A/N: Hi. To begin with right off the bat, this is a fanfic that Kagome somehow ends up in the Wolfs Rain setting. If that's not something you're interested in, feel free not to read this fanfic.
Next, I am writing this fanfic at work, so I hope to post a chapter on Thursday or Friday every week, but it might be every two weeks if work sucks too bad.
Okay, and now for the summary of what happened to lead up to this fanfic.
SUMMARY: Kagome and her friends in the feudal era have one half of the jewel, Naraku has the other half. As they fight for it, there are grievous injuries. Inuyasha manages to retrieve it and give it to Kagome to fuse together, and her friends are killed protecting her while she is in a trance fusing the jewel. The jewel fuses back into her body and transports her to a world where wolves have been thought extinct for 200 years. She finds this is not true.
Kiba, Tsume, Hige, Toboe and Blue are despondent. They were crossing a dry, barren desert with Cheza, who was getting weaker and weaker despite the plentiful sunlight. When Darcia shows up to take Cheza before she dies, Cheza cannot stand the sight of the wolves falling in blood. Especially Kiba, who keeps fighting even though his body is ravaged. Every time he falls there is more blood. Cheza, who hates the sight of wolf blood, runs forward and throws herself at the laser. It kills her instantly.
Soon after, the group is traveling slowly on when they come across a girl lying across a rock.
That's where this fanfic picks up.
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DISCLAIMER:
I do not own Inuyasha or Wolfs Rain. I do not own any of the
characters from either of those shows. I do not own any ideas from
either of those shows.
I do own the idea to add the Book of the Moon. I have heard this book does exist, so I do not claim to know anything that is in it besides what has been told in Wolfs Rain.
Also, the beliefs of the characters in this fanfic or in either show do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of the authoress.
I think that about covers it.
Chapter 1.
Blue eyes.
That was what she saw when her own eyes were forced open. Blue, swimmingly deep depths that she was easily falling into. They were brighter then her own darker blue eyes, and just as full of life. There was a fire, a spark that told of great destiny and endless courage to fulfill that destiny. She could feel the power, not magical power, but a physical power, a strength of heart, which emanated off of him in waves. When he saw that she was conscious he smiled and called over his shoulder.
Her whole body reacted with rigid tension. Instead speaking words, a series of barks were issued from his mouth. And somehow she understood what he said.
"She's finally awake."
It didn't necessarily scare her. After all, she had seen weirder things in the feudal era. He turned back to her and she saw the worry in his eyes, the obvious relief that she was awake. Immediately she calmed. Something deep in her soul told her there was nothing to fear from him.
She was still unsure of what exactly he was. There was no demon aura coming from him. And yet, she could feel that he was far more powerful than any human. In fact, he wasn't human at all, was he? She looked harder at him; using the little control she had over her miko powers to unveil his disguise. Little by little, she could feel the spell getting thinner and thinner.
What she saw made her gasp in surprise. A beautiful white wolf with bright glowing gold eyes was leaning over her, sniffing delicately. Its eyes widened slightly and he slowly backed away from her.
Still, she felt no fear. She knew there were others so she forced herself into a sitting position, despite the pain in her back. More glowing eyes met hers. There was a gray wolf with an X shaped scar on his chest, a large, burly one with a collar around his neck, a small, almost fox red one with bracelets on its right leg, and a black one with eyes that were almost the same color as her own eyes.
"Hello," she said quietly. "My name is Kagome." The white wolf backed away another step.
"How is it that you can see us?" The words were issued in a growl, but she understood them.
"I have certain powers that I have just learned to use." She searched for a better way to explain it. When she couldn't find one she shrugged. "They help me fight evil and deception."
"We're not evil." The feminine voice came from the black wolf.
"Maybe not, but you were trying to deceive me." The white wolf sniffed the air in her direction.
"You don't smell evil. You don't FEEL evil."
She laughed. "That's because I'm not."
He stepped closer. "But you have so much power." His eyes flashed. "Power makes people evil."
