Disclaimer: I would never own Inuyasha or Naruto, I'm too darn lazy to draw that good.
The Meeting
"I sense a disturbance in that boy's charka Hidan, it seems we have found our Jinchurrriki." His golden pupils gaze at Naruto.
The said Atasuki member shoves his three-blade scythe in the hard dirt, pulling rosary-like object in his hand. It has a charcoal metal with a triangle in the center, the beads wrap around his hands. Kagome and Naruto position themselves into their fighting stances, prepare for whatever is coming. "First I need to offer my prayers to God."
"You really driving me crazy with this praying stuff, you have already done that when we capture nibi." His partner averts his eyes to Hidan.
"I know it can get annoying but it is part of the religion I have to."
"Just hurry it up, I want cash in this bounty."
"Seriously Kakuzu, you are impatient."
Naruto activate Tajuu Kage Bunshin, surrounding the two members. Several threw kunai, which the Akatsuki members dodge easily. Executing the next move, the clones swiftly kick at the sides, forcing the two to jump. Naruto's clones toss themselves towards at them with swirling blue vortex in their right hand.
"Rasengan!" Both shouted, extending their right hands to inflict the Akatsuki members with their jutsu.
POOF!
It turn out they attack another clone.
"Kawarimi no Jutsu!" With that thought, all the Narutos stood on guard.
"That was rude, seriously." Hidan appear out from the trees with his scythe in his hands. "You didn't even let me finish."
Kakuzu emerge beside his partner. "Remember, this boy was able to evade Itachi. There is a chance he could do it again. 'Talking' won't get us anywhere." He coldly responds.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it." Hidan pulls his scythe on his shoulders.
"It seems we will trap if we go on like this, but I don't have enough energy to run." Kagome thought, observing the situation.
"We could have a chance if you release this seal."
"No, even if I want to, it would take an enormous amount of my miko powers to dispel it."
"No matter, I'm just get use to this seal. But they are after me, which I would not allow. I'm going to help the brat now!"
Kagome inwardly wince, she could fell the colliding energy between the demonic energy and her miko powers. Kyuubi is forcing the seal to open and Kagome doesn't have enough powers to enforce the barrier. She turns her attention to Naruto who is silently clutching his stomach in pain. "Kyuubi stop it, the seal will not be weaken just because you trying to help Naruto, also you're hurting him. Please lets find another way than this."
Hidan kept hacking away at the clones that weaken by Kyuubi's resistance. "This is seriously pissing me off." Throwing his scythe in one direction, gripping onto the rope, swinging his scythe in circles. Wiping most of the clones, leaving a large circular space around Hidan.
"Stop that Hidan, you could kill our objective." Kakuzu warn.
"And what are you doing?" Hidan question, reeling his scythe back into his hands.
"Something is coming." Kakuzu simply state, staring in the distance.
"What the…" His words trail off.
Suddenly a ball of light crashes into the middle of the field, plowing within its radius away with great force, also destroying all the remaining clones. Naruto flew back; Kagome swiftly caught him tossing both of them into the ground. The ball swirls with demonic energy, radiating a powerful killing intent. The ninjas shiver in fear; feeling their instinct switching off and on to run away and hide until the thing disappear.
Kyuubi growls, digs his large paws into the damp cell's ground. "How? That fool didn't got sealed, Gobi must be very slippery."
Kagome remain quiet, ineffective to evil intention. She felt very familiar to this energy, everything about that thing yet she doesn't know it. Does that mean she met this thing in her past life? 'Gobi's youkai energy feels like a dog.
The light transform into a form of a man, the bright rays temporally blind them. The light slowly dies down to reveal a young man that seems to be in his 20's, his long silver hair flutter in the wind, his golden-amber glare at the two Akatsuki member, two identical purple stripes on each cheek, and a blue crescent on his forehead.
But there isn't five tails in sight, not even one tail.
