Far Away
By realixweatherfairy
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Sailor Moon
Chapter 3: The Challenge and The Princess
"However, something puzzles me," he continued, making Kagome nervous, "Her voice sounded just like yours and her scent was the same as yours and no person's scent is the same as another's, relatives smell a like, but never the same, so my question for you is this: Are you Sailor Moon?" Kagome gulped.
"Are you, Kagome?" he urged. Meanwhile, Kagome's mind was in turmoil.
"Oh, great, Sesshoumaru just had to put two and two together," she thought, as she closed her eyes, "No way out of it now."
"Yes," she replied, opening her eyes, as used his demon speed to appear in front of her pull her to him and laying his head on her shoulder.
"Thank you, Kagome, for saving me," he answered, "However, you were wrong when you said you were no one of importance."
"Oh, was I," Kagome sighed, "How so?"
"Like this," he said and pressed his lips to hers, making her eyes go wide before they slid shut. Wrapping his arms around her, he pulled her closer, deepening the kiss before pulling away and looking into her eyes.
When Kagome opened her eyes and looked into Sesshoumaru's, the love she saw there surprised her. She never thought that he felt the same way for her that she felt for him. Kagome had loved him since day one, maybe not romantically at first, but it had grown to that level before she had been forced to leave his side.
"Because I love you," he stated, "I always have and I always will, no matter what." Her eyes softened and she smiled as she said, "I love you, too," in a quiet voice but he heard her. Sesshoumaru pressed a kiss to the top of her head and nuzzled her as the bell rang, signaling them to get back to class. Grabbing her hand, he led her to their next class.
"Luckily, she has all the same classes as me," he thought, "I don't think my beast will allow her to be out of our sight for awhile."
When the last bell of the day finally rang, Kagome had almost every guy in the entire school following her around, like faithful puppy dogs, until Sesshoumaru growled at them. She knew why, he and his beast saw any male near her as a rival for her affections. It was dog demon instinct; she had been around dog demons long enough to know. As she and the others walked to her car, she asked them, "Hey, do you guys want to come over to my house? I'm sure Kaa-chan will be happy to see you, as well as Souta-kun."
"Yeah, I'd like that!" Sango laughed and the boys agreed. So they all got in their cars; Sango and Miroku riding with Inuyasha and Kagome and Sesshoumaru driving themselves. It wasn't but half an hour later that Kagome drove up, Sesshoumaru pulling up behind her, Inuyasha and the others following, to a set of about thirty or more stairs. After they walked up the stairs, they saw a large two story building. When they walked into the building, they were immediately assaulted with the smells of food. Taking one long sniff, Kagome chuckled and said, "Mexican food night," and headed towards the kitchen. However, soon Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha were grabbing their ears in pain as loud noises assaulted them from the living room, but they were soon cut off.
"Hey! Nee-chan! I was playing that!" a young boy's voice whined.
"Souta-kun, be more respectful! We have guests," Kagome scolded, moving backwards to reveal the gang, making his eyes go wide as he saw them.
"Inu nii-chan! Maru nii-chan! Sango-neechan! Miroku-niichan!" he cried, giving them each a big hug while grinning.
"Hey, Squirt," Inuyasha said, giving Souta a noogie.
"Ow! Inu nii-chan! That hurts! Let go!" Souta yelled, "Maru nii-chan! Help me!" as Inuyasha suddenly let him go and yelped.
"Inuyasha, act your age, not your shoe size," Kagome scolded, while he whimpered from Sesshoumaru bonking him on the head.
"Kagome-chan, I hear voices, do we have guests?" an older woman's voice came from the door leading to the kitchen. Everyone turned and saw Kagome's mom, Kun-Loon Higurashi, standing in the door, wearing an apron, t-shirt and sweatpants. "Oh, Sango-chan. Sesshoumaru-kun, Inuyasha-kun, Miroku-sama, how nice to see you again. I hope that you have all been well. Will you be staying for dinner?"
"Yes, Ms. Higurashi," they replied together, earning themselves a smile as she went back to the kitchen to finish dinner.
"Kagome, I sense demons in the living room! Take evasive action!" a male voice yelled out suddenly.
"Jii-chan," Kagome groaned, "Yes, Jii-chan, I know there are demons in the living room; they are friends of mine. I invited them here."
"You be careful with those demons you hear," he retorted.
