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This is where things start getting more interesting (Well I think so, anyway...), so I hope y'all enjoy it!
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Japanese Vocabulary:
Hai-Yes
Gomen-Sorry (informal)
Futon- bedding; mattress
Arigatoo- Thanks (informal)
Oyasumi nasai-Good night
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Ok, so on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, Bone-Eater's Well, Kagome, Kikyo, Souta...starts babbling
btw, Souta did NOT start the Inuyasha series! Rumiko Takahashi did. I just needed it for this story...
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Chapter 5- Yet Another Dream—Or Is It?
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That night when Sara went to sleep, Jo-Jo was abnormally quiet...until—
CRASH!
Sara looked at his cage wearily.
Crash, clang, crash!
Jo-Jo had a piece-of-junk-toy-robot that he must have found in the garbage, and he was controlling it to push open a hole through the wall of his little home. Sara rolled her eyes, got up, and took the robot away. Jo-Jo protested by shaking his little paw at her and chattering about some hamster-gibberish. Sara ignored it as usual, and went to sleep.
"Oof! Huh? Where am I?" Sara said.
She was in a dark place. The ground was dirt, so she thought she was in a cave. She felt her way around and touched a wall made of wood. Then there was another wooden wall, and another, and another. This was not a cave. Sara seemed to be in a small wooden closet or house. She looked up. Some way up, was a square of light. If she could climb up, maybe she could figure out where she was.
Sara felt around for a ladder, rope or even a ledge. She found a leather rope. No, it was plant—a vine. She could climb her way up the vine. The light was closer now!
"Huh?"
She pulled her head up, poking it out of the tunnel/box. But she was in the middle of a forest. Sara climbed out, staring around. Wait a minute, she thought. This is well—a dry well.
Sara saw a large tree, towering above all the others.
That looks familiar, she thought.
Not taking her eyes off the tree, she ran toward it to a better look.
But that's--! She turned around.
"What?"
Sara was in a shrine that also looked familiar. Then she spotted a small house. It's a well house, she thought. Somehow, she knew. And then, someone emerged from the house—Kagome!
Sara gasped when she awoke.
Just then, a small tapping on glass came from her window.
It was still night time.
The knocking continued.
Sara drowsily sat up and looked around.
The knocking turned to loud banging.
"I know you're in there! I san smell you! Open up!!"
"Huh?" Sara said staring at the two shadowy figures behind her closed window. This was oddly familiar...
"Dammit, open up!"
"Inuyasha!"
"OPEN THE DAMN WINDOW!"
Now it was coming together...
Sara got up and opened the window. Two people entered. She knew them. They were Inuyasha and Kagome.
"Finally! What took you?" Inuyasha said.
"Oh no, not this dream again!" Sara groaned.
"What are you talking about? This isn't some dream," Inuyasha said.
"Oh no, now I'm hallucinating," Sara said flatly, pinching herself. This wasn't a dream...
"I don't know what you're talking about, but it's time to explain--."
"But you're not supposed to be real!" Sara nearly yelled, afraid that she was going crazy.
"We are," Kagome said.
"Yeah, we're standing right here!" Inuyasha stated hotly.
"I thought—but then—so then, Souta really did create the T.V. show..."
"Hai! Hey, how'd you know?" Kagome said.
"Well, I keep having these dreams, and that's what you said in them," Sara replied.
"So did these dreams say we were your parents?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, that's it!" Sara said laughing, thinking she was joking around.
"What are you laughing about? It's true!" Inuyasha claimed.
"Sara stopped laughing and stared.
"I am crazy!"
"No, you're not. We're not lying, Koinumera," Kagome said hurriedly.
"What did you call me?" Sara asked, confused.
"Oh, gomen! That's your name—you're real name," Kagome said.
"What? So then, what happened? Why am I here and not living with you?" Sara demanded.
Kagome hesitated.
"We were protecting you," Inuyasha said, his expression softening.
Kagome sniffled, tears welling up in her eyes. Then she ran to Sara sobbing and hugging her tightly.
"I missed you so much! I was worried sick! How was I supposed to know how you were? I hate Kikyo!"
"W-what?"
Inuyasha hugged both of them.
"It's okay," he told Kagome. "Koinumera, it wasn't our fault. It was Kikyo."
His face darkened as he let go of them.
"After we defeated Naraku, Kagome and I—err...we were in love and Kikyo was jealous. She was still alive, you know, in her clay form. When Kagome was pregnant, we hid from Kikyo, but eventually, she found out. About two weeks before we were expecting you, she found us. Kikyo wanted to kill you and Kagome, and then take me to Hell with her. I couldn't let her do that, so I told Kagome to run. I tried to kill Kikyo, but she ran after Kagome when she heard her scream.
