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 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:16 am
Title: From the Future
Inuyasha/Kagome
Rated: PG-13 for violence, cursing.
Summary: Kagome and Inuyasha fight. Of course, what else is new? Kagome goes back to her own time to give both of them a chance to cool off, but things soon go terribly wrong. Kaede has a horrible vision of the very near future, and Kagome gets a visit from someone she never could have imagined possibly existed. Surviving an attack that left them weak and defenseless, Inuyasha and Kagome must go into hiding and escape. They come across a group of rebels who are extremely familiar, and are now in a fight to save not only their lives, but the lives of everyone from the future as well.
~SugarRos
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Disclaimer: Inuyasha and Co. Do not belong to me. They all belong to Rumiko Takahashi. But right now they’re mine to manipulate. I’m going to have so much fun. XD
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From The Future: Prologue: Warning I: Part 01
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It's true that warnings can come as quite a shock. One can't really expect warnings, and when one is warned, it’s as if everything everything suddenly comes to a halt. The entire body will shut down, just to try and cope with what’s going on.
Warnings are dangerous, yet they are nessasary. For without the warning, Kagome would have never known what was to come, and Inuyasha would have surely died along with her...
But that's a story for later down the road.
That day was beautiful, when they fought. Just like it was most days in the Feudal Era. Pretty and blue and clear. Perfect.
The villagers milled around outside their modest huts, talking about trivial matres, watching their children play. It was a peaceful day, which was actually a usual sort of thing. Of course, the peace didn't last, an the villagers all sighed as Kagome and Inuyasha stomped heatedly though the small town, kicking up dust and yelling at the top of their lungs.
The villagers had learned to expect it, of course. It was normal and sort of comforting to them all now. They could all remember the day that Kagome had shown up and freed Inuyasha from his magic binding spell of slumber. When she discovered the jewel lay hidden in her body, and when she shattered it, sending it’s shards to all ends of the world, or the country at least. And they could all remember when she had ultimately tamed Inuyasha, not just his body with the rosary beads that lay around his neck, but his heart as well.
And yet, here they were again, arguing like there was no tomorrow.
“Kagome! Do you have to be so God Damn stupid all the time?!”
They stormed through the village, ignoring onlookers, dodging around wagons and children. Inuyasha was only meters behind Kagome, glaring at the back of her head like he wished it dead. He huffed and complained and argued. Kagome was having nothing to do with it, her nose up in the air, ignoring him as much as she could stand to.
“Don’t talk to me right now, Inuyasha, you’re making me upset!”
“Listen to me!” Inuyasha shouted as he leapt gracefully in front of Kagome’s path, cutting her off short. “You almost got yourself killed back there!”
She stopped, almost running into his chest, and shot daggers up at him through heated eyes. “Yeah, and saved your butt in the process!” She seethed out, fury etched in her pretty face. “But do I get a thanks for that? No. Just another stupid lecture on how pathetic and weak and dumb I am!” She shoved past Inuyasha, making her way swiftly through the village towards the path that led to the well.
The villagers rolled their eyes and shook their heads, muttering to each other about the duo an how childish they could be. Yet, their fighting was almost comforting. It was so everyday. So normal. Which was nice, considering that most of the time, they were off fighting horrible, terrible monsters. Youkai. Evil creatures that fed on humans.
In fact, since the priestess Kagome appeared at the village out of nowhere, the death rates of the village had dropped dramatically. Inuyasha and his little brigade of comrades had made the village their home, and they protected it.
The villagers watched as the two disappeared behind a layer of trees, although they could still hear their voices for a good time afterwards. They continued on with their daily lives, however, sure that they would make up soon. It was only a matter of time.
“Well, I’m sick of it!” Kagome continued, holding back her tears as they finally reached the edge of the forest. “I’m sick of being yelled at for trying to keep you safe, I’m tired of never being good enough!”
Inuyasha huffed as he stomped after her. “Kagome-“
“No! Leave me alone, Inuyasha!” Her feet carried her swiftly towards the well, which was in plain sight now. The village was long gone behind them.
“Would you ******** stop for a second!” Inuyasha yelled out, grabbing onto her wrist and whirling her around to face him.
Kagome let herself be jerked around, not really having the energy to fight anymore. It was all so stupid. So very, very stupid. She was quickly becoming tired of their little spats over her traveling through time. She wouldn’t look at him. She wouldn’t let him see her cry.
He didn’t see it, but he smelled it sure enough. He stuttered around his words, telling from her scent that there was moisture on her face. “J-Just- Dammit, woman! You have to stay here! And stop crying!”
“I am not crying!” She wailed out, ripping her wrist from his grasp and shoving at his chest.
He didn’t budge.
She wiped the back of her hand against her eyes, over her flushed cheeks. “You know what bothers me, Inuyasha?” She sniffed, gaining better control of her tear ducts. “And I mean more than the fact that you obviously don’t appreciate what I do for you all the time.”
Inuyasha could only huff, half eager to know what bothered her so much.
“What bothers me is the knowledge that if I wasn't able to sence the shards you'd have just gone and left me somewhere.”
He rolled his eyes. ********' woman, why did she have to bring up something like that? The last time he'd even [i[thought of dumping her off anywhere to be rid of her had been more than a year and a half ago. "That's rediculous! What the hell are you talking about?"
"Argh!" She stomped her foot in frustraition and grit her teeth together. The fact was, she honestly didn't know what she was talking about anymore. She just wanted to hurt him like she was hurting.
It wasn't working.
Inuyasha reached out to grab her wrist again.
She didn’t notice. She wanted to reach down and dra up anything that would make him feel like crap. “I thought we were friends, Inuyasha, and it bothers me that you can’t even see past the fact that I can sense the shards.” She bit her lip as she looked up into his eyes.
He tried not to wince at her grief-stricken face.
“You can’t see past the part that I’m not cooler, or sexier, or better at shooting arrows or whatever than Kikyo was. Well, let me tellyou something. Something I’ve been trying to grind into thatdense head of yours since we first met.” She glanced down at her wrist held in his hand again, as her voice grew louder.
Oh Gods. He knew what was coming.
Kagome wrenched her wrist out of Inuyasha’s grasp. “I am not Kikyo. And I will never be Kikyo.”
He could only stare on dumbly as she backed away from him towards the well, anger still plastered on her face.
“I’m not coming back here until you get it through your head.”
With that, she sat down, rather hard, onto the side of the well, turned, and swung her legs over the ledge. And before Inuyasha could do anything, she was gone.
Inuyasha's growl climbed up through his chest as he ran to the side of the well and leaned over, shouting into the empty space below. "God-dammit, Kagome! That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" He sighe aloud. "I ********' know you're not kikyou, dammit."
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:38 am
From The Future: Prologue: Warning I: Part 02
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Inuyasha sat in the branches of the Goshinboku tree, his hands cradling his head, his foot swinging absently off the branch.
Damn.
Damn the Gods for bringing that wench to him.
And damn her for making him freeze up every time she got all emotional. It was always his fault, and his doing. Never hers. The others never blamed her for doing anything. He huffed at nothing and crossed his arms in a brooding sort of manor. What a stupid girl, getting all worked up over Kikyo. So what if he had loved the woman before? She was dead. And Kagome needed to get over her stupid jealousy.
“Keh.”
His chest expanded as a cocky grin spread across his face. Of course she was jealous over him. What girl wouldn’t be? He was ten times better and manlier and stronger than that stupid wolf or the perverted monk or his girly older brother. He laughed inside. He was surely better than that awful human boy in her time. Hoko, was it? Hopo? Hobo? ...Whatever. It was a dumb name anyway. And he would never be any better than Inuyasha.
Now that he thought about it... Kagome should be all over him. He was studly, right? He protected her. She never got hurt when she was with him...
Well, okay. There was that one time where she had gotten herself trapped in the Peach Man’s lair, and was almost squeezed to death, and then was being cooked in Sake for the Peach Man’s meal later... But that was her own fault, not his...He'd thought she was safe down by the head-tree... thing. And of course, there was the time when her soul was almost sucked out by that witch... What was her name? Oh yeah, Urasue... But in all fairness, he had fallen down a cliff, so it took a while to find them. And then the time when she was kidnaped by the Thunder Brothers... And when she was almost dragged to hell with that ghost-child girl. And then again, her soul was sucked out for the second time by that child of Naraku, Kanna. And then, she was bitten by Tsubaki’s Shikigami, and was being controlled by the shards she’d been carrying...
Gods... They’d gone through a lot together in just two years... Two years, and he’d put Kagome in such danger throughout it all. He couldn’t count the number of times he’d almost been killed, protecting her. But, strangely enough, every time she'd almost been killed was ingrained into his memory. He remembered every time. And his guilt just piled from there.
Of course, he always managed to make it to her rescue just in time. Or she’d do something weirdly smart that Inuyasha would never have thought of. Like the time they’d battled the Tsukumo no Gama, the frog demon, and she’d used some sort of mist-stuff to make a small flame burst into a huge fire. What had she called that stuff? Something about her hair... Of course, why she would want to put something in her hair that made it easy to catch afire was beyond him. People in her era did stupid things all the time. Like that math voodoo. Was everyone in her time crazy?
Most likely.
Of course, they did have some good stuff, also. Like ramen. Whoever made up ramen was a pure genius in his eyes. And chocolate. Chocolate was very, very good. It also seemed to work as some sort of spell every time Kagome was in... uh... heat, sort of. That time of the month her smells spiked and he had to keep his distance. After she ate the stuff she wasn’t so pissy... at least for a few hours afterwards... And the medicine she brought back! Things that cured headaches almost instantly, that made aches and pains disappear suddenly, and she even had these wraps that would keep an otherwise-infection-prone wound so clean it had no chance of getting the least bit infected.
