WARNING: This is the disclaimer for the rest of the story, I don't want to keep re-typing this.
I do not own any of the characters from InuYasha or Naruto. I do however own the plot, it is my own idea and I take pride in saying that I did write this fan fiction.
'Thoughts'
"Speaking"
-Flash Back-
Pages: 5
Story Word Count: 2, 159
Chapter One- Leaving Home
'I guess it all worked out in the end.' Looking into the seemingly bottomless pit, a sigh escaped pale pink lips. Closing warm, almost inviting chocolaty brown eyes the young woman looked as if she was about to commit suicide, by jumping into the infamous bone eater's well.
"Kags, why do you do this every month?" A boy that looked about 10 or 12 said quietly under his breath hiding in the nearby foliage. "Don't we have a better life here? You are a hero; we live in the Lord of the West's castle, he even trains us!-"
"Souta you know I can hear you right?" Kagome asked, informing her younger brother, who wasn't really careful, stepping on small twigs and rustling dried leaves.
Hearing her voice Souta jumped, he honestly never expected her to hear what he had to say. Kagome turned her head to look at her brother then at her feet, which dangled into the well. She knew there was nothing to go back to in Tokyo. All there would be were boring and dull noisy humans that were killing themselves by polluting and with their greed. Souta was right; the better life was here, their home, in the Feudal Era.
Even though Kagome's true friends were now supposedly in a better place, it seemed that they would always be in her heart. Where ever she went, there were memories of Shippo, Sango, Kirara and Miroku, but it haunted her. At times it seemed that memories of the 'impossible' to defeat Naraku lurked around every dark alley. After every encounter it always seemed like there was more training that had to take place.
-Flash Back-
Blood was seeping out of a wound of a young fox kit. Ripped green and white shreds from a school uniform were being pressed against the hole, soaking up the red substance rapidly. Tears blinded the young woman holding the cloth, he couldn't die. No he wouldn't she… she could save him! She could save Shippo all she had to do was concentrate. Removing the blood soaked wad of cloth she didn't see that blood had already started to dribble down out of the mouth of the small form. Placing a shaky hand over the wound an extremely weak pinkish light started to emit from the girl's hand. Eyes closed in concentration. She could save Shippo she could save the young boy she saw as her son. She could even see him now, except…… he was with ……. two other foxes that were roughly the same size and color. They were cradling the small fox demon, it could have been her imagination but she was sure she saw them turn and nod at her, before all three of them disappeared into a white light.
"Lady Kagome. I think he has already passed, I don't think there is anything you can do right now." A man dressed in black and purple robes said solemnly placing his hands together in silent prayer for his young friend.
"Mirkou I think Kagome needs sometime alone with Shippo."
"That would probably be the best idea right now Sango." The monk said his staff jingling as he walked away.
"If only InuYasha had been here! Not trying to find a rotten corpse, maybe Shippo could still be alive." Sango said while tears had started to slide down her face. Giving one last look to Kagome, Sango picked up Kirara and left with Miroku.
Kagome starred into the lifeless indigo eyes that once held so much joy and mirth. Hugging the Shippo to her chest tears started to flow out of her eyes. She hadn't been strong enough to save him; she wasn't even strong enough to heal him. She was always dragging the group down, always relying on others. A small funeral was held for Shippo, Most of the village children who had played hide and go seek and tag with him attended. Kaede and Miroku preformed the ceremony and he was buried next to one of the trees near the well were he'd wait for Kagome to return from the future.
That's when Kagome also started to learn hand-to-hand combat from Sango and easily learned how to infuse and write those nifty ofuda's that Miroku always had handy. It seemed as Sango continued training her the more she was able to predict what moves Sango was going to make when they where sparing. The battles were getting more and more interesting to Kagome, but Sango started yielding earlier and earlier on into the battles.
"Kagome…I think...you're, better at this…than I am now." Sango panted out her hands on her knees. Sweat was dripping from her forehead and Sango was sure there'd be bruises on both of them.
Kagome smiled at Sango and was going to reply when she felt someone familiar running towards them at a remarkable fast speed. Kagome looked at Sango who seemed to be unaware of the demon approaching. "Sango, someone's coming this way!"
"Hu-" Sango suddenly felt the hair's at the back of her neck stand up signaling a demon was nearby.
"InuYasha's wrench have you seen my ward." A pale golden eyed full dog demon said an angry undertone of venom under his breath.
Kagome looked at the dog demon, "I am not, your half brother's wrench, I have a name it's Ka-go-me! Why are you even looking for Rin?"
"Do not question this Sesshomaru," Sesshomaru turned around then decided to answer. "Rin heard that she missed your runt's funeral so she wanted to come and visit his grave."
"Lord Sesshomaru may I ask, why are you looking for Rin then?" Sango asked listening in.
"You may ask Taija. Jaken had been bringing her to visit the grave when he was sliced in half. I revived the toad with Tenseiga and he didn't know what happened to Rin or where she went. The faint scent of my brother and the dead Priestess was lingering around that area then it was gone." Sesshomaru stated walking away.
"Sesshomaru do you want us to help you find Rin? It's easier to search for someone with more people." Kagome said she didn't want another innocent child to also have to be buried.
