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[SIGHS] FINE. On with the show ANYWAY.
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Part 2- What happened? - A
Kagome looked down at her watch, "You guys are going to be late for the movie if you don't leave like, right now!"
"Oh, man." Sota said and began herding his children toward the shrine steps. "Now be careful guys," he told them.
Mona turned toward Kagome, "You should come to, it would be fun Kags."
Inwardly Kagome flinched. She hated being called, 'Kags'. Ugh.
"No I'll be okay. I have to see to things here, in case anyone comes by. Plus I should probably start shutting things up for the night anyway."
Mona smiled at her, "Alright, I'll see you later then." She began waddling toward the steps.
"Here let me help you," Kagome cried grabbing onto her sister in law's arm gently.
They walked over to the steps and slowly made the decline. After helping Sota get the kids and his wife in the car Kagome jogged back up the steps and stood in the courtyard.
'I should have gone with them,' she found herself thinking. She glanced around her home, her prison, and sighed. Unshed tears suddenly stinging the back of her eyes.
The wind picked up and blew across the Goshimbuku[?] tree, ruffling the branches slightly, it blew across the ground and lifted stray leaves and dirt on its path towards her. Kagome closed her eyes and let the wind play with stray tendrils of ebony hair that escaped her bun. For a moment she felt fifteen again. But as soon as she opened her eyes, that image shattered.
She wasn't fifteen, she was thirty-two. She was no longer that girl with hope and love in her
heart. She was someone else now. A spinster. An aunt. The keeper of the shrine. Nothing she had been before.
Looking down at her feet, she sighed and kicked a pebble across the ground. Suddenly she got a feeling she hadn't had in a long time. A slight tingle at the base of her neck. She felt the hair rise slightly. 'Is someone, watching me?'
She looked around her, but saw nothing. Nothing out of place, or strange, no beadie eyes lurking at her from the shadows. Kagome shook herself to rid the strange feeling. It died down a little, but not all the way. She continued to glance around herself though, thinking that any moment the perpetrator would show themselves. She knew someone was there, she just didn't know who. Her instincts never failed her. Even if she hadn't used them in such a long time.
It was getting dark.
Kagome's eyes involuntarily drifted to the well house. The doors were wide open, and it was slightly dark inside. Almost ominous looking...She got a chill and began to rub her arms for warmth.
'Guess I should start closing up.' She took a step towards the well, another, and before she knew it she was standing in the door way, looking down at it.
"It always looks the same. It never changed, not even after..." The damned tears threatened to spill again. One escaped, and she rubbed it away with the back of her hand.
Inuyasha watched her curiously from the shadows. 'Why was she crying? Why is she so sad? Kagome was never sad before...'
Kagome picked up the broom and began sweeping away stray leaves and dirt that had blown in. Tears escaping here and there. Some she wiped away, sometimes she didn't even bother. They rolled over her cheeks and dripped off her chin, landing with soft plops only audible to those with very sensitive hearing.
Inuyasha wanted to cry just looking at her. She looked so sad, so pathetic.
'What happened to his Kagome?'
She finished sweeping and just stood there for a moment, resting her chin on the end of the broom. She glanced down at the well again, it felt like she'd been glancing at it twenty times per second. It had always felt that way. Ever since that day... She had hoped against hope he would appear and whisk her away. But he never did; yet she couldn't let go of her dream.
Considering it was the only one she had left.
She sighed again and put the broom away. "Oh, what the hell," she found herself saying as she made her way down the few steps to the well. "Just one last time. If nothing happens I'll seal it up myself, and never look back."
She reached for the rope ladder.
Something about all this felt strange. Almost the same way the air would change during a ritual, or one of their battles with Naraku back in the day. The air felt charged with magic and electricity. But Kagome ignored it. She had learned to push away her miko powers long ago.
Knowing things others did not was not always a good thing.
Some of the ladder spilled from her small hands as she began heaving it over the side of the well. She didn't notice that she had wrapped her ankles quite nicely in the rope as she swung it over the side with a grunt.
The world tipped and spun for a moment, and then she was surrounded in darkness. Not because she was unconscious but because it was dark down there.
Kagome winced when she tried to breathe. She was pretty sure she wasn't seriously hurt, just a little bruised. The wind had been knocked out of her. She lay there for a few moments, thinking.
