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Spirits of the Past (2019)	By : WritingPassion Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 879 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Kagome just stares at Inuyasha in shock. ‘What’s he doing?’ Runs through Kagome’s mind as she stares at the other Hanyō ‘We just worked together to get the jewel back and now he wants to kill us and take it.’
“Kagome,” She quickly looks at Kyo and see him glaring at Inuyasha. He’s positioned in front of her and Kaede. She looks down and sees his hand open behind his back. Getting what he’s telling her she places the jewel in his hand. “Stay back. Do not follow me.” He stands up straight eye focused on Inuyasha.
“Kyo.”
Looking at her in his peripheral he gives her a small smile. “Don’t worry about me.” He then looks at Kaede. “I promise I won’t let him get the jewel. Just stay safe.” Walking forward his fist clench around the jewel. Inuyasha ears perk up and a smirk on his face. “You want the jewel?” Kyo holds the jewel up showing it to the other Hanyō. “Come get it.”
Taking off deeper into the wood trying to get the Inu-Hanyō to follow him. Inuyasha stares at Kagome and gives her a feral smile before taking off after the other. Kagome watches the two disappear into the forest with a frown on her face. Feeling a hand on her shoulder she sees Kaede standing behind her. “Kyo isn’t in the condition to fight Inuyasha. He may be Hanyō and heals faster than humans, but if he moves more that wound will not heal. Plus, I don’t know how long he will last against Inuyasha. Inuyasha was born a Hanyō he’s more skilled, to have survived this long. Kyo is skilled, but Inuyasha is deadly.” Kaede hops onto her horse. “We have to help.”
Kagome shakes her head and takes a step away causin1g Kaede to stare at her in confusion. “I can’t.” Kagome says stepping away from Kaede. “I don’t want any part of this. I just want to go home and forget that any of this is happening.”
“What about ye friend?” Instead of answering Kagome turns her head. A frown spreads across Kaede’s face before she looks to her men. “Take her back to the village.”
“What are you going to do lady Kaede.”
Looking at her men she pulls out some beads. “I’m going to make sure Kyo survives.”
Without waiting Kaede takes off into the direction that she feels the fain signature of the jewel coming from.
*
Dashing through the forest Kyo can hear Inuyasha coming after him. Seeing some bushes, he quickly slides into the bushes. Taking a deep calming breath Kyo tries to get his breathing under control. Moving his hand from his stomach he frowns at the blood cover his hand, looking closer he notices that gash from earlier is already closing. A heavy sigh escapes him as he leans against the tree listening closely to the forest. All the sudden he notices how eerily quiet the forest got. His ears give a hard twitch before he dashes quickly out the bush just as slash marks destroys the bushes. Sliding to the side he looks up only to see Inuyasha charging at him. Going to dodge but being too slow he receives a slash down the side of his arm. Biting back the scream that wants to erupt Kyo slides a couple feet away from the other Hanyō. Hot searing pain erupts from his left arm and he feels blood dripping down his arm. He glares at Inuyasha who is smirking at him with blood dripping off his claws.
“I don’t know how you survived this long with your survival skills.” The Inu-Hanyō says before flicking the blood off his claws. “But this is going to be easier than I thought.”
Kyo glares at him before he smiles causing Inuyasha to frown. “You want to see what I can do?”
Taking off at break neck speed Inuyasha stare in shock and doesn’t move out the way in time only receive a right hook to the jaw sending him flying to the right. Acting quick Kyo grabs him by his hair and slings him face first into a tree. Inuyasha lays face first into the tree and Kyo glares. A growl escapes him before he does a spinning kick to the back of the Inu’s head sending it through the tree. Kyo stares at the prone figure and knows he won’t be down for long and knows he needs to put distance between them. Hearing the sound of water Kyo makes his way towards it. Breaking out the forest the teen sees a wooden bridge stretching across a huge chasm. The sound of hooves gains his attention and he look up to see Kaede coming out the forest across from. See the old lady, he gives a smile and goes to walk towards her.
“Iron Reaver Soul Stealer” Comes from behind him.
Kyo eyes widen when he feels a searing burning pain erupt from his back. Kaede stares in horror as she watches a geyser of blood erupts from the Hanyō’s back. She covers her mouth as she watches the teen limply falls to the ground and standing behind him is a glaring bruised Inuyasha.
