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KZ - Uh, just Kagome fries, that's all.
Person - thank you, please pull up to the second window.
That was weird one. I don't think I've started a single chapter like that before… strangeness.
Disclaimer (which is here to stay!) - (sure, okay. So. When KZ lets me, the orbs and forgotten characters will be thoroughly mapped out. But not today. Last time, Inuyasha and Sango suffered major emotional losses. That's right. Their hair was cut. The atrocity of it all is staggering.)
KungPowKitty- Now this place is called The Loop. Here, there's the St. Louis Walk of Fame or whatever, the restaurant Blueberry Hill, and also-
Kaede- Are ye ever going to shut it?
Kagura- Since when did this trip include The World's Most Boring and Ill Informed Tour?
Kagome- I vote we sic Felix on her!
Miroku- I agree!
Felix- Tis a far better thing than I have ever done!
Kamiko-Zephuru- Although it isn't a promising fate that would await us after Felix attained power
Inuyasha- I have no idea what you just said. Words were too big
Shippou- That's because the only words you know are 'damn you,' and 'keh.'
Thwap
Kagome- Inuyasha! Bad, bad dog! Sit!
THUD
---later---
(okay. Put simply, KPK is tied and bound. Felix's handiwork. The group's at the mall now)
Shard- C'mon, Kitty. Hurry up.
KPK- (As I said, she is bound, with one rope end serving as a leash, which Shard is holding) Let's see YOU keep up when your feet are tied together!
Ayame- Although, you've gotta admit, it's good entertainment watching her hop around everywhere.
Bystander- Do I know you? (points to Inuyasha, who still has shortened hair by the way)
Inuyasha- Uh…no
Bystander- Are you sure? I could swear I've seen you on TV.
Inuyasha- I have no idea what you're talking about
Bystander- Really? If your hair were longer…
Shippou- What hair? The stupid hanyou went out and got himself sheered like a sheep
THWACK!
Kagome- INUYASHA! SIT!
THUD!
Inuyasha- KAGOME!!!!
Bystander- (gasp) I knew it! HEY EVERYBODY! IT'S INUYASHA!
Felix- (drives up in a golf cart) Hurry, get in before the mob gets us!
StalkingChicken- You mean the mafia?
Felix-(shakes head, points behind him) I mean that. (humongous group of Inuyasha fans are rampaging towards them. Okay, so this could never really happen, but it's just about as likely as a well that's a time portal taking a girl back to the feudal era)
Everyone boards overly cramped golf cart, which goes zooming down the mall's paths or halls or whatever you call 'em.
Inuyasha- (finally pries off the bystander, which had grabbed him round the ankles begging for an autograph)
Love Music- Felix, where did you get this cart?
Felix-(laughs evilly)
Shard- We can only guess what that means
Sangarouka- Gah! (holds on tightly to part of the golf cart as it swerves around, nearly running her into a decorative tree) Who the hell taught him to drive?!
KZ- (slaps forehead) no one. He's only 14. He doesn't even have a learner's permit!
Kouga- I think this could be dangerous
KPK- THINK NOTHING! THIS IS DANGEROUS! STOP THE DAMN CART! (remember her being bound and leashed? Sadly she never made it onto the cart and is running along behind it so as to keep from being dragged along the floor. Too bad for her the cart's topping 60 mph) STOP THE BLOODY DAMN CART!!!
Felix- My pleasure! (hits the brakes. KPK goes flying over the roof of the halted cart and splats into the floor in front of it)
KZ- You squished my sister
Felix- I did no such thing! I turned her into a peach pancake! No where were we? (hits the gas. Poor Kitty cat got run over. How on Earth is she still alive?)
Kagome- Ooo! Stop here, stop here!
Felix obeys
Miroku- (sigh) there were so many woman in that mob I could have asked to bear my child (SLAP) ow.
Sango- Isn't that my part?
Shard- Thought I'd give him a change of pace. So what are we doing here?
Kagome- Buying hair extensions. That barber really was out of his mind
Inuyasha- Come on, Sango
Sango- I don't need any. My hair's grown back already.
Sesshomaru (I really need to put him in here more often)- What? How?
