InuYasha Fan Fiction / Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Journey Across Time ❯ Acceptance ( Chapter 7 )

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DV- WAK!!!! I'm sorry!!! I meant to get this up earlier, but so much stuff got in the way!!! Also, while I finished one of my stories, I started a few more.

Duo- Weren't you complaining about being over worked?

DV- I know, but I couldn't help it!!!

Wufei- Baka onna.

DV- Anyways, one is another GW/IY x-over (This one an AU high school fic in the InuYasha fics) and one is a solely Gundam AU fic. Here's some info about `em!

Project; (AU) A boy wakes up in the middle of nowhere with no memories and a cross bearing the name Duo Maxwell. Without warning, he gets caught up in an underground war. To make it worse, he's falling for the enemy…

Piece Of Cake!; (AU, X-over) Inu and Gundam gangs join together in a high school environment as a group of friends up against a creepy principal. Add in a play, a bet and the shameless tormenting of freshmen, and you have one screwed up story.

DV- Sound interesting? I already have Project up, and Piece of Cake is SOMEWHERE around my house on lined paper (I just gotta find it!!!) So go check them out! (TOLD you I'd get them up, DH!!!)

Sango- Riiiiiight… Well, DV doesn't own us-

DV- yet…

Everyone- O.O;;;

Sango-… so don't try to sue her.

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I sat silently against the hut, watching a star streak by overhead. It had been hours since the attack on Wufei. Kagome had healed him, but he was still asleep, and she had to call on her miko energy to get his wound to the point were we didn't have to worry about him dying of blood loss. She'd managed to calm Quatre down, answer all of Heero's questions, reassure the children, look in on little Daku and get everyone to bed after spending nearly three hours working nonstop to save Wufei. Sometimes I don't know how she does it…

After Kagome calmed down a little, no one blamed me for what happened to our proud guest, but I still felt guilty. What was I THINKING?!?! I didn't believe any of our houseguests could be trusted, Wufei more than the others, so I wanted to make sure they were either busy or close by. But I started arguing with him again, and the next thing I knew…

I sighed and picked up my katana and Hirakotsu, moving around to head to the back of the hut. I was startled when Kirara shot out from under the hut right in front of me.

"Hey, there," I said softly, bending down to greet my oldest companion. "What are you doing up this late?" Kirara meowed and purred as she cuddled close to me. I noticed the bulge of her stomach. I shook my head and scratched her behind the ears. "You need to lose some weight. All this quiet time is really starting to show on you. Either that or the twins have been sneaking you scraps when Kagome and I have our backs turned." Kirara meowed again and continued into the forest, to hunt, most likely. I stood up and made my way to our training grounds.

Not long after the twins were born, Kagome and I decided we needed a way to train them that wouldn't put them in any real danger, so we came up with the training grounds. First, I built a fair sized fenced in area using demon bones purified by Kagome herself, including a large weapons rack were the whole `family' hangs their training weapons when they aren't training and a small hut not too far off to make and repair our weapons.

After everything was up, Kagome worked her magic. She cast sells on the hut and training grounds, teaching me and the children how to access them. As I entered the fenced in area, I triggered one of those spells, which called forth semi solid figure of whatever youkai I wished. Tonight, I felt like humanoid neko youkai.

The see-through creature appeared in front of me as I took Hirakotsu off my back and prepared for battle. The youkai wasted no time before attacking me, claws extended. I blocked with Hirakotsu before pushing the youkai back and jumping back a little, throwing the bone boomerang at my opponent. It avoided the weapon and leaped at me again.

I drew my katana and blocked its claws again, the creature growled and pressed against the katana, and I was forced to exert more force as well, or else risk the youkai pushing through my defenses. Hirakotsu was making its way back to us, and all hopes of an easy win by a sneak attack from behind where dashed when I saw the neko's ears twitch, signaling that it knew of the approaching threat.

Not that I wanted an easy win. That was why I chose the neko as my opponent. They were fast, cunning and had a lot of stamina. That was what I needed right now. A strong, difficult enemy that took all my concentration to defeat, so I could get my mind off all this stuff that was happening right now. I was just feeling so overwhelmed with this whole situation. Especially since Kagome was helping them get back to their time. I hadn't mention it, not wanting to seem like a nagging fool, but that was what I was really scared of.

