InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Soul Survivor ❯ Soul Survivor - After the Battle ( Chapter 1 )

Soul Survivor - Chapter 1

By Majicman55

 

 

Disclaimer: No, I certainly do not own any of the characters in InuYasha.

 

 

Kagome wasn't sure what was going on, but she was afraid she was going crazy.

 

She rolled onto her back and stared into the darkness. The dream had been so real! Just as had happened earlier that day…she used her miko abilities to save a village boy who had fallen off a cliff and would have died but for her attention. She dreamed about using those abilities again.

 

Except, she realized, she didn't know she had those abilities.

 

Yes, she had finally had time to indulge in formal training, and Kaede had been glad to work with her, but what she had dreamed…the deft application of power combined with herbs whose use she hadn't fully explored…had been beyond her before today.

 

She knew that people often dreamed of having special powers, but she had actually had them! Kagome pondered the meaning of it all until sleep reclaimed her.

 

 

************Dreaming************

 

 

She was on the battlefield where they had finally defeated Naraku. Everyone had been affected to one degree or another. Kagome had finally stopped crying for Sango and Miroku, when Sesshomaru, to her amazement, used Tenseiga to revive her friends. The Great Lord of the Western Lands raised his eyebrow when he revived the taijiya. Tenseiga had pulsed twice, indicating he had brought two back to life.

 

“What is it?” asked Kagome.

 

“Your friend, the taijiya, is pregnant.”

 

“So the two of you didn't wait,” thought Kagome. She turned to Sesshomaru. “Please don't tell her that we know. She should tell us, herself, in her own time.”

 

“As you wish, miko, but she may not know, herself.”

 

“Thank you, Lord Sesshomaru,” answered Kagome as she turned back to her friend. “We're going to have a few things to talk about, you and I,” she thought.

 

Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to find InuYasha's golden orbs staring down at her. There was genuine sadness in those eyes.

 

“Kikyo wishes to speak with you.”

 

Kagome sighed. She had respected InuYasha's in his last moments with his former love. She was a little surprised the undead miko wanted to see her. But…

 

“Alright, let's go.”

 

InuYasha and Kagome found Kikyo propped up against a small mound of earth. Her Shinidama Chuu hovered nervously about her as the souls they had so earnestly harvested escaped to continue their own journeys. The undead miko had no use for the souls now, and had little time left.

 

Kikyo smiled weakly at Kagome. “Thank you for coming, my copy.”

 

Kagome winced. “I am not your…”

 

Kikyo held her hand up weakly. “I know. If you truly were, it would have been one time the copy was better than the original.”

 

Kagome gasped and tears for Kikyo filled her eyes.

 

“I have called you here because there are a few things we must discuss.” Kikyo turned to InuYasha. “Leave us.”

 

InuYasha protested. “But…Kikyo…”

 

“Do this for me.”

 

The hanyou hung his head. “Of…of course.” He looked up and left to join his brother, who was still standing beside the now sitting monk and taijiya.

 

Kikyo watched the hanyou go, and then turned to Kagome. “I must tell you a few things you'll need to know about the Shikon no Tama. Then I can finally rest.”

 

“But, Kikyo,” said Kagome, “perhaps Sesshomaru can use Tenseiga to revive you, too.”

 

“Even if I desired that, it would not work. Unlike you, I am not alive…and I am very tired, besides.” The undead miko frowned. “We have squandered enough time. You must listen.”

 

Kagome sat quietly as Kikyo related what she knew about the proper way to make a wish on the jewel. She urged Kagome to make a wish on it as soon as possible, as the jewel would attract power-hungry youkai and men to anyone who possessed it.

 

All the while she talked, the souls that animated her were fleeing. Finally all the souls, but for the small part of Kagome's soul which Kikyo still retained, had escaped…leaving the undead miko unable to move and barely able to talk.

 

“It is time,” said the undead miko. “I must leave this world now and go to my rest. You must call your this bit of your soul back, Kagome.”

 

“I do not want you to go to hell, Kikyo,” said Kagome. Surprisingly, Kagome was actually crying for her romantic rival.

 

Kikyo smiled at Kagome. “I doubt I will be going there. Now call your soul back so I can finally rest.”

 

“Yes, Kikyo.” Kagome concentrated and, after a moment, a ball of pink energy emerged from the clay body. The undead miko smiled slightly as her eyes closed for the last time. The ball of light wavered in the air momentarily…then floated to Kagome where it passed into her, causing a brief shudder in the young girl.

 

InuYasha rushed back. “Is…is she gone?”

