InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Young Ones ❯ Chapter 3 - Two and Two ( Chapter 3 )
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By: Inumimi 
InuYasha and Kagome meet their younger counterparts.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 05.12.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 755 | Status: Completed
InuYasha and Kagome meet their younger counterparts.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 05.12.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 755 | Status: Completed
Splendent Goddess & Moonlit Showers - Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my story. I am so glad you like it! First off let me say that one way or another I will finish this story (so many really great stories seem to just stop and never get finished) but I will finish this story. I also want to write a story about an older Princess and Yasha ending up in Kagome & InuYasha's world, but I have not been able to figure out how to make the kids older, but not have Kagome & InuYasha saddled with a hut full of pups (children)! I will have to think about that problem. Anyway I hope you do not find my writting too wordy, I am not great with dialog and if anyone notices really bad language or grammer problems please let me know as I do not have a beta. Thanks again for reading!
Disclaimer: InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahasi and her publishers. No profit is made from this story. No copyright infringement is intended.
Chapter 3 – Two and Two
InuYasha could only stare at the miniature versions of himself and his mate. With his first breath of hot desert air he knew many things. First, Kagome and he were no longer in their own world, even when he traveled to the future, the air may have been dirty, but that air told him that it was still the same world. Second, the Inu hanyou child who stood before him smelled exactly as he himself did at a very young age. Third, the little girl was Kagome, but like his own miniature, very young, neither child had begun the change into adulthood. In the few seconds it took his mind to process all the information his nose had sent him InuYasha also realized that his small counterpart’s nose would be sending him similar information about Kagome and himself.
Turning slightly towards his mate, InuYasha decided he should be the one to break the quartet’s strained silence. “Kagome we’re not in our world anymore. These two kids, there’re us, but very young.”
Kagome nodded her understanding and said “The O-Harai-Ya said she was going to send us to another world and that we already existed there.” Turning to the children she continued with a small smile “My name is Kagome and this is InuYasha and hard as this is to believe I think we’re you, I mean we’re you older and from another world. I know that doesn’t make much sense, we were sent here against our will – it’s a long story. Well actually it’s not that long a story, but…well the point is we don’t mean you any harm or anything like that.”
InuYasha snorted, the little version of himself looked like he was going to explode any second so he took over from Kagome. “Listen kids we’re not here to hurt you, is there somewhere not so out in the open we can go and talk?”
Finally Yasha spoke, turning towards his mistress “My princess, they are what they say, us - only older. I can smell it. I can also smell that the air that clings to them is not of this world and reeks of magic. Perhaps we should go within and find out what’s going on. I don’t believe they mean us any harm.”
The princess nodded her head, glanced over to the corner of the garden and said “Kaede come with us inside, I order you to say nothing.” Then glancing at her large counterparts she ordered “Come, my rooms are safe and no one may enter without my permission on pain of death.”
Without a backwards glance the little princess strode towards the door that lead to her rooms. With Yasha pointedly waiting, InuYasha glanced at Kagome who shrugged her shoulders and they followed the princess into what appeared to be a castle, followed by Kaede and Yasha.
The small door led immediately to a staircase, after climbing to the second story the group passed through another small door which Yasha closed and locked securely behind them, just as he had done to the door on the lower level.
As they entered the suite of rooms Kagome stopped and gasped. The rooms were magnificent, thick carpets were strewn over marble floors; rich fabrics covered the chairs and small divans that were scattered around the room; magnificent tapestries hung from the walls.
InuYasha on the other hand was drawn immediately to a small, prominently displayed table, his clawed fingers caressing the edge of the small portrait of the Princess Izayoi. After a moment, when InuYasha realized that all eyes were on him, he turned towards the others snarling “Well what the fuck are you all looking at?”
Crossing the room back towards the others he stopped to look at the woman little Kagome had called Kaede. Turing towards his mate he commented “She looks just like our Kaede, but she still has both eyes.” Turning towards the children he added “Our Kaede lost one of her eyes when she was a child.”
