InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunion ❯ Explanations ( Chapter 4 )

I have to change the rating for language. After all Yuusuke is in this chapter.

 

In this chapter I will say more than standard disclaimers because I do a rough book one summary. If you haven't read book one of Inu-Yasha don't read this chapter. I get no money from this. It is just for my own enjoyment, and if others enjoy it theirs too.

 

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Kurama couldn't believe it. It was like a vision from his past and although the setting had changed, the woman hadn't. He felt hope and wonder bloom inside him, overtaking all sense of reason and propriety. He felt like a kit again, for the first time in nearly five hundred years.

 

All eyes were riveted on Kurama as he rushed the unsuspecting Kagome. Thankfully Yukina was the one holding the tea tray. “Kagome, it's you! I had almost given up hope finding you again,” Kagome's eyes widened in shock and utter bewilderment.

 

He spun in a dizzying circle hugging Kagome close. “I'm glad that you're happy. But will you CALM DOWN!” Kurama snapped back to his senses and set her down gently. Embarrassed he stared at the floor.

 

Hiei was troubled by the sight of someone touching Kagome but said nothing after all it wasn't his business. Instead he just stared at the fox, waiting for an answer to that shocking display.

 

Kurama slapped his forehead, “Right, right. Of course you wouldn't recognize me. I mean I've changed quite a bit since you last saw me. How long have you been back? Oh wait, wait! First question!!! Have you finished the Jewel yet?” Kurama didn't talk like he normally did instead he spoke with more of a colloquial accent, which belied the sophisticated way in which he normally spoke.

 

Everyone sweat dropped was there something wrong with their friend? How does he know Kagome? And also what was this about a Jewel? Kagome was flabbergasted, “Y-yes. The Jewel was complete and is gone…” She didn't even get to finish her sentence and she was pulled into another bear hug. “…Air…” She gasped out.

 

Hiei was really starting to get annoyed, and he still hadn't gotten any answers from the damned fox or the baka Onna. He growled and wrenched Kagome out of Kurama's grip. Kagome gave Hiei a thankful smile which he didn't return instead he focused on Kurama. “What's going on Fox?” demanded Hiei.

 

Kurama growled when Kagome was ripped from his arms but stopped when he saw who it was and sweat dropped. He finally realized where he was and who was around, which included the newly arrived Yuusuke, Keiko and Botan. All looked upon the scene with great interest.

 

Upon this revelation his accent reverted back. “My apologies hahaoya*. But it's been so long I just couldn't help myself. Izanami told me we would meet again, but I was beginning to lose hope that I'd ever find you.”

 

[[Hahaoya* or Haha means mother. Unlike Okaasan which is used in reference to someone else's mother.]]

 

Kagome was listening, though her thoughts had turned inward as she tried to puzzle out what she was being told. `Fox…Jewel…Hahaoya…Izanami…' Her mind whirled and then suddenly, her eyes widened impossibly large and it hit her, what he was talking about and who he was. Then she also sensed something else that confirmed it. That something else was the muted demon energy that she could feel also emanating from him. Tears of joy began to fall from her eyes until her cheeks were drowned in happy tears, she ran to Kurama and hugged him tightly.

 

“Shippou! My son, you're alive!”

 

“Hai, mother. I am. I followed what you told me. I grew up big and strong just like you wanted.” Kurama smiled down tenderly at his mother.

 

Yuusuke had had enough; everyone was thoroughly and utterly confused. “Alright Kurama, what the HELL is going on!”

 

She looked at Yuusuke and then nodded her head. He was yet another demon. She sighed. “I was right…” Everyone looked at her inquiringly. “This is a demon convention.” Everyone looked at her dumbfounded. Yukina just giggled.

 

Genkai wanted to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible, she was starting to get a headache. “Everyone get in here and sit down. Either Kurama or Kagome may start from the beginning.” She looked at them making sure that both of them knew it was a demand not a request.”

 

“Shippou, it's up to you.”

 

“Why don't you tell the beginning, it's fresher in your mind. Then I can fill in what happened after you disappeared.” Kagome thought and then nodded. It sounded like a plan.

 

“Well let's see. It started when I was fifteen years old. I was looking for my cat…” Kuwabara chose that moment to interrupt.

 

“Oooo a kitty, was it cute like Eikichi?” Everyone turned to glare at Kuwabara. “I was just asking,” he muttered sullenly.

