Best Curse Ever!

Part 1

(Inuyasha)

A chill went down Inuyasha’s spine as a strange smell that had crept into his nose wrapped itself around his brain and made all of his insides freeze give warning to the cause of the mysterious odor.
What alarmed him most of all was that this alien scent was coming from the center of HIS forest, which the gang currently was about to enter in order to return to Kaede’s for supplies.
His pack stopped behind him sensing his alarm and prodded him for an explanation.

“What’s the hold up,” Sango said, “ we’re almost to the village.”

Inuyasha ignored her.

“Incase we haven’t adequately expressed our hunger and fatigue to you, Inuyasha. Which I think we have,” an impatient Kagome retorted as she tapped her foot, “ I suggest you snap out of it before I give you another earful.”

“Shut up,” he snapped, “something’s weird.”

Something rustled in grass around them; the bushes shook yet there was no wind. The scent was moving closer to them.

“Everyone get out of here,” he barked, “go back to the village.”

“For what, I sense nothing,” Miroku counted.

Sango and Kagome gave each other worried looks.

“Come one guys, lets just go back to the village. If Inuyasha feels like overacting he can make his own dinner tonight,” sighed Kagome.

“Inuyasha, come on. Nothing’s wrong. I don’t even smell anything. Come back with us,” pleaded Shippou.

“Fine, don’t believe me. Go back, and when I come back to the village with a demon corpse, you’ll be sorry you doubted me,” he growled.

Just then a cloud of mist fell from the trees and surrounded the group. Everyone cried out in surprise. They felt the fingers of unknown hands slip beneath their clothes and graze their bodies from head to toe.

“What going on? How many people are touching me,” Sango screamed. Secretly, as the moments continued and the invisible fingers’ caresses became more focused on her chest and groin, Sango was becoming aroused. Everyone was and the smell of everyone’s mixed arousal broke Inuyasha out of his own long enough to cut the cloud with a wind scar.

The wind cleared and as Inuyasha surveyed his exhausted group he noticed someone was missing.

“Kagome,” muttered Inuyasha in panic. He sniffed the air frantically trying to pick up her scent, but even the smell of her apparent and sweet scented sex had vanished from the clearing.


(Kagome)

The feeling Kagome felt was similar to dreaming, in fact it felt as though she had dosed off in class daydreaming about something pleasant. Everything felt comfortable, she felt completely at peace.
Slowly, Kagome felt her eyes flutter straining to see beyond the cloud, which had swept her off her feet and into the air.
Wait a second, what am I doing? Kagome immediately panicked.

Landscapes of snow, green fields and windy deserts passed below her feet in an instant. Ahead in the never changing horizon was a mountain with a black palace atop of it. She became aware that this was indeed her destination.

Fear not, a voice sounded in her head, a great reward awaits your sacrifice.

“Who are you, what’s going on?”

Fate, it said.

Somehow the distant voice that spoke to her soothed her curiosity, she forgot what she was going to ask it next. It’s low sound made Kagome think of pleasure and somehow of sleep and sleep was exactly what it made her do.


(Kaede)

Inuyasha’s group swept into Kaede’s hut several hours after the incident with the strange cloud looking completely worn out. Even the hangout seemed to be drenched with sweat.

“We can’t find her anywhere,” Sango said exasperated.

“It’s like nothing ever even happened, that thing had no aura. It makes no sense,” complained Miroku. Through his panting he began to fondly remember the cloud’s strange feeling, but hadn’t brought it up yet for fear of being slapped for talking about something sexual in front of Sango. He didn’t even know if he was the only one who felt the sumptuous hands passed over his body.

“No aura? What are you talking about, I sensed that thing from a mile away,” countered Inuyasha.

“Then why can’t you trace it then?”

“You shut your mouth monk!”
Inuyasha was also hiding his something at the moment. He couldn’t stand the fact that Kagome had been captured, inside he was punishing himself for letting such an important person in his life get taken away to Kami knows where.
‘She could have been claimed by someone else, or worse she could just be eaten by some lowly demon. You’re going to make a horrible mate to her if you can even find her in time to save her,’ he told himself.

“I’m doing the best I can, at least I have the ability to sense it!”

“Enough,” Kaede yelled, “Will someone please explain to me where Kagome is and what has happened here?”

(Kagome)

When she awoke she still felt as though she was lying on the cloud, but she opened her eyes to find she was lying in an oval shaped bed. The sheets were white and softer than silk or any other fabric she’d ever encountered before.

She turned her head away from the bed to find the most serene view she’d ever seen. It looked like something out of a storybook about some far away jungle. Everything was beautiful.

Large, rich, green trees with black vines fell down into a valley where at the bottom was the largest koi pond ever, it was like a lake but shallow enough to make out the fishes’ scale colors in the water from what must have been a mile or two away.

It took her a moment to convince herself that the koi themselves were not flying through the air as they would swim in the water. Through the whole jungle a white mist flooded the sky, strangely it’s aura felt so similar to the talking cloud’s, but in someway different too.

