Chapter 3: Interesting...
Ichigo, Sango, Inuyasha, and Miroku and the rest of their friends made it to Kisuke's shop.
Rukia knocked on the door and a few seconds later they all heard a, "Come in!" from within the building.
So everyone walked into the small candy shop and into a little room with a circular short table in the middle of it and Kisuke sitting next to it, drinking tea.
"Hello, All." Kisuke smiled, motioning for everyone to take a seat which they did.
When everyone was seated, Rukia looked at Kisuke and was the first to speak.
"Kisuke. The a couple hours ago there was an extremely large and intense reiatsu that appeared in Karakura Town then disappeared just a quickly as it appeared." Rukia paused and went to continue but was stopped by Kisuke's hand being raised in the air.
"I know what you're asking, and I know who came to Karakura Town." Everyone remained quiet, waiting for the shopman to continue.
"Her name is Kagome Higurashi and she is a very good friend of mine I knew while in the Soul Society."
Kisuke's eyes became deadly serious and were turned to Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku.
"Kagome is still hurting after five centuries of being in the Soul Society. Wanna know why?"
The three teens swallowed, not liking that look in Kisuke's eyes.
"After the Shikon no Tama was completed and a wish was made on it, Kagome was left completely alone. The once happy and bubbly little miko you three once knew has been a bitter and angery woman for the past five centuries." Kisuke scolded the three teens who looked like they were in trouble.
Which they were gonna be when Kagome gets there...
That was when Kagome's presence was felt in the air followed by a small crimson-colored dragon with crimson-colored eyes hopped into the room and bounced straight to Kisuke and landed in his lap, making the man chuckle.
"Oi, Kisuke?" A womanly voice that Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku automatically knew, was heard from the entrance of Kisuke's shop.
"Hai?" Kisuke responded to the voice.
"I wanted to apologize for taking my anger out on you. I didn't mean for that to hap...pen..." The voice trailed off when a woman with ass-length straighter ebony hair, chocolate brown eyes, dressed in a casual white t-shirt, gray sweatpants, and gray sneakers, came into the room and saw the three people she hadn't expected to see ever again.
"You." Kagome pointed at Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku who all swallowed hard at the dark glare that their old miko friend was throwing their way. "What the fuck are you doing here?" She growled.
Kisuke wasn't lying when he said that Kagome had turned into a bitter and angery young woman.
That was when Sango slowly stood to her feet and continued to move slowly over to Kagome, the woman who was like a sister to Sango, and when Sango was close enough to Kagome, she smiled sweetly only to have Kagome do something that no one knew the young woman would ever do.
Kagome slapped Sango across her face.
Sango's face snapped to the side.
"How dare you." Kagome snarled. "How dare you act that way around me like you fuckers never abandoned me?" Kagome looked at Inuyasha, pouring her anger into the look and noticed that his beads were still on but didn't know if they still worked so Kagome gave it a try.
"Osuwari!"
BOOM!
Inuyasha crashed, hard, into Kisuke's floor.
"I expected for you to abandon me after wishing that bitch to live just as long as you, but I never expected Miroku, Sango, or the others to abandon me either." Kagome paused, completely oblivious that her reiatsu was rising.
"And you want to know who it hurt me the worst when it finally sunk in?" Kagome turned to Sango and shoved her, causing her to fly backwards and into the wall and stared at the woman.
"It was you Sango." Kagome confessed. "Out of everyone in the group, I never suspected that you'd abandon me. You were the one who hurt me the worst." The girl chuckled darkly, running chills down everyone's spines. "So much for declaring that I was your so called "sister" huh?"
When no one spoke, Kagome continued.
"Tell me Sister. How long did it take you to figure out that I wasn't around you all?"
Sango mumbled something that Kagome nor anyone in the room could hear.
"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. What did you say?"
"A month." Sango whispered, tears rolling down her cheeks. They weren't from the pain of Kagome's slap or the power of her shove, but the guilt was starting to knaw at her. Not realizing that she and her friends had caused Kagome so much grief.
