Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Shadow Riders ❯ Discoveries ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3~ Discoveries

School had ended, and Kagome invited everyone to cherry grove. 'Hiei, I need to know if the others know you and Kurama are youkai.'

'Hai they know, why?'

'Because I'm going to bring everything out to the open, including my story.' "Ok guys, I want to know your story. How did a fire apparition, a kitsune, my cousin, and an idiot come together, and why?"

They gaped at her, "How did you know about Kurama and Hiei?"

"You tell your story and I'll tell mine, also why are you at my school?"

40 minutes later

"Hn, well, to begin with, you were looking for me. Come on out Shando." Shan emerged from her body taking on the form of a black kitten and stood on Kagome's shoulder. On her forehead, the black cat appeared. "For another, I'm a miko and the guardian of the Shikon no tama." She then launched into the story of Inuyasha and the well.

An hour later.

"Hey Kagome, can we come back with you?" Yusuke asked.

Kagome looked surprised, "What, you mean now?" They nodded, "Ok, but first you need to pack, and I need to remove the spell from the well, you will need to pack for a couple of months, I don't know when we'll be able to get back. Meet me at the shrine in an hour."

They nodded and headed off. Kagome explained that she would be going back early with friends and removed the time spell from the well. She then went to her room and packed; including several weeks' worth of food, bathing stuff, change of clothes, chocolate, and first aid kit. 'I do not want to lug this around,' she thought eyeing her pack.

'Then don't, just shrink it and make it into another charm on your bracelet.' Shando said.

'Great idea, I'm going to wear a headband, I want you to be out in the open so that Inuyasha doesn't attack you when you guard me at night ok?' She said while attaching the new charms to her bracelet, she had also shrunk her black sleeping bag.

He just nodded and turned into a snake. Wrapping himself around her neck like a necklace, his head resting on the Shikon, the only thing near her that was not black or silver. The doorbell rang, and Kagome took the Spirit Detectives to the well. "Yusuke, you did tell Koenma that you would be gone for a while right?" Kagome asked.

"Ahh, well. I'll do it now." He took out his communicator, and told Koenma about their plans.

"Fine Yusuke, but take Boton with you." With that said, he disappeared from the screen, and Boton stepped out of the portal and into the well house.

"Come on guys, let's go." They formed a chain, and Kagome jumped followed by the other. They were surrounded by a warm blue glow, and when Kagome touched bottom, she jumped out to avoid be squashed by the others.

"Oww!'

"Get off me!!"

"Please remove your foot from my face."

"Yusuke, get off me."

"Hn."

Kagome burst out laughing and couldn't stop until everyone was out of the well. Kagome was about to apologize, when she was tackled from behind.

"Okaasan, I missed you, you were gone so long. Don't leave me ever again ok?" Shippo gushed. He was sitting on Kagome's stomach and she was lying on her back.

"Shippo-chan, I missed you to." She handed him a chocolate bar and asked, "Where's Inuyasha? I wanted to thank him for not coming after me."

It was then that the Spirit Detectives snapped out of their daze and Yusuke yelled, "You're a mother?!?!?!?"

Kagome sweat dropped, Shippo jumped in front of her in a protective manner and growled low in his throat, "I'll protect you kaasan."

"Wait, wait. Shippo, these are my friends, Kurama, Kuwabara, Boton, and Hiei. This is my cousin Yusuke, and Yusuke he's my adopted pup, his dad was killed by the thunder brothers." While Kagome made introductions, Sango, Kirara, and Miroku rushed to the well and engulfed her in a warm embrace. Shando stayed still for the moment.

"Miroku, Sango, Kirara! I missed you guys, how's everything been? Sorry I was gone so long, oh, these are my friends." Introductions were made once again, and then, Inuyasha decided to show up.

"It's about time you got back wench we have shards to look for."

"It's nice to see you too Inuyasha." Kagome said sarcastically. "I'd like you to meet some of my friends. This is Hiei, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Boton. The one in the green is my cousin Yusuke."

"I don't care bitch, take them back. We have work to do this is not a social gathering. And what the hell is that around your neck?"

Kagome was pissed, Hiei was pissed, Yusuke was pissed, hell, everyone was pissed. But before anyone could do anything, Shando leapt from Kagome's neck transforming into his large cat form and hissed evilly at him while pinning him to the ground. 'Kagome, tell him he is never to speak to you that way again upon penalty of death. No one speaks to my chosen that way.'

"Inuyasha, Shando says not to talk to me like that or he will kill you. He's very protective of me."

'I second that notion.' Hiei said to her.

Kagome smiled, "Come on Shan, I want to introduce you to my son and my friends." Shan reverted to his kitten form and trotted over to Kagome. Inuyasha picked himself off the ground and charged Shan drawing the Tessiaga. As he was about to slice him in half, he was stopped, by Kagome's blade.

"You should know better than to attack a Rider's Shadow Inuyasha. Do it again, and it will be your head." Everyone stood shocked, except for Hiei and Shando.

The Spirit Detectives were amazed that their sweet Kagome was actually threatening someone. The Inuyasha gang was amazed at Kagome's speed and battle prowess. But what amazed Sango and Miroku the most was discovering that Kagome was a Rider.

"Do you understand Inuyasha?" Kagome asked while pressing her blade harder to his neck and drawing blood. She was pissed, Shan was hers, and he had the audacity to try and take him away.

