DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything to do with Inuyasha and I wish I did. This is just a fanfic story that I got inspired to do while looking at pictures of my favorite anime (we all know what that is) in the world!
Synopsis: Third character p.o.v. Kagome is now twenty; Inuyasha is now 72, but of course has the appearance and all around character of 22. And Kagome is getting married. It takes place after the anime series and the movies (although I do not know exactly how the series ends, I am improvising and working off summaries of movies and episodes I have not seen and also from my own mind. I will try to change it so it is accurate with everything else. Work with me here). Kagome is getting married. Will Inuyasha watch as Kagome slips by? What will happen with the shards? Will Kagome find her true love? What WILL happen to Inuyasha and Kagome?
Chapter One: Surprise!
The morning sun slipped in through Kagome's window on the modern side of the well, waking her to pull up the shades. Today was a special day, so Kagome prayed it would turn out to be as good as last night. She felt great reminding herself that she and the gang had found all but five of the Shikon Jewel Shards. It did not occur to Kagome yet about her future after finding the shards. This was still unclear and Kagome preferred to push these thoughts away, even though she knew deep down she ought to prepare herself.
Quickly hopping in and out of the shower and pulling on a blue blouse with a black skirt and loafers, it was almost like the old days. Before Kagome got a job as a feudal Japan historian. Before Kagome started staying in her own time longer and longer. Before she and Hojo became more and more serious. She loved her job (was that because it reminded her of what she loved most?) and she loved being with Hojo and her family. It was obvious things had started to change when the number of the shards to find got less and Kagome graduated from High School.
Kagome made her way down to the tree. "What will I tell Inuyasha and the others about last night?" Kagome thought to herself, pausing at the spot where she first met Inuyasha. Oh, that hanyou! Kagome couldn't help when she smiled at the thought of him. She touched the tree in remembrance to rubbing his ears. With that, she jumped down the well. Landing fairly well, it didn't take too long for Kagome to locate the others, who hung out by the well while waiting for Kagome. She had been going back to the modern world longer and longer with each visit.
"Where have you been? You said two days ago youÕd be back by yesterday! Lame..." Inuyasha spoke up.
Sango and Shippo rolled their eyes. "She was one day off, Inuyasha. Calm down. We must remember Kagome does have a life beyond being here with us,"; Sango spoke wisely.
"I've been busy. And I have news for you all!" Kagome hesitated, "The good kind," she decided.
Miroku, Sango, Kirara, and Shippo gathered round to hear while Inuyasha just grouched and turned his back, putting his nose up in a "snooty" fashion. "I'm getting married!"
Inuyasha let go of his pose and turned slowly and gently, making sure Kagome couldnÕt see the instantly, shocked almost hurt look on his face.
Sango spoke up first out of the small hanging silence from shock after the announcement. "Married? As in... marriage?" Sango searched for a word that would seem less terrifying, yet trying to be supportive. She sounded surprised... better than her feeling of shock and now-we'll-never-finish-what-we-started.
Kagome questioned unknowingly, "You all do know what marriage is, right?"
"You don't think us THAT stupid, do you?" Inuyasha blurted.
Miroku came forward, "Congratulations, Kagome. I wish you the best, but will miss our more memorable moments." He, of course, groped her behind, greeted by a slap. He didn't look surprised.
"Whose the lucky fellow, Kagome?" Shippo piped up cheerily.
"Well... Hojo asked me out to dinner last night. Right after he gave me a very strange 'pain relief' crystal, he proposed during dessert! He gave me a single white rose... it was awfully romantic; he even took me out afterward to go stargazing... and we have been dating on and off since high school," She shot Inuyasha a glance, "And I accepted- of course. I'm moving in with him. It's time I move on with my life. I have a future now, a real future. For a family, and happiness."
"I'm happy for you Kagome, but what about the Jewel Shards?" said Sango. Always thinking about the issues at hand.
ÒI'll always be here to help you and I won't stop until we find the last shard! But for all we know, the well could close when we find them all. Either way, I have to tell Hojo now. I can't continue to be with him while lying to him all the time about where I am. I'm sure he'd support me, I mean, he's my," Kagome paused, tasting the word, but as if it were a new, unknown food, "fiancŽ."
Inuyasha snapped to attention. "You're going to jeopardize all we've done and tell him everything?"
"Oh, boy." Shippo pretty much spoke everyone else's thoughts.
Kagome for once looked truly aggravated, "Inuyasha, you are so... so... selfish! I can't BELIEVE you'd even THINK of saying that when you NEED me to find those," Kagome took a breath, "FUCKING shards! I'm getting married, and you can't SUPPORT me after all I've done for you? Why can't you be happy for me?" She exploded. Why was she getting all emotional? She didn't care what he thought. It was painfully clear that this had really struck Kagome. She rarely cursed with such foul language and to say what she said was almost unbelievable.
"I'm not sure. I have to figure that out," Inuyasha said and stalked off before Kagome could even yell sit.
With that note, Kagome pouted and stomped around. Sango gently laid a comforting arm around Kagome. "Sango, it's not fair," Kagome said quietly, tears creeping from her eyes. "I hate that he can't be happy for me and of course this is normal of him, but I just hate that he has to do it with this... this one thing."
After a few minutes of Sango consoling her, Kagome went off to find Inuyasha after cooling off, finding him by their tree. Of course he was there. She walked right up behind him, and stared at the tree with him. The two looked at it, thinking of their fondest memories; meeting each other, many rescues, numerous arguments, a thousand "sit's," and of course... their kiss.
"Inuyasha..." Kagome gently approached Inuyasha.
"Kagome, you have to find and purify the shards for us. I do need you. And now you're leaving to... go have "another" life!" The way he said it was obvious that he meant something else.
"Inuyasha, I hate having two lives! Here with you and back where I belong. And I wonder every day where I really do belong, but don't you think it's time to move on? Every day I ask myself which one I want. Still, I can't make up my mind."
"You just don't get it." Inuyasha turned away again, diverting Kagome's stare.
"If you're thinking about the whole 'us' situation, then it's probably for the best that we each move on. We've been doing this exhausting 'relationship' thing and never really going anywhere. I can't even think of a situation so... so messed up as ours. You're in love with a dead girl!"
"There was no 'us,' Kagome! You don/t even know what your saying."
Kagome sighed, but knelt down beside him and smiled at him. Seeing the hurt look in his eyes, she knew he was insulted. "Sorry. I didn't mean that..." She looked at him. "Did I ever tell you the first time I thought I loved you? Before Hojo, I mean."
Inuyasha glared coldly. "No. You didn't."
Kagome looked down shamefully, then placed her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
He took a deep breath. "Kagome, I..." Inuyasha broke off- sensing something around.
Inuyasha looked up sharply as his ears twitched and his nose wiggled. "Do you feel that?" He stuck his nose in the air and inhaled deeply.
Kagome stood up straight, and closed her eyes, gathering her focus. She pulled her concentration together and sensed it, "A jewel shard!"
Suddenly, the earth jolted beneath their feet. Kagome stood up and looked around. "Is this an earthquake?"
Her question was answere when a huge bear demon the size of a redwood tree, moving like Godzilla, came toward them; each step he took another jolt of the ground. The demon opened his mouth to roar, but as he made the monstrous sound, a fluorescent, glowing light shone from underneath his tongue.
"The Shard!" Kagome yelled out.
"Kagome, get down!" Inuyasha was too late to warn. The bear had swiped down with a deafening roar, claws glowing red, swiping them across her left shoulder. Kagome lay, close to unconsciousness on the ground, blood seeping from her arm.
She tried to say something, forcing a pained word out, "Inuyasha..."