I love Youji and Natsuo. o3o They are utterly adorable, especially the fact that Soubi put half a whiskey bottle into a cup of milk before giving it to Youji to help him sleep after he, Youji, decided that he didn't like Seimei while playing Seimei's save on Wisdom Resurrection. Natsuo is just adorable no explanation necessary. :3

Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
Loveless © Kouga Yun

I: Staring Over

Part 2

Kagome stared at the table after she came down with her mother that came in to get her. Her mother looked the same, just swollen pregnant stomach and hair a bit longer to curl around the bottom of her human ears. Her father was in the kitchen with her mother, helping prepare breakfast for the family. It was strange, but it was nice to see her mother smile again, but what did her other father look like, the one who wasn't there when she traveled to Sengoku Jidai?

Back when everything was…normal with youkai and hanyou existing in the past and some how disappearing with time. Kagome rested her chin on the table, tail drooping a tad and her cat ears too, 'I wonder what happened to Inuyasha and everyone that survived the final battle with Naraku. Are they still alive, do they even remember me? Am I still Kikyou's reincarnation?'

Her ears perked when her mother and father came into the dining room, carrying plates and food out to the table where she and her silent grandfather sat. how come he hasn't gone into a rant yet? It was bothering Kagome and as much as she wanted to ask him what was wrong, her mouth wouldn't move. Her mother sat down beside her with her father across from her mother. Her still black-haired mother smiled at her, to which she returned.

Breakfast was uneventful, no one really spoke and her mother already asked her about her change in naming her younger brother. Still, where the hell did Goushinki come from and had she hit her head before telling them? She scrunched up her nose at the very idea of having a brother named after that demon that Naraku made. A hand rested on her head between her cat ears, making them twitch, as she turned to look at her mother.

"I don't think that your chopsticks or plate would be very appetizing to eat Kagome." Kagome blinked and looked down at her empty plate and to the chopsticks in her mouth. There is something seriously wrong here. Her smother gave a soft laugh at her daughter, "Why don't you go up to year room and pick out something to wear for shopping."

Nodding her head, Kagome got out of her chair and went under the table to go back to her seat and grab her dishes to bring them to the sink. She walked passed her father, mother and grandfather to go to her room. She stared at her reflection in the mirror once she got there, the same uneven bangs, curly white-blue hair and curling ear locks greeted her from the mirror. Glaring at it she went to closet in search of clothes to wear.

Opening the door, Kagome took note that there were lots of skirts. Going into her closet, she proceeded to look at different articles of clothing, and if she didn't like them, they were thrown some place behind her. Though one shirt was saved that misery and fate, but the majority of the skirts were not. Feeling herself growing irritated, Kagome decided to wear the next one she grabbed. Staring at it, it didn't really tickle her fancy, but it was the most tolerable one so far that went with the shirt she had picked.

With how her hair felt, she must have took a bath last night, so there was no need to bathe now. Changing out of her still torn nightgown, she put on the shirt and skirt she chose, being mindful to not step on the clothes askew on her floor. The shirt was a tee shirt that had long sleeves sewn in them, the tee shirt was a dark blue with snowflakes, white the long sleeves were black. The skirt went to her calves and was a blue jean skirt that first went straight to her thighs, then flared with purple polyester the rest of the way down.

"You all ready Kagome?" aforementioned girl looked over her shoulder from looking at her reflection to look at her mother who stood in the doorway with a kind smile. That was the mother she remembered, but, why was her father alive and what's going on with the world now? Are there no demons of is her grandfather not the same as she remembered growing up? The five-year-old nodded to her mother, not bothering to brush her hair, and followed her mother downstairs.

Her father and grandfather were no where to be seen as she continued to trail after her pregnant mother to the front door. Her mother looked back at her, smile still in place, just about reading her mind yo a fault, "Your father and grandfather left before we came down. They said something about having to do something of great importance." Kagome looked at her with curiosity but didn't say anything.

Her mother's smile wavered a bit at her daughter's silence.

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The grocery store was quiet as mother and daughter made their way through, picking up any and all food and ingredients that they might need. Kagome was tempted to hold her mother's hand as they walked through the store, but thought better of it, her mother needed her hands to get anything that Kagome couldn't reach on the higher shelves. Kagome stared at the floor as she let her thoughts wander, why did her father and grandfather leave, where did they go?

"Ah. Misaki-chan!" Kagome looked up at her mother as she waved presumably to another person in the store. Indeed, she was, soon a woman with long dark hair and square-cut bangs came over, a smile on her face with a five-year-old boy following her. The boy was an innocent child, he had ignorance, whereas she woke up like this and was no longer herself.

A pang of jealousy made itself known in the hollow hole in her chest.

The new woman with the dark hair leaned over and patted her head, making her white cat ears twitch, she smiled at her friend's daughter, eyes curious though, "I see Kagome-chan is growing well, but I thought that she had green eyes?" Misaki looked at her friend while standing up and Kagome blinked at the new information, 'My eyes aren't blue? Weren't they always blue though? Why green?'

