A/N : Oki people, i know i sorta promised you this chapter with either Sesshomaru kidnapping someone for the Tetsuseiga, eith Kagome or Kikyo, and I decided that I'll try. But I do sort of have an outline, and I'm trying to stick to that. But today was just so amazing. There were these Japanese teachers that came to my school to see how we work etc and I wooed them with my Japanese capabilities of writing in Japanese and speaking Japanese.
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Inu Yasha: is that all you ever do? Just sit around and talk talk talk talk talk?
Jassy: Well I'm soooooooorry! Last time I checked I WAS the writer you know!
Kouga: And about that, didn't you say that your friend Ally might be taking over the story?
Jassy: -questioning look- no.... her and I are working on a story together, but his story is MINE I TELL YOU!
Naraku: Well if this pathetic story's yours, you can start by putting me in the story!
Jassy: well what if I don't wanna!? –sticks tongue out at Naraku- nyeea nyeeah!
Sango: well I am not pleased with your imagination in the other story, you do realize that?!
Kagome: o come off it Sango, she has to make the beginning of every story, relatively weird, or else the reviewers might think that someone else had taken control of her story.
Miroku: -in a daze.- can we go back to the other story? I liked that flashback.
Kikyo: uugh can we get on with the story now? I'll say the disclaim-
Shippo: HII!!!!! –jumps out of nowhere- Jassy doesn't own anything related to this story, just the plot basically. O yeah, and even that isn't hers, because she kinda took this chapter's theme and copied it from a reviewer.
Jassy he he –gags Shippo- now what were we saying? –sweatdrops- o yeah, and this is another do-over. so if you dont like it, just tell me so n ill replace it with the old one.
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With Kagome
"So Kouga...Had I not stopped you, just how far would you have gone?" Kagome asked with a mischievous, yet slightly angry face on. Realizing that he had taken things just a little too fast with his woman, Kougacouldn't look at his Kagome, knowing what he would have done, and how he would have hated himself afterwards, had he hurt Kagome. "Well?"
"When an animal's instincts are...used against him...they are quite hard to control. And, I might have done something that I would have regretted afterwards." Kouga sighed, needing Kagome to know. With this, it was time for Kagome to blush, not knowing that she had turned him on so much.
"I'm sorry," she apologized, feeling slightly guilty, since it was her own curiosity that had done this to him.
"Don't be. Kagome, there is nothing that you should have to apologize for." Kouga explained, draping his arm over Kagome's shoulder, bringing her into a comforting hug. 'How could Inu Yasha be so blind? How could he never see what he had in front of him,' he mused as he pulled her into a tighter embrace, inhaling her intoxicating scent. 'Gods, how could he even stand not marking her with this scent?' He nearly collapsed, but then remembered that Inu Yasha was a mere half demon.
Kagome gave Kouga a warm smile as he draped his arm around her. She leaned slightly into the embrace, yet she only took the action of kindness as an action of friendship. Even though she knew that Kouga would take it as something else.
"Kouga, why is it that all of the young ones keep asking me why I kept on refusing to be your woman? They do know that I'm only here to help, right?" Kagome asked meekly.
"Well what do you think Kagome?" Kouga murmured into Kagome's ear. His hot breath sent shivers up Kagome's spine.
'I think that I have to go home soon, he's playing this kinda quick.' "Well, all that I know is that I have to return home for a short while. If that is alright with you," Kagome nearly pleaded, looking Kouga straight into his eyes.
'Does she even know how hard it is to resist her?' "Of course you can go," Kouga accepted. "but on one condition." Kagome gulped. "That I get to walk you home!"
'That's all?' Kagome nearly collapsed, thinking that it might have been something a little more dirty (hee hee. Naughty Kouga) "Of course you can come" Kagome said. And with that they were off.
-¯--¯- With Inu Yasha -¯--¯-
"So Kag- ...Kikyo! what do you do when you're wandering around, working with Naraku?" Shippo asked, jumping onto Kikyo's lap, ignoring the stench of clay and bones.