“Bastard,” He growls glaring down at Kyo’s body. Inuyasha could see that he’s still breathing. “I’m going to end this right now.”
Raising his hand to finish off this annoyance. Hearing the whistling through the air he crushes the arrow flying at him. Looking in the direction the arrow came from and sees an old woman glaring at him with one eye. Inuyasha stares at her in confusion before he smirks. “Is that little Kaede. My have you gotten old.”
“Quiet.” Kaede says hopping off her horse bow and arrow at the ready. “Don’t pretend that we were close. Ye killed my sister.” Out of anger she fires another arrow placing as much spiritual energy in this attack.
Cockily Inuyasha snatches the arrow out the air only for it to burn instantly. “Not as strong as dear Kikyo, just as annoying.”
On the ground Kyo tries to ignore the searing pain radiating from his back. Staring off in the distance Kyo tries to get rid of the black spots dancing in front of his eyes. He can hear the muffled conversation from the two above him, but he couldn’t make up anything they were saying. What caught his attention is the movement from behind him heading in the direction of Kaede. His eyes widen knowing that he has to make sure nothing happens to Kaede. Getting his arm to finally move he digs in his pocket and grasps the jewel and pull is out. When the foot comes into his vision he grabs it with his injured left arm. Feeling someone grab his leg Inuyasha looks down and annoyed growl escapes him.
“You’re still alive.” Inuyasha growls out. He goes to kick the other teen only stop when he sees the jewel.
“Fetch.” Kyo says using the last of his strength to toss the jewel on the bridge.
Seeing the jewel Inuyasha glares at Kyo before he goes to run after it. Seeing the distraction Kaede pulls out the beads she been holding. Quickly saying a prayer to activate the beads she watches as they glow before they fly out of her hand and circle around Inuyasha’s neck.
“Great,” She says quickly moving over to the fallen Hanyō. Reaching him she softly flips him over and taps him on the cheek to get his glazed look focus on her. “Kyo listen to me we don’t have much time. You need to focus.” Groaning, but the teen’s eyes fall on her. She slowly wipes the blood from his jaw. “I need you to say a word any word to bring Inuyasha under…”
“Kaede!” A voice screams causing the woman to look up to see Kagome running towards her. She frowns seeing the girl thinking that she went back to the village. When Kagome gets close enough she sees the bloodied Kyo laying on Kaede’s lap. “Kyo what happened.”
At the sound of his name the teen’s head lull over until he’s facing Kagome and a weak bloody smile spreads across his face. “Kagome.”
A frown spreads across Kaede’s face. She doesn’t have time for this. “Kyo.” The teen head falls back to her placing all his attention back on her. “I need you to say a word any word to bring Inuyasha under control. You can’t allow him to get the jewel.”
Hearing this Kagome stands up she looks over the bridge and sees Inuyasha reaching for the jewel. Thinking quick she remembers how the other Hanyō looks like a puppy. That quickly sticks in her head she shouts the first thing in her mind. “Sit!” She shouts and the beads glow before Inuyasha slams to bridge. With her voice continuing to echo off the mountain Inuyasha continues slamming into the bridge until he falls through the bridge into the water below.
Smiling Kagome rushes over to the bridge and picks up the jewel. Kaede watches her with a frown. She’s glad that she could save them, but the way she was willing to leave her friend behind. Waving to the men who came with Kagome they quickly put together a sled where they gently place Kyo’s body. Seeing everything Kagome rushes back over and decides to sit in the sled with Kyo to keep an eye on him. Glancing backwards Kaede frowns at the way Kagome is fretting over the Hanyō.
‘She has Kikyo’s soul, but she’s not Kikyo.’
A two days go by and Kagome and Kyo are still stuck in the feudal era. A heavy sigh escapes out of Kagome as she stares out the window. She watches the villagers work. Looking behind her, she sees Inuyasha lying down in the middle of the floor. It was a day later when Inuyasha shows up and he’s staying close because he wants the jewel.
“Worried about your little friend Kikyo?” Inuyasha asks with his eyes closed.
“My name’s not Kikyo.” Kagome growls out glaring at Inuyasha. “It’s Kagome.”
Instead of answering he just waves her off. That’s another thing it took Kyo an entire day to heal completely. Kaede gave him some clothes since his clothes were torn in the fight. That same day he disappears without a word to her, but Kaede knows and even when Kagome asks where he’s at. She would inform her that she wanted to be alone.
