Disclaimer: Does anyone even read these? I don't own Inuyasha... But... If I see a dry well, I'm
jumping in it!
A/N: Yay! The Great Laichi likes this fic! All is right with the world! ^.^; Oh, and Laichi...I read your
bio thingy for ff.net... LMAO! I feel loved! ^.^; You all peoples, read deal-with-it's fanfics! They kick
unholy ass! ^_^
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The woman fainted from crying so much... Tsubii walked into the well house and went to her mother.
She didn't question or seem to wonder why her mother was unconscious, she just picked her up with
inhuman strength and turned around to exit the well house. She paused and sniffed.
"Who's there?" She called out as she looked around and suddenly looked up to where Inuyasha and
Kagome were. "You..." her eyes held recognition. "I remember you... You played with me years ago..
Why didn't you come back?" Tsubii asked softly as she shifted her mother in her arms.
Inuyasha jumped down with Kagome still clinging to him, fighting back tears. He just stared at Tsubii
and reached a hand out to tweak her ear, as if to she if she were real. Tsubii giggled and shifted her
mother again in her arms. "Would you like to come inside and get a snack? Your friend is welcome to
also..." Tsubii asked as she looked at Kagome.
"Sure..." Inuyasha answered as he took the woman from Tsubii's arms. "Here... It's easier if I carry
her..."
"Thank you... Could you carry her to her bedroom?" Tsubii asked, her eyes sparkling with a warmness
much like Kagome's... They were a golden color like Inuyasha's, but you could see a hazel rim around
them.
Inuyasha nodded to her request and began to walk there. "Where did you guys come from anyway? I
didn't see you walk in the well house..." Tsubii said.
Kagome didn't respond... She was still in shock and was almost whimpering. 'My future... My heart-
break... What's the point in even going on if it'll all end up like this... If I'll have to make my child go
through this... Why even bother?' But Kagome knew why her older self bothered living every day. It
was to take care of the child....and to see if Inuyasha would one day return to her...
Kagome looked ahead at Inuyasha as she trudged through the snow. 'We have a child...and you leave
me for Kikyo...Or something happens to you...No...That's not right... It's been twelve years, yet Tsubii
said it was only a few years since she last saw you...So, I guess Kikyo really did mean that much to
you...'
"Here..." Tsubii said as she pointed to the bed when they arrived at the bedroom. It was in the same
spot as Kagome's bedroom. Kagome looked around and noticed the changes... The walls were
painted black, black curtains hung on the window, the desk was still there and held books from the
shrine, and a television sat on a shelf above the foot of the bed.
Inuyasha laid the older version of Kagome down and looked over at Tsubii. "So, you two live alone?"
"Yes... Uncle Sota and granny and great-grandaddy moved about five or six years ago..."
"You...didn't act surprised to see your mom by the well unconscious...Tell me...does it happen a lot?"
Kagome asked, uncertain on how to phrase her question.
"Yes...Just about everyday..." Tsubii responded.
"But, what about work? Doesn't she have a job?"
"She runs the shrine... It provides more than enough money... I help too... When mommy's too sad, I
work...I just cover my ears with a hat..."
~~
Tsubii took them downstairs to get something to eat. Kagome cooked Ramen to please the two inu hanyous.
Inuyasha was the first to break the silence. "Do you know what happened to your father?"
"No... Mommy just told me that he had to go away...Though, I don't know why..."
Inuyasha decided to try a different approach. "Do you still remember what I said to you the last time we
met?"
"Uh, huh... You came over to me and I saw your ears.. I was so happy to see another person like
me... So, I felt your ears, you felt mine... And I asked you to stay... But you said you had to go... but...
You promised to be my friend, and maybe come back to play again later..."
Inuyasha quickly finished his ramen in silence. Kagome cleared the table when everyone finished and
then walked over to Tsubii. "Tell me, Tsubii..." she began as she tweaked Tsubii's ears. "Tell
me...What is your mother's name?"
"My mother is Higurashi, Kagome."
Kagome's head began to spin as she pulled away from Tsubii, falling to her knees. 'That's what
becomes of me? I had already figured this, so why am I surprised?' She shook all over.
"What's wrong? What did I say wrong?" Tsubii said as she sensed the sudden fear and sadness.
