InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Even Evil Has Reincarnates ❯ Past, Present and Future ( Chapter 3 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

DISCLAIMER-

Unfortunately, this story and the characters herein pertain to Rumiko Takahasi.

Except for a select few... those are MINE! ALL MINE!!!!!!

[Clears throat]

This story is rated M for Maturity.

Hanyou thoughts

Demon thoughts

Human thoughts

Note: Only those words that are not frequently used in fanfics will I put a translation to. I mean, come on… we know what a BAKA is…right?

Also, any and all comments are accepted. Be it negative or positive. Constructive criticism only helps and positive feedback inspires.

To those that have commented, thank you

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Chapter 3 - Past, Present and Futures

The inu-gang was steadily making their way north three days later. Kagome was riding on InuYasha's back, the wind whipping around them when all of a sudden InuYasha came to an abrupt stop, twitching his ears and sniffing around.

Sango, Miroku and Shippo, who were riding on Kirara landed next to them. Kagome was spreading her aura to see if something evil was heading their way.

Not sensing anything she got off InuYasha's back and walked forward to look him in the face. Whispering not sure if whatever it was, was nearby and could hear that they were alert, “What is it InuYasha?”

Trying to not give away what it was he had exactly smelled, he grunted and bent on one knee for Kagome to climb. When she didn't, he looked up to find her arms crossed, looking at him through narrowed eyes. He could have explained what it was to her but, “Keh! Get on before I leave you behind!” He stuck with his Inu-mannerisms.

“Not until you tell me what you sniffed out Dog-Boy!”

He veered his gaze away from her and replied angrily, “It wasn't - anything… I must've smelled it wrong and -“

“Yeah and I'm an ogre demon. The day you smell wrong BAKA, is the day I bare Miroku a child!”

Miroku, not sensing the comment for sarcasm, piped up at this and jumped towards Kagome, “My dear Ka-“ but never arrived to where she was because he had been tripped by InuYasha and bumped on the head by Sango and her trusty Hiraikotsu.

InuYasha stomped towards Kagome, snarling in her face, “Mind repeating that bitch?”

She looked up at his ears with a delicately arched eyebrow, “Did you get water in those things that you can't hear me at less than 5 feet from you?”

Shippo climbed up on InuYasha's shoulder and looked into one of the insulted appendages, “No Kagome, no water, just really dirty -“

“Why you little turd!” InuYasha went to swipe at the kits tail but missed, so he started chasing the little kitsune around the clearing.

Sango was still bopping Miroku across the head.

Kagome sighed and turned her back on the two and started walking away.

Fifteen minutes later, finally having caught… well stepped on Shippo, is when InuYasha and the gang noticed Kagome had walked away. He took off while Sango dragged the twitching monk back of Kirara and semi-squashed Shippo. Rolling her eyes at no one, she sighed. “Men.”

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With Kagome…

“Stupid, freaking, ahhh!” Kagome fell flat on her rear after attempting to kick a rock and missing by a mile. One whimper. Two whimper. Three.

“Oh Kami! That hurt!!!!!!”

Hearing chuckling behind her, she spun to see a really, big, monstrous, funky green, `Me and my big mouth…' Ogre demon.

The ogre eyed her with his bug-eyes and licked his lips, which only caused more drool to fall from his mouth. “Mmmmm you look yummy…”

Kagome laughed nervously and waved her arms in front of herself, “Eh-heh, no! I don't! I taste awful! I have no meat, only bones and ummm…. “

`Good job girl… I don't think that operation Hansel and Gretel is going to work on this one…'

The thing started laughing and abruptly stopped and started heading towards her. Every step it took, the ground shook under her.

Kagome glanced to the side and caught view her bow & arrows. The ogre caught on to what she was planning and quickly stepped on her arrows, destroying them.

`Only one thing to do…'

“INUYAAAAAAAAAASHA!” The ogre swiped at her and knocked her into a nearby tree. In less than 30 seconds, InuYasha came into the scene and his demon blood raged when he saw Kagome in a crumpled heap and smelled her blood.

The ogre laughed at the loudly growling hanyou, “Heh, is the puppy mad that I hurt his master?” He continued laughing until he caught the red-eyed stare coming from said hanyou.

“I'll kill you for hurting my bitch vermin!”

With one slash of his claws he slashed the demon in half. Panting and gasping, he dropped on the ground. He turned to where the tiny miko laid and crawled to her. Whimpering, he turned her onto her back and sniffed all over her to locate where the blood smell was coming from. He nuzzled at her jaw, she didn't respond. He continued sniffing to detect where she was bleeding from, it was the back of her head. He sat her up and started licking the wound.

