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InuYasha's Daughter- Chapter 3

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Kagome reached up to the vines which crept down the old well and pulled herself up and out, careful not to wake her daughter. Shippou jumped out as well and cautiously stepped forward while looking around at his surroundings, trying to see if anything had changed since the kitsune had left. Kaede wiggled around and awoke from her slumber to view a very different place. She yawned and continued to glance up at the many trees and mountains as far as the eye could see. The young half demon girl couldn’t help but be a bit frightened at first with the area, but soon warmed up to it as her mother walked towards the forest with Shippou beside her and Kaede on her back. With her pudgy little fingers she reached back and tugged on her mother’s shirt in an effort to get her to let her down. When Kagome hadn’t agreed, she began to let tiny whines escape her mouth and gradually began to get louder. Kagome sighed and let the tiny girl down to walk around for a bit. Kaede wobbled as she came to her mother’s side and glanced up to her.

  “Why we here, mommy?” the three year old asked. Kagome gazed into her daughter’s wondering eyes and smiled, replying,

“We’re here to look for daddy,”

   Kaede let a small sad pout curve her lips as the faint memories of her and her father flashed through her mind. Kagome found it quite peculiar how a three year old could remember such memories of her father, but never doubted her for a second. Kagome lowered her head in sadness as all went silent. Kaede looked up to the clouds then inhaled deeply with her black dog ears twitching away. All at once, she shot into the air. Kagome’s eyes enlarged as did Shippou’s as they looked up to the ‘flying’ hanyou.


  “I never knew she could do that like InuYasha!” Shippou exclaimed playfully. Kagome grabbed onto the smirking fox-demon and dragged him and herself after her soaring daughter through the forest.

  “We have to go after her!” Kagome screamed as she finally let go of Shippou so that he could run on his own. He quickly transformed into a horse and Kagome hopped on. He rapidly galloped through the forest under the three year old who was thrusting herself against the rushing winds high up in the sky. She giggled at the power she had but decided to go back down to the ground when she spotted a village.

  Kagome watched from afar as Kaede set herself down to the ground and run into the village just on the out-skirts of the forest. She jumped off of Shippou as he transformed back to normal, and the pair ran after Kaede who had charged gracefully into one hut that was vaguely familiar to the reincarnated miko. Kagome slowed her pace and shouted for her daughter.

“Hi! I’m Kaede, who are you?” she heard her child greet ever so happily. Little Kaede was quite the explorer and was always looking for adventure, even if it did mean getting into trouble to do it. Kagome watched as her daughter came strolling out while looking up gleefully to the old priestess, Lady Kaede. The old woman took her smile from the child to her mother and began to slowly make her way to her deaceased sister’s reincarnation. Kagome ran up to the old woman and bent her knees slightly to reach Lady Kaede’s level as she took her into a friendly embrace. They broke the hug as Lady Kaede asked,

  “Kagome! What on earth are ye doing in these feudal times?”

   Kagome let a soft worried grunt erupt from her throat before she answered,

“I came to find InuYasha,”

***

     Kaede sat outside with Shippou, playing with his small spinning top as he kept a careful eye on her. He knew how mischievous she was and knew that she would try to fly up into the air as soon as Shippou even blinked an eye. She reached over for one of his acorns which were layed out, and began to fiddle with the nut in her tiny hands. As the acorn fumbled out from her grasp and rolled behind Shippou, she ambitiously crawled over to grab the nut. As she crawled over, she noticed Shippou's rust colored tail laying carelessly by the acorn. She smirked playfully and gave it a tiny tug making him jump up in the air in slight pain. She clapped her hands together and gave a playful smile at her ‘brother’s’ expression. As Shippou stroked his tail, Kaede snuck away and shot up in the air. But she didn’t get very far at all, before she was dragged back down by two soft, yet, sturdy hands and pulled into her mother’s grasp.

  “No way, Kaede. We’re not gunna have another mishap like that,” Kagome warned as Kaede giggled with her big brown eyes glistening with innocence. Kagome couldn’t help but smile at her young daughter’s act of innocence. She walked into Lady Kaede’s hut and placed her in the place around the fire furthest from the doorway so that her mischievous pup wouldn’t try to make a daring escape into the outdoors. Shippou came in too, and took a seat beside Kaede. He gave her a small death glare as he moved his tail away from her hands. She smirked then grabbed onto the pacifier her mother had offered and shoved it into her small mouth and began to suck away.

