End Only To Begin again by chicke
Tessaiga & Tenseiga
'...'Thoughts
"..." Speaking
Italic - flashback/visions
Youkai - demon
:: Tessaiga Sword talk::
Chapter 3
Tessaiga & Tenseiga
Kagome slipped back under the rope and looked around; if all these people were not here you could still faintly see the landscape from long ago. She walked back to the path away from the crowd. Instead of heading towards the car she decided to enjoy the scenery. After all, it is not very often she got the chance. Between work and school along with her Miko training she had no time.
She was walking up the path sightseeing; not many people could actually enjoy the mountain terrain, but she was one of the few. Her long walks in the feudal era trained her body to handle climbing the path spiraling up the mountain. She was now in the middle area of the mountain, not many trees were to be seen, but the view of below did nothing but make her miss the feudal era all the more.
On her climb up the mountain something tickled the edge of her senses. It was very weak but there all the same. She tried to send out her senses to feel what it could be and she recognized it almost instantly. "Magic" she whispered while looking off into the distance.
This is the first time she has sensed anything to do with magic in the modern era so curiosity quickly got the better of her and she headed in the direction to which she sensed the magic.
It took her 10 minutes before she arrived at her destination. She looked around for the source and did not see anything of importance. Her senses were telling her this whole area was cloaked in magic to keep uninvited people away. She took a survey of the area, quickly accessing where the source could be. She saw nothing but rock, grass, flowers, and dirt so she sat down in the middle of the area to meditate.
Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the feel of the breeze against her face, the smell of the grass, and the feel of the magic. She tried to pinpoint the exact location of the magic she sensed. After a few minutes she thought she found it, so she opened her eyes and exhaled the breath she did not know she was holding.
She began to stand and look in the direction the magic was coming from and looked at the mountain confused, 'I don't see anything just the mountain.' she thought as she approached it.
She stopped at the bottom and stretched her hand out to touch the rock. But what her hand touched was not rock. She looked at it with a wicked smile. 'A barrier,' she thought as she pushed her powers out of her hand to break it. She closed her eyes to concentrate on her task and then paused for a moment, 'There is something familiar about this power signature. But what is it? And what does it mean?' she thought while pushing her hand through the barrier.
The Barrier shattered under her hand and a cave was exposed. She looked around again to make sure no one was near. When she was sure she was alone she peered into the cave.
The cave was dark but lined with unlit torches. She did not sense anything alive in the cave so she took a deep calming breath and stepped inside. The first of the torches lit upon her entry which startled her and she looked again. Sure that she did not see anything she thought, 'I should put up another Barrier just so no one can get in while I am here.' She erected her barrier and satisfied it would last she walked further into the cave; torches lit by themselves as she walked.
When she made it further into the cave she was stuck frozen to the spot... one thing she thought to never see again was right in front of her stuck in a pedestal much like the first time she saw it. Next to it was its brother, Tessaiga and Tenseiga.
Shaking the stupor off, she moved forward like she was being pulled by some unforeseen force. She walked up to the pedestal housing the two familiar swords, wondering what it meant for the brothers who owned them. The one thing she thought was something she never wanted to consider, 'If their swords are here then that means they're dead.'
Yes, she figured that they might be since it was 500 years ago. But because they were youkai and lived for thousands of years, she hoped that maybe at least someone was alive that might be able to tell her what happened to those that she loved. But here was proof that they were not here and how alone she really was.
She looked longingly at Tessaiga and walked towards it. She stopped in front it, 'I want it. Maybe I can keep it safe, so their deeds will never be forgotten,' she thought as she reached for Tessaiga.
Her hand wrapped securely around the hilt. As soon as her hand came in contact with the hilt a strange light came forth and illuminated a circle around the sword. She felt the sword pulse in welcome. 'It remembers me!' she thought happily as she pulled the sword from the pedestal.
With the sword pulsing happily in her hand, she looked down at it in wonder; she could hear it. The sword could talk to her! Her mind was screaming, 'What could this mean?!'
The sword answered ::You are the master of this Tessaiga::
She looked at the sword in disbelief, 'I am the master of the sword? But I am human. What does that mean? What happen to Inuyasha?' she asked the sword hoping to get a few answers and wishing to get one about Inuyasha.
The sword pulsed in reply ::You are the master. Being human now matters not. Being the master means you have the capability to use the sword's powers as well as hidden ones never used before. You are the true master. Kind but brave, compassionate but also fierce. About Inuyasha, I can not tell you. I only know when last he had the sword in his hands; this was 510 years ago. We have been in this cave for 510 years, within the pedestal waiting for our true master.:: The sword told her in reply.
She looked down at the sword bewildered. She found it ironic, 'I may be the only person alive that knows the legacy, the true legacy of the Inu Youkai from the Western Lands; Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and their father. It makes ironic sense I would be the new master.' she thought to herself humorlessly.
She put Tessaiga down and walked to Tenseiga. She looked at the familiar sword she had seen many times on both sides of battle. The sword of Sesshoumaru...'God what would he say now? The sword picked me as its master!?' she thought with humor. "Talk about ironic!" she said aloud as she stepped closer to the sword.
She looked down at the sword contemplating if she should take it or not. 'I should take it. He would hate it more if some unknown human got to it. I am sure he would feel better if someone who knows him and his family looked after his family's legacy,' she thought with a nod.
She reached for the sword and that was the first step that changed her life.
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Kagome reached for the sword; her hand on the hilt gripped tightly when her surroundings blurred. She was having some sort of vision.
Kagome's Vision:
She was in a clearing in the summer or spring time; flowers in bloom. She watched from the side as the people in the field come into view. What she saw frightened her!
In the center of the field were all her friends and Sesshomaru fighting some unknown enemy.
She watched as the first of her friends fell to death. Shippo looked a little older than the last time she'd seen him. He was caught in the crossfire; the enemy was shooting blindly trying to kill all he could. Kagome screamed "SHIPPO!" she tried to move to go to him but she could not move. The last thing he said was, "Kagome." then he stopped breathing.
Her heart broke at what she was seeing and it just kept getting worse. Miroku was the next to fall. Kagome watched as he threw himself in front of Sango; sacrificing his life for her. Sango soon followed, caught off guard, her attention on Miroku instead of the fight.
The only ones left were Kerira and the brothers.
She watched on in horror as Inuyasha sent the backlash wave to the enemy and the enemy sent it back at him; Inuyasha fell to his own attack. Tears streaming down her face as she watched Kerira get ripped to pieces from the returned attack.
Sesshomaru was the only one left now. She could tell he was getting tired because his movements were slowing down a bit. Her heart broken from learning how her friends died; she watched as the brother of her friend fought for his life.
Sesshomaru and the unknown enemy was trading blow for blow. Sometimes he dodged the attacks sometimes he was not fast enough. They both were beat up pretty badly; Sesshomaru was out numbered.
Several youkai surrounded him; he fought proudly taking out as many as he could. But he too fell to the enemy as he was greatly outnumbered.
The last thing she saw was him drop Tenseiga from his hand and the vision cleared, leaving her alone in the torch lit cave; in the future.
End of Kagome's Vision
'the sword recorded it's owners last breath.' she thought as tears streamed down her face. She looked down at her hand holding the hilt of the pulsing Tenseiga and she then pulled the sword from the pedestal.
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