InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changing the Past, Changes the Future ❯ Tokyo Girl ( Chapter 17 )

A/N: Hello everyone! I'm so very sorry I have been gone this long. It's been crazy. Life happened the past few years, but I'm back. The other new chapter is split between chapters 5 and 6.

 

To everyone who has read, supported, and reviewed this story the past four years I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

 

To the readers who are reading this for the first time, I hope you enjoy.

 

I hope to have the next chapter out within the week.

 

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Chapter 17: Tokyo Girl

 

“I think we should split up and look for them. They can't have gone too far.”

 

“We should go in a group to look. That way we'll all be together. After we rescue Kikyo from Naraku, we'll finally kill the fucker.” Koga cracked his knuckles and smirked at the idea of sinking his claws into Naraku. He heard some in the group mumbling in agreement with his idea.

 

“We should wait here.”

 

“Fuck that!”

 

Icy golden eyes flicked to Inuyasha at his heated outburst. “Naraku has an ulterior motive. He took the woman, so she would know what he is up to. He will return her to us so that she can tell us what he is planning. His act back there was another deception. Even Naraku has better things to do than worry about what a woman who gives herself as freely as the priestess does.”

 

“You don't know what the hell you're talking about Sesshomaru. You don't know a damn thing about how they felt for each other. I don't know what Kikyo told you guys. They weren't simply lovers! They loved each other!” He ignored the gasps from the group.

 

Kagome fought the urge to roll her eyes. With all they had seen and heard in the past few months, she was surprised anything could shock them.

 

Sesshomaru tucked his hair behind his ear and smirked. “How very amusing, Inuyasha. You sound as if you are defending Naraku more than Kikyo.”

 

“Don't be stupid, Sesshomaru! Why would I defend him?!”

 

“I know Kikyo loved Onigumo and for all his evil craziness, Onigumo loved Kikyo as much as someone like him could ever love someone. This whole situation is a lot deeper and far more complicated than you could ever imagine, so don't' stand there looking all smug and arrogant, you shallow fucking bastard!” He shouted in Sesshomaru's face.

 

“You will refrain from shouting in the face of this Sesshomaru like some spoiled child.” Sesshomaru shoved Inuyasha away from him, knocking him to the ground.

 

`Oh yeah, Sesshomaru. Like that behavior is any more mature than Inuyasha's. Jeez, you'd think both these guys were little kids or something sometimes.' She sighed and shook her head when Inuyasha jumped to his feet and charged at Sesshomaru.

 

Inuyasha's arms wrapped around Sesshomaru's middle and he ducked his head to avoid the spikes of the demon's armor as they crashed to the dirt.

 

Everyone in the group stepped back allowing them plenty of room to take out their frustrations on each other.

 

Kagome flinched when a well placed elbow slammed into Inuyasha's chest, just above his sternum, and he rolled off Sesshomaru. He was trying hard to regain his breath as the elder brother rose gracefully to his feet.

 

Oh damn, that hurt. There were just some places you got hit that hurt like hell or stole your breath. It didn't matter if you were human, half demon, or demon, apparently when you got hit in that spot, you went down for at least a few seconds. The recovery time was different though.

 

“You…bastard…” He was still gasping as he rose to his feet.

 

“The only bastard I see around here, Inuyasha, is you.”

 

Inuyasha growled and his right hand grabbed at the Tetsusaiga. Sesshomaru's hand rested on Tokijin.

 

This was rapidly spiraling out of control.

 

Naraku could very well still be in the area, watching behind his barrier. He could be waiting for the brothers to wear themselves down before attacking the group.

 

This had to stop. Besides, Kikyo was in trouble and this wasn't helping her. Kagome knew Sesshomaru was concerned about Kikyo. She wasn't blind. She had seen the way he acted while Naraku held Kikyo. He probably didn't even know why he cared, but he was upset she had been taken too.

 

“Stop it! Both of you stop it, right now!” she shouted as she ran between the two brothers. They had yet to draw their swords, so Kagome thought she was relatively safe. Perhaps, it wasn't the greatest idea she had ever had, but she only had one other option. Telling Inuyasha to sit to stop them would only embarrass him and Kagome didn't want to do that to him.

