I dont own Inuyasha...dammit.
A/n: thank you to the reviewers. im going to try really hard and not mess this story up. forgive me if i do, since i have a short attention span.
Part 3- What Happened? -B
"No. NO. NO! Kagome, please dont cry!" But it was too late, he could see the tears welling up in her big brown eyes as she stared at him with that shocked expression on her face.
"H-How could... you?" She sputtered in disbelief before she turned and ran from the bathroom.
Inuyasha growled and followed after her. She was already half way down the steps before he caught up with her. Grabbing her arm he yanked her to a stop three steps from the bottom.
"Dammit Kagome. I asked you not to cry. You KNOW how much I HATE that!"
She sniffed and just stared up at him defiantly. "Why are you here now Inuyasha? After all this time? Why did you come back now?"
"Uh..." His ears twitched as he tried to think of a response. "I really...dont know."
Kagome took a deep breath and looked up into his amber eyes. How she had missed those eyes, she hadnt seen eyes like those in almost fifteen years.
"Inuyasha..."
The tears began to fall again, but she was used to that. She'd only had a handful of reasons to smile since the day the well was sealed up. Tears were one of the few certainties of her life now. They were a daily accurance.
"Dammit Kagome," he said again and pulled her into his arms. "Knock it off, you dont have to cry. I dont know why I'm here, or what happened to you. But we're going to get to the bottom of this. If this is some trick of Naraku's I swear I'll have his head."
Kagome could barely breathe. Inuyasha was actually...HOLDING HER! He had never done that before, well not a lot anyway, or when anyone else was around, but it felt so good to be in his arms. Even after all this time. She closed her eyes for a moment, and dug her fingers into his haiori.
Wait a sec...
She lifted her head away from his chest slightly. She stared up at him before she spoke, "Inuyasha, Naraku is already dead."
Inuyasha yanked her away from his chest, holding her by the forearms so that he could stare straight into her face. "WHAT? When did that happen?"
"I dunno. Almost fifteen years ago?"
"WHAT?!!!!?"
"Yeah, exactly. You and I havent seen eachother since then...Dont you remember?"
The hanyou looked completely dumbstuck for a moment.
"Kagome, the last time I saw you was right before the sun went down..."
"Huh?" She asked.
"Yeah, you were trying to go home, and i was going to destroy the well, and then i dont know what happened..."
Kagome looked down at their feet for a moment, she appeared to be deep in concentration, but it was more like deep in confusion. She was desperately trying to piece all these strange puzzle pieces together but it just wasnt happening.
She smiled slightly at the site of his bare feet, 'he still doesnt wear shoes...'
"...I was...still young?" She finally asked.
"Yeah, and so was I. This has to be some trick, I mean. That's the only explanation isnt it?"
Kagome chuckled unhappily to herself, "Yeah, that's the only explanation..." The wishes of a spinster couldnt make something like this happen, could they?
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"So where's your mom?" Inuyasha asked in between slurps of ramen.
Kagome dropped her fork on the floor. "Uh, well...um.." she floundered for the words as she bent down to retrieve the missing utensil. Her hand shook as she reached for it, causing her to drop the fork several times before she successfully picked it up.
Inuyasha watched her strange movements with a raised eyebrow. Kagome looked up at him and when she did he saw a fresh sheen of tears there. "Oy, Kagome not again! Why do you cry so much?"
She tried to laugh, no one had asked her that in so long, no one seemed to notice, or care about her tears, but it came out as a strange choked sob instead. She covered her mouth with her hand and dropped the fork into the sink.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly.
'Why is she acting so strange?' Inuyasha wondered as he stood.
"My mom...she...she..." another choked sob escaped her trembling mouth as she tried to form the words to tell him about her mother. "She passed away about ...i dunno...um...ten years ago?"
Inuyasha continued to watch her. She was obviously fighting to gain control of herself. But all he could think to say was, "I'm sorry Kagome."
"It's okay," she wiped at her tears absently, inching away from him, as he inched towards her.
If he tries to hold me I think I might just lose it. That is, if i havent lost IT already.
"I guess I shouldnt ask about Gramps then huh?"
"He died right after the well was sealed, he caught gnuemonia that winter." She sniffed again. So many horrible things had happened after she was seperated from Inuyasha and all her friends. It seemed like her life had simply crumbled away. She barely recognized herself anymore, and it was getting harder to remember her mother and grandfather. They were fading from her memory as if they never existed. All she had left of them was the shrine, Sota, and old family photos.
So, not very much.
"Sota ran away right after Mom died. He couldnt handle it...but he was still so young, only fifteen...Well, that's how old I was when I went through the well, but I couldnt find him, and I was here, alone. So much happened at once...I...didnt know what to do...But I...and then one day he just shows back up with a wife and kids...and I was still here...alone...waiting..." Kagome stopped and rung her hands nervously, taking a quick breath before she continued. "But the kids are beautiful, and so is his wife...Mona. They're expecting another baby too, so that's-"
"Babies." Inuyasha interrupted her, breaking the spell of her rambling. Her head snapped up as she gaped at him.
