InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkest Child ❯ Chapter Twelve- Hanyou Revealed! ( Chapter 12 )
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By: monkeymary89 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.04.2006 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.1K | Visits: 284 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.04.2006 | Pages: 5 | Words: 5.1K | Visits: 284 | Status: Work In Progress
This chapter is dedicated to InuyashasBiggestFan for giving me three reviews, and madosie for inspiring me to update on the forth of July! I really wasn’t planning on it. I was caught up in reading and watching dubbed anime, but you got me going girl! Thanks to all the readers and reviewers! *hugs to everyone* Enjoy the chapter!
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Kagome woke in a completely black room. During her little nap she had experienced a single dream. Though, it was more a picture and a feeling then what you could call an actual dream. Kagome remembered her father once trying to explain how she could have premonitions while sleeping and wondered if she had just had one.
It had been nothing more than a pair of hands. Clawed hands. The image of clawed hands and the irresistible urge to hold them in her own. The urge to see the person’s face that owned that pair of strange hands. There had been a sense of familiarity, but Kagome didn’t know anyone with claws like that. Koga’s had been different, just slightly. Plus, she didn’t have any urge to hold Koga’s hands.
Kagome shook the memory of it from her head and decided it was time to get some training in. Her power was brimming to the point of being uncomfortable after sleeping half the day away. Kagome got dressed and pulled the black dragon box from under her bed. She put her quiver of arrows on her back and attached her bow to the quiver. Kagome placed her sword in its sheath and attached it to her belt.
She smiled and thought of the sword’s name. Kagome had named it when it had been given to her for her 5th birthday. Though Kagome hadn’t been allowed to use it yet, she had mounted it on her wall and had insisted on naming it. Kagome had thought long and hard, but being the 5 year old she was had ended up calling it Bluey. Now Kagome simply called it Blue. A simple yet concise name, for a simple yet concise sword.
Kagome walked to the balcony to see how she was going to get out. She looked down and gulped. They were on the top floor. Not exactly jumping distance. She looked and saw that jumping from
balcony to balcony wouldn’t work because only the top three floors had balconies. She struggled to
see in the dark. She smiled in triumph when she saw a very tall tree that had grown away from the rest
of the woods. It would take some work, but she’d be able to get out without having to knock out the
guard who made sure that no students snuck out at night. Plus she’d get a little warm up.
Kagome hopped over the railing of her balcony, and lowered herself so that she was dangling as far down to the next balcony as possible. She let go, and when her feet met the ground of the balcony below hers, she bent her knees, taking most of the shock of the fall. She made almost no sound. ‘Guess all those nights sneaking out of the house to walk in the moonlight are finally coming in handy.’ Kagome thought with pride.
She went through the same procedure till she was at the lowest balcony. Kagome stopped for a second to catch her breath and then walked to the right side of the balcony. She measured the distance between her current balcony and the one next to it. Kagome stepped up on the rail, and for one horrible moment was sure she was going to fall. Thankfully though, after much spinning of her arms, Kagome regained her balance and jumped, landing cleanly. She thanked god that no one had cut the branch that had grown directly over the balcony.
Kagome grabbed a patio chair someone had placed out there and moved it so that she could stand on it and heft herself onto the branch. Kagome crawled carefully to where the branch met the trunk and sat there, resting a moment. She looked down at the imposing height that she was at. She was still even with the 7th floor.
‘Now, just to climb down. It’s a piece of cake.’ Kagome looked down again and cringed
‘Yeah, cyanide cake with rattlesnake icing’
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“Mmn, Kagome thats feels so goood” Inuyasha mumbled in his sleep. Inuyasha was pulled from
his wonderful dream of Kagome petting his ears when he heard an owl cry out in the night. “Stupid
freaking bird, what did I ever do to you?” Inuyasha thought grumpily. He made a quick decision that he would go out and have a nice run through the woods to cool his blood. Inuyasha touched the prayer beads around his neck, causing his concealing spell to fade. He was about to go jump off the balcony, when
he saw Kagome come out of her room and jump over the edge of her own.
For a moment, he just stood there, not believing what he was seeing. ‘Damn. Stupid dreams are making me sluggish. I should have noticed that she was up before now.’ Inuyasha thought. He watched avidly as Kagome dropped from the balcony. He wanted to go to her and stop her, but since he was in natural form, and she obviously knew what she was doing, he stopped. He wondered where she had gotten this particular skill.
Inuyasha followed for a bit and almost exposed himself when she stumbled on the railing of one of the balconies. Luckily Kagome caught herself. Inuyasha watched, amused as she fumbled down the tree. Though he was watching from a safe distance, he was still close enough to catch her if she fell, his cover be damned.
