InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Jewel of Nature ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

She glanced over her shoulder breathing hard. Her silver-blue eyes wide with panic and her ebony locks flowing out behind her. She knew if she was caught they would kill her and maybe even rape her. She was depleted of her miko energy via a spell, so she would be unable to blast her away or purify them should the need arise. She would have cussed, if she'd had the breath to cuss with that is. And if it wouldn't have given away her position to them. She dodged a branch and looked around trying to figure out where she could be. She knew after they had kidnapped her and her son they'd removed them from Japan. Not that she really cared but still, they'd separated her from her son. She nearly screamed when she felt someone grab her shoulder. She took a deep breath and then threw them over her hip. She took of running before they even hit the ground. She wouldn't be caught, she would be a virgin when she got married, even if she died trying. With this conviction her miko powers flared back to life, more powerful then before. It slowly wrapped around her body until it finally soaked into her eyes. She stopped dead still. The youkia that had captured her would pay. She turned around slowly and just stood there, head cocked slightly to the side. She let her aura and her scent flow out around her but held her ki in check. No need to scare the youkia after all, just because she broke their weak spell. Seconds later they came flying at her and before she could even blink, spears of white-pink miko energy flew through their hearts, turning them to dust. Now that she felt all youkia threats gone, he miko powers slowly went back into hiding in her heart along with the Shikon No Tama. She looked around lost.

"This is just perfect! I'm Kami-knows where! I just hope my little kit is ok, if anyone's harmed a single hair on his head I'll kill them." she muttered angrily. The thought of anyone touching her kit, made her burn. She focused on this burning sensation and was slightly surprised to find she felt the pull of something new yet old. Curious, like normal, she cautiously followed the pull. Her eyes caught the glow of what could have been a shikon shard if it had been another color and if the whole and finished Shikon No Tama wasn't buried in her heart. She jolted into action and took off into a sprint as she felt the presence of her kit near the shard. Her natural reflexes made sure she didn't hit anything while she continued to get closer to the faux jewel shard and her kit. She nearly slammed into a gate that seemed to just pop up out of the ground. She threw up her hands causing the gate to blow up. Her eyes become huge, and she would have thought on this more if the faux jewel shard hadn't yanked suddenly, with a swear she took off again. She blinked when she arrived at mansion type place and when tens twenties of the shards appeared in her eyes sight. She felt her kits presence and reflexively threw her hands at the door making it blow up. She didn't stop to see the destruction she wrought. Next thing she knew she was in front of another door blowing this one up too. Her silver-blue eyes searching for her son. She smiled gently not even noticing the others in the room.

"Mama!" her kit flew into her open arms, crying. She rubbed his back and made a purring noise.

"It's ok baby, mama's here now and those nasty youkia are dust in the wind. I broke that stupid spell. But kit have you noticed the jewel shard like energies hanging around this place. It forcefully pulled me here, but I detoured to find you. Couldn't let my little one be hurt now could I?" He shook his head and snuggled up to her.

"Okaa-san? I think the energy is coming from these people." her eyes flew up to meet theirs. Her gaze was piercing as it searched them, she sighed when she seemed to find whatever it was she was looking for in them.

"It seems my kit is right. The energies I felt, that are pulling at me, are coming from you. While I don't know how or what it is that I feel I do however feel it's yearning to be whole. Just as the jewel residing in my heart did. If one of you wouldn't mind I would like to see what this energy wants." she was staring at them, while the child cocked its head at her. They looked at each other before a gruff looking man stepped forward. Her eyes narrowed as she felt his aura, it was a little too cocky for her liking.

"Ok darlin' take a go at me." she smiled and placed the kit on the desk. He watched her as she stepped up to the man and placed her hand over his heart. Her eyes became cloudy and distant and began to become huge. She started to pull her hand away but he stopped her. He too could hear the whispers of the jewel.

"Chaos, will ensue if not united once more. The Jewel of Chaos wants to merge with the Shikon no Tama. To merge with me." her voice was strained and held the whisper of other voices resonating with in it. The man let her hand go and as her hand pulled away a small shard of what appeared to be white glass flew from his chest, without leaving a wound. The jewel pierced her chest flying straight into her chest, causing her to stumble back.

"Momma!" the child would have gone to her if the man in the wheelchair had not stopped him. The child looked up at him with unblinking eyes, full of unasked questions but at the front of them was worry. She stood one hand held over her heart, the other on the desk to steady her.

"It has entered the Shikon no Tama, Shippo. It has started to merge with it. When the two become one they will form the Jewel of...." she would have continued but her strength gave out and she would have collapsed onto the floor had the gruff-looking man not caught her.

"The Jewel of Nature." they looked at each other before turning to look at the man holding her child.

"There is much to discuss, perhaps you may help fill us in, Shippo." the child nodded, a wisdom as old as time reflected in those green eyes.

 

"Ok kiddo explain." they were all sitting around the woman's bed, seeing as the kid wouldn't leave her side. Not for a minute. He looked up at them and with a muttered 'Forgive me mother' began his tale of his mother.

"This is my adoptive mother Kagome Higurashi. On her fifteenth birthday she was dragged down a well by a centipede demon. It was after the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls, which had somehow entered her body at birth. The well she was pulled down was no ordinary well, no this one let her travel 500 years into the past. This is where everything begins and tragic tales began and end." his eyes were somber. It was his attitude that kept the audience from writing off what he was saying as a lie.

