---Road to an Eternity of Wars---
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. And anything that seems related to anything else in any way. ((Lol lots of A's!)
A/N: Next chapter…. YEAH! Kuso, schoolwork to do now…be right back…
OK! I'm back, now onto the script! Hope you enjoy it! Ja-ne for now!
Chapter 4: Explanations
Miroku coughed, "You know, I could of helped…like possibly fighting the demons here..."
There were demon carcasses strewn across the park, blood leaked over the blood-stained grass and ice littered the field.
"You can help now!" Kagome smiled, hinting him on a certain job...
"Ah…right away Kagome-sama" He took out a package of sutras and purified the oni and their blood one by one.
Afterwards, he used some of the little magic that Midoriko had taught him and purified the blood off the grass, leaving no sign that anything ever happened there. Then, he cast a small portion of his magic in the air, vanishing all the residual evergy that clung thickly in the park, just in case anyone such as a demon of sorts would catch onto them.
While he was doing that, the 3 girls ((Yukina, Botan, and Keiko))had turned to Sango and Kagome, walking forward glancing at the 3 girls behind the bushes.
"Hi…we saw what you did...sorry for spying on you," Botan said cheerily, with a hint of guilt about it.
"And we were wondering something" Yukina quietly added shyly.
"Can you teach us to fight like that and join your group?" Keiko blurted out, wanting to get it over with. She was really nervous that these people would reject them, saying that they couldn't do anything.
There was a tiny silence again as Miroku approached them.
"Why, ladies..."
"HENTAI!" Sango screamed, slapping him in the process. Truthfully, she didn't want to face the jelousy when he asked them to 'bear his child'... What better way then to stop him by knocking him out for a little while?
"Lecher...He never learns..." Kagome muttered, turning back to the girls in the process. Eyeing them; she questioned"Do you know of demons and believe in them?"
"Yes" Keiko answered, lighting up a bit. Maybe they wouldn't just turn away after all.
"Are you scared of them?" Sango added.
"I'm afraid so, although Yukina here is a demon and we're not scared of her" she replied akwardly, due to the fact thatthey just started asking questions out of the blue, not bothering to ask how they knew of demons, if they had dark intentions, or if they were a threat.
Sango looked at Yukina, whoseemed particularilyscared in the presence of a miko. Normally, priestesses wouldn't give a second thought about purifying a demon, good, or not.
Sango just smiled at Yukina, who relaxed when she said, "We only kill evil demons. They tend to be very...dreary and overconfident"
"Well…we can work around the fear…"Miroku suggested, turning to Kagome for the answer.
"Sure then! But it'll be a lot of hard work" Kagome warned, worrying that the three might not be able to handle all the training. But then again, who was she to judge them so soon? If they agreed, then she'd just find out.
"Yes!" Botan pumped her fist in the air, clearly showing that they wouldn't mind the intense work.
Miroku stood back up, recovered from the blow ((When he talked, he was still on the ground)), "We'll have to tell you everything, but I trust you won't tell a soul?"
"Yes" Yukina told him back, shocked that the other 3 trusted Botan, Keiko, and her so much when they only knew each other for basically the thirty minutes they had been previously talking to them, "Ok!" Kagome clapped her hands together, "To the garden?"
"Why not, it's getting cold anyway," Sango, agreed, "By the way, my name's Sango, that's Kagome, and the perverted houshi is Miroku"
"Why Sango, I am deeply hurt-"
"You can't fool me that way Miroku..." Sango commented dryly.
The rest of the beings sweat dropped. It was true! Yet, he was still denying it.
"I"m Keiko! That's Botan, and that's Yukina!"
"Nice to meet you" Kagome and Sango smiled. Miroku was quiet, not wanting to say anything rash to the current situation. He wasn't in the mood for a slap right now.
TheHigurashi Shrine…
"Ok...so just pass through this barrier. Don't worry, since you're part of the group, only the group can enter that has energy like yours" Sango smiled.
Hesitantly, they stepped through and calmed down because they had gotten past the barrier safely.