 

Kagome rolled her eyes, `Maybe this was why Hiei called him a Baka. If that's the reason I won't argue.' “Anyways, I was looking for my cat when suddenly out of the old well a demon sprang up and grabbed me, pulling me in.”

 

At this Hiei rolled his eyes. “No demon would lay in wait just to pull you into a well.”

 

Kagome smirked at this, “Did I say it was laying in wait? The demon had been dead and its remains were thrown into the bone eaters well. When I came by the bones awoke the powers within the Jewel and sprang to life again.”

 

“What Jewel?” Hiei demanded.

 

“I'm getting to that if you'd SHUT UP and stop interrupting me ever other sentence.” Hiei sat down with a, “Hn.”

 

“Okay so I found out I had some miko powers when I shouted NO! At the demon and purification light sprang forth. Well actually I didn't know it was miko powers I thought I'd just got lucky. Well whatever it was, I got away. And found myself in a large forest known as Inu-Yasha's forest. Where I met a half demon named Inu-Yasha pinned to a tree. Then was captured and accused of being a kitsune.” She reached up to ruffle Kurama's hair.

 

He blushed, “Kagome cut it out, I'm not a kit anymore.” She chuckled, his pout looked so cute.

 

“You'd say that even if you were still a kit.” Kurama thought about it and nodded slowly in defeat. “The accusation came from the fact that I looked almost identical to Kikyo who I later found out was a previous incarnation of mine. Later the demon that had attacked me earlier found me again. I escaped nearly back to the well when I was caught up against Inu-Yasha. He said he'd kill the other demon if I freed him. So I did. The original demon bit into my side removing the Jewel that had apparently been housed inside my body. Inu-Yasha killed the demon and nearly killed me demanding that Jewel. Do any of you know the Shikon no Tama.”

 

Genkai, Hiei and Yukina nodded. Genkai though was the one to respond. “It was a Jewel created out of three demon souls and the soul of a powerful Miko named Midoriko. It had the ability to give whatever the holder desired particularly if it was an evil desire. Are you saying that it still exists?”

 

Kagome shook her head. “No, but let me finish. A subjugation necklace was placed around his neck.” At this Kurama broke into giggles. Ignoring him Kagome continued, “Which would send him crashing head first into the ground when ever I said sit boy.” Something told Hiei to tread lightly around this woman, just to make sure she didn't put one on him. He shuddered in not a little bit of fear. “After a while I only used it on him when he prevented me from returning home or hit Shippou.”

 

“Kagome don't lie, you sat him for a lot of reasons.” Kurama started getting himself worked up and crossing his arms. “You sat him to stop him for attacking randomly, or when he was being really stupid like, calling you bitch, wench and stupid. I think he's the idiot considering all the times he went after that stupid Kikyo.” Kagome turned to stare at the floor trying to not remember the pain that those words caused. Hiei growled and Kurama realized what he'd done.

 

Kurama was calling himself all kinds of idiot, after five hundred years of living how could he revert so completely to how he'd been as a child and lose all semblance of tact. He sighed, trying to think of a way to lighten the mood.

 

“Shortly after that the Shikon was broken.” Knowing that wouldn't help but maybe if the story got going again she'd forget.

 

Hiei was angry this stupid Inu-Yasha character had hurt a woman as pure and kind as his Yukina. Granted, he hadn't known her long but he knew her enough to figure out that she wouldn't hurt a soul, and apparently demons were included in that category.

 

“Yes, shortly after that a crow demon attacked. When I shot it with my arrow, the jewel shattered into hundreds of tiny fragments and scattered across the country.” Hiei nodded, reassessing his previous thought. `Alright, she won't attack any living soul unless provoked. Well, that's reasonable enough. Not to mention a bit smarter.'

 

“Inu-Yasha and I set out on a quest to retrieve all the Jewel fragments. Shortly after that we were attacked by Shippou here.” Hiei growled and Yukina looked at Hiei inquisitively. Kurama blushed. “Well more like eight year old Shippou tried to attack us and steal our shards. But working together we avenged his father and he stayed with us after that.”

 

Kurama's eyes grew sad. “I barely remember him now.” Kagome comforted him with a one-armed hug.

 

“Wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight. You knew Kurama when he was eight?!” Kagome nodded. “How is that even possible?”

 

“Oh I guess I forgot to tell you that the well became a portal where I could travel back and forth through time.”

