Chap. 3: Reincarnate?
Last Time
"WHAT THE FU-" she screamed until she saw who sneaked up behind her. "Oh, InuYasha! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?"
Now
Kagome and her friend Ally finished the movie they went to see and were just wandering around the mall. Ally was still getting Kagome used to the different things in the US, but she had learned that in Japan many things were adapted into American style customs, just as many American customs were adapted by Japanese.
"So Kagome" Ally said, "what do you want to do?"
"I don't know," the other girl said. "What is there to do here?"
Ally told Kagome about the different stores, and food places and studios. Kagome wanted to see everything but first they needed to go home. It was pretty late, and both women had early classes the next day.
InuYasha was walking down the hall of the mall with his girlfriend when he spotted a girl who was very familiar to him. He turned around to follow her when he felt a hand tug on his shirt.
"InuYasha are you okay?" Sasha asked him.
"What? Oh yeah, I'm fine. I just saw someone I thought I knew," the hanou lied and continued walking with his girlfriend.
Sasha had always thought her boyfriend was a little strange. It was true that humans and demons live together now, but he wasn't human or demon. She liked him as he was, a half demon, but she couldn't help think that he wasn't always truthful with her. Sasha had asked him about his previous girlfriends once, and he had said that he only 'dated' two girls before. At first she thought he was weird because it turned out they were related, but she soon found that although the women were similar they were very different. In that she also learned that InuYasha loved them for different reasons.
"So," she said cheerily, "what do you want to do?"
"I don't know," he said looking around. "what time is it?"
Sasha looked at her watch to see that it was already close to 10:00 P.M. and the two decided that it was best that he take her home so that he could prepare himself for his transfer to ASU.
Kagome sometimes hated her psychology course. She felt that the teacher was a bit on the stupid side. But the woman was just as ancient as the crazy history professor. She was still writing notes from the sentence the woman had said when the door to the room opened. In walked a man with brown hair and blue eyes. Although it was tied up in a ponytail, Kagome could tell his hair was really long.
He looks like Kouga. She thought to herself, maybe he is a descendant or maybe his reincarnation. Kagome thought nothing else of it until the man was walking in her direction. She smiled up at him as he took the seat next to her.
She thought to herself, Kagome thought nothing else of it until the man was walking in her direction. She smiled up at him as he took the seat next to her."Hello," he said. Oh my god it is Kouga! Kagome thought excitedly. "my name is James Wolfe, what's yours?
Kagome sighed but still smiled.
"I'm Kagome Higurashi," she said shaking his hand.
"Well Kagome," he said with a sly grin, "I am very glad we met just now."
She smiled to herself Yup, he's Kouga's reincarnation.
The rest of the class went by pretty fast, they continued to go over why most people who hunted other people did just that.
"So, who can sum up why man is the ultimate prey?" the professor asked.
Kagomes hand shot up before anybody else could answer.
"Yes Ms. Higurashi," she said smiling at the young foreign woman. It seemed that Kagome was the only person who ever understood anything properly in this bunch.
"Man is the ultimate prey" she started.
"Why is that?" the professor asked.
"Because the thing that is being hunted has a higher thought of escape than other animals," She finished.
"That is right Ms. Higurashi," the professor said, "but why is it considered more fun to hunt another human?"
"If you are hunting another human than you have to use a more complex thought process to find them. When hunting animals, you know more or less where they will run. In hunting humans they will not just run, but they will hide. They will also always try to outsmart the hunter. Using delicate techniques to disguise themselves to match their surroundings and knowing exactly when it is safer to run in the opposite direction when the hunter has his back turned." The whole class had stared at Kagome wide eyed and surprised.
"She is absolutely right," the professor beamed. "I suggest you all take a leaf out Ms. Higurashi's book."
The class all nodded their heads before leaving for the day.
"So Kagome," James said, "want to get a cup of coffee or something?"
So much like Kouga. Well at least this time I can give him a chance without InuYasha trying to kill him. Kagome smiled and nodded, walking with the boy to closest coffee stand.
"So what brings you to ASU," Kagome asked.
"I transferred here from USC" he said, "I am on a football scholarship."
"Wow, from football to psychology. Definitely a big difference," she laughed.
"Yeah, well it's the only way I can come to school for free," he said sheepishly, "I'm not bad at the sport, actually I am pretty good at it. But around my sophomore yearin high school I all of a sudden just grew faster. It was weird."
Kagome smiled, that must have been when Kouga's spirit and his melded into one. She smiled and looked at the boy.
"That's really cool" she said, "I am not really good at sports. I am a decent archer, and I am pretty fast, but a old friend always kept me on my toes back in Japan."
"I thought you weren't from here," he said smiling. "I just figured maybe you were descended from another culture, but transferred here from it."
Kagome laughed and told the boy how she had moved from Japan to America two years after high school to pursue a different type of living.
InuYasha woke up from another dream of his past. Still not able to get the same girl out of his mind. It had been a weird life for him. In some ways it had been over 500 years since he had seen Kagome, but then in the same time it had only been five years.
500 years ago
"InuYasha why don't you come with us?" Sango asked the hanou, "Kagome has been looking for you all day to ask you just that."
InuYasha looked at his friend and sighed.
"I cant," he said simply, "I still have to defeat Sesshomaru. Even with Kikyo, I still have much to do here."
His friend looked at him with sad eyes and nodded. After losing her brother for good, Sango was only willing to go to the future with Kagome.
"Alright, well I hope you do the right thing."
Present
The hanou sighed as he remembered his last encounter with his friends. He never did get to say goodbye to Kagome, that nearly killed him when over 500 years later, when he knew that she would be in Tokyo along with their friends he still couldn't find her. He had found a way to contact Sango and Miroku and was relieved to see that they remembered him, and when he had asked them if they still spoke with Kagome he learned that she was in America.
InuYasha moved to the united states in the 1930's. He had lived everywhere, and didn't really like it too much, but mainly because his love wasn't with him. He knew he would still have to wait another 65 years before Kagome was born. He went back to Japan the year she was to go see him, and he saw her the day before she mysteriously disappeared; realizing she had found the Bone Eaters Well. Not being able to take that, he returned to the United States and waited until he knew she would return and be done with the 'Warring States Era' for good. The year he knew Kagome was to turn 18, InuYasha got ahold of a Japanese phone directory on the internet and tried to get in contact with Sango and Miroku. He found them pretty easily, they were listed together under 'Sango and Miroku Hauk' in Tokyo. Calling them he immediately recognized Miroku's voice.
"Hello," the man said.
"Miroku?" InuYasha asked into the phone carefully.
"Yes, this is Miroku, who is this?" he sounded like he was in the middle of something but InuYasha didn't care.
"Miroku, it's InuYasha."
A.N. There we go. I like this chapter. Although it took me no time to write. The story will probably get weird soon. R&R!