Seeing how the little group was just standing around, the little princess decided that if she was ever going to find out what was going on she had better take control. Pinning the others with a sharp and commanding glance she took control saying “We are going to sit down and you two are going to give us a clear, concise explanation of who you are, and why you are here.”
Striding over to a large round table the princess sat, indicating with a flick of her hand that the others were to join her. Slightly amused at the small girls imperious attitude Kagome and InuYasha sat where indicated as did Kaede. Only Yasha did not join the group at the table, standing behind the small princess’s chair his arms folded across his bare chest; his eyes hard and suspicious.
Glancing at InuYasha Kagome began “As I mentioned before my name is Kagome and this is my mate and husband InuYasha. We were sent to your world against our will by an evil sorceress who we thought was just a harmless old exorcist. She wants us to retrieve some sort of relic of great power for her, and we cannot get back to our own world without this relic. The sorceress told us that we could travel to your world because we already existed there; I guess that would be the two of you, even though you’re younger than us. By the way I’m 18 and InuYasha is…well he’s about 200.”
Princess Kagome and Yasha were both startled at hearing that the adult InuYasha was 200; he looked to be 20 at the most.
The Princess interjected. “I am the Princess Kagome heir to the throne of Sabaku, Kaede is my servant, she’s been with me since my mother passed when I was born, Yasha is my slave and bodyguard; I’m 10 and Yasha is 12.”
Kagome was appalled, realizing that the heavy gold band encircling Yasha’s neck was in fact a slave collar. Glancing at her mate Kagome was stunned; InuYasha did not seem overly upset at his counterpart’s status! Outraged she spoke to her mate “InuYasha how can you just sit there so calmly, he’s a slave and that’s a slave collar!”
InuYasha calmly replied fingering his beads “And what the fuck do you think these are my wife? I belong to you as surely as he belongs to her. That’s just the way it is. No need to get all outraged, though I think a gold collar is a bit extravagant.”
The little princess and her slave both seemed mildly amused by the older couple’s conversation, the princess took Yasha’s hand in hers and commented “Of course Yasha’s collar is gold it’s his right. He may be a slave, but he is noble born on both his human and youkai sides. No one may own him who is not of noble birth. Technically all of the slaves in the palace are owned by my father, the king. All except Yasha, he’s mine. He was sold into slavery by his nasty older half brother; I think he is much better off with me.”
InuYasha turned to his mate and added “This isn’t our world; it’s not our place to make judgments. After my mother died, I was free as a bird and look what it got me. Every human and youkai who saw me tried to kill me just for being a hanyou. Let’s just open the fucking package and find out where the fucking relic is. We get the relic, we go home and we take out that old hag. It’s that simple.”
Kagome bowed her head down slowly untying the strings that held the package closed. Perhaps InuYasha was right. The way the little princess tenderly held Yasha’s hand spoke volumes.
Kagome pulled the package open only to reveal two scrolls and another small packet. Raising her head Kagome sighed. “I’m afraid we’ll have to read these scrolls to find out just what this relic looks like and where it is. The small packet is marked not to open till the relic is retrieved, probably has the instructions on how to get home.”
Unrolling the first scroll and reading as she spoke Kagome commented “We really should not impose on you any longer. Our presence will be hard to explay….crap!”
Quickly glancing at everyone at the table Kagome continued “Sorry, but I better read the first lines on this scroll. ‘Four shall quest for power great, four yet two and two, alike yet different, old yet young. Quest not and die, succeed and live.’ It goes on and on and the rest isn’t quite as clear as those first lines. It’s pretty obvious that we’re alike yet different, old yet young. I’m not sure about the ‘four yet two and two’, it could refer to the fact that there are two of each of us or it could refer to the fact that you are a Kagome and Yasha pair & we are a Kagome and InuYasha pair. I’m sorry, but it looks like you two may be part of this mess.”
