The Shikon's Mistake Chapter 1: The Grand Mistake, an Inuyasha + Naruto Crossover fanfic

Re-written: Jan. 13, 2009

Hey guys. I'm back. This is just a little something I came up with, so if I get a good number of reviews and I feel like continuing this, I'll write a new chapter. This was just upon a small whim of mine. I might continue if I get 30 or 40 reviews. No flames, please.

Summary: The Shikon Jewel made a mistake. A big mistake. When Kagome wishes for someone to love her for herself, the Jewel gave her not a warm, cuddly teddybear, but an emotionless, cold-hearted killer.

The Shikon's Mistake

Ch. 1

The Grand Mistake

It was a quiet, peaceful night in the Sengoku Jidai. The sky was dark blue, almost to the point of sheer black, and flurries of tiny stars were scattered across the great expanse of blue night. There was a full moon out, contrasting proudly against the dark sky, glowing luminous white against deep black.

Kagome, a very special seventeen-year old girl who had the ability to travel through time, sat quietly on the edge of the Bone-Eater's Well, contemplating the various things that had happened in her unbelievable adventures in the Sengoku Jidai. But as the months passed, she began to feel like a third wheel, someone who wasn't needed. Someone who had no place in the Sengoku Jidai.

Inuyasha may have been her crush once upon a time, but that sweet dream slowly slipped away with each passing day, for he had been seeing Kikyo almost every night. Kikyo was Inuyasha's lover before she died, but even during her undead life, she still harbored feelings for the half-demon. So Kagome was letting him go.

Miroku and Sango were unofficially an item, but they were become close. Miroku had already asked Sango to marry him after Naraku's reign was over, and to bear his children. She had agreed, although slapped away his wandering hand a few times during the proposal. Shippo, the little orphan fox demon, was like her son, but Kagome knew that once Naraku was dead, she would have to go back to her own era. She would never see him again if she did, unless he was still alive in Tokyo without her knowing.

Sighing softly, one hand slipped down to the clear glass bottle around her neck, fingering it quietly. The sparkling pink shards inside the bottle were some fragments of the powerful Shikon no Tama, a jewel created as a result of Midoriko combining her soul with a demon's and expelling it from her body.

The pretty, pink shards glowed at her merrily from inside the bottle. She stared at them, and began to think wistfully, Even if it's broken, even though its pieces are scattered all around Japan, can the Shikon still grant wishes?

She made a split-second decision. It wouldn't hurt to try, would it? WRONG. Oh, if only she knew how much this one curious thought would change her life.

Grasping the bottle with both hands, she closed her eyes and began to wish with all her might.

I wish that one day I would be able to find love. Someone who sees me for me, not anyone else, an imitation of anyone else, or merely just a tool to use and throw away when I'm useless. I wish for someone who is special in his own way, without taint. I want someone who is able to love me. I want someone who I am able to love without being betrayed. I want someone who can comfort me when I cry. I want someone I can lean on when situations are harsh. I want someone who is able to protect me when I need him to. I want love. Please, if you are listening to me, grant my wish.

When her eyes opened, nothing had happened, so Kagome shrugged. She wasn't too bitter about the fact that it didn't work, considering that the Shikon wasn't whole.

Suddenly, to her surprise, the Shikon shards began to glow a brilliant pink. A light burst out of the bottle and hovered in front of her. The ball of light then elongated, stretching wider and taller until it had formed a human shape. When the glow faded, Kagome realized that a young man had materialized in front of her, around eighteen years old.

They both stared at each other, shocked by the outcome of the events. Kagome noticed that the man's eyes were a hypnotic red, with three strange black commas inside of the eye, connected by a thin circle. But right now her mind was preoccupied with a single, miniscule thought.

It . . . actually . . . worked?

After minutes of tense silence and intense staring, the young man spoke up in a deep voice.

"Where am I?"

Uchiha Itachi. A renowned S-class shinobi who had killed off his entire clan in a single night and fled Konoha afterwards. He had joined the criminal organization Akatsuki in hope of escaping Orochimaru's clutches, for the insane snake sannin had wanted his fully-developed Sharingan. Partnered up with a scary-looking human-shark hybrid, he performed certain missions and was sent to track down and bring back the jinchuuriki of the strongest Bijuu alive, the infamous Kyuubi no Kitsune.

Currently he was lounging around on his bed in the Akatsuki quarters, bored out of his mind because there weren't any missions for him and Fishhead at the moment. The base was relatively quiet for once, instead of the usual distant sounds of Deidara blowing things up with his unusual exploding clay or Hidan shouting vulgar things from his room while performing his Jashin ritual.

Sighing, he rolled over and sat up. This wasn't right. He should be out doing missions with Kisame, not sitting around on his ass while waiting for the leader to call them to his office. He stood up and snatched his Akatsuki cloak off a nearby chair, throwing it around himself and buttoning up the front. Opening the door, he strode down the hallway at a brisk pace.

Itachi stopped in front of a large door that was the entrance to the leader's quarters. He knocked twice and spoke, "Leader-sama, I request a –"

Just then a shining pink and purple light surrounded his entire body and soft words echoed through his mind.

