InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Not the Only One ❯ Back to life ( Chapter 12 )

{I don't own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. That pleasure belongs to their rightful owners, Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihiro Togashi!}

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! Mine's was very subdued- it's been a hard year, and I think everyone was just tired!

 

Know the lingo!:

Chikushou: Shit/Dammit

`Kuso: shortened version of above

Hai: yes

 

Chapter 12

Back to life

 

There was a pulling at Kagome's mind, a completely pure force that was trying to bring her back to consciousness. The chains of sleep slowly began to dissolve, and little by little Kagome opened her eyes to complete blackness.

Disoriented, she blinked, trying to pick out any recognisable shapes.

“Inuyasha?”

Kagome listened hard, and through the silence emerged a large, drawn out hiss.

What was that?!?

Kagome swallowed, her heart immediately jumping into her mouth. The cloud that had been swaddling the moon moved, and she realised she was facing the springs. The empty waters were visible now, cloaked by the steam.

At first, Kagome let out a sigh of relief when she thought she had found the source of the hissing. But then, a jerk below her navel informed her of the two shikon shards directly behind her.

A youkai?

“S-s-eem-s-s I've found the s-s-h-hard-s-s!”

Kagome slowly turned, her sweaty palms sinking into the hard, bristly grass. She could feel individual strands stick to her skin, only to be incinerated by the nervous sparks of miko magic jumping from her body.

She was looking directly into the luminous orange eyes of a cobra.

Its scales were like purple, glittering amethysts in the moonlight, the two shards practically unidentifiable on the flaps of skin at either side of its head. Black and yellow markings, the warning colours of nature, swarmed around the flaps of skin like crude tattoos.

It was huge.

Though the snake's head was lowered, the rest of its body was coiled around Kagome in a figure of eight. She realised she was trapped by the alive, writhing mass of scales. The cobra bared its fangs on seeing she was awake, each tooth the size and colour of an elephant's tusk.

“Give them to me. Give me the s-h-hard-s-s!” The snake youkai hissed.

Kagome stared blankly at the cobra, her mind panicking. On receiving no reply, the lazy coils suddenly sprang into action.

“Oh no you don't!”

Inuyasha jumped out of no where, sliding down the snake's skin that were like the tiles of the shrine's roof. Sparks spat from underneath his bare feet as he yanked Kagome out of the snake's wrath in the last second.

“Inuyasha! Where did you go?” Kagome squeaked. He ignored her, clamping one arm around her waist while he took a slice with his sword. Kagome had hastily closed her eyes as soon as they had left the ground, but the grating sound of steel on snake made her eyes jump open.

“Chikushou,” Inuyasha cursed as he landed on the ground, seeing that his sword had made no impact.

“Kagome, where are the shards?”

“Either side of his head,” Kagome managed, wobbling a little uneasily on jelly legs. Everything had happened so fast that her body was still catching up with her mind. Her arms still clung around Inuyasha's neck, the front of her uniform soaking due to the fact Inuyasha was still dripping wet.

“Right,” Inuyasha let go of her, glancing at her quickly, “Stay here,”

Kagome hadn't even had time to nod before the hanyou had leapt back into battle.

 

 

Yoko touched down before the familiar mountain, eyeing the smoke curling into the night sky. He inhaled, the scent of fire causing his more animalistic side to shiver. The kitsune was suddenly enveloped by ultimate darkness as the moon slunk away in the sky. As his eyes adapted, Yoko couldn't shake off the feeling that something bad was happening.

Call it kitsune intuition…but something is definitely making me uneasy…

As Yoko gracefully walked up the hill, his fox ears twitched at the sound of banging, steel on steel.

After this, I won't have to wonder what is happening with Kagome. I'll know.

Smiling at that conclusion, Yoko entered the cave, tapping his long, delicate fingers on the wall. The noise bounced around the cave, joining the rhythm of clashing metal.

“Totosai? Are you here?”

The sound of grating stopped abruptly, and an aged voice croaked out,

“Yoku-chan, is that you?”

The kitsune shook his head softly and rolled his eyes as the wizened old man came into view.

“Neh, Totosai, I'm not a kit anymore. Call me by my full name, not this abbreviation you insist on,”

The old man laughed creakily, ambling towards the kitsune that towered over him, placing a hand on his face. His large eyes were bright and his usually worried mouth cracked into a smile.

“Ah, Yoku-chan, you know how set in my ways I am! Why, it only seems a while back you were frolicking around these parts with your clan, bringing me flowers and poisonous berries,”

The kitsune's face grew slightly dark in the flickering firelight.

“Times have changed old man. Now it is me asking you for something,”

“Oh?” Totosai removed his hand, tapped his chin as he looking the kitsune up and down, “I didn't really pin you as the swordsman, Yoku- I mean, Yoko,”

“You're quite correct. I have no need for swords of steel,”

“What then?” Totosai suddenly grinned, clapping his hands. “I know! Trouble with the ladies, hai? Let me give you some advice…”

Yoko winced, shutting his eyes briefly and thinking that if he ever needed female advice from Totosai he was no longer a kitsune.