"Nothing, pup... She's just.. A little homesick..." Inuyasha said as he pulled Kagome to his chest as
silent tears flowed down her cheeks.
"You want to go home so soon? But you just got here..." Tsubii said sadly.
"Yeah, but we need to get home..." Inuyasha slowly replied.
" Oh... Well why don't you stay here tonight? Momma could help you get home in the morning..." Tsubii said softly.
"Sure, pup... Thanks..." Inuyasha mumbled as he picked Kagome up. "So you say you're mother is named Kagome?"
"Hai... Higurashi, Kagome is my mother." Tsubii repeated with a smile.
'We have a pup... But I leave? Why would I do something like that; abandon my family? This must be an alternate reality... Yes, that's it... This isn't real... In fact it's just a crazy dream.' Inuyasha tried to convince himself.
"C'mon... You guys can stay in Granny's old room." Tsubii said as she skipped towards the stairs.
Inuyasha followed her while adjusting Kagome in his arms. When they got to the room, Tsubii opened the door and Inuyasha stepped in. The room seemed simple enough. A dresser sat in a corner and a closet to the side. A twin bed was in the center, pushed against a wall with twin night-stands on either side.
"Tomorrow you have to play with me, okay? Goodnight." Tsubii said cheerfully as she walked towards her room.
Inuyasha grunted in response and closed the door, locking it like Kagome had shown him many times before when he visited. He went over to the bed and laid Kagome down. Her eyes were blank as she stared off into space. He sat down beside her; the bed creaking under the extra weight.
"Kagome..." he whispered concerned. He hated for her to be sad... But this time, he just wasn't sure how to help her..
Kagome took in a sharp, ragged breath. "Inuyasha..." she whispered back only soft enough for his hanyou ears to detect. 'I've seen my future.... That was me...' Her swollen, red eyes stared into Inuyasha's own golden ones. She had no tears left to cry... She slowly got under the covers of the bed and closed her eyes. Inuyasha was about to sleep on the floor, when she reached out and pulled him down beside her by his arm.
"Inuyasha..." she mumbled again as she turned her back to him, full blush across her cheeks. She didn't know why she did that, but she just knew she had to know he was there... She took comfort in his presence. He laid there and stared at her back for a while, noting that her ears were even red from the blush. Finally, he stared up at the ceiling and slowly drifted into a troubled sleep.
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Kagome awoke before Inuyasha and noticed his arm draped around her waist. She yawned and stretched, only to have him tighten his hold and growl protectively in his sleep. She smiled and pried herself from his grasp and crept out the door. She wanted to let him rest. She walked down the hallway and down the stairs and got a bowl of cereal.
Tsubii came down the stairs shortly afterwards. She sat beside Kagome with her eyes half closed and whimpered. Kagome smiled, poured her a bowl too and handed her a spoon. 'She's half-asleep...' Kagome thought to herself. Tsubii blinked and tried to eat the cereal, only to have it run down her chin.
Kagome laughed and got Tsubii and herself a coke. "Here... Maybe this will help wake you up."
"Thanks.." Tsubii muttered as she took a sip of the coke.
Kagome couldn't take her eyes off Tsubii. 'She's so pretty.... She's gonna be a heart-breaker when she gets older...No wonder I continue to live with Tsubii in the future... She's so sweet.' Kagome almost cried again at her thoughts, but fought back the tears when she heard Tsubii speak.
"Don't cry... I can't take anyone else crying..."
Kagome snapped from her thoughts and smiled sadly. "Sorry.. I won't.."
"Why are you so sad? Do you wanna go home that badly?" Tsubii asked as she took another bite of cereal and tried to wake up more.
Kagome nodded and looked down. 'I wanna go back to the way things were... To where things made sense... or at least as much sense as they could in a world full of youkai... I don't want this to be my future... Somehow I have to change it....' Kagome thought as she stared into her cereal bowl and sighed.
"Momma will help you... I know she will... But... Where are you from? Why were you guys in the well house?"
Kagome didn't look up from her bowl. "We live pretty far away... I just wanted to visit the well... I used to come to it a lot." It wasn't a complete lie... 500 years ago IS pretty far away... Even her past house was many years away. And she DID come to the well a lot....
Tsubii only nodded and continued to eat. 'I wonder if Momma knows these people...'
