---- Shadow Fox Revised ----
Lalalala! Hmm…First off, chapter 6 won't be put up until I get…hmm…..25 reviews…after I hit the 25 mark I will put chap 6 up. Ok? Good. Glad we all agree. Hehe I love you all too. ;-P
Well that was my old beginning. I don't think I'll be that mean this time, though I could. That might be fun. I hope everyone who read my other version and liked it will come and read this version. Yup I do.
Disclaimer: I do not…what is the point of this? Really. If I owned them, would I lower myself to writing mere fanfictions about them? What would be the point when I could just start a new series are new episodes or something? but anyway, if you hadn't noticed, I am not the owner of the Inuyasha cast and crew. Was that really necessary?
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---- Chapter five ----
---- Outside the cave ----
"Kagome!" they were now making their way done the cliff.
It was raining heavily, making it hard to see and very slippery.
From what Inuyasha could tell was they were getting closer. He could smell her, and the smell was getting stronger. So what was a good sign. Right?
"Kagome!" Sango couldn't see anything through the heavy rain and the cold of the rain had slowly made her body numb, so she couldn't feel anything either.
She was so worried. What had happened to Kagome? Was Kagome ok? After losing her family, her whole village. She couldn't bear to lose Kagome. Kagome was like a sister to her. She couldn't lose anyone else. And she was pretty sure that was how Shippo felt too.
"Kagome!" Miroku kept close to Sango and was strangely keeping his hands to himself. He couldn't help but wonder how Kagome was, but what he was really worried about was what she would do when she saw Kikyou with Inuyasha.
He could not see her taking that very well.
She would probably try to run off again. Or at least scream at him, sit him, try to kill Kikyou, and cry. He hated it, to see a woman cry. They were such delicate creatures.
"Kagome!" Shippo was sitting in Sango's arms. He still couldn't stop crying. No matter how hard he tried. Kagome was like his mom, as a matter of fact, he really thought of her as a mom, and she had come to think of him as her son. He knew that.
He couldn't lose his only family again. Not after he had worked so hard to get a family back. He just couldn't do it.
"The cave. Its right there" If Sango didn't think it could get any colder then she obviously hadn't heard Kikyou's voice until now. But lo and behold, a cave lay just about 2 steps in front of them.
"Good. Now I can give that wench a peace of my mind! Causing all these problems! Making us look for her in this damn storm!" Inuyasha stormed in the cave with the others close behind him.
No one bothered to yell at him about his comment. They could do that later, right now what was important was if Kagome was here. And if she was alright.
---- Inside the cave (Kagome) ----
'Well…here they come…I'm glad Inuyasha sounds so happy to have found me….take note to the sarcasm in my voice…oh great…I'm already talking to myself…'
Kagome glanced around a little nervously. And decided to just stand there and wait for them rather than go up to the cold wet entrance.
---- The entrance of the cave -----
"Kagome! Where the Fu…..ck?…" Inuyasha came to a dead stop.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha in confusion. We did he just stop like that?
'What the hell?' Inuyasha thought as he was trying to put the scene in front of him together.
Who was this person? Why couldn't he smell her or sense her? All her could smell or sense was Kagome, and this definitely wasn't her.
So, Because Inuyasha doesn't like being confused, he decided to handle things his way. "Who the hell are you? And where the fuck is Kagome!"
"….What?…." Kagome stared at him like he had grown a 3rd head. '….what?…who am I and what have I done with myself? What is he on? Crack?'
Inuyasha being Inuyasha, rationalized in his small Inuyasha brain, that because that approach did not work, he would try his other favorite one.
Inuyasha took a step forward and brought out the Tetsusaiga, ready to fight. "I don't like your attitude! I asked you a question bitch! I know she's here! I can smell her!"
Kagome stood there dumbfounded…'he doesn't know its me?….why not?…wait…did he just call me a bitch with a bad attitude! ARGH! THE NERVE! He says I'M the one with an Attitude? I can show him attitude!...wait…calm down Kagome, don't sink down to his filthy disgusting level. First, figure out why he doesn't know that it's you, then you can bash his head in. Yup. That'll work just fine."
