I Am Shades of Life

Summary: Kagome heard many whispers in the night; they were the trees, the flowers, the sea, all life on earth. For, she was Mother Nature, and had been since she could remember, since she had died five hundred years ago, she had replaced the first, Mother Nature, for she wasn't alive to protect the children, but to make sure that they would always have a Home on the Earth that they walked on...her Center was Peace of Mind, but at the moment, Peace was the furthest thing from her mind as something has placed her Earth in the Shadows, and she knew exactly who was to blame. Someone clearly needs to be taught not to piss off Mother Nature!

Anime/Manga: InuYasha/The Rise of the Guardians

Pairing: Kagome/Jack Frost

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Rated: M for Mature Content

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Art from that fund each

Just supple provides,

Work without show,

And without pomp presides:

In some fair body,

The th' informing soul,

With spirits feeds,

With vigor fills the whole,

Each motion guides,

And every nerve sustains;

...itself unseen...

...but in th' effects...

Remains...

Kagome was outside, walking barefoot alongside the road as she looked around at the trees frozen with ice. Spring was coming, and so Jack would be moving on to another part of the world to press his cheer and happiness along. She loved when Spring was near, she was responsible for the beautiful, fresh flowers which would bloom all around, and it was a secret joy of her to increase the aroma of a certain few flowers and have kids stop at the scent just to smell the roses.

"Isn't it a little cold to be outside still?"

"..." Kagome looked up and smiled, "Isn't it getting a little warm for you to still be hanging around?"

Jack laughed and flipped down beside her, ice forming under his bare feet as he walk along the side of the road next to Kagome.

"So how goes the day?" Kagome asked as an old couple passed by and smiled at her, bowing in slight as they did. She frowned at that, but said nothing, it happened occasionally, an old couple would bow to her, as if they knew who she was, but how could they?

Jack too looked curiously at the old couple, but said nothing about it as he answered her question, "I was going to do another snow day, but..."

"But you thought it might be good if the kids actually...I don't know...attended classes?"

Jack shrugged, "You never hear them complain, do you?"

"Of course not, because they are too young to realize just how important school is to their future,"

"Yes, of course...why should they have fun in their youth, right? When they grow up, they will have wished they never had a snow day in their entire life,"

Kagome rolled her eyes; his sarcasm was extremely obvious and could be heard for miles around if you listened. "Come now Jack, that isn't what I meant, and you know it."

He said nothing, but nodded all the same.

"I was thinking...I might follow you back to your home this summer,"

Jack perked up at that. Occasionally, she would join him at his own town, but since she caught up with her time, she hadn't done so. "Why the change of heart, I thought you were going to stay with your family."

"...I can't stay with my family; if I continue to live there and not age then they might think that something is wrong with me." Kagome sighed, "I love my mom, and brother, but in all honesty, they will start suspecting something as the years go on and I stay seventeen years old. I'm dead, Jack, I've been dead for nearly five hundred years. Coming up is my twentieth birthday...and I'm not getting any older...not in looks, at least."

Jack gave her a sympathetic look and sighed, it was true that she hadn't changed a day since he first saw her, but he never thought that her eternal youth would be the reason she'd have to leave her family. "Well, you already know you are welcome to stay in my town, not that I could stoop you if I wanted to, but that goes to say, I do want you to stay with me, I only wish I could off you a home."

Kagome laughed, "The earth is my home, Jack, I am Mother Nature," she crouched down near a tree and placed her hand on the ground before the trunk of the tree, "I can build and create a home with a mere thought." As she said this, a small house grew from the dirt, with the roots of the tree as its foundation, walls, and roof.

"In a few days, people will be praying to this thing," Jack nudged it with his foot and watched as frost started to climb up the small walls of the house.

"Hey!" Kagome batted Jack on the head as she watched him frieze her little house. "I can still change my mind about going, you know!"

Jack laughed; a gust of wind picking him up off his feet as he flew above her head and around a few trees before landing on a branch, "You can't do that Kagome, I'm holding you to it!"

Kagome watched him as the wind blew him off his feet and took him to his next destination. This would most probably leave her with enough time to pack her things and come up with something for her mom and brother, as well as her grandfather. "I guess I should head home,"

"Mama! Mama, look!"

Kagome turned to see a little boy pointing at the tiny house.

"Oh goodness,"

"What is it Mama?"

"I believe...it's a shrine for the spirits,"

"EH!?"

Kagome smiled, 'You were wrong Jack, it hasn't even been a day.'

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Me: Hope you all enjoyed! Me: Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, I know it's been awhile since I last updated and I'm sorry about that, but with hope, things will change and updates will come out a little faster than previously!

I'll be starting lists from now on, posting them at the end of each chapter, so you'll know what has been both updated, and next to be updated.

LIST

Rated M For Manicure – X

A Moment In Time – X

The Last to Know – X

Shine on Me – X

The Girl You Left Behind – X

Accidentally In Love – X

Stay Alive – X

I Am Shades of Life – X

The Shadow Bender – Chapter Three Started

I Say Yes – Next chapter in Journal

My Dirty Little Secret – I'm staring at it…=.=

Me: The list will be made by Yuki subsequently, once I finish the last story on the list. Please Review, and let me know what you think.