"Yes, Jii-chan," she sighed, "Come on, guys, let's go to my room," and lead them upstairs to a room painted a pale yellow with a cherry blossom tree painted in the corner and small blossom petals looking as if they were floating in the wind. The room large with only six pieces of furniture, a queen sized bed covered with a yellow comforter embroidered with cherry blossoms with a two matching pillows in the corner by a large window, a medium sized night stand made of oak holding a few picture frames and an alarm clock next to the bed, a large oak computer desk holding a laptop computer, a printer, a large boom box, and three large cd holders holding at least a thousand cds across from the bed on the other side of the window, a large yellow butterfly chair with small pink and purple butterflies embroidered on it and a small yellow velvet couch with a cherry blossom fleece throw over the top, and a large TV stand also made of oak holding large TV with a shelf under it holding a DVD player as well as a Wii and a small cabinet under the shelf in the corner painted with the cherry blossom tree with the couch and butterfly chair facing it, on the opposite side of the room from the bed and desk.
"Wow, your room looks really nice, Kagome-chan," Sango complimented.
"Thanks, I designed and painted it myself," she replied.
"Really?! You painted this yourself," Miroku asked, violet eyes widening.
"Yup, I was thinking of you all when I designed it," she answered, "Go on, have a seat. We can watch some TV if you want until dinner time," taking a seat on the couch between Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha, but Sesshoumaru quickly picked her up and sat her on his lap, making her blush as Sango took her seat and Miroku sat in the butterfly chair. Picking up the remote from the arm of the couch, Kagome turned on the TV and they watched a few television game shows before growing bored with television and Kagome opened the cabinet on the TV stand to reveal a wide collection of DVDs. Everyone's eyes widened looking at the variety of DVDs that she had. In such a small place, she had what looked like every single movie ever made, even black and white ones.
Turning to them, she asked, "What would you guys like to watch?"
"Do you have The Fantastic Four movie that came out a while ago? I've kinda been wanting to see it," Sango answered. Smirking, Kagome pulled it out, and turned on the DVD player and put it in. They were just to the part where Doctor Doom took away Ben's powers when Kagome heard her mother calling them down to dinner. Turning off the electronics, she and her friends went back downstairs and sat at the dinning room table which was arrayed with lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, taco sauce, a wide variety of meat, including hamburger, chicken, and steak, and taco shells and tortilla chips.
"So this is what you meant by Mexican food night," Inuyasha exclaimed.
Chuckling, Kagome took her seat by a heavy set elderly male wearing a kimono similar to miko garb, but the haori and hakiyama were gray, who was glaring at Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha scornfully. Noticing this, Kagome said, "Jii-chan, these are my friends, Sango, Miroku, Sesshoumaru, and Inuyasha, Guys, this is my jii-chan."
"Pleased to meet you, Sir," they replied as he inclined his head at each of them as Kagome's mom started dishing out the food as they watched the evening news. After dinner, Inuyasha had to take Sango and Miroku home. Sesshoumaru, however, remained behind, his beast whining at the thought of leaving their intended, even though they would see her again the next day, but even he had to leave after awhile. He didn't want to have to deal with his dad about him being home late again. The thought made him want to hide in a corner.
After he left, Kagome went up to her room to find Luna had once again taken her place on her bed and had fallen asleep. Smiling, she started scratching Luna behind the ears to wake her up, which she did after a few seconds.
"Hey, Sleepyhead, how was the nap?" Kagome asked with a sweet smile.
"It was good, Kagome-chan," Luna answered when all of a sudden Kagome's TV came on all by itself and a red headed woman appeared on the screen.
"Zoisite!" Kagome growled through gritted teeth as Luna hissed.
"As I'm sure that you are happy to see me, Sailor Moon, this is not a social call," Zoisite said while grinning, "I'm officially challenging you to a duel, tonight, at Tokyo Tower, don't be late, unless you want all these children to go nighty night forever," and the TV went back off.
"Kagome-chan, you aren't thinking off accepting Zoisite's challenge, are you?" Luna asked.
"I have to, Luna, I can't let those children die," Kagome answered, "I'm not going to be a coward and back away from a challenge. Besides, I might be able to find something that will lead us to the Moon Princess," to which Luna nodded as Kagome put her hand up in the air and shouted, "Moon Prism Power!" and transformed into Sailor Moon and leaped out the window.
Meanwhile as Sesshoumaru walked into the living room of his house, he found his father, Inu no Taisho, his stepmother, Izayoi, and his younger brother sitting in front of the TV, watching a news bulletin. Coming to stand behind the couch, he saw a grim faced reporter, talking about a situation at Tokyo Tower.
