Requiem of Souls

I have been writing longer chappies lately huh…well that may just continue for a while…but I’m not sure so yea…
I do not own any of the characters in Inuyasha so they are not mine

This story is still going to be an I/K/S or an I/OC unless someone else votes and votes only count one per person so don’t vote twice J that is all
And Kikyou is evil in this fic so there will be no I/Kik but she will fall under a spell so she loves a bug or something like that…it is definitely going to be at least a KxS so don’t worry
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Chapter 7: Gathering the first emotion: Pt2

“Mama, I love you…” Kagome whispered as she reluctantly let go of her mother for fifteen years. She ran off to the edge of the forest path where Sango and the others were waiting for her. “I will come back!” she shouted as she took off down the path.
“You’d better young lady!” Ayumi yelled back as tears overflowed from her eyes and Eri-Sango’s mom-wrapped her in a strangling hug, returned with as much force as it was given.

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Sango and the rest of the group rushed to catch up with Kagome, who with her newfound elf-speed was almost a mile ahead of the others “Kilala!” Sango yelled as her kitten transformed into her larger form and her and the lecherous monk jumped onto her back. Inuyasha, being a dog hanyou, just ran after her.
Jaken had told them he had to go somewhere before they left and that he would meet them in the village in three days.
Shippou had jumped to her shoulder as soon as she had reached the forest edge and was trying to calm her.
She slowly stopped, panting in exertion. As she stopped she collapsed onto her knees. As she fell backwards, Shippou yelped and jumped off of her back and onto her face, making her jump in surprise. “Did, you see…me running?” she managed to gasp out.
“No I had my eyes shut for most of the time so they wouldn’t get all dry and icky from the wind.” She put her hand up to her face and thought out loud. ”Mama said that I would be able to run faster but this? This is just amazing…ugh it’s too sunny here.” As soon as she muttered that vines came from the nearby woods and formed a canopy over her and Shippou’s heads.
She sat up suddenly almost hitting her head on the vines before they again reformed to make it taller. “What…what just happened?” Shippou had fainted when he saw the vines first move so he was out cold.
She shivered when she heard someone call her name, but there was no one in sight. Maybe her hearing had just kicked in. she glanced down the road and to her surprise, she could see Kilala and Inuyasha running to try and catch up with her even though they were still very far away. “Wha?” she just sat gaping for another moment, not even noticing when Shippou got up and started to wave his pudgy little hand in front of her face trying to get her attention.
“Mama?” his voice jerked her out of her trance-like state. “What are you doing now?” She just shook her head to clear her thoughts and whispered “Nothing…”
Shippou gave her a look that said ‘yes-and-I-am-a-flying-pig-what-else-is-new?’

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Kagome sat in front of the campfire, still, waiting for her friends to catch up. She and Shippou had gotten bored just sitting so they had decided to stop and have a snack/lunchy thingy. (Otherwise known to the English as ‘brunch’) until they caught up, they would have to be tired.
As if on cue Inuyasha collapsed next to her, panting, followed closely by a haggard Kilala and a sore Miroku and Sango.
“You (pant) crazy (huff) wench!” Inuyasha choked out.
“Don’t talk to mama like that! You’re just mad that she’s faster than you!”
“That is a reasonable thing, young Shippou. But even this idiot doesn’t get jealous that easy…do you?” Miroku defended his friend
“HELL NO!” Inuyasha got his wind back.
“Yea right.” Shippou snorted in a very ‘Inuyasha like’ way.
Meanwhile Kagome and Sango were feeding Kilala and making sure she was ok after that long run, completely ignoring the fight until Kagome heard “Mama! Help!”
“Oh Inuyasha!” she called in a sweet voice
“What wench!” completely ignoring the too sweet tone until he heard
“Sit boy!” he froze before the beads started to glow Pepto-Bismol pink (Yes there is pepto in this au because where would people with diarrhea be without it?) before they sent him crashing into the ground, followed by many words that would get this story bumped off of ff.net.
Kagome covered Shippou’s ears before turning to him with a completely innocent look, “Would you rather attack my kit and have me loose control of my powers again? Though I’d imagine it would be…uncomfortable not being able to breathe…wouldn’t you?”
At this Inuyasha froze again. As he looked over at her and Shippou again and snorted after a minute, “Feh.” Then it became uncomfortably silent before Sango spoke up.
“Maybe we should eat now and hen get back on the road, I’d imagine we have gone maybe on and a half’s day’s worth of travel in that time because we were pushing ourselves. So we should be able to get into town tonight.”
They nodded in agreement before sitting down to eat and take a small nap.