“I must be dreaming,” she stammered in taking her new environment.
“When we return you to the feudal era it will feel as if it was,” said a feminine voice from behind her. She jumped out of the oval bed as fast as she could, but saw no one behind her.

“Please, do not fear me. You have been brought here to be rewarded for my mistake,” it said again.

“Who are you, show yourself,” Kagome said eying the room carefully.

“I have no true corporeal form but to ease your tension I shall adopt a shape.”

From the stone floor, the shape of a female in an elegant kimono came to be in front of Kagome’s very eyes.

She looked like any other woman Kagome had ever met, there was nothing particularly attractive about her, but from her eyes awakened an impulse in Kagome that she’d only ever felt around someone she trusted, someone who would hold her in hard times.

“I have no name. I am merely a servant to the entity you know as Kami, I am the one whom carries out the will of fate,” she smiled.

“Wow, no shit huh,” Kagome was blown back.

“Yes…no… shit,” she repeated back cautiously.

“Well what do you want with me? Why was I brought here?”

“A mistake was made. Your destiny was not to take the path that it is heading,” the servant said calmly, “you were not meant to remain so long in the past as you have. Kami gave me an order not to long ago to destroy the well once you were on the other side. 4 years was supposed to be all the time you were to be exposed to the last century where inhuman forces reigned supreme.”

“You mean, you were going to trap me in my own time? Why?”

“The one you are meant for waits for you to save him, but it is too late now that opportunity has passed,” she said, “I have made a mistake, I destroyed the well before I was meant to… I have been doing this job since the beginning and I am getting very tired.”

The servant inhaled, “which is why after I compensate you for the wrong I have done against you, I am going to allow my essence to be reborn into a new energy. An energy that will be young enough and powerful enough to not make a mistake such as this for a long while.”

“We servants of Kami live very long, but only Kami himself has true immortality. Our minds and powers become feeble with heartache when Kami shuns us, allowing us to do his bidding in the physical world.”

“Why can’t you just fix the well? Wouldn’t that just do it?”

“Nay, you must be rewarded for your kind heart and good will towards all being. Such a soul as you should be compensated. The one you were meant for has perished in your own time, but in this time is alive and young. The bone-eater’s well shall be restored.”

Kagome breathed out in relief.

“However the true gift I give you is this knowledge, though I cannot say who it is you are meant for I can tell you he has demon blood in his veins. The moment you come into close range of him, you will begin to change. Kami has great plans for you Kagome, he intends for you to one day enrich the demonic bloodline with blood that has not thrived in the mortal realm since ancient times.”

“What do you mean, blood that has not thrived? What blood?”

Just as she spoke a voice came from beyond the window. The man who came from the left of the window frame appeared to be the color of the sky, his eyes a vision of a clear starry night. The white tuft that fell from his head flowed to the ground and acted as both hair and cloak to him.

“You’re going to reward her? Reward her for what exactly; ever since she has traveled here, she has disrupted Kami’s plans for this land. And you want to reward her by designating the vessel for our last blood gift?”

Kagome freaked out, I’m in the middle of two arguing deities! Oh Kami, help!

“ Kakos, you are no longer a servant of Kami’s valley. You have no hand in the fruition of his will. All we do here is serve his will. I pray that Kami may bless you with the wisdom to see that this decision is right-“

“You are wrong! The vessel is supposed to a faithful one,” Kayos raged, “as servant of the skies I located the perfect candidate I thought it would be was agreed that when the time came it would be her!”

“Kami has chosen her,” the servant yelled, “learn to accept the price a servant must pay for naming himself as members of the mortal realm do! If you still wish to serve Kami, the only place left for you is below the ground!”

“You are mistaken,” he huffed, “I still serve Kami. It may not look like it to you, but I follow his decrees, the ones her set forth the day we were created. It is you who differ from them. The decrees say nothing about a servant not having identity, it was you and the other earth elders who decided on that matter!”

“Kami decides on all matters, Kayos. You know this,” the servant glared, “leave the valley. I banish you.”

The sky being glared at the earth servant as his body changed landscape from clear skies to cloudy, snowy and stormy weather all at once. His eyes boomed with thunder.

“Fine banish me, but I shall curse this unworthy human to balance the gift you have given her,” kayos snarled.

“Hey leave me out of this,” Kagome panicked.

“I shall curse you to walk the earth unable to satisfy yourself until you can get the one for whom your meant for to tell you that he is yours,” Kayos grinned, “you will be unable to tell anyone about your curse, and you will be unable to hide it. Should you fail to follow Kami’s will and decipher his wisdom from the earth, you shall fall into temptation into the hands of other creatures.”

Kayos snarled in the direction of the earth servant, “This way regardless of the fate of this mortal the divine blood shall be passed on.”

Both Kagome and Kayos stopped in their though processes as they saw the earth servant’s head illuminate, her face twisted as Kagome inferred that Kami himself was speaking to her. A single tear fell down her cheek, brown in color as collected rainwater on the forest floor.

“Your will be done,” she whispered. She turned away from the pair before her.

“What was his commandment? Has he decided against giving the gift?”

