Hello!
First of all, sorry for the long wait! Seems school had plans for everyone to write essays like EVERYDAY! AIMS practice...
Sorry again, I tried my best to find time to write and with not knowing which stories to write then...I don't know. I have even been thinking of erasing one of them. Battle to the Inheritance isn't really working for me now so, I might put it on hiatus for the time being. We will see.
But anyways, thank you all for the support/advice/reviews/readers! I really appreaciate it!
SPEACIAL THANKS:
Sugar0o: Ha-ha, your review made me laugh! Well, Inuyasha does put some humor into the story and just wait until Jakotsu comes in! Thank you for the review! I really do enjoy reading them. Hope you enjoy this new updated chapter!
Suki Yasutori: Well the meeting between Kagome and Ichigo will be kind of the climax in a way or should I say foreshadowing. I already have it pictured in my head of the BIG MEETING between them! And of course Bankotsu and Jakotsu are coming in! Why wouldn't they? They have to! Jakotsu has to annoy someone...hehe, thanks for the review! Hope you enjoy!
shippofan2k: Thanks for the review! I am glad you enjoyed it! Well, here's a new update!
IchigoxRukia: Kagome does have her plans. Unlike my other stories, she is stronger in here (has an evil side which I love!) Jakotsu flirting will happen! I can already see it happen! Kikyo fan? Well I do think her abilities are interesting but not to the point where she is my favorite or something. I don't even like her to be with Inuyasha hehe. Thanks for the review! Hope you like this chapter!
TriOblivion: Well, we will just have to wait and see who this other female might be right? Thanks for the review! Hope you like this chapter!
Shokisme-Itakede: Kagome stills doesn't know that she held feelings for Inuyasha but as the story progresses...maybe she will see flashbacks that make her remember and even Ichigo? We will see. Thank you so much for the review. Hope you enjoy this chapter!
omaomae: Haha well the Band of Seven will be like the glue to get Kagome and the Espadas to meet Ichigo and Inuyasha more offeten and of course, more battles! Thanks for your awesome review! I really do enjoy reading them! Hope you enjoy!
Projekt-z: Thank you for the compliment! I always get happy knowing someone is enjoying this story. Thank you for reading. Here is another chapter.
AnimeMixDJ: We all wonder what Kagome wants with Ichigo. I think we all have a pretty good idea...right? Haha, thanks for the review! Hope you enjoy.
krysten: You know? That isn't a bad idea. I was going to have Renkotsu fight maybe Hitsugaya but Ikkaku can had some humor. Thanks for the advice! Thanks for the review too!
demongirl2003: Thanks for the review! Hope you enjoy this new chapter!
sesshimy: Thank you! I really like how this story turned out too. Hope it continues on with fans liking it!
And here it is...Chapter 21! (Again sorry for the long wait!)
"I guess I underestimated your knowledge," brown eyes looked over his shoulder, seeing the man he spoke to sitting down on his side of the throne that he had placed in the cave: "Naraku."
Naraku smirked at the comment: "If my guesses are correct, Inuyasha and the others have already realized my miasma is gone. They go crazy not knowing where my location is, did you know? I am at least ten steps ahead of them."
"Well, you aren't the only one who hid his miasma so well, Naraku. I also ordered the other Espada and my two comrades to hide their reiatsu."
"Oh, did you Aizen?" grinned Naraku. He got up from his place, walking towards his new 'partner': "I guess we do think alike."
"But answer one question of mine," continued Aizen, his eye brow rising up. "Why did you chose this mountain of all mountains and all possible hiding places?"
He only received a chuckle coming out from Naraku's throat observing as he went towards the exit of the main room: "Mt. Hakurei has pure energy but also demonic. Not only is the Band of Seven on our side but also a special soul that was buried in here."
Aizen's eye brow shot higher up: "Does that mean that demons can't even feel our energy in here?"
"Not at all."
"I see. You placed a barrier around here, huh?" questioned Aizen with a bit of amusement coming from his tone.
"A barrier that repels against demons of course, humans can't do much harm to me," smirked Naraku.
"What about Shinigami? Will it affect them?"
"Who knows. We will see."
Kagome's eyes narrowed down as she looked away from the ogre in front of her. "Do you sense that too, Kagome?" questioned Tia. "I can smell wolves coming."
