Chapter 35: The Future Ahead
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Kagome rushed home after the confrontation with her history teacher.
"History Erased!!" Kagome thoguht to herself. "How is that possible?"
She ran into the well house and jumped into it, but nothing happened. "Not again!" she screamed.
Kagome dug and dug, and kept thinking that Sango would send her another message through her mind, she waited, and waited and waited... nothing came. Kagome sat up and leaned against the side.
"This is ridiculous... if history is erased... something had to have happened to the well... it only makes sence"
She closed her eyes for a bit and tried to remember the good times. Her and Inuyasha.. Miroku and Sango... Shippou and Kirara... they were all in Kagome's heart. She remembered when Shippou first showed up, then Inuyasha fought the Thunder Brothers. Then came Miroku, it wasn't exacly the most memorable meeting ever, but it still belonged in her heart. And Sango and Kirara were the most intrsesting.. it's not everyday you meet a girl whop ends up being the most powerful being in the world.
Before she knew it, Kagome fell asleep, and dreamt of all the adventures she had.
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Sesshoumaru finally had reached the plains which held the Bone Eater's Well. He stopped as soon as he reached the border between the forest and the plains and looked at the well.
"How is this going to work?" He asked himself. "I know nothing about time travel.." Sesshoumaru walked up to the well and looked down into it.
"Sesshoumaru." A voice said from behind him. Sesshoumaru spinned around and saw Kikyou standing in front of him. He stared at her long and hard and never said a word. Kikyou suddenly laughed.
"So... you wish to use the well to turn back time?" Kikyou said with a slight smirk on her face.
"Whats so funny?" Sesshoumaru asked. Kikyou's face suddenly got a serious look and she just stared.
"You're really asking? Sesshoumaru the well is not a time machine.. it's a portal. Everybody knows that. There isn't some kind of date switch that you can go back to!"
"Well it was worth a try!!" Sesshoumaru screamed. He saw a look on Kikyou's face that looked frightened. He turned around and stared back down into the well.
"I just want her back.. I love her... I made a mistake and let her slip away to many times... I just wanted one time that I could have her.. I want to hold her and keep her safe.. I want her to know that she isn't alone anymore."
"So you don't just feel sorry for her?" Kikyou asked bluntly. Sesshoumaru shook his head.
"I did at first, but as I got to know her... I loved her more and more. And now she is gone forever..."
Kikyou could tell his words were sincere.
"There is one way you can reverse the effect... but it won't be easy.. in fact it will seem impossible.. but if you love her like you say you do.. you can do it."
Sesshoumaru turned around and looked at her with huge eyes. Kikyou looked him up and down and sent him a message with her eyes. Sesshoumaru bowed his head.
"I see.." Sesshoumaru said sadly.
"If you can do that.. then you have to get a couple things.." Kikyou said to him. Sesshoumaru stared at the ground and after a little while, he looked up in determination.
"What do I have to do?" He asked. Kikyou looked up at him. 'He's no different from Inuyasha...' She thought to herself. 'He won't do this... he can't!'
"You have to bring a specimen from the fight to let the well know that that's when the wish happened. You also have to write down the wish you made.. word for word. Bring the weapon of her dearest family member, the most important thing to her, and... the heart of the one you love..."
Sesshoumaru stared at her in horror. "Her heart! You just want me to go up to her, kill her, and when this is all over I won't have her!" He screamed.
"Calm down Sesshoumaru! She will be alive when the process is over with... if.. she really loves you." She said. "It's a risk... but if the locket worked... I'm sure she really loves you."
Sesshoumaru sighed. "Is that it?" he asked. Kikyou shook her head.
"You have to sacrifice the most important thing to you... and we both know what that is..." She said grimly. Sesshoumaru nodded.
"My Demonity..."
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"Specimen from the fight... a vine that held Sango's body... that sound's promising..." Sesshoumaru said as he flew on Ah-Un to the demon slayer village to get the final item. He already got the wish, the specimen and the weapon... now all he needed was the heart.
Sesshoumaru landed and he found that he wasn't as the village.. he was in the grassy plains outside of the village. He walked to try and find his way to the pathway, but he stopped when he saw a stone memorial.
