Bent Reality
Wake Up the Sun Is Rising
Kagome closed her eyes to shield them from the light. As soon as they were closed she regretted it because she could feel the world around her changing. Her new power had made her more perceptive. She could feel the time whizzing by her, as she traveled back…or is it forward.
Kagome opened her eyes and saw tiles above her. She felt something in her arm and laughter coming from somewhere by her feet. She felt the bed move as someone shifted in position.
"Not again!" Ms. Higurashi yelled.
"Check!" Rin exclaimed.
"Good show dear," Sesshomaru said.
"Come on Ms. Higurashi, check mate her!" Koga encouraged.
Mom…Kagome thought, Rin, Sesshomaru, Koga?
"Oh shut your mouth Koga, let her think!" Inuyasha said.
'Inuyasha…' Kagome thought.
Her eyes started to water.
'Inuyasha is here?'
"Inuyasha?" Kagome called.
All movement in the room seized. Kagome felt movement on the end of her bed, whoever had been sitting there had gotten up.
"Kagome." Inuyasha appeared into her line of vision. When she saw his face the tears started to stream down her face even faster. "Kagome?"
"It was terrible!" Kagome sobbed and flung her arms around Inuyasha neck. He was slightly startled, he had been sure she would yell at him. "It was terrible!" She buried her head in his shoulder.
"It's okay now…" He stroked the back of her head.
"Come on Rin let's go." Sesshomaru grabbed his wife's arm. She gave him an objective look but followed him out the door.
Sesshomaru came back in and grabbed Koga by his shoulders, "You too."
"Aw, come on!" Koga said as the door shut behind him.
"Kagome?" Ms. Higurashi was standing behind Inuyasha, her voice sounded hoarse.
"Mom?" Kagome pulled back from Inuyasha and saw her mom. "MOM!" She yelled.
Her mother hugged Kagome so tight, Inuyasha thought she was going to pop.
"I'm so glad your okay!" Ms. Higurashi said.
Inuyasha smiled and put his hand on Ms. Higurashi's shoulder. She pulled back from her daughter and nodded to Inuyasha. "Kagome I'm sure you have many questions to ask." Inuyasha said.
"Oh yeah." Kagome wiped the tears out of her eyes.
"After you get something to eat I'll start to answer them for you." Inuyasha tip toed over to the door and opened it quickly. Rin and Koga collapsed onto the floor. "Listening in? Or was the door speaking to you?" Inuyasha said.
Rin stood up and quickly ran to Kagome. Koga just stood.
"I told them not to," Sesshomaru said.
Kagome leaned forward and strained to see out the door at Sesshomaru. He seemed to notice and backed up a little more.
"Hi Kagome!" Rin said.
Kagome looked at her. "Who are you?" Kagome asked.
Rin laughed, "It's me! Rin!"
Kagome stared at her, "Why it is!" she hugged her. Inuyasha pulled Rin out of the hug.
"Don't crowd her, she just woke up." Inuyasha crossed his arms. Kagome smiled.
"Oh, Inuyasha…"
Ryo walked in and smiled at Kagome.
"Miroku?" Kagome asked.
Ryo shook his head, "Oh no, but I'm flattered you thought I was him. I'm his greatest great grandson, and your doctor." Ryo walked over to Kagome and started to take her blood pressure.
"I can do that Ryo." Inuyasha snatched it away from him.
Ryo snatched it back. "Aren't you supposed to be working now?"
Inuyasha backed away and looked at the wall. "Well I can work now if I must."
"No!" Kagome said.
"Hold still!" Ryo said. "Fine, he doesn't have to work now."
Then it dawned on her, "Are you a doctor?" she asked Inuyasha.
Inuyasha rubbed the back of his neck. "Uh, yeah."
Kagome's heart swelled with pride.
"Well you seem to be in perfect heath, Kagome." Ryo set down his stethoscope after taking her heartbeat.
"Of course she is!" Inuyasha said.
"This is wonderful Kagome!" Ms. Higurashi threw her arms around her daughter's neck again. Kagome smiled nervously, all the eyes in the room were on her.
It was making her uncomfortable. She wished they wouldn't.
"I must go and call grandpa right away! Don't you go anywhere!" Ms. Higurashi laughed and scurried out the door.
Kagome looked to Inuyasha, "So can you get that food for me now? I'm starving!"
"First there's one thing I must ask you, that I have been wondering." Sesshomaru walked into the room with his same expressionless smile.
"And what would that be?" Kagome smiled, she knew what he was talking about.