Yeah, Kagome brought some good stuff back with her.
Inuyasha closed his eyes as his body relaxed a little, thinking of Kagome. He really did feel slightly guilty. About this afternoon, that is. Sure, he might have been... a little rash, but she had again put herself in danger by trying to help him out in a fight. She’d gotten herself kidnaped, almost raped, and definitely almost killed.
Battling a large demon of the Eagle clan, Inuyasha was having a rather rough time, seeing as the demon tended to use the large wings on his back to catch the currents that Inuyasha’s sword made, thus having him clear the Wind Scar. And Inuyasha was getting annoyed.
“You damn bird-boy, get down here and fight me like a man!”
“Like a human man, you mean?” The demon clucked. “I don’t think so. I’d rather eat you in my nest. You and that little tasty woman of yours.” He added, a sinister, yet lustful look on his face.
Inuyasha griped his sword tighter. “Stay the ******** away from her, this has to do with me and you.”
“So it does.” The demon called from above, before it swooped down upon them.
“I got you now!” Inuyasha shouted, swiping his sword across the tear in the wind.
But the demon wasn’t there. He was coming in from ********’-!” Inuyasha shouted out, realizing too late that he’d fallen for the bird-demon’s trap.
“It seems that I have you!” The demon chuckled as it closed in.
“No! Inuyasha!” Kagome threw herself in between the two battling males, and Inuyasha barely had time to shove her away in order to dodge the swiping claws himself.
The wind created from the demon’s talons swept Inuyasha back, cutting up his body and flinging him into a tree. He moaned, the fall giving him a splitting headache. That one had hurt.
“Inuyaaaashaaa!” He heard Kagome scream, and he was up on his feet in an instant.
“Kagome!” He called out, as the demon flew away into the air, Kagome dangling dangerously from his grasp. “********!” He cursed out, more at himself rather than the bird-demon. He had been careless. How could he let it take Kagome? She had the damn jewel, for God’s sake!
Letting out a ferocious battle yell, he leapt from his spot in the crumbles of the tree, he rushed off into the forest. He had to be quick. He couldn’t lose the demon’s scent. He couldn’t lose the jewel.
He couldn’t lose Kagome.
“Hey, Inuyasha!” Shippo called up from below the branches.
Groaning inwardly, Inuyasha glanced down at the young kit, choosing to ignore him. He was in a brooding mood, and he didn’t want Shippo to ruin it for him.
Inuyasha finally made it to the top of the cliff, pulling himself over the edge, and panting with relief. The climb had been long and tedious, and perfectly straight, if not at a slight acute angle. But he couldn’t stop for a rest, as tired as he was.
He straightened up and sniffed the air, setting Tetsusaiga on his shoulder. This was it. The lair of the Eagle Demon. He could smell the demon. Worse, he could smell Kagome’s stress and fear.
The cave loomed in front of him, huge and eerie and dank. He stepped close to the mouth of the cave, and peered inside, willing his eyes to adjust to the darkness faster. Again, he sniffed the air, searching out any immediate danger, other than the demon itself.
Sure that there were no surprises awaiting him at the entrance, he ran, full speed into the depths of the cave, his anger building. When he got his claws on that demon...
His heart skipped a beat when he heard Kagome cry out in rage and fear. He could smell it, thick as the demon aura itself. He rounded a corner and stopped, his eyes wide at the scene laid out before him.
Kagome was stretched out on a large, crudely-made birds nest, her blouse ripped open, and skirt torn. The bird-demon, now resized back down to his more human-looking form, hunched over her, kissing her neck and chuckling. “Lucky me, lucky me.” He crooned. “Looks like the little b*****d you were with hasn’t claimed you yet.”
Kagome let out a growl of frustration. “Get off of me!” She shouted out, her tears streaming. “Inuyasha will kill you!” She struggled with all her might, but the ropes that bound her hands and legs were too tight.
“Well, he just might try.” The demon clucked. “When he sees what I’ve done to you, that is.” His hand slipped slowly up her side and into her blouse, groping.
Kagome let out a sob. “Inuyashaaaa!”
“Hi-YA!” InuYasha shouted, bringing down his sward as hard and fast as he possibly could, slicing the demon to ribbons. He stood in the spot where the bird-like demon had stood, and glared down at his sword, unable to look Kagome in the eye.
“I...Inuyasha..?” She breathed out, her voice high and hopeful, although strained as her tears kept rolling.
“Dammit.” He cursed under his breath, and hurried to untie her. “Kagome. Gods, Kagome, are you okay?”
“Inuyasha!” She sobbed out, as he sliced the ropes on her hands to shreds. Her arms free to move, she threw them around Inuyasha’s neck, sobbing into his fire-rat clothing. “Inuyasha, he was going to...”
“Hush.” He demanded, his voice tight. “He’s gone now, wench, you’re safe.”
“I know.” Her voice shook. “I know, but... but-”
Inuyasha growled and wrapped his arms around her waist, comforting her as best he could. They lay there for a long time, in the dead demons’ nest, kagome hiccuping and sniffling, and Inuyasha holding her to his chest.
“Hey, Inuyasha! I know you can hear me with those stoopid dog ears of yours!”
He let out a low growl. What an annoying little-
“Hey, Inuyasha, Miroku and Kaede are looking for you. They say it has to do with Naraku!”
Inuyasha’s ears perked up at the name, and he twisted around to look at the kit down below. “Naraku? What about him?”
The kitsune shrugged. “Dunno. They just said that you need to hurry up and get over here. I think Kaede is worried that something’s gunna happen. She said that she had a vision, and-“
Without a word, Inuyasha jumped from the branches and scooped Shippo up, racing back to the village.
“Hey!” The pup shouted, surprised. “Why you gotta always be so rough?”
“Shut up.” He growled back. He was worried. Humans didn’t have visions unless they were lying... Or something very, very bad was going to happen. Kaede wasn’t one much to lie about things. Especially things about Naraku. “Did she say anything else, runt?” He asked, his eyes focused ahead, dead set on reaching Kaede’s hut as soon as possible.
Inuyasha could feel it, down to his very bones.
Something was definitely wrong.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:49 am
From The Future: Prologue: Warning I: Part 03
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“Kagome!”
“Kagome-chan!”
Kagome let out a small moan under her breath as Eri and Ayumi came rushing up to her side, their eyes wide, as she stepped inside the gates to her school. She could tell they were probably just bursting at the seems with gossip and such. It had been quite a while since she had been to school. It was kind of depressing, really.
“Kagome, are you feeling any better?” Eri asked, her hands clasped together in front of her mouth.
“Yeah, it’s been like, a month.” Ayumi added, bending at the hips in a questioning manor.
Kagome smiled and shrugged off her friend’s worried, curious looks. “Um, yeah. I feel much better, thank you.”
“Where are your school clothes, Kagome?” Eri asked.
“Did you get them bloody again?” Ayumi wondered.
She shook her head, feeling strangely out of place without her usual green-and-white school uniform. Sighing, she went along with the excuses her friends told her about that her grandfather had, in turn, told them. Was this what her life had become? Lying to all her friends and school mates so she could go off and fight demons five hundred years in the past with a hanyou whom she just might be in love with?
“-I mean,” Eri was going on, “breast cancer at YOUR age, you poor thing!”
Kagome’s hair stood on end. Brest cancer?
“Really?” Ayumi asked, looking down at Eri. “I heard it was her uterus.” She turned back to Kagome. “Weren’t you having your uterus taken out?”
She was totally going to kill her stupid grandfather. Now she had different types of cancer? “I can assure you that both of my breasts, as well as my uterus, are quite fine, thank you.”
Ayumi didn’t look convinced. She always was a hard one to fool. Not very gullible. Then again, Kagome wasn't that great a liar. “You know Kagome, for a girl who’s sick all the time, you sure look healthy every time we see you. More than healthy.” She paused, glancing down at Kagome’s legs. “Did you GAIN muscle mass or something?”
“Ayumi!” Kagome cried, her cheeks flushing a dark rose color. “That’s not something you ask a girl!”
“What?” Ayumi asked defensively. “I’m serious!”
“Oh, it doesn’t look bad, Kagome.” Eri assured her, patting her friend’s shoulder. “We’re just worried, and a little curious. Did the hospital assign you a personal trainer?” She asked, smiling.
“Yeah,” Ayumi added, “because you look more healthy than WE do. And WE don’t have cancer!”
“Guys, I do NOT have cancer.” Kagome explained exasperatly. “I was... with a friend.”
Eri gasped.
Ayumi shook her head and sighed.
It was Kagome’s turn to be defensive. “What?” She asked, furrowing her brows.
“You know what.” Ayumi stated, crossing her arms.
Eri nodded.
“You were with HIM again.” Her voice had gone from declarative to accusatory. “The guy. Inuyasha.”
Kagome shrugged. “What if I was?”
“We’ve already discussed this. Didn’t he dump you like, a million times over?” Ayumi adjusted her headband. “We thought you agreed that he wasn’t good for you.”
“Well...” She tapped her toe on the pavement, feeling a blush creep slowly up from beneath her skin. “Yeah, but... Sometimes he can be nice.”
“Sometimes?”
“And he always saves me.”
“From what, your curfew?”
“And he can be cute when he’s jealous.”
“Cute if you mean violent, sure.”
“And once in a while...” Kagome lifted her head, looking past her friends in a dream-like-trance. “Once in a while he lets down his guard and says the nicest things to me.”
Ayumi sighed. “Well, that’s good, what does he say?”
“I smell good.” Kagome smiled.
Her friends faulted.
“You smell good?” Eri gasped.
“What the hell kind of compliment is that?” Ayumi demanded.
Kagome shrugged. “I thought it was nice of him.” She blinked a few times at her friends unbelieving looks. “Well, considering what it takes to get him to say even that, I think it means he at least likes me a little..”