I knew Kagome spent her late nights looking at pictures from her time, of her old home, her family. I knew Kagome grew up in a place where there were far more luxuries, and where it was much safer. No demon attacks, more advance medicine so illness wasn't as serious an issue… What if Kagome decided to go back to that? To leave us in favor of the lifestyle she'd been born into? I couldn't bear losing her too after she was the last real connection I had to our old shard hunting group. She was like my sister, and I couldn't stand to lose another sibling.

The thought of having to go through the pain of losing more of my family, this time without the comforting reassurances that it'd be okay and a shoulder to cry on, filled me with rage, and I sliced through the neko with my katana before catching Hirakotsu, allowing the momentum to drag me back. The image of my opponent screamed in pain, before flickering out.

Sighing, I sheathed my katana and fastened Hirakotsu to my back before turning back to the hut, ready to take care of my equipment before checking on my twins then make sure Wufei was still alive and go to bed. However, an unexpected sight made me stop dead in my tracks. It took me a full ten seconds before I regained enough sense to calmly question the man in front of me.

"WHAT IN THE SEVEN HELLS DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING OUT HERE?!?!"

Okay, screw calm. I've had too rough a day to pretend that I wasn't annoyed with seeing who else but Chang Wufei leaning against our blacksmith hut, calmly watching me with the appearance of having been there for a while.

"What does it look like I'm doing, onna?" he asked, frowning at my Hirakotsu, and studying it with a carefully critical eye.

"You shouldn't be up!!! You were injected with three different poisons, had a hole larger than a grown man's fist torn in your side, and lost so much blood, we had to consider a blood transfusion!" I didn't know what in the world that meant, but Kagome had said it, and I figured Wufei would know what it was.

"I'll live. I'm not crippled,"

"You will be if Kagome finds you out of bed," I warned him," Wufei snorted, but said nothing. Sighing, I walked past him and into the small hut, where I started working on my katana. The balance was a little off…

"You make your own weapons?" Wufei asked, sounding surprised. I frowned at him.

"Of course. Tajiya weapons are made from youkai bones, and no ordinary ningens will touch anything that could even slightly be associated with youkai.

"What else are tajiya required to learn?"

"Lots of things," I answered absently as I worked on my katana. "Katana, and at least one other weapon, and they have to learn about poisons, how to ward off different youkai, physical combat, the weaknesses of certain youkai, things like that,"

"How long do you study?"

"Since the day we're born. We usually start exterminating around the age of ten," I bit my lip at that. That fact was all that was keeping Kome and Kohaku off the battlefields at the moment. I told them that they had to wait until they were the proper age, not wanting them caught up in the mess that came with being the worst enemies of youkai at too young an age. They only had about three more years until that excuse would stop working.

"What about the miko? Didn't your children say she had knowledge in the art of demonslaying?"

"Yes, I started teaching Kagome about a year after I met her, and that was before the twins were born. Not to mention the fact she had her purification powers to fall back on."

"How did you do that out in there? Conjure that image?"

"The neko? It was a spell Kagome cast on the training grounds. She's taught me, The twins and Shippo how to access it.

We lapsed into a comfortable silence as I finished off my katana and hung it and Hirakotsu on the weapon's rack, turning to face the man from the future.

"I'm going to bed now, and you better get back in, too, before Kagome finds out you came out here right after walking up."

"I'll go back when I'm ready," Wufei said shortly. I shrugged.

"It's you funeral," I headed back to the hut, shaking my head along the way. Men and their damn pride… It'll end up killing them all someday.

When I got back to the hut, I immediately went to check on the children. It was a habit both I and Kagome had that we peek in the children's room whenever we pass by, just to make sure they were okay.

Shippo was curled up on his piles of pillows, sucking his thumb and Kome, apparently having another nightmare, crawled into bed next to her twin brother for comfort. She had been doing that ever since a village boy began teasing her for staying with me or Kagome whenever she was afraid at night.