Sango and company arrived to the scene to see a very blood eyed InuYasha, tending lovingly to the injured miko.

Miroku was the first to attempt to approach the angry inu-hanyou, “InuYasha…”

[GROWL]

Sango put a hand to Miroku's shoulder, “Let me Houshi-sama…I don't think he'll hurt her… he'll only see us as a threat right now…”

Getting on all fours (which Miroku loved but, the moment was not appropriate for such thoughts), Sango bared her neck, as a sign of submission, to the source of the growl, “InuYasha… I need to clean her wound…I won't hurt her…”

Giving a curt nod and grunt, he allowed Sango to approach but, did not let go of the miko. “Where exactly is she hurt?”

To show the taijiya where she was wounded, he licked at her wound once more. In understanding, Sango slowly approached Kagome's head and took out the medical necessities from her yellow backpack.

“Is she going to be ok?” Sango snapped her head up and was surprised to meet InuYasha's golden gaze yet, still rimmed in red.

Letting go of a breath she didn't know she had been holding she nodded, “Yeah, she just hit her head pretty hard -“

Sango quickly shut up and glanced over at a ridiculously grinning Miroku. She turned her attention back to the hanyou that was sweeping the miko's bangs out of her face and rumbling low in his chest to offer comfort. `Well that's a side I never thought I would see… I guess a snowball finally survived in the last hell…'

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The next night the inu-gang was setting up camp. Everyone was in a much better mood than the night before. No one had gotten sleep worried over Kagome's head injury. Miroku had safely kept his jewels intact from a tense Sango… barely.

The rest of them definitely did not miss the houshi's innocent smiles and the taijiya's embarrassed blushes. Kagome tried not to giggle. 'Hm? I'm going to ask Sango how exactly Miroku convinced her in not performing the insta-sex change'

She laughed and snorted at her own inner joke and everyone was staring at her with a lifted eyebrow.

Calming down, she looked at everyone with the most genuine smile she had on her face in a while, “What? You don't want me to call out what I was laughing at houshi, believe me!”

This time around both he and Sango were 'fire-rat' red, which caused InuYasha to look at her with a 'you-know-something-I-don't?' look. She smiled at him, which caused him to give her a half-smile of his own.

“Alright!” She said rubbing her hands together trying to keep them warm. “Let's get some ramen cooking, I'm starving!”

“Keh. Get to it wench.”

Kagome, beamed up at him. In all sweetness, she said, “Sure... just go SIT [thump] and wait while I cook it”

[mumbles] “Stupid bitch, fucking wench...”

“WHAT WAS THAT INUBAKA?!”

He flattened his ears to his head, “Ugh, nothing?”

Kagome kept cooking, “Hmph! [mumbles] Stupid, arrogant --”

“Oi! I AM still here and I can HEAR you!”

She glared at him and he whimpered into his inu-crater. “Guess the water or dirt cleared up huh!?”

“DON'T SCREAM! DID HITTING YOUR HEAD FORGET ABOUT MY SENSITIVE HEARING?!”

She gave him a haughty smirk and looked hungrily at aforementioned ears, “Hn, nope, haven't forgotten those…”

“K-keh…” `Thank Kami I'm in this crater… little Inu isn't being so little after that look…..'

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Sango and Miroku sat together staring at Kagome preparing the ramen, humming happily while InuYasha was resting in a high branch of the nearest tree.

Sango leaned over to Miroku and said quietly as she could so a certain hanyou could not listen in, “Houshi-sama, is it me or are InuYasha and Kagome acting... differently? It seems like they are two different people. They haven't been fighting AS much and he's been only sat ONCE today. They're also being very attentive to one another…”

When she didn't receive a response she looked over to Miroku and saw him staring at them with a small smile on his face. “Houshi-sama?”

“Hmmm? Yes my lovely Sango, I agree. They seem more... serene. Do you think it could be something similar to our... mutual recognition yesterday?” he finished with a full-fledged smile on his face.

Sango looked at him in a cross between a blush and fury. She stated between clenched teeth, “Listen HOUSHI-SAMA, keep that lip tight or that'll be the last time you get any 'mutual recognition' ever again!”

He started stuttering, “I'm so-s-s-sorry my lovely Sango, I promise I won't bring that up”

He finished in a defeated manner. She smirked and gave him a slight push, “Cheer up Houshi-sama, I just like mutual respect to come with 'recognition'”.

