Disclaimer for this one-shot: InuYasha is property of Rumiko Takahashi and Gensomaden Saiyuki is property of Kazuya Minekura. All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author, punkish furball. The author, punkish furball, is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. The author, punkish furball, makes no profit from this fanfiction. No copyright infringement is intended.

punkish furball – Hello! It's another crossover one-shot collection. You know what they say, one more couldn't hurt? XD

Words to Ponder:

To decide which pairing to write, I decided to pull a name from a hat of names. I'll take requests too…don't hold me to that though.

Installment 1

InuYasha/Gensomaden Saiyuki

Recapture

Ever wonder why Gojyo flirts with some many women?

Gojyo/Kagome

-O0o0O-

"How about you and I get together later?" a fairly attractive woman suggested as she daringly ran her fingers through the crimson locks of Sha Gojyo, "I can give the number to my room at the inn down the street."

With a small smirk on his face, Gojyo grabbed the offending appendage by the wrist and pulled it from his hair before gently placing it on the bar counter.

"Sorry, honey," he answered, his voice slipping into its usual sensual octave, "but you don't look like my type. Maybe some other time?"

"Your loss," the woman said with shrug of her shoulders before standing up and walking away from the bar.

"Do my eyes deceive me? I never thought I'd see the day you'd let a willing woman walk away," a green eyed brunette called Cho Hakkai commented with a grin. The two of them were sitting in the bar of the town they and their traveling companions, a Sanzo priest and demon, Son Goku, decided to stop for the night.

"Whatever, Hakkai," Gojyo replied and took another sip of his drink, "I don't like it when my prey falls into my lap. It's so much better when there is a chase involved."

"If you say so my friend," Hakkai stated with a smile on his face, "At least I don't have to tell Sanzo and Goku why didn't come back with me."

"Hmm," Gojyo mutters and continued to stare at the amber liquid in his glass. His eyes dropped to the bar counter and the smile faded from his face. "I do enjoy the chase, but sometimes I feel like I'm chasing after something I can never truly recover." He paused and took a sip from his glass. "My mother wasn't the only one who cried because of me."

Hakkai looked at Gojyo expectantly and waited for the exclamation he knew the red-haired half demon would give him.

-O0o0O-

Gojyo looked all around the woods, but he could not find his older brother, Jien. The two of them had gone to town and got separated in the forest.

"Jien!" he shouted with his hands cupped around his mouth, "Get your ass out here! Come on, we need to go home!" Pausing for a moment, Gojyo heard a faint whimpering sound in the distance. He strained his ears to locate the location of the soft noise. He continued walking until the whimpering grew louder.

Gojyo found the source of the noise in a small clearing; it came from a little girl around his age. A light pink blush stretched across his face; she was very pretty. Her black hair was tied in a high pony tail and she was wearing a white T-shirt with some blue jean overalls. Her eyes were a pretty shade of blue and filled to the brim with tears. Gojyo noticed a small scratch on her cheek and her small hands vigorously rubbing her ankle. He wanted to help her, but he was afraid. Seeing those tears rushing down her face like two twin rivers reminded him so much of his own mother's crying face.

'Would she hate me because I'm a half demon?' he inwardly feared. Gojyo thought for a moment before deciding he couldn't leave her alone even if she would turn him away. He took a deep breath before walking a little closer to the little girl. Gojyo cringed when he stepped on a twig and a loud cracking noise echoed in the clearing. The girl's head snapped up from her ankle and she looked warily in Gojyo's direction. Gojyo walked a little closer despite the frightened look she gave him.

"Are you okay?" Gojyo asked, finally finding his voice. He wanted to kick himself in the pants for sounding so stupid.

'Of course she isn't okay?' he scolded himself, 'She's out here crying all alone in the woods, you idiot!'

"I'm fine," she answered, breaking Gojyo from his thoughts, "I tripped over the tree roots and hurt my ankle. I tried to get up to go home, but it really hurts."

"Let me see," Gojyo suggested and kneelt down on the ground next to her. Her shoe was already off, leaving her white sock on her petite foot. Gojyo pulled it off and observed the injured ankle. It was large, swollen, and a purplish color. He had to restrain himself from shouting how gross the injury looked.

"I don't know too much about ankles," Gojyo began sheepishly, "but I wouldn't walk on that for a while."

The girl sniffled and a few more tears fell from her pretty blue eyes. "How am I going to get home? Kaa-san must be so worried about me."

"Ya know," Gojyo said and began to blush once again, "I can—if you want, I mean…carry you…on my back to your house. That's if you want me too!"

"You'd do that for me?" the girl asked and sniffled with a huge grin stretching across her face. Gojyo couldn't help but grin back at her and nod his head vigorously.

"Yep!" he said excitedly, "I can get you there in super speed!"

