Lauren: Hey! Wow!! I hit 213 reviews!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! That's the most I've EVER had! I feel so special! I screamed when I saw how many I had ^_^; it scared my mom. Thank you, I love you all so much!
T'laren- Thanks for the fudge and the seal pin!!! *glomp* Jeez, with all these pounds of fudge I'm going to get fat! But that's ok because it's still so good! *hands pocky to everyone* This is for being such nice, wonderful people and reviewers!
Zel no miko- Yes his *ahem* buns were very nice and tight. -_-;; What possessed me to reply to that? I have no clue!
Em- Yeah, I thought he was cute when I....I suppose I was around nine or ten years old. Wow...that's kind of freaky. Ha, but he's still cute!
Inuyasha-loves-Kagome- No! Ah! That scene wasn't in the movie! When she confronts him (not going to spoil anything for people who haven't seen the movie) she is in the miko outfit. Later she stands out in the snow but not in the scarf thing. What's even weirder though is on the back of the DVD, it shows that picture of her in the snow with the pink scarf and blue jacket. Sometimes I think they create certain scene/images just for trailers.
Sakura-son- YES! AGHH!! It's SO annoying waiting for movies to come out! I watched like five different trailers for the second movie and they only made me want to see it more!
Tori- Yeah, it's kind of freaky but not all are female. I know a few male authors. About the immortal thing though. Inuyasha doesn't die as easily as a humans do but he can still die, right? He can take a lot more wounds and he can live a lot longer but can't he eventually die? I thought he could but if I'm wrong, please correct me so I can fix some things for upcoming ideas!
ArtemisMoon- Hi! I love 'Do As Infinity'. I didn't know they were the band though, I thought they were a song title!! How sad, huh? I also love the Inuyasha song "I Will" and "Dearest". Oh and don't worry, my family is crazy too. I'm still looking for the mind that I lost.
warriorGL- AHHH!! I WANT TO SEE SPIRITED AWAY SO BADLY! I never got around to driving down to the theater to see it even though I want to so much! It was like a twenty minute drive and I was just too lazy and too busy to get down there and then I looked it up a few weeks later and it was only showing at some sort of sleazy theater. So I decided to wait until it might come out so I can rent it. Good luck on your fancomic! Please show me it if you make it! I'm sure it'll be good! I have a drawing for this story...but I need to scan it sometime. It's not the greatest but oh well.
B-chan- Oohhh I'm so jealous of you too! I want to get an Inuyasha plushie! My friend has a 13" Inuyasha plushie and a Kagome + Inuyasha festival plushies. I want to get a wall scroll too! CURSES! So little money, so many things I long to buy (and so many things I'm not allowed to buy!)
Sakura/Sagwa- Yeah, you can order the Inuyasha movie on DVD from certain places. I have the web site URL posted a few chapters back.
Emily- Hehe, don't worry, all confusion and questions shall be sorted out eventually. If you didn't notice by now, I like being evil and torturing people with cliffhangers and many unanswered things but all shall be done in due time.
Thank you so much for the wonderful comments and input! I seriously want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart!
~*~ Where Did You Go? ~*~
~By: Lauren~
-Chapter 10-
"Close Dream, Far Person"
He could fill the air shift, moving from cold to freezing, from light breeze to wind, from soft to hard. Rain pelted his body, causing his red clothing to annoyingly stick to his skin.
He grumbled a curse as he cracked his knuckles then held his hand over the hilt of his sword. He flexed his fingers, ready to pull the weapon out of its sheath.
In front of him stood a simple man. He had silky, flowing black hair. Hair so black one could get lost in it. It was like midnight. It was as if it was blocking out all other colors and all other feelings.
The tension was so thick in the air one could cut through it with a knife. His keen hearing told him the man was crouching slightly, getting ready to make some kind of attack. The dog-like ears on top of his head swiveled as it listened for any noise. The forest was eerily quiet and he could hear his companions breathing nervously behind him. His instincts told him one mistake meant his death. He knew the priest and exterminator could take care of themselves. What, no, WHO he was truly worried about was HER.
