Prologue
A Mission and a FlashbackMy hair blew around as a cool breeze filtered threw the window. Realizing that the window shouldn't be open, I bolted upright and cracked my head on the bunk above me. As my sister stirred, roused from her sleep by me cracking my head on the bunk, she awoke long enough to tell me to "shut the stupid window" and rolled over and was fast asleep in seconds. I let out a breath that I didn't realize I'd been holding.
I surveyed the room with my eyes, trying to find the intruder, but when I felt a familiar presence, I whispered to the room at large, cautious not to wake anyone else.
"InuYasha? Are you there?"
"No" came the sarcastic reply of the intruder.
"Liar"
A silver head popped out from under my bed. I jumped a little as stared into amber eyes but had to look away for his look was too intense.
"I need you to do another job."
"Isn't that why you're always showing up?"
The way his eyes narrowed, I could tell he wasn't in a good mood this evening.
"What do you need this time?"
"I need you to get some info from a contact. He's the residing monk at a local shrine. By my understanding, your class is going there in the morning for a field trip?"
I nodded my head. How he got all his information so fast, I still had yet to fine out.
"Good, hang back when it's time to leave, if they leave with out you he'll give you a ride, don't worry," he had caught the startled look in my eyes, " he'll approach you and say 'the trees do blossom something extraordinary this time of year' repeat."
I did so.
"Good, then you'll answer, 'Yep they sure do' repeat."
I did so again.
"Ok, then he'll give you the info and I'll come by that night to retrieve it. Oh, if he tries to grope you, count to five before you smack him. It'll let him know your with me, watch his mouth, he'll count too."
"Ok, anything else?" Knowing not, I stretched and rolled over, a small frown forming on my lips, not pleased with the idea of a monk groping me. I felt a hand on my shoulder,
"Kagome?"
"Hm?" ignoring my heart, which beat faster.
"Thanks" and with that he left out the way he came.
I rolled out of bed at five and slipped into the shower before anyone else. When I heard a moan some minutes later, I turned it off and got out.
"Kagome!" my sister hammered on the door "some of us need to use the shower!"
I rolled my eyes and stuck my tongue out at the door. I dressed quickly and opened the door and was shoved out by my sister. I sighed and made my way downstairs.
In the kitchen, I threw two pans of cinnamon rolls in the oven and went around the house waking every one else up.
I got all my stuff put together for the field trip and ran it out to the car. I ran back inside and pulled the rolls out of the oven, only the outside ones slightly burnt. I smeared on frosting (extra on the burnt ones) and set them in the corner to cool as my parents came down. Entering their silver years, as they put it, they decided to have another child, to add to the nine already making it their tenth. My mother, now seven months pregnant, waddled down the long staircase. My father, looking seven months what with his beer belly, followed.
Moments later, the kids followed. Stamping down the stairs, I dished out rolls and handed them out to each kid as they passed by to the car. We all piled into the bus like van sticky and tired, when mom came huffin' and buffin'.
Our first stop was my high school. I pulled all my gear and as my mom called " Bye honey have fun at the temple!" Surprised that she remembered that I even had a field trip today and headed to homeroom.
On my way there, I ran into my best friend, Sango.
"Kagome!"
"Hey, excited about today?"
"You bet! My mom even made oatmeal cookies" she held them out to show me and I swiped them.
"Hey!"
"Mine. Never hold gold under my nose like that if your not willing to give it up." I took a cookie out of the bag and gave the others back.
I nibbled on it 'till we got there, savoring the flavor. Our teacher, Miss. Keada, an old woman but all the spunk of a teenager, called the class to attention.
"Now, I want no fooling around, being disrespectful or bothering of the employees of the shrine." But if a monk there does it, is that ok? I asked Sango who giggled not knowing how ironic it was. "We were lucky enough to get an invitation to come and view the grounds. Be on your best behavior." She stressed the last part.
We all filed onto the bus and were off. Sango and I chatted all the way their, but my mind wasn't on the conversation. I realized that it must have been InuYasha who had told or asked the monk to extend the invite in the first place. I was going over everything that InuYasha had told me the night before. Still answering in 'yep, nope, yeah! I know's, I didn't realize that we were at the shrine.
"Come on Kagome!" Sango called as she dragged me off the bus.
A monk with a shaven head came forward and bowed low to the group and we bowed back, then he motioned that we follow him. We walked down ornate wooden hallways until we came upon another monk similar to the first but he greeted us.
