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UPP: Hey, everyone! I'm back, and I think I look pretty goo-(looks down at nice black pants, which happen to be EXTREMELY furry) -_-* Sesshoumaru?
Sesshoumaru: Yeah?
UPP: Could you come over here, please? Oh, and while you're at it, get Inuyasha as well.
Sesshoumaru: Um... Okay, Unique. (grabs Inu-chan and drags him over to UPP)
UPP: (points at her pants) DID EITHER OF YOU SLEEP ON MY PANTS?!
Inu Bros.: No, it was him. (points at each other)
UPP: *sigh* Whatever. (turns to audience) Well, I guess I'll have to introduce you guys to the next chapter with some really fuzzy pants. (insert glare at Inu Bros. here) Welcome to another chapter of Finally. (runs back to dressing room to change clothes)
Chapter Four
My Kagome
Inuyasha sat in the tree watching Kagoriko practice her archery. 'Kagome,' he thought, 'what's happened to you?' His eyes followed as Kagoriko shot a sacred arrow at the target, the arrow enveloped in pinkish-purple light. He watched again and again as Kagoriko shot more arrows. 'What happened to you? ......'
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Kagome jumped slightly in her meditation. She looked around then, timidly, stood up and walked over to a preoccupied Midoriko. "Uh... can I ask you something?" Midoriko nodded. "Ano... is it possible to travel from mind to mind or something like that?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Well... I have a strange feeling that someone is thinking of me. And I'm pretty sure I know who. So-"
"So you want to go see what this person is thinking about you?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
Midoriko smirked. "I just do. Well, all you have to do is concentrate very hard. Then, you'll end up in their thoughts and you can talk to their subconscious. That, after all, is where most emotions and thoughts lie."
Kagome nodded. "Arigato." She sat back down and thought with all her might. 'I want to be with Inuyasha! I want to speak to him!' Suddenly, she felt an invisible force wrap around her waist and lift her, spiraling, into the air. At first, it was slow, but as she went higher, it began to speed up. 'I think I'm gonna be sick!' Then, she burst out into the outside world and flew towards the hanyou that was settled in the tree. (A/N: Okay, think of fog. That's what Kagome would look like, only MUCH more transparent.) She stopped right in front of his face and stared into his eyes. He blinked once and she suddenly found herself in a forest. 'Wow. This sure is different from my mind.' She walked around and surveyed her surroundings, recognizing it to be Inuyasha's Forest. When she walked up to the Sacred Tree, she looked up and found Inuyasha sitting in a low branch, staring into space. "Inu...yasha?"
Inuyasha jumped and looked around. "Ka...Kagome?! What are you doing here?!"
Kagome blushed slightly. "I... I came to see you."
"Huh?"
"Well, you know that Midoriko and I have fused bodies and minds, right? Well, Midoriko revealed to me that I could travel from mind to mind. Okay, my subconscious can, but same difference."
"Whoa. This is like, surreal!"
"I know..." After a short pause, Kagome said, "Inuyasha? Were you thinking about me just a few seconds ago?"
Inuyasha suddenly blushed a shade slightly lighter than his haori and turned his face. "N-no, why?! Why would I think about you? You know that all that's ever on my mind is either the jewel shards or yo-, ahem, yeah, the jewel shards!"
Kagome's face darkened. 'So, he can't admit that he was thinking of me? I can see right through his little "act".'
"What did you say?"
Kagome's eyes widened. "Uh... nothing!" She grinned sheepishly.
Inuyasha jumped down and stood in front of her. Grabbing her upper arms, Inuyasha's eyes bore into Kagome's with a fiery intensity. "Kagome, tell me. What did you say?"
Kagome looked down. "I wondered why..." She suddenly looked up. "....I forget what I said!"
Inuyasha continued to gaze into her eyes. 'She's got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Why hadn't I noticed before?'
"I don't know, you tell me!"