After the dizziness went away slightly, she looked at her feet, the rope ladder lay there in a crumpled heap.
"Great," she breathed. "Nothing happened, AND I'm trapped down here!" Kagome wanted to scream but she didn't have the energy.
She wished that Inuyasha were here to rescue her now, like he used to. She wouldn't even have to call his name half the time; he would just know she was in danger and come running.
This time she let the tears come. Yes, she was feeling sorry for herself but she didn't care.
She was so tempted to call his name and see if it would work. She needed a little magic in her life, she missed it. She used to hate it, back when she was a teenager. All she wanted was to be normal. Ordinary. Now she was boringly ordinary, no life, no love, no anything.
Inuyasha could smell her tears, and sense her sadness. He wanted to help her, but what if this was some sort of trick by Naraku? 'But it's Kagome, stupid!" He chastised himself.
'I know she's okay, I hear her breathing. Ill just wait and make sure someone finds her.'
But then he heard her whisper, "Inuyasha..."
He gulped, his name had been forced over her lips, with such sadness and longing that he couldn't stop himself.
"Well, that didn't work. Now how am I supposed to get out of here?" She asked herself quietly, staring up at the ceiling of the well house.
A flash of red and white appeared on the lip of the well, and that's when she knew she had truly lost it.
"Well, I'll help you unless you want to lay down there all day." Inuyasha told her grinning
slightly. Wait... was that his voice? It sounded different, slightly deeper maybe?
Kagome gasped, "Inu...Inu..yash-" and then she passed out.
-*--++
Kagome opened her eyes slowly, blinking a few times to rid herself of the inner cobwebs. 'Oh, good I'm not in the well after all,' she thought. 'Wait, why am I in Sota's room?' She closed her eyes once more. 'There has to be a logical explanation for this...Am I still asleep?'
"Kagome?" A strange yet familiar voice interrupted her thoughts. "Do you really like all this stuff?"
She looked over and gasped. He was perched on top of Sota's desk just like he owned the place. No it couldn't be. Not Inuyasha in all his glory, red haiori intact, silver hair gleaming in the moonlight. She could barely breathe, he was still so handsome. Her heart pounded in her chest. 'Please don't let this be a dream...And if it is, I never want to wake up.'
"This is some pretty strange stuff..." he continued rambling on about the stuff in the room but she wasn't really paying attention.
"Hmm...What's this?" He idly picked up a magazine off the top of a rather large stack and began flipping through the pages.
His eyes bugged out of his head about five pages in. "K-KAGOME! WHAT IS THIS?!"
Inuyasha was off the desk and balanced on the bed in less than six seconds.
Kagome blinked up at the page he had spread open before her face, and blushed to the soles of her feet.
"Uh..uh..GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!" She shrieked, sitting up, successfully knocking Inuyasha on the floor. He landed in a large red twitching pile. "This is Sota's room! I don't know anything about this stuff! Especially ...t-that...MAGAZINE!"
She glared down at him, huffing and puffing, fists clenched at her side. Just like old times.
Inuyasha blinked up at her. The magazine was balanced precariously on top of his head. He glanced up at it, and blushed as well.
"I don't know Kagome, this stuff looks pretty interesting..." He plucked the magazine off of his head and began flipping through it again. "Hey, this one looks like you!" He turned it around for her to see, pointing at one of the women spread-eagled on top of a table. A brilliant smile lighting his face.
Kagome blushed again, and turned her face away. "What're you doing here after all this time Inuyasha?" She whispered.
He chucked the magazine over his shoulder and stared at her for a moment.
"What do you mean, 'after all this time' Kagome?"
She looked back at him, and raised an eyebrow. "You mean you forgot?"
"Forgot what? I don't know what you're talking about. Last thing I knew I was trying to keep you from going home, you said the 'S' word and knocked me out. When I woke up I was here, but I'm not exactly sure where, 'here' is."
Kagome stared at him, unblinking.
"Huh?" She finally asked.
"Why are you asking me all the questions? You're the one who's changed. I've stayed exactly the same as I always have. For all I know, you guys are playing some joke on me or something."
Again she stared at him. "I hate to break it to you bud, but you've changed too."
"Nuh-uh. You're full of it." He said, leaning back on his elbows. Stretching out across the
carpet.
"Oh really?" She stood up and took a step toward him. He inched away. The gleam in her eye scaring him slightly.
