A Deal of Convenience

Summary: She was sacrificed for the lives of those she loved...but the cost...her life? No one could save her. Scared...alone...hurt...lost in the Nightmare Realm...an unlikely friend is made in the making of a Deal of Convenience. "...please...please win."

Anime/Manga: InuYasha/Gravity Falls

Rated: M for Mature Content

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Pairing: Kagome/Bill Cipher

A/N

(Ask me no questions...and I'll tell you no lies!)

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Let's Make A Deal

Let's Make A Memory

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"Kagome?"

Silence was deafening around the village. The girl out of time...was out of time...and it was no thanks to them.

A young woman with her hair pulled back into a high ponytail stood before the younger girl who she'd once called a friend. She wanted so badly to still call her such, but there would be none of that. "Kagome, please...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry, but at least talk to me!"

"What would you have me say, Sango?"

"I...nothing, I'm foolish for my selfishness, but we can't fight a god..."

"...there's no telling, we didn't try."

Sango shook her head, "Naraku was a grotesque mix of lowlife demons, Kagome...we barely managed to defeat him, and with a baby on the way, there is nothing I can do to help out. Down a fighter, and up against a being ten times stronger than Naraku...are you truly so foolish to think we stood a chance?!"

"Sango!"

Sango jumped and turned around, tears burning her eyes as she stared at Miroku who had entered the small white tent Kagome was being held and restrained within. "...Miroku..."

"Go back to the hut, leave Lady Kagome alone. For this betrayal, she has every right to not want anything to do with us. It's wishful thinking on our part to hope she'd ever be able to forgive us."

"Yes, but..."

"Go,"

Kagome watched Sango as she glanced back at her, as if she would ask her to stay, as if she would stop her. Finally, she left the tent as instructed and Kagome turned her attention to Miroku who sighed and stepped aside to reveal a trembling Shippou. "He wanted to see you..." lifting Shippou into his arms, he walked towards Kagome and watched her turn her head from him. "Hate us, Kagome, we are only human...but Shippou had nothing to do with this treachery. Look at him."

She didn't.

"Look at him!"

"MAMA!"

Kagome's eyes widened, her heart slamming painfully against her chest. She was shaking as tears started to fall relentlessly from her eyes. Looking up, brokenly she took in the frightened and crying form of her son. "...Miroku...take him away."

"Lady Kagome!"

"I DON'T WANT HIM TO SEE ME LIKE THIS!"

"...!"

Her voice came out tired, worn out from the festivities that had started only a couple days ago. "...he's all I have, Miroku. I lost Inuyasha to Kikyou... and Sesshoumaru died saving me from Naraku... you and Sango have a child on the way, and I understand that...but the fact that you both so easily came to the agreement that I should be sacrificed to save you... means I was never your friend to begin with."

"That's not true..."

"Isn't it?"

"Mama, Miroku wants to help you escape."

Kagome frowned, "Sango and your child-"

"This time is ours, Kagome... you can't fight all of our battles. Take Shippou, and leave to the well. You only have till daybreak, then it will be too late. If you are still in this time when Izanami comes to collect you...then there will be no hope to save you."

Miroku moved behind Kagome and hastily untied her, the rope that had restrained her so tightly to a grounded stake fell loosely to the earth floor. "We will need to move quickly, Sango is relentless in her attempts to make you see reason with your sacrifice. I can't agree with fearfully throwing my friend aside to save myself...even for my child. I'm sure...perhaps, things will work out." He peered out of the tent and frowned, "we may have trouble getting you out, after all. She's waiting for me to leave so that she can come back. We will have to run."

"M-Miroku!" Shippou called out frightfully.

"Hmn?" He looked back, and his eyes widened as he fell to his hands and knees. Fear tore away at his body as he began shaking violently at the enraged Goddess that hovered before him. Kagome was behind her, frightened as well, if not more. "I-Izanami no Mikoto...p-please...I-AUGH!"

"MIROKU!" Kagome watched in terror as Izanami gripped Miroku by the throat, her vice like hold on his neck brought blood at the sharp tips of her nails in his flesh.

"Foolish human, did you think you could steal away this petty villages offering? What kind of pathetic Monk are you? To doubt my powers and mindlessly overstep your boundaries...your death will be swift, but not painless."

"Please let him go!"

"He will die."

Kagome looked everywhere and nowhere, all at once, her heart racing and breath heaving. She pulled from the ground a sharpened stake that had been holding the small tent in place, the tarp billowed dangerously around them and away from the power that whipped around Izanami. "I-I'll kill myself if you so much as hurt a hair on his head!"

