Author's Note: I still do not own InuYasha or any other kick ass character in my lil' ol' story, except Lyn, Matt, and Florina. Their all mine ^-^.
Ch. 4
Home Sweet Feudal Era
"I'm so glad you and Miroku decided to get together!" Lyn said as she nuzzled up next to InuYasha.
"I know, it seems like a big surprise but we really like each other," Sango said laying her head on Miroku's shoulder. The monk looked down at her and smiled the same smile Lyn saw before InuYasha's fight with Sesshomaru.
"Actually, it wasn't a big surprise at all," InuYasha said, yet, he seemed distracted.
"Yeah, it was really obvious. I mean, you guys were always all over each other in one way or another," Lyn said shrugging slightly.
"Yeah, besides, it seemed that you started to like it when Miroku felt up on you Sango," InuYasha said with a smirk, but then he just started to stare off into space again. Lyn saw this and frowned slightly.
"Ok, ok, we get it," Sango said rolling her eyes as Miroku hugged her against him.
"Feh...copy cats," InuYasha said running his claws through Lyn's long black hair absent mindedly.
"You're such a big jerk sometimes," Sango said throwing a pillow at him playfully.
"I try," he said with a toothy grin, but in the back of his mind, he kept going over the dream he had had when he was in between being alive and being dead.
*Flashback*
"Where am I?" InuYasha thought as he looked around. He was surrounded by trees and the sounds of birds were close. The only thing out of place was that the sky was a deep, crimson red.
"Welcome home, InuYasha," came a deep voice from behind him. As he spun around, he was facing a well overgrown with vines. Sitting upon this well was young demon with black feathered wings. As he looked up, InuYasha saw that his eyes were blood red, even the parts that should have been white. There was nothing but a sea of red staring back at the hanyuo.
"Who are you?" InuYasha asked as he saw the young demon smile maliciously.
"Ah, the names not important, but it's Kratos by the way. What is important though, is what I have here," the demon said as he stood up and opened his wing, revealing an unconscious Lyn. As his wing completely opened, she fell into the demon's waiting arms.
"Lyn!" InuYasha said. As he went to her, he was stopped by vines that wrapped around his legs, causing him to fall. He looked up at the demon Kratos and growled.
"Why the rush half-demon? Didn't you say yourself that she's only a mortal girl? Why do you care what happens to her?" the demon said as he bent over her and breathed in her scent. He smiled in pleasure and then began to kiss her neck and then he bit her, causing her to moan in pain.
"Stop it Kratos! Leave her alone!" InuYasha said as he struggled to get up, but was stopped by more vines winding around him, pining him to the ground.
"Well, well, well. The great half-demon cares for something other than his self. Why don't you just abandon her like you abandoned your home," the demon laughed as he picked up Lyn and held her over the well opening.
"She is no further use to me, or to you. She'll only, as you said, weigh you down," Kratos hissed and as he let her go.
As she fell she opened her eyes and said "come home InuYasha. We need you, I need you…where did you go?" and then she was gone and he was looking into Lyn's violet eyes.
*End of Flashback*
"Well, we better be on our way then. Sango, shall we?" Miroku said as he stood up, stretched a bit, and then held out his hand to Sango.
"Have fun in New York you two!" Lyn said with a wide smile as she hugged her best friend goodbye.
"Yeah, bring back some souvenirs!" InuYasha said with a toothy grin.
"Sure…" Sango said rolling her dark brown eyes at InuYasha. He smirked and as he watched the two leave and as soon as they left, his ghost of a smirk disappeared.
"Aren't those two cute together?" Lyn said as she looked up at him. She saw his face had a shadow of doubt and, was it possible? Did she see a glint of fear in his eyes? No, just a trick of the shadows, that's all.
"Feh...I don't do cute," InuYasha said as he stood up. He walked over to the window and stared out into the dark, fall afternoon sky.
"What's wrong InuYasha? You seem troubled," she said as she stood up and walked over to his side. She looped her arm around his waist and rested her delicate head on his shoulder.
"I need to tell you something Lyn, about why I don't live in my time…" he said as he lowered his head and sighed deeply before he lifted it again and turned towards her.
"What do you mean your time? I heard Miroku say something about it but…" she said, but was stopped when he rested a slender, clawed finger on her vermillion lips and smiled sadly.
"Let me explain…"
*Flashback*
"Why do they want to hurt us Sesshomaru? What did we do?" asked a young boy whose small, white dog ears twitched nervously. This boy stood next to a tall, menacing young man who rested a thin, yet strong white hand on the boys shoulder and squeezed. The young demon boy flinched but looked up at the man.
"We are a threat to those pathetic mortals. We must flee InuYasha," replied a teenage Sesshomaru. This boy was InuYasha's older, full blooded demon half-brother.
"Were will we go Sesshy?" the young InuYasha whimpered.
