Switched Times
Chapter 3
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"I can't believe I can't go home...my family...my friends..." said Kagome as she stared forlornly at the well. 'Inuyasha...' A single tear fell down her cheek.
"Oh, Kagome-chan...I understand..." said Sango, trying to comfort her friend.
"...what's going on here, ladies? What happened?" asked Miroku, walking into the clearing with Shippou. "Haven't you found any sign of Inuyasha yet?"
Sango looked up sadly. "We...we think he's still in Kagome's time...that he never came back..."
"...and now the well won't work..." finished Kagome.
Miroku's eyes widened in alarm. "The well won't work?"
"N-no...I tried going through it, and it didn't work...and Inuyasha hasn't come back, so it must not be working for him, either..." said Kagome.
Miroku started glancing around. "Well, there has to be reason the well isn't working, right? ...why don't we try and find it..."
"Good idea, Houshi-sama." nodded Sango. "Come on, Kagome-chan...we'll get you back to your time."
"You're right, Sango-chan...let's look for what caused this..." said Kagome.
It wasn't too long before Miroku discovered the arrow imbedded in the side in the side of the well. "Kagome-sama...I don't remember any arrow sticking out of the well, do you?"
"No, Miroku-sama...why?" asked Kagome.
"Because there's one here!"
They all went to examine the arrow. "I...I feel some kind of energy coming from it..." said Kagome. "It...it feels familiar...but I can't quite figure out why..." Suddenly Kagome's eyes snapped open wide. "It's Kikyo's arrow. It has to be."
"Kikyo? Why would she seal up the well? I didn't think she even knew about it.." said Sango.
"I didn't think she knew about it either...but that doesn't change the fact that that's her arrow stuck in it. She probably sealed it like she sealed Inuyasha..." replied Kagome.
"Well, since you broke that seal, logically you should be able to break this one, ne, Kagome-sama..." said Miroku.
"Yeah..." said Kagome, bending down to pull out the arrow. She sounded relieved. "I'll be able to go home...Inuyasha's probably freaked out because he's been stuck in my room. He'll be happy to be able to come back too."
Kagome tugged at the arrow. It didn't budge, so she pulled harder. Sweatdrop. "Ano...guys...it won't come out..." she said sounding worried again.
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"So this...pizza...thing that you're...ordering...is supposed to be food?" asked Inuyasha.
"Yes, it's very good, too. It's a western dish, actually." replied Kagome's mom.
'Foreign food?' thought Inuyasha. "You don't have any ramen, do you?" asked Inuyasha, dejectedly.
"Inuyasha, you're going to have to learn to eat more food from this time than just ramen. You're at least _trying_ the pizza."
Jii-chan walked in from the next room. "Demon, you should be glad we're even feeding you. It's all you're fault Kagome isn't here. If it were up to me, you'd have to get your own food." he said, glaring at Inuyasha.
"Father! Inuyasha is our guest. Kagome may be stuck in his time, but he's stuck here too. You should be more polite." said Kagome's mom.
"Hmph." muttered Jii-chan, walking away again.
Inuyasha suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Kagome's family was fighting because of him.
"I...I'll try the pizza stuff..." mumbled Inuyasha, looking at the floor. He really felt out of place in this time.
"That's better. It should be here any min-" said Kagome's mom as the doorbell rang. "Oh, there it is." She grabbed her purse and opened the door.
Wonderful smells suddenly filled the room, and Inuyasha felt his stomach growling.
Kagome's mom set the pizza on the table. "The pizza's here, everyone!" she yelled, and sat down. Inuyasha did likewise.
Souta came running into the room and sat by Inuyasha. "Yum, pizza! Yay!"
As soon as Jii-chan sat down, Kagome's mom opened the box. Inuyasha stared at the odd food in front of him. It appeared to be a round peice of bread covered in what smelled like tomatoes and cheese. There were also little round peices of what looked like meat on top of it. Kagome's mom set a peice of it on his plate.
Inuyasha sniffed at it a little. Even if Kagome's mom said it was okay, Inuyasha was instinctively apprehensive about eating food he didn't prepare himself.
'You didn't worry about any of the food Kagome gave you...' said a little voice in his head.
'Kagome would never do anything to my food...not her. I..I trust Kagome.' he thought.
"Come on, Inuyasha...try it!" said Souta.
Inuyasha tried to smile for Souta's benefit. The kid wasn't so bad...he was alot like Kagome. Inuyasha glanced away a bit sadly. He missed Kagome, although he wouldn't admit it if anyone asked.