"um…excuse me?" Kagome tried to keep a reign on her anger and keep it out of voice but she could tell that it wasn't working as everyone there, even Kikyou and Inuyasha, took a step back.
Miroku took a step towards Inuyasha and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Inuyasha, don't make any…more rash moves. Maybe she doesn't know where Kagome is. Maybe she just got here, you know, came in from the rain."
'what?' Kagome couldn't believe this, 'Miroku doesn't recognize me either? What? I don't get it. Why don't they know its me?...wait...did I hear him? Wasn't he whispering into Inuyasha's ear?' Kagome looked down at herself.
She was wearing a different outfit.
How did she not notice that before?
'That guy must have changed me into some dry clothes…a guy changed me? I'm not to sure I like that idea….but that's not the point here.'
Kagome took a step forward. 'maybe they can't see me...I don't understand why though…I can see them all perfectly…it must be the clothes. '
With this new thought, Kagome took another step forward, trying to get into some light so that they could see her better.
Shippo, who was hiding on Sango's back in her hair that long ago fell out of its ponytail due to the added weight of the rain, turned to whisper to Miroku, "But Miroku…she couldn't have just come in here from the rain. She's dry."
'WHAT? Shippo doesn't recognize me either? What the hell is going on here? It's definitely not THAT dark!' Kagome took another step forward.
Inuyasha raised his sword back up. "Bitch stay where you are."
All thoughts flew from Kagome's mind, "What did you just call me." Kagome took another step forward, but this was out of wanting to get closer to Inuyasha so she could bust his head in, instead of so they could see her like it had been earlier.
Kikyou walked out of the shadows and went half way to Kagome.
"Kikyou! What are you doing?" Inuyasha hollered at her back.
"Inuyasha calm yourself."…She turned her attention back towards Kagome and brings her bow up and pulling it taunt.
Sango decided it was her turn to speak up before Kikyou did something rash, like purify the only lead they have to Kagome's current place of residence. "Demoness! Have you seen any humans around here?"
'DEMONESS! What the fuck is wrong with everyone? Demoness? They think I'm a demon?'
+FLASHBACK+
'No, Child, you misunderstand. I can not control what people do and whom they fall in love with. I opened the well to send you back here. But that is all. Everything else you did on your own.' Her voice was soft and filled with pity.
That made sense to her. She felt kind of bad for yelling at her and losing her temper. Of course it wasn't Akiko's fault. "Okay…I'm…sorry I lost my temper…I seem to be doing a lot of rash things lately. But you said many things were going to happen. Things…things like what?"
'When you wake up again, some things will be…different. You will have a design adorned upon you skin. Many things with your body and appearance will have changed.' She paused and looked like she didn't know if she should continue. " This is all to help you with my plan. Not long after you wake up, Inuyasha and the others will show up. But be warned...Kikyou will be with him. This must not bother you." Akiko gave Kagome an endearing look. 'Inuyasha is not the one for you. He is to go to hell with Kikyou as he promised. That is just the way it is supposed to be.'
+ANOTHER FLASHBACK+
The 'man' before me began to shift slightly, still looking me in the eyes. Thinking he was about to leave I blurted out "Wait!…um…Who...what are you and what happened…and where am I?"
He just kept staring at me…it was kind of creepy. "My name is of no consequence to you, as of yet at least; I am a shadow fox. I was the last of my kind."
'Was? What does he mean was?' I continued to just stare at him, but my gaze shifted to more of a curious inquiry rather than the bland stare that it was before.
"You drowned, I saved you."
'Well, please, don't beat around the bush.' I thought sarcastically as I mentally rolled my eyes, resisting with much difficulty the urge to do it outwardly, as I quietly waited for him to continue.
"You are in a cave in the cliff from which you fell off of." With that he smirked and vanished.
I couldn't believe it. How can someone just vanish into thin air?
I sat up to look for him…but he was nowhere to be seen…only a beautiful red rose lay where he had been.
The beautiful creature was gone. But on the breeze passing through the cave…he left me one last message.
'Welcome to my world Ronina'
"Ronina? What the hell is that? It sounds almost like a feminine version of Ronin. But why would he call me a 'Samurai without a master'?…and what did he mean welcome to his world…what's a shadow fox?…I'm hungry"…then I passed out from pure exhaustion.