Kagome didn't move for a moment, her eyes hidden behind her uneven and longer bangs and her hands in fists so tight that her knuckles were white.
Then, without warning Kagome walked over to Inuyasha and pulled him out of his crater and pinned him to the wall by the neck with so much force that the wall cracked and everyone flinched.
"What's wrong Inuyasha? That bitch managed to find a way for you to at least look human so she could be satisfied enough so that she could finally fuck you?" Kagome chuckled then stopped and glared at him. "You're so pussy whipped." She then punched Inuyasha in the gut and dropped him onto the floor.
Then she turned to Miroku but before she could get close to him, she was surrounded by black reiatsu that was outlined with red and someone had their arms wrapped around Kagome in a comforting manner.
For some reason, Kagome felt so at peace, so calm, and suddenly...so tired.
The miko/shinigami was now drifting off into sleepy kind of state, but before she fell asleep, Kagome turned her head to see a boy with orange hair and brown eyes that held the same kind of determination that hers held long ago but had left her the day she died.
That was when Kagome could no longer keep her eyes open and went a peaceful sleep that she had not had in over 500 years.
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Ichigo stood next to Kisuke's table with a now calm and peaceful sleeping miko/shinigami in his arms.
He was confused.
Ichigo had meant to prevent Kagome from killing Miroku, he hadn't known that if he did what he did that his reiatsu would react to hers the way it did.
A small chuckle was heard from Kisuke's lap follwoed by a the small dragon hopping onto the table and walked over to Ichigo's direction and sat down on the edge of the table and looked at the substitute shinigami.
"Interesting." The dragon confessed in an amused tone. "Never, in all of my time with Kagome, have I ever seen that happen before."
"What does that supposed to mean?" Ichigo looked to the red dragon who shook his head.
"Kagome's reiatsu, much like yours, is very strong, immense, and dangerously lethal when called for. I believe that her reiatsu was calmed down when yours came in contact with her own."
"So this has never happened before?" Uryu asked the small crimson dragon.
"No."
"Then why did this happen?" Kisuke wondered over to Kagome's zanpakuto who turned to face Kisuke and answered.
"You are aware throughout the years that we have known Kagome that she was constantly told to keep her powers in check or they would be sealed?"
When Kisuke nodded the zanpakuto turned physical form continued.
"I'm guessing that when Ichigo's reiatsu came in contact with Kagome's own reiatsu, it coaxed Kagome's to calm down."
"So you're saying that Kagome's reiatsu was calmed down by Ichigo's reiatsu because it simply asked Kagome and her reiatsu to calm down?" Rukia wondered over to the small creature who nodded.
It was quiet for a moment as Ichigo sat down with Kagome resting in his lap.
A little leary of letting her go and having her go on a killing spree.
"So." Uryu was the first to speak. "Who are you?" He asked the crimson scaled creature that now sat on the table in front of Ichigo.
"My name is Kurimuzon. I am Kagome's zanpakuto in physical form. But if you want, you can call me "Kuri" for short." Kuri answered/introduced himself to everyone.
"How long have you known Kagome, Kuri?"
"I met Kagome after the first four to five years of her living in the Soul Society."
"What's Kagome doing here anyway?" Inuyasha asked from his spot against the wall that Kagome had threw him against.
Kuri hissed at the hanyou-appeared-human who jumped at the sound.
"You have no right to speak of Kagome's business in the World of the Living." The white parts of Kuri's eyes were now a solid black. "All you need to know is that had it not been for Ichigo then you, Sango, and Miroku would be dead right now." Kuri growled.
Inuyasha shrunk against the wall as he, Sango, and Miroku now knew what they had done to their miko friend 500 years ago.
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A/N: In the next chapter Renji comes to Karakura Town looking for Kagome but gets his ass kicked by Kagome's bankai! Till next time Guys! TTFN!