"When Kagome arrived she had physically forced her dormant miko powers out through her hands to basically blast the centipede demon away from her. Anyways to save herself and to right what she saw as a wrong so she freed an inu-hanyou from his bindings. She removed the arrow that had kept him pinned to the god-tree for over fifty years. For you see she was the re-incarnation of the original miko who cast the spell. He killed the centipede demon then went after her and the village priestess, the original miko's sister, placed a set of prayer beads around his neck. She told Kagome to yell out a command word to activate the prayer beads. She yelled the word 'sit' causing him to slam into the ground effectively subduing him. Later on another demon tried to steal the Shikon no Tama and in an effort to get it back she shattered the jewel causing a tale of everlasting pain and suffering." they looked at the pale woman in front of them. She seemed too fragile, to delicate to have done what this child said she did.

"If you don't believe what I have so far revealed lift up her shirt and above her left hip there should be a starburst shaped scar. That is where the Shikon was ripped from her body." right where the child said it was laid a scar. The professor nodded for him to continue.

"I will skip ahead to when I joined their little group, the first of several. My father had just been brutally murdered in front of me for his pelt and his shard of the sacred jewel. I came across them as they were traveling and Kagome instantly welcomed me, despite the hanyou, Inuyasha's protests. I tricked them and ended up getting Kagome captured and nearly eaten. But Inuyasha saved her with Tetsusaiga, a sword forged from his father's fang. And so we continued, Kagome inviting me to stay with her till when ever and as you can tell I am still with her.

"What happened next I still hate to retell. One night while we rested in the village by the well a witch came and stole some of the ashes from Kikyo, the original miko's, grave. Using them she remade Kikyo's body but because she had been re-incarnated into Kagome there was no soul to enter the body. So she ripped Kagome's overly large soul from her body and gave it to Kikyo. But Kikyo could not hold her soul when Kagome yanked it back. The blank stare in Kagome's eyes when her soul was gone still haunts me, nothing I have seen since will ever compare to that. But onwards, when Kagome pulled her soul back she left some with Kikyo to keep her alive. But Kikyo existed solely on hatred for Inuyasha, her former love. We will continue on about that at a later time.

"Next is the perverted monk, Miroku. His grandfather was cursed by Naraku to have a void in his right hand that would one day eventually consume him. It was passed down through the males in the family. The only way to remove the curse was to kill Naraku. Naraku was another source of pain and the one person in my mother's life that she has ever been able to hate. The next we encountered would be the demon exterminator, Sango and her fire neko, Kilala. Her entire village was killed in a fight against youkia, while she and a few select others were at a castle to exterminate a spider youkia. In the process her little brother was controlled by another spider youkia in human form and he killed every one there even her. The guards at the castle shot him down. They buried the two together, but Sango hadn't died, she was the only demon exterminator left form her entire village. Naraku eventually brought her brother back to life with a jewel shard but erased his memories so he wouldn't remember anything. He always sent Kohaku, her little brother, against her.

"Then we had Mama's number one stalker, Kouga. A wolf demon, who originally stole her for her ability to see jewel shards, but soon fell for her and declared that she was his 'woman'. Which she often, well always, told him she wasn't. Ah but the idiots who always seemed to fall for mother, he never even noticed and still persued her even though he was engaged to another wolf-youkia. Then there was Sesshomaru, the Taiyoukia of the West. Inuyasha's half brother. He doesn't play too big of a part until the end really.

"Well we found out that Kikyo hadn't really been betrayed by Inuyasha, which is why she pinned him to the tree, by the way. That it was Naraku and his shape shifting ability that had really done it. You see they were in love and she was going to have his wish on the Shikon no Tama for him to become human, but well Naraku interfered. I asked mother once if they could believe that the other could really betray them then were they really in love? Or was it just convenient? She replied with her soul searching gaze and a gentle smile. 'They were in the beginnings of a new love, where everything is new, and you're too shy and scared to but your whole heart on the line. Because they didn't know each other like they were one, they doubted and with Naraku's help forgot. Love is a boarding emotion to Hate, be careful my kit, never hate anything. Love the world with open arms and a gentle smile.' I'll never forget those words simply because that's how she lives.

Then the final battle was upon us, before we even knew what was happening. Sesshomaru had joined us because Naraku had threatened something very precious to him. Mother said he had captured Rin, Sesshomaru's ward, but Sesshomaru had gotten her back. Kouga was there to help because he had a blood debt or something against one of Naraku detachments, Kagura. Miroku and Sango died in the battle. Sesshomaru was seriously wounded while Inuyasha seemed to be down for good. I was with Kagome, sitting on her shoulder as she fired her purifying arrows at Naraku. In the end she was the one who killed Naraku. Inuyasha went to hell with Kikyo just like he promised her and Mother healed Sesshomaru. The Shikon no Tama merged with her body, heart, and soul, making her its eternal protector once again. The well sealed up on her and she was unable to return to her own time so we have lived out 500 years until this time. Her family is dead once again except for her little brother, who she let keep the family shrine and once his family has died or move hand d out she will take it back. We are here because we were kidnapped from Japan. I managed to get away; I was looking for help when you found me. Mother had a spell on her though, one to bind her miko powers but she must have broken it somehow, because she said she purified the two demons. I am a kitsune, that and the power of the Shikon are what keep me at this age. Just as mother cannot age past the age she is now." wide eyes were all that met his tale.