‘Where are you Kyo?’
*
A few miles away from the village is a small pond Kyo burst from underneath the water gasping for air. Floating up on his back he stares up at the sun. Heavy sigh escapes him as he let’s the things that happened to him over the past two days. Another sigh escapes before swimming to the shore he climbs out of the water naked and lays out in the middle of the sun. The first few hours in the feudal era Kyo almost died twice. His grandmother trained him in hand-to-hand combat. She taught him how to defend himself, but that was against regular people. She probably never thought he would fight Yōkais or Hanyōs. Spending that night in the would really helped him with his senses. He knows that he is nowhere near as strong as Inuyasha, but hopefully next time he will be able to defend himself better.
“Taking a break?” Kaede asks coming to sit next to him. The older woman glances at the naked Hanyō making sure her eyes don’t stray and a blush spreads across her face. Kaede notice that the teen doesn’t seem to have a shed of shame or fear of being seen naked. Kaede must admit that the child has a great body. If she was a few years young she would take her chance wat the boy. ‘Well, he’s most likely older than me.’
She glances back at the boy who is staring at her with a smile. He then looks down at his body before he quickly stands up and put back on his blue yukata that Kaede gave him. His style is different preferring to wear it around his waist more like a lone cloth leaving his chest bare. He’s been going around barefoot and he actually likes it. “Sorry, about that my grandmother raised me without shame.”
“I heard that’s how most Yōkai are.” Kaede says waving off his worry. “So, you are from this period?”
Smiling at her Kyo smiles before staring up at the sun. According to my grandmother I am. It seems that when I was born my tribe were in the middle of a war with a tribe Tokage Yōkai clan. They slaughtered everyone even my parents were killed during that time. It seems my mother used the last of strength to ask my grandmother to protect me. She took me to the future where Yōkai aren’t.” He smiles. “She told me my mother was a powerful Miko.”
“That explains it.” The Kitsune looks at the old woman with confusion. “I sense a powerful spiritual energy from you. When you held the jewel in your hand it almost purified just from your touch. With you being able to find it inside Mistress Centipede that really concluded it for me.” Kyo nods. “You are fighting style is also interesting.” Kyo smiles at that.
The two sits in silence for a few seconds. Running a hand through his hair he realizes that it is already down to his shoulder. “Two days and my hair is already this long. What is my life?”
Kaede stares at him before she remembers the conversation they had last night about him visiting his grandmother. “Kyo nods. “How?”
Kyo starts to explain everything.
*
Opening his eyes Kyo finds himself back in the forest. Looking at the rock he sees his grandmother sitting there shaking her head at him. “You got over confident in both your fights. You know from your training that you never let your guard down. You could have died and it’s not your time.” Kyo lowers his head. “Lift your head you are not in trouble. I’m just stating that you are the last of our clan. Your instincts will never fail you.”
Kyo nods his head, but he looks around frowning at the white orbs floating around. “Where are we?”
“This place is the only place in the world where the spirit world and the living world met. One can only get here by death, but or clan is different. Being that we are the ferry men to the souls we can enter this place and leave as we wish. Since I am dead I can only be here at certain times. You because your soul left your body for a second you were able to come here. You have to find this place on your own.” She looks off to the side again before sighing. “It seems my time is up. Promise me you won’t be here earlier than your intended time. Just because you are two hundred doesn’t mean that I won’t put you over my knee. Also, I need for you to head to the ruins of our village, I’m pretty sure there are somethings there for you. That Inu will be of great help and an even greater ally, but you need to grow stronger before you can be of any help to him.”
Before he could say anything, his grandmother was gone.
*
“Isn’t that some way to find out you are way older than you believed.” He chuckles shaking his head completely missing the shocked look on Kaede’s face. Looking over to her he raises an eyebrow. “What?”
“You said your clan is from the Northern Kitsune tribe?” Kyo nods. “Your name is Kita correct?” Kyo nods. “Not Kimura?”
“That was the name of my father and grandmother before she changed it to Kita. I never asked, but from the look on your face Kimura means something.”
“This is way before my time, but the legend of the Kimura tribe is a fairy-tale about a tribe of Kitsune Yōkai that can travel to the spirit world. There are many tales of Yōkai that are ferrymen to the souls, but the Kimura clan are known to be as beautiful as angels themselves, but they were slaughtered by a clan of Tokages who wished to mix-breed and gain their powers.” Kyo nods taking in everything that Kaede says. “The village lies in the Norther snowy mountains, but no one has stepped foot in the village in over two-hundred years.”