“Nay, he has entrusted me to take a name. He won’t even name me himself,” her hand flew to her mouth, “I am to guide Kagome through her transition and to ensure that her journey is not interrupted by those who are not meant to be involved… He says though my power is faulting I must die by the hand of another and not my own, I must die in service,” she sobbed, “Though I will never be his servant again.”

The room was silent besides the former servant’s sobbing. It remain that way until Kagome felt the hands of Kayos grip her arm as sleep fell upon her.


(Kaede)

The gang had become disheartened since Kagome’s disappearance.

Miroku and Sango no longer teased one another in rounds of play fighting. I had been many days since she’d slapped him and many days since they’d spoken of anything besides what could have happened to Kagome. Shippou never left Kaede’s hut, she kept a stock of white papers from Kagome’s abandoned knapsack and a box of crayons to keep him occupied. He drew pictures of Kagome, of her face, of her eyes, her hair… He only drew pictures of Kagome.

Perhaps the worst of all four was Inuyasha. In the weeks of her disappearance, he spent all hours of the day looking for something he could go on to find her. Once it became apparent that there was nothing her could do, her sat on the tree from which she’d freed him from and refused to move unless absolutely necessary. Three days ago he began refusing food.

Whenever the group came together now, they argued. None could listen to the other for more than a second without starting something. Even little Shippou would get into it.

It seemed that now they’d given up on one another and never came together at all, not even for meals. They were falling apart without Kagome, their separation seemed eminent…

Kaede watched all of this with a heavy heart. Both for the loss of Kagome and the young gang whom she considered something like children to her. Kaede was preparing to leave the village on priestess duties when everything would change for her charges.

A traveler from the coast rolled into the village one afternoon, but as soon as one of her neighbors pointed him out to her, she knew he was no human traveler. She smelled it from the salt his body 30 feet away that he was no human, though he did a fine job disguising his aura. Not wanted to distress her villagers, she did not call him out on it off the bat.

“What business have ye here traveler? And if I may ask, why is one from the sea such as yourself doing so far inland.”

The villagers however sensed the tension between their Miko and the traveler and knew at once something was fishy. The neighbor that guided Kaede to the traveler promptly signaled everyone to leave the square.

The traveler laughed, “I see you are not as old and powerless as I imagined Miko.”

“I must say that I had no intention to delay my journey west, but if you cause me any hassle I shall delay to rid my path of you.”

“I offer you no battle if you offer to suffering to the people of my village,” she stated.

They stood in silence for a moment; the traveler lifted his hat to look at the Miko and began to walk away.
“ If I may ask, why is a serpent of the sea traveling west, away from his territory?”

“Well Miko, since I am feeling well today I shall tell you. But think this cheer not of my attitude towards humans.”

“I shall take no such liberty.”

“The birds told me of a scent, so powerful it’s making the mouths of the beast water with anticipation. It is the scent of a female who lays sleeping, in heat on the side of a river.”

“You travel to claim her?”

“She must be a powerful demon indeed, if the beasts can even smell her desire,” the traveler smiled, “ even now I can’t faintly smell the scent of a desirable female this way. I do not know why I am telling this to you…”

“I wish I could offer you some compensation for your information, but I fear I have nothing to give a sea serpent but thanks and luck on your conquest to mate this female.”

The traveler said nothing and moved away so fast, Kaede could not see him take a step. He vanished into the west as quickly as he came. She stood for a moment and called out to the bushes behind her.

“ It is not a lead Inuyasha, but at least it’s something,” she sighed, “ you should follow him since you yourself cannot smell what is guiding him.”

She heard the bushes shake and she knew he was gone. She knew that if he did not return with Kagome, he would not return at all.


(Kagome)

“What have you decided on? Since you know you cannot leave the valley before you pick one,” Kakos yipped.

He waited around for a good hour watching Kagome console the former servant in the bed in which she’d awoken.

“Even if I knew I would not tell you,” she sniffled, “it’s your fault Kami hasn’t let me rest. It’s your fault an innocent being must undergo a curse such as that. I wish to never lay eyes on you again!”

“You are becoming more like a member of the mortal realm by the second,” he jeered as his body slipped into the air.

Kagome was quite stunned. She was so confused by the information that had just been forced upon her.

“Kagome,” she called in a shaky voice, “ I know not a name for myself, and I need to take you away from the Valley in a few moments. I would be grateful if you could think of a name for me. What it is matters little to me.”

Kagome thought for a moment, “ a name is a very important thing. Naming should not be taken lightly, I know little of who you are so I cannot choose a name that would truly suit you.”
The woman put her head between her knees at Kagome’s words,” I care not what it is.”

Kagome breathed out, “I think your name, until you can think of one you like more, should be Faith.”

“Faith,” she pulled her head up and nodded with a heavy heart, “so be it. It is what I shall keep though I no longer hear the voice of Kami.”

“Kagome, I shall have to send you back before me. My body has never been real before a few moments ago and I know not how to operate my power with a physical body as of yet. Wait for me where the wood meets the water even if I do not appear as quickly as I hoped… if you can remember this…” Faith bit her lip.

Kagome didn’t even get to finish her sentence, “what do you mean if I-“
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