Destiny
Warning: This Inuyasha fan fiction happens in an alternate universe. I do not own Inuyasha. If I ever did, they would be in a much bizarre situation.
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Summary: What do you think will happen if Kagome never fell from the well? What if Inuyasha came from another dimension to hunt down Kagome? Inuyasha's Story, done in a way it never was, with a twist. The first part of the two-part fan fiction: Amai Yume, This is Destiny... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
This is for the memories of my best friend bound for America. Bon Voyage, tomoyo! And Good Luck!
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Chapter 2 - Friendship?
*Song still condensed from Evanescence's "Taking Over Me"
{I believe in you}
It was lunchtime. Kagome noticed that Inori has made no effort to use the spare time to replenish his hunger. She thought that maybe, he was just getting himself used to the new environment.
"You want some?" she offered her lunch box.
Inori looked at her face for a while, then picked a sushi from those she had with the chopsticks she had offered.
"Arigato." He said before eating.
Kagome shifted her seat to face him and she placed her lunch on his table. "Go ahead. Take any thing you like."
"Arigato Gozaimasu."
They ate in silence for a while. "Would you mind if I ask you a question?" Kagome asked
"No. Go Ahead."
"Well..." 'What the hell am I going to ask him?!'
"What is it?"
"I-I... kinda noticed you keep on staring at me..."
"...Gomenasai... Very... You just look a lot like my sister."
"Where is she?"
"She's gone."
"I'm sorry about that." (I don't know how to say your condolences in Jap.)
"Its alright, Really."
Silence.
"Ms. Higurashi?"
"Call me Kagome."
"Ms. Kagome..."
She sighed at the formal address. "What is it, Mr. Yamamoto?"
"Inori." He corrected.
She smiled "...Inori?..."
"You did not trust me as well when I passed by this morning. I saw the fear in your eyes."
She lowered her head. "...sorry about that..."
"Is something bothering you, Kagome?"
She really needs some one to confide with. "Promise you won't laugh at me?"
"I promise. Now, will you tell me or would you still fail to trust me?"
She gave out a big sigh and began to relate everything about the dreams.
"I see..." he said "You shouldn't worry about that you know."
"But what should I do? Dreams like that are bound to happen in the near future, no matter what!"
"If you continue, all of it will just really take you over!"
She then looked at him. "Then... You really believe in what I was saying?"
"Of course. As long as it would take all the worry from your head."
Her face lightened up upon knowing that someone finally believes in what she was saying.
"You know what?" she smiled "I kinda have some spare money here. Want to get an ice cream after class?"
He smiled back in agreement.
The bell rang to mark the end of the lunch break. Everyone returned to his or her proper seats and Kagome returned her seat back to its former position smiling happily...
As soon as her back was before him, he smiled to himself inside him.
"You are such a gullible little fool, Lady Kikyo..."
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{I'll give up everything just to find you}
Saturday. Kagome went out to run a few errands for her mother. Aboard her bike, she scooted by the supermarket and entered the small, air-conditioned building.
She glanced at the list at her hand and took note of the stuff that she already have in her basket. She was about to go to the counter to pay everything when she remembered that Shouta asked her to buy him cookies.
She sighed and searched for the cookies. She found them way up the top shelf. Seeing no one could help her reach it and eyeing the ladder nearby, she decided to get it herself.
She was groping down the ladder when she suddenly lost her footing and slipped!
She was surprised to find herself unharmed and she opened her eyes...
Someone had caught her in mid fall. And it was the last person on Earth that she thought would ever do it for her.
"...Inori?..."
"You should have called somebody to do that for you."
"What are you doing here?" she asked as soon as he had set her down. She was blushing.
"I was looking around when I saw you. Good thing I got just in time."
"Arigato gozaimasu"
Silence.
"Are you going to stand there all day or are you going to pay for all that?" he said in a demanding tone
She pushed her cart to the counter and started to count the money she had with her. She found that she was a couple of yens short...
