InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ It all started with a Nameless Beauty ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )
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By: no1inparticular 
This is a YYHINU crossover. Kagome goes through a sudden change and finds herself in the hands of a bandit kitsune. What is the "right" choice? What defines "right"? PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 11.23.2003 | Updated On: 07.05.2012 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 5.2K | Status: Work In Progress
This is a YYHINU crossover. Kagome goes through a sudden change and finds herself in the hands of a bandit kitsune. What is the "right" choice? What defines "right"? PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 11.23.2003 | Updated On: 07.05.2012 | Pages: 1 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 5.2K | Status: Work In Progress
It all started with a Nameless Beauty
***^***^***Author’s note: enjoy. Disclaimer: I don’t own any of these characters ***^***^***
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I’M ALIVE. Yes.
I’m older.
And hopefully my writing is better.
Please, enjoy.
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The day began as it usually did, fighting demons, searching for jewel shards, physical battles, and verbal battles, “Inuyasha! I said I’m going home! And you can’t do anything about it,” Kagome yelled as she walked down the dirt road, “You know I have tests and you KNOW that I have to go back once in a while. Why in the world are you always like this? You act like you’re two years old!”
Inuyasha followed after her and rolled his eyes. He took a deep breath, and responded with equal gusto, “Kagome! I forbid you! We’ve traveled so far and we’re probably REALLY close to a jewel shard, and without you we’re stuck. Don’t you get it? We need you here more than anyone else needs you there in your other world!”
Without a second’s delay, Kagome stopped in her tracks and turned around to face the hanyou, “Inuyasha! Does it ever occur to you that I need things too? I need to keep up my grades, and I need to do things NORMAL people do in my time! Do you ever care about anyone else?”
He looked at her, and his eyes narrowed. He crossed his arms, turned his head, and let out a quick exhale of air, “Feh.” Spotting a tree, he bound upwards to do what he did best: brood.
Kagome began to walk towards the well, but looked back just in case, ensuring he would stay put. After a good minute or so, she was met with nothing. GOOD. She turned back around towards the well, only to stop one last time, “I’m leaving, but I’ll be back in 3 days, OK? It’s shorter than usual.” She waited for a response, but to no avail (and to his toddler-like stubbornness), there was nothing. Kagome scoffed, and headed towards the magical well. “Cheh,” she muttered, “baby.”
Inuyasha stayed in his tree, eyes closed and fidgeting every so often. ‘She better not get into any trouble when she’s walking there’, he thought.
Kagome took her time when she walked to the well, but not without taking a slight detour. She knew not to walk too far to get into trouble. This was from experience (and from Inuyasha’s constant lectures). She was only going to walk to the edge of the dense forest to collect some herbs for her grandfather. She recalled her grandfather telling (yelling) at her, “The herbs in the past are so much fresher and LOADS cheaper!” She rolled her eyes and giggled a bit to herself before continuing the trek towards the vegetation.
As she came upon the herbs, something caught her eye: the most beautiful flower she had ever laid eyes on! She got down on her hands and knees and began to reach for it. It was a strange blue color at first, but as she inched closer towards it, it changed from its already breathtaking blue to deep purple to plush red. She had never seen anything like it before. She plucked it and stuck it behind her ear to free up her hands. She continued looking around the forest grounds, gathering as many herbs as she could carry in her arms and bag. When her knees couldn’t take much more of the hard earth, she decided it was time to stretch and go home. Kagome stood up and checked her bag to see if it was securely fastened. She didn’t want to drop any on the way home.
Satisfied that she had gotten all the best herbs, she heaved the bag onto her shoulders. “Oomph!” that was heavy, she thought. As she headed towards the well, she relished the cool breeze running through her hair and the smell of nature wherever she turned. Her arrival at the lip of the well was much quicker than she had hoped, and with one last deep breath, she hopped into the abyss to join her real life.
The familiar blue light and solid ground underneath her feet told her she had safely arrived back in 2012. She fumbled around in the dark for a couple seconds, until her fingers came upon the rope ladder. As she climbed up towards the light, her speed increased exponentially. HOME! She had not been back for a couple weeks and she missed her family dearly.
“Tadaima!” she practically screamed while barging in through the front door. She half expected her mother to tackle her, only to be surprised with a note stuck onto the wall directly in front of the entrance: ‘Dear Kagome, If you’re reading this note, you just missed us. I’m really sorry for not being there, but we got an urgent message from your aunt since she was having a baby. There’s plenty of first aid kit stuff in the medicine cabinets and ramen in the cupboard. We love you! (Especially me!) Love, Mom.’ Kagome sighed. Her mom was so cute, and Kagome missed her so much. If only there were more people like her mom. *sigh* Kagome read the note one more time before folding it carefully and tucking it inside her pocket.