The small princess leaned back in her chair, her eyes grew hard as she steepled her fingers and spoke “That scroll sounds like a prophecy alright; they’re dangerous things to mess with. You have to be very careful to get every little thing right, make one error and” the little princess pulled her finger across her neck. Everyone knew what she meant.
The princess continued “As much as I hate to do this, I think we may have to tell my father. He has great scholars, human and youkai, at his disposal and we may need them to figure out what these scrolls want us to do.”
Turning to his princess Yasha commented “My princess, his majesty is never in the best of moods in the evening. Perhaps we should hold off letting him know till morning. That will give us a chance to read more of the scrolls and perhaps have a better idea as to what we will have to do. Your safety is always his first concern and if something in the scrolls is not to his liking he may withhold information from us, with disastrous results.”
Nodding in agreement the little princess turned to the others “He’s right, father may try to hide information from us. We need to let him know, but let’s first get a general idea as to what the scrolls say.” She then turned to Kaede stating “Kaede order dinner for us and tell the cook that Yasha is extra hungry tonight, she knows how much he can eat when he’s hungry and will make enough to feed an army. We’ll hide these two here tonight and in the morning I’ll ask for an audience with father.”
Kaede nodded in understanding and quietly unlocked the door and left the suite, the small hanyou following her to the door, locking it after the faithful servant had left.
As soon as her protector had returned to sit at the table the princess turned to him and said with a smirk, “Well at least you and I turn out pretty good looking when we grow up.” She then continued in a more serious tone “We’ve been worrying about what father will do when we start to grow up. If he tries to take Yasha away from me, we may have to do something drastic. Even if we don’t get separated, father will try and marry me off to some prince when I turn 18, I won’t let that happen. This is my realm and I have no intention of letting anyone rule it but me.” The little princess somehow felt compelled to tell these two total strangers things she had only dared to share with Yasha, still her eyes had grown hard and cold as she finished speaking.
InuYasha’s ears flattened and his eyes grew wide, Princess Kagome was one tough little girl, probably much more dangerous and calculating than his own mate.
As if he could read his counterpart’s mind, Yasha started to chuckle then commented “My princess, I think you’ve frightened my counterpart.” Then glancing at the two elder versions added “She normally doesn’t let anyone know how smart and dangerous she really is. I think the king has an idea, but he never says anything.”
The princess nodded adding “You have to grow up fast around here, I’m 10 years old and there have been 6 serious attempts on my life that I know of. Three just in the last two years, that’s why father let me have Yasha, he’s faster, stronger and more dangerous than any human in this palace. He’s killed both youkai and humans that have tried to get to me, including a master assassin who turned out to have over 250 kills to his name.”
Deciding that is was time to return to the problem at had the princess continued “While we’re waiting for dinner why don’t we start to read the prophecy.”
Unrolling more of the first scroll Kagome continued to read, it was mostly nonsense interspersed with lines that seemed to be concrete instructions. By the time Kaede returned everyone was thoroughly confused and frustrated. Kagome and InuYasha were instructed to hide in the adjoining bedroom while servants brought in dinner.
After the servants left, the group rejoined for dinner, the two hanyous in a seeming contest to see who could eat the most. As the group ate, the princess filled Kaede in, letting the old servant know that while most of the prophecy was beyond their ability to decipher they had gleaned a few facts. There was a passage that referred to a forest in the North; the princess was convinced it referred to the land that her mother had brought to the kingdom as her dowry. The scroll also referred to a crown of destiny, though it did not seem to be the relic they were to search for. The scroll seemed to reiterate over and over that the quest could only be fulfilled by the four who were two and that if all four did not remain together disaster would result.
The second scroll turned out to contain several maps of lands unfamiliar to all and which contained no place names to help with their identification.
As the hour grew late all agreed that the princess had been correct, they would need the assistance of the king and his scholars.
