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scriveyner) wrote2003-06-19 04:37 pm
scriveyner) wrote2003-06-19 04:37 pm
Inuyasha (Crossing Worlds) - My Immortal [2]
Title: My Immortal - 2
Fandom: Inuyasha
AU: crossing worlds
Characters/Pairing: Kage, Sango, Sota, Kaede
Rating: T
Length: 1499
Summary:
He was thoroughly lost.
Kageyasha collapsed beside the old well and stared at the dense foliage around him. He could see from where he sat some of the paths he had taken that had led him around for hours upon end, only to deposit him right back where he started.
"This is ridiculous!" Kage growled, picking up a stone and throwing it at one of the paths. His stomach growled in response, and Kage winced.
It was a stupid idea to investigate what his mother had told him was off-limits ... obviously there was a good reason for that. "Where am I?" Kage muttered out loud, not really caring if he got an answer or not.
Early spring temperatures had been replaced by late summer, and the sun beat down through the trees. An insect buzzed and birds chirped merrily. It didn't do Kage any good, though, except make him regret running off. "Damn it," he snorted, forcing himself to stand up once more. "There's not much to be done except investigate where I'm at." He glanced over his shoulder at the old well, then shrugged at it. Foliage and trees curled around it, almost swallowing the thing whole.
Choosing a path going the opposite way than he had been heading previously, Kage tucked his arms behind him and ran. It was his quickest way of moving around, aside from the leap/running thing he had been working on. He had yet to figure out why the laws of gravity didn't always affect him, but it made for some nice travel time.
Suddenly, something caught his eye and he turned to glance at it, which, when moving at his current speed, was a mistake. Kage slammed into a tree when the trail took an abrupt left.
Kage picked up his baseball cap from where it had been knocked off of his head and tugged it on, carefully covering his ears. Then he took a look at what had caught his attention.
The god-tree!
Kage ran towards it, relief on his face. Even though he was completely lost and still wasn't quite sure where he was, the god-tree was a welcome sight. It looked almost exactly the same as it did back home, except slightly fuller and not as dead looking. Maybe because it was surrounded on all sides by a healthy forest as opposed to being isolated at a shrine? Kage didn't know and didn't care, it was something familiar in a world gone insane.
Then he froze. Kage had just picked up an unfamiliar scent, meaning he was not alone. Instead of the headlong rush towards the tree, he hung back in the shadow of another tree and watched carefully.
A woman was seated at the base of the tree, wearing the traditional red hakama and white kimono of a miko. Her long black hair was tied back, although some strands fell loose and over her shoulders. She was petting something in her lap, a cat of some sort he thought. "Great, natives," Kage said to himself. Maybe she could give him directions back to Tokyo ... or reality. "...Excuse me?"
The woman's head shot up and swiveled around, as Kage stood. He noticed as she got up that a long scar disfigured the left side of her face, and he was pretty sure by the off-balance way that she stood that there was something wrong with her left side ... or maybe just her arm. "Hey, now, don't run," Kage soothed, stepping out of the bushes. "I'm kind of lost, and I-"
"Kirara!" the woman snapped, and the cat she had been petting leaped forward, abruptly changing into a very large, very-possessed looking feline.
"Holy crap!" Kage jumped backwards as the woman leaped on the cat's back with an ease that spoke of years together. Then they were off, while Kage recovered. "Oh no you don't," Kage snarled under his breath, recovering his feet and his courage. Then he was chasing after them.
The cat-demon was quick, he noticed, but he wasn't exactly slow either. Years of racing along fences, rooftops and other various things so not to attract attention served him here as he leaped up into the trees. Keeping up with the cat-demon was easier when they were both in the air.
"Faster, Kirara!" the woman encouraged, throwing venomous glances back at Kage. "Don't let him catch us!"
'Don't let him catch us?' Kage made a face. This was beginning to get irritating! Kage put on a burst of speed and pulled even with the woman and her cat-demon. "Listen, lady, I don't know what your problem is," he huffed. "But I'm lost, and hungry too, so if you don't - uff!"
Ignoring the branches in front of him was rather treacherous. Kage slammed into a very thick branch that was right at the level of his gut and managed to knock the wind out of himself rather painfully. Instead of falling to the forest floor, which would hurt more, he clung to the offending branch and watched the woman and her cat-demon disappear off. "Well that," he whuffled as breath slowly returned to him, "was really rude!"
