InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness Falls ❯ Looking For Answers ( Chapter 5 )

A/N: Hey guys I'm back again and I'm sorry for the delay. Before I start the chapter PLEASE READ THIS FOR FUTURE REFERENCES: As I said before, kagome is a vampire. However she isn't you're usual vampire. Since she's a pure miko and the guardian of the Shikon Jewel she is like the embodiment of pureness and light, so as a unique creature such as this, she doesn't suck people's blood. If she did then she will start to evolve into a dark priestess so she doesn't. Her vampire blood allows her to heal faster and she will hardly ever use her fangs for anything in this fic. It just comes with the package. She also has impeccable speed, fangs (obviously), claws, a heightened sense of fashion (I know that it's irrelevant but vampires do have a great fashion sense), really good hearing, and thanks to her miko abilities she's able to form weapons out of pure energy. Oh yea, and she can be out in the sun for as long as she wants and not get fried to death, and she's ALMOST immortal and she will be fairly old before she starts to age in the slightest, oh and she can still travel through the well. Oh and about her inner demon, it's not evil it's just there to guide kagome through her travels and whatnot. It has some special powers too but I'm gonna keep them a secret, and you'll just have to read to find out what they are. I think that's about it so on with the story.

L.A/N: please forgive me for the sickeningly long delay, my muse is only focused on my other story. Please r/r.

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Looking For Answers

I stood holding the pink orb in my palm trying to figure out what just happened. However, I still have to find Shippo. That sick bastard tossed him pretty far and he could be seriously injured.

2 hours and 58 scratches and gashes later I found him in a small clearing. He had a few minor scratches and bruises but other than that he was fine. He was unconscious, but he'll live. I picked him up and carried him to a nearby stream, and took out my bandanna.

While I was cleaning a particularly nasty cut he stirred.

"Momma…?" he whispered.

"Yes, it's me Shippo." I said.

"Momma!! I was so scared. I thought I'd never see you again." He wailed. It pained me to see my kit cry so I had an idea to cheer him up.

"Well here I am so you don't have to worry about that. I have an idea, lets play a game."

"A game! Yay! I love games, what are we gonna play?"

"It's called Marco Polo. It's when one of us has to close our eyes and shouts `marco'. Then the other one shouts `polo', the trick is that whoever is shouting `marco' has their eyes closed and tries to find the other person."

"Ooh that sounds like fun. I wanna be polo!"

"Okay then let's play."

Shippo and I were having fun and I'd found him twice in a half hour. For someone who's playing for the first time he really is good at it. We were about to switch roles when I felt an all too familiar aura.

`Damn. It's Kouga.'

Sure enough a tornado of dust and rocks came into view and disappeared leaving the wolf demon in its wake. It wasn't as big as when Kouga had his shards but it appeared all the same.

"Kouga what are you doing here?" I asked.

"I went to the village to see you about a week ago and they'd said that you'd left to travel by yourself to I was looking for you ever since."

"Well you've found me, and during my bath no less, and as you can see I'm just fine. So I would appreciate it if you kindly left so that I can finish bathing in peace."

I wasn't too comfortable with the fact that Kouga was staring at me with his lust filled gaze.

`I swear if he tries anything, we'll beat him so hard he'll wish he were fighting Inuyasha.' Kage said. (Kage = kagome's demon).

"But Kagome I can't leave yet, there's something I have to do first." He said huskily.

As he stalked toward the spring I was thinking up the best and fastest way to bring him down and flee. I told Shippo to go back to camp. He didn't need to see what was about to happen.

As soon as Kouga was a foot away from me I did a round-house kick to his head and brought my knee to his stomach when he started to fall, making him gag and plowed my elbow into the back of his neck, rendering him unconscious.

`Maybe we should just leave him in the spring to drown.' Kage said.

`No we can't do that. That's just cruel. He might've almost molested me but he doesn't deserve to die.'

I dragged him out of the spring and laid him at the edge, he was going to be out for a day and a half at the most.

`Jeez Kag did you have to hit him so hard? What if you messed up his spinal cord or something?' Kage scolded.

`I didn't, I hit him in the specific pressure point that separates him from being knocked out and killed.'

`Well, you certainly know your martial arts.'

`Yeah, I took classes back home. Bows and arrows don't always work so I had to learn close range too.'

I got dressed and headed back to camp, where I found Shippo fast asleep. Soon enough I got to a dreamless sleep.

The next morning I decided that we go back to the village, I really needed to talk to Kaede.

When we got there we made sure not to make any noise. I looked into the hut to see if Kaede was there. Thankfully she was the only one in there. I was about to go in when she spoke. Shippo already went in and begun to play with Kirara, who was still there.

"Come in, child. What is it that troubles ye?"

She obviously sensed my presence, but even if she wasn't a miko, she probably would've.

"Hello Kaede, how are you?"

"I'm alive and well at my old age but do not waste time with pleasantries. Ye must have a problem if ye came to see me. What ails you?"

"Well, as you might've already heard, Naraku is dead. But the thing is, I killed him."

The only indication of a reaction from the old woman was a slightly raised eyebrow. Otherwise she remained expressionless.

"But when I did finally kill him, I found that he had the completed Shikon no Tama in his possession. How was I able to kill someone as powerful as Naraku, especially if he had the jewel?"

"I knew this time would come sooner or later." Kaede said.

"As you may know, child, you are a very powerful priestess. Much more powerful than Kikyo ever was. This is because you are the true reincarnation of Midiriko, the creator of the jewel. Since you are her reincarnation, you would naturally have her powers and more of your own. Midoriko was the creator of the Shikon Jewel, so she alone would have the power to overrule the jewel. So it would appear that Naraku is powerless without the jewel, if he didn't put up much of a fight."

"Wow." I couldn't think of anything more to say. All of this new info hit me like a ton of bricks, but there was still one question.

"If I'm Midoriko's reincarnate why is it that I look like Kikyo?"

"Kikyo was the only miko left after Midoriko perished so some her powers were transferred into Kikyo. However there was a prophecy that a new priestess would come from the future and be the physical representation of everything that was pure. That's where you came in. And even though you look like Kikyo, you are more like Midoriko than you will ever know. She was said to have many of the same traits as you."

"Wow. That explains a lot. Well now that we got that cleared up, would it be okay if I stayed for dinner tonight? It's been so long since I've seen my friends and it would be good for Shippo."

"Aye."

A/N: eh I really don't like this chapter. I'm at a shortage of ideas for this story but I won't abandon it. Just give me time, please?

L.A/N: yes I know you guys hate me for the lack of interesting events but please bear with me. My muse is bound to help with this story any day now. Please r/r.