"Ha-Hai, Kagome." Inuyasha was shocked, he never thought Kagome would ever try to hurt him, even if she tried he could defeat her easily, after all, she's just a weak bitch, right? Right? She released him and walked over to Shan, "Are you all right Shan? He didn't hurt you or anything did he?" Kagome crooned while picking him up. He purred and melted back into her. She sighed in contentment. It felt right having Shan in her. She felt more complete than she had since her soul was split.

Shan growled, 'I will get your soul back for you Chosen, no one has the right to take it from you.' He was pissed that some ashtray had taken his chosen's soul. Only he was supposed to have access to her soul, he was her guardian, and that meant soul and body.

Inuyasha slid to the ground clutching his neck, 'She hurt me, I couldn't even move! Maybe she's stronger than I thought, but she's still not Kikyo.'

Kagome sighed again, she had 'heard' what Inuyasha was thinking. 'Act on it.' Shan said, 'React to what he thought, let him know you can read his mind, you are not that bitch's reincarnation, you are my other half. That means you were created when I was. I have remained unbonded for nearly a thousand years, waiting for you to be born into the world. Your soul is your own and has belonged to no one else. You are more than she could ever be. You are more than he is.'

'Thanks Shan, I really needed that.' "You know what Inuyasha, you're right, I'm not Kikyo, I'm not her reincarnation, and I'm not as weak as her. I am a Rider, that means I am one part of one entity. It means, that I am older than Kikyo, that I am more than she could ever hope to be. And you know what else, I've been selfish. I've let her keep that part of my soul, so that you would be happy, and in turn, I would be happy. I haven't thought how having part of our soul missing is effecting Shan. I think, that it's time to take it back." With that, Kagome's aura erupted from her body, it traveled miles away, and when it came back, it brought Kikyo with it.

"What's the meaning of this incarnate? Do you think to challenge me? Do you think that you, an untrained girl, would have the power to even defend yourself against me?" Kikyo asked in a deadly calm voice.

"No, I don't think I have the power to defeat you," at this Kikyo smirked in triumph, and drew her bow. "I know I have the power to defeat you, and much more." With that, Kikyo released her arrow, it took on an evil black aura and came streaming directly at Kagome.

"No, Kagome!!" Miroku, Shippo, and Sango shouted, only to be stopped short when Kagome caught the arrow. It disintegrated in her hand.

Kagome took the katana off her bracelet and let everyone watch as it transformed into its full size. "You see Kikyo, I am not your reincarnation," Shan leapt out of her body in his large neko form and roared. Kagome leapt onto his back and they took off in the air, "I am a Rider!" She ran Kikyo through purifying all the stolen souls including her own, and reverting Kikyo to a pile of ash.

They landed and watched as all the stolen souls evacuated her body in a joyous burst of bright silver light. Then, last of all Kagome's soul shoot at her and Shan, engulfing them in a pure silver light, then receding into their bodies. Shan then melded back into Kagome. Her aura flared around her and the Shikon shards around her neck flared and became as silver as her aura. Kagome stood there calmly with the blade poised before her pointed down. Her aura calmed, and she returned her katana to the bracelet.

She walked over to where all her friends, excluding Inuyasha, were standing, "Are you all right?" She asked, obvious worry in her voice. They nodded, she smiled brightly, turned to Hiei, then collapsed into his arms. She needed time to assimilate the rush of power that had come with the completion of her soul, and the first true joining between her and Shan.

Hiei cradled her in his arms jumped into the forest, he ran until he found a grove of cherry trees and leaped into the tallest ones branches. He than situated himself comfortably with Kagome in his lap. He too, eventually fell asleep, but kept a thorough vigil in case anything got too close.

~^~^~Kagome's Dream~^~^~

She was in the abandoned cherry grove where she sparred with Hiei, Shan laying next to her while she just looked up at the stars.

"You know, it feels nice to just watch the stars. To just lay and relax." 'The only thing missing is Hiei.'

'I'm right here.' He said as he jumped out of the tree she was laying under. She smiled up at him and patted the spot next to her, inviting him to join her.

He sat next to her and she put her head in his lap. He was shocked, but didn't want her to move so he asked, "Where are we?"

"My dream," she said simply. "I come here to relax, I feel safe here because this is where I first met you. This might sound weird, but I feel safe with you, like nothing can hurt me." She sighed, but she was quite content.

'There is only one way this could be better.' Kagome thought.

"Really, what's that?" Hiei asked. He had a sneaking suspicion that she wanted the hanyou there. For some reason a knot formed in his stomach at that thought, a knot of pain and.Jealousy!?!?!?!?!

Kagome started, she hadn't meant to think that out loud. "I-I was just imagining being held in your arms." Kagome blushed, she had said the last so low that if Hiei hadn't been a demon, he wouldn't have heard, and so fast, that if he hadn't been who he was, he wouldn't have understood a word she said.

When what she said finally registered in his mind, he felt a rush of warmth that drowned out everything else. Without a word, Hiei pulled her into his lap, and leaned against the tree. He wrapped his arms around her waist as she leaned into his embrace.

He was so happy to have her in his arms, that at first he didn't notice that Kagome was staring at him. He looked into her eyes, and on sudden impulse, closed the distance between them and captured her lips with his in a passionate kiss. Kagome moaned, and ran her tongue across Hiei's lips, pulling him closer to her. Hiei was about to respond, but was jolted awake by the sound of a very rude hanyou yelling up at him, Kagome too, began to stir in his arms.

AN: God, I keep forgetting to do this, I do not own Inuyasha or YYH. This is my disclaimer for the story.