“You're right ofcourse, my beautiful Sango, I apologize” He squeezed her hand and looked ahead.

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InuYasha was observing those around him from his perch in a tree. He had grown fond of these humans and youkai. They were his pack. They had shown him respect, companionship, friendship, loyalty, acceptance. He never believed a hanyou such as himself would ever have any of those things. He noticed why Kagome was giggling regarding the Lech and Sango. They seemed to look at each other and blush or smile every five seconds.

Miroku, had become like a brother of sorts to the hanyou... granted, sometimes, he just wanted to beat him for his lecherous ways but, the man was a good friend. 'We'll destroy Naraku to get rid of your kazaana bouzo, so Sango can bare those children you always ask for, keh, that is if she doesn't de-jewel you first', he finished that thought off with an all too disturbing smirk.

Sango, she's probably lost the most out of all of us because of Naraku. Her village, her family, the pain of her brother being manipulated by that bastard. 'Sango, I can't promise Kohaku will be ok but, we'll avenge your family, friends and brother.'

Shippo lay on the ground with those coloring wax smelling sticks Kagome brings, drawing Kami knows what. He had to admit though; the kit was good at drawing things, creative. He'd gotten a lot better in the past years. Although the kit was mostly annoying, he DOES have a soft spot for him. 'You suffered the most too Shippo, having your parents murdered just for a fucking shard'

The thought made him growl low in his throat. Luckily, the kit had grown to accept his new found family and accepted Kagome as a mother.

'A youkai accepting a human, not only a human but a miko as a mother' Yes, just another way in which Kagome's pure heart never ceased to amaze him.

Kirara wasn't that far away, she lay close to the fire. Who would've thought? An inu-hanyou and youkai-nekomata, fighting side by side? He smirked. Cats and dogs, helping one another. He had to admit, she was as loyal as the rest and pulled her own weight.

He then looked over at the girl, no not girl...woman that was preparing his 'Kami sent ninja food'.

His gaze softened. She was humming happily and had a small smile on her face. He thought of how much she had changed in all these years... since the moment she woke him up from his 50-year slumber pinned to the Goshinboku. She was so naive, so clueless, yet fiery.

He had felt the need to protect her from the get go. Of course, he never would admit that and had made her believe he only needed her for 'shard-detecting' but, somewhere, deep down, he knew or rather felt, a bond with the weird futuristic girl. She had amazed him more than once, being so selfless, shedding tears for him, being brave in her baka ways. 'Seriously, who goes up to Sesshomaru and points and screams at him?' He smiled at the memory. Now, she had grown. In every way. She was fearless, when it came to those she cared for, not that she wasn't before but, now, she didn't just throw herself into danger to protect those she cares for, it was more strategic... graceful even…well as graceful as the klutz could be.

She had been beautiful before but now, she could challenge the most beautiful of goddesses in that aspect. She had grown way beyond powerful with her miko powers. Maybe, even a challenge to Midoriko herself. She had more power in one finger than Kikyo had throughout her being.

Even her heart seemed more pure, if possible and she like the rest of them, was loyal to no end... perhaps even more so. She accepted him just the way he was.

In any form.

She never asked him to change. No. She was nothing like Kikyo. He never really thought so. She still kept comparing herself to the dead priestess but, there was no comparison. 'I guess that would be my fault for those times I did compare them and not really say what I feel'

He sighed and looked around once more.

His pack. That's what they were… and he wouldn't have it any other way. He continued reminiscing;

Kikyo. Granted, she was his first love and in many ways he still loved her. He just wasn't in love with her anymore. Really, he doubts he truly ever did. She was just the first, besides his mother, to show him any acceptance. Even then, she didn't fully accept him; she wanted him to become human. She was his first friend. He owed her his protection because of the time they shared and because of that bastard Naraku. He would avenge her and himself. He owed her and their past love that much.

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“Alright guys! Ramens done come and get it!” Kagome called out in a sing-song voice.

InuYasha was first on site. He devoured his ramen in record timing.

He heard Kagome giggle and give him a second serving. He looked at her with an arched eyebrow, “Why do I get two servings?”

She blushed slightly but did not look away, “Because, you haven't had it in a couple of days and considering how chilly it is, I thought you'd like two... “

Then with a smirk in place she added, “I mean... if you don't want it....”

He snatched the ramen and yet again, he slurped the second serving in record timing, “Keh! Done. Now, try taking my ramen away from me wench!” He said it in a teasing manner so Kagome just giggled and shrugged off the wench remark.