"We must go to the well, it is our only hope. Grab my hand InuYasha and hold on," Sesshomaru said as he held out his hand to his younger half-brother.
"Yes brother," InuYasha said as he grabbed Sesshomaru's hand. With a young bounding leap, the brothers soared through the treetops as Sesshomaru finally came to a stop at a old vine covered well. This well was legend to be a portal to another world.
"Are you scared InuYasha?" Sesshomaru asked InuYasha without looking at him.
"No brother," InuYasha said calmly, but Sesshomaru could smell his fear and it sickened him.
"...hold on to me," Sesshomaru said and InuYasha obediently latched onto him. The young demon leapt into the well and through a blinding bluish-white light. When the two bothers landed, Sesshomaru told InuYasha that he was to never go back.
"Why Sesshy?" InuYasha said as Sesshomaru looked away from him and walked to the door of the building the well had left them in.
"Don't ask questions, just don't come back," and with that, Sesshomaru disappeared, leaving the young InuYasha to fend for himself in an unknown world.
*End of Flashback*
"InuYasha, I had no idea. But why are you telling me this?" Lyn said as she looked into his moist, amber eyes.
"Because I need to go back," he said looking away from her. Every time her saw her, the dream he had experienced surfaced and caused him untold pain in a part of his soul he thought was lost.
"Why?" she asked, concern dripping from her words.
"My time is in danger and they need me," InuYasha said as he raised his head and looked out at the small wooden shack at the edge of Lyn's yard.
"How do you know?" she asked as she placed a soft, white hand on his cheek and forced him to look at her. He looked deep into her emerald eyes and felt a connection so strong that it scared him. Thankfully his demonic part pushed it away and left him feeling strong and unattached. In the back of his mind though, he knew something was there, waiting for its chance to take over once again.
"I just do…" he said coldly, but he knew because his connection to the feudal area was still strong and the dream he had was a warning to him that he needed to go back, soon.
"If you go then I'm going too!" Lyn said as she crossed her arms in front of her, protesting the idea of him going by himself.
"No, it is too dangerous for you there…" he told her, but a part of him was yelling 'are you crazy? She HAS to come with you!' but then came a strong voice that almost overpowered the one yelling at him. It was telling him that she was more. The voices were competing for his attention and the voice telling him that Lyn was nothing was getting quieter. It had been getting quieter ever since the dream with Lyn and the winged demon.
"I don't care InuYasha, you need me there," she said, breaking him out of his trance like state. Both voices ceased at the sound of her voice, but he could still hear mutterings coming from the both of them back in the corners of his mind.
"Why? I can take care of myself just fine," he said crossing his arms in his own protest. Lyn just stared at him and he remembered all how many times she had saved him because, well, to be honest, he couldn't take very good care of himself. He was to rash and hot-tempered and he knew it.
"Fine, but pack well," he said, finally giving in to both her hot gaze and his small bit of common-sense.
"Yeah, road trip! But what do I tell my mom?" Lyn said as she stopped in her tracks and put on a very puzzled expression as she looked at him for either help or an answer.
"Lyn, your parents can never know," he said solemnly.
"What? Why InuYasha?" she said with an expression of unsurpassed confusion.
"The well is in your backyard…" he said slowly, surprised that she didn't know.
"You mean you came out through my yard? How come I didn't meet you for awhile then?" she said, mostly to herself.
"Yes, and you actually met me the day I came out of the well," he said as he remembered the first day he had met her. He remembered how she had looked at him and how he fallen, just then he felt something in his heart; it was a warming sensation, something that pleased him and scared him at the same time. He just brushed it off though, and looked over at her.
"Ok then fine, all the more reason for me to go. I mean if the well is in my backyard, then I must be connected to your world somehow then right?" she said happily as she clapped her hands together in unwarranted excitement.
"I don't know and besides, you're the last miko, you could come in handy," he said, but a small voice spoke up in his head, 'in more ways then one' the voice said to him softly. He smirked a little, but once again, the other, no stronger voice, began to chant 'she's more.' He just shook his head vigorously and both voices became scrambled and ceased.
"Hey! I'm not just something that you can carry around with you! I'm a person to!" Lyn pouted, ignoring the weird jerking movements InuYasha had done with his head as he tried to silence the competing voices.
"My bad Lyn! Don't be mad," InuYasha said grabbing her hands in his own. He looked into her eyes as he thought to himself, 'nice one, do you ever plan on getting laid again?' But once again, the other voice spoke up and began to over power the other one. He just ignored them both as he stared into the green seas of her eyes.
"How can I stay mad at you?" she smiled and started to rub his ear. He felt a sensual sensation flow through him. His eyes began to close, but then he remembered what he was supposed to be doing.
"...whoa! wait till we get there!" he said as he broke away from her unwillingly. He smiled and kissed her as she ran off to pack.
"That's a little much don't you think?" InuYasha said as he eyed her 3 suitcases warily.