"I just didn't want to go along Naraku's stupid plans." A voice echoes in her head.
"Inuyasha, you can't smell the youketsu still."
"Kagome where are you going?"
"Hey snap out of it!" Kyuubi interrupt the voices unknowingly, woken her from her memories.
"What?" Kagome huffs in annoyance to hear the demon in her head again.
Kyuubi just shifts around in his seal, cutting his power off to attack the barrier. Kagome sigh; turn her attention at the transaction between the demon and Akatsuki members.
He stare at the Akatkusi members with impassive face, his eyes were filled with hate and something that promises a slow death. "Where is he?"
"What?" Both are a bit surprise that there is a demon that haven't been seal yet.
He took a step closer. "Don't play dumb with me. Where is he?"
"We don't know what you talking about." Then they remember something.
They heard that one of their members was attack by the same demon when they are getting Gobi; they barely escape even with their abilities. The demon was proven too strong.
"Then you are useless." He pulls out a sword. It hums smoothly; the aura covering the blade sends waves of death, making everyone in the surrounding area shiver at the cold energy.
"The Shinigami's energy! How did he get that power? I thought only Nekotama has that power only! Who is he?" Kyuubi howl angrily.
Kakuzu hastily slam his right hand in the landscape to create a brownish cloud. When the dirt clears, they were gone leaving a large crater where they were before.
"I lost their scent again. It seems that humans are getting very intelligent lately." The demon twists his head at Naruto and Kagome's direction. "But I have other manners to attend to."
Naruto stumble forward, shakily stood up to block the demon's path. The demon quirk his eyebrow, watches Naruto's antics to defend Kagome. "I don't mean harm, I suppose if you threaten me then I would harm you." He sheathes his sword. "I'm just meeting an old friend of mine."
"You know about Kagome?" Naruto ask suspiciously.
"Of course boy, she is a very close friend." He answers, growing tiresome of the boy.
"Just let him Naruto, I'm sure we can trust him for now." Kagome feels a little irate how Naruto is being too protective for her sake.
The demon drew closer, kneeling before her. "Kagome, where were you for-" The demon was interrupt by a yell.
"Sesshomaru! You bastard, stop running away!" A distant voice shout rang through the forest.
Sesshomaru sigh tiredly. "Inuyasha." He will never get his half-brother off his trail.
On cue, a man with white doggy ears on his head came out of the bushes. "Damn it, didn't I tell you to stop running off?" Then he curses about 'running 5 days straight to get here' and 'stupid teleporting powers'.
"Kagome…" A different voice spoke in her head.
"Die Naraku!"
"Kikyou…"
"I'm going away Kagome, somewhere far away. Maybe I'll never see you again…"
"KAGOME!" Kagome snaps out of her daze, Kyuubi sigh. "Oh goody, you are finally awake. Your mind was starting to fade away for some reason." She can hear the concern coat in his words.
Kagome avoid to answer, concentrate on the conversation between the two dog demons. Kyuubi gruff in agitation but left at that, he will get his answers later.
Inuyasha took one agile glance at the other two before turning back to Sesshomaru. His hazy golden eyes soften with an emotion that he had never shown for the past 200 years, quickly covers it with agitation. "So you are alive."
Sesshomaru notice this and decide to speak up. "Kagome, where were you for the past 200 years?" Sesshomaru completing his sentence that Inuyasha disrupted moments ago.
"Umm… I don't know?" Kagome gives a very logical reply.
"What do you mean 'I don't know'? We were worry sick about you for a long time." Inuyasha retort.
"I'm sorry about whatever I did to make you worry, but I don't know what you are talking about." Kagome thought this over and corrected herself. "I don't even remember what happen."
This caught the dog demon brother's attention. One relief and concern, the other had displeased feature. "I see. It seems that we have the wrong person." Sesshomaru claim, walking away from the two with Inuyasha skeptically looking at him.
