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Ripples in Time	By : Waterunleashed Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 7624 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Ripples in Time
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or the Characters from the Merry Gentry series. Nor do I make any money from this story. My only profit is the satisfaction of getting this story out of my head and onto paper.

Well this story just sort of came to me and has been hounding me ever since. I decided to do a cross over between LKH's Merry Gentry series and Inuyasha however there isn't too much of the LKH's characters in here since they are all in America. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Kagome goes back to her own time for good but finds that when one touches the waters of time ripples grow exponentially and the result is nothing what she imagined.

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Chapter 1: Tampering with Time

It’s easy to forget yourself. It’s easy to forget where you truly belong. It’s easy to forget that your actions have consequences. I always thought that I was meant to follow my heart wherever it lead me. However, the harsh truth was staring me right in the face.

I am Kagome Higurashi, a normal school girl until the age of 15 where a mystical jewel called the Shikon no Tama awakened inside my body. It’s awakening brought with it a demon from the well located in the back of my family Shrine. She called herself Mistress Centipede and dragged me 500 years into the past. That event began a three year journey through a world I never believed existed.
How could I? Demons, Priestesses with purification powers, magic of all kinds that just didn’t exist 500 years later and the only remnants of their existence were through legends and fantasy stories. Unless ,of course, you are my grandfather and believe in demons wholeheartedly, but, he was crazy. Right? Wrong.

As I was saying it has been three years since I found out the mythical Shikon no Tama resided in my body. Three years since I broke said jewel. Three years that I travelled back and forth in time to fix my mistake while trying to maintain my life, and grades, in the future. I mean present. Did I mention I hate time travel. It isn’t that my journey through time hasn’t been wonderful; on the contrary I have met a group of people that I will forever hold close to my heart.

There is Inuyasha, the half dog demon that was pinned to the Sacred Tree, Goshinboku, by his beloved Priestess Kikyo. He was the first one I met in the past, though not the first conscious person. I was able to release him from his magical sleep. He tried to kill me to get the jewel, calling me Kikyo. He still does that on occasion. Call me Kikyo I mean. He protects me now instead of trying to kill me. Sure he complains that ‘I’m a weak human’ but it doesn’t matter. He is my best friend, we’ve been through so much together both physically and emotionally.

For the longest time I thought I loved him, you know head over heels, he can do no wrong, puppy love. But, he did a lot of wrong. Called me Kikyo after kissing me, he would leave me high and dry to go find Kikyo. There were a lot of problems because of Kikyo. Okay that isn’t really fair.

You see I am the reincarnation of Kikyo, or that is what everyone believes. We look a lot alike, we are both priestesses but that is where the similarity ends. Our personalities are complete opposites. I’ve done a lot of thinking about that. Why are we so different if we share the same soul? Is it nature versus nurture? I haven’t decided and I’m probably going to take a few philosophy classes in college. Nothing like interacting with your own reincarnation to make you philosophical, though as I said I’m not sure we are the same soul.

When I broke the jewel it was obvious I had to help put it back together, it was causing so much chaos across Japan and I was the only one who could sense and purify the jewel fragments that wasn’t going to try and use it for a selfish reason. At first I thought we’d go around collect the fragments, put it back together. Inuyasha would make a wish and I would go back to my time. It seemed so simple.

I was so na’ve back then.

I don’t know when my plans truly changed. The situation changed, the fragments attracted demons and made the bearer extremely powerful. What could an untrained priestess and a half-demon do to bring down these foes? Answer, not much. Fate however, smiled on us, we found allies and inner strengths. But, we also found enemies, formidable enemies. Our main enemy and constant threat throughout the three years was a half-demon named Naraku.

Naraku hungered for the jewel, the cunning creature seemed to have an innate ability to see into the hearts of others and find their weaknesses. Weakness he loved to exploit.

He was the true reason it took us three years, well him and another. Sesshomaru, Inuyashas’ half-brother, a proud dog demon that also tried to kill me when we first met, and the second time, and well he really had issues when it came to his half-brother and humans.

