InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Volition ❯ The Shikon no Tama ( Chapter 9 )

~*Volition~*

~~Chapter 9: The Shikon no Tama~~

 

 

`Maybe you should just go ahead and spill it to your father. Kiyoshi knows. Raidon, he'll figure it out eventually and Kin…he knows, he just doesn't say anything.'

 

`They won't tell Father, I know they won't. I don't think it's a good idea.'

 

`Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to let yourself go.'

 

Akina made a face. `Maybe not. For a while there, I thought it going good…`course then she came along.'

 

`Don't be stupid, Aki. Don't hold anything against her.'

 

Akina sighed, glaring at the ground. Raidon was walking besides her, hands dug in to his pockets. `I don't. Is it really my fault if I'm a little bit jealous?'

 

`I don't think so…you should have known better.'

 

Not realizing her footing, she didn't notice a rise in the concrete. Akina yelped when her body fell forward. Raidon caught her around her waist, steadied her on her feet. He snorted besides her. Sapphire eyes narrowed at her, raising his eye brow.

 

“For a youkai, your balance sucks ass Aki. What the hell was that?”

 

Akina shrugged off his arms, smoothed her uniform skirt and top. “I was thinking.” She muttered, proceeding to walk in the direction of home. Raidon blinked behind her, running to catch up with her.

 

“Kiyoshi told me your little problem.” Raidon commented casually enough, a little too casually for Akina's liking.

 

“I don't have a problem,” She tossed back, ignoring his rapid blinking towards her. He slouched down besides her, to reach her height.

 

“Sure you do. I know what you've been feeling fo---”

 

“Don't say it!” She screeched, hands flying up to cover her brother's big mouth. Raidon rolled his eyes.

 

“Don't worry Aki, I'm sure father won't say much. Just a crush, no?”

 

Raidon chuckled as he tugged her in to an alley. “Come on, this way is much faster.”

 

He jumped on to the building's rooftop. Akina scowled. `Just a crush? I wish…'

 

She jumped up besides Raidon and he pulled on her hand and started running for home via rooftops.

 

 

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“You cheated.”

 

InuYasha chuckled, tossing the playing cards aside. He scratched the top of his nose. “No I didn't. I've just got the better poker face.”

 

`More like the better poker nose. Cheater.'

 

InuYasha sighed. Alright, so he maybe used his nose. Maybe he could smell the scent of her lies and nervousness over her cards. Her scent spiked when she had bad cards. Kagome glared at him.

 

“You cheated.” She said simply. She pointed at the open box of chocolates in front of her, the poker chips for their game. “See? Now I have no chocolate.”

 

He rolled his eyes. “Don't worry, I won't eat `em in front of you.”

 

Kagome made a face, leaned against the bed's headboard. The pressure leaning against the hard headboard drew a small groan from her. InuYasha looked at her instantly.

 

“Are you okay?” He asked, crawling towards her. She sucked in her breath.

 

“Yeah. Just, do me a favor and put a pillow right there.” She pointed behind her with her good behind her. He nodded, grabbing a fluffy pillow and placing it behind her back. She pulled on her black baby-tee shirt, trying to make it comfortable for her when she leaned back again with a sigh. InuYasha was lying besides her, on his side with his cheeked propped up on his palm. He drummed his claws against the mattress. Kagome giggled.

 

“Hand me my bag will you, I've got homework to do.”

 

He scowled. “A book is more interesting than I am?”

 

“Of course not!” She winked at him. He frowned, but grabbed her back. She dug out her history text book and notebook. Akina had only brought her history homework. Kagome grimaced. She wasn't overly fond of history.

 

Grabbing the small white piece of paper, she opened it up. Akina's neat hand writing greeted her, explaining the homework to her.

 

“Great,” Kagome muttered. “A whole five pages on a legend.”

 

She didn't see InuYasha's dog ear twitch under his concealment. “Legend?” He asked. He sat up, grabbed her textbook. “What legend?”

 

“I don't know.” Kagome read the page and opened up the text book. A drawing of a pink jewel greeted her along with the beginning of the chapter. “The Shikon no Tama.”

 

`Score! Maybe this can trigger something.' InuYasha grinned. “Shikon no Tama wasn't a legend. It's story happened.”