"Here." He said, giving his money to the cashier.
"Inori! ... I-I... I"
The cashier gave him his change. "Next time, bring some extra money with you, okay?" he told her in a parent-like tone
"But..."
"Let's just say that that's for the ice cream yesterday... Come on. I'll accompany you home..."
"...NO!... I mean... I'll be... passing by other stores before going home... so... I think you should... go on without me! Yeah! That's right..."
She quickly ran to the bike rack and sped away, not even glancing back at Inori...
Because she knew she was blushing...
Inori watched her as she sped away to leave. When she was clearly out of sight, he walked to the opposite direction and disappeared...
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{I have to be with you to live to breathe}
"What are you doing?" his reflection boomed at him.
He did not answer.
"I thought we are going to have our revenge on her! Why are you befriending her for?"
"That was part of the plan. I will gain her trust and the second she is gullible, I will take the Shikon no Tama from her."
His reflection eyed at him for a moment. "Are you sure that she really has the Shikon? I don't want anything planned to go wrong just because she is not the real target."
He then glared at his reflection to the latter's surprise.
"Hmn!" was all his reflection exclaimed before it disappeared back into the darkness of the mirror.
As soon as he saw his true reflection back on the mirror, he sighed, knowing that the devil had gone back to where he belonged. With his mind, he parted the curtains in front of him and the light of the bright full moon shone into the house and slicing the darkness that had governed. Just a few walks across was the shrine, and staring straight on will enable you to see a girl's room, Kagome's room to be exact. There was enough distance in order not to see the whole interior of the room, but his eyes were sharp enough to see exactly what she was doing. He can even hear what she was thinking.
She had just returned from her bath and her whole body was covered with a towel. She then went to her dresser and checked her face for blemishes and pimples. She smiled inside when she found out she had neither.
Then her attention was turned to the necklace on the dresser. Her thoughts saddened as she took it in her hand and rolled the huge pearl-like pendant on it. She recalled her meteor 'dream' and felt puzzled.
It was then that she suddenly felt that she was being watched!
She stopped and scanned the wholeness of her room. She eyed the window, whose curtains lay open. Before closing it, she eyed the house next door...
It remained speechless.
Her curtains met and he stopped his investigation. He knows that he will never get through the power of the Shikon.
'You need proof? I'll give you proof! Tomorrow you'll know that I have not made a mistake!'
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That night, she had a dream. But to her surprise, (and also part-joy), the stranger is not the element of her dream.
She was standing before her life-sized mirror, staring at her own reflection. She touched her reflection and suddenly, it changed. She knows that it was still her that she was seeing at the other end of the silvery glass, but the image was different. Yes, there was a close resemblance... but the lady on the other side was a miko... while she is a plain student...
The image moved and held her hand. Kagome tried to withdraw, but she tightened her grip. The reflection then slipped out of the mirror as if it was a mere curtain of water, without letting her hand go. As soon as the image has set foot before her, everything around her disappeared, and they were both thrown into the darkness...
"Who are you?" she asked the miko.
Kagome smiled inside upon hearing her own question and thought that it had been used way too redundant in her dreams.
The miko replied, with eyes staring straight at her that seemed to read her soul.
"I am Lady Kikyo. I came here to warn you about the hanyou in your dreams. He has come to reclaim the Shikon no Tama and it's your mission as the new miko to protect the Shikon from the hanyou."
"I don't understand... A hanyou? You mean he's half-human and half-demon? And I'm no miko. I just live in this shrine that was given to us by our ancestors..."
"Perhaps, it is better if I tell you the story of the hanyou..."
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At that, the surroundings changed. The miko, Lady Kikyo, had disappeared. She found herself inside a dense forest filled with a multitude of towering wood. There was a bubbling river nearby. She walked to the river to look at herself when suddenly a small sturdy boat that drifted by the river's gentle flow called her attention.
