Well, my life is hell. I have no idea how I'm going to finish all of tomorrow night's homework and play the MONSTROUS gig I agreed to play. It's only an hour and a half, but it's apparently some pretty high people on the business ladder.

:sighs:

well, since my life IS hell, I'm going to write fanfiction. So much fanfiction your eyes will bleed. Original fics need time, and time is something that I don't have much of at the moment.

Oh, one more thing. For you people irate with me for yet another character slip-up (:cough: TWO RINS :cough:) sorry, but it was a brain slip. I was reading manga and my mind automatically associated Rin with Jaken. It's been repaired, and I SWEAR it won't happen again. No more new characters, after all...

Sesshoumaru opened the front door. Who would call at this hour?

It was eight o'clock in the morning on the Saturday of the homecoming dance. After their large argument yesterday, his brother had made up with his girlfriend once again. Sess knew that the younger twin had fed her a lie, but didn't comment on it and decided to let Inuyasha dig his own grave. Sango and Rin were cheerful, which was what mattered to him most at the moment. As long as Rin stayed cheerful...

He looked around and blinked at the emptiness of his front porch. Shutting the door and muttering about his defective doorbell, most likely caused by his brother's insane overloading of their home's electrical circuits, he began the long haphazard trek back to his bedroom to receive much-needed sleep.

A small green creature blocked his path...

Sesshoumaru squatted down to see the green creature eye-to-eye. It squealed and threw its arms around his neck, choking him and making him loose his balance. Sess fell over and narrowly avoided squashing the odd bulbous-headed child.

"What are you?" he asked curiously.

"Jaken," the creature chirped. "I am at your service, Lord Sesshoumaru!"

Sess suddenly developed a twitch. He stared at the creature as if it were the epitome of evil and tried to restrain his sudden urge to kill it.

After all, it was that urge to kill that had landed him with the creature in the first place. Standing, he motioned for the child to follow him.

"And now, Jaken-thing, we sleep."

"Hai, Lord Sesshoumaru!" Jaken said reverently, curling into a ball on the floor.

Sess resisted reaching for his baseball bat...one never knew when they would have to protect themselves in their sleep...

Kagome wasn't in such a good mood. She had argued and made up with Inuyasha the day before, sure. But she woke with terrible bed head and was having problems staying awake as it was.

Working on the load of homework she had picked up skipping all week long, she didn't notice as her mother sat down with a cup of tea across from her.

"It's just like old days," her mother reflected warmly.

"Nani?" Kagome asked, looking up from her math book.

"Oh, nothing. I was just remembering something..." she had a distant look in her eye. "Kagome, do you love Inuyasha?"

"WHAT? How could you even ask something like that? Of course. I'm just a little confused right now, but it'll pass."

Her mother smiled. "Kagome, you always were wise beyond your years."

"What do you mean, mom?"

"I'm going to tell you something that I don't want to you be upset about Kagome."

"Go on..." Eh, it's probably Souta. He's been kicked off the baseball team.

"Honey, you're going to need to brace yourself. Your past is an illusion."

"What?" I wasn't expecting that at all! What the hell is she talking about? Illusion?

"Your past is an illusion, Kagome. You were connected to Inuyasha before."

"You're insane!"

"No, Kagome, listen to me. The story that we tell about the miko and the hanyou..."

Kagome cut her off. "Mama, why are you telling this to me? Why today? Why now?"

"Kagome, today is the day that you made a wish on the Shikon Jewel, two years ago. Do you have any idea what your wish could have been?"

"I don't even understand what you're talking about!"

"Kagome, Inuyasha is a half demon. You know that. He's from the feudal era. As far as you had told me, you were gathering shards of the Shikon Jewel and battling a creature named Naraku. When the two of you confronted this demon, Inuyasha was badly hurt. You used the completed jewel to wish for a new start, for everyone to be happy together in a safe place. When you did that, time was altered. That's why there are artifacts in our house—you brought them here."

Kagome stared blankly at her mother. "So...the dark shrine on Halloween? That's where I made the wish? This is why I feel like I should trust Inuyasha...no matter what."

Her mother nodded, smiling over her cup of tea. "Kikyo was brought back as well. I suppose that now, history will repeat itself. Relationship-wise, that is. Kagome, you altered time and you altered yourself. Don't worry about it, dear. I felt that I had to tell you...because seeing you and Inuyasha so happy last night at the door brought back memories like they were from a different lifetime..."

