I'm just gonna add at the beginning that sentences and such that have *~* above and below them are flashbacks or dreams. And * is a change of setting.
The next morning they ate in silence.
They would be at the village before lunch time.
Kagome dressed in her modern clothes, consisting of pale blue bell-bottom jeans and a thin white blouse with drooping sleeves and where the neckline was a straight line underneath her collarbone.
She slung the black book bag over her shoulder and for once didn't even say good bye to Kaede before she headed for the old well.
The quiet, suspensful serenity of this forest sent both chills and peace down her spine.
She remembered when she first came here.
*~*
"Granpa? Souta?!"
*~*
She sighed as she dropped into the well for the first time in a month and a week.
*
"What happened to her? It seems she is able to wake up, but not motivated to do so." Said an elderly female youkai with hoopy grey hair and emerald (slightly faded) eyes. Her pointed ears perked to here his cold answer, which was so softly spoken nobody outside of five feet of him would probably be able to hear.
"She was attacked." He was always very short, or simply, spoken.
"By...?" The woman said, not pressing him, for even if she did not fear for her life, she had been serving Inutaisho's family since he was a pup, she still held a bit of caution towards the cool youkai lord, as did everybody else, no matter how long they had served faithfully.
"Ghosts." Sesshomaru answered, not taking his eyes off Rin.
"Ghosts?" The womans head snapped towards him.
He gave a faint nod but made no other motion or comment.
"She might be frightened they are still lurking, and therefor is terrified to open her eyes and supposedly meet them." The woman said softly.
He nodded again, faintly.
"Poor girl. What made her come to be attacked by the restless dead?" The woman again asked.
"She did not stay with Jaken as I had asked. When she came to find me, she found herself in the midst of them."
"Perhaps they enjoyed seeing the living fight to see one of them die. The girl interfered and perhaps for that they were angry, or desperate to keep her off." Said the woman quietly.
"The wench found injustice in what my idiot half brother was innevitably planning, and turned her arrow to untransform my father's sword."
With that, the taiyoukai left.
*
Kagome told her story to her family, leaving out certain parts, handed over a few choice items she had picked up for her grandfather, livened up the story for Souta's liking...
Kagome was exhausted really. For once she wanted to just be alone instead of being prodded by her parents... like some caged animal... And they wanted to know how it felt to live in the cage...
*~*
The battle continued between the two blood thirsty brothers, both were ready to kill.
Kagome stood alone on one of the hills, her legs going numb, and she suddenly wished she had nabbed a blanket when they had run from the battle.
Kagome knew Miroku wouldn't look while a battle was going on... Not when they could loose somebody.
She held an arrow loosely notched in her bow, pointed towards the ground.
Her head shot up as she, and everybody else no doubt, heard the blood curdling scream that belonged to Rin, standing a good distance away with ghosts swirling about her menacingly.
Inuyasha looked up at Kagome, as Sesshomaru's head shot towards the girl, taking his mind completely off the battle, and triumph was dawning in his eyes.
Kagome grinned back at him, their enemy would finally die.... And one less thing to deal with.
Sesshomaru looked back up at her in fury when he heard her pull the bow string taut.
She looked at him and smiled, letting the arrow fly towards him.
He automatically jumped away from it, and that was when Inuyasha's sword cut through his back, a look of intense pain flashed on his face but he hid it, he would die with his dignity.
His lifeless body hit the ground and the spirits trapping Rin danced and sung and cheered, the village seeming to come back to life.
Then everybody dissapeared. Inuyasha looked like he could have kissed her before, she thought she had been happy, but now in this deep void of her mind, she stood alone.
Then a tiny voice cried, sobbing, at her, "Why did you do it?! Why did you kill him? I loved him- he was my daddy!"
She looked frantically for the little voice, but there was nobody in sight.
She suddenly felt like she was waist high in freezing cold water, and she could see the faint red light up ahead, it was cold, but Kagome moved towards it against her will.
There, in front of her, Stood Inuyasha, over the dead bodies of Rin and Jaken. Tears streaked the little girls face, and the toads wide eyes looked on in abandonement, perhaps acceptance. With Sesshomaru gone he had no reason to live anyways.
"Why? Why!" She choked through her own sobs.
"Nothing my brother treasured or had to do with will live if I have my way!" Inuyasha cried, a mad glint in his eye.
"And you- you were close to that little girl..." Inuyasha stepped towards her.
She stumbled back, "No! No, I didn't!" She cried desperately.
Inuyasha suddenly dissolved into Naraku.
"YOU killed Rin and Sesshomaru and Jaken???" She asked fearfully but also angrily.
He smiled and approached her, leaning down to whisper, "No. I will tell you what did though."
She shivered but stood stalk still.
"It was. You." He said smiling.
She jerked back, "Iie! I would never do this!"
"Do you love Inuyasha?" He asked abruptly.
"Iie... Ano... As a friend..." She looked away.
"You do not love him, you wish for his praise though, for him to see you as an individual." Naraku said.
Her eyes darted to his for an instant then back to the ground.
"You are a dream." She stated quietly.
"My advice is true." He said, "I have come to tell you, that if you keep wishing for his praise, you will come innevitably to a horrible battle, because you will persuade yourself you love him, will do anything, it is easy enough to believe, but your love will never be true to him, because at the point of your highest love for him, he treated you like dirt, saw another through your skin. I have come to tell you, if you do not think for yourself, let the hanyou go, you will miss something in life, and it will be the same... As if you did kill the little girl, and Sesshomaru..." He cackled as her eyes widened until light consumed them, and she had to shut her eyes tightly to avoid blindness.
*~*
Kagome woke with a start and all of a sudden had a flash of a little girl on a futon, cheeks pale and eyes closed.
Rin.
"I'm afraid..." It echoed in her mind.
Kagome sprung from her bed, cold sweat trickling down her forehead as she wrote a note to her parents, what to say if Inuyasha came to look for her and where she was actually going (quite vaguelly), then she slung her bookbag over her shoulder and left the house in a frenzy, darkness of outside swallowing her as she spinted again for the old well..