Ayumi shook her head and wrapped a comforting arm around Kagome’s neck. “Come on.” She said. “Let’s get to homeroom. You’ve been absent so much the last thing you need is to be tardy.”
Kagome let out a sigh of relief as she was led into her school. Ayumi could be overbearing at times, sure, but when it came down to it, she knew when to let things drop. That’s why she was such a good friend.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:07 pm
From The Future: Prologue: Warning I: Part 04
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School had finally been let out for the day, and Kagome felt nothing but drained. Her friends, classes, teachers, catch-up homework, it was all sucking out her energy, little-by-little. She wouldn't besurprised if someday she’d just drop out and live in the past full time.
That thought weighed heavily in her mind as she slowly dragged her feet out the front gates, her backpack seeming even heavier than usual. She remembered a time when classes had been fun. When she actually enjoyed getting up to go learn and see friends and talk gossip. When she didn’t have to worry about whether or not anyone who lived five hundred years ago was okay, and not being killed by demons.
She remembered a time without Inuyasha...
Which ultimately made her remember why she was putting up with her double life. Why she lied to her friends and ditched school. Why she was slowly going crazy with all the time travel. It was all because she couldn’t live a life without him anymore. He meant too much to her now. He was too important.
And he may not really feel the same way, sure, but-
She turned a corner and screamed as a hand shot out and grabbed at her mouth. An arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her into a small alley, crushing her up against a hard chest.
Kagome’s heart sped, pounding inside her rib cage, feeling as if it would burst. This was it. She wasn’t going to die by the hands of a demon, as she’d prepared herself to over the years. She was going to be murdered by a mere human. How utterly anti-climatic.
“Shhh...” A gruff voice whispered into her ear. “It’s okay, Kagome. Don’t struggle.”
What?
Instantly, she stopped her struggling, more out of shock than obedience. He knew her name! And that voice... It sounded familiar, but off a little. Her eyes darted to the wall across from her, and focused on the urine stain that ran down to the pavement. She sucked in large amounts of air through her nose, willing herself to calm down. The stench of piss mixed with... something else. Again, it was familiar, yet... Not.
“I’m going to let you go, okay?” The gruff voice sounded a little strained.
She nodded.
“Don’t yell, and don’t run. I’m going to turn you around to face me, okay? I’m not going to hurt you.”
Again, she nodded. Eager to know who it was that was holding her so close.
She blushed at her own thoughts as the hands moved away from her mouth and waist and held onto her shoulders, slowly turning her to face her attacker.
A gasp escaped her lips, and her eyes widened.
It was Inuyasha... But it wasn’t.
Kagome’s mouth dropped open as she looked him over. He wasn’t in his usual reddish fire rat fur armor. He was actually dressed as if he belonged in her time. He wore jeans and a grey t-s**t, which was covered by a leather coat. He even hadshoes on, for Christ sake. His hair was tied back into a ponytail by a leather thong, and yet, even with all those differences, he was still Inuyasha. He still had the rosary beads that bound them together though time.
“I-Inuyasha, wha-“
BOOM.
Kagome’s world shook. She was flung up against Inuyasha, and his arms came around to wrap her protectively next to him. It was an earthquake. A large one.
Seconds later, it was over, and sirens started blaring, the city of Tokyo suddenly alive with commotion over what had just happened.
“Earthquake..?” Kagome wondered aloud, forgetting for a second that Inuyasha, who wasn’t quite Inuyasha, was still there, next to her.
That is, until his hands tightened on her arms. “********.” He muttered out. “He’s coming.”
Kagome tilted her head back so she could look at his face. Had he gotten taller? “Who’s coming?” She asked, her eyes wide.
Before she could react, Inuyasha turned and shoved her up against the wall, his nails digging into her skin, his eyes fierce. “Listen to me, Kagome. I only have time to say this once.”
Kagome nodded, her body frozen. Something was wrong. Terribly wrong. Because this wasn’t Inuyasha. Not the one she knew anyway. He seemed... older, somehow.
“They... They’re dead.” He choked out. “Everyone. No one escaped the past. I couldn’t get anyone through the well. He destroyed it.” His head dropped down, in what Kagome could only assume was grief. “He destroyed it, dammit.”
She gapped up at him. He wasn’t making any sense at all. “You mean, the well’s gone? What the hell is going o-“
“Listen! I’m not the Inuyasha you know.” His eyes were wild, dating from her to the street, and then back to her again, as if her were nervous about something. “I’ve lived all these years, Kagome. These five hundred years so I could get to you, finally. At this very moment in time, Naraku is taking over control. Underground. Slowly. Soon he’ll rule everything. He killed everyone from back then, Kagome. Everyone’s gone. He killed them while you were here, and over the years he’s been overtaking the government.” He paused, making sure he had perfect eye contact. “He’s got all the shards, Kagome.” He breathed, as he glanced down at the glass bottle around her neck, before looking back into her eyes. “All but the ones you posses.”
Kagome opened her mouth to speak.
“Don't talk, listen. He’s on his way here now for those shards.” He paused, his voice cracking. “I escaped him. I ran and hid, until I was able to gain my strength back. But when you came back, Kagome, I was too late to save you. You were...”
His claws tightened around her arms, his bangs hiding his moist eyes. Before she could respond, Inuyasha pulled her into a tight hug, his arms holding her to him as if she alone were keeping him alive. “Gods, Kagome.” His voice was full to the brim with emotion. “I can’t believe I finally got here in time. When I saw you were dead, I-“
She couldn’t stand it anymore. He wasn’t the Inuyasha she knew, but he was still Inuyasha. And she loved him. Her arms wrapped around his neck as she let out a sob, her confusion and fear overtaking her. “I- I’m not dead, Inuyasha. I’m here. I’m not going to leave, I-“
He pulled her back, suddenly, looking into her eyes for a fraction of a second before he crushed his lips to hers in a searing, frantic kiss. Kagome let out a cry of surprise as he held her head against his. She felt heat spread throughout her as her mind rushed to catch up to her body.
A second later, it was over, and just as he had pulled her to him, he pushed her away, an arms’ length from him. “I love you Kagome. I was an idiot and never told you, and you died.” He paused. “I loved you with all my being back then. Please don’t let my foolishness chase you away. Please be patient with me, okay?”
Kagome didn’t respond.
She was shocked.
BOOM.
Her world shook again, and Inuyasha let out a string of curses. “He’s coming. We need to get you to the well.”
“Well?” Kagome blinked through her tears. “But I thought the well was destroyed. Didn’t you say-“
“Not yet. It’s not gone yet.” He gripped onto her wrist, and pulled her next to him again.
When she looked up at him, he was looking away, out the ally and across the street and over the cliff to the city of Tokyo below. He grit his teeth, and Kagome could hear the deep growl in his voice, couldfeel the rumbling in his chest as he cursed again.
“Let’s go.” He mumbled, and before Kagome knew what was happening, she was thrown onto his back as he raced forward, leaping over benches and dodging around confused bystanders. They turned another corner and reached the steps up to Kagome’s shrine-house. Inuyasha bounded up the stairs, and Kagome squeezed her legs around his waist tighter. He flew across her large front yard and retched the sliding door to the well house open, all but throwing her inside and slamming the door behind them.
“Gods! Inuyasha, what-“
“Hush.” He breathed out, his back to the shrine door, his ears twitching back and forth, listing. Kagome couldn’t guess what for.
After a few seconds, Kagome was getting annoyed. Her brain still hadn’t caught up to her yet, and her lips still felt all puffy and swollen from the kiss.
She blushed. Oh yeah, like thinking about that at a time like this was a good idea. “Inuyasha...?” She whispered out.
He was next to her in an instant, and he pushed her back towards the well. “Go back, Kagome. Go back and warn the others.”
“Warn the others about what?” She gasped out, desperate to understand.
“Get as many as you can away from the village. Then get back here, and bring me and everyone else you can get through the well with you.” His hand came up to rest on her cheek and she leaned into it, desperate for some sort of comforting normality. “Don’t die on me, Kagome. Maybe this time around you’ll be able to save their lives.”
Who was she kidding? When had she ever had a normal day in her life since she had turned fifteen? “Inuyasha, I-“
She didn’t finish her sentence.
He shoved her, as gently as he could, just enough to make her lose her balance and fall backwards... Into the mouth of the well.
The last thing she saw what the rugged, tired face, of a hanyou that looked so familiar... Yet different. Tired. His smile.
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Yay! Done with the Prologue! Next chapter: Will Kagome be able to save everyone? Chapter 01: Warning II is next!
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:19 pm
Title: From the Future
Inuyasha/Kagome
Rated: R for violence, cursing, lime.
Summary: Kagome and Inuyasha fight. Of course, what else is new? Kagome goes back to her own time to give both of them a chance to cool off, but things soon go terribly wrong. Kaede has a horrible vision of the very near future, and Kagome gets a visit from someone she never could have imagined possibly existed. Surviving an attack that left them weak and defenseless, Inuyasha and Kagome must go into hiding and escape. They come across a group of rebels who are extremely familiar, and are now in a fight to save not only their lives, but the lives of everyone from the future as well.
~SugarRos
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Disclaimer: Inuyasha and Co. Do not belong to me. They all belong to Rumiko Takahashi. But right now they’re mine to manipulate. I’m going to have so much fun. XD
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From The Future: Chapter 01: Warning II: Part 01
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It was in the early afternoon when Inuyasha arrived at the small hut in the village he had come to call him home. The clear blue of the sky stood out against the natural tones of the earth, a usual occurrence in his time, with none of that stuff that made Kagome’s time reek. What had she called it? Pollution. Yeah, that was it.
