Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Follow Fate ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

What the Heart Knows
By JD

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Helen Keller

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I never will and you know it. I have no money so if you sue me you won't get anything.

AN: For those who reviewed, thanks! Finally I brought in the Yu Yu Hakusho part of the story. Hope you Enjoy!

Chapter Four (Training and Yusuke's cousin)

Kagome had arrived back at the shrine, in her old room. But she still had not awoken. If her mother were to come in at this moment, she would have fainted on the spot.

Kagome was currently floating at least two feet off of her bed. A white light surrounded her, engulfing her in its warmth.

At first glance, it would seem to be the normal Kagome. But if you looked closer, you could see the tiny changes starting to happen. Her fingernails were growing longer, into claws, her hair was growing steadily, already past her waist, her unseen blue eyes turned a brighter shade, almost silver, and light blue markings appeared on her face and through her newly grown hair. Her body became more curvaceous, full. Marks began to appear on her arms, and the last final change was the silver crescent moon with a tear drop in the middle on her forehead. Her transformation was complete. The jewel was now her soul, she was now a kitsune youkai.

Kagome once again opened her eyes. This time though, she was in an unfamiliar field. There were flowers everywhere. She was currently sitting up, her back propped up against a tree trunk.

Kagome looked up to see sakura blossoms spread over the braches of the tree, her favorite flowers.

One of the flowers broke off and gently glided downward in a spiral until it landed on one of Kagome's legs. She picked it up and smelled it. It smelt wonderful, sweet, relaxing. She closed her eyes at the relaxing feeling. When she opened them back up, there stood Midoriko in the middle of the field, as if she was waiting for Kagome.

Kagome got up slowly, though, she didn't want to move from the comforting position. She walked carefully to Midoriko, almost hesitantly.

Midoriko watched as she approached, doing her best to keep herself from running to Kagome and hugging her. The same walk as her father, the same demeanor, the same grace. Her heart ached at the sight of it but she quickly shook those thoughts out of her head.

"Hello again Kagome."

Kagome nodded, not sure why she was here.

"Ah, I see you haven't noticed your new changes."

Changes? Kagome looked at her hands and noticed the markings on them, and that her hands now possessed claws. More shocking was that she was actually taller than Midorkiko now.

She than noticed her hair, it was longer, obscenely longer than it should have been. It reached her ankles now, she than also noticed the light blue streaks in them.

"I don't understand, am I a hanyou now?"

"No Kagome, your are a full blooded kitsune youkai. Inuyasha had made the wish for you to be who you really wanted to be. When the jewel granted the wish, you told it that you wanted to be youkai, so you could protect others and the jewel and become a real mother to Shippo."

Kagome now understood. She had always had dreams about being youkai. What it was like and how Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru felt. Kagome loved her new self. She looked different but she was still the same person, that was all that mattered.

"I just can't believe it, I'm youkai."

Midoriko smiled. "Yes. That is why I will be training you Kagome."

"Training me?"

"Yes. You never did finish your miko training. With you being youkai now you will have a lot more power to learn to control. I will help you with your miko abilities and the first soul of the shikon no tama will help you with your youkai skills."

Kagome nodded. "Okay, I understand."

"Good. We will start now and go over the basics to see what you've learned."

"But when will I wake up, and where is my body right now."

"It's in your home, in your room. No one can go in their unless they have a large amount of spirit energy. Your body will not be harmed. You will probably be here for at least four months, but in your time that will only be one day."

Kagome nodded. "Okay." Wow. Only one day. Time most go by really fast in the Shikon no Tama, she thought to herself. I still can't believe I'm in here. I wonder what Sango and Miroku are doing. I wonder what Inuyasha is doing.

Kagome was brought out of her thoughts when Midoriko spoke.

"Shall we proceed?"

Kagome nodded and so they started training. In the back of her mind Midoriko felt the evil presence growing in Kagome's time.

We do not have much time, I must hurry, she thought earnestly to herself.

At Koenma's palace

"What do you want Koenma. I'm busy you know." Yusuke said, in half annoyance.

"Yeah, he was busy making out with Keiko when I found him." Botan said in a teasing voice.

"Shut up Botan." Yusuke retorted.

"All of you be quiet." Koenma looked edgy, scared almost.

"Hey what's the matter brat, you did something wrong again." Yusuke asked.

"No! There has been a disturbance in the demon world once again."

"Yeah? What happened? Demons trying to get out?" Yusuke said in a bored tone.