"I've never been super speed before," the girl asked with wonder in her voice, "Thank you so much! I'm Higurashi Kagome."

"I'm Sha Gojyo," Gojyo said and turned to Kagome so his back was facing her, "Grab on and make sure to hold on really tight." Kagome nodded and latched her arms Gojyo's neck. He hooked his arms underneath her legs, holding her tightly.

"Kagome-chan, can you show me which way you came here?" Gojyo asked.

Kagome pointed her finger to their right. "Walk through those trees until you get on the road to the village up ahead."

Gojyo nodded and began moving in the direction Kagome indicated, fast enough to keep her excited and slow enough to avoid other hazards.

-O0o0O-

"So your first love was a little girl you met after one day?" Hakkai asked, interrupting Gojyo's story telling.

"Try not to butt in," Gojyo commented, looking up from the counter, "I happen to be pouring my heart out here. And besides you're the one who wanted to know about it."

"I do believe you started talking on your own," Hakkai countered, "I didn't ask you to elaborate on anything."

"Should I stop then?" Gojyo asked, "I mean if you really don't want to know."

"Sorry," Hakkai amended, "I didn't mean to discourage you. Go on."

"Thought so," Gojyo replied with a smirk on his face.

-O0o0O-

"Thank you, young man," Higurashi Nodoka said as she placed her daughter on a chair in the kitchen. Gojyo made it to Kagome's home just before dusk. The girl's mother met the two of them at the door and Kagome immediately began the tale of her heroic rescue by Gojyo. At the moment, she was pouting as she looked down at the gauze wrapped around her foot. Her mother said it would be a while before she could go outside to play again.

"It was nothing," Gojyo said, once again rubbing the back of his neck, "I should really go home now."

"Wait!" Kagome shouted before Gojyo could leave. He stopped at the door and looked back at Kagome.

"You'll come back to see me, won't you?" she quietly pleaded.

Gojyo gave her a wide grin. "Of course, Kagome-chan!" Kagome smiled and waved goodbye to him as he walked outside. Gojyo left the small house with a spring in his step; he was happy that he decided to help Kagome out. He may not have found his brother, but he got a new friend because of it.

'Kagome is amazing,' Gojyo thought, feeling truly happy, 'She's my first real friend.'

-O0o0O-

"Hey, squirt, where ya been?" Jien asked, rubbing his younger brother's head. When Gojyo was on his way home, he had met up with his brother. Jien was walking through the forest and calling out his name just like Gojyo was doing a few hours ago.

"Get off me, you asshole!" Gojyo shouted and ducked away from his brother's hands.

"Jeez, what a foul mouth you have!" Jien commented and retracted his hand, "You still have to tell me where you were."

"I was with a friend," Gojyo answered in a small voice, turning his head away from Jien.

"A friend?" Jien asked in a surprised tone, "Who?"

"A girl," Gojyo replied, "She hurt her ankle in the woods and I carried her home. Her name is Kagome and she's my friend now."

Jien nodded and hummed lightly to his self. He noticed the small tint of pink on his brother's cheeks and began to grin. "So did my little brother discover girls today?"

"Shut up!" Gojyo shouted, turning sharply in Jien's direction.

"But," Gojyo began in a much softer voice, "if you were going to visit a girl that hurt her ankle at her house tomorrow, would you bring her gift?"

"A gift, huh?" Jien repeated, "Come with me, squirt." Gojyo pouted at the nickname but followed his brother nonetheless.

-O0o0O-

"Here," Gojyo said as he held out a bouquet of red flowers to Kagome. Jien took Gojyo to a flower shop in town yesterday to pick out a gift for Kagome. He spent most of his money on the floral arrangement, but it was worth it to see the smile on Kagome's face. She was sitting on her bed, beaming happily at the present Gojyo got for her.

"Thank you so much!" Kagome exclaimed, taking the flowers for Gojyo, "They're the same color as your eyes. And they're pretty like them too."

Gojyo blushed slightly and rubbed the back of his neck. "You really think like them?"

Kagome eagerly nodded. "They're so pretty. They look like something you'd get for your mommy. I know my Kaa-san would love these!"

"You think my mom would like these too?" Gojyo asked tentatively.

"Sure," Kagome replied, "I think she'd love them!"

"Alright," Gojyo replied in a confident voice, "I'll get her some as soon as I get some more money."

"Gojyo," Kagome called out and patted a spot on her bed next to her. Gojyo obediently climbed onto the bed and sat next to Kagome.

"What?" Gojyo asked. Kagome blushed deep red before pressing her lips to Gojyo's cheek.

"Thanks for coming to see, Gojyo," Kagome stated after she pulled away.

Gojyo stared at Kagome wearing the goofiest expression Kagome had ever seen. "You're welcome."

