InuYasha Fan Fiction / Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ For Life and Love ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

For Life and Love

An Escaflowne and Inuyasha Crossover Fic

 

Prologue

 

There was a bright light and then what seemed like thousands of smaller lights emanating from that point. One light in particular went far, and landed in a swamp. The light in question was part of a jewel. Not just any jewel, the Shikon No Tama, The Jewel of Fours Souls. The shard shimmered, though no light was able to hit it while is sat under the water.

 

The only being to witness the phenomena happened to be a demon. Not a strong one by all means, but he was cunning. Without missing a beat, he dove into the water and retrieved the treasure from within. He looked at the tiny piece of sparkling power in his hand and knew from now on it was going to be different.

 

The demon smiled and lifted his head skyward.

 

Without warning, a pillar of light descended from the heavens, surrounding the demon. He could feel himself being lifted.

 

My wishes are coming true.

 

 

The demon awoke and found him no longer in a swamp, but on a desolate battle field. He looked around and saw that people were emerging from hiding places, probably scared from his entrance.

 

“The gods have sent us a new emperor!” He heard a man exclaim.

 

An Emperor? Huh?

 

The demon smirked. His wish was definitely granted.

 

 

Chapter One

 

It was a beautiful sunny day at the Higurashi Shrine. There was barely a breeze and the leaves of the Goshinboku didn't move at all. There were many visitors that day coming to pray at the shrine or buy good luck charms. It was definitely busy for its caretakers.

 

Today was a day where she didn't have to be in the Feudal Era, so she was helping her grandfather around the shrine. She didn't mind as Ji-chan was getting older.

 

“Kagome,” he grandfather started, “do you mind sweeping the grounds while I tend to the worshippers?”

 

Kagome smiled, “Hai, Ji-chan.” She took a broom and began walking towards the middle of the grounds. Doing the sweeping and menial tasks allowed her to reflect on her life.

 

It has been four years since she had first fallen down the Bone-Eaters Well into Feudal Japan. Four years since the Shikon Jewel had been broken and scattered. And a busy four years it had been. With the emergence of Naraku, it made looking for the shards that much harder, but luckily Inuyasha and She had made friends with Miroku and Sango; and of course Shippou, to help them along the way.

 

It had been six months since they killed Naraku, their sworn enemy. It had been a hard battle, no one got through without injury. In an attempt to fuck then over, Naraku, with his last ounce of strength, shattered the Shikon No Tama. It seemed to be easier collecting the shards this time around; no Naraku to act as a hindrance.

 

Kagome looked up at the setting sun and her thoughts turned to the boy, no, man that she had fallen for. She smiled to herself at the thought of how she had met him. He had looked so vunerable pinned to that tree, who would have guessed that he would end up being such a pain in the ass sometimes. She would never change him though, it was the way he was. Even though he was rough around the edges, she knew that he had his soft side, aside from the fact that he almost never let anyone see it. Yet another aspect of him that drew her to his side.

 

She looked up again, to see if anyone was still there. Luckily for her, everyone had now gone and Ji-chan had gone back inside the house.

 

Letting out a sigh of relief, Kagome began to walk back to the house as well. She could now get out of the shrine clothes.

 

As much as she liked helping Ji-chan, she hated wearing the traditional shrine maiden's gard because it made her look more like Kikyou.

 

Kikyou. She slightly frowned at the thought. Supposedly she was Kikyou's reincarnation. She didn't deny that there were physical similarities, and the spiritual powers, but that was where it stopped. They had totally different personalities. They also shared feelings for a certain Inu-hanyou as well. But where Kikyou wanted revenge and to drag Inuyasha to hell, Kagome was in love and wanted him as a lover, and more.

 

Stopping in front of Goshinboku, kagome's face was on fire. Had she really thought that? She wanted Inuyasha as her lover? She looked up into the branches of the ancient tree and smiled. Of course she did. She loved that man so much but had never admitted it to him. Mostly from fear of what he would say and how he would react.

 

She let out a sigh and walked into the house. In the kitchen her mother was making dinner.

 

“Kagome,” she started, “dinner is going to be shortly. Do you mind setting the table?”

 

“No Mama, I don't mind,” Kagome said smiling. “Just let me go and change and I'll be down to do that.”

 

Her mother nodded in understanding. “When do you think Inuyasha is going to come and get you?”

 

Kagome rolled her eyes. “I'm not supposed to go back for another couple of days,” she replied while moving towards the stairs to go to her room, “but I'm expecting him to come and get me either tonight or sometime tomorrow.” The hanyou was always so impatient.

 

Again he mother nodded, “Alright honey. You go change.”

 

Kagome continued up the stairs to her bedroom, still thinking of Inuyasha. She didn't know why he was so anxious about collecting the rest of the shards, but he was. They only had one more to get, but they didn't hear any rumours or anything.

 

She opened up the door to her room and the first thing that she noticed was her open window. The second thing was the inu-hanyou laying on her bed, having a staring contest with the ceiling.

 

“Inuyasha, what the hell are you doing here?”

 

Inuyasha sat up, resting on his elbows and looked at Kagome with his large golden eyes. “We still have one more shard to get.”

 

Kagome narrowed her eyes at Inuyasha. “Well I was planning to stay for another two days.” She crossed her arms and leaned against the door frame, “You're welcome to stay for that time, but I'm not leaving until then.”

