DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA or ANY CHARACTERS IN THE STORY

A Future Written in the Past

Chapter - 10 -

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-KAGOME POV-

.::BEEP... BEEP... BEEP... BEEP... BE... ::.

I was woken by my noisy alarm clock. I hit the off button, and then rolled over and "THUMP", fell on my hard floor.

"Oww!" I said weakly still trying to fully wake up. The landing on the floor helped... a bit. I yawned and got up from the place where I landed and heard my mom call me from downstairs.

"KAGOME!? WHAT WAS THAT LOUD THUMPING NOISE?" Mrs. H. yelled.

"ME!" I shouted back. There was silence for a few seconds broken by a loud 14 year old boy laughing.

"HAHA... Kagome fell off her bed and landed on her head!" Sota sang.

I ignored him... for once, and got ready for school.

On the way to school I passed by Rin's house and frowned. I had a bad feeling... like something wasn't right... coming from her house. Like, something bad was going to happen. I suddenly felt like a cold wind blow up my spin and got goose bumps and shivered, strange thing though, it was a nice day and the leaves weren't disturbed by the "Wind", I felt. I then thought maybe it wasn't anything bad, I shook it off and told myself it was only my imagination, and continued walking.

As I got closer to Inuyasha's house, I smiled then heard my friend's voice pass through my memory, ' Poor Inuyasha's not gonna know what hit him. '. I blushed at the memory and walked a bit faster by his house and hoped I would only have to see him at school.

Suddenly the front door of his house flew open. My heart stopped, but when I looked over to the house to see who it was my heart beat went to the normal rhythm again and so did my breathing.

' It's only Sesshomaru... '

"Good morning Sesshomaru," I said politely to him.

He looked at me quite startled to see me there, ' Hey... I do live on this street too y'know... '

"Hello Kagome. If you're looking for my brother, he already left for school," he said quickly as if trying to get me to leave as well.

I couldn't help feeling relieved, yet a bit saddened at the same time by the news of his early departure. "Oh, ok, I wasn't looking for him though, I was only on my way to school," I said to him as a matter of fact, pointing down the street in the direction of the school.

He then changed the subject, "Have you seen Rin lately?" he asked me, his emotionless mask cracking and revealing some worries and concern for the other young girl.

"No, why? What's wrong?" I asked him when I saw his mask falter a second and became worried. My eyes and mouth popped open in shock. He saw this right away and turned his full attention to me.

"What? What's wrong? Tell me!" Sesshomaru's said walking towards me determined to know why my facial expression changed so quickly.

"Nothing... It's just... nevermind... "

"Just what???" he said now shaking me by my slim shoulders for an answer. He stopped shaking me and took a step back in shock at what he just did, "Sorry," he said.

"No, its ok. I understand, you're just worried. I was just going to say that this morning when I walked past her house I had a... bad feeling... you know... like something bad is going to happen... " I stopped and looked up at him and smiled and said, "I know. It's stupid but... "

"No. It's not," he said slowly.

Kagome looked up and saw that his mask was now shattered and gone, showing every emotion going through him. He looked worried and scared, he also looked somewhat... confused...

"Kagome, you're going to be late. Allow me to give you a lift to school, since it is my fault for delaying you by bombarding you with questions," he said to me earnestly.

My mouth was working but no words came out. ' What's wrong? Why does he look so worried? Why does he look sad? And most of all why does he look confused? ' All these questions passed threw my head, but none seemed to want to escape my mouth and form words. Finally I gulped down all my unasked questions and said, "Thank you Sesshomaru," I smiled graciously up to him.

He started walking towards the car, his emotionless mask still fallen, showing all those emotions once more, it scared me a bit to see this stoic man crack and reveal so much. I shook my head from my thoughts and followed after him. Once I got in I noticed that a new mask was placed where the old one once was, he was showing no outward emotions, his usual stoic grace that demanded respect. ' I guess he doesn't like showing his real feelings. ' Then we were off.

