I'll do question and answer at the beginning of chapters, and I'll reply to reviews at the end.
Q:
Inuyasha's Reincarnation: Y didn't you kill Hojo?
A:
I am waiting for the perfect time to do so, I originally had him as one of the zombies coming after Kagome, but changed it instead. I pretty much wanted to show how hopeless he was, I mean, he's a health nut, not a warrior, so he won't last long anyway.
Previously:
Kagome's heart sped up as a sound was heard behind them and swiftly swung around, letting out a relieved sigh as she saw Hojo, pale as can be, running towards them at top speed, "Kagome!" He cried, "They're here, run!"
"Hojo, stop." Kagome commanded, and he did, quickly she handed him a gun similar to hers, "we need to… kill them Hojo, to release them from their suffering."
Kouga growled at the newcomer's apparent closeness to Kagome, "Who is this?" He demanded.
"Not now!" Kagome cried, as a rather large group of fast moving zombies ran at them.
Now:
Hojo looked at the weapon in his hand dumbly, "Kagome, I don't know how to use one of these." He said.
"Well, you better learn, or you're not going to make it out here." Kagome shot back, pulling the trigger on hers a few times.
Several of the zombies fell, twitching for a moment, before they stilled. Hojo shakily held up his weapon and fired a shot into the crowd, barely managing to clip the shoulder of one. The thing looked at him with dead eyes and knew who it wanted to devour. Hojo paled considerably as the others leapt into battle, Kirara clawed at skulls (in her larger form), Sango used her Hiraikotsu, lobbing off heads by the dozen, Inuyasha used the Tetsusaiga to cut into anything and everything in his way, Sesshomaru coolly used his poison claws to deal with the more distant creatures, Miroku was beating their heads in with his staff, Shippo was slicing randomely at legs with his knife, and at times he would leap into the air and dig the blade into a head, Kouga was slashing at several with his sword, bent on protecting Kagome, and Kagome was shooting from a distance. After a moment, Kagome was forced to stop and shakily reload her gun as several of the zombies leapt at her.
"Kagome!" Hojo shouted, running to her side, and firing his gun into the zombies midst until he heard the continuous click, telling him that the chamber was empty.
"Uh-oh..." He murmured, noting that he had only managed to luckily hit one in the head.
Kagome glanced up as she slipped the last bullet into place before bringing the gun up in front of her. She shot at the zombies as they closed in on them. Her chamber soon emptied and she and Hojo were surrounded. Zombies leapt at them, Kagome quickly dodged each, but a cry of pain from Hojo told her that he had not. "No! Hojo!" She exclaimed, releasing some of her purifying power. The bodies turned to ash and she collapsed near Hojo, he looked at her with weak surprise.
"What- was that?" He asked as the life began to drain from him.
"You remember all those times that I was home sick?" Kagome asked, her voice hitching as she put his head in her lap and began to stroke it, "well, I wasn't sick, truthfully I traveled five hundred years into the past. I had to fix something that I broke." Tears poured over her cheeks at the sight of her pale friend.
"Ka-gome," Hojo whispered as his body went into convulsions, "Don't die, promise you won't?"
"I promise." Kagome brought her head down and rested it on Hojo's chest as his body stilled, Kagome stayed where she was, sobbing, and she knew what was to come next.
There was a powerful aura approaching them, and fast. Kagome gasped in recognotion, and said at the same time as Inuyasha, "It can't be him!"
But it was, The figure in the baboon costume stood before them, watching the skirmish in mild interest, "Inuyasha, I never thought that I'd see you here." He said in a cold voice, turning his gaze to Kagome, "And the wench that led me to this wonderous place of destruction!"
"Wha-" Kagome began.
"Foolish wench, did you really think that you destroyed me?" Naraku removed the mask and smirked, "this was such a wonderful spell. You ningens come up with very destructive things in this time- the virus spread wonderfully and the death of ningens is so overwhelming."
Kagome released Hojo's limp form and stood angrily, "You- you bastard!" She sputtered.
"They make such wonderful minions." Naraku continued as though he hadn't heard her, "obeying without so much as a second thought, causing mass chaos and sorrow, destroying their families at my order!"
Miroku cried out and grasped at his hand as the windtunnel reappeared on the palm of his hand. Quickly he covered it with his prayer beads and glared disbelieving at Naraku, "You took my wind tunnel away just to put us in a false sense of security?" He snarled angrily, to the surprise of many of those around him.
