Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inner Demons ❯ Sariyashiki High ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter Three

Sarayashiki High

 

Wearing her new school uniform, Kagome walked down the stairs. Souta was already finishing off his breakfast of Frosted Flakes. She walked over to the cabinet, grabbed a bowl and glass, and placed them on the table before grabbing a box of Cheerios and the milk. She filled up her bowl with the cereal and milk then poured orange juice in her glass before digging into her breakfast.

“Nervous?” Souta asked as he put his bowl in the sink to wash.

“A bit,” she replied around a mouthful of Cheerios. “I'm going to return to the past after school,” she added as an after thought.

“Aww, but you haven't been here all that long!” Souta protested.

“You know I have responsibilities there.” she looked at her younger brother.

“I know, I just wish you could stay here longer than a week or so at a time.” Kagome downed her orange juice and practically inhaled the rest of her breakfast and placed them in the sink.

“I know you do,” she said quietly. They both grabbed their shoes and bags then headed out the door for school after saying good-bye to their mother. After dropping Souta off Kagome made her way to her new school, she just knew that her grades were going to suffer and she'd be expelled! A groan passed her lips as she rubbed her temples thinking of the reason why her grades suffered.

`Now I find out that Youkai reside in my era as well!' she thought. No matter where she went, the shards would never be safe. Kagome paused and looked out at the school grounds, teens headed inside while talking a mile a minute. She smiled, so what if she wasn't really normal? She could act like it for a day. Heading inside she proceeded to the front desk to get her schedule. Her steps quickened when she realized that she only had three minutes to find the front desk and get her schedule! Someone latched onto her arm spinning her around from the momentum. Kagome opened her mouth, ready to scold the person who dare stall her when a laugh erupted from the male who relinquished his hold on her.

“What is so…” Kagome didn't finish her sentence when she saw Yusuke standing next to her.

“I think `funny' is the word you're looking for,” he grinned. Kagome placed her hands on her hips.

“Ha ha ha,” she drawled. “So, why did you stop me?” she asked.

“You're looking for the front desk right?” he countered her question with one of his own.

“Yes,” she replied.

“Thought so,” he murmured. “You're going the wrong way,” Yusuke pointed out.

“Oh,” was her oh so brilliant reply. She rubbed the back of her neck.

“I'll show you where it is,” he said.

“Thanks,” Kagome smiled and followed him. Looking him over, Kagome noticed that instead of the required blue, Yusuke wore a green uniform. Not only did he look rebellious, he acted like it too. Upon retrieving her schedule, he showed her to her first class then they departed ways. She'd see him in the next period though; they had a few periods together. Lunch finally rolled around, Kagome scanned the lunchroom for the familiar dark haired teen, but didn't find him. She walked out of the doors that lead to the school grounds. She had wanted to ask Yusuke if he wanted to join her outside, but since she was unable to locate him it seemed she'd be eating alone. Kagome was thankful that the chill wind, which had blown through the previous night, had settled down.

“Right here right now!” a voice bellowed followed by a good natured laugh.

“I think that something got knocked loose in there!”

“Hey!” Kagome looked over to the oak tree to find Yusuke and Kuwabara arguing, Yusuke looked as if he was enjoying it! Yusuke side-stepped as Kuwabara threw a punch at him, Yusuke counter attacked with a knee to the gut. He soon found himself locked in a head lock courtesy of Kuwabara. Both were grinning, that's when they noticed they had an audience, who was trying not to laugh. Kuwabara, noticing his friend's attention was solely on the girl, suddenly released Yusuke letting him fall to the ground in a heap. Kagome bit her bottom lip in an attempt to keep her laughter to keep from spilling out. Yusuke pulled himself and crossed his arms trying to keep what little dignity he had left. After a face plant like that, because he had been distracted, there wasn't much left to save. Kagome remembered back when Kayla had warned her about the two bullies of the school. Sure, they looked punkish, but beyond that they acted like normal teenage boys wrestling around with each other.