"Earlier this evening, some sort of creature attacked a trolley filled with children, who are now dangling over two hundred feet in the air. As of yet, we do not know who or why this was done, but, wait, we now have reports that a shadow has been seen moving towards the tower," but that was as far as the reporter got before the camera man got distracted by the figure standing behind him. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened.
"Sailor Moon!" he yelled in his head, "Kagome!" She was standing just behind the reporter, staring up at the sky where the trolley was dangling with narrowed eyes. Turning to them, she said in a small voice, "You may want to move out of the way."
"But who are you?" the reporter asked.
Smiling slightly, she answered, "No one of importance." Not able to take anymore, before his family could realize that he was there, he ran back out the door grabbing a clean school uniform on the way out, and, using his demon speed, ran all the way to Tokyo Tower.
Narrowing her eyes at the trolley dangling a few hundred feet above her head, Sailor Moon quickly leapt up to where the door to the trolley was, she opened it and entered the trolley to be greeted with a group of frightened children.
"Don't worry. I not here to hurt you," she said calmly, "I'm here to help you."
"Who are you?" one little girl cried.
"I am Sailor Moon," she replied, "Now I need you all to remain as calm as you can until I can get you out of here, can you do that?" as every child in the trolley nodded their heads. Quickly creating a rope made out of miko's powers, she slowly started sending the children down one at a time. Turning to the little girl who had spoken to her, Sailor Moon asked, "What is your name?"
"Rin's name is Rin," the girl replied.
"Well, Rin-chan, I'm proud of you," she stated.
"Huh?" Rin gasped.
"You were very brave when you spoke up when I entered this trolley and in doing so, you sought to protect the other children from getting hurt," Sailor Moon continued, "That is a very admirable trait in any person. You are very special. Don't let anyone tell you any different," and sent Rin down the rope with a smile. As Rin was the last child, Sailor Moon looked down and saw that all the children had been taken away to the hospital, however, as Rin walked towards one of the ambulance, she looked back and smiled a bright smile, causing Sailor Moon's eyes to soften as she smiled in return when the trolley started to lurch and fall to the ground. Already knowing that everyone below had gotten away from the area safely, Sailor Moon leapt out of the trolley on to the roof of a nearby building.
Upon enter the square, Sesshoumaru saw that the children had all been evacuated from the trolley and rushed past the ambulance, but stopped when he heard one of the little girl's say, "Sailor Moon said the nicest thing to Rin! She told Rin that she was proud of her! She's so cool! I want to be just like her when I grow up!"
"Well, Kagome, it looks like you got a fan," he thought as he slightly smirked until the trolley started to fall to the ground with no sign of Kagome anywhere when he saw her leap with the grace of a demon onto the roof of a nearby building. Running towards the building, he noticed that the doors were already opened and that four other girls wearing sailor suits similar to Kagome's only different colors had entered and were heading for the roof and followed them.
Once on the roof, he was greeted with the sight of Kagome fighting a red headed woman, who was shouting something about a crystal.
Almost as soon as she landed, Sailor Moon sensed the dark aura usually associated with the Negaverse and turned to face Zoisite, who sneered, and said, "I knew you'd come, you and you pathetic need to save those earthlings."
"Well, I just couldn't miss an opportunity to kick your butt, now could I?" Sailor Moon sneered in return, not missing the furious look that crossed Zoisite's face.
"You are nothing but a parasite that must be extinguished," Zoisite growled, causing Sailor Moon to laugh and say, "Oooh, I'm shaking in my boots!" while pretending to shiver, which only served to make Zoisite madder and to lunge at her. Quickly jumping out of the way, Sailor Moon took a defensive stance, as the rest of the Sailor Scouts arrived with one person that she wasn't expecting.
"Sesshoumaru! What is he doing here?" she shouted in her head.
"I thought that you might want to know that I know where the Imperium Silver Crystal is," Zoisite said while smirking, making Sailor Moon gasp before she continued, "I'm sure your faithful guardian has told you the legend. That the Crystal was hidden in the body of the sealed Moon Princess, to be unknowingly protected by her until she has need of it."
"Where are you going with this, Zoisite?" Sailor Moon growled.
"Did your guardian also tell you that all in the Moon Kingdom were also dog demons?" Zoisite inquired still smirking. Making Sailor Moon's eyes widen until she continued, "However the Princess was sealed as a human so that she couldn't be found."
"What are you implying, Zoisite?" Sailor Moon growled.
