InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fallen ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho
`Youko'
`Kurama'
-Hiei-
Ch.3
On their way to the ice cream parlor, they ran into Kuwabara and Kurama.
“Yo Urameshi! Who's the runt with ya?”
`Runt?' Kagome curiously thought in her head. `So he thinks I'm a guy? Well, I guess I better not let him down!' “Who are you calling a runt, ugly?” she said in a deeper voice.
Yusuke stared at her for a moment until he caught on. He smirked and leaned against a building to watch.
Kuwabara fumed. “Why you little runt!” Running, he quickly threw a punch at Kagome's face.
She easily dodged it and punched his stomach, knocking the air out of him. He fell to the ground on his knees, clutching his stomach.
“Wow Kagome! I didn't know you could fight!”
Kagome grinned. “Well you know, I've been in a few fights in my day.” She said in her regular voice.
Kuwabara looked up at Yusuke. “'Kagome'? As in a girls name? You mean the runt is a girl?!” he exclaimed.
Kagome smirked. “That's right! And it looks like you got beaten by one too!”
Yusuke couldn't help but burst out laughing while Kurama chuckled.
Walking over to Kagome, Kurama held out a hand. “Hello, my name is Kurama, nice to meet you kagome” he said in a silky voice.
Kagome shook his hand. He lightly kissed the back of her hand and pulled away with a gorgeous smile.
Yusuke just rolled his eyes at his friend. Always trying to charm the ladies.
Kagome just pulled her hand away and smiled. “It's nice to meet you too. So who is this big lug?” she said pointing to Kuwabara who was still on the ground.
“Heh, that's kuwabara. Just ignore him.”
Shrugging, she started talking to Yusuke about who knows what.
Meanwhile in kurama's head…
Youko was furious. `No girl should be able to withstand my charms! She didn't even blush!'
`Maybe because she's only interested in Yusuke.' He too was surprised and relieved Kagome hadn't gone all googily eyes on him. He didn't need anymore stalkers.
Youko snorted. `I guess so. After all, she is a bit of a tomboy huh? I mean look at the way she's dressed…'
-Going in denial because you can't seduce every female in sight fox? - Another voice said.
`Hello Hiei. What brings you here?'
-Botan said there was a new mission-
“Hi guys!” a voice with and English accent called out, breaking all mental and verbal conversations. A girl with blue hair and pink eyes was at the end of the sidewalk waving her hand furiously.
When she reached everyone, Yusuke began the introductions. “Hey botan, this is Kagome” he said while nodding towards Kagome. “kagome…?”
Turning around, he saw she was staring intently at a tree behind Kurama. He waved a hand in front of her face. “Hello?”
Blinking, she grabbed his hand. “Yes?”
He grinned. “You were spacing out. Do you hate trees or something?”
She frowned and shook a fist at the tree. “Yeah! I've ran into so many trees over the years! Curse them! They're evil!”
Everyone sweat dropped.
Finally taking notice of botan, she crushed her into a bear hug. “What's up Botan? It's good to see you again!”
Poor botan started turning blue from the lack of oxygen.
“Uh Kagome, Botan needs to breathe. “
Looking at Botan's face, she released her death grip on her with a slight blush on her face. “Gomen…”
Botan smiled while breathing deeply. “Well- *huff* -it's very nice- *huff*- to see you too!”
Everyone had funny looks on their faces and thought the same thing. `How do they know each other?'
“Sorry to break up the reunion, but how do you guys know each other?” Yusuke asked.
Both Botan and Kagome giggled. “Yusuke, don't you remember what her job is?” Kagome asked him.
Yusuke thought for a moment. `Oh yeah! She's the ferry girl! I forgot!' “Yeah! Now I remember!”
“But Yusuke, how do you know Botan?” Kagome asked while raising a questioning brow.
Everyone fell silent.
“Uh, you see… it's the same way you know her!”
Everyone just stared from Yusuke, to Kagome.
She blinked a couple of times. “Oh, okay! But you better explain to me later how that happened!”
Yusuke scratched the back of his head. “Uh… yeah.”
Botan coughed, bringing everyone's attention back to her. “Koenma needs to see you guys right now.”
Yusuke growled. `Stupid toddler, what am I going to do about Kagome?' He looked over at her, only to make contact with curious blue eyes.
“Job?” she asked.
He nodded.
Smiling she waved her hand. “Go, go! If your needed you should go! We can go get ice-cream some other time!”
He began to protest. “But-“
“Look, I'm just going to go shopping for clothes! I wouldn't want to drag you into a lingerie shop! It would be terribly boring to you. I'll just meet you back at the apartment ok?”
Yusuke pouted. “Yeah, it's not like I wanted to see you in lingerie…” he mumbled quietly to himself.
Kuwabara, who had been surprisingly quiet, spoke up. “I'll go with you! I can't leave a girl walking around by herself! It's against my code!”
Everyone rolled their eyes.
“Your needed with us baka. Plus, Kagome can defend herself. She did, after all, beat you.” He said snickering at the last part.
“Well then, it was nice meeting you all! Maybe once your done you can come over and I'll make you guy's dinner! Bye!” she said walking off, not waiting for a reply.
As soon as she was gone, Hiei jumped from the tree he was resting in. “There's something strange about that onna.”