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Inuyasha woke up to find Kagome gone. He jumped to his feet and ran silently through the hall to the stairs. There he saw Kagome and Tsubii eating breakfast and he let out a sigh of relief. 'I guess this means I can check up on the older Kagome...' he thought as he made his way to the room he loved most.
His Kagome's room...
Sure, she wasn't his... But he always thought of her that way... She was always there for him, even when other people thought of him as a beast.... She didn't see him like that; she saw him for who he was...
Not what he was...
Sure, HIS Kagome wasn't in the room... But in a way, it was his Kagome... Only older... So he crept into the room and took a deep breath.
Her scent was everywhere... Mixed with that of salt. In fact, the salt smell was almost intoxicating. 'How can Tsubii stand it?!' he thought as he continued to look around the room. On her dresser, he found a ring with a diamond on it sitting in a velvet box. Beside the bow was a picture of him in a tux and Kagome in a western style wedding dress.
They were kissing and a priest was in the background.
'What is all this!?' he wondered. Then it hit him. 'If we have a pup....' he thoughts trailed as he went over to the sleeping future Kagome. He pushed her hair away from her neck and turned her head to the side.
There was a bite mark.
A youkai mating mark.
'So maybe the picture was the human way of saying we were mates...?' he wondered. He crouched by her bed and stared at her sleeping. She stirred and her eyes fluttered for a second. 'Shit... She's waking up.' he thought as he got up and headed for the door.
A soft whisper stopped him...
"Inu.....Yasha....."
He flinched and turned around slowly. Future Kagome was sitting up in the bed, her dulled eyes pooling with tears. "Is it......really you.... or a dream?" She whispered shakily.
"It's no dream." he stated. 'Shit... She thinks I'm her mate Inuyasha... Well in a sense, I am... But, I'm the past Inuyasha...'
She stumbled from the bed and walked towards him on automatic. Her eyes were wet, but starting to take on the once lively look they had throughout her childhood. Inuyasha stood frozen in place. "Inuyasha... You came back... After all this time... You came back..." She whispered in a choked voice.
"Uhh... I'm..." Inuyasha began but was cut off as she lunged for him, knocking him over and attaching herself to his waist. She was in his lap in a second and buried her head in his chest.
"I thought you forgot about me... I thought I'd never see you again... Everyday, I lived not only for Tsubii... But on the hopes that you'd keep your promise to her and come back... So maybe one day I could see you again.." Tears cascaded down her cheeks as she sobbed into his chest. Inuyasha soon realized that in this struggle, future Kagome had pulled the kimono off his shoulders and opened it up, so she was sobbing on the white undershirt. Her over-sized shirt was coming off her shoulders too. "Inuyasha...." she whispered again as she pulled her head away to gaze into his eyes.
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"I hear something... Momma's awake..." Tsubii mumbled as she got up from the table and headed for the stairs.
"Wait up." Kagome said as she ran behind Tsubii and headed for her old room. They both hit the brakes when they saw the sight before them. Future Kagome was on top of Inuyasha and his back was resting against the door frame. Her arms were around his neck and her face was inches from his. Her shirt was loosely off her shoulders and Inuyasha's haori was falling off him, leaving the white undershirt in view.
Kagome held her breath as she watched the scene.
"You came back to me, Inuyasha..." Future Kagome whispered as she closed the distance between their lips. Inuyasha's eyes opened as far as they could go and he went rigid... But soon relaxed and responded... The scent of Kagome and salt overpowering everything else.
Kagome steamed. 'Getting fresh with me in the future, huh!? Taking advantage of her like that! He should be ashamed!'
"Inuyasha! Osuwari!" Kagome screeched as the future Kagome was tossed from Inuyasha's lap and he met the carpet face-first. Future Kagome stared at the younger version of herself.
"Bitch!" Inuyasha shouted into the carpet.
"Taking advantage of my future self! Osuwari, you pig! Osuwari, Osuwari, Osuwari, Osuwari, OSUWARI!!!" Inuyasha hit the ground so hard, he fell through he floor and into the living room downstairs.
" Y-you..." Future Kagome muttered as she stared at Kagome. "You're.....me..."
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A/N: How is it coming along? For a girl with no sanity to speak of, I'm pretty good at this... .; Review, review, review!
I leave you with this message : Cool whip is the perfect instrument of death!