“Can you write me a map to get there?” Kaede stares at him with a raised eyebrow. “If my grandmother says there is something there for me than I need to see what it is.”
Kaede nods before she stands. “I can write you a map of where I believe that it could be, but I’ve never been there, and it could be a myth. Are you going to take Inuyasha and Kagome with you?”
Kyo didn’t think about that but having Inuyasha around could be helpful and they can keep Kagome safe. So, with a nod he stands up and follows Kyo back to the village.
*
Leaning up against the wall in the hut Kagome gives a heavy sigh. The excited chatter gains her attention and she looks out the window and sees Kaede and Kyo walking back into the village. Quickly she moves out the hut and rushes over to him. Sensing the other Hanyō, Inuyasha follows behind her. Standing off to the side Kagome glares as she watches the women fawn over Kyo.
“Look at them throwing themselves as him like hussies.’ She feels anger settles deep inside of her as she giggles in his face. ‘Disgusting.’
“I can smell the envy wafting off you Kikyo.” Inuyasha chuckles.
Kagome glares at the Inu. “Sit!” She shouts causing Inuyasha to slam into the ground. Everyone looks at her and she quickly puts on a smile and runs over to a frown Kyo. She bumps some of the girls out the way. “Where have you been?” She ask glaring at him. “I was worried sick.”
Kyo stares at Kagome before looking at the down Inuyasha before moving over to him. The Inu looks up to see a hand in his face. He follows the hand to see Kyo staring down at him with a smile. Looking at the outstretched hand the Inu stares at it for a second. Inuyasha knows what he’s offering and even though they fought not long ago Kyo could be of some help. Taking it Kyo helps him up and the two stare at each other.
“Hmph, I didn’t say I needed your help.”
“Didn’t say you did.” Kyo says throwing his hand behind his head a small smirk on his face. “But it’s always nice to have somebody have watching your back.”
“And you going to watch my back?”
“I may not be as good as you, but I’m a loyal person.”
Inuyasha stares at Kyo, before nodding. “Kyo,” They both turn around to see Kagome glaring at him. “Don’t you just ignore me. Where were you?”
“I just needed a day alone to get my head wrapped around everything.”
“Well, you should have told me. That is very inconsiderate of you having me worry about you like that.”
Inuyasha frowns at her and then he looks at Kaede to see her frowning at the girl. Kyo opens his mouth to say something only for a pretty girl to walk in front of her holding his torn clothes. Seeing the girl, he smiles. “Hey Ana-chan.”
The girl blushes and Kagome glare darkens. “Hi Kyo.” She says softly and then frowns looking down at the clothes. “I couldn’t fix your clothes.”
He smiles only seems to get bigger causing the girl to go in a daze. “It’s okay really. I’m just grateful that you tried. If you can’t fix it, you can just throw it away. I have extras at home. Thank you again though.”
Ana clutches the clothes to her chest as she shakes her head. “I will continue to try again. There has to be something that I can do to fix this.”
The other girls starts to chatter and fight saying they know a way to fix his clothes. Shaking her head at the nonsense Kaede claps her hand silencing the girls. “You are all acting like chicken. Why don’t you all find away to fix young Kyo’s clothes.” The women all look at each other before they run off causing Kaede to shake her head. “Women. Come along I need to talk to ye, Kagome, and Inuyasha.” Kaede looks around and notices that the young Miko isn’t here. “Where is Kagome.”
“She went somewhere.” Inuyasha says with a shrug of his shoulders before looking at Kyo. “You’re just a real charmer aren’t ya.”
Kyo stares at Inuyasha before he smiles and wraps an arm around his neck. “Have you fallen under my charms Inuyasha?”
Inuyasha rolls his eyes, but he doesn’t try to push Kyo off him. Kaede watches the two and she notices for the first time that Inuyasha seems relaxed. “I’m glad that you two seem to be getting along, but we have to go after Kagome. It’s dangerous out there and unlike ye who can defend yeselves she can’t. Go find her and bring her back.”
“I say good riddance she was a liability.” Inuyasha says scratching his head.
Kyo shakes his head. “She’s our friend.”
“She’s your friend.” A heavy sigh escapes Kyo as he looks at Kaede.