When she was safely on solid ground again, Inuyasha watched her walk towards the woods. Though some thought the woods were haunted, Inuyasha knew that they were perfectly safe. They were his territory and there weren’t even many dangerous animals in there. He still wanted to run, but Inuyasha also wanted to know what Kagome was doing out at night with a bow and a sword. Finally he decided that he would go for a quick run, with Kagome still in hearing distance. Then he would check on what she was doing.
Kagome was most likely just going out to train with the bow, but he wanted to be sure. Though his logic told him that following her was the best thing to do first, his instincts told him that she would be fine Inuyasha was the type that went with instincts over logic every time.
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Kagome whistled as she walked through the trees. The night was hers and hers alone.
She stopped in a nice clearing and quickly shot an arrow at a tree. Just before it struck its mark, she stopped it with her mind and brought it back to shoot again. She really hated having to harm trees since they had saved her life a few times before.
Kagome proceeded to do that a few more times. Then she shot 4 arrows into the air in rapid
succession. She reached out with her mind and the arrows changed direction. She made them fly in
circles and dance around before making them hit the ground, each of the arrow heads burying deep in
the dirt, in a perfect line.
“Still got it” Kagome said, and blew on her fingers like she would the barrel of a gun. If Inuyasha
had followed her directly like his head had told him he should have, he would have seen this. It was very
fortunate for Kagome that he hadn’t.
Kagome picked the arrows up with her mind and brought them back to her. One good
thing about her powers was that no matter how bad a shot she was, she would always hit the mark. She had been horrible with a bow at first, but had eventually gotten really good. Much better then she was with the sword, but her sword skills weren’t anything to laugh at either.
She looked at the lovely oaks that surrounded her. She walked to one that looked sick and
placed her hand lovingly on the trunk. One bad thing about being a Miko and a Seer was the way the
powers reacted to each other. Sometimes they would cause the other power to come out in a twisted
way so it wouldn’t do what it was supposed to. Another thing being a mixed breed did was give her powers that neither race had.
It was like mixing blue and red paint. Though the product still had the same properties of the
parent colors, it was turned out to be a completely different color altogether.
One painful memory popped into Kagome’s mind as she felt the energy of the tree. It wasn’t one she particularly liked but it had caused her respect for trees, and all seemingly ‘lifeless’ things, to grow
“SHUT UP SHUT UP, PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP!!” the ten year old Seer screamed into the
rainy sky.
It had been raining for almost a week and the ground was slick. The rainfall had come in
torrents, seeming to never cease and had caused scores of destruction. The land had been turned to
pudding and was not at all safe to run in. Eventually the inevitable happened and Kagome fell.
She slid and crashed painfully into an old redwood that was hundreds of years old, if the size was anything to go by. Kagome was almost knocked unconscious, which she would have taken as a blessing. She had no such luck.
The change hadn’t come gradually like Kagome’s father said it would. Her father had told her of the ability to hear thoughts, and at the time Kagome had been ecstatic, but once again, her damn miko
powers were making things difficult. Not that her seer powers were any less temperamental. Instead of
gradually gaining the ability to delve into the depths of others minds over the course of years, it had happened in a single night.
Being a miko, Kagome was able to feel the life force of everything, from humans and demons, to
plants and animals. The fact that she was so in tune with all life was having a horrible effect on her. She
was hearing ALL the thoughts of ALL the beings around her even though she didn’t want it to happen.
Kagome had gone crying to her mother, her hands on her head, pleading with her to do anything to make it stop, but her mother was who she was. She didn’t have any power to make it stop, not that she
tried to help at all. She had told Kagome to master it herself. That if Kagome couldn’t control her own powers, she wouldn’t survive. That if she couldn’t master her own powers, Kagome didn’t deserve to survive.
So Kagome had gone into the woods, but she could still hear the thoughts of everyone within about a 5 mile radius. Not to mention the animal thoughts. Most weren’t as sophisticated as human thoughts. They were pictures and emotions, but some animals had thoughts equal to humans. It was scary. The moment Kagome realized this was when she had started screaming and fell into the tree.
She sobbed and held her knees to her chest, rocking back and forth, muttering incoherent
pleas, to all and any god to take it away. The way the thoughts invaded her own was nauseating. The jumble of emotions was horrible.
Her hate of all people seemed to grow then. The thoughts were terrible. A drunk man intending
to beat his child to take out some frustration. A teen girl planning to sleep with a boy then take all his
money while he slept to buy some crystal meth. A man deciding that if the woman at the bookshop
refused to sleep with him again, that he’d rape her. A woman deciding to murder her husband’s mistress. There were normal, healthy thoughts too, but the twisted, dark ones cried out the loudest.
Kagome’s nails dug painful gouges in her legs, bringing up blood. Anything to distract her from the
voices. She bit her lip and it too began to bleed.
‘Child, don’t hurt yourself.’