Inuyasha ground his teeth together loudly as he sat around the middle of the hut, across from Sango and Miroku who were busy bickering about what to do about Kaede’s vision. It was getting them nowhere. Of course, it was a slightly better pastime than sitting around sulking about why Kagome should hate him, but still, they weren’t doing anything about the situation other than arguing about whether or not Kaede’s vision was actually that, a vision, or if it was only a conjure of her mind, putting together pieces of different nightmare’s they’d all had at one time or another.
“I just think we should take this as seriously as possible.” Sango was saying, her hands doing half the talking for her. She was flushed and upset at Kaede’s words of warning, and was currently shaking a finger in Inuyasha’s direction. “It’s not like this happens to Kaede every day. And on the off chance that what she saw does come true, wouldn’t it be better if we were prepared?” Her finger wagged.
Inuyasha’s teeth continued their insisted grinding, making aware to everyone who was in the room know that he was annoyed. He had the sudden urge to bite Sango’s finger off. “It makes no sense, Woman!” He growled. “Naraku doesn’t even have all the shards yet!” Shippou made a bored snort to his left, which he promptly ignored. “He’s been collecting all these years like we have.” The kit started gnawing on his left arm, which was resting on Tetsusiga. He shook him off. “What reason would the b*****d have to attack us at this moment?” He finished up with a bop for the young cub.
“Ow!”
“That, I don’t know.” Kaede replied before Sango could, and everyone turned their attention towards the old woman. Inuyasha thought she looked kind of ominous with her fact shadowed above the flames, and she suddenly seemed more weary than normal. “Visions do not let me in on the details, young ones. All I know is what I saw. The time is near. We all must be prepared.”
He snorted in response. “I’m thinking it was more of a night terror. Did you have a bad dream, Witch?” He placed his fists together and cracked his knuckles for emphasis.
“Do not take this lightly, child.” Kaede’s voice had turned cold suddenly, sending a chill up Inuyasha’s spine. For some reason the look reminded him of Kagome.
“Inuyasha…” Miroku added in as tenderly as possible. “I do actually believe that was Kaede had was a true vision. Not a night terror. Sango was here to witness it.”
Inuyasha turned his head to Sango and raised an eyebrow. “You saw it?”
She nodded her head, looking as grim as the others. “It… wasn’t pleasant.” Her finger had dropped, much to Inuyasha’s relief, and her face lost it’s color as she became sad, almost.
He didn’t reply, but fell into silence along with the others, letting the new information sink in. He could feel their eyes on him. Watching him. Waiting for a reply. After a few moments, he let out an aggravated sigh. “Okay,” he growled, “let’s pretend that it is real. That the wench’s vision is going to come true.” He turned directly to Kaede, glaring down at her. “What exactly did you see? How was Naraku attacking? And what the hell was I doing while he was attacking? You know I’d be all over that b*****d in a second! It’s not like I haven’t kicked his a** before!”
The others stayed silent, although the intensity in the atmosphere had grown unimaginably thick. Inuyasha’s eyes roamed from each person in the hut, each avoiding his gaze in turn. What the hell was wrong with everyone? Why wouldn’t they just take his good advice and leave it be?
Finally, Kaede spoke up. “Inuyasha, I’m afraid that-“
The rest of her sentence, however, did not reach Inuyasha’s ears. His senses had gone into overdrive, and all he could now smell was Kagome. Lifting his nose up into the air, he sniffed four times. Three to make sure it was really her, and a fourth to take it in, to calm his racing heart. “…Kagome…” He muttered out in a low growl.
“Kagome’s back?!!” Squealed Shippou, bounding up from his lazy position on the floor, excited that his makeshift mother was in their time again. “She said she’d bring be chocolate again this time!” He bounced up and down, talking mainly to Sango, who smiled down at him. “And those colored sweet things too!” He let out a childish laugh. “Let’s go, let’s go!!”
“Inuyasha,” Kaede’s voice rose over Shippou’s excited one, “we still need to talk about-“
He didn’t acknowledge Kaede’s words, he merely stood and pulled the flap of the hut open, leaving Kaede mid-sentence and staring out into the direction where the trail met the beginning of the forest, sniffing at the air. “….Wait a second…” He uttered, more for his sake than anyone else’s. “Something’s not right.”
“Eh?” Shippou stopped his bouncing and looked up at Inuyasha in question.
“Stay here, Squirt.” Was all the explanation Inuyasha gave as he bounded off towards the trail, leaving the whimpering kit behind.
Sango stepped out of the hut behind him, watching quietly as Inuyasha disappeared into the forest. “Don’t worry, Shippou.” She said, placing a calming hand on his back. “He’ll bring her back here.”
Shippou’s eyes welled up with tears. “Do ya think she’s okay?” He sniffed up at Sango.
She bent down to lovingly cradle the cub. “Of course she is.” She said, scooping him up into her arms and smiling as best she could. “And I’ll be she’s brought you lots of chocolate, too!” And she tickled him on his belly.
Shippou’s childish laughter rang through the trees.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:44 pm
From The Future: Chapter 01: Warning II: Part 02
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“NO!!!!!” Kagome’s scream echoed into nothingness as the image of Inuyasha’s tired, warn, sad face disappeared into the darkness. Her heartbeat slowed as she choked on her voice and felt the warm sensation flow through her body, which usually made her calm.
This time, it just made her nauseous.
It was crazy. It couldn’t possibly be happening. Inuyasha’s words repeated over and over in her head as she reached out to him with her mind wanting him to be next to her, to reassure her that she really was going insane and there was no such thing as another him.
But what he’d said wouldn’t leave her alone, and as time passed through her body his words rang in her ears.
“You were dead!”
But I’m not dead!
“He killed everyone, I couldn’t stop him.”
He didn’t kill me!
“I escaped the past, but it was too late… you were already…”
No… No, I’m here!
“Kagome…”
I’m alive!!
“I loved you with all me being back then.”
Love me now!
“Please be patient.”
I’ve been patient for years!!
“Get everyone from the past.”
But… But I-
“I love you.”
The moment Kagome hit the dirt in the bottom of the well, she breathed in the fresh air of the past and looked up into the warm, cloudless sky that shone down onto the top of her head. She barely noticed the stream of tears that fell from her eyes as she stood frozen, shaking, trying desperately to catch her breath. She needed to find Inuyasha, to know he was okay and not dead. To know that they were all okay.
She held her breath as she listened intently for any sounds of torment, death, destruction or fighting, but all the sounds she heard were the merry chirping of birds and crickets, and the soft whooshing of the mid-day breeze through the forest branches. Assured there was no immediate danger anywhere around the well, she hurriedly scrambled up the side and flung herself over the ledge.
It wasn't a smooth move, as her skirt caught in the uneven wood of the well, and flung her head over heel onto the earth. She hit the ground hard on her back, coughed, and turned onto her side, holding her bruised ribs and hiccupping through her tears. She sucked in a lung full of air, trying to calm herself by breathing as slowly as she could. Blinking her eyes against the warm sun and bright, blue sky, she tipped her head back to bask for a few seconds, willing her speeding heart to slow.
Oh Gods. What a day to come back to. A day where she could almost pretend that nothing had happened.
....Almost.
There was no way in any of the seven hells she could just forget that an Inuyasha she hadn't known existed a few hours ago, appeared out of nowhere and stated she was, in actuality, dead, proclaimed his love for her, and then proceeded to kiss her breath away.
She couldn't believe what had happened. The violent shaking of the ground was no earthquake or volcanic eruption, and the horror she felt from the impossibly loud noises of buildings being crushed under a force of something terrible couldn't be anything less than the sensation that something gigantic and imaginable evil was destroying everything in it's path.
The thought made her groan as she struggled onto her hands and feet, pushing her body to obey hr and stand. She didn't quite get there as she felt sudden nausea, and stayed on her knees, her palms mashing into bits of grass and twig. She stared at the ground as her hands clutched up fistfuls of dirt, and the sudden urge to throw up passed over her again. She dry-heaved a few times before she got herself back under control.
She'd never been more scared in her life.
But, no. No! She had to hold it together! She needed to find Inuyasha and let him know what was going on. Warn him and the others about Naraku. But the strength that usually carried her through bloody battles and rough terrain seemed to have given up on her.
"Kagome!"
She heard his voice through the trees, which at first didn't really register.
"Kagome!!"
Her name. He was shouting her name. Oh thank all seven of the lucky Gods.
She heard him burst through the trees, felt the wind strengthen from the quickness of his run, and leaned back, sitting on her heels. She turned her head to look up at him with her wide, wet eyes. His presence was blurry through her tears, but it was him alright, in his usual garb, not donning any clothing from her time. He was alive. And he wasn't bloody. His sword wasn't drawn, and he didn't look like he'd been through a life-and-death battle.
Instead he looked annoyed.
"Why the hell are you crying?!" He barked at her, stomping the last few feet between them, his eyebrow twitching.
Kagome would have laughed at his predictable question had her heart not been in her throat. Still, relief that he was okay rushed through her, and the adrenalin that had been rushing through her body suddenly plummeted, and she felt exhausted. She was drained, emotionally, and unable to stay up.
She felt herself tipping backwards, on the edge of passing out, and she didn’t register his quick movement to her side, as he wrapped his hands around her, keeping her up, until she realized she hadn’t hit the ground.
His annoyed expression had now changed to worry as she lifted her heavy lids to look up into his face. “Gods, Kagome!” He breathed. “What happened to you?!” He tapped her cheek lightly, aware of his claws. “Kagome,” he repeated, “what happened? Are you okay?”
“I-Inuyasha…” Her voice trailed off into a quiet sigh, and she felt the edge of darkness start to take over her weary body.