'And this is our garden ladies!" Miroku announced, beaming with pride that they made it all by their selves.
The 3 girlsgasped.
"These plants all come right out from the Sengoku-Jidai. If you go this way, we'll tell you the story and start on the training!" Kagome explained.
After a couple of minutes, they arrived at the small hut the boys had built.
Miroku started a fire and the girls took a seat outside by the currentlycrackling fire before them.
"Wow…" Yukina was awed, "This looks like Makai and the plants are ancient!"
Sango laughed, "Yes, now we trust you not to tell anyone. This is dangerous, are you sure you want to do this?"
"Absolutely" Keiko answered confidently, inspired by the fact that Yusuke wouldn't have to protect her as much as before, 'I'll show him then!' she thought enthusiastically, "We want to prove that women can also play a big part in things like this!"
"Ok…since there's a lot of things to explain, we'll start from the beginning. It all started on my 15th birthday…"
She told them about their adventures from the Feudal Era and how they got the forest like this. From the shattering of the jewel, to Kikyo, Bankotsu and the other 6 phantoms, and Naraku.
((Now, all the small trees they had brought to the modern era grew bigger because apparently, Sango added her magic to the plant, causing it to grow. A lot. So now it's EXACTLY like the feudal era forest! That is, except for the size.))
By the time the story ended, it was dark. She had also told them about Midoriko's meeting.
Botan, Keiko, and Yukina gasped, "It's getting late, everyone must be worried"
"Ah, yes, about that. Do you want to stay for dinner?" Miroku suggested.
"Sure, but can we use the phone?"
"Yes! That's no problem!" Sango replied. ((This is Sango, Miroku, and Kagome's house now, so yeah))
Entering the house, the 3 gawked for probably the second-or third time that day.
"This is where you live?" Keiko asked, "This is like a millionaire home!"
"The benefits of gathering 500 year-old artifacts" Sango responded cheerily.
"Kagome!" Shippo called out.
"Sango!" Kohaku shouted.
"Hey guys, I'm getting dinner prepared, why don't you go play?"
"Ok!" Shippo answered.
Botan flipped up her communicator to report to Koenma, currently thinking of lies she could juse from time on.
"Hello?"
"Koenma, sir!"
"Oh! Hi Botan! Where are you? I've been looking for you all afternoon!"
"My apologies, Yukina, Keiko, and I had just got back from shopping and had dinner. I'll be back in an hour!"
"Alright, but make it quick!" Koenma snapped, as a light THUD was heard on the other line and paper flew onto the screen. A groan was heard as another voice was heard too.
"Sir, Koenma sir! More work to be done!" the ogre screeched, slipping on a stray sheet that had been discarded while stamping.
"Are the reikai-tantei done with their mission yet?"
"No, they are still in Makai, trying to retrieve a stolen artifact from the volts. It might take another 2 hours or so"
"Can you relay to Genkai that we went shopping and for her to not worry?"
Koenma sighed, "Fine, but remember to come back, we've got work, Botan!"
And with a small click and a beep, the communicator connection shut off.
Kitchen…
Kagome and Sango set down the bowls of noodles as Botan, Yukina, and Keiko walked back into the room, finished from calling.
"Eat up!" Sango called.
A little later into the food, Kagome asked, "So…how do you know of demons?"
Botanexcitedly launched into an small explanation about Yusuke and the sprit detectives, but never mentioned any names. So they didn't know that 'Yusuke' was the guy who came back to life and 'Hiei' was the one who stole the Shadow Sword ((Was it?)) She felt as if she could trust them fully, yet didn't say any names whatsoever. Miroku, Sango, and Kagome didn't push it either.
They nodded after the short story.
"So, Botan-sama, Yukina-sama, Keiko-sama, Kagome can train you…" Miroku suggested.
"Yes, since she's the one who doesn't mind doing it in your dreams" Sango agreed.
"But you can create the illusionary weapons…I can't do that!" Kagome argued.
Sango sighed, "Fine, I'll help, I think I'm supposed to be helping anyway..."
"Ok then!"
"What are illusionary weapons?" Botan questioned.