"Oh, babies well- WHAT?! 'BABIES'? As in MORE THAN ONE? How many more?"
"Two, just two." He said holding up two fingers, making the sign of 'peace'.
"Oh, well that's... wonderful! I guess... I mean..oh..I dunno!" She sighed and plopped down in the chair.
"Kagome, I want you to tell me everything that happened. Starting with Naraku's death. Because you're really scaring me here. I mean you're really wierd now, and I thought you were wierd before."
'He thinks I'm wierd? Well, that's because you are, nut case! He's the one that's wierd, oh shut up!'
She actually smiled for a moment.
"It's a rather long story Inuyasha," she warned him.
"Dont worry I have time."
So thus began the epic tale that was Kagome's boring life. Starting with the lengthy battle between Naraku, Inuyasha and the rest of the gang. Which ultimately led to Naraku's brutal demise.
Inuyasha took great joy in this part. Except for when Kagome revealed that it wasnt just his efforts that destroyed him, but rather the group as a whole. She decided to leave out the part about her sacred arrow being the very thing that had taken his life and recovered the jewel shards. Since she figured it would just make him even more upset.
Even if he refused to admit it, he still loved to play the hero.
"So then, I purified the shards and made the Shikon no Tama whole again."
He was listening to her with apt interest. "Then what happened? Why did you come back here and seal up the well? Did you really hate it that much in my time?" He asked, looking slightly offended and raring to go. Apparently the fight she had just described had really got him going.
"No Inuyasha. It wasnt really my decision," She said sadly.
"Huh? What do you mean it wasnt your decision?"
She looked out into the darkness and sighed. "She asked me to go back to my time, and never return... and I couldnt refuse her...besides..."
'my heart had been broken. I had no where else to go,' she thought sadly.
"Refuse who? Kagome, you make even less sense than usual."
"Kikyo. Kikyo asked me to go back to my time, where I belonged, and knowing what you had asked me, I couldnt refuse her."
"What I asked you?"
"Yes, dont you remember?"
"No. Why would I be making you tell me this story if I already knew it?"
She sighed again,(hey at least she's not crying) and continued with her story. "You asked me to use the jewel to...make Kikyo human again. So that...so that the two of you could be together.."
Inuyasha just sat there, eyes bugging out of his head, jaw hanging open for about thirty seconds before any of what she just said sunk in.
"WWWHHHHATTTT?!!!!"
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a/n: i think i say this everytime i update, but im pretty sure this'll be longer than five chapters, but no more than ten. yah that sounds good.
A/n: thank you to the reviewers. im going to try really hard and not mess this story up. forgive me if i do, since i have a short attention span.
Part 3- What Happened? -B
"No. NO. NO! Kagome, please dont cry!" But it was too late, he could see the tears welling up in her big brown eyes as she stared at him with that shocked expression on her face.
"H-How could... you?" She sputtered in disbelief before she turned and ran from the bathroom.
Inuyasha growled and followed after her. She was already half way down the steps before he caught up with her. Grabbing her arm he yanked her to a stop three steps from the bottom.
"Dammit Kagome. I asked you not to cry. You KNOW how much I HATE that!"
She sniffed and just stared up at him defiantly. "Why are you here now Inuyasha? After all this time? Why did you come back now?"
"Uh..." His ears twitched as he tried to think of a response. "I really...dont know."
Kagome took a deep breath and looked up into his amber eyes. How she had missed those eyes, she hadnt seen eyes like those in almost fifteen years.
"Inuyasha..."
The tears began to fall again, but she was used to that. She'd only had a handful of reasons to smile since the day the well was sealed up. Tears were one of the few certainties of her life now. They were a daily accurance.
"Dammit Kagome," he said again and pulled her into his arms. "Knock it off, you dont have to cry. I dont know why I'm here, or what happened to you. But we're going to get to the bottom of this. If this is some trick of Naraku's I swear I'll have his head."
Kagome could barely breathe. Inuyasha was actually...HOLDING HER! He had never done that before, well not a lot anyway, or when anyone else was around, but it felt so good to be in his arms. Even after all this time. She closed her eyes for a moment, and dug her fingers into his haiori.
Wait a sec...
She lifted her head away from his chest slightly. She stared up at him before she spoke, "Inuyasha, Naraku is already dead."
Inuyasha yanked her away from his chest, holding her by the forearms so that he could stare straight into her face. "WHAT? When did that happen?"
"I dunno. Almost fifteen years ago?"
"WHAT?!!!!?"
"Yeah, exactly. You and I havent seen eachother since then...Dont you remember?"
The hanyou looked completely dumbstuck for a moment.
"Kagome, the last time I saw you was right before the sun went down..."
"Huh?" She asked.
"Yeah, you were trying to go home, and i was going to destroy the well, and then i dont know what happened..."
Kagome looked down at their feet for a moment, she appeared to be deep in concentration, but it was more like deep in confusion. She was desperately trying to piece all these strange puzzle pieces together but it just wasnt happening.