-O0o0O-

Gojyo smiled as he walked from the flower shop with his brother and Kagome. He had finally gotten enough money to buy the flowers for his mom like Kagome suggested. It had been a few weeks since he met Kagome. They spent nearly every day together ever since. They had gotten along very well except if Gojyo made her angry. Kagome didn't like it when she heard him cursing. She was a fiery thing when she was angry.

Whenever Gojyo got made fun of, Kagome cried. He always hated to see her tears. Her tear streaked face reminded him of his mother when she cried, but her tears were very different from his mother's. She cried because she loved him and it hurt her to see how Gojyo was treated because he was a half demon.

"Why can't people see what I see when I look at you?" Kagome asked, her neck buried in Gojyo's chest as she sobbed. Unfortunately, Gojyo had no answer to that question, but whenever Kagome cried, Gojyo would bend over backwards just to make her smile and stop her tears.

Jien and Gojyo walked Kagome home and she went inside after giving both brothers a hug and wishing Gojyo good luck.

-O0o0O-

"So it was Kagome's idea that you give the flowers for your mother? The same flowers that reminded her of your eyes and your hair," Hakkai asked in a solemn voice.

"Yeah," Gojyo answered, "The night when my mother tried to kill me, I left and never saw her again. Sometimes I still think about her. Pretty pathetic, huh?"

"I wouldn't say that," Hakkai said in a reassuring voice, "Let me buy you another drink."

"Sure," Gojyo said, but he doubted it would make him feel any better.

-O0o0O-

"You're telling me that Gojyo really had one girl he loved?" Goku asked once Hakkai retold the story Gojyo told him. The group had packed up in the jeep and got on the road.

"Yep," Hakkai answered from behind the wheel of Hakuryu.

"I don't believe it," Goku commented and crossed his arms across his chest.

"Believe what you want," Gojyo replied, "but it's true."

"I don't care what you believe," Sanzo said, taking a drag from his cigarette, "Just shut up before I make you."

"Aww, come on, Sanzo," Goku whined loudly.

"Hey, look up ahead," Hakkai said. A group of demons were circling what looked like a young woman in her early twenties.

"That's just wrong," Goku commented, reaching for his staff, "Ganging up on a girl like that."

"Looks like we get to save a damsel in distress," Gojyo said, also grabbing his weapon.

Once Hakkai drove closer, the crowd of demons was blown back with a pink burst of energy from the small woman.

"What? Where the hell did that come from?" Goku shouted, in awe of the girl's sudden display of power.

"She's a miko," Sanzo answered, "I thought that their kind died out a long time ago."

"A what?" Goku asked curiously, never hearing the term before.

"Just watch," Sanzo stated and motioned for Hakkai to stop driving.

The small woman broke away from the circle of demons and pulled out a long bow, notching three arrows from the quiver behind her back. She released the string and hit multiple demons at once, reducing them to ash.

"Wow, that chick kicks ass!" Goku exclaimed.

Gojyo stared at the small woman in a daze. Long onyx hair fluttered behind her and her ocean blue eyes where hardened with determination as she stared down the horde advancing for her. She was dressed in jeans and a white tank top, but, with her graceful moves and the curves of her body, she made the ordinary outfit look elegant in nature.

"No way," Gojyo whispered in disbelief. She looked so familiar, but it couldn't really be her. Then again, he never felt what he had with Kagome when he was just a boy with any other women. To feel have the same feeling by merely looking at this woman…

A demon started to attack the woman from behind and she was too preoccupied dealing with the demons in front of her to notice.

"Kagome!" Gojyo shouted in alarm. He jumped out of the jeep and attacked the demon with his Jakujou. The woman looked up to him as soon as he landed behind her and all of the demons were reduced to dust.

"Gojyo?" she asked, looking at him in shock with her widened blue eyes.

"Kagome," Gojyo said, feeling like he was a boy again seeing her for the first time. Then Kagome's hand connected with his cheek, leaving a red mark in its wake.

"Is that all you have to say after all this time!" Kagome shouted, "I've been worried sick about you!"

Gojyo smirked. 'Yep, still as fiery as ever.'

Gojyo pressed his lips to Kagome's, effectively cutting off her tirade.

"Gross! Get a room, Gojyo!" Goku shouted and childishly stuck out his tongue.

"How long does he plan on doing that?" Sanzo asked dryly.

"I think it's sweet," Hakkai commented with a grin, "In a weird watching your friend make out with a cute girl he hasn't seen since he was a kid kind of way."

'Finally,' Gojyo thought as Kagome firmly grasped his shoulders and pulled him closer to her, 'I waited for this for so long.' This is what he always longed for; to recapture what he lost.

-O0o0O-

punkish furball – I hope you liked this. The next pairing I pull from the hat is Kazuma from s-cry-ed. Yay! L83R, DUDE5! ^.^

(revised 04.11.2012)