Inuyasha took a small bite of the pizza stuff. It tasted really REALLY good...in seconds his piece was gone.
Kagome's mom stared in amazement at the spot on Inuyasha's plate where there had been pizza seconds earlier. "Do you...uh...want another piece?" she asked.
"Sure." said Inuyasha. The rest of the pizza soon disappeared, piece by piece.
"Okaasan, I'm going to go play videogames." said Souta.
"What's a...video...game...?" asked Inuyasha.
"Well, it's this thing you play on a TV..." Kagome's mom started to explain. She stopped when she saw the blank expression on Inuyasha's face. "You DO know what a TV is, don't you?"
"Uh...no..." mumbled Inuyasha, slightly embarrassed.
"Come on, Inuyasha. I'll show you." said Souta. He started dragging Inuyasha to the living room. He pointed to a big black box with a front that looked like it was made of some sort of weird glass.
"Inuyasha, this is a TV." He turned it on. Pictures appeared in the glass and weird noises started coming from it. Inuyasha fell backwards in suprise.
"How do they get the pictures in there? And how do the people all fit in that little box?" asked Inuyasha.
"Uh...they're not really in there."
"Then...then how do we see them?" Inuyasha was very confused by this point.
Souta, not knowing how to explain it to Inuyasha, and not knowing very well himself, went with the simplest explanation he could think of. "It's magic."
Inuyasha accepted this explanation. After all, magic was an everyday sort of thing, right? Although he'd never seen any like this before...
Souta pressed a little button on a box sitting in front of the TV, and the picture on the screen changed. He picked up a little paddle with buttons all over it and handed it to Inuyasha. "These are videogames...uh...it's kinda like what we were watching on TV before, only you can control what's happening with these buttons."
Inuyasha uncertainly pushed a button, and the character on the screen moved. "Wow...that's some magic..."
"Why don't we play a fighting game, Inu-no-niichan..." suggested Souta, putting one in. After he had shown Inuyasha how to control it and Inuyasha had gotten the hang of it, they started playing.
'Heh...this is actually kind of fun...' thought Inuyasha.
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"...and then I tried pulling the arrow out of the well, Kaede-bachan, but it didn't work. I'm sure it was Kikyo's arrow though..." explained Kagome as they sat in Kaede's hut.
"I see..." muttered Kaede, staring into the fire. She seemed to be thinking.
"I don't understand why Kagome-sama couldn't pull out the arrow if she was able to pull out the arrow that sealed Inuaysha." commented Miroku.
"That is odd..." mumbled Kaede. She stared into the fire a few minutes longer. "I can only think of one reason that that could be..."
"What?" asked the rest of the group in unison.
"The Kikyo that shot the arrow that sealed Inuyasha had her whole soul. Kagome had that very same soul when she freed him. However, the new Kikyo has part of Kagome's soul. Kagome no longer has that part of her soul, so perhaps that is why it did not work." explained Kaede.
"So...you mean...we need Kikyo to unseal it?" asked Sango.
"Yes, that is probably the only way Kagome will ever get home." said Kaede.
'How are we supposed to find Kikyo...?' wondered Kagome.
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Kikyo wandered through the forest. She still wondered what that energy at the well had been...there hadn't seemed to be anything unusual about it. Still, it was probably best that had sealed it...
She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice a figure clothed in a white baboon pelt right behind her. Before she knew it, he grabbed her.
"You..." she said, trying to escape from his grasp. "What do you want?"
"Kikyo..." said Naraku. "I'm not stupid. Even though you gave me the Shikon Shards, I know you hate me. You're dangerous...unpredictable...and I can't have you wandering around. I may not be able to kill you, but I can stop you from doing anything."
He disappeared into the night with her silently, while she struggled to escape.
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"I wish...I wish I had some way of telling my family what's going on..." said Kagome, depressed. "They're probably worried sick...and Inuyasha is probably freaked out...he doesn't know how things in my time work..."
Kaede regarded her for a minute, then spoke up. "There may be a way."
Kagome looked up. "Really? How?"
"A spell...it's very difficult, and the person who does it has to have a very strong spirit. It's also very tiring." said Kaede.
"I don't care...I want to try it...Kaede, my family has to know..." said Kagome.
"Very well. From what I understand of it, the soul actually leaves the body. It can travel between places and times to get to the person you want to talk to. It is apparently very painful...I read that the last miko to try it died. Her body died before her soul returned. You would have minuted at most."
"I...I still want to do it."
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Inuyasha walked up the stairs. Kagome's family had gone 'grocery shopping' and he was left alone. He wondered what these grocery things were and why anyone would want them.
