Walking down the long path to the well, I stopped at the Goshinboku tree and looked up into it's high branches. Sunlight beamed down through the leaves giving the forest a green light. I stopped and placed my hand on the scar in the bark of the tree where I had been sealed for fifty years. This was the place I had first met Kagome. We didn't meet on the greatest of terms that day. I had accused her of being Kikyou so much it actually pissed her off. A small chuckle sounded from my being as I remembered that day. I was so ready to take the Shikon No Tama and become a full blooded demon. What happened? Oh that's right, Kagome. I don't know how but somehow, she made her way into my heart and changed me so drastically, I no longer sought the jewel to be a complete demon. Now all I wanted was her.
She had told me that she loved me the way that I was...as a half demon. She was the first person to actually accept me for what I am and not shun me like so many others. Somehow she had managed to see through the human and demon blood that courses through my veins to the actual being, to my soul. Something even Kikyou had failed to do. With a sigh, I removed my hand from the old wood and made my way to the well.
"Kagome," I thought as I stood over the well peering down into the inky darkness of the perforation.
I could distinctly remember that tragic day she was taken from me.
"A Meido?" I said glancing at the opening black hole.
Running to catch her, I heard Kagome scream my name. Our hands almost touched as I reached forward to grab her, but it was too late. The Meido closed and I fell to the ground, dirt spewing from my mouth.
It had already been three years since she had returned to her home. Three years that I had been alone. Three years since I had entered the jewel and saved Kagome from being condemned to being forever stuck in the jewel and becoming the Shikon Miko. Then the thought of never seeing my Kagome again plagued my mind and enervated me. A single tear rolled down my cheek and fell towards the well but stopped. Confused, I looked up into the eyes of...Kikyou's ghost.
Jumping back, I stared at her, shock evident in my features.
"InuYasha," she said, a small smile ornamenting her idiosyncrasy.
"Kikyou?" I said, the shock more evident in my voice than anything else. "How?"
"I came only to speak to you," she said, her smile never fading from her lips. "You have been upset about Kagome, have you not?"
"Yes," I said slowly nodding my head, "but how would you know that?"
"It is simple InuYasha," Kikyou said, amusement playing in her voice, "I see all. For the past three years you've come to this well once every three days and jump in to see if you can make it to the other side. So far you have not been successful, have you?"
"Not at all," I said looking down into the well again. "It seems like the fabrics of time have mended and we are meant to be apart forever. Kagome in her world and me in mine."
"It doesn't have to be like that, InuYasha," she said, her voice sharp as she turned to look me in my eyes.
I was taken aback by her response. It didn't have to be that way? The hell did she mean by that? The proof was right there. I'm not able to cross over and see Kagome so how can it be any different?
"What do you mean, Kikyou," I asked, my voice sounding colder than I had intended for it to but at the moment I didn't care. She was making no sense what so ever.
"I mean that the well will soon open again," Kikyou said flatly, staring at me as if she could see right through me.
Again, I looked at her like she had lost it. If the well hadn't opened for me to pass through in the last three years then why would it open now? It made no sense. I'd really have to think about this when I was alone to actually make it logical.
"Yes I know it sounds impossible," Kikyou said looking down into the well shaft again. "But Kagome will once again be in your embrace. You just have to give it a little time. It won't be you that goes to her, but her that comes to you."
"Okay so say that your theory does work," I said folding my arms over my chest. "Will the well close again?"
"It is likely," she said looking over at the Goshinboku tree. "I can not guarantee that Kagome will return as soon as tomorrow but she will be back. That much you have to believe."
"Kikyou," I said touching her shoulder which to my surprise was solid, "thank you."
"You are welcome InuYasha," she said smiling before she disappeared all together.
Staring at where she had been standing in awe for some time, I decided to return to the village. Maybe Kaede would have some answers for me. Starting the trek back to the village, I watched the sights around me, my mind wondering back to Kagome as I thought about what she could be doing.
Entering the village, I continued to think about Kagome as I made my way to Kaede's hut.