Okay so here's where I left off at the Cliffy
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Something stirred inside of her. She felt it then. The same thing that had been bothering her since she had started increasing the time she had been meditating after she left the Miko Academy. It felt like it was growing.
"Kagome it won't do anything bad." Akari soothed.
"Just relax Kagome." Kagaru purred.
"It hurts..." Kagome mewed in Neko as she wrapped her arms around her chest even though the was no wound anywhere on her ribcage.
"What hurts?" Akari mewed transforming in the amazing way she did ready to carry Kagome.
Kagome climbed onto her back and Kagaru jumped onto Akari's head. Akari took off to the sky heading for the healers hut.
When Kagome say where she was headed she whispered in Neko,"Not the Healers hut. Go to the forest. Find a waterfall."
"Whats wrong Kagome?" Kagaru asked as Akari searched for the kind of place Kagome asked.
"It feels... like... something... something is... swelling... in my... chest." Kagome gasped out talking heavy breaths as a sheen of sweat spread over her brow."And... it's tr... trying to... r...rip.. it's way... out." Kagome ground out as tears of pain spilled from her eyes.
"What is it Kagome? Whats happening?" Kagaru questioned worriedly.
"I don't... don't know,"Kagome whispered in a scared tone. She managed to look up at Kagaru with sad, scared, and teary eyes."I'm... s..scared. A... Akari wha... whats happening... to m...me?" Kagome cried.
"I don't know Kagome but everything will be okay. I promise you." Akari said softly. They flew for another few moments and then Akari spotted a clearing in the forest net to a waterfall. Akari started a steady descent down to the clearing.
"Why do you want to be near a waterfall?" Kagaru asked.
"I'm not sure. ...My instincts... are t...telling me... to... go to...a... a waterfall." Kagome whispered between panting breaths as she clutched at her chest which felt like it was being torn to shreds from the inside out.
They landed on the shore and Kagome stumbled off of Akari and towards the waterfall. As she slowly entered the mist it seemed to cool the searing pain. Every sprinkle of water that touched her skin cooled the tearing and shredding though it still felt like something was swelling inside of her chest.
The swelling slowly stopped giving way instead to a soft tingling and a feeling of rightness that slowly spread over her entire body, she had only ever felt like this when she was in InuYasha's arms. When the tingling died out it left the feeling of rightness and everything suddenly became clearer as if some one had made everything sharper. She could smell everything, all the colors and sounds were brighter and louder. She felt stronger and more confident than ever.
There was a smear of black in her vision. Kagome tried blowing her long raven black bangs out of her face but they just swept back down into her field of vision. She giggled and tucked her bangs behind her ear noticing that her hair was much softer than usual almost... silky.
Kagome gasped when she felt her ear... or lack of one. She didn't have an ear on the side of her head but when she had gone to run her hand through her hair she found two triangular ears atop her head. She looked at her hands and found that she had claws. Kagome bit her lip like she always did when she got nervous but squeaked in surprise when she felt something sharp bite into her lower lip. She felt something long and sleek wrapped around her waist. When she looked down she saw a long silky tail. Her eyes widened. She walked over to a still pool of water so she could see her reflection.
Kagome was worried about the change. She took a deep breath and inhaled the scents of her surroundings. She could smell everything. She could smell the crisp coolness of the clean running water, the smell of many different plants, trees, bushes, grasses, and flowers all with different scents. But two scents stood out. They comforted her. Calmed her slightly. They smelt familiar. One was like the cool water and the sweet mixed scents on a spring breeze. Refreshing and other smelt warm and earthy. Soothing and grounded.
Kagome turned around and looked for the sources of the two scents. The refreshing and free scent came from Akari and the soothing and grounded scent came from Kagaru.
"Is it bad?" Kagome mewed wringing her hands and biting her lip with her new found tail curled nervously around her waist. She kept her eyes trained souly on the ground.
"Kagome..." Kagaru trailed off scanning her face with wide eyes.
"You... you look..." Akari looked at her with wide eyes.
"You look... absolutely amazing." Kagaru whispered in awe.
"Really?" Kagome mewed softly looking up from the ground to their astonished faces.
"Absolutely." Akari purred finally breaking from her trance-like state.
Kagome smiled faintly and walked over to the still puddle she had planned to look in earlier.
Closing her eyes She turned her head down to face the puddle, then took a slow deep breath and opened her eyes. Immediately her eyes got wide and she gasped. Kagome could barely recognize herself.
The person who looked back at her was beautiful. She had long, silky, raven black hair with dark blue streaks that came down to her waist in very slight waves. She had long luscious eye lashes that framed her beautiful midnight blue eyes. Her skin was sun kissed and her complexion was perfect. Her two triangular cat ears sat atop her head and were the same black as her hair with dark blue tips. She had pearly white fangs and teeth and a long, sleek, silky black tail with a dark blue tip.