 

Kagome laughed. “And I suppose a youkai and hanyous chased the jewel to right?”

 

He frowned. “Yeah.” He said slowly. Kagome shook her head.

 

“I don't believe it legends.” She leafed over the chapter, looking at the drawings.

 

InuYasha tried not to be irritated by her dismissal of their adventures. `She doesn't remember. It's not her fault.' He chanted in his head, like a mantra. “You should believe in that one. It's true.”

 

Kagome sighed. “The legend takes place five centuries ago, we don't know if it happened.”

 

`I know.' “Five hundred years ago and today.”

 

He carefully took the textbook from her. She watched as he leafed through the pages and them smiled, fingers tracing over the picture of Goshinboku, the tree at her shrine. “My grandfather always told us stories. I never believed though.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Because…” She swallowed hard. “I thought those stories hurt something deep inside me, so I blocked them out.”

 

`Because you are part of this legend.' He let the textbook drop of the floor. Kagome frowned.

 

“I needed that.” She remarked, throwing him a dark glance. He snorted.

 

“I know that legend like the back of my hand.”

 

“Oh yeah?”

 

“Yep. And…I'm also convinced it happened.”

 

“Why?” She whispered. Solemn golden eyes looked back at her.

 

“Because, deep inside, I know it did.” She watched as the sunshine spilling through the window lent him a glow, adding to the beauty of his eyes. She swallowed hard, trying to restrain herself from leaning over and kissing him. She sighed.

 

Kagome grabbed a bowl of crackers her mother had left for her on the night table. “So tell me, what happened in this legend---because that's all it is.”

 

He smirked. “The jewel was called the Shikon no Tama and it had the ability to grant any wish. A priestess, Midoriko, fought hundreds of youkai for days. She made the jewel, by locking the souls of the demons and her own inside of it. That's why the jewel can grant either a good wish, or a bad one.”

 

“Oh yeah?”

 

He nodded. “Yeah. She was turned to stone, as was the youkai she was fighting. From there, the jewel was passed down to different people. Along the line somewhere, the jewel was given to an exterminator's village.”

 

“Exterminator's village?” Kagome looked at the ceiling. “I never remember that.”

 

InuYasha nodded. “It was.” He recalled Sango telling them about how her grandfather had trusted the jewel to Kikyou. “Anyway, they had it for a while until they heard of a very powerful priestess. They went over and asked if she would take care of the jewel and she agreed. She kept it pure, being a miko, but along with that, came some feelings that she wanted to go away.”

 

Kikyou's eyes flashed in his eyes, the solemn eyes he had first known, the loneliness the miko carried. Kagome nodded. “That part if kind of believable. The hanyou and the pinning and the evil youkai…I think that was messed up along the line somewhere. It is an interesting story though.”

 

“Feh! It happened, damnit.”

 

Kagome giggled. “Keep going though. You're much interesting than reading the story.”

 

He sighed. `Not even a hint.' “Anyway, the priestess, she took care of the jewel but she felt lonely. She took out the youkai that came after the jewel with her miko powers, but the feelings still came with her. Around that time, a hanyou kept coming to her, trying to steal the jewel because he wanted to become full youkai. Being hanyou, he thought he was nothing because everyone told him that. Ki---umm, the priestess never wounded him because he was a lot like her…lonely. Slowly, they made friends, him always by her side.”

 

“And she still has the jewel?”

 

“Yeah. He thought he fell in love with her. He wanted to belong with her, he needed to feel like he belonged somewhere. She thought she could be happy with him also. So, she asked him to use the jewel to become human, like her. The hanyou agreed and---”

 

“If she loved him, why did she want him to change?”

 

“Because…they needed it, needed not to be lonely anymore. And because, she wouldn't have him as a hanyou, but as a human. He never thought about her request, I guess. An evil hanyou, he fooled them the day the priestess and the first hanyou agreed to meet somewhere to use the jewel. The evil hanyou first disguised himself as the hanyou and attacked her. She thought it was the good hanyou and she thought she was betrayed. He stole the jewel and went in to the village to put it back. Meanwhile, the priestess made her way to the village slowly. The evil hanyou disguised himself as the first priestess and shot the good hanyou, but never wounded him. Thinking the priestess betrayed him, the hanyou went to the village to steal the jewel. He got it, but the priestess was already there, ready to shoot him. She shot her sacred arrow and sealed him to Goshinboku. They thought they had betrayed each other and he slept with the thought of her betrayal. The priestess took the jewel and she died, with the thought the good hanyou had betrayed her.”

