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This is post Final Act.
"Not all those who wander are lost"- J.R.R Tolkien
He sighed looking over the cliff into the setting sun. The sky was swimming with different hues of pinks and oranges. It was a beautiful spring evening. It was the kind that she would have loved. The air was clear and the stars were coming out. She would have layed in her sleeping bag by the fire trying to count them all. He would have scoffed and told he she was being childish. She would have just sighed and mused about wanting to touch the moon. He would have given anything to hear her say that again.
It'd been three years since that day she was taken from him. He'd stayed at the village long enough to tell Sango, Miroku, and Shippo what had happened. The next morning he was gone. He'd spent the last three years searching for any way to get to her.
It was dark now. The sun had fully set a while ago. He growled in frustration. He was no closer getting to her now than he'd been three years ago. He was lost in his own thoughts when he heard the rustling in the trees behind him.
"Who's there?" he growled out turning to a defensive crouched position.
"Calm child." A rasping old voice forced out of the darkness.
"Show yourself" He demanded. The wind picked up at that moment blowing his long silver hair around his shoulders. He sniffed. He could smell blood and different herbs and death. "Who are you?" He questioned taking a step forward.
"You are the half deamon Inuyasha are you not?"
"I might be. Why do you ask?" Inuyasha inquired his ears focused on the direction of the voice. He could hear that the woman's breathing was becoming labored.
"You have been traveling for a long time looking for a way too the future. " The speaker was having trouble getting her words out.
"Why don't you come out here and sit." Inuyasha suggested.
"No child I am fine here." He could hear movement as the stranger in the darkness shifted. "Why do you seek passage to the future? " The woman asked from below him. She had seated herself.
"I think you may already know that. " Inuyasha said sitting down as well with his legs crossed feeling more curious than threatened.
"You seek the priestess from the future. The one you traveled with for many years. The one who destroyed the sacred jewel." Inuyasha nodded not sure if he could be seen but not trusting his voice to not give away his desperation of getting back to her. "You would do anything to get back to her. " The old voice observed.
"I would. " Inuyasha whispered so low that he wasn't sure the old woman could hear him.
"I can send you to her." She said his head snap up in her direction trying desperately to see. "There are some catches of course."
"Whatever they are it doesn't matter." Inuyasha said determined getting to his feet.
"You must go to this world as a human." The woman started gageing his reaction. Inuyasha just nodded stiffly. "Also, she will not know you. To her you will not have ever existed outside of a fairy tail." Inuyasha took in a sharp breath as the woman continued as he heard her stand back up. "You must remind her and make her fall in love with you before the next new moon. If she does not you will be pulled back to this time alone and you will remain human for the rest of you life."
"I have to make her love me and remember within the month? Inuyasha repeated more to himself so that he understood. After thinking about it for just a moment longer be spoke, "I'll do it. " He said holding his head high. "Of course I'll do it to get to her. There's no question. "
Finally the woman who had made this spectacular offer stepped out of the trees. The woman was grotesque. She walked with an old twisted cane in her wrinkled paper thin hand. Her back was hunched so far if she let her neck fall she'd be looking down. Her hair was burned and depleated away by fire and her face carried an old scar that would never heal. Inuyasha took a step back.
"Do not be afraid child." The woman rasped. As she shuffled closed to the half deamon. Placing herself right in front of him she took his left hand in hers.
"I just have one question. What are you getting out of this?"
The old woman smiled thoughtfully before answering "Why, I get your demon blood dear." She said before pulling him down into a kiss to lock the deal.
Inuyasha woke as the sun was rising. He could hear birds chipping and a strange blaring noise. He was sure he'd heard a few time before. Opening his eyes he saw the old sacred tree he'd been pinned to for fifty years. Sitting he looked around at the familiar sight of the Higarashi shrine. A young woman was kneeling before him with a look of panic and confusion.
"Kagome." He managed to breath out before falling back to the earth as everything went black.