"Well you basically summoned it all up. Working with Naraku, trying to find shards, with no help from that reincarnation of mine, wandering to villages, and healing the sick. That's basically it." Kikyo explained to the young Kitsune. Shippo just stared at her with wide eyes.
"But I thought you took the souls of children and the elderly, and the sickly!" Shippo exclaimed. "Is all that they villagers say about the wandering miko false?"
"No it isn't Shippo, it's just that the truth has been stretched, that is all" Kikyo explained, ruffling the young Kitsune's brilliant orange hair.
"Kagome used to do that to me all the time," Shippo muttered under his breath, but just audible enough for Kikyo and Inu Yasha to hear.
"Well she aint Kagome!" Inu Yasha exploded in the Kitsune's face. "And she never will be!" and the Kitsune could have sworn that he had detected a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Inu Yasha, I think it would be suffice if I could talk to Shippo on my own if there is anything he needs to know. And Shippo, if I'm doing something that bothers you, please tell me. I want to be as much as a mother to you as I can be, without seeming too much like Kagome, since I know you were orphaned." Kikyo murmured softly to Shippo.
With all of them sitting around the campfire, Shippo, forgetting that Kikyo wasn't his Mama Kagome, snuggled up into Kikyo's lap and fell asleep, curled up into a little ball. Kikyo, didn't know how to react to this. She didn't want to attach too much to this group, since she wouldn't be staying forever, she only came to drag Inu Yasha with her back to hell. Yet, she couldn't help but draw onto the warmth being produced by such an innocent and naïve little boy.
-¯- -¯- With Kagome -¯--¯-
"Well Kouga, this is it! Thanks so much for carrying my bag as well. I don't know what I would have done without you," She expressed her gratitude to Kouga, giving him a quick hug.
"Wait a minute, you mean that this is it?" Kouga asked in shock, knowing the dangerous and unknown secrets of this well, with its scent too mysterious to be considered safe.
"Well, Yeah. Kinda." Kagome kind of trailed off, not exactly knowing how to explain the time travel with Kouga. Just then, a HUGE explosion went off in the trees behind them, spreading a wild fire all around the two. Kouga, as his first instinct, was to shield Kagome and protect her from all harm. So he scooped her up, and received the fatal blow himself. But by doing so, he left himself open for a second burning log smothering on his body, which knocked both himself and Kagome down into the well.
"Oh MY GOSH! Kouga! Are you alright! You got burned by that fire! And it's all my fault!" She apologized sincerely, staring at Kouga apologetically straight in his blue orbs or eyes.
"Kagome, how many times do I have to tell you? It's not your fault! It's mine, I should have gotten you out of harms way in time, and failing as your mate. And besides, this is nuthin, it's just a little...uncomfortable" Kouga grunted, then wincing in pain, but quickly forced a smile to reassure Kagome that nothing was wrong. But Kagome didn't fall for it at all. Kouga looked high up, wondering why it had gotten so dark, and quite shocked to see a wooden roof where the sky had just been not even two seconds ago.
"Kouga?" Kagome asked, nervously, as Kouga gripped her a little tighter, and jumped out of the well. "Kouga, we need to get you to a hospital as soon as we can." Kagome tensed, just realizing how badly burned he was.
"Kagome, I'm fine," Kouga tried to explain, remembering about his own demonic powers, and how he had gotten much worse, and he wasn't complaining. He then remembered that he was somewhere completely new to him, and started to tense, not knowing if he should leave the shrine, and possible get killed by a stronger demon, or stay here, with his woman tending his injuries.
"Kouga, can you walk at all? I mean I know I saw you jump, but now you look exhausted," Kagome asked, concerned, realizing that just holding her was causing him to struggle not to yell. Not wanting to cause him any pain, she wriggled out of his grasp.