Slender fingers snapped, two white ribbons stained with blood turning back into feathery creatures which landed on a near tree branch above Kagome. She noticed Kyokotsu putting his arm back in place with no pain as it attached like nothing. "Kyokotsu, remember what I said. Keep Ichigo Kurosaki alive."
A smirk appeared on the ogre's face: "I don't even know what he looks like."
"That is why you ask," glared Kagome. Kagome walked forward: "It's the same wolf from before, he is coming this way."
"Where are you going?" questioned Tia also noticing Kohaku following behind. She exhaled, doing the same. Stopping at a hill, they looked down to see Koga and his wolves running up. Koga stopped half way with widened eyes, surprised to see the girl he loved. Kagome's hand threw two objects towards Koga's legs. Tia's eyes widened only a few: "Did you just throw back his two shards?"
"Naraku-sama will understand," she replied back. "I am not stupid Tia. I know what his plans are and I have my own. Trust me, giving him back the shards will be benifical to us. Makes the battle more exciting, doesn't it?"
Tia shrugged at the statement: "Well you are correct in that."
Their talk was interrupted by another rough voice coming down the hill: "KAGOME! Kagome! Why are you being like this! First you wound me and then you return my shards like nothing! What are you planning?"
Turning around, his eyes starred at her back. Before long, a much larger hand stretched down from the bushes coming after one of Koga's wolves. Catching the wolf in his arms, he jumped away with the other wolves as he looked up to see Kagome and the other two gone. His attention grew back at the supposed rumored ogre coming out from the bushes.
"Ah! Shards! I will take them!"
Ginta and Hakkaku managed to catch up only to stare with an awed expression: "L-Look..." whispered Hakkaku. "H-How can his body be so huge?"
Koga gazed over at the ogre in disgut: "Where's Kagome?"
Kyokotsu only smirked, seeing the annoyance rubbing over the wolf's face.
"I SAID WHERE IS KAGOME!"
"You mean the wench that just disappeared? How would I know? That wench cut off my arm right now! If the one thing I want to do to her now is rip her off into pieces!" He scoffed, remembering the strength the girl had hidden. And she was hiding more...so much more.
Koga's pupils tightened in a slit: "So I am guessing you are this ogre eating demons?" He rubbed his nose with his knuckles, cracking them in the process: "You reak of graveyard soil!"
"Oh? So I still smell?" laughed Kyokotsu. "It has been some time since I have been able to stand from my grave." His arm stretched out towards the leader of the group: "AND YOU WILL BECOME PART OF KYOKOTSU'S FLESH!"
Easily with one jump, Koga felt his power back in his legs, making him smirk. "Go back to hell bastard!" He aimed a kick towards Jakotsu, immediately hitting Jakotsu on his jaw.
Losing his balance on his feet, Jakotsu fell down to the ground with the noise of pain echoing in the forest. 'Just what the heck is he? He doesn't reak of Naraku's scent so he can't be one of his...can he? Ugh! But I can smell Kagome's scent on him as well, right on his left arm...'
He noticed Kyokotsu sitting back up, cracking his jaw at the same time.
"So let me guess you are just an ogre who rose from his grave?" exclaimed Koga with anger in his tone.
"Thanks to this shard!" Kyokotsu came to point his forehead, making Koga look at it in confusion. 'A shard? Shard! Kagome! What the heck are thinking!'
Both Ichigo and Inuyasha ran beside each other after hearing a few crashes in the forest. The rest of the gang were left behind, trying to catch up in their own pace. Inuyasha scoffed: "Damn! I can smell the mangy wolf already!"
"Stop complaining!" Ichigo jumped over a log only to hear Inuyasha's next words: "Yeah but I can also smell graveyard soil and it reaks big time! It makes me vomit!"
"Makes you vomit? Isn't that girlfriend of yours from the graveyard too?" Ichigo smirked at his own words only to get a glare with golden eyes in the middle. "You know nothing about us! So don't talk crap!"
"You really think Kagome hasn't told me the whole story?"
Inuyasha stopped in his tracks: "What did she tell you?"
Ichigo continued to run in his road, ignoring the question he was given. His only goal was to get to Kagome as fast as possible. Even if it was by force...he needed to. His thoughts came to a halt as soon as he saw Ayame ahead. "Ayame?"