The group moved to the bedroom where Kaede loaned Kagome one of her sleep robes and the princess indicated that Kagome could share her huge bed. The two hanyous settled on the floor, Yasha in his regular spot by the side of the huge bed and InuYasha at a strategic spot where he could sleep propped against a wall and keep an eye on the door to the room. As InuYasha settled on the floor with Tessaiga in hand, the little princess grabbed an extra blanket offering it to the amused hanyou, before she scampered back to her bed.
As everyone settled in for sleep Kaede wondered if the two Kagomes would actually make it through the night in the huge bed.
Disclaimer: InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahasi and her publishers. No profit is made from this story. No copyright infringement is intended.
Chapter 3 – Two and Two
InuYasha could only stare at the miniature versions of himself and his mate. With his first breath of hot desert air he knew many things. First, Kagome and he were no longer in their own world, even when he traveled to the future, the air may have been dirty, but that air told him that it was still the same world. Second, the Inu hanyou child who stood before him smelled exactly as he himself did at a very young age. Third, the little girl was Kagome, but like his own miniature, very young, neither child had begun the change into adulthood. In the few seconds it took his mind to process all the information his nose had sent him InuYasha also realized that his small counterpart’s nose would be sending him similar information about Kagome and himself.
Turning slightly towards his mate, InuYasha decided he should be the one to break the quartet’s strained silence. “Kagome we’re not in our world anymore. These two kids, there’re us, but very young.”
Kagome nodded her understanding and said “The O-Harai-Ya said she was going to send us to another world and that we already existed there.” Turning to the children she continued with a small smile “My name is Kagome and this is InuYasha and hard as this is to believe I think we’re you, I mean we’re you older and from another world. I know that doesn’t make much sense, we were sent here against our will – it’s a long story. Well actually it’s not that long a story, but…well the point is we don’t mean you any harm or anything like that.”
InuYasha snorted, the little version of himself looked like he was going to explode any second so he took over from Kagome. “Listen kids we’re not here to hurt you, is there somewhere not so out in the open we can go and talk?”
Finally Yasha spoke, turning towards his mistress “My princess, they are what they say, us - only older. I can smell it. I can also smell that the air that clings to them is not of this world and reeks of magic. Perhaps we should go within and find out what’s going on. I don’t believe they mean us any harm.”
The princess nodded her head, glanced over to the corner of the garden and said “Kaede come with us inside, I order you to say nothing.” Then glancing at her large counterparts she ordered “Come, my rooms are safe and no one may enter without my permission on pain of death.”
Without a backwards glance the little princess strode towards the door that lead to her rooms. With Yasha pointedly waiting, InuYasha glanced at Kagome who shrugged her shoulders and they followed the princess into what appeared to be a castle, followed by Kaede and Yasha.
The small door led immediately to a staircase, after climbing to the second story the group passed through another small door which Yasha closed and locked securely behind them, just as he had done to the door on the lower level.
As they entered the suite of rooms Kagome stopped and gasped. The rooms were magnificent, thick carpets were strewn over marble floors; rich fabrics covered the chairs and small divans that were scattered around the room; magnificent tapestries hung from the walls.
InuYasha on the other hand was drawn immediately to a small, prominently displayed table, his clawed fingers caressing the edge of the small portrait of the Princess Izayoi. After a moment, when InuYasha realized that all eyes were on him, he turned towards the others snarling “Well what the fuck are you all looking at?”
Crossing the room back towards the others he stopped to look at the woman little Kagome had called Kaede. Turing towards his mate he commented “She looks just like our Kaede, but she still has both eyes.” Turning towards the children he added “Our Kaede lost one of her eyes when she was a child.”
Seeing how the little group was just standing around, the little princess decided that if she was ever going to find out what was going on she had better take control. Pinning the others with a sharp and commanding glance she took control saying “We are going to sit down and you two are going to give us a clear, concise explanation of who you are, and why you are here.”