"What about you?" She fired back. His eyes narrowed. "You are very powerful, all of you are, and yet there is no evil in you."
"It is because our goal is pure." He answered. She smiled.
"And so is mine."
There was a long silence before the lighter colored wolf with the collar spoke.
"Well! Since we've got that out of the way, I'm Hige." And when he walked closer to her and held out an appendage she stopped fighting their spell and let it be a hand. Without fear she took his hand, ignoring the flash of fangs that was his muzzle, not his hand. As a person he was tall and imposing, being heavy built. His awkward, gentle smile completely alleviated any hesitation she had to liking him. Once standing she straightened out her clothes.
The smaller, younger wolf was now a boy with red hair. "Hi, I'm Toboe." he grinned and laced his fingers behind his head. She smiled and looked to where the black wolf had been standing. In her place was a pretty dark skinned girl with short, kind of crazy black hair.
"I love your boots." Kagome commented. The girl laughed.
"Thanks. I'm Blue, by the way." Kagome turned to the gray wolf. She almost gasped. For some reason, the person who stood before her reminded her of some one else. Inuyasha's brother, Sesshoumaru, had the same aloofness, the same great body, and gave off the same false pretense of not caring about anyone.
"What's your name?" She asked.
He looked pained for a moment, and then turned to her.
"Tsume." Was his clipped response. She nodded.
"You're a lot like someone I know." She said, but he just turned his back to her again. She ignored it and then turned to where she knew she would be staring into blue eyes. Her breath caught in her throat when she started to ask his name. With those stunning blue eyes, that rough, but handsome body and wild black mane she found herself unable to speak. He saved her the trouble.
"My name is Kiba." He graced her with a small smile. "So, what is your goal?"
"To restore the souls of my friends to their bodies so that they might live again. It will be my wish..." She looked down, her hand over her chest. "I was told by a great priestess that first I would have to reach paradise before I could make such a wish."
Tsume's jaw clenched.
Toboe and Hige both gasped the word, "Paradise!"
Kiba alone remained unfazed. "We were meant to meet then."
Kagome lifted her eyes to meet his. "Huh?"
"Our goal is paradise."
"She'll have to travel with us, won't she?" Tsume said, disgust in his voice. He was watching as Kagome and Kiba talked a little ways away from the corner of his eye.
"I don't know," Hige grinned. "It won't be so bad to have another girl in the pack." Blue rolled her eyes.
"Do you jump every bitch you see?" She asked. (Remember, bitch is a female dog)
"Well, only the gorgeous ones." He defended himself with a blush.
Blue laughed. "I see."
Toboe blushed. "She is very pretty." He put a hand over his heart. "She kind of makes me feel like Cheza used to."
Hige nodded, she made his heart flutter too. "Why do think that is?"
Tsume turned to look at them. "She's special. She's like Cheza, except stronger." He snorted. "And she's not a plant."
"So this Cheza, she was special?" Kagome asked.
Kiba looked down, his lips tight. "She was a lunar flower, made into the embodiment of a young, beautiful girl. She was supposed to lead us to paradise." His expression brightened when he looked into her eyes. "I think you're supposed to lead us now. You were sent to us for a reason."
"Lead you to..." Kagome stopped. "How am I supposed to lead you to paradise?"
Kiba looked deep into her eyes. "Because you know where it is."
Kagome's eyes narrowed and she sighed. "And how do I know where it is?" She asked incredulously.
He smiled gently. "Instinct."
There was a quiet among the group as they sat in the bright sun. An hour, maybe two passed before anyone spoke. Kiba stood up and motioned Kagome to stand next to him.
"Let's go." He said, looking at Kagome. She backed off a step.
"I, I don't..." She stuttered.
"Do you think she's going to lead us?" Tsume asked, scowling.
"Can she?" Toboe asked excitedly.
"NO!" Kagome said. Kiba's voice was louder as he said "Yes," at the same time. He looked around the group, willing them to see what he saw.
