Chapter 4: Ayame

"Somebody cast open the well and now we can all remember Kagome coming and leaving the day that InuYasha was supposed to go get Kouga who left, because smelled a slight sniff of Kagome, and some how all that still lead us to be the people we are today. Correct?" Both InuYasha and Kouga nodded to Shippo who hopped on a plane a few nights ago to make it over to see Kagome.

"Yeah that's all right, but the question is who opened the well? It sealed itself a long time ago, someone must've wanted to temper with the past on exactly that day." InuYasha raised a good point to the fellow to demons.

"We need to get to Kagome, see how she's doing." Kouga remembered her describing him as looking different, so while most things were the same as before his hair was not cut, but up in the ponytail he wore for centuries.

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"Grandpa I really don't know what to do. Somebody opened it and I have no idea how!" Kagome was frustrated. The well she tried opening for a year suddenly was opened by someone else.

"Have you checked if the essence was in good or bad doing?" Her grandpa asked. She hadn't thought about even trying that. Was it someone hurting her? Or helping? She quickly raced to the well and grabbed onto one of the sides closing her eyes. She saw a purple cloud mixed with two body shapes she could see the outlines of the people who did this, but nothing more.

"Kagome!" She heard her name called out and if she didn't know she was in the present then she'd of called back for Kouga. She got up from her kneeling position and turned around to see 'Kouga?'

"Hello?" She then saw two figures behind him, and if she didn't know better it looked like an older InuYasha and Shippo. "I think I'm in a dream."

"No this is reality, but someone opened the well. I've been the stranger you've been talking to."

"But you had short hair."

"When you came back I let most of everything stay how it was supposed but I wanted you to recognize me when you got back."

"So if you guys have been here what took so long for you guys to find me?"

"We didn't want to disrupt your time travels." InuYasha answered. "But it seems like someone wants the past to be altered, and has cast a spell."

"I can sense that there was a demonic presence here and a spiritual, but corrupted one." Kagome answered trying to focus in on what kind of demon.

"Who would want the past altered so badly?" Kouga asked…

"Guromaru, it didn't work. He still stayed with InuYasha running away from being my King!"

"Ayame, sometimes fate is supposed to happen. Sometimes we can't fix those things. It wasn't meant to be." Guromaru had been born a priest in the current times around 20 years ago still being fairly young, but very powerful. He thought at first y doing this for the auburn haired wolf demoness it would make her see him as the better guy fit for her. She couldn't get over the childhood crush though that clung to her heart.

"Guromaru I'll travel-"

"You'll be purified as soon as you step in, ecause the well will know your intentions to harm, the snake was merley a distraction to lead Kagome in. Any other demon would've been killed on the spot." With that he walked away not wanting to see the evil in someone he cherished so much.

"It was Ayame? She's still lurking around?" Kouga inquired not really wanting to put up with her. All he wanted to do was enjoy the smile on Kagome's face and the way her eyes would light up when she talked about everything.

"Seems that way, but it also seems as though there is something protecting this well." Kagome paced around it and then sighed.

"I think I feel her coming." Shippo announced and in came Ayame with a death glare pointed at Kagome. She charged after her and Kagome closed her eyes ready for the worst. She only opened them up after hearing a piercing scream and feeling protective arms…