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Chapter 1

Of Ghouls and Youkai

(Or the reason why I hate wells and magical Jewelry)

Geo Matsui was having a good night even if the cops where after him for the rape and murders of two girls but he was not currently focused on that thought, at this moment he was currently stocking his next target for the last three hours in a fun little game of cat and mouse. The girl was fourteen, maybe fifteen, with long black hair and lushes long legs, she wore a white zip up jacket and a gray mini-skirt. It was a real pity that she ended up getting his attention when she took a wrong turn as he watched. He almost chuckled as she was unknowingly trapping herself in a dead end alleyway as he darkly smirked, blocking off the end of the alleyway so she would not be able to get away.

"Looks like our little game of cat and mouse is up little lady now, it's my turn to play my favorite game." He spoke with a lustful look in his eyes, but instead of fearfully whimpering like the other two girls before, she started chuckling her hood up and her back turn to him "Oh? But who was the cat, and who was the mouse" As she turned revealing not her face but a mask that resembled the face of a dragonfly. The only thing he was able to see of her face was her eyes, the left was a vivid blue while her right eye was red with a black sclera, the telltale sign of a ghoul. Geo took a step back but before he was able to run the one eyed ghoul vanished in a burst of speed, only to feel an indescribable pain in his chest, looking down he saw a bloody hand passing threw his chest right where his heart was before everything faded as death finally claimed him.

Once the criminal died the one eyed ghoul removed her arm from the man's chest, she started moving quickly pulling out a gray duffel bag from behind a near by dumpster and went to work fast on the man's corpse, pulling the flesh from his bones and packing them up in plastic baggies. His bones were placed in another nearby trashcan, undamaged head placed atop of his bones with a note taped to it. Before she left the alleyway the one eyed ghoul removed her dragonfly mask, revealing the face of one Kagome Higurashi starting on her way home just knowing she would be late for school as the sun started to rise.

As Kagome walked home she looked back on her and her odd little families past, it more or less started 21 years ago in the 17th ward. Where a ghoul named Shōsetsu Kero who was known by the CCG as Cricket do to his mask and insect wing-like ukaku kagune and the chirping sound his kagune let off when he battled, came a crossed a strange girl who was being beaten to death by four cruelly smirking men. Said girl was known by the named Himawari Kaede and she did not know how she got in to this mess to begin with. Truth be told she thought that she would most likely die by the hands of these men only to see those same four men's deaths at the hands of a ghoul before she fell unconscious.

When she woke up she then came face to face with the ghoul that saved her and he was so kind as he tended to her injuries , which surprised her even after he found out about her miko powers witch helped her heal faster, said powers gave her odd healing skills and her ability to see events that were about to happen right before they did. At first Himawari was scared of him, but as time passed she came to get to know him even to the point of him bringing her to the 20th ward to meet his father, who was a real Shintō priest of all things that when by the name Gin Higurashi. It was five years after the night they first met that the two truly fell in love and they finally got happily married and it was a surprise for them a year later when she first got pregnant, even if she had to eat human meat to keep the baby. When Kagome was born they were so happy, but like all things it came to an end four years later, a month after her little brother Sota was born.

It was a day like any other day when Himawari froze seeing a vision of her husband's death by the hands of the doves after being exposed as a ghoul by a blonde haired ghoul in a hockey mask who got away. After seeing all that she and her children packed up and ran from the 17th ward that night, the Kero family was no more. In the end they were taken in by Gin in the 20th ward, who owned a shrine after is old teacher passed it down to him and his wife. Many years later he ran it on his own after his wife passed away, and with that the Higurashi family was then formed.

When Kagome got home, she was in a rush after placing the gray duffel bag in the basement freezer. The first she did was take a quick shower and get ready for the school day, thinking on what her friends at school would be up to. After that she began heading out to school, only for her to hear her little brother trying to get their family's pet cat Buyo out of the old well house in the back of the shrine,when she walked up and said "I'll get him" as she ruffled Sota's hair as he grumbled out a "stop it sis". As she past him "Buyo! Come on out Buyo!" Kagome called out as she entered the well house. When she got near the old well she heard a sound and turned around fast, finding only their cat sitting on the railing near the door when the lid to the old well behind her blasted off and she was grabbed from behind by many hands and pulled down the old dry well.

Without thinking Kagome's hand lashed out as her single Kakugan eye flared, severing two of the monsters arms only for three more hands to grab her again, a yell sounding out "Give me the Jewel Girl, give it to me!" As Kagome's other hand lashed out only for a pinkish blue light to come from her hand, blasting three more arms off what she could now see was an Ōmukade yokai as it was sent flying away from her. The only thing running throw Kagome's mind at that moment was a massive (What the-!?) as she landed at the bottom of the well. When she snapped back to reality, she smelled something off, the normal smells of Tokyo were gone and with one leap she grabbed on to the side of the well and pulled herself out only to find out she was in a forest as she asked the air while looking around, " I'm not in Tokyo anymore am I?"