Kagome’s eyes opened wide and looked around frantically. That thought had just been much louder than the others and had almost silenced the rest.
“Please, if you’re out there, please do that again. Please, I’ll do anything” Kagome was crying harder now.
‘Look behind you child’ The soothing voice crooned once more. Kagome held on to the almost-silence that the voice gave.
Kagome acted obediently and for a moment only saw the old redwood. ‘Plants don’t have thoughts that strong. Usually they are only whispers, though everything has a spirit’ Kagome thought frantically.
‘Do I sound like a whisper child?’ the strange grandmotherly voice asked. It sounded slightly amused, but kind nonetheless. Kagome felt the wonderful calming aura of this strange tree and got closer to it, wrapping herself around it. The voices were still there, but the closer to the redwood Kagome got, the dimmer the voices became.
‘I am not a normal tree child. Look closer’ Kagome looked closer, concentrating on the aura that
emanated from the ancient tree. Slowly the figure of a woman formed. She was obviously old, but
beautiful. She had rich green hair and deep warm toned skin, the color of the tree’s bark. She was
wearing a collection of leaves, vines, and twigs woven into a dress that hung to her knees.
‘What are you?’ Kagome questioned mentally.
‘I am the spirit of the tree. A tree nymph or tree sprite as some would call me, but I am truly neither. I am rare, as my kind have been slowly dying out for many hundreds of years now. There are spirits like me all over the world. Some that claim the water as their home, and some the rock. Many things that seem to be lifeless contain spirits such as myself. You have the gift to see them child, and because you are able to, they will always be there to assist you.’
Kagome’s mind was reeling. ‘How do you know what I am, and why would spirits want to help me? I’m nothing.’ Kagome pressed her forehead painfully against the redwood. ‘Less than nothing.’
The figure of the woman leaned down to Kagome and embraced her. It was like being held by the
wind, yet it was warm and comforting, so Kagome accepted it. ‘You are great my child, do not let any other
tell you different. I want to help you because you are pure, and I know who you are. As to how I know
you and what you are is slightly more complicated. I am old child. Thousands of years old.’
Kagome looked at the slightly transparent figure that was holding her. ‘You don’t look a day over 45. I didn’t know trees could live so long.’
The nymph smiled at her and Kagome faintly realized that she could no longer hear the voices.
‘Thank you for the compliment child, and as I have said before, my tree is not normal. Since it is the home of a spirit it will live very long. I have met many people in my time, though none exactly like you. There have been those who are similar. There have also been those who told me of you. Seers that all but lived in the future. When mikos were still uncorrupted they seemed to know of my purpose and helped heal me if I grew ill. You are my purpose.’ Kagome was tearing up again, but for different reasons.
‘I am your purpose? But how am I connected to you?’ Kagome asked, her breathing a series of shuddering sobs.
The nymph finally let go and walked back so that she lean against the tree in which she resided. ‘I am here to help you and teach you what I can before you leave. Look at your knees.’ Kagome examined herself and saw that all the wounds that she had received from herself and her fall were completely healed. She also felt like she had more energy. ‘You are able to borrow energy from all living things. It can be freely given or taken. I would not show you this power if I did not know you would treat it with respect. I am sure there will always be some living thing willing to lend its power to you.’
‘Am I able to give energy also?’ Kagome asked, eager.
The wise spirit grinned and spoke softly ‘Yes, that is how you heal. You lend your power. Let us talk as much as we can. I know you leave soon.’
‘Yes’ Kagome thought with a grimace. ‘I will be leaving. My mother can’t stand living where father once lived. How will I see you after I leave? I don’t want to leave you, I just met you.’
‘Child, you will leave and will not see me, but you will come back to this town when you are a woman, and when you do, come to see me. It is then that your real work will begin and you will need my guidance.’
‘Okay’ Kagome said, her heart flooding with sorrow. ‘At least tell me your name. Please?’ Kagome asked hopefully.
‘I do not have a true name, but those who speak with me call me Shinju.’ the spirit replied.
Kagome and Shinju spoke for hours till the rain finally tapered away. The sun set and Kagome
slept peacefully in Shinju’s branches. The next morning she went home and her family left for the
country.
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Kagome quickly infused the tree with some of her energy and felt the sickness fade away. A small surge of warmth under her hand was all the thanks Kagome needed. She wondered how long it would
take to get to where Shinju was.
Kagome decided that now was as good a time as any to practice keeping her power in check
while she sang. She could do that and practice with Blue at the same time, that way she wouldn’t be
able to think of her past that had haunted her for so long. As she began, a pair of eyes once again
watched.
Inuyasha came from his run just in time to see Kagome pull her sword from it’s sheath and
begin to practice. She also started singing. It was slightly amusing that this was the third time he had
spied on her singing. It always made him feel slightly like a peeping tom when he did this, but who
cared? It wasn’t like she was going to ever know. His snowy white ears swivelled and all his attention
was placed on Kagome’s sweet satin voice.
