The Flowers That Keep Us Alive
READ: No birthday cheers? Haha, on a lighter note (for me anyway) I GOT A LAPTOP FOR MY BIRTHDAY! Whoop! Hehehe... but seriously, it rocks. And now I have a CD with: Yura Yura; Runners High; Little Busters; Hybrid Rainbow; Lovesong; Ai no Uta; Shinjitsu no Uta; Owarinai Yume; Every Heart; and Rakuen; which my friend burned for me with her CDs for my birthday! Wheeee :))
ALSO, the lines this chap will show up as " because I am still trying to find my CD for the program I use...arrgh. It's a long story. OH, and since TOXIC PANDA asked, I will say that my name (don't laugh lol i don't like it that much) is Stephanie. Yeah, creepy. My friends call me Steph and I just want to beat them up like Inuyasha did to those poor kids on one episode...
And, I dunno if InuKagome4life saw it, but, your story is up :)
And that reviewer can shove it. I don't think I'd get lots of good reviews if it sucked.
"I am not trusting you," Inuyasha sneered, keeping a good watch on Sesshoumaru. Sango was to his left, boomerang ready; and Inuyasha behind him, with Tessaiga out at all times. "Now tell me where the girl is, we can send Kirara to get her if you tell us."
"There will be no need. I kept them at a safe distance and will return immediately after reviving this Kohaku."
"Why are you reviving him anyway? It's not like you." Sango asked, full of wonder, but mostly surprised. Either way, she was just happy that he'd revive Kohaku for her.
"Sango," Inuyasha called from the opposite side, figuring out the logic. "Could it be Rin?"
"Yes, it's Rin," Sesshoumaru came, unexpectedly. "When we had Kohaku she enjoyed playing with him."
"How did you...get him?" Sango questioned.
"Naraku is dead, is he not?" Sesshoumaru stated as if it was SOO obvious. "I got the boy to keep Rin company. Once she told me about you and how she'd like me to give him to you, I decided to bring him to you. Somehow, anyway." Inuyasha then decided it would be best not to tell Sango about how Sesshoumaru was going to let Kohaku get hit by Kaze no Kizu.
"Hmm... well, let it be. The important thing here is that we're getting Kohaku." Inuyasha's real thoughts were of the shard. The last shard. Kagome's birthday wish. He'd let Sango, Shippou, Miroku, and anyone else she wanted to let cross. And them of course, they would have to re-wish them being able to go across since it was the actual shards and not the jewel binding Kagome to this world and letting the two of them travel between times.
But still. The fact that Sesshoumaru agreed to reviving a human confused him. Sesshoumaru hated humans... or most. There was Rin. But even by her asking, he'd still be so... so... kind as to revive Kohaku for Sango? He figured he wouldn't say anything else... Sesshoumaru changing his mind would not be a good thing. For Kagome or Sango.
Kagome. How was she? Someday he WOULD kill Sesshoumaru for everything he's done.
He'd kill him for even coming as close to TOUCH Kagome.
He'd just plain DIE.
"Inuyasha, you have- you brought your brother?" Kagome seemed surprised... and upset, after what Sesshoumaru had done to her! "Why in the world did you bring your brother! And... SANGO! Oh my gosh, Sango-chan!" Kagome's excitement brought a slight smile to Inuyasha's face as he watched Kagome stand up - wincing a bit in pain - and go up to hug Sango who'd left them. Taking a look around, he made sure everyone was there. Kohaku was unconscious, Shippou was sleeping in a corner with some blankets and things Kagome had brought from her time. Kaede wasn't around, but once Inuyasha thought about what he saw coming in... it all fit.
It was dark, but he swore he saw Kaede outside talking to someone. A working villager, it seemed. Maybe Kagome had told her about their little "decision" and Kaede was speaking to a villager about it. Of course they wouldn't build now, it was late, but she'd just been discussing it with the guy.
"Let's just get this over with, shall we?" Sesshoumaru asked once Kagome stopped hugging Sango, returned to the floor, and set the blanket over her legs. Inuyasha could see some bandages under the bottom of Kagome's shirt and could tell Kaede had taken care of her. There were also some of those "band-aids" from Kagome's kit she always brought on miscellaneous places.
"Inuyasha, what's going on?" Kagome asked, the only time Inuyasha was calmly with his brother was... never. "Is Sesshoumaru saving Kohaku!" She exclaimed, realizing the sense of it all. What else would Inuyasha have him do, and why else would Sango be there?