“Hey Kagome,” Yusuke greeted, His cocky grin reminded her faintly of a certain hanyou.

“Hey,” she replied. Kuwabara, since she was distracted by Yusuke, took that moment to discern her aura. A pink aura emitted from the young woman, but it wasn't normal spirit energy. It was holy, no…not holy…pure! He had thought that they had been mistaken about her aura when they first met her, but this proved it. Her energy was pure, inside and out. Suddenly the aura flared out for a moment before reeling back in, however the sudden burst sent Kuwabara and Yusuke stumbling backwards. Yusuke's enhance hearing picked up the sound of screams, a youkai was attacking. Kagome glanced at the clock with a small sigh of frustration. With a small smile she turned and ran inside dumping her untouched food in the trash on her way.

“What is it Urameshi?” Kuwabara questioned as he looked at Kagome's retreating back.

“Youkai,” he replied simply. Both young men ran off the school grounds to where the attack was taking place. “Damn, there are too many people around!” Yusuke cursed. The youkai was a large oni. Kuwabara started to run at it, when he ran between its legs he summoned his spirit swords and slashed at its legs, called his energy back, and kept on running. Yusuke ran at the large thing, jumped up, and gave it a nice kick in the gut. The youkai growled and chased after them, unknowingly doing just what they want. Once all three were out of sight the oni was greeted with a Rei Gun blast. It roared in pain and anger then slashed blindly at the two. Yusuke jumped over the large clawed hand that came swiping at him and Kuwabara ducked. Yusuke backed up as Kuwabara ran over to the back of the oni. Both readied their attacks, when they were about to strike Kuwabara was knocked into a tree. The large hand of the oni collided with Yusuke in that moment of distraction. His vision swam, three oni were now in the clearing each of varying color.

`Isn't this perfect,' he thought sourly as he stood. Kuwabara groaned and rubbed the back of his head.

“It seems this isn't going to be so easy,” he muttered.

“Well that just means we're going to have to kick it up a notch!” Yusuke grinned at the aspect of a good fight. Kuwabara nodded and summoned his double spirit swords. When the oni thought it would be funny to try and squash them like ants is when it became rather frustrating. Instead of concentrating on killing them, they had to worry about being squashed! If there was one more person to help then each youkai would be distracted by one of them. `It wouldn't be so hard!' Yusuke thought bitterly. One thing he hated about oni was they loved to travel in packs to make it harder for those trying to kill them. As if reading his thoughts, someone ran between the green youkai's legs. The sound of a bow being strung reached his ears before the sound of it flying through the air became known.

“What are you two dopes standing around for?” the woman bit out. “Deal with the other two!” Once arrows became useless, the woman resorted to using a katana. Blood splattered everywhere when Kuwabara cut the blue oni's right leg sending it tumbling to the ground. Jumping onto it, Kuwabara drove his swords through its back. One down, two to go. Yusuke's was the next down after a Rei-gun blast to the forehead. Lastly was the green oni, neither had paid any attention to how she killed it. She sat on the ground near them panting. They were able to get a good look at her. Her long black hair was pulled into a high ponytail and her cerulean blue orbs were currently hidden from view under her thick eyelashes. She wore an outfit that certainly raised suspicion. It was a black bodysuit with forest green trimming around the neck. Her armor was the same forest green and was trimmed with red reminding the teens of Christmas. Covering the lower part of her face was a silver mask of sorts that was held in place with the same red fabric her sash was made out of. Around her neck was a silver chain with a small blue feather, about the size of Yusuke's thumb, on the end of it. She drew a knee up and placed a hand on it while placing her katana to the side next to her discarded bow and arrows. Yusuke tried to place her aura, but for some reason it came as a mixed signal not giving him any idea as to who or what she was. Before either could ask her anything she stood and went over to the green oni and picked something up. Both felt a strong wave of power before it seemingly vanished from thin air.

“Who the hell are you?” Yusuke asked gruffly. The woman turned to him with a small laugh.

