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Forgotten Past

Chapter VII

 

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yuyu Hakusho or Inuyasha. It truly saddens me to say that, but I can not tell a lie... Ok, I could... but I'd be sent to jail for plagiarizing...

 

Author of Forgotten Past: Chrystal-Hearts

 

This is how we mind speak

/Hiei/

\Shuichi\

\Youko\

\Kurama\

(Someone else)

 

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Last Time:

"A friend made it for me a few years ago. I named it Kyo Kami."

 

"Wicked God?" Kurama questioned.

 

"Yep!" She said with a smile.

 

"And that blade is wicked." Souta stated as he and the girls grew near. "With all it can do, and it's unbreakable."

 

"Kagome!" Everyone looked at the smiling little boy. "I never thought that the stories were true! But I saw they are! Are you going to beat the bad guys who're coming after us?"

 

"I'm not powerful like those stories say, Hiten."

 

"Did you call the dog eared guy a half-breed?"

 

This Time:

 

"Yes." Kagome said as she looked at where he once stood. "He's a pathetic, lowlife, hanyou."

 

"You have problems with hanyous?" Yukina asked.

 

"Only two..."

 

"Can we get out of here?" Keiko asked quietly.

 

"That'd be a good idea." Kurama said. Botan appeared a minute later and opened a portal to Reikai for them.

 

"What happened?" Koenma asked, standing there in toddler form. The kitsune then began explaining about what they saw. That brought the demigod's attention to Kagome. "What are you?"

 

A sigh escaped her lips at the question. Blue-gray eyes slid closed as memories of her training came into play. "I am a taijiya trained miko. Trained in the art of Shugendo."

 

The demigod's eyes widened at her statement. "Shugendo has been dead for five hundred years. It died out with the last slayer!"

 

"Sango had a son." Was her simple statement. "My ancestor, Tsukiyomi. His father was a buddhist monk. So Sango was not the last slayer."

 

"How do you know all of this?"

 

"It's my family's history."

 

"No one has shown any kind of power in any of the shrine's lines in three hundred years. The last truly powerful miko was killed about five hundred years ago."

 

"But we're dealing with a miko." Botan inputted. "Our case has a miko in it... a powerful one."

 

"That's a good point." Koenma said. Then he looked at Kagome. "It could be you, who is our enemy then."

 

"Kagome is not your enemy!" Souta declared as he growled. His violet eyes darkened as he allowed reiki to crackle around him.

 

"What the hell?" Yusuke asked as he turned to the boy.

 

"Kagome's not the only one who's trained to use her powers. And we inherited them from our so called 'father'. We know he was able to use them." Souta said with a glare.

 

"I'd really like to know what is going on here!" Koenma yelled at them. "First we have a demon slayer/priestess, and now we have a priest? How is it you have any power at all?"

 

"A barrier once surrounded our shrine." Kagome stated. "Our 'father' put it up to hide energy signals. I strengthened it later so that it was undetectable. If you try to use violence while on the grounds, the barrier will forcibly remove you from the premises. But the barrier had been destroyed."

 

"So you're a trained miko?" Koenma asked.

 

"Yes." Her voice was calm, but her mind was not.

 

"Did you know about any of this Hiei?" Kurama decided to ask.

 

"No." He said curtly. He was glaring at his mate, and Kagome had to refrain from gulping at the look.

 

"I didn't want anyone knowing. I left my life as a miko behind four years ago. The only thing I did was train Souta when his powers came out, and teach him the way of our ancestors. I don't even use my powers anymore, and neither does he."

 

"Well, we'll have to take you into custody anyways. You and your brother. With your powers, you shouldn't be in Ningenkai." Koenma stated.

 

"You don't want me in the Makai." Her voice held a threat to it.

 

"You won't be put there. You'll need to be contained here until we can make sure you're not with the two hanyou who are leading this war."

 

Her heart stopped and she began panicking. Wide blue-gray eyes met violet, and she gave a nod. The boy's hands clenched as he growled deeply, a sound that seemed so like an inu it scared people. "So you think it's them?"