 

In one single movement, Inuyasha got up from the bed to stand in front of her, meeting her gaze and not looking too happy. “Fuck, Wench! I don't want to fucking wait for you!”

 

Pushing him out of the way, Kagome went to her closet to get a pair of jeans and a shirt. Holding the clothes in her arms she turned to face him again. “Well, if don't want to wait for me,” she started her eyes flaring with anger, “then get your precious Kikyou to help you if you want to so badly!” It was a low blow she knew, but she wasn't in the mood to deal with this right now.

 

“Fuck Bitch…”

 

He didn't get a change to continue because Kagome cut him off. “Don't call me `bitch' I have a name! Don't force me to say it.”

 

“Like it would fucking stop you anyway.”

 

She wasn't going to say anything more. Kagome was beyond mad right now. Inuyasha always was pushing her buttons. She just pushed him out into the hall and slammed the door in his face.

 

“Yah Kagome, that was mature!” She heard his disembodied voice coming from the other side of the door.

 

“I would say the word, but I don't want to destroy my mother's floor!”

 

She heard and faint “feh” and then footsteps moving away from her door and down the stairs. Kagome let out the breath that she didn't knoq that she was holding. It was going to be a long night…

 

She still had to change and set the table for her mother.

 

 

“I was wondering if you would like to join me for coffee?”

 

Hitomi Kanzaki sighed. This was yet another offer for a date today. She didn't know why all the guys were suddenly asking her today, but she gave all of them the same answer…

 

“Sorry. Not interested.” The man just nodded at her answer and left.

 

It was always the same thing. Hitomi would get asked out on a date and she would decline. She inwardly shook her head. She has been holding an eight year torch for a man she hasn't seen or heard from since she left him. It was official. She was a loser. Story of her life.

 

She collected the books that she was reading and went to leave the library. She was heading past a group of men, one of which was the guy that tried to ask her out.

 

“Don't bother with that one, she's a dyke. I tried.” Hitomi ignored the spiteful word,but thatdidn't make it hurt any less.

 

Hitomi had basically isolated herself from everyone once she had returned from Gaea, the world where she had had an amzing adventure and met the love of her life. She knew that it was odd, meeting her love at the age of fifteen, but that was how she had felt. Everyday she missed Van, the young king that had stolen her heart, and since returning to Earth she had never allowed herself to meet anyone else. Something was telling her that one day they would be together again. She just hoped that he felt the same.

 

Walking down the street, Hitomi began to think of all her friends that she had met on Gaea. She wondered how the had moved on, what they were doing. Who had gotten married, who had children now. Had theey're hopes and dreams come true? She didn't know the answers to these questions, and didn't know if she ever would.

 

It didn't take long for Hitmomi to walk to her apartment. Unlocking the door she walked into the modest living space that she had. Her aparment wasn't very big, just enough for her, she didn't have a roommate.

 

She dumped her coat and purse in a chair and went to the bedroom, she wanted to take a long nap . As she moved to her bed, she noticed her tarot cards sitting innociently on her desk. Depite the fact that she didn't read them anymore, she didn't have the heart to throw then away. For some reason, right now they were calling to her to use them again.

 

Unable to ignore the call, Hitommi sat at her desk and shuffled the cards. She kept her mind blank, so the cards would show her a topic of the reading instead of her concentrating on a particular subject. When she was sure that they were good and mixed up, she held the deck in her left hand, flipped up the top card and placed it on the flat surface.

 

Strength.

 

She turned over the next…

 

Ace of Serpents.

 

And one more to complete the simple layout she was using…

 

The Priest.

 

She stared at the cards for what seemed like hours while she tried to decipher the meaning behind the cards.

 

She reached her hand out an dplaced a finger on the Strength card and she was presented with something she had not had since she returned from Gaea… A vision.

 

A shrine.

 

It was empty, except for two individuals arguing in the middle of the grounds.

 

She moved towards the two people and was able to decern that it was a mand and a woman. There was something strange about them though. As she got closer, Hitomi saw that the man had dog ears, and he wasn't wearing clothing that would be from the 20th century.

 

“For the last time, I am staying for two more days!” Hitomi was able to hear them now.

 

“Fuck Kagome! We have work to do!”

 

Kagome. That must be the woman's name, but who is the man?

 

Hitomi was standing directly beside the arguing couple. She looked around to see if there was any clue to tell her where this was taking place. She noticed a sign just to the right of the dog-man - `Higurashi Shrine.'

 

Looking back to the fighting pair, Hitomi heard Kagome yell, “Inuyasha, Oswari!”

 

The man named Inuyasha, she guessed, went slamming, face first, into the ground. He didn't seem hurt, besides his pride, and she heard mumbled curses coming from where he was on the ground.

 

Hitomi awokd with a start. Blinking, she slowly became aware that she was still in her bedroom.

 

She looked at the Tarot cards that were now scattered on her desk, from her head laying there. Why did she have a vision of two random people? Who were Inyasha and Kagome?

 

She grabbed randomly at one of the Tarot cards, looking for her answer.

 

Death. - The card of change.

 

Something was going to happen. And somehow she was going to be involved as well as Inuyasha and Kagome. It was just a matter of what was going to happen, as well as when and where.