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-KIKYO POV-

I was getting ready for school when I realized that I had to get Inuyasha's attention. ' What better way be revealing some skin. ' I smiled one of my mischievous smiles. I found my old uniform from grade 7. I tried it on and smiled more as I looked in the mirror. It still fit me but the skirt was shorter, just covering my ass, while my top was really tight around my bust that it looked like the buttons were ready to pop off. It looked sexy and hugged every curve on my slim body. It was tight and small, but a good kind of small. The blouse was also short so it revealed my lower stomach area, I unbuttoned one of the top buttons to reveal more cleavage. ' Perfect... ', and I left, ' Inuyasha will be mine. ' (A/N: WHAT A WHORE!)

-INUYAHSA POV-

I left my house earlier today, I was just too bored waiting for Kagome.

' Is that wench ever on time? ',

-Kagome... -,

' Wench... Kagome, something. ',

-No... You love Kagome, so call her by her name!-,

' Keh. Whatever. '

I arrived at school early and saw Miroku. He was talking to about five other girls who were surrounding him. They were all giggling girlishly and blushing at Miroku's comments towards all them. ' That fuckin' player. ' I then frowned missing my time with the perverted monk. He suddenly turned around away from the girls and faced me. I gulped and turned away and started walking towards the school building.

"Why am I walking away?" I said to myself.

"Inuyasha! Wait! I'd like to talk to you."

I turned around and saw the monk leaving his "fan club" and stalked after me. I tried covering my pain of losing my first and so far... only friend... besides Kagome... with anger, so I started yelling at him.

"What the fuck do you want you fuckin' bastard?!?"

He didn't wince nor flinch at my yelling, he merely said in a calm voice and stood his ground, "to talk."

"Talk? Fuckin' talk? Didn't you say you had problems with me!" I made sure he heard how I empathized the word me so he knew I meant hanyou.

"Yes, well I thought about it and I really don't care what they say," he empathized they, meaning his follow monks and their laws.

I raised an eyebrow and said, "talk."

"Ok, well I talked with Sango about this and she agrees with me. You saved Kagome and her. You really care for Kagome, and I don't think you meant to kill all those men," Miroku said.

' They didn't care either. ' I couldn't help but feel a great strain was taken away from my shoulders now having my friend back, but then frowned as his words replayed in my head and realized he made a big error in his statement. "They weren't men, they were... not men," I said carefully.

Miroku's eyes looked as though they were about to leave their sockets. Then he pushed them back in and nodded accepting my correction. He then held out his hand and said to me, "I'm sorry that I didn't listen and overreacted. Friends?"

I eyed his hand suspiciously, then grabbed it and shook it and smiled, "Friends.".

We then walked towards the school building together.

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-KAGOME POV-

"Thanks for the lift," I said to Sesshomaru as I slammed the door behind me when I jumped out.

"No need for thanks Kagome," he said and drove off.

.::DING DONG DING DONG::.

"EEP!!!"

I jumped at the sound of the bell and ran towards the school building. I flew through the doors and ran to my first class, Literature. I burst through the door and the whole class went quiet.

Inuyasha was sitting in his seat looking very irritated. Everyone else was staring at me, some even giggled as I breathed heavily for air after my mad dash to class. ' What? Is there something on my face??? '

I looked down and slowly walked to my seat. Low whispers followed me, but I couldn't make them out because they were way to low for human ears to pick up. I sat in front of Inuyasha and turned around to ask him what was going on but he whispered to me.

"Turn around and talk to me, but whisper it so no one can hear. Don't worry. I'm a hanyou, my hearing is over a hundred times better than any human." I raised my brow in shock of him asking me to so this, but did as he requested after he smiled and said, "Trust me."

I smiled back and turned around, ' Of course I'll trust you. ' I then said lowly as if to myself, "Inuyasha, if you can hear me give me a sign."

