Chapter 7
Once back in the feudal era, Kagome and Inuyasha jumped out of the well.
"Come on Kagome, we should go back to the village."
Inuyasha started walking towards the village but Kagome didn't follow.
Kagome looked up into the night sky. Now that she is no longer a human, she could see in the dark clearly as if it was still day time. She looked towards the Goshinboku and started walking towards it.
Inuyasha knew that Kagome wasn't following him so he turned back around to tell Kagome to hurry it up but notice that she was walking towards the Goshinboku instead. Not wanting to leave her alone by herself, he followed after her.
When they arrived at the Goshinboku, Kagome stood in front of the tree thinking back when she first arrived here before Inuyasha was pinned to the tree. Inuyasha was also thinking when he was first pinned to the tree by Kikyou but set free by Kagome.
Looking away from the Goshinboku, Inuyasha looked at Kagome, who was still staring at the tree, and then the picture of the girl flash in his head again. He shook his head of the image and saw that Kagome jumped to one of the highest branch.
Doing the same thing, Inuyasha jumped to the same branch that Kagome was sitting on and sat next to her. They both sat there, not talking until Inuyasha remembered about the poison. Inuyasha was about to talk and tell Kagome about the poison that is still in her body until Kagome cut him off.
"If you're going to talk about the poison that is still in my body, you don't have to. I already knew about it."
That caught Inuyasha by surprise, "then we should try to get rid of the poison."
Kagome only shook her head, "no, we don't."
"What do you mean we don't? If we don't get rid of the poison then you'll change into an infant then die."
Kagome didn't argue but sigh, "Inuyasha, what I meant is that the poison is already gone."
Inuyasha almost fell out of the tree when he heard the reason. So when he righted himself he spoke, "you're kidding right?"
Kagome shook her head, "nope, now that I'm back to being a half-demon, poisons don't work on me anymore. When I changed back, the poison disappeared."
Inuyasha, trusting on what Kagome said to be true, started thinking but then a question popped up in his head, "so are you going to be stuck in that form forever now?"
She shook her head again, "no, I'll change back on the night of the new moon."
"So I'm guessing that the new moon is also your human night?"
Kagome nodded, "yeah. It is."
After when they finished talking, Inuyasha looked at Kagome from the corner of his eye and saw that she was in deep thought because she had a faraway look in her eyes. Noticing how late it was, Inuyasha spoke, "hey Kagome, you should get some sleep."
When he didn't hear an answer, he looked at her and saw that she was fell asleep. Sighing, he grabbed Kagome and made her lean on him with his back to the tree. Once he got him and Kagome into a comfortable position, he too fell asleep.
~Kagome's Dream~
"Kagome!"
Kagome turned to look at her parents and grandparents standing together at the castle smiling at her. She waved at them, laughing and having fun at the same time.
Just when she was about to run back to her family, dark clouds started to cover the day clear sky. Kagome looked up at the sky and started to get scared. When she was about to run to her family, they started to disappear.
Kagome, afraid of being alone, started running towards them. "Mommy! Daddy! Grandmother! Grandfather! Don't leave me alone!"
When she made it to them, they were gone. Everything around her was dark. She couldn't see a thing except for herself. She tried looking everywhere, "Mommy? Daddy? Grandmother! Grandfather?! Where did you all go?" she cried.
Since she couldn't see anything, she decided to try walking instead of staying in one place. So when she took a step, she felt something wet and sticky on her foot. She looked down to see what it was until a bright light showed up out of nowhere and blinded her.
It took her a while to adjust to the light. So when she finally can see, she looked down to see what was on her feet but now wish that she hadn't.
There, laid her parents and grandparents, dead. The wet and stickiness were their blood.
Kagome screamed and backed away, "no." She was still backing away until she felt something hot and saw something lit from behind her.
She turned to look and saw a burning village. The villagers appeared out of nowhere in front of Kagome.
Kagome saw the angry and disgusted looks on their faces. "Stinking half breed, it's because of you that we lost our home!" the guy that was in front of her yelled.