Inuyasha’s voice rose to a growl as he felt her start to fade away. “Kagome, no, you have to tell me what’s wrong.” He shook her lightly. “You can’t pass out, that’s not good, you might not wake up.” He tapped at her cheek a bit harder, and the darkness faded from her vision a bit, thought it was still there, on the brink of her consciousness. His voice was rough, but filled with worry, and she couldn’t help but smile a small smile through her weariness.
That’s right. She couldn’t pass out. She still needed to warn the others. “Inuyasha…” She breathed, clutching onto his outer coat. “Naraku is… I came back to warn…” She couldn’t seem to get her jumbled thoughts together, and she felt another rise of panic, as well as a sob rushing up into her throat. The tears started again, and she didn’t have the energy to wipe her eyes, so she clutched her hand into the red fabric and drew herself closer to him, breathing in his earthy scent, feeling his heartbeat through his chest.
He’d kissed her, his future self, and she had loved it. She wanted more than anything to close the distance between them and see if he kissed the same way. Hard and rough and quick and passionate, just as he had in her own time. She wanted to know that it had really been him. His heartbeat wasn’t enough for her anymore.
God’s she loved him. She was out of her mind in love with him, she knew, as she sobbed into his clothes. The words that she had intended to use to tell him of Naraku choked her, and all she wanted was for him to tell her he loved again.
She knew though, though the haze of her despair, that he had no idea he’d said it in the first place. Technically, she wouldn’t say it for another five hundred years. The thought made her lonely. It was driving her crazy, knowing he felt as she did, and yet not being able to act on her feelings. She was going out of her ********’…” She heard Inuyasha mumble as he scooped her up fully into his arms and hugged her close. “What’s wrong with you, eh? You’re not bleeding anywhere or anything, wench.” He took off into the woods, although she didn’t pay attention to where he was headed, just to the steady rhythm of his quick footsteps, and it wasn’t long before he stopped, and more voices broke through her grief.
“Inuyasha, what’d you do to her?”
“I didn’t do nothin’ runt.”
Kagome felt herself being lowered onto the floor, and realized she was in Kaede’s hut. She cracked her tired eyes open to see her friends moving around, trying to make her more comfortable.
“Is she okay?” Sango’s worried voice broke out.
“Had she been hurt?” She felt Miroku’s hands slide up her arm.
“Don’t touch her, you lecherous Monk!” Inuyasha snapped back, not answering his question.
“Kagooomeee!” Shippou’s childish voice wailed out next to her. “Kagome, wake up!”
Inuyasha growled again. “Back off kit, or I’ll rip you a new one!” His demanding voice was close, right by her side. “Where’s the old hag?” He asked as Shippou pouted, but didn’t leave Kagome’s side.
“I’m here, Inuyasha.” Kaede called out as she entered the hut behind him. “Inuyasha, place this under her nose, it will clear her head and bring her back to us.” She winced as she sat down and handed Inuyasha some sort of root. “Did she tell you what happened?”
He shook his head. “No, she was just a pile of mess by the well. She wasn’t speaking right, something about Naraku.” He crinkled his nose at the strong-smelling root. “What the hell is this?!”
“It’s a medicinal herb that will kick her awake, clear her head and such. Place it right under her nose so she gets a good whiff.”
Kagome felt his clawed hand slide under her head and lift up slightly, and only seconds later a smell extremely intense filled her nostrils, and her mind snapped back into place, her vision cleared and the darkness that had threatened to take over vanished. She moved her head away from the smell, jerking back. It smelled horrible.
Inuyasha pulled the root away and tightened his grip on her so she wouldn’t hurt herself. She was now staring wide-eyes into five overly concerned faces all leaning over her body.
“Kagome….?” Shippou’s voice wavered as he leaned down, his small, slightly wet nose almost touching hers.
“Shippou…” Her voice was scratchy from sobbing so much, and her chest hurt from hiccupping. Slowly she sat up, everyone but Inuyasha, who was careful to maker sure she didn’t fall back down, backed away to give her some space. Her heartbeat was normal again as she tried to find her bearings. Kaede’s hut looked the same, with the small fire in the middle of the hut blazing away behind the others.
She couldn’t help but imagine how she looked to everyone. Her face was stiff with dried tears, and her hands and clothes were covered in a coat of sand and dry twigs and grass. Not to mention that her lips still felt swollen. Would they be able to tell someone had kissed her?
“Kagome, are you okay?” Sango’s soft voice found it’s way to her ears, and she nodded, still weary, but aware.
“What the hell happened, Wench?” Inuyasha’s harsh tone spoke from behind her, his hands still holding her steady, as if afraid she’d faint right over again. She turned her head to look up into those hardened amber eyes as they glowered down at her.
Future Inuyasha suddenly flooded her memory again, and she stared to panic once more. “Inuyasha.” She croaked out. “He’s coming. He’s coming and we need to warn everyone and get them through the well! He’s going to kill everyone in the village and Miroku and Sango and Kaede and-” Another sob crept up into her throat as her eyes welled up with tears once again.
“What about me?” Shippou asked from Miroku’s side.
The Monk shook his head down at the kit. “Shush.”
“Kagome, calm down.” Inuyasha growled out, smelling the spike in her fear once again. “What the hell are you talking about?”
“Naraku!” Her voice became panicked, more urgent. “He’s coming here, and he’ll kill everyone and destroy everything and then he’ll go to-”
Inuyasha moved faster than she could see and grabbed her, only slightly rough, by her chin, his face now inches from hers. “Did you have a vision, Wench?”
Kagome hiccupped, then shook her head.
“Then how do you know this to be true?” I was Kaede this time, and Kagome tried to turn her head to look at the old woman, but Inuyasha held her fast, never breaking eye contact, searching for something in her gaze. For what, she couldn’t guess.
They were close. His mouth was only inches from hers, and the image of him crushing his lips down upon her own fleeted through her mind before she inwardly scolded herself for thinking of such a thing at a time like this. “Someone…” she breathed, “someone told me so.” She stuttered out, knowing how absolutely ridiculous her story sounded.
“Who?” Inuyasha’s voice was low and quiet.
She stared into his eyes for what seemed like forever before she spoke. “You did.”
He jerked back as if he’d been slapped, giving Kagome the time she needed to wrench away from his grasp and turn to the others. Her gaze fell onto Kaede. “I know this sounds crazy, but it’s true! He was there, but it wasn’t him! But it was, just five hundred years later, and he told me I was dead, and he’d waited for years, and that I had to get everyone thought the well before they died, and then Naraku attacked my time! He was in my time! I heard him! And then Inuyasha shoved me into the well and told me that he lo-”
“Kagome!”
She winced at the harshness in Inuyasha’s tone and turned slowly to see him glowering over her.
“You’re saying a bunch of nonsense. You sound just like her!” He pointed an accusing finger at Kaede.
Kagome stiffened. “What do you mean?”
Sango came to her side and knelt down, placing a delicate hand on her shoulder. “Kaede had a vision earlier today. We were just discussing it before you came.”
“A vision about what?”
A hushed silence settled over the room, and Kagome looked from one to the next, confused even more so than she had been before, not understanding why all gazes suddenly avoided her save Shippou.
He blinked up at her with all the innocence of a two-year old. “About Naraku attacking the village and killing all of us.”
A collective sigh was heard around the room due to Shippou’s delicacy for dishing out information, but all Kagome heard was the sound of blood rushing through her ears as she finally understood that it would all come true.
All of it.
Everyone was going to die.
Funnily enough, the one thought she had before she passed out cold onto the floor was that she would never experience another kiss from the one guy who wouldn’t do it for another five hundred years in the first place.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:34 pm
From The Future: Chapter 01: Warning II: Part 03
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When Kagome awoke again, it was night, and the sound of hushed, hurried voices filled her ears. She moaned lightly, her brain throbbing against her skull, and she reached around to the back of her head to find the lump that had grown due to her spectacular fainting affair. Apparently, she hadn’t been lucky enough to have Inuyasha catch her this time.
She rolled onto her side and pushed her upper body up onto her hands, blinking her eyes at the circle of her friends. No one but Inuyasha had noticed she’d awoken, and his ears twitched in her direction, although he gave no other notice that her knew she was up.
“What time is it?” She croaked out.
Sango turned her head to look at her friend and smile. “Kagome, you’re awake!” She stood and brushed off her long skirt. “I’ll check that clock of yours.” She said, happy to be able to use one of her modern contraptions. Walking over to Kagome’s belongings, she pulled out a mall wristwatch. “Um… I think is says four… but I could be wrong.” She smiled again, sheepishly.
Kagome motioned for Sango to bring the watch over and peeked at the hands inside the little glass case. She sighed. “You’re right, Sango. Four a.m. Gods. I was asleep for a long time.” She rubbed at her tired eyes, still weary. Sango had knelt in front of her, acting as a barrier from the others. “Kagome,” she whispered in a concerned tone, “are you feeling a bit better?”
Kagome nodded her head in response, although she wasn’t sure if she was feeling better so much as too worn out to feel anything but drained. None of this was going the way it should. Everyone should be safe on the other side of the well now.
“That’s good.” Sango placed her hand onto Kagome’s and squeezed, surprising the tired girl a bit. She brought it p to her chest where he heart was, and gave her a caring look. “Kagome, you push yourself too hard, I’ve been really worried about you. You’ve drained yourself out.”
Kagome was extremely thankful for Sango. Never in her life had she had such a good friend, although Kagome knew three girls who would mutilate her for saying so. But the reality was that although she loved her friends from school, there would always be a barrier between them. She couldn’t confide in them fully about her love life, not to mention that she time-traveled rather frequently. They’d think her crazy. Sango, however, was fully aware of Kagome’s actual life. She knew the real reason why Kagome missed school, the real reason why Kagome was never home, and the real reason why Kagome refused to date Hojou. Sango knew it all, and Kagome loved having that female friend that she didn’t have to lie to or keep secrets from.
