Chapter 2: Mikarin
"Mikarin," he said, "My name is Mikarin. Are you my mom and dad?"
Kagome's eyes were glistening with tears, and she slowly slipped to her knees.
But if Kagome's reaction could be considered happy, Inuyasha's had to be one of rage. His eyes grew wide, his hand grabbed at Tetsusaiga, and he yelled out in absolute rage.
"You expect me to believe that?"
Litera's eyes bore into Inuyasha's, piercing him with a glare that said she didn't appreciate his reaction. She put her right hand on the pommel of her own blade, and said slowly, "I don't expect anything from you."
Inuyasha's rage would not be contained by a statement like that. He stared her down and attempted to find his wind scar and any weaknesses Litera might have.
He was preparing for battle.
Litera spoke to break his thoughts, "You intend to fight?"
"Well," Inuyasha replied, "I intend to find some answers."
"By fighting?" she questioned.
"If I must."
Kagome came to her senses right about then. She rushed to Mikarin, grabbed him in her arms like a real mother, and asked him "Whats my name kiddo?" His response nearly took her breath away. "Mommy." Kagome lowered her voice and asked, "My real name."
He pulled her ear close and whispered, "Kagome. My name is Mikarin Higurashi. You know that mommy."
Thats when Kagome decided what she must do. "Inuyasha!" Inuyasha, funnily enough,
chose just that moment to duck, and Kagome caught the command in her throat, laughing at how quickly he had slowed for her. Inuyasha wasn't overly amused by being humiliated and gave her one of his superior looks. "What do you want Kagome?"
"Lets hear her out, we don't know what is going on yet."
Inuyasha's sigh told Kagome what was coming before he said it. "No, Kagome, I don't like her yet, and I am not going to stop until I see some proof." He pulled out his Tetsusaiga, and it glowed in a reddish hue.
Litera gasped at that. "A scimitar?"
Inuyasha had his turn to grin, "Its a fang. And you can feel its wrath! Wind Scar!"
At that, he swung his sword in wild abandon, flicking out the yellow destructive wall aimed right at Litera. Inuyasha grinning at his perfect attack slowly turned to a frown when he noticed Litera had drawn her sword. Her black sword with an evil aura.
She sliced upwards, creating a small orange light that aimed right at the center of the wind scar, which on contact turned purple and halted the entire wave in its track until it winked from existence.
Inuyasha glared at her, "So you are a demon."
Litera shook her head, "No Inuyasha, I am a Blader."
Inuyasha gave her a confused look, but Kagome understood this one. "A BLADER?" She screamed, "Those aren't even supposed to exist! Bladers are just an imaginary being that is supposedly supposed to come from our pollution and stuff."
Inuyasha did a double take at that, and asked, "What is pollution?" Myoga the flea jumped onto his shoulder and began with a startling remark, "Pollution is..." He never got far, because Inuyasha interrupted him with a "AND where have you been?"
Myoga began mumbling a little "Well I was doing some important business until..."
"You were just running away!" Inuyasha and Kagome yelled, and with that, Shippo woke up from his nap in Kagome's bike's basket. He mumbled something and then screamed.
"AHHHH whats going onnnnnn?"
Everyone ignored him. Inuyasha sat down cross-legged, and Kagome and Mikarin joined him. Litera followed him to the spot and did not sit, but paced back and forth.
"Well I suppose I should explain how this happened. I am a Blader, where I come from the world is a much different place. They say we can time travel, but all we are really doing is traveling to a similar world that happens to be at a different time.
Currently I am following another Blader who is trying to do something to hurt many worlds. And why he came after Mikarin, I am not sure."
Kagome stood up at that. "He came after Mikarin?"
A big sigh of withdrawl from Litera, then "He came after you, and in that world, he killed you. I came and saved Mikarin, but I am pretty sure if he really wanted Mikarin, he probably could have taken him from me. But he got you, and I think thats all he wanted. I don't know.
Kagome shivered, "So, in the future, I am going to die?" Inuyasha gave a low growl at that, but Litera was shaking her head, "No, you died in that world, not this one.
But I believe there is some connection between you and this enemy I must face, so if you want to get to the bottom of this, we are going to have to chase. him. down."
Kagome looked at the four faces staring at her, and said this, "I don't know about you, but I am in. And Inuyasha, if I am in, you are too. Shippo, you should go to Kaede."
Inuyasha stood up and said, "Then what are we waiting for? Where are we going anyway?"
Litera's reply was somber, "To a place with a mourning Inuyasha, and a dead Kagome."
End Chapter 2