Chapter Three: We have arrived

Leaving their son with Julianna's retired Father, They left a week after their actual anniversary and endured a 21 hour flight to get there but they finally unfolded once off the plane stretching and getting their bags. Julianna looked ecstatic to finally be there and Duncan couldn't begrudge her excitement to be someone where she had wanted to go for some years now but most especially lately. He watched her with a reserved smile keeping her close in the airport so she did not get separated from him in this foreign place she could easily get lost and confused. They then rented a car and made it to their hotel it was getting late so they decided to just order room service and get a good nights sleep before they went sight seeing the next day.

That night she went over several broachers that listed most of the good sites to see through the city. One caught her eye about the shrines in the area. She opened it and began to read it while they waited for room service to bring their meals. Duncan was watching a movie on a cable channel that luckily was in English. They did have a few channels in English with Japanese subtitles. So he settled in to watch it with his wife until he realized her attention was elsewhere. He shrugged and let her read as the movie droned on for a while. He looked around the room it was nice decorated in traditional hotel style with flowers on the curtains, bedspreads, and wallpaper that all matched in colors of blue and purple. A few traditional Japanese paintings were on the walls and a small table for two sat against the same wall as the window over looking the city. The large king size bed where they sat basically took up one whole wall save for the night stands and across from it sat the dresser with a TV on top. He figured it would do for the week. He suddenly felt his wife's gaze upon him. She looked at him with a grin on her face.

"What?" he asked her with an odd look.

"Guess what I found!?!?!" she giggled.

"Uh....What?"

"The Bone-Eaters Well!!" she squealed. He grimaced at the sound. He had always been sensitive to loud noises. She patted his arm in apology.

"Let me guess that is our first stop?" he said. He knew what is was it was that well on Inuyasha that girl fell thru. He couldn't believe it actually existed but stranger things have happened and he would know. He figured someone must have used local landmarks to start their story. It had been done before he figured. But that feeling of dread doubled suddenly.

"Uh, love, do you think we could skip it this trip?" he asked hesitantly.

"WHAT?!?! Why...." she stopped her question and looked up into Duncan's eyes. She felt the sudden wave of foreboding from him and he knew she felt it. Soon it seemed this precession of events was going to make his secret impossible to keep. The well had something to do with this and he knew it. He had hoped that their would be no truth to that show as close to truth it might have been to him. To most everyone it was fantasy and nothing more but to some who knew better about the real order of things it was slightly disconcerting about information in that show. It was very close to the events of the past however slightly off as it dipped into the lives of the main characters. Such a thing in this dimension he was sure never happened. But other planes could be touched in the right locations and if a human under the right circumstances had glimpsed those actual events thru some magic, he had a feeling they were in deep. He forced himself to push the feeling from his mind and smiled at his wife. She felt the feeling subside and wrapped her arms around him.

"What was that dearest?" she asked slightly shaken still by the feeling. He hugged her back reassuring her.

"Nothing love," he told her with a confidence he didn't feel but he desired to calm the fear he felt from her and did so with his words.

"So can we still go then or was that a defiantly not."

"No we will go love." He looked up at the wall over the television. There was no fighting destiny,' he figured. He however would be extra diligent in caring for her though come tomorrow.

They ate their dinner once it came in relative silence but comfortable non the less in each others company. They indulged in one more movie as the sun set and snuggled under the covers together to watch the older movie they had both seen at least twice any how. Half way thru the movie the couple's attention became other wise engaged in each other as they fell into the soft haze of love that never seemed to far from the two. A gentle touch and soft kiss brought the two closer together. The night turned into sweet loving intimate moments as their souls touched and hearts came together for a moment in time that seemed to last forever but was over in seconds. The aftermath of their coupling left them wondrously spent and found Julianna resting half way across his body her head cradled in on his shoulder wrapped in his arms. Duncan held to his love for sometime after she fell asleep and thought on the next day. He had a feeling it was not going to go as he would like however there was no avoiding the inevitable and so decided to just enjoy the peace and love of the night he had now and fell asleep wrapped in the passion of their emotions.

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My never ending thanks to Purple rose for letting me use her Fading scars as a starting point for my story. She is a talented writer and my story takes place between chapter's 19 after they defeated Naraku and chapter's 20 when the baby is born. My suggestion is read her wonderful works to mine might make more sense.

A few Japanese words I used:
Miko- Priestess
Shukuun no Gyokuei- crystal of destiny
Shukuun no miko- Priestess of destiny (don't know if they are right so bear with me)
neko- cat
Kuma- bear
youkai- demon
hanyou- half demon, or in this fanfic's case part demon. I couldn't find a word that meant part demon so i used it to mean a 1/4th too.
Koi- love
Kobito- lover
And I think that covers it. For give my spelling its not the best ^_^
I enjoyed writing it hope like reading it please Read and Review!
Thanks, LJ