All for One and All for Love

Summary: Kagome held close the robe of the fire rat...she never knew it would come in handy so much in the future, not that she'd believed she'd have much of a future left after all of her friends had died, leaving her, Shippou and Kilala to fend for themselves in her world...just in time for the start of the Shaman Fight to start.

Anime/Manga: Shaman King/InuYasha

Pairing: Kagome/Hao

Genre: Romance

Rated: M for Mature Content

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"Chicchee na..." Kagome muttered under her breath, the little phrase she'd picked up from the man who saved her and her sons life five hundred years with the intention to destroy the human race and rule a Shaman only world. She actually used it to calm her nerves...ease her heart when something was bringing her worry.

Walking up to her mother, she bowed, and then left her house. Shippou was still sleeping peacefully unaware of the fact that she was leaving with Kilala on her shoulder.

Why? Because not but a few minutes ago, she felt a familiar flare of energy shoot out in Japan, and she had to see if it was what she thought it was. Walking down the steps of the Higurashi Shrine, she made her way down a sidewalk, not paying all too much attention to what was going on around her, she bypassed many strange looking people who had stepped out of her, though pausing to look after her as she too was dressed abnormally in comparison to normal people.

Kagome was dressed in her Miko garbs, since she was coming from the Shrine and had just finished helping her mother with the nightly prayers, but atop that, she wore the Robe of the Fire Rat, tied in a similar fashion to the time InuYasha had given it to her after he'd been hurt...once-upon-a-time... Her wooden sandals clapped along the sidewalk until she arrived to a cemetery, removing her sandals, she carried them as she walked across the grassy knoll, not bothering with the stone walk that gave passage to visitors as she made her way through the land of the dead.

"He's not all that far, if it's who I think it is..." her voice was soft, a whisper in the wind. Kagome stopped for a few seconds, looking curiously over her shoulder, the road to the city was farther away than when she was atop the mountain of steps which led to her shrine. How long she'd been walking, how many people were dead for there to be so much land to cross filled with the bones of their ancestors and their children. Turning back to her objective, she started to walk a bit faster until her shadow stopped just before the edge of a forest. She knew this area well, within the trees canopy was a spring of water that she and Sango had paid refuge to many times during their travels.

Now, as she walked through the woods, she came upon the opening where the water she used to soak in was, much larger now over time. '...I'll follow the spring, he's somewhere close...' she walked along the cobblestones and heard voices, ducking behind a tree, she hid herself with a barrier she quickly erected around herself.

"You appeared again without any warning."

"Not "again." I've always been alive." Kagome peered around the tree and her eyes took in two people in the vast clearing. "Time belongs to me." The one speaking looked to be around her age, and as she looked to the one standing, she was horrified by the resemblance he held to the man who had killed Naraku five hundred years ago.

"Not now it doesn't."

"Are you talking about Asakura Yoh?"

Kagome tried to follow their discussion, but couldn't shake the fear in her body.

"He has a power you don't have. An immeasurable power that can make the impossible possible."

"Immeasurable, huh?" She watched the one sitting, the boy, give a small chuckle at some unheard joke, the taller one didn't seem to share his sense of humor. "Then that means you know all of my powers."

"You don't have a future!"

"Don't make such a scary face." His voice was filled with humor, as if he held no fear for the man in front of him. This somehow helped Kagome relax a bit as well. "You were born because I exist." Those words echoed in her head, as she tried to figure out what that meant exactly. The taller one seemed angry at the phrase, "If you think of it like that, you should thank me. Right, Silva?"

"Hao!" Her body went rigid, the name echoed in her head. It was the very person who had so easily rid the world of the vile Spider Hanyou Naraku all those five hundred years ago, and yet, it wasn't the one she'd thought it to be. The boy, the child was Hao.

"What an exciting night."

Kagome watched Hao stand and look past Silva, Silva and herself turning to see what it was that had captured the boy's attention. She vaguely picked up a whisper from Silva, "X-Laws..." She wasn't entirely sure as to who they were, but both Hao and Silva didn't look to want to engage, well, more Silva than Hao. The smirk that found Hao was enough proof for Kagome that he had no problem in fighting the group dressed head to toe in white. The larger group turned silently away and left.

"What were you talking about?" Hao asked smugly. "Ah, right. About Asakura Yoh. I don't think he's as strong as you say."

Silva stayed silent for a moment before he took off in the air and left the clearing.

Kagome slid with her back to the tree she was hiding against, her barrier still around her as she felt the ground beneath her touch her hands. 'Hao...it really is...Hao.'

"You can come out now,"

Her ears perked at the voice of the boy behind her and her hideaway, but she didn't move, unsure if he meant herself, but not doubting the high probability.

"Or is it your intention to simply eavesdrop. You aren't too great at hiding, which was your objective, yes?"

Kagome pushed herself up onto her feet and started off around the tree she'd been leaning against, there, she walked up to Hao who was still facing away from her. Walking around him to the other side of the fire, she sat down and stared at him. He lifted his eyes and for a mere fraction of a second, his own eyes widened before he gave her a small smile.

"It's so rare that I have guests join me," he said, "I'm afraid I don't have a name to call you."

"...my name is Kagome."

"And I-"

"Your Hao, I know who you are...I met you once before." She spoke better than she'd anticipated, though her voice still shook a bit.

He gave her a confused look, "oh? When was that?"

'When indeed...' Kagome looked down at the flames that were dancing between them. "Five hundred years ago..."

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Me: Here is chapter two to All for One and All for Love, I hope you all enjoy, and let me know what you think, nyan~!