"I shall tell ye who I am, but first ye need to change out those clothes!"
Kagome looked down at her clothes and saw she still had on her school uniform. She looked more closely but saw nothing wrong with it. She looked up at the strange old woman standing in front of her. Kagome looked more closely taking in all of the strange woman's features from her head to her toes.
The old lady dressed in an old red and white kimono, her pants red and her shirt white. Her right eye was covered with an eye patch like those of a pirate. Her long gray hair was pulled back behind her in a low and loose ponytail. Judging by the winkles on her face she looked to be about 60 something years old. Here feet were covered with socks and sandals. Kagome looked at the old lady's hand and noticed she held them behind her back as if she were hiding something. But when Kagome looked passed the lady's hidden hands she saw an arrow case slung over her shoulder filled with arrows and in her hands she was carrying a bow.
Kagome's eyes had grown wide seeing the weapons in the old woman's hands. Kagome screamed falling backwards throwing her hands up to cover her face.
"Please don't kill me! Please, please don't kill me!" Kagome shouted at the top of her lungs.
The old women looked down at Kagome and arched her brow with confusion and somewhat amusement. When she looked behind her she glanced her bow and arrow and realized what Kagome had been talking about. The old woman began to laugh. With that Kagome looked up with a confused expression playing across her face.
"Young priestess, I will not harm ye. I simply carry these for protection!" The woman had said with a little humor in her voice.
Kagome looked up at the woman with confusion then looked around at her surroundings with a curious glance.
"Um excuse me ma'am? But uh-um what exactly do you need protection from here? I mean, there isn't exactly anything dangerous out here! Is there?" Kagome started getting worried what could be dangerous out there. She was in a strange place, knew nothing about it, and then there was an old lady dressed in an old fashioned kimono carrying around a bow and a case full of arrows on her back.
"Ye really should pay close attention young priestess to ye surroundings. Can ye not sense it?"
"Sense what? How am I suppose to sense something or someone when I'm a normal teenage girl with no powers?"
"That is where ye stand wrong! Pay close attention, clear ye mind of everything and focus on ye spirit. What is it telling ye?"
Kagome did as the woman told her and found it shocking she was right. There was something there. On the edge of the woods? No, it was farther into the woods. Kagome stood up and fallowed where she sensed the presence. Or more like it was pulling her to it.
She hadn't realized where she walked off to or that the woman had fallowed her. But when she gained control of her mind and looked up a tree, she saw a boy attached to the tree by one small arrow inserted into his right shoulder. He looked as if he was asleep, so Kagome walked up to him. She stood on a root of the tree and reached up to touch the strange boy.
"Young priestess ye mustn't touch Inuyasha, for he will awaken and no good will become of anyone if he is let free!"
"His name is Inuyasha?"
"That is correct my child."
"Why is he pinned to this tree like this? How long has he been like this? Who would do such a thing to someone? And why does he have….have dog ears?"
As if on instinct Kagome reached up and grabbed one of Inuyasha's ears and rubbed them then pulled them slightly. But as if her touch were the key to a sleeping spell, he awoke, not very happy though.
"What the hell woman! Stop touching my ears." Inuyasha had awaken from his sleep and looked at Kagome. His eyes had grown wide for only a split second as his sniffed the air, but then fallen back to normal.
"AHH. It talks!" Kagome screamed and fell on the ground at the old woman's feet terrified.
"IT? DID YOU JUST CALL ME AN IT? WHY YOU… WHEN I GET DOWN FROM HERE I'M GOING TO USE YOU AS MY PERSONAL CLAW SHARPENER!"
"Inuyasha must ye always be rude?" The lady has spoken with a stern yet soft voice.
"Who are you, you old hag?" Inuyasha said.
"You should remember me Inuyasha. If not ye soon will. Young priestess, take this beaded necklace and place it around Inuyasha's neck then think of a word that he must obey to and he shall be under ye control!"
"WHAT WAS THAT YOU OLD HAG? YOU ARE TRYING TO HAVE SOME 'HUMAN' GIRL HAVE CONTROL OVER ME? Well I got news for you, it ain't gonna work cause I'm a demon and us demon's are stronger than you humans!"
The old woman sighed and turned to Kagome and nodded to her that she could proceed in her task.
Kagome walked up to Inuyasha with the beaded necklace in her hands, before she put it on him she looked him up and down very closely but landed on his ears. She smiled as she thought of her "magic" word.
"What are you smiling about wench?" Inuyasha said with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
Kagome shot her gaze down from his ears and onto his face with a glare that could kill. Inuyasha gulped ever so slightly so no one could notice his fear for Kagome's gaze.
"What did you just call me?" Kagome was starting to get mad now "Did you just call me a 'wench'?"
Inuyasha noticed something change about her aura but paid no attention to it. He grinned as he noticed that he was hitting a nerve on her.
"Yeah I did. You got a problem with that…wench?"
"Listen here…dog boy, my name is Kagome you got that? Ka-go-me, and I will NOT let you call me a 'wench' and get away with it!"
Kagome put the necklace around Inuyasha's neck and turned to look at the old woman.
"Now ye must remove the arrow and say the word ye has chosen."
Kagome sighed, thinking that this was stupid, but did as she was told. Kagome put her hand around the arrow and started to pull but it wouldn't come out. She tried to pull harder but it still wouldn't move. She turned to look at the old woman and shrugged.
"It won't come out!" Kagome said bluntly.
"Try to focus ye spiritual energy and ye priestess powers into removing the arrow!"