Just then Kisame came upon him and asked, "Whoa, Itachi-san, is that some new jutsu you –"

Itachi never got to hear the rest of Kisame's sentence, for his surroundings turned into a flurry of colors and he was whisked away from the shinobi world in a blur. He felt the brief sensation of floating through water, and then he felt as though he were flying. His surroundings turned into a tunnel of pink light that he hurtled through at the speed of light. Finally, he came to the end of the tunnel and landed on his feet, in front of a startled seventeen-year old girl with long black hair and wide blue eyes.

He stared at her, noting with interest the bright pink glow emanating from her hands in the form of a small glass bottle with small pink shards contained within it. The shards' glow died down, leaving them to stare at one another in tense silence.

At last Itachi grew tired to this staring contest and spoke to the girl, snapping her out of her stupor, "Where am I?"

The girl blinked once before his words registered in her head. "O-oh, I'm sorry," she said nervously. "Um, I summoned you here on accident with the broken Shikon shards, so you're here in the Sengoku Jidai of a country known as Japan."

Itachi contemplated on answering with his usual "Hn", but then decided against it. If this girl had the power to summon him to her, someone she didn't even know, from a different dimension she must be very powerful indeed. When she took her hands away from the bottle and let it hang from her neck, Itachi shivered at the subtle aura of power the shards emitted. Those shards were on par with the Kyuubi no Kitsune himself!

Suddenly he stiffened, feeling someone approaching at a rapid pace. He turned to the source of noise, his deep charcoal eyes landing on a young-looking youth with long white hair and, curiously enough, white dog ears upon his head and strange amber eyes with slits for pupils. The guy yelled loudly, "Kagome! There you are! You silly twit, why'd you run off?"

The girl's attention swiveled to the man. Kagome is most likely this girl's name, Itachi thought.

Kagome said, "Oh, Inuyasha. It's just you. I thought you were with Kikyo."

Itachi assumed that Inuyasha was the man's given name. However, he did not know who this "Kikyo" was.

Inuyasha snorted. "I was, until this bright pink light flashed from the well's direction and I told her that I was going to see what it was." He then noticed Itachi and dropped into a sloppy sword stance, his eyes narrowed and sharp. His sharp canine fangs were bared. "Kagome! Get away from him! I sense a demonic aura from his eyes!"

Kagome looked at the young man she had summoned purely out of curiosity and studied his red eyes. She turned back to the snarling man and said, "It's nothing to worry about, Inuyasha. He's human. His eyes are apparently a result of a demonic gift and it is causing him to go blind, but otherwise I believe he's harmless."

Itachi's widened slightly. How did she know he was going blind? Because he had the Sharingan on almost 24/7, the damage done to his vision was now to the point of being irreversible. Perhaps she had special healing powers that could heal his retina? And perhaps his optic nerve as well.

"He could be a demon in disguise!" Now it was Itachi's turn to death-glare the man. How dare he assume that he was a demon! He watched as the man drew out a rusty old sword that abruptly transformed into a huge fang. Itachi eyed the blade with interest. Never in my life have I seen such an intriguing sword . . .

"Inuyasha, he's not a –"

"Move, Kagome. I'm gonna mow him down and expose the demon he is! Kaze no – "

"Sit, boy!"

To Itachi's great amusement, the beaded necklace around Inuyasha's neck glowed white for a split-second before forcing him to face-plant into the ground. So the girl ultimately had control over him, did she? Itachi wondered what other amazing things she could do.

Hm . . . my stay in this world will be very interesting indeed, he thought. No more shinobi, no more Akatsuki breathing down my neck, no more foolish little brothers . . . yes, I shall enjoy my time here.

Kagome stood up and said, "Before we leave, what's your name?"

"Uchiha Itachi," his smooth voice answered.

Her cheeks reddened slightly. "Well, Itachi, we're going to head back to my friends' village just beyond the edge of this forest," she said. "We'll have to find out what to do with you, because I did summon you without your permission, after all."

"Very well," said Itachi.

Inuyasha's face popped out of the dirt and shouted, "Are you crazy?! This guy could be after the Shikon! He could be one of Naraku's minions!"

"Sit. I'll take responsibility for him, Inuyasha. I sense no evil malice in his aura, but he has killed for duty before."

Itachi was completely bewildered by how she knew these things. She must be a sorceress, he decided.

"Besides, it's my fault he's here anyway. I summoned him here."

"WHAT?! YOU CRAZY –"

"Sit, boy!"

Itachi followed an irritated Kagome out of the clearing, smirking triumphantly at the gaping . . . uh, thing as they passed. Whatever he was, or it was, for the matter.

Just an idea. The evil plot bunny attacked me. If I continue this, expect some big gaps between updates, because I'm a busy person and sometimes I can't come up with anything for a chapter. Please review. And please keep in mind that this will eventually end up as an ItachiKagome story.

Translations

Akatsuki - dawn

Bijuu - tailed demon

Jinchuuriki - human sacrifice

Jutsu - technique

Kaze no Kizu - Scar of the Wind

Kyuubi no Kitsune - Nine-Tailed Fox Demon

Sannin - legendary ninja

Sengoku Jidai - Feudal Era

Sharingan - Copy-Wheel Mirror Eye

Shikon no Tama - Jewel of Four Souls

Ja!

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