A/N: It's always great to know that there are perverted cousins like Yusuke out there, huh?Anywhooo. Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, I don't own Every Heart, the lucky ppl of BoA own that, but I do own a brain… my brain!
Two Months Later
"What do you mean 'InuYasha hasn't been here for a while,' he comes here every week!" Kag-Ime shouted outraged at what she was hearing Sango say.
"We haven't seen him since the last full moon, and that was twenty days ago!" Shippo shouted, jabbing his paw around for emphasis.
KagIme grabbed her pack and walked toward the well, she took a handful of vines in her hand and pulled them off of the opening of the Bone Eaters' Well. She looked down at the bottom and readied herself to go in.
"I'm going to find him, don't even think about following me either," she said to Sesshomaru. After that she jumped into the well only to come out at the shrine that was all too familiar to her.
"InuYasha!" she cried, climbing out of the well, "Inu! Yasha! Come on, dude, don't hide from me!"
She walked up to the house and said to herself, "maybe he's just taking a nap, he sleeps as much as Buyo and that cat can nap!"
Opening the door she looked into the normally pristine house which was now dusty and had a feel to it that no one had lived in it for months. She walked up the stairs and down the hall to the room that was Inu-Yasha's, it was as predictable as ever. There were the occasional articles of clothing strewn about on the floor, the fluff and ruffles that were obvious signs that a woman had once inhabited the room. The manly touches and the signs of a dog.
KagIme checked the whole house, room by room she saw things the way she had left them with the addition of a dust build up. The she went into the kitchen and saw the most horrifying sight. Windows were busted, china was broken on the ground, blood splashed upon the wall. Everywhere she stepped the glass crunched underneath her feet, the scent of decaying body parts that might've been lost in a scrape and old blood. The scents overwhelmed KagIme and she ran out of the house.
She ran down the stairs leading to the shrine, reaching the bottom of the stairs she noticed the yellow crime scene tape. KagIme lifted up the tape and walked under it.
She had no idea where she was going now, she only knew that once she got there, she'd find out what was up with the house, why it was destroyed only in one place, and where InuYasha was.
Before she knew it, she was right outside the door of a childhood…um… acquaintance. That's really the only way to describe her, she wasn't really a family friend, just a person who knew everything that went on in their neighborhood.
"Mrs. Hodo! Where are you? It's me, KagIme Higurashi," KagIme cried as she walked into an old house that even without KagIme's nose, you could be able to tell that there were at least two cats urinating about the house.
There were doilies and knitted blankets everywhere and the lace window coverings were yellowing the house was just about as pristine as her own, not one thing was out o fit's place.
"KagIme, honey, come on in," was the reply. The voice that had issued from the front room was that of an elderly woman who, when KagIme walked into the room, was sitting in an armchair in a room with obvious signs of being lived in.
Mrs. Hodo was an old lady who was short and her hair was graying, but her eyes were clear and showed straight into her soul, her all knowing, comforting soul.
"Mrs. Hodo, do you know whirr's up with the shrine? I was on vacation, visiting family, but no one told me that something happened to my… dad," KagIme said, hesitating to say the final word, because although she knew InuYasha wasn't her father no one in 2005 Japan did.
"KagIme, sit down," she complied, "This is going to come as a shock to you, but 3 weeks ago, someone went to the shrine, he wanted to do an exorcism. No one saw him go up to the shrine and no one saw him leave it, and it was a fairly busy day that day. He ended up saying that InuYasha was possessed.
"I don't know what exactly went on in the kitchen, but when it all boils down to it, your father was found dead, his attacker missing, and no one knew where you were," Mrs. Hodo finished her narrative and looked sympathetically at KagIme.
She didn't know what she felt, the man she had recently declared she hated because he lied to her all her life. The man she had once mistakenly called 'father.' The one who had taken a job outside of the shrine, only to make sure she stayed in high school, he was… dead. But before she knew it, tears were streaming down her face, she ran out of the house and down the street, back to the shrine.