Sango- I used to cut off my hair with my Hirikutsu all the time before I learned to keep it away from my hair. My body learned how to grow hair real fast to compensate for all I lost on accident.
Inuyasha- (blink blink) What?
Sango- Forget it
Kagome- (comes out of shop with newly bought hair extensions. Sadly, white is not that popular of a color, so she had to go with purple)
Inuyasha- I'm not wearing that
Kagome- Sit
Thud
Inuyasha- WOULD YOU KNOCK THAT OFF ALREADY?!
Kagome- Absolutely not
Inuyasha- Actually, how do you put on hair extensions anyways?
Kagome- I have no idea
(music - www. Theotaku .com /misc/jukebox/ , Card Captor Sakura, fun time)
CHAPTER 8 - Nights
Hoshido went after Kagome. "DIE!!!!" Kagome darted out of the way, trying to grab onto one of her arrows. The holder of the master orb slashed and swung again, only then to be blocked off by Inuyasha.
Sangarouka turned to Yoshima. "Yoshima, what in the seven hells is Hoshido doing?!"
The girl grimaced. "This happens a lot actually. He doesn't believe that anyone but the holder of the master orb to be eligible to be the protector of an orb. But he really goes nuts when it's one of the four major orbs that he is fighting over…"
Sangarouka turned to Sango, and then back to Yoshima. "Then, wouldn't that mean that he has come after you too?"
"It took me three months just to convince him to stop trying to suck away my soul…" she looked onward to the battle before them.
"GET BACK HERE AND FIGHT ME, YOU COWARD!!!" Inuyasha yelled, chasing after the red haired boy, for who was running after Kagome. Hoshido turned his head over his shoulder. "DON'T WORRY, RIGHT AFTER I KILL HER, YOU NEXT PUPPY DOG!!!"
Inuyasha jumped into Hoshido's path, holding the Tetsusaiga at ready. "What kind of a man are you?! Going after the woman first, then saying you'll take on the real fighter?! Some guts, bastard."
Inuyasha felt a rock hit the back of his head. He whirled around. "WHAT?!"
"SO I CAN'T DEFEND MYSELF, HUH?! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I SAVED YOUR BUTT WITH MY ARROWS AND SITS!???!?!"
Thud.
"K-k-kagomeeeEEEEEE!!!!" Inuyasha forced himself off of the ground, landing right in front of the ticked off miko. "Yes?"
"WHAT DID YOU THINK I WAS DOING?!?! IF I HADN'T PROTECTED YOU, RIGHT NOW YOU'D BE RIBBONS!!!"
"HA HA, VERY FUNNY!!! I CAN BEAT THAT PUSH OVER!!" she pointed to the befuddled Hoshido.
The holder of the master orb growled. Hoshido once again lunged after Kagome. "I'M NO PUSH OVER YOU BITCH!!!"
Miroku stepped in front of his way. "Stop this!"
Hoshido clammered his feet on the ground in attempt to stop, and finally did… about three inches away from the houshi. "Uh…"
"You moron, what would the point of killing her be? No matter what the reason, one must not do evil to another if they do not deserve it!"
"Get out of my way, little man. She deserves it alright. No one but me should hold any of the four Seiei orbs!"
Thowck! Thud!
"Dammit, Whatchya do that for?!" Hoshido yelled at Miroku from the ground. The monk had thwacked him in the head with his staff.
"Uh, duh?" Sangarouka began, walking up by the monk. "What did you expect after making such a stupid remark like that? Seriously, the only other person as stupid as you is Inuyasha!"
"That's ri- , HEY!" Inuyasha popped a few blood vessels.
Osoane walked over to her friend on the ground, and reached into her baggy pants pocket. Akutsuo followed behind her. "Osoane! Don't d-"
"YOU SPOILED LITTLE BRAT!!" Osoane yelled, banging Hoshido's head with a Fighting fan she pulled out of the pocket. "WHEN ARE YOU GONNA GROW OUT OF THIS!! THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD THAT DESERVE AN ORB MORE THAN YOU!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL EVERYONE WHO HAS ONE!!!!" Bang, thwok, smack, Kling, bam, shuck…
Everyone from the Inuyasha groups just stared at Hoshido getting beat up by a girl with a fan. They turned to Akutsuo, who just sighed. "This happens a lot…"
"I already told them that." Yoshima chimed in, pulling out a bag of popcorn. "Ooo, that must have hurt."