#
It was beginning to get dark out side. Sota stood at street level outside the shrine. He had been almost three blocks in every direction, and hadn't seen hide or hair of Kage. The boy was, if anything, loyal, and doubtful he had strayed far from the shrine. "I swear," Sota said softly, starting up the stairs, "if I find him in his room..."
He paused beside the old god-tree. The tree had lost so many of its leaves ... the ancient tree was dying, slowly but surely, as if being eaten alive by some mysterious disease.
Kind of like Kagome.
Sota banished the thought almost instantly. The doctor was wrong, he had to be. There were no such things as unknown diseases! The man had said that he had done all that was possible, it was up to Kagome now, to either continue to struggle against the disease to succumb to it.
Something caught Sota's eye as he stood by the tree. Almost as an afterthought, he walked over towards the old well house. It was doubtful Kage had even gone near there, he had been firmly told ever since he was young to steer clear of it.
Halfway towards the well house Sota began to run.
The door had been left open, and old, half-rotted boards lay strewn around it, pried off by stronger hands than his. Sota didn't pause, taking the interior steps in a stride and stalking all the way over to the remains of the well.
It was empty. That was when Sota began to get a horrible, sinking feeling in his stomach. "Oh, shit..."
How was he going to explain this to Kagome?
#
It wasn't as hard as Kage thought to follow the woman and her pet-demon, the cat gave off a very particular smell. Almost as if it wanted him to follow them, which made Kage wonder about it. He was in a strange land, if cat-demons were the steeds of mikos!
He hopped casually from branch to branch, pondering this new development. The only links he had to the shrine were the god-tree and the well, that had to mean something ... but what? Abruptly, he ran out of suitable trees to hop through and descended to the ground, now ambling along.
Maybe he should turn around now, return to the well, and try to figure out how to get home. Maybe if he went straight back through the well, he'd end up back where he started. However, that may require cleaning out the foliage and roots, so until he had the tools to do so he may as well stick it out and find out where... if not when, he was at.
An arrow zapped past Kage's cheek, and he froze. "What the-!"
"Not another step, hanyou!"
Kage didn't move at all, but glanced up to see that the woman had gathered a crew of terrified farmers and a woman who had to be three times her age. The old woman was the one who fired the arrow, for she was the only one with a bow. She must be remarkable sharp for her age, then, he must be careful.
"'Hanyou,'" he repeated. How had they known? He checked, he was still wearing his baseball hat, so that certainly didn't give it away. "What crime have I committed?"
"Inuyasha!" The woman he had chased took a step forward, a giant boomerang held by her right hand. "How dare you show your face to us again!"
Inu...yasha?
"You have me mistaken for someone else," he said, trying to edge out of range of some of the more violence-happy looking farmers. "My name is Kageyasha, and I've certainly never been here before!"
"Don't lie to us," the woman said, hoisting the boomerang threateningly.
"No, no, you're definitely mistaken," Kage said, realizing just what a stupid idea this had been. 'I should have gone right back when I had the chance,' he thought. "My name is Higurashi Kageyasha and I am from Tokyo! I don't know where I'm at, I don't know who you are and I certainly don't know any Inuyashas!"
The old woman took in a sharp breath. She let slack fall in her bow at the same time. "Higurashi? As in Higurashi Kagome?"
The woman with the boomerang glanced at the older woman. "You can't be serious! You believe him?"
The cat-demon bounded past her, and it was all Kage could do to not turn around and high tail it back to the well as it circled him once, sniffing. Then, abruptly, it shrank in size to something that could only be described as "horrifically cute" and scampered up his hakama.
"AHH!" Kage couldn't restrain himself. He jumped a mile, the thing leapt clear and landed neatly on his head. Kage, however, landed quite indignantly on his rump.
Several of the farmers snickered at that, as the cat-thing started to purr. "It seems," the old woman said, smiling gently, "that Kirara agrees with me."
The dark expression that the younger woman had obviously was not a good sign. "I, however, do not." That stated, she swiveled on her heel and stalked off into the village.
"Go on, get on with ye," the old woman shooed off the farmers. "This one most certainly is not Inuyasha, go back to your farming."
Kage, still seated on the ground with a purring cat-demon on his head, watched all of this with a wide-eyed expression that could best be described as a "rabbit in the headlights". "What... huh?"
"Come, child." The woman used her bow as a cane as she walked up to him. "Kageyasha, you call yourself?"
"Kage's fine," he said, shaken. "Who are you? What just happened?"