Inuyasha walked by Kagome's room and stopped. He could smell her scent...he had been able to smell it in other places in the house, but it hadn't been quite this strong anywhere else. He quietly slipped into the room.
He sprawled out on the bed, just breathing in her scent. He looked around the room. Odd things her had seen Kagome using occasionally were all over the place. Her bag had been brought back up here. He glanced at the table by her bed. She had one of those 'alarm clock' things sitting there...it reminded him of the one he had broken. He smiled faintly at the memory.
Inuyasha then spotted a picture of them all...him, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou. Kagome had brought a camera to his time once and had explained what picture's were. He picked up the picture so he could look at it better.
Kagome was standing in the center, smiling happily. To one side stood Inuyasha, scowling. Shippou sat on his shoulder. To the other side of Kagome were Sango and Miroku. Sango had her fist raised threateningly. Apparently Miroku had been putting his hands where he shouldn't.
Inuyasha smiled sadly. They were an odd group...1 demon, 1 hanyou, a pervert monk, a demon exterminator and a girl from the future. He missed them all so badly...
Inuyasha suddenly felt something wet on his cheeks. He reached up and touched his cheeks. 'Tears?' he thought. '...but I don't cry...' He glanced at the picture again. The Kagome is the picture smiled back happily, oblivious to his pain. God...he might never see Kagome again. Never...
Inuyasha curled up into a ball, hugging the picture to his chest. He could feel more tears flowing down his face, but at this point, he didn't care. "Kagome...I miss you so much..."
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Today was my last day before vacation is over, so I got chapter 3 done for you all...once I'm back in school, chapters may come a little farther apart, since I'll be busier. Reviews are a good way to motivate me...anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter...I hope everyone liked the scene at the end...I realize Inuyasha gets a little OOC, but I warned you...this story is going to have as much Inuyasha and Kagome romance as I can fit, but it's kinda hard to get it in with them in separate times. I'll do my best though...just wait until next chapter ;) Also, if anyone has any suggestions on what they want me to do to Inuyasha in present times (for example, the pizza and videogames...) feel free to tell me. I have some stuff planned but I'll probably need more...anyway, I love your reviews, please tell me what you think of what's going on so far. *looks up* Wow, that was a really long chapter...at least compared to the others...
Chapter 3
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"I can't believe I can't go home...my family...my friends..." said Kagome as she stared forlornly at the well. 'Inuyasha...' A single tear fell down her cheek.
"Oh, Kagome-chan...I understand..." said Sango, trying to comfort her friend.
"...what's going on here, ladies? What happened?" asked Miroku, walking into the clearing with Shippou. "Haven't you found any sign of Inuyasha yet?"
Sango looked up sadly. "We...we think he's still in Kagome's time...that he never came back..."
"...and now the well won't work..." finished Kagome.
Miroku's eyes widened in alarm. "The well won't work?"
"N-no...I tried going through it, and it didn't work...and Inuyasha hasn't come back, so it must not be working for him, either..." said Kagome.
Miroku started glancing around. "Well, there has to be reason the well isn't working, right? ...why don't we try and find it..."
"Good idea, Houshi-sama." nodded Sango. "Come on, Kagome-chan...we'll get you back to your time."
"You're right, Sango-chan...let's look for what caused this..." said Kagome.
It wasn't too long before Miroku discovered the arrow imbedded in the side in the side of the well. "Kagome-sama...I don't remember any arrow sticking out of the well, do you?"
"No, Miroku-sama...why?" asked Kagome.
"Because there's one here!"
They all went to examine the arrow. "I...I feel some kind of energy coming from it..." said Kagome. "It...it feels familiar...but I can't quite figure out why..." Suddenly Kagome's eyes snapped open wide. "It's Kikyo's arrow. It has to be."
"Kikyo? Why would she seal up the well? I didn't think she even knew about it.." said Sango.
"I didn't think she knew about it either...but that doesn't change the fact that that's her arrow stuck in it. She probably sealed it like she sealed Inuyasha..." replied Kagome.
"Well, since you broke that seal, logically you should be able to break this one, ne, Kagome-sama..." said Miroku.
"Yeah..." said Kagome, bending down to pull out the arrow. She sounded relieved. "I'll be able to go home...Inuyasha's probably freaked out because he's been stuck in my room. He'll be happy to be able to come back too."
Kagome tugged at the arrow. It didn't budge, so she pulled harder. Sweatdrop. "Ano...guys...it won't come out..." she said sounding worried again.