"Welcome!" he boomed, them proceeded to tell us a little about the history of the shrine then lead us around the ground with my classmates 'ooing and ahhing' as we went along.
About half way threw, a monk in purple robes and shoulder length black hair pulled into a small ponytail started to tail us. He made himself look as if he was doing an inspection but only with my training (what I called the tricks InuYasha had taught me) did I know that he was tailing us. Sango had seen him and pulled on my sleeve and I had to lean up to hear her with her being a good two inches taller than my 5' 4' as she whispered in my ear.
"Do you see the monk there?"
I nodded hoping that she didn't catch on that he was tailing us.
"Well," she stared to blush. "I think he's cute," Then to cover up she went on to say "but he probably took an oath to not marry or something"
I laughed.
At the end of the trip, Miss. K. started to load us back onto the bus. Thinking up a story I turned to go back.
"Kagome, where are you going? We're leaving right now."
"I know I left my bag back there, if I'm forgotten, I'll call my dad and he can pick me up on the way home." I then hurried back to shrine before she could argue.
I slipped past the monks by the door and searched for the monk in the purple robes. With my little knowledge of monks, I knew only high, like head monks where allowed to where colors and not cut their hair off. I caught sight of him standing under a cherry tree in the middle of the yard. I sidled casually over to him, admiring the tree.
"The trees do blossom something extraordinary this time of year"
"Yep, they sure do" I said a little too quickly.
He smiled reassuringly and drew nearer and I opened my mouth to say something but the feeling of a hand on my rear end made me stop. I turned to him enraged but watched his mouth. Indeed, he was counting and the moment he said 'five' I slapped him. Hard. Rubbing his afflicted cheek, he laughed.
"You are the first to hit that hard. I congratulate you."
"Just tell me what you need to so I can leave," I said angrily
"Well, my name is Miroku, and you?"
"Kagome"
"Well, Kagome, give this to our white haired friend and tell him to take my suggestion seriously, because I am." His face became stoic and I nodded taking the note.
"Oh, and on that subject," he chirped, his attitude changing drastically, "Kagome," he began, serious again, "do you honestly want to help our cause?"
I looked at him, questionably and when his demeanor didn't change, I knew that he was asking a real question. I nodded slowly.
"Then, Kagome, will you bear me an heir?"
I froze. Not knowing want to do.
"Kagome, I have a cursed hand, a hell hole and I will die at a young age. I need an heir to carry on my legacy and I haven't the time to go threw courtship. Please tell me that you will?"
His word snapped me out of my confusion.
"HELL NO!"
After I had gotten home, by way of Miroku with him holding ice on the back of his head, I took a shower, made Mac & Cheese for the kids, dished it out and left it on the counter for them to grab when they got home. I went to bed knowing I would be up half the night. Moments after my head hit the pillow, I was out.
Someone shaking me woke me up later and I saw it was InuYasha. I sat up and looked bleary eyed at him wondering why he was here.
"The paper." He prompted.
"Oh, right." I blushed when I remembered where I had stashed it for safekeeping.
"Turn around"
"Just get it Kagome." He growled and I huffed and plunged my hand down my shirt and into my bra.
I saw a blush stain his cheeks as I rustled around to find it. My thinking had been if some guy wanted it, he would have to grab me and I could scream and have a good reason.
"Hurry up." He hissed impatiently.
"You want to get it out for me?" I hissed back.
That shut him up. I finally got it out and handed it to him. He paused, probably thinking about where it had been, the perv, then took it, opened it and read it.
"Miroku also said to take his suggestion seriously because he was. What does he mean?"
"He means that I should act like a pervert. Well he can take it and shove it up his ass."
InuYasha jumped to the windowsill and turned around.
"Thanks, this means a lot and will help. See you later, I might be here tomorrow."
I lay back down and was out in seconds.
I sat outside Kagome's window as I watched her fall back asleep. I remembered that I had forgotten to tell her something about Miroku and was about to go in to tell her when her sisters came in. They busied around the room and finally went to sleep. My ear tweaked on top my head and I listened until I knew everyone was in deep sleep. I slinked over to the window and slid it open. I quickly shut it and walked over to Kagome's bunk on tiptoes. I went to wake her but stopped when I heard her murmur my name.
