I don't own Inuyasha or anything having to do with this show. I make this only for entertainment purposes, (and an excuse to avoid my homework:). So don't sue and enjoy the fic!

The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again... By: Msmelanie

Chapter Two: Memories Bubble Back Up

Shippou walked over to the well. 'There it is!' he thought happily. He ran up to the side of it and looked down into it. 'This brings back memories.' he smiled. Then, as if on reflex he sniffed the air. "What's that? I've never smelled that before."

Kawayou looked at the cat in his hands. He lifted it up and dangled it over the well right before he dropped it in. He peered down. 'Can't see anything.'

He smelled the air again, and his ears twitched as he heard *miaow*.

He looked down into the blackness. "It's still there then. I knew it didn't work." He sniffed the air again. "What did I smell before?" Suddenly, a knew smell hit his nostrils. A very familiar smell he knew quite well. 'Damn.' he thought.

"Kawayou?!" Kagome shouted as she stood at the foot of the stairs to the well.

Kawayou looked back at his mom with an annoyed expression. "I didn't do anything!" he pointed into the well. "The cat jumped in by itself!"

"What are you nagging about?" Inuyasha asked Shippou as he sat on the windowsill. It turns out she didn't have the advice he needed, so he was slightly peeved.

"Something in the well smells strange." Shippou replied. "Like human, but not."

"Like a half youkai?" Inuyasha asked uninterested.

"No, not quite. It really smelled human, but there was a small amount of Youkai." Shippou exclaimed.

Inuyasha looked down at the kitsune. "So? What about it?"

"Come check it out with me." Shippou replied.

"It's just your imagination." Inuyasha said as he started to leave.

Kagome came down the steps and looked down into the well. It was pure blackness. "Kawayou. Please tell me why you felt you needed to throw a cat down the well."

"I didn't! It fell!" he rebuttaled.

His mother looked at him unconvinced. "I thought you said it jumped in."

Kawayou looked down the well. "Doesn't matter. It just got in there somehow without my help."

Kagome looked over at her son and sighed. Then, she finally took time to notice her surroundings. She had been so worried her son ran out into the public, she hadn't realized she was at her well.

'My well.' she smiled as old memories started to resurface.

Kawayou looked at his mom. She was actually smiling. Not her usual sad smiles, but a true happy one.

"Mom, you're pretty."

Kawayou jogged her out of her memories with his comment. "What?" she asked again, not quite believeing her ears.

"Your smile. It makes you pretty." he exclaimed.

Kagome looked back at her son.

Kawayou looked down. "Uncle Soda said this was how you went to the Sengoku Jidai."

Kagome looked down the well as he old memories once flooded into her mind. "Yes Kawayou. Actually I used to spend more time there than here until..."

Against her will her mind had tooken her back to the beginning of that normal day that had changed her life forever...

/////She had almost reached the well when a familiarhalf demon dropped down from above and blocked her way. "You stupid Wench, I said no!"

"Inuyasha! I have to go! This test is very important!" Kagome whined.

"You say that about every test!" he said annoyed. "Besides, what about last night?! There are risks you don't know about and I can't-!"

"Inuyasha! I just need three days to prepare! Just three!" she whined again.

"One!" he barked.

"One? One's not good enough!" she whined.

Inuyasha crossed his arms stubbornly. "One's all you get."

Kagome sighed. "Fine then, two days?"

Inuyasha looked at her and grinned. "Beg."

Kagome looked at him, anger apparent on her face. "Beg?! I'm not going to beg!"

Miroku looked at Sango who was standing near the well next to him with Shippou and Myouga. "Those two are noisy, aren't they?"

"Fine then, one day! If you don't come back, I'll go over and drag you back!" Inuyasha barked again.

Kagome 'ughed' in frustration before finally giving up and resorting to her "Sit!"

Inuyasha kerplunked to the ground. Kagome threw one of her feet over the well "Bye everyone! I'll be back in three days!" she said before she went over.