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
If I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some of your love again
Give me more than I can stand
When my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again
Inuyasha watched fascinated at the smooth and almost liquid movements Kagome made with her
sword. It was obvious she had a least a little training with a real pro. ‘Who would have thought little
Kagome would know how to swing a sword?’ He watched, fascinated, as she went into a series of harsh slashes.
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again
Inuyasha watched as she twirled the sword, threw it into the air and caught it with a little spin
while she sang. ‘Talk about multi-tasking’ He wondered if she had written the song. It seemed as if it was to someone special, and he couldn’t help feeling jealous. ‘Why should I care who that bitch goes out
with?’ he asked himself angrily.
‘It couldn’t be for Koga, could it?’ Inuyasha panicked a little.
‘You want her, you little prick! Why deny it? I know you. God, I am you!’ His mind snapped back.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t the sanest train of thought ever, but it seemed that whenever he got around Kagome, his mind got mushy.
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep breaking me in
And this is how we will live
With you and me bent
If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot
‘You do need a lot wench.’ Inuyasha thought with a smirk. ‘ Always being so needy with everyone in the group. Its as if you’re afraid that I’ll just vanish as soon as I’m out of your sight.’ Inuyasha didn’t really notice how his thoughts changed from all his friends to just him and Kagome.
I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just falling
Just breaking the skin
Kagome fell to her knees, and she let off a little stream of giggles that sounded as if they were almost sobs. She seemed to have been really upset by what she was singing.
‘Jaded? You? You are the cleanest person I know’ Inuyasha thought. He watched Kagome get back up, and when she continued with her routine, each movement had more force behind it, even though her voice had calmed.
Start bending me
It's never enough
'Til I feel all your pieces
Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in
Inuyasha’s thoughts turned south as he envisioned bending Kagome over and slowly running his
tongue over every inch of her till she cried out his name. Of pounding into her until was suitably ‘broken
in’ as she put it. It was a random image, but he couldn’t shake it.
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again
Inuyasha was so wrapped up, he didn’t sense the other creatures approaching. The sound of Kagome’s voice, and the way her body moved was hypnotic.
Without understanding
Hell, I'll go there again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Yeah, you're breaking me in
And this is how we will live
With you and me bent
Kagome put her sword back in her sheath and looked around, fully aware of the demons lurking
in the darkness. She had sensed them since she had started practicing. That was part of the reason she
hadn’t felt Inuyasha’s presence. All her attention had been focused on the two approaching bear demons. Kagome had been waiting, hoping that they would leave, but it was obvious now that they were going to attack her.
‘Damn, and it would have been such a good night. Now I have to fight.’ Kagome had kept her spell up, as she always did when she wasn’t in a warded room, but they always seemed to find her.
At the sudden loss of Kagome’s voice, Inuyasha came back to reality and sensed the demons.
They were coming quickly now and all thoughts of him being in demon form went out the window. The
only thing that mattered was Kagome’s safety.
Inuyasha jumped from his perch and his red hakama billowed around him as he fell gracefully to the ground. He landed right in front of Kagome just as the bear youkai came. They were horrible creatures that looked only remotely like bears. Their fur was a sickly brownish green and they were at least 3 times the size of a full grown grizzly bear. They peered at Kagome hungrily with vicious, pus yellow eyes. They both came towards Kagome at the same time, walking at a quick. clumsy gait.
Inuyasha ran to meet them and promptly killed the smaller of the two creatures with his claws.
He looked at the carcass and cursed it mentally for even trying to hurt Kagome. ‘How dare you try to
hurt what’s mine?’ Inuyasha didn’t notice his subconscious claiming of Kagome.
Inuyasha was wrenched from his thoughts when the second, larger demon brought a huge paw down in a wide arc against his back.
Kagome had watched this all in horror. Someone had jumped in front of her and had started fighting the demons. He was moving too fast to determine who it was, but the way he moved seemed familiar. Kagome watched as the bear came from behind and ran his four inch long claws through the skin and muscle of her ‘savior’s back. There was a cry of pain, and then blood.
There was so much blood, Kagome knew he would die if he wasn’t healed right away, but it seemed her ‘savior’ had different ideas. In one swift movement the white haired figure turned and slashed through the bear demon as if it were nothing.
‘Wait, white hair? Claws? Sesshomaru is taller than this guy, so it must be. . . no. No, it can’t be!’
With the demons gone, Kagome walked silently to the bleeding individual. He was bent over slightly, panting in pain. Kagome stood in front of him and he raised his head. She gasped.
Claws.
Canine ears on top of his head,
Fangs.