Kagome sighed along with having a sweat dropped moment. 'Great, more insane people, just what I need…'
- -place change, time skip- - (chrono trigger, Gato)
Kouga opened his eyes, waking from his brick like sleep. He sat up, and looked around hut. Everyone was still there: Kaede, Ayame, Zephuru, Kagura, and Kanna. 'How the hell did I get stuck with all of this…?!'
The wolf demon got up, and left the cramped hut. The sun had yet to even come up across the horizon, telling him that he had plenty of time to go jewel shard hunting.
Kouga picked up his feet, and ran in the direction his nose smelt demon. Running through the forest, he came across a small creek, no wider than his leg. But no matter, the moment he touched a rock in the creek, he tripped and ended up wet with the remnants of his running speed cyclone hitting him in the head. "What the hell?!"
The unhappy demon picked up the rock he tripped on. It was only the size of his fist, round, dark, and was as light as a feather. 'How did this measly thing trip me…? Whatever…' he crushed the rock into rubble in his hands, got up, and began to run once more.
He came to a massive clearing, with sprawling hills that went on for quite a while until turning into mountains. Kouga sniffed the air, and frowned. "This would be a lot easier if Kagome was here to help."
"And I can't?" He heard Ayame say behind him. Kouga tensed on hearing her voice, and turned around. "What are you doing following me?!"
"Well, for the past several nights and very early morning, like this, you've been going out at night, and coming back bruised or cut, or having a more powerful aura. So, I came to investigate…"
"Ayame, just stop following me around, okay?!" He said straight to her face. "Kagome is the only one I love, and you can't just try to wriggle yourself in between us."
"Excuse me?! If I'm not mistaken, I don't believe that Kagome has told anyone that she loves you, so I'm wriggling in between nothing! And what's even more sad is the fact that I have been following you out at night for FIVE nights now, and sorry if I was worried that you might get killed!" The wolf demoness glared at Kouga coldly. Instead of brushing it off like all of the others times, though, Kouga felt a little, 'Guilty? This is weird…'
Ayame stalked back into the woods, and in a moment, the wolf demon couldn't see her body angrily walking away. He crossed his arms and looked down at the ground. 'Well… maybe that wasn't the BEST thing to say to her… Dammit, what am I thinking about?! I love Kagome only, and I need to find some more jewel shards.'
The wolf prince shook his head to get rid of any remaining bit of the thought that had crossed through his mind. He turned back towards the sprawling hills, and took off running. 'There is a faint smell of a demon north east… maybe that's where the jewel shard is…'
- - place skip - - (Chrono Cross, Scars left by time)
Kagome tossed and turned in her sleep, clenching onto her covers for dear life. Cold sweat was beading every where on her skin, and small tears were forming around her eyes.
-into dream
"Why did you kill him!!!?!" Kagome screamed. There was another girl floating above Kagome, about ten feet up. The girl looked exactly like Kagome, except she had yellow strips of hair in between the normal black.
"Well of course," The girl said, moving away a stray lock of hair. "He was just a stupid obstacle. Did you really think that your feelings for him could have stopped me?"
Kagome held the lifeless body of Inuyasha in her arms, tears bursting from her eyes. "Inuya-sha…" she sobbed, stroking the hair on his head. She heard the girl in above her laughing a bit. "Oh get off it Kagome. He was just a lowly hanyou, nothing important."
"YOU SHUT UP, YOU BITCH!!!! INUYASHA WAS MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU COULD EVER BE!!! MAYBE NOT IN DEMONIC POWER LIKE YOU, BUT IN HIS HEART!!!! AT LEAST HE DIDN'T KILL PEOPLE FOR THAT STUPID EXCUSE!!!!"
The girl shifted in the air, wings on her back flapping once or twice. "You really did love him, didn't you?"
"AND STILL DO!!!" Kagome screamed back. Wings appeared on her back and she flew up into the air towards the look alike girl. "HE COULD LOVE PEOPLE, GIVE THEM MERCY AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT!! SURE HE DID SOME BAD STUFF NOW AND THEN, BUT HE REGRETTED IT AFTERWARDS!!! INUYASHA HAD A HEART, YOU BITCH!!!" the young miko screamed/ sobbed.