She sighed and smiled as best she could at Sango. “I know, I’m sorry I’ve worried you.” Her voice was shaky.
“Is the child up?” Kaede tried to peek around Sango from her sitting position on the floor, and Kagome stood, slowly, still wobbly from her ordeal, letting Sango help her up, and shuffled over to the fire.
“Yeah, I’m up.” She glanced around at her friend’s tired faces. “Why is everyone still awake?”
“We’ve been discussing the current events.” Miroku explained kindly. “With what bits you’ve said have happened, and with Kaede’s vision, there’s a good chance that this will all come to pass.”
Kagome took a seat between him and Sango, directly across from Inuyasha, who was still busy avoiding her gaze. She gave up trying to nonchalantly get his attention, and instead stared into the fire, too tired to argue with anyone anymore, much less a brooding half-breed. If he didn’t believe her story, fine. She could easily figure out how to deal with it all herself. She didn’t need his help.
Kaede began to speak of her vision again, but Kagome was too wrapped up in her own thoughts to pay attention. She kept her gaze on the warm, dancing flamed and wondered how the Inuyasha in the future was holding up. Had he gotten away from whatever it was that had been causing the massive earthquakes? He’d said Naraku was coming. Did that mean that Naraku was, at this very moment, destroying everything in her time?
Gods, were her friends okay? Her family?
She hadn’t really had the time to sit and think about any of that before. She’d been panicked about everyone on this side of the well. Too panicked to worry about those in her time. Suddenly, she felt sick to her stomach. What if she got everyone to her time, and everything was destroyed? What if everyone was dead? What was the point in going through with what the future Inuyasha had told her to do if Naraku could get them in both times? Should she just ignore the future Inuyasha’s plea to run from the past, or stay and destroy Naraku now, so he could never have the chance to get to her time in the first place? He’d said if they fought Naraku they would lose, but maybe they could-
“There’s no point discussing this! I’m going out! Getting more wood for the fire!” Kagome was jolted from her thoughts as Inuyasha’s patience had gotten the better of him, and he threw his arms up into the air, standing and stomping towards the flap.
Sango stood up after him. “We’ll come help you, Inuyasha.” She said, making her way towards the doorway. “Let’s let Lady Kaede and Kagome talk.”
“Aye.” Agreed the Monk, placing his hand on Inuyasha’s arm. “I’m sure Lady Kaede will get the full story from Kagome.” He nudged the disgruntled hanyou out the door.
Inuyasha let himself be led outside. Kagome could tell he was angry, as well as confused, but she felt that she was, even more so, and extremely upset as well. Still, she needed him to not look at her like she was crazy. Truthfully, she needed him to not look at her at all, at least at the moment. She was still completely shook up from what the future Inuyasha had said to her. From what he had done to her.
…Had it all even been real?
His lips felt like a distant memory.
…Although, his warning didn’t. His warning felt freezing cold, like ice water that had just been splashed in her face.
She bit her bottom lip with her teeth, realizing that yes, the kiss had been as real as his warning. Her lips still felt swollen.
After only a few moments of silence, Kaede spoke up again. This time, Kagome’s attention was on her words. “I’ve a feeling you are not telling us all you know. At least,” she gave a small chuckle, “all was said too fast when you were upset. Let us clear the air here. What has happened, Kagome?”
She looked towards the small window, noticing the tiniest bits of daylight. I’m not so sure myself. It all happened so quickly.
Kaede stayed silent, letting Kagome’s thought roam. Letting her speak freely.
“I was on my way home from school when I found him. Or rather,” she couldn’t help but smile just slightly, “he found me.” She paused. “He was frantic. I’ve never seen Inuyasha act that way before.”
“And you are sure it was Inuyasha?”
Kagome nodded.
“Yet it wasn’t the Inuyasha the rest of us know?”
She shook her head. “No. No, he was much different. Older. He was wearing clothes and talking as if he had been born in my time. Like he knew how to act in mannerisms of my time.” She rested her chin on her hand. “He said that he’d lived the five hundred years until he could reach me, and that…” Her voice trailed off as she remembered his quivering tone, the way her looked like he was about to cry, his arms around her body as he hugged her to his chest as if she were the thing he cared for most in the world.
“…That we had all died?” Kaede finished her sentence.
Kagome nodded, then placed her forehead into her hands, willing herself not to cry. He said he couldn’t save any of us. That for some reason, Naraku ruled freely.”
Kaede’s face became solemn, and she rubbed her chin. “Your story does match up with mine, although I saw that Inuyasha passed along with the rest of us, and Naraku was able to rule freely.”
Again, they sat in silence, the only interruption being Shippou, who mumbled once or twice in his sleep and rolled over.
Finally, Kaede spoke again. “Is there anything you are missing to tell me?” She asked, just as stuck on what to do as Kagome was.
Only that he loved me. “To come back here and warn everyone. He didn’t give me much of a choice, he practically shoved me down the well.”
“Aye, that would be him.”
Oh, and then he kissed my breath away. “He said I could get everyone through the well. Is that possible? I know it’s never worked for anyone but me and Inuyasha, and once or twice for a demon if they sense some shard power. …Could we get everyone through?”
Slowly, the old woman shook her head. “I do not know, Kagome. I assume it’s worth a try, however. When the others decide to rejoin up we should try to carry out the plan this future Inuyasha has laid out for you. I can think of nothing else to do.”
“Yeah, I don’t know if-”
BOOM.
Kagome froze mid-sentence. No. No way. Not now.
“What in all the hells-?” Kaede uttered, bringing her hand up to her chest.
Kagome’s eyes grew wide. She could feel sweat forming on her hairline. Her fists clenched at her sides, and her breath caught in her throat.
BOOM.
Naraku was here, and he was coming for them. Now.
Her thoughts ran at warp speed. She hadn’t thought it would happen so soon. It wasn’t quite real a moment ago, but it was all too real now. There was no time to save everyone in the village, like the future Inuyasha had asked of her. She was going to fail. There was no way she could possibly get everyone through the well. Not now.
BOOM.
Now the screaming started, blood-curdling screams that shook Kagome’s nerve violently. Kaede was up like a shot, and Kagome wasn’t far behind. As the curtain to the hut was thrown back, a bloody scene lay before their eyes.
There were bodies everywhere. Blood. Humans and livestock alike lay strewn about at awkward angles. Homes and huts were crushed flat and lit afire, and those who remained alive ran in a crazed frenzy.
Looming above it all, in his newest, strongest form, was Naraku. He had gown to unimaginable heights, standing at least as tall as a four-story building. The top half was human, while thousands of tentacles withered and whipped around him, destroying everything in their paths.
Kagome stood rooted to the spot in front of Kaede’s hut, her body frozen except for her eyes, which searched frantically for any signs of Inuyasha, trying to spot in out in all the destruction. It was like a World-War II movie, and she suddenly felt as if she’d been thrown into the middle of Hiroshima. Tentacles flew in every direction, flattening horse stables and trees, killing everything.
Where was Inuyasha?! Her head snapped back and forth, trying to make scene of the horror in front of her.
“By Gods, the children!!!” Kaede shouted out from Kagome’s left and took off hobbling as fast as she could towards the cluster of huts that were blazing alive, on fire. She grabbed every child in her path, gathering them up as best she could, trying desperately to get them to safety.
Kagome didn’t know what to do.
What should she do?!! Help Sango and Miroku, who were fighting off some of the smaller demons that surrounded Naraku? Help Inuyasha? ….No, bad idea, it’s not like she knew where he was, anyway.
Okay, so the kids. She’d help Kaede with the kids. That’s what Future Inuyasha had told her to do, anyway. Bring everyone back through the well.
Her mind made up and her nerves steeled, she rushed back into the hut and swiped up her bow and a bundle of arrows that were resting on the far wall, then darted out after Kaede, hearing the crack of the hut she’d just been in crushed to the ground. After diving to what was only safety by the Feudal Era standards, she grabbed up the kids as Kaede had done, and pulled them towards the edge of the woods, where the elder priestess stood, tending to the wounded as best she could.
“Kaede!” Kagome shouted over the noise of massive battle in the village clearing. “Do you know how many children there are in the village?”
“We’ve about thirteen all together!” She shouted back, her voice hoarse.
As quickly as she could, Kagome counted out the kids huddled around the old woman, shaking and sobbing. “…six, seven, eight, nine… s**t! Okay, we’re missing four!”
“I passed two that’d been crushed, and saw no more!” She pointed a bony finger to the collapsed houses.
Kagome looked out into the village from their feeble hiding spot. She breathed heavily as she scanned the area, looking for any sign of life. “Argh!!” She let out a cry of frustration and stomped her foot against the hard earth. She was just going to have to go get a closer look. “Kaede, listen to me!” She turned and grabbed the old woman’s shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes. “I think we can get everyone through the well, we just have to make it there, understand?”
She nodded.
“I’m going back out to look for the last two, and I’ll send everyone else to the well. I’ll make sure Sango and Miroku and Inuyasha make it as well. Make sure to get everyone through, okay?” She pointed to the tree line. “Stay behind the forest’s edge, we don’t want Naraku cutting in and grabbing anyone before you get to the well!”
“But the well doesn’t-”
“Kaede, we have to try!” Kagome yelled into her ear, giving her a slight shove for emphasis. “Trust me, okay?! GO!!!”
With a final, reassuring nod, Kaede gathered the kids around her and made their way slowly towards the path that would lead to the well, making sure to follow Kagome’s directions exactly.
Satisfied that they would be okay, at least as long as Naraku’s attention was drawn, she crouched down as low as she could and made her way towards the burning piles of wood and hay, which were once dwellings of the villagers. Making her path a wide circle around a battling Sango and Miroku, who were doing fairly well for themselves, she managed to make it to the huts without being noticed. She still didn’t know where Inuyasha was, but she had to assume he was doing okay.