I stopped and stared. What the hell was she dreaming about with a smile like that on her face? For a smile had appeared on her full lips as they curved up to point at her rich chocolate eyes and…What the hell was I saying? This is Kagome. A girl that had gotten in the middle of one of my assignments two years ago!
Flash backHe threw his 'Claws of Blood' at it and it screamed in pain. He threw them once more and the thing exploded, sending blood and guts all over the ally, InuYasha, and the girl.
'Wait!' his mind cried 'A girl!'
He raced over to the fallen girl and saw that she was staring at him and op
InuYasha speed for the demon in the ally. Its tentacles were rapped around something and it was trying to force him back. He knew that it his mission to get the thing that it was holding and return it to his boss. Whatever it was.
ened her mouth to scream but he covered it with a clawed hand.
"Do you want to wake the neighborhood?" he hissed.
She shook her head and he slowly moved his hand away. Staring openly at him, she sat there. He ran over to the bloody mass and extracted a small wooden box. He slipped it into an inside pocket of his hatori, picked up the still shocked girl and fled the scene.
He followed the strong sent of the girl, roses with some exotic spice, back to her home and set her down and the jolt of her being set down snapped her out of her trance.
"Who are you?" she asked eyeing his ears.
"Name's InuYasha, I'm a hanyou, wench."
She flinched at him calling her 'wench' and threw in his face words that startled him.
"My name isn't 'wench' it's Kagome! Ka-Go-Me!"
"Fine" he threw back, "can I use your shower?"
Now it was her turn to be taken aback. First he had been yelling at her then asking her if he could use her shower?
"Yeah sure." She said nonchalantly, nodding her head in the direction of the shower and he had went into the room.
After a hot shower, which he hadn't had in days, he sat down on the end of her bed and let his long silver hair dry.
"Ok so spill." Kagome said as she stepped out of the bathroom in clean clothes.
"Spill what?" he asked innocently.
"Bull, you know what, why where you, a hanyou, fighting a full fledged demon in a dark ally way?" she glared at him and he though of a way around answering. He couldn't and she had helped him so it was only fare to answer.
"For this." He held out the little box and showed it to her.
She studied it for a moment, then turned to him again and asked, "Well, what is it?"
He turned the box over and looked at it. What was it was what he wanted to know too. He slid a nail under the clasp and it popped open. Inside was jewel. I glowed with an inner blue light that shifted from blue to purple to pink back to blue.
His mind started to grind into high gear.
'This is the Shirkon no Tama. What was it doing in his hands? It was suppose to be in their hands already. That would mean…'
"Oh…shit…"
Kagome looked at the jewel and gasped. "Why do you have the Sh…" he cut her off with a glare.
"Don't say the name, we might be watched. Listen, I don't know why except…that…I just screwed up big time."
Kagome stared at him for a second and then, without further information guessed what happened.
"What are you going to do?"
"Well I can't go to the other side and just waltz up. They know my face and they don't like it."
Kagome looked thoughtful and then looked up with and idea.
"Do you truly want to stay, causing the war to continue or go to the rebels?"
He looked at her understanding dawning on his tan face. She was a miko, a weak one but a miko all the same. He could see the glow that all miko's had now that he was looking for it. She obviously knew about he demon revolution, all miko's did and all did something for it one way or another.
"You understand that the Black Claws have taken over the humans' government?" She nodded.
"Well, they hired me to gather information and other things," he swung his hand at the box, " and now they will know if I got it or not and they will kill me if they don't get it."
"Look," Kagome said standing up and pacing the room, "I know two people that might help you. I don't know you but I do know that no one, not even the best liar, can lie in front of the jewel. So, I can direct you to them and they can help you transfer to the rebels."
InuYasha looked at her and nodded.
End Flashback
He had contacted the men and turned over to the rebels. The leader of the rebels, who turned out to be his older half brother, Sessomaru, told him that he must have at least one contact and some human to act as a messenger bird.
Remembering that it was Kagome that had helped him in the first place he had asked her and she said yes but asked not to be called a 'messenger bird' as he so kindly put it.
Now he stared at the girl, no young woman that had helped him two years ago.
The woman he was now slowly falling in love with.
; Finally done with the first chapter. I know it's short but I couldn't find a way to start it out but this is ok. I need one more mission and I don't have an idea of what to do. HELP! Need Ideas! Then I get the good stuff going hehe. Lots of good ideas in me brain. –Samurai Rin