Peace and sorrow
I'm back everyone. Its been a while since I last updated anything. I hate having two English classes in one year because its hard to get my homework done and then write stories and worry about graduation. Not only that but I was waiting for some of the English episodes of Bleach to come out (damn filter episodes) so I could write more, So here is the next chapter to this story.
_Chapter 3_
Kagome didn't't know if she was still asleep or awake because she was now in a very unfamiliar place. The place or where ever she was a city, but the only thing that was different about it was that there were no people in it. Kagome was about to question herself about what she was doing here when she noticed that she was on the side of the buildings.
"WHAT THE HELL" Kagome's mind screamed as she plastered herself to the building and was trying to figure out why she wasn't falling down yet. The weird thing was that her powers told her that she was safe and that she wasn't in any danger at the moment. Trusting her better judgment, Kagome sat up slowly peering down to the almost invisible ground below, she noticed she wasn't moving. In fact even her hair wasn't going in the same direction as gravity at the moment.
Just then there was a echo that bounced off the buildings making it sound like there were more then one person in the area at the time. Looking around she couldn't find out where the voice was coming from, and just as it appeared it stopped altogether.
"Well now what do we have here" a voice said that could put death to shame. Kagome's head whipped around only to come face to face with a look alike Ichigo, the only difference was the look alike was completely all white except for his eyes, which were black where the white should be and a ominous yellow iris. Kagome couldn't understand why her aura was saying that he was pure evil, but he wasn't threatening or dangerous to her as of yet.
"Who are you" Kagome asked as calmly as she could. The white Ichigo grinned evilly before slowly walking up to her till he was only a few good steps away from her. Then Kagome noticed she couldn't hear what he was saying next because everything got really bright after a second before she realized that she was waking up.
Kagome shot her self up out of bed and was now aware that she was back at her home in the jewel, but what was different was the fact that someone was moving with the jewel with her inside it. Also there was not one, but multiple people outside the jewel with high power levels making her worry a bit if these people were a danger to her or not. Kagome also wondered if she should go out or not, but with the wavering auras outside her better judgment made her decided to stay within the jewel until it seemed safe to come out again.
But something about the auras seemed calming even thought that they are huge in reality, especially the one aura that was close to her that felt almost like Ichigo's. Kagome was about to go out and find out who these people were, a huge black, dark aura appeared out of thin air. As the aura itself wasn't evil at all as well as it had the same flow of spiritual energy as the well did, which confused her. As the energy seemed like a dark room more then it was evil.
*Outside the jewel*
Ichigo watched as the portal between wako mundo open up. It was like as if a black hole was right in front of him.
Looking up at Urahara he noticed that the man had a looked like he was in a trance staring at him. Ichigo shrugged it off as nothing as he looked back towards the portal.
"Kisuke" Ichigo called snapping the said man out of his trance, before he nodded in reply. " Can you let my family know that I'm all right" Ichigo questioned hoping that he would. "Of course I will , and what about your friends?" Kisuke replied.
Ichigo looked down for a moment. "When I come back home…I will apologize to them" Ichigo replied. Kisuke's eyes were shadowed as he knew what Ichigo was talking about "Alright then, good".
Ichigo took one last hard look at the Garganta. "Alright, lets go!" Ichigo said as him Chad and Uryu jumped into the portal as it closed behind them moments later.
Looking to where Ichigo was last, Kisuke's face turned back to one of puzzlement.
"Ichigo, you watch after that jewel you have because it may come in handy for you, not only that…but how did you come in position of the Shikon jewel…"Kisuke thought with wonder as he felt three pressures behind him, knowing who was there.
*Back with Kagome*
Kagome was pacing around the room wondering just how she manage to get in these kind of situations. Here she was wondering what that strange dream was about, as well as what was happening outside the jewel. So many things were clouding her mind at the moment that she didn't even notice the person standing right in front of her against a wall.
Looking up Kagome nearly had a heart attack, and jumped nearly 5 feet off the ground. There standing in front of her was a man in his late 40's with brownish black hair, wearing yellowish shades and a blackish dark red flowing cape. She noticed that he was looking at her with a look of question and a little bit of caution.
"Who are you" Kagome asked a little cautious herself. She had no idea when or how this person got into the jewel, but more importantly, who was he. The man didn't sense like anything she had ever felt before, he wasn't human, he wasn't demon, hell he wasn't even a spirit or soul. It was like he was nothing more then this big cluster of power just standing there.