There were two beings aboard the said boat. One was a miko, which she, for some unknown reason, could not recall who the miko was. The other was a young man that wore a red haori and has long silver hair. She found something different about the young man. He has a pair of pointy dog-like ears that sticks out the sides of his head. She also noticed that he has sharp claws at the end of his fingers and a fang stuck out of his mouth without his notice.
'He must be the hanyou.' She thought.
Suddenly, the wind picked up. Kagome had to shut her eyes to keep the dust from entering them. Then, the wind calmed a bit, and she found herself beside the miko. The miko held a long bow armed with an equally long arrow that was aimed straight for the silver haired hanyou. On the hanyou's hands was the Shikon no Tama, and Kagome realized that something is terribly wrong.
The bow was stretched to it's limit and soon, the arrow was flying in the air. It had cut the wind and pierced the hanyou's heart, causing him to hit a large tree and pinning him to the said tree. There were disbelief in his eyes while the miko walked forward to pick the Shikon. As for the miko, she recalled the things that led her to do something very much against her will.
Kagome couldn't believe what the miko was recalling in her mind. Back at the temple, she saw the hanyou in the fire. He was the answer to her one question: her mission in life. HE was the answer. HE must be eliminated.
"Gomenasai, Inuyasha." The miko said. She then turned to leave.
The hanyou mumbled her name before succumbing into the gracious arms of Eternal Sleep. Kagome did not perceive it, but she knew it had ringed something in the miko's heart as she stopped in her tracks when she heard him call.
The miko was unaware that she had been wiping tears from her eyes... She then went up to the river, drowning her tears with the water she splashed on her face while hoping that no one would notice the redness of her eyes when she returns to their village.
The miko went pale when she turned to see who was behind her. It was the hanyou! She tried to stand but he struck her first, hitting her shoulder and causing it to bleed profusely that the water had turned into red. Then he disappeared without a trace, leaving the poor wounded miko to bleed to death by the riverbank...
Hurried footsteps approached her as she slowly feel the effect of losing so much blood. She saw her little sister, who was crying over her while she said her last wish. Every one from the village came and wept over her as she slowly fell into endless ebony...
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"The hanyou's name is Inuyasha. He will come after the Shikon, no matter what."
Lady Kikyo's voice surprised Kagome out of her reverie. She turned to see the miko.
"He has come to your world. He will try to trick you as he did many years ago. He uses his mortal form to do his tasks so you need to be aware of his presence here in your time." The miko warned her.
"Who is he now?"
"The name he has for this time frame is..."
In one split second, everything had been thrown into a void and suddenly, Kagome was shifted back to reality when her eyes flew open in surprise...
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"Do not mess with my plans, Kikyo..."
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"Oh no! I'm going to be late!..." Kagome screamed when she saw the clock. It was only thirty minutes before school bell rings and it takes her an hour to walk from the shrine to Danketsu.
So she decided to take her bike to school. But for some unknown reason, it seemed that her bike has a flat tire and she has not much time to pump it up.
She then concluded that she will finally earn a late mark in her report card and she decided to run all the way to school.
But to her surprise, she found Inori passing by just below the temple stairs. And to her luck, he was riding on his motorcycle!
"INORII!!!! WAIT!!!" she screamed at him.
He stopped and looked back at her. She was running towards him like he was made out of money. As if on cue, Inori threw her another helmet and quickly ordered her to hold tightly on him.
Kagome screamed in both surprise and terror when the motorcycle suddenly jerked and picked up speed in just a few seconds! They were sweeping past pedestrians and automobiles and it seemed that she would have a heart attack with the way he overtakes buses that were twice as large as them!
"Inori! We're going to wrong way! School's way over to the other side!" she managed to scream over the roaring motor's engine.
"I know a shortcut!"
All they could hear afterwards was the loud roaring of the motor in their ears. Kagome tried to familiarize herself with the surroundings but found out that she doesn't recognize any of these at all!