~~~B-Chan signing out!
jumping in it!
A/N: Yay! The Great Laichi likes this fic! All is right with the world! ^.^; Oh, and Laichi...I read your
bio thingy for ff.net... LMAO! I feel loved! ^.^; You all peoples, read deal-with-it's fanfics! They kick
unholy ass! ^_^
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The woman fainted from crying so much... Tsubii walked into the well house and went to her mother.
She didn't question or seem to wonder why her mother was unconscious, she just picked her up with
inhuman strength and turned around to exit the well house. She paused and sniffed.
"Who's there?" She called out as she looked around and suddenly looked up to where Inuyasha and
Kagome were. "You..." her eyes held recognition. "I remember you... You played with me years ago..
Why didn't you come back?" Tsubii asked softly as she shifted her mother in her arms.
Inuyasha jumped down with Kagome still clinging to him, fighting back tears. He just stared at Tsubii
and reached a hand out to tweak her ear, as if to she if she were real. Tsubii giggled and shifted her
mother again in her arms. "Would you like to come inside and get a snack? Your friend is welcome to
also..." Tsubii asked as she looked at Kagome.
"Sure..." Inuyasha answered as he took the woman from Tsubii's arms. "Here... It's easier if I carry
her..."
"Thank you... Could you carry her to her bedroom?" Tsubii asked, her eyes sparkling with a warmness
much like Kagome's... They were a golden color like Inuyasha's, but you could see a hazel rim around
them.
Inuyasha nodded to her request and began to walk there. "Where did you guys come from anyway? I
didn't see you walk in the well house..." Tsubii said.
Kagome didn't respond... She was still in shock and was almost whimpering. 'My future... My heart-
break... What's the point in even going on if it'll all end up like this... If I'll have to make my child go
through this... Why even bother?' But Kagome knew why her older self bothered living every day. It
was to take care of the child....and to see if Inuyasha would one day return to her...
Kagome looked ahead at Inuyasha as she trudged through the snow. 'We have a child...and you leave
me for Kikyo...Or something happens to you...No...That's not right... It's been twelve years, yet Tsubii
said it was only a few years since she last saw you...So, I guess Kikyo really did mean that much to
you...'
"Here..." Tsubii said as she pointed to the bed when they arrived at the bedroom. It was in the same
spot as Kagome's bedroom. Kagome looked around and noticed the changes... The walls were
painted black, black curtains hung on the window, the desk was still there and held books from the
shrine, and a television sat on a shelf above the foot of the bed.
Inuyasha laid the older version of Kagome down and looked over at Tsubii. "So, you two live alone?"
"Yes... Uncle Sota and granny and great-grandaddy moved about five or six years ago..."
"You...didn't act surprised to see your mom by the well unconscious...Tell me...does it happen a lot?"
Kagome asked, uncertain on how to phrase her question.
"Yes...Just about everyday..." Tsubii responded.
"But, what about work? Doesn't she have a job?"
"She runs the shrine... It provides more than enough money... I help too... When mommy's too sad, I
work...I just cover my ears with a hat..."
~~
Tsubii took them downstairs to get something to eat. Kagome cooked Ramen to please the two inu hanyous.
Inuyasha was the first to break the silence. "Do you know what happened to your father?"
"No... Mommy just told me that he had to go away...Though, I don't know why..."
Inuyasha decided to try a different approach. "Do you still remember what I said to you the last time we
met?"
"Uh, huh... You came over to me and I saw your ears.. I was so happy to see another person like
me... So, I felt your ears, you felt mine... And I asked you to stay... But you said you had to go... but...
You promised to be my friend, and maybe come back to play again later..."
Inuyasha quickly finished his ramen in silence. Kagome cleared the table when everyone finished and
then walked over to Tsubii. "Tell me, Tsubii..." she began as she tweaked Tsubii's ears. "Tell
me...What is your mother's name?"
"My mother is Higurashi, Kagome."
Kagome's head began to spin as she pulled away from Tsubii, falling to her knees. 'That's what
becomes of me? I had already figured this, so why am I surprised?' She shook all over.
"What's wrong? What did I say wrong?" Tsubii said as she sensed the sudden fear and sadness.
"Nothing, pup... She's just.. A little homesick..." Inuyasha said as he pulled Kagome to his chest as
silent tears flowed down her cheeks.