Looking over to Sango and Miroku, he leaned in conspiringly and whispered, “So… wanna tell me what your earlier crack regarding the bouzo and Sango was about?”

She giggled and re-capped what she had seen the day before…

[Flashback]

`Did anyone get the number on that bus?' Slightly groaning, groggy and a bit dizzy, Kagome opened her eyes and was met with worried amber.

“Ugh, my head is killing me…”

Hiding his eyes with his bangs, “Yeah, you were seriously hurt… if I—“

“Shut the hell up!”

“Wh-What?!”

Struggling to sit up and accomplishing the task, she glared as best as she could under the current pressure she had in her head, “Don't you blame yourself! I was the one that walked into danger! Not you!”

Not being able to meet her gaze, “I-“ He sighed. “I wasn't truthful and you had every reason to be mad and walk away…”

“No I didn't. I blew up before waiting to see if you would talk! If you blame yourself again I will S-I-T you so hard our great grandkids will feel their asses sore! Do you under—oh hells.”

Blushing an unknown shade of red, she struggled with standing on her own two feet but had help from a hanyou who had the `deer caught in headlights' stare down packed.

“InuYasha - I… well… I didn't….what I am trying to say…”

He tilted his head to one side and looked at her, blushing just as badly, “Did you… um… mean… what…um…s-said? Y-you… would want to have… pups… with me?” He whispered the last part and they each found their feet more interesting to look at in that moment.

“Yes.” She did not hesitate in answering. At his look of surprise, she giggled, “Um, I need to use the little girls bush please…”

She walked past him a little unsteady but made her way outside leaving a inu-statue in her wake.

`She. wants. to. have. my. pups. Holy shit.'

“If you do not claim our bitch soon, you won't have any pups! That wolf will take her away!”

“Keh! [cracks knuckles] I'd like to see that mangy wolf try!

[sighs] `You both are hopeless'

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When Kagome stepped out the hut, she tried adjusting her eyes to the darkness. She saw Shippo and Kirara chasing and playing with each other. `Hm, I wonder where the others are'

Shrugging she continued walking to the nearest bush until she heard a noise about 30 feet away of what sounded like a rustling bush. Approaching slowly, as to not scare off whatever it was, she almost gasped and `eeped' at the sight. Luckily she held her hands over her mouth.

Turning quickly and as quietly as possible, she did her business and rushed back to the campsite.

`Oh my Kami! Sango and Miroku… Miroku and Sango… heavily making out!!!!!'

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InuYasha couldn't help but full out laugh. Kagome giggled. Shippo who had heard everything looked sickly. Kirara hissed. Miroku and Sango looked at everyone totally confused.

“What's so funny?” Sango looked straight at Kagome.

“Ohhhhhh nothing.”

“Nothing?! Hah! A monk and a taijiya sucking face is nothing?!” InuYasha said between laughs.

“InuYasha!” The miko slapped his arm. “That's enough! I think it's sweet! Besides! We've sucked fa—“ Slapping her head and instantly regretting it, she rubbed her head and mumbled, “Me and my mouth…” She grabbed her own head and put it between her knees to hide as much as her face as possible.

InuYasha, choked on his laugh and looked and the two sitting across from them and saw them shaking. They were laughing! “K-keh”

Miroku chuckled and wiped a tear from his eye, “Huh, didn't know you had it in you, you old dog!”

“Shaddup Bouzo!”

They were all sitting around in silence after they all had their laugh, when Kagome grasped at her chest and InuYasha was sniffing the air and had his ears perked.

Sango asked immediately, “What's wrong? What are you guys sensing? InuYasha, what do you smell?”

InuYasha, snapped out of his reverie and headed out in the blink of an eye. The rest of the group stayed quiet for a couple of seconds Kagome was the one to break the silence. All her earlier happiness out of her features and voice, “Kikyo.”

Sango and Miroku saw the look on Kagome's face and stayed quiet. After a few moments of uncomfortable silence...

Miroku furrowed his eyebrows and spoke up, “I also sense another presence....”

“Naraku”, they said in unison.

Kagome stood from where she sat and gathered her bow and arrows. “Shippo, stay here and hide, use your illusions! Come on guys, I don't have a good feeling about this...”

Shippo sprung and started wailing, “LET'S GO KAGOME! I wanna -”

“NO! STAY HERE! Stay safe! Hide!” Kagome never screamed at him nor used that tone... Shippo knew, there was no room for questioning. He hid.

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