"Ichigo! I just saw Koga running up a hill not far from here!"
Ichigo's eyes narrowed down noticing Inuyasha appearing next to him from a jump he had taken awhile back. "Where is he?" exclaimed Inuyasha.
"Follow me!" shouted Ayame.
Koga dodged yet another punch coming from his opponent. Landing on a boulder that he had previously thrown, he balanced himself on it, watching carefully. Before long, his nose had caught the smell of two familiar people and another he wasn't sure of. He looked behind his shoulder to see Inuyasha jumping up with his Tessaiga already out.
"AH!" Slashing the blade across Kyokotsu's arm, Ichigo came behind along with Ayame running towards Koga.
"Koga!"
"Stay back Ayame! This guy isn't someone to take so lightly..." Koga's eye brows meet at a glare.
Inuyasha's bare feet connected with the dirty: "So what exactly is he?"
"A human," replied Koga.
"A human?" repeated Ichigo coming closer. "He looks more like a beast to me."
Inuyasha scoffed, getting back into his defensive stance: "I don't care! Time to kick his ass!"
"Kagome was here a little while ago," the words were whispered, but caught by both the guys that had arrived. Ichigo looked behind his shoulder with a word-less expression. "K-Kagome?"
Inuyasha grabbed hold of Koga's collar, bringing him closer to his face as he growled: "And why the hell didn't you stop her! Huh! You mangy wolf! You let her leave just like that! WHAT THE HELL!"
Kyokotsu grabbed their attention, starring at the two that had arrived: "Oh? Brought some comrades to help you battle me? Such weaklings really!"
Ichigo grabbed hold of the hilt to his Zanpaktou, tightening the firm grip: "With what Koga just said...Kagome was here, huh? Where is she? You must know right?" Without getting his answer, both Inuyasha and Ichigo jumped up, dodging yet another of Kyokotsu's attacks. "It seems like this guy won't give us our answers that easily..." Inuyasha bittered out his words, getting his next attack ready.
Ichigo revealed his full bare blade: "Then let's get our answers by force."
Deadly but heavenly eyes watched the battle unfold. Thoughts running through a confused mind. 'Ichigo Kurosaki, huh?' . The woman noticed Kohaku landing next to her, able to keep the branch still from where she sat. "Kagome-sama, Naraku has ordered us to go back." Two looking-bee demons flew behind him as surveillance.
"Tia and you can go on ahead, I will catch up," her gaze never left the blood spilling and the groans of pain being heard.
"Are you going to stay here to watch the battle?"
"I am just waiting to see what Kyokotsu will do. Let's see if he can follow orders..."
Her eyes glided to watch the silver haired hanyou attacking with his own sword. "Kohaku, before you leave, could I ask you a question?"
"Sure, anything Kagome-sama."
Her slender pale index finger pointed at the hanyou below: "By any chance...do you know his name?"
"Well, yeah. He is Inuyasha. Half demon half human from the famous Inutashio," Kohaku stood up. "Why?"
"He seems...so recognizable. I feel like I know him," Kagome whispered her last sentence. Her eyes widened with fear as the pain in her head came back...only twice as much as before.
The same hanyou pinned against a tree...
A weird looking necklace landing over his head...
His claws breaking through the stands of hair that were in his way...
Lips kissing a human's...surrounded my fireflies and trees with the shadows of the night...
"-sama?"
Her brown eyes blinked at the sudden voice. She looked at Kohaku: "Kohaku?"
"Are you alright, Kagome-sama? You started crying..."
Kagome's fingers meet her cheeks were the tears were slowly sliding down. Cleaning the off, she stood from the branch: "Kohaku, please keep this a secret from everyone, will you?" Her eyes meet his. He nodded, bowing down: "Yes, Kagome-sama."
In that instant, he disappeared into the branches of the trees ahead, leaving Kagome. Her hand came up once again to her head, feeling the pain still. Images still running through.
A hand lightly playing with the hanyou's ears...
A campfire where a woman with a large boomerang and a monk laughing at the hanyou's fight with what looked like a smaller demon fox...
The image of the same hanyou fading into the darkness of the forest...
Tears running down someone's face to the ground...
A view of a shrine with a well...