“In- Inuya- Inuyasha? You’re a demon?” Kagome stuttered, dropping to her knees in front of the injured boy.
Inuyasha smiled, but it immediately turned to a grimace. “Surprise?” he said, with mock joviality. With that the poor bloodied boy passed out.
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Kagome woke in a completely black room. During her little nap she had experienced a single dream. Though, it was more a picture and a feeling then what you could call an actual dream. Kagome remembered her father once trying to explain how she could have premonitions while sleeping and wondered if she had just had one.
It had been nothing more than a pair of hands. Clawed hands. The image of clawed hands and the irresistible urge to hold them in her own. The urge to see the person’s face that owned that pair of strange hands. There had been a sense of familiarity, but Kagome didn’t know anyone with claws like that. Koga’s had been different, just slightly. Plus, she didn’t have any urge to hold Koga’s hands.
Kagome shook the memory of it from her head and decided it was time to get some training in. Her power was brimming to the point of being uncomfortable after sleeping half the day away. Kagome got dressed and pulled the black dragon box from under her bed. She put her quiver of arrows on her back and attached her bow to the quiver. Kagome placed her sword in its sheath and attached it to her belt.
She smiled and thought of the sword’s name. Kagome had named it when it had been given to her for her 5th birthday. Though Kagome hadn’t been allowed to use it yet, she had mounted it on her wall and had insisted on naming it. Kagome had thought long and hard, but being the 5 year old she was had ended up calling it Bluey. Now Kagome simply called it Blue. A simple yet concise name, for a simple yet concise sword.
Kagome walked to the balcony to see how she was going to get out. She looked down and gulped. They were on the top floor. Not exactly jumping distance. She looked and saw that jumping from
balcony to balcony wouldn’t work because only the top three floors had balconies. She struggled to
see in the dark. She smiled in triumph when she saw a very tall tree that had grown away from the rest
of the woods. It would take some work, but she’d be able to get out without having to knock out the
guard who made sure that no students snuck out at night. Plus she’d get a little warm up.
Kagome hopped over the railing of her balcony, and lowered herself so that she was dangling as far down to the next balcony as possible. She let go, and when her feet met the ground of the balcony below hers, she bent her knees, taking most of the shock of the fall. She made almost no sound. ‘Guess all those nights sneaking out of the house to walk in the moonlight are finally coming in handy.’ Kagome thought with pride.
She went through the same procedure till she was at the lowest balcony. Kagome stopped for a second to catch her breath and then walked to the right side of the balcony. She measured the distance between her current balcony and the one next to it. Kagome stepped up on the rail, and for one horrible moment was sure she was going to fall. Thankfully though, after much spinning of her arms, Kagome regained her balance and jumped, landing cleanly. She thanked god that no one had cut the branch that had grown directly over the balcony.
Kagome grabbed a patio chair someone had placed out there and moved it so that she could stand on it and heft herself onto the branch. Kagome crawled carefully to where the branch met the trunk and sat there, resting a moment. She looked down at the imposing height that she was at. She was still even with the 7th floor.
‘Now, just to climb down. It’s a piece of cake.’ Kagome looked down again and cringed
‘Yeah, cyanide cake with rattlesnake icing’
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“Mmn, Kagome thats feels so goood” Inuyasha mumbled in his sleep. Inuyasha was pulled from
his wonderful dream of Kagome petting his ears when he heard an owl cry out in the night. “Stupid
freaking bird, what did I ever do to you?” Inuyasha thought grumpily. He made a quick decision that he would go out and have a nice run through the woods to cool his blood. Inuyasha touched the prayer beads around his neck, causing his concealing spell to fade. He was about to go jump off the balcony, when
he saw Kagome come out of her room and jump over the edge of her own.
For a moment, he just stood there, not believing what he was seeing. ‘Damn. Stupid dreams are making me sluggish. I should have noticed that she was up before now.’ Inuyasha thought. He watched avidly as Kagome dropped from the balcony. He wanted to go to her and stop her, but since he was in natural form, and she obviously knew what she was doing, he stopped. He wondered where she had gotten this particular skill.
Inuyasha followed for a bit and almost exposed himself when she stumbled on the railing of one of the balconies. Luckily Kagome caught herself. Inuyasha watched, amused as she fumbled down the tree. Though he was watching from a safe distance, he was still close enough to catch her if she fell, his cover be damned.
When she was safely on solid ground again, Inuyasha watched her walk towards the woods. Though some thought the woods were haunted, Inuyasha knew that they were perfectly safe. They were his territory and there weren’t even many dangerous animals in there. He still wanted to run, but Inuyasha also wanted to know what Kagome was doing out at night with a bow and a sword. Finally he decided that he would go for a quick run, with Kagome still in hearing distance. Then he would check on what she was doing.