“She has the Shikon jewel.” Inuyasha’s eyes widen as Kyo tilts his head to the side. Kaede notices that he sighs. “Ye don’t pay attention much. The jewel that ye almost died twice for.” Kyo nods, while Inuyasha is fuming. “Powerful Yōkai have searched centuries for that jewel. I bet most of them have already felt it’s return and will be searching for it.” She stares at them both. “Go find her and bring her back.”
They both nod before Inuyasha turns to Kyo. “Race ya.”
Before the Kit could say anything the Inu took off into the forest. “Hey!” He shouts before taking off after him.
Kaede watches the two and couldn’t stop smiling. ‘It seems Inuyasha finally found himself a friend.”
*
“How dare he.” Kagome growl stomping through the forest. “Allowing those women to feel on him and even flirting back with them. Worrying about that damned Inuyasha instead of answering my questions. I mean we aren’t dating or anything, but we have a connection. He’s saved me, doesn’t that mean something.” Seeing the well come into view Kagome smiles as she runs towards it. Stopping at it she stares in and sees the bones of Mistress Centipede at the bottom. “Let’s see how he reacts when I disappear.”
She goes to jump into the well when hands grabs her and drags her away from the well. A few minutes later Kyo and Inuyasha lands next to the well a frown on their faces, when they don’t see Kagome around. Sniffing the air, he smells Kagome’s scent along with a group of men.
“So, this is how you guys came to this time?” Inuyasha asks causing Kyo to look at him. “Through this well.”
“Kaede believes that it was the jewel that allowed the portal to open allowing Mistress Centipede to pull Kagome into the well.” Sniffing again his nose scrunches up when he smells decaying flesh. “Do you smell that?”
Inuyasha takes a whiff and is hit by the same scent. “Somebody’s dead. We have a puppeteer on our hands.”
They both nod at each other before taking off in the direction of Kagome’s scent.
*
A grunt escapes Kagome as she is tossed on the ground. She glares at the men surround her with lecherous looks.
“Isn’t she a pretty one?” One of the men asks stepping forward. He bends down in front of her and looks her up and down. Looking at what she’s wearing he frowns. “Isn’t her Yukata way to short.”
He flips her skirt causing Kagome to scream and kick the man in the face. “Pervert!”
The rest of the bandit’s chuckle before they hear a groan. Kagome looks to where the groan came from to see a shadowy figure slowly standing. The figure steps out the shadows revealing a huge pale bald man with beady black eyes. He’s wearing a brown yukata under a black armored tunic. His eyes fall on Kagome causing the girl to shiver in fear.
“She has the Shikon jewel. Bring me the jewel!”
Kagome eyes widen, but before she could say anything or any of the bandits can move to search her. The leader begin to swing wildly trying to kill Kagome. The bandits and Kagome run to the other end of the shack trying to dodge the sword from hitting them. One of the bandits believing that they can calm down their leader walks forward with their hand raised in a non-threathing manner.
“Hey, boss calm down. I’ll get you the…”
He never got to finish his sentence when he was struck down by the sword. Kagome watches the man get struck down in shock horror looking on as blood and gore pooling on the floor. A look of shock and complete horror is etched on his face.
‘This is idiotic.’ She feels the pouch that the jewel is in and a dark look spreads across her face. ‘All this over this stupid jewel.’ Pulling out the pouch she glares at it. ‘If I get rid of this maybe they will leave me alone.’
Looking around she sees a hole in the wall. Quickly throwing the jewel through the hole. She turns just in time to see the leader lift his sword ready to bring it down on her. Closing her eyes, she braces herself for the attack, when she hears something crash through the roof. Opening her eyes, she sees Kyo coming through doing and eagle dive kick to the leader’s shoulder causing it to dislocate and drop the sword. Inuyasha coming down behind him clawing down the front of the man.
They both land in front of the leader. “I would have gone for the head but disarming him was a good idea.” Inuyasha says standing next to Kyo. “Your nose isn’t that bad either.”
Kyo chuckles. “I don’t like to kill.”
“It’s survival of the fittest and kill or be killed in this world.”
Kyo nods placing that in his mind. They both turn back to the man and sees one of the straps of his armor was cut showing a gaping hole in his chest where its hearts supposed to be. “He really is dead.” They both take a step closer and see something moving inside. The creature emerges from the hole revealing a black three-eyed crow.