“Come and get me, you coward!!!”
Ah. There he was.
She heard his strong voice and turned her attention to the slowly lightening sky, where Inuyasha was busy dodging tentacles and taunting the giant best. He was shouting, looking small and insignificant next to Naraku’s monstrous form. Tetsusaiga was drawn, and it almost seemed to glow as he waved it around frantically.
She heard a cough to her far right, and dashed over to some fallen wood, where two kids were trapped, crying, their arms and legs burned badly. “I’m here! It’s okay! I’ll get you out of here!” She shouted out. Their only response was to cry louder, and she quickly grabbed onto the beams and lifted with all her might, freeing the children and shoving the burning material to the side. She grabbed them by their waists and turned, running back to the forest edge as best she could.
Kaede was waiting for her there.
“Did you get them through the well?” Kagome shouted, breathing hard, and handed the two sobbing kids over.
“Nay, they won’t go through! I’ve kept them there with Shippou, though, and we will wait for you to come! They should be safe there!”
Kagome nodded, having no other choice, and watched as Kaede hurried off with the two burnt children. She turned ready to go back into the opening and help out Miroku and Sango, when something moved to her right. She barely caught the movement out of the corner of her eye. A tentacle.
“Kaede!!! NO!!!!” The scream ripped from her throat, knowing in her heart what was about to happen.
It was done in a flash, like most death is. The tentacle pierced right through the old woman’s body, and she fell, instantly gone.
Kagome froze, her face draining of its color.
He knew. Naraku knew what was happening all around him. Knew what they were trying to do. There was no way out of all this.
Her desperate thought was cut short as Miroku opened his hand at the demons who were now pouring out from under Naraku’s body, no end in sight.
It was like a horror movie, how Miroku died. She watched from the line of trees as slowly, the hole in his palm engulfed his hand. How it moved quickly up his arm and onto his shoulder. His screams of pain and terror were sickening, and with one, last yell of despair, he was gone, the bright flash of the whole engulfing his entire body making Kagome cover her eyes. When she looked back, nothing but a giant crater was formed where he had been. He had disappeared into nothingness.
Kagome felt her feet move, and before she knew what was happening, she was by Sango’s side, bow-and-arrow drawn, dodging the nasty attacks as they came. “Sango, what happened?” She shouted out to her friend.
“Kagome, he’s gone!! He’s GONE!!!” She was shaking uncontrollably as she swung her boomerang around in rage, lashing out at anything that came within her weapon’s range. At the first moment she could, Sango turned her face to the sky and let out a shrill whistle, calling to Kirara.
Kagome knew what she was about to do and reached out to her friend in a panic. “Sango! Calm down! Wait!!!” But she was weak compared to Sango, who shrugged her off without a second look.
Kirara was by her master in a flash, and Sango hopped onto her back and let out a war cry of grief. “I’ll KILL you!!!” She roared, as she rushed at Naraku atop Kirara’s back.
Kagome could do nothing as her friend raced to her doom. “No! Sango, NO!!!”
A tentacle, too fast for Kagome’s eyes, whipped around and slammed into Kirara’s side, wrapping around Sango as her demon companion fell to the earth, dead before it hit the ground.
“NO!! SANGO!” Kagome cried out, shooting arrow after arrow at Naraku’s giant form. They hit their target, but did no good. She wouldn’t have been surprised if he hadn’t even felt them.
She could only watch, transfixed, as the tentacle squeezed, and Sango took her last, dying breath.
No. Not Sango too. All of them were dead. Gone. And it was all happening, just like Future Inuyasha had said it would.
Oh Gods. Oh Gods. She was losing it again. A sob swelled up in her throat, and she threw her head back, not at all unlike the movies, and shouted out Inuyasha’s name as loud as she could, reaching out to him.
Again, sudden movement to her left.
Then her world went black.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:23 am
From The Future: Chapter 01: Warning II: Part 04
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When Kagome woke again all was quiet, and she was in a very large amount of pain. Her head throbbed, her body throbbed, and her ears were giving off that high-pitched ring that usually accompanied dead silence. She opened her eyes and the early morning sky hung in her vision, dark and bleak and weary, overcastted in clouds. It seemed as if the heavens knew that death had happened right under its nose.
It took her a while to realize that she was moving. She felt her feet being dragged over the rocks and dirt on the ground, and heard grunting behind her. Whatever was dragging her had taken a hold of her wrists, and was moving at a very slow rate, pausing after every heave, rasping as if on the verge of death.
Kagome instantly thought it was Naraku, dragging her away to kill her, or worse, torture her. But she didn’t have the strength to struggle. She couldn’t get her arms or legs to move. A wail rose in her throat, and tears streamed down her cheeks as she realized that this was the end. This is what it had all boiled down to. Absolutely nothing but defeat and death. Naraku had won, and now the entire world as she had known it was doomed.
Is this what the future Inuyasha had been talking about? And if that was so, why had this time turned out so different? For surely, Inuyasha was dead. Otherwise, Naraku wouldn’t be dragging her away right now. Otherwise, he’d still be fighting, she knew him well enough.
It took a while for her to realize that Naraku was dragging her down a path that had been walked by her so often, she’d memorized it. Of course, it looked a bit different now, as she’d never been dragged on her back down the path before, but it was definitely the way to the Bone Eaters Well.
Oh Gods. Was this how Naraku was going to each her time? By jumping through the well with her? Was she about to do nothing as doom loomed over her friends and family? Was she about to stand by and let this sorry son of a b***h destroy her life as she knew it?
With a sudden cry of rage, she gathered all of her strength and yanked her arms back. It must have caught him by surprise, because she was able to free herself easily. She started to roll onto her stomach, ready to defend herself to the best of her abilities, ready to fight him until he killed her, ready to-”
“Kagome!!”
She froze, her heart pounding in her throat, her pulse jumping from her wrists, and she looked up to see a worried-faced Inuyasha, bruised and beaten and bloody. His right eye was closed and swollen, and his bottom lip was a deathly purple color. But it was Inuyasha. Not Naraku.
“Inuyasha?” She whispered out, relief flooding her body now that she knew that A) Naraku hadn’t taken her hostage and was about to kill her, and B) Inuyasha was, indeed, alive.
“Kagome, you’re awake! Do you feel any pain? Is anything broken?” He asked, his voice shaking.
She shook her head and raised her hand tentatively to his cheek, feeling him wince under her touch. “Oh, I’m sorry!” She exclaimed as she realized he must have been in a lot more pain that she was.
“No, I’m okay, I just…” He sucked in a gasping breath, and from the look on his face Kagome guessed he probably had a few broken ribs. “I’m sorry I was dragging you.” He said. “We need to get into the well, and you were like dead weight. I cant-” He seemed ashamed of what he would say next. “I’m too weak to carry you right now. Can you walk?”
She nodded this time, and stood, slowly, her body physically exhausted. Inuyasha wrapped her arm around his neck, pulling her along next to him as they made their way down the path.
Slowly, the well came into view, and as the beaten couple limped into the small clearing.
A horrific scene unfolded before them.
Every single child Kaede had brought to the well to try and save were not dead… They were slaughtered. Shredded.
Kagome’s widened at the gore, and she opened her mouth and let out a scream, causing Inuyasha to flatten his ears. He quickly slapped his hand over her eyes and tucked her face into his fire rat cote, growling deep in his chest in an effort to calm her down.
“It’s okay, just… just don’t look.” He told her lamely, scrunching his nose and placing his other hand over it to try and cover the smell. It didn’t help much.
She knew they would have to walk through the bloody mess to get to the well itself, and was thankful beyond relief that Inuyasha took the reigns and led through the mess. Of course, there was no way they could avoid stepping on the remains. Kagome felt her stomach churn as bile rose up her throat. It was a struggle not to throw up.
She screamed again when the next step she took forced a loud cry out from under her foot, and both she and Inuyasha tripped back, Inuyasha pushing her behind him, growling out through his teeth, his fists raised.
Kagome had two quick thoughts, one right after the other. The first was that Inuyasha didn’t have his sword anywhere on him.
Immediately following was that Shippou had just poked his head up from under two severely mangled children.
“Shippou!!!!” She cried out, feeling a sudden flood of relief and guilt at the same time. He was alive! Oh, thank the Gods, he had survived! But how could she have possibly forgotten about him? Where had he been? When Naraku had arrived, she had panicked about Inuyasha and the villagers, while Shippou had slept on in Kaede’s hut! How had he gotten out? How had he survived?
“Kagooomeeee!” He squealed back, leaping up at her and wrapping his tiny arms around her neck.
She hugged him back, twice as hard, her eyes closing as she relished in the feel of the little fox-child that she’d thought of as her own for about a year now. “Oh, Shippou!” She sobbed. “Are you okay? You’re not hurt?”
He shook his head from the crook of her neck and whimpered a couple of times. “I thought you guys were dead, because M-Miroku and S-S-Sango….” His voice trailed off into loud, crying sobs.
“Oh, Shippou… It’s okay, we-”
“I hate to break up the reunion,” Inuyasha growled out in a low voice, “but he’s coming again. We need to get through the well. Now.”
Kagome didn’t have time to react to Inuyasha’s sudden demand, because suddenly, he was there. His form was smaller than when he’d been destroying the village, but his presence sent chills up Kagome’s spine all the same. Shippou whimpered in her arms.
She knew this had to be what Future Inuyasha had been talking about all along. How she had died along with everyone else, and he himself managed to escape… She was saddened by the thought that she was about to die, but what saddened her even worse was the thought that Inuyasha was going to be all alone for another five hundred years.
Naraku chuckled in front of them. “Little pitiful children. So young, so naive, so…”
“What the ******** do you want, a*****e?!!” Inuyasha snapped at him. Kagome saw his hand immediately flick to where his sword should have been, a reflex on his part. She closed her eyes as Inuyasha swore under his breath and raised his fists up, prepared to duke it out the old fashioned way.