"Kage, then. I am Kaede, the priestess of this small village. And I do believe that you and I have much to discuss, Higurashi Kageyasha."
Fandom: Inuyasha
AU: crossing worlds
Characters/Pairing: Kage, Sango, Sota, Kaede
Rating: T
Length: 1499
Summary:
He was thoroughly lost.
Kageyasha collapsed beside the old well and stared at the dense foliage around him. He could see from where he sat some of the paths he had taken that had led him around for hours upon end, only to deposit him right back where he started.
"This is ridiculous!" Kage growled, picking up a stone and throwing it at one of the paths. His stomach growled in response, and Kage winced.
It was a stupid idea to investigate what his mother had told him was off-limits ... obviously there was a good reason for that. "Where am I?" Kage muttered out loud, not really caring if he got an answer or not.
Early spring temperatures had been replaced by late summer, and the sun beat down through the trees. An insect buzzed and birds chirped merrily. It didn't do Kage any good, though, except make him regret running off. "Damn it," he snorted, forcing himself to stand up once more. "There's not much to be done except investigate where I'm at." He glanced over his shoulder at the old well, then shrugged at it. Foliage and trees curled around it, almost swallowing the thing whole.
Choosing a path going the opposite way than he had been heading previously, Kage tucked his arms behind him and ran. It was his quickest way of moving around, aside from the leap/running thing he had been working on. He had yet to figure out why the laws of gravity didn't always affect him, but it made for some nice travel time.
Suddenly, something caught his eye and he turned to glance at it, which, when moving at his current speed, was a mistake. Kage slammed into a tree when the trail took an abrupt left.
Kage picked up his baseball cap from where it had been knocked off of his head and tugged it on, carefully covering his ears. Then he took a look at what had caught his attention.
The god-tree!
Kage ran towards it, relief on his face. Even though he was completely lost and still wasn't quite sure where he was, the god-tree was a welcome sight. It looked almost exactly the same as it did back home, except slightly fuller and not as dead looking. Maybe because it was surrounded on all sides by a healthy forest as opposed to being isolated at a shrine? Kage didn't know and didn't care, it was something familiar in a world gone insane.
Then he froze. Kage had just picked up an unfamiliar scent, meaning he was not alone. Instead of the headlong rush towards the tree, he hung back in the shadow of another tree and watched carefully.
A woman was seated at the base of the tree, wearing the traditional red hakama and white kimono of a miko. Her long black hair was tied back, although some strands fell loose and over her shoulders. She was petting something in her lap, a cat of some sort he thought. "Great, natives," Kage said to himself. Maybe she could give him directions back to Tokyo ... or reality. "...Excuse me?"
The woman's head shot up and swiveled around, as Kage stood. He noticed as she got up that a long scar disfigured the left side of her face, and he was pretty sure by the off-balance way that she stood that there was something wrong with her left side ... or maybe just her arm. "Hey, now, don't run," Kage soothed, stepping out of the bushes. "I'm kind of lost, and I-"
"Kirara!" the woman snapped, and the cat she had been petting leaped forward, abruptly changing into a very large, very-possessed looking feline.
"Holy crap!" Kage jumped backwards as the woman leaped on the cat's back with an ease that spoke of years together. Then they were off, while Kage recovered. "Oh no you don't," Kage snarled under his breath, recovering his feet and his courage. Then he was chasing after them.
The cat-demon was quick, he noticed, but he wasn't exactly slow either. Years of racing along fences, rooftops and other various things so not to attract attention served him here as he leaped up into the trees. Keeping up with the cat-demon was easier when they were both in the air.
"Faster, Kirara!" the woman encouraged, throwing venomous glances back at Kage. "Don't let him catch us!"
'Don't let him catch us?' Kage made a face. This was beginning to get irritating! Kage put on a burst of speed and pulled even with the woman and her cat-demon. "Listen, lady, I don't know what your problem is," he huffed. "But I'm lost, and hungry too, so if you don't - uff!"
Ignoring the branches in front of him was rather treacherous. Kage slammed into a very thick branch that was right at the level of his gut and managed to knock the wind out of himself rather painfully. Instead of falling to the forest floor, which would hurt more, he clung to the offending branch and watched the woman and her cat-demon disappear off. "Well that," he whuffled as breath slowly returned to him, "was really rude!"
It was beginning to get dark out side. Sota stood at street level outside the shrine. He had been almost three blocks in every direction, and hadn't seen hide or hair of Kage. The boy was, if anything, loyal, and doubtful he had strayed far from the shrine. "I swear," Sota said softly, starting up the stairs, "if I find him in his room..."