Kagome was most likely just going out to train with the bow, but he wanted to be sure. Though his logic told him that following her was the best thing to do first, his instincts told him that she would be fine Inuyasha was the type that went with instincts over logic every time.
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Kagome whistled as she walked through the trees. The night was hers and hers alone.
She stopped in a nice clearing and quickly shot an arrow at a tree. Just before it struck its mark, she stopped it with her mind and brought it back to shoot again. She really hated having to harm trees since they had saved her life a few times before.
Kagome proceeded to do that a few more times. Then she shot 4 arrows into the air in rapid
succession. She reached out with her mind and the arrows changed direction. She made them fly in
circles and dance around before making them hit the ground, each of the arrow heads burying deep in
the dirt, in a perfect line.
“Still got it” Kagome said, and blew on her fingers like she would the barrel of a gun. If Inuyasha
had followed her directly like his head had told him he should have, he would have seen this. It was very
fortunate for Kagome that he hadn’t.
Kagome picked the arrows up with her mind and brought them back to her. One good
thing about her powers was that no matter how bad a shot she was, she would always hit the mark. She had been horrible with a bow at first, but had eventually gotten really good. Much better then she was with the sword, but her sword skills weren’t anything to laugh at either.
She looked at the lovely oaks that surrounded her. She walked to one that looked sick and
placed her hand lovingly on the trunk. One bad thing about being a Miko and a Seer was the way the
powers reacted to each other. Sometimes they would cause the other power to come out in a twisted
way so it wouldn’t do what it was supposed to. Another thing being a mixed breed did was give her powers that neither race had.
It was like mixing blue and red paint. Though the product still had the same properties of the
parent colors, it was turned out to be a completely different color altogether.
One painful memory popped into Kagome’s mind as she felt the energy of the tree. It wasn’t one she particularly liked but it had caused her respect for trees, and all seemingly ‘lifeless’ things, to grow
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Kagome ran from her home, from all people. She had to escape the voices or she’d go mad.“SHUT UP SHUT UP, PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP!!” the ten year old Seer screamed into the
rainy sky.
It had been raining for almost a week and the ground was slick. The rainfall had come in
torrents, seeming to never cease and had caused scores of destruction. The land had been turned to
pudding and was not at all safe to run in. Eventually the inevitable happened and Kagome fell.
She slid and crashed painfully into an old redwood that was hundreds of years old, if the size was anything to go by. Kagome was almost knocked unconscious, which she would have taken as a blessing. She had no such luck.
The change hadn’t come gradually like Kagome’s father said it would. Her father had told her of the ability to hear thoughts, and at the time Kagome had been ecstatic, but once again, her damn miko
powers were making things difficult. Not that her seer powers were any less temperamental. Instead of
gradually gaining the ability to delve into the depths of others minds over the course of years, it had happened in a single night.
Being a miko, Kagome was able to feel the life force of everything, from humans and demons, to
plants and animals. The fact that she was so in tune with all life was having a horrible effect on her. She
was hearing ALL the thoughts of ALL the beings around her even though she didn’t want it to happen.
Kagome had gone crying to her mother, her hands on her head, pleading with her to do anything to make it stop, but her mother was who she was. She didn’t have any power to make it stop, not that she
tried to help at all. She had told Kagome to master it herself. That if Kagome couldn’t control her own powers, she wouldn’t survive. That if she couldn’t master her own powers, Kagome didn’t deserve to survive.
So Kagome had gone into the woods, but she could still hear the thoughts of everyone within about a 5 mile radius. Not to mention the animal thoughts. Most weren’t as sophisticated as human thoughts. They were pictures and emotions, but some animals had thoughts equal to humans. It was scary. The moment Kagome realized this was when she had started screaming and fell into the tree.
She sobbed and held her knees to her chest, rocking back and forth, muttering incoherent
pleas, to all and any god to take it away. The way the thoughts invaded her own was nauseating. The jumble of emotions was horrible.
Her hate of all people seemed to grow then. The thoughts were terrible. A drunk man intending
to beat his child to take out some frustration. A teen girl planning to sleep with a boy then take all his
money while he slept to buy some crystal meth. A man deciding that if the woman at the bookshop
refused to sleep with him again, that he’d rape her. A woman deciding to murder her husband’s mistress. There were normal, healthy thoughts too, but the twisted, dark ones cried out the loudest.
Kagome’s nails dug painful gouges in her legs, bringing up blood. Anything to distract her from the
voices. She bit her lip and it too began to bleed.
‘Child, don’t hurt yourself.’
Kagome’s eyes opened wide and looked around frantically. That thought had just been much louder than the others and had almost silenced the rest.
“Please, if you’re out there, please do that again. Please, I’ll do anything” Kagome was crying harder now.