She looked in front and saw that they were already by the docks now. She saw a drawbridge on the side and prayed hard that they are not going to pass that way because the bridges are slowly moving apart.
"KAGOME!!"
"WHAT?!!!"
"DON'T LET GO!!!!!!!!!!"
"WHAT THE HE- ..."
The motorcycle turned to the direction of the drawbridge, which was slowly rising higher and higher. Kagome panicked and held on Inori's waist as tightly as she can. The drawbridge was about 45o from the water now and it rose higher and higher. The motorcycle reached the tip in full speed and it flew high above the gap. They were about to land to the other side when they suddenly realized that the jump was way to short to reach!!! Terrorized in fear, she closed her eyes as both of them fell into the sea with a loud splash.
Inori swam up to shore and coughed out most of the water he had accidentally drunk. 'So much for proof.' He thought. "Kagome, are you all right?"
"Kagome?"
He suddenly realized that the girl was not ashore with him and it hit him that she was still on the water!
'Oh crap! I can't lose you too soon!' he said under his breath before diving back into the water.
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Scenes of what had happened earlier flashed before her eyes as she slowly sank lower and lower into the dark abyss. All she can see in each and every one is Inori.
The murky water made it hard for her to open her eyes, yet she opened them to see who was it that was calling out to her. And she saw the stranger from her dreams! She wanted to flee, but there was no means of escape... The figure came closer and closer, arms outstretched towards her and trying to hold her hand. As he came loser, it suddenly came to her who the stranger really was and she reached out to take his hand. But before they even met, she fell unconscious due to lack of air. Bubbles escaped her lips as her lungs collapsed to the water pressure and she sank faster than before...
She felt arms wrapping themselves around her body and lifting her from her watery grave. She tried to look at him, but darkness had already taken her over.
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{You're taking over me}
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Author's note:
Thank you for all those who took time to read Ch 1 and got interested enough to read Ch 2. Please review. As I said before, in your hands lies the future of this story...
Warning: This Inuyasha fan fiction happens in an alternate universe. I do not own Inuyasha. If I ever did, they would be in a much bizarre situation.
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Summary: What do you think will happen if Kagome never fell from the well? What if Inuyasha came from another dimension to hunt down Kagome? Inuyasha's Story, done in a way it never was, with a twist. The first part of the two-part fan fiction: Amai Yume, This is Destiny... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
This is for the memories of my best friend bound for America. Bon Voyage, tomoyo! And Good Luck!
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Chapter 2 - Friendship?
*Song still condensed from Evanescence's "Taking Over Me"
{I believe in you}
It was lunchtime. Kagome noticed that Inori has made no effort to use the spare time to replenish his hunger. She thought that maybe, he was just getting himself used to the new environment.
"You want some?" she offered her lunch box.
Inori looked at her face for a while, then picked a sushi from those she had with the chopsticks she had offered.
"Arigato." He said before eating.
Kagome shifted her seat to face him and she placed her lunch on his table. "Go ahead. Take any thing you like."
"Arigato Gozaimasu."
They ate in silence for a while. "Would you mind if I ask you a question?" Kagome asked
"No. Go Ahead."
"Well..." 'What the hell am I going to ask him?!'
"What is it?"
"I-I... kinda noticed you keep on staring at me..."
"...Gomenasai... Very... You just look a lot like my sister."
"Where is she?"
"She's gone."
"I'm sorry about that." (I don't know how to say your condolences in Jap.)
"Its alright, Really."
Silence.
"Ms. Higurashi?"
"Call me Kagome."
"Ms. Kagome..."
She sighed at the formal address. "What is it, Mr. Yamamoto?"
"Inori." He corrected.
She smiled "...Inori?..."
"You did not trust me as well when I passed by this morning. I saw the fear in your eyes."
She lowered her head. "...sorry about that..."
"Is something bothering you, Kagome?"
She really needs some one to confide with. "Promise you won't laugh at me?"
