Rewind,
Breath,
Silence.
There is always a time in everyone's life when they ask, what if. What if I did this, what if I didn't do that, what would happen if.
What if Naraku had discovered Kagome little secret link? What if he sought to destroy it?
When a 15 year Kagome fell down the well, she never did ask what if. Instead she freed Inuyasha, broke a jewel, befriended a monk and slayer, adopted a fox kit, fought and became friends with a cold demon Lord and in the end changed many peoples lives.
When she fell down the well her life road had become a one way road with no ending.
She defeated Naraku, made a wish, returned home only to return 3 years later. She married Inuyasha because she loved him, even thought she knew that every time he looked at her he saw Kikyo. She grew old with him and her friends, they had kids, who had kids. They lived together, fought together and died together, never once thinking something was wrong, even when she fell silent with the feeling that something was missing, wrong, out of place. Yet she feared to regreat because she had left her family.
Her life vanished before she was really ever born and over the course of 500 years she was forgotten and only a small part of the Shikon story remained. It was like they didn't even matter, what had they lived for, what had they died for, why where they even born if for nothing.
Kagome never once asked what if, none of them every asked what if.
What if Miroku never had a wind tunnel, what if Sango's family never died, what if Shippo had a mom and dad.
What if Inuyasha was never tricked, what if Kikyo was his wife, what if Sesshomaru never saved Rin.
What if, what if, what if. Many doctors will tell you never to ask what if, that it is a doubt and a thing you cant change so it does not matter.
Perhaps if she had, the history of her life would not repeat. For each time she fell down the well, it was the same. Fight, win, return to the past, marry, live and die before she was really ever born only to be born and do it all over, again and again and again.
Her life was a one way road that never had an end, all because she fell down a well and loved the wrong man, because each time she, him, they, all did the same things over and over without fail.
But, one day a tiny thing changed and even the tiniest thing can change a whole life.
In her latest life time Naraku discovered her secret and sought to destroy it and without knowing it changed her life and ended his own.
"So I ask you"
What if a 15 year old Kagome never fell down the well.