Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha in any way, shape, or form. I give all credit to the great Rumiko Takahashi.
Author's Note: Another Inuyasha story... will I finish this one? I hope so. My ideas come to me as I write, so, like every other story, I have no idea where its going. If you, the readers, have any ideas to help the story out, I'll be sure to concider them and possibley use them in my story. I like my readers suggestions. Writing the stories how they want them tends to bring more readers in.
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There are times when I just sit and think of what could have been and what should have been. And then there are times when I just sit alone and think about him, and all that he did to me. Hurt me, scared me, protected me, cared for me, but never gave a single word that he loved me. What is a girl to do?
Hi, I'm Kagome Higurashi. A few years ago my eyes were opened to a whole new world, literally. I was pulled down the ancient well on my family's shrine by a demon, and on the other side, in the Sengoku Jidai, I met a hanyou named Inuyasha. It ended up being that I was the reincarnation of his former lover, Kikyo, who, before her death, was the keeper of the Shikon no Tama, Jewel of Four Souls. Now I hold the responsiblity to find and collect the shards of the jewel that shattered because of my purified arrow.
We met many friends along the way. Sango, the demon slayer, who later became my best friend and her pet cat demon Kirara. Miroku, a perverted monk with a wind tunnel in his right hand. Shippou, an orphaned kitsune who seemes to have adopted me as his mother. These were my traveling companions. We were all after the same thing, the Shikon shards, and the death of a hanyou known as Naraku, who at some point or another, runioned all of our lives.
But, you probably already know the story. Sad ending really. Joyous for some, and miserable for others. Inuyasha defeated Naraku in the end and revenged Kikyo's death. Miroku's wind tunnel vanished, and Sango got her brother back. A happy ending? Not even close. Inuyasha chose HER over me; the dead priestess, the walking clay pot, a zombie who feeds on the souls of young women. Could it get any better? Oh, I'm sure it could, and it did. I announced my love to the dog demon, threw the jewel at him, and went home. And he never came back to get me. I was stuck in my time, alone, unloved, never to return.
Chapter One: A New Way Home -Part. One
The sun was shining and a few white clouds littered the heaven filled sky. A flock of birds flew over head chipping to one another. The day couldn't be any better. Kagome hummed happily as she walked through the park. It was Spring Break from her first semester in college and she planned on enjoying it.
Off in the distance she heard a few shouts and a laugh. She looked around until she spotted the owener of the voice. It was a couple sitting in a row boat in the middle of the small lake. The man was splashing water at his girlfriend while she screamed in delight. Kagome rolled her eyes and continued down the path.
She passed only a few more people walking, a couple of them on bikes, but other then that she was alone. Oh, how nice it was. The peaceful walk between the trees, the sounds of nature all around. The air wasn't as fresh, and she missed that, but-. Kagome shook her head to clear her thoughts. She wasn't here to think about that. She was there to NOT think about that. About HIM.
She had only been to this park a few times before. Most of the visits were with her father before he had died. She had been much younger then. There had always been one place she wanted to go.
She started at a slow jog, veering off the path and up a small slope of green. She paused at the top. It wasn't the tallest of all the little hills in the park, but it did just fine. In front of her was another small hill, and beyond that a rock fixture, looking as if it once been a cave, but had long since collapsed. A den purhaps, to a fox family. That was her destination.
As a child, her father had never allowed her to veer this far off the path to go and explore. She had seen the rock once before, and it seemed to beckon to her, and now, more then over, it called to her. Taking a deep breath she started down.
The more she approached, the more the feeling grew stronger. It was a familiar feeling, she just couldn't place where she had felt it before. A single thought came to mind, one of the past, but she quickly dimissed it. It couldn't possibley be.
At the first strong pulse, she froze in mid-step. Her mind flashed the image of a pink crystal. The pulse hit again, even stronger then before. Kagome's eyes widened. She started a swift run to the rock. The pulses were starting to slow, then stopped all together when she reached out to touch the rock. She paused. Should she? Or shouldn't she? She did.
Nothing.
No more pulse.