He walked up to it and he read the engravement.
"Lady Kainko: Beloved princess of the Northern Lands... Gave up her life for the one she loves: Gave birth too two gorgeous children: Sango and Kohaku... She will be forever missed."
"Sango's mother..." He said quietly. Sesshoumaru put his demonic hand over the grave stone. His eyes caught his hand's claws and he shook his head.
"What am I thinking?" he asked himself. "She will never love a demon the way she could love a human." Sesshoumaru threw all the things he collected down in front of Lady Karinko's grave and walked away into the distance, with only his shattered heart going along with him.
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Sango woke up that morning from a dream. It was Sesshoumaru. She didn't know who it was, but she knew she had met him before.. somewhere. A lot of strange things had happened to Sango. She has bruises and aches all over her and she is just so exhausted. She doesn't remember anything but going to fight a spider demon with her fellow demon slayers and then everything just went blank. She knew something was missing but she didn't know how to find it.
Sango walked out of the hut she had slept in and found Kirara sitting on the ground staring into the sky.
"Kirara... what's wrong?" Sango asked. Kirara didn't move at all. She just stared off into the sky, oviously waiting for something, or someone.
"Weird cat..." Sango mumbled and walked off. Kirara then pounced off and ran out of the village. "Kirara!" Sango called out. Sango ran after her but as soon as she reached the gate, she was gone. Sango followed, which would be the road to fate.
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Kirara ran as fast as she could to her destination. She knew he was there, he never left. He would always watch her in the distance and Kirara knew it. As Kirara finally approched her distination, she saw many things on the ground in front of it.
She was at Lady Karinko's grave.
"You can sence me can't you" a voice said to Kirara. Kirara meowed.
"Yes I can understand you. We are both demons after all" The voice said. Kirara turned around to see Sesshoumaru standing right next to her.
Kirara meowed twice.
"Yes I did leave.. but I came back... I may have lost her forever.. but that will never stop me from loving her." He said. Kirara meowed some more.
"I don't know how to use the well! I know what I have to get though... and it's horrible."
Another meow.
"Sango's heart"
Two more meows.
"The locket? That's right! I opened it which means her heart belongs to me! Where is it?!"
Three meows this time.
"She has it... I can't face her... Kirara" Sesshoumaru struggled to remember the cat demon's name. "I just would say something stupid.. she has no idea who I am."
Meow after meow.
"Dreams? Visions? I'm in them?
Kirara meowed for the last time.
"Kirara!" A female voice yelled in the distance.
Sesshoumaru went behind the nearest tree and hid.
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As Sango got further along the path, she finally found Kirara, at her mother's grave site. A place Sango had vowed never to go to.
"Kirara.. come here!" Sango shouted.
"She wants you to go to her." A male voice behind her had said. Sango turned around and stared at him. It was Sesshoumarum, and the way he stared at her just gave her goosebumps.
"You..." She said quietly. Sesshoumaru looked down in sadness. "Is she yours?" He asked. Sango nodded.
"Then go and get her. There is a moat circling the grave sight... she is probably scared to cross again." Sesshoumaru said to her as he stared into her eyes. Sango stared back into his and they were full of sadness.
"I'm sorry... but it's a weird concept... but I can't go over there." Sango said.
"I know... it's your mother's grave and you feel bitterness twoards her." he said. Sango stared at him in awe and she seemed very surprised. "How did yo--"
"I'm physic." He simply said. Sango nodded and turned to look. Sesshoumaru walked up closer to her and stood directly behind her. "I also know she died to save you.. not to get away from you... feel no bitterness tword her... she loved you dearly..." He said into her ear. "...Sango..." he whispered. Sango turned around to look at him. Their eyes met and Sango knew at that moment who he was.
"Sesshoumaru..." She said in relief. "I know you from somewhere..." Sesshoumaru just smiled and stepped back.
"Go get your cat Sango."
Sango smiled back and walked to her. She stepped onto the island that held Karinko's grave and tears shead from her eyes. They just flowed from her eyes and she collasped.
