A/N: Well, after what seems like forever, I have, finally, decided to post this fanfic. I ain't new to writting fanfics, but it has been a VERY LONG time since I have written anything, so I apologize now for anymistakes I might've made.
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Reversed Roles
Chapter One: I Thought You Loved Me!
Kagome was lounging high in a tree, stretching her hands over her head as she enjoyed the late afternoon sun. This is just perfect. She thought with a purr, wrapping her long red cats tail around her waist.
You see, Kagome was a neko hanyou. She had long ebony, so dark it was almost blue in color, hair with red streaks going down to the small of her back, forest green eyes with flecks of blue in them, her tail, of course, and she had two red cats ears tipped with black atop her head, showing that she was a hanyou.
Kagome glanced at the slightly glowing pink Shikon no Tama that was around her neck. She picked the beatiful jewel up between her thumb and forefinger and held it up to the shining sun.
The jewel was very special to her. Not because of its, and her's, special powers, but because it had been her mothers.
Kagome shook her head, as if ridding herself of unwanted memories, and let the pink jewel fall back to its place near her collar bone. Don't dwell on the past. She advised herself and looked towards the sun with a grin. "It's time to go!" She cried exitedly, jumping out of the tree.
It was time to see her love, Naraku.
Naraku was the only man who had ever shown any kind of affection to the neko hanyou.
Naraku was a man, who was also a hanyou, who lived in a nearby village, next to the Bone Eater's Well. Kagome avoided the Well as often as possible. She wasn't afraid of the Well, mind you. But every time she did pass it, it sent a chill down her spine and made her fur stand on end. She could sense a strong magic coming from the Well, powerful magic.
She quickly bounded through the forest, racing to meet her love. Little did the neko hanyou know, she was running right into betrayal.
So preoccupied was she with her thoughts that her sharp hearing and sensitive nose didn't catch the noise coming from just in front of her.
Kagome jerked to a sudden stop as an arrow whizzed past her, just grazing her cheek. "Wha-?" She said just as several village men stepped out from the follige of the forest, each weilding either a katana, bows and arrows, or throwing knives.
"Away demon!" One village man yelled, pointing an arrow right at Kagome's heart.
Kagome's ears tilted in shocked surprise. "What's going on? Why are you attacking me?"
One man scoffed. "As if you didn't know, you half breed!"
Kagome's heart gave a pang at the name. She was happy with the way she was, but it still hurt when people judged her just by her appearance. "No, I don't know what you're talking about! You just attacked me with out a reason!"
The same man scowled at her. "We have been warned of your trechery, demon! You plan to use the Shikon no Tama to become a whole youkai and destroy our village!"
Kagome was shocked when she heard this and took a step back. "Wha- what are you talking about?" She stammered, still off guard from the sudden attack.
"I knew we should have slewn her when her mother birthed her. The only reason we let her live was because her mother was the high priestess." One man was muttering to another.
Kagome let a low hiss escape her throat. She hated it when people talked about her mother like that. "Who told you that I was going to turn youkai?" She asked, her red ears pinned to her head.
One man stepped forward, seemingly the leader of the group. "That is of none of your concern. Away with you!" He cried out, releasing an arrow from his bow.
Kagome easily avoided it with her cat reflexes. But several more followed the first, and many of the men were racing towards her with their katans. "Get the Shikon no Tama away from her before she uses it against us!" One shouted and several shouted in agreement.
Kagome gave the village men one last confused glance and then bolted away, jumping into the safty of the trees and jumping from tree top to tree top, the follige of the tree keeping her from sight of the men weilding the bows.
What is going on? Who could have told them such lies? She wondered, still bounding over the trees. I have to see Naraku, he can explain it to them. She raced off, running towards Naraku's cave.
There it is! She jumped off one last tree, seeing Naraku's cave where he lived.
But she didn't make it to the ground. A strong youkai energy slammed into her, throwing her back against the tree she had just jumped off of.