When he gave her no reply she got a little worried and backed up a little incase she needed to run for it. That is until he started to walk forward and then looked out of the corners of his eyes lightly.
"So, I see that you're the power of this jewel" he spoke. Kagome flinched slightly, how did he know!
"H…how do you know" Kagome asked trying not to sound intimidated. The man just turned to her casually. "I was unsure about this power…" he replied a little distant.
Kagome calmed down a little bit after hearing that, but she was still pondering the idea about what he was.
"What's your name?" Kagome asked lightly. He seemed to take a hard look at her for a moment before slowly answering her "Only my master shall know my name, no one else knows about it".
Kagome tilted her head a little in confusion, before noticing that his composure changed from cautious to one of stiffness and alerted, as if he were waiting for her to attack. She sighed in defeat, knowing they both weren't going to get anywhere with this attitude.
"Look I'm not here to harm you or your master, wherever this jewel goes I go with it, weather I like it or not…" Kagome said with one final sigh before sitting down on the sofa behind her, not caring weather or not that this guy was in front of her or not. He seemed to calm down a bit more, as if she turned on a light or something.
"So…can you at least tell me what you are" Kagome asked looking back up the guy. "I'm a zanpakuto" he replied casually.
"Zanpakuto, what's that?" Kagome replied in confusion. "A zanpakuto is a weapon used by soul reapers" he replied. Kagome knew what soul reapers were and that they lived in a place called the soul society, from what Miroku and Sango told her from one of her adventures in the past. Putting two and two together Kagome thought that if this spiritual energy was a soul reapers and the soul reapers power felt like Ichigo's, then the man in front of her must have been Ichigo's zanpakuto.
"Would you happen to be Ichigo's zanpakuto?" Kagome questioned lightly, trying not to travel on thin ice. The said man pondered before nodding his head lightly. Kagome felt relived that she was getting somewhere now, but one thing remained on her mind.
"So… do you think you can explain to me what's going on out there, how is Ichigo here as a soul reaper and not in the soul society, when he's living among the living and-"Kagome started but went silent when she saw the man raise his finger and was about to say something.
"You wish to know about Ichigo correct" he stated. "Well if I'm going to be stuck with him then I might as well know" Kagome said looking back at the man. He nodded before closing his eyes slightly.
The old man began to explain how Ichigo first became a soul reaper, how he fought off creatures called hollows in which Kagome found to be similar to demons in a way; also how the soul society came and took Rukia back to soul society and how Ichigo went with all his friends to save her from being executed. Then he told about how this one soul reaper called Aizen betrayed the soul society and how he sent creatures called Arrancar after Ichigo and then latter went after a girl called Orihime.
"So Ichigo is going to Wakeo Mundo to get Orihime back" he finished leaving Kagome there in a brief silence.
"I see, so Ichigo is kind of like me in a way, getting pulled into another world and then taking on that responsibility. Looking up she was met with an empty room where the old man once stood. Glancing around she knew that he must have went back with Ichigo for now.
"Well at least I know one other person who knows I'm still alive" Kagome said sighing and closing her eyes for a second. Not long after closing them however her eyes shot open, two new auras showed themselves, ones that were just pure evil.
"What now" Kagome said to no one in particular. In saying this she now decided to go out and see just what was going on, and what the auras were.
With a poof Kagome found herself in a very large room with no windows, turning around Kagome nearly screamed in fright if it wasn't for her hand that shot up to keep her from doing so. For there was a 100 ft thing that somewhat looked like a human standing there. Keeping mind that there was fighting going on she decided to play it safe near a stone pillar against the wall. Also knowing that she didn't want to be far from the jewel incase she needed to get back to it in a hurry.
Watching the battle she soon found Ichigo standing on the side lines and two other people fighting besides him. One guy a bit taller then the three that had some sort of glove that covered his hand, but the thing was his power from what she saw. He was fighting the huge giant and he seemed to be winning as far as she could tell. The other person who was around the same size as Ichigo but with white clothing was flashing around the room making it a bit hard for her to keep up with their battle.
Lastly she found Ichigo standing a little off to the side lines in a black kimono with a huge sword on his back, hell she knew it had to be bigger then Inuyasha's. She knew that inside that sword was the soul/power of that old man she met not to long ago. Then another thought came into mind, and it halted her next actions.
"Crap what if he or the others see me" Kagome stressed in her mind remembering Midoriko's words. "If these people have high spiritual powers then I'm pretty sure that they can see me, …this could be bad" she thought trying to make herself hidden more behind the pillar.