The feeling that the Shikon no Tama was near had vanished. She took a step back puzzeled. The feeling that the Shikon was near returned, but the pulses didn't. She reached out to the rock again and the feeling vanished.
Kagome knelt down and started to move the loose rubble off to the side. It got a little tricky when she got to the larger boulders. She had to pause to think that one through. The boulders were about the size of three basketballs, much to large for Kagome to pick up and move herself. Kagome sighed and sat back on her huntches. She would have to get help if she wanted inside. But who to ask? And did she really want to retrieve what lay inside.
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"So what are we doing now, Kagome?" Hojo asked, as he and Kagome walked side by side down the curving walk.
"I, um, lost something down this caved in rock at Ueno Park," Kagome tried to explain. "It's a jewel that's been passed down in my family for generations."
"Just out of curiocity, how come you need me?" Hojo wasn't complaining or anything. He enjoyed Kagome's company. He still liked her, even though a few years back, she told him that they could never be a couple.
"I don't want to tell Grandpa, and Mom would kill me if she found out." Kagome was getting better at this lying thing. "And the rocks are too heavy for me to move myself."
"So I guess I'm the lucky guy you chose to help, huh?" He had a big smile on his face.
Kagome nodded with a smile. "Of course!" She turned her head away from him and made a sour face. Sure, she liked Hojo, but, he could be so annoying some times.
"Hey, is that it over there?" Hojo pointed across the park.
Kagome nodded. "Yah. Lets hurry up." She started at a light jog. Softly the pulses came to her. The jewel was still there.
Hojo quickly caught up with her as they assended the small hill before the cave. They paused to catch their breath.
"How did you manage to lose this jewel down there?" Hojo asked, puzzeled.
"I, uh, dropped it." Kagome blushed. She hated lying. But he couldn't know about her past.
"Okay." He dropped the subject and started before her down the hill.
The pulses were getting stronger as Kagome appraoched, but as she neared the rock itself, the pulses, like last time, stopped all together. She sighed. She didn't understand why it was happening.
"Its looks like you've moved a lot already," Hojo commented.
Kagome nodded. "I couldn't get the others loose."
She stood back as Hojo knelt done to test the consintinsy of the small boulders. After a moment off assessing the situation, he looked behind him. He pointed to one of the rocks Kagome had previsoly pulled loose. "Hand me that, will ya?"
Kagome picked up the rock Hojo had pointed to and handed it to him. Taking aim, Hojo smashed the smaller rock agiasnt the boulders, attempting to chip them loose. A little bit of debris started to fall. Soon, enough dirt had fallen out of the cracks, and Hojo was able to pull one of the larger boulders out. He threw it to the side.
Kagome's eyes widened. She picked up a similar rock and knelt down, banging it agaisnt the boulders, imatating Hojo as he knocked the dirt loose.Soon, they had made a whole big enough for a person to go through. It was dark down in the little tunnel. Seen only to Kagome's eye was a light shade of pink light. The Shikon was glowing.
Hojo reached down in his pack and pulled out a flash light. Kagome rested her hand on his arm.
"I'll get it."
"But what if there are snakes or incests down there?"
Kagome shrugged. "I've dealt with worse." She took the flash light from Hojo and positioned herself in front of the whole. She got on her hands and knees. "I'll be back soon."
All Hojo could do was sit back and nod as Kagome started down.
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It was dark, and the little bit of light that the flashlight produced didn't help much. The tunnel was long, and curved downward a few feet into the entrance. It was definitly a fox den. The air was kind of stale, and it took Kagome many short breaks to catch her breath. Kagome came to a fork in the tunnel. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Reopening them, she started down the right tunnel. That's where the very soft pulse and pink light emitted from in her mind.
It didn't take her much longer after she passed the fork when she hit the end of the tunnel. Her knees were a little scrapped, and her hands raw. But she didn't care. The cave at the end of the tunnel was large enough for her to sit up with her legs crossed. Slowly, she passed the flashlight around the small cave. It was pretty much empty except for a claw mark on the left side of the wall, and a straw nest in by the back wall.