"She can. She will." He turned to Kagome and put a hand on her shoulder. "Let your instincts guide you." He pulled her away from the group.
"She's a human. You think she has-" Tsume began.
"She does!" Kiba interjected with a snarl. "Your doubts wont help her any!" He stopped a good 10 yards from the others and backed slowly away from her.
"Close your eyes. Let your power guide you."
Kagome gave him a narrow eyed look, but then shut her eyes and concentrated. She let the world fade around her and just let herself feel. Slowly, she felt as if she could feel the earth turning beneath her, and it was turning far faster then it should have been. It was a dizzying experience, and she knew she was swaying on the spot. Distantly, she heard their voices, heard Kiba telling them to leave her alone. She smiled, he was right. To come near her now would be to break the spell.
There was light to her right and she turned towards it, letting its pull lead her. She wondered at it, considering that her eyes were shut and the sun was high overhead. And this light... it was pure, and white. It beckoned to her. Deep in her chest a sharp pain throbbed as the Jewel of Four Souls tried to leave her body, wanting to reach that heavenly light. She screamed, the sound high pitched and resounding across the barren land to bound miles away.
"Cher, what is that terrible noise?" Detective Hubb Luboski asked the beautiful blonde woman next to him. Her eyes were staring in the direction of the noise and she looked terrified.
"It's... It's..." She stood up. "It's the scream. It's her scream. The Second beacon of the wolves." She grabbed her coat and her bag and ran towards the car they had been using to return home. Hubb was hot on her heels and firing questions at her, but she ignored them.
Once in the car she reached for the keys but Hubb grabbed her hand.
"What is going on Cher?" He asked, holding tight to her. Her eyes were wide and terrified.
"From the Book of the Moon. It's the keeper of the Jewel of Four Souls. The one who will destroy paradise."
When Kagome woke once again there were blue eyes looking into her own. But this time they were familiar. She sat up carefully, feeling for any injuries. Besides being woefully tired, she felt fine.
"What happened?" she asked, sitting up to find herself in a dense wood. It was a huge change from the barren desert they had been in last time she had awoken. "Where am I?"
"You led us here." Kiba answered. "You..." he trailed off.
Blue picked up the sentence for him. "You were screaming, and then you started to glow. You eyes were glowing a pure, white light. And then you, you flew." She said uncertainly.
Kagome shrieked. "I did what? I can't fly!" She protested. She had started to get up, but she sank back to the ground. When Kiba rushed to her side, she looked up at him. "I flew?" He nodded and offered a hand. She took it to pull herself up with.
Hige gave a more detailed explanation. "When you were screaming and then glowing you rose into the air, facing northeast, your head thrown back and your eyes glowing white. And then you stopped screaming and looked down at all of us. You said, "Come, wolves." and streaked off so fast we could barely keep up. We ran like hell for miles. And then you just stopped and dropped slowly to the ground. When you stopped glowing Kiba said we could go near you. You were asleep, or maybe unconscious because we couldn't wake you." His eyes slid down. "We were getting worried. You've been asleep for almost two days."
Kagome spoke shakily. "I flew?" She asked again. Then she laughed. "That's one talent I wish I had known before now. I could have avoided a lot of nasty landings." She was thinking of the times demons had thrown her into the air, or times she had fallen from pretty high places. Or there was that time she was blasted by Tetsusaiga when Sesshoumaru had taken it from Inuyasha...
"Done a lot of falling?" Tsume asked. Kagome smiled wryly.
"More like a lot of demons have tried to teach me how to fly. And they never succeeded."
Blue giggled. "What did you do to make them angry?" She asked.
Kagome shrugged. "I tried to take something that didn't belong to them. Or else wouldn't give them what they wanted. Or tried to purify them. Or was protecting my friends. Or-"
"I think we get it." Hige interrupted, but smiled good-naturedly. Kagome blushed. "But wait," Hige's smile slipped off his lips. "What do you mean you tried to purify them?"
"I have the power of the priestess I was reincarnated from. I can purify demonic auras; sometimes I can purify things that aren't demonic, but just evil. I still have a hard time controlling my powers though."
