Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ In The End ❯ Word Gets Out ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8: Word Gets Out

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After getting home, listening to her mother’s tearfully apologies, her father thanks for saving him, Jessica was finally sitting down with her head on the dinning room table while Kagome sat next to her brushing her still damp hair. She tried telling her no, but she started doing it anyway. Her mom didn’t have to worry about Inu Yasha getting everything wet in the house, in true dog style he shook himself dry from walking into the house. If Jessica hadn’t been there she would have said they were lying.

After Alana went home and everyone had their wounds dressed [plus, Jessica needed dry clothes], Koga was told in short words that if he ever said anything to her that made her upset like that again even Kagome wouldn’t be able to help him. Kagome whole heartedly agreed after Sesshoumaru finally explained to her why Sephiroth had been after her and what caused him to find her so fast.

Jessica sat there half heartily listening to her parents talk to Sesshoumaru about what had happened in San Francisco. Something about Genesis and a windmill. Vaguely she hear Kagome tell her that she was done before someone shoved her face into the table and yelled, “I’m gonna prove if all this is true once and for all!!” The buzz of an electric razor was heard just before it met her scalp, clearing away a few good inches of hair before stopping. “Well I’ll be damned… it is beautiful…”

Roxxane jumped backwards as Jessica flew up, she did not look happy when she turned to face her. Laughing, Roxxane fled to their parents’ room in back as Jessica attempted to vault over the table to get her. She didn’t get too far, just as she moved to jump Kagome grabbed her before she could clear the table. In the end the both of them ended up on the floor. A flash went off above her causing her to lift her head up. Her mom stood above her with a camera, ready to help her up off of Kagome. Taking a look at the screen she saw that the picture was of the back of her neck. All the hair was gone up about two and a half inches from the neck. Roxxane must have used dad’s razor… she thought as she looked at the nearly bare skin. Nearly being that in the very middle of the bald spot was solid black Roman numeral two with a grey wing behind it. After so many years of growing it should have been stretched out and blurry, but what she was looking at was surprisingly beautiful. Someone spent a lot of time on it, because this is nicer than Sephiroth’s!

Then she realized something that caused her to want to cry. Her mom looked at her. Unsure of what was wrong and asked, “Jessica what’s wrong?”

Sniffling, Jessica whispered, “I just realized who my real dad was….”

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Boxes and boxes everywhere, everything in the closet was is boxes. Neither of the girls had unpacked their things after so many years of moving around. Which made finding the damn trunk that Jessica was hiding her graphic novels in even harder. Inu Yasha grumbled under his breathe, how hard could it be to find the damn things?! It took nearly the entire trip to their house just to get her to spill on where she was keeping her art supplies, and then they find out that she was hiding them with her books! Roxxane told them that she saw her putting them all away, but didn’t think anything of it since apparently she had over a hundred books in her collection and they piled up a bit.

“I think I found them,” Kevin called from the other end of the closet [and it was a big one at that].

Inu Yasha moved over to where he was sitting, careful not to touch any of the bandages on the kid. When Sephiroth threw him down he hurt his arm and his neck was black and blue by the time they got him home. Sephiroth must have been gentle with Jessica because she didn’t have any bruises around her neck but she did have one from when Genesis hit her and that was worse than any of Kevin’s. Kevin moved a blanket away that was covering the trunk from view, a big padlock keeping it from being opened. It seemed Jessica had no plans to go back to drawing anytime soon.

Hefting the thing out of the closet, Inu Yasha lifted it up and carried it down stairs. The case had to be at least a hundred and fifty pounds but it was still no match for his strength. Kevin [the big one] watched him walk down the stairs and moved the coffee table out of the way so there’d be somewhere to drop the thing. Setting it down he noticed Jessica was in the middle of a break down.

“Realized that Hojo was your father, huh?” Jessica answered a gurgled ‘uh-huh’ from her mother’s shoulder, who was attempting to calm the poor girl down.

“Who’s Hojo?” Roxxane asked, completely confused on why her sister was freaking out.

Kevin [the little one this time] walked over to Jessica’s pile of stuff and pulled out a book. Inu Yasha instantly recognized it as on of the Dirge of Cerberus strategy guides. Jessica did say she loved the Final Fantasy games… I said I was giving up drawing not playing video games, I'd sooner be dead than stop, she had told him. Kevin flipped through the book and held it up to show Roxxane. “Hojo was the scientist guy that Sephiroth was talking about.” Pointing at two people on the page he continued, “This is Hojo here and this is Lucrecia, her mom.”