She grabbed onto his arm and dragged him to his feet. He loomed over her, as usual and she led him into the adjoining bathroom. "Take a look buster," she said triumphantly as she shoved him in front of the mirror.
Inuyasha stared in horror at himself. What had happened to him? He was, he was.... OLD!
-***-
"Miroku we have to do something! He has to be trapped underneath that tree! Either that or he's trapped in my time!" Kagome shrieked, birds flew away, and the sound of retreating hoof beats could be heard.
The young monk stuck a finger in his ear to clear away the wax that had built there from the last hours worth of Kagome's screams. "Alright. Calm down Kagome. Kaede's gathering the men right now. They're going to attempt to lift the tree out."
"What if Inuyasha's not under there?" Shippo chimed in.
"Let's just hope he is Shippo."
"Mirkou, couldn't you just suck the tree out with your wind tunnel?" Shippo asked.
"We already thought of that, but I fear that I may suck Inuyasha in as well. It is rather hard to control at times. Besides we really cant afford to play around with something like this. We'll just have to wait for the men to arrive."
"And what if the well is destroyed? Won't he be trapped in your time Kagome?" Sango asked.
Kagome groaned. "I don't know! I just hope he's alright."
Miroku looked down at the well forlornly, "So do I my friend. So do I."
---
"INUYASHA! IT'S ALRIGHT!" Kagome shrieked, trying to drown out the sound of Inuyasha's screams combined with his moaning.
"I'm OLD! I'M OLLLLLDDD!!! OH HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?" He continued to moan at his reflection as he smoothed his hands over his face.
"Inuyasha, you're not that old." Kagome soothed. "OLDER yes, but not OLD. You're probably only in in your late thirties. SO that's not too bad."
He snorted at her followed by a "Keh. That's still pretty old."
Kagome scoffed, and looked offended. "Hey! I'm in my thirties! There's nothing wrong with that!"
Finally Inuyasha looked away from his reflection long enough to stare at her, before asking,
"Yeah, what the hell happened to you anyway?"
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A/n: i think five chapters might do it for this story. I know i added two but ohwell. I have the ending but i need the middle, ya know the actual story?
[SIGHS] FINE. On with the show ANYWAY.
wait, wait, i actually got one review since this morning. SO YAY THANK YOU!
Part 2- What happened? - A
Kagome looked down at her watch, "You guys are going to be late for the movie if you don't leave like, right now!"
"Oh, man." Sota said and began herding his children toward the shrine steps. "Now be careful guys," he told them.
Mona turned toward Kagome, "You should come to, it would be fun Kags."
Inwardly Kagome flinched. She hated being called, 'Kags'. Ugh.
"No I'll be okay. I have to see to things here, in case anyone comes by. Plus I should probably start shutting things up for the night anyway."
Mona smiled at her, "Alright, I'll see you later then." She began waddling toward the steps.
"Here let me help you," Kagome cried grabbing onto her sister in law's arm gently.
They walked over to the steps and slowly made the decline. After helping Sota get the kids and his wife in the car Kagome jogged back up the steps and stood in the courtyard.
'I should have gone with them,' she found herself thinking. She glanced around her home, her prison, and sighed. Unshed tears suddenly stinging the back of her eyes.
The wind picked up and blew across the Goshimbuku[?] tree, ruffling the branches slightly, it blew across the ground and lifted stray leaves and dirt on its path towards her. Kagome closed her eyes and let the wind play with stray tendrils of ebony hair that escaped her bun. For a moment she felt fifteen again. But as soon as she opened her eyes, that image shattered.
She wasn't fifteen, she was thirty-two. She was no longer that girl with hope and love in her
heart. She was someone else now. A spinster. An aunt. The keeper of the shrine. Nothing she had been before.
Looking down at her feet, she sighed and kicked a pebble across the ground. Suddenly she got a feeling she hadn't had in a long time. A slight tingle at the base of her neck. She felt the hair rise slightly. 'Is someone, watching me?'
She looked around her, but saw nothing. Nothing out of place, or strange, no beadie eyes lurking at her from the shadows. Kagome shook herself to rid the strange feeling. It died down a little, but not all the way. She continued to glance around herself though, thinking that any moment the perpetrator would show themselves. She knew someone was there, she just didn't know who. Her instincts never failed her. Even if she hadn't used them in such a long time.
It was getting dark.
