Letters
by ArtikGato
Disclaimer: I'll put this simply. I own nothing. At least, nothing related to this story.
Author's Notes: The episodes 'Go Home to your Own Time, Kagome' and the one right after it that I can't remember the name to inspired me to write this story (sort of). I began to wonder how Kagome would have reacted if somehow Inuyasha told her that she could never go back and admitted his feelings for her. And…voila!! Note that, while I don't exactly hate Kikyou, I don't really like her all that much either. And I'm also a fan of Kagome X Inuyasha and, to a lesser extent, Miroku X Sango. ^___^
This fic is rated PG-13 because of some cuss words. But, hey, if you've been watching Inuyasha or reading the manga, then you should have heard most of these. And, as far as I know, it is spelled 'Naruku' in the English version. Feel free to correct me, but flame me and I will only use the flames to toast marshmallows. I hope I didn't warp too many people's minds with the above paragraph. ^^'
It was the middle of the night, and a fire was crackling in the center of Kaede's hut. Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede were all asleep. But Inuyasha could not sleep.
"Feh...I can't believe I'm being kept awake thinking about Kagome," he thought. He decided to get up and walk around outside. It was summer, so it wasn't too cold out. Not that Inuyasha cared about cold. He was half-demon, after all, and cold didn't affect him. He walked out of the village, and into the forest surrounding it. He wanted to pretend that he didn't know where he was going, but he knew exactly where his feet were taking him. He found himself in the clearing where the destroyed bone-eater's well was. He looked around, and noticed an abandoned piece of parchment and writing utensils. Miroku probably left them behind. He also noticed a sacred arrow under the tree, and that the parchment from before was gone.
"She must have found it in the future," he thought. He looked at the parchment again, and back at the arrow.
"You really need to tell her," that voice told him. He scowled.
"I don't need to tell her anything," Inuyasha thought.
"Psh. Right. Look, you're never going to see her again, so you might as well," voice told him. He shook his head.
"I can't write all that well. Plus, I don't know what to write..." Inuyasha thought.
"Well, as long as she can figure out what the words mean, I don't think she'll care." The voice said.
"Yeah, but still, I can't tell her." Inuyasha replied to the voice.
"Why not?" the voice asked.
"Because it would break her heart," Inuyasha replied to the voice.
"And...how do you know that?" the voice asked, curiously.
"Because mine is broken," Inuyasha thought. There was silence. "Hey! Voice! Hello? You there?"
Shippo sat in the bushes nearby looking dumbstruck.
"Gosh, I didn't know that..." Shippo thought. Then he grinned.
"Boo!!" a voice that sounded surprisingly like Shippos, now that he thought about it, jumped into Inuyasha's head.
"AGH!!" Inuyasha exclaimed, jumping in surprise.
Kagome woke up, and yawned. She looked around, looking a little disappointed.
"It was a dream? Too bad," she thought. She got up, contemplating her dream, and lazily began to brush her hair.
"I was back in Feudal Japan. I was standing beside that tree in the back yard, and my friends were all there, too. Then, all of them but Inuyasha disappeared. He...what was he saying to me? I don't guess I could hear him. He had a piece of parchment in his hand..." her thoughts suddenly were brought to a screeching halt as she looked out of her window and noticed that there was a patch of white on the brown bark of the huge tree in her backyard. She looked closer, and noticed that it was held in place with an arrow. She jumped back in surprise, and hurriedly threw on some clothes. She dashed through the house, getting quizzical looks from her mother and grandfather. Sota decided to follow her to see what was the matter. She dashed out to the tree, knowing that it was another letter from her friends in Feudal Japan. When she got close enough, she realized that the writing was sloppy, definitely not Miroku's.
"Hmm..." she said, and reached for the arrow, which melted in the air. She caught the parchment before it hit the ground. She turned her head to the side, trying to decipher the writing.
Kagom,
She almost laughed. "What a funny name that would be," she thought
...listen, I just wanted to let you know...sorry if anything is mispeled...
At this, she laughed. He had misspelled misspelled, after all...
...Since were not going to be able to see eechother any more, I just wanted to tell you how I feel about you
Her heart skipped a beat. "Did Inuyasha write this?" she wondered.
...dont be mad at me for saying this, but I need to tell you...please dont let it break your hart like its breaking mine...
She blinked after she read that. "Whoa...what is he going to say?"