“You, Inuyasha…” Naraku seethed. “You have been a thorn in my side since Kikyou decided to help me out.” He grinned. “She always came back to the cave positively reeking of your scent…”
“Shut the ******** up!!!!” Inuyasha roared.
Kagome saw her chance. She’d been inching her way backwards slowly towards the well when her hand landed on something hard and long and wooden. Not daring to move more than necessary, as she might draw attention to herself, she moved her eyes down to see Kaede’s set of arrows, along with her trusted bow. Her eyes widened in shock as she realized that Kaede must have felt the children with it for some sort of protection.
It was sad that the children weren’t able to protect themselves as Kaede had originally planned, but little had the old woman known that by that small action, she had given Inuyasha and Kagome a way out. A way to survive.
Kagome whispered to Shippou to hold onto her as tight as he could, and she slowly, slowly raised the bow and placed an arrow in the string. He waited for her moment to make her move, and study the scene before her eyes, watching the two demons battle it out verbally. Her first thought to make Inuyasha move out of her way was to sit him, but that thought was just as quickly dismissed, as Inuyasha would be stuck to the ground for a few good minuets, and if Kagome missed her target….
She would just have to trust that Inuyasha would obey her command without the help of the beads.
Taking in a deep breath to steady herself, she stood up in a shot and screamed out. “Inuyasha, duck!!!!”
Only years of traveling around the Feudal Era with Kagome could have made Inuyasha drop as quickly as he did. Kagome pushed all the spirit energy she could into her arrow and let it fly.
Before she could see if she had hit her target, Inuyasha slammed into her chest and wrapped him arms around her, causing them to fly backwards and down into the well.
Kagome heard Naraku’s agonizing scream, and saw the giant tentacle that smashed onto the top of the well. Pieces of sharp wood came flying at them, but time pulled them away before they could be buried.
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Oh my god! They made it to the well! But now what?!!!
Next chapter: The Escape
~SugarRos
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:42 am
Title: From the Future
Inuyasha/Kagome
Rated: R for violence, cursing, lime.
Summary: Kagome and Inuyasha fight. Of course, what else is new? Kagome goes back to her own time to give both of them a chance to cool off, but things soon go terribly wrong. Kaede has a horrible vision of the very near future, and Kagome gets a visit from someone she never could have imagined possibly existed. Surviving an attack that left them weak and defenseless, Inuyasha and Kagome must go into hiding and escape. They come across a group of rebels who are extremely familiar, and are now in a fight to save not only their lives, but the lives of everyone from the future as well.
~SugarRos
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Disclaimer: Inuyasha and Co. Do not belong to me. They all belong to Rumiko Takahashi. But right now they’re mine to manipulate. I’m going to have so much fun. XD
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From The Future: Chapter 02: The Escape: Part 01
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As the silent tears fell down Kagome’s cheeks, wetting the rough, tattered, blood-stained material of Inuyasha’s fire rat coat, she felt the cool ebb of time pass and come to a stop as she and Inuyasha stood rooted to the bottom of the well, which, surprisingly, was still intact in her time.
His arms were wrapped around her body, hugging her to him as if he were the only thing protecting her in the world, which he was now, in a way. She breathed deeply into his chest as he hugged her tighter, understanding and feeling her pain himself, she knew.
But all the comforting, understanding hugs in the world wouldn’t make it better. While she had changed Future Inuyasha’s tale of what he’d been through only slightly – as she had managed to survive this time, and they’d come back through the well – the others were all dead. All murdered by someone so evil it shook Kagome to her core.
She couldn’t believe it. She couldn’t believe that her friends were gone. Dead. The painful way in which both Miroku and Sango had died was burned into her memory. The image of Miroku literally being consumed by himself into nothingness and his painful, agonizing, tortured cry had struck her soul.
She had honestly believed, in her heart of hearts for years now that one day their little band of hero’s would take down Naraku, and the curse that had haunted Miroku since he had been born would life, giving his life freedom again. She honestly believed that Sango and Miroku would live free and die free – together – as happy and content as possible.
How had it all gone so horribly wrong? How had the visions of their futures as happy-go-lucky friends all come to a screeching halt? How was it that they had, instead, ended up dead – before either of them could even truly express the love she knew they had shared for each other?
Sango… She’d been so trust worthy and sincere. Kagome had felt closer to her than any other female friend she’d ever had. Sango had been strong willed, strong bodied, strong hearted, and yet still inexplicably feminine. She’d taught Kagome things no one else could have possibly taught her. And she’d saved Kagome’s life on quite a few occasions, as well.
And Miroku… Although his moments of groping had been rather awkward for her and infuriating for Inuyasha and Sango alike, he had been somewhat of an older brother to Kagome. A sort of mentor, as well as a protector. And even though he had never been as… intense as Inuyasha was with watching over Kagome, Miroku had taken it upon himself to watch out for her all the same. He’d saved her life plenty, too.
It saddened her to no end that the two of them would never be able to confess to one another, their true feelings and how deep they ran. She remembered a conversation she and Sango had gotten into one night in a spring while out on a shard hunt. It seemed like such a long time ago, but it was the moment Sango had truly let her feelings go and confessed to Kagome how she really felt.
“Oh thank Gods for natural hot springs.” Kagome moaned as she massaged a rather stubborn kink in her neck. She eased herself slowly into the warm, steamy water and smiled a smile of relief. “These trips would be a lot less pleasant without them.” She smiled over at Sango, who had just finished stripping off her warrior gear.
“I agree, Kagome!” She replied, grinning back as she sunk into the water herself, letting a satisfied sigh escape her lips. “But it’s got to be rather hard for you, hasn’t it? I mean, those stories you tell me about hot water on command any time you want…”
Kagome laughed slightly. “I wish I could get you to my time, Sango, I think you’d really love baths and westernized beds and cars…” She sighed. “Trips like these would take much less time if we had a car, too.” She laughed much more loudly at the thought that popped into her head, trying to get a car through the well.
Sango sighed shaking her head slightly. “Yeah, well, I wish you could get me over there too! It would give me a break from the pervert.”
“Aw, common.” Kagome teased. “He’s not that bad! You know he fondles you out of love!”
“Yeah?” She retorted. “So then what does he fondle you out of?”
“Out of amusement.”
“I’m sorry?”
It was Kagome’s turn to sigh. “Miroku fondles me when he wants to get a rise out of Inuyasha, that’s all.”
Her friend shrugged. “Well, he is rather overprotective of you, Kagome.”
“I know, and while it’s sweet to a point, it can get annoying.” She eyed Sango up. “But stop trying to change the subject here! Miroku is different when he’s around you.” She smiled a wicked little smile. “And you’re rather different when you’re around him, as well.”
Sango’s face flushed a deep scarlet, and Kagome knew that it probably wasn’t due to the hot spring they were immersed in. “Argh!” She threw her hands up into the air and shook her head. “Alright, I’ll admit it. That pervert really gets to me!” She looked up at Kagome’s smiling face. “I’ll admit that I like him, more than just a friend, but I honestly don’t think that he’s ever going to want anything serious. He likes women too much to just be there for one.”
Kagome bit her lip and shook her head slightly. “I don’t think that’s it, Sango. I honestly think that Miroku is just desperate for his family line to run out, with his curse and all.” She smiled a genuine smile at her friend. “Besides, we’re getting close to bringing Naraku down to where he belongs, and once Miroku’s spell is broken, I’m sure he’ll ask you to be his wife.”
Sango’s blush deepened, which Kagome hadn’t thought possible, and she sputtered about. “K-K-Kagome! I was just saying that I have feelings for him, I have no intention of imagining being together like that any time soon!”
“Mmm, but don’t deny that you don’t think about it occasionally.” She retorted coyly. “All girls think about getting married someday. Even me.”
It was Sango’s turn to smirk. “You dream about getting married? To who?”
And it was Kagome’s turn to blush. She coughed. “Well, no one in particular, I just dream how the wedding will be and such….” She finished lamely.
“Uh-hu.” Sango added sarcastically. “I don’t suppose you see Inuyasha standing next to you at all?”
Kagome turned her head away. “Not in the least.”
“You’re so bad at lying Kagome!”
“Whatever!” And in desperate need for a conversation change, Kagome splashed Sango, and they continued on in their little splash fight until Miroku had ‘accidentally’ walked in on them.
But now they were both dead.
How could Kagome possibly go on? How could she live while knowing she failed to save two people whom she thought of as her family? As her closest friends? It was a tragedy. Tears kept welling up. Never ending as they splashed from her eyes and down her cheeks.
And then a thought struck her. Shippou. She had managed to rescue Shippou. She remembered the relief of seeing him alive. Alive and well. She squeezed her arms around the little kit that was being hugged between-
….Wait…
Wait, where was he? Kagome’s body stiffened, and she pulled back from Inuyasha’s grasp to look down at where the little kit should have been snuggled firmly between the two of them.
“Shippou…” Kagome’s voice was a whisper, as a fresh layer of dread fell over her. She slowly lifted her gaze up to Inuyasha’s face, who had just realized the kid was gone along with her, and her mouth fell open. “Inuyasha… where’s Shippou?”
Inuyasha opened his mouth as well, but closed it, not knowing what to say.
“No… NO!!!” Kagome yanked herself away from Inuyasha and flung onto her hands and knees at the bottom of the well, searching the dark corners for him. “Shippou!” She cried out, panicking all over again. She started to dig at the earth, frantic, out of her mind with worry. She had saved him. She had saved him! He had been right with her! She’d felt his warm little body as they’d slipped through time! How had he gotten away?! How could she leave him back there?! “SHIPPOU!!!
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