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Chapter 2: The future?


It was morning when amber eyes woke up, the sun illuminating from the trees. Sighing with contentment the said person with amber eyes looked at the warmth that was his lover. Well that's what he thought but in reality his lover had no warmth for she was apart of the dead and so was her body, which was cold as ice. Nevertheless, it seems that didn't stop him from embracing the dead corpse.

He gently shook his lover awake. He waited until finally her eyes began to open. They were blurry at first but then came into focus. She didn't say anything as to why he woke her up, but only looked at him and then all around. He guessed she realized it was morning and had to leave. Without saying a word her soul collectors wrapped themselves around her when she began to walk away from him and without blinking, she vanished.

Sighing again, he got up and headed to the village. As he was heading there, he thought about last night. It wasn't supposed to be like that. He had lied to her so she would be comfortable and stop asking him more of those questions. He already loved her wasn't that enough? He knew what he said was wrong but most of it was true. He just hoped kagome didn't hear what he said. Oh but he was so… wrong. At least she heard half of it instead of the whole thing. While he was still walking to the village, his head went back to last night.

FLASH BACK

They were both in the forest so they could be alone. Kikyo wanted to ask him some questions and to be with him. At First it was about the jewel shards, then naraku and what they were going to plan. But inuyasha didn't know she was going to ask and talk about other things then that.

He was leaning against a tree with kikyo on his lap. They were talking for a long time, until there was just silence. So he took the opportunity to close his eyes and just relish the moment. But out of no where he felt cold lips on his. So he did what any lover would do he returned the kiss. Even though there was no warmth and no passion in them, he just couldn't turn it down. She would think that he didn't love her. But he did. He loved kikyo more than anything and he would show her how much he loved her!

Finally breaking the kiss, she asked him a question, which had him taken aback.

'Is that why she kissed me first' he thought, Well anyway kikyo's question.

"Inuyasha, do you really love me or are you just saying that because you know that is what I want to hear?"

He didn't know what to do. But he did hold her in a tighter embrace while looking softly into her eye and did the best he could to answer her question. "Kikyo I would never lie to you. I love you more than anything" which was true.

"What about her?" 'Her?' inuyasha thought with confusion.

"Who?" I asked. I had to ask. Who was she talking about?

"My reincarnation"

"Huh, oh her, she'll never take your place kikyo. She's just a shard detector nothing more. I promise you after we defeat naraku and the jewel is complete. I'll wish from the jewel to bring you back to life"

'Kagome…' he thought. Some how when he said her name in his head, He could have sworn he felt like someone was watching. He didn't mean to say that she was just nothing. She was his best friend. But he couldn't say that to kikyo. He was also thinking about what he just said about reviving kikyo back with the jewel. 'Then that means I won't be able to turn full demon if I make a wish on the jewel for kikyo to live again'

"Inuyasha" kikyo said breaking the silence that just came between them again.

Inuyasha snapped out of his thoughts immediately. "Huh, what?" he asked

"Would you really do that?" she asked

"Of cour-!" He was stopped when she put a cold finger on his lips to silence him.

"You don't have to because I have another way. You could kill my reincarnation so I will have my soul back. once its back there is a witch that could make me fully alive again. I would go to her but I don't have my whole soul with me. You could keep the jewel and wish to become mortal like you promised 50 years ago. So we could be together." She continued. When she was done, she lowered her finger so he could speak.

To tell you the truth inuyasha was dumb struck. She wanted him to kill his friend. 'No I can't do that, but what am I going to say.'

With sad eyes he made his choice, but only to kikyo. He really wasn't going to do it, but just thinking about it and telling kikyo yes that he was, made him feel really hurt inside like he was in two worlds and didn't know which to choose. Now he knew he rather sacrifice the jewel, His wish for kikyo… instead of becoming a full demon.

"Yes I… ill do it for you kikyo" 'but I know I wont, I'm a have to come up with something to protect kagome. But what about the jewel, this is so confusing. If I wish kikyo alive with the jewel how am I going to be mortal for her? The jewel… when everything's finished with naraku, the jewel will be complete and purified by kagomes hands. Once that's done shell give it to me' he thought. But boy was he oh so wrong about that one.