"No, much worst. The king of the Demon world, you may know him as Hades, has suddenly started to round up demons, lots of demons."

"Hades? You mean from hell? If we have to fight him you can count me out, I don't want to die early." Kuabaru said.

By now the spirit detectives couldn't be surprised by anything. Koenma being related to Zeus was just one of the weird things that happened.

"You would chicken out first." Hiei retorted at Kuabaru.

"Shut up shrimp, I bet your as scared as I am." Kuabaru said.

"That is very interesting. I have never known the king of Demon world to interfere with other things than the dead. He is after all a legend to some demons who don't know the truth because he was never seen. Why would he start now? Do you know what he is planning to do Prince Koenma?" Kurama asked.

"I've been trying to find that out all day, but the demons that work for him are loyal or are just plain to scared to tell. I wouldn't blame him. Even I'm scared of my Uncle.” Koenma answered.

"Your Uncle! Your uncle is the devil. You sure have a messed up family line." Yusuke said.

"Shut your mouth Yusuke, my aunt was tricked into marrying him okay. He betrayed her in the end. Her husband's brother was so mad that he sent his own brother to hell, trapping him there."

"You mean Zeus right?" Kurama asked.

"Yes he's my uncle too."

“See you do have a strange family tree. The mightiest of all gods is your uncle and you're a puny little baby. Gee, it's hard to imagine your related.” Yusuke said.

Out of no where a pacifier hit Yusuke in his head. “HEY!!”

“I'll pretend I didn't hear that Yusuke.” Koenma gave him a hard glare before continuing.

Yusuke rubbed his head glaring back at Koenma before shutting up.

"Do we have any other clues?" Botan asked.

"All we know that it is linked to one girl that lives in your city Yusuke. You may know her."

"Yeah right. Yusuke doesn't know any other girl other than Keiko." Kuabaru replied.

He was rewarded with a hit in the head by Yusuke.

"Do you have a name or a picture?" Kurama asked.

"Yes we managed to get one picture. She lives in a shrine with her brother, grandpa, and mother."

That sounds almost like Kagome, Yusuke thought.

“Here's a picture of her.” Koenma said, pointing to the screen to his right.

Kuabaru's jaw dropped, Kurama looked surprised, Youko was pleased with her beauty, and Hiei looked indifferent but too was shocked at her beauty. But Yusuke was the most affected.

No. How could she be affected in this? She's just a normal human, he thought desperately.

Yusuke was very protective of his cousin Kagome. They used to be very close when they were younger. He had helped her get over her father deaths. There was no way she was involved.

"You definitely don't know this girl Yusuke, she's too pretty to know you. " Kuabaru replied.

Kurama didn't know about that. There was a slight confusion etched in Yusuke's features.

I wonder if he knows her, Kurama thought.

If he does, I'm going to kill him for not introducing her to me sooner, Youko replied mentally.

What are you thinking Youko? But before Kurama realized what he had asked and had a chance to take it back, he was assaulted the naughty things Youko's corrupted mind always contained.

Okay! You can stop. Is that all on your mind Youko? Wait don't answer that.

Kurama was pulled out of his thought when Koenma started talking.

"So Yusuke do you know her, for we have to find her. She may know more than we do and we need info." Koenma.

"Yeah I know."

"She's my cousin."

"She's your cousin?" Everyone yelled at the same time.

"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Yusuke said.

"Yeah, your so ugly and she's so pretty?" Kuabaru said and was rewarded with a harder hit on the head.

"He will never learn, will he?" Botan said.

"The day he learns, is the day I smile." Hiei said.

Kurama chuckled along with Botan.

"What does she have to do with this Koenma. I don't want to get her involved."

Everyone was a again surprised at how protective Yusuke was of this girl. Yusuke was never really open about his family, not that the others were.

"What? I can't be protective?" Yusuke challenged.

"I don't know what exactly she has to do with this but that she knows something about the shikon jewel. We just know that she was involved. Who do you think we got this picture from? We caught a demon and he had it with them." Koenma said.

Hiei was surprised. The shikon jewel. I would like to meet this girl.

Kurama and Youko was thinking along the same lines. I have seen the jewel before. It's exquisite though I could never get near it with out being afraid of getting purified by mikos. Youko said. Kurama nodded mentally at this info.

Yusuke sighed. There was just no way out of this. He would just have to go see Kagome and prove that she has nothing to do with this.

"Fine, we'll go see her right now." Yusuke said.

"What's her name Yusuke?" Botan asked.

"Her name is Higurashi... Kagome Hirgurashi."

R&R!