For those who don't know too much about the Inuyasha Series (shame on you) Midori just fell down the Bone Eater's Well after combat with Naraku, who is the major bad guy. So when we left off, she got stabbed in the leg then fell backwards.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything beside my OC Midori, but she wouldn't exist without the Series so…I don't own Inuyasha.
Chapter 8: A Different World
I expected to hit the ground pretty hard but for a second it felt like I was floating. Then I found the ground again as I laid on my back. I stared straight up, out of the well and I couldn't see the forest. It looked like…a roof?
I sat up and winced at the pain in my leg. I could hardly look at it, with all the blood and hole going through my leg. How was I supposed to get out?
Then I noticed the rope ladder going all the way to the top. I don't remember that being there. I used the edges of the well to pull myself onto one foot. I jumped over to the ladder and latched my hands onto it.
"Come on Midori, you can do this," I breathed before using all my upper body strength plus one leg to get me to the top.
I stumbled out and caught myself on the door. It's a shrine, how did I get in a shrine? How did the well get in the shrine? I'm losing my mind, I'm sure of it. One moment I'm fighting someone named Naraku who's planning the demise of my best friend and the next I'm in a shrine with no clue how I got there, besides some old well.
I moved outside and looked around the strange land I fell into. What appears to be a house was to my left, and to my right was a large tree with a scar on it. There was also a slice on it. I was strangely drawn to the tree. So despite my bleeding leg, I limped over to it and sat down next to it. I leaned up against it and closed my eyes.
Inuyasha, where are you? I miss you so much and need you right now. Why did you have to leave the village? You could have handled all those demons like they were flies. You're just so much stronger than the rest of us, so much stronger than me. I never wanted to leave your side; I should have gone with you. My parents wouldn't have been happy but I would do anything to be that close to you again.
When I opened my eyes again, after falling asleep, I found myself lying on some bed in a room I have never seen before. I felt that my wound was wrapped up and a wet cloth on my forehead.
"What in the world?" I sat up and took the cloth off of my head. I looked out the window and saw the tree I had passed out by. It was dark out now but I spotted it easily from the light coming from my room. So I'm in the house now?
Then the door opened and a woman peeked inside. She looked surprised when she saw I was awake then came in.
"Oh hello, I'm glad you're awake," she grinned, bringing in with her a bowl of plain white rice. She wore odd clothes, it sort of bothered me but I wasn't one to judge clothes at the moment, since the one I wore were drenched in blood and dusted with dirt. She set down the tray on my lap and sat down on a chair. "So…what's your name?"
"Um I'm Midori…where am I?" I asked, my stomach growling.
"You don't know? This is the Higurashi Shrine. Where are you supposed to be honey?" she asked nicely.
"After the demons attacked I was just supposed to get somewhere safe but I got into a fight with this guy named Naraku. He did that thing to my leg and then I fell down some well and then when I climbed out I was in that shrine over there. I laid down by the tree next to it and the next thing I know I'm here!" I babbled on.
"Oh, it sounds like you should talk to my daughter then. Are you from the Feudal Era?"
"Huh?" I blinked a few times. "Is this a different time period?"
"You're from about five hundred years in the past I believe."
My jaw dropped. I just traveled through time? Ha, this has to be a joke, a sick…very thought out joke. An incredibly detailed joke…I don't know who would want to pull such a joke but…
"W…What? You're joking right? That sort of thing isn't possible," I laughed weakly. "I can't be five hundred years in the future…"
"I've freaked you out, oh dear. How about you just eat your rice there and think things over Midori? I'm sure Kagome will be home soon enough and can explain things to you, better than I can."
The woman left the room and shooed some people away that were outside my door. I didn't wonder who they were because I just figured out that, that well I fell in somehow transported me five hundred years into the future.
I don't know how it happened but there's no other explanation for what happened. Maybe I'm still sleeping? No, my leg hurts too much for that to be possible. I know this isn't some joke.
This has to be real.
Or I just lost my mind.
I guess either of those is possible, especially for the moment. Too much has happened within the last two days for me to think clearly. I guess I have time now to let my mind settle, with my leg damaged and all.
I just want to go home and forget about the long night in the forest, the duel with Naraku, and ending up in this place. Please let this all be a dream, please let everything the last few months be a dream. When I wake up again, I want to be in my house that wasn't attacked by demons, go to my job with working in the rice fields that haven't been destroyed, and I want to see Inuyasha that hadn't ran away, in our field where we use to always meet.