 

Kagome looked up at her hanyou, tears running down her cheeks. “Yes…yes, she is.”

 

The hanyou pulled the lifeless body of Kikyo into his chest and cried for the cruelty of her fate.

 

Kagome watched as sobs racked InuYasha's body. She couldn't be jealous now. He had every right to cry.

 

But why did it feel like she was seeing him with new eyes?

 

 

************End of Dream************

 

 

Kagome awoke to a tingling in the mark InuYasha had place on her where her neck met her shoulder…and then the delightful feel of kisses moving down from her neck to her breasts…her belly…lower and lower…until…

 

“InuYasha!”

 

“Great way to get up in the morning, huh?”

 

Kagome moved so their bodies were pointed in opposite directions. “I'll show you a great way to get up in the morning.”

 

InuYasha's eyes crossed.

 

 

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“You ready?” called out Sango.

 

“Let's go,” answered Kagome, as she emerged from the hut.

 

The two friends walked together to the hot spring for their bath. Because Sango was pregnant, they had found a spot that was warm, but not too hot. Sango was being especially careful. The two girls quickly undressed and sank into the soothing waters.

 

“Four months, Kagome,” said Sango.

 

“Huh?”

 

“I think I'm about four months along now.”

 

“Oh…yeah. That's great!”

 

“You seem a little distracted.”

 

“Just thinking back to earlier this morning, I guess.”

 

“I…see. And since you're smiling so much…”

 

“Sango!” Kagome blushed.

 

Both girls giggled.

 

“What's it like being pregnant, Sango? Are you happy?”

 

“Very happy. Yes.”

 

“Miroku seems happy.”

 

“Yes, he is.” The taijiya scowled. “The hentai is already planning our next pregnancy.”

 

“No!”

 

Sango broked down and laughed. “Yes. I think he really does want ten or twenty kids.”

 

“You're kidding. But what's hentai about that?”

 

The taijiya blushed. “It's how he wants to do it.” Sango launched into a long description of some of the things the monk had in mind.

 

Kagome, being from the future, had thought she wouldn't blush.

 

 

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Back in the village, InuYasha's ears twitched.

 

“What is it, InuYasha?” asked Miroku. Back before they had defeated Naraku, a twitch of the hanyou's ears indicated possible danger.

 

“The girls sure are laughing a lot,” said the hanyou. “I can hear `em from here.”

 

“Oh, I see.” The monk breathed a sigh of relief and returned to cooking breakfast. “Can you hear what they're saying?”

 

InuYasha finished cleaning some fish, spitted them and set them up to roast. “Nah. Only a word here and there if they get loud.”

 

The monk set Kalgome's teapot over the fire. “Have you thought about it, InuYasha?”

 

“Thought about what?”

 

“Children, of course.”

 

“Pups? Yeah, I've thought about it.”

 

What about Kagome?”

 

“She wants to finish school first,” answered InuYasha. “It's her last year of school. Then there's call-ledge.”

 

“So you two are waiting.”

 

“Yeah. Kagome's got some kind of medicinal herb or something from her time that keeps her from getting pregnant. She takes a `pill' every day and we can do whatever we want without worrying about it.”

 

“I see.” The monk looked as if he was considering the possibilities. True, he wanted many children, but it would be decent to give Sango a couple of months between pregnancies.

 

“The girls are coming,” announced InuYasha. A moment later, Sango and Kagome appeared, walking over the hill between the hot spring and the village.

 

“Breakfast is ready!” called out the monk.

 

The two girls waved and hurried on to join their mates.

 

 

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All through breakfast, Kagome felt pensive. She kept looking at Sango and Miroku, noting how happy the two appeared. Then she looked at InuYasha. The hanyou was fighting with Shippo over the last of the fish. Finally he bopped the kitsune over the head and said “because I'm bigger, that's why.”

 

Kagome was on the verge of sitting her mate when she noticed the hanyou breaking off a piece of fish and slipping it to Shippo, who looked up at InuYasha tentatively and then took the morsel. The hanyou winked at Shippo, then went back to finishing his own breakfast, occasionally slipping additional bits to the kitsune.

 

Kagome blinked twice to make sure she wasn't seeing things. Maybe InuYasha wouldn't make such a bad father after all.

 

“InuYasha?” Kagome said. “Would you mind if I went home for a few days? I'd like to talk with Mama.”

 

“Keh.” InuYasha was much less objectionable about her trips home, now that they weren't still involved in a desperate race to recover the shards. “You have to go back for school, anyway. But don't be surprised if I come to visit you.”

 

Kagome smiled. “I'm counting on it.”