"Bye Kagome!" Shippou waved. "Come back as soon as you can!"////////

Kagome tried to keep back even her water vapors of the unshed tears. Her son would be able to pick it up without even trying. 'It was supposed to be just another trip to finish some stupid test. I should've been back by three days...'

"This is where you met my pops?"

Kawayou's comment jarred her from her thoughts again. 'His 'pops'? Boy, Inuyasha would choke on that one.' Her lips slightly curled up. "Yes, I did. His name was Inuyasha." *pause* "Have I ever told you that before?"

Kawayou shook his head no. "All you ever said was you met him in the Sengoku Jidai and that I look like him."

Kagome looked at her son sadly. Yep, he had been right. She tried never to dawdle that long on the past. Especially since he'd never meet his dad anyway. She suddenly started to feel the beginnings of water vapors again.

Kawayou looked up at her. 'Ah, damn! What'd I do this time?! Oh great, now what!' he looked over to the shrined door. 'I know, I'll get my mom's mind off the stupid subject!' "Mom, right out there's a-"

"Ladder." Kagome finished. "To get the cat out, right?"

Kawayou nodded and grinned at his mom as she started to go outside. Kawayou looked at her as she dissappeared to get the ladder. 'Gee, that's the first time I've ever seen mom almost cry. I wonder why?'

Inuyasha!" Shippou called out, now pulling his ears. "Come on! It's just over there!" he said pointing to the direction of the well.

"Will you leave me be? There is nothing inside that well." he replied.

Shippou jumped off his head and started to scamper towards the well. "Come on! One quick sniff!"

"Bah! This is useless!" Inuyasha muttered as he followed Shippou.

"Got it?!" Kawayou shouted to his mom.

Kagome came back up with the cat. She smiled at her son. "Sure did."

She came back over the well and let the cat go. As she did that, he son bounced up into her arms. Being quite used to her son doing this, she didn't mind and put her arms underneath him for support. "Ready to go?"

Kawayou looked up at his mom. She put her plastered smile back on. "I'm sorry I made you almost cry."

Kagome looked at her son in shock. Had he just apologised to her?! Kawayou fidgeted with his claws and looked around the well. 'He's fidgeting and looking very uncomfortable. Yes, he did apologise!'

It would've been a great accomplishment, if it had actually been his fault. "Honey, you didn't make me cry." She scratched behind his ear gently. "Let's go back inside , okay?"

Kawayou shook his head yes as they slowly walked out of the shrine.

"One sniff!" Inuyasha finally agreed stepping toward the well. He didn't have to get too close to understand Shippou. He turned away and buried his nose in his kimono. "Smells? Familiar smells?!"

"The smells have even changed!" Shippou shouted as he came near Inuyasha.

Inuyasha ran over by the well. "How? How can it be emitting smells after so long?"

"Inuyasha?" Shippou asked. "Do you think the well works again?"

"..."

"Inuyasha?"

"I smell...Kagome's scent." he replied.

"And something else too. What is that?" Shippou asked.

*Sniff* "Smells almost human, doesn't it?" Inuyasha answered.

"What is it?" Shippou asked.

"I don't know...." Inuyasha replied. "I've never smelled it before. It's youkai scent is very weak."

"Inuyasha?" Shippou asked again.

Inuyasha looked at him. He knew what he wanted. "Even if it does work, it's been five years." He looked back at Shippou. "Think she'll want to see us?"

"Yes!" Shippou answered. "Of course! How could you think otherwise?!"

Inuyasha watched Shippou land on his shoulder. He looked down. "If this doesn't work, I better not hear you cry about it."

Shippou looked down at the well. 'It'll work, I know it.'

"Then hang on!" Inuyasha shouted as he jumped down into the well.

So...Do you think they get over? Well, let's just say...

Next time on The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...

'Kagome!' Inuyasha thought cheerfully as he jumped . 'Oh Kami, I get to see you again after all this time!'

Then Kawayou started to think back to the well. "Speaking of smells, what was that strange smell from the well and why'd it go away?"

*Sniff* "Something human. Something funny, almost stinky and..." *sniff* "A cat?"