was I really there? In that weird, feudal Japan? I still have the jewel shard, but I don't know what to do with it now. Should I go back? Pft! Yeah right. I can already hear Kagome.
"I never asked for your help! Go home! You'll only slow me down, anyways."
"Hmph! That's right. What am I worrying about her for? That's it then." said Inu Yasha, clapping his hands in front of him. "Chapter closed. As far as I'm concerned, it's just another boring fairy tale." Just then, he heard his mom calling him for dinner.
"COMING!" he yelled back at her, running down the stairs into the kitchen.
He landed in front of the table, clasped his hands together, and started chanting "Food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food!" while his grandpa said.
"Rest assured, Inu Yasha. I have sealed off the well, so you don't worry." he stopped right at the same time Inu Yasha finished his mantra.
"I don't think he heard ya." said Souta.
'Ahh.' sighed Inu Yasha. 'What a wonderful time to be alive.'
"Alright! Dig in!" Inu Yasha was just about to put his chopsticks in his mouth, when the door slid open, to reveal a very angry looking hanyou.
Everyone just stared in shock at Kagome's sudden appearance.
"Ka... Kagome?" whispered Inu Yasha.
"Idiot! Who said you could go home!" she yelled at him.
"But... uh... where did you-?"
"Through the well, of course!" she yelled, stepping into the room.
"The well? But the well is-"
"You lie! I made those spirit wards myself!" butted in grandpa "There was no way you could have come through!"
"Hate to break it to ya old man," started Kagome, pulling out a wrinkled up spirit ward from her kimono, "But they don't work."
"Whaaaaa?"
"Grandpa..."
"Come on, you." said Kagome, dragging Inu Yasha out the door by his arm. "We're leaving!"
"No! And you can't make me!"
"Stay right there!" exclaimed Inu Yasha's mom.
"Now what?"
Miss Higurashi glided over to Kagome, and started tweaking her ears.
"Your ears- are they real?"
"Me next! Me next!" exclaimed Souta, jumping up and down.
Kagome just stood there in shock, not knowing what to do. The only people she had allowed to do that to her in her whole life, was her parents, and her brothers.
"Mom! That's not really cool! But I did do the same thing..."
Inu Yasha suddenly noticed a small green lizards with two heads, and three eyes on each, crawling over Kagome's shoulder.
"Huh? Hey, Kagome. What's that?" said Inu Yasha, pointing at the lizard.
Kagome looked over onto her shoulder.
"Huh? Oh." she sighed and poked it with a claw and it immediately fell dead on her palm.
"Inu Yasha." she sighed. "You gotta quit worrying over stuff like this! And how come you never told me you had demons in this era!" her look slightly angered.
"I don't... hey! This is all your fault! The demon followed you here!"
Kagome started to sniff the air, and spotted the pots of food on the table.
"Oh boy!" squealed Kagome as she plopped down by the table, and grabbed the bowl Inu Yasha was previously eating from. Everyone sweat dropped as Kagome started wolfing down the contents of the bowl.
"You're such a liar, Inu Yasha." said Kagome, putting down the bowl.
"Huh?"
"There are waaaaay more demons here."
"No there aren't!"
"One of them smells like one of those paper things in your room."
"My room?"
"Yep. Ya keep it pretty neat for a guy." 'Gods. I still can't get the horrifying look from the rooms of my brothers!' Kagome shuddered at the thought.
"Whatever. By the way, where's that demon cat of yours? Karia, was it?"
"Hmm..." Kagome tapped her chin thoughtfully. "She's either at Kaede's, trashing your room, or with Kirara." (kE-la-la)
"MY ROOM!" yelled Inu Yasha, racing up the stairs to make sure his room wasn't in bad condition.
"HEY!" yelled Kagome after him. "I diddn't mean that!"
When Inu Yasha diddn't return, Kagome sighed. She simple snapped her fingers, and Inu Yasha landed not so gracefully on the floor beside her.
"Wha?" came Inu Yasha's muffled and confused voice. "How did you...?"
Kagome noticed everyone was staring at her. She sweat dropped, and said one word.
"Miko."
"But miko's can't do that." protested Souta.
"I thought mikos could only ward off spirits, and kill demons of such."
"I'm no ordinary miko." said Kagome smiling on pride. "I'm Kagome... the half demon miko!" she said in a deeper voice, trying to give it a dramatic effect.
Grandpa's eyes widened at her statement.
"You're Kagome! The Kagome! Kagome the half demon miko?"
Kagome was a bit startled.
"Uh... yeah?"
"Oh WOW!"
Everyone sweat dropped as Grandpa ran over to Kagome and pulled her to her feet, just to start shaking her hand wildly.