Kagome put on one of her many half hearted smiles, as she knelt down beside him and took Kouga's arm and wrapped it around the back of her shoulder to help support him, knowing she wouldn't be able to carry him. "Please Kouga, I need you to stand," Kagome pleaded. "You can lean on me, if it doesn't hurt too much, and I'll get you inside." Kouga gave a quick nod of the head.
'Kagome has to be the kindest woman that I've ever met, let it be human or demon. She might not love me, but she shows so much kindness, and it's almost like she really cares for me. And she has such a pure heart, and I'm not sure how we got to the bottom of the well, but I'm sure that she'd never leave anyone down there.'
"We're almost there Kouga, how are you fairing?" Kagome asked, snapping Kouga out of his thoughts. Kouga grunted as a reply, not wanting to show any signs of pain, since he had been through worse.
"Kagome, it's real-" Kouga started, but then was cut off by Kagome
"Kouga, don't give me any of this 'I've been through worse, so I'm alright,' you're not alright, look at you." Kagome said, her voice going from concerned to slightly strict, as she finally got the doors to the shrine's hut open. Kouga was flabbergasted. (ooh big word!) The two had gone from rolling hills and fields and trees, to cars and sky scrapers and houses and planes. But of course Kouga didn't know what any of these things were.
"Kagome, this is amazing! Where are we?" Kouga asked in awe. Kagome shook her head, now sensing a headache if she was going to explain her world to this wolf-demon from the past.
"Well Kouga, this is where I live." Kagome murmured softly as the two kept on wobbling over to Kagome's house, Kouga sniffing everything that he could. 'Oh man, I don't remember Inu Yasha being like this...and he's a dog demon!' Kagome mused, wanting to laugh at the wolf once they got to the tree of ages.
"I smell Inu Yasha," Kouga growled protectively, squeezing Kagome tighter, not wanting Mutt Face to come and take her away.
"Kouga, my home's right over here," she tried to attract Kouga's attention to her, not the sacred tree which had bound Inu Yasha to it for fifty years. Once getting nearing the house itself, Kouga had come to a complete stop, mouth hanging on the floor.
"Kagome, this has to be the largest hut that I've ever seen!" Kouga exclaimed, not wanting to go inside, but just wanting to look at the frame of the structure itself.
"Kouga, that's not exactly a hut, in my time it's called a house, and that's where I live. Come on, I'll help you up the steps." Kagome explained as she wrapped her arm around Kouga's waist and half lifted him up the stairs. Once inside, Kagome left Kouga to stand for a second whilst she ran and got her mother to call an ambulance.
"Kouga, we're going to take you to a hospital, alright?" Kagome feared for the worst with a five-hundred year old demon running around Modern Day Japan. 'Oh what's the worst that could happen? At least he doesn't have a sword that can transform like the Tetsuseiga.' Kagome tensed. Unless he did have a sword, which she just laid eyes upon now. 'Oh crud'
Kouga heard the sound of sirens, but didn't now what they were, and couldn't stand they're loud sound, and his demon hearing didn't help whatsoever! "Nng. Loud sounds, coming towards us. Kagome, get back. I'll protect you from whatever demon there is." Kagome pushed Kagome behind him, wincing in pain. But Kagome knew better.
"Kouga, those are the ambulances. They should be here any second now. We're going to take you to the hospital. Don't worry; I'm going to be with you the entire time ok?" Kagome spoke as if she were talking to a child.
"Kagome, I'm sorry I couldn't protect you, love. I should have gotten you out of the way before. Now it's my fault you're going through such fuss over me." Kouga apologized. Kagome didn't quite know what to say. Just then there was a rapping on the door.
"Ma'am, Tokyo Ambulance service. Where is the..." He trailed off, seeing the wolf demon burned very badly. The man called for a stretcher, and two other men came, pulling a stretcher, giving Kagome just enough time to hide Kouga's ears in his ponytail, which caused Kouga to give Kagome a questioning look.