Ten minutes of wandering later, she found herself standing in front of the Goshinboku where she found an odd looking boy with long white hare and dog-like ears on top of his head. Not being able to help herself she climbed up the tree's roots to the dog-like boy and started to rub his ears, suddenly stopping and saying "Well, I got that out of my system." As she leapt down, three arrows slammed in to the ground in front of her as the words, (Crap!) passed threw her mind as she finally caught the smell of humans. Without a single struggle, she let the humans tie her up as they took her away to their village.

Thoughts that ran through her head when she saw the village and it's people went something like this, (Topknot, topknot, topknot… Yep I'm in the Warring states period aren't I?)

Just then one of the villagers called out, "Make way for High-Priestess Kaede!" The one-eyed ghoul's thoughts went along a mental sigh (Guess that's a yes.) while the old miko approached. The Priestess threw a handful of salt at Kagome, authority lacing her voice as she said, "Demon be gone!" Shortly after Kagome spat out the salt, slightly silent gagging as she coughed out, "I'm not a yokai!" The old miko looked at her with narrowed eyes before responding, "If ye are not girl then, what are ye doing here?" Just as she was about to tell her story to Kaede about what happened, the Ōmukade yokai that dragged her threw the well appeared, attacking the village and yelling about some jewel even as the villagers ran from it with shouts of the creature's name sounding through the air.

After Kagome was untied Kaede told her to run to the bone eaters well, and so she ran, the Ōmukade not far behind as she thought, (Crap! At this rate I'm going to run out of stamina, I'm going to need some help.) Unknowing to her those last words where used to awaken the boy sealed to the Goshinboku "I can smell you Kikyō, I will get you for killing me." Meanwhile Kagome was dashing threw the forest when she reached the Goshinboku only to stop when she heard a voice making her look around until she heard it again, "Why are you running Kikyō? Afraid you'll end up like what you did to me" Whirling around she looked over to the tree seeing that the pinned boy with dog ears woke up. She took a few steps forward, only for the Ōmukade to slam in to her side teeth first, then throwing her at the tree and right in to the irritated boy, as the jewel fell from her body before said body started to heal the wounds she had taken rapidly.

As Kagome got up and started righting herself, she accidentally pulled the arrow that sealed the boy to the tree just as the villagers and priestess arrived. "Lady Kaede! Inuyasha is free!" Hearing that a chuckle left the boy as he spoke, "Yes I am, and that old hag of a youkai is not getting the jewel, That would be me!" As he leapt at the Ōmukade and tore through the creature like it was nothing as it screamed about the jewel. Meanwhile Kagome walked over to the jewel the yokai was yelling about before it's death, picking it up as the old miko warned her not to let Inuyasha get it when he interrupted saying "Too bad, now give it to me!" He attempted to attack Kagome, receiving a kick to the face as she back-flipped away, sending him back a few feet as she started running again, Inuyasha hot on her heels. Watching this, the old miko then pulled out a beaded neckless from her sleeve and then Kaede started chanting hoping this spell would work in time to save the girl from the greedy hanyō.

It was four minutes later when he caught up to the strange smelling girl that looked so much like Kikyō, he could tell something was off about her but he could not tell exactly what that something was. He cornered her off by jumping in front of her on a rope bridge, "Now hand over the jewel." Without warning a beaded neckless appeared around his neck, when he tried to remove it he heard the old crone chanting, "Give the word that binds his soul." A few seconds later the girl yelled the words, "Sit!" then an invisible force slammed him through the bridge and into the water below. It would be over an hour later when he pulled himself out of the river.

In the meantime, Kagome was taken to the hut of the priestess on the edge of the village so that Kaede would be able to check her wounds. It was a surprise to the old miko that the girl's wounds were mostly healed, the old miko spoke in a calm tone, "I may not know what ye may be, but as long as you don't harm the villagers, ye may stay." Hearing that Kagome froze when she heard that statement, replying in a low voice, "How… how did you know I wasn't fully human?" Her Kakugan eye lit up at the implied threat, though when the old miko saw her eye she didn't flinch.

She spoke once more, voice still calm "Interesting ye eye changed yet I sense no demonic aura, my offer still stands and as for your question, two things gave it away. First, ye aura is off from a normal human, even if I can sense ye have miko powers of your own, they are still somewhat off, as for the other… it was the way you evaded the yokai's attacks. If ye wish to tell me about yourself, I shall wait." Hearing that she slumped, a sad tone entering her voice as she gave a request, "Can you please not tell anyone else about me?" The old priestess gave a short nod and beckoned the younger girl to continue if she wished. Then Kagome told the woman her story, it was a half-hour later well the young one eyed ghoul dreamed that the old miko only felt sorrow and pity for the girl, her hard life and the even harder journey ahead of her due to the presence of the Shikon no Tama and those who would be after it.