 

She looked to her mate then to his brother. “You two need to stop this. I'm worried about Kikyo too. I've never seen Naraku that mad before and don't know what he's going to do to her. Look at what he did to Miroku!” She pointed to the monk with visible bruises around his throat. “Now, we don't know what Naraku is doing, but standing here idle while the two of you pound on one another isn't getting us anywhere and it sure as hell isn't helping Kikyo!”

 

“I agree with the girl, Inuyasha. This is doing nothing, but giving Naraku more time. Clearly your mate has more sense than you, Inuyasha. You made a wise choice when you took her for your mate.”

 

“Thank you, Lord Sesshomaru.” She smiled at him. Then she looked to Inuyasha. “Besides, I think Sesshomaru is right.”

 

“You what?!”

 

“I think Naraku will bring Kikyo back to the place where he took her. He always sends one of his minions to tell us what he is planning. He wants us to lead him to what he is searching for. That's the way he has always been. We don't need to look for her, because he will bring her back to us.”

 

“What if you're wrong?”

 

“Don't you think I have thought about that? I'm sorry worried that I'm wrong. What if he doesn't bring her back? What if he is so angry that he kills her? In the month I spent there, I grew to care for Kikyo like she was my sister. I love her, Inuyasha. But loving her doesn't change the fact that I think Sesshomaru is right. There is no sense in running all over the place when we don't know where to run to.”

 

“Fine, whatever. If he doesn't bring her back in two days we split up and look for her.”

 

“Seven,” Sesshomaru said.

 

“Three and a half. If she is not back by midday in three days, we will split up to go search for her. Okay?”

 

“Keh!”

 

“Hn.”

 

Kagome rolled her eyes at the two and turned to everyone else. “You hear that everyone? We're going to stay around here for three and a half days, if Kikyo is not back by midday in three days, we will split up to look for her.”

 

“Let's go back to the village and see if we can come with anything to help Miroku's throat.” Sango finally said.

 

“Yes. Perhaps the old priestess can help Inuyasha control and channel his powers better. I don't want Koga to be a jerk and get purified because Inuyasha has more power than he knows how t control.” Ayame stated, gaining indignant sputtering from both males.

 

“And maybe Kagome can go back to her world and get us all some ninja snacks.” Shippo piped up. “And see if there is anything in her time that can help Miroku's throat, of course.” He added when he saw the way everyone frowned at him.

 

“I'm not really comfortable in a human village and I don't think it's the best place to bring the wolves. We'll stay right here and make camp,” Koga said.

 

“This Sesshomaru shall take his group and stay in the clearing by the well. If your woman is planning on going back to her world, it should be monitored to prevent anyone from fooling with it or her.” Then, they took to the sky and were gone.

 

“Fine. This is where we'll meet in two nights, because if she ain't back by then, we'll need to come up with a plan.”

 

“Two days without seeing mutt face. It's going to be heaven.” Koga crossed his arms across his chest.

 

“You can leave anytime you want, Koga. No one is keeping you here.” Kagome laced her fingers with Inuyasha's and squeezed his hand.

 

Koga's mouth gaped as Kagome and Inuyasha turned toward the village and walked away with the rest of his group following.

 

Shippo looked back while he was sitting on Kagome's shoulder. “Idiot.” He snickered at the still slack jawed wolf.

 

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“What can I get for Miroku?” She was scanning the medicine aisle at the supermarket. The only thing she could come up with to get him was a bag of throat drops. She had never been strangled within a few inches of her life before, so she was kind of at a loss as to what to get for him. She had to imagine that his throat would be really sore for a few days, but had no idea for sure.

 

Maybe she could get Hojo to get her something for a severely irritated throat.

 

No! That would not be cool. She was exclusively with Inuyasha now and had to set things straight with Hojo the next time she saw him. Being led on sucked and she didn't want anyone else to put anyone through that.

 

Inuyasha had agreed, without much of a fight, to let Kagome go home for the night. He had wanted Kagome to help him with his powers, but she had told him Kaede would be better, because she wasn't nearly as hot headed as Kagome. He was still weary of the well, as was she, but she hoped that she had fulfilled her reason for it sending her too far back.