"I have green in a flow shape around my pupil." Kagome stated pointing at her eye and her mother's friends she guessed that she was bent back down and closely looked at her eyes, before smiling, "Ah. I see Kagome-chan, I see the green in your eyes now. It's a very pretty pattern," she tuned to look at her son, "Don't you think so, Seimei?"

The boy's ears perked up at the sound of his name and came forward, looking at Kagome's eyes much like his mother had just done a few moments before. He looked up at her very much like a five-year-old would and shrugged, "I guess that they are, 'kaa-san." Misaki shook her head light, smile never leaving her face, she righted herself and looked over at her friend, "How have you been anyway? Another one on the way, ne?"

Kagome's mother smiled, resting a hand on her bulging stomach, "Yes, my husband loves kids after all and wants another one. At first Kagome wanted to name her younger brother Goushinki, though today she suddenly changed her mind and wants to name her brother Souta. I'm surprised she was so intent on Goushinki for so long, but I'm glad she changed her mind." Misaki gave a small laugh with her friend as they started to catch back up with each other.

Kagome tuned out their conversation as the four of them started to walk through the store, her eyes locked on the boy's ears who walked next to her. His ears didn't twitch as much as her, which twitched with every step that she took, making him watch her ears curiously. Kagome scrunched up her nose in embarrassment, feeling the tell-tale signs of her hands twitching, just wanting nothing more than to tweak his cat ears like she did Inuyasha's dog ears when she first met him.

Inuyasha. That led to her other friends. Sango. Miroku. Shippo. Kirara. Even Sesshoumaru, Rin and Jaken. Kouga, Ginta and Hakkaku.

Kagome stopped in the middle on the isle with the boy—Seimei—stopped next her, her cat ears dropped as she remembered her friends from the Sengoku Jidai, why was it that she remembered that and her other life, just not this life and what she was like. How was the "Kagome" of this life supposed to be? Seimei looked at her with his blue eyes, or were they indigo? She couldn't tell, all that she knew was that she just wanted her friends back.

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Kagome's mother and Seimei's mother said their goodbyes as they parted ways after their grocery shopping was done. Kagome could feel her mother looking at her as she helped carry groceries for her mother to the car, but she acted like she didn't feel the stare. Once the bags were put in the trunk and the back of the car, Kagome got in the back seat and her mother the driver seat. Her mother started the car and proceeded to leave the parking lot, the drive home tense.

The stairs to the shrine greeted and Kagome was glad for some sort of constant in both of her "lives" so to speak. What happened to the life she was originally leading, did that one just vanish and this one took its place? Or was the other one like she didn't exist at all after the wish was made and her memories and such had nowhere else to go that they came here to this… other dimension? World?

Kagome made several trips up and down the stairs so that her pregnant mother would not have to, her mother already started to put away the food that they bought in their proper places in cupboards, the fridge and what not. It didn't take long to put the remaining groceries away once Kagome brought all the bags up to the house. Her mother then left to take a nap, leaving Kagome alone with nothing to do by herself.

Going to the living room where the books were kept in a waist-high bookshelf, she picked out a book that seemed most appealing to her and went outside, intending to sit by the Goshinboku in peace. She looked up at the sky, glad to know that there were barely any clouds in the sky, a sign that is wasn't going to rain today. Looking at the Goshinboku, however, ruined her mood when she saw it and noticed that there was no missing bark when Inuyasha would have been pinned to it.

Keeping any tears that she could feel prickling at the back of her eyes at bay, she went to sit by the small fence that was at the base of the tree around the roots. Sighing and looking up at it before opening her book, Kagome was just glad that she could still feel the peaceful aura radiating off of the large tree.

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Kagome's father and grandfather left the doctor's office and made their way to the elevators to leave the building. They didn't speak until they got into the elevator. The elderly man looked to his son-in-law, eyes curious as to why he would choose to do this. The younger light-aired man signed and looked to his father-in-law, their eyes locked in a silent battle. They looked away at the same time.

"I want to find out what's wrong with my daughter." He stated quietly. The elderly man sighed, "This could very well just be nothing and you are blowing it out of proportions. Kids like to try and act like they're mature and so, act differently than they usually do."

His son-in-law looked at him with a blank look, "If this is just a phase, then please explain how my daughter's eyes went from green to blue in a matter of hours."

The grandfather had no reply for this and opted to stay quiet the rest of the way to the car, the silence between the two men was thick, awkward, and most of all, tense to the point that it affected anyone that had the misfortune of passing by them.

If it wasn't clear in the chapter, yes, this is a different dimension, world-thing that Kagome exists in now. And there is a reason for Kagome looking completely different and being at the age of five. But, you'll have to wait and see to know why. :3