Chapter 36: Time Shift

Blackness swirled around her... caressing her... holding her in its icy clutches. She felt dispassionate, cold and alone as she floated through the nothingness that surrounded her. She whispered his name: the name of the demon she had fallen for so suddenly; the name of the male she had first met on the surface; the name of the only person to really accept her, besides her family and Ren, even though she had lied and deceived him many times. She choked out his nickname as desperation sank into her heart and soul. She was living out her one major fear; loneliness. She was amongst the darkness and no matter how she moved she met no resistance, not even a breeze. She clutched at the air with no success, her breathing became ragged and her heartbeat quickened its pace. She feared the nothingness; afraid to be alone. She feared: the void, the emptiness, nothingness, loneliness. The necklace on her throat grew cold and she knew she would be unable to find he who she needed desperately, now more then ever. She never said his whole name unless she had to, but now as frigidness gripped her body, and wetness rolled down her face she found herself calling his name repeatedly.

She called him, quietly as fear crept into her heart, body and soul: fear of forever being alone, bitterness for life's cruel and unusual punishment, pain for loving someone and having him taken from her so abruptly; ripping away everything she loved and held dear. She was tired, no, exhausted. Her body stilled and not another sound escaped her lips as she starred blankly.

Her eyes darted over to the small blue light that began to grow in front of her. Hues of pink, blue, green and yellow mixed in. as the colors engulfed her warmth spread throughout her entire body. She felt the moisture on her cheeks, the tears she was never aloud to shed. It moved her as her mouth opened as she lost herself in its depths as she called for a hero to save her. For someone to show her the way. She watched as her tears gravitated towards her and she reached out to them as they clumped together and formed the new jewel of her soul. She pulled it closer to her as she assumed a fetal position, her air wafting out around her. The jewel felt warm on her warmed skin as it touched her her chest. It moved closer until it melded with her being and became a part of her again, bringing back some peace to her battered and bruised soul. It spoke.

All is well little one, all that has happened had to come to pass for your destiny to come into fruition. However, do not worry for the child of the moon still searches for you as he always will till you are united at last.

Kagome was speechless and once she realized the voice would not speak again she spoke up.

"Wait, What is that all? How will I find my inu? How will I get out of here? What am I to do?" she rattled off quickly.

Calm down Utako, all will be fine trust me, and do not fight it when the time comes. That is all I can tell you, you shall see in due time.

A bright light embraced her and when it passed the voice was gone, but he could still feel the pressence of the jewel inside her. She glanced down to see her clothes gone and her tail present instead, and before she could even think to question what was going on water gushed around her body and the light was gone. Once her eyes adjusted she saw the sand, muddy walls, and fish swimming around her and realized that she was now in a new place. The water held a metallic and sharp taste to the water that she didn't really care for and she knew instantly that she shouldn't rely on the water for her health. She felt and heard the fish around her crying as she smelt their sickness and realized that the water was hurting them. She felt the jewel around her neck pulse back to life and she swam to the waters end. Poking her head out she surveyed the area quickly and was instantly amazed at all the sights that greeted her eyes. There were poles that had small lights on top of them that lit up the area, and big machines made out of some kind of steal that moved on round black wheels. All the bright lights made it hard for her to focus, so when she heard talking she quickly ducked back under the water to listen as they drew near. She saw grass near by and wuickly swam over to it poking her head out enough to hear without missing anything but still being well hidden. She listened closely as the group walked by talking away, unaware of what lay quietly, waiting, nearby.

"hey sis, we should stop here, you me and the guys-"

""the guys and I" Kohaku" cajoled a female voice that was obviously an older sister to the boy that spoke. Kagome poked her head a little more to see through the tall grasses that hid her and saw a tall lady walking with a group of boys and her arms around one that she assumed had spoken.

"... The guys and I have been wanting to stop at this lake for a while now and see if its really haunted or not." spoke the boy she assumed was this Kohaku guy. The others around him cheered and patted him on the back, but when the woman began to speak all quieted.

Kaogme watched as her eyes scanned over the lake and fell on the spot she was currently in. Kagome sank a bit lower as the woman frowned. "I dont know guys, I got a bad feeling about this lake."

just then another boy spoke up. "Come on Sango, listen to Kohaku, it will be fun! Besides it not like Ghosts, demons and mermaids and all those mystical creatures are real!"

"Hey be careful Hojo, you might scare her!" called another boy as the rest jeered him on.

"No they're real alright, I've seen some and know a few as well, but your right about one thing..." spoke sango.

What?!" called the guys in unison.

"I cant back down from a challenge like that, however..." the group instantly broke out into a bunch of "awws" and "mans", before the quieted back down after receiving an insistent look from Sango.

"Let me finish. However, we will have to do it tomorrow so that we can better prepare ourselves just in case there is something in that lake." all that was heard next as Kagome slipped back under the water was cheers and hoots of joy and the group moved on.

What was the possibility that they could be talking about the lake she currently called inhabited. She hadn't been there for more then an hour and already she was going to be invaded by beings she knew nothing about, and what was worse of all was that she didn't have her inu there to save her. She had to prepare even if it was a false alarm and that group wasn't coming to invade her lake. First Kagome swam down to the bottom and checked every nook and cranny for possible hiding places. She found that the lake was completely closed in except for a huge tube that was half in and out of the water. She swam in but could only go about 5 feet before she was stopped by a gate that closed off the tube so that nothing could enter or leave it except for water. This would have to be her last resort, and if nothing else she would have to flee the water.

She swam back to the middle of the lake and situated herself on a rock at the bottom. She emptied her mind in an attempt to meditate like she saw Miroku do many times during their travels. She then flared out her powers and let them spread out all around her, and like sonar vision she was able to see all that her powers touched. She pushed them over the lakes borders and further passing strange machines and tall buildings, that she had never seen on the surface world before. She pushed her powers over a radius of 50 miles and came up with small pounds and lakes on the way, but the one she currently occupied was the only one in her immediate vicinity.