It was because of these issues, still unknown issues, that it was so hard to make him understand that a truce between him and Inuyasha was the only way to defeat Naraku. It wasn’t until his ward, a little human named Rin, helped me stand up to him. Together we finally made him listen and a month later after a long, arduous battle Naraku was defeated and the jewel was made whole.
That was when I realized that the solution wasn’t so simple anymore. Inuyasha waited expectantly for the completed jewel and I couldn’t give it to him. He wanted to become a full demon, or maybe he was going to wish Kikyo back to life. Either way I knew that the jewel had to come back with me to modern Japan.

That was my second problem, I didn’t want to leave. I’ve spent so much time these past three years living 500 years in the past with a group of people I knew better than my own family. Here in the past I had Sango, my sister, Miroku, my brother, Shippo, my adopter son, Inuyasha, my best friend, Kaede, my grandmother, Rin, my adopted daughter, and Sesshomaru, my reluctant friend, though he’d probably kill me if he knew I felt that way.

So when the battle ended the jewel remained around my neck and I remained as I was, dancing between times. We moved to Sangos’ old village and helped her rebuild it, taking various demon extermination jobs across the country. Occasionally we ran into Sesshomaru, Rin, Jaken and AhUn. In which we quickly learned that the truce between the brothers had been dissolved and they returned to their frustrating habit of fighting. I don’t remember who struck first but it doesn’t matter the two idiots just can’t get along and therefore we try our best to steer clear of their group.

Life was good though; I graduated high school with mediocre grades and was taking a break before starting college in order to stay in the past with everyone. Once I begin college I don’t think I’ll be able to come back often. I need time in modern Japan for studying and classes and hopefully internships.

It has been five months since we defeated Naraku, we were on our way back from exterminating a large nest of beetle demons. I don’t know what it is about bug demons but I for one can do without encountering another one. Bug demons equal trouble for me. Maybe I’m just reading too far into it, but, bug demons equal trouble for me.

Don’t believe me, well, welcome to my life. Now that I’ve reflected on the past and brought you up to speed I’ll get back to the ugly truth staring me in the face. She wasn’t ugly, she was beautiful. Her long hair drifted in the breeze, brushing her ankles. In the three years of travelling in this magical past I have never seen hair like hers. It looked like storm clouds; it wasn’t just different shades of gray the patterns in her hair made it look as if it were actually thunderstorm clouds.

Her glowing eyes were three separate rings of color around her pupil. The inner circle was a blue so light it was almost white, it was surrounded by an eerie yellowish green and the outer layer was a dark green. Her skin was white and glowed as if she were made of moonlight.

She wasn’t a demon, the power she emanated wasn’t anything I had ever felt before, it was strong and the feeling marched along my skin like hundreds of little ants. She looked European, though her eyes were a little large for her slender face. The dress she wore was definitely European; it looked like a dress taken out of a Shakespearian play.

Her right hand held a decorated short sword. Her glowing eyes stared down at me as she stood a few yards from me in the clearing. ‘Why are you here?’ She asked in a thickly accented English, her voice was soft and rich, it seemed to travel through the charged air and though her words were almost whispered I heard them clearly.

I bit my lower lip and tried to remember how to answer her. I took lessons in school but I wasn’t fluent and it took longer than was pretty to answer her. ‘Eh, I am with my friends.’ Who were currently heading to the exterminators’ village while I traipsed around Japan by myself. After all I was a powerful, trained, priestess now. I could get back to the well on my own now. I’m so stupid.

‘Your friends? I would know if there were more Sidhe here. Tell me, why are you in Japan?’

‘I don’t understand, what is Sidhe?’ The word had never come up in class, did she mean demons? But then wouldn’t she be implying that I was a demon?

Her strange eyes narrowed, ‘who are you?’

‘I’m Kagome Higurashi.’

‘You are from this land?’ She sounded surprised and began walking toward me. I gripped my bow tighter and fought not to back up as she closed the distance between us. I came up to her chin and had to b crane my neck backward to an uncomfortable position in order to keep eye contact. This close and her power was almost suffocating, it wrapped around me like a thick blanket. ‘Such a young Sidhe should not be so far from the Sithen, are you exiled?’

That word again, and now a Sithen what was a Sithen and why shouldn’t I be far from it? ‘I’m from this land. I’ve never been anywhere else.’

‘Your parents are the exiles then, what are their names?’