“Huh?” came the intelligent reply from Yusuke.
“Hiei's right, she was looking right at him once he arrived.” Kurama replied. “And I sensed a little bit of pure energy coming from her.”
“Maybe we should ask Koenma about this.” Kuwabara added.
Botan smiled. “No need. Let's hurry up, Koenma wanted to talk to you ASAP!” Walking to a secluded alleyway, the others followed.
She opened a portal to Koenma's office, and everyone stepped in.
-With Kagome-
Kagome had all of her clothes shopping done, as well as shoes. She shuffled down the sidewalks; her next stop was the supermarket.
`Good thing I saved up all my allowance and money from birthdays!' she thought to herself. She had spent almost $500 dollars on clothes, shoes, and other things (toothbrush, hairbrush, conditioner, you know the works!) and still had some money to spare. `Before I go to the supermarket, I better drop all these bags off first!'
She was in a good mood. She whistled to herself as she crossed the park to Yusuke's apartment. Walking past a groove of trees, she smiled softly. `I owe Yusuke so much…'
“Kagome!” a voice called out to her. It seemed so familiar…
“Kagome!” it called out again. She turned around and saw the one person she was hoping she would never see again. Inuyasha.
He was running across the field, his silver hair flowing behind him.
When he finally caught up to her, he saw the changes. `So she really is human again…' he thought to himself.
Kagome just glared at him coldly. “What do you want?” she asked in a chipped voice.
Inuyasha slightly shivered at the tone of her voice. But he really couldn't blame her. He had done it again. He had broken her heart for a second time.
“I'm sorry…” That's all he could say. But he knew it would never make up for what he did.
“If that's all you had to say, I'm leaving.” As she was about to walk off, he grabbed her arm
She turned around quickly and narrowed her eyes at him. “Do not touch Me.” she growled out.
“Look, I didn't know you would actually turn human for me! And when I saw Kikyo, memories rushed back! I never met to hurt you! All I can say is I'm really sorry Kagome!”
“'I'm sorry'? You've said that to me so many times it's lost all meaning. Just leave me alone. You have Kikyo now.” She said the last part with a shaky voice. She would always be second place next to Kikyo.
“Stop the drama! Don't repeat what happened over 500 years ago!” he snapped at her.
Kagome just stared at him disbelievingly. “You really are stupid, Inuyasha. You caused the damn drama! You couldn't pick between her and me! I loved you inuyasha, and I thought you loved me.” Tears were threatening to fall, but she kept them in. She made a vow that she wouldn't cry over him anymore.
“I did…but I met Kikyo first. She was my first love Kagome, I could never forget her!”
His words stabbed her heart. “Hah. What irony. I guess this time I'm in kikyo's position. This time she's the living one and I was the dead one. But in the end you'll always choose kikyo.” Her voice hardened. “I left heaven for you. I knew you loved Kikyo. I knew you could never love me as much as you loved her. But I was foolish, and decided to ignore those facts, hoping that you might just forget about her and stay with me instead. But I was stupid… so so stupid.”
Inuyasha frowned. He really hadn't meant to hurt her. But it happened anyways, and there was nothing he could do.
“I was a replacement for her.” She continued. “In the past, I didn't want to be a mere shadow of her, so I trained. I trained to be more powerful then she could ever be. I did this so hopefully you would wake up and see that kikyo was dead. But it was all in vain. I've given up on you. For good. I don't ever want to see you again. Good bye Inuyasha.”
She walked away with as much courage as she could. Her head was held up proudly and her back was straightened. She could finally forget about the past and move on.
~Koenma's Office~
“What do you want toddler? I had to leave Kagome alone!” Yusuke said, obviously annoyed.
Koenma looked at Yusuke. “Kagome? Kagome Higurashi?” he questioned.
Everyone looked confused except for Botan.
“Koenma, how do you know her?” Kurama asked.
The toddler just shook his head. “Someone I used to know. Anyways, an S class demon has escaped from Makai. He some how got through the barriers.” He clicked a button, and on the TV screen a picture of a man with piercing red eyes and long, wavy, black/ purple hair was shown. “His name is Naraku, and he is looking for the Shikon Jewel.”
Kurama gasped while Hiei's eyes widened slightly. “How is that possible?”
“What's the shikon jewel?” Kuwabara asked. Yusuke thought the same thing.
Koenma massaged his head. “It's a very powerful jewel that can increase a demon's power by 10. Imagine how powerful someone could become with the whole jewel!”
The humans gasped. “Well, where's the jewel?” Yusuke asked.
“That's the thing. A long time ago, it was said to be burned with the guardian's body. How could it suddenly re-appear?” Kurama asked partially to himself.
“You don't need to worry about that. I have an idea of where it is. I just need you guys to track the demon down. He is said to be called Naraku and has a spider marking on his back. His power is to make attachments of himself. Now go, if he gets his hands on the jewel, who knows what he could do!” Koenma dismissed them with a wave of the hand.
Walking out of the portal, they were back to where they first met Kagome. “So are you guys coming with me or not?” Yusuke asked with his hands in his pockets.
Kurama, Kuwabara, and Botan nodded while Hiei just `hn'ed. They all started heading towards Yusuke's house.
Sighing, he shook his head. `What a lot to digest! What am I going to tell Kagome?'