The girl that never left his mind. That never gave his heart a moment's rest.
His silver-white hair fell in his face as he pulled out his sword, holding it proudly before him.
Suddenly, the man's black hair shot forward but it wasn't aimed for him. It was aimed for something else.
Someone else.
-The girl he loved. -
He tried to move, he tried to get to her to save her but he was somehow held back, frozen in his spot. The girl was screaming; calling out his name as she drowned in a sea of blackness.
Inuyasha tried to reach her. He tried to but he just couldn't. The sea of hair was now consuming him too.
He let out a choked scream as Inuyasha flew up in his bed, clutching his heart as he swallowed huge gulps of air.
Where had that come from? That dream?
It was strange. It had all felt so...real somehow.
Kagome had been there. So had Miroku and Sango. But why where they there? What in the world were they all wearing? And since when did he have dog-ears and claws?!
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Kagome stood still, completely frozen in place. Something was grabbing onto her. Hair. Black hair.
It was latching onto her ankles, her wrists, her stomach, and her neck- everything. It burned when it touched her yet she was paralyzed. It pulled her into a thousand different directions as it cut into her skin, razor sharp to the touch. It was consuming her. She was drowning in his endless sea of black hair.
In the distance, she could see Inuyasha staring at her. She tried to cry out to him but her voice never left her throat, only her lips moved.
But Inuyasha turned away from her, his back to her as he walked away calmly. He was abandoning her. Leaving her to be devoured by the sinister hair. She was all alone. Fire erupted from nowhere, burning the hair off of her yet it scolded her skin.
Then Kagome was falling. Falling through an abyss of blackness until she thudded onto the dark ground.
"Where am I?" Kagome spun around, taking in her surroundings. She was floating in a vast emptiness- in darkness. All around her it was black. It was dark. It was as if there was a floor that she was standing on yet when she looked down it was only black. Everywhere was the darkness.
Shivers went up and down her spine as she tried to call out. "Where am I? Is anyone there? Hellooooo?" Kagome stepped forward, searching through the darkness, straining her eyes to see anything.
"You can't see me." A voice suddenly spoke, causing Kagome to jump.
"Who are you? Where am I?!" She tried to find the source of the voice but it almost seemed to be speaking in her head.
"You are inside yourself. You are dreaming. This is the only way I can contact you and our time is limited." The soothing and commanding voice said.
"Dreaming? Limited time? I don't understand." Kagome furrowed her eyebrows in confusion as she sought out any kind of answer.
"I need to speak to you Kagome. It's about your memories and why everyone else doesn't remember." The voice continued. "You see...long ago we sensed a great evil coming upon the earth. If we didn't stop it, great doom would befall on the world."
"Who is 'we'?" Kagome interrupted. This was not making sense but then again did anything make sense lately?
"Who are we?" The voice pondered the question. "We are nothing. We do not have definition. We are without body or soul. Some call us greater beings, or deities or Gods but we like to be known as the Fates. We merely watch over earth, making sure good and evil are at an equal balance. For without good, there cannot be evil and without evil there cannot be good. We do not manipulation how things work out or control what you do. We only create certain large decisions you must face that could seriously alter your future. Traveling to the past was one of them" It tried to explain itself to Kagome. "You see...those that do remember the great long ago know that the world has not always existed in chaos and hatred...that there was once a time of balance. Not of war...but not of peace...and the scales are easily tipped."
"So you were the ones that allowed me to go through the well?" Kagome gave 'it' a questionable look.
"Yes. In order to stop this horrible evil we needed someone capable of purifying and protecting the Shikon no Tama. You were the only one except the problem was you lived in the future. If we didn't stop the evil now, it would be too late. Do you understand?" The voice said.
"Yeah, I think. So basically I was the only one who could stop this evil thing so you sent me into the past." Kagome replied, sitting down or rather, floating cross-legged. She didn't know whether to trust this freaky voice but she didn't have much of a choice.