"Yeah, you're right. I'll just bring this one," she said as she walked down the stairs with just one, large black suitcase.
"Why just that one?" he asked suspiciously.
"This one has my clothes in it!" she said sweetly. InuYasha just rolled his eyes and grabbed her suitcase as he walked out of her back door.
"Off we go then! So tell me, what does it look like in your time?" she asked as she followed him. She was imaging a world of tall buildings and nasty demons hiding in the shadows of these large cities. Her own thoughts sent chills down her spine and she shivered despite the rather warm October air.
"It's all forest pretty much," he replied, his voice was far off as his mind began to wander back to the days of his life in the feudal area.
"Forest? I love forests!" Lyn said happily. She was relived that her over active imagination wasn't right.
"Good. Then you'll love it back home," he said as he stopped at the entrance to her old tool shed. He stood there for a moment before he pushed the old wooden door open. The smell of must and decay wafted up to their nostrils and Lyn held a hand over her nose.
"The tool shed? The well is in the tool shed?" she asked, her voice muffled by the hand over her face.
"It wasn't always a tool shed Lyn. It used to be a shrine," he said quietly. Sesshomaru had warned him to not go back, that they would persecute and kill him, like they had done his father. But Sesshomaru was dead and here InuYasha was, standing on the edge of no return. It was now or never for him.
"Oh, I see. Then what are we waiting for!" Lyn said as she ran in. She grabbed his hand and practically dragged him in with her.
"Wow, that's one messed up well! How are we supposed to jump in with all those vines in the way?" she asked as she walked up the stairs and stared disappointingly at the vine covered well.
"Like this," he said as he smiled and extended his claws. Lyns' eyes grew wide as she watched him slash away the vines until the well opening was clear.
"All done," he said as he clenched his fists, bringing back his claws. He had missed the way it felt to do that. He turned towards her and smirked as he saw the pleased/shocked expression on her face.
"The things you learn about people everyday. OK then, after you Mr. InuYasha," Lyn said stepping back.
"Baby…" he said as he threw her suitcase into the well and then turned back towards her with the faintest smirk playing on his lips.
"I've got a better idea," he said as he grabbed her around her waist and held her close to him. He felt her breasts against him and her hot breath on his neck. He closed his eyes and enjoyed these sensations.
"What are you doing?" Lyn whispered in his ear as she held onto him tighter, pulling herself closer. He opened his eyes and looked over the edge of the well into the black abyss of its bottom.
"I'm going down, what else?" he said as he jumped in holding her in his arms. As they fell she saw a bluish-white light below them, and before she knew it, it had engulfed them.
"What a ride, but how do we get up there?" Lyn said as she stared at the opening of the well that was at least 4 stories above them. It had been a rough landing because it had been awhile since InuYasha had been through the well. He had landed first and she fell on top of him face first. After she had rolled off of him and brushed the dirt off of her straight legged jeans, she realized just how high the opening was.
"Jeesh…" he sighed as he threw her suitcase up and over the opening. He then looked at her and held out his hand to her.
"Your not gonna throw me up there, are you?" she said, eyeing his hand suspiciously.
"No Lyn. I'm not aiming to kill you babe. We're gonna jump out," he said as he grabbed her around the waist and put her on his back. She was stunned at first, but then she wrapped her arms around his neck and held on tight.
"Hold on," he said as he leapt up and bounded off the sides of the walls until he jumped out and into the blinding sunlight of mid-day.
"Impressive…" Lyn said as she unburied her face from his wild mane of white hair and looked around.
"Thanks. I haven't done that in quite awhile," he said as he eased her off his back. He stood straight up and heard his back give a slight crack and he sighed in relief. He looked over at Lyn who was standing in the clearing, gazing out into the immense forest that was the feudal area; that was his home.
"It's so beautiful here…" she said as she gazed hopelessly at the huge, towering trees above her. She was amazed at how luscious and green they were and how the sun light was scattered in a million different bright jewels that sparkled on the ground and washed across her face.
"I know. It makes me remember how much I missed it here," he said as he crossed his arms and inhaled the scents of everything surrounded them. It filled him with a kind of warmth only being home came bring. It seemed to him that even demons have a somewhat soft side.
"Well your back now, so don't worry about it anymore," she said as she turned and ran towards him. Before she could reach him, though, she tripped and cried out in pain making the birds in the trees fly away in surprise.
"What's wrong Lyn?" he said as he bent down next to her and ran his claws through her hair in an effort to clam her down.
"I think I broke my ankle InuYasha…" she finally said, tears shining in her eyes. He looked down from her pain filled eyes and down to her ankle. He rolled up her pant leg and saw that her ankle was bent at a rather odd ankle wand was swollen and bruising already. He sighed and looked back up at her.
"Damn. OK, I'll carry you," he said as he picked her up bridal style and began to walk through the forest, leaving her suitcase propped up against the well.
