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Sandman	By : YoursAlways Category: InuYasha Crossovers > Het - Male/Female Views: 2261 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Sandman

Chapter Three

The sight of ogres running through stacks of paper brought a smile to Kurama’s face. It had been a while since he’d been to Spirit World, and it was nice to see that things hadn’t really changed. As he approached Koenma’s office, the large doors opened for him with a slight creak and closed behind him with the same noise. Quickly looking over his surroundings, Kurama noted Koenma behind his desk and a nervous Botan standing to the side with several files and notebooks in hand.

“Kurama,” Koenma greeted him as he stamped one last paper before pushing his work aside for the moment. “Botan tells me that the two of you have something that you need to discuss with me.”

“That’s correct,” Kurama said as he took a seat before the child-god’s desk. “It’s pertaining to the Jewel of Four Souls.”

Koenma hummed. “That’s a name that I haven’t heard in a very long time.”

“So you know of it?” Kurama questioned.

“Of course!” Koenma answered as he leaned back in his chair. “How could I not? It caused quite a bit of trouble several centuries ago, but we were so busy at the time that we didn’t have anyone to handle it. By the time we could spare someone, the matter had sorted itself out and the jewel had disappeared.” Koenma stretched his arms high above his head before relaxing again. “That thing is nothing but trouble as far as I’m concerned.”

“Do you know of its current location?” Kurama asked.

“Unfortunately no,” Koenma admitted. “It disappeared soon after the war that it caused had ended. We were never able to track it down.”

Kurama glanced over at Botan and could see her fidget. She was obviously nervous about this conversation. Deciding to be direct, Kurama announced, “I believe that Botan and I have tracked down the jewel’s location.”

The room was quiet for a moment before Koenma sat up a little straighter and laughed, but the sound came out nervous and tense. “I’m sorry, but could you repeat that?” He asked.

Steeling himself for whatever reaction Koenma was about to have, Kurama repeated, “Botan and I have located the Jewel of Four Souls.”

“You must be mistaken,” Koenma told him out of pure denial. “It’s been more than five hundred years since the jewel was last seen, and you say that you’ve actually found it?”

“Yes, sir,” Botan finally chimed in quietly.

“That’s impossible!” Koenma shouted. “You couldn’t have just found it,” he insisted.

“I assure you that we did,” Kurama said calmly as he waited for Koenma to take in what he was being told.

Shaking his head, Koenma continued to deny what he was being told. “But you couldn’t have. We searched for it for decades! Where did you find it?”

“It’s with a young woman,” Kurama said. “I found her in a park in Tokyo.”

Koenma sat in stunned silence for several seconds before jumping back into the conversation. “Overlooking the park in Tokyo, how did a human woman come to possess it?” He questioned the detective.

“I spoke with a member of her family,” Kurama explained. “According to them, she was born with it inside her body.”

“Her family knows about the jewel?” Koenma shouted. “No, no, no, that’s not important right now. There is no way that this woman was born with it. I remember the basics of the jewel’s story. The only way for her to be born with it is for the soul it was burned with to be reincarnated. After it was burned with the last official guardian, it popped up fifty years later, and that threw everyone for a loop because exactly how that happened was a mystery. The guardian that it appeared with didn’t die. They just disappeared. This woman could not have been born with it in her body.”

Botan cleared her throat to catch the men’s attention. “I think I might actually have an explanation for that, sir,” she said as she shifted the files in her arms. When Koenma gave her an expectant look, she gently set her armload down on the corner of his desk and grabbed a small notebook. “This is the life file of Kagome Higurashi, the woman who currently has the jewel. I don’t think anyone caught that she had the jewel because for the first several years of her life, the file reads like any other teenage girl. But the file gets a little...strange when it reaches her fifteenth birthday.”

“Strange how?” Koenma asked as he narrowed his eyes.

“As you know, sir, a human’s life file contains their entire life written down so that reapers can know when, where, and how they will die. It allows us to review their life and guide them to wherever they need to go. Well, Miss Higurashi’s file after her fifteenth birthday is...well, it’s smudged out and looks like it was written over.”

“That can’t be right,” Koenma said as he crawled across his desk to snatch the file from Botan’s hands. Sitting on the desk’s surface, the demigod flipped through the pages and shook his head. “This isn’t possible,” he murmured.

“I’ve only seen one other file like it,” Botan said as she pulled a small notebook out of her kimono’s sleeve and handed it to her boss.

Koenma grabbed the file and flipped through its pages as well. Realization dawned on him and he quietly said, “This is…”

“Yusuke’s,” Botan finished for him. “Yusuke wasn’t meant to die on the day that he did. He had a very different destiny. But somehow he deviated and changed it. I believe that Miss Higurashi also somehow managed to deviate from her written path, and her life was drastically changed because of it.”

“Do we know what happened?” Koenma asked as he returned to flipping through Kagome’s file.

“I studied it for a while, and even though the original words are almost gone, it looks like on her birthday she and her younger brother were debating on who was going to go into an old building on their shrine to look for their cat. Her brother was supposed to go, but Kagome went instead.”

Koenma looked around the desk before asking, “Well what about the boy? How damaged is his file?”

Botan rummaged through her stack of folders before pulling out another small notebook. “It’s not as bad as you would think. There are a few incidents with demons and the like that weren’t supposed to happen, but his file is largely unchanged.”

“So what is this woman’s destiny now?” Koenma questioned Botan as he continued flipping through Kagome’s life file. He stopped when he ran across another anomaly however.

Gesturing to the page that the young god was on, Botan said, “She doesn’t have one anymore.”

This was the first that Kurama had heard of the development and it startled him. “How is that possible?” He asked.