Brown eyes and a smile to match..."Hello Kagome, my name is Ichigo Kurosaki, your new neighbor."
Kagome clutched her chest, her heart pulsing with a pain that was unexpressable. Her eyes turning into slits, watching both men fight below. 'That's it! I need to know why those two make such images cross my mind! Especially him...Ichigo Kurosaki! That image of him smiling...knowing my name and introducing himself...' Standing up straighter with her breath slowly coming back to normal. 'I won't be able to concentrate on battles if I keep seeing them! I will make them disappear!'
Inuyasha wipped away the blood streaming down his mouth. "Keh! Bastard! He is strong as heck!"
Ichigo blocked yet another attack with his sword, the reflection of his face on his blade showing the sweat and his own breath fighting to push Kyokotsu's fist away: "Where's Kagome!"
Koga jumped up, his kick making contact with Kyokotsu's jaw. The kick pushed him back, freeing Ichigo from the friction he was trying to give off. Catching his breath, he noticed Kyokotsu easily getting up from the bare kick.
"I will devour you all! And get those two shards!"
Inuyasha's eyes averted from the ogre to Koga: "S-Shards? What is he talking about?"
Koga's eyes hid behind his dark bangs, the shadow covering over them. His hands formed fists, his own body shaking: "K-Kagome..."
"WHAT ABOUT KAGOME?" shouted Inuyasha already done with this silence. The secrets. The lies. The abandoment. The betrayal. The loss from his heart...
In just a matter of seconds, all of their eyes slowly glided back to Kyokotsu after hearing what sounded like gushed out blood. "You really think that hurts, wench?"
"That wasn't what I was after," brown eyes narrowed down to a slit as everyone starred at what looked like a pale hand in Kyokotsu's forehead, blood spilling slowly. In just one grace, the same hand came out, carrying the shard where it occupied. "I will be taking this..."
Kyokotsu's eyes widened: "YOU DAMN WOMAN! GIVE THAT BACK!"
His arm stretched out to grab her, a pulsing stopping him half way. He was on a fingertip away from grabbing her, strangle her, kill her! His body fell back, giving a shake of the ground. Brown eyes glared at the three men below. With her grace, her body slowly went down to meet earth. "That is what you get for disobeying orders."
Ichigo's eyes widened even more, recalling the girl in front. Blood dripped down from her arm, the same one grabbing the small shard.
"Kagome!" shouted Ayame from behind. She stood only a few feet away from her so-called-fiance.
Ichigo managed to find his voice. "K-Kagome?" He took a step closer but halted seeing Kagome's bloody arm stretch out to the side. The same white bird landing elegantly on her knuckles. "Kagome?" he whispered with concern.
"I don't know why..." bittered out Kagome. "But you three managed to make me feel pain without laying a single finger on me." Her same scowl came back. "All of you standing here gave me images in my head that I don't even know where they came from..."
"Images?" whispered Ichigo. "Kagome? What are you talk-" he was unaware of the sudden change in the bird. The same ribbon appeared, swiftly floating around her arm like a feather falling down from the sky.
"I will eliminate you both, Ichigo Kurosaki," her gaze shifted to the hanyou. "And Inuyasha. I want my answers! How in the seven hells do you know me so well? Why do you chase after me!"
Ichigo's glare matched hers: "You want to know why?" His hold on his hilt of the sword tightened. "How can I let one of my own friends be devoured by the darkness!"
"I was born with the darkness...to serve it," Kagome spitted out.
"No," interrupted Inuyasha. "You were with us! You were our comrade! Don't you remember a damn thing? Everything we've been through?"
"So does this mean you won't leave me alone?" questioned Kagome in a whisper.
Ichigo and Inuyasha stayed silent, taking little glances at each other. "No." They both answered at the same time.
"Fine," growled Kagome under her breath: "Then don't complain once I send you both to hell!"
Well, there was an unexpected meeting! Not only Ichigo and Kagome with Inuyasha in the mix!
Don't worry, there will be more surprises. And I do have the next chapter scripted haha!
Just need to type it up now.
Soul Society will come into the picture next chapter and Jakotsu too!
Let's see how that will turn out...
Either Remember or Black Flames will be updated before another chapter of Miko and Shinigami Love. Still debating.
Thank you for reading! Hope you enjoyed!
See you next chapter!