Kikyo smiled and it wasn't a good one either. There was a glint in her eyes. It just wasn't of one who could be so pure and inuyasha thought that it wasn't the kikyo he once knew. ' maybe I should have listened to keade when she said that kikyo is not the same and she will never be with or without her soul … what if I wish on the jewel and she does become alive. Will she still be the same kikyo I once knew?' inuyasha thought.

END OF FLASH BACK

The village was clear in site now, only a few more steps to go and he will have to face kagome. He didn't want to, after what happened last night he couldn't even have the strength as to look at her again. There just had to be another way. He couldn't kill her; he loved her… but that was the thing that was confusing. He couldn't love her for he loved kikyo. So he kept on telling himself that she was just his friend… best friend actually.

Walking in keade's hut, every body had there heads down and were silent, like they were thinking of something or someone. 'Wait something isn't right. Where's kagome…'

Sango, miroku and shippo all looked up at ounce when they heard someone come in. sango was the first to speak up, when she saw inuyasha by himself and not with kagome. "inuyasha?" confusion leaking from her voice, she thought that kagome was going to come back with him.

"Where's kagome!" shippo asked

"Wha…!"

"You mean she's not with you" miroku and sango asked in unison. Panic laced in there voices

"No she's not with me and what do you mean. What happened?"

"Well –"miroku started but was cut off.

"JERK! Here's what happened. I'm betting kagome saw you and kikyo together and now she's probably home by now, and it's your entire FAULT!" shippo came out, anger rising every moment, his face starting to get red. You would think he was having an asthma attack with the way he was breathing.

Inuyasha stood there in disbelief. 'That means she heard everything that me and kikyo said then. That's what I was feeling in the forest, like someone was watching. It was her. Damn! I messed up big time.'

Inuyasha ran out of the hut. He was heading straight for the well to tell her that it wasn't true, what he said, it was only to comfort kikyo. yeah that's it. "Inuyasha where are you going" miroku and sango said together. But inuyasha didn't answer; he leapt further to where the well was. Still running all he could hear was his heartbeat and shippo's screaming.

"Inuyasha you jerk! Leave kagome alone! She doesn't need you to go get her!"

He was at the well now looking into its depths. 'Kagome… I have to explain before it's too late.' He leaped and his feet landed hard on the dirtied ground. But nothing happened; there wasn't the tingling sensation or the blue light which engulfed his body every time he went through the well.

"Huh, what the hell is going on?" inuyasha leaped out of the well and jumped back in again, but again there was nothing. He got aggravated and started digging, trying to claw his way through. Nothing worked.

"Fuck! No, this can't be happening. I have to get to kagome!" he said pounding the dirtied ground with his fists.

"Inuyasha!" sango and miroku called out from the top of the well looking in. Inuyasha leaped out of the well again. But this time it wasn't to try yet again to get through the well, it was to face sango and miroku.

"Inuyasha, what happened? Why were you screaming just now?" miroku asked

"I'm fucking screaming because the fucking well is not letting me through!"

"Ok, just calm down inuyasha and lets figure out why the well is not letting you through"

"But how is the well not working and letting inuyasha through now miroku?" sango asked with a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Well –"

"Wait, maybe kagome did it. Maybe somehow she sealed up the well." Sango said

"Hmmm, that could be possible. I mean kagome has been learning of the miko ways" miroku concluded

"What! You mean to tell me that kagome sealed up the well so I won't get to her" inuyasha answered angrily.

"I was only saying it could be a possibility inuyasha. However, there might be other reasons as to why the well is not working. So lets go back to keade, maybe she could help us with this dilemma" with that miroku turned around and headed straight back to keade's hut, sango followed with shippo on her shoulder. Inuyasha of course followed as well, but not before, he was finished cursing and looking back at the well.

The well… if inuyasha was focused enough, he could have picked up the scent that was mixed in there, mixed in kagome's scent. He would know that the scent was his hated brothers scent… sesshoumaru.

The well house was dark, only a little light came through from the holes on the ceiling. Deep in the dark light, there laid two still unconscious figures in the bottom of the well.

Something weighed a lot on top of her. She tried shaking it off but she couldn't and the thing is a noise came from it. 'Wait, is someone on top of me' kagome thought as she opened her eyes.