"Surprisingly... yes," Inuyasha sarcastically said. "You're wounds are okay, right?" Now the subject of Sesshoumaru was brought up. He'd caused them in the first place.
"They are fine, I am more concerned about you."
"Excuse me, I am not the one walking around with a whole in my stomach!"
"I am talking about your energy in general!"
"You women are so weird, I don't get you!"
"What-was-that?"
"Nothing, let's just get this over with!" Inuyasha shouted, motioning for Sango to get her brother and keeping guard so Sesshoumaru wouldn't leave without resurrecting Kohaku after Kagome took the shard out. Sango went over, picked him up - did some breathing as she did this, this kid's heavy! - and brought him over closer to Sesshoumaru, putting him on his stomach so Kagome could take the shard out of his back. "Kagome, would you do the honors?"
"Personally, I see no honor in taking out a shard that could lead to someone's death, but," she edged closer towards Kohaku's unconscious body - no one figured out WHY he was like that - and pulled the shard out with the edge of her nails, which caused Kohaku's breath to stop. Inuyasha got in a better stance and shoved Tessaiga right in front of Sesshoumaru's face to show that he meant business.
"Brother, I intend to revive him," Sesshoumaru replied as he pulled out Tenseiga (spelling?). "I will finish it and be on my way." (Umm... again... I still don't know what it is Sesshoumaru does to revive people... sorry! So pretend there's an uber-spiffy presentation here... heheheh)
"K... Kohaku?" Sango's breath was excited, surprised, and relieved. He'd actually done it. He'd actually revived Kohaku.
"Ugh, emotional crap." Inuyasha stated under his breath as Sesshoumaru gave him a death glare and left without a word. Apparently 'emotional crap' was exactly what he was thinking too. Again his thoughts were interrupted as he felt Kagome wrap her arms around his neck and passionately kiss him. Emotional crap... isn't always bad, is it? He put his arms around hers in response, then once they broke stared into her eyes for a second before hugging her.
"The jewel is complete Inuyasha, you do realize that, right?"
"Yeah, I do. Now we've got to use it in case Kikyou is able to get a way back. I was thinking..." he paused for a moment to figure out how he would say it so she wouldn't make a bad move... then continued. "What if you wished for Sango, Miroku, Shippou, and anyone else you wish to be able to cross through time like us. And of course, you'd have to wish for us to still be able to go through, since the jewel SHARDS are what actually kept us going through the well."
"That... that's a great idea, but we can't forget details like Kirara, too. And Hachi can go through, I don't mind him. Are we missing anyone?"
"Kaede?"
"Personally... I don't think she'd want to come."
"Kohaku?"
"Yes, him..." Kagome released the hug and then turned to see that Sango was now sitting next to Kohaku in the opposite corner of Shippou, talking to him. "...we have everyone."
"You've got the jewel, you make the wish." Kagome pulled the jewel out, took the necklace off, then held the full jewel in her hands and cupped them so you couldn't see inside.
I wish that Inuyasha and I could still travel through the well, and that Sango, Kirara, Kohaku, Shippou, Miroku, and Hachi could use the well to go from this time to my time and vice versa also.
Once she turned her attention to her hands and un-cupped them, the jewel was gone. They did it.
"Saannggoo!" She called, turning her head to see them. Both her and Kohaku looked up form their conversation.
"Yes?"
"Come here! We've got a surprise for you!"
"You really think it will work...?" Sango asked suspiciously, looking down the well. Kagome seemed to give off that 'what-do-you-think-we're-stupid?' look as she gave Sango her response.
"Of course," she sat down on the edge of the well so her legs were dangling down. "It was my wish with the Shikon Jewel, and Kohaku will be able to come too. I also wished for Shippou, Miroku, Inuyasha, and I to be able to go through. Oh yeah, and I wished for Kirara and Hachi to be able to. We can get Kirara and Shippou later, then eventually meet up with Miroku and Hachi."
"Why'd you wish for you two to be able to go through? You already can!"
"Yeah, but only because the jewel existed," Kagome pointed out. "And when you wish, the jewel goes away, does it not? So we have to wish for us to be able to go through again, you see. I thought Kohaku would want to go with you and that you'd want him with you."