Once she had reached the stairs leading back to the shrine she ran face first into a tall brown haired person.
"What's that matter?" asked a low, raspy voice. Two arms enclosed themselves around KagIme and she snuggled herself into the strong, broad chest of Sanosuke.
"What happened here?" Kurama asked, rubbing KagIme's back. He then began to hum KagIme's favorite song, 'Every Heart' by BoA, into her ear.
"He's gone!" he cried into Sanosuke's chest, her words were slightly muffled when they reached the guys ears.
"Gone where? America?" asked Kiroku, attempting to figure out where 'he' went.
"He's gone!" she said again, she balled her hands into fists and began to hit Sanosuke's chest.
"The correct question, Kiroku my friend, is who is gone," Kenshin said, looking sympathetically at Sanosuke as he was being beaten by KagIme, having been on the receiving end of one of her temper tantrums once before.
"InuYasha's dead," Hiei said, being KagIme's boyfriend and best friend for as long as anyone can remember, he was able to learn how to speak 'KagIme.'
"I was supposed to be mad at him! So, why does it hurt so much? Why?" she asked into Sanosuke's chest.
"It always hurts," Kurama said, he then began to sing the words to Every Heart, a couple of octaves lower.
"Ikutsu namida o nagashitara
every heart
sunao ni nareru darou
Dare ni omoi tsutaetara
every heart
kokoro mita sareru no darou
"nagai nagai yoru ni obieteita
Tooi hoshi ni inotteta
meguru meguru toki no naka de
Bokutachi wa ai o sagashiteiru
Tsuyoku tsuyoku naritai kara
kyou mo takaisora miageteiru
"donna egao ni deaetara
every heart
yume wo fumidasereruyo
hitowa
kanashimi no mukou ni
every heart
shiawase ukabete nemuru
"itsuka itsuka subete no tamashii ga
yasuraka ni nareru youni
"meguru meguru toki no naka de
boku tachi wa ikite nanika wo shiru
toki ni warai shugoshi naite
kyou mo mada aruki tsuzukete iku
"osanai kioku no kata sumi ni
atatakai basho ga aru soushi
hoshi tachi ga hanasu mirai ga
itsumo kagayaite ita
so shine
"meguru meguru toki no naka de
Bokutachi wa ai o sagashiteiru
Tsuyoku tsuyoku naritai kara
kyou mo takaisora miageteiru
"meguru meguru toki no naka de
boku tachi wa ikite nanika wo shiru
toki ni warai shugoshi naite
kyou mo mada aruki tsuzukete iku"
The six friends spent hours remembering all of the stupid things that InuYasha had done during their childhoods. They didn't want to go back just yet, they wanted to just spend some quality friendship time together and that is exactly what they did.
I'll leave it there, although the quality friendship time is kewl and all, I don't have the energy to write it all out, and I have to lead up to some more deaths… We should just rename the show 'KagIme' since Inu-Yasha's dead. No laughter? Oh, Okay, I thought it was funny but I guess it isn't.
But here is the English translation for Every Heart:
If there were many tears falling down,
Every heart would become gentle.
If everybody expresses what they think,
Every heart can be satisfied.
I was frightened by the neverending night,
So I prayed to the distant stars.
In endlessly repeating time,
We were searching for love,
Because we wanted to become stronger.
We look up to the faraway sky.
The two of us, smiling, meet here,
Every heart has a habit of receiving its dreams.
Sadness has no effect on us,
Every heart gains happiness when it flies.
Someday our souls will unite,
We will give peaceful approval.
In endlessly repeating time,
We know why we are living.
We go through the nighttime laughing,
Both of us are mourning, yet we walk on.
Memories of everything has settled,
This is a warm place to be.
The stars separate us from the future,
We are always so brilliant,
So shine.
In endlessly repeating time,
We were searching for love,
Because we wanted to become stronger.
We look up to the faraway sky.
In endlessly repeating time,
We know why we are living.
We go through the nighttime laughing,
Both of us are mourning, yet we walk on.