"They look just like real weapons and have the same weight and you can practice fighting with them. The best part to this is whenever it's going to hurt someone, it'll pass through you right away" Kagome explained.
"It just makes you a little nauseous every time it passes through your body" Sango added.
"Well, that's just about it. Are you fine with wearing a cloak to school? Because if you are, then we can sew you a fighting outfit," Kagome asked.
"Well, I guess I'm ok" Keiko answered.
"Hm…yes I can do that"
"Ok, thank you" Yukina told them, walking out the door with the others.
Sango collapsed onto the sofa, "Well, it looks like we've found the other goddesses"
"Yes…" Miroku sighed, "Although I'm mildly upset because I won't accompany these beautiful ladies to the tournament soon" he grinned, "What is this tournament about anyway?"
"Hentai…" Kagome muttered, hitting him in the back of the head as she went past, "Well I think I'm going to do some homework now. I'm going to have to enter their dreams so I need to finish up my business"
"Hai, that's a good idea. Later houshi, I'm doing homework too"
"Hey! Wait up!" Miroku ran after them, intent on doing the same thing, but he wasn't so enthusiastic. Not that anyone was in the first place.
Walking Home…
"Yes! Not only do we get trained, we get to have missions where the 'boss' actually does something too!" Keiko exclaimed in victory. ((Sorry of she's really OOC, I really haven't watched her before, so I don't know how she acts other than slapping! ))
"Hai, but we all have to keep this a secret" Botan sighed.
"I think we can very well trust them. They trusted us with their secrets" Yukina offered.
"I'm excited about tonight! The training and then fighting outfits!" Keiko beamed, "Just you wait Yusuke, when they say it's ok to reveal my abilities, you'll be shocked! The jerk thinks I can't do anything!"
Botan and Yukina laughed at Keiko.
"Well, the only hard part I can see about this is keeping this a secret from everyone else. Especially Koenma with me, Yusuke with you, Genkai with Yukina, and Hiei and Kurama might as well be counted in because they seem to figure out things reallyfast if there's a small glitch in the plan"
"Yes...you are correct on that" Yukina pondered. ((Yukina is going to be a little OOC, because she will actually kill and have no qualms about killing if they aren't innocent. And this is my story so...but Yusuke and the others still think she is naiive, especially Hiei...))
"I still can't believe we are the beileved myth, the 'Jikan Tamashii!' And all along, I thought they were still a myth" Botan stated proudly, in awe.
"Yes, I agree" Yukina added in.
"So let me get this straight. To Ningenkai, youkai and the Reikai are myths. To Makai and the Reikai though, the Jikan Tamashii is a myth"
"Yeah" Botan said.
"This is confusing. How ironic though! They believe youkai and Rekai are myths, while the 'myths' believe this kind of 'backup squad for the world' is a myth!" she laughed.
They rounded another corner as the 3 cheerily chatted about the days events.
"Well, I've got to go now, before Koenma blows his top. I'll see you tonight!" Botan told them and popped out of the area.
"Bye Keiko!" Yukina waved as she ran up Genkai's shrine's steps.
"Tonight!" Keiko waved and walked back into her apartment room. She had talked to her mom and dad before about getting her own apartment and they agreed with her, seeing that she was pretty old enough for it.
Higurashi Shrine…
"And we're done the math homework!" Kagome cheered.
"That was sheer torture…" Sango complained, but happy to get that over with.
"Yes…although now that I think about it, sheer torture will be the training tonight!"
"Hm…I guess you're right"
"I have a hunch…"
"What is it?"
"Dunno…I just have a feeling that something important will happentomorrow tonight"
"Maybe it will happen, and we will be there for it if it does…? But why tomorrow night?" Sango offered.
"Yeah…anyway, goodnight, I've got some training to do. Let's see if the three have fallen asleep yet, ne?"
"Yeah!"
And with that, the two went to bed. Miroku had gone earlier, saying something about finishing his work in the morning.
So…. This is chapter 4! Hope you liked it!
Ja-ne!
And onegai, read and review!