She smiled slightly at the site of his bare feet, 'he still doesnt wear shoes...'
"...I was...still young?" She finally asked.
"Yeah, and so was I. This has to be some trick, I mean. That's the only explanation isnt it?"
Kagome chuckled unhappily to herself, "Yeah, that's the only explanation..." The wishes of a spinster couldnt make something like this happen, could they?
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"So where's your mom?" Inuyasha asked in between slurps of ramen.
Kagome dropped her fork on the floor. "Uh, well...um.." she floundered for the words as she bent down to retrieve the missing utensil. Her hand shook as she reached for it, causing her to drop the fork several times before she successfully picked it up.
Inuyasha watched her strange movements with a raised eyebrow. Kagome looked up at him and when she did he saw a fresh sheen of tears there. "Oy, Kagome not again! Why do you cry so much?"
She tried to laugh, no one had asked her that in so long, no one seemed to notice, or care about her tears, but it came out as a strange choked sob instead. She covered her mouth with her hand and dropped the fork into the sink.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly.
'Why is she acting so strange?' Inuyasha wondered as he stood.
"My mom...she...she..." another choked sob escaped her trembling mouth as she tried to form the words to tell him about her mother. "She passed away about ...i dunno...um...ten years ago?"
Inuyasha continued to watch her. She was obviously fighting to gain control of herself. But all he could think to say was, "I'm sorry Kagome."
"It's okay," she wiped at her tears absently, inching away from him, as he inched towards her.
If he tries to hold me I think I might just lose it. That is, if i havent lost IT already.
"I guess I shouldnt ask about Gramps then huh?"
"He died right after the well was sealed, he caught gnuemonia that winter." She sniffed again. So many horrible things had happened after she was seperated from Inuyasha and all her friends. It seemed like her life had simply crumbled away. She barely recognized herself anymore, and it was getting harder to remember her mother and grandfather. They were fading from her memory as if they never existed. All she had left of them was the shrine, Sota, and old family photos.
So, not very much.
"Sota ran away right after Mom died. He couldnt handle it...but he was still so young, only fifteen...Well, that's how old I was when I went through the well, but I couldnt find him, and I was here, alone. So much happened at once...I...didnt know what to do...But I...and then one day he just shows back up with a wife and kids...and I was still here...alone...waiting..." Kagome stopped and rung her hands nervously, taking a quick breath before she continued. "But the kids are beautiful, and so is his wife...Mona. They're expecting another baby too, so that's-"
"Babies." Inuyasha interrupted her, breaking the spell of her rambling. Her head snapped up as she gaped at him.
"Oh, babies well- WHAT?! 'BABIES'? As in MORE THAN ONE? How many more?"
"Two, just two." He said holding up two fingers, making the sign of 'peace'.
"Oh, well that's... wonderful! I guess... I mean..oh..I dunno!" She sighed and plopped down in the chair.
"Kagome, I want you to tell me everything that happened. Starting with Naraku's death. Because you're really scaring me here. I mean you're really wierd now, and I thought you were wierd before."
'He thinks I'm wierd? Well, that's because you are, nut case! He's the one that's wierd, oh shut up!'
She actually smiled for a moment.
"It's a rather long story Inuyasha," she warned him.
"Dont worry I have time."
So thus began the epic tale that was Kagome's boring life. Starting with the lengthy battle between Naraku, Inuyasha and the rest of the gang. Which ultimately led to Naraku's brutal demise.
Inuyasha took great joy in this part. Except for when Kagome revealed that it wasnt just his efforts that destroyed him, but rather the group as a whole. She decided to leave out the part about her sacred arrow being the very thing that had taken his life and recovered the jewel shards. Since she figured it would just make him even more upset.
Even if he refused to admit it, he still loved to play the hero.
"So then, I purified the shards and made the Shikon no Tama whole again."
He was listening to her with apt interest. "Then what happened? Why did you come back here and seal up the well? Did you really hate it that much in my time?" He asked, looking slightly offended and raring to go. Apparently the fight she had just described had really got him going.
"No Inuyasha. It wasnt really my decision," She said sadly.
"Huh? What do you mean it wasnt your decision?"
She looked out into the darkness and sighed. "She asked me to go back to my time, and never return... and I couldnt refuse her...besides..."
'my heart had been broken. I had no where else to go,' she thought sadly.
"Refuse who? Kagome, you make even less sense than usual."
"Kikyo. Kikyo asked me to go back to my time, where I belonged, and knowing what you had asked me, I couldnt refuse her."
"What I asked you?"
"Yes, dont you remember?"
"No. Why would I be making you tell me this story if I already knew it?"
She sighed again,(hey at least she's not crying) and continued with her story. "You asked me to use the jewel to...make Kikyo human again. So that...so that the two of you could be together.."
Inuyasha just sat there, eyes bugging out of his head, jaw hanging open for about thirty seconds before any of what she just said sunk in.
"WWWHHHHATTTT?!!!!"
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a/n: i think i say this everytime i update, but im pretty sure this'll be longer than five chapters, but no more than ten. yah that sounds good.