He knocked on the desk. I smiled, ' WOW! His hearing really is good!! '. "Inuyasha, do you know what's going on? Why was everyone quiet when I walked in?" I said quietly pretending to be looking for something in my bag.

"I'll tell you at lunch. Meet me in the shed where they keep all the tools for the school yard."

I hesitated, "...Ok," I said slowly.

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The morning went by slowly, but I survived, by thinking about my meeting with Inuyasha in THAT shed. Lunch finally came and I left Sango speaking with her "Date" for the dance this Friday.

I went to the shed where I had my oh so great moment with Naraku (A/N: being sarcastic, she hates the shed after that day... She hates Naraku too, but hopefully you know that much :P). I opened the door slowly and went cautiously in. Inuyasha was already there waiting. I smiled at the sight of him, but then went to what we discussed.

"So Inuyasha. Why was everyone acting weird around me?" I asked him curiously.

"Keh. Those bastards are doing the same thing to me," he said irritatingly and annoyed by the stupid teenagers in this school.

"Why? What happened?" I asked him walking closer to him.

"Keh . Well after the incident, you were gone for three days an I... uh... COUGH stayed at the hospital with you until you woke up on Friday COUGH!" He blushed slightly as he said the last part quickly. I just smiled at him and kept walking towards him until I was face to face with him.

"So?" I asked smiling up at him.

He crossed his arms and turned his head left, away from my face and looked to the wall. His cheeks were slowly reddening at our closeness to each other. ' Awwww... he's cute when he's stubborn and shy! '

"Apparently they think we eloped or ran away together and came back," he paused then continued, "apparently our absence started a lot of far-fetched rumors."

' Eloped?... Ran away?... '

-SESSHOMARU POV-

I got home after dropping off Kagome and noticed a slim small figure sitting on my steps wrapped in a blanket. Rin? As I got out of the car Rin slowly stood up. She was deathly white. She looked awful, but when she saw me her pale cheeks began to color slightly. I slowly walked up to the path towards her and stopped at the bottom of the three steps leading to the porch. We were eye to eye now.

-She's so beautiful... -,

' No! Mustn't have these thoughts! ',

-Too late.-,

"Hello Sesshomaru," she said quietly.

"Hello Rin."

"I came to say... good-bye... " she said avoiding my eyes.

I blinked in confusion, "Good-bye? Where are you going?"

I smelled salty tears start to form in her once happy warm eyes.

She said more quietly to me, "The doctors came today..." tears started flowing down her pale cheeks, "... I don't have much time left."

' Not much time left? No... NO! Not again! '

She started coughing uncontrollably, I smelled blood and my eyes widened. She was coughing up blood, not good. Her legs then callapsed under her weight, but I quickly caught her. She looked up at me and smiled.

"Sesshy... I came to tell you something..." Rin said quietly in my arms.

' Sesshy?... Why does that nickname make me feel... warm? ',

-She shouldn't have came outside, it's not helping her condition.-

"What Rin? You can tell me," I said soothingly letting my mask crumble for the second time today. I brushed a strand of hair out of her eyes.

Her pale cheeks became tinged a bit more with pink, but she continued looking in my eyes and said quietly, "I know I haven't known you long, but I feel... complete when I'm near you... like right now in your arms..." she smiled sheepishly.

' I know... I feel the same... '

I kept silent though. She started coughing up more blood, her heart started beating rapidly then slowing down again, it wasn't normal, it wasn't healthy. Mine constricted in pain as I saw her suffer in my arms.

"Sesshy... I... " she looked deeply in my eyes piercing my soul with them, it was as though she could see right through me, all the pain and joy I've suffered and lost in the past. "... love you."

My eyes widened as she confessed her feelings for me then started coughing uncontrollably again. She couldn't breath. Blood was leaking from the corner of her mouth. She gasped for air. I knelt down with her in my arms in shock of what to do, how to stop it. Her heart suddenly sped up and... stopped. She died right there on my steps in my arms...

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End of Chapter 10-

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