+END FLASHBACKS+
…'OMG…she said my appearance would change…and he said welcome to my world…and that he was the last of his kind….omg…I'm…I'm a demon?….no…that can't be right….no….'
"You. Youkai." Kikyou's voice brought Kagome out of her thoughts. "Where is the human. I suggest that you tell me. You are but a lower life form compared to I. I could purify you in a moment."
"A lower life form compared to you?" Kagome snorted. "and what does that make him," she points at Inuyasha. "You're little slave boy?"
Kagome could see Kikyou smirk as she heard in her head, 'you have no idea'
Kagome growled at this. "What? Afraid to say what you really think of him out loud? Afraid you won't be able to get what you want out of him if you do?"
Kikyou glared.
Inuyasha decided to butt in. "Who the hell do you think you are. Kikyou and I are in love, something a youkai like you would understand. I know exactly what she thinks of me! And if she said it out loud, it would only bring me closer to her!"
Kagome let out a snort. And everybody else just sighed.
"Is that really what you think? Well, that's rich." Kagome said bitterly.
Kikyou pulled her bow tighter. "I have grown tired of you."
With that she released the bow, and the purification arrow went flying.
Everyone shouted their protests at losing their only lead, but it was too late.
But what happened next, nobody could have expected.
When the arrow got within five feet of Kagome is slowed and started to descend to the ground. On its way down it started to lose its glow until it finally hit the ground and crumble into dust and fragments at Kagome's feet. Everyone just stood and stared at what was left of the arrow.
No one was sure of what happened or what to say to what happened.
No one had seen it hit a barrier or something and it had happened in a gradual way…no one knew what to think.
They all just stood there in silence for what seemed like hours. As even more seconds silently and slowly ticked by, everyone's mind whirling at speeds that defied all laws. Yet no one was coming up with any answers.
Kikyou growled in frustration and notched another arrow. "Who the hell are you!"
Kagome looked up from the ashes that used to be an arrow, still confused about what had happened.
Once she saw everyone's eyes piercing in on her, she felt like a caged animal. Like she needed to get out of there, now, by any means necessary. But Akiko's words rang in her head. She was supposed to go with them. That's what she had said wasn't it?
Kagome forced herself to calm down and take slow even breaths.
While Kikyou was getting more annoyed and frustrated with her silence; everyone else though, even Inuyasha, had taken note to the way she was acting.
The way she was acting was not normal for someone who had known what she was doing and had done that on purpose. This girl was just as confused as they were and was now starting to freak out, despite her attempts, which they could clearly see, not too.
Miroku decided to take initiative before something bad could happen, like her lose control and completely freak out, that was not what they needed right now.
Miroku took another step forward. "My lady Youkai. May I inquire your name?"
Kagome look up, having been taken from her thoughts. "What?"
Kikyou growled, "You have a knack for ignoring people, youkai, the monk asked you what your name was, I suggest you answer now, because I won't be so easy on you this next time." Everyone cringed at Kikyou's bash tone; they were trying to calm her down not rile her up!
"My…name?" Kagome was once again in a shocked silence.
'My name? What should I tell them? I could tell them that its me…but then what? They'll ask me what just happened with the arrow, how I got this way, and so many other questions. Questions that I can't answer. But what if I don't tell them, they couldn't ask any questions, but what would I say about myself? I mean, they are looking for me.' Her thoughts began to get even more frantic, 'And then what if Inuyasha decided to kill me? Or Kikyou shot at me again, whatever happened earlier, I'm not sure if that will happen again. I don't even know how that happened in the first place. And then what if they figure it out? What will they say? What will they do? What will I do? What wi-'
Everyone looked as she went into another panic mode, Miroku was about to ask the youkai if she even knew what her name was, maybe that was the problem, maybe she had just woken up from amnesia or something, when she fainted.
Sango let out a sigh of relief, "Well, at least she didn't lose control and attack." Everyone else nodded in agreement.
Kikyou growled. "I don't like or trust her, no youkai can do what she did to my arrow. No miko can even do that! So how the hell did she! Kill her Inuyasha!" She screeched in anger.
Inuyasha seemed to hesitate and she turned to glare at him.