The impact knocked the air out of Kagome's lungs and she was temperarily dizzy, her vision going fuzzy. When it cleared, she saw a man with long black hair cascading down his back, fine features and a strong looking body clothed in dark robes and peircing red eyes. "Naraku!" She cried out, happy to see the man.
But Naraku didn't smile back at her with love like he usually did when he saw her. Instead of a smile, an evil smirk was on his face and he chuckled darkly. "Hello, Kagome." He said in his dark voice. Somehow, it sounded lower, and sinister to Kagome. That can't be right. His voice is just fine.
"Naraku, something weird is going on, the villagers are attacking me! They think I'm gonna use the Shikon no Tama to turn full youkai and attack them!"
Naraku chuckled again. "Do they now? I wonder who could have told them that sort of nonsense." He said, his eyes glinting evily.
Kagome gasped as realisation hit her. "You told them those lies." She whispered in disbelief.
Naraku's smirk turned into an evil grin. "Yes, I did."
Kagome shook her head, tears gathering in the corners of her eyes. "Why? Why Naraku?" She whispered, keeping her face down, so that he could not see the pain he had caused her.
Never show anyone the pain they have caused you. It would only bring them pleasure to see you that way. Those were the very words Kagome's mother had told her when she was little, to never show anyone how they had hurt you, to walk away with her dignity.
Naraku chuckled darkly. "For the thing that every youkai, hanyou, and human desires." He said, reaching out towards her neck. His fingers touched the girls tender neck, making her shiver in disgust, and then slid his fingers slowly downward, reaching for the Shikon no Tama.
When his hand was just about to grab the Jewel of pure power, an electrical shock seemed to shoot through his hand. He jerked it away, grabbing it with his other hand.
"Clever little witch, aren't you?" He questioned, "Putting a barrier around the Jewel so that no one with evil intintions could get it."
Kagome jerked her head up, her eyes flashing with an angery fire. "You used me to get to the Jewel!" She yowled, lashing out at him with her sharp, cat's claws.
Naraku dodged her claws and threw up his hands, sending another wave of youkai energy at the cat hanyou, smashing her through a tree and pinning her far to another. "Little cats shouldn't scrath." He said darkly.
Tears were now streaming down Kagome's pale face in twin rivers, and she was fighting back more. She didn't even bother fighting the youkai energy that bound her to the tree, she hadn't the will to fight anymore. I have no one now. He was all I had and he betrayed me. I have nothing to live for now. She glanced up, her eyes no longer holding anger, but hurt. Hurt that he hadn't really cared for her at all.
"I thought you loved me." She whispered softly, so softly that Naraku couldn't hear her, as more tears spilled from her beautiful eyes.
Naraku slowly took a step towards the girl, lifting a hand as an arrow appeared in it.
"I thought you loved me!" She cried out in anguish as Naraku released the arrow, going through her left shoulder, ripping flesh and muscle and hit the tree behind her with a sickining thunk.
"I never loved you." Were the last words Kagome heard as her world fell into darkness that she could not wake up from. I thought you loved me. Were her last conscious thoughts before she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
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"Inuyasha, quit sulking and help me carry in these boxes!" A young man called.
"Feh, who said I was sulking?" Another grunted.
The first that had spoken was Miroku Keller. Miroku had jet-black hair with a small rats tail in the back, he had violet eyes that most girls would kill to have, he was of medium hight with a farely muscled body. He also thought that he was a ladies man and got slapped several times a day by most women, he was also from a long line of monks that could be traced all the way back to the Feudal Era.
The second that had spoken was a dog hanyou that had silver-white hair and sitting atop his white mane of hair were dog ears that twitched to catch every sound around him. He was a little taller than Miroku, at least by an inch, and you could tell that he worked out by the muscles that rippled beneath his red t-shirt. He also had an attitude that made most people either run away in fear or get in a fight with him.
"I don't know how I let you talk me into this, Miroku." He called out as he picked up four heavily loaded boxes easily.
"Because I just have the kind of personality that makes people want to listen to me?" Miroku replied, sticking his head out of the door and looking back at Inuyasha.