"From what you just said, they are mom. Why didn't we remember?"

"You wished to be happy, dear."

"Then why am I so miserable and angry?" Kagome exclaimed. "If my life up until now has been a lie, but I remember everything as if I was the one that did it, then what's the point in going on? If everything changed two years ago, then why is it still messed up now?"

"You'll get through it honey. You did it before. Remember, Kagome. You were connected to Inuyasha before. I had a dream last night that there are some troubling times ahead for you, dear. You'll be fine."

Kagome gaped as her mother stood and left the kitchen. Talk about weird!

Suddenly, her grandfather tore through the kitchen after a spooked Buyo, waving spell scrolls and screaming about demons that possessed her cat.

Rolling her eyes, she ran after them to rescue her kitty before her grandfather could plaster his tail with spell scrolls again.

Kikyo was not happy. She was sitting in the hospital with a plastic brace around one of her elbows, and the other was tightly bound with an ace bandage. This was due to her landing on her elbows in the irregular surface of the band pit, and also the straining of her muscles through the throwing of the flute before her arms could fully recover.

She had been having fun pretending to be Barbie and move about without bending her arms for just a little while. Now, she was pissed and she wanted to take out her anger on something that could breathe (the hospital-supplied duck stuffed animal just wasn't doing it for her.)

Kikyo stood back from the phone and held her arm straight out to punch in the numbers, after a small battle between the phone and her head and shoulders. She didn't notice that she knew the number by heart, so preoccupied was she with her rage.

"Mushi mushi, hey Kagome,"

"It's Kikyo," she ground out, teeth clenched. Inuyasha made a little yelp on the other end of the phone before sputtering out an apology.

"Sorry, it's just that Kagome usually calls around this time..."

"Not anymore, I am certain."

"Huh?"

"DID YOU ALREADY FORGET ABOUT THE CONTRACT?"

"Feh. Of course not, but I'm not just going to up and abandon Kagome. I have to make it look rea—uh...good, you know? She's top of the class, and she won't just buy an 'I don't wanna see you again'."

"Why do I feel that you're still devoted to her?"

"Because I am—er, I am...um...practicing for tonight! I'm going to dump her tonight, babe. And I'll be up at the hospital as soon as I can get out of the dance, okay?"

Kikyo pouted, even though Inuyasha couldn't see it. "You'd better."

"Of course I will be, Kikyo. Someone's on the other line, I'll talk to you later, okay?"

"Sure. Love you,"

"...Love you too,"

Inuyasha barely managed to get the phone back on the cradle. He was shaking with suppressed rage, as he had right to be. What sort of bitch does this, anyway? I love Kagome, but the tour is at stake here. I can't put my personal life in front of the success of the band. My friends would never forgive me.

The phone rang again and Inuyasha jumped to pick it up.

"Mushi mushi," he said, with a noticeable amount of lost enthusiasm since his initial greeting.

"You sound depressed, Inuyasha. You'll never guess what my mom just told me,"

"What, Kag?"

"You're gonna have to come over. See you at four-thirty?"

"Dinner's at five-thirty, right?"

"Mm...yeah, I think so."

"Then that's more than enough time. See you at four-thirty. Love ya, babe."

"Right back at you, sugar,"

Inuyasha hung up the phone and the feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach condensed into a painful lead ball. Sliding his back down the wall and curling up next to the phone, he pressed his eyes into his knees until he couldn't see daylight any more and wondered exactly what he was going to do.

urgh, was that short and pathetic. It was needed, but I don't like it. My explaination sucks.

I'm thinking about writing a sister fanfic explaining their past life, so to speak. They're not reincarnated, they're just living in the future with no memories of their past lives and fabricated human existances. :shrugs: dunno if I've confused the hell out of anyone yet, but I think I'm trying.

Anyway, the dance is up next. I hope I don't make anyone cry...!

Then again, you might be already...poor Inu-chan! I just wanna hug him. He gets so sad without Kagome...T.T these next chapters are going to be fun! Update in a flash, I promise!

(If you're wondering about the weird phrases flying from my mouth "Right back at you, update in a flash," I have been reading entirely too many comics. Ah, every otaku has their guilt...)

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