Kagome placed one of her clawed hands over her mouth in a soundless gasp.
"I...how is this possible?" Kagome mewed in a soft whisper as she touched her face and then looked at herself.
"It seems... it seems as if you've been a half-demon your whole life... You just... had your demon sealed away... The invoking of your spiritual powers must have stirred it... then when we created the bond... it was awakened and released it's self." Akari said slowly sometimes pausing to think it over before she continued then she nodded her head as she confirmed what she believed aloud.
"What does the bond do anyway?" Kagome asked finally talking normally again.
"The Kinship Bond seals you with blood as our family. The Bond of Family, as the proper term for the bond is, allows your powers to blend with ours. We can no longer be harmed by your powers and you can no longer be harmed by ours. It also ties our life spans. Had you not been a half demon you would still have lived as long as a full demon and because your blood holds a powerful demons blood that allows you to have lived as long as a full demon." Akari meowed.
"If you make swords from our fangs that should help you control our powers. You can draw upon us now as we can draw upon you. It's really kind of cool when you think about it." Kagaru purred.
Kagome smiled. "Well then I'll need a fang from each of you and Kagaru I'll need you to keep a hot steady blaze going for me so I can forge these swords."
"Okay!" Kagaru agreed excitedly.
That night Kagome forged the two swords Kibasaiga and Tsumesigua twin blades that Kagome used for taming Akari's and Kagaru's powers. Over the next four days Kagome trained by the waterfall learning the basics of what she needed to know so she could handle her new twin blades she continued to train into the fourth day until she got some disturbing news from Akari.
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"Kagome!"
Kagome heard Akari yowl from across the field but kept her eyes firmly fixed on her opponent who happened to be Kagaru.
"Stop the practice fight!" Akari yelled tension obvious in her voice. "I need you both to pay attention! Now!"
Kagome and Kagaru bowed to each other with ears back and tails down and still signaling that the fight was over. Then they turned to see what had gotten Akari so upset.
"What is Akari?" Kagome asked sheathing Kibasaiga and walking over to her obviously distressed friend.
"The West is in trouble!" Akari yowled. "The Silver Inu's of the West are going to attack the North because they think that the North has kidnapped the South's Princess, Lady Ky and she has an arranged marriage with the Youngest Western Prince, Lord InuYasha!"
Kagome's eyes teared up at InuYasha's name and her heart felt like it was being wrenched out of her chest and stomped on when she comprehended that she could never have been with him even if he did love her. She didn't understand why it hurt so much more now than it ever had before.
Mate is gone, a voice whispered sadly in her head.
Akari looked at Kagome with soft eyes understanding that it hurt Kagome to talk about InuYasha.
You will now relive our past. You will know what happened to us and why we are here, The voice in her head purred sadly.
Kagome's eyes started to droop closed. She felt as if the world were swaying and twisting beneath her feet. She fell to her knee's holding her head as a barrage of images and memories hit her hard and fast.
"Kagome!" Kagaru shouted worry and surprised etched in her tone.
"Kagome! Kagome what's wrong!" Akari shouted.
"To... many." Kagome whispered speaking in Neko once more.
"To many what?" Kagaru asked Kagome.
"To many... To many... memories." Kagome mewed as she curled into a ball on the rocky shore of the river.
"What is she talking about Akari?" Kagaru asked confusion vivid in her features.
"She's only known her past from when she was bound as a human. She is now reliving her past from before then." Akari said.
Kagome whimpered as she began to get a headache from attempting to depict the images into something that made sense. Slowly she succumbed to the darkness that was sleep and let it soothe her.
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Kagome opened her eyes and saw the strangest sight.
A young girl no older than five lay sleeping in the sun. She was a Neko Hanyou. Kagome could tell because of her triangular cat ears and long sleek cat tail that curled around her sleeping form.
The girl had long raven black hair with dark blue streaks that came down in slight waves.
She seemed familiar. The words that rang through her mind earlier echoed quietly through the air around her.
You will now relive our past. You will know what happened to us and why we are here.
Kagome gasped and looked down at the familiar girl.
This girl is me. Kagome thought. I'm actually going to watch as I relive my past.
The girl stirred. Then slowly woke. She stretched her arms over her head and yawned. She looked around surprised for a moment but then remembered that she was visiting the Western Lands.
This place was so strange to her. It had wide open flat fields of wheat and plains of golden grass most of the grass was taller than her waist. This was so different from her home.
Her ears drooped as she thought of her home. She wanted to go back the her home where tall Red Woods dominated the Lands of the South. Where she could see her people. Even though she was only five years old Kagome took the responsibilities of a princess very seriously and was loved very much by her people.