“Quiet, old man. I need you to forge me a necklace,”

Totosai blinked mid-rant, his mouth open.

“So it's your thieving skills that are down the pan?”

“Look here,” Yoko tapped the old man's bald head impatiently, “I have a lot of respect for you Totosai, and you know what happens when people lose my respect…”

“Hai, I understand,” the old man laughed nervously, “A necklace it is,”

 

“Hanyou, you are was-sting your time,”

Kagome winced as the sound of clashing and hissing continued. The snake was too swift, its skin too strong.

“Inuyasha! Try and aim for its underbelly!”

“Keh! It's easier said than done!”

“I can hear, you know,” the cobra cackled, bringing its whole body crashing to the ground.

“Chikushou!” Inuyasha, who had been sliding down the snake's back, fell from the sudden momentum.

“Enough of this-s!”

The snake sped across the ground so fast Kagome's heart only managed one beat before it pounced, knocking her down with a sharp strike of its tail.

“Kag-ome!”

The miko rolled from underneath the slithering serpent, only to be greeted by a humongous red cavern that was the snake's mouth.

“Aiiii!”

 

“Kagome!” Inuyasha had just leapt to the spot where the miko had previously been standing only to witness the snake swallow her whole.

“Iyaaa!” Inuyasha screamed, his heart banging like drums in his ears. Without thinking, he charged full on at the snake, which still seemed to be in the process of swallowing. Inuyasha plunged his sword into the air, and it swiped directly through the side of the snake's head, piercing through its eyes.

It shrieked, shaking and shuddering as it tried to dislodge the sword. Inuyasha took advantage and ripped open its jaws, tearing the youkai down the middle with a sickening pop.

“Kagome!”

Blood and tissue squirted over him, but there was no sign of the miko. Inuyasha knew she couldn't have been digested, but he couldn't pick up her scent through all the blood.

There was a sudden sound, a rippling through the air like wind chimes, and the mass of snake meat Inuyasha was yet to reach glowed purple.

“K-Kagome?” the hanyou stuttered, stalling his furious rampage. His heart was wound up so fast he was sure it would burst.

Without warning, the remains of the cobra split into smithereens, whizzing through the air like bullets. Inuyasha immediately threw his blood covered arms up to defend himself.

The noise dropped, and with a further clenched heart, Inuyasha let his hands drop.

He almost cried when he saw Kagome lying on the ground, covered in green slime but otherwise alive. Her breathing was shallow, and Inuyasha slid through the youkai's remains to reach her. He sunk to the ground as if in prayer, pulling her body into his arms. The hanyou wiped the slime off her face, though in turn smearing blood on her skin.

“Kagome,” Inuyasha let out a huge breath. Despite her appearance, he had never seen anything so beautiful in his life. He was so overwhelmingly relieved. When she had been swallowed, Inuyasha had felt completely empty, as if there was nothing else to live for with Kagome gone. He had been reckless, though for once it had turned out to his advantage.

Inuyasha looked down at his hand, resting on Kagome's hair, feeling a slightly warm sensation. The green slime was bubbling, irritating his skin.

Inuyasha choked.

It's poison!

The hanyou tore his gaze frantically to Kagome. Some of the poison was becoming purified, but the sheer effect was clearly taking its toll on the girl, having blasted apart the colossal youkai only minutes before. The slime had began to burn through the girl's clothes, and without thinking further Inuyasha stood up with Kagome in his arms and plunged into the hot spring.

The scalding water relieved his once again bloodied skin. Inuyasha felt Kagome's clothes weigh her body down and he promptly resurfaced. He expected her to be spluttering and shouting, asking him why he left it so late to save her and how she was supposed to get dry. However the miko lay limp in his arms, and Inuyasha realised she wasn't breathing anymore.

“Chikushou!” Inuyasha shook her, his eyes wide, “Don't you dare do this to me again Kagome!”

She made no reaction, her skin beginning to take on a funny tinge. Inuyasha splashed to the shore, laying her down on the grass and frantically trying to remember the `first aid' she preformed all those months ago.

Flashback

“Inuyasha? Has Shippo-chan come out yet?”

The hanyou opened a lazy eye, his hair sticking to his bare back in the humid heat of the day.

“I thought he was with you?”

Kagome had then gasped, pointing at a familiar orange jacket floating in the stream.

“Shippo-chan!”

“'Kuso!” Inuyasha had pulled the kit out, and watched with shock as Kagome had pushed the little guy's chest and breathed into his mouth until he had came around, crying and relived to be alive.

End Flashback

Inuyasha wasted no time, pressing his hands one on top of the other on Kagome's chest. He pushed, careful not to be too hard in case he broke her ribs.

“Kagome! Wake up!” He did it again, feeling a coldness wash over his skin as the seconds dragged on.

Desperate, Inuyasha brushed a lock of hair off her mouth, and took a deep breath. He leaned over, pressing his lips to hers and exhaling all the air from his lungs. Inuyasha slowly leaned back, his lips wet from Kagome's own. His eyes searched her face for a flicker of life, when he realised the air he had breathed in would have escaped through her nose.