With another sigh, she continued up the stairs. “Oh well, enough with the sulking. I have the whole house to myself now,” she thought. She ran up the remaining steps and did the first thing her body begged for, a nice LONG hot bath. She quickly ran to the bathtub, turned on the faucet, and counted the long seconds before the tub was filled. As soon as the tub was decently full, she peeled off her clothes as quickly as possible, and threw herself in.
It was a bit hotter than her usual bath, but she did not notice, or care.
“This is the life!” she said, as she stretched her limbs as far as they could go in the tiny tub. Steam filled the room at a steady slow pace, and almost instantly, her muscles began to relax. How she needed this! Walking around forests, with the incessant nagging of Inuyasha, and constant stress of being eaten or killed by a demon definitely took its toll on her. She could almost feel every muscle in her tired body screaming in agony, and then started pounding the sore spots, imitating her beloved grandfather. “Ugh, I’m getting old”, she thought.
She would relax later. First, she needed to get the ancient dirt off of her and to get clean. As Kagome reached for the soap, something had fallen into the water. “Oh right! The flower!” she thought. Plucking the flower out from the water, she brought it to her nose and sniffed; the scent was indescribable! It seemed like a mixture of jasmine, marshmallows, and something she couldn’t quite place, something very nostalgic and warm. She took deep breaths of the flower, still trying to figure out what it was. And like a ton of bricks, it hit her; it was her father’s scent. Could it be that he used cologne that had this flower extract? She shook her head, ‘no, it couldn’t be’. Regardless of the reason, Kagome continued breathing it in, feeling at home and at peace. The scent hugged her entire body, and she savored every moment.
With a sigh, she let down her tired arm and let the flower float atop the water. She watched as it swirled on the surface, and how the light would catch the pedals, bouncing off the many different colors. With the heat from the water, the scent was intensified and spread quickly throughout the entire bathroom. Still looking at the flower with its ever-changing colors, constant swirling, and intoxicating scent, she was practically hypnotized. Kagome was easily put into a state of relaxation, and eventually, she dozed off. Her hair could wait.
After an hour or so, her eyes began to flicker open and she realized that she was still in the tub. She quickly reached for the soap again and lathered herself up and rinsed off in a fast shower. Now clean, she clambered out of the tub and put on her pajamas. It was getting late, and she wanted to be reunited with her fluffy pink pillow as soon as she could. She grabbed the towel to dry off her hair, and almost immediately, she knew something was different. She felt so refreshed and alive! But, that wasn’t it. Something else was different. It nagged at her, but eventually she gave up.
She went downstairs and grabbed a cup ramen. Boy, was she hungry! And she never really got to enjoy a whole cup to herself on the other side of the well. Inuyasha would always manage the puppy-dog face (go figure) and manage to eat her last few precious bites. But not tonight! As soon as the 3 minutes were up, she delved into the cup, and it vanished in a matter of seconds. After slurping the last of the delicious MSG-filled soup, she let out a breath of air, “Ahhhhh, oiiishiiiii!” Her mom always told her to not drink the soup, but seeing as how no one was home, Kagome indulged in her guilty pleasures.
With the warm ramen and broth in her tummy, Kagome could feel the past two weeks weigh down on her. She needed to go to bed, even if she didn’t feel tired. She knew her body, not only needed it, but deserved it.
She headed back upstairs and turned down the hallway to her bathroom. She hadn’t realized how tired she was until she climbed those last few steps. She yawned and her eyes teared. Continuing in her watery-eyed state, she began her night-time routine: brushing, flossing, and popping the occasional zit—another one of guilty pleasures. One hand slowly reached for the toothpaste, squeezing it onto her toothbrush, while the other filled up her cup with water. “Why am I so tired now?” she thought to herself. She blinked out the tears from earlier, and leaned into the mirror to see just how bad the bags under her eyes were. She looked at herself, and blinked once more. What in the…? The girl in the mirror was not her! The girl of her reflection had a navy stripe on her cheek and bluish streaks in her hair. Really, she wasn’t even a girl. On top of her head sat two triangles, positioned straight up, as if they were waiting for something.
Stunned, she stood in front of the mirror, mouth agape, until finally, a light bulb went off in her head, “Oh no...”
That was their cue, the ears drooped.