Roxxane stared at the pictures, clearly confused by the picture she was looking at. “I’m guessing that both of you got your mom’s looks cause that guy is funky lookin'… But it looks like Sephiroth inherited the crazy from the other dude…”

Something popped loudly across the room, causing Jessica to turn to see what made it. Sitting on the other side on the couch was Sesshoumaru, hold what was left of the lock that had been on her trunk. Throwing it to on side, he opened the trunk and revealed all the things she had been trying to hide. In careful little stacks sat her comic books, each one carefully placed inside the trunk.

Everyone was shocked to say the least. They didn't really expect there to be that many books in the trunk, they thought it was just exaggeration. Sesshoumaru didn't bat an eyelash though; he just started moving books out of the way until he uncovered Jessica's pens at the bottom.

Jessica's face was bright red with embarrassment, she felt bad about having so many books and to have everyone looking through them was making it worse. Even Koga was looking through the stacks of comics as Sesshoumaru sifted them out as neatly as she had put them in. Standing up, Sesshoumaru walked over to Jessica, all her supplies in his arms and handed the mass of stuff to her.

"The next time you attempt this there will be repercussions..." Which meant, 'Do this again and I'll kick your ass from here to next Tuesday'.

Jessica took her things, carefully balancing the copic markers on top, and mumbled, "Yes, yes, I wont do anything this stupid again..." Huffing over to the side of the couch she began placing her pens where they had been, making sure that no one messed with her comic books while she wasn't looking. Jessica looked over the couch, seeing that her parents were once again talking with Sesshoumaru. So when she wasn't looking Inu Yasha came up and grabbed one of the notebooks from the pile of art stuff and flipped it open. Jessica immediately notice and tried to stop him.

"Give that back!" she yelled. It was bad enough that everybody was looking through her comic books, but she did not want anyone looking her doodles!

Carelessly flipping through the book, Inu Yasha looked through what Jessica had done. "This is better than what I thought you'd have. At least it's not all fan art..." A book smacked him on the side of his face, distracting him for a moment.

Jessica shot up and tried to grab the book back from him. At the last second he pulled the book backwards in attempt to stop her but as she grabbed on he pulled back, causing the book to flying behind them and hit Koga dead in the face. Everyone turned to see what had happened. The book flopped down onto his lap, glaring at Inu Yasha like it was his fault that it happened.

"You did that on purpose half-breed!" Koga yelled at the smirking dog. Koga stood up and got into Inu Yasha's face, causing the poor abused book to drop to the floor.

"It was an accident wolf, if anything it was her fault, she threw a book at me!" he barked back pointing at Jessica in his defense as she tried not to laugh.

"No, it was your fault for touching the damn book in the first place!"

"Hello everyone!" Rin yelled as she walked in the front door, catching nearly everyone off guard. Sesshoumaru was used to her doing such things. Following her in came Yuki, who was going to run to Jessica but stopped at the sight of so many comics, and Chiaki in tow carrying something wrapped in a blanket. Looking around, Rin smiled as she said, "When you said Jessica had a lot of books I didn't think this many!"

"That's right; make fun of Jessica because she likes to read comic books... I see how it is..." Jessica pouted.

Little Yuki stepped in between the still growling men and picked up the book that had fallen and scurried over to Jessica and held her book in front of her and said, "Tenchi?"

Jessica looked down at the little boy mildly surprised at what he had called her, she didn't understand a lot of Japanese but she understood when someone was calling her an angel. And since he was calling her 'Jessie-neechan' before, she knew something was up. "I'm an angel?"

Chiaki snorted, clearly pissed off at his little brother [or just the world in general], and said, "The brat's been here two minutes and he already blew it."

"I knew there was something else that no one was telling me," Jessica exclaimed as she looked down at Yuki, who was doing his best to give her puppy-dog eyes. It should be illegal to do that when you're half dog... Taking the book from the boy's hands she opened a page and took the pen he held up to her, she started to draw. "So, what else is there to know? That you've know about this since feudal times?"

"She's smarter than she looks..." Chiaki snickered, amused that Jessica had inadvertently figured out what his parents had been keeping a secret.

Jessica looked at everyone, the shocked silent looks on their faces. "I was joking!" she yelled.