"It's about Sango's death…"
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She was traveling, floating, journeying. Sango's hair seemed weightless as she glided along a white tunnel, she looked at her hands, and they almost seemed transparent. She looked behind her and she saw Miroku holding her lifeless body in his arms. His shoulders were shaking and he was mumbling what sounded like pleas. Pleas to return.
Sango wanted to return, she wanted to go back to Miroku, to sooth him, to comfort him and to take his pain away. But she just kept moving along the white tunnel, farther and farther away from him. She reached out to him, yelling his name, screaming for him, but no sound escaped her lips.
"Sango!" a female voice yelled.
Sango turned around and saw Kagome, floating directly in front of her, but she was hole unlike Sango, who was transparent. "Kagome?" Sango was surprised her voice worked.
"Sango! What do you think you're doing?" Kagome put her hands on her hips.
"I, uh, I don't know what you mean…" Sango was rightfully confused.
"I'm surprised at you Sango. How could you die! You go back to Miroku right now!" Kagome floated towards Sango and pushed her lightly in Miroku's direction. Sango immediately started floating towards him.
It surprised her because she had tried so hard to go back and now with a simple push from Kagome, she was. She was floating backwards, she watched Kagome get smaller as she drifted away.
"Bye Sango!" Kagome called. "I'm returning to my own time. Promise to take care of Inuyasha! And tell Miroku I say good bye!" Kagome waved bye with both her hands. "Tell Shippo I'm sorry!"
"I will Kagome!" Sango smiled and waved as well. "I promise to watch over Inuyasha! And when I do die, when I'm old and wrinkly, I'll make sure my children watch him!"
A wonderful sensation filled Sango and Kagome and the light disappeared in a flash.
She found her eyes were closed even though she had never closed them. A sharp pain was emitting from her stomach and she felt strong arms wrapped around her.
'Miroku…' Sango thought. His head was on her shoulder. She could feel his breath on her ear. Sango smiled, "You lecher let me go!" she whispered.
Miroku looked at her, bewilderment, astonishment, and horror radiated off his face. Sango smiled again.
"What? You thought I'd break my promise?" she said.
Miroku let out a whimper and hugged her. He started to laugh out of relief.
His embrace made Sango very aware of where she was. Sitting in Miroku's lap. Her stomach felt like it was going to explode and she felt something soft and fury by her legs. She looked past Miroku's shoulder and saw Kirara nudging her leg.
"Sango!" Miroku wailed and pulled her back, looked at her face, and then hugged her again.
Shippo had walked over and was standing in front of Miroku. "Your alive!" he proclaimed. "How?"
Miroku slowly pulled Sango back, with his hands on her shoulders and looked both happy and surprised at her. "Yeah? How? Not that I'm complaining."
Sango frowned slightly and looked away from him. "Kagome, she…she's returning home."
Miroku nodded.
"She says to tell you Good Bye." Sango looked up with a very sad expression. "She wants me to watch over Inuyasha…I told her forever. I told her my children would watch him when I no longer can." Sango said this all very slowly like she was revealing a terrible secret.
"And so will their children, and their children's children, Inuyasha will remain in our family forever."
"Our family?" Sango blushed.
"Friends!" Miroku added. "A family of friends! You didn't think I would leave you to take care of Inuyasha, did you?"
Sango smiled, "No of course not."
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As Kagome finished answering Sesshomaru's questions about Sango's death, with each answer she gave, the smile on both Sesshomaru and Koga's face widened. Inuyasha finally returned with her food. Pudding. That's all he could find.
"Sorry." He said placing it on a tray in front of her.
"It's okay," Kagome said, happily taking the spoon from him.
"So I guess you would like to ask questions now." Sesshomaru said.
"Oh yes." Kagome shoved a spoonful of pudding in her mouth. "Rye Roo."
Inuyasha laughed.
"What'd she say?" Rin whispered to him.
"I do." Inuyasha translated.
Kagome laughed and swallowed the mouthful. "So what happened to Naraku? Did I kill him?"
The memory was fresh for Kagome but it was 500 years old for Inuyasha.
Inuyasha scratched his head and looked at Sesshomaru. "Kinda," he said.
Kagome raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean by that?"
"What he means to say Kagome," Koga spoke up, though he never moved from his spot near the door. As though if he got to close to her he would go insane. "Is when you purified Naraku, you made him good and not evil."
"Oh my god! He drove me insane!" Rin put both her hands on her head. "He kept offering me things, and he kept getting pounded by Sesshomaru. You think he would have stopped after the twentieth time."
Sesshomaru made a weird grunting sound and Rin laughed. "That's my fluffy!" she patted him on the arm, she would have patted him on the head but she was to short.
Kagome looked from Rin to Sesshomaru and then opened her mouth, "You're married!"