"FINE! I'll do it myself!" Kikyou was about to make her way over to the youkai when Miroku interrupted her.
"Lady Kikyou, calm down." She turned her glare of death to Miroku.
Miroku flinched. 'Kami, that onna can glare…'
He cleared his throat and tried to continue, "Lady Kikyou, please, be reasonable, she didn't attack us, as a matter of fact, she looked more confused than we did with everything that happened. She didn't look like she did, what ever it was that she did to your purification arrow, on purpose. And right now, she is our only lead to Lady Kagome."
Kikyou growled again as she watched everyone nod their head in agreement. With that she turned on heel and headed out of the cave into the rain.
"Wait! Kikyou!", Inuyasha turned and ran out after her.
Everyone sighed.
Shippo, deciding to be brave, went up to the youkai do get a better look at her. Even though she had obviously passed out and was still passed out, he was she very nervous.
He edged past the remains of the arrow that had now turned to acid and were slowly eating away at the cave's floor.
"Wow," He stared in awe at the youkai lying before him. "Sango check her out, she dresses weird…and…she's really pretty."
Miroku and Sango stopped bickering at each other to find out what he meant, seeing as they really hadn't gotten that good of a look at her earlier because it was so dark in there.
"Wow" was all Sango could say as all three of them looked at her.
Her hair was a deep rusty orange, and it seemed to fall to her waist in full rich waves. Sections of the top were pulled back with little leaves of green and gold. It left just enough out that it framed her face in little wavy sections, making the back and front look curlier than her hair actually was. It gave her a very delicate and innocent look.
Her ears were delicately pointed at the tip, with 3 little gold hoops up in the cartilage of each ear. They were ended off with a gold stud and a dangly thing that had many little gold skulls of different sizes and designs on the way down until it reached her shoulders in each lobe.
Her eyes were lined heavily with black. Like a tear coming from the far sides of her eyes came out a pair of rusty orange skulls that flashed gold when the light hit it just so.
Her lips were the same rusty orange of her hair.
She was wearing a black dress, but when one looked at it closer than what they had before, they could tell it was much more complex than they had previously thought.
The top was strapless and clung to her form as it went down, to finally flare out at her waist.
(an: one of those that go down to the floor and if you spin it would go WOOSH and you'd have to hold it down unless you wanted to flash everyone, I love skirt like that, they're so fun to spin in!… when no ones around ; )
It had a slit on both sides, right in front of each leg, that went all the way up to the top of her legs.
Faintly on the dress, when the light hit it just right, you would see ever green leaves or gold skulls, depending on how the light.
Half way between her shoulder and her elbow a sort of sleeve formed, made of the same fabric as the dress. It flared the moment it started and about 2/3 of the way to her wrists a slit was created until the end when it reached her fingertips.
Every edge of clothing was edged with a rusty orange lace that went gold in the light.
For shoes she had on pure white heeled boots that went up to about 3 inches below the stop of the slits in her dress. Likewise, under her sleeve things, pure white fingerless gloves could be seen, that went up and vanished into the sleeve.
Her fingers were tipped with rusty orange claws. On her neck lay a white choker that had a transparent green jewel with a seemingly floating rusty orange skull inside of it. It was about the size of the whole Shikon jewel.
They could see that underneath her lay a set of twin rusty orange fox tails with black tips.
Strapped to her waist was a sword, a dagger was strapped to each leg, and beside her lay a scythe.
Shippo nervously giggled as he saw those. "Heh, I guess she's not as innocent and safe as we first thought." He turned and jumped onto Miroku shoulder.
All 3 jumped when the girl began to stir.
They all stared, transfixed, as their eyes came to meet a pair of gold eyes that had pupils shaped in such a way they looked like skulls.
Where was Inuyasha when they needed him?
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Well, that's the end for that. I changed Kagome a lot. I wasn't sposed to, the main way she turned out in the other one, in the beginning at least, was how she was sposed to turn out, but I didn't like that one as much anymore. I like this one a lot better. I hope you all like this.
I need you all to vote! Should this be straight Inuyasha, should it be a YuYu crossover, or a Naruto crossover? It can go either way. I want your votes!
Thanx for your reviews! I hope you like this!