The men told Kouga to lie down onto the stretcher, and he did with the help of Kagome. The men lifted the stretcher, and rushed him into the ambulance. Kagome had to run to catch up with them, and to get into the ambulance herself. She insisted that she stay next to him, since she was all she had at the moment. The men gave in, and let her stay.
Once they had reached the hospital, Kouga tensed, since Kagome had still not explained to him what a 'hos-pee-tal' was. But there was no need for alarm, because he had Kagome right next to him. He grabbed hold of her hand and squeezed it gently. Kagome looked down at him
"Kouga? What's wrong?" Kagome asked sympathetically. When Kouga looked away, Kagome took his chin, and asked him again what was wrong.
"It's nuthin really, it's just..." Kouga quieted down, not wanting the other men to hear him. "What's a 'hos-pee-tal'? Kagome almost fell down manga style, but decided against it.
"It's a place where healers get together and help heal the injured and the sick. No matter if they're poor or wealthy. Just like mikos, only they're called Doctors and Nurses in this time." Kagome explained as well as she could. "And if you thought my house was big, the hospital is almost ten of my houses stacked side to side!" Kouga listened intently.
"So are you one of them? Since you're a miko and all." At this, Kagome couldn't help but laugh.
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Once dawn had broken, and everyone was up, the wanderers went off in the search for jewel shards, and having even more accuracy, since Kikyo's powers were much more developed than those of Kagome.
"Three shards, but they're been conjoined. In the roof of his mouth." Kikyo warned. The demon was lizard, and had it not had any of the jewel shards, it would have been so extremely powerless even Shippo could have finished it off without breaking a sweat. If he had learned all of his father's moves.
"Shippo; what attacks have you learned from your father?" Kikyo demanded, as if he had not answered her immediately, then they're lives would be ending very soon.
"Fox Fire, Shape Changing, Demon toys, and that's all I can think of right now. Kikyo just stared blankly at the spot that the demon had been not a minute ago. 'Is that it?' Kikyo spoke in her head, not wanting to insult him. 'Every fox child knows more then that. They should at least know 'Mirage of black awakenings' since he is about five or seven, and he does have the power, I can sense it.'
"Kikyo, just wondering, but can you cook at all? No offense of course," Sango questioned, wondering if the un-dead miko would ever make the search party special lunches or anything.
"None taken, Sango. And I can probable cook just about as well as you can. I was raised to heal, make medicines, treat to the young and elderly and was never taught how to cook properly. I know the basics that every woman knows, but nothing extra-ordinary like the cooking of Kagome." Kikyo replied, making the last part as whole-heartedly as she could, knowing that the group had relied on the Future Miko to bring them occasional treats of all kinds. And especially for Inu Yasha, since every one except Inu Yasha really knew that Kagome was smitten with him.
"Well then, if there's nothing else to do, would you mind Sango dear, if I ran to the nearest village? I'm sure we could all use some well rest and a good meal." Miroku stated, knowing that at least Inu Yasha would agree with him partially, and the rest of him would want to keep looking for the shards. "But before that of course, Kikyo, is there any nearby shards?" Kikyo closed her eyes and concentrated.
"Yes, but all of them are far away, or are moving too quickly for us to approach." Kikyo opened her eyes.
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"Okay Kouga, I think we're here," Kagome explained as the men opened the back doors and lifted the stretcher down, and into an examination room to see if anything had been broken in the burn. The doctors started to murmur something under their breath when they did the examination.
"Remarkable," some would say, or "Amazing," or "I've never seen anything like it!" The doctors were, no doubt, taking x-rays of Kouga's bones and were flabbergasted by the acceleration rate of his healing capabilities. The doctors led Kouga into a room, but not without a struggle from the arrogant wolf demon.
Kagome went into the waiting room, and decided to pass the time by reading a fashion magazine, trying to catch up on what was what, since all the rumors she knew were about where the next shard would be, or who the mysterious miko in strange clothing was. Amazed by all of what she had missed since the last time she had read a magazine, Kouga started screaming and growling in the next room.
