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Chapter 3: Waking up
"Hey Kairi, you think she'll be alright?" asked a voice
"I dunno Sora...maybe she's dead?" replied another.
"I hope not..."
I hope she's not dead too...Hey wait...Who're they talking about? Who are they? Thought a groggy Kagome.
"Hey she moved! So she's not dead!" said the second voice, which could be identified as Kairi.
"Maybe she's a zombie or something cause she sure doesn't look alive." Said Sora.
Are they talking about me? I'm not dead, am I? Kagome asked, cracking open one eye and immediatly regretting it.
The bright sun blazed overhead, and the sound of waves crashing into the shore invaded her ears. Kagome pulled herself up, wiping the crud out of her eyes and giving a big yawn.
"I feel terrible." She mumbled, suddenly remembering the voices. She turned her head to the side where a young boy with unruly brown hair and girl with sleek red hair gaped at her in wonder. They couldn't have been much younger than she was, they were probably the same age.
How adorable! They must be in love She thought, smiling at them.
"Are you alright miss? We found you here on the beach and thought you might have drowned." Said Sora.
"Well I'm not drowned." Kagome said, and spotting the look on Sora's face she added, "And I'm not a zombie either."
Kairi smiled. "You must have come from a different world or something, I've never seen you on this island before!"
It was then that Kagome actually realized where she was. She stood up shakily and peered around, remembering everything that led up to her coming here. "Where am I?" She asked.
"You're on one of the Destiny Islands" Said Sora, giving her a strange look. "You had to have come from a different world, or else you would have known that."
"Okay, so I was fighting Naraku and he threw the spiky-crystal-thingy at me and it sucked me and Kurama up...wait a minute, where's Kurama?" She asked, turning to look at the two bewildered youths. "Is there someone else here, I mean someone who appeared here besides me?" She asked. "He's about this tall with red hair and green eyes." She said.
They shook they're heads.
"Nope, we haven't really looked for anyone else...we only found you here. " Said Sora.
Kagome sighd and looked down, "Well he's got to be here somewhere, I guess I'll just have to look. " She said turning around and looking.
"We'll come with you!" They both replied.
Later that evening
Kagome sighed and slid into the hotspring, washing away the sand and salt from her body. They searched for Kurama for the whole day and stll they didn't find him. She had learned a bunch about the world she was in, but she still didn't know why she was here.
"I hope he's going to be alright...Maybe he's in one of the other worlds that Sora was talking about. I guess I'll just ask him to take me to one of them. " She thought aloud, turning as Kairi walked up with a towel in her hands.
"I'm sure he would mind taking you, he was supposed to go to Traverse Town today but we never really got to it." Kairi said as she slid into the hot water as well.
Kagome nodded. "Sorry I held you guys up, I'm still a bit confused as to how this all happened." She said. Okay that was kinda a lie..She was confused a lot.
Kairi shruged. "It's alright." She smiled. "So this guy, that you're looking for, is he your lover?" She asked.
Kagome almost drowned in the knee-deep water at the question. "WHAT? No! Kurama is not my lover! He's...well he's hardly a friend, I only met him earlier this morning."
Kairi giggled at her reaction, "No need to get so defensive Kagome! I'll talk to Sora about the gummi ship. You had better get some sleep Kagome, Traverse town is waaay bigger than this island." She said standing up and wrapping the towel around herself. "Good night Kagome-chan!"
"Night Kairi-chan!" She said, smiling and leaving the hotsprings herself.
The Next morning.
"Hurry it up Kag! I need to get this shipment of Gummi blocks in to Cid quick!"
"Coming!" Said Kagome, climbing into the ship behind Kairi. "Thanks for taking me with you!"
Kairi turned to her as Sora started up the ship, "No prob. Since Sora works for Cid he gets permission to travel to and from the other worlds." She explained
"You girls better be strapped in, 'cause we're taking off!" Sora shouted, and Kagome double-checked her seat belts.
The ship launched off into the sky, traveling faster than Kagome imagined it would. It only took half a minute for them to break the planets atmosphere and enter space.