Satisfied that none of them were in any immediate danger, I silently slipped into the room and made my way over to the twins. I gently ruffled Kohaku's hair, studying his face as he slept. He really did look like Miroku…

Sighing, I pulled the blanket up to tuck them in properly, and pecked both of them on the forehead before heading over to my own room, pausing at Kagome's when I saw the light of a lantern flickering beyond the paper door.

Gently, I opened the door, far more careful not to make any noise than I had been with the children considering Kagome was awake, used to sneak attacks and probably still mad at me for being an idiot.

Sure enough, Kagome sat next to her bed, a box open next to her and pictures spread out in front of her. I could see they where all shots of her old family, from her time. She had one shot in her hands, and her upper face was covered in shadows, but I could see the trails of tears running smoothly down her cheeks.

"I should have been there," she whispered to the picture. "I could have helped… I'm so sorry. InuYasha was right, I'm completely useless." Part of me wanted to burst in there and comfort her, whether or not she was angry with me, another part wanted to leave and find the fastest route to hell to beat the crap out of InuYasha for making my little sister think things like this about herself. Wisely, I did neither, instead silently sliding the door shut and heading off to bed, a little worried about Kagome.

She stopped crying for her lost family years ago. We both had too many other things to concentrate on to think of the past, of all the pain we suffered through for that damn jewel. Now, It was almost all I could think about, and Kagome too if that little display told me anything. What brought it on all of a sudden?

Those men. It figured. They were asking all those questions, dragging up the memories Kagome and I thought we buried. Worst, we couldn't even blame them for it. It was simply the fact that everyone else knew our life's story, and they wanted to know what everyone else did. Times like this made me resent my position.

Sighing, I shook my head, trying to dislodge thoughts like that from me. Kagome probably wasn't thinking like this, and neither should I. It was my duty to protect mankind, and my destiny to resurrect the tajiya line with Kome and Kohaku. Resentment towards the position you were born to hold wad what made people like Kikyou.

I took my clothes off, and slipped into a beautiful black silk sleeping yukata given to me by Sessho-maru recently for aiding him in taking care of a minor revolt. Smiling, I thought of how the whole family joked about the seemingly cold Western Lord's habit of lavishing us with expensive gifts whenever he could. Kagome even once openly accused him of spoiling us.

The Taiyoukai joined us in the tail end of our quest for the jewel shards, wishing to kill Naraku for attempting to murder Rin. Kagome was the first to crack through his cold facade, (her stubborn and openly friendly nature could turn nearly anyone into a close ally,) And he soon started speaking to all of us a little more, without as much scorn. With the exception of InuYasha, that is, Who had been becoming increasingly rude and edgy by the time Sessho-maru had joined us.

It wasn't until after the battle we found out why. Kikyou had cornered InuYasha about his agreement to go to Hell with her, an agreement he made good of while Miroku sat there withering away and Kagome…

After Miroku passed on, Sessho-maru brought the both of us and Shippo back to his palace to recover from the pain of losing the men we loved. We remained there in mourning for Two months, When we found out about my pregnancy.

Filled with a new hope, Kagome and I moved our family back to Kaede's village, were we prepared to start over, determined to respectfully put the past behind us and concentrate on giving the three children that had come to mean so much to us as good a life as we could.

Kagome and I both agreed that a palace wouldn't suit the lifestyle the twins and Shippo were to have, (not that the almost daily pranks against Jaken weren't terribly amusing.) So we declined Sessho-maru's offer for a permanent home in the Western Lands. He understood, recalling his own difficult childhood. Still, he was very clear that he would be willing to help us should the need arise.

We never doubted that he would, but Kagome and I kind of wanted to pull it off alone. Not that we don't visit. Rin is fifteen now, and quite popular with the boys. Well, the boys brave enough to face Sessho-maru's cold glare, anyways. If it wasn't for the fact that Kagome and I received the same treatment every time a male turned in our direction, Rin's exasperation towards her father's over protective nature would have been extremely humorous.