‘They are not exiles,’ my neck was beginning to hurt. I stepped back from her until I could look at her without straining my neck. ‘I don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t understand these words, Sidhe and Sithen. I am human; a priestess is that what you mean?’

‘You are not human, you are Sidhe; a fey, an embodiment of nature. How is it that you don’t know this?’ She seemed to ponder her words, perhaps she was trying to think of a better explanation because what she just said made absolutely no sense.

‘I’m human, my parents are human, and my grandparents are human and so on. I’m a priestess of a shrine in Edo.’

‘If you are human then, how can you understand me? No human has travelled too far from this isolated group of islands.’ She was studying me again but now I had to fight to keep eye contact.

‘I am well educated,’ Though my grades didn’t show that.

‘Indeed, it is rare for a,’ she paused, ‘Human to know more than one language when it is native to a region they have never seen.’ She sheathed he sword and stepped closer raising a hand in front of my chest, I felt her aura push at mine. She caressed the energy between us, ‘a spell,’ she whispered.

She took her hand away, ‘your parents’ names.’

Why was it so important? Did it matter? They wouldn’t be alive for centuries. ‘Izumi and Daiki Higurashi.’

‘I do not recognize these names,’ her glow began to soften, as if the light were dimming inside her as she pondered something. ‘I am going to remove the spell on you Kagome. It will release you from these mortal bonds and allow you to come into your Sidhe powers. I don’t know why someone would do this to you. Perhaps your parents angered someone.’

‘Mortal bonds? But I am mortal, I am a human please just leave me alone.’

‘I have travelled a great distance because of you Kagome. Rumor has spread through the land, the trees whisper of a Sidhe in this land.
We do not come here, this is a land for the demons and we leave them alone. Your parents risked much to bring you here. Yet I do not feel their power, are they dead?’

‘My father died when I was very young.’

‘What of your mother?’ She wasn’t glowing anymore, though it did not diminish her beauty and otherworldliness.

‘She isn’t dead.’ I said.

‘So she placed a spell on you both to protect you, I did not think the demons were that dangerous.’ She waived the thought away. ‘Where is she, if she created the spell then I would like to know why from her mouth.

Damn it all, ‘she is very far from here.’

‘Is she in Japan?’ I nodded. ‘Then I will accompany you to her, perhaps she will wish to return to the Sithen.’

‘I’m sorry but that isn’t possible, you can’t reach her.’
Her eyes narrowed, ‘I am capable of many things, why can’t I reach her? I assume that you can?’

‘It’s complicated,’ I fought to keep eye contact; it was always hard for me to lie.

‘I am not stupid girl, I am sure if you explained it I would understand.’

‘I didn’t mean to imply that you were stupid, it is just a complicated situation.’

‘What are you hiding?’ She asked.

‘Nothing,’ even to my own ears it sounded defensive.

She began circling me, forcing me to turn with her in order to keep her in sight. ‘The Sidhe do not lie.’

‘I’m human,’ I said, it was getting tiresome, her insisting I was this Sidhe.

‘So you believe, but even for a human you are strange. You do not dress like a human from this area, or any area that I am aware of.’ She was referring to my jeans and sweater, which humans assumed meant I was a demon or from a distant land and demons either didn’t care or didn’t question. Of course she was neither and she was from a distant land.

‘The Sidhe do not lie because it is not honorable to lie, is that what you are? Are you so truly human that you do not care for honor and loyalty?’

‘Of course I do, and it is because of my loyalty that I can’t tell you.’

She stopped circling me, ‘I wish to help you Kagome, I do not mean you or your family harm, I swear on the darkness that eats all things that I will not harm you or yours and will not use any information you give me against you or yours.’

The air felt heavy for a moment as she finished her words. I wanted to tell her, even before she swore to me. I couldn’t explain why I trusted her and maybe that’s why I was so reluctant to tell her. In my time the truth would label me crazy but here the knowledge of time travel was dangerous. People believed me, with all the magic around what was time travel but another magic that could be abused in the wrong hands.

I sighed, and looked up at the darkening sky. I would have to make camp soon, a half a days’ journey was lost. ‘Can we sit?’

She smiled, ‘as you wish.’

