A/N- OMG I'm so sorry! I was listening to music with a major migraine when I did chapter one...I just noticed this huge mistake...I did "Strike Laser Claw!" move for Inuyasha, which is a Zoid move... I feel stupid...umm...well I'll be sure not to let that happen again...okay on with the chapter!
Chapter Four- Hobo who? Unworthy.
"Ours is a madness steeped in lore, the hardest kind for the
hardest core. We're the last in a line of dying whores. Only
time will tell...
Only silence understands."
A small spot of light flooded the floor, giving it a strange off white color, as if the stainless clouds of heaven had finally disproved their judgment. Shadows hid the truth of a beige carpet from morning sunlight. But unfortunately no one occupied the bedroom at the moment to take notice of the screwed up vision of a miracle.
Kagome stared dispassionately at the female who stood before her in the body length mirror. Raven hair spilled gently down her back in freshly brushed waves, a low thigh length blue ruffle skirt attached to her waist, matching the white blouse that contained dark blue stripes down the collar. But her eyes were not focused on her appearance; they were attentive on the deep blue orbs staring straight at her.
"What was she like? Am I like her, being her reincarnation... Kikyo was a priestess with miko abilities, like myself... though... she had to of had more control over her own at my age... maybe I can find something in the public library."
A confused noise came from outside the bathroom door and across her room. Kagome blinked out of her secluded world and leaned her head out the doorway of her bathroom to see Inuyasha staring at her, noticing she had on the exact same clothes from yesterday.
"I thought that skimpy thing was thrown away!" "It's not skimpy! It's my school uniform! And it's not the old one, I had spares, this is my last one...what did you want Inuyasha?"
The hanyou grunted in response and flopped on to her bed lazily, his arms tucked into the sleeves of his haori.
"Where are you going dressed like that?" Kagome gave an exaggerated sigh as she walked out of the bathroom and toward her blue jean back pack and began to shove an endless supply of heavy books and folders inside of it.
"I'm going to school"
"Sschool, what's a school?"
She stood in surprise, spinning around to face him with a shocked and confused expression before getting straight in front of him and eyeing his golden orbs as if searching for an answer. "You really don't know what a school is do you?"
Inuyasha growled in anger and pulled back away from her looming body to have more breathing space.
"Of course I don't! Why the hell would I be asking if I did wench!"
"Calm down, jeez. I just thought you were kidding. Well, a school is place where people my age and younger go to learn things, like writing, the alphabet, math, and history, and a whole bunch of other confusing things."
"Math? What's that?"
"Eh...that's where you learn to umm add and subtract numbers. Like two plus two is four."
Inuyasha went over this information thoughtfully, brooding it over his hand that held his chin and propped on his knee, while his other hand held the unoccupied knee to keep his balance. Kagome watched him, unknowingly to her; she began to smile.
'He looks cute when he does that, with his ears twitching. I could just imagine his tail swaying if he had one.'
A giggle escaped her lips and she clamped a hand on her mouth as the thoughtful half demon glanced at her, first with curiosity then with a frustrated glare.
"What the hell are you laughing at woman?"
"Nothing, I really got to get going. I'll see you after school. Be a good puppy while I'm gone!"
As soon as she grabbed her book bag she dashed out the door to leave Inuyasha frowning in anger and jumping up to chase after her. He caught her with ease before she reached the front door, slamming a hand over the wood to stare down at the shorter person before him. She glared up at him.
"Inuyasha!"
"You are not going out there by yourself, I've seen those..."
He searched for the word that her mother had provided earlier when she came home. It had a small name for such a huge body...
"Cars, and how fast those monsters go!"
Kagome's eyes rolled as she tried to shift the book bag to a more comfortable position on her back. Inuyasha noted the discomfort but kept his place, weighted hand on the only near exit to the outside world and in her way so she couldn't get to the other one.
"They're only allowed on their side of the road Inuyasha, People stay on the other side, where the concrete is. Please move; I'm going to be late."
"No, not until you let me go with you."
His hand reached out behind her, lifting the bag from her shoulders with an easy swipe and removing it from her possession and into his. He held it with ease and she stared at him. Inuyasha watched her closely, knowing she was contemplating the idea of letting him come with her.
"No, people aren't use to you, they haven't seen demons for a long time and I can't risk having every news reporter at my door and scientists breaking in just to claim you. You'll have to stay here and wait till I come home at three o'clock."
Inuyasha growled and fisted his hand angrily but Kagome only sighed in annoyance, her brow furrowing in visible proof. She snatched her bag from his hand, nearly tumbling to the floor with the weight but holding her ground.
"Inuyasha...Sit."
