While Kagome’s powers may destroy or calm them, depending on the enemy’s own intent, it is Kougai’s presence that makes many subservient. Having a tsukumogami servant - not a shiki or shikigami - makes Kagome stand out.

She’s not quite sure she likes it.

Heaven's Palace doesn't protest his conduct, for he is very deferential to Kagome (no matter that she gently chides him over it).

In Heaven's Halls he is the collared beast and she a benevolent god who puts up with him for supposed benefits. While on earth humans and ghosts consider her the dangerous one and him the one in possession of mercy.

In many ways these things are ridiculous, as they are both equally dangerous and at times equally kind, but they work together well.

Heavens approve of their dichotomy and while he is the possession and she is the possessor there is no strain in their relationship.

He may not be a shinki nor a shikigami or a subject believer, but he is her's and that matters.

Some don’t like it. Shinki view him as something putrid, a thing that shouldn’t be anywhere near a Kami like Kagome. None say it to her face lest she look at them in disappointment and pity as she tens to do to all who couldn’t hope to understand.

They glare at him, hiss at him, but his smirk doesn’t leave his face.

Sometimes he wonders if things will change once Kagome gets a shinki, but that is a worry for a different time. In the meantime he’ll enjoy the looks of anger and jealousy.

.

Fic Masterlist

He, who used to call himself Naraku, could still remember the moment they collided. For that single breath they became one entity and experienced each other's most intimate memories. Things closest to heart.

He had lost in the end, barely pulled himself together.

He remembers a gentle touch - not like Kikyo's, nothing like Kikyo's cold methodical hands - it was quick, it was gentle, it wished him no harm as it separated all that made them themselves.

Kagome protected him; he remembered that. Her wish did not exclude him. In her eyes he was as much of a victim of the Shikon's cruel manipulations as any other.

He could see now the way it had fed his obsessions, his fury and anger. It had found the perfect person, or rather it had found another conglomeration of youkai that could replace the old one, and brought a miko of great power back through time to fill its insides.

He was alone now, he remembered things that made him Naraku, things that made him Onigumo, but he could let go of them if he so wished.

He was tired.

And Kagome was there. She didn't throw him away when she felt the stirrings of consciousness; her hand would glide across the pin's surface when she sensed his distress.

She had changed as well. No longer a miko, but something greater; something precious, and while the human and the hanyou in him might have wanted to possess her, it was the tsukumogami who had found something much more freeing in being possessed himself.

For all intents and purposes he was now, a hairpin. The use of a hair pin is to pull one’s hair away form their face, or decoration.

This singularity of purpose gave him peace, he was her belonging; her kind eyes and forgiving hands gave him a place, a home.

Something so very valuable that neither thief nor hanyou knew or possessed.

It gave him stability in ways he never knew he needed.

Kagome became home, and the wished to protect it. He looked up at her as she called him, not surprised that she knew who he was, he welcomed the caring concern in her eyes and didn't fight the warmth in his chest. It gave him weight and brought more solace than he would have ever thought he could acquire.

Considering her question he answered. "I now call myself Kougai."

Hairpin.

She had brought him far on her own back, scrambling from that hell in the darkness where they connected, scrambling on her hands and knees and she grasped something more, something divine and he could only be thankful that she did not let go of his hand.

He was perfectly content being a hairpin in her hands.

"Kougai..." she murmured, and smiled.

.

Fic Masterlist

.

Story title: In your Hands

Genre: adventure / drama / romance

Characters: Kagome Higurashi, Naraku, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippou, Kaede, Shikon Jewel, 

Pairings: Kagome x Naraku

Tags: Noragami crossover, mix and match of canon and fanon, Tsukumogami Naraku, Kami Kagome, the plights of being a god wear on Kagome, Naraku finds peace with his new life, right and wrong don’t apply to gods, in Noragami at least, trauma due to immortality, humans are not meant for immortality, but Kagome manages   

Summary:  The jewel is gone, things are finally alright, they can relax, they can celebrate. Only thing left of Naraku is a curious pin, dark and sleek with curving red symbols, a hair ornament. Kagome takes it and no one protests, it’s a memento, a spoil of victory. If it brings tingles to her fingertips, she says nothing.

.

Battle is done, well is closed and it’s time to get on with the rest of their lives. But soon enough things start changing, and it becomes obvious that something is up with Kagome.

She is starting to fade from her friends memories.

It is Miroku who discovers that she’s actually ascending to godhood - this leads to them finding ways for at least her demon and half-demon friends to remember her.

Unfortunately, Sango starts completely forgetting her. Miroku’s training as a priest is what protects his own memories, but soon enough Kagome cannot take the heartbreak of reminding Sango and they all agree not to do so any longer.

Kagome is not ready to just give up though and persists in her new circumstances. Life is not done with her yet.

.

some drabbles and scenes incoming as soon as I go through them.

No beta! You’ve been warned!

.

Posts . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 .

Fic Masterlist