 

Kagome frowned. “But he never betrayed her.”

 

“They never betrayed each other.”

 

Kagome shook her head, a distant look on her face. “The good hanyou, he never hurt her…he never touched her. She hurt him. It was the evil hanyou who killed the priestess, but it was the priestess that sealed the good hanyou.”

 

“He knows that.”

 

Kagome sighed. “Sounds complicated.” Sudden images of her dreams assailed her. The voice that haunted her dreams, the words that it had etched in to them. The eyes, the puppy ears. Her gaze flickered towards InuYasha, his eyes. She shook her head. `Impossible…I wasn't dreaming about this dumb legend…it isn't real.'

 

After a long pause InuYasha finally kept going. “It was. The jewel was supposed to have disappeared when it was burned with the priestess' body. The hanyou slept for fifty years. He wasn't dead and he wasn't alive…he was just there, stuck. Fifty years later, a second priestess stumbled in to their world from another one.”

 

Kagome chuckled. “This is the part I don't believe. I like the way you tell the story though. A priestess from another world?”

 

He nodded. `Damn, Kagome please remember.' “She set him free and she was the reincarnation of his first love, the first priestess. She had the jewel in her body and when a youkai cut her, it burst out. He tried to strike the priestess down, but he didn't try to really hurt her. She had the jewel and the only way the hanyou could be close to her was because she had a subduing spell on him. Anyway, she broke the jewel…”

 

“She sounds like an airhead. Why would she break the jewel?”

 

“Accident.” He grumbled, cheeks pinking. “They set out to find the pieces of the jewel and were joined by a monk, an exterminator, a fire-neko, and a fox youkai.”

 

“Did the hanyou ever find out the truth?”

 

“Yeah. The first priestess was resurrected and the truth unveiled after a while.”

 

Kagome leaned her head back. He reached up, grabbing her good hand and linking their fingers together. “Did he get back with her?”

 

“He was confused. He loved the first priestess, but he also loved the second one.”

 

“How can he love two people at once?”

 

He grimaced. “He loved the first one because she had been the first to show emotions for him. He loved the second one because she set him free, showed him friendship, and trust.”

 

He sighed, staring at her hand. “He did love them both, but he loved the second one more. But he never voiced his feelings for her so she didn't know. After they defeated the evil hanyou, something happened. The second priestess thought he was still in love with the first and so she took the Shikon no Tama and she left back to her own world.”

 

Solemn golden eyes locked with hers. Kagome blinked. “And then…the hanyou realized it and he set out to find a way to get her back. From there---”

 

“He disappeared from there and his story became a legend…” Kagome trialed off, finishing his sentence. He nodded once. Kagome frowned in concentration.

 

“I bet he found her. If I remember it the way my grandfather told me, he always saved her from anything and protected her. How could he not find her?” Kagome gave him a smile and InuYasha found it hard to return it. He closed his eyes.

 

`Now, if only your remembered, we'd be one square farther than we are.'

 

`Yep. I dunno, tell her about the kotodama rosary. She might Oswuari you.'

 

`Feh! I don't think so…she might just do it and then she won't realize what happened. Not yet…it's been only three days since she was hurt. I can't just tell her I'm hanyou…yet.'

 

`If you tell her, she might remember.'

 

`I'm trying here…I really am, but nothing's happening. How strong can the magic of the jewel be? It only locked away the memories right? Familiar items trigger some memory…but she doesn't remember anything.'

 

“I'm hungry. InuYasha, are you?”

 

Kagome's question drew him out of his reverie. He shook his head. Kagome sighed and threw her legs off the edge of the bed. He glanced at her. She hid her face from him by putting her long raven-black hair around her. Blocking the bruises that covered her. He sighed. He hadn't realized they had been there for almost the whole day. The sky was darkening already.

 

“Kagome…”

 

She didn't turn back to look at him. “Yes?”

