Changing Paths

~ Chapter Two ~

Fighting You , Keeping you

By Inuyashas Youkai

When Kagome had opened the door , it was to find two younger men standing their with an older female , though something seemed familar about them , only different , as she felt deep down she knew them , but from where, didn't have a clue. At least until one of them spoke, that she had a inkling as to what she was dealing with here.

" Well there's my beautiful woman , tell me what do they call my future bride?" One of the young men teased openely towards Kagome one of her hands now trapped within his .

" You are miko , are you not ? I have someone that requests a word with the miko of the house here if you honor us with your strict attention"

"Indeed , you are Kagome am I right?"

"Yes , but how do you know me when I don't ever recall ever meeting ?"

"May we speak privately ?"

"Over my dead body wench! I don't trust them !"

"I think I can arrange that if you wish mutt if you so choose , now back off , for you have no say in what the lady here decides"

"The hell I don't I "

"Inuyasha ...Don't .."

"But ?"

"Just stay I will be back , I don't feel anything maleovence within their auras, so I think we will be find.."

Once Kagome , and the strange woman soon disspeared to then be seen standing outside near the wellhouse talking , but Inuyasha couldn't make head or tales of what they were saying only finding that he didn't particularly like the emotions passing by upon her face, but stayed put as he was a time seeing their quite animated conversation somewhat smother, drawing to a close, and then smirked when both of them headed to return back inside, but the smirk disappeared the minute two words passed the woman's lips in speaking to His Kagome ..

" The choice is yours , Kagome .."

'What choice is she talking about ?'

Though the rest of it wasn't spoken of either because it was already mentioned or that is was a hidden altimatum for him , either way , wasn't good , and the result of it brought fear inside him for what it would prove to be. With the promise to return the three left without another word , leaving the two in companiable silence , and at least stayed that way until the quiet became to much for the tempermental hanyou .

"Alright out with it Kagome ? What did they want , and why were they here?"

"To give me a choice , Inuyasha , a chance to change the wrong happening in time after we left , but couldn't return to save them, and gain for all of us the happiness we all deserve. "

"What ? How ?Who were they?"

"It took me some time but found it within their aura's telling me of their precarnations. We have met them before Inuyasha , in Segoku , Judai. All of them were reincarnations of those we once knew in the past Kouga , your brother Sesshomeru , and Midoriko to be exact, though all of them from what I 've been told have been reincarnated , well except for .. Anyway it don't matter .. What does, is that I think I know what I am going to do about it , and how to get everybody what they want , as well as the answer to your question the other day.."

" Okay , how do you want me too prove it ?"

"Simple , just remember me as I am , and when you do , come find me.."

"I don't think I like what your getting at wench , what the hell do I need to remember when you standing right here next to me ..."

"Lets just say for awhile I won't be , and you'll forget me , until such time for the sake of the jewel , I am brought here once again."

" What the hell , No ..! Why?"

"Because it was how it was meant to be , Inuyasha .. This wasn't supposed to happen , none of it. "

" How long do we have before ..." The hanyou spoke fadingly leaving the end open

" Soon things will return the way they were meant to , when I say goodbye, and you return to the place where I once found you . "

" What about you , where will you be ?"

"I will be returned to where we first met the first time before any of this was written Inuyasha, before Kikyo or Kagome was even thought of."

"Huh? What exactly are ya talking about wenc..I mean Kagome? Inuyasha quickly said when her glare caught his

"I am not surprised that you don't remember Inuyasha ,as I am that I do .. But it happened only recently when I caught the sight of them here in this place that I remembered it , only it was in the form of a different place , and a completely alternate time. "

"I don't understand Kagome ... Will I ever see you again ..?" Inuyasha asked hopefully while covering up the disappointment that the hanyou might not

"We will , though I can't tell you when for sure because I don't even know ... Hell I don't even know where it will be when it happens ,or if the circumstances will ever be the same , but it will as the Kami sees it too..I only hope that like before it will be where we are on the same side when we meet again, and that we do actually meet again soon .. "

"I thought you said that we would...?"

"Yes , and we will, but in time, when it is decided that our existence can uphold the truth of our fate , and destroy the evil that once caused our demise .. "

" Will we know when we do , or will it be like something we have to guess at .."

"I don't think it's a test Inuyasha , only a buffer for a time , for time itself to be ready for us when it happens. Though I don't think we will know who we are only feel how we do when we are near each other when we do ..."

"Well then , let us spend the last of the time we have together until it comes time for us to say goodbye .. Will you sit with me under Goshinboku with me ?"

"I think I'd like that Inuyasha ..."

The two walked , well with one leaping around happily towards the old tree until as they moved to close the distance between them , something pulled them in separate direction as the darkness soon bled over to cloak the sight of their eyes, and the pull soon tugged them to the ground unconscious, with their hands now entwined with the other , as both were lured into a time of passing, a time of sleep , in the inevitable separation.

TBC...