Kagome didn't know what she was talking about but did as she was told. What the heck is she talking about "priestess powers"? I'm not a priestess, I'm a 16 year old girl stuck in a place that is unknown and looks to be feudal Japan. Kagome thought to herself and sighed and turned back to Inuyasha. She placed her hand on the arrow and cleared her mind of everything and relaxed her body.
When she pulled at the arrow it didn't move, but it didn't do what happened before. This time the arrow had a blue glow around it that was getting brighter and brighter. Inuyasha had to cover his eyes because the light was so bright, as well did the old lady. Before they could make out what happened the arrow had burst into little pieces and evaporated into thin air.
Kagome, Inuyasha, and the old woman stood there eyes wide and mouth hung open. Kagome had no idea what she just did, but Inuyasha and the old woman knew exactly what she just did.
"What just happened?" Kagome asked scared.
"Ye just purified the arrow that my sister Kikyo had pinned Inuyasha with, the arrow was tainted with evil and ye my child just purified it. Now ye must say ye word for Inuyasha."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha with an apologetic look.
"I don't know what's going to happen but just in case it hurts, I'm sorry Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha was confused by what she said.
"Huh?"
"SIT BOY!" Kagome had yelled.
"AUGH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"
Inuyasha had been pulled down to the ground face first by the necklace when Kagome yelled 'sit' to him.
"I don't know, she told me to say the word I chose and well with your ears and all, it reminded me of well… a dog!"
"What the hell you wench? I'm a dog demon what do you expect me to look like? A FUCKING CAT?"
"Inuyasha, watch ye language! We must start heading back to the village now. It is getting late and ye don't want to be out here at night!" The old lady started walking towards where Kagome thought to be the way of the village.
Inuyasha, Kagome, and the old lady walked in a straight line in the middle of the woods for at least an hour before they had reached the village. Kagome looked around at all the people, noticing that they all wore different types of kimonos. None of which looked like Inuyasha's or the strange woman's.
Kagome looked back up and noticed all the villagers were staring at her and whispering things amongst themselves. Kagome picked up her pace and walked next to the old woman.
"Um, ma'am, why is everyone staring at me like I'm from another world?"
The old woman didn't reply to her right then but told her she will explain when they reached her home. Kagome didn't argue with her but didn't leave her side either. They walked at least five more minutes before they came upon a small hut/tent looking home. Kagome figured this was the woman's home. And she was right!
"Come in! Inuyasha and young priestess come and sit. I will be back in a minute. I must inform the villagers that there is no threat upon them. Ye may stay inside and talk amongst each other!" With that said the old woman walked out and left Inuyasha and Kagome alone.
Kagome looked over at Inuyasha and noticed that he sat by himself in the corner of the small area in what looked to be deep in his thoughts. Kagome decided to take the opportunity to get a good look at him and study him before the woman got back.
She looked at Inuyasha with his head rested on the wall of the room and his eyes so full of emotion yet they were empty looking. He had long waist length silver hair with a set of white dog ears placed on the top of his head, taking the place of what should be human ears. His eyes were that of a honey gold color, the same as hers' was now. He looked to be about 16 or 17 years of age and very tall at least 5"10.
Kagome's eyes shot to the ground when Inuyasha turned his head to her, his eyes were not mean but she didn't want to make him made so she looked at the door right as the old woman walked in.
"Young priestess, ye may put this kimono on and we will then talk. Inuyasha I must ask that ye step outside while the young priestess changes her clothing!"
Inuyasha didn't argue but he didn't keep his mumbling to himself either. When the cloth used for a door shut behind him Kagome turned and looked at the old woman with confused filled eyes. The old woman then handed the kimono to Kagome and sat down. Kagome looked down at the kimono and thought to herself, wow this kimono is beautiful, where did she get it from? I wonder if one of the villagers gave it to her cause they thought my clothes were strange! Kagome looked up from the kimono and looked at the old woman.
"Before I put this on, will you tell me your name? It's only right to call someone by their name if they have one!"
The old woman smiled and nodded her head in agreement.
"My name is Kaede, High Priestess Kaede, and ye my dear must be the reincarnation of my beloved sister Kikyo. Ye look so much alike her!"
Kagome blushed not knowing if that was a good think or a bad, but she shrugged it off. She stood up and changed out of her green school skirt and her white long sleeve shirt, and into the beautiful light pink kimono covered with darker pink Sakura flowers. After she had changed and sat down she looked back at Kaede.
"My name is Kagome. I don't know if you noticed or not but you keep calling me 'young priestess'. Why is that?"
Before Kaede could answer Inuyasha yelled through the closed door.
"Hey are you done in there yet?"
Kagome and Kaede sighed and both said in union 'yes Inuyasha'. With that said Inuyasha barged through the door and sat down opposite of Kagome and Kaede.
"But anyways, Priestess Kaede, why do you call me 'young priestess'? I certainly am not a priestess!"
Kaede laughed and Inuyasha and Kagome both gave her a similar confused look.
"My dear Kagome, I call ye a young priestess cause in fact, you are the reincarnation of my dead sister Kikyo. And she, my child, was in fact the high priestess here in this village. And you hold similar power as the one she held!"
Kagome was confused and she had so many questions running through her mind, but the one question that bothered her most slipped out before she could stop it.
"If I'm a priestess, how come my eyes are the same color as Inuyasha's and he is a dog demon?"
So what do you think is going to happen next? Will Kaede know the answer? Or will Kagome never find out? Will Kagome have to find her own answers? Will she ever see her family again? So many question's but which one do we answer first? Only time will tell.
Well R&R I hoped you enjoyed this chapter even though it is pretty long.