...I really am sorry for all of the fites we got in. Im still a little mad about you always sitting me
She smiled. "I'm sorry I said sit all those times..."
...and Im sorry for all thos names I called you...
"Now we're even, then,"
...so I hope you can forgive me. and I just wanted to say that..
the words after that seemed like he had been shaking when he wrote them ,and she could barely make them out, but they were there...
...I love you...
Kagome almost couldn't believe what she had read. She read it again, to make sure of what it said. Then, she pinched herself, convinced that she was dreaming. Tears started to form in her eyes, and she continued to read.
...I know you thougt I hated you, but I didnt. I was just afraid that youd laf in my face and tell me that you hated me. You have every rite to hate me, for all of the stuff I did to you. So, sorry. I love you Kagome, I always have and I always will.
The letter stopped there, with 'Inuyasa' signed at the bottom in shaky letters. She noticed that there were water stains at the bottom of the letter.
"He was crying..." she thought. Then, she herself started to cry. She dropped the parchment and took off toward the well house.
"Kagome!" Sota exclaimed, seeing her crying. He ran and picked up the parchment she had been reading, trying to figure out what in the world had made her cry like that.
Kagome ran into the well house, and ran to the well. She looked down, seeing the bottom.
"Let me through. Just this once? Please?" she requested. Then, she jumped into the well. She hit the bottom, and looked up. She cried out in frustration and despair when she saw the roof of the well house.
"Damn you! Let me through you stupid well!!" she shouted, and started to vent her frustration on the dirt at the bottom of the well. She leaned against the side of the well, sobbing uncontrollably, cursing the well in words that she probably had learned from Inuyasha. One of her tears hit the fragment of the Sacred Jewel around her neck, and it suddenly started to glow. She looked at it in surprise, and took it off from around her neck. For some reason, she felt like she needed to tell her problem to the jewel fragment.
"I just want to go back to Feudal Japan again, one last time. I want to tell them all how much I missed them, and I want to tell Inuyasha..." she started. Then she heard the frantic cries of her brother outside of the well house.
"Kagome! Kagome! Are you all right?!" Sota shouted. Kagome sighed.
"I'm fine, Sota!" she shouted back. She looked back at the sacred jewel, and laughed a little.
` "It won't work anyway. It doesn't matter if I tell this jewel that I love Inuyasha, it still wont--" she was cut off as the jewel fragment suddenly emitted a bright, pink light. The light filled the well, and surrounded her.
"Kagome!!" Sota shouted, rushing over to the well, only to see her fade into nothingness.
"Wha?" he asked, in disbelief.
"Come on Shippo, let's go," Miroku said. Shippo looked at him with a sad face, but obediently got up and walked over to him. He, Miroku, and Sango started to walk off. Miroku turned back around, and looked at Inuyasha. He still hadn't left his perch, a huge branch in the tree by the remnants of the well. Miroku knew that Inuyasha was looking at the well. He cleared his throat.
"Inuyasha, are you going to come with us?" Miroku invited.
"Nah. I'm fine on my own here," Inuyasha replied. Miroku shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, then let's go," he said, and put his arm around Sango's shoulders. She glared at him, warning him that if his arm when to anywhere else but her shoulders, he was a dead monk. Shippo looked at them quizzically.
"You two act like my parents did," he said, making the monk and the demon slayer blush.
"Are you SURE you don't want to come with us, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, more like pleaded.
"Nah. You guys go ahead. If I want to, I'll catch up to you," he said, not leaving his position in the tree. Miroku shrugged again, and with that, the trio started off through the forest.
"I wonder if Kagome has read my letter yet?" he pondered, staring at the remnants of the well boredly. He finally sighed, and moved to jump down and follow the trio, who were a good distance into the forest already...well, a good distance by human standards, anyway...
"Feh. Why am I still here, anyway? It's not like she's going to come back in the first place..." he thought. Just as he thought that, a bright, pink light erupted from the remnants of the bone-eater's well, blowing the wood and other debris away from the well.
"What the-?" Inuyasha asked. He jumped down to go and examine the well.
"What the-?" Kagome said, looking around. She was still in the well.
"What in the world was that pink light?" Kagome thought. She checked to make sure she was awake, and then looked up.
"I wonder what caused that pink light?" Inuyasha pondered, as he walked over to the hole in the ground where the well was. He looked down.
"Inuyasha?!"
"Kagome?!"