 

“I'll bring up your food, if you'd like.”

 

She nodded. “I'd like that. A-And, would you stay with me? So I don't eat alone.”

 

He sat besides her, pushed her hair away before leaning forward and planting a kiss on the corner of her lips. “I won't leave you.”

 

She nodded against him and he stood up and left the room. Kagome looked out the window, up at the shinning moon. `Why does that story hurt him?'

 

“I-I just made a few mistakes and well…the consequences weren't something I expected.”

 

“I-I didn't tell someone I loved how I felt…and I lost her.”

 

Kagome toyed with the bed spread. She furrowed her eye brows. `The girl he loved left him…l-like in the legend.'

 

`Like in the legend?'

 

`Maybe that's why he hurts when he says it?'

 

`Maybe…'

 

 

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“Akina, you know you can't really do anything, right?”

 

Akina blinked in to the darkness of the night. She sighed, looking down from her perch on the tree in her backyard. Her mother, Ayame, stood below. Green eyes stared at her and Ayame sighed.

 

“I know, Mother.” Akina bit her bottom lip. She saw her mother, a wolf youkai, jump besides her. She dangled her feet and looked at Akina.

 

“It's okay, honey.”

 

Akina sighed. “I know. It just…kinda hurts right now. I mean, he hasn't had anyone since I can remember and now…in only a month, it's like a roller coaster.”

 

Ayame giggled. “Don't worry, darling, you have your own mate.”

 

Akina grinned. “I know.”

 

“Okay then. Come inside before midnight, okay?”

 

Akina nodded. Ayame jumped off the tree and left in to the house. Akina snorted. She was a seventeen year old youkai with a very big crush on her father's business partner…the hanyou she dubbed `uncle'.

 

She made a face. `Technically, he isn't my uncle, so it's not bad I like him. He's not even wolf-hanyou…he's inu-hanyou. Nothing wrong with that right?'

 

`No, but he obviously isn't our mate. Kagome is his mate and you listen to me, Aki, don't you dare hold anything against Kagome. According to your parents, he has waited five-hundred years for her to come out of the well.'

 

`I know I know.' She stared up at the moon. She had started to develop feelings for him when she was fifteen. It had started out as an innocent crush, but he had always taken care of her. Maybe it was because she was the only little girl. Sesshoumaru had no pups and neither did Shippo. Only Kouga had pups and had three boys before Akina was born. Her innocent crush, though, had developed in to something she couldn't understand. She thought she might have a chance, until the day came that Kagome was supposed to come through the well one final time after using the jewel.

 

`It's not fair. She left him and yet he still wants her.'

 

`Don't be like that. Kagome is your friend, you like her. Maybe she didn't mean to leave him, that's why he has waited for her.'

 

`Maybe, I don't know.'

 

Ever since she could remember, InuYasha had always babied her. Kouga had been the same, but somehow, she had liked the protection InuYasha offered her better. It was maybe because InuYasha didn't lecture her when she did something wrong. Her father always sat her down and ranted for two hours before letting her go. Kouga had a mate, her mother Ayame. InuYasha didn't. He didn't have anyone that he would sometimes pay a tiny bit more attention to. Kouga was her father, her safety. InuYasha was her hero, the person she ran to whenever she was feeling sad or whenever Kouga would get irritated with her penchant of getting in to trouble.

 

Kouga and Ayame were excellent parents, but InuYasha…he wasn't her father, or family member. He was simply her father's friend and the person she really liked---loved like something she didn't understand. InuYasha never thought twice about spoiling her, much to Kouga's irritation. Ayame would have near heart attacks when InuYasha would throw her in the air and catch her.

 

Tears pooled in her eyes before falling down slowly. She looked up at the sky again, blinking. `I-I wish I had a Shikon no Tama…so I can make my wish, the wish I've wanted to two years.'

 

 

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~*Volition~*

 

Kagome mistakenly makes a wish on the jewel after Naraku's death. It forces the well to close and leave her second family behind. Now, InuYasha has waited 500 years to finally see Kagome again, but when he does see her, she is not the 'Kagome' he thought he'd face...

So how does a hanyou convince a miko to love him all over again?

 

 

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