  Lady Kaede chuckled under her breath as Kaede looked to the doorway with eager eyes.

  “She’s just like her father I see,” the old priestess murmured followed by Kagome nodding and pulling back Kaede who desperately tried to crawl away.

“She’s very rambunctious tonight and I can’t figure out why,” Kagome questioned to Lady Kaede seeking an answer from her. Lady Kaede smiled and replied,

“Maybe she’s like this because she's excited that she’s truly home...she belongs in this time period,”

   Kagome smiled back and agreed with the elder as she layed her daughter down onto the futon to go to sleep. At first, Kaede struggled and tried to sit up, but soon fell asleep when entranced by the hazy fire’s glow which soothed the child.

"So," Kagome started to say, "What happened to Miroku and Sango and their child and unborn child once I left?"

  "They went back to Sango's village and helped repair it. Their where-abouts now, is unknown...they probably have settled down somewhere near the taijiya village,"

   Kagome gazed down at the fire with a smile. She was glad that everything had worked out for the pair as it should have. The conversation between Kagome and Lady Kaede went on only for a little while longer until they decided that they did not want risk waking Kaede and Shippou, who had just fallen asleep beside her, with their conversing. So they too, decided to let their weariness get the better of them.


  Late into the night, as the darkness of night finally reached it’s peak, Kaede awoke. Her sharp hearing perked up to a small sound outside of the hut. She stood up and hopped over her mother without making a peep and rushed outside in search of the noise.


   The singing birds in the trees outside of the hut acted as Kagome’s wake up call as she opened her eyes to the subtle beams of sunlight with shined through the slits through the hanging door which she faced. She sat up and stretched out her arms while letting a rather large yawn out. One of a mother’s fears, is to wake up and find your child missing. She looked around frantically but found herself bursting out her daughter’s name through shrill screams. Shippou shot up with his eyes wide open to the high pitched yell that Kagome had let out. After her scream settled, Shippou’s eyes closed half way in a tired manner and he fell back onto the futon. He rubbed his eyes as Lady Kaede slowly sat up and asked Kagome what was wrong. Kagome quickly explained while she stood and pulled on her shoes. The other two got up as quickly as they could then the trio made their way out the door.

***

   They searched around the village at first but when finding the child nowhere, they immediately dashed for the forest. With her longing depression for her mate and now this, Kagome couldn’t stand the emotional pressure. Her knees gave in and she started to cry into her hands. Shippou came over and consoled his mother figure as Lady Kaede stared down an object a far distance away.

  “I think I see something by the creek!” Her rough aging voice bellowed to the pair. Kagome looked up eagerly then started to run towards the object in both fright and curiosity. She slowly made her way over to see that it was indeed her daughter who was crouched over talking to a bug. She turned her head towards her mother and grinned as she greeted her,

  “Hi Mommy!”

   The bug jumped onto Kagome’s shoulder and began to speak to the priestess. But going with her first instinct, she flung the flea off and grabbed onto her daughter and dragged her away while shouting,

  “Get away from it Kaede!”

   Soon coming to her senses, she realized that it was Myouga. She took the squished flea into her palm and sobbed her apologies to the old insect.

  “No time for apologies, Kagome, we must save Lord InuYasha!”

  Kagome felt chills rush through her body when she heard that InuYasha was in danger.

***

   The four rushed through the forest (Myouga on Kagome’s shoulder) with Lady Kaede on Shippou, who had transformed into a horse, in the direction that Myouga had instructed where to find InuYasha. As they ran, Myouga continued to explain to Kagome what had happened,

“We must hurry! For Lord InuYasha is in deep trouble! You see, when priestess Kikyo came across Lord InuYasha, she tried to speak with him about her arrangements of taking him to hell with her and being together once again, but Lord InuYasha refused, telling Kikyo that he was in love with another which was you. Well this made Kikyo furious and she turned Lord InuYasha human!”

  Kagome gasped at Myouga’s words as he jumped up and down on her shoulder.