The young Kagome sighed. She stood finally, brushing off her light pink kimono and hakama's she walked towards a large castle and wiped away the tears that came to her eyes as she had to force herself into her human form. She remembered her father telling her to not show she was a hanyou to anyone until he said to.
Kagome loved her father but she hated to be in her human form. It dulled her senses and made her weak. If there was one thing she had learned is that a weak hanyou is a dead hanyou. After all they are just weak, pathetic, Half-breeds. Or at least that's what her mother used to tell her when Kagome's mother was alive.
Kagome felt her tail recede and her ears move and change into human ears on the side of her head. She could feel her claws and fangs retreat and all of her senses dulled. She sighed and walked up to her father who was waiting for her by the horses. She smiled up at him and he lead her into the village having one of his guards lead the horses to the castle stable.
Kagome's father lead her to a tall beautiful woman holding the hand of a young Inu Hanyou child that looked to be about Kagome's age. The woman waved to them and Kagome, being the shy child that she was, hid behind her fathers legs and held on to his tail with a light blush across her features.
Her father, Akenmaru, merely laughed and patted her head.
"I apologize but Kagome is very shy around new people." Akenmaru laughed. "Isn't that right Kagome?"
Kagome's blush deepened but she nodded none the less averting her eyes to the ground.
"Now come out and meet them." Akenmaru coaxed.
Kagome looked up and took a hesitant step forward them looked to her father and said something in Neko.
"What if they do not like me father?" Kagome mewed wringing her hands in front of her.
"Lady Izayoi has been wanting to meet you for some time. So please just say hello to Lady Izayoi and Lord InuYasha." Akenmaru purred.
Kagome smiled widely and then turned to Lady Izayoi and Lord InuYasha.
"It is a pleasure t meet you Lady Izayoi and Lord InuYasha. I'm Princess Kagome Higurashi of the Southern Ebony Neko's. Please feel free to callme Ky though." Kagome said curtsying to both in turn and then smiling to them.
"That was very good Kagome." Akenmaru said proudly. Kagome beamed.
"It's very nice to meet you Lady Kagome Higurashi." Izayoi giggled curtsying to her."Go ahead InuYasha. Introduce yourself."
InuYasha sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Pleased to meet you Lady Kagome. I'm Prince InuYasha Takahashi of the Silver Inu's." InuYasha greeted calmly.
The memory got fuzzy and she remembered the rest but didn't live it. She relived the experience of nine more years and then she blinked and when she opened her eyes she was in a field of wild flowers atop a set of rolling hills when she looked around she spotted herself a few yards away. She was fourteen years old and was picking flowers at the top of a hill.
The younger Kagome grinned as she looked at her bouquet of flowers and then plucked a blade of grass from the ground and wrapped it around the stems of her flowers and tied it off. She smiled at the flowers and took about three steps before.
"Eeep!" Kagome squeaked as she was tackled playfully by InuYasha. He turned so that he took the fall and Kagome was clutched safely to his chest as they rolled down a hill laughing and squealing with joy. They finally stopped at the base of the hill Kagome was on top of InuYasha.
Both of them were still laughing as they sat up Kagome sitting on top of InuYasha as he wrapped his arms around her waist and she leaned into his chest. Finally they both calmed only to burst into another fit of laughter as they saw each other. They had flowers and grass clinging to them from their tumble. They had dirt all over themselves and both of their faces were flushed from laughing so much.
They started to pick the flowers and grass off of each other and brush off the dirt. InuYasha stood up and pulled Kagome to her feet. Purposefully pulling her close enough to him that he could bury his nose in her neck and inhale her scent. Kagome gave a contented sigh and rested her hands on his chest and her head on his shoulder just relaxing into him with a happy smile.
They started to walk back to the castle when the miasma hit them. It was sudden and strong.
The memory began to blur but the last thing Kagome saw was Naraku carrying her off to his castle. Kagome slowly lived through three years of torcher by Naraku's hands. Then she remembered her escape. She remembered how she had fallen through the well she remembered searching frantically for a way home and that the well wouldn't let her through. She remembered finding descendants of the Higurashi family who took her in and helped her to look. She remembered a long vicious battle that stole her memory from her and sealed her in her human form. Then she relived all of her life up to the moment she had succumbed to the darkness for sleep and instead found memories.
Kagome started to wake but it felt as though she had actually relived all of those memories so she was sore and tired. Just before Kagome was about to get up she heard a soft purring. It soothed her and made her sleepy. She let the purr sooth her and lull her into a deep restful sleep.
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Okay so what do ya think? Sorry it took so long but I really have been busy lately