"Huh" now she remembered. Everything from last night flooded through her and it wasn't good.

There on top of her was her nightmare, the killing perfection… sesshoumaru. She should have never said anything or made noise because he was slowly moving and opening his eyes. Sesshoumaru felt something underneath him that made some sort of noise… and it was breathing. When he concentrated, he could hear a heartbeat too. 'Huh, wait a heartbeat, but how?' he could also smell the scent of vanilla and wild flowers on a summers day it was quite refreshing and relaxing actually, it was intoxicating… 'Huh wait a minute, that's the wenches scent' he snapped at his thoughts from before. How disgusting to think that her scent, a humans scent was wonderful and intoxicating.

He slowly opened his eyes to meet another pair of eyes staring at him. Then at that moment sesshoumaru realized he was on top of kagome. He was so into his thoughts he forgot he was on top of something. In that instant sesshoumaru got off kagome in a blink of an eye, like she had some sort of disease that he didn't want going on his person.

Kagome was still lying on the ground now looking at sesshoumaru. Her heart was pacing, she was now in the future with a killing machine. What was she going to do now? And how did he go through the well? Questions after questions were running through her mind.

"um" kagome was trying to say something.

Sesshoumaru started looking around to his surroundings. There was practically no light and he could tell they were in a hut. 'But a hut over a well…' he mused. 'That can't be'. Right in the corner of his eye, there was something moving.

Kagome was trying to sit up now that sesshoumaru wasn't looking. But she froze in place when he noticed her movement and looked back at her with piercing golden eyes. she knew it was dark but she felt like she could just imagine that in the little bits of light peering through, you could see the firing glow in those golden depths. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the person who did this. He wanted answers and that's what he was going to get or she'll have to pay the price of death.

"Get up" he said in an icy voice.

Kagome flinched at his voice, but cooperated for she didn't want to die here on the spot. Standing on shaking legs still locked in those golden depths. She didn't want to break eye contact. Who knows what will happen if she did. Sesshoumaru noticed the eye contact and completely broke it. He looked up from the well not looking at her.

But he still had his senses on and could hear her move. There was a sudden anger rising in her. 'Hmm I wonder what could've made her angry' he turned to look at her face.

'How dare he' kagome was fuming. Right when she was making eye contact with him he deliberately broke it, as if she wasn't worth looking at and that pissed her off. She was breathing really hard and decided to at least calm down. 'Calm down' she kept chanting in her mind. Once calm she realized sesshoumaru must have felt her anger. He was looking at her with those golden eyes, for some reason she always wanted to melt in those eyes. They were so golden, a rich texture, like looking into the water and watching the sunset flow on the service. They were nothing like inuyasha's eyes.

Why was she just staring at his eyes? Sesshoumaru felt something stir. No women ever stared at his eyes. His body yes, but his eyes no. women only wanted to get in his pants or when he was at his palace, in his bed, they also complimented his title and high status. He snorted at the thought when he always glared at them they would just run away, Pathetic actually, but nonetheless, it was very amusing. He sent that famous glare to kagome. The only reaction he got from her was a shiver that went through out her body and she still didn't break eye contact.

'Wow the famous glare' kagome thought. A chill went through her spine and her entire body; she couldn't help but relinquish in it and show it. Did he know what that did to her? Did he… well she didn't know what just happened herself or what she felt. Suddenly all the bits of light from her view was blocked. Blinking to try and look. 'Wait something's in the way' she took an impact of breath as realization hit her. 'Sesshoumaru's face is next to mine oh my, Sesshoumaru's face is next to mine!'

"Miko…"Sesshoumaru's breath was close to her lips; his nose was not far away either, a few centimeters away.

"Are you going to keep staring at this sesshoumaru all day?"

"Umm n-no" 'great kagome, way to keep it cool' she thought

"Well, now that you're done with your musing, I demand answers"

"Answers?" as she said that sesshoumaru looked around himself as if that was to explain things, Kagome followed suit, she looked around too. 'Oh snap, I so forgot we're in my time. Oh my god what should I tell him' *huh the truth of course* 'uh-oh yeah right' she took a deep breath and let it out carefully.

"Well hum – huh how should I put this, well -"

"Get on with it miko your wasting my time"

"Huff, you're in the future, my era, you happy now! She snapped

"You dare snap at me- wait the future?"

Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru's confused face. Finally, he let down his mask and revealed some emotion. She didn't even realize that sesshoumaru wrapped his arm around her and jumped with her out of the well.

"Eep wait what are you doing!"

Instead of letting her go nicely, which sesshoumaru was going to do, until she screamed in his ear. He dropped her and kagome landed on her butt. "Owe" she wined while rubbing her soft rounds. She glared at sesshoumaru, but he just ignored her like always. Instead of bothering to even say anything to him she got up and started to dust off her skirt. There was movement, a loud snap of a shoji door. Then there was light and when she finally looked to see, there was nothing in site. The door was open but there was no sesshoumaru. 'Wait! Sesshoumaru, oh no'

Kagome ran out of the well house in a blind speed. She didn't know she was going to hit something until it was too late. SMACK

"Owe"

She looked to see what the offending thing was. When she did all she could see was white hair, 'White hair?' It glided down into silky strands that she could just feel prickling against her face.

"Sesshoumaru" she said breathlessly, as if she just ran a mile.

He didn't look at her, yet again. What was wrong with this guy? Can't he just give a simple answer, that's it, that's all she wanted, even if it was just one freaking syllable. At least it was something. 'He could've just said miko' she thought.

Still looking at the sky and the city straight ahead Sesshoumaru was fascinated and yet disgusted. There were magnificent buildings tall and long it almost seemed like it reached the sky. There were roads, strange moving things that carried people inside. It was quiet yet noisy at the same time. The disgusting part was the stench that wafted his nose; he concealed it though making his nose seem to have human senses.

But if he didn't have the concealing spell on he would smell the fowling stench that surrounded the air. The smell was especially coming from those things that were riding on the road. But most of all humans lots and lots of humans, it was like there were no demons at all. 'But how can that be' he thought. Sesshoumaru looked back to see the miko behind him. He felt her bump into him earlier before but didn't bother to look back or even answer her when she said his name. He still had questions to ask her though.

"Hmm, the future" it wasn't a question nor was it a statement. It was one that held confusion and meaning.

"Hum sesshoumaru" kagome called out to him again. But this time she was in front of him waving her hands in his face to try and get his attention.

"Miko I know your there, stop that foolishness this instant"

Kagome stopped; she waited to see if sesshoumaru would say more. He didn't, but he did look at her and boy was she in for it. The look in his eyes meant that he wasn't done with her, he wanted answers and he was probably going to ask her how they got here. Kagome looked down at her shoes, to her it seemed more interesting then facing sesshoumaru.

'Now this is interesting' sesshoumaru thought 'she doesn't want to look at me now'

"Miko look at me. I don't want you looking at the ground when I ask you some questions"

'Huh, oh man. This is not what I wanted. But then again I have too, he's here now and I can't stop that. So might as well answer his questions' kagome thought while looking up to meet sesshoumaru face head on.

"Well what do you want to know?"

He studied her for a moment and asked, "Hmm, your going to give me the answers just like that"

"Well you're here now and I can't change that or stop it so ask away" kagome replied

"You say this is the future, your time, if this is true how far in the future are we?"

"Oh um like 500 years far"

'500 years' he thought. 'Well that's not long, then where are other demons.'

"Hmm, how did we get here?"

"Well"

"What?"

"I said the well"

Sesshoumaru looked confused and shocked "how is that possible?" he asked

"Well you see the well is like a portal to your time and back to mine. Only I could go through because I'm the holder of the jewel and inuyasha could also go through but I think it's because he's some how connected to me, probably the subjugation necklace. But you, I don't know how you got through it."

Sesshoumaru considered her answer. It seemed honest enough to him. Still, he needed more answers. "You will show me this future of yours" it was a demand of course.

Kagome was flabbergasted; she didn't know what to do. She looked at sesshoumaru and what he was wearing; no way was she going to show him her era looking like that. An personally she didn't want to show him it at all. 'I mean what if he doesn't like something and destroys it, what if he kills someone'

"Umm sesshoumaru I don't think that's such a good idea"

Sesshoumaru was up livid, 'how dare she defy me, maybe I should just go myself'

"And why is that" he had to ask. The way she looked, it was that of nervousness.