She didn’t know how it happened but as soon as she came to her senses, she realized that it had to be the flower. Everything else she had done that night was routine, things she had done hundreds, if not thousands, of times! She quickly went to her grandfather’s room and searched for a cure or something about her current state. Her grandfather always had books on things no one would EVER read about. After speed reading through volumes of books, and many almost-panic attacks, she finally came upon a dusty old book almost hidden from view. It was a book of magic. Spells, curses, remedies, and vexes were abundant on every page, almost spilling over the edges. She flipped through the pages with inhuman speed. Whatever animal she was, she was a fast reading one. Her new found eyes spotted a hand-drawn picture of the exact flower she had brought home. The flower was supposedly so rare, it was dubbed a mythical plant and was never given a name. “A nameless beauty”, she thought. The flower was known for its power to change a human into a part-demon, or hanyou. The demon-half would be from a demon the user was familiar with, or was constantly around. It took her a moment, she was half Inuyasha?! She continued reading and discovered that she had followed the instructions on how to properly use the flower down to a tee: soak the plant in hot water and submerge yourself in the concoction for an hour.
Finally having grasped the situation, she knew what she had to do, go back to the well. Kaede was the only person who would have some knowledge of how to reverse the effect of the flower. Packing a light overnight bag and changing back into her uniform in record time, she headed out the door. With only a small messenger bag, she ran for the well. It would be a quick visit; she would solve her problem, and be back before anyone knew anything was up.
Boy, was she wrong.
Just a quick jump into the well, and she was welcomed back into the past. Upon arriving on the other side, she was overwhelmed by the scent of nature. It smelled so good! She climbed up and stretched out her demon senses easily, much like her miko senses. ‘Only a few youkai.’
She quickly began to make her way through Inuyasha’s Forest, intent on finding a cure.
She treaded through the trees, experimenting with her newfound powers. “Maybe it’s not so bad being a hanyou. It’s kind of nice being able to kick some serious butt.” She giggled, and almost immediately regretted it. Something was there. Her thoughts and movements were brought to a complete halt. The only thing she could think of was jumping high into a tree. And as effortlessly as Inuyasha did this, so did she. Mentally, she patted herself on the back. She had lost her balance just a little.
She crouched, patiently, nervously. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears. She needed to calm down! She tried to be as still as she could, and with a little perseverance, she was able to bring her heart rate to an acceptable level. She waited for what seemed like ages, until finally, through the dense dark trees, someone appeared. Beneath her, clad in white, was the most beautiful being she had ever seen: deep amber eyes, snow-white tail, and a pair of very “tweakable” ears. Just being able to stare upon the creature was like being in heaven. Her moment of ogling was quickly shattered when a very masculine voice spoke up, “Quit hiding, I know you’re there.”
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***^***^***Author’s note: enjoy. Disclaimer: I don’t own any of these characters ***^***^***
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I’M ALIVE. Yes.
I’m older.
And hopefully my writing is better.
Please, enjoy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The day began as it usually did, fighting demons, searching for jewel shards, physical battles, and verbal battles, “Inuyasha! I said I’m going home! And you can’t do anything about it,” Kagome yelled as she walked down the dirt road, “You know I have tests and you KNOW that I have to go back once in a while. Why in the world are you always like this? You act like you’re two years old!”
Inuyasha followed after her and rolled his eyes. He took a deep breath, and responded with equal gusto, “Kagome! I forbid you! We’ve traveled so far and we’re probably REALLY close to a jewel shard, and without you we’re stuck. Don’t you get it? We need you here more than anyone else needs you there in your other world!”
Without a second’s delay, Kagome stopped in her tracks and turned around to face the hanyou, “Inuyasha! Does it ever occur to you that I need things too? I need to keep up my grades, and I need to do things NORMAL people do in my time! Do you ever care about anyone else?”
He looked at her, and his eyes narrowed. He crossed his arms, turned his head, and let out a quick exhale of air, “Feh.” Spotting a tree, he bound upwards to do what he did best: brood.
Kagome began to walk towards the well, but looked back just in case, ensuring he would stay put. After a good minute or so, she was met with nothing. GOOD. She turned back around towards the well, only to stop one last time, “I’m leaving, but I’ll be back in 3 days, OK? It’s shorter than usual.” She waited for a response, but to no avail (and to his toddler-like stubbornness), there was nothing. Kagome scoffed, and headed towards the magical well. “Cheh,” she muttered, “baby.”
Inuyasha stayed in his tree, eyes closed and fidgeting every so often. ‘She better not get into any trouble when she’s walking there’, he thought.