Just as those last thoughts left her mind the walls started to crumble and crack, making her eyes widen in fear. Looking back to the now running away trio she quickly went back into the jewel to avoid the falling rubble from the ceiling.
Kagome waited a good 15 minutes before deciding to come out again she reappeared only to find that she was inside a barrier of some sort. Also she noticed that they were in the middle of a sand tornado, so she figured one of them used a barrier to save them from it. Ichigo was arguing to the guy clothed in white before the big guy got their attention and pointed to the barrier that now started to crack.
Kagome's face was quickly depleted of any emotion and her eye started to twitch. "Um…please tell me that they can fix it" she thought but was shot out of the question when the barrier cracked more.
"HOW MUCH TROUBLE DO THESE GUYS GET INTO!" Kagome shouted in her mind as the buy took it upon himself to finish cracking the barrier for them. Next thing Kagome knew she was falling from the now quiet tornado and getting closer and closer towards the ground below. Kagome's mind raced quickly trying to figure out how to save her and maybe the other three if possible.
"Oh great, is this how I'm 'really" going to die; come on Kagome please let you still have your powers to make a simple barrier" Kagome thought focusing her powers quickly around her and the three. She was half shocked when a light barrier formed over them just as they hit the ground making it cushion the fall tremendously.
Sitting up Kagome sighed a breath of relief when she found that they all were alive. "Thank you powers" she said mentally.
"Well I guess we got lucky" Ichigo said with a sigh. "Yea but only by the skin of our teeth" the one with glasses added. "Uryu…since when could you make your own barrier?" the tall one asked looking at the pinkish barrier. "Yea Uryu, if it wasn't for that we would have been dead" Ichigo said with a grin nudging the one called Uryu in the arm, who in return gave the two a puzzled look. "Umm…guys, I don't even know how to make a barrier?" Uryu said confused.
Kagome cringed, knowing that she had been found out. Before she took down the barrier a roar above them made them look up only to have an avalanche of sand rain down on them. Kagome thanked herself for not putting the barrier down at that time. As the sand stopped she took the barrier down and sighed in relief. It didn't go unnoticed thought for Uryu looked at her and then so did the others. She flinched lightly as it turned into a staring contest between her and the three before she decided to break it.
"Umm…hi" Kagome said with a light sheepish smile. Ichigo seemed to respond first out of the three, he seemed to relax a bit and lowered his hand that seemed itching to reach for the sword on his back. "Uh hi" Ichigo replied not knowing what else to say. "Ichigo wait we don't know if she's the enemy" Uryu said putting a hand on Ichigo's shoulder. "Don't worry Uryu she's not going to hurt us" Ichigo said shrugging his hand off a little irritated. "How can you be sure Ichigo?" the big one asked. "Well when I was back home I thought I saw her when I was sleeping and I thought it was a dream, but seeing her here I know it wasn't a dream" Ichigo replied making Kagome blink.
"He saw me heal himself?" she thought.
"You know Ichigo, how can we be sure that you weren't just fantasizing about a girl when you were sleeping" Uryu said bluntly making Kagome almost burst out laughing. "Shut up will ya, besides her spiritual power was also on me when I found Orihime's as well, so she had healed me, so why the hell would she be and enemy if she healed me when she could have killed me then" Ichigo shouted clearly irritated.
"So I take it you were the one who put that barrier up" the big guy asked in which she responded by nodding. He seemed to relax more but still had an edge to him, like he was waiting for her to make a wrong move soon.
"So um… I hate to be rude but what is your name" Ichigo stated truing away from Uryu. Kagome blinked before realizing she had forgot to state her name. "Forgive me, my name is Kagome Higurashi" Kagome stated while bowing slightly out of respect. "Well my names Ichigo Kurusaki, this idiot on my left is-" Ichigo started but was cut short when Uryu seemed to straighten up. "Uryu Ishida, pleased to meet you" Uryu finished before the tall man stood up. "My name is Sado Yasutora, but my friends call me Chad" the big guy said.
"Alright lets save the talk for later right now lets get to that building" Ichigo stated as Kagome followed them running towards the huge castle in the distance.
"So miss Kagome, could you tell us how you got here" Uryu asked a little seriously as they ran. Kagome seemed to ponder on the thought, should she really tell them? Would they try to kill her or worse take the jewel? Looking at the three she decided since they didn't kill her, she should at least tell them how she got here. "Well I'm kind of sealed to that jewel, so where ever it goes I go too" she stated simply pointing to the jewel that was located in Ichigo's pocket.