"I promise. Now, will you tell me or would you still fail to trust me?"
She gave out a big sigh and began to relate everything about the dreams.
"I see..." he said "You shouldn't worry about that you know."
"But what should I do? Dreams like that are bound to happen in the near future, no matter what!"
"If you continue, all of it will just really take you over!"
She then looked at him. "Then... You really believe in what I was saying?"
"Of course. As long as it would take all the worry from your head."
Her face lightened up upon knowing that someone finally believes in what she was saying.
"You know what?" she smiled "I kinda have some spare money here. Want to get an ice cream after class?"
He smiled back in agreement.
The bell rang to mark the end of the lunch break. Everyone returned to his or her proper seats and Kagome returned her seat back to its former position smiling happily...
As soon as her back was before him, he smiled to himself inside him.
"You are such a gullible little fool, Lady Kikyo..."
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{I'll give up everything just to find you}
Saturday. Kagome went out to run a few errands for her mother. Aboard her bike, she scooted by the supermarket and entered the small, air-conditioned building.
She glanced at the list at her hand and took note of the stuff that she already have in her basket. She was about to go to the counter to pay everything when she remembered that Shouta asked her to buy him cookies.
She sighed and searched for the cookies. She found them way up the top shelf. Seeing no one could help her reach it and eyeing the ladder nearby, she decided to get it herself.
She was groping down the ladder when she suddenly lost her footing and slipped!
She was surprised to find herself unharmed and she opened her eyes...
Someone had caught her in mid fall. And it was the last person on Earth that she thought would ever do it for her.
"...Inori?..."
"You should have called somebody to do that for you."
"What are you doing here?" she asked as soon as he had set her down. She was blushing.
"I was looking around when I saw you. Good thing I got just in time."
"Arigato gozaimasu"
Silence.
"Are you going to stand there all day or are you going to pay for all that?" he said in a demanding tone
She pushed her cart to the counter and started to count the money she had with her. She found that she was a couple of yens short...
"Here." He said, giving his money to the cashier.
"Inori! ... I-I... I"
The cashier gave him his change. "Next time, bring some extra money with you, okay?" he told her in a parent-like tone
"But..."
"Let's just say that that's for the ice cream yesterday... Come on. I'll accompany you home..."
"...NO!... I mean... I'll be... passing by other stores before going home... so... I think you should... go on without me! Yeah! That's right..."
She quickly ran to the bike rack and sped away, not even glancing back at Inori...
Because she knew she was blushing...
Inori watched her as she sped away to leave. When she was clearly out of sight, he walked to the opposite direction and disappeared...
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{I have to be with you to live to breathe}
"What are you doing?" his reflection boomed at him.
He did not answer.
"I thought we are going to have our revenge on her! Why are you befriending her for?"
"That was part of the plan. I will gain her trust and the second she is gullible, I will take the Shikon no Tama from her."
His reflection eyed at him for a moment. "Are you sure that she really has the Shikon? I don't want anything planned to go wrong just because she is not the real target."
He then glared at his reflection to the latter's surprise.
"Hmn!" was all his reflection exclaimed before it disappeared back into the darkness of the mirror.
As soon as he saw his true reflection back on the mirror, he sighed, knowing that the devil had gone back to where he belonged. With his mind, he parted the curtains in front of him and the light of the bright full moon shone into the house and slicing the darkness that had governed. Just a few walks across was the shrine, and staring straight on will enable you to see a girl's room, Kagome's room to be exact. There was enough distance in order not to see the whole interior of the room, but his eyes were sharp enough to see exactly what she was doing. He can even hear what she was thinking.
She had just returned from her bath and her whole body was covered with a towel. She then went to her dresser and checked her face for blemishes and pimples. She smiled inside when she found out she had neither.
Then her attention was turned to the necklace on the dresser. Her thoughts saddened as she took it in her hand and rolled the huge pearl-like pendant on it. She recalled her meteor 'dream' and felt puzzled.