 

"Who else would it be?" Kagome asked, her voice not betraying her emotions.

 

"You know, we have no idea what you're talking about." Yusuke said, sounding highly annoyed.

 

Gray eyes turned to them, the blue having faded slightly. "Old enemies of mine. Two hanyou and a miko..."

 

"Wait! You're saying you know them? That's the only information we have on the leaders of this damn group."

 

"Then hai, I know. Souta's met one of them. So too has the girls. Inuyasha is one, Naraku is the other, and Kikyo is the miko." They all heard the venom in the priestess' name as she spoke it. She spit it out almost as if it were poison.

 

"So you know them?" Koenma asked, slight amazement in his tone.

 

"I know all three, and know almost everything about them. Though they've probably become more powerful since the last time I saw them. I know Inuyasha has."

 

"Can you tell us what you know of them?" Kurama asked calmly.

 

"Naraku is an amalgamation of several thousand demons. Every so often he'll spread his body thin and rid himself of weak peaces. That's his time of weakness, like the new moon is for Inuyasha. But Naraku can choose his time of weakness. And Kikyo is an undead woman. She lives off the souls of any deceased women, normally human, and she carries almost all of her soul."

 

"Almost all?" The fox demon questioned as he turned to the boy.

 

"Someone else has a piece of it, as it was her soul. But the soul was ripped out and split. Then later ripped out again to give the clay corpse more of it so she could live." Kagome's body was tensed as she spoke. "I know quite a bit about all three that are probably who you're after, but I don't know everything."

 

"I doubt anyone could know everything."

 

"I could... but I don't want to know. I left that life behind, I don't want to go play hero anymore." Kagome said, tears glistening in her eyes.

 

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It didn't take long for the group to return to the apartment building. Souta directed Kagome to her room as he carried Kirara and Hiten. Once inside, he sealed the room with a barrier. Once the outside world was closed away, Kagome allowed her tears to come. Hiten had curled up on the bed with Kirara, both trying to rest from the day. Souta had his arms around his sister, letting her tears soak into his shirt. If any touched the ground, they'd harden into stone.

 

Power slowly encased the girl as she allowed her body to relax against her brother's chest. Silver mist circled through the entire room, and it slowly seeped into everything. Even seeped into the little boy and the small neko. As the miko's eyes closed, one thought came to mind. Please don't let Hiei hate me.

 

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In the western lands of Makai, the king slowly walked through the halls of his palace. It was a place that belonged to his family. He was currently on his way to see his adopted son, a kitsune actually. It was not long before he found the auburn haired young man. His green eyes seemed hard and dull as he looked sadly around the room. "What happened?"

 

"I found Koryu's body." Sesshoumaru's face showed slight surprise and shock at that. "Souten fell through a portal, and Inuyasha followed a little later. I can feel it, she's dead."

 

"And Hiten?"

 

"I'm not sure, but Inuyasha's still in Ningenkai." The young man said as he again sighed.

 

"Then prepare your things, we will leave for Ningenkai." The kitsune looked up and nodded. "Hurry Shippo."

 

"Hai father." The kitsune said softly as he disappeared.

 

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"How did you not know about her past?" Yusuke asked, sounding highly annoyed.

 

"Hn. I didn't ask."

 

"Calm down Yusuke, she didn't want anyone knowing about it."

 

"And how do you know that Keiko?" The man asked as he turned to her.

 

"Aunt Michiko." Her voice was attempting to remain calm. "She told me a little about what was going on. Kagome had fallen in love with someone, and they broke her heart."

 

"No, he betrayed her." Came a silent voice from the hallway. Everyone turned to see Souta standing there, his eyes were sad and his look was angered. "He was my hero, and he betray her like she was nothing. He had even told her he loved her, then he tried to kill her." A sad sigh escaped him. "All for a stupid little jewel."

 

"Jewel?" Kurama questioned.