"What the hell are you talking about Sesshomaru? She is obviously real!" Inuyasha remark, jabbing his finger at Kagome. "She smells like her, looks like her and hell I can smell the power rolling off of her."
"Don't be a fool Inuyasha." Sesshomaru response sends his cold glare at Inuyasha.
"I'm not the fool Sesshomaru, you are! How can you deny it isn't her?" Inuyasha growl, flexes his claws quietly.
"She is not the same, she is pathetic and weak. I remember an annoying little girl-no, a woman that said she can put up anything that happens on her way. Where is she Inuyasha? She may look like her, but her attitude doesn't rhythm with her. There is no evident that she is real, just an imitation." Sesshomaru said icily.
"Even if that is true, you could at least spare her another chance, you stiff bastard." Inuyasha snarl, a golden aura slowly shroud his claws.
"I only give a ningen one chance and I will not give it to-" A loud slap echo follows by a sharp crackle, drowning Sesshomaru's words.
Mild surprise by Naruto and Inuyasha to see Kagome was the one who backhand Sesshomaru. Her lips were tightly shut, refusing to scream her urges about comparing her to her former self. Scorches mark on Sesshomaru's right side of his cheek, slightly blurring the purple markings a bit.
Suddenly a soft chuckle escapes from Sesshomaru's lips, befuddling everyone.
"Bashful as always Kagome." Sesshomaru rub his bruise cheek. "You should let some of your instinct show who you are, it would help you remember better."
Inuyasha is catching on quite slowly. "So you mean this was all an act to get Kagome to slap you?"
Sesshomaru mentally slap himself in the forehead, questioning the world why does he deserve a moron for a brother, a half-brother.
"Ano…but why go all the trouble making Kagome angry? Can you just get another girl to slap you?" Naruto inquiry.
Sesshomaru mentally slap himself again in the forehead. Why? Why does the world give him idiots, only idiots? He is surround by idiots!
Kyuubi, on a different level of thinking, also thinks he is surround by idiots. Including the fact that he is seal into an idiot. Oh, the irony!
"I don't think that is what he is saying guys." Kagome comprehend it at a snail pace. Sesshomaru silently crosses his fingers, hoping for Kagome to get it right. "He trying help me remember something." Yes! Yes! That is right Kagome; now slowly say the right words.
"How bashful I am." Unbeknownst to Kagome and the other two, Sesshomaru is chanting inside his head how the world will be ending soon and destroying idiots.
Kyuubi criticize himself how far he had fallen, being seal by a moron and fear her.
"You are always bashful, even if you forget everything." Inuyasha curtly spoke.
Sesshomaru end his chanting; decide it is time to leave. "I'm going to take my leave now. Nice meeting you Kagome, we will see each other sometime." It was nice, even if they are morons.
"Hey bastard, don't leave now. I can smell ramen here." Inuyasha's mouth had a drop of drool on the side of his lips, Naruto perk up at the sound of the word 'ramen'. Screaming enthusiastically about how great ramen is and how he wants to eat it now. Inuyasha ignore the ringing in his ears, eagerly agreeing with Naruto.
Sesshomaru detest the noise, tries his best to tolerant the loud bickering. He caught a whiff of a human's scent; he looks at the others to see Inuyasha walking with a hopping Naruto. Sesshomaru disappear in a blur, made a swift grab on Inuyasha's clothes. "What the hell?"
Then they vanish in a blue light to leave no trace of their existence. Leaving Kagome slightly puzzled what is going on and Naruto frowning that his new 'ramen' friend had to go. Then Kakashi, Sakura, Sai and Yamato pop out of the trees, scattering the leaves around them.
Kakashi did his usual greeting, Sai stare at Kagome, Sakura was nervous, and Yamato was just smiling. Sakura was still a little put off by the first impression, she thought Kagome was a loony but Sakura conclude that she will get to know her so she won't misjudge someone like last time…
"Yo!" Kakashi took notice of Kagome, his visible eye crinkle into an upside down smile. "Naruto it seems you have a new friend, care to introduce her?"