Kagome took her time when she walked to the well, but not without taking a slight detour. She knew not to walk too far to get into trouble. This was from experience (and from Inuyasha’s constant lectures). She was only going to walk to the edge of the dense forest to collect some herbs for her grandfather. She recalled her grandfather telling (yelling) at her, “The herbs in the past are so much fresher and LOADS cheaper!” She rolled her eyes and giggled a bit to herself before continuing the trek towards the vegetation.
As she came upon the herbs, something caught her eye: the most beautiful flower she had ever laid eyes on! She got down on her hands and knees and began to reach for it. It was a strange blue color at first, but as she inched closer towards it, it changed from its already breathtaking blue to deep purple to plush red. She had never seen anything like it before. She plucked it and stuck it behind her ear to free up her hands. She continued looking around the forest grounds, gathering as many herbs as she could carry in her arms and bag. When her knees couldn’t take much more of the hard earth, she decided it was time to stretch and go home. Kagome stood up and checked her bag to see if it was securely fastened. She didn’t want to drop any on the way home.
Satisfied that she had gotten all the best herbs, she heaved the bag onto her shoulders. “Oomph!” that was heavy, she thought. As she headed towards the well, she relished the cool breeze running through her hair and the smell of nature wherever she turned. Her arrival at the lip of the well was much quicker than she had hoped, and with one last deep breath, she hopped into the abyss to join her real life.
The familiar blue light and solid ground underneath her feet told her she had safely arrived back in 2012. She fumbled around in the dark for a couple seconds, until her fingers came upon the rope ladder. As she climbed up towards the light, her speed increased exponentially. HOME! She had not been back for a couple weeks and she missed her family dearly.
“Tadaima!” she practically screamed while barging in through the front door. She half expected her mother to tackle her, only to be surprised with a note stuck onto the wall directly in front of the entrance: ‘Dear Kagome, If you’re reading this note, you just missed us. I’m really sorry for not being there, but we got an urgent message from your aunt since she was having a baby. There’s plenty of first aid kit stuff in the medicine cabinets and ramen in the cupboard. We love you! (Especially me!) Love, Mom.’ Kagome sighed. Her mom was so cute, and Kagome missed her so much. If only there were more people like her mom. *sigh* Kagome read the note one more time before folding it carefully and tucking it inside her pocket.
With another sigh, she continued up the stairs. “Oh well, enough with the sulking. I have the whole house to myself now,” she thought. She ran up the remaining steps and did the first thing her body begged for, a nice LONG hot bath. She quickly ran to the bathtub, turned on the faucet, and counted the long seconds before the tub was filled. As soon as the tub was decently full, she peeled off her clothes as quickly as possible, and threw herself in.
It was a bit hotter than her usual bath, but she did not notice, or care.
“This is the life!” she said, as she stretched her limbs as far as they could go in the tiny tub. Steam filled the room at a steady slow pace, and almost instantly, her muscles began to relax. How she needed this! Walking around forests, with the incessant nagging of Inuyasha, and constant stress of being eaten or killed by a demon definitely took its toll on her. She could almost feel every muscle in her tired body screaming in agony, and then started pounding the sore spots, imitating her beloved grandfather. “Ugh, I’m getting old”, she thought.
She would relax later. First, she needed to get the ancient dirt off of her and to get clean. As Kagome reached for the soap, something had fallen into the water. “Oh right! The flower!” she thought. Plucking the flower out from the water, she brought it to her nose and sniffed; the scent was indescribable! It seemed like a mixture of jasmine, marshmallows, and something she couldn’t quite place, something very nostalgic and warm. She took deep breaths of the flower, still trying to figure out what it was. And like a ton of bricks, it hit her; it was her father’s scent. Could it be that he used cologne that had this flower extract? She shook her head, ‘no, it couldn’t be’. Regardless of the reason, Kagome continued breathing it in, feeling at home and at peace. The scent hugged her entire body, and she savored every moment.
With a sigh, she let down her tired arm and let the flower float atop the water. She watched as it swirled on the surface, and how the light would catch the pedals, bouncing off the many different colors. With the heat from the water, the scent was intensified and spread quickly throughout the entire bathroom. Still looking at the flower with its ever-changing colors, constant swirling, and intoxicating scent, she was practically hypnotized. Kagome was easily put into a state of relaxation, and eventually, she dozed off. Her hair could wait.
After an hour or so, her eyes began to flicker open and she realized that she was still in the tub. She quickly reached for the soap again and lathered herself up and rinsed off in a fast shower. Now clean, she clambered out of the tub and put on her pajamas. It was getting late, and she wanted to be reunited with her fluffy pink pillow as soon as she could. She grabbed the towel to dry off her hair, and almost immediately, she knew something was different. She felt so refreshed and alive! But, that wasn’t it. Something else was different. It nagged at her, but eventually she gave up.