"That the Princess has been right under yours and your Scout's noses," Zoisite sneered as she attacked Sailor Moon with an ice crystal in the back, causing Sesshoumaru to roar in outrage, and tried to get to her before she fell, however, before he could get anywhere near her, a bright flash temporarily blinded him as Kagome floated in the air. Everyone's eyes widened when a large crystal came out of her body and attached itself to a wand with a silver crescent moon and gold and blue handle, while Kagome's sailor outfit turned into a dress similar to the dress Luna wore in her human form in the Sailor Moon S movie (I can't really describe it, so if you don't know what it looks like, please look it up on Google images!) only the top was dark blue while the bottom was dark gray. Her features were no longer human, but that of a demon. Her hair was completely silver, her fingers now held claws, silver markings like Sesshoumaru's on her cheeks, a fluffy white tail around her shoulder, and there was a small silver crescent moon on her forehead with the points facing the top of her head, causing one of the girls to gasp and say, "It's Sailor Moon! She's the Inu Moon Princess."
"Who'd have thought?" another said skeptically, as Zoisite said, "Enough of all this chatter; I want that Imperium Silver Crystal and I want it now!" attacking the Princess with an energy blast. However, before anyone could do anything, Kagome held up the wand and said in a quiet voice, "Moon Cosmic Power," sending Zoisite's attack back at her, sending her crashing into a wall. After returning Zoisite's attack, Kagome transformed back into Sailor Moon, however, her features remained that of a demon. Sesshoumaru appeared at her side in a second.
"Kagome?" he asked.
"Yes, Sesshoumaru, it's me," she replied sadly as he registered that her scent hadn't changed.
"Are you alright?" he urged.
"I'm fine," she answered with a small smile, earning herself a smirk in return before he took a stance in front of her because Zoisite was starting to get back up with a little trouble as a man with white hair appeared next to her and demanded, "What's going on here, Zoisite?"
"Malachite!" Sailor Moon growled.
"Help me Malachite," Zoisite whimpered before falling into his arms as he soothed her saying, "Don't worry, we'll get the Crystal, they can't go far," before disappearing with Zoisite. Turning to see the girls that he had followed coming to where he and Kagome were standing, Sesshoumaru asked, "Kagome, what is going on here?"
"He knows your true identity, Sailor Moon?" remarked the blond haired girl.
"He found out on his own, Sailor Venus," she replied.
"How?" inquired the brown haired girl.
"I know that voice!" Sesshoumaru thought and said aloud, "Sango? Is that you?"
"Uh," the girl in question stumbled. Patting his shoulder, Kagome answered, "Yes, that's Sango, better known as Sailor Jupiter."
"But we have more important problems right now, so Sesshoumaru, if you don't mind holding on to the questions until we get back to the shrine, we need to find a way out of here," Kagome continued and he nodded as the blue haired girl pulled out a small blue computer and pulled on a see through blue visor and started typing. After about an hour, she said, "Sorry, guys, I haven't gotten any results yet."
Meanwhile, Malachite and Zoisite had the unfortunate pleasure of informing their queen that they had once again failed her. Beryl was so angry that she killed Zoisite despite Malachite's protests.
"May that be a warning, Malachite," Beryl said.
"Yes, my queen," he responded.
"Go and do not fail me," she ordered as he disappeared.
Kagome looked shocked as Sesshoumaru told her that he had immediately come to protect her when he had seen that she was in trouble. Her gray eyes widened as he wrapped his arms around her and held her close as he whispered in her ear, "I thought that I was going to lose you again." With a slight smile, Kagome put her arms around him and whispered back, "You won't ever lose me," making him smile, when all of a sudden, Kagome once again sensed the dark aura of the Negaverse and immediately let go of him and saw that Malachite had come back.
"Hello, little princess, now hand over that Crystal and I'll make your death quick and painless," he growled as Sesshoumaru's eyes went red as his beast came to the surface and snarled, "Anyone who tries to kill her will have to get through me first!"
"Fine with me," Malachite bit back, and started attacking Sesshoumaru, who was holding his own for awhile until Malachite hit him in the back, forcing him to the ground and was about to attack again when a bright flash distracted him and he turned to Sailor Moon, whose eyes were red as her own beast was fighting to take control.
"So, I see that you're no longer hiding behind your male," Malachite sneered and attacked her as she held up the wand and the crystal glowed, sending his attack back at him, knocking him out. She walked over to Sesshoumaru, held out her hand, and helped him up and said, "Come on, let's get back to the shrine," as he gave her a kiss on the cheek and they all left.