The yellow stripe haired girl frowned. "So, your miko powers have grown so that you have wings? Not bad."
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP!"
- out of dream
"Kagome?" Sango said again, shaking her friend a bit. Sangarouka stood behind the demon exterminator, worried look on her face. "Sango, do you think that we should go get Inuyasha? She keeps on saying things about him getting killed."
Sango rubbed the back of her neck. "I dunno…" The two sat down on the miko's bed, and tried over and over again to wake their friend.
"No… Inu… you killed him… I wont…" she murmured adding to the friend's worries.
"Crap, this isn't going to be easy." Sango said, holding her friend's hand.
"Huh? Why?" Sangarouka asked, looking at Kagome's face. Sango sighed. "Kagome's worst fear is Inuyasha dieing on her. When ever she has nightmares about it, it isn't easy to get her to wake up. Once when I tried, she thrust me into a wall using her miko powers…"
Sanga looked at the far wall. "So that's why there's a dent there…"
The door to the teenage girl's room clicked open, and in came Yanayai. "What's going on in here? Is Kagome okay?"
The teen girls shook heads.
Ms. Higurashi walked into the room and closed the door behind her. She walked over and sat down on the little remaining room on Kagome's bed. "Kagome?"
- - place switch - -
Kouga continued running for the demon's smell. 'I'm sure I can sense something around here… Wait… what's that sound?' The demon stopped running, and stood poised on the hill he was on. He waited for the pounding of the blood in his ears to stop, before really turning on the demonic hearing. He listened to what seemed like ground getting broken… and the small cry of a demon.
"Hmph, nothing much… hold it…." he listened in a little further…
Ayame screaming.
In a second Kouga was sprinting in the direction he had come. 'Dammit, why did I have to leave her in those woods?! Now that I smell it, there is the scent of a demon in there! Why didn't I smell it before?!'
-there is going to be multiple switching in between times, so brace yourself-
Kagome continued to sweat, her two friends and mother hunched over her. "A… yame… dodge now… run Kou… hurry…"
Sangarouka looked at Ms. Higurashi. "Now what is the dream about?"
Kagome's mother shook her head. "In truth, I have no idea."
Within a minute Kouga was back at the forest for which he had come. He sniffed the air while still running in the forest, trees speeding by him. 'Ayame, where are you?!… Kouga, Ayame is to the west a bit. Run Kouga, Hurry!' He heard Kagome's voice in his head. The wolf prince stopped dead in his tracks.
"What the hell?!" 'Shut up Kouga and listen to me! Ayame is getting attacked by a demonic bear, and has already gotten hurt! If you don't move your butt right now, she is going to die!!' "But Kagome, how are you in my head?" 'SHUT UP AND MOVE YOU IDIOT!'
The wolf did as told. 'I can smell Ayame's blood in the air! Hold on, Ayame! I'm coming!'
Ayame gripped her sword, trying her best to ignore the gash on her leg. The massive bear roared in anger again, and attacked the wolf demoness again. She jumped out of the way, but not without getting hit by some of the debris caused from the claw striking ground. "Dammit, this thing doesn't want to die!"
"Ayame… don't st… moving…" Kagome mumbled in her sleep. She was beginning to pant. Sango looked at her friend curiously. 'Kagome, what is going on in your head?'
Ayame hid behind a tree, and tried to rest. 'AYAME! DON'T STOP MOVING! THE BEAR IS ABOUT TO SLASH AT THE TREE!'
"What? Ugh!" Ayame leaped out from behind the tree. She turned around in mid air to see the bear destroying the tree she had been behind. "Thanks Kagome. Now what?"
'Kouga is just a little bit away. Try to head east and meet him halfway!'
"Got it!" Ayame ran for east, but felt light coming from behind her. She turned around and say blue ghostly figure of Kagome shooting an arrow at the massive bear, and the beast screeching in pain. The wolf demoness's eyes popped open. "Kagome?!"
"Get out of here! I can't maintain a body for more than ten seconds like thi-" and the figure vanished. Ayame turned her attention back to the east, and ran as fast as she could. The gash on her leg bled heavily, but she didn't stop running, especially once hearing the demon running toward her.