"Are you really Kagome! Daughter of Inutaisho!"
"Uh... yeah?"
"WOW!"
Grandpa stopped shaking her hand and ran over to Souta.
"Quick! Souta! Shake my hand!"
"Huh?"
Grandpa just ignored everyone's stares and started shaking Souta's hand wildly.
He let go of his hand, and put both fists up in the air.
"Now the rest of the line of Higurashi priests have shaken hands with the Kagome, or with someone who has!" Grandpa bellowed.
Major sweat dropping.
"Come with me!"
Grandpa started pulling Kagome out of the kitchen to a special place in the shrine where he kept all his special antiques.
Everyone just stood there, even after Kagome and Grandpa left.
A few minutes later, they heard a shrill scream, and Kagome re appeared in the kitchen, panting.
Once she caught her breath, she turned to Inu Yasha and glared at him.
"NEVER! NEVER make me go in there AGAIN!"
"Uh..." Inu Yasha just stared, not knowing why Kagome was so angry.
"Wait! Kagome come back!" came a wheezy voice from the direction Kagome came from.
"Oh gods!"
Kagome grabbed Inu Yasha's arm, and before they knew what was happening, Kagome and Inu Yasha had disappeared into the well house.
"Hey! I never said I wanted to go back!" protested Inu Yasha as Kagome tried to push him into the well, but Inu Yasha quickly pushed away from her and ran to the stairs.
When he got there, Inu Yasha searched around the well house for Kagome, but she wasn't there.
"Looking for me?" came a voice from behind Inu Yasha.
"UWAAA!" yelled Inu Yasha, and he jumped back in surprise.
Lucky for Kagome, he landed back at the mouth of the well. Kagome smirked, and in a second, she was trying to push Inu Yasha back into the well.
"Come on! Please!" she said in the cutest voice she could get.
"No!" yelled Inu Yasha, trying to get away from her grasp.
"Pretty please! You're the only friend I have back there!"
"Friend?" said Inu Yasha, startled.
"Huh? Did I say friend? Oh no... I meant... uh..."
He smirked at her, and sighed, the smirk not disappearing.
"Fine. I'll go. But only since you can't get your hands off me." his smirk widened at Kagome's blushing face.
"I don't like you like that!" the half yelled, pushing Inu Yasha into the well, and jumping on after him.
Blue light immediately swallowed them, as they went through.
"Hey..." started Kagome, pulling out a folded up red kimono from hers.
"What?"
Kagome handed him the kimono as they landed at the bottom of the well.
"For you."
He gladly accepted it and smiled at her as she smiled back.
"It's made from the fur of the fire rat. You'll have at least some protection.
"Come out!"
"No! I look like a tomato!"
Kagome was not so patiently waiting outside Kaede's hut for Inu Yasha to try on the kimono she gave him.
"You're so mean! I got that kimono especially for you and now you're insulting it!"
"So what? You wouldn't wear something as red as this!"
"For your information, I AM wearing something like that!"
"I look like a tomato!"
"Who cares!"
"ME!"
"I don't, so get your but out here!"
"No!"
"I'll kill the villagers!"
"See if I care!"
Kagome smirked and started imitating a child's voice.
"Help! Kagome the half demon miko is trying to kill me! EEK!"
In a flash, Inu Yasha was outside the hut, only to find Kagome rolling on the ground from laughter.
"Hey! You tricked me!" yelled Inu Yasha as Kagome tried to get up, leaning on a tree for support.
"You should giggle have s-s- giggle seen your... FACE!" Kagome stuttered, and then burst into a fit of giggles.
"HEY!"
Still giggling.
"I'm gonna change if you don't look at it!"
Kagome breathed in deeply, calmed down, and looked over at Inu Yasha.
He wore puffy red pants that closed up at his ankles, a long sleeve white shirt, and a long sleeves red jacket like kimono top over it, with the sleeves wide at the ends.
Kagome was shocked at his appearance. It made her remember a memory from a long time ago, which she struggled to forget.
A ten year old Kagome skipped over to a young 7 year old child, with a small package in her arms.
"Shiro! Look what I got you!"
The little boy called Shiro looked up at Kagome. She happily handed him the brown package.
"What is it?"
Kagome smiled at his confused face. "A present. For you."
Shiro's face immediately lit up at the word 'present' as he tore open the package. In it, was a small red kimono.
"It's made from the fur of the fire rat, and it'll protect you in battle. IF I even let you fight." she smirked at him.
"Thank you sis!" he quickly hugged the living daylights out of Kagome.
"Sh- Shiro... can't --- breathe..."
'Sh- Shiro!' thought Kagome as she got a distant look.
"Ha! You do look like a tomato!"
"Sit!"
Wham.