Beneath the Blood Red Moon

Summary: The group has finally killed Naraku, but at a price. Many lives were killed, but Kagome's purpose was finished and she was ready to go home. However, when she gets to the well the Lady Midoriko appears, telling Kagome the truth of her origins. Midoriko sends her 'home'. Almost like a reversed life, she goes home to her father and older fraternal twin sister. With memories of the more or less 'demonic' past, and now a future with a new family she hadn't seen since she was only a baby, how will Kagome fair?

Anime: InuYasha/Saiunkoku Monogatari

Couple: Kagome/Kouyuu

Genre: Romance/Adventure/Historical

Rated: M (''^o^'')

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Memoirs of a Kou

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Shouka stared up into the sky, his face tired and his heart troubled.

"Father, is something troubling you?" Shouka turned to see his daughter standing behind him with the young banned prince that he had long ago taken in. "Shuurei, Seiran, what have you two been up to?"

"Well, I just got back from work...Seiran picked me up."

"Ah, so protective." He turned back to the sky.

Seiran said nothing, but he looked to Shuurei and shared a glance with her before both looked back to Shouka.

"Father?"

"Shuurei, what do you think it would be like if you had a sister?"

"Eh?!" Shuurei's eyes widened dramatically.

Seiran looked at Shouka agape. "Master Shouka?"

He smiled with his closed eyes looking to his daughter once again. "I was just asking."

"Well...I suppose it would be pretty nice; why do you ask?"

"Curious, I guess." He sighed, "It would have been nice...if you had her..."

"...had her...?" Shuurei was worried for her father, "Had who?"

"Don't you need to get dinner ready? Need any help? I could make the tea."

"NO! Uh...I'll take care of it," Shuurei smiled and took the sleeve of Seiran's top and pulled him along with her to the kitchen.

'...Shuurei, you are truly my little girl...but never were you the only one...'

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(In the past)

Kagome smiled at the headstones of her lost friends.

Inuyasha, Sango and Sesshoumaru had been the only ones, next to her, to survive. Even Shippou and Rin had been killed. Though, their deaths were the ones most stained in her memory, never to be forgotten.

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"MOMMA~!

This had been the voice that had broken her from her daze; the one that had been brought down upon her by the death of Inuyasha and Miroku. Miroku had thrown himself in front of the tentacles that had charged Sango. She now lay unconscious due to the force of the attack; her front drenched in Miroku's blood. Kirara was fending off demons that had cornered her and her mistress. Inuyasha had been back to back with her, and when Kagome had turned around to see how he was doing, she was sprayed with blood, similar to Sango. Inuyasha coughed and had his hand against his chest where a large gash was displayed on the front. Kagome felt tears form in her eyes.

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(Moments Ago)

"K-Kagome..." He fell into her arms and she held him tightly.

"Inuyasha..."

"Hey, d-don't cry. I...don't like the w-way tears smell on...you..."

She broke down crying and fell to her knees.

"Inuyasha...please...don't leave me!"

"I won't...I...won~"

His hand fell limp and Kagome fell into a daze.

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"MOMMA!"

Kagome's head shot up at the sound of Shippou's cry; she stared in horror as Naraku ran a tentacle across Shippou's cheek.

"Poor little kit, your mother is too preoccupied with the dead, to care about the living. Don't worry, she'll notice you soon enough."

"NOOOO~!" Kagome cried as Naraku's tentacle wrapped around Shippou's waist and pulled. She looked on in horror as Shippou's head was just pulled from his neck. "NO! SHIPPOU!!!" She cried, her body glowed brightly in anger. Sesshoumaru arrived a moment later in a similar rage.

"Miko! This Sesshoumaru will kill the spider hanyou!"

"You will not!" She moved before Sesshoumaru. "I will have his HEAD for what he's done to my son!"

"...so be it...but if you fail to prove a worthy opponent...then—"

"You'll take over; I figured as much. But when I'm through with him, there will be nothing left!" Her eyes shined bright pink, narrowed in a deadly way.

Sesshoumaru glanced to her son and understood why her temper had gotten out of control. He himself had trained her, and knew that Inuyasha was the only one who could really irritate her, but never like this. He had pushed her to her limits, day after day, and she always came back for more training, never complaining. He knew her stamina and knew she could take this hanyou. 'You had better kill him, Kagome.'

Kagome walked in a slow lethal pace, her eyes never straying from her prey. She watched as his eyes seemed to laugh at the sight before him, his lips quirked into a sick grin.

"Naraku...I will send you back to the depths of hell that you were born; that, I promise!" She pulled Tsukihime from her sheath and charged the demon at a speed he hadn't known she had. "DIE NARAKU!" She cut through multiple tentacles and listened to his pained cries as pure sacred energy flowed from her blade through each wound she inflicted upon him.

"Damn human wench!" He grabbed her by the throat and watched her legs kick out at him. Her grip weakened on the hilt of her blade and he smiled wickedly and let his grip tighten around her throat.

"Ack!" She saw the image of her sons' discarded body flash before her eyes and her lose grip on the blade tightened as she thrust it into his throat; the blood covered blade could be seen sticking out on the other side of Naraku who stared in shock and dread at the turn of events. "Go to hell...Naraku!" She shot a blast of her energy through the blade and fell to the ground as his hand was disintegrated right before her eyes along with the rest of his body. The remainder of the Shikon fell to the blood stained earth next to her. Kagome looked at the jewel before she let sleep take her.