Underbrush and tree branches swiped and cut at her face and body, and Ayame came to a small creek. Even though it was no wider than maybe Kouga's leg, she tripped on one of the pebbles, and felt a tendon sprain. The demon wolf teen looked up at the bear coming upon her, readying a strike with it's paw.
"Hurry… Hurry Kouga…" Kagome muttered in her sleep, turning over again. By now Ms. Higurashi had placed a small wash cloth on the teens forehead, trying to wake her. "Kagome! Wake up Kagome!"
'HURRY KOUGA! AYAME'S ABOUT TO GET KILLED!' The wolf prince heard in his head. He got glimpse of the stream, swooped Ayame into his arms, and sprinted towards the village. He heard the bear coming behind them, 'KOUGA, IT'S GONNA HIT YOU!! WATCH-'
(Chrono Cross, 1st Overworld)
"WATCH OUT!!!" Kagome yelled, bursting straight foreword in her bed. "Kagome!" Kagome's mother and friends hugged their friend and daughter. Kagome squawked. "Hey, leave my lungs some space to inhale, eh?"
"Sorry." The three said in unison, letting go. As Kagome took the wash cloth off of her forehead, her mother took hold of her hand. "What on earth were you dreaming about?"
"Uh… I don't remember." she lied. Kagome watched and waited a while until her mother left the room, and her two friends fell back asleep. 'Whoa… first a few months ago with my wings coming out, now this happening almost every other night? What is going on with my miko powers?…'
Once the young miko tried to blink, her eyes shut and she went straight back to sleep. Such a strong sleep, that she didn't even hear a certain hanyou come in and fall asleep watching her.
- -time jump- - (Inuyasha, no more words)
"So, how did everyone sleep last night?" Morobuku asked happily to everyone. Kagome listened to everyone replying that they slept fine, and she was brought back to her time changing activities the previous night.
"How about you, Kagome? How did you sleep?" Shippou asked. Sango looked at her friend while chewing on some of her scrambled eggs, and very slightly shook her head.
Kagome got the hint instantly. She smiled like her normal self. "Oh, I slept fine, thanks…" she stared at Morobuku, then to Shippou, Miroku, pretty much everyone seemed happy. "What's going on?" she asked. "Why is everyone smiling?"
"Uh, earth to Kagome!" Sota said, smiling widely. This also revealed some toast he had yet to chew fully. "Today's Friday! You know, only today for school and then the weekend?"
"Oh, right…" 'Sheesh, I am so spaced out right now…'
Sango sighed quietly to herself. 'I wonder if Miroku remembered about next week… that it's my birthday…'
Naena heard the sigh from the demon exterminator, and looked at her. Her face was in the general directions of Miroku's, and seemed, 'Almost sad? And kinda worried… Hmmm… I'm beginning to wonder… Does he really know how she feels for him?… oh, something shiny!' The green haired boy became entranced with his spoon.
Kagome watched her mother spinning like a ballerina while cleaning up the cook ware she had used making breakfast. The miko sighed, knowing all too well that that was what ran in her blood. 'She doesn't even remember last night, does she?…' Kagome brought her finger to her cheek, remembering of the night's events, and her going back to Sengoku Jidai. 'I wonder what's next… I mean, I always have a dream, but then it fades into me going back in time again. I know that I actually go back there and stuff… but the dreams recently… they've seemed so real…'
The door bell rang.
"Oh, that's Eri and the others. Come on guys." Kagome said, taking a quick swig of her milk before grabbing onto her normal sized backpack and heading towards the door. Her friends (excluding Sangarouka and Morobuku of course) did likewise, and followed the miko out the door.
- - place change- -
Tenstu (aka - Senko's possessed body) walked around the down town area of Tokyo. 'Hmm… That structure is far too small,' he thought, looking up at Hilton Tokyo. 'I most likely couldn't even reach the continent with that thing…'
He continued to walk around the area, getting little bows from bystanders walking by. 'I think I could get used to this body, eh Tsumyena?… Not really for me mind you. This puppet of flesh is so weak… But able to be influential… True, I have to agree with that, brother Tako.' Tenstu reached into the large bundle of items on his back, feeling around for a certain stick of incense.