"Ahh, I see..." Sango replied, edging closer to the well. "Well, are we going or not?" Sango didn't get a response, because Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kohaku just jumped right in. "You seem to be forgetting someone!" She exclaimed as she jumped in and realized that once she got to the bottom... it was working. Once at the other side Kohaku was looking around and she was too, until they found a ladder. Kagome climbed it, Inuyasha jumped out, Kohaku followed Kagome up the ladder, then finally Sango climbed up and out.
"Okay, come on, let me take you to the house," Kagome looked to see Inuyasha's ears perk. "No, there will be no ramen, Inuyasha."
"At least let me carry you," he said, picking her up without a response. "Sure, you have bandages but who says that makes the wounds just magically disappear?" Didn't seem like she had a choice anyway, so she just welcomed it. Inuyasha walked out of the well house at normal speed so the slow idiots behind him could keep up with him.
"Inuyasha..."
"What?" He waited days - or so it seemed - for her response, but never got anything but a mumble here and there, so he looked down to see what the heck she was doing. When he looked he saw that... she was... sleeping. It was surprising but not. She'd had a troublesome day, especially with what SESSHOUMARU did to her. He mentally killed himself for letting him get away. Now... Kagome was dreaming of... him! Just as long as she didn't say the word, he was happy. Lately, he noticed she wasn't abusing the power anymore, she used it before when she was saving his life but that was it so far. She hadn't done it just because she was mad at him, which showed change and luck for him.
"Inuyasha, what is it?" Sango asked, realizing that he'd been staring at Kagome for the past minute.
"Ah, nothing, she's just sleeping," Now seeing that they were at the door of Kagome's shrine, he opened it and stepped inside, the others following. "Ms. Higurashi? You here anywhere... shortie... you here...?" Souta came running down the stairs to see Inuyasha, Kagome, and two other strange looking people. Whoever they were (Holy crap, deja vu, I feel like I've typed this before...).
"Inu no Nii-chan, who are they?" Souta asked, pointing in Sango and Kohaku's direction.
"That's Sango and Kohaku," Inuyasha replied calmly (whoa... creepy LOL). "Sango is Kagome's friend from the Sengoku Jidai, and Kohaku is Sango's brother."
"Yes, now, how did they get here?"
"You know of the Shikon Jewel... we used it to wish them here. Or something like that, we wished that certain people would be able to pass through the well like us."
"Ok... but... if there are any other youkai then Jii-chan will start getting annoying - more than usual - and put sacred sutras everywhere and on everyone."
"Let him," Inuyasha said in a sort of annoyed tone. "Watch these two, I'm going to go put Kagome in her bed." Inuyasha retreated to the stairs and went up to Kagome's bedroom.
"'Watch us?' I think we are old enough to fend for ourselves, you know," Sango pointed out. "We aren't morons like he thinks we are."
"Hmm... what's this box doing in your house?" Kohaku asked, pointing to the television.
"Ah, that," Souta replied, going over to it and turning it on. "Is a television! It enables you t-"
"OH MY GOD! IT MADE THOSE POOR INNOCENT PEOPLE SMALL! Kohaku, we have to save them-"
"They aren't trapped there! It's done with cameras, you see, cameras do things like taking multiple pictures of people then putting them on this box, which is electronic, and-"
"What?" Sango and Kohaku both asked together. Souta just sighed.
"It's very complicated, but those aren't really trapped people. Just go with me... like... if Kagome was on there, it's just a picture..." Sango pulled something out of her kimono and held it up to Souta.
"Like this? Only like you said, a whole bunch of them all at one time..." Sango was holding a picture Kagome took while she was there with her camera. It was of all of them. Kirara was in her small form on Sango's shoulder - she wasn't happy because Miroku was groping her - Kagome was leaning up against Inuyasha and Inuyasha was blushing a little.
"Exactly!" Souta exclaimed. "You got this faster than Inuyasha did... in fact... he never did get it... but anyway they are all at one time so if you were to flip from one to the next it's like watching it in real life only it's not... anyway. Just remember that the people aren't trapped and enjoy."
"Umm... ok..." Kohaku said as he took a seat on the couch, then eyed a flat looking thing. "What is this?" He asked, holding it up.
"That's a remote... you press the up and down arrows to change the channels and the left and right to change the volume." Kohaku immediately pressed the right arrow multiple times.
"AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! TOOOOOOOOOOOOO LLLLLLLLOOOOOOOUUUUUUDDDDD PPPRRRRREEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS TTTTHHEEEEEE LLLLLEEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT AAAAAAARRRRRROOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!" Souta shouted over the noise, and Kohaku started pressing the left button until it got to a pretty good volume.