Sesshoumaru watched her and it broke him. He loved her more than life itself.. more than he loved his demonity... just knowing that she had fufilled something she had shared with him and him only made him feel like a part of her again. Her just knowing his name like she did made him hurt more than ever.. because he couldn't have her anymore.
Sango picked up Kirara and walked across the bridge that went across the moat. She dropped her, eyes still full with tears, and ran to Sesshoumaru and embraced him in a hug. Sesshoumaru was shocked, he felt like she was once again hers. He slowly began to hug her back, and he bowed his head. Sango felt a tear hit her cheak that didn't belong to her... but it was the tear of a lover. She pulled away and smiled at Sesshoumaru.
"Thank you.." She said happily... "Is there anything I can do to repay you?"
Sesshoumaru looked at her and smiled.
"You've done enough... Goodbye Sango... we will meet again."
Sango smiled as Sesshoumaru walked away into the distance.
"Kirara.. do you know who that is?"
Kirara meowed.
"That's Sesshoumaru.. I know who that is... I remember who that is... And I know... that I love him."
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"Ok... I got everything...I have a specimen from the fight: A vine that held Sango's body. I have the wish written down.. word for word. The weapon of her dearest family member: The scythe of Kohaku. And the most important thing to her: Her family.. or else the ashes of her father. And then.. the heart... to be the locket."
Sesshoumaru snatched the locket when Sango hugged him. He then threw all the things into the well.
"Now what?" He asked Kikyou.
Say the wish one more time. and then wait. Sesshoumaru took a deep breath.
"Sesshoumaru!" Someone yelled off into the distance. Sesshoumaru looked and saw Inuyasha, Miroku and Shippou coming twords them.
"Sesshoumaru this is a mistake" Miroku told him. "Sango remembers you!"
"No she doesn't! I saw her earlier! She never told me she knew who I was! She said that I was familiar to her!"
"She can't tell you that she remembers you! It's against your wish! Please just don't do this!!" Inuyasha yelled. Wind gatherd around them and the sky turned dark gray.
"Sesshoumaru! If you do this the well will be destroyed forever! Kagome can never come back!" Inuyasha added. Miroku turned to him in shock.
"Well then go get her! I'm doing this! I love her!! You just don't want me to have her! I love her Inuyasha! I would never hurt her... Please just give me this one thing and don't take it away like everything else!!"
"I have never taken away anything that wasn't given to me! She is yours Sesshoumaru! She was never mine! Her heart always belonged to you!"
Sesshoumaru stared down into the well.
"I have to do this Inuyasha... I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HER!!"
"And I can't live without Kagome!" Miroku screamed. Inuyasha turned to stare at him.
"Miroku..?"
"I need her Inuyasha! I need to be with her... She makes me happy! I can't let him destroy the well and ruin my tie to her!!" I WON'T!!"
"THEN GO AND GET HER!!" Kikyou yelled. " I want this well destoryed... so anybody that wants a one way ticked to the present jump into the damn well!!"
Miroku stared at her and then to everybody else.
"Lord Sesshoumaru!! Lord Sesshoumaru!!" Two voiced yelled. "We have been looking for you for days!!" The voices said... they belonged to Rin and Jaken.
"Please just let me do this Inuyasha!" I beg you." Sesshoumaru begged. Inuyasha stared at everyone. Kikyou nodded to him.
"Miroku.. go!" Inuyasha yelled. Miroku stared at him. "What?" Miroku yelled.
"Go to Kagome!!" "GO!!" Inuyasha said. Miroku shook his head. "I'm not leaving everyone here!" He yelled.
Inuyasha pushed Miroku into the well. Light tringled up to show a successful transportation.
"Sesshoumaru do it now!!"
Sesshoumaru smiled and turned around.
"I wish that Sango got another chance after Naraku's Death!"
The sky swirled. But at the moment Sesshoumaru said death, Sango walked out of the forest of Inuyasha. She saw all the people around the well and Red, Purple and Gold Light shoot up from the well and Sesshoumaru was hit by a red aurora. He began to float and Sango ran up to the group of people.
Inuyasha turned around and gasped.
"Sango...?" He said in shock.
"Inuyasha..what's going on?" She asked. Inuyasha couldn't speak.. she remembered his name.