 

The boy's violet eyes looked up at the man, wariness clearly apparent. "The jewel's no longer important. None of it is." His voice held sadness in it. "She loved him, she did everything for him, and then he asked her to die for him."

 

"Who?" Shizuru asked.

 

"It's not my story to tell." Was his only reply. "I can only give a few details."

 

"I have a question." Everyone turned to Yukina at her quiet statement. "Keiko said that everything started happening when Kagome turned fifteen and stopped when she was sixteen, but Kagome said everything lasted longer than a year. How is that possible?"

 

"That's hard to explain." The boy stated. "While Kagome is supposed to turn twenty this year, she's a lot older than that. She was sent elsewhere, and she used to travel back and forth when she was fifteen, up until her sixteenth birthday. She arrived on her birthday... we thought her sixteenth, but we were wrong." His eyes grew distant as memories of that day played through his mind. Silver blood had dripped from her numerous wounds as sapphire tears slipped past her lids.

 

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She was kneeling at the base of Goshinboku. The place where she had met him. Slowly she rose, so she could press a hand against the bare spot. Power tingled through her hand, and Souta could see the energy transfer. The tree had given her energy. Wanting her to heal. To live. Slowly the silver stopped flowing, but the sapphire continued to pour. She had turned to him, not looking a day over sixteen. Except her eyes, they seemed to hold knowledge. Almost like they were ancient.

 

In truth, they were. The eyes were not her own, they were more mature. More understanding of the world around her. Blue-gray flashed silver as she looked upon him. A small smile tilting her lips, but confusion shown plainly in her eyes. "What year is it?"

 

"1997." Souta said, looking at her curiously.

 

"What day?"

 

"Kagome, you just left last week. Don't you know that?"

 

A slight sigh was her response as she opened her arms for her brother. He ran to her and embraced her tightly. "I have missed you Souta, for I've been gone far longer than you know."

 

"How long?" The boy asked as he looked up at her.

 

"Nine years." Was her simple reply. "Nine long years... the well had sealed itself from me."

 

"What happened?" He asked worriedly.

 

"We lost, he betrayed us. Miroku and Sango... they died. H-he killed my kit... my little boy." Tears were once again coursing down her face. "We did it though. It's forever mine now." And she passed out. A few little blue stones sat on the ground. Souta quickly picked them up, pocketed them, and moved to get help. First, he'd wash the silvery liquid off of her. Her blood. Then he'd have his mother help him get her to her room.

 

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"You mean she was trapped wherever for nine years, and the Ningenkai froze in time." Kuwabara asked.

 

"In a way, I suppose. Kagome should actually be thirty-one, but she's stuck looking sixteen." Souta said as the memories continued to play through his mind. "It was shortly after her return that she started training me. First to use my powers, then to wield slayer weapons. I am fully trained in shugendo."

 

"What all is Kagome trained in?" Keiko asked.

 

"She favors swordsmanship and kyudo."

 

"What's kyudo?" Kuwabara asked.

 

"The way of the bow. She's become an excellent marksman, she can hit a bulls-eye at 500 feet away. An almost impossible shot if you ask me. Of course, her sword handling is amazing. She was taught both battojutsu and kenjutsu. As well as techniques to manipulate the sword's aura as well as her own. She was also trained in hand-to-hand combat."

 

"What was she trained for?" Kuwabara asked.

 

"Becoming a demon exterminator. Her friends helped in her training. The demons tested her endurance and agility while her human friends tested her skill. All of her friends brought with them various varieties of skills. Such as different weaponry. One favored the staff, while another the hiraikotsu. Most all could use a sword, one brought forth the whip, another tested her speed, and one even tested her magic. She's been trained harshly, taught to kill without mercy. Though she's only killed those that she had to. Her powers are strong, I've never truly felt them because they automatically shield themselves when they rise."

 

"So you don't know how powerful she actually is?" Kurama asked.

 

His answer was a smile. "No one does."

 

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I hope you enjoyed this lol! I'm really tired now, so I'm going to bed!

 

But first, I'd like to thank everyone who read and reviewed the previous chapter(s).