"This Sesshomaru does not need assistance. Do what you want." He said before disappearing in a gust of wind.
-End of Flashback-
Kagome let a small smile linger on her lips. It turned out that that was the way Sesshomaru asked for 'assistance' as he called it. Away that's basically how and why 'The great and feared almighty dog demon Lord of the west, Sesshomaru' agreed to train her, because, he owed her a favor after she willingly helped him, also that was the reason she was able to get the rest of her soul back.
"Kagome lets go back to the castle," Souta said grinning at Kagome. Seeing her nod and jumped off of the rim of the well and onto the solid ground. Souta knew she was dwelling in the past. "I'll race you! Last one there is the rotten egg!" Souta took off running trying to show that the training was paying off and that he was getting faster.
Kagome looked at her brother's blurring form. It was a wonder how Souta made it through the well. When he did though, he was crying and hiccupping to the point of hyperventilation. In between sobs he would say 'Kun-Loon and Jii-chan screaming', 'no more', 'Why?!' and 'It's not fair!' After a week or so, Souta told the entire story.
Basically some drug dealers heard that Jii-chan had herbs and powders of sorts and they wanted them. Jii-chan however wouldn't sell his authentic herbs to druggies. Kun-Loon heard some strange noise outside and told Souta to hide in the well house. Jii-chan called the police. The gang broke in, mutilated any living thing and took anything they thought was valuable. Souta who was hiding in the well house could hear their screams. When he heard some footsteps outside his hiding place, he shut his eyes and took his chance and jumped into the well hoping that it would hide him. He ended up in the Feudal Era however and when he climbed out he saw someone that resembled his sister although this person strongly radiated with wisdom and calming vibes. Then Souta realized that that person was really his big sister, and cried angry tears because she hadn't been there to save Jii-Chan or Kun-Loon.
"A year is going past in a month over there.…" Kagome said referring to Tokyo "So that means... technically four have already gone by here." Musing to herself she jumped into a nearby tree and tracked down her brother. Finding him just about to pass the stream, this marked the half way point. Jumping from branch to branch she decided to speed it up a little. Pushing off from the last branch she stepped on she could no longer be seen to the human eye. Sitting down on a tree branch near the gate of the Western Lord she waited, and nineteen minutes later her brother appeared out of the forest breathing heavily and grinning like a fool.
"I beat her this time! I BEAT KA-" Souta was forced to stop yelling as a purple striped hand grabbed his shoulder causing him to drop into a fighting position that was drilled into his head.
"Refrain from yelling on this Sesshomaru's land, boy." A slightly amused Sesshomaru said retracted his clawed hand back.
Kagome slide down from the branches and ruffled her brother's hair. "Wow Souta you are getting fast, maybe next time you won't start without me so it will be fair."
"Fine, fine but next time for sure, will determine who the best is!"
"LADY KAGOME, LADY LORD SESSHOMARU, SOUTA YOU MUST COME QUICKLY, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE BONE EATER'S WELL, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TO DO AND THEY DON'T KNOW… Don't know what's going on! There are bright lights and the ground is shaking. Please Lady Kagome, Lord Sesshomaru do something!"
Sesshomaru turned to look towards the young woman who had gained his respect. Long ago when he began to train her she had informed him that this would happen. Midoriko had foretold that the event would take place. Picking up Souta he and Kagome took off towards the well at a rapid place that left Souta feeling like he was going to through up his lunch, in fact he felt really lightheaded. Then he slumped down signaling that he had passed out as they landed near the well.
"I'll miss you. I can't thank you enough for what you've done. There are so many things I want to tell you but now I can't. You don't know how much you mean to us, you are like that over protective big brother I never got." Kagome wouldn't cry she wouldn't allow herself. Minding the sharp metal spikes on his armor she hugged him tightly, when she pulled back she felt something bulky being shoved into one of her pockets but she was distracted by Sesshomaru's rare and priceless smile that had formed on his lips.
"You are needed elsewhere now. I intended to give these to you on that strange Chrisy-master day, you've been celebrating for the past three yares, as you call it." Pulling out two boxes from his shirt he handed them to Kagome whose tears threatened to spill over the edge.
Kagome nodded and smiled. "Your present is under Souta's bed," Looking at Souta Kagome picked up her little brother. "You know he always thought of you as a father figure and there you will alw -"
Her speech was cut short as she was pushed into the well. Sesshomaru was never the one for theatrics, it was bothersome. He would never admit this to anyone but himself, however he would miss them both. Placing his mask of stone back into place he watched Kagome falling backwards, slipped the gifts into her fighting Kimono's inner pocket and watched her until she was absorbed into the red light. Then he took off towards his lands leaving the destroyed well behind him.
Floating around in the red substance Kagome shook her head. That was something only Sesshomaru would have done when he knew that they would probably never see one another again. It was actually strange how everything took place, in reality Kagome should have been at least nineteen, excluding the time she spent living and training with Sesshomaru in his special study with actually blocked out all time. However due to the Lord of the North attacking Sesshomaru's castle some rooms was destroyed that included the study which reacted with the Lord of the North causing him to be forever frozen in time. So…it was most likely that this was also the production of that room exploding because Kagome and Souta were still suspended in the magic red transportation goop.