"Ichigo do you think its wise if we let her come with us" Chad asked a little unsure. The said orange head thought for a moment. "Well she can put up a barrier and heal, so she would be helpful to us since we don't have Orihime here with us" Ichigo said.
Kagome's eye twitched, as she mentally cried. "I'm kind of pathetic if you ask me, I just wish I had a bow and arrows, at least then I wont be that useless" she thought with a sigh.
Looking up at the huge palace directly in front of her she knew she would need some sort of weapon to face what ever they were facing, but she knew she would find out later, hopefully.
Before she was able to know that they were moving out, Ichigo was a little more then a few feet away when the band of light came back and Kagome was pulled face first into the sand, making a slight eep as she went. Noticing Kagome wasn't with them Ichigo turned and saw Kagome face down in the sand with a slight drag mark behind her. "Hey Kagome are you ok?" Ichigo asked unknowing of what happened.
"I'm fine…." Kagome grunted as she picked herself up out of the sand. "This is going to be some adventure" she thought with a groan as she ran to catch up with them.
After a good 20-30 minutes of running the group collapsed to the ground panting. Kagome found it odd that even thought she had been running just as fast and long as the others she wasn't as out of breath as them. She mentally laughed, "Maybe its all the running around I did in the feudal era" she thought. She didn't know that she got lost in thought and a certain orange haired soul reaper was talking to her.
"Hey Kagome" Ichigo said placing a hand on Kagome's shoulder which I turn startled the miko a lot. "You ok?" Ichigo said again. "Yea, just thinking" Kagome replied.
Ichigo knew that something was troubling the girl, because she had the exact same look that Karin had when she didn't want to admit something and said she was fine. Deciding not to push her farther he let the subject go for the moment, for he knew what it was like.
"Ugh, damn it, it seems like we have been running across this desert and no matter what we're not even close to that structure" Ichigo ranted to himself more then the others. "It's all perspective, the crystal trees in front of it look like needles, and for the trees to look that small from this distance and the palace itself to look so big in contrast, we got to assume that that palace is…unbelievably huge" Chad informed looking at the palace. "You sure its not some kind of mirage" Ichigo asked in question. Knowing an argument would unfold between Ichigo and Uryu she decided to answer him. "Its not a mirage other wise the palace would look all blurry and there would appear to be water in front of it" Kagome informed before a small lizard appeared from the sand, and the only thing Kagome could find odd about it was there was a white mask made of what looked like bone on its face.
"Ya know when we got here I thought this would be a world where nothing was able to live, but surprisingly there appear to be little animals living here, even though that they are hollows,…but wait don't hollows have to constantly eat human souls in order to survive" Ichigo said in wonder. Saying that last part made Kagome freeze, did Ichigo just say constantly eat human souls? Kagome was picturing this little lizard to turn into jaws from the American movie, but to her surprise the thing just stared at her and scurried off. After overhearing Uryu's rant about the small hollows only live off of the spirit particles in the air, Kagome sighed in relief.
"Keep this in mind Ichigo, the higher amount of reishi benefit's the aranccar as well as me, I don't know how many hollows Aizen has turned into arrancar, more to the point it hard to say how well he is able to control them as far as the aranccar's are concerned we are not only the enemy but we are also food, even if we are to come across a normal looking hollow we are going to have to be extra vigilant, also the way I see it because of the amount of reishi here the hollow and arrancar will be more powerful here then in the world of the living-" Uryu informed but was cut short when Ichigo informed him that they were moving on.
"Come on Chad, Kagome lets go" Ichigo said walking away. Before they all took one step they all sensed something behind them making them look back to see a big worm, a bug like creature and some sort of clown pop up from the sand along with a small child in a light green running from them like a bat from hell.
"A human?" Ichigo questioned. "There can't be another human living here its imposable" Uryu finished as they all ran to save the little girl. But to Kagome, something seemed off about that girl.
_End of Chapter 3_
Yay I finished another one. Anyway as I'm finishing school I'm also improving my grammar. Also I want to note that Yes Ichigo was able to touch Kagome because if I remember correctly there was an episode where Matsumoto helped a soul as was able to touch the soul as well, so in turn anyone who is not a soul reaper or doesn't have powers cant touch or see her (just so you know if I don't end up explaining it in a chapter).
Well I better get back to writing. See ya next chapter and again sorry for not updating this in a while I feel bad enough as it is for not updating anything sooner.