She went downstairs and grabbed a cup ramen. Boy, was she hungry! And she never really got to enjoy a whole cup to herself on the other side of the well. Inuyasha would always manage the puppy-dog face (go figure) and manage to eat her last few precious bites. But not tonight! As soon as the 3 minutes were up, she delved into the cup, and it vanished in a matter of seconds. After slurping the last of the delicious MSG-filled soup, she let out a breath of air, “Ahhhhh, oiiishiiiii!” Her mom always told her to not drink the soup, but seeing as how no one was home, Kagome indulged in her guilty pleasures.
With the warm ramen and broth in her tummy, Kagome could feel the past two weeks weigh down on her. She needed to go to bed, even if she didn’t feel tired. She knew her body, not only needed it, but deserved it.
She headed back upstairs and turned down the hallway to her bathroom. She hadn’t realized how tired she was until she climbed those last few steps. She yawned and her eyes teared. Continuing in her watery-eyed state, she began her night-time routine: brushing, flossing, and popping the occasional zit—another one of guilty pleasures. One hand slowly reached for the toothpaste, squeezing it onto her toothbrush, while the other filled up her cup with water. “Why am I so tired now?” she thought to herself. She blinked out the tears from earlier, and leaned into the mirror to see just how bad the bags under her eyes were. She looked at herself, and blinked once more. What in the…? The girl in the mirror was not her! The girl of her reflection had a navy stripe on her cheek and bluish streaks in her hair. Really, she wasn’t even a girl. On top of her head sat two triangles, positioned straight up, as if they were waiting for something.
Stunned, she stood in front of the mirror, mouth agape, until finally, a light bulb went off in her head, “Oh no...”
That was their cue, the ears drooped.
She didn’t know how it happened but as soon as she came to her senses, she realized that it had to be the flower. Everything else she had done that night was routine, things she had done hundreds, if not thousands, of times! She quickly went to her grandfather’s room and searched for a cure or something about her current state. Her grandfather always had books on things no one would EVER read about. After speed reading through volumes of books, and many almost-panic attacks, she finally came upon a dusty old book almost hidden from view. It was a book of magic. Spells, curses, remedies, and vexes were abundant on every page, almost spilling over the edges. She flipped through the pages with inhuman speed. Whatever animal she was, she was a fast reading one. Her new found eyes spotted a hand-drawn picture of the exact flower she had brought home. The flower was supposedly so rare, it was dubbed a mythical plant and was never given a name. “A nameless beauty”, she thought. The flower was known for its power to change a human into a part-demon, or hanyou. The demon-half would be from a demon the user was familiar with, or was constantly around. It took her a moment, she was half Inuyasha?! She continued reading and discovered that she had followed the instructions on how to properly use the flower down to a tee: soak the plant in hot water and submerge yourself in the concoction for an hour.
Finally having grasped the situation, she knew what she had to do, go back to the well. Kaede was the only person who would have some knowledge of how to reverse the effect of the flower. Packing a light overnight bag and changing back into her uniform in record time, she headed out the door. With only a small messenger bag, she ran for the well. It would be a quick visit; she would solve her problem, and be back before anyone knew anything was up.
Boy, was she wrong.
Just a quick jump into the well, and she was welcomed back into the past. Upon arriving on the other side, she was overwhelmed by the scent of nature. It smelled so good! She climbed up and stretched out her demon senses easily, much like her miko senses. ‘Only a few youkai.’
She quickly began to make her way through Inuyasha’s Forest, intent on finding a cure.
She treaded through the trees, experimenting with her newfound powers. “Maybe it’s not so bad being a hanyou. It’s kind of nice being able to kick some serious butt.” She giggled, and almost immediately regretted it. Something was there. Her thoughts and movements were brought to a complete halt. The only thing she could think of was jumping high into a tree. And as effortlessly as Inuyasha did this, so did she. Mentally, she patted herself on the back. She had lost her balance just a little.
She crouched, patiently, nervously. She could hear her heart pounding in her ears. She needed to calm down! She tried to be as still as she could, and with a little perseverance, she was able to bring her heart rate to an acceptable level. She waited for what seemed like ages, until finally, through the dense dark trees, someone appeared. Beneath her, clad in white, was the most beautiful being she had ever seen: deep amber eyes, snow-white tail, and a pair of very “tweakable” ears. Just being able to stare upon the creature was like being in heaven. Her moment of ogling was quickly shattered when a very masculine voice spoke up, “Quit hiding, I know you’re there.”
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