 

 

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“I can't believe you still have that thing,” said InuYasha.

 

Kagome picked up the infamous yellow bag and climbed onto the edge of the well. “I guess this bag and I have been through a lot.” She smiled at her mate. I'm sure you won't carrying it if I bring it back full of Ramen, though.”

 

“Keh!” The hanyou snorted, then smiled. “Yeah, I guess it comes in handy.” InuYasha pulled Kagome to him for a goodbye kiss. “I'll see you soon, koi.”

 

“After that kiss, it had better be soon,” said Kagome. “Bye…for now,” she said, and then jumped into the well.

 

 

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Kagome's eyes got wide as she traveled through the time slip. “Why do I feel surprise, almost astonishment, this time?” She settled to the bottom of the well in her era…

 

It was her era, wasn't it?

 

“Whoa! Where did THAT come from?” She began to climb out, but couldn't get over the feeling that all this was new and different to her…but that was ridiculous, wasn't it?

 

It was almost like the first time she had gone through the well to InuYasha's time…absent the terror of being in the clutches of Mistress Centipede, of course.

 

She climbed out of the well, exited the well house and looked around. There was that feeling of astonishment again! She found herself staring like a country girl who was visiting the big city for the first time. Her own house, the city beyond it, a passenger jet overhead…they all seemed so…

 

Everything went fuzzy. Kagome sat down in place and slumped over.

 

Her mother charged out the back door. “Kagome? Kagome?”

 

 

******************

 

 

Kagome's eyes fluttered open. She was on the sofa in the living room, a cool washcloth on her forehead.

 

“Are you okay, Kagome?”

 

“What? Who are you? What is…this place?”

 

“Kagome! Don't you recognize your own mother? I'll call a doctor.”

 

The miko on the sofa collected herself. “She calls me Kagome?” She looked around at her strange surroundings. “That will not be necessary. I will be alright after I have had a chance to rest.”

 

“I'll make you some tea.”

 

“Thank you…mother.”

 

“Mother? You always call me `mama.' Are you sure you're okay?”

 

“I am okay…Mama.”

 

“Fine. I'll turn on the TV. You rest while I make that tea.”

 

The girl watched as Mama Higurashi picked up a small box and pointed it a box. Suddenly, a moving picture appeared showing what appeared to be a large building of strange design that was on fire. The image seemed to come from some sort of demonic creature who could fly and relay what it saw…much as Naraku's Saimyoushou had done for that vile creature.

 

The girl on the sofa stared at the box, wide eyed, barely noticing when Mama Higurashi returned with her tea. Remembering her manners, she thanked the woman (who she realized was Kagome's mother) before returning her attention to the scene before her. She didn't feel the presence of any demons, let alone minor ones like Naraku's Saimyoushou, so how was this being done? Sorcery? But she could not feel miko powers in Kagome's mother. It was all too disconcerting and exhausting. Minutes after finishing her tea, she was fast asleep.

 

 

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Mama Higurashi allowed her daughter to sleep, returning hours later to wake her for dinner. “Kagome?” She shook her daughter's shoulder lightly. “Kagome? Time to eat.”

 

Kagome sat up and rubbed her eyes. “Wow. How long was I out?”

 

“Oh, several hours,” said Mama. “I made you some tea and you watched TV for awhile. Then you went right to sleep. Is InuYasha keeping you up nights?” Mama winked at Kagome.

 

Kagome looked down and blushed. “Mama!” Kagome looked back up at her mother. “The funny thing is…I don't remember the tea, or watching TV. I don't remember any of it.”

 

“You were acting different..”

 

“Really? How?”

 

“You just seemed…I don't know…disoriented. You even called me `mother' instead of `Mama.'”

 

“Wow. I must really have been out of it.”

 

“Oi!”

 

Both women looked to the back door as InuYasha entered the room.

 

“Did I make it in time for dinner?”

 

Mama Higurashi smiled and Kagome giggled. “I've noticed,” said Mama, “that dinner is one thing you're always on time for.”

 

“Keh.”

 

“Will you be staying over, InuYasha?” asked Mama.

 

“Got Ramen?”

 

“Of course.”

 

“I can stay.”

 

 

 

A/N: I've always been a little uncomfortable with this story. I think that in its former incarnation, I was trying to keep up with other writers who wrote off-color stories. Since I'm not all that good at hardcore, I've decided to rewrite this. As I said the first time I published this, the first chapter is not all that comedic, but the story will get better. It will still be harder than my other stories, but I will do a lot more hinting at, rather than actually portraying, sexual situations.

 

As always, please read and review…and thanks!