"MAMA!"

"Such a brave...and foolish human." Izanami dropped Miroku, watched him crawl away, his hand on his throat as he tried to catch his breath.

"L-Lady I-Iza-nami...f-forgive me, for I am...as you say...a foolish M-monk...but is there...no other way?"

"I am not interested in trivial negotiations, Monk. My demands were a sanctified maiden of the Shrine...there is but one to be offered, and she will be mine."

"You can't...you can't take her!"

"What can a mere fox do to stop me?"

"...!"

Kagome and Miroku watched in shock as Izanami's hand glowed and where Shippou had been standing before Kagome, a small baby fox now coward in the Goddesses presence. "ENOUGH!" Kagome cried out, "take me! Take me and leave them alone!"

"I had planned on doing that...but now, with so much chaos...ah, chaos...yes, that would be fine. You should sleep, Miko, until I've finished with your friends."

Miroku closed his eyes, a shutter of fear ran along his body as bad got worse faster than he could even fathom. Kagome's body fell unconsciously to the ground and the small fox curled fearfully up against her as all hell broke loose in Edo Japan.

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(The Nightmare Realm)

Shadows danced along the space of terrors and darkened dreams. For a great many, there was excitement in the flames and evils of the realm, but for one...it wasn't enough. It would never be enough.

"AAAUGH~! MIROKU! MIROKUUUUU!"

Eye widening, the fear stricken, hopeless sounding screech that echoed throughout the realm of Nightmares could have sent his blood running cold...if he had blood, that is. "What broken creature has fallen into the Realm of Nightmares...?"

What one might confuse for the essence of the Illuminati, a two-dimensional pyramid, hovered above the dangers of the Realm he occupied. His arms and legs were nothing more than sticks, and a single large eye centered on the bright yellow pyramid's body stared down at a young girl who lay broken on the bloodied floor of the hellish dimension that they resided in. "Oh, this is too good to be true! A flesh puppet?!" He laughed, "can't ignore convenience." He floated down and poked his walking stick at the trembling figure. "What has you down, beautiful?"

Blue eyes shot up and stared into the larger eye of the creature above. "...who are you?"

"The name is Bill Cipher, but you can call me Master! As in, the soon to be Master of whatever crappy World you came from! HAHAHAHA~! What's your name, beautiful!?"

"Kagome...do you know how to get out of here?" Tears were still falling, and the girl looked around to see if there was a way out of the weird world that she'd been thrown into. "I...need to go. I need to wake up..."

"Wake up? HA! As if you are asleep and this is all but a dream! There's no way to get out of here from the inside, Ka-Go-Me..."

An intense feeling of dejavu struck her as he pronounced her name one syllable at a time. "From inside where? Where am I?!" She stood up and glared at the golden triangle. "Where the hell am I!?"

"My oh my, what a mouth you have on you, Kagome. Since you asked, I'll tell you. We are in the Nightmare Realm, a realm of Chaos and Darkness rolled together with monsters and screams of terror sprinkled here and there for laughs and giggles. Haha, but you aren't from around here, clearly...how did you come to our bleak abode at the end of the universe?"

"I was sent here...the Goddess Izanami...she knocked me out, and I woke up here."

"So you are...asleep?"

Kagome frowned, "yes, I think so. Which is why, I need to wake up, so I can save my friends...and..." she looked down at her hands as more tears formed in her eyes, '...my son...'

Bill chuckled darkly, "Izanami, huh? The Japanese Goddess of darkness and chaos, I like her style, but I have my own way of doing things. How about we strike a deal, Kagome. Lend me your body, and I'll save your friends and your...son. You need only stay with me...for all eternity."

Kagome looked at the triangle and smiled sadly, "that's fine...I was already set to being sacrificed to Izanami...at least you will save my friends and family from the Goddess who plans to kill them. If you don't mind my asking though, how do you plan to do that?"

"Trust me, Kagome...I have my ways...I have...my ways. How about we shake on it, huh?" He held his hand out and smiled when Kagome took his hand trustingly, a blue flame lit up around their hands and he laughed out excitedly. "Oh, this is great! A body in the human realm, I can hardly contain my excitement! Well, no point in holding off on our deal, if I don't hurry, your friends will be dead and I'll have to go back on our deal...and I hate when my deals fall through." He glowed brightly and Kagome covered her eyes until the light faded, lifting her arm away from her eyes...Bill was gone.

Kagome sat down in the shadows of chaos and sighed, "...please...please win."

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Me: Here is chapter one of A Deal of Convenience! It's going to be different, but I hope you like it!