Striding over to a large round table the princess sat, indicating with a flick of her hand that the others were to join her. Slightly amused at the small girls imperious attitude Kagome and InuYasha sat where indicated as did Kaede. Only Yasha did not join the group at the table, standing behind the small princess’s chair his arms folded across his bare chest; his eyes hard and suspicious.
Glancing at InuYasha Kagome began “As I mentioned before my name is Kagome and this is my mate and husband InuYasha. We were sent to your world against our will by an evil sorceress who we thought was just a harmless old exorcist. She wants us to retrieve some sort of relic of great power for her, and we cannot get back to our own world without this relic. The sorceress told us that we could travel to your world because we already existed there; I guess that would be the two of you, even though you’re younger than us. By the way I’m 18 and InuYasha is…well he’s about 200.”
Princess Kagome and Yasha were both startled at hearing that the adult InuYasha was 200; he looked to be 20 at the most.
The Princess interjected. “I am the Princess Kagome heir to the throne of Sabaku, Kaede is my servant, she’s been with me since my mother passed when I was born, Yasha is my slave and bodyguard; I’m 10 and Yasha is 12.”
Kagome was appalled, realizing that the heavy gold band encircling Yasha’s neck was in fact a slave collar. Glancing at her mate Kagome was stunned; InuYasha did not seem overly upset at his counterpart’s status! Outraged she spoke to her mate “InuYasha how can you just sit there so calmly, he’s a slave and that’s a slave collar!”
InuYasha calmly replied fingering his beads “And what the fuck do you think these are my wife? I belong to you as surely as he belongs to her. That’s just the way it is. No need to get all outraged, though I think a gold collar is a bit extravagant.”
The little princess and her slave both seemed mildly amused by the older couple’s conversation, the princess took Yasha’s hand in hers and commented “Of course Yasha’s collar is gold it’s his right. He may be a slave, but he is noble born on both his human and youkai sides. No one may own him who is not of noble birth. Technically all of the slaves in the palace are owned by my father, the king. All except Yasha, he’s mine. He was sold into slavery by his nasty older half brother; I think he is much better off with me.”
InuYasha turned to his mate and added “This isn’t our world; it’s not our place to make judgments. After my mother died, I was free as a bird and look what it got me. Every human and youkai who saw me tried to kill me just for being a hanyou. Let’s just open the fucking package and find out where the fucking relic is. We get the relic, we go home and we take out that old hag. It’s that simple.”
Kagome bowed her head down slowly untying the strings that held the package closed. Perhaps InuYasha was right. The way the little princess tenderly held Yasha’s hand spoke volumes.
Kagome pulled the package open only to reveal two scrolls and another small packet. Raising her head Kagome sighed. “I’m afraid we’ll have to read these scrolls to find out just what this relic looks like and where it is. The small packet is marked not to open till the relic is retrieved, probably has the instructions on how to get home.”
Unrolling the first scroll and reading as she spoke Kagome commented “We really should not impose on you any longer. Our presence will be hard to explay….crap!”
Quickly glancing at everyone at the table Kagome continued “Sorry, but I better read the first lines on this scroll. ‘Four shall quest for power great, four yet two and two, alike yet different, old yet young. Quest not and die, succeed and live.’ It goes on and on and the rest isn’t quite as clear as those first lines. It’s pretty obvious that we’re alike yet different, old yet young. I’m not sure about the ‘four yet two and two’, it could refer to the fact that there are two of each of us or it could refer to the fact that you are a Kagome and Yasha pair & we are a Kagome and InuYasha pair. I’m sorry, but it looks like you two may be part of this mess.”
The small princess leaned back in her chair, her eyes grew hard as she steepled her fingers and spoke “That scroll sounds like a prophecy alright; they’re dangerous things to mess with. You have to be very careful to get every little thing right, make one error and” the little princess pulled her finger across her neck. Everyone knew what she meant.
The princess continued “As much as I hate to do this, I think we may have to tell my father. He has great scholars, human and youkai, at his disposal and we may need them to figure out what these scrolls want us to do.”