Kagome made her way to the scractches on the wall. They were far larger then any fox, or kitsune for that matter, could make. She traced her fingers on the large marks. One thought came to her mind: Inuyasha. She pulled quickly away from the wall, as if her fingers had been burned by the touch. She craddled her hand to her chest. She shifted her gaze to the nest. The soft glow was emitting from it. Her heartbeat quickened. She moved a few feet closer to the nest and using the flashlight to see, peered inside.
There it was.
The Shikon no Tama. Jewel of Four Souls.
It was just as she had left it. Whole, pink, and glowing.
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Flash Back
"Kagome." A sigh. "I can't go back with you. Kikyo is still ali..."
"No she isn't, Inuyasha! She's dead! She's been dead for over 50 years!" Tears were flowing down her cheeks and soaking into the ground.
"Kagome... I... "
"I loved you, Inuyasha! Through everything! I loved you. I loved you even when you choose her over me all those times." She paused. She was crying hard, almost hypervintalating. "You can have her for all I care anymore! It's over! Our friendship is over!" Kagome reached up and tore the gold chain off her neck that held the Shikon. In all her rage she threw the jewel at him.
Then turned and ran.
The last thing she heard before she jumped down the well was a very soft "I'm sorry." Then the starry blackness enveloped her.
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Kagome blinked, a few tears starting to run down her cheeks. She quickly wiped them away.
She looked around the small cave one last time. There were no indications as to why the jewel had been down there, or how it had gotten there in the first place.
Didn't Inuyasha ever make his wish? If so, the jewel should have been purified. But here it was, whole, and unpure as the day it was pulled from her body.
And why hadn't any other demons come looking for the jewel. How long had it been down there? Day? Months? Years? Century's perhaps?
Maybe Sango and Miroku knew she couldn't return without it. Maybe it was a sign from Inuyasha that he wanted her back? So many possiblites. And so much she had to think about.
Should she return? To see Inuyasha again? But what if something had happened to him? What if he needed her? And what of Shippou and Kaede? Something had to be wrong. She could feel it. Something wasn't right, and the jewel knew the history. It had been there. It was the key. The key to the past, to Kagome's future. But should she go? She belonged to this time.
Kagome was confused. She didn't know what she should do, so she just sat there and cried.
Author's Note: Another Inuyasha story... will I finish this one? I hope so. My ideas come to me as I write, so, like every other story, I have no idea where its going. If you, the readers, have any ideas to help the story out, I'll be sure to concider them and possibley use them in my story. I like my readers suggestions. Writing the stories how they want them tends to bring more readers in.
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There are times when I just sit and think of what could have been and what should have been. And then there are times when I just sit alone and think about him, and all that he did to me. Hurt me, scared me, protected me, cared for me, but never gave a single word that he loved me. What is a girl to do?
Hi, I'm Kagome Higurashi. A few years ago my eyes were opened to a whole new world, literally. I was pulled down the ancient well on my family's shrine by a demon, and on the other side, in the Sengoku Jidai, I met a hanyou named Inuyasha. It ended up being that I was the reincarnation of his former lover, Kikyo, who, before her death, was the keeper of the Shikon no Tama, Jewel of Four Souls. Now I hold the responsiblity to find and collect the shards of the jewel that shattered because of my purified arrow.
We met many friends along the way. Sango, the demon slayer, who later became my best friend and her pet cat demon Kirara. Miroku, a perverted monk with a wind tunnel in his right hand. Shippou, an orphaned kitsune who seemes to have adopted me as his mother. These were my traveling companions. We were all after the same thing, the Shikon shards, and the death of a hanyou known as Naraku, who at some point or another, runioned all of our lives.
But, you probably already know the story. Sad ending really. Joyous for some, and miserable for others. Inuyasha defeated Naraku in the end and revenged Kikyo's death. Miroku's wind tunnel vanished, and Sango got her brother back. A happy ending? Not even close. Inuyasha chose HER over me; the dead priestess, the walking clay pot, a zombie who feeds on the souls of young women. Could it get any better? Oh, I'm sure it could, and it did. I announced my love to the dog demon, threw the jewel at him, and went home. And he never came back to get me. I was stuck in my time, alone, unloved, never to return.