Senko's body pulled out the incense stick, feeling the aura of resonate around the fine powder. He smiled. 'Very influential indeed…'
- -place change, time skip - -
Kagome could barely keep herself awake in Mr. Tsunoshi's Algebra class. Listening over and over again about the fact that some really weird formula was in fact discovered by the japanese, and that it was a major basis of the world really didn't really catch her attention. 'Sorry Sensei Tsunoshi, but I really don't think that the midpoint formula is all that important…'. She stared out the window, desperately trying to have something grab her attention before she fell asleep. 'Well, that's a pretty bird… and the clouds seem very puffy… Ugh, this is hopeless.'
The young miko returned her attention to her textbook, feeling that maybe if she actually paid attention, she might learn something. 'I guess going back in time really gets to me after a while. Even if I haven't been there since.. Well, technically last night, but physically months ago, I still haven't been able to get the swing of things…' she sighed.
"Now," Sensei Buitekua began in her usually hyped manor. 'I swear,' Inuyasha thought, trying to restrain himself from sharpening his claws on her. 'This lady needs to get locked up in a psychiatric ward…'
"I gave everyone a swab and petri dish, right?" Sensei Buitekua asked loudly.
There was a chorus of groans of assurance.
"Okey dokey, then! I already checked your microscopes to make sure they work, so lets get this lab going!" She cheered, slapping her protective eyewear onto her face. "Now, what you are going to do is take the little puffed end of the swap, and rub it around the inside of your mouth. Like this!" She said, sticking the little white thingy in her open mouth. She rubbed the area around the inside of her lips. "Sthee? Nowg, I wagnth algof U tu du thishth."
Around the classroom, her students began sticking the little white sticks in their mouths and rubbing it around. Inuyasha was rubbing the little swab around the inside of his mouth, when he overheard a little conversation behind him. "(Sigh) I wish I could be the one swabbing Inuyasha's mouth…"
"Yeah… he is so hot…"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. 'These girls really get annoying after awhile…'
"I would so have his baby."
"Me too."
The hanyou nearly choked on the swab.
- - time skip - -
Sango met up with Kagome on the way out of the school. They each were now wearing heavier coats, considering that the season was getting much colder. "Anything major happen in class today?" Kagome asked her friend.
"Kinda. In Art History we had to watch our teacher drool over some picture slides that a guy painted of her favorite T.V. actor."
"So no homework in that class?"
"Just disturbing memories."
"You don't want to know about what disturbing memories are." Inuyasha said, coming up behind the two and walking next to Kagome. The miko laughed. "Aw, did the little puppy not have a good time in a class today?"
"Keh." Inuyasha coughed, though unable to hide a small tint of pink on his face.
"What is that supposed to mean, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, walking up by Sango. "Something strike a little more personally?"
"S-Shut up you lecher!" The hanyou burst back.
"Oh ho, so it is something more personal…" Naena said, coming up from behind them all and coming up by Miroku. The houshi almost had a heart attack. "GAH!!! Hold it, since when did you go to our school?"
"Since I started living with you guys and passed into the high school. What was this little incident, Inuyasha?"
POW, THWOCK!
"OW!" the green haired boy yelped, rubbing the lump now on his head. "GEEZ, INUYASHA, WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled.
"Keh, it's none of any of your damn business so bug off!" The hanyou retorted, bursting forward away from the group. Kagome watched him leave the rest of them behind. "Inuyasha…"
"What's his problem?" Naena pondered aloud.
Once the hanyou was positive that the rest of the group was not chasing after him, he slowed down his pace to a walk. Beneath his hat, Inuyasha's ears flattened against his skull. 'It's absolutely disgusting already having to think about what that girl said, but having them all pound it into my head endlessly?! ARG!! The only person I want to have my child is Kagome, and,' he stopped in mid thought. 'Did I really just think that?! Dammit, Miroku is rubbing off on me…'
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oooos… What is Senko up to? Will Miroku recall the fact of Sango's birthday? What is going to be going on on Friday night? Has Naena fallen in love with his shiny spoon? (KPK- Here's a question for you. Where the heck is our favorite fox demon?)
Review?…