Kagome's eyes involuntarily drifted to the well house. The doors were wide open, and it was slightly dark inside. Almost ominous looking...She got a chill and began to rub her arms for warmth.
'Guess I should start closing up.' She took a step towards the well, another, and before she knew it she was standing in the door way, looking down at it.
"It always looks the same. It never changed, not even after..." The damned tears threatened to spill again. One escaped, and she rubbed it away with the back of her hand.
Inuyasha watched her curiously from the shadows. 'Why was she crying? Why is she so sad? Kagome was never sad before...'
Kagome picked up the broom and began sweeping away stray leaves and dirt that had blown in. Tears escaping here and there. Some she wiped away, sometimes she didn't even bother. They rolled over her cheeks and dripped off her chin, landing with soft plops only audible to those with very sensitive hearing.
Inuyasha wanted to cry just looking at her. She looked so sad, so pathetic.
'What happened to his Kagome?'
She finished sweeping and just stood there for a moment, resting her chin on the end of the broom. She glanced down at the well again, it felt like she'd been glancing at it twenty times per second. It had always felt that way. Ever since that day... She had hoped against hope he would appear and whisk her away. But he never did; yet she couldn't let go of her dream.
Considering it was the only one she had left.
She sighed again and put the broom away. "Oh, what the hell," she found herself saying as she made her way down the few steps to the well. "Just one last time. If nothing happens I'll seal it up myself, and never look back."
She reached for the rope ladder.
Something about all this felt strange. Almost the same way the air would change during a ritual, or one of their battles with Naraku back in the day. The air felt charged with magic and electricity. But Kagome ignored it. She had learned to push away her miko powers long ago.
Knowing things others did not was not always a good thing.
Some of the ladder spilled from her small hands as she began heaving it over the side of the well. She didn't notice that she had wrapped her ankles quite nicely in the rope as she swung it over the side with a grunt.
The world tipped and spun for a moment, and then she was surrounded in darkness. Not because she was unconscious but because it was dark down there.
Kagome winced when she tried to breathe. She was pretty sure she wasn't seriously hurt, just a little bruised. The wind had been knocked out of her. She lay there for a few moments, thinking.
After the dizziness went away slightly, she looked at her feet, the rope ladder lay there in a crumpled heap.
"Great," she breathed. "Nothing happened, AND I'm trapped down here!" Kagome wanted to scream but she didn't have the energy.
She wished that Inuyasha were here to rescue her now, like he used to. She wouldn't even have to call his name half the time; he would just know she was in danger and come running.
This time she let the tears come. Yes, she was feeling sorry for herself but she didn't care.
She was so tempted to call his name and see if it would work. She needed a little magic in her life, she missed it. She used to hate it, back when she was a teenager. All she wanted was to be normal. Ordinary. Now she was boringly ordinary, no life, no love, no anything.
Inuyasha could smell her tears, and sense her sadness. He wanted to help her, but what if this was some sort of trick by Naraku? 'But it's Kagome, stupid!" He chastised himself.
'I know she's okay, I hear her breathing. Ill just wait and make sure someone finds her.'
But then he heard her whisper, "Inuyasha..."
He gulped, his name had been forced over her lips, with such sadness and longing that he couldn't stop himself.
"Well, that didn't work. Now how am I supposed to get out of here?" She asked herself quietly, staring up at the ceiling of the well house.
A flash of red and white appeared on the lip of the well, and that's when she knew she had truly lost it.
"Well, I'll help you unless you want to lay down there all day." Inuyasha told her grinning
slightly. Wait... was that his voice? It sounded different, slightly deeper maybe?
Kagome gasped, "Inu...Inu..yash-" and then she passed out.
-*--++
Kagome opened her eyes slowly, blinking a few times to rid herself of the inner cobwebs. 'Oh, good I'm not in the well after all,' she thought. 'Wait, why am I in Sota's room?' She closed her eyes once more. 'There has to be a logical explanation for this...Am I still asleep?'
"Kagome?" A strange yet familiar voice interrupted her thoughts. "Do you really like all this stuff?"
She looked over and gasped. He was perched on top of Sota's desk just like he owned the place. No it couldn't be. Not Inuyasha in all his glory, red haiori intact, silver hair gleaming in the moonlight. She could barely breathe, he was still so handsome. Her heart pounded in her chest. 'Please don't let this be a dream...And if it is, I never want to wake up.'