It was then that she suddenly felt that she was being watched!
She stopped and scanned the wholeness of her room. She eyed the window, whose curtains lay open. Before closing it, she eyed the house next door...
It remained speechless.
Her curtains met and he stopped his investigation. He knows that he will never get through the power of the Shikon.
'You need proof? I'll give you proof! Tomorrow you'll know that I have not made a mistake!'
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That night, she had a dream. But to her surprise, (and also part-joy), the stranger is not the element of her dream.
She was standing before her life-sized mirror, staring at her own reflection. She touched her reflection and suddenly, it changed. She knows that it was still her that she was seeing at the other end of the silvery glass, but the image was different. Yes, there was a close resemblance... but the lady on the other side was a miko... while she is a plain student...
The image moved and held her hand. Kagome tried to withdraw, but she tightened her grip. The reflection then slipped out of the mirror as if it was a mere curtain of water, without letting her hand go. As soon as the image has set foot before her, everything around her disappeared, and they were both thrown into the darkness...
"Who are you?" she asked the miko.
Kagome smiled inside upon hearing her own question and thought that it had been used way too redundant in her dreams.
The miko replied, with eyes staring straight at her that seemed to read her soul.
"I am Lady Kikyo. I came here to warn you about the hanyou in your dreams. He has come to reclaim the Shikon no Tama and it's your mission as the new miko to protect the Shikon from the hanyou."
"I don't understand... A hanyou? You mean he's half-human and half-demon? And I'm no miko. I just live in this shrine that was given to us by our ancestors..."
"Perhaps, it is better if I tell you the story of the hanyou..."
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At that, the surroundings changed. The miko, Lady Kikyo, had disappeared. She found herself inside a dense forest filled with a multitude of towering wood. There was a bubbling river nearby. She walked to the river to look at herself when suddenly a small sturdy boat that drifted by the river's gentle flow called her attention.
There were two beings aboard the said boat. One was a miko, which she, for some unknown reason, could not recall who the miko was. The other was a young man that wore a red haori and has long silver hair. She found something different about the young man. He has a pair of pointy dog-like ears that sticks out the sides of his head. She also noticed that he has sharp claws at the end of his fingers and a fang stuck out of his mouth without his notice.
'He must be the hanyou.' She thought.
Suddenly, the wind picked up. Kagome had to shut her eyes to keep the dust from entering them. Then, the wind calmed a bit, and she found herself beside the miko. The miko held a long bow armed with an equally long arrow that was aimed straight for the silver haired hanyou. On the hanyou's hands was the Shikon no Tama, and Kagome realized that something is terribly wrong.
The bow was stretched to it's limit and soon, the arrow was flying in the air. It had cut the wind and pierced the hanyou's heart, causing him to hit a large tree and pinning him to the said tree. There were disbelief in his eyes while the miko walked forward to pick the Shikon. As for the miko, she recalled the things that led her to do something very much against her will.
Kagome couldn't believe what the miko was recalling in her mind. Back at the temple, she saw the hanyou in the fire. He was the answer to her one question: her mission in life. HE was the answer. HE must be eliminated.
"Gomenasai, Inuyasha." The miko said. She then turned to leave.
The hanyou mumbled her name before succumbing into the gracious arms of Eternal Sleep. Kagome did not perceive it, but she knew it had ringed something in the miko's heart as she stopped in her tracks when she heard him call.
The miko was unaware that she had been wiping tears from her eyes... She then went up to the river, drowning her tears with the water she splashed on her face while hoping that no one would notice the redness of her eyes when she returns to their village.
The miko went pale when she turned to see who was behind her. It was the hanyou! She tried to stand but he struck her first, hitting her shoulder and causing it to bleed profusely that the water had turned into red. Then he disappeared without a trace, leaving the poor wounded miko to bleed to death by the riverbank...