"You want to go home so soon? But you just got here..." Tsubii said sadly.
"Yeah, but we need to get home..." Inuyasha slowly replied.
" Oh... Well why don't you stay here tonight? Momma could help you get home in the morning..." Tsubii said softly.
"Sure, pup... Thanks..." Inuyasha mumbled as he picked Kagome up. "So you say you're mother is named Kagome?"
"Hai... Higurashi, Kagome is my mother." Tsubii repeated with a smile.
'We have a pup... But I leave? Why would I do something like that; abandon my family? This must be an alternate reality... Yes, that's it... This isn't real... In fact it's just a crazy dream.' Inuyasha tried to convince himself.
"C'mon... You guys can stay in Granny's old room." Tsubii said as she skipped towards the stairs.
Inuyasha followed her while adjusting Kagome in his arms. When they got to the room, Tsubii opened the door and Inuyasha stepped in. The room seemed simple enough. A dresser sat in a corner and a closet to the side. A twin bed was in the center, pushed against a wall with twin night-stands on either side.
"Tomorrow you have to play with me, okay? Goodnight." Tsubii said cheerfully as she walked towards her room.
Inuyasha grunted in response and closed the door, locking it like Kagome had shown him many times before when he visited. He went over to the bed and laid Kagome down. Her eyes were blank as she stared off into space. He sat down beside her; the bed creaking under the extra weight.
"Kagome..." he whispered concerned. He hated for her to be sad... But this time, he just wasn't sure how to help her..
Kagome took in a sharp, ragged breath. "Inuyasha..." she whispered back only soft enough for his hanyou ears to detect. 'I've seen my future.... That was me...' Her swollen, red eyes stared into Inuyasha's own golden ones. She had no tears left to cry... She slowly got under the covers of the bed and closed her eyes. Inuyasha was about to sleep on the floor, when she reached out and pulled him down beside her by his arm.
"Inuyasha..." she mumbled again as she turned her back to him, full blush across her cheeks. She didn't know why she did that, but she just knew she had to know he was there... She took comfort in his presence. He laid there and stared at her back for a while, noting that her ears were even red from the blush. Finally, he stared up at the ceiling and slowly drifted into a troubled sleep.
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Kagome awoke before Inuyasha and noticed his arm draped around her waist. She yawned and stretched, only to have him tighten his hold and growl protectively in his sleep. She smiled and pried herself from his grasp and crept out the door. She wanted to let him rest. She walked down the hallway and down the stairs and got a bowl of cereal.
Tsubii came down the stairs shortly afterwards. She sat beside Kagome with her eyes half closed and whimpered. Kagome smiled, poured her a bowl too and handed her a spoon. 'She's half-asleep...' Kagome thought to herself. Tsubii blinked and tried to eat the cereal, only to have it run down her chin.
Kagome laughed and got Tsubii and herself a coke. "Here... Maybe this will help wake you up."
"Thanks.." Tsubii muttered as she took a sip of the coke.
Kagome couldn't take her eyes off Tsubii. 'She's so pretty.... She's gonna be a heart-breaker when she gets older...No wonder I continue to live with Tsubii in the future... She's so sweet.' Kagome almost cried again at her thoughts, but fought back the tears when she heard Tsubii speak.
"Don't cry... I can't take anyone else crying..."
Kagome snapped from her thoughts and smiled sadly. "Sorry.. I won't.."
"Why are you so sad? Do you wanna go home that badly?" Tsubii asked as she took another bite of cereal and tried to wake up more.
Kagome nodded and looked down. 'I wanna go back to the way things were... To where things made sense... or at least as much sense as they could in a world full of youkai... I don't want this to be my future... Somehow I have to change it....' Kagome thought as she stared into her cereal bowl and sighed.
"Momma will help you... I know she will... But... Where are you from? Why were you guys in the well house?"
Kagome didn't look up from her bowl. "We live pretty far away... I just wanted to visit the well... I used to come to it a lot." It wasn't a complete lie... 500 years ago IS pretty far away... Even her past house was many years away. And she DID come to the well a lot....
Tsubii only nodded and continued to eat. 'I wonder if Momma knows these people...'