"Now that I know what that is... let's see what the 'channels' are..." Sango eyed Kohaku for a moment then took a seat next to him, putting the picture she held on the table. Kohaku pressed up, up, down, up, up, up, then up again. "Everything is diferent..."
"We have over one hundred channels, and each channel has a different show, and a show is the people you watch... it will be about a certain thing and they are usually on for a half an hour, sometimes a full hour."
"Umm... ok..." Sango said. "I suppose we will get used to this one day." Just then, Inuyasha descended down the stairs, Kagome following.
"YOU IDIOTS! WHAT IN THE WORLD OF ALL THINGS GOOD WAS THAT! YOU FRIKKIN' WOKE KAGOME UP!" Kagome just yawned a little and asked, "Souta? Where's Mama?"
"She's at a friend's house, and Nee-san, you wouldn't believe how quickly these guys caught on to the TV..."
"Apparently faster than Inuyasha," Kagome said as she watched them flip channels and sat down next to Sango.
"Excuse me!" Inuyasha asked as he angrily sat down on the floor in front of Kagome.
"Well, not everyone is as stubborn as you-"
"STOP THAT!" Inuyasha angrily shouted, jumping a little, but not enough for Kagome to stop tweaking his ears like she did when she first met him. "Leave my ears alone."
"Aww, you know you like it, Inuyasha."
"Actually, I know that I DON'T like it, but nothing of liking it."
"Then why don't you make me stop? You know you have the power to stop me," after a minute of no response she continued. "See, you do like it, don't you?"
"Shut up."
"Now-don't-you-tell-me-to-shut-up," Kagome's tone of voice changed when she saw what Sango picked on TV, but she did not stop tweaking Inuyasha's ears. "Ooh, my favorite show!" (I WOULD tell you what it is if I knew what they watched in Tokyo)
"Kagome, we don't have the time to stay here," Inuyasha interrupted. "Let's g-"
"It's not like we're doing anything! It is night, after all!" She angrily shouted at him. "Just let me watch this, and besides, we can spend the night here... okay?"
"Feh, whatever."
"Okay, Sango, you can take my bed in my room, Souta, you get some blankets for Kohaku and let him sleep in your room, and I'll sleep out here. I know Inuyasha won't care because he sleeps on HARD FLOOR." Kagome said as she reached into her closet and pulled out as many blankets and pillows she could carry, then brought them out in the living room.
"Do you need all those blankets?"
"They aren't all for me, here," she handed him two blankets and a pillow. "Do you want the couch? I can sleep on the floor if you want."
"No, you take the couch," Inuyasha said, taking all the pride of being part youkai. "I am part youkai, therefore, I can sleep wherever I want-" Kagome put her blankets down, and held up a pillow. Pillow incoming! It hit him square in the face and he fell onto the ground, then pulled the pillow off of himself. "Holy crap, what was that for!"
"I thought it was funny! You take everything so seriously! You and your pride, heh..." Before he could pick himself up she jumped on him. "Now who's winning?"
"I could push you off like a feather."
"I can o-s-u-w-a-r-i you to the center of the earth too."
"I regret the day I ever asked you to put that horrid thing back on me! Now get off!"
"Ahh, so you don't like this?" He had to admit it. Having Kagome there was nice. Real nice.
"Oh, be quiet and get off."
"Now you don't want a little hanyou again?"
"I don't wanna take care of no freaking kid!" Inuyasha semi-shouted, careful not to disturb anyone else who was trying to sleep. "You and Shippou are bad enough!"
"ME and Shippou? Oh, thanks." Kagome got off voluntarily and seemed to give off that fake pout look, but, Inuyasha - of course - took it seriously.
"Hey, what did I do now!" He asked, getting up and staring at her. "You want another annoying idiot kid? Fine! See if I care!"
"Hey, he wouldn't be an idiot!" Kagome said, and now she wasn't faking the angry part. "He'd have you as a father, wouldn't he?"
"Got you! It would be a male kid, now wouldn't it?"
"I was just going along, I bet it's a girl!"
"Well, we're never going to know like this, are we?"
"Are you... suggesting...?"
"How else are we going to figure out!"
"I'd never pick anyone else," Kagome replied, turning with a happy look on her face.
It would be a girl.
Or else.
HOLY CRAP I DID NOT REALIZE THIS CHAPTER WAS OVER 3,000 WORDS!... Awesome.