"Priestess? You mean, like from legends of Old Japan?" Asked Toboe. Kagome nodded.
"Um, what year is this?" She asked apprehensively. This looked nothing like the world she had belonged to, and it didn't resemble the feudal era at all either.
"Years were stopped being counted after the Global Warming disaster. I've heard it happened in the twenty first century. It's been about 500 hundred years since then." Tsume answered.
"Five hundred..." For a moment her brain froze as only one thought occurred to her. She had traveled five hundred years into the past to mess things up there, and now she was five hundred years in the future, and apparently had a destiny to fulfill here. Was she going to fuck things up here too? How many lives would suffer because of her?
She stood up and began to rapidly back away from her new friends, looking from face to face. Would they die as well? She had already come to love them in her own way. Would it be her fault if Tsume died without getting closure from whatever haunted him? What if Hige, with his laughing manner, died before her? Or Toboe, who was so gentle, so sweet. Would she kill that bright smile? What about Blue, who was so nice to her, and so obviously full of life? Would she cause her death? And Kiba, who was driven to fulfill a destiny that forced him so much pain. Kiba...
She turned and ran, tears streaming down her cheeks. She heard them calling to her, and then giving chase. She tried to push herself faster, but her weak muscles were already exhausted and she tripped. She went down hard.
She got up and tried again, but they were rapidly catching her. The next time she tripped she stayed down since they were nearly upon her.
When they caught up to her she was curled into a ball, sobbing words they could barely understand.
"I won't. I won't. I won't."
She was shaking uncontrollably.
"I WON'T!"
"Cher, Cher the screaming stopped." Hubb put a hand on her arm. "How are you going to find her without something to guide you?"
"Just watch the sky." She was gripping the wheel of the car, her face almost plastered to the windshield to see the sky better as she drove. "Watch the sky! We'll find her!" her voice was hoarse in excitement. This was the second telling in the Book. With the fall of the moon would be the fall of paradise. The evil part of the Jewel of Four Souls would be emitted into paradise and would cause paradise to crumble unless the keeper of the jewel was strong enough to hold that evil out.
"The Keeper of the Jewel?" Hubb repeated. Cher hadn't realized she was thinking out loud.
"Yes. If she defeats the evil within the Jewel she will become-" Her words were cut off as a bright light could be seen hovering in the sky. It streaked off to the right and Cher spun the wheel of the vehicle to intercept the speeding light. The way was bumpy and she was clenching the steering wheel with both hands to keep from losing control. Hubb, being rather tall, kept hitting his head on the top of the car.
"Cher," Hubb started.
BUMP
"SLOW," he yelled. BANG
"DOWN!" He finished loudly.
A final smash was heard as they hit a bump that was just too much for the little old car. The front wheel flew off, the bolts smashed. The front end dropped down on that side and they slid to a stop, just short of the edge of a huge sandy hill.
Hubb was holding his head in his hand.
"Cher, are you okay? Cher!" But she was already out of the car. Hubb followed her. She stopped at the top of the sandy bank. "Cher are you out of your-" Hubb started, but she held up a hand to silence him. He looked in the direction she was looking.
The bright light was headed almost straight for them. There was four different colored blobs rising and falling in its wake. As it got closer both of them realized those blobs were wolves. There was the black one that used to belong to Quent, a red one with bracelets on it front leg, a gray one with a scar on its chest, an orangey one with a collar around its neck, and the white one that used to be so protective of Cheza. The light became a teenage girl wearing the Old Japanese traditional school outfit. Her skin seemed to be one fire with white light. Her eyes were creepy; the pupil and iris were lost to that pure white light.
The whole troop sped by, leaving a dust cloud in their wake. Cher sank down into the sand, stunned.
The Guardian of the Jewel did exist. And unless they stopped her she would be the downfall of this earth and paradise.
END.
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Thanks for listening to my whining and harping and all other stuff. Until next time.
Riasha