We walked to the edge of the field and sat across from each other, leaning against the backs of two large trees. I laid my bow next to me and crossed my legs. Across from me I watched her sit down in a smooth graceful movement. I realized I still didn’t know her name.

‘Before I begin, what is your name?’

Her eyes widened slightly, she smiled. ‘Forgive me I am Lady Celeste Master of the Clouds and Birds.’

‘What does that mean?’ I asked.

‘I will answer your questions once you have answered mine, where are you from Kagome?’

Normally it was an easy question, but she wanted the truth. I decided to tell her, not all of it but the general gist. I told her of my time travel, but not exactly how, I told her of the jewel, though not that it was around my neck, under my shirt. I told her of Naraku and my duty to collect the shards. She sat there and listened, she didn’t interject at all, she just let me talk for as long as I was willing. I watched her weigh my words.

For awhile we sat in silence while she thought over what I told her and I merely waited. Watching her made me think of Sesshomaru and the night I told him how this whole mess started. He was so quiet for a long time. With him I had fidgeted and jumped at every noise while I waited for him to say something.

I suppose he was the one to teach me the value of silence, that not all silences were tense or filled with intense thoughts. Some silences were just a time of reprieve.

Soon enough she broke the silence, her soft voice once again seemed to float in the air. ‘When you completed your task why did you remain in this time?’

‘I have found it difficult, I have two lives now, I have friends her that are very dear to me and I don’t want to leave them.’

‘So you continue to tamper with time, do you understand the ramifications that can come from your continuous tampering?’

I looked down and studied the grassy area between us, ‘nothing has changed in the future maybe I’m supposed to stay here.’ Even to my own ears it sounded dumb, I knew the consequences but, I was too selfish to face them.

‘The future has not changed because you have not finished remaking it. Every moment you spend here alters the future.’ She stood and brushed the small specks of dirt and bark from her gown. ‘You must return to your time and never return Kagome. I will not remove the spell that makes you human because I do not know what it will do to your time.’

I nodded, ‘I was heading toward the portal when you found me. But I would like to say goodbye to my friends, they deserve to know.’

‘I would advise against it but if you feel you must I will only warn you not to stray from your course in the slightest, say goodbye and then leave.’ She looked up to the sky and I felt her power begin to build. ‘I will take you to your friends then I will go back to my lands before more damage is done.’

I nodded and watched as a large bird flew into the clearing, it was as big as a small plane, its feathers were pure with red under wings. Celeste walked toward the bird and it lowered its head so she could stroke the feathers above its large black beak.
Celeste turned back to me, ‘come Kagome he will take us to their village.’

I looked at the giant bird and gulped, it was a very beautiful bird but ever since the birds of paradise, well I just didn’t trust giant birds. I rose slowly with my bow in hand. I did not want to get on or near that thing.

She must have noticed my reluctance, she held out one hand while the other continued to pet the bird. ‘I am the master of birds Kagome he will not harm you.’

‘What is it?’

‘He is a Roc, a bird of the fey. I travelled with him here.’ She explained.

I kept a wary eye on the Roc as I walked toward them, its, I mean his beak was almost as large as I was. I tried not to think of what a bird that size would eat. But it obviously wasn’t seeds. I made sure to keep Ceara in between him and myself. It obviously liked her. I wasn’t chancing that it wouldn’t find me tasty. As I stopped beside Celeste I looked up at the massive bird, it was as big if not bigger than Sesshomaru when he transformed.

‘How do we get up?’ My voice shook a little which made Celeste smile.

She turned around and tapped the Roc’s beak gently. I watched the large bird settle on the ground, it was still like a large mountain but Celeste moved toward the side of his body and I followed, keeping an eye on his head as she led me close to his wing.
She turned to me, ‘If you will permit me I will carry you up.’

I looked at her, I really couldn’t help it. I should’ve been used to it by now, demons could look deceptively frail and still lift a boulder and toss it miles away. Why should Sidhe be any different? I shrugged, ‘I guess so, it’s better than him carrying me in his claw.’

She smiled and picked me up; much like a parent carried a child. I felt her brace before she jumped and landed softly on the birds back. She sat down on the large expanse of the Roc’s neck and let me sit in front of her. A silver chain appeared around the Roc’s neck. She took hold of it with one hand and kept the other arm around me.