“She changed her path so much, that there was no way for her to get back to her original destiny. And if she deviated once, she had a high chance of doing it again. The rest of her file has been smudged out and now things are just being written down as they happen,” Botan explained. Koenma turned the file around so that Kurama could watch line after line being added. “Yusuke’s file is the same way,” Botan added. “Everyone has a destiny set out for them from the moment they’re born. It’s very, very rare, but every so often someone will change something so big that they’ll end up writing their own destiny. Honestly, I only know of a few times that it’s ever happened. What are the chances that I would run across two cases?”

“So her disease?” Kurama slowly questioned.

With a sad frown, Botan nodded. “It was never meant to happen. It’s just an extremely bad stroke of luck.”

“Wait,” Koenma interrupted as he began flipping pages again. “What disease?”

“Kagome has a disease that’s killing her,” Kurama answered.

Koenma flipped a few more pages before suddenly snapping the notebook shut. “We are getting off topic,” he announced. “How does this woman have the jewel in the first place?”

Surprised that her boss hadn’t looked it up in the file, Botan simply answered, “She’s the reincarnation of the last guardian.”

“No, there’s no record of the last guardian dying, so she can’t be” Koenma argued.

“The last guardian that you’re talking about, the one that suddenly appeared and then disappeared,” Botan clarified, “is Kagome Higurashi.”

“What?” Koenma shouted. “That was more than five hundred years ago! This woman,” he said as he waved the file before quickly opening it to check something. “This woman is only twenty-three!”

“The event that changed her life so much was getting pulled five hundred years into the past via an old well on her family’s shrine,” Botan explained.

Koenma gaped at his reaper for a moment before he began flipping pages again so that he could begin reading at the beginning of the event. After several minutes, he mumbled, “So...she’s the rightful guardian?”

“Yes,” Kurama and Botan answered in unison.

Koenma set aside Kagome’s file before slowly crawling back to slump in his seat. “And you said she has a disease that’s killing her? Tell me about that.”

Taking back the conversation, Kurama explained, “She’s unable to sleep and truly rest. Even as the jewel’s guardian, she’s only human. Her lack of rest is causing her body to slowly shut down.”

“How long does she have left?” Koenma asked even as he seemed to become lost in his own thoughts.

“At most, less than a year,” Kurama answered.

Koenma rubbed his eyes. This was not what he had expected to hear when Botan and Kurama requested this meeting. “And what of the jewel?”

“She still has it,” Kurama assured. “Apparently after her journey in the past was complete, the jewel returned to her body and she returned home.”

Koenma groaned before laying his head down on his desk and closing his eyes.

Worried, Botan asked, “Sir, what’s wrong?”

“I have a hard decision to make between two impossible choices,” he informed her.

“I don’t think I understand,” Botan confessed.

“I have two options: Wait until she dies and the jewel is placed with her reincarnation who won’t know how to protect it, or take it from her and place it in our vault,” Koenma explained. “With the first option, we would have to make sure that her body is burned with the jewel, track her soul’s reincarnation, and hope we can spare someone to guard every reincarnation she will have. This is an incredibly dangerous gamble given that there may come a day when we can’t spare a guard. If the reincarnation is attacked and the jewel is taken, we may not be able to handle the fallout. I would say that the second option is the safest, but it wasn’t that long ago that I was proven wrong,” Koenma said as he sat up and gave Kurama a pointed look. “Though we’ve tightened security, we’ve been shown that our vault can be broken into.”

“So what can be done?” Kurama asked ignoring the annoyed look that Koenma was shooting him.

“Ideally, since this woman is the same one from the jewel’s legends and knows of the jewel and how to protect it, it would stay with her until we could work something out,” Koenma answered. “But it appears that we don’t have much time.” Stopping to think for a moment, Koenma asked, “And I’m to assume that there is no way for her condition to be cured?”

Kurama shook his head as he answered, “No, and there’s no medical treatment to extend her time.”

Botan suddenly perked up as a thought occurred to her. “Why not just wait until she dies and give her an egg like you did with Yusuke? She’ll be revived healthy!”

“That would work if I had another egg,” Koenma said sadly. “Those eggs are very rare, and it was pure luck that we had one when Yusuke died. There’s no telling when another one will show up.”

Kurama listened absently as Koenma and Botan tried to come up with a viable option regarding Kagome’s condition and status. He was trying to think of something on his own. It wasn’t until he heard one of the pair by the desk mention inducing sleep that an idea hit him. “Sir,” Kurama interrupted the demigod and his reaper. “I believe I might have a way to, at the very least, extend Kagome’s life.”

“What is it?” Koenma asked as he focused all of his attention on redheaded detective.

“Kagome only needs to sleep deeply enough to dream,” Kurama said simply. “Dreaming takes place in the deepest level of a human’s sleep cycle. Aside from the body getting the rest that it needs, it allows the mind a way to almost cleanse itself. If I’m able to induce sleep, Hiei should be able to force her mind into a deeper state of sleep. If we’re able to do this every night, it should prolong her life long enough to come up with a solution of what to do with the jewel. She may even begin to recover some and be able to tell us more about it. Botan said that your files on the jewel were incomplete.”

“Do you think Hiei would go along with it?” Botan asked.

“I’m not sure,” Kurama answered honestly. “He may need to be ordered,” he continued as he looked at Koenma.

“Hiei’s sentence was much longer than anyone else on the team, so he’s the only one that I can still technically order to do anything,” Koenma mused.

“But you’ve given him mostly free reign for quite a while now,” Kurama pointed out. “He won’t be happy to be given an order again.”

Koenma nodded and was silent for a moment. “We’ll just have to ask him and hope that it doesn’t come to giving orders.”
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