Sesshomaru turned to the side and Rin nodded happily.
"That's wonderful! So have you two, you know…" Kagome pointed to Sesshomaru and cocked her eyebrow.
Rin was just about to talk when Sesshomaru coughed loudly, "Let's get back to Naraku shall we?"
Sesshomaru stepped forward and began talking nonsense about something, it may have been interesting but Kagome was not listening. She was watching Rin, who was standing behind Sesshomaru and slightly to the left so she could be seen. She was making odd hand gestures and then pointing to Sesshomaru.
Kagome's pure and young mind did not understand what the signs meant.
Inuyasha on the other hand, who was standing by Kagome's bed, new perfectly well what each sign was. He was about to puke if she didn't stop.
Koga was behind Rin standing by the door. He couldn't see all the signs she was making but when he did see one, he tried not to laugh.
Ms. Higurashi could not take it any longer, "No way Rin! He didn't!"
"He did!" Rin put her hands behind her back and nodded.
Sesshomaru looked at her and grabbed her by the back of the neck of her shirt and dragged her out the door. Rin pleasantly waved good bye to everyone.
Sesshomaru slammed the door nearly hitting Koga.
"Hey!" he yelled, but the door was already shut and Sesshomaru and Rin were long gone.
"Ten Bucks says they do it in the closet again." Ryo spoke up. He had been standing behind Ms. Higurashi's chair the whole time listening intently.
"Make it twenty and you've got a deal." Koga said.
"Enough!" Inuyasha stepped in-between them before they could shake on it. "You!" he pointed to Ryo, "Out!" he turned to Koga, "And you! I'm surprised at you!"
Ryo didn't move and Koga just scoffed at Inuyasha.
Kagome wanted to test something, to see if Inuyasha was still the same, Inuyasha she knew.
"Hey Koga…" Kagome said.
Koga ran to her and looked into her eyes, hope filled his own eyes. "Yes, Kagome? What is it?"
Inuyasha took a deep breath. 'It's okay,' he told himself. 'It's okay…' His face started to get red from jealousy and rage.
"Well Koga," Kagome twirled some of her hair with her finger. She found it to be greasy. She would need to take a shower…
"Yes?"
BLAM!
Inuyasha had grabbed the back of Koga's shirt and had hurled him right through the wall, straight into the hallway. An unfortunate nurse who had been walking by had been smashed into the ground by parts of the wall and Koga.
"Inuyasha!" Ms. Higurashi stood up to get a better look.
Kagome was trying hard not to laugh. Inuyasha was still fuming in a rage.
Koga picked himself up and helped the poor nurse up as well. "Hello," she said. "Such a strange way to meet some one." She brushed some of the wall of her skirt.
Koga was transfixed by her, by her voice, the way she stood, her smile. "Hi, um… I'm Koga." He brushed a piece of wall of her shoulder.
"Pleasure to meet you."
Ryo pouted, "Inuyasha can you throw me through the next wall? I want to meet women like that. Although it does cost a lot to fix walls. Inuyasha!" The still fuming Inuyasha had backed Ryo into a corner; he smiled nervously up at him.
Kagome wondered if it still worked… "Sit." She said placidly.
WHAM.
Inuyasha hit the floor inches from Ryo. Who stepped over Inuyasha and ran through the smashed wall. "Got to go fill out paper work for this mess!" he yelled as he ran out of site.
Ms. Higurashi had always wondered about that sit word.
Inuyasha groaned and rubbed his head, "Forgot about this damn spell." He pulled at the necklace that had been hidden under his shirt.
The sudden fall had also knocked his hat off. His silver ear's shown through and several people in the hallway who had stopped to look at the smashed wall, now stopped to gawk at the freak boy.
This did not sit well with Kagome. "Get!" she said to the people. She ripped the I. V. out of her arm, which caused a shooting pain up her arm. She then hopped out of bed and stood just before the broken wall. "Go away from here! There is nothing to see here! Move along, move along."
The people groaned in announce of being told what to do but left all the same. It may have been from the murderous look Koga was giving them though.
Inuyasha was now standing behind Kagome, his hat firmly back in place. He put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. Kagome looked up and slightly behind her and smiled at Inuyasha's calm expression.
Does he really love me? Kagome thought. He did wait 500 years for me. What a long time to wait.
Inuyasha turned Kagome so she was facing him and put both his hands on her shoulders.
His sweet expression startled Kagome and she couldn't move.
"You were worth the wait." He leaned down and kissed her on the lips.
Kagome's eyes shot open wide in surprise. But when Inuyasha did not pull away, she closed them and enjoyed his kiss.
Ms. Higurashi was smiling at her daughter and her soon to be son-in-law.
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