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"So this...pizza...thing that you're...ordering...is supposed to be food?" asked Inuyasha.
"Yes, it's very good, too. It's a western dish, actually." replied Kagome's mom.
'Foreign food?' thought Inuyasha. "You don't have any ramen, do you?" asked Inuyasha, dejectedly.
"Inuyasha, you're going to have to learn to eat more food from this time than just ramen. You're at least _trying_ the pizza."
Jii-chan walked in from the next room. "Demon, you should be glad we're even feeding you. It's all you're fault Kagome isn't here. If it were up to me, you'd have to get your own food." he said, glaring at Inuyasha.
"Father! Inuyasha is our guest. Kagome may be stuck in his time, but he's stuck here too. You should be more polite." said Kagome's mom.
"Hmph." muttered Jii-chan, walking away again.
Inuyasha suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Kagome's family was fighting because of him.
"I...I'll try the pizza stuff..." mumbled Inuyasha, looking at the floor. He really felt out of place in this time.
"That's better. It should be here any min-" said Kagome's mom as the doorbell rang. "Oh, there it is." She grabbed her purse and opened the door.
Wonderful smells suddenly filled the room, and Inuyasha felt his stomach growling.
Kagome's mom set the pizza on the table. "The pizza's here, everyone!" she yelled, and sat down. Inuyasha did likewise.
Souta came running into the room and sat by Inuyasha. "Yum, pizza! Yay!"
As soon as Jii-chan sat down, Kagome's mom opened the box. Inuyasha stared at the odd food in front of him. It appeared to be a round peice of bread covered in what smelled like tomatoes and cheese. There were also little round peices of what looked like meat on top of it. Kagome's mom set a peice of it on his plate.
Inuyasha sniffed at it a little. Even if Kagome's mom said it was okay, Inuyasha was instinctively apprehensive about eating food he didn't prepare himself.
'You didn't worry about any of the food Kagome gave you...' said a little voice in his head.
'Kagome would never do anything to my food...not her. I..I trust Kagome.' he thought.
"Come on, Inuyasha...try it!" said Souta.
Inuyasha tried to smile for Souta's benefit. The kid wasn't so bad...he was alot like Kagome. Inuyasha glanced away a bit sadly. He missed Kagome, although he wouldn't admit it if anyone asked.
Inuyasha took a small bite of the pizza stuff. It tasted really REALLY good...in seconds his piece was gone.
Kagome's mom stared in amazement at the spot on Inuyasha's plate where there had been pizza seconds earlier. "Do you...uh...want another piece?" she asked.
"Sure." said Inuyasha. The rest of the pizza soon disappeared, piece by piece.
"Okaasan, I'm going to go play videogames." said Souta.
"What's a...video...game...?" asked Inuyasha.
"Well, it's this thing you play on a TV..." Kagome's mom started to explain. She stopped when she saw the blank expression on Inuyasha's face. "You DO know what a TV is, don't you?"
"Uh...no..." mumbled Inuyasha, slightly embarrassed.
"Come on, Inuyasha. I'll show you." said Souta. He started dragging Inuyasha to the living room. He pointed to a big black box with a front that looked like it was made of some sort of weird glass.
"Inuyasha, this is a TV." He turned it on. Pictures appeared in the glass and weird noises started coming from it. Inuyasha fell backwards in suprise.
"How do they get the pictures in there? And how do the people all fit in that little box?" asked Inuyasha.
"Uh...they're not really in there."
"Then...then how do we see them?" Inuyasha was very confused by this point.
Souta, not knowing how to explain it to Inuyasha, and not knowing very well himself, went with the simplest explanation he could think of. "It's magic."
Inuyasha accepted this explanation. After all, magic was an everyday sort of thing, right? Although he'd never seen any like this before...
Souta pressed a little button on a box sitting in front of the TV, and the picture on the screen changed. He picked up a little paddle with buttons all over it and handed it to Inuyasha. "These are videogames...uh...it's kinda like what we were watching on TV before, only you can control what's happening with these buttons."
Inuyasha uncertainly pushed a button, and the character on the screen moved. "Wow...that's some magic..."
"Why don't we play a fighting game, Inu-no-niichan..." suggested Souta, putting one in. After he had shown Inuyasha how to control it and Inuyasha had gotten the hang of it, they started playing.
'Heh...this is actually kind of fun...' thought Inuyasha.
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"...and then I tried pulling the arrow out of the well, Kaede-bachan, but it didn't work. I'm sure it was Kikyo's arrow though..." explained Kagome as they sat in Kaede's hut.
"I see..." muttered Kaede, staring into the fire. She seemed to be thinking.