Kagome looked out her window in awe as they passed the moon and a few other ships, they soared through a few rings and pass the large rocks that floated about with ease. Kairi grinned at the expression on Kagome's face and kicked her feet back.
"We'll be there in a little while Kagome" Kairi said, grinning again at the look of awe on her face.
"Already? Where I'm from it takes peoples years to travel through space!" She said looking forward.
Sora frowned, "I'm glad that it doesn't take us years to go back and forth or we'd never get to where we were going!"
Kagome only nodded in amazement as they parked the ship outside of two big gates.
They got out and Kagome looked around, still in shock from traveling through space in a matter of minutes. "So this is Traverse town?" She asked as they walked through the gates and into the town square, also known as Section 1.
"Yup." Sora said as they walked up some stairs and into Cids shop.
Cid set down a box and wipped his brow, "I'm glad you're here Sora, I need to send this out to The Jungle, Jane has been sending letter after letter trying to get her shipment of wire there." He said, taking the box of parts from Sora.
"And Kairi, I need you to head out to Netherland and get this shipment of oil to the lost boys." He said, handing the large container to Kairi. "You can take my ship." He said
"And you" He said pointing to Kagome "Can take this shipment of ...stuff to the Deep Sea. Ariel wants it for her collection."
Kagome blinked a few times, "But I don't work here..." She said, scratching the side of her face.
Cid turned back around to look at her and laughed heartily. "No, I guess you don't, who might you be?" He asked, pulling his pack of cigarettes from his pocket and putting one between his lips.
Sora chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "This is Kagome, we brought her here to look for a friend of hers." He said.
Cid put a hand to his chin. "A tall fellow with red hair? " He asked.
Kagome's sapphire eyes brightened with glee, "You saw him?"
Cid nodded. "Yeah, he walked past here with Leon a while back, I think they were heading to the third district. Here's a map on how to get there." He said handing it to her.
Kagome grined, "Thanks a lot, Mr. Cid!" She said.
"Don't call me Mr, It makes me sound old" He said going back to his work.
Kairi grinned. "Sorry for ditching you Kagome, but we gotta run."
Sora nodded.
Kagome shrugged. "It's okay, I've got a map now and I've held you two back for long enough. " She said waving as they left. She turned back to Cid, "Well I guess I'm heading off too, Mr-...I mean Cid." She said.
"Hold on...You might wanna take this with you, there have been some attacks lately, Traverse Town never gets a rest. First the heartless and now this." He said, tossing Kagome a short sword.
Kagome caught the sword and nodded, "What are heartless?" She asked, not remembering the subject mentioned last night.
"Doesn't really matter now, all of the heartless have been gone since Sora took them out for us, but there have been some demons here and there."
Kagome nodded, "I'll be able to take care of a few demons, see ya!" She said, grabbing the map and walking out of the door.
Kagome walked through the first set of doors, leading her into the second district. She looked around, feeling as if she was in a normal street. There were shoes stores and a big hotel, even a church and a few homes were places in the District, but there were no demons, that was for sure.
She walked down the stairs, enjoying the scenery, trying her best to ignore the eerie quietness that enveloped the entire place.
"I hope the Third District has more people, with all the shops around, you'd think there would be more people here than in the first district." She said walking by a group of shadows on a wall.
The shadows materialized slowly, walking behind Kagome without a sound. Slowly they began to form a head, and then a body, arms, legs and feet.
Kagome frooze, and whipped around to see a seven foot demon behind her leering at her. Large yellow fangs protruded from it's mouth, which was opening rapidly. She dodged quickly, turning to see it bite into the bench, snapping the thing in two like it was a sugar cookie.
She drew her sword and stood her ground as the thing advanced on her, slashing at her with large claws. She attempted a few attacks, but they were repelled by the demons outter sheel which appaered to be as hard as steel. She took the last of a few options: RUN!
She tore away from the monster, pulling the map from her pocket. Surely it couldn't follow her into the Third District, could it? She rounded a corner and found herself infront of the clock tower doors.
" I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere!" She said, abandoning the map. She ran inside, ignoring the shadows that grew from the dark corners and from underneath the clogs and machinery. She felt trendils of darkness grabbing onto her legs and arms, but she kept running, tearing them off with a blast of her miko energy. She stumbled out of the door and into the alley leading to a large set of doors.