Hurried footsteps approached her as she slowly feel the effect of losing so much blood. She saw her little sister, who was crying over her while she said her last wish. Every one from the village came and wept over her as she slowly fell into endless ebony...
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"The hanyou's name is Inuyasha. He will come after the Shikon, no matter what."
Lady Kikyo's voice surprised Kagome out of her reverie. She turned to see the miko.
"He has come to your world. He will try to trick you as he did many years ago. He uses his mortal form to do his tasks so you need to be aware of his presence here in your time." The miko warned her.
"Who is he now?"
"The name he has for this time frame is..."
In one split second, everything had been thrown into a void and suddenly, Kagome was shifted back to reality when her eyes flew open in surprise...
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"Do not mess with my plans, Kikyo..."
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"Oh no! I'm going to be late!..." Kagome screamed when she saw the clock. It was only thirty minutes before school bell rings and it takes her an hour to walk from the shrine to Danketsu.
So she decided to take her bike to school. But for some unknown reason, it seemed that her bike has a flat tire and she has not much time to pump it up.
She then concluded that she will finally earn a late mark in her report card and she decided to run all the way to school.
But to her surprise, she found Inori passing by just below the temple stairs. And to her luck, he was riding on his motorcycle!
"INORII!!!! WAIT!!!" she screamed at him.
He stopped and looked back at her. She was running towards him like he was made out of money. As if on cue, Inori threw her another helmet and quickly ordered her to hold tightly on him.
Kagome screamed in both surprise and terror when the motorcycle suddenly jerked and picked up speed in just a few seconds! They were sweeping past pedestrians and automobiles and it seemed that she would have a heart attack with the way he overtakes buses that were twice as large as them!
"Inori! We're going to wrong way! School's way over to the other side!" she managed to scream over the roaring motor's engine.
"I know a shortcut!"
All they could hear afterwards was the loud roaring of the motor in their ears. Kagome tried to familiarize herself with the surroundings but found out that she doesn't recognize any of these at all!
She looked in front and saw that they were already by the docks now. She saw a drawbridge on the side and prayed hard that they are not going to pass that way because the bridges are slowly moving apart.
"KAGOME!!"
"WHAT?!!!"
"DON'T LET GO!!!!!!!!!!"
"WHAT THE HE- ..."
The motorcycle turned to the direction of the drawbridge, which was slowly rising higher and higher. Kagome panicked and held on Inori's waist as tightly as she can. The drawbridge was about 45o from the water now and it rose higher and higher. The motorcycle reached the tip in full speed and it flew high above the gap. They were about to land to the other side when they suddenly realized that the jump was way to short to reach!!! Terrorized in fear, she closed her eyes as both of them fell into the sea with a loud splash.
Inori swam up to shore and coughed out most of the water he had accidentally drunk. 'So much for proof.' He thought. "Kagome, are you all right?"
"Kagome?"
He suddenly realized that the girl was not ashore with him and it hit him that she was still on the water!
'Oh crap! I can't lose you too soon!' he said under his breath before diving back into the water.
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Scenes of what had happened earlier flashed before her eyes as she slowly sank lower and lower into the dark abyss. All she can see in each and every one is Inori.
The murky water made it hard for her to open her eyes, yet she opened them to see who was it that was calling out to her. And she saw the stranger from her dreams! She wanted to flee, but there was no means of escape... The figure came closer and closer, arms outstretched towards her and trying to hold her hand. As he came loser, it suddenly came to her who the stranger really was and she reached out to take his hand. But before they even met, she fell unconscious due to lack of air. Bubbles escaped her lips as her lungs collapsed to the water pressure and she sank faster than before...
She felt arms wrapping themselves around her body and lifting her from her watery grave. She tried to look at him, but darkness had already taken her over.
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{You're taking over me}
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Author's note:
Thank you for all those who took time to read Ch 1 and got interested enough to read Ch 2. Please review. As I said before, in your hands lies the future of this story...