"I don't understand why Kagome-sama couldn't pull out the arrow if she was able to pull out the arrow that sealed Inuaysha." commented Miroku.
"That is odd..." mumbled Kaede. She stared into the fire a few minutes longer. "I can only think of one reason that that could be..."
"What?" asked the rest of the group in unison.
"The Kikyo that shot the arrow that sealed Inuyasha had her whole soul. Kagome had that very same soul when she freed him. However, the new Kikyo has part of Kagome's soul. Kagome no longer has that part of her soul, so perhaps that is why it did not work." explained Kaede.
"So...you mean...we need Kikyo to unseal it?" asked Sango.
"Yes, that is probably the only way Kagome will ever get home." said Kaede.
'How are we supposed to find Kikyo...?' wondered Kagome.
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Kikyo wandered through the forest. She still wondered what that energy at the well had been...there hadn't seemed to be anything unusual about it. Still, it was probably best that had sealed it...
She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice a figure clothed in a white baboon pelt right behind her. Before she knew it, he grabbed her.
"You..." she said, trying to escape from his grasp. "What do you want?"
"Kikyo..." said Naraku. "I'm not stupid. Even though you gave me the Shikon Shards, I know you hate me. You're dangerous...unpredictable...and I can't have you wandering around. I may not be able to kill you, but I can stop you from doing anything."
He disappeared into the night with her silently, while she struggled to escape.
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"I wish...I wish I had some way of telling my family what's going on..." said Kagome, depressed. "They're probably worried sick...and Inuyasha is probably freaked out...he doesn't know how things in my time work..."
Kaede regarded her for a minute, then spoke up. "There may be a way."
Kagome looked up. "Really? How?"
"A spell...it's very difficult, and the person who does it has to have a very strong spirit. It's also very tiring." said Kaede.
"I don't care...I want to try it...Kaede, my family has to know..." said Kagome.
"Very well. From what I understand of it, the soul actually leaves the body. It can travel between places and times to get to the person you want to talk to. It is apparently very painful...I read that the last miko to try it died. Her body died before her soul returned. You would have minuted at most."
"I...I still want to do it."
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Inuyasha walked up the stairs. Kagome's family had gone 'grocery shopping' and he was left alone. He wondered what these grocery things were and why anyone would want them.
Inuyasha walked by Kagome's room and stopped. He could smell her scent...he had been able to smell it in other places in the house, but it hadn't been quite this strong anywhere else. He quietly slipped into the room.
He sprawled out on the bed, just breathing in her scent. He looked around the room. Odd things her had seen Kagome using occasionally were all over the place. Her bag had been brought back up here. He glanced at the table by her bed. She had one of those 'alarm clock' things sitting there...it reminded him of the one he had broken. He smiled faintly at the memory.
Inuyasha then spotted a picture of them all...him, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou. Kagome had brought a camera to his time once and had explained what picture's were. He picked up the picture so he could look at it better.
Kagome was standing in the center, smiling happily. To one side stood Inuyasha, scowling. Shippou sat on his shoulder. To the other side of Kagome were Sango and Miroku. Sango had her fist raised threateningly. Apparently Miroku had been putting his hands where he shouldn't.
Inuyasha smiled sadly. They were an odd group...1 demon, 1 hanyou, a pervert monk, a demon exterminator and a girl from the future. He missed them all so badly...
Inuyasha suddenly felt something wet on his cheeks. He reached up and touched his cheeks. 'Tears?' he thought. '...but I don't cry...' He glanced at the picture again. The Kagome is the picture smiled back happily, oblivious to his pain. God...he might never see Kagome again. Never...
Inuyasha curled up into a ball, hugging the picture to his chest. He could feel more tears flowing down his face, but at this point, he didn't care. "Kagome...I miss you so much..."
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Today was my last day before vacation is over, so I got chapter 3 done for you all...once I'm back in school, chapters may come a little farther apart, since I'll be busier. Reviews are a good way to motivate me...anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter...I hope everyone liked the scene at the end...I realize Inuyasha gets a little OOC, but I warned you...this story is going to have as much Inuyasha and Kagome romance as I can fit, but it's kinda hard to get it in with them in separate times. I'll do my best though...just wait until next chapter ;) Also, if anyone has any suggestions on what they want me to do to Inuyasha in present times (for example, the pizza and videogames...) feel free to tell me. I have some stuff planned but I'll probably need more...anyway, I love your reviews, please tell me what you think of what's going on so far. *looks up* Wow, that was a really long chapter...at least compared to the others...