"Finally! Guess I was going the right way after all!" She thought, running toward the doors as the shadows continued to creep towards her at a high speed. She pushed herself through the large doors, falling through them and landing on the hard concrete.
She raised her head, paling at the sight of the dirty fanged monster that bore his teeth down on her.
"Aw, gimme a break!" She said, launching a beam of her energy towards it. It stumbled back with a loud roar, then rounded on Kagome faster with newborn strength.
Kagome narrowly dodged the foot long spike that had grown in the place of it's hand. She ran as fast as she could, down the stairs and into the large open space.
The monster lept from the top, all the way down infront of Kagome. It smilied in a grotesque sort of way. "Thanks for the snack!" It growled, running toward Kagome.
With no ideas on how to defeat the monster, Kagome ran again, growing very aware of the aching in her legs. She heard a door open as the darkness began to fill the open space. Her legs shook as she was backed up as far as she could go, stumbling into the wall. Her heart sped up as her vision darkened.
"Looks like you've run out of ideas, my dear." He said, grinning devilishly.
Feeling the trendils wrap around her ankles once more she felt her energy being sucked out of her every pore. Screaming and lashing out with adrenaline powered arms, she struck the monster, pumping miko energy into instead of her own.
It howled and backed away, growling at her fiercly, "How can you hold the power of light?" It asked with a slightly pained voice.
Kagome ignored his question and continued to fight of the darkness with her light, but it was fading. Fast.
Once again she felt the darkness begin to pool around her feet reaching up and pulling her limbs down, sucking her into the darkness.
"Sounds like the demons have found another victim." Said Leon, peering out of his window at a stream of shadows pouring over the wall. His eyes widened slightly. "I've never seen this many of them go for one person, I'd better go help them, It's got to be more than one person. You coming Youko?"
Youko Kurama sat up from his seat and nodded. "Yes, I suppose I should join you, and then we can continue the search for Kagome." He said and Leon nodded.
They opened the door and went to peek over the wall to see who it was being attacked.
Youko's eyes widened, "That's her! " He said, hopping over the wall easily and landing at her side with a fresh whip drawn and ready to go. Leon landed on her other side with his gunblade drawn.
Kagome spared a glance over at the person next to her and had to fight down the urge to gasp. Silver hair, fox ears and a tail all collected on one solid body. Sharp gold eyes peered forward at the large monster that was staring at him with murder in it's eyes.
Leon frowned at them. "You ready?"
Kurama nodded. "Whenever you are" He said, looking down at the startled Kagome
That's right...last time she saw me I was in human form. "You alright Kagome?"
Kagome nodded and stood up still a little creeped out that this demon knew her name. But he was here to help, and there wasn't any way that she was going to refuse. "A little tired, but yes." She mumbled, wondering who he was, but knowing that this was not the time for small talk.
Leon was the first to charge, "Then let's go!" He said, charging at the monster that had been deemed the Dark Stalker. Feeling full of energy he brought his blade down quick and shot it in it's gut as he did, manuevering past him once he was brought to his knees.
Youko slung his whip forward gracefully, feeling it wrap around the neck of the monster. Kagome grabbed his hand, ignoring his questioning look as she channeled her miko energy into the whip directly so as to not hurt Youko in the process.
The monster howled in pain and slung them both over it's head and towards the opposite wall, which was as unforgiving as the other. Kagome felt familiar arms wrapping around her form and a slight jerk as the graceful fox demon landed foot first on the wall, pushing off to land on the ground. He set Kagome down in a careful manner.
Kagome tried her best not to stare, "Arigatou" She mumbled to him, seeing him nod she turned back to the bloodied demon.
Kurama almost smirked at the thing. "It appears he's weak to your holy powers, Kagome. Are you feeling up to a purification?" He asked, smiling at her.
Kagome grinned. "I've got just enough energy to try." She said. She began to advance but stopped and turned back to Youko with a worried look. "Will you be alright?" She asked, as the monster began to stand in the distance.