Sango shivered as she felt a surge of power and watched as all the lights flickered out one by one moving steadily up. The boys began to screech and holler as everything went pitch black and they began comparing it to movies they had once seen, and blamed the black out on the cursed lake that they all lived a measly 3 blacks from. Sango could tell that the presence had no evil attempt, just one of curiosity and searching. As she turned around to look back in the direction she came she could tell that it did come from the lake, the power was also nothing demonic or holy and crossed her as something new entirely. She would be going to that lake tomorrow night, she just had to know what that power was coming from, and just as she made up her mind to go the power vanished.

Dogs all around them began howling and the full moon came from behind a cloud to shine brightly in the night sky.

Sango and her brother told the boys bye as they walked into their apartment just as power began to click back on. Sango sat on the couch and flipped on the 10 o' clock news as her brother walked off to the back mumbling about hot showers. She shook her head as she heard his resounding yawn and then noticed that the news was already talking about the strange black out

I must tell you ladies and gentleman that this is the weirdest power outage we have ever seen in all of Tokyo. The electric companies don't even know what happened, all they have said is that some huge energy surge knocked off the power and overpowered the grid causing it to blow. Now no one was hurt thankfully, but we are now on generator power. The generators didn't kick on automatically as soon as it happened because the surge also hit them some how too, they haven't told us how here at channel 10, but as soon as we know, you'll know. They are now working on getting the main power back on, but it might take a while. The electric company say that we should all try and conserve power as the generator will only have enough juice for two weeks.

Sango cut off the news. She stood and went to her room and into the walk in closet. She opened up the chest in the very back and pulled out her slayers outfit and gear, she would wear it tomorrow. Her father would be proud to see his family dressed up in the wear of their ancestors. She just new her brother would wear his and his friends would be dressed up as ninja's and such. She went to another smaller box and pulled out a pocket knife and her glock placing it on her clothes and her clothes on top of the chest as she closed it. She would bring them just in case.

large red eyes opened as the being smiled a fanged grin. He sat in his large plushy red arm chair and next to him kneeling on the dark brick red carpet sat a young girl with deep brown hair and eyes. He patted her head affectionately as he spoke.

"She has appeared young one, now it is time to begin our... game."

"yes, father. Now we must wait for him to make the first move."

"indeed, my child."

Purple eyes lifted and instantly found the golden ones of his gruff friend.

"Do you think he noticed?"

"No fucking way in heaven, earth, and hell he didn't."

"Do you think its her?"

"Fuck!"

"What?"

"We gots to stop the damn prick now! Who knows what that will do to him after being without her for so damn long."

they were both moving and out of the door before he even finished speaking.

the surge of power washed over him a his knees buckled where he stood, he dropped his glass of wine as he went down on one knee, the very feel of her power causing him a mix of feelings from arousal and pain. That energy he knew very well, the electric sparks calling out to his blood, calling him to her, telling him to go after her. His heart rate increased as he struggled to keep his breathing leveled, and his eyes tinged red as every encounter they ever shared flashed through his battered mind.

"Finally, she had returned." he whispered, standing to his full height and moving to the window just as two others bust into his door.

"Wait, you bastard, you cant do it!" called his half-sibling as his arm stuck out to grab the dai before he had a chance to leave.

"Inuyasha." he bit out quietly, silencing the younger half-inu "Do you think me so weak that I would endanger her, of all people, I am no fool, Brother."

Inuyasha's ears flattened to his head , Sesshomaru never called him by his full name ever since she disappeared that day, only calling him by the pet name she had given to him.

"Yasha meant no disrespect I am sure Sesshomaru-sama, he was only worried about you." spoke the monk calmly as to try and clear the tension in the room.

"Hn, his human emotions have led him astray, again. You should get them in check Yasha before you end up hurting yourself... again. Humans are so fragile and easily to manipulate because of those emotions, have I not trained you better all these years? So weak..."

"Keh, watever!" he called over his shoulder as he walked away with Miroku. He felt better knowing that his brother wasn't angry with him and had even tried to crack a joke, a rather bad one though, and had called him by that annoying name the wench had given him. He smiled softly as he left the room and patted Miroku on the shoulder in thanks for saying what he himself couldn't.

Sesshomaru scanned the night sky. The power surge had come from somewhere in the city near the direction of Tokyo. She had to be stronger now, he was miles away from the Tokyo area, all the way in Osaka and he was still reeling from the effects of that blast from his past and hopefully future as well.

Sesshomaru preferred the country side of Osaka compared to the bustling city of Tokyo even though he worked mostly in Tokyo. It was quieter and he was a being that rather enjoyed the quiet, plus his brother wouldn't have to worry about wearing concealments unless he was working and him and his brother could walk around as they were meant to, naturally.

He sat back heavily in his chair. He would go to Tokyo in a little bit anyways for work and would be staying in his home there so he wouldn't worry about that so much, that way if they found nothing he could do his own investigating, but he would allow his brother and the monk to have their way for the moment, because no one would stop him when it was time to reclaim what he had lost.

"Where are you my Utako, my Kagome, my Mate." he breathed out with a new sense of longing and determination as he gazed out at the star filled night sky and watched in a sort of daze as images of her lovely face played in his minds eye.

Ok, ok so how is this as payment for my long absense? The story is picking up again! YAY! Well you know what to do R&R and I will see you next time in the next installment of A Mermaids Tear and Song chapter 37 The Players... part I.

`` also dont be a stranger, you gots questions and I gots the answers, so ask away! Lol

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