He paused beside the old god-tree. The tree had lost so many of its leaves ... the ancient tree was dying, slowly but surely, as if being eaten alive by some mysterious disease.
Kind of like Kagome.
Sota banished the thought almost instantly. The doctor was wrong, he had to be. There were no such things as unknown diseases! The man had said that he had done all that was possible, it was up to Kagome now, to either continue to struggle against the disease to succumb to it.
Something caught Sota's eye as he stood by the tree. Almost as an afterthought, he walked over towards the old well house. It was doubtful Kage had even gone near there, he had been firmly told ever since he was young to steer clear of it.
Halfway towards the well house Sota began to run.
The door had been left open, and old, half-rotted boards lay strewn around it, pried off by stronger hands than his. Sota didn't pause, taking the interior steps in a stride and stalking all the way over to the remains of the well.
It was empty. That was when Sota began to get a horrible, sinking feeling in his stomach. "Oh, shit..."
How was he going to explain this to Kagome?
It wasn't as hard as Kage thought to follow the woman and her pet-demon, the cat gave off a very particular smell. Almost as if it wanted him to follow them, which made Kage wonder about it. He was in a strange land, if cat-demons were the steeds of mikos!
He hopped casually from branch to branch, pondering this new development. The only links he had to the shrine were the god-tree and the well, that had to mean something ... but what? Abruptly, he ran out of suitable trees to hop through and descended to the ground, now ambling along.
Maybe he should turn around now, return to the well, and try to figure out how to get home. Maybe if he went straight back through the well, he'd end up back where he started. However, that may require cleaning out the foliage and roots, so until he had the tools to do so he may as well stick it out and find out where... if not when, he was at.
An arrow zapped past Kage's cheek, and he froze. "What the-!"
"Not another step, hanyou!"
Kage didn't move at all, but glanced up to see that the woman had gathered a crew of terrified farmers and a woman who had to be three times her age. The old woman was the one who fired the arrow, for she was the only one with a bow. She must be remarkable sharp for her age, then, he must be careful.
"'Hanyou,'" he repeated. How had they known? He checked, he was still wearing his baseball hat, so that certainly didn't give it away. "What crime have I committed?"
"Inuyasha!" The woman he had chased took a step forward, a giant boomerang held by her right hand. "How dare you show your face to us again!"
Inu...yasha?
"You have me mistaken for someone else," he said, trying to edge out of range of some of the more violence-happy looking farmers. "My name is Kageyasha, and I've certainly never been here before!"
"Don't lie to us," the woman said, hoisting the boomerang threateningly.
"No, no, you're definitely mistaken," Kage said, realizing just what a stupid idea this had been. 'I should have gone right back when I had the chance,' he thought. "My name is Higurashi Kageyasha and I am from Tokyo! I don't know where I'm at, I don't know who you are and I certainly don't know any Inuyashas!"
The old woman took in a sharp breath. She let slack fall in her bow at the same time. "Higurashi? As in Higurashi Kagome?"
The woman with the boomerang glanced at the older woman. "You can't be serious! You believe him?"
The cat-demon bounded past her, and it was all Kage could do to not turn around and high tail it back to the well as it circled him once, sniffing. Then, abruptly, it shrank in size to something that could only be described as "horrifically cute" and scampered up his hakama.
"AHH!" Kage couldn't restrain himself. He jumped a mile, the thing leapt clear and landed neatly on his head. Kage, however, landed quite indignantly on his rump.
Several of the farmers snickered at that, as the cat-thing started to purr. "It seems," the old woman said, smiling gently, "that Kirara agrees with me."
The dark expression that the younger woman had obviously was not a good sign. "I, however, do not." That stated, she swiveled on her heel and stalked off into the village.
"Go on, get on with ye," the old woman shooed off the farmers. "This one most certainly is not Inuyasha, go back to your farming."
Kage, still seated on the ground with a purring cat-demon on his head, watched all of this with a wide-eyed expression that could best be described as a "rabbit in the headlights". "What... huh?"
"Come, child." The woman used her bow as a cane as she walked up to him. "Kageyasha, you call yourself?"
"Kage's fine," he said, shaken. "Who are you? What just happened?"
"Kage, then. I am Kaede, the priestess of this small village. And I do believe that you and I have much to discuss, Higurashi Kageyasha."