She held me to her and called out for the bird to go. The Roc rose up. It felt like I was sitting on a raft going down harsh river. I gripped onto the silver chain and closed my eyes as tight as I could.

‘Where is the village?’ Celeste asked.

‘In the valley to the west, it’s a two day’s walk from here.’ I felt the Roc dip with each flap of its giant wings, my stomach was in my throat and I spent the entire flight with my eyes screwed shut as I tried my best to not be sick on the bird.

I screamed as the Roc dipped forward, I knew was landing. But my fear was too great. We were jostled around, and Celeste’s hold on me was the only thing that kept me from tumbling off the back of it.
My stomach flipped for the last time as the bird settled onto the ground. My hand hurt from gripping the chain as tight as I did. Slowly I opened my eyes, and looked out into the clearing right before the demon slayers village. To the right was the cave that held Midoriko. We were on the only path that led to the village.
It was quiet; I couldn’t make out much of the village which meant they were still coming back from our last assignment. Perhaps they set up camp for the night.

‘You must let go Kagome,’ Celeste said. I don’t think she was talking about the chain in my hand. I nodded and released the chain. She quickly picked me up and brought me down to solid earth. I wanted to get on my knees and kiss the ground. I never understood why they did it in the movies. Now I knew, the ground was solid, safe. I couldn’t fall off it and die.

I stepped out of her arms and managed not to make a fool of myself. ‘I guess this is goodbye.’

‘Perhaps, you said you came from five hundred years from now, I will find you Kagome, I wish to know why your family has chosen this mortal life. I dare not linger.’ She jumped back onto the Roc, ‘farewell Kagome and heed my words, do not stay here for any longer than you can.’

I nodded, ‘I understand, goodbye Lady Celeste I hope we meet again.’ I jogged toward the village so the Roc had room to lift off. The gusts knocked me down onto the dirt road, particles danced around me. Once it was high enough that the air was still around me I turned and watched it fly west, over the village and out of sight.

I made my way up the road and into the quiet village. It was no longer an eerie grave for dead soldiers, though their graves still lined the north wall. My friends and I had worked hard to rebuild the town and fill the place with a sense of home and comfort. Together we chased the sadness from the village and replaced it with laughter, peaceful reflection and well the occasional frustrated scream and unconscious male. Miroku would never learn, though the curse had been lifted he still could not curb his desire to squeeze Sango’s ass. And then of course I have removed Inuyasha’s necklace. As much as I don’t like hurting him he is just so stubborn sometimes.

I stood in the middle of the dark village and waited for the tears to come. But, they didn’t come. Leaving them was going to be hard, I wasn’t sure if I wanted them to accompany me to the well or if it was better to just leave them here. It didn’t feel real yet, and it probably wouldn’t until they knew. Until then I could go to sleep and pretend that I wasn’t leaving them all forever.

The sky lit up in a blue flash, I turned toward the source. In the distance blue lightning crackled. I knew Dragon Strike. Sesshomaru was battling someone. My feet were already moving me back out of the village. Dragon Strike was his most powerful attack with Tenseiga, if he felt the need to use it his opponent had to be fearsome.

My pace picked up to a quick jog, as I entered the forest. The battle would be over by the time I arrived and he would probably be gone. I moved through the trees with ease. After three years I had adjusted to travelling at night. My feet easily found steady ground through the brush and roots of the forest floor. Occasionally a branch would catch my shirt or skin but I kept going.

I wanted to see him, I would never get another chance to say goodbye and thank him for everything he had done for us. Inuyasha would always turn the meetings with him into a fight. Tonight I was alone.

The forest lit up for a moment, a flash of blue and then it was dark and my night vision was shot to hell. I stopped jogging and waited for my eyes to adjust before I could move again. The demonic energy ahead was so strong I could feel it from this distance. I could feel it grating against me and it wasn’t Sesshomaru’s power that was almost overwhelming.

I pulled an arrow from my quiver and pull in my own aura, locking it tightly behind my shields. I began running again, I could tell if the power was coming from just one demon or many, either way Sesshomaru was in trouble.

TBC

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