********
Inuyasha woke up to find Kagome gone. He jumped to his feet and ran silently through the hall to the stairs. There he saw Kagome and Tsubii eating breakfast and he let out a sigh of relief. 'I guess this means I can check up on the older Kagome...' he thought as he made his way to the room he loved most.
His Kagome's room...
Sure, she wasn't his... But he always thought of her that way... She was always there for him, even when other people thought of him as a beast.... She didn't see him like that; she saw him for who he was...
Not what he was...
Sure, HIS Kagome wasn't in the room... But in a way, it was his Kagome... Only older... So he crept into the room and took a deep breath.
Her scent was everywhere... Mixed with that of salt. In fact, the salt smell was almost intoxicating. 'How can Tsubii stand it?!' he thought as he continued to look around the room. On her dresser, he found a ring with a diamond on it sitting in a velvet box. Beside the bow was a picture of him in a tux and Kagome in a western style wedding dress.
They were kissing and a priest was in the background.
'What is all this!?' he wondered. Then it hit him. 'If we have a pup....' he thoughts trailed as he went over to the sleeping future Kagome. He pushed her hair away from her neck and turned her head to the side.
There was a bite mark.
A youkai mating mark.
'So maybe the picture was the human way of saying we were mates...?' he wondered. He crouched by her bed and stared at her sleeping. She stirred and her eyes fluttered for a second. 'Shit... She's waking up.' he thought as he got up and headed for the door.
A soft whisper stopped him...
"Inu.....Yasha....."
He flinched and turned around slowly. Future Kagome was sitting up in the bed, her dulled eyes pooling with tears. "Is it......really you.... or a dream?" She whispered shakily.
"It's no dream." he stated. 'Shit... She thinks I'm her mate Inuyasha... Well in a sense, I am... But, I'm the past Inuyasha...'
She stumbled from the bed and walked towards him on automatic. Her eyes were wet, but starting to take on the once lively look they had throughout her childhood. Inuyasha stood frozen in place. "Inuyasha... You came back... After all this time... You came back..." She whispered in a choked voice.
"Uhh... I'm..." Inuyasha began but was cut off as she lunged for him, knocking him over and attaching herself to his waist. She was in his lap in a second and buried her head in his chest.
"I thought you forgot about me... I thought I'd never see you again... Everyday, I lived not only for Tsubii... But on the hopes that you'd keep your promise to her and come back... So maybe one day I could see you again.." Tears cascaded down her cheeks as she sobbed into his chest. Inuyasha soon realized that in this struggle, future Kagome had pulled the kimono off his shoulders and opened it up, so she was sobbing on the white undershirt. Her over-sized shirt was coming off her shoulders too. "Inuyasha...." she whispered again as she pulled her head away to gaze into his eyes.
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"I hear something... Momma's awake..." Tsubii mumbled as she got up from the table and headed for the stairs.
"Wait up." Kagome said as she ran behind Tsubii and headed for her old room. They both hit the brakes when they saw the sight before them. Future Kagome was on top of Inuyasha and his back was resting against the door frame. Her arms were around his neck and her face was inches from his. Her shirt was loosely off her shoulders and Inuyasha's haori was falling off him, leaving the white undershirt in view.
Kagome held her breath as she watched the scene.
"You came back to me, Inuyasha..." Future Kagome whispered as she closed the distance between their lips. Inuyasha's eyes opened as far as they could go and he went rigid... But soon relaxed and responded... The scent of Kagome and salt overpowering everything else.
Kagome steamed. 'Getting fresh with me in the future, huh!? Taking advantage of her like that! He should be ashamed!'
"Inuyasha! Osuwari!" Kagome screeched as the future Kagome was tossed from Inuyasha's lap and he met the carpet face-first. Future Kagome stared at the younger version of herself.
"Bitch!" Inuyasha shouted into the carpet.
"Taking advantage of my future self! Osuwari, you pig! Osuwari, Osuwari, Osuwari, Osuwari, OSUWARI!!!" Inuyasha hit the ground so hard, he fell through he floor and into the living room downstairs.
" Y-you..." Future Kagome muttered as she stared at Kagome. "You're.....me..."
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A/N: How is it coming along? For a girl with no sanity to speak of, I'm pretty good at this... .; Review, review, review!
I leave you with this message : Cool whip is the perfect instrument of death!
~~~B-Chan signing out!