“Kagome!” Inuyasha inhaled deeply again, pinching the girl's cold nose while breathing life back into her.

 

 

Kagome felt the strangest sensation. Her chest felt as though rubber bands were binding her lungs. Then, suddenly, she felt warmth on her skin, and something passed through her body. Kagome tried to open her eyes, tried to reply to the person who was calling her name. Then, the feeling passed through her again, though this time the bands snapped and fell away from her.

Kagome awoke, turning onto her side and coughing up a mixture of hot water and poison. Inuyasha rocked back from her in shock, watching the girl he had deemed dead forever curse and choke on the grass.

“K-Kagome?”

The miko turned weakly, pushing the soaking hair from her face. She saw Inuyasha sitting on the grass, looking as if he had just fallen over. His amber eyes were wide as saucers, and he watched her with such intensity it made Kagome uncomfortable.

“Inu…yasha?” Kagome breathed, feeling shattered and shaken. He moved towards her, and Kagome was shocked to see the glimmer of his eyes.

“You're alive?” It was a strange question to ask, but Kagome didn't even get to answer it as Inuyasha grasped onto her dripping clothes, pulling her into the strongest of embraces. He laid his head on hers, breathing in deeply as though committing her scent to memory.

“Don't ever do that to me again,”

His voice broke halfway during his command, but Kagome didn't mind. She rubbed his back soothingly, as if he had been the one near death. Her lips were tingling, and though Kagome didn't know why, it gave her the cosiest feeling inside. Inuyasha was holding her so close Kagome was surprised they didn't merge together. Despite the circumstances, despite the fact she had nearly died, despite the fact they had been arguing before they arrived, Kagome tucked her head under Inuyasha's and smiled softly.

 

 

Aw! As much as I love Kurama-kun and Yoko-chan, you can't beat good ole Kagome and Inuyasha-ness…

And no cliff-hanger! Consider this my Christmas pressie to you all!

So…how will Yoko react when Kagome gives him the brush off? And what's up with this mysterious necklace? Hehe- find out next time!

Arigato as always:

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Elemental_dea: Aw, arigato! I love the fact people love this fic!

Miss Mischief: Ah, I'm glad you think so! Hopefully I'll always keep her true!

Fox Vixen: Well, there will be plenty more of Yoko!

LCAR10: Well, hope you keep reading!

Italiannproud: Aw, I loved your review! Yup, I'm gonna bring Kouga-kun in- don't worry!

XxhellzgurlxX: Heh hope it was worth the wait!

Madmiko: I love you too girl! I think the thing with Inu is he knows Kagome will stick with him, no matter how he treats her, whereas with Kikyo he doesn't know here he is- just shows who he knows better! As for Kurama, he and Yoko will be getting their share of our favourite miko soon…Kagome isn't going to be involved in any missions (though don't quote me on that! My muse is fickle!) Though she will meet the rest of the gang soon! As for Yoko- you're gonna love it!! I will resolve the sterile issue soon too!

You're right, Renata-sama needs to give us a ficcie soon!

HeartStar: Arigato!

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Kitsuneangel88: Aw, always nice to know I have such great fans!! I'll update when I can..i would love to do it all the time, but life isn't fair that way!

HopelesslyHopefull: Glad you enjoyed!

Renata-sama: I promise! This was just a special one off so my next part of the plot could fall into place! As you will see next chappy! Your suspicion is right- though I favour Kurama's first, Yoko's hair is a close second on my favs list!

Hmm- tough question. I think it would be difficult for Kagome to love Kurama and not love Yoko, seeing as how it is due to Yoko living in Kurama that the bishie is the way he is…so no. I think it would pretty impossible.

Oh yes! You will see some Kurama in the future goings on next chappy too!

She's been away for two day, but if you think of everything that happened, I suppose I would seem longer!

Heh- damn right Kagome isn't hiding Yoko!

Hmm…a child with Yoko would be more feasible, but do you really see the kitsune being tied down in such a way? Though when everything is over? Hey, it's possible…I like the idea of Kagome and Kurama having kids too. The child would be special, but relatively normal. And how handsome/beautiful would it be!!!

Aww! I love Shiori-san, and I can't wait for her and Kagome to meet! (Which will happen soon, I hope! Along with everything else I cave to contain in this story…we'll be lucky if I'm not saying this next time this year!) And by the way, as you will surely read by madmiko, we are waiting from a fic from you! Kami knows there aren't enough decent fics out there about our favourite miko, kitsune and avatar!

Raeko: Aw, don't cry! There will be lots and lots of Kurama and Kagome interaction- I still don't know myself who she's gonna get!

Snow Goddess: I can't say, because even I don't know! Butt here will be lots more interaction between the two!

LestatsDarkAngel: Don't worry; Hiei will be in and out of this fic!!! As for my muse…she will never leave me, because I keep her on a chain! (Hehe, don't worry, it's a very pretty one and she had room to fly about my head and sit on my shoulders)

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