“I knew it.”
“You know what that is?”
“I’ll explain later.” Inuyasha growls watching as the crow takes flight and flies around the shack. The Inu turns to Kyo. “Don’t let that crow get out.”
The teen nods and follows Inuyasha’s lead. The two Hanyō move in unison as they try to catch the crow. They both jump at the same time and the crow shoots upward causing both Hanyō to crash into each other. They both fall to the ground with a weak groan.
“Inuyasha Kyo.” Kagome calls as she rushes over to them. “Are you both okay.”
“Fine,” Inuyasha groans out rubbing his head. He then looks at Kagome before he quickly grabs her shoulder. “You still have the jewel, right?”
“Umm…” Kagome says shakily looking out the hole.
Kyo and Inuyasha looks out the hole just in time to see the crow land beside the jewel before swallowing it up and flying off.
“You threw it out a hole in the wall?!” Inuyasha screams staring at her in shock.
“I didn’t want that stupid jewel around. It only puts me in danger.”
Inuyasha stares in shock at the girl before looking to Kyo who’s just shaking his head. Looking around the Inu sees a bow and arrows and shoves it in Kagome’s hands. The girls stares at it in confusion before looking at Inuyasha. “It’s your fault that damned crow got the jewel. You are going to fix it.” He turns around with his back facing Kagome. “Get on.”
Kyo snicker as he watches Kagome stare at Inuyasha’s back before climbing on. Inuyasha looks at Kyo before giving a nod. Nodding back Kyo takes off first after the crow. Kagome notices the unspoken language between the two before Inuyasha takes off after the Kitsune.
“You two seem close.”
Inuyasha glances behind him at the Miko. “Don’t worry about us. Just get ready to use that arrow Kikyo.” Kagome opens her mouth to rebuttal but is quieted. “Get ready!” Kagome looks up to see Kyo jumps in the air. A smirk spreads across the Kitsune’s face before it does a spinning kick causing the bird to pull back to dodge the kick. “Now!” Inuyasha shouts as he jumps in the air. Placing the arrow into the bow and releases it and it falls way to short causing Inuyasha to crash to the ground. “What the hell was that?!” Inuyasha shouts throwing Kagome off.
“I never said that I was good a bow and arrow. You just gave it to me.”
“Everything alright?” Kyo asks landing next to them.
“Yea,” Inuyasha groan getting up “One more time. The crows’ an idiot it won’t know what the plan is.”
“Alright.” He nods and is about to take off again but stops and stares at Kagome and gives a smile. “Hey, I know you can do it. Just calm down and wait for your shot.”
Kagome stare at Kyo for a second and she can feel a blush spread across her face, it turns to a glare though when she remembers every thing that happened earlier, causing her to turn up her nose. Kyo raise an eyebrow at her before he glances at Inuyasha who just shrugs. Glancing one more time at Kagome, Kyo takes off running towards the crow. Kagome looks at the Kyo’s retreating figure before she glances at Inuyasha who just shakes his head.
“What?”
“Your definitely not Kikyo.” Inuyasha turns his back to Kagome. “Get on we got to kill that crow.”
With Kagome back on his back he takes off after the crow. It’s not long before Kyo jumps up in the air and this time doing an Axe kick causing the crow to pull back and lower closer to the ground. Seeing this Kagome takes a deep breath and aims the arrow. Steadying it she releases the breath and the arrow, and it soars through the air. Kyo sees the arrow and smirks just as it hits the crow. A purple light envelopes it before it explodes.
“Yea!” Kyo shouts landing on the ground with a smile. Inuyasha and Kagome comes up to him. He turns to them with a blinding smile. “I knew you could do it Kagome.”
Kagome smile before she frowns. “Hmph, not like I need your compliments.” She says missing the grown on Kyo’s face as she looks at Inuyasha with a smile. “Told you I could do it.”
“Not really.”
Before either of them could start arguing a loud caw rings through the open plains. All three looks up into the air to see the crow completely reform before it continues its path.
“Where is it heading?” Kagome asks.
Kyo and Inuyasha looks in the direction the crow is flying before their eyes widen. Before Kagome can ask what wrong, both are taking off after the crow.