“But how could she do that?” She asked in response.

“While you were gone, Kikyou had found the remaining jewel shards not too long ago. Because of her spiritual powers, she managed to use the jewel shards to change Lord InuYasha human...but thankfully not permanently. She has him locked up in a hut that we’re going to and is keeping him there until he agrees to going to hell with her and dedicating his heart to only her,”

“How could she do this to him? She was the protector! She knows that the jewel should only be used for good. And why would she try to bring him to hell when he told her years ago that he had chosen me?” Kagome uttered in disbelief.

“Yes, quite strange I think. She has also created a barrier that can only let her enter and leave as well as Lord InuYasha, but he is too weak and is locked up so is unable to escape. I was with Lord InuYasha at the time so I as well was locked in there with him before she placed the barrier on the hut. Since Lord InuYasha is human, his needs need to be met, so I had been keeping him alive with nourishment such as food and water,”

“But how were you able to leave and return?”

“I took a good helping of Lord InuYasha’s blood and I was able to go through because his blood was within me. But, I was caught by the angry miko but escaped before she could kill me. I came looking for you, but found your daughter, Kaede, instead,”

“Wait, so that means since I’m Kikyo’s reincarnation, and InuYasha’s blood runs through Kaede’s veins since she is his daughter...we’re the only ones besides InuYasha and Kikyo who can go through,”

   Kagome glanced over to her daughter in sheer fright. They finally came to a hill which overlooked a large hut with a glowing purple aura. Without warning, Kaede’s child recklessness got a hold of her, making her jet towards the hut.

“Kaede no!” Kagome cried to her impatient daughter. Myouga hopped off her shoulder from the sense of danger as Kagome told the others to stay put. She followed her daughter to the hut and they both came to the front sliding door. Kagome carefully pulled back the door and a gush of wind blew by the pair. Kaede darted through the gap from the sliding door to the wall and into the darkness of the hut with Kagome calling after her.

   Kaede pulled back one door and made her way inside. She glanced around the room but all was empty except for a man who was pinned to the wall by tree limbs. She ran up to the man whose black bangs overshadowed his eyes, and climbed up the bark to his face without hesitation.

  “Hi! I’m Kaede, have you seen my inu-papa?”

  When she got no answer, she frowned and decided to wait until he replied.

***

  Kagome whispered Kaede’s name as she tip-toed down the hall into complete darkness. She could see a slight crack of some light in the wall and knew that it was one of the doors to a room. She swiftly pulled back the door as soon as she gathered her courage together; fearing that Kikyo could be in the room. She walked in cautiously then collapsed with her mouth a gape at the sight present. There was InuYasha in his human form, pinned up by tree limbs with Kaede beside him. Kaede turned to her mom and exclaimed,

“Mommy! This man won’t tell me where daddy is!”

“Kaede,” She uttered as a tear broke free, “That is your daddy,”

   Kaede’s surprised expression turned into a happy one at her mother’s announcement.

“Daddy!” She shouted with happiness as she placed her hands on his shoulders and glanced down at him. She watched as his eye-lids quivered then open to see his daughter. Although he had not seen her since she was born, he had memorized her scent from the moment he held her. He smiled and whispered her name,

“Ka...Kaede,”

   As Kaede wrapped her arms around InuYasha’s neck as a daughterly embrace, Kagome dragged herself over to the pair and hugged them both. Her daughter backed off of InuYasha so her mother could bend in and kiss the suffering InuYasha. As soon as they broke their kiss, Kagome gazed into his golden eyes to see Kikyo in their reflection. She spun around and glared down the priestess.

“I hate to break up this reunion, but I’m going to have to,” Kikyo threatened then sent a huge gust of wind their way which tore mother and daughter off of InuYasha. Kagome lay limp on the ground and watched Kaede bounce back up, through strands of her ebony hair that had covered most of her sight.

---Sorry to leave you hanging on this but I gotta lol--
Kay this is the next chapter alright I thought the 'inu-papa' thing was really cute so please don't yell at me lol hope you like the chap!! It's pretty good lol get's you asking questions lol ...:blowkiss:
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Lol, since when did Kikyo get Kagura's wind powers? This chapter was really cute!