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Kagome brushed away her stray tears and made her way back to the abandoned hut. According to Sesshoumaru, he too had seen his child...or at least, the human girl that he claimed a ward but thought of as a daughter...killed in front of him. Yes, she had seen the battered body of the little girl and had cried her heart out for the two little children whom both had lost their lives in a battle that wasn't theirs.

"Miko..."

"Hm? Oh, Sesshoumaru-Sama," She looked at Sesshoumaru who was standing before the empty hut in front of her.

"Where will you go now?"

"...home..."

"Then, I will see you again. Stay alive."

"I should say that to you; I hop down a well and I'm home; you on the other hand actually have to live through five hundred years to see me again."

"..."

"Hehe, sorry Sesshoumaru, I won't say anything next time."

"I will find you,"

"Then, I will see you later."

Sesshoumaru nodded and started to walk past her, only stopping for a moment to place his hand on her sword, "Don't forget us, Kagome...wherever you go, don't forget."

Kagome felt the weight lift from her sword and turned to watch her teacher walk away, for the last time. She sighed once he was out of sight and grabbed her yellow bag. She was dressed in pair of regular clothes that she had worn from her time. A simple red long sleeved top and a pair of black slacks with sandals on her feet.

She had returned to her time to let her mom know they had one then came back to dig the places for which her friends would rest eternally, until they were born again, with new friends, new family's and a new...future...one without her...

Kagome made her way to the well, for her last journey through time. "Goodbye..." She whispered softly.

"You can't leave, you haven't even said hello yet."

"Ah!?" Kagome turned, her hand clutching the hilt of her blade impulsively. Right before her eyes was a woman in a white, violet, blue kimono with red hemming the bottom, sleeves and the neck line of the Kimono. She had a faint light violet glow around her ivory skin and raven black knee length hair. Her eyes were a dimly lit doe brown and her smile was pure and real. "Who are you?!" Kagome asked; her voice firm due to the battle she had just got through with.

"...You know me, Kagome."

"I've never met you...ah..." Kagome thought back to a statue she had seen once at the beginning of her journey. "M-Midoriko..."

"...Kagome...you gave half of the Shikon to Sesshoumaru, why is that?"

"...with half, one can receive strength...with the entire jewel...one can make a wish. I thought about it for a while, and decided, that if something were to happen and the jewel fell into someone's hand, I'd rather they only have half, and not all. I'm sorry, if you wanted something else..."

"You are the Shikon's protector...not I. If you believe this is for the best...then I will trust you, the way Sesshoumaru does."

"Thank you."

"...don't thank me yet. Kagome, it's time for you to return home."

"I was heading that way."

"No, I don't mean five hundred years into the future...I mean, back to your home, two hundred and sixty-seven years in the future."

Kagome frowned, "...What?"

"Kagome, when you were little, barely even a year old, I came to you after being locked away in the Shikon; not in body did I come, but in Spirit. Of course, you would never remember, but Kagome, I met with Shouka and Shokun."

"...who?"

"Shouka, your father, and Shokun, your mother." Midoriko watched as Kagome's face grew nervous and uneasy. "I asked for their youngest daughter."

"But...why? Why!? Why would you take me from my family!?"

"Don't yell, Kagome. I asked and the declined. But when I explained a future that was to befall their daughter if I didn't..."

"A future that would befall...?"

"Had you not come to the past, Naraku would have found you upon your fifteenth birthday, the day you fell down the well, five hundred years in the future. I had seen the fate that would fall all across Saiunkoku, your family and the rest of China."

"China?"

"Yes, you are from Saiunkoku, your family resides in the Imperial City of Kiyo. Kagome, you were destined to be a hero...and return a hero. If you had stayed, you would have died, along with the rest of your family. So I took you and brought you to a time you'd be safe, until the time you would save the future. I had sealed the well until your fifteenth birthday and then...I let your future unveil its own destination for you, until it was all over, and I could finally return you to your home."

"So, all this time...then...mothe— I mean...Rei Higurashi...who is that?"

"Your mother as much as the woman who birthed you. She raised you and took care of you when she found you in the well. Actually, that was why your grandfather placed all those seals and that board on the well, they suspected you were a child of the gods when the found you wrapped in silken robes from Ancient China. They feared that you would leave them one day, so the man who helped raise you, came up with the idea and your grandfather went through with it."

"I see...so...what is my name?"

"Don't worry, it's still Kagome. Kagome Kou is your name. Your family, in China, is the most powerful and influential family...if I remember correctly."

"...is that so..." She didn't know how much more information she could handle. She wasn't a computer; she didn't have an endless memory depository to store all of this. She was running out of room and was close to a headache. "Then tell me, what about the family I grew up with?"

"I will pay a visit to them tonight while they have fallen asleep. For now, I think it's time you go back home. Your father must miss you dearly."

"What about my mother?"

"...she died when you were about five."

"...like my father...or, my other father..."

"Yes, they died on the same day. However, you don't have a brother; you do have a sister though."

"I do?"

"Yes, you were twins, but she's older by a few minutes."

"Midoriko...I want to go home..." Kagome looked to Midoriko with tears in her eyes. "Please, please take me home!" She ran into the arms of Midoriko and the woman smiled and held her tightly.

"Alright dear,"

'I want to see...my family...'

Seconds after the thought had passed, they were gone. Midoriko had set off through time on another timeless travel, to return the daughter, she had taken.

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Me: Yes, I know; another Saiunkoku Monogatari/InuYasha crossover! LOVE ME! This one isn't a challenge though; it's for a reviewer who wanted a Kagome/Kouyuu pairing. So, I dedicate this story to Sinistera of the Akatsuki. Hope you all enjoy, please Read and Review and Please Regard me Kindly! ^_^''