Hojo stood, and Kagome looked at him tearfully as he gazed lifelessly back at her, "Hojo love Ka-go-me." He said, "Always do."
Kagome looked away bitterly, she didn't love him, "Hojo, you will always be my friend." She said softly, clutching the empty gun in her hand.
"Where Souta?" Hojo asked slowly.
"He's dead, and so is everybody else." Kagome said, gazing at him as she furiously wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Hojo sorry for Kagome." With that, Hojo stepped away from her, moving slowly towards Naraku he bowed, "Lord Naraku." he murmured softly, his gaze resting on the man's feet.
Naraku smirked when he saw Hojo bow, "You will be leader to your ningen kin." He said, "Which means, unlike the others, you will still have your intelligence."
Hojo bowed deeper, "Hojo is honored."
Naraku glanced at the group, "Well, I must go, I have other... pressing matters at hand."
Kagome gasped and held a shakey hand over her mouth as both Hojo and Naraku left, leaving them to fight off the last of the meager zombies. After a few minutes, they returned to Kagome's car. "He did that to Hojo to get to me." Kagome said once she was seated in the driver's seat, "Hojo has no choice but to serve Naraku."
"Kagome," Sango began, seeing her friend's misty, faraway look as they pulled out.
"Look around for survivors." Kagome said emotionlessly as she too began to search.
Kurokawa ran heavily, her footfalls echoed dully as she went, one hand clasped her sword while the other held a hat planted firmly on her head. Behind her came the sounds of heavy, drunken footfalls as she was chased through the church. Kurokawa made her way up to the bell tower, and from there, leapt into a nearby tree. There were several thuds as the zombies attempted to follow. When Kurokawa looked down, she saw that they had fallen on their heads and smirked, she had always been told that she had her father's smile, her older brother's smile was just like that of their mother's.
She hurriedly leapt from the tree and stood stock still as she heard her brother's agonized scream, "Akimoto!" She called, running as fast as she could, she couldn't lose her brother, she just couldn't!
Kurokawa came upon the scene a moment later- her brother lay on the ground, his body broken and being fed upon by those damned creatures, those creatures were always in the way, mindless minions of the man she hated most. Standing above him was Naraku, after a moment he waved his hand and the undead bastards backed away, allowing their master space. Kurokawa watched in horror as he absorbed her older brother into his body and turned to run, she ran as hard and as fast as she could, away from them and their master, "brother!" she sobbed, "no!"
Her heart thudded heavily in her chest as she continued to run, finally her feet gave out and she collapsed in a sobbing heap in the middle of the abandoned road. Her shoulders shook as she curled up and let out an anguished cry that would have melted any heart. A pair of headlights flashed upon her body, yet Kurokawa stayed where she was, after all, what was the point? She had lost her brother, she had lost Akimoto to Naraku.
"Kagome, look out!" Miroku cried, pointing to the girl that lay in the middle of the street.
There was a screech of tires and they stopped just inches in front of the girl. "Hey!" Kagome shouted, "why are you laying in the middle of the road?"
The girl sat up and looked at them, "Why didn't you just kill me?" She asked softly, her voice hitching as she spoke.
Kagome climbed out of the car and looked down at the girl whose hair was tucked into a hat so that none could see the color. She wore dark sunglasses that hid her eyes, and thus Kagome knew that she had been crying only by the tears that stained her cheeks, "Why, were you bitten or something?"
Kurokawa shook her head, "No." She said softly, "I've merely lost my will to live."
Kagome knelt beside her, "Why don't you just come with us?"
Kurokawa glanced at her, "You really want me to join you?" She asked doubfully.
"Of course." Kagome said, smiling softly, "Will you?"
"Fine." Kurokawa sighed and stood, "I will go with you." She wiped furiously at her tearstained cheeks and climbed into the rather crowded van.
"What's your name?" Sango asked curiously.
"Kurokawa." The girl replied simply.
Miroku stared at the hat and dark sunglasses wonderingly, before his gaze traced the outline of her body, this he kept to himself as they began to drive again.
Over the next few hours they picked up two other people. One was a young man named Saruwatari Amon, He had shoulder length black hair and piercing grey eyes. He was well built, and strangely always had his hand clenched shut and carried a staff and a gun. The third was Nakamura Masahiro, he short blond hair, green eyes, he also was well built. He carried a scythe on a chain and a gun.
Sango glanced at the scythe and was instantly reminded of her little brother, Kohaku. "Nakamura, why do you fight with that?" She asked curiously.
"It belonged to a great ancestor of mine, I've trained with it since I was a child." Nakamura answered.