 

“Oh yeah, that's something so easy to forget.” Keiko shut Yuusuke up by hitting him on the head.

 

“Be quiet Yuusuke and let Kagome finish.” Yuusuke immediately quieted in the face of his irate girlfriend.

 

Hiei looked thoughtful, `Well that would explain why sometimes I couldn't find her.'

 

“Next I met the perverted monk Miroku, who again attacked me for my Jewel shards. And soon after that I met the demon slayer Sango, whose entire village had been killed by Naraku and tricked into thinking that it had been caused by Inu-Yasha and myself. So yet again we were attacked but for the first time it was a different reason. Eventually she came to her senses and joined our team. Some where along the way, a part of my soul was stolen to revive Inu-Yasha's deceased lover. So all during our travels she was trying to kill me in order to get the other half of `her soul', since I was the reincarnation of her she felt herself entitled to it.”

 

She smiled looking at Shippou and seeing his angry look, “Don't worry Shippou, my soul is in me safe and sound. Izanami had a talk with her and put her in her place and in the end I got my soul back and Inu-Yasha was free of both incarnations that he didn't belong with.”

 

Kurama looked outraged, “What do you mean! You loved him I could tell. And with Kikyo gone you and he could finally be happy!”

 

“He belonged with Leiko!” She yelled with tears in her eyes. She had to believe he was better off with out her, if not, she didn't think she could take it. Izanami said there was another destiny here for her to follow. If Kurama had still had his fox ears at that moment they'd be pressed against his head, in shame. “Please excuse me, Shippou and please finish telling the story I need to go outside for a bit.” Nobody argued with her they all just sat there quietly as she left the room.

 

“I didn't know she knew about Leiko…” Kurama sighed sadly. “The Jewel was collected everyone worked together to defeat Naraku and then Kagome made a wish. I don't really know what it was about though. One day I'll find out. I just know when it was over the people Naraku had killed were alive again, Kikyo was laid to rest, and I became a spirit fox. Then Kagome disappeared and never came back. Soon after everyone moved off to start their own lives and instead of going with them, I changed my name set out on my own to train myself and my new abilities. It was the second time I'd been abandoned by my parents, not that it was their choice but I needed to grow up and protect myself. I checked on the group from time to time, until, they all finally past away. Now I should check on Kagome.”

 

Hiei stood in front of Kurama preventing him from following Kagome, “I think you've done enough Fox. I'll check on her.” Kurama glared but nodded, knowing what Hiei said was true.

 

Hiei flitted after Kagome finding her sitting and weeping near another tree. “This is the second time Onna that I've found you weeping by a tree.”

 

Kagome looked up pleadingly at Hiei, “Please call me Kagome, for five years it's been nothing but, woman, wench, girl, baka, bitch, stupid… The list goes on… please call me by my name.”

 

Hiei sighed sitting down beside her, “As you wish on-Kagome.” She almost smiled at the slip at least he was trying though. “You know when I just saw you. I thought, No there can't be demons in this era. Since I hadn't seen but a couple here, when I'm used to seeing at least three a day in the past. What happened to cause that?”

 

“About four hundred years ago spirit world got it into their heads that the ningenkai and makai needed a barrier between them to prevent humans and demons from interacting.”

 

“That's stupid the some of the hanyou's I've met have been the sweetest beings in existence. I almost wish I could change what I'd wished for now, but it's too late.”

 

Hiei raised an eyebrow, “What did you wish for?”

 

“I wished for all the people harmed by Naraku to be happy.” Hiei chuckled when he remembered something he once said to Yuusuke.

 

Kagome looked at him questioningly, “I was just remembering when I first met Yuusuke. I called him a save the day super hero. I simply had a fleeting thought that perhaps you might have been trying to steal his title before he'd even been born.”

 

Kagome chuckled, “I'm no hero.” `I'm not so sure…Kagome.'

 

Hiei didn't answer; instead he stood and offered her his hand to help her up. “Come, the others will be worried. This is supposedly a party not an interrogation so don't let the Fox press you into answering anymore questions.”

 

Kagome smiled at Hiei. “Thanks,” was all that was said as they reentered the dojo.

 

 

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I decided to go through most of the story because I'm not a lazy author.

 

This conversation between Hiei and Kagome is based on the fact that Hiei actually cares about people and he does talk!

 

Other chapters have been updated in an attempt to cut down on spelling and grammar errors.

 

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