"You want me to do what? Touch me and I'll break your necks! KAGOME! HELP! I said DON'T TOUCH ME!" And with that, Kagome was outside of the door, trying to pull it open, but to no success. She sighed in defeat, and leaned against the door., only THEN realizing that the door was a push. Kagome made quite and entrance falling into the room flat on her butt.
"Kagome! Thank god you're here. These men wanted me to take my clothes off! Kagome sighed, trying to calm the wolf demon in a way that only Kagome could do.
"Uh, could we have a minute here?" Kagome asked. The doctor's nodded quickly, and rushed out of the room, valuing their lives.
"Now Kouga, what's wrong?" Kagome asked as she sat up onto the medical bed.
"The humans, they wanted me to take my clothing and armor off!" Kouga growled, knowing that had Kagome not come in in time, he probable would have killed those doctors.
"Ssh. Kouga it's alright. I'm sure they had a good reason for it." Kagome murmured, placing her hand on top of Kouga's in a comforting gesture. "Here, why don't I take your armor and clothes off, and then we have the doctors come and do whatever they were going to do?" Kagome asked, leaning her body on his, forgetting the burns. Kouga hissed in pain, but took up Kagome's offer.
Kagome slowly but surely took off Kouga's armor, forgetting how much it weighed, but then dropped it on a nearby chair, She also took his hair out of the ponytail, and started brushing it, humming 'Once Upon a December,' as she took off the rest of Kouga's garments, but of course leaving his shorts on, to hide his tail. "Kouga, you need to turn onto your back, so the doctors can do their 'Healing' on you," Kagome explained as well as she could using the methods of Kouga's era.
Kouga grunted as a reply, and rolled over, nearly falling off the edge of the medical bed. Kagome blushed as her eyes naughtily scanned across Kouga's perfectly chiseled chest. This of course didn't go unnoticed by Kouga, who smirked.
'Hey, at least now I have her a little closer to me.' He gave a soft chuckle, thinking that she might think he was somewhat attractive.
'Why is he smirking?' Kagome wondered, sitting down by Kouga's head, playing with his long black straight hair. 'Wow, how many girls do I know that would die for hair like this?' Kagome giggled.
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Kagome: ooooh! Kouga's lookin pretty hot!
Naraku: Well at least you put me in there, even if you didn't MENTION IT WAS ME!
Jassy: what on earth are you talking about?
Naraku: Well with the MMph –is gagged by Jassy-
Jassy: uh uh! No telling! I want this to be a cliff hanger, but I know that it's not really. I MIGHT have a few more attemps on Kagome's life. Maybe, Maybe Not. Tell me what you think
Sesshomaru: Didn't you say I would be in this story?
Jassy: Oh yeah. Looks like you'll have to be in the next chapter. I mean COME ON!
Kagome: I mean look at her! She's a mess! This page IS 10 PAGES LONG!
Inu Yasha: 10 Fucking pages long, and yet Kikyo and I are like not even in it.
Shippo: Well at least I got a good night sleep. And look how happy Kikyo is, now that she got all of that stuff after her chest.
Kilala: Meew! –rubs against Jassy's legs-
Jassy: Oh yeah! Sorry Kilala! –Picks up Kilala, and rubs her back gently- I can't believe I forgot Kilala in all of my stories.
Miroku: Well that's odd.
Sango: What is?
Miroku: Well so far, Jassy hasn't been responding to any of her reviews
Jassy: OK! I'M SORRY! But I'd like to thank all of you who wrote, especially: demoness of cosmos, i-wish-i-was-Kagome, Llamachick, Socks-The-Kitsune, Cheeza-13, Lady-Allymoon, CloudsLover, CloudsLover (again XD), shangxiang10, Lost-in-Dark (again XD), K.Long, Firemist, and I'm REALLY SORRY if I forgot anyone!