“Wouldn't you like to know?” she teased before turning around once more. “Look, I just came because I didn't feel like seeing you two flattened like pancakes.”

“Hey!” both men shouted.

“Oni youkai aren't stupid and I'm not saying you two are either. You're just lucky that help came to deal with the third oni,” she sighed. The woman turned to them and looked at them in thought. She started to pull something from a hidden pocket in her sash causing both men to stand on guard. “Relax,” she put up a hand as she pulled out a small flute on a chain. “If you ever find yourself in a fix like this again, just blow into this flute. It won't sound like anything to you, but I will come and assist you wherever you may be,” she said and handed Yusuke the flute. “It only reacts to the touch of a youkai, so only then will it work.”

“Why are you giving me this?” Yusuke questioned. He was also curious about how she knew he was a youkai!

“Just as I said, I'll come and help. I don't doubt that you'd be able to handle youkai, but think of it as a last resort it you will,” she winked and took off avoiding any further questions.

 

Through the sea of black, a red headed young man was visible walking along the crowded sidewalk. His emerald eyes were calculating to anyone who would look into them, looking past that you would see wisdom that only comes with age. He seemed normal enough, but if you knew him you'd know otherwise. Shuichi Minaminow is no ordinary teenage boy, although that is the façade he encourages throughout a daily basis. He, along with the other Rekai Tantei, were released from their duties as Rekai Tantei. A five hundred year old spirit Kitsune had taken up residence within him before his birth. Shuichi is the lenient human soul, Youko is the spirit kitsune soul. They merged halfway creating Kurama. He was a sweet boy who works hard and is concerned for his mother's well-being. Yet, in battle, he has an eerie calm and would kill without a second thought if the time called for it. To some adults, he seems older than he really is….they don't know how close to the truth they are. He walked into a bookstore casually not really placing what seemed to draw him to come.

`Face it, you're as bored as we are,' Youko, the spirit kitsune, grumbled. Kurama pointedly ignored Youko as he continued to look among the shelves of books. He walked toward the back of the store; a few old books cluttered the shelves. `They look to be almost as old as I am. Don't start…' Youko warned his counterparts, his tail twitching in annoyance. Kurama kneeled down, knowing that Youko wasn't entirely happy about being ignored, and barely touched an old book when a jolt ran through him. He fell back onto his rump. `What the hell was that?'

`I'm not certain, I felt a strong type of energy emitting from it before,' Shuichi finally spoke up for the first time in days.

`Heh, `bout time you spoke up. I thought you'd died or something,' Youko baited the human part of the soul.

`Will the two of you not start?' Kurama snapped as he went to touch the book again. This time he was able to pick it up without any problems.

`That's odd, it should have had the same reaction as before,' Shuichi pondered.

`For once, I agree. Unless we were imagining things…'

`I doubt we were imagining anything. I felt that jolt; I know it came from the book. Why it isn't reacting now…I wish I knew,' Kurama sighed.

`Maybe we should take it home for inspection,' Shuichi suggested.

`That's a good idea,' Kurama agreed and felt Youko nod his head. He went to the front and paid for it and left the store. He stopped momentarily and brushed the dust off of the cover. In bold, golden cursive writing the title shone bright as day.

`A Feudal Fairy Tale'

 

As soon as she arrived home, Kagome quickly changed into her sky blue kimono and sapphire obi. She grabbed her backpack and headed downstairs.

“Returning to the Feudal Era already?” Kun-loon questioned.

“Yeah,” Kagome replied with a lopsided smile. “If I don't return soon then Inuyasha will be here to drag me back.”

“Are you certain you have everything?”

“Yes, I packed last night after double checking everything.”

“All right then, return to us soon.” Kun-loon embraced her daughter.

“I will,” Kagome said. She headed out the door, after slipping her shoes on, and headed to the well house. Inside of which, held the Bone Eaters well. Looking back briefly, she closed the door to the well house and jumped inside of the Bone Eaters well letting the blue light engulf her. When the light vanished, Kagome was no longer to be seen.

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