Kagome pulled the van in front of her well house and the group stepped out, "We'll go to Inuyasha's forest for tonight- it's the safest thing we can do." The group agreed, the three newcomers were slightly confused as they made their way into the building.
"I don't see a forest. We'll be easy prey for sure in such a small building." Saruwatari said, eying the close space suspiciously.
Kagome led the way up to the well, "We're going through the well." She said tiredly, leaping into it's midst. The others were right behind.
Finally only Kurokawa, Saruwatari, and Nakamura were left in the well house, "Go," Kurokawa said, peering out of the building, and noting that there were only three or four of the undead outside, "before they decide to come back."
Nakamura leapt into the well and was instantly surrounded by blue lights, he landed on his feet at the bottom, only to have Saruwatari tumble over him, gasping, "Kurokawa- threw me in when we were ambushed." He said, jumping to his feet, "There was a strange man in a baboon costume."
Kurokawa drew her sword, "what do you want?" She growled.
"You are just as fiery as your ancestors." Naraku clucked.
Kurokawa tightened her grip on the weapon, "Feh." She muttered, "My father defeated you, and I shall do the same."
"Foolish hanyou, I merely want you to join me." Naraku said, "In bringing the demise of the ningens."
"No." Kurokawa said, "I refuse to join the likes of you."
"Do you remember what happened when your brother refused me?" Asked Naraku.
"All the more reason why I want to destroy you." Kurokawa said as his zombie forces closed a tight circle around her.
Kurokawa stood on the edge of the well, and fell backwards when her feet were pulled out from beneath her. She tumbled into the well, eyes wide as the blue light surrounded her and Naraku smirked. "Damn you Naraku!" She cried as she landed heavily on the hard earth.
She saw a pair of feet dissappear over the side of the well before she quickly sealed it to be sure that nothing else could get through. Silently she fixed her hat, hiding a few strands of silver hair, and put her sword back in its sheath before she began to climb up the side of the well. Kurokawa was greeted with enthusiastic questions which she simply brushed off, "where are we going to set up camp?" She asked emotionlessly.
"We are going to Lady Kaede's village." Miroku replied promptly, "We will be able to rest there before returning tommorrow."
Kurokawa nodded, "Okay." She murmured and followed behind the others.
Kagome glanced curiously at her for a few moments before it was cheerily announced that they had reached Kaede's village. The old priestess greeted them herself. "Kagome, are ye back so soon?" Her weathered face moved towards the three newcomers, "are they all ye found?"
"Yes Lady Kaede." Said Miroku gravely, "It is horrible there."
Inuyasha glared at the meager group, "And you'll never guess who was at the head of the chaos." He paused, "It was Naraku."
Kaede nodded slowly, "We should have known that he was behind this." She said.
Kagome turned to Sango, Kurokawa, and Shippo, "What say we go get a bath in the springs?"
The girls made their way towards the springs, and soon all were soaking except for Kurokawa, who sat on a rock, peering thoughfully into the water, "Hey!" Shippo called, "Kurakawa, why aren't you in?"
Kurokawa looked at them and smiled rather shyly before hurriedly removing her clothes and stepping into the water before any could glimpse her pale, scarred flesh. Her hat was still planted firmly on her head and the sunglasses still hid her eyes. "Hey." Kagome said, "Why are you still wearing those?"
Shippo jumped up and grabbed for them, there was a brief scuffle before both he and Kurokawa went under water. When they surfaced, everyone in the water froze, and there was a gasp from the bushes which called for some action. Sango threw a large rock and down tumbled- you guessed it- Miroku. "Ladies!" He said, his eyes stuck on Kurokawa, "I was just making sure that nothing happened to you while you were out here!"
"Miroku!" Sango screamed angrily, none noticed as Kurokawa climbed out of the water and hurriedly dressed, dissappearing into the trees, "You Hentai!" With that she threw another rock at him, this one twice as large as the last and the three bathers jumped out of the water, noticing only then that Kurokawa was not with them.
"Did you see that?" Shippo asked excitedly as they entered the village.
"See what?" Asked Inuyasha, sauntering towards them, "and where's that lecher Miroku?"
"He's down by the spring." Sango said in exasperation.
"Kurokawa looks exactly like you!" Shippo exclaimed.
"What?" Inuyasha asked in surprise.
"It's true, Inuyasha." Kagome said, "She looks just like you."
"Feh." Said Inuyasha, turning and walking into the trees, unwittingly in the same direction that Kurokawa had chosen.
