Miasma Memories by vampyra142001
A Picnic & a Show
Miasma Memories
By Vampyra142001
Warning: I've only seen the first season, and read bits and pieces of later stuff, so sorry if some of this isn't right. This takes place soon after Sango joins their group. It's just a fanfiction so if you don't like it read someone else's. Oh, the intro and background stuff is for people who haven't watched any/much of the Inuyasha series.
Notes:
* * * means a shift in POV between Kagome and Shippo, or a shift in time (If I don't say something like 'later')
Italics are either Kagome or Shippo's direct thoughts (Like the voiceovers in the series)
Bold italics are the direct thoughts of a character outside of Shippo or Kagome (You'll find out who's later, and only Kagome can heard these)
My name is Kagome Higurashi. In the present, I'm just an ordinary teen girl, well almost ordinary. I live at Higurashi Shrine with my mom, grandpa, and brother, Souta. Oh, and Buyo, my cat. The only other reason people don't see me as ordinary is my grandpa constantly has to call me in sick at school. He comes up with some really outrageous diseases, ones that old people get.
Anyway, only my family knows that whenever I'm 'sick' I'm really 500 years in the past. You see, there's an ancient dry well on the shrine's grounds. The Bone-eater's Well supposedly devours monster corpses, whatever. I do know, first hand, that if I jump or fall into the well I can travel between the Warring States era and the present. To activate the time rip at least a shard of a sacred jewel, called the Shikon no Tama, must be near the well in either time. I've been trapped in the present with no shard more times than I like to remember.
When I'm actually in the past, I travel with several friends I met in the past. Shippo, a young kitsune. Sango, the last living demon exterminator and her pet, Kilala, a cat demon. A lech of a monk, Miroku. And of course, Inuyasha the half-dog demon.
Sometimes, we travel with Kaede, the village priestess or Myoga, an old flea demon, he's a real coward. Everybody pays him back for running away. Can you say: Squish City?
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Today I convinced the gang to go on a picnic. Inuyasha needed 10 'sits' to take a day off from shard hunting. He's got this bead necklace that slams him face-first into the ground when ever I say "sit". It's really quite funny to watch.
Later, even though he watched me pack I still find myself telling Inuyasha,"Yes, I packed plenty of instant ramen. It's not as though you'd starve without it."
"I don't know about that, he doesn't look so good when we run out," Shippo piped up.
"He never looks so good; he IS Inuyasha," joke Sango. We girls giggled.
"It wasn't that funny," growled Inuyasha. We laughed harder.
The place we choose to have the picnic was just outside of Inuyasha's forest, near a pretty little waterfall. It was picture perfect. The only thing that ruined it was Inuyasha's reminder that tomorrow we'd be shard hunting again. Yippee.
As soon as we got there I set them to their tasks. Shippo and Miroku set up the blanket and stuff. Inuyasha got water. Sango and I prepared the food, she cut the fruit and I cooked the ramen. The meal went pretty uneventful, but you can't be female around Miroku for 5 minutes without him trying something, Sango and I pounded him twice before the meal was over.
While we were cleaning up, felt several shards headed our way, they were tainted and surrounded in an evil so dark it had to be Naraku. I alerted the group, we readied for battle. I had my bow notched and aimed in the direction the shards were coming from.
Naraku slid into view with no less than 50 of his evil bugs. The bugs are designed to stop up the Windtunnel in Miroku's right hand, but they also poison him. Naraku cursed his family to have the Windtunnel until Naraku's death.
"I've come for the other half of the jewel," said Naraku. Tentacles shot out from beneath the white baboon pelt covering his entire body. I hadn't realized that both sides had half of the jewel.
"You've got it backwards asshole!" shouted Inuyasha as he attacked the tentacles with a mixture of slashes from his claws and his sword, the Tetsusaiga. The sword is made from his father's fang, it's VERY powerful.
I loosed my arrow, aiming at Naraku's head. He teleported before it could hit, and he stood in a nearby tree signaling his insects to attack me. Miroku and Shippo held them off while I tried to aim. Sango threw her boomerang and missed when he teleported again. Out of nowhere a white blur lops off several tentacles. It had to be Inuyasha's older half-brother, Sesshomaru, a full dog demon. They hated each other, but at least part of that was because he didn't care who he hurt as long as he got his way. Naraku, on several occasions, has used Sesshomaru to try and kill Inuyasha so that Naraku could get our jewel shards. Thus far neither have succeded, so I guess Sesshomaru is finally fed-up with Naraku's failing plans.
The brothers glared at each other for a second, then when about attacking Naraku in their own styles, ignoring each other. Sesshomaru primarily used his energy whip. I couldn't fire any arrows with both of them fighting. For the same reason Sango couldn't do anything.
When most of the tentacles were missing and the boys seem to be winning, Naraku decides to end the battle with a huge purple cloud of miasma.
As the gang and I ran from the spreding cloud I lost sight of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. I stopped short, the miasma would kill them if they didn't get out soon. I reached out to touch the cloud, it purified instantly, disappearing. The guys still forms lay in the middle of a crater left by the miasma. Was I too late?
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Cliffy...hmm. Only my second fanfic and I'm already being cruel to my readers. Please reveiw anyway.