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“We should be almost there.” Kagome consoled the rest of the group, it was pretty late and even with the rest earlier that day, everyone was exhausted. Well, everyone besides Kagome was.
“Kagome how about someone scouts ahead while we set up camp for the night. If it is not too far then we can go on but if it is too far then we can just sleep here tonight.” Sango suggested.
“Alright I’ll go then,” Kagome nodded to everyone and placed Shippou next to an already sleeping Kilala, before taking off. She ran but not as fast as she had before, still after only a few moments she was at the entrance of the town. Walking back she found that it was only a twenty-minute walk to the small town and beds.
As she walked back into camp, she noticed that Shippou and Kilala were deep asleep, too deep to be woken up easily. She relayed her information to the others as they started rolling up their bedrolls and putting out the fire.
They walked in silence keeping each other awake by pinching them. Or rather Kagome was pinching everyone because her elven endurance allowed her to stay alert longer.
When they finally reached town she cast a simple glamour on herself, Shippou, and Inuyasha. Her mother had taught her in her dream. They got in without too much effort. One grope, a slap and a yell of “PERVERT!” later, they were at a homely inn.
They trudged to the innkeeper, who told them not to worry about it and sent them directly to their rooms before they even got a chance to even offer any gold.
Everyone fell asleep immediately, while Kagome left a note saying she was going to explore and if she wasn’t back by morning to come look for her. She thanked the innkeeper and paid her, before she started to explore the little village.
As she wandered around town she looked at the peaceful little village and thought of her home ‘I wonder if…Ayumi misses me yet? Or at all. No that’s unfair after all she was my mother for fifteen years and she did treat me well. But what if it was just an act? I hope not.’
‘Don’t worry about it dear, she still loves you’
‘Mother! Don’t sneak up on me like that!’
‘I’m in you’re head how can I sneak up on me?’
‘…On you? Wait…oh yea, right’
She was so busy talking to her mother that she didn’t even notice when a cloaked man started to follow her. That is until she was walking by an alley and someone reached out to drag her in.
She whirled around and pulled her knife out to the other person’s eye, before she heard a young man’s voice, “Do you really wish to kill this Sesshomaru? After that long trip from you’re home village?”
Kagome started, she hadn’t expected to have him seek her out, but to be looking for days at everyone in the village. “How do I know you’re Lord Sesshomaru? Jaken hasn’t told me yet. Or much at all for that matter.”
“You say this Sesshomaru is lying? Then I will prove it.” He was silent for a moment, before he reached down the front of his shirt and dragged something out. It was a chunk of pink crystal on a chain. As soon as he pulled it out of hiding the crescent moon glowed a bright pink, as he was jerked forwards by the crystal trying to re-attach itself to the crescent moon.
When I finally did reach the necklace it glowed a pale green and fused to an almost invisible chain hanging from the moon. “Do you believe this Sesshomaru now?” he took the now useless chain off of his neck. “This Sesshomaru has a…request for you.” He looked uncomfortable somehow, ”Being the emotion lust had some disadvantages. This—I must have at least bodily contact with someone at night when I sleep. Otherwise I will get very ill. May I share you’re bedroll?”
Kagome was shocked by the request, she had maybe in a million years thought that he would ask to see her bathing or something like that, but he must not be a pervert. “Umm…I guess so…but can I wear clothes? Or do you require umm…more intimate touches?”
She could hear some embarrassment this time when he spoke, “I must have skin contact in order to have energy enough for the next week or so, but I get stronger if I have it every night.”
‘Hell, this is going to be awkward’ she thought as she held out her hand for him to shake, grimacing. “You may come stay with us if you wish or do you have somewhere to be tonight?”
He shook her hand while saying, “I do have to quit my job (three guesses to what it is) and I think you would need to explain this to your companions.”
She nodded and turned to when she thought of something. “I didn’t see you’re face. How am I going to know who you are tomorrow?”
“I will find you, but I cannot show anyone my face in fear of being found by that bitch. But after we leave the village, if everyone is trustworthy then this Sesshomaru will grace you with his features.”
‘Conceited is he not?’ her mother’s voice echoed through her mind.
She just nodded, trying to hold back a burst of laughter.

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Finally! I have another chapter up! I am terribly sorry to those who were disappointed in me I have my ideas back! Mostly anyways. But I will try to make the next chapter better. Yuki (art muse) gave me back Quill (my writing muse) so I should be able to keep him Ja!