When he received a dry look from Inuyasha he quickly added, "That and the fact this place only makes us pay half the rent since there'll be two of us living here." He said and popped back into the house.
You see, Miroku had talked Inuyasha into renting this old shrine with him. It had plenty of room, it had at least three storage buildings, a laundry building, an old well house that was in the back, and the house itself was fairly large. The bottom floor had a large kitchen and the family room was the same size, and the family room came already furnished. It had a dining room, and a large celler and that was just on the first floor. On the second floor, there were about three bedrooms and each room had its own bathroom.
The house was surrounded by a forest, perfect for Inuyasha sense he prefered being outdoors than he did being indoors.
Inuyasha walked up the stairs and into the first room. The room was a nice size, enough room to hold one king size bed and one twin bed. The walls were painted a dark royal blue that would look killer with some of those glow in the dark stars. But the thing that caught Inuyasha's attention most about the room was the large window.It was the only window in the room and when one opend it, instead of pushing it up to open it, the windows swung out. Hmm, that'd come in handy when I wanna get outta here. Inuyasha thought, dropping his boxes to the floor.
"Oi, Miroku! This is my room!" He called, pushing the boxes to the far corner of the room and heading back outside to get the rest of his boxes.
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It was about ten o' clock by the time Miroku and Inuyasha had gotten all the boxes and furniture into the shrine. And it wasn't easy to walk up and down all those steps all day to get the stuff either. Even Inuyasha, with his hanyou strength and stamina, was wore out by the time they got everything inside.
Inuyasha was sitting on the counter, eating a cup of instant ramen noodles. He glanced out the window above the sink and spotted a large tree.
The tree had large branches, perfect for someone to jump up in and lounge in on a nice hot day. The tree was large, indecating that it had to be hundreds of years old. And right in the middle of the tree, the bark was gone. It wasn't like someone had burned it off, it looked as if someone had stabbed it with something sharp and the bark had just peeled away.
"Hey, what's the deal with the tree?" Inuyasha asked through a mouthful of beef flavored ramen.
Miroku followed his gaze out the window. "Ah, I see you have spotted the Goshinboku." He replied.
Inuyasha twitched his ears. "Say what?"
Miroku glanced at the dog eared hanyou. "The Goshinboku, The God Tree?"
Inuyasha scowled at the monk. "I didn't ask what Goshinboku means, I asked 'what's the deal with the tree?'"
Miroku looked back out at the ancient tree. "There is a legend that surrounds that tree. Its said that a neko hanyou named Kagome, who possessed the Shikon no Tama, that's the Jewel of Four Souls," he said with a smirk towards Inuyasha who scowled, "was pinned to the Goshinboku by another hanyou, a spider hanyou named Naraku from what I've been told, who desired the Shikon no Tama. He supposedly tricked the neko hanyou into falling in love with him, getting close to her was the key to getting the Jewel. But one day, while Kagome was going to visit Naraku, the villagers attacked her and she ran to Naraku, but he betrayed her, pinning her to the tree and trying to take the Jewel of pure power.
"But he could not touch it. Kagome had been clever enough to place a barrier around the Jewel so that only people who had no desire to use the Jewel could touch it."
Inuyasha was acting uninterested in the tale that Miroku was telling him, but in all truth, he was fascinated by the tale. "Feh. So, what happened the the neko?" He asked, trying to sound like he didn't care.
Miroku shrugged his shoulders and took a bite out of his sandwhich. "Dunno. That's all the owner told me."
If Inuyasha had been an anime character he would have face faulted right to the floor. He shook his head and tilted his ramen cup upwards, finishing off the last remains of his ramen. "I'm hittin' the hay." Was his words as he jumped off the counter and up the stairs. I'll explore the rest of the place in the mornin'.
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Well, there you have it. What did ya'll think? Was it good? Was it bad? Horendous? Terrific? Was it, 'Ahhhh! My eyes! My eyes! Its terrible!' Or, 'Oh my God! This was fantastic!' Please, please, please, let me know by reviewing!