Soon he came upon the girl, and was shocked to see that she truely did look like him when she gazed at him with steady golden eyes and flipped back her silky, white hair, revealing a pair of fluffy ears on top of her head, "What do you want?" She said.
"I was only walking, it's not like I came this way on purpose." he said.
"Feh." She murmered, stretching and jumping down from the tree, her sword was clutched tightly in her hand.
Inuyasha glanced curiously at her tall, slender form. "So, why is it that you look like me?"
"Do you reall want to know?" Kurokawa's eyes danced mischieviously.
"Of course I do, otherwise I wouldn't have asked." Inuyasha asked.
"Because." Kurokawa began.
"Because?" Inuyasha asked impatiently.
"Because, Inuyasha, I am your daughter- well... future daughter anyway." Kurokawa said.
Inuyasha stepped back, "What?"
"Yes, you had two children actually, my older brother and myself, although Akimoto took mother's appearance." Kurokawa looked at her feet, "Naraku absorbed him just a little while before I came upon your group."
"That bastard." Inuyasha took a step towards Kurokawa, "who- is your mother?"
Kurokawa glanced at him, "Kagome."
"Wait are you telling me that I have children with Kagome?" Inuyasha exclaimed, "but- what about Kikyo- I love her!"
"No you don't." Kurokawa stated, "you stopped loving her sometime ago, you love Kagome."
Inuyasha's face grew red, "How would you know?"
"I've told you, Inuyasha, I am your daughter, how wouldn't I know?" Kurokawa snapped.
There was the sound of many feet approaching and suddenly the two were surrounded, "Give us the shikon no tama." The leader of the group, a tiger demon with a raspy voice commanded as the group closed the circle, his gaze was fixed on Kurokawa.
"I don't have the shikon no tama!" Kurokawa exclaimed, "It dissappeared a long time ago!"
"I'm not a baka, hanyou, now hand over the jewel, I can smell it's scent pouring off of you." The raspy voiced leader continued.
Kurokawa stood straighter, "You are a baka if you think that you can defeat us." She said haughtily, drawing her sword, which instantly grew in her hands.
In turn, Inuyasha drew his own sword, "Windscar!" They both cried.
The earth cracked and several of the tiger demons were disinigrated. Inuyasha looked at Kurokawa and just blinked, "You get the Tetsusaiga?" He asked in surprise, completely forgetting about the demons that were around them.
"Yeah." Kurokawa said, "but, we'll talk about that later, now for the pressing matters at hand."
Inuyasha nodded and turned to the demons, "If you value your lives, then leave." He said.
Kurokawa turned her stony gaze towards the leader again. He leapt at her, and the others took it as their cue and also leapt into action. Inuyasha and Kurokawa busied themselves fighting. They fought in such a similar way, it was scary.
Sesshomaru's ears perked and his nose twitched as he heard some type of battle nearby, and smelled the horrible stench of the blood of tiger demons. "Damn it Inuyasha, you can't go one day without getting into a fight, can you?" He asked.
He was approached by Kouga, Miroku, Shippo, and Saruwatari, "Yes," He said, even before they spoke, "Let's go."
The group (including the girls who followed without a word...) hurriedly left the village and followed the path that Inuyasha had taken, before coming upon the scene of Inuyasha, and a female lookalike locked in combat with a group of tiger demons. Instantly the men dove into the midst of the fight, shortly after, there was a mass of demon carcasses lying on the forest floor.
It was strange when both Miroku and Saruwatari stepped foreward and held out their hands, the bodies were drawn into two different windtunnels. "How do you have the windtunnel?" Miroku asked suddenly after they had covered up their hands.
"I was born with it." Saruwatari said simply, shrugging, and nonchallantly 'stretching.'
"Hentai!" Screeched Kurokawa and punched him on the top of the head.
Inuyasha chuckled, "Well... I guess we see that the lecherous monk had an ancestor survive him in the future as well."
"What?" Was the exclamation of everone execept Kurokawa, Saruwatari, and Sesshomaru(Sesshy's just too calm...).
Saruwatari grinned and glanced at Miroku, "You... are Miroku then..." He said, "My great grandfather."
Miroku suddenly smiled, "So, who was my wife?"
Saruwatari glanced at a now rather crimson Sango.
A/N
Well... There's chapter two... took a while to write, but let me know what you think! Review for me Everyone!
Inuyasha'sReincarnation: Well... looks like you get to be refered to twice in this chapter, lucky you... Anyway, thanks for the review, it's much appreciated.