The voice kept talking. "Yes. Except there was a catch. We couldn't just let you travel to the past free of charge. If the world discovered a time traveling well, who knows what would have happened. If demons could find a way through the well, it would be horrible. So the deal was if we allowed you to travel to the past until the evil was destroyed..."
Kagome stared up at a white ceiling while black spots seemed to dance in front of her eyes.
"Where am I now?" She whispered, blinking.
"You're in the clinic's hospital dearie." A familiar yet vague voice spoke.
Kagome leaned forward in the bed she was laying in. She ignored the dizziness that instantly took over her body. There, sitting in a chair in the corner of the room, was the source of the voice.
The old woman smiled, her wrinkles almost lighting up. "You've had quite a fever the last few days."
Kagome smiled back before she cursed under her breath. That woman had woken her up!! Right when she was going to learn the truth!!! "AGGHHHH!!" Kagome mentally screamed.
"I'm your doctor and nurse-" She began before Kagome cut her off.
"Kaede. I know." Kagome surveyed the old woman, taking note of the black eye patch that covered one of her eyes. She was short and had brownish white hair pulled back in a tight bun. Kaede was clad in a greenish pair of medical type pants and shirt along with a white jacket and a square brown nametag pinned on. It was nice to see another familiar face but Kagome was too dizzy to do much and she didn't want to scare her off either. Too many thoughts were flying through her mind.
"How did you know my name?" Kaede got up slowly and walked to Kagome's bedside, resting a warm hand on her forehead.
"I don't know. Intuition I suppose." Kagome chuckled to herself before she thought, "And you wear a nametag. But it's not like I'm going to tell you I knew you in the past."
Kaede smiled down at her. "Your fever is almost completely gone. I'll go tell the others you're awake."
Kagome squinted her eyes against the bright light in the room. "What others?"
"That black haired boy. Quite the looker, ain't he?" Kaede winked at her with her good eye.
Kagome finally took in her surroundings while she let the doctor's words sink in. She was in a starch white room complete with a large window, which had blinds that were shut yet somehow; light managed to still get through. Kagome was cuddled in a soft bed that had beige creamy colored sheets pulled up around her. There was a chair that Kaede had recently been occupying and a night stand were a bouquet of daises sat in a vase. They were in full bloom, sending off a fragrant sweet smell. She already knew who it was from; she didn't need to look at the tiny card that was tucked away between the flower stems. "Don't get him!!!" Kagome went to raise her left hand up to stop Kaede when she was pulled back abruptly. She then noticed the bindings that strapped her hand to the bedpost by her wrist. It was a single thick silvery material that was tied around Kagome's wrist and then was tied to the metal bedpost. "Where am I?" She hissed, pulling on her hand.
"You're in the clinic's infirmary. I'm the head nurse and I run who goes in and out and how they're treated. Why don't you want me to fetch your boyfriend or is he your therapist or something?" Kaede looked at Kagome's bindings. "You can pull all you want but it won't snap. We need to make sure you don't try anything stupid. Get some rest now." Kaede turned, walking out of the door before shutting and locking it behind her. Kagome frowned; groaning when she noticed her bathroom was only a bedpan.
She sighed, fighting tears. "Stupid Inuyasha. It was idiotic for me to believe he was still out there. Stupid to believe he would still love me! That...that doctor isn't him! The only reason we found each other is because of our rings!" She brushed back some of her raven hair, tucking it behind her ear while she madly chewed at her lip. "I was the one who believed in something so...so....unbelievable. I hate the Shikon no Tama!! I...I h-hate...him!! That stupid jewel caused all of this trouble to begin with! All of this pain...!! Why didn't I destroy it back then? Why didn't I make it disappear?!" Kagome turned to her bindings, scratching at the strong material with her fingernails while tears stained her bed sheets. "I was a fool...I thought one day I would find my happily ever after with Inuyasha. But now I've learned happily ever after's never happen. They only happen in fairy tales and only children believe in fairy tales..."