"Sango.. you know who I am?" He asked. Sango smiled.."It just hit me earlier... I remember everything now..."
"Everything?" Inuyasha asked. "Everything." She answered.
Inuyasha looked up into the sky at Sesshoumaru. He opened his eyes and looked down at Sango. He saw his mouth word her name and he screamed in pain as he fell down to the ground. Sango gasped and screamed his name. She tried to run up to him but Inuyasha stopped her. "Not yet" He said.
The sky cleared and everything went light again. Inuyasha moved his hand and Sango ran up to Sesshoumaru's body.
"Sesshoumaru?" She asked. "Sesshoumaru.. please... don't leave me here.." She begged as tears fell from her eyes. She bowed her head onto Sesshoumaru's body and wept. She saw light as she looked up and saw his beautiful silver hair turn into a black. His fangs and claws disapeared and the markings on his face left. He was human. Sango gazed at him and shook her head. She put her head on his chest to feel his heartbeat. There was none.
Sesshoumaru was clearly dead.
"Sango... Sesshoumaru can't live without his demonity... it's his lifeline." Inuyasha told her.
Sango cried as she stared at him. "Sango.. there is nothing you can do... He's gone."
Sango looked at Kikyou and she smiled.
"I told you.. one day it will become of great use to you."
Sango reached into her pocket and pulled out the Tajikawa Jewel. She stared at it and stood up. She held it up into the air and she cried.
"My conrads killed By Naraku and his Demons!" She said. That was 40 souls. "Inu-No-Taisho and Izayoui!" That was two more. Inuyasha turned and looked in awe at his mother and father together again.
Lord Kagawaki and his father!" that was also two. "Miroku's father!" one more. All of those souls popped up behind them.
"Kikyou." She screamed. Kikyou's body flashed and her sould was brought to her. All the souls in her body left and they went to find their rightful owners.
"Kohaku." Then Kohaku showed up.
"Father."
Sango took a deep breath and swallowed her pride.
"...Mother."
49 souls brought back. As father and son, wife and husband and mother son rejoiced. Sango looked up into the sky and down at Sesshoumaru's body. She turned around to Inuyasha and smiled.
"Tell him he was always the one I would give my life for.. and He is my lifeline.."
Inuyasha nodded and stared at her.
"I Wish to give up my soul for Sesshoumaru's!" She shouted.
Sango and Sesshoumaru floated up into the air and a stroke of white light connected them. Sesshoumaru's hair, fangs, claws and markings all returned and as his eyes opened, Sango's closed.
Sesshoumaru fell to the ground with Sango in his arms. He stared at her lifeless body, and her beautiful face, which contained a smile.
Sesshoumaru looked up at Inuyasha. "What happened?" He asked.
"She used the Tajikawa Jewel to resurect 50 souls and sacrificed her life in return. She's gone."
Sesshoumaru put her body onto the ground and looked around at everyone. She saw demon slayers, A monk, Sango's family, two complete strangers and His father with his mortal lover.
"You were given the sword for a reason son.. now it is time to fufill your destiny." Inu-No-Taisho said to him.
Sesshoumaru looked down at his sword and pulled it out.
He looked at Sango's mother and father and they smiled. "Bring her back to us." They both said.
Sesshoumaru nodded.
"With all my love.." Sesshoumaru knelt down onto the ground and raised the sword, and brought it down right into Sango's body. As she glowed, the wound quickly healed and her eyes fluttered open and the first thing she saw, was Sesshoumaru.
She smiled at him, and he smiled at her. For once, things were perfect between them. Sango sat up and Sesshoumaru pulled her up to stand. They locked arms and smiled and stared into each others eyes.
"Finally" Inuyasha said.
"Finally." Shippou said.
Kirara meowed.
Sango's parent's looked at each other and smiled. Kohaku smiled at Sango. Inu-No-Taisho looked at Izayoui. "He truely did follow in my footsteps. He died for the one he loved. and used to sword to save her life."
Sesshoumaru looked into Sango's eyes.
"Finally." He said to her.
Sango smiled at him. Tears fell from her eyes.
"I love you Sesshoumaru."