Inuyasha faltered. "W-wh-what?!"
"I don't know why you hadn't noticed my eyes before."
"How did you know that I said that?!"
Kagome sat down and motioned for Inuyasha to do the same. "Whatever we think is projected as if we say it. So it's worthless to try and keep secrets. I figured that out the hard way."
Inuyasha just sat there, staring at Kagome. He was captured in her beauty as she gazed at the forest around them. She finally noticed Inuyasha's golden inu eyes and turned her own body towards his.
"What?!"
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's shoulders and pinned her to the ground, him on top of her. "Kagome..." Inuyasha whispered.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong with you?! What are yo-!" Kagome was cut off by a pair of hungry youkai lips. 'Inuyasha, what are you doing?!'
'Something I couldn't do in public.'
Kagome's eyes shot open as Inuyasha's slid open slowly. 'Inuyasha...' Kagome thought in a pleading sort of voice.
The lips separated and Inuyasha gazed into Kagome's eyes again. "Yeah?"
"I... I'm not ready... not yet, anyway."
"Don't worry," he said as he lowered his mouth to her delicate neck. 'I wasn't intending to go that far.' As he thought this, he moved his mouth over her collarbones and to the other side of her neck. He licked up the sides of her cheeks and pressed his mouth against hers again. How he wished he could do this with his real body, out in the world. But all of their friends would see, and they'd tease him ruthlessly. At least Kikyou was out of the picture. She had disintegrated after a few months, leaving him with the knowledge that they were never meant to be.
"It's about damn time you learned that."
Inuyasha smirked against her cheek. 'I know.' Suddenly, Kagome's body started to jerk. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know! Maybe Midoriko is trying to call me back. I'm sorry, Inuyasha." And with this, Kagome's body disappeared, leaving nothing but a cloud of pinkish-purple smoke.
'Damn.'
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"Midoriko, what is it?!" Kagome said as soon as she arrived in her own body.
"We're under attack."
"WHAT?! What's 'we'?" Kagome created a bow and a quiver of arrows and ran to Midoriko's side.
"We as in the village. Are you ready?"
Kagome nodded and looked out of some sort of window. 'This is it. The chance to prove myself.'
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"Inuyasha! Kagoriko! Where are you?!" Miroku called from inside the village. He slammed his staff into a demon bug's head, taking it out of the fight. 'One down, five hundred to go,' he thought sarcastically.
"Miroku! Look out!" Kagoriko shouted as she drew an arrow and released it before another bug took the houshi's head. The insect burst in a flash of pinkish-purple light. She drew three more bows and shot them at insect youkai that were attacking the villagers.
It took at least three hours to destroy a majority of the insect demons, but there were still some left, and almost everyone had received injuries, especially Inuyasha. He tried to lift the Tetsusaiga, but it slipped as his hand involuntarily released it. 'Damn,' he thought, 'now what?' His left arm was broken and his right was losing blood, and fast. He couldn't use either one to do his "Iron Raber Soul Stealer" attack, and the loss of blood was making his movement sluggish compared to the bugs. He was also concerned about turning into an almost full youkai. 'I'm done for,' he thought, squeezing his eyes shut as the last bug came up to him.
"Inuyasha!" a voice cried out as an arrow came flying towards him. "Don't move!"
He opened his eyes to see Kagoriko staring intently at the arrow. It was heading for the youkai that was threatening to take his life, and he did as he was told. Standing still, he let the demon come closer to him. Right before the demon sliced off Inuyasha's head, it was hit with the arrow and, like so many before him, disappeared in a haze of, surprisingly enough, blue and green. 'What could have been so different about that youkai to cause it to dissipate in those colors?' he thought. 'Maybe it wasn't the bug. Maybe it was... Kagoriko?' He looked at the said miko and saw a determined look set in the young girl's face.
Kagoriko's face relaxed as she saw Inuyasha, unharmed, and with a weak smile, she walked over to him. "Inuyasha," she asked, her voice that of Kagome's, "are you alright?"