"It wasn't that we knew about the whole Final Fantasy thing the whole time, "Inu Yasha said, seeing that Sesshoumaru wasn't going to help with this at all.”We only knew about you and Sephiroth. And we didn't even realized that it was you that we were saving until Sephiroth tried stopping us when she saved you."

"But I've never been back in time!"

"That is the point. Whatever will happen that cause you to be thrown back over five hundred years hasn't happened yet," Sesshoumaru added standing up and taking the oddly moving bundle from Chiaki as he struggled to keep the thing form dropping. "The Jessica we met was battle harden with a scar running across her cheek from a previous encounter with Sephiroth and spoke Japanese."

"You mean she's-" Kagome started, eyes wide in shock. Turning to Koga, who up to this point was very confused over what was happening other than the half breed throwing a book at him, and said, "She's Tsubasa!"

Koga looked at Jessica, who was getting more confused as the seconds ticked by, answering, "She can't be. Her tits aren't big enough..."

"Okay, this room needs subtitles or something cause I don't know what's going on!" Roxxane yelled out, slightly pissed that people kept talking in a way she couldn't understand.

"He said she can't be the same person cause her chest isn’t big enough," Inu Yasha gladly added.

Jessica started throwing more books at the wolf and before suddenly stopping. Yuki somehow worked his way into Jessica's lap as she threw the books, snuggling himself into place so he could watch Jessica draw. When he realized she stopped drawing to attack Koga he tapped her arm. Then she realized that there was someone sitting in her lap.

"Get off her brat; she doesn't want you hanging all over her!" Chiaki growled, not happy that his little brother was all over Jessica when he couldn't get near her without her hitting him.

Yuki moved around until he had her in a hug, his head right underneath her chest, and yelled, "No, mine!"

Unsure of what to do, Jessica decided to just continue with the conversation, patting the small boy on his head as she asked, "Still, why did he call me an angel?"

"Because up until your father brought you to this world Rin was convinced that you were an angel, so as she told our children about Naraku she told them you that you were an angel sent to stop your human brother Sephiroth from becoming a god. Once Inu Yasha found out about what was to happen through the game and what caused the wing to form on your back and those of the project, the story changed. It seems that something’s stick though," Sesshoumaru said, placing the bundle down on the now closed trunk. The thing shook around for a few moments before becoming still.

"What is that thing and how does it fit into all this?" Jessica asked, finished with her little doodle of Yuki and staring intently that the thing right in front of her. Yuki was quiet happy with the picture and was burbling incoherently.

"When what was then Square Soft showed Inu Yasha the idea for the game, we realized that if he could control Cloud to such a degree with as little of the... Jenova cells in him then controlling you would also be possible considering you had more of it in you as an infant. And while you beat him today, there's no way of knowing if he will continue to become stronger and render you unable to stop him," Sesshoumaru grabbed one of the ends of the blanket and let the fabric settle around the object. "So, based on what we knew from the past we believed that this would be quiet helpful."

"What is it?" Roxxane asked, looking at the thing.

The object was oval shaped and had a completely smooth surface, the light blue coloring near pale in the light. A little bigger than a football, it took up a good portion of the top of the trunk. While lil' Kev and Roxxane were having a hard time trying to figure out what it was, Jessica knew right away. She reached her hand out to touch it but it started rocking back and forth so she pulled her hand back. "A dragon's egg?!"

"Yup! Took five years to find someone with one of these things. We've had this thing for six months, hoping that it wouldn't hatch before we could give it to you," Inu Yasha said, quiet happy with the shocked look on her face. He was the one that found it, so she had better appreciate it.

The little dragon inside tapped against it's egg, little chirps coming from inside. The rocking started up again so Jessica placed her hand on the egg so it wouldn't rock itself on to the ground. "Why a dragon?" Roxxane asked as she watched Jessica tap on the hard shell.

"Because she rode a giant blue dragon when we knew her, and since Sephiroth was trying to kill it back then, then the dragon must help against Sephiroth."

"But it'd take at least two maybe three years before it'd be big enough to ride, I've only got three months before all this blows up in my face," Jessica said as she rolled the egg sideways, causing the dragon inside to squeak in protest.

"That's the point," Sesshoumaru said, continuing where Inu Yasha left off. "What's going on wont be over in just a few months. This will continue for years. You must be prepared to face this or all worlds could be in danger."

"Great... no pressure at all..." Turning to the oddly silent Kagome, Jessica asked, "Is there anything else that you know that they're not telling me?"