Sesshoumaru also began to cry. He had no idea how much those words had meant to anybody.
"I Love You Sango."
Sango hugged him and buried her face into his robes.
"Sesshoumaru!" Inu-No-Taisho yelled.
Sesshoumaru looked at his father.
"Do You have someone to protect?"
Sango pulled back and looked at Sesshoumaru as he looked at her.
"With all my heart." He answered.
And Sango and Sesshoumaru Kissed each other. It was the most special kiss ever. It was the kiss that they had waited for. And for once, nobody died after it.
Everyone smiled at the two lovers, and the two lovers have never been happier.
Sesshoumaru finally had Someone to Protect.
--Epiloge--
Right after the family reunion. Sango had restored Inuyaha's humanity that he has promised to Kikyou. They were once again together.
Miroku's father was sent to the present to rejoice with his son, and have the delight of telling him the whole story.
As for Inuyasha's and Sango's family... well they were just your average family being happy.
Sango and Sesshoumaru were inseperable. Since Sango was a miko and had duties, but she was also a demon slayer, they fought together and Sango still helps with her duties as miko. The Shikon Jewel and the Tajikawa Jewel are still contantly trying to be stolen, but will never be as long as love is on her side.
Inu-No-Taisho was contantly hanging around with when the fight with Kota was going on. He once tried to kill Kota, but failed. After the fight he returned to the spirit world.
Kikyou was the one who hit Kota with the blast that pretty much saved everyone.
As for Kagome and Miroku, well they lived happily ever after too.. but that's a whole other story.
Sango and Sesshoumaru started a family, and that where our story will continue... following the daughter of The great dog demon and the reincarnation of Midoriko.
Fighting the World
TBA. See profile and Author's note for more information.
:Author's Note:
That's it! I loved making this story so much. It was so much fun to finally get this idea out into the open. I wish the first chapters could've been written better, but I just loved the end, and I even started to tear up while I was writting it. As for all of you that want the exact answers to the Questions I gave you last Chapter, here they are:
Also, for the alternate ending I got a request from: I just want to tell you what was gonna happen. Sesshoumaru was going to origianlly get killed and there would've been a sequel about Sango on a quest to find his soul. I didn't think it would've been a long enough sequel and I thought some of you would've been mad at me.
Will Kagome return to the Feudal Era? No
Will Sesshoumaru use the well to make Sango remember him? Yes, but he really should've listened to Inuyasha
If he does... how? He gives up his demonity and puts stuff in it and repeats the wish
Who hit Kota with the attack that pinned him to the ground? Kikyou
Who will change thier entire life for one thing? Miroku
Will Inuyasha get in the way of Sesshoumaru and Sango and ruin the entire happy ending? No, he finally fufills his promise to Kikyou and they get back together
What happened to Inu-no-Taisho? He roamed around and then went back to the spirit world
Who will die? Sesshoumaru and Sango
Will Sango visit her mother's grave for the first time in her entire life? Yes
Does Sango still remember Sesshoumaru? At first no, she just sences a strange familiarity about him and sees him in her dreams and visions, then as he saw him and talked to him, her memory came back
Will Sesshoumaru and Sango finally end up together? Yes :-)
Well, it's been fun and exciting working with all of you fantastic reviewers.. and I hope you are all not disapointed. Feel free to review about what your favorite parts of the story were and what your least favorite parts were. And yes... to confirm it.. There will be a sequel. It will be about Sesshoumaru helping out his daughter to live in the real world with all the humans and demons that hate half breeds. She finds love in a human and a demon both, and it's going to be very intresting. No fight battles and no bizarre curses. Just pretty much deals with a little girl trying to fight prejudice. And for all of you who want to know that Kirara's meows were saying.
-Yes
-You left and then came back here.. Why?
-Use the well!!
-What?
-There is a luphole... the locket.
-She has it around her neck all the time.
-She dreams about you and has visions... She loves you to much to forget you.
-YUP
Well... that's it.. I'm so sad to leave.. goodbye all of you.. but I'm still a writer.. Go to my profile to get information on current stories and upcoming stories.
GOODBYE!!
-Elizabeth
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