Inuyasha nodded then gasped as Kagoriko hugged him lightly and cried. "I was so afraid that I was gonna hit you!" she sobbed.
"Kag-Kagome... please, don't cry. You know I hate it when you cry."
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UPP: Heheh, I loved this chapter. I hope it's all right that I put a lime in it. If it's not, too freakin' bad!
Sesshoumaru: Now, you said this was going to be a Sess/Kag fic, but I haven't even showed up around Kagome in this fic. What's up with that?!
UPP: Settle down, Sesshoumaru! I was just gonna get to you in the next chapter!
Inuyasha: Hmph. It'd be better if he didn't get Kagome. She's too good for him...
Sesshoumaru: If I'm not good enough for her, then you're sure as hell not good enough.
Inuyasha: Why you... (growls and attempts to pounce Sesshoumaru)
UPP: Hey, hey, hey! Now, you two (pushes Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru apart) CHILL OUT!!!
Inu Bros.: (covers ears) Damn, woman! Do you have to scream that loud?!
UPP: If it'll get you two to stop bickering, then YES! Anywayz, here's the preview, recommendation, and review responses.
PREVIEW: Chapter Five, And The Two Shall Meet
Okay, this chapter is when, due to persistance from Sesshoumaru, the taiyoukai and the miko meet. But, there's a surprise waiting there for him... I bet you guys can figure it out. Anywayz, like always, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru get into a fight over that DAMNED SWORD, and Kagoriko is there to break it up. But something unexpected happens when she steps between the two brothers. What happens?! (dun, dun, dunnnnn!!! lol, sorry, couldn't resist)
RECOMMENDATION: Two Weeks, by Jax4, Story ID: 81292455
Okay, I haven't actually read this, but I've read part of it, and it's pretty damn good! Anywayz, Kagome has two weeks to live, and Inuyasha wants to make it the best two weeks she's ever had... I think... Just check it out. But I'm warning you, it has 56 actual chapters. I've gotten many recommendations for it, and I haven't really had the time to read it. But I plan to! Just check it out!
RESPONSES:
Unfortunately, no one has reviewed for the actual chapter, so there will be no responses for this chapter. Gomen nasai.
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UPP: Well, that's it for this chapter. I hope it was good! I'm not very good at fight scenes, at least I don't think. And you can tell because I kinda skipped three hours into the fighting.
Sesshoumaru: Had you continued, you probably would have ended up with a much longer chapter. And plus, some people just can't handle the blood and guts.... You know, the gore?
UPP: Yeah, I know.... Chickens... Oh, just kidding! Actually, I'm the real chicken. I can walk and sound like a chicken. I can even growl like one! Now tell me, am I weird or what?
Inuyasha: Or what's a good question.
UPP: Grrrrrrrrrrr.... (pounces Inuyasha and uses inu youkai claws to scratch Inuyasha's chest)
Inuyasha: What the hell?!
UPP: Heheh, bet you didn't know... I'm an inu youkai. Not royal, mind you, but even more important.
Inu-tachi: What?!
UPP: (transforms into a miko-inu-youkai [PS, I have a picture of this, so if you want me to, I can send it to you! ^_^], eyes turn from brown to bright green, hair stays the same, fingernails extend to slightly shorter nails than Sesshoumaru, clothes change to lime green gi and navy hakamas) I am a priestess dog demon.
Kagome: Cool! Now I'm not the only miko around here! ^_^
Miroku: Wow! o_~ Hey, UPP, what do you say to-
UPP: Spare me, would ya? Anywayz, you're with Sango, not me. Don't you remember?
Miroku: How could I forget? (walks over to Sango and whispers in her ear) Okay?
Sango: All right. (she and the houshi walk off stage)
UPP: Hmmmm... Anywayz, this is your handy dandy pocket authoress, signing off.