 

After all, she wasn't dead.

 

With a frown, she looked back at her list and went over the contents of her shopping cart. Throat drops for Miroku, candy, coloring books, and crayons for Rin and Shippo, and snacks and soda for Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha.

 

She felt kind of bad that she didn't get enough for everyone, but she wasn't exactly made of money.

 

She had maxi pads, Ziploc bags, condoms, and her birth control. It had taken most of her nerve to get the condoms and she had stood in the aisle looking over what kind to get, her face flaming the entire time.

 

“Kagome!”

 

“Oh for the love of all that is sacred.” She muttered under her breath. It wasn't that she didn't like her friends.

 

She really, really did.

 

Really.

 

It was just that nearly every time she was home, she ran into them at the worst times.

 

There certainly were worse things than running into your well meaning friends at the store, but when you hadn't been to school in… she groaned…more than two months, questions would be asked that you wouldn't be prepared to answer and didn't really want to.

 

“Kagome!”

 

“Are you okay?”

 

“Are you feeling better?”

 

“Are you sure you should be out in public in your condition?”

 

Damn it! They always made it sound like she was dying or something. One of these days, grandpa was going to come up with a disease and she was going to be quarantined. She was lucky he had told someone she had bird flu or the Black Death or something equally nasty.

 

She smiled at the three girls. “Yeah. I'm feeling just fine.”

 

Yuka looked down in the cart and her eyes locked on the condoms and birth control. “Oh! Our little Kagome's growing up!” She squealed, clapping her hands.

 

“What?” Eri asked and blushed as she looked in the cart.

 

“Who's the lucky guy, Kagome?” Yuka purred, laughing when Kagome blushed.

 

“Errr…uhhh…Inuyasha!” Exploded out of her mouth.

 

“The violent two timer?” Eri's brow crinkled in disapproval.

 

“Stop calling him that!” Kagome shouted, drawing several looks from the people going about their shopping. “You can't keep talking about him like that. He's my hus…”

 

“You married him?!”

 

“While you were in the hospital?”

 

Ooo. That was good. She could run with that one. That would stop them from insulting Inuyasha and get them to stop putting her with Hojo all the time.

 

“Yes. I married him while I was in the hospital. I wanted to wait until I was out, but he said he wanted the world to know that I was his wife.”

 

“Where's your wedding band?”

 

Shit!

 

“He hasn't got me one yet. I lost so much weight when I was sick that we wanted to wait until I was healthy again to get my ring.”

 

“Oh, that's so romantic.” Eri swooned.

 

Kagome looked at Yuka and could tell she wasn't as convinced. “So, what's your new last name?”

 

“What?”

 

“Inuyasha is your husband. What's his last name?”

 

“Higurashi,” she replied without missing a beat. “He took my last name, because he doesn't get along well with his older brother and didn't want people to see his name and know he is related to him.”

 

“Excuse me, Kagome?”

 

The three turned to look at the new woman. She was so sexy it was ridiculous.

 

`Who wears short shorts? Mystery chick wears short shorts.' Short red shorts at that. Kagome could see the slight protrusion of a belly button ring under a white tank top that clung to every curve of her body, and showed a generous amount of cleavage. Her long, shiny black hair was pulled back in a high, but sloppy ponytail. A pair of expensive sunglasses had been shoved to the top of her head.

 

It was then that Kagome noticed her face. Green eyes held her transfixed as she stared at the other woman. She could literally feel the blood draining from her face, leaving it a stark bone white.

 

She blinked and shook her head. Maybe she was hallucinating. There was no way she could be here.

 

Not in this time. It wasn't possible.

 

Was it?

 

She blinked one more time and gaped in disbelief.

 

“Kagome?”

 

She shook her head again.

 

“Kagome? Are you okay?” Eri put her hand on Kagome's shoulder.

 

Then, she said the woman's name. It meant nothing to Eri and Yuka, because they didn't know what her presence meant. They didn't know that yesterday and five hundred years ago, the woman in front of them had been kidnapped by an evil half demon.

 

“Kikyo?”