"I knew she was just entering labor. You grew fast. I ran to Kagome and carried her away. I knew she wasn't safe, so I took her to the Well and jumped in. Kagome and I knew what we had to do—leave Japan completely. Kagome was experienced enough with her miko powers to use the Well to take us somewhere else, other than the shrine. We found ourselves in America—a hospital to be exact.
"Kagome used her powers to change my appearance to an illusion, so that all the humans would only see me as another human. Even though we weren't scheduled there, the doctors helped us, and you were born. I could smell Kikyo nearby, so we had to hide you. Kagome used as much power as she could to turn you human. It was only strong enough to make you look human, so your powers were still within you, but it had to do.
"I found a woman who bore a daughter too. The baby was born a few minutes after you, and baby died. Before the parents and doctors found out, I took it and put you in its place. Kagome and I named you before we left you with your guardians—Koinumera. We left the hospital taking the dead baby back to Feudal Japan with us. Kikyo found us and snatched the baby away.
"Kikyo was distracted with the fact that the baby was already dead, so I tried to kill her, but I only managed to injure her. She fled, of course. For many years, we searched for her, and recently we did. She's gone now."
"You mean, Kikyo's dead?" Sara—or rather Koinumera—asked.
Inuyasha nodded.
Koinumera was silent for a long time, Those dreams were trying to tell me something, she thought.
"So...you're my parents?" Koinumera asked.
They both nodded, and tears sprung to Kagome's eyes again. Kagome hugged her long lost daughter once again, sobbing. A lump formed in Koinumera's throat as these confirmations sunk in. And finally, she cried too.
"Mama? My mom? I can't believe this is happening!" She sobbed.
"Shh...it's okay," Inuyasha said soothingly holding both of his loved ones.
"Daddy!" Koinumera hugged tightly—a little too tightly.
"Ack! Gasp...okay, okay!" Inuyasha breathed a sigh of relief when Koinumera loosened her hold.
When they finished their happy reunion, they all stepped back, Inuyasha and Kagome facing Koinumera.
"We want you to come back with us," Kagome said.
"Where?" Koinumera asked.
"To Feudal Japan, of course!" Kagome laughed.
"But what about my friends and my guardians?"
"We'll tell your guardians in the morning," Inuyasha stated firmly. "And what about your friends?"
"Well, I can't just leave them..." Koinumera said slowly.
"And?" Inuyasha inquired impatiently, suspicious at what she was getting at.
"W-e-ll... they could, maybe come with us?"
"No."
"Please?"
Inuyasha sighed and looked at Kagome.
"Koinumera, what about their families?" Kagome questioned.
"They could sneak through, kinda like you did!"
"I don't know..." Kagome said uneasily, while thinking, I never sneaked through....
"I could talk to them."
"I guess you could talk to them tomorrow at school," Inuyasha said.
"Thank you! Oh, and speaking of school, I can't just leave that behind!"
"Nuh-uh! No way are you gonna go back and forth between time just because of this—" Kagome stopped her husband form going further.
"You can still go to school," Kagome said.
"But—!" Inuyasha wasn't going to put up with it again.
"No, Inuyasha! She can still continue her studies!"
"Oh and uhh...I just realized. How do you know English? I just noticed that we're speaking English," Kagome said, confused.
"Oh, just a simple rosary spell! No biggie!" Kagome said, one hand behind her head and the other waving it away like it was no big deal.
"But you can't keep doing that. How am I supposed to talk to people in Feudal Japan?"
"Feh! As soon as you're in your true form, you'll know Japanese automatically," Inuyasha said.
"Really? And what do you mean 'true form', huh?" Koinumera said.
"Let's not worry about that now. Let's get some sleep," Kagome said.
"Oh, and I have a futon here!" Koinumera pulled it out of her closet and lay it down, throwing down a couple of pillows and a blanket. "Here."
"Arigatoo! Kagome said.
"Get some sleep," Inuyasha said to his daughter, sounding very much like a concerned father.
"Okay. Oyasumi nasai!"
Soon, Koinumera fell asleep.
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A/N: Okies! Well, I know that Inuyasha was a little OOC, but he's had a lot of influence from Kagome, and he's older. Plus, he has a daughter to love. But don't worry; he'll be back to his old self again, once he finds that his own daughter is a trouble-maker!!!
I hope I didn't confuse you guys with anything, but if you have questions at all, don't be afraid to ask!!! I'll be happy to answer them the best I can.
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[08/08/04: Edited Chapter]