‘Look behind you child’ The soothing voice crooned once more. Kagome held on to the almost-silence that the voice gave.
Kagome acted obediently and for a moment only saw the old redwood. ‘Plants don’t have thoughts that strong. Usually they are only whispers, though everything has a spirit’ Kagome thought frantically.
‘Do I sound like a whisper child?’ the strange grandmotherly voice asked. It sounded slightly amused, but kind nonetheless. Kagome felt the wonderful calming aura of this strange tree and got closer to it, wrapping herself around it. The voices were still there, but the closer to the redwood Kagome got, the dimmer the voices became.
‘I am not a normal tree child. Look closer’ Kagome looked closer, concentrating on the aura that
emanated from the ancient tree. Slowly the figure of a woman formed. She was obviously old, but
beautiful. She had rich green hair and deep warm toned skin, the color of the tree’s bark. She was
wearing a collection of leaves, vines, and twigs woven into a dress that hung to her knees.
‘What are you?’ Kagome questioned mentally.
‘I am the spirit of the tree. A tree nymph or tree sprite as some would call me, but I am truly neither. I am rare, as my kind have been slowly dying out for many hundreds of years now. There are spirits like me all over the world. Some that claim the water as their home, and some the rock. Many things that seem to be lifeless contain spirits such as myself. You have the gift to see them child, and because you are able to, they will always be there to assist you.’
Kagome’s mind was reeling. ‘How do you know what I am, and why would spirits want to help me? I’m nothing.’ Kagome pressed her forehead painfully against the redwood. ‘Less than nothing.’
The figure of the woman leaned down to Kagome and embraced her. It was like being held by the
wind, yet it was warm and comforting, so Kagome accepted it. ‘You are great my child, do not let any other
tell you different. I want to help you because you are pure, and I know who you are. As to how I know
you and what you are is slightly more complicated. I am old child. Thousands of years old.’
Kagome looked at the slightly transparent figure that was holding her. ‘You don’t look a day over 45. I didn’t know trees could live so long.’
The nymph smiled at her and Kagome faintly realized that she could no longer hear the voices.
‘Thank you for the compliment child, and as I have said before, my tree is not normal. Since it is the home of a spirit it will live very long. I have met many people in my time, though none exactly like you. There have been those who are similar. There have also been those who told me of you. Seers that all but lived in the future. When mikos were still uncorrupted they seemed to know of my purpose and helped heal me if I grew ill. You are my purpose.’ Kagome was tearing up again, but for different reasons.
‘I am your purpose? But how am I connected to you?’ Kagome asked, her breathing a series of shuddering sobs.
The nymph finally let go and walked back so that she lean against the tree in which she resided. ‘I am here to help you and teach you what I can before you leave. Look at your knees.’ Kagome examined herself and saw that all the wounds that she had received from herself and her fall were completely healed. She also felt like she had more energy. ‘You are able to borrow energy from all living things. It can be freely given or taken. I would not show you this power if I did not know you would treat it with respect. I am sure there will always be some living thing willing to lend its power to you.’
‘Am I able to give energy also?’ Kagome asked, eager.
The wise spirit grinned and spoke softly ‘Yes, that is how you heal. You lend your power. Let us talk as much as we can. I know you leave soon.’
‘Yes’ Kagome thought with a grimace. ‘I will be leaving. My mother can’t stand living where father once lived. How will I see you after I leave? I don’t want to leave you, I just met you.’
‘Child, you will leave and will not see me, but you will come back to this town when you are a woman, and when you do, come to see me. It is then that your real work will begin and you will need my guidance.’
‘Okay’ Kagome said, her heart flooding with sorrow. ‘At least tell me your name. Please?’ Kagome asked hopefully.
‘I do not have a true name, but those who speak with me call me Shinju.’ the spirit replied.
Kagome and Shinju spoke for hours till the rain finally tapered away. The sun set and Kagome
slept peacefully in Shinju’s branches. The next morning she went home and her family left for the
country.
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Kagome quickly infused the tree with some of her energy and felt the sickness fade away. A small surge of warmth under her hand was all the thanks Kagome needed. She wondered how long it would
take to get to where Shinju was.
Kagome decided that now was as good a time as any to practice keeping her power in check
while she sang. She could do that and practice with Blue at the same time, that way she wouldn’t be
able to think of her past that had haunted her for so long. As she began, a pair of eyes once again
watched.
Inuyasha came from his run just in time to see Kagome pull her sword from it’s sheath and
begin to practice. She also started singing. It was slightly amusing that this was the third time he had
spied on her singing. It always made him feel slightly like a peeping tom when he did this, but who
cared? It wasn’t like she was going to ever know. His snowy white ears swivelled and all his attention
was placed on Kagome’s sweet satin voice.