*
A few yards away a small bustling riverside village is working like any other day. The men are working on build new huts for new residents and fishing. The women are gathered around laughing and preparing for dinner. While the children are running around playing. One child is on the bridge gazing into the river while his father fishes. The crow flies over the small village three eyes roaming over the village trying to find the perfect pry. It’s eyes lands on the child, before it quickly swoops down snatching up the child and flies away. The child screams calling for his parents while the villagers are running after it.
“Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!” Inuyasha shouts slashing through the crow ripping it into shred causing the boy to fall into the rapid river.
Inuyasha land on a rock look for the jewel while Kyo dives into the river.
“Inuyasha the child!” Kagome shouts from the bridge.
“Kyo has him!” Inuyasha shouts back still looking for the jewel. “I’m more worried about the jewel!”
In the river Kyo swims quickly towards the child. Reaching out he finally grabs the child and pulls him close to his body. “Got you kid.” The kid turns around and lets out a piercing scream that’s way too loud for Kyo and a piercing screams, causing ringing to go through his head. “Calm down!” Kyo shout shutting the kid up. “Damn.” He shakes his head to stop the ringing. “Listen I’m not going to hurt you, but I need you to trust me. Take a deep breath and I promise I will get you out of this river.”
The child stares for a second before he takes a deep breath. Seeing that Kyo quickly dunks them underwater before he’s bursting out the water and lands gently on the bridge. Releasing the kid, he runs over to the villagers who are glaring at Kyo weapons at the ready. Kaede told him how people view Yōkais and Hanyōs, so the glares are understandable. Inuyasha lands next to him ignoring the glares. He goes to open his mouth to say something when the crow busts out the water and flies away.
“There it is.” Inuyasha goes to chase after the Yōkai when they hear the boy scream.
All three turn just in time to see the crow’s talon still attached to the back of the boy and yanking him towards the crow. Thinking quick Kagome rips the talon off before tying it around her arrow. Aiming for the crow she releases it and it soars right to it at a break neck speed, piercing the crow and the jewel. A bright purple light envelopes the entire area before they see a dozen or so little lights speeding off in different directions. Everyone stares in awe until the light disappears leaving the sky blue. Inuyasha notice something shining on the ground and quickly moves over to it with Kagome and Kyo following behind him. Picking it up his eyes widen when he notices that it’s a piece of the jewel.
“You shattered the jewel!” He shouts at Kagome. “How could you shatter the jewel!”
“It’s not my fault!” She shouts back glaring at Inuyasha. “I was just to stop the crow I didn’t know it would shatter.”
They both keep arguing trying to put the blame on someone. Not wanting to get in the middle of their arguing match, Kyo finds a rock he can sit on and just let them argue until they get tired. Staring up at the setting sun, he thinks about what his grandmother says about heading to his clan’s old village. ‘What’s there grandma.”
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Night has fallen and Kaede’s village is quiet as the villagers have turn in for the night. Putting out the fire she stares at the sleeping Kagome before she heads out her hut. She walks until she sees Kyo sitting in a tree and Inuyasha leaning up against it.
“She’s a liability.” Inuyasha says as soon as Kaede gets to them. “She doesn’t have any sense of her one safety. She threw away the jewel. Just think if a DaiYōkai would have gotten the jewel Kyo and I would be dead.”
“She is selfish and self-centered, but she still be a child.” Kaede says.
“It doesn’t matter. I know plenty of human girls who know not to go running off alone not once, but twice.” Kyo and Kaede stares at Inuyasha in confusion. “It was the night you left Kagome decided she wants to go home since you didn’t personally tell her you was leaving. She was going to leave you hear and have you worry. I stopped her before she get further, and she started flirting with me, but I sent her back to the village. That wasn’t the only reason why I stopped her. That crow was in the forest watching her waiting for its chance to get her. She could have been killed, and we could have lost the jewel. We don’t need her and don’t hit me that spiel about she can see the jewel shards. According to him finding it inside the centipede Kyo can see the jewel too.”
“I’m glad to see you two getting along.” Kaede says causing Inuyasha to scuff. She turns to the Kitsune. “What say ye Kyo?”
Looking at the two, Kyo sighs. “What both of said about Kagome is true, but she’s not a bad person just give her a chance Inuyasha.”
He stares at his new-found comrade before he turns his head. “Fine.”
Kyo smiles and Kaede smile back. “Well, now that’s settled. I will talk to all three of you tomorrow.”
Inuyasha and Kyo watch as she walks away. When they were sure she is safe in her hut the two look at each other before they disappear into the forest.
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