With the last uttered word, the wide-eyed hanyou went crashing to the ground, giving a small yelp when he hit the hard wood floor that amazingly held under the force in which he was pulled down. Curses flew from his mouth as he waited out the lasting moments of the subduing enchantment. But that was all Kagome needed as she slipped out the door.
The day had gone good for Kagome, well so far, she thought. The sky was clear of any weather clouds, as it was everyday in the Replica Station. It wasn't too hard to guess how the orbital tin can got its name. Kagome's mind wandered back to the story her mother told her from a history book she had checked out of the library, ignoring the Algebra teacher as she began to scribble on her desk computer, showing up on every students desk as they glanced down at it and took notes in their computer pads.
"Ya know why this station was created Kagome?" "No mamma, the teachers don't tell us." "Well, long ago before science had gotten so far, the scientist noticed something, that pollution was slowly killing off Mother Nature, some humans were just such messy people. Anyway, they began to create a station in outer space, one that could sustain a lot people for an elongated amount of time. With many decades of research, tests, and failures they finally succeeded. "And just in time too, because they had predicted that on the western and eastern hemispheres, an acid rain would pour over the earth, destroying any living thing in its path. And it did. We were lucky to have this station or human beings as we know it would go out of existence. "But the way they built this station is remarkable, it's an exact Replica of Earth, minus the downfalls. That explains its name, Replica Station."
Kagome was pulled back from her memory as a red flash appeared on her D- screen. 'Virus Alert! Virus Alert!'
Students peered over her shoulder to take a glance at what bug had entered her computer and the teacher soon stood to check what the commotion was that pulled them away from taking notes or snoring away in boredom. Kagome simply sighed, resting her chin on her palm. "Yeah, unfortunately mom, we still have a few downfalls. You would think by now we wouldn't have these ancient problems..."
The metallic bell rang within seconds and hurried teenagers all piled out with a loud buzz of laughter or conversation following them.
The gray carpet was worn with years worth of trampling, or so it would seem if someone had not been watching the twitching hanyou who paced back and forth endlessly, like he had been doing for the past three hours.
He hadn't followed the crazy girl, no. He knew what she would do if she found out he was tracking her down like a newly released infant to a nursery school. She'd sit him into next Tuesday. He was not that stupid. Instead he had scrounged around for food, ate what didn't require cooking, or using any of the strange contraptions that sat on their counters. He fiddled with their T.V, listened to the voices that screamed loudly from the metal box in Kagome's room, tried to take a nap, and had been waiting for her like this since...He glanced at the time keeper on the shelf... twelve thirty.
"Where the hell is she? I knew I shouldn't of let her go off, every demon in the city will be after her and that jewel and she goes strutting it off!"
"Jeez calm down Inuyasha, she probably had a run in with Hojo."
Inuyasha swirled around faster then a frightened cat and glared at the young boy curiously, though his liquid gold eyes held an untamable fury with in them.
He had just known Souta for thirty minutes, when he came back from his own school. And unfortunately, the boy had taken an instant liking to him, asking him question after question, wanting to show him new things such as a Vid. Gamer and the like but with a quick snap and a growl from the dog man, the boy reluctantly shut his yap.
"Who is Hojo?"
"Oh, he's this guy that goes to Kagome's school, he has this huge crush on Kagome though. It's real disgusting. I don't see why he likes Kagome..."
Inuyasha growled and turned his gaze sharply to the door, already he did not like this Hoho guy. Souta was left to trail off on his one person conversation before realizing that Inuyasha no longer occupied the living room, much less the house. "Uh oh."
The hanyou sniffed at the ground, hands placed firmly on the cement and nose planted centimeters to the ground. Her scent lingered here, but it was hard to distinguish under the freshly smell of oil, other humans, and so many other things that Inuyasha did not know existed. He followed the scent carefully, noticing she stayed mostly on the thing she called a sidewalk, so he followed it. Once and then checking the ground when people were not walking by or staring, to see if he was correct.
He stopped shortly in front of an old looking building; it seemed older than the newly built ones. Quickly sniffing at the ground, he nodded in confirmation. Yes this was the most recent of Kagome's scents. She was a wild flower amongst a field of brown weeds. Her scent unique and soft, a calming effect on his nerves. But it did not quilt his anger.
Kagome patted the handlebars of her blue bike gently as Hojo continued rambling on about his English project. In all truth, she had stopped listening a while ago and planted her fascination on the tiny cracks in the sidewalk that had been worn there over time.
'Why can't he take a hint? He's like a roach sometimes, no matter how many times you spray it or set traps, he just keeps coming and coming... did he just ask me a question?'
She was pulled back to as Hojo stared at her with hopeful questioning brown eyes. Kagome simply blinked and stared at the traffic sign ahead of them. 'When had she gotten here?'
"Uh... say again? I didn't quite catch that."