Turning to his princess Yasha commented “My princess, his majesty is never in the best of moods in the evening. Perhaps we should hold off letting him know till morning. That will give us a chance to read more of the scrolls and perhaps have a better idea as to what we will have to do. Your safety is always his first concern and if something in the scrolls is not to his liking he may withhold information from us, with disastrous results.”
Nodding in agreement the little princess turned to the others “He’s right, father may try to hide information from us. We need to let him know, but let’s first get a general idea as to what the scrolls say.” She then turned to Kaede stating “Kaede order dinner for us and tell the cook that Yasha is extra hungry tonight, she knows how much he can eat when he’s hungry and will make enough to feed an army. We’ll hide these two here tonight and in the morning I’ll ask for an audience with father.”
Kaede nodded in understanding and quietly unlocked the door and left the suite, the small hanyou following her to the door, locking it after the faithful servant had left.
As soon as her protector had returned to sit at the table the princess turned to him and said with a smirk, “Well at least you and I turn out pretty good looking when we grow up.” She then continued in a more serious tone “We’ve been worrying about what father will do when we start to grow up. If he tries to take Yasha away from me, we may have to do something drastic. Even if we don’t get separated, father will try and marry me off to some prince when I turn 18, I won’t let that happen. This is my realm and I have no intention of letting anyone rule it but me.” The little princess somehow felt compelled to tell these two total strangers things she had only dared to share with Yasha, still her eyes had grown hard and cold as she finished speaking.
InuYasha’s ears flattened and his eyes grew wide, Princess Kagome was one tough little girl, probably much more dangerous and calculating than his own mate.
As if he could read his counterpart’s mind, Yasha started to chuckle then commented “My princess, I think you’ve frightened my counterpart.” Then glancing at the two elder versions added “She normally doesn’t let anyone know how smart and dangerous she really is. I think the king has an idea, but he never says anything.”
The princess nodded adding “You have to grow up fast around here, I’m 10 years old and there have been 6 serious attempts on my life that I know of. Three just in the last two years, that’s why father let me have Yasha, he’s faster, stronger and more dangerous than any human in this palace. He’s killed both youkai and humans that have tried to get to me, including a master assassin who turned out to have over 250 kills to his name.”
Deciding that is was time to return to the problem at had the princess continued “While we’re waiting for dinner why don’t we start to read the prophecy.”
Unrolling more of the first scroll Kagome continued to read, it was mostly nonsense interspersed with lines that seemed to be concrete instructions. By the time Kaede returned everyone was thoroughly confused and frustrated. Kagome and InuYasha were instructed to hide in the adjoining bedroom while servants brought in dinner.
After the servants left, the group rejoined for dinner, the two hanyous in a seeming contest to see who could eat the most. As the group ate, the princess filled Kaede in, letting the old servant know that while most of the prophecy was beyond their ability to decipher they had gleaned a few facts. There was a passage that referred to a forest in the North; the princess was convinced it referred to the land that her mother had brought to the kingdom as her dowry. The scroll also referred to a crown of destiny, though it did not seem to be the relic they were to search for. The scroll seemed to reiterate over and over that the quest could only be fulfilled by the four who were two and that if all four did not remain together disaster would result.
The second scroll turned out to contain several maps of lands unfamiliar to all and which contained no place names to help with their identification.
As the hour grew late all agreed that the princess had been correct, they would need the assistance of the king and his scholars.
The group moved to the bedroom where Kaede loaned Kagome one of her sleep robes and the princess indicated that Kagome could share her huge bed. The two hanyous settled on the floor, Yasha in his regular spot by the side of the huge bed and InuYasha at a strategic spot where he could sleep propped against a wall and keep an eye on the door to the room. As InuYasha settled on the floor with Tessaiga in hand, the little princess grabbed an extra blanket offering it to the amused hanyou, before she scampered back to her bed.
As everyone settled in for sleep Kaede wondered if the two Kagomes would actually make it through the night in the huge bed.