Chapter One: A New Way Home -Part. One
The sun was shining and a few white clouds littered the heaven filled sky. A flock of birds flew over head chipping to one another. The day couldn't be any better. Kagome hummed happily as she walked through the park. It was Spring Break from her first semester in college and she planned on enjoying it.
Off in the distance she heard a few shouts and a laugh. She looked around until she spotted the owener of the voice. It was a couple sitting in a row boat in the middle of the small lake. The man was splashing water at his girlfriend while she screamed in delight. Kagome rolled her eyes and continued down the path.
She passed only a few more people walking, a couple of them on bikes, but other then that she was alone. Oh, how nice it was. The peaceful walk between the trees, the sounds of nature all around. The air wasn't as fresh, and she missed that, but-. Kagome shook her head to clear her thoughts. She wasn't here to think about that. She was there to NOT think about that. About HIM.
She had only been to this park a few times before. Most of the visits were with her father before he had died. She had been much younger then. There had always been one place she wanted to go.
She started at a slow jog, veering off the path and up a small slope of green. She paused at the top. It wasn't the tallest of all the little hills in the park, but it did just fine. In front of her was another small hill, and beyond that a rock fixture, looking as if it once been a cave, but had long since collapsed. A den purhaps, to a fox family. That was her destination.
As a child, her father had never allowed her to veer this far off the path to go and explore. She had seen the rock once before, and it seemed to beckon to her, and now, more then over, it called to her. Taking a deep breath she started down.
The more she approached, the more the feeling grew stronger. It was a familiar feeling, she just couldn't place where she had felt it before. A single thought came to mind, one of the past, but she quickly dimissed it. It couldn't possibley be.
At the first strong pulse, she froze in mid-step. Her mind flashed the image of a pink crystal. The pulse hit again, even stronger then before. Kagome's eyes widened. She started a swift run to the rock. The pulses were starting to slow, then stopped all together when she reached out to touch the rock. She paused. Should she? Or shouldn't she? She did.
Nothing.
No more pulse.
The feeling that the Shikon no Tama was near had vanished. She took a step back puzzeled. The feeling that the Shikon was near returned, but the pulses didn't. She reached out to the rock again and the feeling vanished.
Kagome knelt down and started to move the loose rubble off to the side. It got a little tricky when she got to the larger boulders. She had to pause to think that one through. The boulders were about the size of three basketballs, much to large for Kagome to pick up and move herself. Kagome sighed and sat back on her huntches. She would have to get help if she wanted inside. But who to ask? And did she really want to retrieve what lay inside.
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"So what are we doing now, Kagome?" Hojo asked, as he and Kagome walked side by side down the curving walk.
"I, um, lost something down this caved in rock at Ueno Park," Kagome tried to explain. "It's a jewel that's been passed down in my family for generations."
"Just out of curiocity, how come you need me?" Hojo wasn't complaining or anything. He enjoyed Kagome's company. He still liked her, even though a few years back, she told him that they could never be a couple.
"I don't want to tell Grandpa, and Mom would kill me if she found out." Kagome was getting better at this lying thing. "And the rocks are too heavy for me to move myself."
"So I guess I'm the lucky guy you chose to help, huh?" He had a big smile on his face.
Kagome nodded with a smile. "Of course!" She turned her head away from him and made a sour face. Sure, she liked Hojo, but, he could be so annoying some times.
"Hey, is that it over there?" Hojo pointed across the park.
Kagome nodded. "Yah. Lets hurry up." She started at a light jog. Softly the pulses came to her. The jewel was still there.
Hojo quickly caught up with her as they assended the small hill before the cave. They paused to catch their breath.
"How did you manage to lose this jewel down there?" Hojo asked, puzzeled.
"I, uh, dropped it." Kagome blushed. She hated lying. But he couldn't know about her past.
"Okay." He dropped the subject and started before her down the hill.
The pulses were getting stronger as Kagome appraoched, but as she neared the rock itself, the pulses, like last time, stopped all together. She sighed. She didn't understand why it was happening.
"Its looks like you've moved a lot already," Hojo commented.
Kagome nodded. "I couldn't get the others loose."