Startled, Kagome answered, "No, no... Are you kidding? We couldn't get you to tell us your real name, let alone anything to do with who you were and why you were there... The most you ever said to us was that your real name was to hard for people to pronounce in feudal Japan and that you were trying to stop your brother from becoming a god."

Jessica sighed in defeat; Kagome wouldn't lie about something like this... Hell, up until today she didn't know what was going on! "When you say prepared...?"

Sesshoumaru looked over at Jessica, who was sitting back with a hand covering her face while petting Yuki's head with the other as he twitched his ears in delight. He could tell she was nearing her breaking point so he would need to finish soon. "Starting three days hence you will begin training. If you ever expect to fight Sephiroth you will have to be able to match swords with him."

"... Can't I just use the gun things...?" Jessica whined. The thought of being trained by Sesshoumaru of all people did not sound good. In fact, it scared the hell out of her. And since her dad brought her other one back with him, she had two so that had to be better than just the one she had with her. Unfortunately, the look on his face said 'no, and if you ask that again I'll make sure you live to regret it...', so she quickly added, "But I have to work, I can't spend all my time getting my ass handed to me everyday!"

"I think you might be out of a job..." Inu Yasha said, a sheepish grin on his face. When Jessica looked at him like he had gone completely crazy [it was hard to tell with so many crazy people around...] he continued, "Well, when you ran off I took that little side walkway by the gift shop. But Loz tried to follow me and ended up flying through a window and destroying part of the store..."

Jessica didn't ask how he went through a window, because she knew what the answer was. Ready to make some sarcastic remake, Jessica started to say something when one end of the egg suddenly came flying off, smacking the tv before breaking into a few pieces and falling to the ground. The little dragon chirped as it tried to push it's head out the little hole. Yuki squealed happily as he hopped out of his seat and went to touch it but stopped when his father warned him not to. The egg moved back and forth wildly while it tried to push open the top. One wing popped out, nearly hitting Yuki in the face, before the rest of the egg fell to pieces.

The dragon cried out, flapping the wet wings to try to get them dry. It was no bigger than a house cat but it had the wingspan of a nice sized hawk. The poor thing kept blinking the goo from inside the side out of it's eyes, attempting to get a good look of its surrounding as it stood up on shaky legs. It had blue skin with black spots on him and he made little noises as he looked around, reminding Jessica of the pair of blue jays that came to her house every day for food.

"Hi baby!" Yuki yelled, extremely excited that he got to see a baby dragon. The only thing was that the little guy didn't quiet know that there were people sitting next to him, so when Yuki yelled it cried out before falling over the edge of the trunk.

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About twenty minutes and a million sorry's from Yuki later the little dragon was dry [thank you, hair driers...]and very happy, turned out her mom had a steak in the frig in case her dad got hungry so he was well fed, Jessica was happily petting the little guy as he let out something that sounded like a mix between a growl and a chirp. The dragon she now had was most likely going to grow feathers at some point, due to the little puffs here and there. Jessica had contested the fact that the thing was already attached to her and accused them of some kind of demonic spell [which she was laughed at over...], but Inu Yasha said that no one other than the dragon that laid the egg ever touch it except for her. So apparently that meant it thought she was it's mother. She didn't believe that for one second but it was the only thing had to go on.

Finally everyone had left, leaving the house once again quiet since her parents had gone up the street to get some Chinese food from up the street and her siblings were watching John Tucker Must Die on tv yet again.

It was a very long day and everyone was tired, but things turned out better then most had hoped so it wasn't all bad. Roxxane was still snickering over how Chiaki had acted when she had given Yuki a kiss on his little moon to say good bye. Sesshoumaru physically dragged his son out of the house after he started yelling something’s in Japanese, both Koga and Inu Yasha laughed at the way he was acting. And for good measure the little boy planted a big kiss on her cheek, which caused his brother to yell more things before being thrown down the stairs. Literally. And Jessica was sure that Yuki was only doing that because he knew it'd make Chiaki mad. He was two, not stupid.

Once everyone was gone she was able to stop and think about the stuff she found out after the egg had hatch.

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The end of the chapter! Yay! Big thanks to ROGMethos, I read your review and punched the rest of this chapter out, that was super nice to hear... Most of the time people don't really like self-inserts, but after this long I stopped caring because I think the best stories to read are the ones with the author in them! Everyone else might dream up great adventures for the characters to go through, but I live them! [lame yes, but it's to make a point...]