"Oh, I asked if you'd like to go check out that new club with me Friday, sense you couldn't make it to the movies yesterday. What did you say you had?"
"Umm a short case of the flu, yeah.
"I'm sorry. It's good you didn't suffer long. So what about the club?"
Kagome fidgeted in her spot and took a safe glance over the street again before turning her full attention to Hojo. 'It would be nice, I haven't been there yet, and it's only Wednesday. Oh but...but I got to go shopping for Inuyasha and that will take awhile...'
Inuyasha was halted on the building he leapt on, his eyes cast below him on the two people standing at the corner of the road where an annoying color changing light sat, dangling in the air. A boy stood beside Kagome, smiling expectantly and somewhat knowingly as Kagome asked him a question, her eyes focusing back to him rather than to her thoughts.
"Oh, I asked if you'd like to go check out that new club with me Friday, sense you couldn't make it to the movies yesterday. What did you say you had?"
"Umm a short case of the flu, yeah.
"I'm sorry. It's good you didn't suffer long. So what about the club?"
Inuyasha growled noticing that Kagome chewed her bottom lip. She was considering it! No way in hell was some dopey, doe eyed, weakling human going to take his...his... Take Kagome alone somewhere!
He leapt down to the side of the building out of view then walked up behind Kagome. "Yeah um you know Hojo, I think I may be doi..."
"She's busy Friday."
Hojo looked at the tall man who appeared behind Kagome, a scowl set on the silver haired man's features and the sound of popping knuckles echoed from him. Hojo blinked in confusion and turned to Kagome.
"You are?" Kagome stayed quiet as she stared at the cement and tried to control her anger.
"Yes, she is. Now unless you want your skull-"
"How about I call you tomorrow Hojo? I should have it all figured out then! Come on Inuyasha let's go!"
Kagome grabbed the sleeve of the surprised half demon and dragged him along behind her until they were clear out of sight from the boy and traveling the short cut of the park. Kagome spun around and glared at him threateningly.
"SIT!"
'Thud!'
Once the spell wore off the enraged hanyou jumped to his bared feet and towered over the stubborn girl who stood her ground and looking more pissed off then afraid at the time.
"What the hell was that for?"
"For being a jerk! I told you to wait for me! And what were you doing all the way out here and sneaking up on us like that!"
"Getting that Hobo guy away from you! You said you were going to school, not running off with some human!"
"How'd you know about Hojo?"
"Your brother told me. You were suppose to be home half an hour ago bitch!"
"Don't call me that! Besides I know that Inuyasha! I went to the library."
He blinked, momentarily diverted from his train of anger and to the new word she used.
"What's that?"
"A place with lots of books for people to read. Look Inuyasha, you had better not make a habit of this. I'm in no mood to drag a mumbling dog boy back home every weekday."
Inuyasha let out a growl and with a quick snap, had Kagome by the shoulders and against a large tree. Her eyes widening in surprise, his own narrowed in a dark warning.
"Look here woman, I am your guardian now, whether you like the fact or not. It is my duty to stay with you and protect you from harm, doubly so now that you have the Shikon jewel hanging around your neck."
He peered closer to face, noticing as she tried to shrink back against the tree in reaction, but not getting very far.
"Your blood is pure Miko, that means that Demons, animals, dark humans, anyone will come after you for your blood. Just a sip of it makes them stronger, better. (A/N- faster... heh) They'll do anything to get it. Now do you understand wench?"
Kagome gave a small nod, letting out a gasp of air she had not known she was holding when Inuyasha backed away and stared down at her.
"But, why wouldn't they come after the jewel? It's more powerful then my blood."
"Because not many know about it, the priestess' kept it a secret amongst themselves and a small group of other people. Miko's were highly known for their powerful blood and what it could do when used correctly."
"Oh, I see..." She sighed and leaned against the tree she had been recently pinned to and stared at the faded purple jewel around her throat, hung on a string her mother had fastened it to. Inuyasha noted the weary look in her eyes and lowered himself to the ground in front of her.
"Come on, I'll take you to your home."
Kagome obliged eagerly, resting her head against his back once he was jumping through the air with swift elegance and silent steps.
"Inuyasha... it's your home too, if you want it."
The hanyou's eyes widened as he continued to travel across the city over rooftops. She was sharing her home with him, her sanctuary of safety, of family. She was doing it willingly, out of the goodness of her heart. The words left his throat and bubbled from his mouth, choked with emotion, before he could stop them.
"Thank you...Kagome..."
The girl snuggled deeper against his warmth, letting his silver hair hide her face from the heights.
"You're welcome Inuyasha."
A/N- phoof! Another chap. Completed! 8 bloody pages long! Sheez. Well! Review please!
Chapter Five- Naraku, Reincarnation of Narikiu.