She stood back as Hojo knelt done to test the consintinsy of the small boulders. After a moment off assessing the situation, he looked behind him. He pointed to one of the rocks Kagome had previsoly pulled loose. "Hand me that, will ya?"
Kagome picked up the rock Hojo had pointed to and handed it to him. Taking aim, Hojo smashed the smaller rock agiasnt the boulders, attempting to chip them loose. A little bit of debris started to fall. Soon, enough dirt had fallen out of the cracks, and Hojo was able to pull one of the larger boulders out. He threw it to the side.
Kagome's eyes widened. She picked up a similar rock and knelt down, banging it agaisnt the boulders, imatating Hojo as he knocked the dirt loose.Soon, they had made a whole big enough for a person to go through. It was dark down in the little tunnel. Seen only to Kagome's eye was a light shade of pink light. The Shikon was glowing.
Hojo reached down in his pack and pulled out a flash light. Kagome rested her hand on his arm.
"I'll get it."
"But what if there are snakes or incests down there?"
Kagome shrugged. "I've dealt with worse." She took the flash light from Hojo and positioned herself in front of the whole. She got on her hands and knees. "I'll be back soon."
All Hojo could do was sit back and nod as Kagome started down.
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It was dark, and the little bit of light that the flashlight produced didn't help much. The tunnel was long, and curved downward a few feet into the entrance. It was definitly a fox den. The air was kind of stale, and it took Kagome many short breaks to catch her breath. Kagome came to a fork in the tunnel. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Reopening them, she started down the right tunnel. That's where the very soft pulse and pink light emitted from in her mind.
It didn't take her much longer after she passed the fork when she hit the end of the tunnel. Her knees were a little scrapped, and her hands raw. But she didn't care. The cave at the end of the tunnel was large enough for her to sit up with her legs crossed. Slowly, she passed the flashlight around the small cave. It was pretty much empty except for a claw mark on the left side of the wall, and a straw nest in by the back wall.
Kagome made her way to the scractches on the wall. They were far larger then any fox, or kitsune for that matter, could make. She traced her fingers on the large marks. One thought came to her mind: Inuyasha. She pulled quickly away from the wall, as if her fingers had been burned by the touch. She craddled her hand to her chest. She shifted her gaze to the nest. The soft glow was emitting from it. Her heartbeat quickened. She moved a few feet closer to the nest and using the flashlight to see, peered inside.
There it was.
The Shikon no Tama. Jewel of Four Souls.
It was just as she had left it. Whole, pink, and glowing.
~*~*
Flash Back
"Kagome." A sigh. "I can't go back with you. Kikyo is still ali..."
"No she isn't, Inuyasha! She's dead! She's been dead for over 50 years!" Tears were flowing down her cheeks and soaking into the ground.
"Kagome... I... "
"I loved you, Inuyasha! Through everything! I loved you. I loved you even when you choose her over me all those times." She paused. She was crying hard, almost hypervintalating. "You can have her for all I care anymore! It's over! Our friendship is over!" Kagome reached up and tore the gold chain off her neck that held the Shikon. In all her rage she threw the jewel at him.
Then turned and ran.
The last thing she heard before she jumped down the well was a very soft "I'm sorry." Then the starry blackness enveloped her.
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Kagome blinked, a few tears starting to run down her cheeks. She quickly wiped them away.
She looked around the small cave one last time. There were no indications as to why the jewel had been down there, or how it had gotten there in the first place.
Didn't Inuyasha ever make his wish? If so, the jewel should have been purified. But here it was, whole, and unpure as the day it was pulled from her body.
And why hadn't any other demons come looking for the jewel. How long had it been down there? Day? Months? Years? Century's perhaps?
Maybe Sango and Miroku knew she couldn't return without it. Maybe it was a sign from Inuyasha that he wanted her back? So many possiblites. And so much she had to think about.
Should she return? To see Inuyasha again? But what if something had happened to him? What if he needed her? And what of Shippou and Kaede? Something had to be wrong. She could feel it. Something wasn't right, and the jewel knew the history. It had been there. It was the key. The key to the past, to Kagome's future. But should she go? She belonged to this time.
Kagome was confused. She didn't know what she should do, so she just sat there and cried.