Kagome got it the worst. Sessho-maru believes that the fact that she fell for `the worthless half-breed' shows her poor judgment towards male character, and has taken it upon himself to make sure it doesn't happen again. Poor girl.

I shook my head as I slipped under my silk sheets. Bringing up InuYasha around Kagome was always a huge mistake. She confided to me once that she often wondered if InuYasha went to Hell even though he loved her, because he felt obligated to fulfill his promise to Kikyou, or because he WANTED to spend an eternity suffering in Hell with the dead priestess. Because he loved Kikyou. The biggest mistake InuYasha ever made was not clarifying why he left, and Kagome suffers every day because of it. Which is why, if I could, I'd go to Hell for just half an hour, I'd hunt down InuYasha and strangle the truth out of him. After repeatedly killing the clay pot priestess, of course. I mean, it hurt me when Miroku died, but at least I knew I was the only one he loved. It must have hurt Kagome more when InuYasha abandoned her like that, and she was left wondering who he cared for the most.

To make it really bad, I think she still loved him.

I laid there in my bed, looking up at the ceiling as my thought drifted away and sleep overtook me, sending me into a dreamless realm until morning…

"JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

`Thunk.'

"Ow," I groaned. I stood and rubbed my bottom. As if it hadn't received enough abuse when Miroku was constantly groping it… So I was more than a little irritated as I left my room to see what could've set Kagome off at such an inhuman hour of the morning.

"Don't-!"

"I DON'T CARE WHO OR WHAT YOU ARE, THERE IS NO WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY RECOVERED SO YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR GETTING OUT OF BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I sighed. So THAT was the problem… I should've known.

"I've lived-!"

"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEFORE YOU WEREN'T UNDER MY CARE NOW GET BACK TO BED OF ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !" The chances of him being smart enough to take that opportunity for a quick escape?

"Or else wh-?!" nonexistent.

"NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!" I think I forgot to mention this, but Kagome can be pretty convincing if you get her angry enough. THAT was the point even InuYasha treaded on eggshells to avoid. So common sense kicked in on Wufei and, (Grumbling softly, so Kagome wouldn't hear) he got back into the futon. Behind me, I heard someone (Most likely Duo) snicker. Wufei shot a glare over my right shoulder, then turned to Kagome.

"How long until I'm allowed to move as I wish?" He asked shortly.

"A day's rest is the bear minimum. After that, your allowed to stay within the village boundaries, but if I hear you and I mean ANY of you," At this, she, too glared behind me. "have even thought about going into the forest, you stayed tied to the pole until Sessho-maru comes. Is that understood?"

"Understood, sir!"

"yes ma'am."

"Hn,"

"…"

"Feh!" I mentally sighed. These boys were starting to get a little too predictable.

"If you're done frightening every man woman and child within a hundred miles of this place," I said, tucking a loose strand of hair away from my face. "I'm going to back bed." Kagome gave me an irritated look.

"I wasn't being THAT loud!!!" Just the, Shippo and the twins ran into the room.

"Who yelled?!?!"

"Is something wrong?!?!"

"We heard screaming!!!" I couldn't help but giggle at the look on Kagome's face.

"Everything's fine. I just got a little mad a Chang-kun." She said to the children, "And Sango?"

"Yes?"

"A word out of you and it'll be your last."

"Whatever you say, almighty miko."

"Haha." She said, sticking her tongue out at me. "I'll go start breakfast." It wasn't until she left that I realized that was the first play-fight we'd had since these people got here. Maybe things were getting back to normal…

"What the hell is this?!?!" Or, maybe not. I sighed as I watched Duo play with a rosary. Wufei sat up, giving the man an annoyed look before turning to my miko companion.

"Miko-"

"Kagome."

"What?"

"I preferred to be called by my name rather than title. You can call me Kagome or Higurashi, just don't ever call me by a title, or any rude nicknames."

"… how do you access those spells on the training grounds?" Wha-?!?!

"WHAT?!?!?! Why do you want to know that?! How did you find out about my spells?!?!" Cringe. Right slowly backing out of the room now…

"How I found out isn't important." Wha-! "But I want to know so I can learn how to kill these youkai,"

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