The next morning, the sound of Inuyasha walking into Kaede's hut well the old miko was out helping rebuild the village was what woke up Kagome as she held the jewel tightly and stared at the hanyō only for him to say "What are you looking at. now hand over the jewel." Her answer to him was quite simple "No, sit."as she left the hut while he became acquainted with the floor. It was two hours later while she was swimming in the river, that he found another opening to grab the jewel, only for her to see him nearing immediately and sit him again, off of an out cropping of rock and into the river bank below. The next time he looked for the girl he overheard the old miko Kaede looking for the girl too. "Damn it! Now where did you go?" he muttered under his breath a bit annoyed before he went back to his searching for the strange girl.

Kagome was some what amused while heading back to the bone eaters well, when she heard people following her at first she thought maybe Kaede sent villagers to lookout for her but when she scented them she could smell lust, greed along with saki and quite a bit of blood on them. One word, along with a sigh and a bit of excitement, ran through her mind at that smell (bandits) as she quietly chuckled at the word "Pray." That slipped from her lips. It was almost ten minutes later when she let the bandits grab her and take her to their hideout, an abandoned shrine deeper in the forest. When they got there, she caught a new scent the smell of rot and feathers, at that it was all she could do not to smile.

When they entered the shrine one of the bandits called out, "Hey boss, we got her!" a voice rumbling back, "Good now give me the jewel." As she looked up revealing a large corpse approaching them. That was when she made her move, vanishing from the grip of the bandits as the door slammed shut, trapping them inside with the real monster. The only thing the bandits saw when they turned back from the door was their once prisoner ripping out a now-headless crow yokai from their bosses chest. Then she turned around giving them a good look at her demonic-looking right eye, the screaming began shortly after along with the splattering of blood across the surfaces of most of the inanimate objects. It was two minutes later that the screaming stopped and the sounds of flesh being loudly ripped from bone and eaten took its place.

It was over thirty minutes later Inuyasha came across the gruesome scene of half-eaten bandit corpses and a decapitated crow youkai's body, his only thoughts on his current scenery was "Gross, well it looks like they wiped each other out. Now… where's that wench at with my jewel?" Two hours later he found her sitting at the base of a tree watching the sunset, both eyes half-lidded "So there you are," he grumbled, marching up in front of her and holding his hand out, "Now give me the jewel." She turned to him and spoke in a detached voice, "Sit." One face-plant later and she continued, "Now tell me why you want this cursed little trinket when you are powerful than most already?" He just gave her a annoyed look before replying with a tsk. "Like you would understand wench."

At that Kagome gave him a droll look and a sigh before once more replying "My name is Kagome, I hope you realize the jewel is more or less, a monkey's paw." At that he froze, looking at her in confusion and managing a simple, "A what?" She merely gave him a disappointed look and another sigh, "A monkey's paw, it was an ancient wish granting tool that would give its user three wishes, but the wish would almost always come back to bite you, or someone close to you, in the ass. The jewel is no different, at best it won't grant your wish, and at worst it will twist your wish and turn you into its meat puppet for its own amusement as well as to fulfill its own will." Inuyasha gave her a strange look as he slowly said, "You speak of it like the jewel is alive." She just smiled strangely at him, getting up and walking off to Kaede's hut. Her words on the wind behind her were simple yet confusing, "It is, its a soul after all." Leaving Inuyasha behind just as night fell.

Elsewhere a feminine voice chuckled, "Oh me, oh my, oh me, the jewel is back and it has been over fifty years as well, I was starting to think it would never reappear." As the unnamed youkai picked up a skull with some hair still on it as she started brushing it. "Soon vary soon I shall have it, my lovelies." she chuckled out again as she laid upon the skulls that made up the floor of her hideout. It was the next morning after Kagome's bath in the river when the old miko left to help a sick villager and while she approached the bone eaters well did the youkai attack. Her hair trying to snatch the jewel only for Kagome's hands to lash out and snap the hairs in twine as a voice came from above "Oh me, oh my, oh me, you're a tricky one aren't you. I am Yura of the Demon-Hair, now give me the jewel."

Just then she sent out her hair to lash at the odd smelling miko, only for the attacks to be cut down with a swing of the girl's hands as she sarcastically stated, "Oh great, another fool who wants the cursed trinket." Hearing that Yura got irritated and sent a wave of hair at the rude miko, only for her to back-flip into the bone eaters well and unknowingly being sent back to her own time with the jewel. On the other side, Yura became confused when she looked down the well, one moment the strange miko was there and the next she was gone. A sigh left her lips, disappointment in her voice before she perked up, "Oh poo. She got away, well at least I can play with the dog boy until she shows back up." Walking back through the forest, she let out a chuckle, the wildlife doing its best to remain unnoticed as she glided towards the village, idly stroking a skull.

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