Youko nodded nonchalantly. "I'm fine."
Kagome smiled and charged at the monster as it in turn charged at her, determined to take her out. With renewed energy Kagome ducked the powerful swing from the monster, that tumbled from the loss of balance caused by it's wild swing. Taking the opportunity, Kagome pressed her hands down upon the monsters chest, suprised when her hands met no resistance. Despite the discouraging discovery, Kagome pumped the remainder of her holy energy into the shadowy mass that made up it's body.
Squall/Leon walked up to Youko, breathing heavily. He looked at Kagome, who was still pumping her energy into the monster, despite it's violent protest. His eyes widened. "She has control over the light?" He asked, turning his head to Youko, who didn't look phased at all.
Youko nodded. "She's a priestess, all priestessess have holy power."
Leon stared in awe. Never before had he seen such a great amount of holy power stored within such a small body... Not since Sora's quest against the darkness. Only recently had the darkness come back, and now there is another person here, controlling the light as if she had the keyblade.
Kagome dropped to her knees, breathing heavily as her arms shook from the weight of her body. She looked up to see Youko's hand infront of her. She smiled and reached up to grasp his hand, grateful for the firm support he offered. But it seemed her legs disagreed with the weight she put on them so they buckled, sending her back down to the ground.
Youko watched as Kagome wobbled on her legs and quickly leaned in to catch her, wrapping his arms around her small frame. He had to admit, it was slightly suprising to see such a great deal of power come from such a small body.
Kagome blushed at the warm contact from the demon infront of her. What's going on? It's not like me to get flustered from such a small contact. She thought, steadying her legs and breaking the contact with brighter cheeks. "Th-Thank you." She mumbled.
Leon stepped forward, "Let's get inside before more demons come...I think they are drawn to your powers." He said, watching as Kagome turned around to him to get a good look.
Kagome scratched her head for a moment, pondering over how to think up an answer. "Umm, welll. I'm really thankful for you both saving me...but I don't know either of you. on't get me wrong, it's just hard to trust someone who invites you into their home when they don't even know your name." She said.
Youko chuckled and Leon gave him a puzzled look. "I thought that you knew her?"
Youko smirked at her. "I do, and she knows me as well, it's just that she doesn't realize who I am just yet. How about this form of me?" He asked as his body shimmered slightly. His body shrunk down to the size of Kurama's and gradually his hair darkened to the crimson she was used to. "Recognise me now?" He asked.
Kagome grinned. "Kurama! I had no clue that you looked like that in your demon form!" She said, blushing at her earlier words.
Kurama smiled. "Do not worry Kagome, there is no way for you to have known, you've never seen me in my demon form, Youko Kurama."
Kagome smiled and looked up at his eyes, noticing with slight confusion that they were still golden. "Why haven't your eyes changed?"
" I don't know really...they changed when I was fighting Naraku and never changed back." He said, pausing to think. He looked back down at her. "Really we should get you inside, you need to rest after that battle." He said, watching as her knees shook with the effort of holding her up.
Kagome nodded, and turned to followed Leon, who had begun to walk the moment Kurama had mentioned it. She felt herself wobble slightly after a few steps but managed to stay on her feet. She felt a hand rest on her shoulder.
Kurama looked at her with worried eyes. "Here...Let me." He said, reching down and lifting her up bridal style, reveling in the feel of her against him again.
Kagome's cheeks flared red and she looked the other way, feeling a bit guilty about letting Kurama carry her. "It's alright really, I can walk." She mumbled.
Kurama smirked at her. "Nonsense, you wouldn't have lasted another step." He said, suprised at his own playful tone. Must be the fox in me He thought.
Kagome pouted and crossed her arms, but didn't say anything because she knew he was wright. It's not like she was going to admit it though.
Here's for the third chapter raises a glass of wine
Kyosuke: Since when do you drink? crosses arms
Kasuga: faulters I uh...Who drinks?
Kyosuke: rolls his eyes Well anyway, since Kasuga's taking forever, thanks for reading her dumb and unnessessary story!
Kasuga: snikers You spelled that wrong!
Kyosuke: growls and chases her away
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