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
If I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some of your love again
Give me more than I can stand
When my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again
Inuyasha watched fascinated at the smooth and almost liquid movements Kagome made with her
sword. It was obvious she had a least a little training with a real pro. ‘Who would have thought little
Kagome would know how to swing a sword?’ He watched, fascinated, as she went into a series of harsh slashes.
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again
Inuyasha watched as she twirled the sword, threw it into the air and caught it with a little spin
while she sang. ‘Talk about multi-tasking’ He wondered if she had written the song. It seemed as if it was to someone special, and he couldn’t help feeling jealous. ‘Why should I care who that bitch goes out
with?’ he asked himself angrily.
‘It couldn’t be for Koga, could it?’ Inuyasha panicked a little.
‘You want her, you little prick! Why deny it? I know you. God, I am you!’ His mind snapped back.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t the sanest train of thought ever, but it seemed that whenever he got around Kagome, his mind got mushy.
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Keep breaking me in
And this is how we will live
With you and me bent
If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot
‘You do need a lot wench.’ Inuyasha thought with a smirk. ‘ Always being so needy with everyone in the group. Its as if you’re afraid that I’ll just vanish as soon as I’m out of your sight.’ Inuyasha didn’t really notice how his thoughts changed from all his friends to just him and Kagome.
I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just falling
Just breaking the skin
Kagome fell to her knees, and she let off a little stream of giggles that sounded as if they were almost sobs. She seemed to have been really upset by what she was singing.
‘Jaded? You? You are the cleanest person I know’ Inuyasha thought. He watched Kagome get back up, and when she continued with her routine, each movement had more force behind it, even though her voice had calmed.
Start bending me
It's never enough
'Til I feel all your pieces
Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in
Inuyasha’s thoughts turned south as he envisioned bending Kagome over and slowly running his
tongue over every inch of her till she cried out his name. Of pounding into her until was suitably ‘broken
in’ as she put it. It was a random image, but he couldn’t shake it.
Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again
Inuyasha was so wrapped up, he didn’t sense the other creatures approaching. The sound of Kagome’s voice, and the way her body moved was hypnotic.
Without understanding
Hell, I'll go there again
Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together
Yeah, you're breaking me in
And this is how we will live
With you and me bent
Kagome put her sword back in her sheath and looked around, fully aware of the demons lurking
in the darkness. She had sensed them since she had started practicing. That was part of the reason she
hadn’t felt Inuyasha’s presence. All her attention had been focused on the two approaching bear demons. Kagome had been waiting, hoping that they would leave, but it was obvious now that they were going to attack her.
‘Damn, and it would have been such a good night. Now I have to fight.’ Kagome had kept her spell up, as she always did when she wasn’t in a warded room, but they always seemed to find her.
At the sudden loss of Kagome’s voice, Inuyasha came back to reality and sensed the demons.
They were coming quickly now and all thoughts of him being in demon form went out the window. The
only thing that mattered was Kagome’s safety.
Inuyasha jumped from his perch and his red hakama billowed around him as he fell gracefully to the ground. He landed right in front of Kagome just as the bear youkai came. They were horrible creatures that looked only remotely like bears. Their fur was a sickly brownish green and they were at least 3 times the size of a full grown grizzly bear. They peered at Kagome hungrily with vicious, pus yellow eyes. They both came towards Kagome at the same time, walking at a quick. clumsy gait.
Inuyasha ran to meet them and promptly killed the smaller of the two creatures with his claws.
He looked at the carcass and cursed it mentally for even trying to hurt Kagome. ‘How dare you try to
hurt what’s mine?’ Inuyasha didn’t notice his subconscious claiming of Kagome.
Inuyasha was wrenched from his thoughts when the second, larger demon brought a huge paw down in a wide arc against his back.
Kagome had watched this all in horror. Someone had jumped in front of her and had started fighting the demons. He was moving too fast to determine who it was, but the way he moved seemed familiar. Kagome watched as the bear came from behind and ran his four inch long claws through the skin and muscle of her ‘savior’s back. There was a cry of pain, and then blood.
There was so much blood, Kagome knew he would die if he wasn’t healed right away, but it seemed her ‘savior’ had different ideas. In one swift movement the white haired figure turned and slashed through the bear demon as if it were nothing.
‘Wait, white hair? Claws? Sesshomaru is taller than this guy, so it must be. . . no. No, it can’t be!’
With the demons gone, Kagome walked silently to the bleeding individual. He was bent over slightly, panting in pain. Kagome stood in front of him and he raised his head. She gasped.
Claws.
Canine ears on top of his head,
Fangs.
“In- Inuya- Inuyasha? You’re a demon?” Kagome stuttered, dropping to her knees in front of the injured boy.
Inuyasha smiled, but it immediately turned to a grimace. “Surprise?” he said, with mock joviality. With that the poor bloodied boy passed out.
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