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CHAPTER FOUR: IT HAS TO BE PROOF FOR SOMETHING
InuYasha's Point of View
Kikyo was getting ready to have her Soul Gatherers carry her off. InuYasha watched as she rose into the sky and disappeared into the horizon. He sighed in defeat. He knew this wasn't the same Kikyo from over fifty years ago. For some reason though, he just couldn't let go. Sure, he liked Kagome a lot, but he would be betraying Kikyo.
Kagome, I hope you're ok.
Little did he know that Kagome was dealing with something that would bring the word 'stress' to a whole new level.
Miroku's Point of View
"Sango, my dear, come here please."
"What is it, Miroku?"
"I was walking out towards the well and I noticed something peculiar."
"What?"
"Well, the well has a different aura around it now."
"What do you mean?"
"It just doesn't have the same aura anymore. It used to have a slight magical aura because of how it would devour the bones of the slain demons. It doesn't have that feeling anymore. You walk by it and it feels like just another old, dried out well."
"So, that means…Kagome and Sesshoumaru are stuck in her time?"
"I sure hope not."
"If Sesshoumaru is trapped in Kagome's time….that can't be good. We need to find someone who can do some kind of spell or something!"
"My thoughts exactly. We should go back to the village and discuss this with Kaede."
SMACK
"PERVERT!"
"It was worth it." Miroku sighed, "More seriously, we need to know if InuYasha is going to stay with us or if he would rather see if Lady Kikyo has something useful."
"You know as well as I, that the only thing that Kikyo would consider useful towards Kagome is her death."
*Sigh* "You are indeed correct. Maybe though, InuYasha can get through to Lady Kikyo and get her to help."
"Highly unlikely."Miroku and Sango made their way back from the well and went looking for Kaede. It took them a while but they found her at one of The Elders' huts. The man had taken ill with Pneumonia. Unfortunately, without Kagome's medicines the old man would die. Kaede walked back to her hut with Sango and Miroku following behind.
"Kilala, Shippo!" Sango called to the kit and the cat, "Come on!"
Shippo and Kilala looked up from where they had been practicing with Shippo's foxfire. As soon as Sango gave the word, they came running. Kaede put on a stew and bade Miroku to begin.
"Lady Kaede, when Sango and I visited the well earlier, I noticed that it no longer has the same aura it used to."
"Aye. Go on."
"Is it possible that the Lady Kagome and Lord Sesshoumaru are trapped in her time?"
"Aye, it be possible."
"That's what I was afraid of."
"Kaede," Sango started, "Do you know of anyone who might be able to open the passage through the well back up?"
"Nay child. I do not know of any…." Kaede faltered.
"What is it Kaede?" asked Shippo.
"I thought of something that may help ye on your journey to rescue Kagome."
"What is it Lady Kaede?" Miroku asked.
"Well, it has been passed down in legend, so I know not if it shall help."
"It could be more than what we have right now, which is nothing." Shippo replied.
"When I was a young girl, a priest traveling with a wandering story teller came into the village. They were asking for direction to Dragons' Keep. The story teller told us the legend behind it. It is said that anyone who can pass through all of the perils and dangerous traps will be given a gift from the gods. However in order to get through the pass to Dragons' Keep, you have to pass through The Hall of Judgment."
"I have heard in passing of this tale. How ever no one has any kind of proof that it exists." stated Miroku.
"Aye but the tale it's self is proof that there is something to the story." said the wise old woman.
Sango sat for a moment in thoughtful silence. "I think we may have something back at my village on it." she finally said.
"I guess that shall be our first stop. Shippo would you like to come with Sango and me or would you prefer to stay and wait for InuYasha to return?"
"Like I'm staying here with him! He's mean to me."
"Alright then. It is settled. We leave at dawn."
Sesshoumaru's Point of View
Interesting. The miko seems to be more scared of these wretches than she is me. Do they have some sort of magic that would cause her to fear them more? *sniff, sniff* They don't smell like they are anything more than the pathetic human slum I took them for.
Sesshoumaru's train of thought broke off when her heard Kagome's mutterings, cursing every Kami she could think to curse at that moment.
She is very apprehensive about them.
"The Kamis' do indeed hate you," he started to say in that cold and bored voice, "They made you human, did they not?"
"No one asked you, wise ass!" Kagome growled at the daiyoukai. "Look, no one in this era knows that demons exist. Let me do the talking ok? And non of that 'die filthy human' stuff either."
Sesshoumaru just snarled his nose at her.
"There you are Kagome!" said Yuki.
"How are you feeling? We missed you at school." Ayuma told her.
Eri on the other hand said "Kagome, who is this?"