"You should just die!" "You were never supposed to exist!" "Half breed like you are tainted with mix blood!"
Kagome didn't want to hear anymore so she started running. She didn't know where she was running to but anywhere near the villagers would be fine with her because she didn't want to hear anymore of those hurtful words.
When she thought she was far away enough from the village she turned to look back. But when she turned, she thought that they were gone. Unfortunately, she thought wrong.
The villagers were chasing her with swords, arrows, and lances while demons were behind them. She thought that the villagers didn't know that the demons were behind them until she noticed the villagers and demons were all coming after her.
Scared, Kagome tried to look for a way out but found none. The villagers and demons were getting closer to her until a light appeared behind her. She heard someone yelling her name from the light.
Not wanting to stay in the darkness anymore, she started running towards it.
~End of Dream~
When the sun came up, Inuyasha was the first to wake. He noticed that Kagome was squirming so he let his grip on her loosened so that he could see her. Kagome was still asleep but Inuyasha noticed that she was having a nightmare again.
Inuyasha didn't know what she was dreaming but he knew that it wasn't good. He started to shake her to wake up, "Kagome, wake up. Come on Kagome, wake up." She still wouldn't wake up so he tried calling her name louder for her to wake up.
On the eighth time when he yelled her to wake up, Kagome jolt awake but was sweating a lot. Her eyes were unfocused because her mind was still stuck on the nightmare.
Inuyasha, not knowing what to do, call to her softly, "Kagome?"
Hearing someone saying her name, Kagome stopped thinking about the nightmare and looked at Inuyasha. He was sitting in front of her with his back to the tree, staring at her with concern.
Kagome tilted her head, which made one of her ears flopped down and the other pointed upward, and looked at him with confuse, "what?"
When she did that, Inuyasha thought that it was cute. But he didn't hear her question because he kept staring at her.
Confused that Inuyasha was still staring, she started waving her hand in front of his face. He didn't even blink once when she did that so she decided to yell in his ear, "INUYASHA!"
That finally made him stop staring but with his sensitive ears, he fell off of the branch and crashed down onto the ground.
"OW! What the hell Kagome?! You didn't really have to yell in my ears now did you?"
Kagome was still sitting on the branch and fake pouted, "well it's not my fault that you couldn't stop staring at me even though I kept trying to get you out of it."
Inuyasha blushed but tried to hide it by yelling at her, "well you could have at least done something else." She rolled her eyes, "already tried and none worked so I had to do that." Kagome then jumped off from the branch and landed next to him.
She faced him with a smile and held out her hand so that she could help him up. He took her hand and saw the image of that same girl flash in his head again.
Kagome noticed that Inuyasha stopped moving when he took her hand. She waved her free hand in front of his face, "Inuyasha? You okay?" Inuyasha snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look up at Kagome who was still a child. He shook his head and nodded, "yeah, just thought that I saw something."
That perked Kagome's interest, "you saw something? What did you see?" Inuyasha shrugged, "a girl, who wore the same clothing as you. She also had long black hair and dog ears like yours." Hearing this made Kagome hitched her breath, "did you…did you see her face?"
He shook his head, "no, I couldn't see her face but I knew that she was smiling." Kagome slowly nodded her head. 'It would seem that the seal is starting to break.' Kagome thought.
Inuyasha stood, still holding Kagome's hand, and started walking, dragging her with him.
"Hey, where are we going?"
Inuyasha looked down to Kagome who was trying her best to walk instead of being dragged. "To the village, where else?"
Kagome paled, "no, I'm not going to a human village!" She tried to pry Inuyasha's hand off but he held onto her hand tighter.
"No use in escaping and besides, I'll be with you so don't worry."
Kagome hung her head down and let Inuyasha take her to Kaede's village. She didn't want to go to a human village but Inuyasha was making her go so she thought that it was probably okay since he'll be there with her.
With that thought in mind, they both started to walk towards the village.
