Darn the voices in my head...
Disclaimer: Anyone have an Inuyasha in their closet they want to give me? 'Cause I don't have one.
Chapter 1: Where is My Prince?
Kagome sighed. Finals were next week, and she was not ready at all. Of course her record number of absences hurt her grades, but before she could barely keep up. But that was before...
No. She would not think about that, about him. It was just too painful.
The black-haired teenager shook the bad thoughts out of her mind. She had to remain focused. Her exams were next week. And next Saturday...she would graduate. And high school would be over. For good.
Then she would have all summer to finish what she started those few years ago. Her and her companions would finish the shikon no tama and destroy the evil demon, Naraku. Finally he would be happy, she would be free to roam all over feudal Japan and be his 'shard detector.'...
Damn it! Stop it Kagome! She laid her head down on her arms which were crossed on her desk. No matter how long its been, she can't get used to the fact: Inuyasha was gone. No goodbyes. No explanations. No nothing!
A single tear rolled down the Miko's cheek and she raised her head. She must study. Get good grades, and get into the university in the fall. It was all that was left to her now.
Sango looked up from the simmering pot of beef and vegetables to see Miroku enter the hut. "Any luck?" She asked as he sat down and leaned his back against the wall.
"Nope." He sighed. "No sign of Naraku, jewel shards, or you-know-who."
The youkai huntress' shoulders slumped. "Well, at least you tried, houshi." She went back to stirring her stew, "Where could he be? Its been two months and not even a sign of him."
The monk nodded solemnly. "Sango. It has been two months, if he was going to return..."
"Don't say that!" She said, slamming the ladle down. "He would never leave! There is too much at stake here! Not too mention Kagome is here waiting for his return!"
"You saw what I saw, Sango, and you can't deny the truth. Inuyasha left in the middle of the night. Right after Kagome went to sleep."
"Just because Kikyo's soulcollectors were in the area doesn't mean..."
"Yes it does, he went to see Kikyo...and he never came back."
"But he CARES for Kagome, houshi! We can both see that!"
The monk shook his head. "We were mistaken, Sango."
"He...went with her...didn't he?" Shippou stammered. He was outside the hut's door flap and unfortunately heard most of the conversation. Tears welled up in his eyes as he clinched his little fists. "INUYASHA YOU JERK!"
The young miko grunted as she drug her overly large bag down the stairs to the bone-eaters well. Studying in this time was impossible! She couldn't concentrate in her room,her mind betrayed her with memories while she tried sitting under Goshinboku: memories of her and Inuyasha.
So, in a last-ditch effort to actually learn something, she went into the past.
How ironic.
Usually, she was fighting to leave the feudal era in order to return to school; the usual place of learning. Now she was leaving the present to return to the place that she previously dismissed as history's worst time to study: now it seemed a haven for her troubled mind.
As she leapt into the well, the warming blue glow wrapped around her and carried her along the thread of time. Two brown loafers touched lightly on the soft dirt floor of the well and she looked up to a cloudless blue sky.
A sigh escaped her lips as she realized that she would have to lug the impossibly heavy bag up the steep wall of the well unaided. She slipped her arms under the straps of her bag and began her ascent when a familiar youkai's aura entered her senses.
She looked up hopefully as a familiar silhouette blocked out the light above her.
"Inuyasha?"
Ends Chapter
A/N So what do you guys think so far? Any good to continue or should I just delete? Review and tell me what you think!