"Well for one you're a demon, people don't believe in demons. Actually they don't even know demons exist. Also I didn't want to say this but I don't think demons are even here, in this time. An second the way you dress it's not like this time and your markings, I'm sorry but they don't look right in this time either"

'Wait what am I saying. There are a lot of people with crazy hair styles, piercing's and tattoos. Unless sesshoumaru wants to look sophisticated which he always does, but that's in his time my time is different. I suggest he removes the markings. Oh his claws, his claws I forgot to tell him about that too'

While kagome was rambling about all the stuff she thought about saying to sesshoumaru. He was in fact half listening and half in thought.

'So its true then, there are no demons at all in this time' sesshoumaru didn't want to believe it. Maybe if he looked around he would get something, or maybe they were in hiding. No, that was disgusting in Sesshoumaru's mind. Maybe lowly demons would do that, but not high status ones.

"But, also don't you want to try and get back through the well to get back to your era" kagome continued and was trying to get him to choose to go back.

"No" he said instantly with out hesitation "I want to at least see your world before I go"

Wow, it was as simple as that, but still what if he tried doing something. Kagome was still nervous of what would be the case if she let him explore. As to knowing her emotions and somehow knew what she was thinking, Sesshoumaru assured her.

"Miko I will not do nothing, you say there are no demons here. So I would not kill anyone nor attract suspicion"

Kagome looked into his eyes. They didn't waver, she sighed in relief. It seemed honest and she was glad that he wouldn't do anything. But still he needed to change and hide his marking, which she didn't know how he was going to do that.

"Ok, but you have to change and hide your marking if you want to look all sophisticated that is. You have to hide your claws oh and you have to take off that" kagome said while pointing to the fluff thing on his shoulder.

Sesshoumaru didn't like that at all. He wasn't going to take orders from a human anyway. "I will not take off or do anything of that sort"

"But if you don't people will look and since I'm from this time and will be staying here for a long time and all you're going to do is go back to your time. A lot of people are nosey and get suspicious of things you said you wasn't going to attract suspicion. Also what if my friends see us together what am I going to say?-"

"Enough!" sesshoumaru couldn't take it anymore. She just kept on and on and on with out stopping. How can a human talk so much? Sigh, and did he actually just yell.

"Fine if I do this for you human, would you shut your infuriating mouth?" he said recollecting himself.

"Hey! What happened to miko? You know I liked that better then being called a human." Kagome couldn't believe it all she wanted was a little cooperation and he was such a pain in the ass.

"Well if you would have stopped with your yapping. I would not get irritated and called you a human" 'why am I even explaining myself' he thought

"Any way thanks, for saying that you will change and somehow hide you're markings and taking your fluff off. You know all I wanted was a little cooperation. Since I'm going to show you the future you could at least do this for me," she said quietly

"My fluff?" was all sesshoumaru said

"Well yeah, I don't know what that is," pointing to the thing on his shoulder again.

"It's my fur, apart of me when I turn into a dog and it shows status"

"It shows status?"

"Yes, it shows my high ranking status as a lord, it also contains magic, that's why it can move when I want it to"

"Wow"

"Did your father have one" kagome realized what she asked and tried to say something else. "Oh umm I'm sorry for bringing that up-"she was cut off of what she was going to say.

"You know, you humans really talk to much and yes my father did have one and if you ask if my mother has one that will be a yes also"

"Oh" there was only silence until kagome couldn't bare it no more.

"You know sesshoumaru this is nice"

"What's nice miko?"

"Oh you're calling me miko again. Well I was saying that talking like this is nice, you know with no fighting or anything like that"

"hn, you talk strange."

"Well… I don't know, whatever"

"So are we going to cooperate with each other?" kagome asked

All he gave as an answer was a slight nod. So kagome took that as a yes. "Well lets go to my place and find you something to wear" kagome said turning around and heading straight to her house.

While sesshoumaru stood there thinking 'her place?' he saw her moving to a house.

It was well built and didn't look like a hut or what a peasant would live in. 'so this is where she lives' he thought while walking up to her house.

"Come on sesshoumaru!" kagome yelled to him, she was already inside. Her shoes were off too. Sesshoumaru followed inside to see…


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