"This is some pretty strange stuff..." he continued rambling on about the stuff in the room but she wasn't really paying attention.
"Hmm...What's this?" He idly picked up a magazine off the top of a rather large stack and began flipping through the pages.
His eyes bugged out of his head about five pages in. "K-KAGOME! WHAT IS THIS?!"
Inuyasha was off the desk and balanced on the bed in less than six seconds.
Kagome blinked up at the page he had spread open before her face, and blushed to the soles of her feet.
"Uh..uh..GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!" She shrieked, sitting up, successfully knocking Inuyasha on the floor. He landed in a large red twitching pile. "This is Sota's room! I don't know anything about this stuff! Especially ...t-that...MAGAZINE!"
She glared down at him, huffing and puffing, fists clenched at her side. Just like old times.
Inuyasha blinked up at her. The magazine was balanced precariously on top of his head. He glanced up at it, and blushed as well.
"I don't know Kagome, this stuff looks pretty interesting..." He plucked the magazine off of his head and began flipping through it again. "Hey, this one looks like you!" He turned it around for her to see, pointing at one of the women spread-eagled on top of a table. A brilliant smile lighting his face.
Kagome blushed again, and turned her face away. "What're you doing here after all this time Inuyasha?" She whispered.
He chucked the magazine over his shoulder and stared at her for a moment.
"What do you mean, 'after all this time' Kagome?"
She looked back at him, and raised an eyebrow. "You mean you forgot?"
"Forgot what? I don't know what you're talking about. Last thing I knew I was trying to keep you from going home, you said the 'S' word and knocked me out. When I woke up I was here, but I'm not exactly sure where, 'here' is."
Kagome stared at him, unblinking.
"Huh?" She finally asked.
"Why are you asking me all the questions? You're the one who's changed. I've stayed exactly the same as I always have. For all I know, you guys are playing some joke on me or something."
Again she stared at him. "I hate to break it to you bud, but you've changed too."
"Nuh-uh. You're full of it." He said, leaning back on his elbows. Stretching out across the
carpet.
"Oh really?" She stood up and took a step toward him. He inched away. The gleam in her eye scaring him slightly.
She grabbed onto his arm and dragged him to his feet. He loomed over her, as usual and she led him into the adjoining bathroom. "Take a look buster," she said triumphantly as she shoved him in front of the mirror.
Inuyasha stared in horror at himself. What had happened to him? He was, he was.... OLD!
-***-
"Miroku we have to do something! He has to be trapped underneath that tree! Either that or he's trapped in my time!" Kagome shrieked, birds flew away, and the sound of retreating hoof beats could be heard.
The young monk stuck a finger in his ear to clear away the wax that had built there from the last hours worth of Kagome's screams. "Alright. Calm down Kagome. Kaede's gathering the men right now. They're going to attempt to lift the tree out."
"What if Inuyasha's not under there?" Shippo chimed in.
"Let's just hope he is Shippo."
"Mirkou, couldn't you just suck the tree out with your wind tunnel?" Shippo asked.
"We already thought of that, but I fear that I may suck Inuyasha in as well. It is rather hard to control at times. Besides we really cant afford to play around with something like this. We'll just have to wait for the men to arrive."
"And what if the well is destroyed? Won't he be trapped in your time Kagome?" Sango asked.
Kagome groaned. "I don't know! I just hope he's alright."
Miroku looked down at the well forlornly, "So do I my friend. So do I."
---
"INUYASHA! IT'S ALRIGHT!" Kagome shrieked, trying to drown out the sound of Inuyasha's screams combined with his moaning.
"I'm OLD! I'M OLLLLLDDD!!! OH HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?" He continued to moan at his reflection as he smoothed his hands over his face.
"Inuyasha, you're not that old." Kagome soothed. "OLDER yes, but not OLD. You're probably only in in your late thirties. SO that's not too bad."
He snorted at her followed by a "Keh. That's still pretty old."
Kagome scoffed, and looked offended. "Hey! I'm in my thirties! There's nothing wrong with that!"
Finally Inuyasha looked away from his reflection long enough to stare at her, before asking,
"Yeah, what the hell happened to you anyway?"
---
A/n: i think five chapters might do it for this story. I know i added two but ohwell. I have the ending but i need the middle, ya know the actual story?