Once in the Past, Now in the Future
Rosy: this was my idea! I'm so proud of myself!
Angie: its genius! While she tells me ideas, I'll be typing because she doesn't like typing.
Rosy: that's why I never update I'm always too lazy and then I skip parts and details in my stories and they aren't all that good.
Angie: no it's not that they aren't good you just LEAVE OUT THE YUMMY DETAILS! .
Rosy: yes well they aren't good to me. Hopefully this one will be better because you're typing and I'm explaining.
Angie: yeah. ON WITH THE STORY!
Rosy: we don't own anything.
Day 0
I was shocked to say the least. How was I supposed to know that InuYasha was going to confess his undying love for me? Well it wasn't exactly like that. He more like demanded to know if I felt the same, but when I said I did, I could see the relief and happiness flash through his eyes, than they had that soft look that he always gave me. Somehow I knew that he was in love with me and I him. Now I can't help but feel this tingling coursing through my veins. He chose me over Kikiyo! Talk about best day ever!
But…
We've heard news of Naraku in the South. We were acting mostly normal. Mostly. He had his arm around my waist, possessively. Like he was stating his claim. I kept noticing the looks we were getting from Sango and Miroku. I could feel the heat in my cheeks and realized I was blushing like mad.
We walked for hours, finally reaching our destination. The sun was setting, casting an orange and pink hue across the horizon. I could sense jewel shards in the distance, feeling them closer than a couple miles back. We headed for that direction after I warned them. After about five minutes, we were confronted by his incarnations. It was one we have never seen before.
His face was like a china doll. Pale with rosy pink cheeks and full lips. His eyes were large and silver with messy black hair. He wore a satin zip up Chinese fighting kimono with a black and white rimmed scarf. The zipper was down to his navel, showing off a pale muscular stomach, but he was thin and didn't look strong. Then again, things are never what they seem. For all I know, he could be as strong as Sesshomaru.
My name is Doku. It is a pleasure to be able to face against you all.
InuYasha looked around, obviously confused about how the boy was speaking without moving his lips. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks to the head. He was telepathic.
Yes that's right. I'm telepathic. You're not as stupid as you look.
My eyes narrowed, glaring into the boy's silver eyes. I drew my bow and an arrow from my quiver. He didn't look panicked. In fact, he looked immensely amused by the fact that I wanted to hurt him in the worst possible way.
Oh really? And how do you plan to do that?
I readied myself, drawing back the string and gathering my energy to shoot him with the worst of my Miko powers.
"Like this!" I shouted, letting go of the string and sending the arrow flying towards him with a blue light surrounding the arrow like it was ripping through water, but the blue light stayed with the arrowed until it hit the intended target then exploding like a bomb. The dust rose as I dropped my bow to the side and glared into the dust. As soon as the dust cleared, I saw the large crater where the boy just stood. I could still feel his jewel shard, but it wasn't helping me find his location. It wasn't like he disappeared, even though he had, but he was still here somewhere. I just didn't know where.
"I can't find him…" I said, panicking. I was usually able to find him.
"What?" Sango asked, shock crossing her face.
"How is that possible?" Miroku asked, feeling a tad upset that this boy was able to cause problems for their team. Shippo and Kirara had stayed behind because I had been afraid of them getting hurt, so they had stayed at a nearby village.
I'm using my telepathy to block yours. It's really quite easy. I just have to put up a mental way for me.
InuYasha growled, doing the thing I wanted so desperately to do right now. I didn't try so I wouldn't sound ridiculous.
Hahaha I dare you to try! That would be rather funny!
From the left, I saw InuYasha's ear twitch. Even I could hear the rustling in the tree tops. InuYasha jumped towards the tree and just as he did, Doku jumped at me, going so fast I didn't see him. I saw a flash of gold and then a sharp pain in the left side of my abdomen. Crying out in pain, I fell to the ground bleeding out my side. I clutched at the wound, watching helplessly as it stained my white sailor suit red. The life liquid was warm, sticky, and thick, like molasses only it was a red wine color, but deeper somehow. The pain was overwhelming, like when I first came to this era and got bit by Mistress Centipede. Only this was deeper and cleaner, but obviously not to kill. Doku had absolutely no intention of killing me. I sat up, watching Sango and Miroku rush towards, shouting my name like I was dying, when I realized I could very well bleed to death. I looked up to see InuYasha's face change from his normal golden eyed roughness to a malicious monster, craving blood from my attacker. His face changed dramatically, growing dark with anger. The jagged purple marks slashed across his cheeks, the two looking like a curse growing into his skin. His usually sarcastic honey eyes faded to a red that reminded me of Naraku's own orbs. The white bled out and his pupils elongated into blue slits. It terrified me. His fangs grew, poking out of his mouth like that of a hungry vampire. His normally sharp, short nails stretched into the claws of a beast.
InuYasha growled, louder than he ever had before, sounding like it was coming from the pit of his stomach rather than his throat. I gasped, out of pain and out of shock. I hadn't seen him like this since Sesshomaru and that had been quite awhile ago.
Faster than I have ever seen him run, he attacked Doku. With the speed of light, Doku's cheek was slashed open and blood poured down the pale flesh of his neck and chest. You couldn't see the blood much on the black of his outfit, but the white rim of his scarf was dyed red. He just turned his head back towards InuYasha and smiled, his silver eyes flashing his entertainment. Doku jumped back just as InuYasha swiped at him again and kept swiping at him, but he was missing. They were the same speed now, only one was getting angrier and the other was laughing at how much fun he was having.
Sango pulled my shirt up to my rib cage and grabbed the first aid kit I had in my large backpack. She had Miroku put pressure on the wound while she looked for the bandages. I screamed out my pain, emotional and physical. Emotional because InuYasha needed me right now and I was bleeding too badly to go stop him. Physical because the stab wound was throbbing and was pushing out more blood. As Sango bandaged me up, I was yelling for InuYasha, hoping he would hear me through his psychotic rage.
I bolted toward him as soon as I was finished, running in between him and Doku, wrapping her arms around InuYasha's red clad waist. I don't remember when I started crying, but I was begging for him to come back to me. A hand rested on my head and started to stroke my hair gently. I looked up and saw that same soft look InuYasha had given me earlier. I smiled through my tears and leaning up to kiss him. Then I saw Doku smiling wickedly at me, like he had just won a game. I stared at him and then he looked down at my wound, pulling out the gold knife he had stabbed me with.
I started to shake, the trees around me started spinning and I don't remember how my eyes closed, but they did. Now lying in the endless darkness that wasn't usually my mind. What was happening? Then a voice came out of the darkness.
You are getting sick, Kagome. Rest. You'll be better soon…
I was getting sick? How long will I be sick?
Four days… By the end of the fourth day, the sickness will pass.
Where have I heard this voice? It was strangely familiar and yet so comforting. Like the sound of soothing music when you're tired or the way medicine helped with a headache. He never said anything after that. All I had was that memory of him saying four days.