"Hello, I'm Kagome. As you can see I'm a miko, I can purify demons without trouble I suppose…" Kagome wonders quietly if there is trouble of dealing with demons. "I can't hurt human as much but I can still people."
Kakashi nods nonchalant. "Maa, you could useful for the training I was planning for Naruto."
"Wow, training for me Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto exclaim happily.
"Since you can't beat Sasuke," Naruto crestfallen at this statement. "But there is a chance. I thought of a training method that involves you only Naruto. And during that training, this could mean you might suppress me."
Naruto is a bit startled by this fact; he notices that his teammates know about this too. He wasn't informed about it because he had to do a mission with Jiraiya immediately. "…Suppress you, Kakashi-sensei?" His voice is fill doubt and astonishment, his sky blue eyes stare at the seriousness contain in his sensei's eye.
"That's right. During this training I'll be with you the whole time… also, it's going to be quite different from any training you've had so far." Kakashi explain, briefly thinking back the difficulty of the training he had as a teen.
Naruto pauses to thinks, he silently weighing the possibly what they might be doing together. He decides to question it out loud. "…Wh…What'll we be doing?" Naruto struggle to get his voice clear but his mind feels anxious.
You'll develop an ultimate ninjutsu to call on your own." Naruto is really bewildered about this new development; he is going to create a new jutsu.
"In other words, we're going to have you acquire a new ninjutsu even greater than Rasengan… however, in order to acquire such power, one must spend an equally massive amount of time and effort to do so." Kakashi spoke with a firm authority. "It's not like you're going to get stronger overnight like a main character of some novel… and this is completely different from learning something like Rasengan, a jutsu previously thought of and acquired through close instruction."
"A massive amount of time? We don't have many more time left! Sasuke's going to-" Naruto interrupt by none other than Kagome.
"Naruto, there's got to be one reason why your sensei choose this ambitious training." Kagome may be very confused what is going on but she is catching on as quickly as possible. She bows respectably towards Kakashi. "I'm sorry, continuing on."
Kakashi waves off Kagome's apologetic manner. "She's right, I have found a way to do it all in a short amount of time."
"How's that?" Naruto ask.
"You'll see." Kakashi smile, turning his attention to Kagome. "You can help control his demon."
"I have already dealt with that furball…" Kagome faint, dropping into Naruto's arms.
Sakura ran up to her, placing her hand over her forehead. She sighs in relief, reassuring them with a statement. "She is just very fatigue by using up too much of her energy, she will be fine if she gets a nice rest."
Kakashi shift his attention to Naruto. "We will train tomorrow, I'll tell you about the training then." He eyed Kagome with his visible eye. "Go to your apartment, I'm sure Kagome is fine with you."
Kagome grumble something in her sleep, tightly latching onto the fabric on Naruto's sleeve. Clinging against the nearest warm her body tries to find, Naruto felt the blood rushing into his head. "Have fun." Kakashi disappear in a plume of smoke.
Sakura giggle at the sight, Sai is amused of the sight and Yamato left without a trace. Naruto took notice of the two and whine. "Sakura-chan, help me!"
Sakura shook her head, enjoying how cute they look together. "No, I got to go the hospital." Sakura fled with Sai following behind leaving Naruto with a sleeping Kagome embracing his body.
Now the only question is, how is he going to get Kagome over to his apartment at all?
A/N: Following the plot a little bit. I'm sorry for the lack of action between the Akatsuki members, I don't know what abilities they have, just their personality I know and they are the closest Akatsuki members that are near Konoha so I can introduce Sesshomaru and Inuyasha into the scene!
I was about to put up a SasKag fanfiction pairing up but it got delay by the powerful writer block. I'm also going to write a ItaKag but I still need to plan it out.